After the Full-Level Boss Entered the Infinite Game By Mistake

Chapter 583

The first-floor lobby was quiet and empty, and the crisp sound of footsteps echoed loudly on the floorboards.

On the load-bearing walls of the library, large “No Noise” signs were visible everywhere.

Diligent student Xia Chi stood quietly in front of a bookshelf, eyes blankly staring ahead. He casually pulled out a book and pretended to open it while casually sending a private message to Bai Lixin: [Brother, give me some hints.]

Bai Lixin wasn’t sure what to look for. [Look for anything you think is suspicious.]

He pondered, [It could be a book, a painting, or it might not be something on the shelves at all, but rather something inconspicuous in the library that is easily overlooked.]

[That thing has probably undergone the test of time.]

S419M: [The test of time?]

Bai Lixin: [Dijia, Tan Yue and Chi Yan entered the game relatively early. If it’s a clue, it should be an old object.]

He sifted through the shelves while scanning the surroundings from the corner of his eyes. Despite the library’s richness and rigor, he felt something was wrong.

Xia Chi looked at the shelves filled with books and felt even more clueless after hearing Bai Lixin’s hint. After roaming aimlessly around the library, Xia Chi couldn’t help but sigh: [There are so many “No Noise” signs on the walls, how uncultured were the people who used to read here?]

Bai Lixin lifted his head at this comment, and his gaze slowly swept over the warning signs that appeared every few steps.

Beautiful and exquisite landscape paintings were evenly spaced between the warning signs, giving these wall hangings both style and integration.

[Well done Xia Chi, let’s go upstairs.]

Xia Chi looked bewildered. He didn’t even know what he had done, but he still followed Bai Lixin’s steps.

[Brother, what did I do?]

Bai Lixin: [When I entered the library just now, I felt something was off. You mentioned the warning signs.]

Xia Chi: [Yeah, what’s the issue?]

Bai Lixin: [When we entered the library, the NPCs already reminded us about noise. For players like us who are used to following the game’s arrangements, putting up so many warning signs on the library walls is meaningless. But that’s not the point. The point is that the original positions of these signs were not signs at all, but rather a growth evolution chart of a horror game.]

Xia Chi frowned, as if trying to remember. [I can’t remember what was here before, Brother.]

Bai Lixin: [It should be memory erasure of the game.]

Xia Chi didn’t remember, and other players probably wouldn’t either.

Even he had forgotten just now, and if it weren’t for Xia Chi’s reminder, he would have automatically ignored the changes on the wall.

Objects hanging on the walls are so common, but it’s also easy to overlook and forget them. This is because they are not the target object most of the time, just decorations that add to the beauty. The only wall hangings that people could remember firmly were probably historical relics in museums.

Xia Chi: [So what do we do now?]

Bai Lixin: [We need to find what used to be hanging on the walls, it was a set of photos showing the gradual growth of the horror game. They might still be in a set, or they could have been scattered across various corners of this library. I checked the first floor just now, and there is nothing there. Let’s split up for the remaining floors—I’ll go to the third, you go to the second. If you find anything, contact me immediately.]

Xia Chi had no objections: [Okay, Brother.]

After reaching the second floor, Xia Chi didn’t continue ascending. Bai Lixin glanced at Xia Chi’s back and continued to the third floor.

As soon as his foot touched the ground on the third floor, a private chat notification rang out.

Opening it, Xia Chi’s avatar was blinking.

Xia Chi: [Brother! I found Tan Yue!]

Bai Lixin: “…”

Xia Chi: [Brother, come here quickly. I’m at section D32 in Zone 2 on the second floor.]

Half a minute later, the two young men stood side by side in front of a clean white wall.

Hanging on the wall was a very vintage photograph, the colors of which had yellowed slightly but remained clear.

The scene depicted a vast expanse of snowy ground, with a wooden cabin standing in the center.

It was snowing heavily, and the area around and on the roof of the wooden house was covered with thick snow. The billowing white smoke from the square chimneys indicated that the cabin was the warmest place in the scene.

In front of the cabin were a dozen or so people dressed in thick down jackets.

They were all bundled up tightly from head to toe and fully equipped with hats, goggles, masks, trekking poles, etc.

Because they were dressed so heavily, their genders and ages were indistinguishable.

These people stood neatly in two rows, facing the camera outside the frame, resembling a group photo of a snow mountain expedition team.

Xia Chi pointed to a tall figure standing in the corner of the second row. [Brother, that’s definitely Tan Yue.]

Bai Lixin looked in the direction of Xia Chi’s finger. The tall figure was dressed in a thick black and red down jacket, with no exposed skin.

This person had his hand raised halfway, forming a “八” gesture with his thumb and index finger against his ear.

Bai Lixin: [Why are you so sure?]

