Chapter 70 The Singer, Oh, The Singer 3

Lin Xiangjun gave him a serious look, then turned her head to look toward the entrance of the alley.

"Could you please stop talking to me? I want to maintain a good mood before entering the instance."

Looking at something like this before entering the instance really ruins one's mood.

The man was stunned for a moment, then flew into a rage, wishing he could tear her apart: "You, with your red underwear over your mouth, dressed like Swiper from Dora the Explorer, and you have the nerve to call others ugly?!"

Lin Xiangjun: "..."

Damn it, he actually said she was a Weasel!

Damn it! And she couldn't even refute it!

Lin Xiangjun whipped her head around, looked the man up and down, and sneered:

"Better than someone wearing pants but not realizing their underwear waistband is showing."

Everyone subconsciously looked at the man's pants.

Sure enough, a white underwear waistband with black letters on it was sticking out a good bit above his pants, clearly visible.

The man's eyes widened.

"What do you know? You country bumpkin! This is American retro style. It's called 'loose with details,' 'details revealing unruliness,' and 'unruliness with a touch of carefree liberation!' This is our aesthetic sweet and spicy style!"

"Oh."

This one word made the man completely explode. Just as he wanted to say something else, Lin Xiangjun had already started walking into the alley.

She didn't even spare him another glance, leaving only one sentence for the hesitant crowd at the entrance: "You guys can just stand there and wait for the instance to end, and maybe the Instance Master will bring the rewards out and hand them to you on a silver platter."

With that, she strode into the alley.

...

Just like the previous instance, the alley had its own name. The moment she stepped into the alley, the system's mechanical voice sounded.

"You have entered the instance area: Xieyou Alley.

"You are the first player to enter the instance, and you will receive the first two rules of the instance:

"The Songstress will sing the most beautiful songs in the world. Everyone is her devout audience; follow her figure, listen to her singing, and place flowers in her hands.

【1. The Songstress likes flowers. After she finishes singing, please place a flower in her hand. If she wears a green dress, give her a yellow flower; if she wears a blue dress, give her a red flower; if she wears a red dress, please give her a white flower; when she wears a white dress, do not give her red, white, or yellow flowers.】

【2. The Songstress will not wear white shoes. If she does, please check if she is wearing a pearl brooch. If not, she is not the real Songstress. Kill her.】

"Special instance: instance rules will not be displayed directly to players; please explore on your own."

Lin Xiangjun frowned.

Trouble. It was the type of instance she worried about the most.

All rules need to be found by the players themselves. It is very likely that players will violate undiscovered rules while searching for them and die—

Of course, that is not the scariest part.

The scariest part is that many people, after obtaining clues, will demand that others trade clues for them.

This makes it impossible for those who want to voluntarily share clues to do so.

If you voluntarily share the clues you found, but others demand you trade clues for theirs, why should you? Are good people supposed to die?

Even by the later stages of the novel, no solution had been found for this type of instance, and Lin Xiangjun had even less of a way to deal with it.

In this type of instance, whoever finds the clues first simply has the advantage.

Seeing that Lin Xiangjun had entered first, the other two women didn't want to wait outside anymore and followed her in.

Only seven men remained outside.

Just as the man with his underwear showing was muttering and preparing to rush in, a man suddenly spoke up: "Everyone."

His voice was loud, and everyone else looked at him.

This man looked to be in his early thirties, with dark skin, wearing a black jacket over a tight black tank top, his muscles bulging, looking particularly intimidating.

"This instance is a three-star instance and also a multiplayer instance, which proves that the difficulty coefficient of the instance is very high. It is best if we act as a group. Acting alone will likely make it impossible to complete the mission."

A scruffy man wearing slippers said disdainfully: "Everyone knows that instances are dangerous. You drag out a bunch of nonsense and expect to be the boss, making us listen to you? Who do you think you are?"

Tiger Wang glanced at him sideways, his expression showing no anger at being questioned.

"I am Tiger Wang, system nickname 'Buddha and Demon Born of the Heart,' and currently ranked 8097 in China on the system leaderboard."

The system has two leaderboards, the global leaderboard and the national leaderboards; both only display the top 10,000 players.

Ranking 8097 might look like the tail end of the leaderboard, but think about how many people currently exist in China? Even the ten-thousandth place is truly one in ten thousand!

Therefore, everyone assumes that anyone on the leaderboard is a top-tier expert.

Thus, when the man announced his name, everyone's expression became respectful. Even the disdain on the slipper-wearing man's face disappeared, replaced by the anxiety of having offended a strong person.

Tiger Wang looked at the crowd with satisfaction.

He assumed the aura of a leader: "I know everyone is a bit nervous and scared entering a three-star instance, but don't be afraid. I have already entered three instances—one one-star and two two-star—and all were S-rank clears. I have a certain amount of research on instances.

"The biggest difficulty of an instance is that everyone cannot think and pull in the same direction, making it easy to be split apart by various hardships. It can be said that as long as everyone works together, the difficulties of the instance are not enough to be fatal.

"Just now, everyone saw that those three women were unharmed after stepping into the alley, so we know that at least stepping into the instance is not a problem.

"Entering the instance is not about who is fast or slow; the most important thing is to take it one step at a time, steadily and surely."

This speech was quite bureaucratic, yet with his strength on display, no one dared to refute his words.

Tiger Wang looked around at everyone, found that everyone was looking at him with awe, nodded with satisfaction, and turned to look into the alley.

There was no obstruction inside or outside the alley; only a groove in the cement floor divided the area inside and outside the instance, and he could clearly see the movement trajectories of the women inside.

They had walked in about thirty meters, looking around vigilantly the whole time, but other than that, they had no extra actions, and it seemed they hadn't gained anything.

"Brother Wang is truly smart and courageous. Without saying a word, people are already volunteering to be cannon fodder for us!" Zhang Qi looked at Tiger Wang's muscular arms and legs, his tone becoming increasingly sycophantic. "Following Brother Wang, we will definitely clear this mere three-star instance successfully!"

Tiger Wang was pleased by the flattery, but still had to be humble: "This is nothing. I have only luckily cleared two instances with an S-rank; this is my first time encountering a three-star instance, and I dare not boast that I will definitely clear it perfectly."

Zhang Qi's flattery skills were very on point.

He was the one who relied on bootlicking to squeeze out his originally hardworking female colleague to become a team leader.

On the night he became team leader, he even opened a bottle of beer and talked at length with his good brother about the secrets of promotion.