One Extra Tooth

The blood-red text appeared, and before Ji Li could finish reading it, his vision blurred.

The scene abruptly pulled away again. He left the dark green room and found himself in another room, this one an even deeper shade of green.

Before him, the screen still displayed the blood-red text, with Ruru's desk in the background.

Ji Li stood directly in front of the screen. The plastic stool he had overturned earlier still lay on its side.

This turn of events had caught him off guard.

Ji Li looked around with interest, his mind full of questions.

Clearly, this game mode had been designed differently from any mission he had encountered before.

When he needed to examine his surroundings firsthand, he entered the game himself, and everything he heard and felt seemed real.

But whenever a choice appeared, he was immediately pulled back into the Game Room.

Ji Li looked down at the four buttons on the Game Console and the Joystick, which had not moved at all. He could not make sense of it.

If what he was experiencing now was real, what was the point of using the Joystick to move a character?

But the first choice had appeared. He had no time to dwell on that question, so he turned his attention to the four options on the screen.

The final line alone made it clear that this first choice was the most important one—perhaps the most important of all.

Ji Li pulled the plastic stool back into place. Once seated, he took out the Cigarette Case and finally lit a cigarette.

After a long, hungry drag, he ignored the four options and focused on the Head Alarm Clock in the background.

The Head Alarm Clock was frozen in midair, a few centimeters above the desk.

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