"So..."
All the players except Bo Yi had gathered in the room. They sat in small groups around the round table, their faces solemn, as though they were holding some important meeting.
"What... do you think of what that 'Master Kang' said?" One player tapped his fingers on the table, taking the lead in breaking the heavy silence.
Seeing that the other players remained silent, the player who had spoken first slowly sighed. He understood their silence. After all, this was his first time encountering the death of a key NPC, too.
It wasn't as though he had never encountered NPC deaths in other instances, but those NPCs could die without affecting their ability to clear the instance at all.
But now-
"That Master Kang already made it clear that he won't hold the wedding without a bride."
Without a wedding, the Kang Residence wouldn't hold a wedding banquet; without a wedding banquet, they would never be able to complete their objective for this instance-attending the Kang Residence's wedding banquet.
And unfortunately, this instance was a genuine "time-limited instance." Although it had never given them an explicit time limit, after that morning's "farce," all the players had learned one of this instance's death rules from Bo Yi-the two players who drank the most alcohol each day would die the following morning.
Not only was this death rule impossible to avoid, but what made it so vile was that, until the next day actually arrived, none of the players could know where their alcohol consumption ranked among everyone else's. Unless they didn't touch a drop, no one knew whether they would be the one to die.
Especially since... by the time they learned this rule from Bo Yi, it was already too late. The unsuspecting players had already drunk quite a