[Instance Name: Red Maple Leaf Boarding School] [Instance Type: Team Survival] [Preliminary Hint: Disasters repeat themselves, and survival is never easy; to live is a kind of fortune, while death is destiny]
Before a massive concrete building, Chang Xu stood solemnly, scanning his surroundings. There was no sign of his teammates.
A faint sense of foreboding rose within him. This instance was likely going to be complicated, and the main quest would no longer be something as simple and straightforward as "survive for a few days" or "escape this place."
Instead, it would be... puzzle-solving, the thing he was worst at.
In the silence, a narrator's voice drifted eerily into his ears:
[Over the long years, the extinction of a people passed in silence; the remnants of their civilization vanished amid the flames of war, leaving no proof that they had ever existed.] [Some call it tragedy, while others call it greatness; oblivion has always existed, but disaster alone is eternal.] [The bones of the dead rot in the earth, while monuments to the victors rise from the ground. Does remembrance hold any meaning?] [Visitors, welcome to the Indigenous Victims Memorial Hall.]
Chang Xu frowned slightly.
Shouldn't this have been Red Maple Leaf Boarding School? What the hell was this "Memorial Hall"?
He looked up and saw that an English inscription had indeed been carved into the plaque on the concrete building.
After he stared at it for two seconds, the English words translated into nine bold characters on his system interface: Indigenous Victims Memorial Hall.
The building itself certainly did not resemble a school. Its concrete exterior had been brushed with white paint, solemn and pallid like a withered graveyard.
Pale-gray glass doors were set into the wall, with three marble steps before them leading