"Soul-Weeping Street": Maybe This Is Just a Big Shot's Twisted Sense of Humor?
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Temptation dragged him from a paradise of hope into a dark hell.
Xu Xi merely glanced at it casually, without even stopping her steps.
5th floor.
The man kneeling at the supermarket entrance, along with the contract and the bundle of banknotes, had completely vanished, and the bloodstains on the ground seemed to have never existed.
Huh?
Xu Xi walked to the spot where the man had been kneeling, looked up, and saw that the sign above the supermarket had changed from Huarong Supermarket to Juxing Supermarket.
Has the supermarket changed hands?
He recalled the initial clue, "Some interesting things have happened here," and vaguely guessed that the series of unusual phenomena seemed to be gradually revealing some unknown history of this street.
Just as he was deep in thought, the sign above him suddenly came loose.
[Ahhh, get out of the way!!]
[It's going to hit something, it's going to hit something... uh]
Before the comments section could react with further astonishment, the young man on the screen calmly took a step back just as the sign was about to fall.
The heavy, enormous sign brushed past his body as it fell to the ground, raising a cloud of dust the instant it hit the ground.
Seeing that the young man was unharmed, the tension that had been building in the comments section subsided.
[Xu Xi really have to go to such extremes? Even when he was picking up the banknotes, that feint scared me to death!]
[Perhaps this is just the weird sense of humor of the big shots?]
Xu Xi looked down at the signboard at her feet, feeling somewhat helpless.
The killer move in this Dungeon felt strangely familiar to him, reminding him of the First Instance —the same absurdity, the same surprise attack, and the same instant death when one wasn't paying attention.
Bad news: We've run into another unreasonable Dungeon.
Good news: He's fine.
If it were a mystery-solving type of Dungeon like the previous two, he would need to use his brain more to gather clues.
However, this Dungeon is different; the fact that it only requires constantly judging the left and right intersections amplifies its advantage in Rollback a previous state.
Although dangers might strike unexpectedly along the way, he could avoid them by dying once, so it was nothing to him and would even save him a lot of time.
Xu Xi suddenly realized that this so-called high-difficulty Dungeon... seemed to be easier for him instead?
Of course, this is on the premise that the rules remain unchanged.
This time, he understood the slogan.
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"The situation he was powerless to change was like a mountain, pressing down on him and making it hard for him to breathe."
The "he" in this sentence clearly refers to the man who knelt and kowtowed at the supermarket entrance after mortgaging it.
6th floor.
Everything is normal, no abnormalities.
7th floor.
"Waaah--"
Xu Xi stepped into the street, she heard faint, intermittent sobbing.
The cries echoed wildly through the quiet streets in the dead of night, sharp and high-pitched, as if carrying endless despair and pain, piercing straight into his eardrums.
To be honest, it's a little creepy.
Even more chilling was the sight of a woman in a dress standing alone by the roadside, her hands tightly covering her face, sobbing softly.
The once normal street suddenly became eerie and terrifying.
Xu Xi hesitated for a moment, then chose not to step forward to test her, and instead simply walked past her.
There's nothing worth trying, it's abnormal!
Xu Xi kept an eye on the other person as he walked, afraid that the person might suddenly look up at him.
Fortunately, after he turned into the alley, the other person remained in a crying position and did not move at all.
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Her world was torn into countless pieces, each one piercing her soul.
Xu Xi stopped in her tracks.
He suddenly had a guess.
Could this couple be the same ones embracing by the window on the second floor Second Floor the Sunny Department Store?
A couple or married couple?
They seem more like a married couple.
Why did the man incur debt and have to mortgage his family's supermarket, causing the woman to despair and break down?
As for what kind of debt it was... Xu Xi immediately thought of loans or gambling, or perhaps both.
Since it has come to the point where the property needs to be mortgaged, it proves that the man's debt is a huge hole.
He hadn't initially discerned the metallic clanging sound from the third floor, but as he considered that possibility, he suddenly realized the sound resembled some kind of material used for chips.
Xu Xi wasn't sure if his guess was right, but he had a feeling it wasn't that simple.
Will the cycle end so easily?
He didn't believe it.
We've arrived at the 8th floor.
Xu Xi stepped out of the alley, a round paper money with a square hole floated towards her.
He slightly turned his head to avoid it, and when he looked up, he saw paper money falling from above, making the street look much more desolate and bleak.
A faint sound of opera singing broke the deathly silence.
The sound was initially faint, as if it were drifting from an extremely distant place, but gradually it became clearer and clearer.
The singing was melodious and graceful, and the opera singing seemed to be mixed with sorrow and resentment. The unfamiliar tune made Xu Xi's hair stand on end.
As the opera music rose and fell, the surrounding temperature dropped, and a chill swept over me, quickly spreading throughout my body.
Strangely, no matter how carefully Xu Xi listened, he couldn't make out what was being sung.
Damn, don't do that.
He would rather have another dark figure appear behind him than face this unseen and intangible presence.
Xu Xi hesitated for a moment, but resigned herself to her fate and walked forward.
It's okay, the worst that can happen is that I die a less-than-dignified death.
Thinking about it that way, he felt a little more relaxed.
Walking in the middle of the street, surrounded by paper money floating everywhere, and hearing eerie opera sounds piercing my eardrums.
Just as he was passing by the supermarket, which had been renamed, a female corpse suddenly dangled from the signboard.
Her face was a chilling bluish-gray, her eyes wide open, bloodshot and bulging, almost falling out of their sockets. Her lips were dark purple and cracked, slightly parted, and a rope was tightly wrapped around her neck, digging deep into her flesh and leaving purplish-black bruises.
The female corpse hung stiffly in the air, her familiar dress swaying slightly with each movement of her body.
She stared intently at the young man before her, her gaze seemingly piercing through space and the screen, filled with boundless resentment and unwillingness, leaving many netizens outside completely blank.
[Ah ah]
[Stop! You're hurting my eyes! (She pulls the blanket tighter around herself, trembling)]
[Why isn't there a censorship function? I'm begging you to add one!]
[Where are my army of bullet comments?! Protect me, protect me!!]
[Retreat! Retreat! Retreat!]
[Sis, do you know how much you've hurt my young heart? I'll forgive you if you just shrink back up again.]
Don't worry, these levels are just meant to scare you.
So? You mean there's another heavyweight coming up?
[The bag]
To be honest, the moment she looked at me, I almost thought I was going to see my great-grandmother.
[Xu Xi is so calm, her expression hasn't changed at all]
[Although the scene is a bit scary, for some reason, seeing Xu Xi gives me a strange sense of security.]
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