Chapter 64: It’s OK to Keep a Monster as a Pet

Yin Xiu nodded coldly to him as a response, then looked towards his door.

There were a lot more things at the door of his house than when he left, with boxes of all sizes piled up at the door.

Yin Xiu glanced at the boxes and asked, "Did you bring them?"

Ye Tianxuan shook his head, his smile full of joking, "It was offered to you by other players in the town."

"...What offering? I'm not Queen Ye." Yin Xiu was speechless, but he still opened the door and piled these sundries into the house.

Ye Tianxuan followed him into the room as expected, sat down on the chair by the window with ease, made himself a cup of tea, and sipped it while watching Yin Xiu start to repair the door.

"After watching your dungeon, the town's players have a much better impression of you." Ye Tianxuan sat at the table, chin propped up, and rambled on. "I spent three years educating them, and finally got many players to stay away from you. But as soon as you entered the dungeon, everything collapsed."

"Um."

"You have no idea how exhausting it is to prevent players from committing suicide. Veteran players tend to become arrogant and rebellious, while new players are clueless and prone to getting into trouble. They usually die even when living alone, and yet they want to share a room with you, the most dangerous person in town? You're simply taking a shortcut in life."

"Those weirdos in town can't kill you, so they're all targeting the people around you. They'll die if they're not careful. They just don't understand."

"Um."

"Managing a small town is still too difficult. Besides entering dungeons to collect guides, I have to go out of dungeons to teach players a lesson. Even though the town environment is so stable now, it's still inevitable that some people will get themselves into trouble." The more Ye Tianxuan muttered, the angrier he became. His frown was completely contrary to his gentle demeanor. "Are you telling me that I have them handing out the rules sheet in town every day, but they don't even read it?"

"I just scolded a newcomer and asked him to take on a new recruit. He readily agreed, but then turned around and brought the new recruit to his death. I've lost another good talent."

Yin Xiu knocked on the door with a cold expression, saying perfunctorily, "Yeah...you're right."

Ye Tianxuan is indeed gentle and kind when he is not complaining, but he becomes irritable when talking about the small town.

As the manager of the town, he has taken the operation to the extreme. Every newcomer who comes in will grow up in a greenhouse, with rules to remind them, other players to take care of them, and old players to guide them through dungeons, and all-round strategies to record every detail.

Compared with other towns, the town cultivated by Ye Tianxuan has formed a brand new living environment with an extremely low mortality rate.

Newcomers from other towns have no rules to learn on the first day, and most of them will die on the first night. The rest rely entirely on luck and cleverness to survive. Only the fittest survive, and very few survive. Therefore, the old players are particularly arrogant. They have the capital to be arrogant, but they are also easily killed by this arrogance.

Ye Tianxuan's town management is completely the opposite.

Under his leadership, the first generation worked hard to research the rules, write down the dungeon strategy, pass it on to the newcomers, and after training the newcomers to be big bosses, let this group of people lead the next group. The old players work and educate the new players to ensure that the newcomers can quickly adapt to the environment, understand the dangers of the dungeon, and reduce the mortality rate.

The dungeon is cruel, but this small town is indeed a refuge in the wind and snow for newcomers.

Ye Tianxuan made an indelible contribution, and Yin Xiu was also being taken into consideration by him, which invisibly added merits to the town.

He is the light of the town, while Yin Xiu is the darkness of the town.

One person leads the players, and the other suppresses the monsters, which makes the town harmonious today and reaches a level that no other town can reach.

Ye Tianxuan is also the only person in the town who will contact Yin Xiu without fear of being targeted by monsters. He is special to the town and the dungeon.

"Cough cough! I'm so angry!" Ye Tianxuan started coughing as he spoke hurriedly. His face, which was already pale, became even paler as paper. He hurriedly drank some water before slowing down his rapid breathing.

Yin Xiu stopped hammering nails and looked back at him, "How's your health lately?"

"Let's keep it that way." Ye Tianxuan smiled calmly, "I won't live long, but I won't die for the time being."

"Yeah." Yin Xiu nodded and turned back to hammering nails.

When he passed the dungeon, he was ruthless and relied on his strength to kill his way through, so that he could easily pass through all the dungeons.

But not everyone has such strength. If others want to pass the dungeon smoothly, they always have to pay some price. In order to brush up the strategy for the town, Ye Tianxuan has to enter the dungeon frequently and get out of it safely, at the cost of his life.

But he didn't care, and no one could stop him.

Yin Xiu had also become accustomed to his increasingly weak body, and was very tolerant of him drinking his precious tea just when he came to visit.

"I've read the last part of your copy. Your next copy will be the prison copy that you will be forced to enter in three days, right?" After complaining about trivial matters, Ye Tianxuan finally started to talk about the main topic.

Yin Xiu stared at the stamp on the back of his hand. It was a black prohibition symbol. He nodded and said, "I haven't been to this dungeon before. I've encountered a jailer before after a dungeon ended, but that jailer was different. He ran away as soon as he saw me. I didn't even know such a dungeon existed."

"I've never killed a monster in a dungeon, so I'm not going to trigger this." Ye Tianxuan stared at Yin Xiu thoughtfully, "I want to collect some information about this special dungeon. Take me with you to the dungeon in three days."

Yin Xiu thought about it and felt that it didn’t matter. He didn’t have a roommate anyway. When the dungeon refreshed, he could just leave Ye Tianxuan in the room and pull him in together.

After entering the dungeon, the two people went their separate ways and did not interfere with each other because of their different styles of doing things. Considering their friendship, it was not a bad idea to use each other as a ticket.

"Of course you can...but are you sure you want to go?" Yin Xiu took a look at Ye Tianxuan's physical condition.

That was a high-risk copy, and the danger level was far greater than that of an ordinary copy. Given Ye Tianxuan's current precarious condition, there was a one in ten thousand chance that he would not be able to get out. That would be a huge loss for the town.

"I think I'm OK." Ye Tianxuan smiled and stroked the ring on his ring finger. "My goal is to complete the entire dungeon. I can't do without this one. But I'm not very happy to kill a lot of monsters just for this dungeon."

"Yeah." Yin Xiu nodded, agreeing.

He could understand, after all, Ye Tianxuan was a kind-hearted person just like him.

The door was almost repaired, and it was time to repair the window. He carried the toolbox and walked to the window, pushing Ye Tianxuan to the side.

After getting closer, Ye Tianxuan suddenly stared at the air next to Yin Xiu without blinking, "What's that next to you? Did you bring it back from the dungeon?"

Yin Xiu:?

He turned his head to look at the seat next to him. There was nothing there, but he could clearly feel the presence of something.

"It's just... a blurry and twisted black mass." Ye Tianxuan gestured, trying to describe it to him, but he couldn't. "It has many tentacles surrounding you, encircling you, as if wanting to touch you but not really. There are also eyes on the tentacles, staring at you the whole time. This..."

He pondered, analyzing the situation carefully in his mind, "Is this your new pet?"