Day of Imprisonment

From the initial room, you can enter two rooms: the one in front and the one on the right. These two rooms, in turn, allow access to three other rooms, which, excluding the entrance room, are the front, left, and right rooms. This expands the exploration area several times over.

If the number of people is too small, there simply isn't enough time to explore within five minutes.

Fortunately, the Red Team still has five members. Although some are injured, they can grit their teeth and persevere.

"Just now, he... his hair..." In the right room, Zhang Heng glanced at the direction of the initial room with lingering fear, unable to resist wiping the sweat from his forehead.

"Don't overthink it. That was some kind of card ability. Luo Ju is a top-tier veteran; it's not strange for him to have some bizarre cards. Besides, we're still alive because of Luo Ju. Otherwise, we would have been in the bellies of tigers or bears long ago, digested into feces and excreted."

Qian Lejin clearly had a very clear understanding of the situation.

He knew when to do what and how to choose sides at crucial moments.

At least in this instance, he knew that he had to stand with Luo Xi without any hesitation. Otherwise, he would either die in the traps and threats set up in the instance or at the hands of Luo Xi.

Just now, if Luo Xi had wanted to, he could have easily killed all of them.

No!

With that terrifying card, even the Blue Team would have been dead.

In that case, Luo Xi could have easily achieved the condition for clearing the instance.

But clearly, Luo Xi hadn't even considered it. It could only be said that he was aiming for condition one from the start.

This further demonstrated that Luo Xi was a powerful, ambitious, and extremely confident Recollector.

Qian Lejin had encountered many Recollectors, but he had never met anyone like Luo Xi before.

Qian Lejin had been struggling in the Day of Imprisonment for a long time. He had preserved his memories for more than a dozen cycles and cleared four instances. Naturally, he had considered the future: escaping from this terrifying place called the Day of Imprisonment or finding ways to obtain [Memory] cards by any means necessary to achieve 'eternal life' in this terrifying place.

In fact, anyone with a slightly normal brain would choose the former.

No one who has experienced death would ever want to go through it again.

Ninety-eight out of a hundred Recollectors want to escape, but wanting to escape and being able to escape are two different concepts.

Imagining, or rather fantasizing, only requires a brain; but putting it into practice and completing it step by step requires more than just fantasy. It requires a complete plan and a tenacious, never-give-up belief.

No, fundamentally, it requires the ability. In Qian Lejin's own words, it requires that kind of 'Taoism'.

Luo Xi is the only person he has encountered so far who meets all these conditions.

"I have to latch onto this powerful backer!"

Regardless of what others think, this is currently the only thought in Qian Lejin's mind.

"I'm not overthinking it, but... alas, Liu Hao died unjustly!" Zhang Heng said at this moment. He looked around, lowered his voice, and said, "You guys, since Luo Xi has such powerful cards, why didn't he use them earlier? If he had used them earlier, Liu Hao wouldn't have..."

"Damn your grandma!"

Upon hearing this, Qian Lejin immediately slapped him across the face.

Zhang Heng didn't even have time to react before he was knocked to the ground, his mouth full of blood, and feeling something extra in his mouth.

He spat it out.

A decayed tooth wrapped in bloody saliva.

"Damn it, you dare hit me? I'll fight you to the death!" Zhang Heng was enraged. He glared, drew his knife, and looked as if he was about to kill someone.

"Hit you? Heh, if you say another bad word about Luo Ju, believe it or not, I'll squeeze your balls out and feed them to the flies!" Qian Lejin put on his spiked brass knuckles, which were still stained with blood and animal fur from the punch he had landed on the tiger earlier.

At this moment, Qian Lejin's face was fierce, and coupled with his burly, fat figure, he truly possessed a kind of intimidating aura that ordinary people lacked.

Zhang Heng backed down.

He was a person who was strong on the outside but weak on the inside. His previous performance was also a show of bluster. More importantly, Qian Lejin could see that the other party was a good-for-nothing who only knew how to shout, so he took the opportunity to teach him a lesson.

Zhang Heng fell silent, seemingly admitting defeat.

Han Lingling, who was next to him, was so frightened by this scene that she screamed.

Looking at Zhang Heng again, his skull was cracked, his brains were flowing out, his eyeballs were bloodshot and bulging, blood was flowing from all seven orifices, and his body twitched twice before he lost consciousness.

"Don't f***ing yell!" Fatty Qian stood up panting and glanced at Han Lingling.

The latter was so frightened that she immediately stopped talking.

Fatty Qian wiped some blood on Zhang Heng's body and searched him.

