Chapter 187


    Santa’s Candy House was a tall room from the outside but after entering, the s.p.a.ce was more s.p.a.cious than Tang Mo imagined. BY now, the yers had followed Santa us through three rooms, each with a variety of candy desserts.


    The three rooms were the same size and the fourth and fifth rooms weren’t much different from the first three. They were still exactly the same.


    It was because they were the same that the doors of the two rooms almost clung to the walls of the third room. Santa us stood in the middle of the two doors and smiled at the yers in front of him. The yers looked at each other and didn’t speak as they inwardly made calctions.


    Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo nced at each other. Tang Mo took the left and Fu Wenduo the right.


    The yers were soon divided into two teams as they stood in front of the door they wanted to enter. One team chose to enter the door on the left and the other team chose to enter the door on the right. Santa had no opinion on their choices. He stretched out a hand and counted the number of yers in each of the teams. “One, two, three... well, there are eight lovely children on the left.”


    There were a total of 19 yers so it was easy to directly calcte the number of people on the other side. However, Santa seemed bad at maths and directly counted the number on the right side.


    “...Eight, nine. Hey, why are there two people missing?”


    Santa looked up and found a little girl and young woman standing in the middle of the two teams.


    Santa asked with surprise, “My dear children, didn’t you hear what I just said? The most democratic Santa us in the Underground Kingdom decided to let you vote to choose which room to enter first. Don’t you want to vote?”


    Mu Huixue had both arms crossed and she smiled brightly once she heard this. “Must we join the vote?”


    Santa us was stunned.


    “If I must choose then I will choose now.” Mu Huixue said this but she didn’t move.


    Santa us replied, “Well, if you don’t want to choose then Santa won’t force you. After all, I am the most democratic Santa us.” Santa us touched his thick white beard before putting into hand into his crotch, searching for a bit before finding a key. He went to the door to the right and opened it.


    Everyone entered the room one after another.


    Mu Huixue and Chen Shanshan stood outside the teams and were far away from the door. Thus, the two of them were thest to enter the room. Chen Shanshan entered the room and went straight to Fu Wensheng, silently integrating into the big team. Mu Huixue watched the little girl’s back and touched her chin silently.


    Tang Mo had been quietly observing this woman, never rxing his vignce. He saw that Mu Huixue didn’t move and started observing the room.


    “Congrattions cute children, you have chosen the most popr chocte bean room in my candy house.”


    The huge room had a five metre giant intable bed in the centre. Santa us stood by the intable bed and bent over. He took a bunch of coloured b.a.l.l.s from the bed. Some of these b.a.l.l.s were the size of big fists and Santa us opened his fingers, making the coloured b.a.l.l.s fall down. They hit each other and ttered.


    “No child in the world can refuse the temptation of the coloured chocte beans. The best goods sold in this candy house are the chocte beans.” Santa didn’t give the chocte beans to the yers this time. Instead, he patiently exined how the chocte beans were made. “...Thanks to the chocte bean machine made by the great Schrodinger. It is my second favourite invention next to the golden toilet he made me.”


    Mixing the chocte beans with the toilet, everyone felt that a strange smells suddenly filled the rooms.


    Tang Mo carefully observed every corner of the room and finally fell on the chocte beans.


    Apart from the absence of the ‘M’, these choctes were erged versions of MMs.


    Santa us finished the introduction and didn’t let the yers touch the chocte beans. He just took them to the next room. As soon as they entered, the yers’ bodies tilted. They didn’t fall thanks to their physical fitness. Tang Mo stepped on the soft floor and carefully distinguished it.


    Tang Mo stated, “It’s marshmallow.”


    Fu Wenduo added, “The first rom is a chocte fountain, the second room is a .s.s sugar ball, the third room is strawberry ice cream while these two rooms are chocte beans and marshmallows.”


    The two of them looked at each other. Tang Mo opened his mouth and silently said something.


    [Where is the lollipop?]


    Yes, the lollipops.


    No one knew that in the previous true or fake store game, Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo had a natural advantage from the beginning.


    They knew that Santa operated a candy store.


    Half a year ago, Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo dressed as Mr. A and Mr. B in the Strange Circus a.s.sembly instance and had to survive for seven days in the capital of the Underground Kingdom. The two men deliberately traveled through every street in the capital of the kingdom to gather information. Tang Mo once saw a store that was called ‘Santa’s Candy House’. The store’s signboard was filled with huge lollipops and many underground children entered and left. The business was excellent.


    Unfortunately, this type of information was too trivial and the two of them didn’t tell Chen Shanshan and Fu Wensheng. Fortunately, Fu Wensheng was a.s.signed to Tang Mo’s team and the four people could clear the game.


    Any seemingly insignificant piece of information might be the key to determining the oue of a game.


