【Floor 2: Don't Hit Me, I'm Feeding】: Hahahahaha, the system completely stripped you bare! "Zero effective contribution" is just too good. It's my first time seeing the system flame someone so directly. I'm dying of laughter.
【Floor 3: Sober Bro】: "Commendable courage, low judgment..." This isn't even an evaluation anymore; it's straight-up roasting. Even the system couldn't take it. System: "You have no brains, I'm not sugarcoating it anymore, I'm just going to say it."
【Floor 4: Loving Me Isn't Your Fault】: I'm cringing so hard on OP's behalf that I'm about to curl my toes and dig out a whole apartment. I suggest you just lie flat in the next instance and don't run around. That would be your greatest contribution.
【Floor 5: Warden of the Green Grasslands】: Feeling sorry for OP for one second, then continuing to laugh, hahahahaha.
【Floor 6: Wish I Knew Better】: OP is a big idiot. How did you even manage to get a D? Your teammates must have carried you till they burned out. I can only imagine how big of a headache it is for veteran players to run into a complete newbie like you. It's one thing if you died, but they still had to clean up your mess.
【Floor 7: OP's Reply】: You're the big idiot, get lost! Tried their best? Where did they try their best? Those two veterans were cold as ice. They didn't care about us newbies from start to finish. If another newbie and I hadn't stuck together, we would've been abandoned and used as cannon fodder long ago.
【Floor 8: Sleeping on the Stars】: Being abandoned is still better than being dragged down to death by you, right? Veterans helping you is a favor; not helping is their right. The fact that they didn't use you as a meat shield to block monsters is already as merciful as they could be.
【Floor 9: Noob but Happy】: That's normal. Who doesn't look out for themselves first in an instance? When I first started the game, veterans would run the other way the moment they saw a newbie. Who'd want to carry a dead weight?
【Floor 10: Zengzeng Who Wants to Get Stronger】: Honestly, people who are willing to help are really rare. I got lucky and met someone who was willing to guide me in my first instance. I'm still very grateful to him when I think about it now.
【Floor 11: OP's Reply】: Our team originally had a veteran who had cleared four instances as our captain. He was a great guy, always led us, and was very caring toward those two other veterans. But after he died, those two remaining women immediately banded together and completely ignored us newbies!
【Floor 12: Wish I Knew Better】: OP is a big idiot. A veteran of four instances as your captain? Sounds like a team instance. How many instances did the other two veterans clear?
【Floor 13: OP's Reply】: You're the big idiot! Did I provoke you? Psychopath!
【Floor 14: Wish I Knew Better's Reply】: OP is a big idiot. Because of my class, I'm forced to include this prefix whenever I reply to a post. Go look at all my replies, they're all like this. Just bear with it, OP. Though so far, your behavior fits the prefix pretty well.
【Floor 15: OP's Reply】: There are actually such weird classes? You're not pulling my leg, are you? Fine, of those two women, one had cleared three instances, and the other had cleared one.
【Floor 16: Semi-Baked Cheesecake】: One instance barely counts as a veteran; that's practically a half-newbie. The one with three instances is the only one with some actual experience. But well, if they said it themselves, there might be some exaggeration. It's normal for people to lie about their numbers, you never know what they're thinking.
【Floor 17: Moon Over West River】: So once the nice guy died, those two just completely ignored you guys? That's a bit too harsh, isn't it?
【Floor 18: Great Detective Kebei】: Wait, how did the captain with four instances die? Someone who can clear four instances should have some capability, or at least enough experience to play it safe. They wouldn't just die out of nowhere, right?
【Floor 19: OP's Reply】: The captain took the other newbie who was with me to investigate clues. They ran into a monster, and to protect her, he pushed her away and stayed behind to block it himself. In the end, he died.
【Floor 20: Great Detective Kebei】: Did that newbie tell you this, or did you see it with your own eyes?
Although OP didn't say it directly, you can tell from his tone that the two veterans who banded together later were still willing to follow the captain's lead early on. They might have even agreed to take care of the newbies, which is why OP feels so entitled to blame them for abandoning him.
Don't blame me for being a conspiracy theorist, but if that newbie was the one who got the captain killed, and the two veterans decided to let you guys fend for yourselves because of that, it actually makes perfect sense logically.
【Floor 21: Orange Yoyo】: That makes sense. OP, you really need to be more careful. You can know a person's face, but not their heart.
【Floor 22: OP's Reply: How is that possible? I don't believe it. That newbie isn't the type to stab someone in the back. Before the captain died, he even entrusted her with taking care of his family once she got out. Entrusting her with something so important means he must have trusted her! How could it be fake?!】
【Floor 23: River of the Aegean Sea】: Hahahahaha, OP, are you actually stupid or just pretending? Entrusting his family?
【Floor 24: Wish I Knew Better】: OP is a big idiot. Confirmed.
【Floor 25: Sober Bro】: OP, get a clue! OP: "A clue? What's a clue?"
【Floor 26: Sleeping on the Stars】: Brother, did you not read the email the system sent when you first entered the instance? Dying in an instance isn't real death. You're just teleported out.
【Floor 27: Hahahahaha】: Exactly. We're all players, and nobody actually dies. Who would go on about entrusting their family in an instance? It's obvious that the newbie didn't know this either and made up a lie to trick you, not realizing she left such a massive loophole.
【Floor 28: Warm Snowball】: No wonder those two veterans ignored you guys. They could tell it was a lie the moment they heard it, yet you blindly believed it and even thought they were being cold.
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【Floor 32: OP's Reply】: ...How could it be fake? Then why didn't they tell me? If they had told me earlier, I wouldn't have been fooled, let alone killed by that old scavenger.
【Floor 33: Never See You Again】: Why should they tell you? First, reflect on what you did to make them feel like even a single warning was a waste of breath. You got used as a pawn and actively went to provoke the villain. If you didn't get screwed over, who would?
【Floor 34: Sunny and Cheerful Big Boy】: Old Man Li is the villain, big bro! Grow some brains. You actively went up to find him and startled the villain, which directly caused the instance's difficulty to skyrocket! I'm speechless, I honestly want to beat you up.
【Floor 35: Orange Yoyo】: In the Chaosheng Apartments instance, if the difficulty skyrocketed, it probably triggered the insect swarm, right? It must have been nearly impossible for your teammates to survive.
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【Floor 46: First Meeting in Life】: Old Man Li was already highly alert. Rashly approaching him was just seeking death. You can't blame anyone else.
...
Bai Ci didn't continue reading the replies. However, the OP's overly familiar experience immediately allowed her to identify the person behind the post—it was undoubtedly Zhao Lei.
She had originally thought he died in the insect swarm, just like Su Xiao.
When Bai Ci, Lin Wenyu, and the investigators were collecting the bodies in the apartment, they had found Su Xiao, who had died in the insect swarm. Not a single scrap of flesh had been left on her corpse, and she could only be identified by her clothes and the ID in her bag.
To her surprise, he had actually been killed by the old scavenger.
In Chaosheng Apartments, there was only one person who fit the description of an "old scavenger" and whom someone of Zhao Lei's personality would actively approach. Other than the mastermind himself, Old Man Li—Li Mingxuan—Bai Ci couldn't think of any other answer.
But...
Li Mingxuan killed Zhao Lei. Reading this, a terrible premonition welled up in Bai Ci's heart.
Rate on N.U.
