"What do we do now?"
The players in Lu Wei's group gathered again in a corner of the open grounds.
After parting on bad terms with Bo Yi, they had split up to talk to the patients, hoping to coax some clues out of them.
But after following those patient NPCs around and questioning them for ages, all they got were irrelevant answers. The patients seemed incapable of understanding them, completely immersed in their own worlds. Communication was impossible, let alone getting any clues.
So, after failing miserably with the patient NPCs, the players gathered together again.
"Is this really the time the Instance set aside for us to find clues?"
The Veteran Players were starting to question everything. "Or... are we asking the wrong way?" Were these NPCs giving irrelevant answers because they hadn't hit the right keywords or fulfilled the necessary conditions?
Lu Wei tugged at his hair in frustration. "What the hell is going on with this Instance?!"
If you called this Instance difficult... they actually had a clear understanding of all the conditions that could currently cause a player's death.
But if you called it easy, never mind that they were only on the second day and had already lost a quarter of the players-even those death conditions... knowing exactly what they were still didn't mean you could avoid them completely.
Take last night's attacks by the other patient NPCs in their wards. After that experience, they knew they would be attacked at night and couldn't sleep too deeply, but there was no way to predict or gauge how vicious the NPCs' attacks would be or when they would begin. Whether you lived to hear the next day's Wake-Up Bell depended entirely on your own abilities and luck.
But that wasn't the only thing frustrating Lu