【Floor 36 Poetry, Books, and Wine】: The research junkie upstairs isn't being very rigorous.
I've played 《Wandering in a Garden, Waking from a Dream》, and I recall the classes involved were all music-related. That counts as an art class too, doesn't it? So isn't it still related to Spirit?
It actually fits perfectly.
It didn't disprove the theory at all; it actually supported it.
【Floor 37 Ray】: Holy crap! You're right!
I didn't think of it that way at all before. Looking at it now, both restricted instances were Spirit-based. It's a closed loop.
【Floor 38 Lemon Tea】: I don't care about rules or patterns. Can the system please come up with some fresh gameplay?
The last few instances have all been about investigating family dramas. I'm seriously sick of them.
Can we get some team-versus-team instances? Split all players into good and evil teams and just let them fight to the death.
Fight! Fight! I want to see a river of blood!
【Floor 39 Hot Blood Never Closes】: Seconded!
Investigating clues, deducing the truth, and nitpicking details every day is making me go bald. I just want a pure combat instance, like a zombie siege or something.
Real men should duke it out head-on. Stop giving us these sissy deductive investigations.
【Floor 40 Justice Executed】: The poster upstairs is making sweeping generalizations. Reported!
What did those of us who like deduction do to offend you? Everyone has their own playstyle. There's no need to put down one to lift up another, right?
Some people like solving puzzles and reviewing matches, while others like hardcore combat. To each their own.
【Floor 41 Peach King】: Faction battle instances are boring. I'd rather have an all-NPC roleplay instance.
Every player is randomly bound to a passerby NPC identity with no quest prompts and no faction labels. We'd test each other, suspect each other, and step on our teammates' landmines—that's the real thrill.
It's a psychological battle from start to finish, way more interesting than mindless fighting.
【Floor 42 Legends Don't Belong to Me】: Wishing for a war instance.
No complex deductions, no precise controls needed. Just be a foot soldier charging with the main army. A hot-blooded battlefield is ten thousand times better than investigating supernatural occurrences.
No need to stress over missed clues, no fear of mental exhaustion. Just fight, and that's it.
【Floor 43 Old Things Like New】: The poster upstairs is dreaming. Ancient war instances might be possible, but Anomalous Infection probably won't ever open modern war instances.
There was once an instance set in the Republican Era, and the players completely broke it.
After that, they probably locked the entire genre. In any case, we haven't seen another instance with a similar setting since.
【Floor 44 Rakshasa Bird】: ??? Gossip!
I'm a newbie. Can someone explain which Republican Era instance that was? What happened? Why did the system ban similar themes outright?
Could some veteran enlighten me? I must have died too late, because I've never heard this tea.
【Floor 45 Just a Few Words】: It should be referring to the 《Night Shanghai》 instance.
【Floor 46 Old Things Like New】: Alright, let this veteran do a quick review. If you want the detailed tea, search the instance name on the forum yourself.
The instance was called 《Night Shanghai》. It was a very early Republican Era instance. Originally, the main quest was supposed to be investigating urban anomalies and solving serial murders—a standard supernatural puzzle instance.
Why do I say 'supposed to be'? Because not a single person who entered that instance cared about the main quest. This was just the likely main quest that everyone pieced together during the post-game review after it ended.
【Floor 47 Old Things Like New】: Once the players got inside, they realized the instance's setting was far too similar to a certain period of history in the real world.
So they stopped investigating the main quest, stopped fighting each other, and everyone rushed to the front lines to do their part.
They shed their blood and sacrificed their lives, turning a perfectly good supernatural deduction instance into a war of national salvation.
The players had a blast, their blood pumping the entire time. Not a single person stressed over instance evaluations or hidden rewards. However, the NPCs' storylines and the world line were completely derailed. Back then, the system's final evaluation was delayed by two full days before it finally came out.
【Floor 48 Old Things Like New】: Ever since then, the system made a clean sweep. Instances with similar themes never appeared again.
【Floor 49 Battle Sand】: Someone who actually lived through it is here.
As a player who encountered this instance right after starting out, I was led by the veterans straight to the front lines. Although I ended up being blown to pieces and eliminated, it felt incredibly satisfying. It wasn't a loss at all.
【Floor 50 Battle Sand】: It was also because of this instance that I initially misunderstood Anomalous Infection as a traditional master-god unlimited flow game, focusing on hardcore quest clearing and spending points to exchange for bloodlines to arm yourself.
After the instance ended, in a fit of passion, I went all-in and spent all my points on healing potions.
If it weren't for the delayed evaluation giving me my points later, I would have nearly starved to death in the system space.
【Floor 51 Battle Sand】: Only after clearing a few more instances did I completely wake up. This isn't some combat-focused master-god unlimited flow, nor is it even a supernatural unlimited flow. It's a tabletop deduction style.
But seriously, it doesn't even have the classic school, hospital, or mental asylum instances. What kind of unlimited flow is this?
【Floor 52 Unspeakable】: What do you mean there are no hospital or school instances? If you search the forum, you'll see they definitely exist.
Just because you haven't encountered one doesn't mean they don't exist.
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After finishing reading the forum, Bai Ci was actually wondering about it too.
Although that person managed to make their theory sound plausible, trying to apply that Spirit-value conclusion to her class still felt like a bit of a stretch.
Ghost Bride wasn't an exploration class either; at most, it was an information-gathering class.
Not to mention skills that consumed Spirit—she hadn't even obtained items that consumed Spirit until after this instance ended.
The waiting time quickly passed, and Bai Ci entered the new instance with practiced ease.
The first sense to return was her sense of smell.
First, Bai Ci caught a whiff of a very heavy incense. The fragrance was so thick it felt like it could pickle a person instantly, as if it were trying to cover something up.
Cover what up?
Bai Ci tried hard to distinguish the scents, finally catching a faint, trace odor of decaying sourness beneath the heavy aroma of incense.
It didn't smell like the foul stench of something rotting under the sun. Instead, it was like flesh quietly decaying, locked in a sealed space for a long time, slowly fermenting into a sour, putrid air.
Bai Ci wanted to open her eyes to see her surroundings, but at that moment, a hand gently came to rest on her head.
The hand didn't apply much pressure, yet its touch was exceptionally distinct.
The skin and flesh were extremely thin, the bones sharp. The outlines of the phalanges and metacarpals were so prominent that they could be clearly felt as she was being touched.
It was absolutely not the hand of a healthy, living human.
By her ear, a middle-aged man's voice slowly spoke.
His tone was deep and refined. What should have been a steady and heavy voice now carried a profound weakness. His breathing was heavy, and every word sounded as though it were being painfully squeezed from damaged lungs.
“Severnia, your father is useless. The Empire can only be handed over to you now.”
“Take good care of yourself.”
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