The fifth copy

The food at the second window was indeed expensive. A single serving of braised pork cost 15 points, and any vegetarian dish was 3 points. At the other windows, one meat dish and three vegetarian dishes only cost 5 points.

You have to know that the points allocated to Shao Feizhu this time were only 500. This was because the energy assessment of the unusual story was wrong, and the alliance gave each person an extra 100 points.

Du Ming felt embarrassed to order more, so he just ordered one meat dish and two vegetable dishes plus a bowl of rice. However, Shao Feizhu couldn't bear it and ordered a bowl of winter melon and pork ribs soup for him.

A team of four spent 130 yuan on a meal. Li Gao was yelling that it was too expensive while showing off his meal.

Du Ming's gaze unconsciously followed to another table.

The man only ordered a bowl of egg custard garnished with chopped green onions. His bony hands were too slender, making the bowl seem a bit heavy.

"Don't stare at others all the time." Li Gao whispered, "No matter how good-looking he is, he is still a big shot. What if he thinks you are impolite? Then he can kill you in the wild and no one will know."

Du Ming had no choice but to nod and accept Li Gao's kindness.

After dinner, everyone went back to the dormitory.

The dormitory is a single room with only one bed. If you want to go to the toilet or wash, you have to go to the public bathroom at the end of the corridor. The washing time is fixed every day, from 7 to 8 in the morning and from 7 to 8 in the evening.

Of course, you can also get a basin of water and wash in the dormitory, but since we are all grown men, few people care about this.

But when Du Ming went there, he met that person again.

Not only that, there were several people following the man, one of whom was holding a large bucket to collect water.

Coincidence or...

Du Ming was a little confused. He only knew that when that person came in, the whole place was quiet and the only sound was the splashing water.

Only after the person left did the brothers next to him breathe a sigh of relief.

Du Ming couldn't help but ask, "Why are you so afraid of him?"

The man was rubbing the soap nuts and glanced at Du Ming sideways when he heard this. "Brother, you are new here, right?"

Du Ming responded.

"Then you don't know, we're not afraid of Qi Wen, we're afraid of the strange thing on the other side."

In the city of Beibin, rumors circulate of a demon that loves chanting and attracts attention. However, it dissolves when it encounters water, making it difficult to capture. Until recently, an A-rank member of the Strange Tales Elimination Alliance passed through Beibin and struck a deal with the demon, possessing its body and performing good deeds.

Of course, this is news released to the outside world, but only the top leaders of the alliance know the real content.

The brother next to him didn't know much either. After Du Ming drained his knowledge in a few words, he stopped responding.

After a simple wash, someone took his things back to his room.

The moment he reached the door, he paused.

The abundant water vapor condensed on the door handle, and it seemed as if it was about to drip down. The water flowed out from under the door, forming a puddle.

Du Ming seemed to hear singing vaguely.

When he came to his senses again, he was already being pressed down on the bed, and the hands that Du Ming had praised during dinner were now strangling his neck.

When their eyes met, Du Ming's pupils shrank as he discovered that this person had vertical pupils.

But even though the neck could be broken with a little force, the person on top did not move, and the person below did not resist at all.

After a while, Du Ming said quietly, "Cassia...?"

The familiar name was like turning on a strange switch. After hearing the name, someone shuddered all over and had a brief moment of clarity in his mind, but a moment later he was eroded by the surging desire.

Cassia leaned close to Du Ming's neck, sniffed it, and then bit it.

The sharp teeth pierced the skin, causing slight pain, and Du Ming could feel the blood flowing away.

However, this feeling only lasted for five seconds, and then there was no movement.

There was only someone pretending to be dead, clinging to Du Ming, with the slightly hot tip of his ear pressed against his cheek, sending waves of warmth through him.

Du Ming held the person in his arms and whispered, "What's wrong?"

In return, Casillas became more ostrich-like.

Now, he felt so ashamed.

It turns out that Cassia needs to replace a character every time she enters a dungeon. Generally speaking, this character is the dungeon boss or a high-level energy body.

This is determined by Casillas' own abilities.

So after entering the dungeon this time, he naturally became the most powerful being in the dungeon. But the problem was that due to the characteristics of this dungeon, this being was both the strongest and the core of the dungeon.

It happened that Cassia was injured, and he was unable to completely resist some of the character's own attributes, such as absorbing popularity.

He was still able to control himself before, but who would have thought that he would run into Du Ming one after another today.

If one person couldn't hold back, this would happen.

Cassia: Playing dead...

Du Ming probably understood someone's ostrich mentality, so he just held her quietly without saying anything.

After a while, the man in his arms climbed up from Du Ming's arms and told him what happened after he came in. Only then did Du Ming understand why the other party behaved like this.

"So what are you doing now? Do you have to take a puff every day?" Du Ming pointed to his neck.

Cassia shook her head. "That's not necessary. Just a bite once in a while will be fine."

Du Ming nodded, then took out the stone obtained from Xiaokan Village from his arms and showed it to Cassia.

"Look at this stone."

Cassia felt the power contained in it at a glance, "You should hide this stone properly. It will probably be of great use later."

"Also, I've heard a lot of news in the league these past few days." Cassia turned to talk about the information he had obtained, "A lot of people are asking about you."

"Ask about me?" Du Ming frowned when he heard that.

