Spring Banquet (1)

The Days I Clear Escape Games Pretending to be an NPCCh35 - Spring Banquet (1)

Ren Yifei felt anxious.

This platform was full of demons, there were those who beamed with joy when they saw him and there were those who grimaced; all of them appeared to know him. However, he was not able to name any of them. So, what does he do now? zwNuIO

Could it be that he's about to set the record for the fastest NG in his acting career?

"Your Excellency has arrived?" An old man with a pointed beak, who was about ten centimetres tall, hurriedly walked out. He was wearing a small black hat and was holding a book in his hand.

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As soon as he saw Ren Yifei, he showed a smile full of flattery, "The master has instructed me to wait for you early."

Ren Yifei's expression was indifferent, he did not speak as he cast a sidelong glance at the little old man. JB3zqi

He didn't know who the old man was nor did he know what he was going to do, therefore, staying silent was the best response; at least he wouldn't make any immediate mistakes.

"Your residence has been cleaned and the bath has been prepared, this servent will lead you there," the little old man continued.

How can the owner of this place be so understanding?

Surrounded by a group of unfamiliar NPCs, Ren Yifei, who was isolated and helpless, was almost moved to tears. He nodded and replied, "Thank you."

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He turned his head towards the maid and waved his hand, "Go on."

He'll withdraw for the night first then he'll go find them later to learn more about the original owner.

As a result, the maids along with the servant boys and sedan chair flew back into the clouds. The maids turned into colourful clouds while the servant boys turned into birds and the sedan chair turned into a paper boat before dispersing.

Ren Yifei was stunned for a moment: How would he go back? wYVIpM

Oh, he doesn't have to go back.

He followed the little old man inside.

"He already left?" The beauty-obsessed crowd of demons stared at his back reluctantly as they watched him leave.

"Who was that person?" Asked a little demon who had snapped back to reality. fTBrNn

"That is He Jun, the demon spirit born from eating the essence of the moon."

He walked through a long corridor, over an arched bridge, past several courtyards and past a small forest. Along the way there, he encountered many demons he doesn't recognise before he finally arrived at the place arranged by the host.

It was a very clean and brightly lit courtyard with purple smoke emitting from a golden incense burner. The residence had maids and servant boys, as well as red wooden pillars that supported painted arches with beaded curtains on either side and veils that hung all the way to the ground.

As soon as he entered, a maid dressed in green led him to a hot spring pool inlaid with jade on all sides. There was also a shelf next to it containing various objects used to relieve fatigue. veTU1R

The maid in green clothing came forward to untie his robe but he raised his hand and said softly, "All of you, get out."

Although his voice was soft, no one dared to disobey.

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Thus, several people in the room saluted him before silently retreating one by one. After they all left, he sat on the stone table made of jade and rubbed his stiff face.

[One of the players is a murderer, find them or survive for seven days. ] B4MhYj

[Character Quest: Retrieve Heart's Blood.]

[Identity: Player. ]

[Character: He Jun]

[Keywords: Spring Banquet] 2VCxYz

[100]

There was additional information, that is, the character quest to retrieve the heart's blood.

This matter seems to be very important to the original owner. Could this be the reason why the original owner was attending this banquet?

Ren Yifei, who had the perfect scenario for interpreting this matter, silently noted it in his heart.

"Gudong, Gudong," the spring water flowed into the pool, giving rise to a bunch of bubbles.

The indoor hot spring pool was not too large nor was it too small. The whole thing was circular with golden

the mist and condenses it into dew which drips back into the steaming water.

Ren Yifei looked at the shadows of the maids projected onto the door. He knew that these people were not only standing guard outside but were also listening to his movements. After thinking for a while, he put the card away, undid his clothes as he stood up and dipped into the warm water.

The warm water enveloped him and all his troubles seemed to dissipate. dXVCbu

He pressed his face against the warm jade and all of the muscles in his whole body became relaxed, making him resemble a cat that was being petted.

So comfortable, this demon truly knows how to enjoy himself.

When he returns, he will dig up a hot spring behind the cement house.

No one was in the room currently so he took out the resume. bZDfwn

He had already seen the first half and was now reading the second half.

The whole thing was a compilation of all the important turning points in He Jun's life. Such as when he officially became an apprentice, such as when he broke ties with a junior martial brother, such as when he attended this banquet.

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Regarding this junior brother, he was mentioned several times throughout the resume. The majority of it was during the time when He Jun was injured.

While he was drunk, his junior brother Qing Hong cut open his heart and took three drops of blood, causing his cultivation to regress. It took him a hundred years of closed-door cultivation to stabilise, but even then, he was still much weaker than before. Idcx5S

This was the first time he has gone out after coming out of closed-door cultivation.

