The Abyssal Garden: No Room for the Idle Chapter 8 8: Entering the New Instance

It was already noon.

Su Qi didn't imdiately return to the gaming pod; after ordering takeout, he wandered around the house.

"That weird power spoke in mysteries; I don't even know if my eyes can see anything."

He wandered for a while and then discovered, to his surprise...

Everything in the room was normal.

There was nothing special at all.

Su Qi walked towards the bedroom and opened the cupboard.

The finger bone and a piece of sheet music were still there, unchanged

Still in a state of "..." chaos.

Just as Su Qi was about to put these two items back into the cupboard,

He suddenly paused and looked back at the gaming pod in the living room, then a thought occurred to him.

Half an hour later.

After finishing lunch, Su Qi lay back in the gaming pod once again.

"Neural connection in progress."

"Connection successful."

"Welco, player Su Buxian, to your Personal Space."

"You have now unlocked the matchmaking feature, allowing you to select dungeon modes and difficulty levels."

Several selectable modules appeared in front of Su Qi's eyes.

"Solo Dungeon Mode"

Note: Experience and Ga Coin earnings are 20% higher in solo dungeons compared to multiplayer dungeons.

"Multiplayer Dungeon Mode (unlocked at level 6)"

Note: Multiplayer dungeons require players to explore together, main quest progress is shared, and any player who kills a teammate will have their main quest blocked and cannot receive completion rewards.

Both modes allowed for the selection of difficulty: Ordinary, Hard, Nightmare.

"Huh?"

Su Qi noticed the Nightmare option was greyed out and unselectable, with a tooltip saying, "During matchmaking, there's a one percent chance of entering a Nightmare-level dungeon, and the higher the average rating of the dungeon, the higher the probability."

"So it turns out this difficulty can only be encountered, not sought. My very first dungeon was a Nightmare-level—can't tell if that's good or bad luck."

After reading everything, Su Qi did not rush into a dungeon; he had another matter to verify.

After opening the Item Slot, Su Qi's gaze flickered.

Tow familiar items had appeared in the Item Slot.

"Polluted Finger Bone" "Polluted Sheet Music"

"As expected..."

The two special items obtained from the real world could indeed be brought into "Abyssal Paradise"!

Su Qi looked serious.

What it implied was self-evident.

It also proved what Xu Linqiu had said, that Abyssal Paradise was not just a ga.

"The 'other side' he spoke of must be in this Abyssal Paradise."

But these two items didn't seem to be equipnt; they lacked attribute panels, and their purpose was unclear at the mont.

He closed the Item Slot and began to make his selection.

"You have selected Solo Hard Mode, now matching."

"Match found."

The experience and Ga Coin rewards for solo mode were a bit higher, allowing players to adapt to gaplay and level up while accumulating basic attributes and advantages.

After unlocking multiplayer mode, players could then avoid holding other people back.

Soon.

The lights in the login room flickered.

The next mont, the room plunged into darkness, devoid of any trace of light.

A low chuckle arose, its husky tone indistinguishable between male and female.

"Welco to the Abyss."

-----------------

The darkness in front of Su Qi slowly receded.

By the ti he opened his eyes.

He found himself in an apartnt room, where dim light shone on the not-so-clean floor, making the surrounding bed and table seem particularly cramped.

And the strangest thing.

The room had no windows.

Or rather... the windows had been completely sealed off, not just clumsily welded shut with sheet tal, but even the cracks that revealed glass were painted over with black paint, blocking any view outside the window.

This ti.

The CG image gave no explanation.

"It seems I have to explore on my own before I can trigger the main quest," Su Qi looked around the room, found nothing but a suitcase on the bed, and it appeared he had just moved in, not even having a chance to clean up.

"Click."

After he opened the suitcase, aside from so clothes, there was only a rusty-looking small clock.

[Na: Clock]

[Type: Dungeon Tool]

[Quality: Low-quality]

[Function: Turning the clockwork will grant you 90% immunity to pollution for five minutes; can be used three tis per day]

[Can it be taken out of the dungeon: No]

[Note: Always hold it tightly; it will be the key to your survival]

This thing could not be stored in the Item Slot.

Su Qi hung it around his neck and searched the suitcase again, finding nothing else.

"It seems there are no more clues in the room."

Su Qi's gaze naturally fell on the room's door; he was curious about what was outside, and the current eerie atmosphere seed to tell him not to act rashly.

He reached out and cautiously pushed the door open.

Outside was a deep, dark corridor, lit only by the room's light, barely revealing five other closed doors beside his own.

Each door seed to have a number.

Su Qi was number 5, and directly opposite was number 4.

At that mont.

A [?] suddenly appeared on the door opposite his own, number 4.

It displayed.

[The occupant of door number 4 is peeking at you through the peephole]

Is soone there? Soone isn't necessarily a good thing.

[It is waiting for you to knock on the door]

The information on the question mark changed again.

The character 'it' made him wonder how he could possibly knock.

The entire apartnt exuded a strangeness, and these other five occupants were likely no ordinary people. Without understanding what was going on, it was generally best not to do anything unnecessary.

Just then.

A bell rang out from the stairwell at the end of the corridor, like a bronze bell shaking. Sounds like these often signaled information, such as gathering, al tis, or class notifications.

Imdiately after.

Footsteps could be heard from the corridor stairwell.

The sound was heavy, like walking in wet shoes on wooden planks.

The rhythmic sound echoed in the deep, dark corridor.

Su Qi looked over, with a premonition of what might happen next.

And the next mont.

Sothing unexpected happened to Su Qi; the door of room number 4 suddenly opened, and a tentacle reached out.

It pulled Su Qi straight over.

Without any hesitation, Su Qi held the butcher knife in front of him, but then he heard a voice.

"Don't be rash, I an no harm."

The next mont.

With a "thud," Su Qi was pulled into room number 4 and the door was shut behind him.

But Su Qi was not soone who liked being passive; the mont he entered, he swung his knife, with explosive power he pinned down the being that had pulled him in against the wall, holding the murderous butcher knife at their throat.

This creature with tentacles turned out to be a human, and even wore glasses, looking sowhat refined. His pale face trembled with fear as he imdiately knelt down without hesitation.

"Don't, don't kill !"