The little monster tried very hard to make the promise to him, afraid that Yin Xiu would be unhappy or worried.
Yin Xiu stood silently in front of the door, holding the little black ball in his arms, and slowly replied, "I believe you will come to find me."
He glanced up at the door in front of him, and firmly remembered that a monster would come to him from behind the door.
"Then I'll be going now..." he murmured softly, turning around with the little black ball in his arms.
"Okay." A muffled voice came from behind the door.
Even though there was a door between them, Yin Xiu could feel the gaze, a gaze that seemed reluctant to see him off.
He left this dark place, which he didn't even know where it was, and went to the rule-bound town where normal players should stay.
He completed all the levels at sixteen but still couldn't find his sister. Unwilling to leave, and still remembering the promise, he began to re-enter the dungeon, searching intermittently until he turned eighteen. At that time, all the bosses of the high-level dungeons began to protest, refusing to allow Yin Xiu to enter.
"That player has already completed the entire game, but he's still not leaving and keeps coming in. What is he trying to do?!"
"At this rate, our dungeon will be overrun by him sooner or later! We need to think of something!"
"Yes, we should restrict him a bit! He's moved to the town of rules, can't we stop him from there?"
The monsters wailed, saying that if Yin Xiu didn't give up, there wouldn't be a single good day in the dungeon, and they would have to find a way to solve the problem themselves.
The black cat crouching before the monsters shook its head indifferently, "Meow! Meow meow meow!"
The monsters sighed, "That's true... We can't disrupt the process. At most, we can't allow him to enter our high-level dungeons, but he can enter our mid-level dungeons. There's no way to resolve this."
"Meow! Meow! Meow meow meow!"
"Try to attack Yin Xiu himself? What can we do against him? We can't beat him!"
"Meow meow meow meow meow, meow meow!"
"His sister... he really has been searching for his sister. Is it because he has no reason to continue searching for her that he will stop entering the dungeon?"
"Shall we get him a fake sister?"
"Are you stupid? He'll stay with his sister his whole life. The fake sister will be exposed sooner or later, and he'll be even angrier then."
"That..."
"Meow meow meow! Meow~"
"Start with his memories? Yes! Make him forget his sister, that way he won't keep going into the dungeon looking for her!"
"We're just clever!"
"Let's do it that way!"
The monsters immediately agreed and began preparations.
The methods of stimulating memory loss in one go are useless against Yin Xiu; they simply don't have a chance.
Then we can only work on him slowly, in the place where he stayed the longest, in that small town, gradually eroding his memories, making them blurry, slowly peeling away, until he loses motivation, loses his memories, and loses his reason for living.
You'll see results in one or two years.
By then, there will be no more killing gods in the dungeon, only a person who has forgotten everything and become muddle-headed.
After nightfall, the mental hospital became very quiet.
Last night, Yin Xiu knocked out players' teeth in the corridor and killed players and a large number of staff members indiscriminately. In front of many terrified players, he was sent to the laboratory as a patient with level four symptoms and will soon be thrown into the mental hospital area.
"Is Brother Xiu alright...? He seems really off." Zhong Mu asked worriedly, trying to contact him through the butterfly communicator, but there was no response.
He was about to enter the mentally ill area, but it was clear that he wasn't going in as he had planned in a normal state. In fact, it would be more dangerous for him than usual, as he seemed completely out of his mind and had lost all self-awareness.
Zhong Mu didn't sleep tonight; instead, he secretly slipped out of the ward to try and steal Yin Xiu away from the staff.
He had just reached the lab door when it suddenly opened, startling Zhong Mu so much that he quickly hid.
"Sigh, this player is too troublesome. I've never seen a player so destructive when he goes berserk. Luckily, we just managed to inject him with a tranquilizer so he couldn't escape."
"Just send them to the mental hospital as soon as possible, then they'll have nothing to do with us."
"That's true. Let him cause trouble in the insane area. But given his current state, if he's unlucky, he might get killed as soon as he goes in, since there are even more lunatics there."
"So what if someone dies? It doesn't matter to us if one less player is gone."
Several staff members murmured among themselves as they slowly pushed the dazed Yin Xiu in his wheelchair toward the mental hospital area.
His hospital gown was in disarray, his hands and feet were bound to the chair, his face was covered with a mouth gag, his eyes were cloudy and lifeless, and he was completely unconscious—he was not in his usual state at all.
Zhong Mu gritted his teeth, pulled a dagger from his pocket, and resolved to intercept them before they reached the madhouse.
He had just stepped outside when a pair of hands suddenly reached out from behind and pulled him back into the shadows around the corner.
"You're not thinking of going to save him, are you?" Several figures quickly appeared and blocked Zhong Mu's path.
These were the players who had provoked Yin Xiu before, who had their eyeballs fed to them and their front teeth knocked out. They sneered and stared at Zhong Mu, "Yin Xiu deserves to die! How dare he treat us like that? Now that he's finally in a sorry state, I advise you not to interfere."
Zhong Mu was too lazy to waste words with them, so he grabbed a dagger and stabbed at one of them.
The man cursed and immediately retaliated, but before he could even touch Zhong Mu, he was twisted into a small wooden figure and fell to the ground.
The other players were stunned. None of the other players in this instance had any items, except for Zhong Mu. Although he was weaker in combat, with the help of his items, it would be like suicide for the other players to cause him trouble.
"Get out of the way!" Zhong Mu frowned, kicked away several players who were in his way, and immediately ran out to look for the staff members.
He searched back at lightning speed, attempting to intercept them before they were sent to the mental hospital.
However, because several players were in the way, he arrived a step too late. Yin Xiu was pushed into the madman's area, and the huge iron railings in the corridor slowly came down with a rumble, separating the two sides and blocking Zhong Mu's way.
Zhong Mu stood in front of the iron fence, frowning, looking towards the mental hospital area.
The area of the hospital where he was located was clean and tidy, while the mental ward was completely different, just like when he first entered the instance. The walls and floors were covered with blood and stains, and black figures were writhing, filled with a dangerous atmosphere.
There are many crazy people here, so it's not a good place to stay.
Given Yin Xiu's condition as he had just witnessed, there was a high risk of danger if he did not regain consciousness in time.
"Haha, you're still too late, aren't you?" Several players' panting laughter came from behind.
One of them breathed a sigh of relief, "This way we've completed Lady Ye's mission. Giving him the medicine would have been worse than him just dying."
"He's still unconscious in that dangerous area; he might be killed in no time!"
Several players were gloating, but before they could finish laughing, they were glared at by Zhong Mu's gloomy gaze.
He stared intently at the players and threatened slowly and in a low voice, "If Brother Xiu dies, none of you will leave the dungeon alive."