---

Chapter 154 A Hundred Interaction Ways with My Girlfriend

After clearing the monsters here, an exit appeared on the wall ahead.

The exit was about two meters wide, and less than ten meters out, there was a left turn. The corridor was brightly lit, but you couldn’t see the end from this angle.

On the wall at the corner, a hasty message was written—

“Bend down, and you shall die.”

It’s worth mentioning that the floor of this corridor had returned to normal, no longer the mushy ground they had been walking on.

Ling Mo quickly walked over to Xia Xinyan’s side: “This should be the way out, let’s go.”

Xia Xinyan looked up at the ceiling; the place they fell from hadn’t opened up again.

Noticing this, Ling Mo said softly, “Don’t worry, Haonan and the others are strong too. There’s no rush to meet up with them.”

Xia Xinyan nodded: “Let’s go.”

Behind them, Murong Yue rolled her eyes.

She really didn’t like the atmosphere between these two.

Every move they made dripped with the sappy smell of love.

Ling Mo didn’t notice the feelings of the third wheel and instead walked with Xia Xinyan to the front of the corridor, looking at the words on the wall: “What could this mean?”

“The literal meaning.” Xia Xinyan squinted slightly, “This game isn’t completely free of instant death traps, but there are clear warnings to avoid them—like this obvious hint.”

Of course, there could also be false information thrown in, but if that’s the case, at least it wouldn’t be an instant death trap.

Between the two, she preferred to believe in this warning.

Ling Mo tried to peek around the corner of the passage.

Unfortunately, the angle was limited; if he didn’t enter the turn, he couldn’t see what was inside from the entrance.

Just as he was about to say something, Murong Yue suddenly screamed from behind: “Ahhhh—!”

The two instinctively turned to look, only to see a flurry of arms suddenly sprouting from the floor on the other side of the room. However, this time, no monsters crawled out; the arms were just buried in the ground, grasping aimlessly at the surroundings, and their numbers were spreading towards them.

Xia Xinyan raised an eyebrow and understood immediately.

The game was forcing them to move forward.

It seemed that from the very beginning, this dungeon was pushing them to go ahead…

Ling Mo realized this too and stopped hesitating, stepping directly into the corridor: “I’ll go check it out first.”

The first few steps inside felt normal, and seeing that, Xia Xinyan followed him in, with Murong Yue hurriedly chasing after, almost as soon as she stepped into the corridor, the stone door behind them slammed shut, cutting off their escape.

At that moment, Ling Mo reached the corner.

Before he had a chance to see what was ahead, he suddenly heard a whoosh from a distance. In a moment of crisis, he saw a flash of silver shoot towards him and instinctively ducked down, conjuring a shield to block it.

Right behind him, Xia Xinyan saw a complete volley of arrows nearly graze Ling Mo’s head, embedding themselves in the wall behind him.

“Mo Mo! Be careful!” she shouted, immediately stopping in her tracks.

Not knowing what was happening ahead, her rushing in would only complicate things; it was better to stay back and be ready to support him.

Ling Mo narrowly dodged the first wave of arrows, but before he could react, he felt his body become a bit stiff—just like during the previous dungeon when he had a zombie identity, but with such a light stiffness after his experience with real stiffness, it didn’t much affect him—the problem was… why was this happening?

While puzzled, his peripheral vision suddenly caught several human-like stone statues in the corridor ahead.

And these statues, without exception, were all in crouching or bending positions!

Ling Mo immediately recalled the words written on the wall—if you bend down, you die?!

Or, it’s petrification?!

He straightened up immediately, and then heard another rush of air from ahead as another batch of arrows shot toward him. However, with a shield in place, these arrows posed no threat.

Moreover, he felt that as soon as he stood straight, the stiffness in his body disappeared.

Thinking for two seconds, he conjured another shield and tossed it to Xia Xinyan: “Xinyan, you can’t bend down in this corridor, or you’ll be petrified! Just use this shield to block the arrows!”

Murong Yue, who was standing with Xia Xinyan, exclaimed: “What about me?! Give me a shield too!”

“No need,” Xia Xinyan stared at the arrows embedded in the wall for a few seconds, then silently picked up the shield and walked directly into the corner.

Another wave of arrows shot towards her, but she didn’t raise the shield and didn’t even make any effort to protect herself, just watching with wide eyes as the arrows flew over her head.

She confirmed: “It seems these arrows can only hit those above 165.”

Lucky for her, she wasn’t that tall.

Ling Mo: “…”

Is this game really stacking height discrimination on top of everything else?

Murong Yue burst out laughing: “Hahaha, what’s with this setting? This is definitely a height privilege!”

As she said this, she shamelessly ran over, circling around Ling Mo and watching the arrows fly over her head: “Are you angry, huh? Who told you to be so tall, look how comfortable I am with Xia Xinyan!”

Before Ling Mo could respond, Xia Xinyan calmly said: “Shouldn’t you be worried about what kind of problem related to our height might come up next?”

“…Then we’ll deal with it together. What’s there to be afraid of?”

“I can have Mo Mo help me get taller.”

“……”

Murong Yue really hated the atmosphere between these two.

So what if they were in love?

—Xia Xinyan didn’t think so.

She simply considered the problem from the perspective of solving a game puzzle.

Xia Xinyan shared some of Ling Mo’s way of thinking; just like him, she would instinctively switch to game logic upon entering dungeons.

As for everything else, she hadn’t thought much more into it.

But Ling Mo thought too much.

Help her get taller… does that mean carrying her?

Or having her ride on his shoulders?

The “A Hundred Interaction Ways with My Girlfriend” that he had fantasized about before suddenly popped back into his mind, and then… couldn’t be shaken off.

It seemed that he and Xinyan hadn’t done any of those things yet.

Hmm… if they really encountered such a problem later, it would indeed be a good opportunity to try it out.

He suddenly felt a bit excited about what they might encounter next.

This corridor was long, but there wasn’t much noteworthy stuff. The stone statues Ling Mo saw at the beginning were mere decorative items without facial features, probably set up to remind players of their presence; the arrows shot at Ling Mo all the way, yet didn’t even break his shield.

Until they reached the end of the corridor, there was another right turn.

However, this path was uphill, and the arrows had disappeared.

In their place was… a thick green toxic gas.

Indeed, the poison gas was a height of 165.