No wonder there was the quest for 'retrieving blood'.

Did the original owner come to this banquet to seek revenge?

Then what attitude should he approach his junior brother with? Turn against him? Be disappointed? Remain affectionate? ew5xo3

Ren Yifei shook his resume and sighed with emotion: These martial brothers should have had a very good relationship, otherwise, the task would not have been to retrieve his blood but to hang up his junior brother and retrieve the blood from his heart.

He does not know why martial brothers such as them would have a falling out. There weren't any signs leading up to that point, they simply fell out inexplicably

"Who's there?"

Ren Yifei put away his resume. wCES5F

The footsteps outside stopped in front of the screen, "I thought you wouldn't come."

Someone harbouring such complex emotions as well as the ability to barge in; he would guess who that person was.

"You sent an invitation," Ren Yifei leaned against the stone beside the hot spring and thought over his words, "And yet you're still afraid of me coming?"

There was a two-second pause, "I was not afraid of senior brother coming, I just thought that senior brother was angry with me and didn't want to see my face." xlDdhO

"You're aware and yet you still came to see me?"

The other party did not speak.

"Where is my blood?" Ren Yifei got straight to the point and asked him.

The person on the other side was not surprised and instead asked, "Senior brother, may I exchange my blood for senior brother's?" 6YNGle

Ren Yifei let out a laugh, "Get lost."

His voice was very calm, but the addition of the laugh made it seem particularly sarcastic. The person on the other side wanted to say something but silently retreated in the end.

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Aside from the sound of water rushing into the hot spring, the room was very quiet.

Ren Yifei closed his eyes, allowing the smoke to slightly obscure his expression. 1yELBx

In that simple exchange, Ren Yifei chose to be very disappointed after being hurt by a trusted junior brother and had used a sarcastic, yet self-deprecating tone when speaking.

The original owner and his junior brother had not seen each other for a hundred years, but since they were martial brothers, the other party must have been very familiar with the original owner.

He bit his finger: He doesn't know if he could start the 'his personality changed after receiving serious trauma' route.

There were no friendly NPCs to help him verify by trial and error, such as in the Happy Funeral instance. There was also no personal space which could provide clues to assist in perfecting his enactment, such as in the Neighbourhood instance. FKjx9v

The biggest dilemma that he currently faces was the persona of the original owner.

What should he be like?

After soaking for a while, he started to become dizzy. Ren Yifei stood up from the hot spring and used his own magic to evaporate the water. Once he put on his underwear, a group of beautiful maids came in with jade trays in their hands.

On these trays are a set of folded clothes, a belt, a headband and a pair of beaded silk shoes. TzwJR0

He didn't have to do anything afterwards, his clothes came simply by raising his hand.

After getting dressed and putting on his jade crown, the maids took away his previous set of clothes.

A set of clothes was prepared to be used at any time and they fit as if they were custom made. However, Ren Yifei did not feel happy. On the contrary, he felt a chill in his heart: This junior brother knows the original owner too well. A hundred years have passed yet he still clearly remembers the original owner's clothing size.

The maids left as quietly as they had come. He sat on the rattan cushion and began to analyse the information he had. I5ao6J

He Jun, a powerful demon, appears to be an aloof clean freak on the outside but actually has a willful temperament on the inside. He and the host of this banquet were martial brothers, they originally had an amicable relationship but there is probably animosity between the two now.

He came here for three drops of blood.

But a lot of demons were also invited to this banquet and the reason for that is unknown.

Ren Yifei took out the invitation letter from his sleeve. 5Z1dGs

Being a demon was also convenient. There is a personal storage space called the 'Qiankun sleeve' which has everything in it, from clothing to other personal items and even food. You can basically pack a reunion table at any time.

He looked through these personal belongings one by one. They were basically items that meet a person's basic needs. There was a set of each item and each was neatly organised as if he had OCD. It was evident that the original owner was a meticulous person.

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But the only thing related to this banquet was the invitation card.

He has no memory that belonged to the original owner, however, his body still has some residual muscle memory. The NPCs are all generated by the instance so there was no such thing as being able to traverse. He guessed that it was because of the enhanced difficulty of the environment that players were given the advantage of having muscle memory. Gks4Wd

In addition to the Qiankun sleeves, he also knows how to perform some simple spells.

Thinking about it, if they were left completely ignorant, all one hundred players would've been exposed the moment they come in.

There was no one in the room, several layers of sheer curtains were down and the bright candlelight was reflected by a bronze mirror. Ren Yifei put down the red invitation letter on the bed.

