7: Chapter 7 Devil's Villa 7

At this moment in the livestream room.

[Holy sh*t, she's actually got some skills!]

[!!! Did she know there was something behind her all along?]

[That dodge + counterattack combo was so slick.]

[That last line was so cool, boohoo, and it sounded kind of doting! I'm just going to say it: Hi! Wife.]

[Where are the guys who just said the White-haired Beauty was done for? Come out and get slapped in the face.]

[...Fine, it was really cool. I admit I spoke too soon.]

...

Completely unaware of what had happened behind her, Luo Yuejian felt around for the knife, straightened up, and placed it on the table.

Did she just touch something soft a moment ago? Luo Yuejian lowered her eyes and pondered for a second.

Eh, it must have been an illusion!

Humming a little tune in her heart, Luo Yuejian arrived at the Kitchen. A faint stench wafted through the air, making one feel slightly nauseous.

Luo Yuejian pretended to open the refrigerator door. The pale light became the only source of illumination in the dim Kitchen, slightly lighting up the surroundings and casting a ghastly white glow over everything, making the small Kitchen appear even more eerie and chilling.

As soon as the refrigerator door opened, a thick stench rushed out, making Luo Yuejian almost unable to help but frown.

The scent of blood hidden within the stench was completely ignored by Luo Yuejian.

Seeing the bowls in the refrigerator filled with red liquid and unknown chunks of meat, with white floating blobs on top... Luo Yuejian didn't feel the nausea she had imagined. Perhaps it was because she had already imagined scenes even more disgusting than this during the day, so seeing it now wasn't as revolting.

Without a moment's hesitation, Luo Yuejian immediately and expressionlessly slammed the refrigerator door shut and began to explore other parts of the Kitchen.

At the very same moment the refrigerator door was slammed shut, two photos that had been stuck to the door with magnets fell off.

Luo Yuejian picked them up, sighed in advance as if she had a premonition, and then flipped the photos over. Sure enough, she saw a line of text written on the back of one of them:

"I have hidden the true Holy Artifact in a corner of the staircase; it is the only hope!"

Luo Yuejian: [Smiling.jpg] Still going to say no one is playing me?

That Man with Slicked-back Hair spent half the day tinkering in the Kitchen and didn't even discover this?! Isn't this obviously throwing the game? Why is his system so lenient, boohoo...

Just then, the Anti-Escape System, which had zero presence since the beginning—aside from stating its identity and issuing a warning when she tried to throw the game—spoke up.

"Please do not speculate wildly, Host. The Anti-Escape System is a unique system developed by the Master; there are no other systems with the same functions in existence."

Luo Yuejian was silent for a second, then suddenly asked: "Can you hear my inner thoughts?"

The system answered naturally: "Yes, Host. But you need not worry. First, I am absolutely loyal to the Host and will not do anything detrimental to you. Second, under normal circumstances, it is difficult for me to hear the Host's inner thoughts, but..."

System: It's just that you were really hurting my ears just now.

Luo Yuejian was silent for a moment and decided not to dwell on this issue. After all, it currently seemed that this system really hadn't taken any actions detrimental to her, and the most severe punishment was just that this round of the match wouldn't count.

Thinking about it this way, the system was actually quite thoughtful.

"Who is your Master?" After hesitating for a moment, Luo Yuejian asked the question anyway.

The system paused for a second before saying: "You will know in the future."

After saying this, it didn't speak again.

Hearing this, Luo Yuejian didn't continue to press. She knew the system wouldn't reveal any more information about that "Master" to her, and with her intelligence, she couldn't deduce who this Master was either.

Eh, she'd take it one step at a time. Her sixth sense told her that the system really posed no danger to her.

While Luo Yuejian was talking to the system, the audience in the livestream room also began to discuss heatedly.

[Am I remembering this wrong? I clearly remember that Man with Slicked-back Hair looking at this photo during the day?]

[That Man with Slicked-back Hair spent almost the entire day searching in the Kitchen, yet he didn't find such an obvious clue?]

