Having arrived on the third floor without incident, Shen Muyu composed herself and knocked on the door.
The door was opened shortly afterward, and a man with deeply sunken eyes poked his head out.
"Please wait a moment, my pet needs to be prepared." After saying that, he pulled his head back.
Shen Muyu didn't have any timekeeping tools on her, but judging from the time she had just wasted, things were already very tight, and she unconsciously felt a little anxious.
Fortunately, the man opened the door shortly afterward, but there was another person following behind him.
Shen Muyu recognized this person; he was none other than the truck driver whose eyes were covered by a pair of hands in the previous bizarre instance. However, she didn't know whether he was alive or dead at the time because she was in a hurry. She never expected to encounter him here.
"Let's go." The somewhat thin man tugged at the rope in his hand and walked out of the room. Only then did Shen Muyu realize that the other end of the rope was tightly tied around the truck driver's neck.
The truck driver seemed to have lost his mind, being dragged along by the thin man. He would only take one step if the thin man tugged at him.
Shen Muyu suddenly felt a chill run down her spine. She subconsciously looked at the thin man's hands, which kept overlapping with the hands that had covered the truck driver earlier, as if they were the same pair.
"May I ask about your pet?" Shen Muyu asked with a somewhat stiff smile.
"This is it." The thin man smiled, tugged on the rope, then closed the door and went downstairs.
Shen Muyu had no time to think about it anymore and could only quickly follow him downstairs.
The tricycle from before was gone, and only Shen Muyu's car was parked alone downstairs. Da Bai rushed out first and opened the back door. The thin man smiled at it and then pulled the truck driver into the car.
"Aren't you going to sit in the passenger seat?" Shen Muyu blurted out. There was only a cushion made of piled-up clothes in the back, and generally, strange creatures wouldn't choose the back of the car.
"No need, the pet isn't obedient enough yet, I need to keep an eye on it myself." The thin man said and closed the car door.
Seeing this, Shen Muyu didn't say anything more and quickly got into the car with Da Bai.
Looking at the screen, Shen Muyu breathed a sigh of relief. There were only a dozen seconds left before the timeout. Thank goodness!
As soon as she found the route, Shen Muyu drove away from there, instinctively not wanting to get too close to the man driving the tricycle.
However, things obviously wouldn't go so smoothly. Just as they were about to leave the residential area, a tree with a black bark suddenly sprouted out, right in Shen Muyu's only path.
Fortunately, she was focused and slammed on the brakes immediately. Although she still crashed, the speed was not high enough to cause any serious injury; she was just slightly thrown forward.
Shen Muyu didn't say anything, but silently shifted into reverse. At this moment, the truck driver behind him seemed to be provoked and shouted.
The thin man was clearly not expected to do this, and he quickly covered his mouth with his hand. But at that moment, a man dressed as a security guard suddenly appeared in front of the car.
"No loud noises allowed in residential areas." A somewhat cold tone suddenly drifted through the car. Shen Muyu was startled by these words and her face contorted. The rule she had almost forgotten suddenly resurfaced.
Big White seemed somewhat wary of the security guard, but only adopted a defensive posture without shouting.
"Give him the money quickly!" the thin man shouted at Shen Muyu as soon as he saw this.
"No, this is your first order. I haven't even started earning money yet," Shen Muyu said, covering her ears and shaking her head. It wasn't her fault, so there was no way she would pay.
"Damn it, I guess I'm just unlucky! You just wait, I'll get my revenge on you later!" The skinny man punched the truck driver a few times, but because he was too wary of the security guard, he still reluctantly handed over a few pieces of paper money.
The paper money appeared directly in the security guard's hand, and after he counted it, it disappeared instantly.
Shen Muyu didn't hesitate and sped out of the residential area. However, she didn't notice that a somewhat familiar figure had appeared behind the dark tree.
The moment he stepped out of the residential compound, the thin man suddenly sprang to his feet, pulled out a short whip from somewhere, and lashed it directly at the truck driver.
At first, the truck driver cried out a few times, and a struggle flashed through his mind. But as the whip continued to fall, he reverted to his previous foolish state, and even a slight smile appeared on his lips.
Seeing this scene, Shen Muyu couldn't help but think of the humanoid creature that vanished after lunging at the candle. Would the truck driver eventually become like it, or would all those who die in this world be tamed into such ignorant and unemotional "pets"?
Shen Muyu dared not think any further and tried to focus her attention on the road ahead, but her peripheral vision kept glancing at the truck driver kneeling in the back of the truck through the rearview mirror.
The skinny man had been reprimanding the truck driver the whole way and didn't have time to spare for Shen Muyu, so he arrived at his destination relatively peacefully.
Shen Muyu opened the car door and helped the two out. Then, the two walked into a three-story building with a sign outside that clearly read "Pet Training Base".
Shen Muyu suppressed the urge to vomit and left the place immediately; she didn't want to be sent there one day.
As the electronic sound faded, a flash of white light appeared, and Shen Muyu reappeared in the dark tunnel.
However, the place that used to annoy her now made Shen Muyu feel at ease. It was fine if she died, but she didn't want to be treated like an ignorant and mindless pet that could only be joked about and amused.
With five orders and the waiting time in between, Shen Muyu had spent more than eight hours in the bizarre dungeon, and it was almost 4 p.m. now.
Based on the experience from the last dungeon run, it's no longer possible to obtain treasure chests in the tunnel today.
So Shen Muyu stopped the car against the stone wall, taking the opportunity to relax without any psychological burden.