New Game, Deadly Q&A!

Lin Yu rode his bicycle home.

Just like yesterday, Lin Zhao was waiting behind the door—though this time, Lin Zhao had the lights on and was sitting on the sofa.

Seeing Lin Yu push the door open, Lin Zhao immediately jumped up from the sofa, rolled up her sleeves, and walked towards Lin Yu, her face full of anger.

"Lin Yu, today is already..."

Before Lin Zhao could unleash her anger, Lin Yu immediately opened his schoolbag and took out two stacks of RMB.

"This is important business, big sis. I went to make money!"

With that, Lin Yu stuffed two thousand yuan into Lin Zhao's arms.

The pink paper instantly cleared Lin Zhao's anger meter to zero.

She subconsciously fiddled with the banknotes, confirmed they were real, and then spoke with a hint of complaint.

"Why didn't you tell your sister sooner... Besides, didn't I tell you not to work?"

"It's precisely because I was afraid you wouldn't let me, big sis, that I kept it from you," Lin Yu waved his hand. "Don't worry, it's not tiring. It's just quick money earned over a few nights."

Lin Zhao suddenly looked suspicious. "Earning quick money at night... Lin Yu, you didn't go do something like being a male escort, did you? I'm telling you, you need to keep yourself pure!"

Lin Yu found it somewhat amusing and exasperating.

"What are you thinking, big sis? Why would I go be a male escort!"

Lin Yu had already prepared an explanation for the origin of this money.

"A senior at our school is making short videos, and I made a couple of guest appearances. This is his appearance fee!"

As Lin Yu spoke, Lin Zhao indeed believed him.

After all, in Lin Zhao's eyes, Lin Yu was a future superstar and movie emperor.

It was perfectly normal to earn a few thousand yuan for a few days of filming a short video!

"There are such good things? If you had told me, I would have agreed. I'm not completely unreasonable."

Lin Zhao even sounded a bit excited. "Hey, what's your senior's account name? Let me see what you guys filmed."

Lin Yu waved his hand. "Oh, he's still building up his account, so those videos are all saved and haven't been posted yet. I'll definitely tell you when he posts them!"

"I filmed for a whole night, I'm a bit tired. I'm going back to sleep now!"

After saying that, Lin Yu quickly retreated to his room.

After closing the door, Lin Yu let out a sigh.

"Hoo..."

He had finally managed to fool Lin Zhao.

Lin Yu was already considering whether he should actually film some short videos.

Not only to have something to show his sister in a few days...

But also to avoid making up new excuses when he earned money in future gatherings.

"But these are minor issues... The priority is to ensure I can survive in the 'death game'."

Lin Yu thought, and opened the "forum" again, starting to browse through the guides from that day.

Due to the nature of the "Deceiver" profession, Lin Yu decided to memorize the currently known professions and their abilities!

For other players, memorizing other professions' abilities wouldn't be entirely useless, but no one would go to such lengths to do something so taxing.

After all, in any non-confrontational instance, everyone would introduce their own abilities.

But for Lin Yu, the most useful application of the "Deceiver" profession was to disguise himself as other professions.

Depending on the characteristics of each instance, he could choose the profession best suited for the current instance to use.

Of course, besides that.

Lin Yu was also watching and learning from ordinary instance guides!

Soon, four days passed in the blink of an eye.

Lin Yu spent the entire weekend in his room, researching various game guides under the guise of "reading scripts."

Even on the two school days, he frantically studied guides during his free time and outside of rehearsals.

This greatly enriched his theoretical knowledge of the "death game."

Even on his way to and from school, Lin Yu would recall the professions in the death game like he was memorizing vocabulary words while cycling!

"It feels like I'm back to the eve of the college entrance exams."

Lin Yu couldn't help but sigh.

And just past noon on Tuesday, the bloodstain before his eyes showed some changes.

"Less than 24 hours remaining until the latest possible start time for the next game!"

"Please find a 'water body' deeper than 50 centimeters tonight and immerse yourself completely in it before midnight to await entry into the game."

Lin Yu looked at the bloodstain before him, and understood.

This was the method to enter the next game!

Having browsed the forum these past few days, Lin Yu already knew…

Entering the "death game" each week wasn't instantaneous.

Instead, one had to enter the game through some kind of bloodstain prompt, and these methods were likely related to a specific "way of dying."

Like today's, it was probably imitating "drowning"!

"Fortunately, it's not too harsh, otherwise it would have been a hassle," Lin Yu muttered.

If one failed to enter the instance according to the specified method, and midnight passed…

They wouldn't be erased or anything, but would be forcibly entered into the instance.

However, in such situations, they would usually receive extremely harsh punishments within the instance!

Some even died immediately upon entering… in essence, no different from a "death penalty."

As a newcomer who had just cleared the novice instance, Lin Yu didn't want to challenge a high difficulty in his second instance!

Therefore, Lin Yu had already found his "water body"—thankfully, he had one at home!

Although the house was an old, run-down apartment, the bathroom was quite spacious.

Lin Zhao had impulsively bought a huge wooden bathtub a while back, planning to soak in hot water whenever she felt like it.

But later, she found it was too wasteful of water—especially heating such a large tub of hot water, which also consumed a lot of natural gas.

So, the bathtub hadn't been used much since it was bought, but it had been left on the balcony.

Taking advantage of Lin Zhao not being home today, Lin Yu also returned from school early and dragged the bathtub into the bathroom to scrub it clean.

Afterward, Lin Yu quietly waited until Lin Zhao returned home in the evening.

"You're back quite early today… Did you bring out that bathtub?"

"Yeah, I wanted to take a hot bath after finishing my homework tonight."

Lin Yu said, and Lin Zhao didn't seem surprised.

After the siblings had dinner, Lin Yu returned to his room and took one last look at a few guides, consolidating the professions he had memorized.

Then, as it neared midnight, Lin Zhao was already asleep in her room.

Lin Yu tiptoed into the bathroom and quietly locked the door.

"People on the forum generally agree that 'entry methods' are mostly related to the game's content."

"This time, my game instance is very likely related to 'water,' so I'll do my best to play the roles of 'fisherman' and 'sailor.'"

With that thought, Lin Yu, wearing slippers and a very tropical-themed pair of shorts and a shirt, took a deep breath and submerged himself into the bathtub.

Holding his breath, after only a few minutes…

Lin Yu felt his consciousness blur as bloodstains appeared before his eyes.

[Joining game...]

[Ga%me...na*me: Is%land...su*rvi...]

In a daze, the bloodstains before him seemed to writhe.

But soon, the bloodstains became regular again.

[Game Name: Deadly Q&A]

[Clear Conditions: Solve the necessary puzzles.]

[Number of Players in this Game: 5.]