freenovelworld Chapter 25 Blowing Up Balloons
Chapter 25 Blowing Up Balloons
Watching the phone light up and then go dark repeatedly, Yan Xun sat on the edge of the bed, frowning.
Li Wu watched this clearly from the side. In that instant, a strange thought popped into his head: this scene looked exactly like a persistent ex-boyfriend and a hapless guy being haunted.
Yan Xun's phone battery was already low, and after being hung up on repeatedly without being answered, Gui Yuchong finally sent a message—
【Where are you?】
Yan Xun replied immediately—
I am currently unavailable to answer the phone.
Stay home and don't move.
I'm going back tomorrow.
After sending the message, he held his phone, waiting for Gui Yuchong's reply.
Fortunately, the other party seemed to be calmed by the message, and soon a new message came in—
【it is good. 】
I'm waiting for you at home.
You must be back on time.
Perhaps feeling his tone was too stiff, he added a smiley face to the message... but when he thought of the corpse in his backpack, Yan Xun couldn't bring himself to smile.
He tossed his phone aside and sat down with Li Wu in bedroom 508.
"You know Chi Yuan?" Yan Xun asked. "What's your relationship?"
Now that he knew he had gone from a day laborer to a lifetime contract worker, Yan Xun didn't want to slack off anymore, so he decided to actively search for clues and learn about this world.
Li Wu thought for a moment, "We are members of two different guilds."
"Guild?" Yan Xun's expression was subtle. He had read these kinds of novels and naturally knew what the role of a guild was. He looked Li Wu up and down a few times. "You don't look like a new player. Why did you enter this dungeon?"
“The highest reward for a mission is A+.” Yan Xun glanced at Li Wu. “This level doesn’t seem like a beginner’s dungeon, but it’s not the kind of dungeon that veteran players would like either.”
He spoke with reservations, but he suspected that Li Wu had other motives for entering this instance.
"I entered this instance to assess new members for the guild." Li Wu naturally sensed Yan Xun's probing, and there was no point in hiding it—to be precise, he wanted to extend an olive branch to the other party.
Having just entered the instance, you can complete quest 1 within a day, making it a great time to join a guild.
"Pei Xingyan?" Yan Xun asked.
"Yes."
Yan Xun did not ask any further questions.
【Host, is he trying to recruit you?】The system was whispering in Yan Xun's head again at this moment.
“It’s not that he wants to, he’s probably just preparing to recruit,” Yan Xun said. Under normal circumstances, he didn’t think Li Wu would say so much… but he didn’t plan to join any guild for the time being, so he didn’t intend to ask any further questions.
Unexpectedly, Yan Xun didn't ask, but Li Wu continued to speak—
"You realized I wanted to recruit you into the guild."
He looked up at Yan Xun and said, "Actually, there are many benefits to joining a guild."
"for example?"
"Items, skills, and some other rewards, including dungeon guides." Li Wu wasn't the type to be glib; if it were someone else from the guild, they would probably be exaggerating—after all, the only guild that could be considered reputable in the game right now was the one he and Chi Yuan belonged to.
"This instance should be around level B," Li Wu said.
"But... something unexpected happened."
"I knew this didn't look like a beginner's dungeon." Yan Xun tied his slightly loose hair back up and stood up to stretch his limbs. "Is it because of the extra one? Or is it because of you veteran players?"
Li Wu watched Yan Xun tie her hair and noticed her slender figure.
Presumably for ease of movement, Yan Xun was wearing long pants with only a T-shirt underneath and a denim jacket on top.
The clothes were too big, making him look as thin as a piece of paper.
However, Li Wu thought that this was probably just an illusion. He learned from Chi Yuan that the other party had captured the fake Su Yumin and knew that this person was much more powerful than he appeared.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" When Yan Xun turned around, he saw Li Wu staring at him.
Li Wu didn't avoid his gaze, "I'm just observing."
Yan Xun shrugged, then simply spread his hands and stood in front of Li Wu. "Then observe carefully."
He added, "You haven't answered my last question yet."
Li Wu thought about his previous question and said to Yan Xun, "It's probably both." He continued, "Initially, it was a regular B-level mission with a simple objective: survive for seven days."
"Survive for 7 days?" Yan Xun thought, this was clearly completely different from the dungeons he knew.
“Initially, this was just a regular survival instance,” Li Wu said. “Players only needed to consider two things: how to avoid attacks after nightfall and how to survive for 7 days with limited food.”
Attack at night?
Yan Xun clearly remembered that last night was very peaceful.
But he knew that Li Wu would never lie to him about this.
Sure enough, when he listened carefully, he could hear slight noises in the corridor, as if something was tentatively knocking on the doors of each house, waiting for a response from the owners inside.
Li Wu stood up right in Yan Xun's line of sight.
“You can stay there,” Li Wu said, pointing to the wardrobe.
Yan Xun didn't quite understand what he meant.
“It was me and others who made this instance complicated,” Li Wu said.
"So I'll handle this."
As the two were talking, the footsteps finally reached room 508.
"There seems to be someone inside."
A voice said from outside.
"I can't find my keys, can I stay here for the night?"
Yan Xun initially thought the voice sounded familiar, but he quickly realized that it was the same person he had spoken to that morning.
He glanced at Li Wu, then simply stepped into the wardrobe and closed the door from the inside.
Shortly after Yan Xun entered, the door emitted a sound indicating that a password had been unlocked.
"Da da da".
That wasn't just one footstep; it was countless footsteps.
Just as Yan Xun was pondering whose footsteps those were... he saw countless identical-looking residents of the building.
They quickly occupied the small space.
When they saw Li Wu looking at them from the center of the room, similar greedy smiles appeared on their faces.
"So you are here."
They opened their mouths, revealing a jumbled mess of flesh and blood.
"I'm so hungry."
"You smell so good."
Can I have a bite?
As they were talking, they suddenly rushed up, but Li Wu stood in the center of the room without making a move.
However, the moment they moved forward, the bodies of these people suddenly began to swell abnormally, like balloons being blown up, expanding instantly.
Then, it exploded with a "bang" right in Yan Xun's sight.
—The explosion did not produce the gore and carnage typical of B-movie horror films.
In that instant, they seemed to transform into real balloons.
...Only suspicious flesh-colored fragments remained on the ground, like balloons that had been inflated to their limit and then burst.
If Yan Xun were online at this moment, he would know that what he saw was the skill of the vice president of the Retrospection Guild.
[Blow up balloons.]