The chat exploded with tension: [We’re done for, isn’t this a damn coliseum?]

[Locking players and monsters in one arena, making them fight for an hour? After an hour, can anyone even survive?]

[The monsters in here seem pretty strong.]

[To be honest, I’ve never seen this dungeon before. Is it newly hatched? A lot of the settings are so novel, never seen them before.]

[I’ve never seen it either. That guy punished like a fool claimed he was some kind of Emperor, I actually checked it out, and there’s almost no historical record, only some ancient novels with similar immortal cultivation settings, gods, and ghosts.]

[Who made this dungeon? The elements are all over the place! Interstellar prison, high-tech, and immortal cultivation?]

[Not just that, remember when someone said something about an emperor in the cafeteria? It’s probably a title from the ancient history of Ancient Blue Star’s state system, I don’t really get it.]

[This dungeon is too weird, like some chaotic stew with a bit of everything?]

[Maybe pick up some ancient knowledge in the next dungeon?]

[I don’t get it.]

[I don’t get it +1, this dungeon feels so strange.]

[Stop being confused, those players are almost getting played to death.]

It was almost like a chase scene, blowing out three or four players.

The players blown out were those more impatient and loud, they had no choice but to use their spiritual power to resist when surrounded, causing a huge commotion.

The monsters were also drawn by the commotion and quickly moved toward those people, leaving Josh and his group safe.

Clearly, these players who exposed themselves early aren’t very bright. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

In team battles, they might survive with teammates’ protection, but in solo battles, they’re clearly at a disadvantage.

So the game’s team-solo-team-solo interleaved mechanic is pretty reliable.

Josh observed the monsters quietly.

Looks like to safely get through the 20 days, one must carefully hide among the monsters to avoid detection.

And how to hide has become the key to advancing.

"Ah!!" A player’s scream rang out.

A player was caught and torn apart.

After the player died, the monsters seemed to gradually calm down, with a satisfied look of being fed and watered, they dispersed in twos and threes, spreading out to different places, quieting down soon, as if indeed relaxing, squatting or standing, whispering, gathering in small groups to zone out...

Josh saw a flash of understanding in his eyes, so only when a player dies each day would they settle down.

According to this mechanism, there will surely be one person surviving in the end.

Then this dungeon doesn’t seem too terrifying.

At least, no matter what, they only kill one person a day.

But the dungeon difficulty will also inevitably increase. With today’s lesson, everyone should be more cautious later, avoiding such reckless exposure by others.

Free time ended, and they continued working in the afternoon.

Josh returned to Emperor Shanwu’s side, who was dozing. Hearing Josh’s approaching footsteps, his expression turned odd: "Yo, you’re back alive? How rare."

Josh’s hand holding the whip paused, then quickly recovered, "My apologies, sorry to disappoint you."

She whipped down, hitting the same spot she had hit in the morning.

Shanwu gasped in pain.

Josh lashed down again, covering the morning’s wound.

She looked at Shanwu: "Are you disappointed I came back alive?"

Shanwu chuckled even amid his cold sweat, the mockery in his eyes undiminished: "Not disappointed, even if you luckily returned today, you can’t survive till the end."

Josh squinted her eyes: "Rest assured, if you die, Dad’s still alive, but you might get to experience the pain of outliving a foolish child, not too heartbreaking though since it’s you, the idiot."

Shanwu’s eyes brightened, going berserk with curses: "Ignorant idiot, you don’t even know death is upon you! Hahaha...you’re dead! I tell you, you and they will all be eaten clean, not even bones will be left. But if you kneel and call me dad three times now, maybe I can save you!"

Josh pressed the button beside her, and the cross folded, forcing Shanwu’s body to kneel before her.

She whipped down viciously again: "Why don’t you try kneeling and calling me dad first, see if Dad might spare you today?"

Shanwu clearly got excited, cursing even more fiercely.

Josh noticed that the harsher the cursing, the more excited Shanwu got, the more information leaked from his mouth...

"Hahaha, ignorant idiot, talk again if you can survive tonight!"

"Even if you survive the daytime chase, you can’t avoid the night attack! You all will die! All will die!"

Josh squinted her eyes, so there’s another wave of attacks after daytime?

She knew this game wouldn’t be that simple, if only one person dies each day, then as long as you hang on, you’ll be the last one standing.

That doesn’t seem like an overly difficult challenge.

But if adding a night attack changes it all.

If a person must die at night to calm down, then with 20 people, they’d be dead in 10 days. Under such strict rules, no one would survive to the 20th day.

But the dungeon wouldn’t be set with completely unwinnable gameplay.

So, the night attack very likely isn’t a strict rule.

It’s highly possible that the death toll isn’t limited.

But like this, opportunities and dangers coexist.

They might escape the night hunts, or none might survive a single night...

Josh extracted a lot of useful information from Shanwu, didn’t bother him much later, gave him a light beating, and continued after dinner.

At 9 p.m., the day’s journey ended, everyone finally returned to their rooms to rest.

Different from the day, the rooms were enveloped in a ghastly and terrifying atmosphere at night.

Each room had an uncertain six to seven people but only one bed.

Obviously not enough to sleep on.

Josh stood aside unmoved, Mina’s face was paler, seemingly scared, but didn’t approach her like during the day.

In the room, two people suddenly rushed to the bed, fighting for space, beating each other bloody.

The noise was significant, yet it seemed to attract no attention from outside.

That’s again different from the cafeteria.

Josh silently concluded one point, fighting in public and disrupting order results in being wiped out, except in certain outdoor areas.

Fighting in the private space of the room doesn’t result in being wiped out.

Thus, according to the rules, the safest places should really be the cafeteria and workspace.

The most dangerous places are the prisoners’ room and free time space.

"Stop it, if you draw that thing here, everyone will die!"

"Exactly!"

Someone beside them reminded.