NABC Chapter 254 Are you asleep?
Chapter 254 Are you asleep?
The player was overjoyed and quickly lowered his head, turned around, and hurriedly left the room.
From now on, these scary jobs... let them decide by drawing lots...
After the player left the room, silence returned.
In the cold, empty room, Zhou Yuan looked up at the large centipede he was holding between his fingers.
The giant centipede's countless dense legs convulsed and slowly enveloped Zhou Yuanyang's fingers.
When the sharp pain came, Zhou Yuanyang's beautiful gray pupils widened slightly.
"what happened?"
Zhou Yuanyang lowered his head and approached the large centipede that was releasing venom onto his fingers, his voice low, soft, and docile.
Are you angry, baby?
His response was the centipede's legs, which were still trembling slightly.
"Don't be angry..."
Zhou Yuanyang smiled as he gently stroked the smooth spine of the giant centipede, his eyes growing increasingly cold and eerie in the darkness.
"The quality of players these days is so poor... They can't even see the difference in such simple game dungeons. It seems they're really living too comfortably... They're living way too comfortably than we were before..."
In the past, the dungeons in Dawn of the Games were truly despairing.
That means most of the veteran players in the town have died in the game's dungeons. Otherwise, they wouldn't be so apprehensive about seeing a game dungeon where both options are marked.
You should know that in the past, game instances of this level were commonplace.
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Chen Yi was busy making durian mille-feuille at the moment, and when he took a break, he glanced at An Jie, who was sitting on the sofa in the living room watching three live broadcasts.
Anjie had a half-finished cake base in front of her, and she was expressionlessly stuffing it into her mouth.
"what happened?"
Chen Yi keenly sensed that something was amiss and asked a question.
"nothing."
Anjie lowered her eyes and scooped out another large piece of cake and stuffed it into her mouth. As the sweet cake and bread exploded on her taste buds, she let out a barely noticeable burp.
"I was thinking, hiccup."
“…” Anjie closed her eyes, took a deep breath to suppress her hiccups, and continued:
"I may have really been too lenient with Xu Han."
Otherwise, how could a semi-veteran player who has completed five or six more game instances than Yu Shijiu still be afraid of monsters?!
Chen Yi instantly understood what An Jie was thinking, and chuckled happily upon hearing this:
"Aren't Shi Jiu and Lingling here? They'll definitely take care of Xiao Han—"
"That's not fair."
Anjie interrupted Chen Yi, frowning as she said, "Shi Jiu is two years younger than Xu Han, and Lingling is a few months younger than Xu Han. Logically speaking, it should be Xu Han who takes care of them."
Chen Yi still had that same smiling, Buddha-like expression:
"That seems to be the case. So, Sister An, what are your plans?"
Xu Han is a support player who works in logistics.
Anjie fell silent.
She stared at Xu Han on the screen, who was tossing and turning on the bed and occasionally letting out a silent scream, and her cheek twitched.
"When they come back this time, Shi Jiu, Lingling, and I will have a good talk about helping Xu Han build up his courage."
Yes, even support-type players need to use their hands to kill monsters.
It's her fault for being too protective of Xu Han because she thought he was too young, resulting in raising a coward who's still afraid of ghosts and monsters...
Chen Yi didn't offer any opinion this time. He watched Anjie stuffing cake into her mouth bite by bite in the living room and simply said:
"Oh, right, Sister An, I'll make some durian mille-feuille soon, don't forget to take a hot one."
"understood."
Anjie responded with one sentence, then added another as if she remembered something.
"By the way, Chen Yi, I remember Shi Jiu said last time that he wanted to eat strawberry mille-feuille. Are there any strawberries left in the fridge?"
Chen Yi exclaimed "Ah!" and after thinking about it carefully, shook his head.
"No, it seems Xiaohan ate them all a couple of days ago."
Anjie: "...This glutton."
"Then I'll go buy it now."
Anjie immediately stood up, quickly walked downstairs in her slippers to the door to change her shoes, and soon went out.
Chen Yi, inside the semi-open kitchen on the second floor: "..."
He listened to the sound of the door closing at the first-floor entrance, and smiled as he continued making the mille-feuille.
If everyone could live such an ordinary life, that would actually be quite nice.
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At this moment, in the second-floor corridor.
Lu Chusheng, having received a definite answer, did not show any surprise. He simply stayed by Yu Shijiu's side in silence.
Yes.
There is no one else in the villa; so far, only five characters have appeared: "Mr. Xiao," "Young Master," "Miss," "Butler," and "Stepmother."
Mr. Xiao can naturally be ruled out, since the other party has already left.
The remaining "Miss" and "Butler" can also be temporarily excluded, leaving only the "Young Master," the NPC who seems the most obvious.
The arrogance and domineering attitude he displayed at dinner, along with his insistence on having everyone listen to him, make it easy to conclude that he probably drank quite a bit that night and then used the alcohol as an excuse to confront his stepmother who had offended him.
What happened next happened naturally.
What Yu Shijiu could see, Lu Chusheng could naturally see as well.
Although it's a rough estimate, judging from Dawn Games' consistent style, the murderer is indeed "Young Master".
After all, any veteran player who has watched this far can see that this is just the beginning of the story's development.
"Where is the young master's room?"
A boy's murmuring voice, searching for someone, could be heard from ahead.
Lu Chusheng looked up and saw the other person's back as they peered through the peephole of a door.
Lu Chusheng: "..."
He instantly thought of his stepmother, who had recently done the same thing as Yu Shijiu.
...Those players who were just relieved to have escaped a disaster are probably terrified now.
Disappointed at not finding the "young master" again, Yu Shijiu turned his gaze to the next bedroom.
The "young master's" bedroom was clearly on the second floor... I saw him go up to the second floor with my own eyes—
"what?"
As Yu Shijiu prepared to close the peephole again, he keenly noticed that the carpet beneath his feet seemed softer.
At the same time, Lu Chusheng also came to his side and stopped.
Before he could even utter the words "Found it," Lu Chusheng's brows furrowed instantly.
"here--"
"Tsk."
Yu Shijiu didn't notice Lu Chusheng speaking, and sneered as she rubbed the wool carpet under her feet.
Even darker, crimson blood seeped from the wool carpet adorned with roses and leaves, splattering the wall in front of the door with bloodstains.
"Looks like this is the one."
Yu Shijiu said in a low voice.
His lips slowly curled upwards, a slightly ferocious smile that shattered the boy's usually well-behaved and refined features.
dong dong dong-
The boy's voice was clear and melodious.
"Young Master? Are you asleep?"