Chapter Thirty: Dream Within A Dream

  Another wave of people in Qiao Jia, who had no idea that Zhou Lan Yu had already entered the game. If Qiao Jia knew, she would probably be anxious to find Zhou Lan Yu immediately.

  "After walking for so long, why haven't we seen Lian Xi yet? It's really making me anxious." Qiao Jia said exactly what was on Ying's mind. The two of them quickened their pace. Lin Hai could only jog to keep up with them. Out of fear for Ying, he didn't dare have any opinions either.

  "Let's keep moving forward!" Lian Xi looked at Xu Hongwei and stood up...

  The fog seemed to have dissipated a bit, and a road sign stood in front of Qiao Jia and her group. It was an old wooden road sign, with cracks in the wood and twisted at an angle. "Let's go take a look!" Qiao Jia walked over.

  At this time, Lian Xi and others also arrived here. "Qiao Jia! Qiao Jia!" It seemed to have heard Lian Xi's voice... Qiao Jia raised her head, "Wow, it's really Lian Xi!"

  "You two are so dramatic...!" Ying slapped her own forehead and shook her head, looking helpless. "One...two...three...four...five...six...... still one short!?" Qiao Jia asked.

  "It's actually not many more. I just met the seventh person..." Lian Xi didn't want to tell Qiao Jia this cruel fact.

  "What about him? Why didn't he come with you? Won't... won't be that he's dead, will it?" Qiao Jia looked at Lian Xi in horror. Such a simple task, how could someone have died?

  "Hey, it's normal for people to die here too!" Before Ye Ye could speak up, Ying said this with his usual tone, causing the other three newcomers' hearts to skip a beat. They all looked at Ying simultaneously. "Oh right, do all of you newbies know the game rules? Ye Ye, have you explained it to those two on your side? We haven't seen the rules over here either, let's sit down and discuss it."

  "Shadow, before this, I just wanted to know, your last time..." Lian Xi's words were left unfinished. "I just told Qiao Jia that I saved you guys and not only didn't thank me, but also suspected me. Don't they have a conscience?" Lian Xi looked at Qiao Jia, who simply nodded silently.

  "This time's game rules, I suppose everyone has a good understanding of them. It looks easy, just need to find the tomb of death." Lian Xi forgot about Zhou Lan Yu for a moment,

  "I don't understand... what tomb of death?" Lin Hai asked tensely.

  "It's normal for newcomers not to see the rules of the game on the ground, don't panic. It's not just you who didn't see..."

  "I didn't see any game rules either." Xia Xingluo continued.

  "I know, that's why I want to inform everyone. As for this task prompt, there's nothing for me to analyze, we can only talk after finding the tomb of death." Xia Xingluo's words suddenly reminded Lian Xi of Zhou Lan Yu. Lian Xi was afraid that Xia Xingluo would say it out loud, after all, such a cruel fact she still didn't want Qiao Jia to know. Even if they would eventually find out, the later they knew, the better. "Let's continue moving forward!"

  At this moment, a person slowly moved towards that old road sign and gently tapped it. Everyone felt dizzy.

  "Qiao Jia! Qiao Jia, I've finally found you!" Qiao Jia vaguely heard Zhou Lan Yu's voice. Before she could react, all six of them fell to the ground.

  Zhou Lanyu rushed over quickly and caught Qiao Jia. "Qiao Jia, wake up! Qiao Jia...!" What's going on? Zhou Lanyu slowly stretched out his trembling hand and reached towards Qiao Jia's nose. Fortunately, she was still breathing. Had she fallen asleep or fainted? Zhou Lanyu looked around and saw that the others had also fallen to the ground, motionless. He had no choice but to stay here and keep watch.

  What happened afterwards was even more bizarre.

  "Ah……save me……" Zhou Lan Yu heard the cry and looked over, it was Xia Xing Luo. Zhou Lan Yu was startled by the cry, and saw Xia Xing Luo continuously shouting, waving her hands, and shaking her body. Suddenly she stared wide-eyed, and froze.

  Zhou Lanyu curiously walked over, blood! Xia Xingluo's neck suddenly split open, looking like it had been torn apart, with only a little bit of adhesion left, and fresh blood splattered out. She was dead. Zhou Lanyu couldn't believe his eyes. A perfectly fine person had instantly turned into a corpse, the death was so brutal. It was truly shocking. Although Zhou Lanyu was a big man, he was still frightened to the point of an accelerated heartbeat.

  Zhou Lanyu didn't dare to look anymore, turned around and returned to Qiao Jia's side. "Qiao Jia, what happened? Please, you can't die! Zhou Lanyu was in tears, he knew that Qiao Jia was now in a precarious situation, while he himself was safe and sound here, unable to do anything but wait for him.

  Zhou Lanyu could only sit down quietly and hold Qiao Jia, he found that Qiao Jia's expression had undergone a subtle change. "Qiao Jia! Qiao Jia!" He shouted loudly, hoping to wake up Qiao Jia. "Ah...Lian Xi...save me!" After a loud shout, Qiao Jia woke up with a start. Seeing Zhou Lanyu in front of her, Qiao Jia remembered everything.

  "Great! Thank goodness, Qiao Jia you're okay!" Qiao Jia tightly hugged Zhou Lan Yu, and the two of them cried together.

  "Lan Yu, how did you end up here? Could it be... that you're the seventh person?" Qiao Jia covered her mouth, she couldn't believe it. He didn't want to believe this fact either.

  "To be honest, before I came in here, I thought what you told me was just a nightmare that stimulated your evil side. I anxiously wanted to find you, so I separated from Lian Xi and the others, and when I saw you, I loudly called out your name, but then I saw all six of you fall down together..."

  "Just woke up in a large and luxurious villa. We all thought it was a new task scene, but we didn't see the game rules..."

  "Are you saying that when we were in the villa, all of you forgot about the rules of this game? Forgot what just happened? You woke up from the second layer of dreams because of a fall? A dream within a dream?"

  "It's like that. None of them remember either, if so, doesn't it mean we all lost a memory after entering?! Dream within dream... Hidden mission! Triggered hidden mission! Xia Xingluo died in the second layer of dreams..." Qiao Jia's face turned pale instantly, without a hint of blood color.

  "In the second heavy dream, die. In this nightmare, will also die." said Zhou Lan Yu pointing. "How is that?... Gone..." Xia Xing Luo's corpse was gone.

  "Are you saying... Xia Xingluo just... died?" Thinking of Xia Xingluo's bloody corpse, the terrifying scene, Qiao Jia began to tremble with fear, her forehead covered in sweat. "You all fell down here, motionless, Xia Xingluo had been shouting for a long time... and when I walked over, I saw her staring wide-eyed, her neck also..." Zhou Lanyu noticed Qiao Jia's terror and stopped talking, knowing she must have seen Xia Xingluo's shocking corpse, he didn't want to frighten or hurt her further.

  "Qiao Jia, it's all my fault. I didn't protect you well enough. I should have been by your side. It was just too sudden..."

  "Blue Universe, it's not your fault. But why did you enter this terrible purgatory! Why?" Qiao Jia burst into tears with great emotion. "Although I don't know how I ended up here either, but now I can be by your side and protect you, silly girl, what are you crying about..." Zhou Blue Universe reached out to wipe away the tears on Qiao Jia's face and tightly hugged her in his arms. Because he was worried that Qiao Jia would blame herself and feel distressed, Blue Universe didn't express his own thoughts...