Rule-Based Horror: Mistaken for a Top Player Right from the Start!
Chapter 11

[Happy Family 11] A perfect clear-and even a hidden ending?

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But he still felt something was missing.

Some things were just a thin veil away, yet no matter how hard he thought, he couldn't figure them out.

Finally, Li Chen took off the glasses resting on his nose.

He wiped the sweat from his nose.

Forget it. What's the point of thinking about this now?

Anyway, Big Shot Chen Han has less than a minute before he clears this instance.

Li Chen relaxed and slumped back in his chair.

Just then, Chen Han made a new move!

On camera, he abruptly stood up.

Then he headed toward the kitchen.

Li Chen jolted in shock and hurriedly jumped out of his chair.

By all rights, Big Shot Chen Han only needed to lie back and win now.

Why was he still heading toward the kitchen?

Chen Han's sudden move also sent the bullet comments exploding.

"What is Big Shot Chen Han doing?"

"Why is he going to the kitchen? Isn't that man's head in there?"

"Could he have discovered something else?"

Most people in the bullet comments were utterly confused.

But Chen Han had already exceeded their expectations so many times that the longtime viewers still in the livestream-

All took it for granted that questioning Chen Han was nothing but slapping themselves in the face.

Under everyone's watchful eyes.

Chen Han actually picked up the man's head from the kitchen and placed it in front of the silver shaded cat.

There were now ten seconds left before this instance closed.

By now, Dad had been forced into a corner by the silver shaded cat.

He was trembling as he faced the silver shaded cat.

So he posed no threat to Chen Han.

When the silver shaded cat saw Chen Han place the man's head in front of it.

It froze at first.

Then glistening tears appeared in its eyes again.

As though it had seen a loved one it hadn't met in a long time.

And when the man's head looked at the silver shaded cat.

Its earlier unwillingness abruptly vanished, leaving only tenderness toward the silver shaded cat.

Though neither the man nor the cat said anything.

The atmosphere was definitely out of the ordinary!

At that very moment, the silver shaded cat and the man's head began to burn spontaneously.

Then the flames burned more and more fiercely.

Seeing this, the anomaly felt no joy at being freed from the silver shaded cat's suppression as the head and cat burned.

Instead, he grew even more terrified.

He had even slumped into the corner, burying his face deep in the crook of his arms.

His whole body trembled nonstop.

As though he were about to witness something utterly horrifying.

Naturally, the viewers found the anomaly's reaction immensely satisfying.

But then they reconsidered. Wait, why had the head and cat suddenly caught fire?

All kinds of guesses sprang up.

"Look at that anomaly, cowering like a little bitch! I'm dying, hahaha!"

"I don't get it. Why would a head and a cat spontaneously combust?"

"Is Big Shot Chen Han trying to burn the whole house down and take everyone with him?"

"How on earth did Big Shot Chen Han know about this? He's so fucking amazing. This makes absolutely no sense!"

"The rules never mentioned that the head and cat would burn themselves up if they met! Something this important shouldn't have been left out!"

Meanwhile, Chen Han was actually still utterly bewildered.

He had brought the head over from the kitchen purely because he suspected it was an anomaly.

After all, what normal person could still blink when all that remained of him was a head?

This has to be an anomaly!

And this anomaly keeps staring at me. It's making my skin crawl.

I've got a golden thigh like the silver shaded cat backing me up now.

Yet this head still dares to keep staring at me.

Keep staring, and I'll serve you up to the silver shaded cat as a supplement!

Seeing that there was only one minute left anyway, Chen Han decided to act tough for once.

He refused to believe an anomaly could insta-kill him within that one minute.

At a hundred-meter sprint, he placed the head in front of the silver shaded cat.

This silver shaded cat definitely hates anomalies.

When it saw the man's head, it got so worked up it turned red.

Seeing an expression uglier than crying appear on the man's face, Chen Han knew the head was guaranteed to die.

He just hadn't expected the head and cat to start burning themselves up!

When Chen Han saw this, he practically wanted to slap himself across the face.

My golden thigh has burned away! Who's going to protect me now?

I was completely courting death with this move!

But why is the anomaly huddled in the corner even more scared now?

Chen Han was rather puzzled.

Then an even stranger scene unfolded.

As the head and cat were completely engulfed in flames, a man and a woman actually walked out hand in hand, corresponding to the head and cat.

However, they didn't look like physical beings, but more like phantoms.

They were translucent.

The bizarre development sent the bullet comments into another frenzy.

"Holy shit, holy shit! Did you see what those two phantoms look like? Why do they look exactly like the two-faced anomaly?!"

"These two feel like dead people whose souls have returned!"

"That anomaly looks so much like this man. This scene is terrifying. It's triggering my uncanny valley response!"

"Big Shot Chen Han definitely figured something out. That's why he doesn't just want to clear the instance-he wants to 'kill the anomaly'!"

"'Kill the anomaly'? Are you kidding? Can humans even kill those things?"

"Nope. Chen Han isn't the one doing the killing. This pair of phantoms will do it!"

"Holy shit! Awesome!"

The two walked toward the anomaly in the corner.

Suddenly, they stopped.

Without any prompting, they both turned around and said to Chen Han, "Thank you for letting us 'reunite'!"

Then they bowed deeply to Chen Han.

Chen Han gave a slight nod, as though he had expected this all along.

The bullet comments exploded at his reaction.

"That nod was so meaningful!"

"What exactly did Chen Han figure out? Why don't I get it?"

"Why are they thanking Chen Han? Can someone explain?!"

Then the two continued toward the anomaly, who grew utterly terrified at their approach.

Clutching his head, he muttered to himself.

"Please, spare me! I know I was wrong!"

Neither of them was moved in the slightest by the anomaly's pleas.

On the contrary, they closed in on him even faster.

When the two phantoms fully made contact with the anomaly, he turned into a cloud of black mist.

At that very moment, the clock struck eight in the evening.

Li Chen recalled the scene of the man's head and the silver shaded cat looking at each other.

A hazy veil in his mind was pierced.

Could this be the truth?

To think that even a beginner solo instance would have such a thought-provoking truth.

How exactly did Big Shot Chen Han discover the truth behind this instance?!

Judging by his reaction, he probably guessed the truth as soon as he saw the instance's name.

Just as the livestream was about to close completely, an extremely excited Li Chen typed out the truth behind the instance.

"The instance is called Happy Family. This family doesn't refer to the player, Mom, and Dad. It refers to the golden shaded cat, Mom, and Dad. Since Mom can turn into Dad, Mom herself represents two people."

"The ones who truly belonged to this family originally were actually the player, Mom, and Dad. But here, Mom turned into the silver shaded cat, and Dad turned into the man's head in the kitchen!"

"So only when Chen Han brought the man's head, the silver shaded cat, and Big Shot Chen Han himself together was the 'happy family' truly reunited."

"As for why Dad's head was placed in the kitchen, the anomaly did that deliberately too. The rules mentioned that the player couldn't leave the anomaly for more than ten minutes, which meant Chen Han couldn't go in to find the head!"

"So Big Shot Chen Han had to be very careful, using the silver shaded cat to deal with the anomaly first, then using the head to eliminate the anomaly completely!"

"Big Shot Chen Han discovered the hidden ending!"

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