Fantasy Game: Infinite City

"I came here to... chat."

"You're not trying to get away with this, are you? I hope not. Our date, the restaurant, the wine, and... the meat. I'll dye the skirt my favorite color, dear, you remember my favorite color, don't you?"

Todd didn't know the answer to this question. Although the woman had said that her favorite flower was violet, it was very likely that her favorite color was purple. But for some reason, Todd thought that things might not be that simple.

Moreover, from the intermittent and seemingly related conversations of this woman, Todd is now basically certain that this woman regards him as her date. A date with an enemy unit that is hostile no matter how you think about it is definitely not a good place, but this does not mean that Todd will not go, because in previous copies, hostile units can become friendly units by completing some special role tasks.

At least for now, as long as he can choose some correct dialogues, the battle can be completely avoided. Dialogue is also one of the important factors of this copy. Todd believes that in this copy, the ridiculously fragile health of enemies and other NPCs is likely to be a trap, which is inducing him to attack these NPCs. Once he takes action, it is likely that bad things will happen.

But he could only think so far. After all, the anger bar above the head of the woman who was staring at him had begun to rise rapidly. Fortunately, although Todd had no idea what this woman's favorite color was, he was not completely helpless.

"Of course I remember. What I like most is the color of your eyes."

Todd pulled out a beautifully wrapped chocolate from his inventory and handed it to the woman, trying to appear as gentle as possible while attacking with sugar-coated bullets.

"You are really good at talking."

But Todd's method seemed to be very effective, which might have something to do with his handsome appearance. The anger progress bar above the woman's head, which was about to reach its peak, suddenly dropped a lot and reached a very safe level.

"I'm leaving now. I still have a lot to do to prepare."

Seeing the progress bar above the woman's head disappear as she said this, Todd was about to walk into the stairwell, but just as he pushed open the door of the stairwell, he was pulled back by the woman behind him. Todd turned around and saw that the woman's head had revealed its true form, which was the one that looked like an opened orange segment, but was like a lotus pod, a weird fleshy tumor, and was covered with sharp serrations all around, and it looked like it had a crazy sanity value.

"Wait, where are you going? You're not trying to run away, are you?!"

The woman's mental state, if she could still be called a woman, began to fluctuate violently again, and the anger value progress bar above her head suddenly rose to the halfway point.

"If I want to have a date, I have to go to the restaurant and book a good table, right?"

"Oh, you're so thoughtful. I almost forgot about it."

"Then we'll meet in the restaurant."

"Ok."

Under Todd's verbal offensive of lies and coaxing, the woman's head returned to normal and disappeared in front of Todd.

"No wonder the scumbag is so popular. He can fool people with these lies he learned from TV dramas. Even women like him will fall for them."

Todd shook his head. Similarly, the other players and viewers who were watching the live broadcast of the game had almost the same expression as him.

Todd thought of the bodies of the unlucky people wrapped in that dress. He guessed that they were the ones who opened the door last night. That dress was probably prepared by the woman for a "date".

Todd walked into the stairwell and had only taken a few steps when he saw something flying towards the stairwell window.

"Paji!"

When Todd walked to the window, a bird hit the window glass. Because it was flying too fast, it smashed itself into a pulp and some cracks appeared on the glass.

But this is not important. For such a strange copy, this is a very normal phenomenon. Not to mention, birds hitting themselves to death on the glass is a normal phenomenon that often occurs in cities where there are many birds. So Todd did not stay in front of the window for too long. Except for the lack of lights in the stairwell, there was nothing abnormal at all, so Todd quickly arrived at the 5th floor.

Next to the exit of the 5th floor stairwell is the grocery room on the 5th floor. Todd went in to take a look, thinking that he might find some extra first aid kits or something. However, while he was looking for the first aid kits, he found a torn page of what looked like a diary on the table in the grocery room.

"That girl has hidden something in her room. Is she stealing something? Is she hiding from something? Maybe I should search her room while she's not there."

"Document quantity updated."

"Collecting elements? Or will completing the pieces affect the ending?"

