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    AshPurgatory2025

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    • Chapter 153: Grand Performance (16) “Paradise Lost”

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      by AshPurgatory2025 The layout of every corridor in the labyrinth was much the same. Dong Xiwen stood in the doorway, staring fixedly at He Hui, who was kneeling on the ground. His gaze finally landed on the massive statue of a scale projected behind her. That was his sin, which would eventually kill the girl; likewise, chasing him from behind was the girl's sin, which would soon kill him as well. The relentless mirror drew closer, replacing the bricks of the wall behind him. Transparent arms danced…
    • Chapter 152 – Grand Performance (XV) Act Three

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      by AshPurgatory2025 The system gave the players no time to prepare. As two lines of text refreshed, the surroundings collapsed in an instant; the room's walls toppled like dominoes and stretched outward in every direction. Only rooms 1, 3, and 5 remained of the original six; the rest were demolished, re-forming into a winding corridor instantly stabilized and splashed with garish decorations. A maze sprang up. Ancient-Greek-style colonnades bore yellowed parchment scraps here and there; from afar the twisting,…
    • Chapter 151: Grand Performance (XIV) “Macbeth”

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      by AshPurgatory2025 Qi Si had actually considered the minimum death count mechanism. In the third round of blackjack, after receiving the "10" and "A" cards, he seriously pondered whether to equally undermine the other players' hands. But in the end, he abandoned the idea. After dreaming of Hansen, he had been plagued by a strange feeling—so strange that he suspected that if he caused all the other players to die, things might become even more troublesome. The most important point was that this…
    • Chapter 150: The Grand Performance (XIII) – “Resurrection”

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      by AshPurgatory2025 Room 6 was Dong Xiwen's room. After the players tore off the wallpaper, they similarly found no new clues. Dong Xiwen explained, "I found the script fragment for the first act on the desk; it was just sitting right there in plain sight. I almost suspected this dungeon was insulting my intelligence." Qi Si nodded and looked at the desk in the corner of the room. "Dong Xiwen, I have a feeling the ghost corresponding to your room is likely related to writing. You'd better stay away from…
    • Chapter 149: Grand Performance (XII) ‘Dead Souls’ (Revised)

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      by AshPurgatory2025 The game no longer held any suspense. One by one, the players handed their highest cards to Charlie and then stayed. When it was Charlie's turn, he cheerfully said, "Stay," and looked around at everyone. "Now all of you have the same number of Chips; this is very fair! I believe there will be a wonderful performance tomorrow!" He laughed loudly, and then the points were settled. 51 points. Charlie busted. He was the only player to bust this round. The last Chip…
    • Chapter 148: Grand Performance (Part 11) Intermission – “Blackjack”

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      by AshPurgatory2025 Charlie did not answer. Qi Si continued on his own: "A beam of light shone into the dark iron tower, exposing the filth and sin within, and so this beam of light became sinful. "If sin is judged by whether one kills or not, then the crimes we committed are buried in the past. When the dust has settled, you insist on digging up rotten, withered graves, bringing the stench and foulness to the surface, and calling it justice—don't you think you're ridiculous?" "That's right, I'm…
    • Chapter 147: Grand Performance (X) Romans

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      by AshPurgatory2025 Back when he still wanted to live, Qi Si had imagined his own death countless times. Perhaps falling from the top of a cliff thousands of meters high, losing consciousness in a continuous sensation of weightlessness before being shattered into pieces. Perhaps sinking to the bottom of the boundless deep sea, sealed within a certain water layer by the pressure, rotting away while adrift. Later, he realized that what he had longed for was nothing more than a kind of uncertainty. Until a…
    • Chapter 146: Grand Performance (IX) “Animal Farm”

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      by AshPurgatory2025 "The wolfdog is the loyal official, the Fox is the treacherous official. Who will be the Fox?" "Whoever is pointed at will be the Fox!" "Qi Si, Qi Si, Qi Si!" A reverb of children's voices echoed in the depths of his mind, noisy enough to make his head spin. His whole body felt as if it had been submerged in a viscous deep sea, only to be fished out at the moment of suffocation and tossed onto the shore. Qi Si toyed with his Identity Card,…
    • Chapter 145: Grand Performance (VIII), Act Two

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      by AshPurgatory2025 【Act Two Begins】 Five large characters refreshed on the system interface. Based on the three-act structure, this dungeon was already one-third complete. After two more deaths, it would be just about time to clear it. After years of research by theoretical players on the game forums, clearing dungeons had become a formulaic process: players gather, introduce themselves, a bunch of people die, and the survivors clear it. Overall, it could be described as steady and predictable. Worldview? TE…
    • Chapter 144: Grand Performance (VII) “The Divine Comedy”

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      by AshPurgatory2025 Qi Si sat by the edge of the bed, playing with the black character card. Scenes of Hansen flashed before his eyes, corresponding one by one to the descriptions on the character card. 【He was out of place...】 Hansen was the only one who excelled in martial force and, at the same time, did not use a pen to record information. 【He was loathsome...】 From the very beginning, Hansen had lashed out indiscriminately and was impolite in his speech, making it…
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