[Hiss, I remember there was no text on the back of these two photos during the day?]

[Confirmed trash.]

[I also remember there was no text on the back of the photos!]

[Stop arguing, I recorded the screen. I'll take a screenshot and post it to the forum later. There really wasn't any text on the back of this photo during the day.]

...

Luo Yuejian sighed, stuck the photos back onto the refrigerator door, but didn't intend to leave the Kitchen just yet.

The important clue had been triggered, but what other clues could there be in such a small place? She wouldn't be satisfied until she found the mechanism here; otherwise, wouldn't this whole turn be a huge loss?

However, the "fortunate" thing was that Luo Yuejian didn't need to keep racking her brain. The moment the photos were stuck back onto the refrigerator, a blue flame suddenly ignited on the stove not far away, emitting an eerie blue light.

Above the flames, the previously unremarkable tin kettle suddenly sounded as if it were boiling, accompanied by a "woo-woo" sound. The kettle lid began to bob up and down, as if the hot water were roaring, and it seemed as though a giant beast was about to burst out of the kettle, looking quite imposing.

With the "woo-woo" sound of the kettle, puffs of mysterious and evil-looking purple gas slowly overflowed from the kettle, beginning to diffuse throughout the Kitchen bit by bit.

What the heck?

Luo Yuejian was startled, but immediately realized that she must have triggered some mechanism. She just didn't know how she would die.

In an instant, several ways she could die appeared in Luo Yuejian's mind: being poisoned by the purple gas, being blown up by the shockwave of the kettle exploding, or perhaps there was some devil or something inside the kettle that would come out and finish her off!

Any way of dying was fine! She wasn't picky, really!

Luo Yuejian's excitement was slightly extinguished by the system's interruption.

"Please look for a way to escape like a normal person."

Luo Yuejian: Ah, understood. It's just that her acting was a bit too obvious, she needed to pretend.

Having perfectly understood the system's subtext, Luo Yuejian walked to the door and tried to pull the handle, but it wouldn't budge.

It was completely within her expectations. If this danger could be avoided so easily without using her brain, she would advise this Miracle Escape Live Stream Game to just shut down early.

However, Luo Yuejian couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. After all, there were simply too many things in this game that had exceeded her expectations so far, and she was getting slapped in the face constantly.

[Smiling.jpg]

Thinking of this, Luo Yuejian began to feel uneasy again. Whenever she thought she was a goner, this trash game would always hit her with a reality check, letting her know: What you think is ultimately just what you think.

No, she couldn't just sit and wait for death. Only by taking the initiative could she achieve her goal!

But let her think about how she could accelerate her death.

Generally speaking, in this kind of escape game, if you want to die, you should do the opposite of a normal person. After all, normal people seek survival, while she was seeking death.

Following this line of thinking, if a normal person were in this situation, they would try to find a way to escape or try to pause the mechanism. But since she wanted to die successfully, she should use reverse thinking and face the kettle head-on.

Regardless of what was inside the kettle—if it was a bomb, release the bomb; if it was poison gas, release the poison gas; if it was a demon, release the demon!

Luo Yuejian's eyes lit up instantly. That's right, that's it! Just open the kettle lid and release whatever was inside! Wouldn't she be dead for sure this time?!

After hesitating for a moment, she still guiltily said in her heart: "Ahem, I'm going to go take a look at what's in the kettle."

One second... two seconds...

No reaction!

She walked over excitedly and, amidst the horrified gazes of the audience in the livestream room, directly lifted the kettle lid.

As the camera angle moved, the audience in the livestream room clearly saw inside the kettle a baby with purple-black skin all over. On the baby's head grew two pure black curved horns like a bull's, and its body was covered in eight disgusting, slimy, squirming tentacles. The baby's eyes were completely black, without a trace of white, looking terrifying. It grinned, revealing rows of sharp teeth inside, rotating slowly like a bottomless black hole.