Cassia said, "Yes." He knew Du Ming's name, but what surprised him was that even though Du Ming did not reveal his real name in the game, no player entering the game could change his appearance, so the group had not found Du Ming until now.

It's really strange.

He informed the other party of his discovery.

A dark glint flashed across someone's eyes.

He finally understood why he and Cassia would encounter the old demon king's subordinates carrying the game core in every dungeon they entered.

He originally thought that the old demon king had some means of tracking him, but now it seems that the other party clearly followed him in.

The reason why the other party couldn't find him was because his body in the game was from the original world. How could they find him by looking for him by following the appearance of the young master of the Du family!

However, this also indirectly reflects that the Du family has a close connection with the old demon king.

But why did the Du family want to eliminate him? He was clearly just an abandoned child of the Du family.

He mentioned this to Cassia, who looked surprised.

"How is this possible?!" Cassia widened her eyes, unless...

He grabbed Du Ming's hand, and thick demonic energy flowed out from his fingertips and poured into his skin. After a while, he said, "There's nothing unusual."

"What do you mean by strange?" Du Ming couldn't help but ask.

Cassia shook her head. "I thought you were an NPC in a dungeon who lost his memory and had his soul extracted and transferred to a body outside. Now it seems that's not the case."

The clue was cut off.

Du Ming had not expected that his journey through time would be so complicated, with one mystery after another.

He shook his head and decided to put the matter aside for the time being. After all, the current problem had not yet been resolved. The current priority was still to find the traitor, obtain the core, and completely control the Monster Archives.

After the conversation, Cassia and Du Ming said goodbye.

His current identity to the outside world is Qi Wen, but in fact he is Yi Wen who is cooperating with the alliance. In order to reassure the alliance, he needs to go back to his room to sleep every night to show his controllability.

only...

In the middle of the night, Du Ming was lying in bed.

A stream of water came in through the crack in the door, quietly flowed to the side of the bed, and finally flowed into the quilt and into someone's arms.

Cassia was somewhat glad that he was now almost a water demon, and he could manipulate the man's height, weight, and body shape at will, so that he could touch the man's firm chin as soon as he raised his head.

He didn't know why, even though he wasn't hungry, he just wanted to come over.

Perhaps he regarded Du Ming as his own food reserve? Cassia thought so while lying in his arms.

And when he fell asleep, the person holding him quietly opened his eyes.

Du Ming looked down and a smile appeared on his lips.

As mentioned at the beginning, Du Ming's team was at the bottom of the Strange Stories Elimination Alliance. Specifically, they couldn't complete high-level missions, and had to compete with others for low-level missions, which left them idle in the alliance for a week.

During this period, even Cassia went on a mission, which made Du Ming wonder whether he was here for a dungeon or a vacation.

Fortunately, the next day, Shao Feizhu sent a message saying that there was a mission to be carried out.

Du Ming went earlier this time, and the other two had not arrived yet.

The captain first sent him a task requirement.

During the team's rest period, the Alliance joined forces with several major strange news groups to eliminate strange news in a small town in the north. Because the scope involved was too wide, a lot of energy residue was left.

Their mission this time was to clean up the debris in this small town. The operation was quite simple, but it was labor-intensive. After all, each team was required to clean every corner carefully.

The town is far away from the alliance, and even taking a long-distance bus will take two days and one night, but there are still many teams that have signed up.

If Shao Feizhu didn't know someone, it might not be their team's turn this time.

Li Gao sat in a small compartment, munching on his breakfast while chattering, "Captain, it's a good thing you got the mission. Otherwise, if you were idle any longer, I wouldn't even be able to afford whole grain steamed buns."

Shao Feizhu didn't say anything, but Xue Ning, who was sitting next to him, silently moved away from him.

Du Ming was sitting by the window opposite, looking at the scenery outside through the window.

The areas close to the Alliance were fine, but the further away you got, the more desolate it became, until eventually weeds grew everywhere and sand and dust filled the air.

There were only seats on the train, no berths, so the few of them could only stay in that small compartment the entire way. They ate the dry food sold on the train, which was produced by the alliance and had a uniform price.

The next evening, we had our last meal in the car. Each team had four people, and the meals were different.

Shao Feizhu had a younger sister, so he ordered the least, just two steamed buns and a bowl of soup. Xue Ning, supposedly trying to save money for higher-level weapons, ordered similarly to the captain, only adding one more vegetable dish.

Li Gao was different. He cared more about food, so he ordered rice and vegetables and also added a meat dish.

But even so, it is still far from Du Ming's.

Someone ordered two meat dishes, two vegetable dishes, a bowl of noodles and four meat buns.

Li Gao was shocked. "Where did you get the points? Are you going to have trouble living in the future?!"

Du Ming remembered the points that someone had secretly transferred to him before he set out, and smiled, "I'm supported by someone, so I'm not short of money." As he said that, he handed a bun to someone.

A few people wanted to refuse, but Du Ming smiled and said, "It's easier to work when you're full." Although this was his first time on a cleaning mission, he heard the work was really hard. Two steamed buns wouldn't be enough for a grown man like Shao Feizhu.

Seeing that Du Ming was really not short of money, the other three accepted it and decided to do more work.

After dinner, everyone got off the bus together.

The moment his left foot stepped down the stairs, Du Ming heard the narration of the plot.

You've arrived in Lulin Town, and something smells off.

After blinking twice, Du Ming slowly took a step forward with his right foot.