The setting is a bit like that of a traditional horror game, which aroused Todd's interest. Compared with combat, this kind of copy that requires relying on the brain actually interests Todd more.

In the grocery room on the 5th floor, the medicine cabinet where the first aid kits were placed seemed to have been opened before. There were no medical supplies or first aid kits inside. It must have been taken away by someone first. Todd was not sure if it was the girl mentioned in the diary.

After leaving the grocery room, Todd prepared to go to the Gothic girl's room. The environment on the 5th floor was obviously much worse than that on the 4th floor where his room was located. The corridor was covered with blood. When Todd reached the fork in the corridor leading to the other half of the room, he found that one of the forks had collapsed. After recalling the location, he realized that it was the same location as the collapse on the th floor.

"boom."

Just as Todd was about to head to another corridor at the fork in the road, a head flew out from it, hit the wall, and rolled to Todd's feet. This time Todd did not take out his throwing weapon immediately, but slowed down and walked towards the corridor. The corridor was obviously worse than the 4th or even 5th floor from which he came in. Many body parts were scattered in the corridor, and there was no light source in this corridor, even the emergency light was broken.

"Leave the monster at the door behind you."

Soon, Todd came to the corridor leading to Room 501. The lights in this corridor were still on, but they were constantly flickering. Through the intermittent lights, Todd saw a burly monster standing in front of the door of Room 501. It stood there motionless with its head against the door. Even from this position, one could hear the monster's strange and heavy breathing.

This is not a monster that can communicate. After checking it using the system panel, Todd's guess was confirmed. The monster's stats are ridiculously high. Although Todd wants to eat it, it is not impossible, but the damage caused to the hotel's safety may directly affect the mission he is about to carry out, and the Gothic girl he is going to rescue will definitely not survive. He must either find a way to lure the monster to another place and kill it, or think of other ways to deal with it.

Todd thought for a while, and he suddenly remembered that all the normal NPCs who died in the hotel were killed because they opened the door. Even though the monsters not far in front of him had ridiculously high values, the door of room 501 was still locked and not damaged at all. Todd believed that the monsters in this copy were probably restricted by certain rules, which prevented them from destroying the hotel buildings.

Compared to blowing up the hotel, finding a way to lure the monster to another room and lock it up might be the right choice. Todd thought that this dungeon should also support players to avoid fighting as much as possible, so Todd began to look for open rooms nearby to see if there was any way to lure the monster in. After all, the Gothic girl said before that the monster outside her door was blind, but had sharp hearing.

In order to minimize the noise, Todd got on all fours and crawled slowly in the corridor. His hands were stained with blood and it smelled terrible. Finally, Todd found that the door of room 505 was ajar. After opening the door and confirming that there was no danger inside, Todd slipped in quietly.

Room 505 was very messy, but this was caused by the vibration caused by the previous explosion. No one lived in room 505. Todd took out a stun bomb and made a gesture with his ten fingers so that it could be detonated remotely. Todd threw it on the bed in room 505, then tiptoed away, hid outside the door of room 505, and then used the designated gesture to detonate the stun bomb.

"boom!"

“Oooooh…”

Sure enough, the monster blocking the door of Room 501 was attracted by the sound of the stun bomb explosion. Sure enough, Todd, who was hiding behind the door, was not discovered by the monster at all. The monster stood in front of the open door of Room 505 and was listening inside.

"Come in you!"

"boom!"

"Click."

"Roar!!!!"

"Bang bang bang! Bang bang bang!"

Todd, who was hiding behind the door, quietly came behind the monster and kicked it into room 505, then slammed the door of room 505. With the sound of the door lock closing, the monster that was kicked into room 505 roared, and then began to smash the door frantically, but the door of room 505, which had been closed, did not move at all and did not suffer any damage. It seems that Todd's guess was correct. These monsters really cannot actively destroy the hotel building.

"Knock knock knock. Hello? Is anyone there? I've lured away the monster at the door."

"It's you?! Thank God! Come in!"

Todd walked into room 501, and sure enough, the occupant inside was the Gothic girl he first saw in the elevator.

