Happy Valentine's Day to Everyone!

[Congratulations, you have triggered the special instance "Cursed Claw Machine Night"]

The previous second, Gu Mian had been discussing the City of Inverted Sky with Xu Xingcheng. The next, everything went black, and then he saw a game panel pop up with those words on it.

He'd been entering special instances rather frequently lately. They came one after another, like salespeople showing up to peddle burial clothes, urns, and plots to someone on the verge of death—hoping you'd die sooner, though they couldn't exactly say so.

Gu Mian thought Earth had quite a knack for being a cemetery salesperson.

He set aside the burial clothes and plots for now and turned to survey his surroundings. The darkness hadn't lifted yet, and all he could see was pitch black.

There was no one around.

Fatty had been standing beside him just before he entered the special instance. Gu Mian didn't know whether Fatty had been dragged into this claw-machine instance too.

Though he couldn't see anyone nearby, Gu Mian called out just to be safe. "Anyone there?"

Only a dead silence answered him.

Good. No one.

There were so many people in the apartment that Gu Mian didn't believe he was the only one dragged into the instance. It was possible that all the players who entered it had been separated from one another.

As he thought this over, he looked back at the game panel in front of him. Once it finished introducing the instance, the darkness around him should dissipate.

But the more he read what came next, the stranger it seemed. He'd never seen an instance description this bizarre before.

``` [Claw count / doll count: Set by player "Liu Liu Da Shun"]

[Doll retrieval opening count: Set by player "Qi Huo Guizi"]

[Floor 1 obstacle