Two days passed in playful squabbling, and soon it was time to enter another Instance.
Ye Chu casually pulled on a sky-blue T-shirt and headed downstairs in blue-and-white shorts. The others were already eating, and they hurriedly waved him over when they saw him. "Ye Chu, come eat! We're entering the Instance soon."
He had barely sat down, without even picking up his chopsticks, when the system spoke:
[Players, you are about to enter the Instance "Amnesia Maze." Please prepare yourselves.]
Ye Chu said, "...Can we negotiate? Let me have a bite first."
[But the viewers are already waiting in the livestream (˃ ⌑ ˂ഃ )]
Ye Chu: ...
The longer they spent in the game, the more human the system became. He still remembered its cold, emotionless mechanical voice at the beginning. Now it even knew how to act cute.
Ye Chu picked up the bowl on the table and took a few gulps. Seeing that he had not objected, the system took that as his agreement to enter.
[Instance loading: 1%...50%...99%...100%]
After that familiar flash of white, Ye Chu opened his eyes to find himself at an entrance. Dense tree trunks surrounded him, their tops too high to see. A backpack lay on the ground. He opened it and found two packs of compressed biscuits and a bottle of mineral water.
Ye Chu blinked and asked the three fundamental questions:
Who am I?
Where am I?
Where am I supposed to go?
Ye Chu scratched his head. Damn, he could not remember anything. He could not even remember his own name. Looking down, he saw a badge on his chest marked with a number-seven.
Seven? What does that mean? What does it have to do with me?
Ye Chu tugged at the