Jing Minghe finished speaking, turned to Wen Sha and asked, "What about you? Do you need to prepare anything?"
Wen Sha shook her head, "No need, let's go in."
Jing Minghe raised an eyebrow slightly, and sighed inwardly, "As expected of someone who has lived through so many instances. The teammates encountered this time, not to mention those two scums, the psychological quality and courage of the others are clearly different from the previous instances."
"Although the difficulty of the instances is increasing, the quality of the players is also improving."
Jing Minghe suddenly felt like he had touched upon something, yet he couldn't quite grasp a more accurate feeling about it.
Since he couldn't grasp it, Jing Minghe didn't dwell on it further. The most important thing now was the instance before him.
"Let's go."
Saying this, Jing Minghe took the lead towards the tenth carriage. The moment his foot stepped onto the connecting passage, his hand was suddenly grasped.
He knew it was Chi Hao without looking.
He heard Chi Hao whisper, "Be careful."
Jing Minghe turned back and smiled at Chi Hao, "I'll be careful, don't worry."
After receiving Jing Minghe's promise, Chi Hao reluctantly released his hand, letting Jing Minghe leave.
Jing Minghe and Wen Sha entered the tenth carriage one after another, but the scene before them made them stop in their tracks.
This was not a carriage at all, it was a unit apartment, and not a small one at that. It was a three-bedroom, two-living room, one-kitchen, two-bathroom unit with a large balcony.
They almost turned back at the same time. Behind them, the door of the tenth carriage had turned into a room door.
The door was ajar, and looking outside, only a vast expanse of white could be seen.
As Jing Minghe was observing the situation inside the house, the door of one of the rooms creaked open, and their attention was immediately drawn back.
Two little girls walked out of the room, looking exactly alike, wearing the same clothes, and with the same braids.
Immediately after, the door to the adjacent room opened, and a woman walked out. She was taken aback upon seeing Jing Minghe and Wen Sha, and then smiled and walked towards them.
"You two must be the friends my husband invited, right? Come in quickly and sit, don't stand at the door."
The woman enthusiastically invited them to sit in the living room, and while boiling water for tea, she explained with a smile, "I'm truly sorry, my husband had to go out on business and won't be back for three days."
Saying this, the woman smiled apologetically and said, "So, you'll have to trouble yourselves to stay here for a few days until my husband returns."
The woman's words revealed an important clue.
That was, they needed to stay in this house for three days, which meant the mission had to be completed within three days.
Seeing Jing Minghe and Wen Sha nod in agreement, the woman smiled happily, turned around and called over the two little girls, "These are my two daughters. I'll trouble you two to look after them for the time being while I prepare dinner."
"Of course."
Jing Minghe looked at the two little girls. Normally, even twins would have subtle differences, but these two children were like copy-pasted versions of each other, with no discernible differences.
After speaking, the woman turned and went directly into the kitchen.
Jing Minghe leaned closer to Wen Sha and said, "You take a look at these two little girls, I'll go check elsewhere."
Wen Sha nodded in agreement, "Okay, you go ahead."
"Thanks."
Wen Sha called the two little girls to her side and tried to strike up a conversation with them.
Jing Minghe, on the other hand, stood up and began to explore the house, checking room by room. Su Dan Novel Network
First, it was the twin girls' room.
Pushing the door open, Jing Minghe didn't know how to describe it. If humans could be copied and pasted, then even everything in the room seemed to be copied and pasted. If the room could be folded in half along the central aisle, Jing Minghe believed it would perfectly align.
There wasn't much to see in the girls' room. Besides identical desks, chairs, benches, and small beds, there were also some children's toys, arranged very neatly, perhaps too neatly, even eerily so.
Of course, these small toys were also perfectly symmetrical. Looking from one side to the other felt like looking into a mirror.
The woman's room was locked, so he couldn't get in for now. Jing Minghe went into the last room.
Inside the third room, there were only two beds placed separately, and nothing else. Even the surrounding walls were pure white, without any impurities or decorations. It was as simple as could be, and it was clear this room was meant for the players who came to complete the mission.
After looking at the three rooms, Jing Minghe casually wandered around other areas besides the kitchen.
He discovered that no matter which window he looked out of in the house, the outside was a blur of white, and he couldn't see anything else. Therefore, he couldn't determine which floor the room was on.
However, based on these observations, Jing Minghe could deduce that their activity range for these three days was limited to this three-bedroom, one-living room apartment, and they were absolutely not allowed to go outside.
"Ah!"
As Jing Minghe finished looking at the balcony and was about to return to the living room, he suddenly heard Wen Sha scream and quickly quickened his pace.
Upon returning to the living room, Jing Minghe saw Wen Sha clutching her stomach, curled up on the sofa in pain. The twin girls were standing beside Wen Sha, giggling.
Their laughter and expressions were exactly the same.
"What happened?" Jing Minghe asked in a deep voice.
Wen Sha looked up at Jing Minghe. Before she could speak, the girls' mother ran out of the kitchen, pointed at the two girls, and yelled, "You're bullying our guests again! Go back to your rooms and reflect! No dinner for you today!"
After the woman finished yelling, the two little girls simultaneously stopped giggling, simultaneously pouted, simultaneously turned, simultaneously raised their feet, simultaneously lowered their heads, and simultaneously stepped towards their room.
After watching her daughters leave, the woman turned apologetically to Jing Minghe, who had already gone to Wen Sha's side, and said, "I'm truly sorry. Children don't know any better; they just love to play. Please excuse them, honored guests."
Just as Jing Minghe was about to speak, the woman turned directly back into the kitchen. Jing Minghe could only first attend to Wen Sha's condition.
"Are you alright?"
Wen Sha shook her head. Jing Minghe stepped forward to help her sit up. He saw that the area Wen Sha had been clutching had a slight blood stain on her clothes. He was about to take out the medicine he had with him to give to Wen Sha when he saw Wen Sha had already taken medicine from her own pocket and turned her back to him, applying it herself.
After applying the hemostatic medicine, Wen Sha rested for a moment and then told Jing Minghe, "I was just talking to them. They were sitting on either side of me, making the exact same movements. As I was talking to the girl on my left, the girl on my right suddenly stabbed me in the stomach with something. The movement was so fast that I didn't even have time to see what it was before she put it back in her pocket."