    Tang Mo never ignored any clues.


    Lollipops were printed on the signboard of Santa’s Candy House. Tang Mo didn’t think this was done casually. If there was candy in each room... where was the lollipop?


    Santa us was surrounded by yers and didn’t notice the eye contact between two small yers. He led the yers to the next door. This time, it wasn’t two rooms next to each other. The sixth room was a separate room, like the first three. Then the seventh and eighth rooms were next to each other.


    Once again, Santa asked the yers to make a choice. This time, there were a few more yers who gave up on voting.


    Everyone entered the room on the left and then the right.


    Once the two rooms were visited, Santa us took the key and stood at the door of the ninth room. The dome door that was three metres high only reached the head of the giant Santa us. He looked at the 19 yers, his eyes full of kindness. “Children, the happy times are always so short. This is thest room.”


    Everyone tensed as they watched the old man with the white beard.


    Santa us’s face was full of disappointment but no one thought that this was a pure and harmless old man. He was Santa us. From the surprise instancest year to the present, he had never shown any malice to yers but he was still a ck tower monster.


    [...Santa us likes honest children most? Santa us himself is very dishonest, ahaha!]


    w.a.n.g Xiaotian’s gloatingughter from the Happy Question and Answer show filled Fu Wenduo’s mind. He leaned towards Tang Mo and whispered these words. Tang Mo had never thought of Santa as a true friendly boss but he became more vignt after this.


    Then Fu Wenduo added, “This doesn’t mean that Santa wants to kill yers. Grandmother Wolf has malicious intentions towards yers and wants to eat yers. Schrodinger’s att.i.tude towards yers is neutral.’


    The world wasn’t ck or white. For now, Santa us didn’t seem to be as sinister and vicious ck tower boss.


    Tang Mo nodded. “Keep observing.”


    Santa us continued to express his regret for this short tour. “Children, I want to be with your forever but unfortunately, this happiness can’t be preserved forever. Before entering thest room, let Santa us give you thest gift.”


    Santa took a red gift bag from his waist. He frowned as he reached inside the bag for a while. “Ah, I’ve finally found it!” The old man smiled, his face full of wrinkles as he pulled out an ice sugar die.


    Under the bright light, the ice sugar die shone like a diamond. There were six faces in total, each with a number written on them. Santa us tied up his bag and showed a rare hint of pride. “This is Santa’s lucky die.”


    “Every year on Children Eve, Santa us will ride the reindeer sleight and give gifts to children. There are so many children over the world and I have many gifts. Sometimes I don’t know which gift to give to which child. Thus, the great Schrodinger made this beautiful die for me. Praising the great Schrodinger.”


    Santa said cheerfully. “It is a magical die and always finds the most suitable gift for children. Every time I put a gift in the children’s socks, I will throw the die first and pick a loving gift. Now children, I have decided to share this luck with you.”


    Santa held up the ice sugar die. “There are a total of six digits. Therger the number, the luckier it is. Throw it children. It is a small luck game and it is my gift to you.”


    Santa twisted his wrist and threw the ice sugar die into the sky. In the process of the diending, light prated it and illuminated a line of golden letters in the air. At first, the yers didn’t find it strange when they saw the text. The ck tower would never embarra.s.s yers when it came to props. IT would give the function of each prop to the yers but the method to find the instructions would vary. Sometimes the methods were very strange.


    However, the yers all gasped after seeing these words. Everyone was short of breath, their eyes lit up and the temperature of the air rose sharply.


    Tang Mo’s eyes widened and he subconsciously took a step forward. Fu Wenduo’s narrowed eyes were locked on this crystal clear die.


    Mu Huixue made a surprised sound and quickly spoke some Cantonese words that no one understood. She seriously considered the instructions of the die from beginning to end.


    Chen Shanshan was startled. “This die is that amazing?”


    The die fell to the ground, as if tempting yers to go and pick it up.


    “That’s right, it is amazing.” Santaughed. “Come children, before entering thest room, this is Santa us’st gift to you!”


    [Prop: Santa us’ Magical Die]


    [Owner: Santa us]


    [Quality: Rare]


    [Level: 1]


    [Attack: Normal] It is hard and might be a bit painful.]


    [Function: Improve the user’s luck. Throw the die. The user can increase their luck ording to the size of the number. The bigger the number, the more their luck will increase. This is an increase in causality and can’t be reversed. The .s.sification of luck is ording to the ck tower’s guidelines and the specific values aren’t show. All exnations are owed by the ck tower.]


    [Restrictions: Can only be used in instances. The effect of the dice will disappear automatically after leaving the instance. However, Santa seems to have a way to solve the problem.]


    [Note: Teenager, do you want to gamble? Stowaways, this is thest chance!]


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