Once the plan was decided, Zhong Mu immediately took out the strategy guide he had brought and handed it to Yin Xiu, saying earnestly, "Brother Xiu, it's been a long time since you've been into this dungeon. You probably don't remember the process, right? I brought a strategy guide for you to take a look at."
Yin Xiu calmly waved his hand, lay on the cool chair, and teased the little tentacle ball rolling on his knee, replying leisurely, "No, I never look at guides when I'm doing dungeons."
Zhong Mu withdrew his hand without surprise. If Yin Xiu were to obediently cooperate with the monsters and follow the procedures one day, the monsters would probably be even more afraid.
He put away the strategy guide, having already read it beforehand. If Yin Xiu didn't read it, Ye Tianxuan, who wrote the guide, certainly wouldn't either, so there was no need for any preparation.
"When are you free, Brother Xiu? I need to get ready to enter the dungeon." Zhong Mu sat up straight, just waiting for Yin Xiu's word so he could rush back to pack his things and get ready to enter the dungeon to meet him.
But Yin Xiu simply stood up slowly, calculated the brewing time, and made a cup of tea for each of the three people.
Then he ordered some light tea with a single tea leaf floating in it. "Since we're free, let's drink this and then go into the dungeon."
Zhong Mu was taken aback. So fast?
I wonder if the doctor will look down on me if I go without bringing any gifts.
As the saying goes, you are the best gift in the world! He can take himself with him!
Zhong Mu went up to drink tea with a look of anticipation, while Ye Tianxuan turned around and went to the corner where Yin Xiu had piled up many items to start the dungeon, and started searching.
"I remember that the item to open the dungeon where Muhe is is a doll. You should have one here too. Once you find it, you can go directly there and save yourself a few steps."
"Oh yeah, we still need the dungeon opening item. I was thinking of going to get it from the people in town later." Zhong Mu took a sip of the barely flavorful tea from his teacup and secretly glanced at the several boxes piled up in the corner by Yin Xiu.
If you were to ask who in town has the most dungeon-opening items, it would have to be Yin Xiu, who's been retired and rarely goes into dungeons. He has almost all the items needed to open dungeons, from low-level to high-level, so he can just pick whichever dungeon he wants to visit.
The monsters in the town are the ones who issue the conditions for players to enter the dungeon. No one knows which monsters are inside the dungeon, or when Yin Xiu will suddenly descend into their dungeon. All they can do is pray every day and leave it to fate.
"If I remember correctly, it's this." Ye Tianxuan pulled out a somewhat old wooden doll from the bottom of the box. As he turned around, he almost startled Zhong Mu so much that she choked on her tea.
It was a carved red wooden figure dressed like a bride, in a red Chinese wedding dress with a red veil on her head. But when Ye Tianxuan raised his hand, Zhong Mu could clearly see that under the bright red veil was a face that had been carved in a very distorted way.
The bride's eyes were gouged out, and her mouth was marked with several intersecting dark lines, as if her mouth had been stitched up stitch by stitch. The old, decaying wood made her look like a shriveled corpse, a sight that sent chills down one's spine.
"Boss Ye... this instance... isn't scary, is it?" Zhong Mu's fingers trembled slightly as he placed the cup on the table, cautiously asking the eerie scarlet doll.
He probably won't see some tattered bride crawling out of her coffin looking for him!
"I think it's alright?" Ye Tianxuan smiled meaningfully and said leisurely, "It's just that something crawls onto your bed in the middle of the night, nothing to be afraid of."
Zhong Mu took a deep breath, on the verge of tears, "You'd better believe it's not scary at all."
"For Muhe, keep going!" Ye Tianxuan smiled and stepped forward, stuffing the red puppet into Zhong Mu's arms. Then, he walked past the pale-faced Zhong Mu, picked up the tea that Yin Xiu had brewed, and tasted it. "Hmm, as expected, three tea leaves are no different from plain water."
"Drink it or not, it's up to you." Yin Xiu replied indifferently, having already finished his cup of tea and was waiting to enter the dungeon.
Zhong Mu grabbed the bride puppet's clothes with his index finger and pulled it away, not daring to look at it too much, as if he could meet those empty eyes and see endless resentment in them if he turned his head.
"Let's go into the dungeon and take a look. I haven't been in this dungeon in a long time. Let's see if anything has changed." Ye Tianxuan considerately took the bride puppet that Zhong Mu was reluctant to touch, and then smiled, "Let's just say we're going on a vacation together."
Despite his relaxed and languid state, he suddenly exerted force and snapped the fragile neck of the bride puppet.
With a click, the puppet's head rolled into Ye Tianxuan's palm.
This caused Zhong Mu's vision to go black in a physical sense.
At the same time, a notification sounded in the town.
[Congratulations to the player who has entered the instance: "The Bride"]
[Player names in this round: Yin Xiu, Ye Tianxuan, Zhong Mu, ? ? ?, ? ?, Zuo Meng]
Gender: Male, Male, Male, Male, Female, Male
Residences: 35-Dimensional Town, Alley A, 401, 103, 1337, ?, ?; 35-Dimensional Town, Alley H, 183
Copies of assets held: 58210, 5551111, 520333, 0, 0, 13579
Dungeon progress: Completed, 99%, 35%, 0%, 0%, 63%
When the announcement echoed throughout the town, everyone smiled knowingly. Zhong Mu was quick on his feet; he had already dragged Boss Ye and Brother Xiu into the instance.
He was puzzled when he heard that a stranger had come along to enter the instance.
Someone else happened to be in the same instance, in the town, and they were grouped together when they entered, which was normal. But the problem was that the instance gave two consecutive question marks, which was very strange and had never happened before.
The town's alarms blared instantly, and the square was packed with people, all eyes glued to the live stream of the instance, buzzing with excitement.
"My name isn't showing up, my assets in the instance are zero, and I haven't been notified about my address. I haven't even cleared a single level, yet I'm allowed into this high-level instance???"
"Oh no, I thought Boss Ye and Brother Xiu's resumes were strange enough, but this is really strange."
"It seems someone ran into Boss Ye and his group in this instance, but the information displayed normally. What two things were stuck in between? Weird???"
"No way..."
A commotion broke out in the town, and even the real monster couldn't help but peek out when it heard the noise.
They shouldn't be blamed. Monsters have their own rules. Town monsters will never enter the dungeon. It has nothing to do with the honest and law-abiding monsters!
The unusually loud dungeon notification alerted the players who had entered the dungeon. Yin Xiu was also encountering this situation for the first time, and he held his breath in the darkness, preparing to deal with any unexpected events.
Just when everyone had a premonition that something terrible was going to happen, a sticky thing suddenly wrapped around Yin Xiu's shoulder.
Then many more tendrils quickly climbed up and clung to Yin Xiu's shoulders.
A familiar, cool sensation crept up his limbs, and the sheer size of the body enveloped him. It was definitely not just the tiny bundle he had been holding when he entered the dungeon. Yin Xiu instantly understood.
He entered the instance, and someone sensed it, hurriedly carrying a small monster in ther hand and rushing to find him.
The two unidentified announcements made everything clear immediately.