Although it’s a rabbit hole, the area here is not only large but also well-equipped with various facilities. At a glance, everything from food and drink to entertainment is available, and there’s even accommodation. For instance, not far from the cave wall, there are several slide entrances resembling teapot spouts. According to Angel’s introduction, these teapot slide entrances lead to deeper parts of the rabbit hole, where there are dormitories of different specifications.
"This is clearly like a small town. Did you create this in one night? Or is it all illusions? True illusions?" Dox looked incredulous.
Angel: "There are parts that are illusions, and parts where things went awry."
"You keep mentioning things went awry, but where exactly did they go wrong?" Dox asked, puzzled.
Angel sighed lightly, without responding, and slowly walked toward the center of the rabbit hole.
In the center of this rabbit hole, there’s a teapot shaped like a chair, or rather, it’s actually a chair made to look like a teapot.
And apart from them, the only "living being" in the rabbit hole was sitting on this teapot chair.
It was a small bunny wearing a black felt hat, dressed in a finely tailored checkered tailcoat, and holding a carrot-shaped cane.
At first glance, it’s just an adorable creature.
But this adorable creature, though it heard the footsteps of Angel and Dox, pretended to turn its head away, ignoring them.
"Is it Cha Cha? I can’t sense its vitality, yet its expression and eyes are lively." Dox questioned: "Is it alive, or an illusion?"
Before Angel could answer, Cha Cha turned its head, speaking in a soft, tender voice: "How rude, probing me upon arrival. You’re to be punished!"
As soon as it finished speaking, Cha Cha waved its carrot wand, and with a flash, a green hat fell from the sky, landing on Dox’s head.
Dox, wearing the green hat, looked utterly shocked. He could clearly feel the vitality within him becoming more active than before.
If he were injured, wearing this green hat would accelerate his healing process severalfold.
Is this a hat that speeds up recovery? What kind of punishment is that?
Dox looked at Angel in confusion and opened his mouth: "Aba aba aba..."
As soon as Dox spoke, he was stunned and quickly grabbed Angel’s sleeve: "Aba, aba aba!"
Angel patted Dox’s shoulder: "Stop with the aba aba. It’s just a minor side effect. When you take off the hat, you’ll be fine, but you can’t take it off now. The hat must be worn for at least ten minutes."
Dox attempted to forcibly remove the hat, but as Angel said, it seemed glued to his scalp and wouldn’t come off.
He tried to use a spell technique to remove negative effects, but found that the green hat wasn’t a negative effect at all. Its essence was still to recover injuries, which is a positive effect...
Having no choice, Dox took a deep breath. Since the hat had to be worn for at least ten minutes, he decided to wait it out.
Dox stopped speaking, but the rabbit Cha Cha clapped its hands happily: "Finally quiet. If the cheater wasn’t here, it would be even better."
The cheater himself, Angel, didn’t mind at all and sat directly across from Cha Cha.
"Come on, show me the footage of others passing the challenges. I’ve already prepared the snacks, just waiting for a live broadcast." Angel took out a big chunk of magic marrow meat from his bracelet and a cup of Toby’s secret stash of frozen juice.
Cha Cha: "Cheater, shameless, I’m not talking to you."
Angel: "If you don’t do it, I’ll do it myself."
After Angel spoke, he stood up and walked toward Cha Cha.
Cha Cha quickly assumed a resistant posture: "Don’t come over! The rules you set, you can’t break them yourself!"
"It’s true I set the rules, and not breaking them is fine, but I can modify them." Angel wore a cheeky grin.
Standing behind Angel, Dox kept indicating with gestures to Cha Cha, pointing at the hat and then at Angel—it couldn’t be clearer.
He took a green hat, you should give Angel one too.
Cha Cha ignored Dox, but Angel seemed to have eyes in the back of his head and turned to Dox: "This place was designed by me. Even if something went wrong, I wouldn’t sabotage myself."
"Aba aba aba." Dox pointed at himself: So you set me up instead.
Angel: "I didn’t set you up. Didn’t you offend the cute little Cha Cha?"
Cha Cha: "Calling me cute won’t help. We have to follow the rules. I can’t show you the footage of others."
"I already said I’d do it myself." Angel replied, already taking out an engraving pen, parchment, and magic pattern fixing platform from his bracelet...
Angel chuckled as he took one step at a time toward Cha Cha.
After going through resistance, helplessness, and resentment, Cha Cha eventually conceded: "Follow the rules, give me the passing reward, and I’ll agree."
Angel put away the various items, smiling: "That’s more like it."
Then he turned to Dox: "Throw the item to it."
At first, Dox didn’t understand what Angel meant by item, but after a while, he remembered he received a reward from the Red Tea Duke, what Angel called the Bitter Stone.
Dox took out the stone of indiscernible purpose and tossed it to Cha Cha opposite him.
Cha Cha looked at the Bitter Stone with some distaste: "I hate bitter tea the most."
Despite saying so, Cha Cha still tossed the Bitter Stone into the teapot in front of it, pouring itself a steaming cup of tea.
Watching this scene, Dox turned to Angel: Are those rewards for this rabbit to brew tea?
Even though Dox didn’t speak, Angel understood his meaning and casually said: "Yes, if the tea turns out well, Cha Cha will give rewards."
"Balabala?" What rewards? When it comes to rewards, Dox got interested.
Angel: "Probably... a more spacious and luxurious room. Don’t look at me like that. This was intended as a temporary refuge for Old Porter and the others. What kind of high-end reward are you expecting?"
Dox understood that what Angel said was true, but... a temporary refuge, made by Angel to be so grandiose, and yet the reward was so mediocre, the contrast was truly stark.