Bai Ye Jisi was suffering inside, but he couldn't put it into words.
Ever since drawing that Tower card, he had harbored a vague sense of foreboding. What he hadn't expected was for the calamity meant for him to arrive so suddenly.
In certain RPG-type games, there was usually a common sort of progression.
For example, in some stages or storylines, Players had to find other clues, go somewhere else to activate mechanisms, or obtain specific items before they could proceed.
Or, in some escape-room games, Players would typically need to find the combination for a password lock in order to open a Cabinet or unlock a door and escape.
—That was how the normal process should have gone.
But some people just loved taking unconventional paths, directly ignoring the plot progression and forcibly skipping stages. Or they would simply smash the password lock with one punch and Ora the entire place.
Unfortunately, he was the victim of exactly that sort of thing.
Based on what he had discovered, according to the original narrative logic, the two groups inside and outside should have proceeded steadily. Through close contact and communication between the Players divided into the inner and outer layers, they would cooperate with each other, solve one problem and predicament after another, and gradually uncover the truth as time passed.
That was the normal way to clear the level, and it was also why the system had set the main quest's time limit at Seven Days after its assessment.
Bai Ye Jisi guessed that the reason they had been split into two groups from the very start was perhaps because the outside could affect the inside, and the inside could affect the outside. Many things had to be accomplished through cooperation between the two sides, so the arrangement had