After confirming that the area below the opening was relatively safe and judging from the landing sound that it wasn't too high, Lin Yu took out the Fear Torch from his chest and lit it.

"Let's go, Max."

Saying this, Lin Yu raised the torch high and jumped downward.

The blazing white flames dispersed the darkness, and the fall lasted only an instant before stopping.

Lin Yu could clearly see the surroundings—two dolls had landed on flat, smooth stone bricks, with the opening above only about two meters higher—barely above his head.

Max peered down from above, using Lin Yu's torchlight to also clearly see the scene below.

"Wow, there really is a locked room!"

She said this, then holding the remaining ten dolls in her arms, she slid down slowly by scooting her bottom along the edge of the opening.

"Thud!"

Max landed with a roll to dissipate the impact before slowly getting up.

After descending below, Max could see the surroundings a bit more clearly.

This was a spiraling staircase going downward, with Lin Yu and her at the staircase entrance.

The entire staircase appeared much cleaner and tidier than the previous "Unsafe Passage," with walls and floors made of polished marble bricks. The smooth surfaces reflected the light from Lin Yu's torch, even somewhat dazzling to the eyes. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

"Still need to go further down?"

Max muttered, and Lin Yu nodded.

"Yes, we should continue downward."

"Then wait for me to scout the path," Max said after thinking, then picked up those two dolls from the ground. "Let's confirm if there's any danger deeper inside."

Saying this, Max stood at the staircase entrance and threw the dolls down one by one.

When these dolls were thrown out together, they seemed to trigger hidden effects and combination skills—the first doll landed nearby, but when the second doll landed near it, the second doll strangely fell forward much further with an anti-gravity trajectory.

The third was the same—and so on.

By the time Max finished throwing all twelve, the later dolls had long reached areas far down the staircase, completely out of sight.

But still no unusual sounds occurred.

"Safe!"

Max made an "OK" gesture, then optimistically started walking downward.

She collected dolls along the way as she walked.

The two only needed to reach the ninth doll before arriving at the bottom of the staircase—this spiraling staircase didn't actually go very deep downward.

The tenth, eleventh, and twelfth dolls were all piled in front of a door.

This door was completely different from all previously seen doors—a wooden door with copper nails and iron-edged borders, engraved in the center with a symbol that looked like ocean waves, while appearing much more ancient and old.

The door had a double-keyhole lock, seemingly requiring two keys to open—but fortunately, Robin had already solved this lock.

Two "drawn" keys were inserted into it, keys with gray pencil-sketch-like texture, embedded in the keyholes in physical form.

So Lin Yu only needed to gently push, and the door opened a crack.

"Throw something inside."

Lin Yu said, and Max immediately threw two dolls inside—still safe.

"Still nothing wrong."

Max said happily, pushing the door open.

The moment the door opened...

A rich aroma of alcohol wafted over.

Then "hiss-hiss" sounds came as candlesticks behind the door automatically lit with blue flames, dimly illuminating the interior scene.

This was a space much larger than Lin Yu had imagined—rows of large wooden barrels placed on shelves, dividing the spacious room into three narrow aisles.

"Is this a wine cellar?"

Max said in surprise, and Lin Yu nodded gently.

"Yes, a wine cellar."

Seeing the scene behind this door, he finally remembered where he had seen that wave-like patterned symbol on the door before.

Lin Yu took out a bottle of wine from his item space—the Kirishima Vineyard · Mourning Special Reserve that Li Nian had brought out from the last dungeon and distributed to him during the loot division.

During the Mad Banquet Beyond Heaven, Ka had also taken out similar wine as an aperitif.

And whether it was the bottle in Lin Yu's hand or the one Ka had taken out back then, both had packaging paper on the bottles printed with embossed decorations similar to the background pattern.

Lin Yu had originally thought this was just ordinary decoration, but now comparing it with the symbol on the door...

This might be some kind of "Misty Islands" LOGO.

"So, this is some wine cellar of the Misty Islands Winery?"

Lin Yu pondered thoughtfully.

Considering that the wines produced by "Kirishima Vineyard" all had special effects on "memory," Lin Yu couldn't help but suspect the true purpose behind building this asylum.

Special wines that could evoke people's deepest memories and this "asylum" that could influence people's memories appearing simultaneously...

There must be some causal relationship between the two!

So...

Which was the cause?

And which was the effect?

When "Freud" made that deal with the "Misty Islands Master" back then, the Psychological Society got what they wanted, but what benefit did the "Misty Islands Master" obtain?

Could it be these wines?

Various possibilities flooded his mind.

But then, a strange shadow interrupted Lin Yu's thoughts.

Under a wine barrel not far ahead, there was a shadow that defied light and shadow logic—it was clearly between the wine barrel and candlestick, yet formed a puddle-like shadow.

Lin Yu furrowed his brows and quickly walked over, trying to poke the shadow with the end of his torch.

Then... he felt like he had poked something soft.

There was some entity here concealed by the shadow.

Lin Yu already had a guess in mind, then reached out directly to grab that abnormal shadow.

"It's fake indeed."

"Hey, it's Teacher Robin!"

Max had been startled by Lin Yu's actions just now, but after clearly seeing it was Robin, she optimistically breathed a sigh of relief.

But Lin Yu couldn't feel happy at all upon seeing it was Robin.

Because...

Third Tier Robin was hiding here in "concealment" posture, and now had lost consciousness for unknown reasons.

This meant...

"This wine cellar is quite problematic."

Max's dolls weren't completely reliable.

Something that had forced Robin into such a disheveled state was lurking here.

"Go!"

He said to Max in a low voice, turning to run toward the wine cellar entrance.

Max froze for a moment, then immediately understood the unusual aspect from her optimistic mood.

She also quickly picked up her dolls and turned to run back.

But the two had only run two steps after turning around when they felt waves of coldness coming from behind their backs.

"Heh..."

A chilling light laugh sounded in the wine cellar.