The next day.

Josh followed the main group to the workstations, and sure enough, she switched positions once the time came.

She was originally responsible for the Catman, but now it had changed to a Deformed Man.

The Deformed Man spat at her: "Damn humans, how dare you treat the king like this, you will certainly regret it!"

Josh spat back: "No manners, deserved to be beaten."

Deformed Man: "..." Did she think she was any better?

Josh deliberately didn’t speak to him further and instead silently whipped him, tormenting him in a businesslike manner.

Even though she didn’t engage, the other party still had a lot to say.

"Damn humans! You will regret this!"

"You humans will never earn my forgiveness!"

"Do you know who I am? I am a god! The greatest being in this world!"

"If you hadn’t ambushed me, I wouldn’t have died, nor would I have been sent to this damned place! You bunch of fools! Ants!"

Josh listened patiently, carefully observing his movements.

She noticed that different people’s speaking postures and states could more or less reveal their identity and character differences.

Emperor Shanwu prided himself as king. Even when tied to a cross, his eyes always looked at Josh with disdain, as if he were looking at a snot-nosed child.

Even when Josh wanted him to kneel, his body was always relaxed, looking very loose without any signs of hunching or awkwardness. He also had many unconscious hand movements.

Almost like the frequent use of a pen.

But his fingers did not have obvious calluses, and his posture while holding a pen was somewhat repetitive, as if he often repeatedly wrote a character.

Such habits inevitably reminded one of his days as Emperor Shanwu, reviewing documents and the like...

The Catman, on the other hand, was completely different.

When the Catman looked at people, his gaze was filled with wariness and was very self-demeaning, not daring to make eye contact for long.

Whenever Josh made eye contact for more than three seconds, the Catman quickly used various small actions to shift his gaze, like deliberately turning away to spit, rolling his eyes, tilting his head up, or to the side to avoid looking at her.

Although he looked defiant and disdainful, he never dared maintain eye contact for more than three seconds.

His eyes were evasive and not firm.

Like someone who had long been oppressed, lacking confidence.

Linked with the Catman’s experience, this was understandable.

The Deformed Man in front of her also seemed to possess a unique aura, hard to describe...

If all of this were true, then this instance was too realistic.

Moreover, if all this were true, it would indicate one thing: these people were captured from other instance planes.

But why were they captured and tormented?

If we consider the instance as a virtual world, these people would just be false data, which doesn’t make sense.

From the Deformed Man’s curses, Josh noticed something unusual.

This person actually came from a ship, according to his words. He was conducting some genetic experiments with marine creatures, deliberately discharging nuclear wastewater into the ocean to expand the genetic sequence and better alter those sea creatures’ genes.

But they failed, faced retaliation from the marine life, and the experiment was forced to stop...

If he was correct, then it meant this person was an NPC from her previous instance.

Josh couldn’t help but frown, a bold guess surfacing in her mind, though she was not yet certain.

This was too crazy.

On the fourth day, fifth day... all the way to the seventh day, Josh was assigned different people each day. Each one would reveal their identity and past through curses.

Some even offered their identity upfront, hoping Josh would spare them, answering her questions thoroughly and in detail.

She had Sun Qimeng attempt to gather information from the monsters, but it was fruitless. They either refused to talk or were incoherent, revealing no information.

Josh recalled her conversation with the god before entering the instance.

So, was this instance arranged by the god for her?

What did he want her to see?

Josh lowered her head in thought, a peculiar light flashed in her eyes.

Next to her, a punished mermaid suddenly laughed sinisterly: "Just wait, do you think you’re different from us? Soon, you’ll also be assimilated here and become one of us!"

"Is that so?" Josh calmly looked at him, striking fiercely with the whip.

She knew what he was referring to.

Her pollution values had already reached 80 points. Once it hit 100, she’d be assimilated into an instance monster, just like in the novice instance.

But then she had used a doll as a substitute, so the polluting happened to the puppet, not her real self.

Here, it was her true self being polluted.

It was free time at noon.

Josh had already integrated perfectly into the monsters’ circle, suspecting it was related to her pollution values.

These values led the monsters to mistakenly see her as one of their own.

After so many days of grinding, many players had started teaming up, just to get through these days.

Initially, everyone aimed to advance alone, eliminating all others, but who knew these monsters would be so tough? Especially during free time, someone would surely die.

Monsters appeared at night too.

Though they had figured out a pattern, knowing monsters only capture those who breathe.

But this method later proved ineffective.

It even caused severe internal conflict.

They began attacking others to make them breathe, so they wouldn’t get captured.

Nobody wanted to die, leading to utter chaos...

Those who couldn’t control their breathing were sacrificed in the nighttime chaos.

The remaining few had no choice but to band together.

Of course, Josh wasn’t included in their group.

They couldn’t figure out why the monster wouldn’t capture Josh at night, and seemed to protect her instead.

Josh, naturally, wasn’t obliged to clarify their doubts, and didn’t tell them it was because her spiritual power was tainted by the monster, who sensed the same aura on her and considered her one of their own, even their young.

Since Chenyu placed her in this instance, he must have his reasons.

She couldn’t miss this chance.

If this instance contained Yuze’s memories, then it indicated that many people also came from the Federation Star.

By using the Infinite Dream skill, perhaps...

She could draw everyone into the Dream Realm...