After giving a verbal “okay,” Lu Ce took a deep breath and stepped into the room once more.

Earlier, he had suddenly felt a bit bored. The scenes before him hadn’t brought even a trace of crisis. Every time he entered a corresponding Horror Mystery, it was just an outlet for his Rage.

But just now, after Xie Antong finished telling him her conditions, he suddenly had a gut feeling—like something interesting might happen.

That Park Bu Seong, he couldn’t possibly just keep handing out wins like this level by level. Surely something a bit more exciting would come later.

Hope you can give me pleasure and thrill.

Otherwise, my Wrath will have no choice but to rain down on you...

Walking into the room, seeing the spacious Art Classroom, and the two-hundred-square-meter space filled with famous paintings, Lu Ce knew he had arrived at the corresponding location.

He relaxed his tense mind, letting the raging beast inside his heart slowly come out of its cage, ready to begin a new round of invasion.

The pale green Mask began to shimmer with a different light, slowly revealing a face that looked somewhere between angry and compassionate, with a strange smile.

“This is the Art Classroom, right?”

“Anyone feel like crying? We’re on a tight schedule.”

......

Outside the classroom, the dark gold metallic sphere of the All-Seeing Eye hovered for a couple of circles. Once it confirmed Lu Ce had entered, the light within the classroom began to twist, becoming nearly impossible to penetrate.

She knew that “Sin’s” Game had already begun.

So she guided her All-Seeing Eye back to her and took out something resembling an insulin injector, stabbing it into her temple.

The scene looked pretty terrifying—such a big syringe made all the Spectators watching the Game feel their teeth ache.

But she didn’t seem to feel any pain. In fact, once the drug was injected, her expression looked almost... satisfied.

Her eyes opened wide, pupils turning into a beautiful deep blue—like sapphires buried deep under the sea. There was also a strange confidence shining in her gaze.

She was also a Med-Popped War God!

The difference was, Lu Ce’s medication was for healing his body—so he could fight wildly without worries.

But hers worked on the brain—pure brainwave amplifiers.

The All-Seeing Eye would drain her mentally, and the stronger her brain, the more developed it was, the more she could pull off.

At that moment, thanks to forced mental development and the drugs, her brain’s capacity had reached 25%. As she lifted her head, the entire classroom—no, the entire world—seemed different.

Everything around her wasn’t just objects. They reflected not just light, but information—their “past and present.”

In other words, she herself was no longer the same as she was a few minutes ago.

Having spent enough time in this classroom, this second Horror Mystery that had been hidden here all along and hadn’t been triggered yet—it was starting to feel too simple.

It was just reenacting a Clearance sequence she had already mentally simulated ten thousand times.

Standing up, she walked over to a set of Sketch Sculptures that had already been arranged, and picked out a David bust.

It was the standard handsome European male—chiseled features, lifelike carving. Even though it was a statue, it still carried some spark of “human” expression.

Xie Antong smiled. Compared to her usual calmness, she now looked slightly unhinged. She reached out and touched the David head gently, her tone soft, as if coaxing a child.

“He’s already started over there. I’ve got a feeling... he’ll be fast.”

“So... shall we begin too?”

“Why aren’t you smiling? Come on, give me a smile.”

“I remember when you were behind me earlier... you smiled four times~.”

Xie Antong caressed the statue’s head, smiling at it, as the room fell into a strange, eerie silence.

The next second, all the Sketch Sculptures in the room began to violently tremble—as if an earthquake had hit.

The David statue, held down by Xie Antong’s hand, began to distort, its expression growing twisted and angry.

“Aww, you mad?”

“Told you to smile and you still won’t... I should introduce you to that guy, then maybe you’d behave....”

With that, Xie Antong grabbed the David statue and smashed it to the floor.

Both of them were now operating simultaneously, starting a new round of Game Clearance—one forcing a Portrait to cry, the other forcing a Statue to laugh.

......

Meanwhile, Park Bu Seong’s lips curled slightly upward as he looked at the scene in front of him in mild surprise.

Even though he was completely in the dark about the state of the two Black Side players after his teammates exited, he still understood the triggers of the Horror Mystery Game well.

Right now, both “The Portrait’s Tears” and “The Walking Statue” mysteries had entered a triggered state.

He didn’t really care about “The Portrait’s Tears.” That was the only Game Scene without any of his teammates stationed—just pure gameplay content.

Initially, when matching teams, the White Side had five players in total including himself. Of course, three had already exited now.

There weren’t enough people to cover all the levels, and he hadn’t pinned high hopes on this one. Considering “Sin” had steamrolled every Game Level so far, this one probably wouldn’t be too hard either.

The key problem was—The Walking Statue!

That was a scenario he’d designed from the beginning—set in the same scene as the first Horror Mystery to avoid suspicion, and to forcibly split up the two players.

In his design, the weaker one—Blank—would likely stay behind and end up triggering the Game Scene.

And now that this scene was active—it proved his judgment had been right.

Park Bu Seong was very pleased. This was the first good news he’d received since the Game began.

He’d originally planned to wait until “Sin” was more or less worn down, and then hit him with the strongest Horror Mystery to take him out directly.

And the mystery on Blank’s side was more like a trump card—a Plan B. If it turned out that “Sin” was completely untouchable, then use the Horror Mystery to stall him.

While he was trapped, unable to escape or assist, Park would go in personally and deal with the woman himself. Same outcome, right?

He didn’t expect it to trigger this early. Seems like the woman’s luck wasn’t too great after all...

Good thing he had the foresight to prepare for all possibilities—setting up the Game Restriction that counted either Black Side player’s death or exit as a Challenge Mode failure.

She probably still hasn’t realized she’s already inside the trap...