Day of Imprisonment

That the Jiachen Dragon King conceded didn't surprise Luo Xi.

The reason was simple: the other party knew he had seen through its cards and methods, and continuing to play would only lead to defeat.

Perhaps it could persist for a while, but that would be meaningless.

It was also possible that the Jiachen Dragon King had already obtained what it wanted. With its objective achieved, there was naturally no need to continue a game it was destined to lose.

"A reward for you!" The old dragon retrieved a card from behind and tossed it over.

Luo Xi caught it and took a look.

A card.

But not a card as in a playing card, just a plain card with the words 'Membership Card' written on it, and smaller words below: 'Yongge Supermarket Member, enjoy a 10% discount on purchases.'

He had won a dangerous game where losing meant being eaten, and the reward wasn't a card, but a supermarket discount card. It all seemed exaggerated, surreal, nonsensical, and pointless.

But if the membership card was from 'Yongge Supermarket,' then it could only mean this thing was useful, and very useful.

"Um, about that joke I didn't finish telling earlier, can I finish it now?" Seeing that Luo Xi was about to leave, the Jiachen Dragon King asked.

Luo Xi nodded, and he finished the joke.

The Jiachen Dragon King then opened the door beneath the clock tower.

"Go!"

Luo Xi walked to the doorway, stopped, and asked in a low voice, "Don't you have anything else to say?"

"I am the Jiachen Dragon King of the Six Ding Six Jia. You are just a mortal. What could I possibly have to say to you?" The Dragon King spoke righteously, without even turning his head.

Only after a while did it couldn't help but turn its head for a glance, discovering that Luo Xi had already left.

"Heh heh, heh heh heh heh!" The old dragon chuckled a few times, closed the door, and pulled the rope connected to the large bell on the clock tower again.

The melodious chimes echoed once more across the dark wilderness.

"No matter how many times I hear that joke, it's still so funny, haha, hahahaha!"

"Six Ding Six Jia... Indeed, it's a Diligence attribute level. The Six Jia belong to the Yang, and the Jiachen Dragon King is also of the Yang attribute. Its card game clearly stated 'Five Elements, Yin and Yang, mutually generating and overcoming each other.' But aside from mentioning 'Yin and Yang' when explaining the rules, it wasn't actually shown in the game. There were no markings on the cards, but the lack of representation and markings doesn't mean it's not there."

Luo Xi muttered to himself.

He walked alone in the dark passage, his pace slow.

"So, the Yin and Yang attributes are the key. The Dragon King's strategy was actually to achieve a quick victory, and also to distract and divert my attention, preventing me from discovering the key of the card's Yin and Yang attributes. Because it's the Jiachen Dragon, belonging to the Yang, it can only draw cards that are also of the Yang attribute. In the Five Elements Yin and Yang, Wood, Fire, and Water belong to the Yang, so it can actually only draw these three types of cards. The card draws in the subsequent rounds confirmed this. This is the Jiachen Dragon King's disadvantage, but with disadvantages come advantages."

"I guess the advantage is that it can determine a card's Yin and Yang attribute by touching it. That's why it intentionally touched all the cards every time it drew, memorizing the Yin and Yang attributes of each card, in order to guess the cards in my hand. If I hadn't seen through the Five Elements Yin and Yang and its own 'Yang attribute' secret, and had been distracted and diverted, losing to it in a short time would have been highly probable."

"But even though I saw through the Five Elements Yin and Yang and the secret that it itself is of the 'Yang attribute,' it still had an advantage. Why did it concede so easily?"

"Did it intentionally lose the membership card to me... or was it because of something else?"

Luo Xi took out the card. This thing was very ordinary and not a card tool.

In other words, if the loop reset, this thing would disappear.

But Yongge Supermarket was already a very special level scene within the Day of Imprisonment.

So this membership card must be extraordinary.

Luo Xi walked out of the passage. The surroundings were still a dark and dangerous wilderness. Ahead, there was a brightly lit large building, and from a distance, he could see the large neon sign hanging above.

Yongge Supermarket!

"This place is quite creative, and it's a bit like..." Luo Xi looked into the distance. Vaguely, he saw the outlines of some ruins.

"Luo Xi!" Someone was calling him.

It was Lin Qiqi and An Zhiyan.

They had obviously arrived earlier and were waiting at the entrance. They only breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Luo Xi appear.

"What happened?" Lin Qiqi asked as she approached, looking him up and down to see if he was injured.

"The Dragon King made me tell a hundred jokes," Luo Xi said seriously, talking nonsense.

Luo Xi didn't mention a word about changing the 'Ghost Hand Mouse' in the internet cafe or the game he played with the Jiachen Dragon King. The matter itself was strange and abnormal, and Luo Xi didn't want to complicate things before he understood it.

