"Why did you guys follow me here?" After the black ball of fur he was holding disappeared, Yin Xiu raised his hand and touched the weight pressing down on him. "Didn't you say you were going to play in another dungeon?"
In the darkness, enormous tentacles slowly enveloped Yin Xiu, nuzzling him affectionately and happily. Then Li Mo's voice rang out, "I missed my boyfriend, so I came over with him."
It had only been a short time since they last met, but the tentacles seemed to miss Yin Xiu very much, wrapping around him tightly, rubbing against him in a sticky and gentle way. The little mouths on the tentacles kept muttering about their boyfriend, and the dense murmurs sounded as noisy and complicated as the chirping of insects in the darkness.
Yin Xiu calmly stroked the tentacles that wouldn't leave his side, slowly soothingly asking, "Are the two identities in the dungeon report yours?"
"Hmm! This time I'm looking for a boyfriend as a player." The tentacles, pleased, wrapped around Yin Xiu even tighter.
Once he leaves this preparatory space before entering the instance, his boyfriend won't belong to him alone anymore; a fierce little monster will rush up and try to steal him away.
I resent her, but I can't beat her up.
"Entering the dungeon as players, no wonder," Yin Xiu muttered. "You two really made a unique entrance."
Before the tentacles could even warm up Yin Xiu, the darkness slowly dissipated, and all the dungeon players officially entered the dungeon area.
As the darkness disappeared and vision gradually brightened, a dungeon notification sounded in the minds of every player.
"The theme of this instance is: The Bride."
"You are an emcee invited to Yincun to host a wedding. This is a remote and feudal mountain village. After the wedding company covered your daily expenses for seven days, you came here with your team."
"During these seven days, please make sure you do your job well, handle the wedding arrangements for each family properly, and leave here safely after seven days."
"The village is dangerous and mysterious. To ensure you can carry out this mission smoothly, the company reminds you to keep the following rules in mind."
"First, please do not blindly trust the villagers of Yin Village, especially the older ones. Beneath their kind smiles lies a sinful flower that has already bloomed in blood."
"Second, after midnight, please never open the door for anyone, not even someone you trust. What follows them in might be something far more dangerous."
"Third, the village will arrange a separate room for each person. There will only be one person in the room. No one will be under your bed, no one will be at your bedside, and no one will be by the window or outside the door. Any knocking, knocking on the window, or cries for help that you hear are not real. Please ignore them."
"Fourth, it is easy to get into danger anywhere in Yin Village. In order to ensure that someone can pull you out of danger in time, please go to the largest mangrove tree in the center of the village as soon as you enter Yin Village, choose a trusted person to bind the red thread, so as to ensure that you still have room to turn back in this quagmire."
"Fifth, if the person bound by the red thread gets into danger and tries to drag you into it, please sever the red thread immediately to avoid getting into danger yourself."
"Sixth, if you encounter a woman alone in a secluded place, please do not approach her to talk to her, nor listen to her voice. Taking care of yourself is the best way to survive."
"Seventh, do not stay in Yin Village."
As the rules were calmly explained one by one, a desolate mountain landscape gradually unfolded before everyone's eyes.
Compared to the usual solo dungeon runs, this time when Yin Xiu opened his eyes, he saw several familiar figures beside him.
Ye Tianxuan and Zhong Mu, who had entered with him, were right in front of him, along with Li Mo and Ya Ya, who had just appeared, and a player who looked somewhat familiar, but Yin Xiu couldn't quite remember.
While everyone was still carefully memorizing the rules and understanding their own environment, Ya Ya's clear and crisp voice rang out from afar.
Wearing a little red dress, she sat on a wooden stake at the village entrance, neatly folding a few cookies in a cloth bag on her knees. She then tied the bag to the antennae of the little black ball in front of her and earnestly instructed, "These are the cookies I left over! Please keep them safe for me! Don't eat them!"
The little tentacle ball that Yin Xiu had brought along was forced to carry a small cloth backpack and nodded reluctantly.
Behind the red and black figures was a winding, broken dirt road, its surface riddled with potholes, leading to the entrance of a dilapidated village. A wooden sign and a dry well stood nearby. Several wooden houses, almost all old and dilapidated, were vaguely visible on either side of the road, appearing to be uninhabited.
"Yin Village…" Yin Xiu murmured, trying hard to recall his memories of this instance.
He definitely had no memory of the dungeon's background, but after regaining his memories, he could recall the process of a few dungeons.
This village...
"Can't remember, huh?" Ye Tianxuan suddenly interrupted Yin Xiu's thoughts with a smile. "Given your way of clearing the game, this village was the most suitable for you to clear it, and you had a relatively smooth experience there, so you probably don't remember it."
Yin Xiu remained silent, but Ye Tianxuan was right; he had absolutely no recollection of this high-difficulty dungeon.
Zhong Mu silently pursed his lips. A village that fits Xiu Ge's way of clearing the game... does that mean a village that's perfect for being killed and killed?
Zhong Mu was terrified.
Li Mo, who was clinging to Yin Xiu, exuded a dangerous aura without making a sound, and smiled and said, "I can help my boyfriend kill it. My boyfriend just needs to sit there."
He spoke earnestly and sincerely, but his nonchalant tone was terrifying to the supernatural.
Hearing the sound, Ya Ya looked up and saw Yin Xiu finally appear in the instance. She happily kicked aside the little tentacle ball and rushed over with a big smile, "Brother!! You're in!"
She rushed over and hugged Yin Xiu's leg, rubbing against it.
As soon as Yin Xiu entered, he was flanked by two figures. On one side was a tall, dark-skinned man standing close to him, icy cold, and on the other side was a cute little girl hugging his leg and acting coquettishly, also icy cold.
Yin Xiu silently endured the pain, and then a dark figure came running from afar, its tentacles scurrying across the ground as if afraid of being a second too slow in touching Yin Xiu.
Then, another dark mass appeared in Yin Xiu's arms, making the scene look both eerie and harmonious.
"Brother Xiu is really popular." Ye Tianxuan teased, taking the opportunity to say something. His gaze quickly swept over everyone present. Excluding the extra clump that fell from Li Mo, the people present made up the six people reported in the dungeon.
His gaze slowly swept over the familiar faces, then landed on the only quiet player in the corner who wasn't very familiar to him. He smiled and greeted him, "You're a player from our town, right? What's your name?"
The player who had been standing silently in the corner immediately straightened up with delight when Ye Tianxuan stared at him, and shouted excitedly, "Boss Ye! My name is Zuo Meng! We've met in Bliss City!"