Red paper was used as the invitation to this banquet and black ink was used to depict a beauty grooming herself. XvQcx8

This line-drawn beauty was combing her hair with her back to Ren Yifei. Suddenly, she turned her face, and the lines of her face gradually became plump and coloured. She emerged from the paper.

Pink and tender peach petals flew towards his face. A stunning beauty was standing under the peach blossom forest in the distance, looking at him shyly and timidly.

Touch, smell, sight- every sense was telling him that it's real but in truth...

He took out a small fan and waved his hand. The peach blossom forest, the beauty and the flying peach petals disappeared. An invite was pasted on top, in several large twisted characters, it goes something like: Spring banquet, a certain day of a certain month, waiting for such and such. 1OU6n

It was just an illusion.

Even an invitation used this kind of trick. He has his own adventures and knew a bit about these supernatural things. If any other people were to encounter this, they would simply not know what to do.

In this instance, just the setting alone could make the legs of players, who had only played in low-end games, tremble. It was no wonder that the guide elf did not mention the welfare instance at the beginning.

There were too many dangerous qualities. OU9cWD

Just as he was thinking about this, a scream was suddenly heard from outside. However, it abruptly stopped after only a second as if it was a hallucination.

"What's disturbing my tranquillity?" Ren Yifei raised his head and asked the maid.

The maid's soft voice that seemed to contain a smile came from outside, "I don't know how, but a few humans got mixed in. They have all been taken care of so you can rest assured, He Jun."

It was not even night yet and the NPCs were able to handle it? Are the mid-end games this dangerous? zqonEg

Ren Yifei was dumbfounded.

No matter how many times he read over the invitation, he couldn't make anything out of it. Ren Yifei still doesn't know the purpose of the so-called 'spring banquet', let alone why the other party had invited so many demons.

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Continuing to stay inside the room is safe, however, there were no clues. That was not a problem, he only needed to leave the room.

He thought up quite a few subtle inquiries and saved them for anyone who might come to greet him. Ic3hzS

However, the maids and guards would only bow their heads or salute him when they saw him. The other guests also politely step aside and made way when he came. No one stopped him and no one came up to talk to him, causing Ren Yifei to be even more curious about his position here.

Was he a well-respected demon?

At this moment, most of the players have begun to adapt to their roles and have become more cautious after the death of a few reckless players.

"The first is being unable to adapt to the demon's rules and the second is screaming," the players summed up the exposure conditions. 2N78oa

Even if you can't imitate the original owner, you mustn't reveal the fact that you're not a demon.

If players are exposed in low-end games, only the 'ghost' is able to harm them while the NPCs could only torment them. However, starting from the mid-end games, NPCs are able to kill players if they are exposed.

While NPCs can kill exposed players, the players have to be very cautious with the NPCs. Once the players kill someone, they might attract malice from the group of NPCs.

"Players are indeed being raised by a stepmother." nW5wU6

"That analogy is inappropriate. The players are obviously spring leeks— after cutting one crop, another grows. Once it's cut, it'll be thrown away."

The description was too graphic, but the others couldn't refute those words.

All the exposed players were dead, their corpses were decapitated and sent to the kitchen. Their heads were also not wasted. Once all the blood was drained, they are hung up on the poles outside like a cluster of grapes.

The human-eating demons were drooling as they looked up at the heads on the flagpole. They drew in a deep intoxicated breath, "It's been a while since I've last tasted human flesh. So many humans have sneaked into today's banquet, wouldn't we be able to eat to our heart's content?" vKWZnP

The players' mood suddenly turned bad: Is it possible that they will also eat human flesh at this banquet?

That's right, eat.

While the players in front were looking up at the heads on the flagpole in distress, the players in the back kitchen were shivering as they dealt with the headless corpses.

These corpses that had been rinsed through boiling water were placed on the chopping board. The chef with a pig's head cut vertically into the stomach with a knife and reached in to pull out the small intestine, the large intestine as well as the liver. So skilled, so nimble, so professional. Xd2l8w

The sticky blood oozing out of the stomach was accompanied by the sound of the chef tearing the internal organs.

Several players in the back kitchen almost vomited.

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"What are you standing around for? Wash it and cut it into pieces," the chef chopped the corpse into four sections with three slashes and threw one of the sections to a certain player.

The player looked down at the bloody body part in his hand. The palm of his hand just so happened to be holding a bulging breast. He could not catch his breath and his eyes rolled back as he fell onto the ground. JNVB1A

A golden word appeared above his head— 'Human'.

The kitchen was suddenly quiet.

The player was lying on the ground and unaware of anything while the other players were pale. Their bodies were stiff and motionless.

The pig-faced chef looked at the fresh ingredient on the ground and picked up the knife with a grin. dGaE53

"Close the doors."

Boom!