"Don't look at me like that." Blondie scratched his head. "I couldn't help it. Anyone would've lost control in that situation. And even though I tried all sorts of things in the Temple of Inquiry—running around and jumping—I was actually still in the same spot. Since it was all fake, killing myself couldn't have been real either."
"Buddy, that's a dangerous way to think," Xu Huo said. "How can you tell what's real and what's fake? What if fighting the Cannibal Player earlier was fake, but when you got to killing yourself, it became real?"
"That's what I was worried about, which is why I couldn't bring myself to do it." Blondie sighed. "If only I had some kind of resurrection item."
"Would you dare use it?" Xu Huo asked. "You said you couldn't even use your other items. How can you be sure a life-saving item would work?"
Blondie nodded. "Even if I really had a resurrection item, I wouldn't dare use it outside the hallucination. Who knows if it would work every time? What if it happened to fail when I killed myself? Life and death are too important to gamble on luck."
"But when I got here, I heard some players say that people who enter Dungeons without Tickets have it much easier than players who have to clear them." He looked at Xu Huo. "You absolutely can't let anyone know you're not here to clear the Dungeon, or you'll be in for it."
"Unfortunately, they already know." Xu Huo smiled faintly. "Some people have come to invite me several times."
Blondie looked surprised at first, then seemed to understand. He gave Xu Huo a thumbs-up. "You really are something. Looks like I worried for nothing."
He walked over to the window and gestured toward the temple.