Time to Settle the Score

Ling Chu immediately unfolded the map.

Seven player icons instantly appeared on the previously blank map.

Four of them were clustered tightly together, right near the evacuation point that had just disappeared.

There was no need to guess that they were the four members of Circus.

Besides her and Circus, only three players remained.

And there was only one spot for someone to leave alive.

Ling Chu frowned.

This newly added rule was clearly forcing the remaining players to kill one another.

Beside the evacuation point, the four members of Circus opened their maps at the same time.

Chen Piaopiao's expression changed as she looked at the system prompt.

"Captain, there's only one survivor slot. What are the four of us supposed to do?"

They had thought that as long as they killed Ling Chu before the final day ended, they could settle the instance and leave together.

None of them had expected the instance to suddenly change the rules during its final few hours.

Smiley stared at the map, his expression dark.

"At worst, when it gets close to Zero Point, we'll have Flower Plucker use Fate's Gate one more time."

Fate's Gate was one of Plucking Flowers and Seeking Willows' innate skills. It could forcibly tear open a passage between the instance and the outside world.

When they had previously been trapped in Whispering Lighthouse, they had relied on this skill to force their way out.

But using Fate's Gate came at an enormous cost.

Every time he activated it, Plucking Flowers and Seeking Willows permanently lost ten percent of his constitution and maximum Health Points. He would also fall into a prolonged state of weakness, and his body would suffer severe damage.

At those words, Plucking Flowers and Seeking Willows' face turned even paler.

He had already