The moment the system interface vanished, daylight arrived on the pitch-black, lightless snow mountain. Pale golden light climbed up from the distant icefield, spreading into vast swathes of brilliant dawn. Reflected off the ice, it was blindingly bright to Players who had not seen natural light for days.
Jiang Jue felt the cold immediately. He wrapped his coat tighter and kept rubbing his hands, trying to generate heat through friction. Then Dream Teller lunged at him, tugging at his coat as he pinched his throat and whined in a muffled voice, "Uncle~ I'm so cold~ Can you give me your clothes~?"
"Get lost!" Jiang Jue raised his foot as if to kick him. "The final Instance is already over. Could the debuff possibly still be around? What are you pretending for?"
Yes, the effect of "turning back into a child" had already disappeared. Dream Teller merely recalled how, over the past three days, he had clung to Jiang Jue as a mentally incomplete child, smearing snot and tears all over him. Now that his memories and ability to think had returned, he immediately felt it would be a shame not to pull something cheap.
Seeing that Jiang Jue had seen through him, he jumped aside and raised both hands in surrender. "Old Jiang, I was wrong..."
The next second, he truly felt the cold. With a curse, he grabbed the hem of his long coat and wrapped it around himself layer after layer. "The Eerie Game isn't really going to dump us here and leave us alone, is it? Forgive me for speaking frankly, but such conduct outrages both heaven and man. Despicable, utterly despicable."
"You think I don't know that?" Jiang Jue's teeth chattered, making his voice slightly slurred. "Based on my experience clearing over a hundred Instances, we've