The apocalypse begins with a dungeon game.

Chapter 156 A Tailor-Made Prison

The next second, a scream came from behind Li Can.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" Three consecutive sounds of fists exploding echoed around.

Li Lan appeared nearby at some unknown time, and her fist pierced directly through the heads of those old nobles.

Brain matter mixed with red was scattered all over the ground; the person was as dead as could be.

Li Can turned around and happened to see this scene.

The girl took the handkerchief from the soldier and carefully wiped her hands. "Don't worry about it. I was sent here specifically to deal with them."

"I hadn't figured out how to handle it before, but now I don't have to hesitate anymore."

The splattered blood remained on the surrounding cordon, the ground, the wooden frame, and even on the chests of the mech soldiers.

There were even a few drops of blood on Li Can's back.

He turned around and looked at Li Lan, but didn't say anything for a long time.

"Looks like you have something to do. Go on." Li Lan waved his hand and tossed the handkerchief back into the soldier's arms.

Li Can simply nodded.

The bloodstains on his back, soaking his shirt, and the damp feeling against his skin was strangely unsettling.

He began to regret not putting on his mecha suit when he left home.

The soldiers guarding the body nearby began to untie the three corpses. The corpses' heads were severely damaged and blown apart, and their original appearances were no longer recognizable.

Since the broadcast, there weren't many people left in the lower town to watch. Instead, a few refugees who had fled to the upper town were still watching from outside the police line at the end of the street.

Judging from their expressions, they seemed to have an ambiguous relationship with these old nobles.

But witnessing their family members being shot in the head and killed, they didn't dare to breathe and no one spoke.

They simply stood guard nearby, glancing around from time to time. One or two of them even turned around and ran back to report the news after witnessing the scene.

Times have changed. Now, the people of the upper city are at the mercy of Li Lan, who appears to be from the lower city, and their lives are controlled at will. The onlookers are quite saddened.

They carefully stepped back, not daring to move forward any further.

As everyone began to disperse, Li Can noticed that there was only one person going against the flow in the crowd: Xiao Qi, dragging the small corpse's skin, walked to the vicinity.

He looked the skin up and down, and after careful observation, he could roughly confirm that it was the remains of Xing Tiantian before his death.

Huang Xiaoqi somehow managed to find this thing.

Logically speaking, long ago, after each person from the lower city left the city with a full pass, those things that had shed their original forms should have long since rotted away...

After all, when Li Can first arrived, he had personally witnessed the scene and process of the local natives leaving the city.

"Honey, you're back! I thought you and our son had disappeared... Hehehe..." The woman in front of him had messy hair, and her face and hands were covered in dirt.

She kept giggling, pointing with her dark finger at the corpse skin she was dragging with her other hand.

"Look, I finally found my son. He was exceptionally well-behaved today and didn't say a word."

Li Can's brows furrowed slightly. A gentle breeze blew by, dispersing much of the stench of blood and decay, but a lingering stench remained in people's nostrils.

Xing Tiantian, of course, wouldn't speak; he had been dead for a very, very long time.

"I'll be a bit busy lately. You and Tiantian can move into the house I've arranged. I'll come find you after I'm done with this, okay?" Li Can patiently leaned down and looked into her yellowish eyes as she spoke.

Although not much time had passed, Huang Xiaoqi was in a state of severe mental confusion.

He suspected that this might be because she had discovered the truth about the world and suddenly realized that Xing Tiantian had died because she had personally sent him out of the city. She couldn't accept it and that's why she turned out this way.

Although it's a bit cruel for her, seeing her current state is quite heartbreaking.

But for him, it's a good thing, as it makes it easier for him to reduce the frequency of playing the role of an identity card and allows him to breathe a sigh of relief.

Huang Xiaoqi nodded blankly, "Okay, okay, husband, I just want to be with my son."

She turned to the stiff, yet in some places slightly limp, corpse at her feet and gently asked, "How are you feeling, Tian Tian?"

"Oh, you're asleep. Mom will take you to rest."

Following her gaze, Li Can realized that she was holding the hand of the corpse's skin bag the whole time.

Because of being gripped for so long, her skin was soaked with sweat and showed signs of tearing. Sticky tissue fluid clung to her palm, but she didn't notice these details at all.

"This is the room key. Just follow this soldier in a bit, and he'll take you there." Li Can looked away and handed her a bunch of keys.

The mecha soldiers, who had been prepared to lead the way, were already standing by, ready to go.

Li Can added, "The Baijie Hotel, along with Qian Shi's old house and the entire surrounding area, has been occupied. We can't go back; we can only take you to a newly built one."

However, Huang Xiaoqi didn't care about this at all. After taking the keys, she lowered her head and prepared to leave.

Seeing this, Li Can said nothing more. The soldiers near the cordon let her pass until, led by the soldiers, her figure gradually shrank into a dot on the distant street and became indistinct.

"Are you really sure you want to lock her up there? Won't there be any problems? I think there's something wrong with her here." Li Lan stood next to Li Can and pointed to her temple.

Li Can, without needing to hide from those around him, took out the bomb machine from the gashapon and looked at the scroll of instructions he had taken when he first entered the dungeon.

Most of them are introductions to the early stages of the game, and he has already completed the work to address many of the confusing points.

Two of them, however, deserve special attention:

You need to play your role well; if you exhibit out-of-character (OOC) behavior, you will be punished with death.

[The ultimate mission is to obtain your exit permit for the Mysterious City. Only after passing the inspection by the city gate guards can you leave the city.]

He has been acting under the identity of "Xing Dazhuang" so far, but even though he has revealed some abilities and items that do not belong here in front of many people, he has not yet been punished by the dungeon game.

This means that this rule is disregarded in the game mechanics.

If we insist on blaming an out-of-character (OOC) situation, it's the problem with Xing Dazhuang's family members, which is now under control and nothing to worry about.

Secondly, there's the ultimate mission... The scroll doesn't mention a "downtown" exit certificate, nor "uptown"; it simply uses the term "mysterious labyrinth."

This name only appeared in the Mirror of Past Lives, a very, very long time ago.

Back then, perfect people and defective products lived together.

This means that for players to clear the dungeon, they not only need to deal with the Dark Particles, but also firmly support the ideology of the rebel organization and ultimately merge the upper and lower cities.

After reviewing the information, Li Can put her phone away again, confirming that she hadn't made any mistakes so far, and felt relieved.

Then he replied to Li Lan, "Yes, a prison tailor-made for her."