"So, you were really held up because of jokes?" An Zhiyan and Lin Qiqi exchanged a look.

"No matter what, it's good that you passed."

"Let's go in. What comes next is the real hard battle."

The three of them walked together into the entrance of Yongge Supermarket.

The automatically opening glass door gave people a sense of time travel. In short, it felt very strange.

Because outside was a dark, terrifying wilderness full of unknown dangers, while inside, it really looked like a large supermarket, with shopping carts and baskets next to it, and a row of self-service lockers for storing packages on the other side.

Some staff members wearing 'Yongge Supermarket' T-shirts were busy at work.

It seemed normal, but anyone who wasn't blind could see that these staff members were mannequins.

They were the kind of mannequins that clothing stores use to display clothes. The difference was that those couldn't move, while these could.

This was the legendary 'Yongge Supermarket' that only top-tier Memory Retrievers could set foot in.

Lin Qiqi took a deep breath at this moment, her expression showing apprehension, but even more so, a kind of excitement.

An Zhiyan, on the other hand, was scanning the inside, trying to find the person she was looking for, but she obviously wasn't excited at all. She was only vigilant and tense.

"Hello, welcome to Yongge Supermarket. Please exchange for shopping vouchers before entering the supermarket to shop," a mannequin said as it walked over. The mannequin didn't have a mouth; the voice came from a small speaker hanging around its neck.

The speaker was essentially a work badge, which seemed to have a photo, employee number, and name on it.

There were several machines for exchanging shopping vouchers over there.

"I heard that you must have shopping vouchers to shop here. In short, shopping vouchers are a very important item in Yongge Supermarket, and they are of great importance," Lin Qiqi said in a low voice. "Also, no one has ever cleared this level scene, but because there are so many mini-games to challenge here, and the rewards are very generous, plus it's hard to find and enter, it has become a free exchange market for top-tier Memory Retrievers, similar to the Time Assemblage, but much more advanced..."

"Many high-level veterans consider it an honor to be able to enter Yongge Supermarket. It's more like a symbol of status," An Zhiyan continued.

"If you can't clear it, then there must be a way to leave this place, right?" Luo Xi asked.

This was obvious.

"Yes, but I don't know the specific method of leaving the scene. Lin Yixuan also doesn't know. No one knows. Even Memory Retrievers who have been here and then left successfully don't remember how they left this place..."

An Zhiyan said everything she knew without any reservations.

"Then what if you die here? That should also be a way to leave the scene, at least as a last resort," Lin Qiqi had just finished speaking when some activity occurred in the locker area.

A small door of a locker suddenly clicked open, and then a stream of light emerged, like a slowly falling feather, and then suddenly turned into a person.

The other person appeared out of thin air from a height of about half a meter, and then fell to the ground, groaning as they got up and rubbed their head.

They had just bumped into something.

Then this person cursed and grumbled, gritting their teeth and angrily rummaging through the opened locker. Finally, they took out a crumpled shopping voucher.

"Damn it, this is the only one left. What am I going to do now? If I die again..."

The next moment, this person seemed to sense a gaze and suddenly turned to look at Luo Xi and the other two.

"Oh, new arrivals? Haha, you look like newbies at first glance," this person muttered, but soon realized something and hurriedly stepped forward: "Do you have any shopping vouchers? Give me two. I won't take them for nothing. I can tell you information about the supermarket in exchange."

Lin Qiqi took a step back, and An Zhiyan didn't say anything.

At this moment, the two of them tacitly handed over the authority to communicate with outsiders to Luo Xi.

This was a kind of trust.

"Just now, did you die?" Luo Xi's characteristic was that he never followed other people's lead.

He always had his own rhythm.

Others couldn't sway him unless he actively turned.

"You really are new," the person smiled, squinting. "If you want to know, you can. Give me shopping vouchers and I'll tell you."

"Can't you exchange for shopping vouchers over there?" Luo Xi pointed to the several machines for exchanging shopping vouchers over there.

"Why are you talking so much nonsense? To tell you the truth, if you don't know anything and start exploring from the beginning, you'll pay a big price. I'm not scaring you, but this is Yongge Supermarket, a detector for top-tier Memory Retrievers, a paradise for geniuses, and a graveyard for newbies," this person said, their eyes wide, with a strange fanaticism on their face.

"A graveyard for newbies?" Luo Xi showed a troubled expression. "Then the prerequisite is to exchange for shopping vouchers. The three of us just arrived. Speaking of which, the wind outside is very fierce. I knew I shouldn't have come to this place. I shouldn't have listened to others saying that there was..."

Halfway through, Luo Xi suddenly seemed to remember something, stopped immediately, and then said, "Let's go exchange for shopping vouchers first."