"Oh! Thank you for not giving up on me. Come on! Help me pack my stuff. It will be back soon!"

"Didn't you pack your things after all this time?"

"I dare not make a sound while that thing is outside the door! Take the bag, we need to gather clothes and food, or anything else you think will be useful."

"Countdown: 90 seconds"

The system popped up a countdown. It seemed that helping the Gothic girl pack up was also a step in the task. Todd was very quick and quickly took away everything he needed, including the food collected by the girl and some clothes. As for Todd himself, as a player, he did not need to actually find a piece of clothing to change clothes. He could take out replacement clothes from the warehouse at any time.

"Church leaflet, 66-112, this doesn't look like a normal church..."

Todd found a flyer with a phone number on it. At present, all the numbers that can be dialed can provide a certain degree of information, so Todd put the flyer away.

"Help me move this sofa, there is something important underneath!"

Todd moved the sofa away, and there was a tightly wrapped small package underneath.

"Don't take it too seriously, these are just some... my personal belongings."

This thing was definitely not something simple, but now was not the right time to ask questions, so Todd stuffed it into the Gothic girl's backpack.

"There are some candies, energy bars, and drinks under the bed. I brought them in when I was hiding there before. You can take them with you too. The more food, the better."

Soon, in just a minute, Todd had packed everything he could.

"That's about it. The food here should be enough for a few days. As for clothes, I don't think they're that important."

"Then let's go! We don't know when that thing will come back."

Todd nodded and left room 501 with the Goth girl.

"Go back to your room."

The system also gave the next step of the task at this time. It seems that his room is indeed a safe zone.

"Oh my god.. it's horrible!"

Seeing the bloodstains and scattered limbs all over the corridor, the Gothic girl was terrified. She grabbed Todd's arm tightly and hid behind him.

"Shh! Don't make a sound!"

Todd saw a dark shadow staggering towards him from the other side of the corridor. Judging from the outline, it was another monster. Similarly, the stats of this monster were almost the same as the one he had lured away and trapped. A head-on battle was not the right choice at this moment, not to mention that Todd was bringing other people with him.

Pulling the girl against the wall, the two held their breath and let the wandering monster pass. After it left for a distance, the two quickly left the corridor and returned to the 4th floor through the stairwell.

The strange woman didn't seem to be here at this time, so Todd took the girl and quickly returned to his room 402.

"Is this your room? I'm finally here! Thank you for helping me gather supplies. You helped me, so my food is your food."

"No, I have collected a lot of food in the refrigerator."

"I don't have many clothes, but I can make do."

"I think clothes are not as important as food in this situation."

"You're right. By the way, I'm sorry to ask you this now, but... can I live with you? I have nowhere else to go, and it's definitely safer for two people to live together than alone! I'll help! I can help you collect food, or get things!"

"How old are you?"

"Huh? I just turned 18 last month. What's wrong?"

"fine."

The seemingly insignificant question caused the players and spectators watching outside to explode.

"Bro is too cautious! As an adult, this is a good question to ask!"

"Ha ha!"

But what Todd cares about now is not this, at least not just this. He is more concerned about what is in the girl's package.

"What's in this?"

"Nothing! Just some... documents and personal belongings and stuff..."

"That's fine."

"Thank you! You have no idea how grateful I am."

This package definitely doesn't contain what the girl said, so Todd decided to find an opportunity to take a sneak peek, but now is not the right time.

"Ah.. I'm so tired, where do I sleep?"

"You sleep on the sofa and I sleep on the bed."

"No problem, you need to rest too. By the way, thank you again, you helped me a lot!"

"Small things."

"By the way, my name is Robin, nice to meet you..."

"Todd."

After briefly introducing themselves to each other, Todd noticed that it was already night outside. The speed of time in this place, or to be more precise, the daytime, was very short.

"sleep."

The task reminder appeared again, and this time Todd felt something was not right. After all, since he entered the dungeon and completed some task steps, the next step would be to sleep.

"Maybe I should try staying up all night?"

Having said that, as soon as Todd got close to the bed, he fell directly on it and fell asleep.