Leaning back in his chair, he looked once more at the chat window, where the messages were still flashing, and typed, "You lied to me. You deliberately opened the water Rubik's Cube!"
The Designer had clashed with Old Cai and the others before. He'd mostly blamed the Players for dragging ordinary people like them into trouble, but after the Players had tried to reassure him—and because he wanted to leave—his anger had gradually subsided.
The Designer still had food left, but judging by how he'd volunteered everything he knew to Old Cai and the others, he'd clearly been prepared to die. He had disappeared by now. Perhaps he'd died somewhere in a corner.
Old Cai and the others suspected he was dead too, which was why their frantic attempts to contact him at first had gradually become an afterthought.
Of course, after Xu Huo had just finished upgrading his permissions and clearing the Dungeon, Old Cai and the others had naturally grown frantic. But they were probably more worried that an outsider from another District had made it into the city center than that their companion had betrayed them.
As for how the water Rubik's Cube had gotten there, they hadn't lied about everything. At least the claim that someone had brought it there was probably true.
"Are you Old Ding or Xu Zhi?"
Xu Huo didn't answer. Instead, he continued typing. "You're all liars! You were the ones who opened the water Rubik's Cube! You got so many people killed and trapped me here, where I have to keep my dead coworkers company every day. I'm going crazy! You're the ones who deserve to die!"
He repeated the last sentence several times.
Faced with these words, which were clearly tinged with madness, Old Cai's side fell silent instead.
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