The only two known channels for obtaining tickets have now been completely cut off. Xiao Cheng and Fang He are helpless, but there is nothing more they can do.

"The underground hunting ground thing is a complete fabrication!" Xiao Cheng pointed indignantly at the notice. "Go find the Rat People! Why are you looking for us?!"

"But whether or not we should be contacted, we should at least wait for it to be repaired first." Fang He patted her shoulder reassuringly.

"What do we do next? Since we've already taken the blame, let's go all the way and go collect protection money."

Fang He: "..." This idea would be unacceptable even in a dungeon.

"Let's keep things peaceful for now." He seemed particularly rational at this point. "First, let's figure out if the gold coins we have are real, and then we'll think of another way. All those shops here aren't just for show; at worst..."

"So what?"

Fang He pondered for a moment: "At worst, we'll just go and collect protection money."

So the two left the entrance of the third alley, turned around and walked towards the bustling main road, and soon merged into the crowd.

Strictly speaking, these are not human beings; at best, they are human-animal stitched monsters that can walk upright, and they reek of a nauseating stench.

Xiao Cheng, squeezed in the middle, was almost nauseated by the stench. Holding her breath, she could no longer bear it and dragged Fang He straight into a teahouse by the roadside.

The teahouse looked quiet and elegant, but unfortunately it was empty.

The boss has a fluffy rabbit head with a huge bow pinned to the back of his head, making him look very gentle and harmless.

"Oh! Welcome!" She ran enthusiastically to the door to greet us, her clear, ruby-red eyes sparkling with joy.

"Please sit wherever you like, I have all kinds of tea here! What would you like? I'll bring it to you right away!"

Xiao Cheng was momentarily at a loss, and awkwardly waved her hands repeatedly: "Uh... thank you, but boss, we're not here for tea."

"Huh?" The rabbit boss's mood visibly dropped, and his ears drooped listlessly. "Oh, so you didn't come here for tea after all."

"I just wanted to ask, boss, is this the currency you use here?" Xiao Cheng felt a strange sense of guilt, but still took out a chocolate coin from his pocket and handed it to the rabbit boss.

It lazily lifted its eyelids, its gaze lingering for less than half a second before quickly passing by, and then began to complain in an increasingly resentful tone.

"If you have money, fine, but you won't give it to me. Instead, you have to show off in front of me like this. Is a gold coin so great? Damn, a gold coin is indeed great. I'm so angry, so angry. The more I think about it, the angrier I get. I'm so angry I could die."

Immediately afterwards, there was a muffled thud.

The rabbit's head really did fall off.

A huge hole appeared where the neck was severed, and hot, still steaming blood gushed out instantly.

"Holy crap?! This is a hot-blooded rabbit?!" Xiao Cheng took two steps back, barely avoiding the spray of blood.

She sensed something was wrong and slowly turned her head to look at the shop entrance.

The densely packed passersby stopped in their tracks, their eyes all fixed on them, their expressions suggesting they wished they could tear the two of them to pieces.

"Murder and robbery! Unforgivable!"

"Murder and robbery! Unforgivable!!"

They shouted indignantly.

Xiao Cheng looked at the gold coins in his hand, then at the rabbit boss lying in a pool of blood, his head severed from his body.

What the hell?! Is this ever going to stop?! Are they addicted to this dungeon raiding scam?!

Seeing that the passersby were no longer satisfied with just shouting slogans and were about to attack with their weapons, Fang He quickly grabbed the wallet hanging from the rabbit boss's waist.

"What are you standing there for?! Run!" He grabbed Xiao Cheng and ran towards the back door of the teahouse without looking back.

Enraged by what they saw, the passersby pushed and shoved their way into the teahouse, creating a scene as intense as a large-scale fan gathering.

"Kill them! Kill them! Unforgivable!!!"

The slogans behind him were deafening, but Fang He in front of him completely ignored them, and even had the mind to look at the wallet he had just taken out and count how many gold coins were inside.

When I opened it, I realized something was wrong.

"Holy crap, how did they all turn into this monstrosity?" Xiao Cheng hurriedly peeked inside. "I told you we couldn't use chocolate as a substitute for real gold coins!"

"It's been scalded with blood, hopefully it'll still work." Although he said that, Fang He didn't really have high hopes, and casually stuffed the wallet into his pocket.

The situation quickly attracted the attention of other passersby, who, despite not knowing what was going on, still united to join the chase.

They've even started forming their own formations.

"This can't go on. If we can't shake them off, we'll have to take action." Xiao Cheng surveyed the terrain, his mind already racing with tactical plans.

“There’s no need to take action.” Fang He shook his head, looked up at the cruise ship floating in the sky, and said, “If my bold assumption is correct… today is the fifteenth.”

The words had barely left his mouth.

All the noise behind him suddenly stopped.

Xiao Cheng stopped in his tracks, looking completely bewildered. He turned around and saw that all the monsters were frozen in place, motionless, like a bunch of sculptures frozen in time.

The cruise ship emitted a deafening whistle, the outer neon lights suddenly went out, and then a door opened from the center of the side panel near the bottom of the ship, and a long ladder was lowered down to the ground.

A short while later, two lobster-men, one in red and one in blue, emerged from the door. Each of them used two pincers, one large and one small, to hold a money bag and a blank ticket, and slowly climbed down the ladder.

Xiao Cheng was completely stunned, and asked Fang He with an incredulous look, "How did you know?"

“Last night I observed the stars…” Fang He had only spoken halfway when he received a glare from Xiao Cheng. He silently swallowed the rest of his words and then said seriously, “Through reasoning, because the rat people are eager to win a hundred games.”

"Why didn't you say so earlier?"

"Because it was a sudden flash of inspiration," Fang He answered frankly.

The two lobster-men descended the ladder very quickly, reaching the ground in just a few dozen seconds.

They all showed expressions of disgust on their faces, looked at the creatures blocking their way, clicked their tongues, and then said impatiently, "Clear the way."

The two words floated down lightly, and a very gentle breeze suddenly blew across the street.

The wind swept past the frozen passersby like countless sharp blades, instantly slicing them into pieces, which fell to the ground in scattered fragments and eventually turned into fine dust.

"What kind of ability is this? Words become law?" Xiao Cheng frowned. She had a bad feeling. These two lobster people were far more complicated than they appeared.

Just then, the lobster man's gaze suddenly shifted to the two of them.

The one in red spoke in a low voice: "Oh, so there are still two left? Then let's just... kill them all."