"I used too much force just now. I should have left him with a breath. I'll search his body first... But it doesn't matter. This guy is so cowardly and sneaky, he probably doesn't have any good cards on him. Even if he comes back for revenge next time, it's doubtful whether he can even find me. Even if he does, I'll just kill him again. I spit on him, what a dog thing..."

Qian Lejin spat on the corpse.

Then, with the trembling Han Lingling, he continued to explore the room and quickly ran back to report.

"Luo Ju, I took pictures of the bookshelf catalog, the environment, and the wheel. See if they're okay. Also, I killed Zhang Heng..." Qian Lejin said cautiously, secretly observing Luo Xi's reaction.

Then he discovered that there wasn't even the slightest fluctuation on Luo Xi's face.

The other party simply took the phone and focused on viewing the photos.

But Fatty Qian felt that he should still explain clearly.

"Luo Ju, just now that Zhang Heng guy said bad things about you, saying that you have the ability but didn't use it earlier, meaning he wanted to put the blame for Liu Hao's death on you... I couldn't help it, so I killed him. People who undermine unity like that can't be kept around."

"Mm!" Luo Xi nodded, acknowledging it.

At this time, Ma Ling also returned.

His efficiency was still very high.

Moreover, he was able to offer some unique insights.

"Based on the information I have gathered so far, as well as some of my own assumptions, I have constructed a Rubik's Cube model. Luo Xi, take a look. Assuming that our initial room is in one of these four positions, then we only need to find the upward door, and after three survival times, we should be able to find Room 23. But..."

"But there is no upward door, right?" Luo Xi said at this moment.

Ma Ling was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "Yes, there is no upward door, but in that case, there is another possibility, which is the wheel. You also said that the wheel is the key to clearing the instance. My guess is that the wheel can change the position of the rooms, like a power system that can rotate this Rubik's Cube. But I'm still missing some key information, such as how to rotate it, how many times to rotate it..."

"I already have a rough understanding of the structure of this Rubik's Cube. Now the only problem is how to change the position of the rooms by rotating the wheel," An Zhiyan was also calmly analyzing in another room.

She also drew a Rubik's Cube structure diagram on a piece of paper, including the labels and assumed room numbers.

If you looked closely, the one she drew was basically the same as Ma Ling's, only with some differences in the details.

In the Blue Team's room, there were also many animal corpses.

Xiao Ru was standing in front of a wall in the room at this time, with her ear pressed against the wall, seemingly listening to something.

And Aunt Qin, who was physically strong and had a face full of rough flesh, was unwrapping the blood-stained bandages on her fists.

She was injured.

Her arms, thighs, and back had varying degrees of wounds.

But the amount of bleeding was very small.

"That brown bear just now was a bit difficult to deal with. I had to use a [Strength Burst] and a [Stone Skin] card to kill it, but overall, it wasn't a big problem... That, An girl, we had an agreement beforehand, you have to reimburse me for all these cards later."

Aunt Qin said, looking up at this time, her fierce face still carrying a kind of simplicity.

"Aunt Qin, don't interrupt my train of thought. Right, where was I just now?" An Zhiyan asked, looking up at this time, holding the Rubik's Cube diagram.

"It seems to be something about the wheel."

Aunt Qin flexed her arms, and it could be seen that her arm muscles were simply frighteningly strong.

"Right, so how to change the position of the rooms by rotating the wheel?" An Zhiyan frowned. The current problem was that the wheel couldn't be turned at all.

"Maybe you need to turn two wheels together," Aunt Qin said casually.

"What?" An Zhiyan was stunned.

"What what?" Aunt Qin was also stunned, but she quickly reacted: "Oh, I mean, I've seen some equipment before that has wheels on both the left and right sides. Just turning one side doesn't work; you have to turn both together to be effective."

An Zhiyan's eyes lit up and she immediately stood up: "Aunt Qin, you're great!"

"Ah? How am I great?" Aunt Qin looked confused.

At this time, An Zhiyan couldn't bother to explain. Time was of the essence, so she immediately arranged for Aunt Qin to go to a room in front, and for Xiao Ru to go to a room on the side.

"It's like this, let's twist the wheels together and see if they can be turned."

"Sister An, I have a discovery. I just heard the voices of the Red Team over there," Xiao Ru said excitedly at this time, running over quickly with a mysterious expression.

"The Red Team? Haven't they all died yet?" An Zhiyan had never paid attention to the Red Team at all.

In her eyes, they wouldn't even be able to get past the first survival time, that is, the temptation of the evil spirits.

Because Recollectors who temporarily form teams with ulterior motives are almost impossible to resist the betrayal conditions given by the evil spirits.

"They haven't all died. No, that's not what I wanted to say," Xiao Ru shook her head and waved her hand.

"What is it then?"

"I heard the name 'Luo Xi'!"