Xia Chi: [Tan Yue often uses this gesture when taking photos. We’ve been inseparable since childhood and often went out to play together. Once, when I went to summer camp, I took a lot of photos back. He wasn’t happy at the time, so we made a deal: if one of us went out alone in the future, we’d make this gesture in photos to represent each other, as if the other had also been there.]

[I designed this gesture for him, it’s a pistol gesture. After all, my dream was to be a policeman.]

Bai Lixin: [Now I’m curious what gesture he designed for you.]

Xia Chi extended his thumb and index finger under his chin, making a cool “八”. [It’s this one too! Haha, we have a tacit understanding, right? But the positions are different, mine is under the chin, his is by the ear.]

Bai Lixin’s gaze lingered on the figure making the “八” gesture for several seconds before moving away.

He had seen Tan Yue before, and judging by the height, this person did resemble Tan Yue.

This photo was one of the early stages of the upgraded horror escape game. If he remembered correctly, there were more than a dozen photos before and after this one.

The earliest photo was just a square lump of iron, then it gradually evolved into a small house, a villa, a castle, and now a high tower.

His gaze shifted slowly to the right, scanning these faces concealed in the image.

If Tan Yue was among these people, then these people should all be players, right?

They varied in height, weight, and the scene had changed from what he had seen previously.

He remembered that the last time he saw these pictures, they were animated, with snowflakes still fluttering in the photos.

Bai Lixin stared at the clothing of the people in the picture. And they didn’t seem to be dressed so heavily back then, right?

He shook his head, trying hard to recall the scene back then.

At that time, those people seemed to have their faces exposed, and there didn’t seem to be so many of them?

Among the people taking the photo, there was no Tan Yue, and he remembered that there were other figures in the house?

Bai Lixin’s gaze jumped from the front group to the wooden house behind them.

On the blurry window glass, a few indistinct figures were reflected.

Inside the room, several people were gathered, seemingly doing something.

The photo itself wasn’t large to begin with, and because the background of the cabin was already in the backdrop, the people inside the cabin appeared even smaller.

To get a better view of what was happening inside the cabin, Bai Lixin instinctively leaned forward, his face almost touching the surface.

As his attention focused, the scene inside the small cabin enlarged.

And when he saw what was inside clearly, Bai Lixin froze in place.

Inside the wooden cabin were several people.

A middle-aged man in hospital clothes.

A woman sitting on a rattan chair, seemingly unconscious.

A woman in pajamas with disheveled hair and a haggard appearance.

A young woman in a smart professional suit.

A woman holding a young girl.

A middle-aged man tapping the ground with his feet, a shifty look in his eyes, and wearing a prison uniform.

And there was a young man in a white shirt with his back to the window.

What was going on?

Why was the wooden cabin from the [Xiaohua] copy in this photo?

For a moment, Bai Lixin not only felt unable to understand, but also a chill ran down his spine.

He knew the system could monitor everything, and he knew all copies were within the game’s controlled range.

But seeing his completed game process replicated in a photo still left him unable to accept it.

It was as if those thrilling adventures he had before were just tiny echoes printed in someone else’s photo, and he had an uncomfortable sense of being manipulated.

Bai Lixin blinked in confusion for a moment, and in that split second, when he opened his eyes again, the people inside the wooden cabin had disappeared.

In their place was an enlarged face pressed against the window. It was a somewhat distorted crayon face clutching its own face. It had a wavy distorted face and a wide-open mouth, using a two dimensional picture to express a three-dimensional horror.

The face suddenly appeared on Bai Lixin’s retina without warning, and two sharp piercing screams echoed in his mind.

S419M: [Ahhhhh, back away! Back away!]

Escape System: [Ahhh, what kind of monster is this!]

Bai Lixin pulled his head back and blinked, then looked back at the wooden house behind him— the scene inside had changed again.

This time, it was decorated in a somewhat vintage style, with red satin hanging inside the house, and big red flowers and double happiness symbols on the walls.

In the hall, there was an Eight Immortals table, with two chairs on the east side. The chairs were occupied by two people, and underneath the chairs were a newlywed couple kneeling in front of the hall.

The bride was covered with a red veil and wore a simple red gown, while the groom wore a tall feather hat and was also in red.

The newlyweds were surrounded by a crowd of people. There were so many of them but the photo was blurry so it was impossible to make them out.

Bai Lixin moved closer again.

Seeing Bai Lixin lean closer, S419M and the escape system screamed in fright.

[Lord Host, please be careful, it’s okay to scare yourself, but please don’t scare us, we are timid and easily frightened.]

[Yes, yes, what Brother M said is right.]

Bai Lixin joked, [Cheer up, it’s a joyous occasion, what scary thing could there be.]

As he moved closer, the scene inside became clearer.

He first saw the two “people” sitting on the high platform.

Or rather, they couldn’t be called people, but two giant clay figurines clumsily piled together.