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Chapter 58 Murder Night in the Tavern

The second-floor room they entered was themed "Tavern".

Welcome to the Tavern Murder Night!

[In the dead of night, amidst the dim light and a tipsy haze, you tread the tightrope of death, using chaotic dance moves to evade its kiss. Whether you live or die, your entrance will be met with thunderous applause from the audience!]

Your heinous crimes and the enormous bounty have attracted assassins from all walks of life. They've made a deal with the bartender: your next drink choice will determine who kills you. Red and green are the colors of danger.

[Room Rules: After entering the room, a wooden spinning wheel will automatically appear on the table, holding six different colored cocktails with varying strengths and toxicities.]

You must drink one drink within five minutes, and each time you will attract a different assassin. Survive six waves before the tavern closes, at which point the passage to the third floor will open.

There is no limit to the number of players, but each time, players who drink the cocktail must survive to the next round; otherwise, everyone is eliminated, and the bartender will go on a rampage, killing any unscrupulous customers who refuse to drink.

[Note: If you drink all the cocktails by yourself, you will earn the bartender's favor, and he will give you directions to the third-floor treasure room.]

As the rules emerged, a medieval-style wooden tavern was formed, with a young bartender in a brown jacket calmly wiping glassware behind the circular bar counter.

When he saw fifteen people suddenly rush in, he was not surprised at all. He simply placed the wine tray on the bar, set out the glasses to mix the drinks, and finally casually turned the tray around with his thumb.

"bite……"

"This is a mannequin, or rather, a puppet manipulated by the museum."

Jiang Yu said softly, no matter how realistic the bartender in front of her was, the inhuman feeling couldn't be suppressed, and his eyes, which were moving around, were filled with two balls of white thread.

"And this is indeed the wine cellar used by scavengers. We drank and played cards here when we were on duty, but obviously there weren't these strange rules and puppets back then."

This proves Fang Jin's conjecture: the museum exhibition halls inside and outside the instance are essentially the same; it's just that they are filled with rules after the instance is opened, which gives them all sorts of incredible characteristics.

Jiang Yu encountered a cheat code on the first floor and cleared the level directly without even entering the room. Therefore, she couldn't compare her memories with those inside the museum. Only now have the two of them suddenly realized what had happened.

"...Then what about the challenge I overcame? Why is there a fishpond in the scavengers' headquarters?"

"Now that you mention it, I remember. That was a torture chamber where people were hung from the ceiling and lowered down, watching as piranhas tore their legs off. At that point, most people would burst into tears and confess."

"..."

"They're all fucking geniuses..."

Fang Jin felt a little tired and refocused her attention on the tavern's rules. The wine tray contained six glasses of wine, in six colors: white, black, yellow, blue, green, and red, arranged in order of strength from low to high.

Even the lowest alcohol content white cocktails have an aroma that goes straight to the heavens. The last two glasses, even though they still look clear and bright, are full of sticky liquid when shaken.

"...Is this even still alcohol? Who the hell has ever seen liquor with an alcohol content of over 200 proof?"

"I'll drink it. I've already had enough of the president's drinks. Besides, if I ingest alcohol through my mouth, the heat from my mask will evaporate it directly."

Iron-Clad Man spoke in a gruff voice, reaching for the first glass of baijiu. Fang Jin stopped him, staring at the latter's eyes, which were practically spitting fire with anger, and shook his head, saying:

"No, you're the only one who can't evaporate the wine that way. Does that mean we've actually drunk this wine? In five minutes, we'll all be trapped here and die."

"Wouldn't it be better to exploit a loophole in the rules? Didn't Jiang Yu and the others do this on the first floor, allowing them to reach the third floor without taking any damage..."

"They were just lucky."

Fang Jin said coldly, holding the white cocktail between her fingers and examining its color under the dim light, forcibly resisting the urge to throw in a few mints.

"This is an incomplete copy, which means incomplete rules and a slow response to vulnerabilities. Vulnerabilities in ordinary copies are good news, but here it could be an infinite loop trap."

"We have no right to gamble on what shape the loophole is. If we make a wrong move, even the scavengers might not know how to get us out. Let's just follow the rules normally."

"Alright, you're right! So who's going to drink these cups of poison?"

Iron Cover sneered, his gaze sweeping over the fifteen people present. Leaving aside the first four glasses that were flowing normally, the last two were red and green cocktails…

Both the description of the rules and the liquid itself are closer to chemical reagents than alcohol. Wouldn't drinking this stuff cause severe intestinal rot, especially when someone is chasing you?

Everyone who was looked at showed signs of fear, even though they knew they had come in to curry favor with those three, and were prepared to be used as stepping stones.

But when it comes to the front lines, who is truly willing to die?

"Don't order, I'll do it."

Fang Jin said nonchalantly, then raised the liquor and drank it all in one gulp! To be honest, he had been craving it for a long time; the pungent aroma of the liquor, which could be smelled from afar, was simply irresistible.

"Hiss...whoosh!"

A flush of burning red rose on Fang Jin's face, which he then forcefully suppressed, causing her to stagger slightly... That was all the effect the first cocktail could have.

"Fang Jin, slow down..."

"It's alright, it's alright. My physique is quite special, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to withstand the old man's drinking atmosphere when I was only at level 1. It's most appropriate for me to drink from this wine tray."

Fang Jin gestured to reassure Jiang Yu, and her gaze towards the few glasses of wine behind them was already somewhat tingly; this kind of excitement was probably hard to find even in the main world.

"Then you can drink all of these drinks. Six drinks, six waves of killer attacks, we'll take the hits for you. Just be careful not to drink yourself to death."

"Iron Cover said, but these words were exactly what someone wanted to hear," Fang Jin said with a smile as she sat on the edge of the bar, her fingertips lightly tracing the second black glass.

"Great news! One person will take over all the drinks and get a clue to the three-story treasure room from the bartender. That's like telling us the exit of the three floors directly."

"Passing the Tavern Murder Night means passing the Museum directly. This is a gamble... let's see how much effort you can put in."

Anyway, I can use public funds to buy alcohol and leisure here.