The cork was in hand.
The Magic Mice quartet reappeared in the initial room, where the television was displaying the cheering effects of Fox Fox's live stream, as if celebrating the rocket launch that had just occurred.
"A truly spectacular fireworks operation! Let's thank the Magic Mice quartet for their wonderful first performance!"
"Damn it... Xin Yuehu! What exactly is your scheme?!"
Hyacinth, clutching her sore backside after being slapped several times by a cat's paw, shouted at Xin Yuehu on the television.
"Heheheh~ Today is a special broadcast time for our audience, how can you call it a scheme? Didn't everyone have a lot of fun?"
"You!..."
Hyacinth gritted her teeth and pointed at the TV.
Fun? Her butt paid the price.
She had been hit by at least thirty or forty cat paws just now! Did they know how much a Hellcat's big cat paw slap hurt?!
"However, you've successfully obtained the first item, so this game's difficulty will be upgraded, you know~"
Before she finished speaking, the bedroom lights flickered several times in succession, and the television screen suddenly distorted, the atmosphere abruptly turning eerie.
"W-what? What happened?"
Squirrel Mai Sui quickly huddled close to her companions, saying timidly.
Li Kexin had been afraid of ghosts since she was little and dared not watch a single horror movie. This eerie scene made her restless.
"Hehehehe..."
The Fox Fox's laughter from the television also became hoarse and broken, filled with a chilling, terrifying atmosphere.
"Next is the second mission, you know."
"The Magic Mice need to collect the power plug on top of the refrigerator, but since it's already the second stage... Fox Fox is going to increase the difficulty, you know."
"So next, the Magic Mice will be facing two hunters!"
"Creak—"
The bedroom door swung open.
Cat eyes with different colored pupils flickered outside the door, but another pair of blood-red eyes also came into the Magic Mice's view.
"This is today's second hunter... 【The Pink Killer Rabbit of Nightly Dreams】!"
...
At first, the Magic Mice quartet didn't understand the concept of the chuunibyou-sounding title "Killer Rabbit."
But when the four of them stealthily bypassed the Hellcat wandering in the living room, intending to approach the refrigerator, the pink Rabbit Girl who suddenly appeared beside them with that large hammer completely explained everything.
"Hoo-yah!!!"
""""Waaahhhhhhh!!!""""
The enormous pink Rabbit's Hammer scared the Magic Mice into jumping on the spot, and they immediately scattered and fled.
But before Field Mouse Hyacinth could run a few steps, the Rabbit's Hammer smashed down hard on her head, embedding Hyacinth completely into the floor.
—One of Fox Fox's Mindscape World rules was that no one could die in it.
Even though Field Mouse Hyacinth was embedded in the floor like a gopher, she was merely dizzy and disoriented as the Cat Girl pulled her away to be a cat paw punching bag.
The remaining three Magic Mice huddled in the living room storage cabinet, trembling.
"That's terrifying! What was that just now? When did Cheshire Rabbit get so close to us?"
"I didn't see her! She was like she was invisible!"
"Could it be that Cheshire Rabbit's invisibility magic is still active...? Then this is really bad..."
The three exchanged glances, shrinking their necks in fear.
In that case, the second stage of the mission truly was hell-level difficulty.
First, there was the hunter Cat Cat, who had been wandering in the living room and was currently engaged in an intense chase with Field Mouse Hyacinth, with Hyacinth's screams from getting slapped by a cat paw occasionally heard throughout the living room.
Then there was the elusive Great Hammer Rabbit. That solid hammer blow just now had pounded Hyacinth into the floor, a truly shocking sight.
Now, the three of them had to obtain the second item while being blocked by these two hunters...
The Magic Mice poked their heads out and looked towards the refrigerator in the corner of the living room.
"The power plug on top of the refrigerator," this was the second task.
"From here to the refrigerator, we have to cross the entire living room," Squirrel Mai Sui said.
"And there's nowhere to climb on the refrigerator... Should we try another fireworks operation?"
"No!" Iris immediately refused.
She would rather be embedded in the floor by Cheshire Rabbit's great hammer than experience a rodent-carrying flight again.
Moreover, launching a rocket in such an open space as the living room would simply be asking for trouble; the cat and Rabbit duo would be at their doorstep immediately.
"Then let's investigate the surroundings. Maybe we can find something useful."
With the first stage's fireworks rocket plan as a foundation, the Magic Mice immediately began rummaging through the storage cabinet with a rustling sound.
Soon, Cangshu Yeying pulled out a piece of chocolate from deep within the cabinet.
"Look, I found this!"
The chocolate wrapper read 【Fox Fox's Earth Escape Chocolate】 and featured a very strange logo of a fox carrot planted in the ground.
"Let me see... 'By eating this chocolate, you can gain earth escape and the ability to pass through the surface of objects to the other side...'"
"Seriously?" Mai Sui was skeptical of something that looked so suspicious at first glance.
But Cangshu Yeying had already broken off a small piece and began chewing it. From her enthusiastic eating, it seemed the chocolate tasted quite good.
Before she could even give her post-consumption thoughts, the floating magic camera beside her suddenly emitted a cheering sound effect.
"Congratulations, Miss Nightingale! You've gained Fox Fox's Earth Escape ability!"
"It seems Miss Nightingale plans to sneak towards the refrigerator from underground. Is such a method truly reliable? Let's wait and see!"
The Magic Mice exchanged glances and silently broke off a piece each.
.
Using earth escape to approach the refrigerator was indeed a good way to bypass the hunters.
Under the floor outside the storage cabinet, the Magic Mice advanced silently.
"...Everyone listen to me."
Hyacinth's voice came through the rodent walkie-talkie,
"Our goal is to get under the refrigerator, then use the Earth Escape Chocolate to enter the refrigerator's interior, and use its internal structure to climb to the top level!"
"Why does your plan sound so strange? Are we really not going to turn into rodent popsicles?" Mai Sui grumbled.
"Oh, don't worry, I've already observed it. This refrigerator isn't plugged in, you know."
Hyacinth said confidently.
The Magic Mice understood, and no one spoke further, silently tunneling under the floor.
The so-called earth escape was truly a genuine earth escape. The four Magic Mice moved unimpeded under the floor, trying their best not to make a sound, but also feeling a little uneasy because they couldn't see the path ahead.
"...Are we really moving in the correct direction?" Iris asked.
The remaining three fell silent simultaneously; no one dared to guarantee it.
Mai Sui felt a little nervous and quietly poked out half of her rodent head, looking at the direction she was heading.
But before she could retract back under the floor, a terrifying sense of oppression suddenly descended from above—
Squirrel Mai Sui looked up in confusion at the falling Rabbit's Hammer.
"Waaahhhhhhh!!!!"
"CRASH!!"
The great hammer almost made a dent in the floor, but in Xin Yuehu's Mindscape World, there would be no scene destruction, only a circle of mysterious magical light effects exploding.
Squirrel Mai Sui was scared out of her wits, taking off running to try and dodge, with the continuous thudding of the Rabbit's Hammer behind her.
The Magic Mice watched the pink Rabbit Rabbit gleefully playing whack-a-mole and shivered violently.
To commemorate Squirrel Mai Sui's self-sacrifice, they absolutely had to reach the bottom of the refrigerator!
