Eating Luck, Unlucky Dice

After hearing Timid Ghoul's words, Liu Congming knew time was pressing. His gaze fell once more on the skeleton on the bed.

It still lay on its side, clutching that smoking pipe, with no eerie aura leaking from it.

But as Liu Congming approached, the frail-looking skeleton that seemed ready to fall apart at any moment suddenly began to leak pitch-black eerie aura.

"Notice: You have entered the interaction range of a hidden Easter egg. If you initiate interaction, mission mode will begin and cannot be exited—"

"Mission failure will result in punishment and expulsion from the Right Ear Room."

Liu Congming gave it a quick glance before closing the Game Panel.

Then he said to the skeleton, "Old man, I'd like to borrow your smoking pipe."

"Ding! The player has initiated interaction. Hidden challenge mission automatically triggered—"

The dense black eerie aura leaking from the skeleton grew even thicker.

Its brittle skeletal fingers lifted and scraped across the tabletop. The dust on the wooden table swiftly vanished.

Two dice cups appeared on the table.

Liu Congming's dice cup was filled with pebble-sized stones.

The Skeleton Eerie's dice cup contained several dull gray dice.

It looked like they were about to play some sort of drinking-table game?

Just as Liu Congming was puzzled, the Game Panel appeared before him and introduced the rules—

"Player notice: The mission is called—Guess the Dice."

"The NPC will shake the dice in its cup and randomly roll a number."

"The player must guess the total dice value, place the corresponding number of stones into the cup, and cover it. Once the cup is covered, bets are final and cannot be changed."

``` "Each dice roll will randomly select one item from the