In the livestream:
[Aaaaaah, holy shit! I've got chills all over!!!]
[I was wondering how the players were supposed to get the system's hint if my darling hadn't discovered that Palace. Turns out the players were on the shortlist from the very beginning!?]
[Thinking back to yesterday's auction, were the people sitting down there actually the "daddies" from the Third Floor?]
[Fuck, the more I think about it, the creepier it gets. I thought the players were just investigating. One wrong move in this instance and they'd become participants.]
[Aaaaaah, I can't imagine what would happen if my darling got sold to the Third Floor!!! This goddamn instance!!!]
Shen Ru curled his lips, a faint light glimmering in his scarlet eyes as he silently concealed every emotion.
Only the man standing beside him noticed his slightly trembling fingers.
The instance's seven days weren't the time allotted to clear the game, but the limit of how long it took to condition the players.
Through an unexpected twist, Shen Ru's brutal approach to clearing the instance had allowed the players to discover its secret another way.
But there was one loophole the system hadn't accounted for.
Seven days was the players' limit-and, correspondingly, the instance NPCs' limit as well.
To the players' and viewers' surprise, Shen Ru hadn't flown into a humiliated rage after learning this, nor had he gone mad and caused a panic as he had before.
Instead, he settled into his role as a substitute teacher, teaching his students right on schedule every day.
But the content of his lessons was chilling.
He kept impressing one belief upon the NPCs: death wasn't the end, but the beginning of a new life.
Under the influence of a god's love for humanity, ending their lives gradually became the ultimate goal the