Goodbye, Robin

"Phew, that was close!"

Lin Yu looked at the charred monster on the ground, its limbs transformed into tentacles while it was wearing Security Uniform, and sighed.

Because of his intuition of unease and his prior precautions, Lin Yu was naturally unlikely to fall for the trap.

After a fierce battle, Lin Yu finally defeated the monster and earned Max's admiring gaze.

"Holy crap, bro, you're so handsome!"

"No wonder you were able to take down that Doctor. It turns out you're not only good at deduction and behind-the-scenes planning, but you're also a formidable Combat Power."

Max rubbed his hands together and said, "Looks like I'll have to rely on you a lot for this Instance, bro!"

Hearing Max say that, Lin Yu waved his hand modestly.

"It's simply because the monsters in this Instance aren't very strong."

After all, based on the information currently available, the mechanism of this Instance is already quite unique: both the reincarnation and Memory erasure are extremely complex and difficult problems to solve.

If, under these circumstances, the monsters inside are so powerful that these Player are completely unable to handle them...

Then this Instance shouldn't only have "Robin" as a "Tier 3" character.

Max laughed at Lin Yu's self-deprecation, "Well, no matter what, I definitely wouldn't have won... especially since this thing ambushed me. I might not have even been able to react in time and have been rendered unable to Combat Power!"

Lin Yu listened to Max's words and shook his head.

"No matter what, you shouldn't be in such a sorry state."

"That's true," Max said, his optimism boosted by Lin Yu's words. "If things really got serious... I might be able to hold my own for a few moves!"

Lin Yu felt even more helpless listening to Max's tone.

"You're already talking so confidently, you might as well just say you can win!"

"How could that be? I have a pretty clear understanding of myself," Max waved his hand. "Right now, I don't have many of my Item that can be used in direct combat."

Upon hearing this, Lin Yu felt it was merely a humble remark.

After all, the monster that this Security Uniform isn't very strong.

He can handle it all with just [Fear Torch].

If Stiller were still alive, he could probably kill him in one move.

Thinking about this, Lin Yu felt a little melancholy.

"I really don't know where Stiller and Hannah went... Did they get separated before the last 'rollback'?"

"Although I can confirm that the person is probably still alive, I hope they haven't been captured by some Instance boss and are waiting for me to rescue them... But if it's not written in the Notebook, it should be fine, right?"

Lin Yu had no clue what to do, so he could only try to be optimistic.

"Maybe it's because Summoned Creature aren't affected by 'rollbacks'... that's why they didn't appear—after all, the other consumed [Item] haven't been replenished either, and the notebook specifically mentioned that."

Lin Yu let out a sigh of relief.

Just as he was sorting out his thoughts, he suddenly heard footsteps coming from upstairs.

"Tap, tap, tap..."

Max tensed up instantly.

"What's coming down?!"

She threw different dolls one after another up the stairs, then assumed a fighting stance—it looked like the starting position of Wing Chun, but not quite standard.

But even if standards are established, they probably won't be of much use...

"The monsters in this Instance are either giant Doctor two stories tall or things covered in tentacles. Are you planning to have a hand-to-hand Close Combat with them?"

Lin Yu couldn't help but ask.

Max chuckled, "No, I'm just posing, just in case it fools someone!"

"Besides, isn't it because of you?"

As the two were chatting and laughing, a head peeked out from around the corner of the stairs.

An ordinary-looking girl with messy, even disheveled hair and dark circles under her eyes peeked out. When she saw Lin Yu and Max, a look of relief flashed across her face.

Then, Robin spoke up, "Phew... you're Player, right? Judging from your appearance, you must be Player!"

She asked timidly, but to her surprise, Max below immediately stood at attention.

"Wow!" Max exclaimed excitedly, "Brother May, now we can finally relax!"

"This is one of the top experts in our Night Watcher, Teacher Robin," Max said, waving his hand. "Robin, Teacher Max, I am Night Watcher, and this is May May Order!"

"We're both Tier 1 Player; I'm the 'Thief' and he's the 'Doctor'!"

As Max excitedly introduced himself, Robin strode down, somewhat shyly tugging at his clothes as he spoke, "Hello, hello... I didn't expect to meet other 'Night Watcher' in this Instance..."

"Yes," Max said optimistically, "Two 'Night Watcher' and one 'Order', at least we Player won't have to scheme against each other!"

Let's work together to conquer this Instance!

As Max spoke, Lin Yu chimed in, "Indeed, considering the current Instance's difficulty and personnel configuration... this Instance shouldn't be too difficult for us to clear."

He looked at the bloodstains on the hem of Robin's clothes and asked, "Robin, you must have dealt with quite a few monsters to get down here, right?"

After entering the stairwell, although he had dealt with one monster, Lin Yu could still hear the sounds of many other monsters above him—until a short while before Robin appeared, when all of these monsters suddenly fell silent.

Based on the chronological order, Lin Yu could easily deduce that it was Robin who had cleared out the monsters.

Robin somewhat embarrassedly, "Because they looked noisy and scary, so I killed them all..."

"Because the environment here itself gives me some unpleasant associations, so I... ah, sorry, I've gone a bit overboard with this. This isn't really a place for chatting."

Robin said this, then clapped his hands.

"Alright, anyway, I did some research before coming down to this floor. We're currently on the 37th Island of the Misty Sea Island. The 'leaving the island' mentioned in the Clearance Conditions should refer to this," Robin said, looking down at the ground and muttering to himself. "Then, based on what I found on some of the Doctor, I've tentatively deduced that the first step to leaving this 'Asylum' building, that is, leaving the island, requires obtaining an Item that's probably the 'Director's Permission.' The Director's office is likely on the first floor..."

Lin Yu immediately realized what was going on when he heard Robin's long, monologue, which sounded like a primary school student reciting a text on stage.

First of all, there is indeed a "reincarnation" mechanism in this Instance; it's not that I used some kind of Fraud to "roll back" again but without retaining my Memory.

Secondly...

Robin must have also somehow passed on some information to herself from the previous cycle of reincarnation.