Miss Kaguya Wants My Surrender

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"Game: Midnight Mall Monster Party"

"Main Quest: Please successfully escape the shopping mall before five o'clock."

"Friendly Reminder: Monster Party, Humans Not Allowed"

"Main Quest: Unlocked, please trigger it yourself."

"Note: Manage your time wisely, enjoy healthy gaming."

"Staying up all night playing Games instead of sleeping in the middle of the night, how is that not a recipe for sudden death?"

Amamiya Natsuki narrowed his eyes and mumbled a complaint.

Opening the Game panel, the main quest had already refreshed.

"Very good."

Amamiya Natsuki read the short main quest word for word, then blinked and closed the quest panel.

"The quest content is so short, it must be very simple… Just kidding."

Given a full five hours of Game time, it was clear that the Game would not be simple.

Amamiya Natsuki exhaled lightly and walked to the railing, looking down.

The grand entrance hall, which was splendid during the day, was now desolate and empty, shrouded in shadows in the darkness, utterly silent.

"One, two, three, four…"

Amamiya Natsuki silently confirmed his current floor.

This shopping center had five floors above ground and one floor underground, with a total area of tens of thousands of square meters. It was a very large comprehensive shopping center, far exceeding the Ghost Ship.

Amamiya Natsuki turned his head and looked at the shops behind him.

The shops were already closed, pitch black inside, but there were dimly lit emergency lights in the Corridor, making it easy to see the shop signs.

"UNIQLO… Uniqlo." Amamiya Natsuki looked to the left and right of the Game library, "I came here with Miko to buy clothes before. If I remember correctly, the shop on the left should be Muji… Muji."

"That's right, the layout is exactly the same."

Two possibilities could be temporarily deduced.

The first was that the Game replicated the shopping mall one-to-one.

The second possibility was that the shopping mall in front of him was a real existing shopping mall, and the Game transferred players into the shopping mall through some means.

It was already midnight, and all shops were closed. The shopping center, which was crowded and bustling during the day, was left with only loneliness and desolation at midnight.

Amamiya Natsuki looked up.

The shopping mall's dome was made of transparent glass. A crescent moon hung high in the sky like a hook, casting cold moonlight, as clear as water.

It was currently unclear how many players were involved in the Game, but for a comprehensive shopping center with a daily average flow of nearly 100,000 customers, a dozen or twenty players were negligible.

Therefore, the immediate priority was to first confirm the locations of the others.

Before entering the Game, the group had considered the possibility of scattered spawning. The locations of the others were unknown for now, but one certain idiot's location could be quickly determined…

Amamiya Natsuki looked down at his pinky finger.

The next moment.

His pinky finger suddenly moved on its own.

That's right, it was Fujiwara Chika.

"One, two, three…"

After his pinky finger moved three times, it temporarily stopped.

"On the second floor."

Amamiya Natsuki successfully learned Fujiwara Chika's floor.

The red string tied to their fingers had not been untied. It was too wasteful to just use it for playing with fingers during class. Shinomiya Kaguya even suggested they learn Morse code to send messages.

There was no time to learn Morse code for now, but simple message transmission was not a problem.

Two hours ago, Amamiya Natsuki and Fujiwara Chika had already agreed on a 'secret code'. After entering the Game, the first movement of the pinky finger would be used to inform the other party of their floor.

Starting from the basement first floor, three movements of the pinky finger clearly meant she was on the second floor above ground.

"Received."

Amamiya Natsuki lightly moved his finger in response.

A moment later.

His pinky finger trembled slightly again.

"One, two, three, four…"

Amamiya Natsuki silently counted in his heart.

According to their previous agreement, the second communication after entering the Game was used to convey directional information. There was a mascot sculpture in the shopping center's first-floor lobby. Taking the main entrance that the sculpture faced as due front, and rotating clockwise, the front, back, left, and right directions were one, two, three, and four respectively.

"So, roughly opposite the second floor?"

Amamiya Natsuki looked down towards the area opposite the second floor, but it was too dark to see clearly.

"Received."

Amamiya Natsuki subtly wiggled his pinky finger twice, indicating he received the message.

"Before we go, I need to make a quick stop at the restroom."

Amamiya Natsuki moved silently, hugging the shadows along the wall.

Not long after.

A public restroom appeared before him.

"Men on the left, women on the right..."

Amamiya Natsuki confirmed the little human icons on the wall, then walked into the women's restroom without changing his expression.

The women's restroom, which was usually packed with people and endless queues during the day, was now empty and desolate.

Amamiya Natsuki entered and quickly scanned the area, instantly understanding why girls always had to queue.

The layout and size of the men's and women's restrooms were almost identical, both having six squat toilet stalls, but the problem was that the walls were bare, with nothing on them, which significantly reduced efficiency!

Of course, as everyone knows, girls tend to touch up their makeup when they use the restroom.

Since it's for touching up makeup, it's normal to spend a bit more time, right?

This back and forth naturally made the queues longer and longer.

To this day, how to prevent queues outside women's restrooms remains an unresolved global problem.

Amamiya Natsuki didn't intend to enter a stall to investigate; instead, he walked to a corner, crouched down, and reached for an inconspicuous blue and white cleaning toolbox.

It's perfectly normal for a restroom to have a cleaning toolbox; there's nothing wrong with it, and it probably wouldn't attract a second glance even if left there for ten days or half a month.

Opening the cleaning box, a dingy gray rag came into view. Even if someone were curious enough to open the cleaning box, seeing this dirty-looking rag would surely deter them from searching further.

Amamiya Natsuki, without changing his expression, lifted the rag, revealing the white plastic foam underneath.

He continued to remove the foam plastic, and several items appeared before him.

A positioning wristband.

A cell phone.

And a portable tablet.

"The things prepared in advance actually appeared in the Game?" Amamiya Natsuki subtly raised an eyebrow. "So, the shopping mall in front of me is a real shopping mall, and players were directly pulled into the Game..."

These were the items Shinomiya Kaguya had arranged for people to prepare beforehand. The positioning wristband was for sharing real-time location, the cell phone for communication and contact, and the tablet had an even greater use—

It was said that a specialized hacker was hired to break into the shopping mall's surveillance system. Once the tablet was turned on, all the mall's surveillance could be viewed, which was undoubtedly safer than night vision goggles.

These items were prepared just in case, and he hadn't expected to actually get his hands on them. In fact, to ensure they could be obtained anywhere, there were several women's restrooms on each floor containing these supply boxes.

The young lady of a capitalist family was inhumanly extravagant.

"Excellent, fully equipped." Amamiya Natsuki put on the wristband and picked up the cell phone. "My sense of security just shot up."

Aside from the clothes on his body, no other non-essential items could be carried, and the cell phone was no exception. Now that he had found a cell phone through treasure hunting, his sense of security dramatically increased.

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