Everyone stared intently as the dark-skinned man in the video slowly rose from the ground. He stood beside the coffin for a few seconds, staring at it quietly for a few seconds, before lying down on the spot next to the coffin, remaining silent.
The live stream fell silent, as if the screen were frozen, without the slightest movement.
The group had no choice but to switch the view to another level. They found Ye Tianxuan pressing down on a player in the Jealousy level, smiling and saying, "My name is Yin Xiu. As long as you voluntarily join my organization, I guarantee you can successfully clear the dungeon. Of course, the prerequisite for joining is that you hand over all your healing items."
The player trembled under the glare of the enraged gatekeeper, stammering, "I...I'll give it to you...I'll give it to you..."
"Very good, very good." Ye Tianxuan released him with satisfaction.
The player looked resentful.
What do you mean by voluntary joining of the organization? It's clearly a forced sale, only slightly better than bandits!
The players in the town shifted their attention to other levels, where many players suffered heavy casualties as punishment for violating the rules, and those with the Sin Gate were also being attacked by other players, creating extremely tragic scenes.
Returning to the small room where Yin Xiu was, it was indeed in line with the style of the Lazy Layer. Apart from a few strange creatures in the corner, everyone was sleeping, and life was peaceful.
The silence lasted for about half an hour when the coffin lid on which Yin Xiu lay suddenly jolted, and Li Mo next to him opened his eyes.
The half-open coffin lid was pushed open from the inside, and Yin Xiu hurriedly climbed out. He then leaned against the corner of the wall and began to vomit, spewing out a large amount of black mucus on the ground.
The viewers in the live chat were lost in thought as they watched this less-than-ideal scene. "Is Yin Xiu spitting out the sins he swallowed?"
"He actually managed to vomit it up? How did he do that?"
"According to the rules, people become vessels of sin. When there is sin in the body, it is easier to become a madman. It shouldn't be so easy to vomit it out unless Yin Xiu uses a special method."
"But he just ate a lot of weird things and then lay down to sleep. He didn't do anything else."
"That might be it. Eating and sleeping aligns with laziness, and eating also satisfies the desire for gluttony, offsetting the desires arising from sin, and then indulging in another sin, and then... they offset each other?"
"Brothers, is it possible that the third rule of laziness is that laziness is a good habit? When your mind is controlled by any emotion, as long as you briefly give up your mind and go into a blank state, you can return to normal?"
"Is it possible to offset other sins by staying in the Sloth layer for a long time, becoming lazy, and reducing the desires that lead to other sins?"
"Could this be the experiment that Brother Xiu was talking about at the beginning? No wonder he would let his roommate contaminate him."
"That lazy layer is a recovery point! Quick, tell Boss Ye, and we'll take notes too!"
"Another little tip."
Inside the instance, Yin Xiu vomited for a while, finally feeling his mind clear up a bit and his stomach wasn't so hungry anymore.
He looked at his handcuffs, which had turned white again.
It seems his guess was correct; this method is indeed feasible, using the sin of sloth to offset other sins.
Even if you temporarily fall into other sins, there is still a way to turn back. First, try to reduce your desires, then come to the Sloth level. As long as you resolve the sins before your brain is completely polluted, you can recover.
"There are still ways to survive even with white handcuffs," Yin Xiu said with a satisfied smile.
Indeed, as the man in the Greedy Gem storage room said, there is only one way to live in Elysium tainted by sin: as long as one suppresses the sinful desires in one's heart, even white handcuffs are acceptable.
Yin Xiu stood up, feeling much better after vomiting. He smiled slightly and turned to look at the monster in the corner. "If there's a way to subdue sinful desires, then killing a little bit isn't out of the question, especially since this is the Sloth Layer."
The monsters immediately stared at him in fear, trembling.
Just a second before Yin Xiu slowly drew his knife and approached, they slid to their knees and fell to the ground, then began to kowtow, pleading, "Please spare me! I can give you information about the warden!!"
Yin Xiu was stunned for a moment, holding the knife, at a loss for what to do.
Are all the monsters in this dungeon dying so quickly? And information is being sold off so easily, even the warden's information is being leaked out like that?
"Tell me about the warden?" Yin Xiu thought for a second. He was indeed interested in the warden's background. It was a habit of Yin Xiu to understand his opponent before killing him. Since the opponent ran away when he saw him, he really couldn't learn anything about him.
"If you explain things clearly enough, I, Ye Tianxuan, will reluctantly accumulate some merit and consider letting you go." Yin Xiu slowly sheathed his sword, and the monster opposite him breathed a sigh of relief. Fearing that Yin Xiu would go back on his word, it immediately began to speak.
"Actually, although we are monsters in Elysium, we don't like the warden."
Upon hearing this, Yin Xiu immediately leaned back, sat on the coffin, and raised his chin, saying, "Explain in detail."
The monsters began to sob, "Paradise City used to be free, without so many rules. The former warden wouldn't make things difficult for the monsters. After all, Paradise City used to be all about players killing each other, and monsters weren't involved much."
Yin Xiu nodded. He had indeed noticed this. Even though it was supposed to be a player-versus-player dungeon, there were many strange and disruptive elements. He had initially thought it was to increase the player mortality rate.
"Later, a new warden took office. He was originally a jailer who screened players outside, but one day he seemed to be stimulated and suddenly killed the warden. He then seized the warden's power, set up countless rules for Paradise City, and forced monsters to participate in them."
Yin Xiu nodded. "I know him."
The monsters paused, not daring to comment further, and then slowly said, "The white handcuffs on your hands were specially made by the warden."
"According to other monsters, he customized these white handcuffs to trap some people he didn't want to leave the instance, who were basically very dangerous players. But other monsters say that the real purpose of these handcuffs was to lock up a special person, possibly someone who had given him a jolt in the past."
Yin Xiu nodded calmly, "I understand. He's just waiting for that person to enter this instance so he can find a way to keep him here and torture him."
"Perhaps so…" the monsters chimed in, bewildered. "But there's never been a precedent of someone wearing white handcuffs leaving Elysium. The white handcuff player is far more difficult than the others, and we feel he'd rather that person die."
Yin Xiu stroked his chin thoughtfully. It was normal for the warden to want him dead; which of those previous dungeon bosses didn't want him dead?
"That's all we know... The monsters on other floors might know something different about the warden or the white handcuffs." After the monsters finished speaking cautiously, they stared nervously at Yin Xiu, afraid that he would change his mind after hearing it and draw his knife.
"Would the monsters on other levels know something different?" Yin Xiu recalled that what they knew from the Greedy Level was indeed different from what they knew here. It seemed that the White Handcuffs' way of life was really different from that of ordinary players.
"Alright, I've heard everything." Yin Xiu jumped off the coffin, slowly approached the two or three monsters, and raised the knife in his hand, pointing it at them.
"From now on, for every word you praise Yin Xiu, I, Ye Tianxuan, will consider it an act of merit and let you go."
The monsters were completely bewildered after hearing this.
Huh? His name is Ye Tianxuan, but he insists on making the monster praise Yin Shashen?