Sleep in the Coffin, Together

Yin Xiu, however, began considering all sorts of possibilities.

“If I fail to become the sacrifice, will the woman break through her seal in a rage and kill everyone in town, or will the mayor come kill me himself before that happens?”

“Could he end up killing you all in the process, too?”

He said it lightly, but everyone else was left panicking.

The players didn't dare imagine either outcome. Both were terrible. If Yin Xiu broke the rules first, it might affect the other players' progress in the instance, or even make it impossible to clear. And if something went badly wrong in town and spiraled out of control, the players might be caught up in the danger too. It could only get worse, never better.

Watching Yin Xiu's nonchalant manner, everyone else felt uneasy deep down.

They were beginning to regret that Yin Xiu, rather than someone else, had been chosen as the sacrifice. Someone else might have had no choice but to submit and spend the first day as a sacrifice, but Yin Xiu was another matter.

“I think the instance must have its own rules. It shouldn't be that easy to affect it...” one player muttered, trying to talk Yin Xiu out of causing trouble, but Yin Xiu only smiled.

“I'm going to rest a bit.”

With that, he turned and headed upstairs...