Nightmare Town—Paradise
The Ferris wheel, draped in strings of tiny lights, was turning. Yi Chen and Catherine sat in one of its cabins.
The atmosphere, however, was rather off.
Yi Chen folded his hands in front of him and lowered his head in thought.
Catherine, meanwhile, anxiously scratched at her face like a madwoman while constantly muttering agitated, restless words. Several different tongues kept poking out of her mouth as she spoke.
"Ah~ I really regret betting against you, William... Those guys actually used the 'contagious skin disease' granted by the Abyssal Skin Field to corrode my Nightmare Space.
"If I hadn't been playing a game with you, William, I would have launched a full-scale invasion of Zion already. More than fifty percent of the residents have consumed Nightmare Substance, which is enough to trigger citywide turmoil and disrupt those people's entry into the dream.
"Waaah~ What should I do? If this keeps up, we won't be able to continue the game."
The more Catherine spoke, the more agitated she became. In the end, she even burst into tears.
Unfortunately, her acting was terrible. The tears had actually been squeezed out by an Octopus Tentacle at the corner of her eye, and Yi Chen saw everything.
"Catherine, if that's all you've got, the gentlemen would have already found and killed you, wouldn't they?
"Stop pretending. Bring out your so-called 'forced measures'... No matter how we try to lure them under the current circumstances, they definitely won't leave the church."
Her tears stopped abruptly. Catherine's features scrunched together. "Huh? Is my acting really that bad? No wonder Boss always makes me perform after the atmosphere has been warmed up whenever the Circus Tent puts on a show.
"But forced measures might damage the game experience."
"What are you planning to do?"