'Shi's' livestream:
[Help... I think I made eye contact with dozens of them... in three seconds.]
[The streamer's POV stream is going to be the death of me...]
[Thank goodness our Xiao Shi runs fast... oh my god, how are there so many ghosts.]
[Where's the external support team?! Where are they?! What are they doing?! My little white-haired angel almost died!!!]
[...Ex... external support.]
The people in the livestream looked over at the official broadcast on the other side.
Then someone slowly typed:
[The external support team... seems to have started fighting right at the door.]
[?]
[???]
...
Those whose attention had just been fully absorbed by the streamer's POV stream now turned back to the official full-perspective broadcast... and the moment they took in what was happening on that screen, the barrage of comments collectively choked into stunned silence.
...
Official livestream — The viewers, who had been paying close attention to the two newly appeared broadcast frames due to the arrival of the external support team, had not expected that less than three seconds after the two big shots met — all of a sudden, they started... throwing hands at each other??
[……]
[???]
[Wh-What's going on?]
[Do Yan Shang and De Yuechen have some kind of grudge??]
[I've never heard of that...]
[Are you guys stupid? It doesn't matter whether Yan Shang and De Yuechen have personal beef or not. One is a top rank S-rank from the District 2, the other is a top rank S-rank from the District 9... got it now?]
[And isn't there a rumor going around that De Yuechen is just an alias used by that person from the District 9? So in a way...]
[Oh no. I was so excited when I saw the external support team earlier. Totally forgot about this. District 2 and District 9 are hostile districts!]
[……]
[Didn't expect things to turn out this way. (Folded hands)]
[I originally came to watch an upgraded instance... but now... watching top rank players clash... actually isn't bad either.]
[Study! Study this quick! This is all precious combat footage!]
But there were still plenty of level-headed players:
[AAAAHHH NO! No! Stop it, stop it right now!!]
[You two!! BOTH OF YOU!!! Stop fighting!!! If you keep this up much longer—the little angel is going to die!!!]
[Do you two even remember why you entered this instance??]
[You accepted a RESCUE MISSION, for god's sake!!!]
[Big shots, save him—]
There were also some new viewers who had taken notice of the only player in the instance who could still move:
[Hmm...]
[But did you all see that? This E-rank's skills seem pretty impressive?]
[Very quick reactions.]
[Looks decent.]
[I saw it... If it were me... being chased by that many ghosts... I'd probably be in serious trouble...] Scared to death, even.
[He's so calm.]
And also...
[White hair, huh...]
[This E-rank actually has white hair.]
[No wonder there was a whole wave of comments earlier calling him the little white-haired angel.] Now it finally makes sense.
[Eyes... are his eyes blue right now...? I'm not seeing things, am I?]
White hair and blue eyes!
At this moment, a small number of viewers in this official live stream were staring at the white-haired young man on the screen in astonishment.
Someone had already thought of something:
The Administrator of District 9 also has white hair.
And blue eyes too, so they'd heard...
But no one in the chat dared to send that comment.
***
Inside the room, after closing the door, Wen Shichun immediately walked a few steps forward, putting distance between himself and the door that separated him from the outside world.
He stared at the door for several seconds, as if he could sense that outside, pair after pair of hollow black eyes were watching him through it.
However, after he entered, the commotion outside had quieted down.
Wen Shichun waited a few more seconds.
He assessed that those things did not seem able to enter this room.
Now that he thought about it, when he had been outside just moments ago, those things had all chased after him and indeed paid no attention to the other rooms with their lights on.
That meant the bedroom the players were currently in might be a temporary safe room.
Having arrived at this conclusion, Wen Shichun finally turned to the side and looked at the other two people in the room.
Chang Zhao was still lying in bed, and Xun Yi was sitting in a chair by the window — but his eyes were tightly shut.
Both of them looked as if they were deep in slumber right now.
But this sleep was far too heavy.
The commotion from the monsters outside had been considerable, yet the two of them showed no sign of waking.
And judging by Xun Yi's posture, the man had been keeping watch before falling asleep.
Wen Shichun's brow furrowed slightly. He cautiously walked over to check on his two teammates.
Both of them were still breathing.
That allowed him to quietly breathe a sigh of relief.
As long as they were alive.
But something was clearly wrong with their condition.
After failing to wake them up, Wen Shichun retreated to the window. The curtains in this room hadn't been drawn, and from here he could see outside. Beyond the residence, everything was pitch-black. But after just a couple of seconds, Wen Shichun noticed that something seemed off in the direction of the main gate.
...Was that a light?
Wen Shichun watched for a few more seconds.
Although the thing outside in the corridor couldn't get in for now, the situation was clearly looking grim. He had no idea what his teammates were currently going through, and if something went wrong, this room would no longer be safe either.
Wen Shichun shifted closer to the wall.
From this position, he could glance sideways to see what was happening outside the window, and if an accident occurred, it would be easier to dodge as well.
He was now at some distance from both Chang Zhao and Xun Yi. Only then did he summon the panel to check.
And that was when he discovered it.
External support had already entered...?
Wen Shichun's gaze fell upon the current instance information.
Both game aliases, Yan Shang and De Yuechen, had now appeared in the team channel.
Two of them had come?
He looked at one of the aliases.
De Yuechen.
This was the external support player he had been matched with a few hours ago.
He came too?
But where exactly were these people right now?
Wen Shichun was a bit puzzled. Finally, his gaze shifted to the livestream chat, which he had minimized into a small window and docked in the lower right corner of the panel.
He only watched for two seconds.
Then Wen Shichun lost the ability to speak: "..."
Another two seconds later, his gaze shifted back toward the window.
So... those strange flashes of light at the entrance — were the external support team members fighting each other?
...
Inside the room, Wen Shichun's expression remained calm, but deep inside he found the whole situation utterly absurd.
How could the external support players that showed up be this unreliable?
It was simply unbelievable.
After calming himself for a few seconds, Wen Shichun called out in his mind: [System?]
A familiar response came: [Here.]
Good that it's here.
He hadn't heard the system's voice earlier and had started to wonder if it had wandered off somewhere again.
System: [...]
Wen Shichun asked: [Why did the instance upgrade again?]
Was this normal?
Wen Shichun quickly thought of something — if no external support had come, how were the low-level players inside the instance supposed to clear it?
Before, just the ghost butler and the ghost servants had already been enough to restrict the players' movements. Now, Wen Shichun thought about how the doorway outside was crammed full of 'people.'
Under these circumstances, he didn't think they stood any chance of finding that BOSS.
The ghosts had already completely surrounded the players.
At this moment, Wen Shichun's gaze was still fixed on the direction of the mansion's main entrance.
Whatever the external support players were doing out there, one thing was certain — they had not stopped.
