"Hoo, hoo, hoo... Calm down... I need to calm down..."
When the Yuhana on the phone responded, the Yuhana at the door suddenly rushed towards her.
Yukinoshita quickly closed the room door. Because everything happened so fast, she couldn't grip her phone properly, and it fell hard onto the floor, shattering the screen protector and the screen. The phone went black instantly.
Yukinoshita didn't have time to worry about her phone, or even the broken glass. She frantically searched for anything in the room that could block the door. She could barely move the nightstand, but moving the wardrobe was impossible for her alone.
The wooden door was repeatedly slammed, the banging sounds irritating Yukinoshita's nerves and making it impossible for her to concentrate.
"Calm down... Calm down!"
Yukinoshita kept giving herself psychological suggestions. At this moment, the crystal in her hand emitted a strong light, and she was pulled into a space.
[Player: Yukinoshita Yukino Time-limited Instance: Suffocating Home]
[Unfortunately, you have triggered a time-limited instance. Please protect yourself as much as possible before your sister returns home. The room is full of cameras. Given that this is the player's first time encountering a time-limited instance, the difficulty has been slightly reduced for you. In this instance, you possess a brief clairvoyance ability. Please do your best to survive.]
[Hint: Please remember every word your sister says and replies with. Only when all conditions are met will your sister return.]
[Precautions: It is strictly forbidden to reveal your situation to your sister in any way.]
The scene flickered, and Yukinoshita Yukino was back to holding her phone.
"Is that so? I smell a lie~"
Yukinoshita immediately reacted and rushed to the main door, locking it.
Small furniture like vases, tables, chairs, and benches were all used by Yukinoshita to barricade the door.
"Little Yukinoshita, why is it so noisy over there?"
"Ah... It's nothing, maybe the downstairs neighbors are renovating..."
"Is that so? Alright, I won't talk anymore for now, I'll rush back as soon as possible."
After hanging up the phone, Yukinoshita tried to call the police, but it was useless. After Yuhana hung up, the full signal strength instantly disappeared.
At this moment... the doorbell rang again, and Yukinoshita quickly hid.
Perhaps due to the crystal, Yukinoshita was unusually calm now, her thoughts constantly expanding...
She remembered the hint from the rules... only when all conditions were met would her sister return.
"All conditions?"
Yukinoshita recalled her conversation with Yuhana...
First line: "Little Yukinoshita, are you sick?"
Answer: "Is that so? I smell a lie~"
Yukinoshita was a bit bewildered. She wasn't actually sick, but smelling a lie... how could that be achieved?
"Don't be restricted by the rules, expand your thinking..."
Bai Yuze's words echoed in Yukinoshita's mind...
Suddenly, Yukinoshita thought of a method.
People are empathetic; most of the time, when watching videos, they unconsciously put themselves in the situation.
So, since Yuhana said she smelled a lie, the actual meaning was that she saw Yukinoshita lying.
And the only things in the house that could act as Yuhana's eyes were those surveillance cameras...
Yukinoshita immediately ran barefoot into the kitchen and took out a large bottle of ice water from the refrigerator.
Yukinoshita walked out of the kitchen and used her clairvoyance ability. Under the ability's influence, she saw the cameras. So she stood openly under a camera, unscrewed the ice water, took a deep breath, and chugged it down!
She only stopped when she couldn't help but spit it out.
At this moment, through her clairvoyance, she saw the "Yuhana" outside the door beginning to melt... Yes, just as you imagined, the body of the Yuhana outside the door slowly began to turn into a puddle of liquid...
Just like ice cream melting into liquid under the scorching summer sun...
Yukinoshita immediately understood the other party's purpose: to melt her body into a liquid state and squeeze in through the door crack.
Realizing that time was running out, Yukinoshita immediately busied herself with other matters.
The next few lines were simply Yuhana asking questions unilaterally, with no real value.
So Yukinoshita immediately focused her memory on this renewed conversation.
"Little Yukinoshita, why is it so noisy over there?"
"Maybe the neighbors are renovating."
The former requirement wasn't difficult, but the latter was as hard as climbing to heaven. Not to mention that this apartment was already renovated beforehand, who would renovate when so many people are resting on the weekend!
But Yukinoshita had little time left. She first tried her best to mess up the room.
It just goes to show that she is indeed the second young lady of the Xuezhixia Family, the high-achieving flower of Soubu High School. What Yukinoshita considered "messy" was simply casually knocking over chairs and stools...
And Yukinoshita seemed to realize that her idea of messy wasn't messy enough, so he directly threw everything from the refrigerator onto the floor.
In an instant, liquids were flowing everywhere indoors.
At this moment, shouts came from next door.
"Neighbor! Keep it down! My apartment has extra soundproofing, but I can still hear your noise! Isn't this a bit much?"
The neighbor's reminder gave Yukinoshita an idea. At this moment, she thought of how to safely hold out until Yuhana returned.
Yuhana never used a definitive tone when asking questions or answering, instead starting with "Is that so?"
It was these two insignificant words that gave Yukinoshita a glimmer of hope.
Because Yukinoshita answered questions with an uncertain tone, and Yuhana also didn't respond with a definitive tone.
Therefore, the answer was vague, meaning that as long as the meaning was similar to the answer, it counted as passing.
This was why Yukinoshita chugging cold water worked: having a fever and drinking cold water barefoot is close to the meaning of lying, so it passed.
Then, for the answer about the neighbor renovating, that would be to make the neighbor's place very noisy.
So Yukinoshita silently apologized in her heart and then swung a chair at the wall.
"Neighbor! Don't push your luck!"
Yukinoshita said nothing, just kept smashing the wall.
Soon, the neighbor's retaliation came... the other party used an electric drill to make holes in the wall...
Seeing that both conditions were met, but the Yuhana outside the door was still liquefying.
"What's going on? Did something go wrong?"
Yukinoshita pondered. Then... she suddenly remembered Yuhana's words: "I'll be there in half an hour..."
This meant Yukinoshita needed to advance the time by half an hour!
Yukinoshita immediately picked up her phone and started adjusting the time, while the Yuhana outside slowly seeped in through the door crack.
Yukinoshita had already adjusted half of the time-setting items in the house, but the Yuhana outside still hadn't stopped moving...
"What's going on! What exactly went wrong?!"
Yukinoshita was a bit flustered, and the Yuhana outside had already entered the room.
It must be said, the Yuhana transformed by the anomaly was truly reduction to an uncanny degree; even her dark circles and haggard complexion were replicated.
And when Yukinoshita saw the anomalous Yuhana's haggard complexion and dark circles, she understood everything.
"Sister... I missed you..."
This was the first time she had directly expressed her longing in words...
Ding-dong!
The doorbell rang outside the door.
"Little Yukinoshita! I'm here!"