"Whew, that was close!"
Lin Yu looked at the charred monster on the ground wearing a security uniform with tentacles for limbs and sighed with relief.
Since he had felt uneasy intuition and was already prepared, Lin Yu naturally wouldn't fall for the ambush.
After a fierce struggle that ended with him defeating this monster, Lin Yu also received admiring looks from Max.
"Holy crap, bro, you're so cool!"
"No wonder you managed to take down that doctor. Turns out you're not just good at deduction and behind-the-scenes planning—your actual combat skills are impressive too."
Max rubbed her hands together as she spoke: "Looks like I'll be clinging tightly to your coattails in this dungeon, bro!"
Hearing Max's words, Lin Yu modestly waved his hand.
"It's only because the monsters in this dungeon aren't that strong."
After all, based on the currently known information, this dungeon's chanics were already quite special: whether it was the cycles or mory erasure, both were complex and difficult challenges to overco.
If, under these circumstances, the monsters inside were also so strong that players like them couldn't handle them at all...
Then this dungeon shouldn't have only 'Robin' as the sole 'Third-Tier' player.
Hearing Lin Yu's modesty, Max also laughed: "Ah, whatever you say, but if it were , I definitely couldn't win... especially since this thing ambushed us. I might not have reacted in ti and lost my fighting ability imdiately!"
Listening to Max's words, Lin Yu shook his head.
"Even so, you wouldn't be that pathetic."
"You're probably right," encouraged by Lin Yu's reassurance, Max beca optimistic again and spoke with confidence, "If we really fought... maybe I could hold out for a few moves!"
Hearing Max's tone, Lin Yu felt even more helpless.
"With such a confident tone, at least say you could win!"
"How could I? My self-awareness is pretty clear," Max waved her hand, "Right now, I don't have many items that can be used for direct combat."
Hearing this, Lin Yu thought it was just modesty.
After all, the security uniform monster wasn't that strong.
He could handle it just with the [Fear Torch].
If Stiller were still here, he could probably one-shot it.
Thinking of this, Lin Yu felt sowhat lancholy.
"I really don't know where Stiller and Hannah went... did we get separated before the last 'Rewind'?"
"Although I can confirm they're probably still alive, I hope they weren't captured by so dungeon boss waiting for to rescue them... but if the notebook didn't ntion it, it should be fine, right?"
Lin Yu had no clues, so he could only remain optimistic.
"Maybe it's because summoned creatures aren't affected by 'Rewind'... that's why they didn't appear—after all, other consud [items] didn't recover either, and the notebook specifically ntioned this."
Lin Yu exhaled.
Just as he sorted out his thoughts, footsteps suddenly ca from upstairs.
"Tap, tap, tap..."
Max instantly tensed up.
"What's coming down?!"
She quickly threw different dolls up the stairs, then assud a fighting stance—it looked like a Wing Chun opening stance, but not very standard.
But even if it were standard, it probably wouldn't be much use...
"The monsters in this dungeon are either giant doctors two stories tall or things covered in tentacles. Are you planning to have a bare-handed close combat fight with them?"
Lin Yu couldn't help but ask.
Max chuckled: "No, I'm just posing. Maybe it'll intimidate soone!"
"Besides, I've got you here."
As they joked, a head peeked out from around the staircase corner.
A sowhat fluffy, even ssy-haired ordinary girl with dark circles under her eyes looking slightly haggard poked her head out. Seeing Lin Yu and Max, her face showed a relieved expression.
Then, Robin spoke: "Whew... you're players, right? From your looks, you should be players, right?"
She asked timidly, not expecting Max below to imdiately stand at attention.
"Whoa," Max said excitedly, "Brother May, we can just coast now!"
"This is one of the top experts in our 'Night Watchn,' Teacher Robin," as she spoke, Max waved her hand, "Hello, Teacher Robin! I'm Max from the 'Night Watchn,' and this is 'May May' from 'Order'!"
"We're both First-Tier players—I'm a 'Thief' and he's a 'Doctor'!"
Accompanied by Max's excited introduction, Robin quickly ca downstairs, sowhat shyly tugging at her clothes as she spoke: "Hello, hello... I didn't expect to et other 'Night Watchn' in this dungeon..."
"Yeah," Max said optimistically, "Two 'Night Watchn' and one 'Order'—at least we players don't need to sche against each other!"
"Let's work together to conquer this dungeon!"
As Max spoke, Lin Yu chid in: "Indeed, based on the current dungeon difficulty and our team composition... this dungeon shouldn't be too hard for us to clear."
Noticing the bloodstains on Robin's clothes, he asked: "Teacher Robin, you must have dealt with quite a few monsters to get down here, right?"
After all, since entering the stairwell, although they'd dealt with one monster, Lin Yu could still hear many monster movents from above—until just before Robin appeared, when all those monsters suddenly went quiet.
Connecting the tiline, Lin Yu could easily deduce that Robin must have cleared out the monsters.
Robin seed sowhat embarrassed: "Because they looked noisy and scary, so I killed them all..."
"Because the environnt here itself gives so unpleasant associations, so I... ah, sorry, I'm oversharing, and this isn't really a place for chatting."
Robin said, then clapped her hands.
"Alright, anyway, before I ca down to this floor, I investigated a bit. We're currently on the thirty-seventh island of the Misty Sea Archipelago. The clear condition ntioning leaving the 'island' probably refers to this," Robin looked down at the ground, speaking in a continuous stream of muttering, "Then from things I found on so doctors, I temporarily deduced that the first step to leave this 'asylum' building—aning leaving the island—requires obtaining an item that's probably sothing like 'Director's Permission.' The director's office is likely on the first floor..."
Listening to Robin's long speech that sounded like an elentary student reciting a lesson, Lin Yu imdiately realized sothing.
First, there was indeed a chanism similar to "cycles" existing in this dungeon—it wasn't him using so deceptive thod to perform "Rewind" again but without retaining mories.
Second...
Robin must have also transmitted so information from the previous cycle to herself through so ans.
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