67 The Gardener's Flowerbed (14)

Morality is meant to constrain human beings, but he is not a human being.

Qin Fu'an then led Xie Yunhuai on a tour of the entire Baihua Town.

Like the viewers in the live stream, Xie Yunhuai had no idea what he was trying to do.

After all, Qin Fu'an didn't seem like the kind of person who would waste a lot of time on useless work, so I couldn't help but want to find out the purpose behind his behavior.

Qin Fu'an didn't deliberately keep everyone in suspense; soon, everyone knew his purpose.

"...Steal?" Xie Yunhuai's tone was strange, and for a moment he even thought he had misheard.

However, the boy in front of him, with his bright smile and outspoken expression, was not ashamed at all, but rather proud of it, and said righteously, "How can taking care of flowers and plants be called stealing?"

Xie Yunhuai: "..."

The audience: "..."

So that's why you brazenly stole plants from Fujii's flowerbed right in front of him?

Teng Yan seemed to be driven mad by Qin Fu'an's behavior. He stood far behind the flower bed, his eyes bloodshot as he stared at Qin Fu'an, who was still pulling at the vine roots. His body trembled with rage.

If looks could kill, Qin Fu'an would have been killed a thousand times over by Teng Yan's gaze!

"Don't push your luck!!" Teng Yan's veins bulged on the back of his hand with anger as he gritted his teeth and said, "These are plants from my flower garden. If you want them, I can give you the seeds, but what's the difference between your behavior and that of a robber?!"

"That's too slow."

Qin Fu'an forcefully pulled a struggling vine from the soil, tossed it onto the road outside the flowerbed, then patted the soil and sap from the broken vine in its struggle. Looking at the gnashing vine, he smiled and said, "I'm not a particularly patient gardener, but I still want my flowerbed to be lush and verdant."

So the best way, of course, is to borrow, rob, or steal.

As for whether these behaviors are unethical?

Who would be foolish enough to talk about morality in a deadly and bizarre game?

Moreover, morality is meant to constrain human beings, but he is not human, so he can abandon morality with a clear conscience.

After hearing his extremely arrogant words, Teng Yan wished he could stuff him into a mixing machine and grind him into mud. However, as the victim of the robbery, Teng Yan kept a considerable distance away and had no intention of confronting Qin Fu'an directly.

It was just a vine, he kept telling himself. No matter how angry he was, it wasn't worth risking his life for just a vine.

Teng Yan was the only gardener in the entire Hundred Flowers Town who knew Qin Fu'an's fighting prowess. He would never forget how Qin Fu'an calmly walked into his flower garden and then calmly shopped in the supermarket before leaving.

His weapons were the plants he cultivated, which were all helpless against Qin Fu'an. How could Teng Yan be so foolish as to send himself to Qin Fu'an to die?

So even though he was almost driven mad by Qin Fu'an's banditry, he still managed to control his emotions and swallow his anger.

So, in front of the owner of the lost property and the victim, Qin Fu'an, with one hand pulling the skeletal vine that looked like a dead snake after leaving the flower garden, and the other hand holding Xie Yunhuai's well-defined hand, left with a very fruitful haul.

I considered many ways to break this deadlock, but I never imagined he would just try to steal it from me in person...

[Does anyone understand this, family members? I'm having a blast! Turns out, in these weird dungeons, relying solely on brute force without using your brain is this awesome!]

[Strength can overcome all magic!! I miss the girl who put all her attribute points into Strength in the last dungeon.]

[Who says this doesn't require brains? So many players have perished in this dungeon, how come the streamer was the only one who managed to pull a bone vine out of someone else's flowerbed?]

[Actually, I'm also curious. Didn't other players think of this? They say even a rabbit will bite when cornered. When it comes to life and death, didn't players think of alternative solutions?]

[I have something to say about this. I specifically watched the Evil Spirit level dungeons. I've seen the Hundred Flowers Town dungeon three times. Of those three players, one did try a similar method when he was desperate. Unfortunately, in the early stages, he was almost completely drained of health and strength trying to cultivate more plants. Besides, there was basically no food source in this dungeon except for the supermarket in Tengyan. He really held on for a long time and was very tenacious, but in the end, he still became a plant in a gardener's flowerbed in Hundred Flowers Town.]

[So this Evil-level dungeon is really not as simple as the streamer portrayed it. Every step is a trap. To get through the early stages peacefully, you either need enough Ghost Coins and the courage to buy enough normal seeds before the game starts, or you need food or high enough ability to get through the Vine Rock Flower Garden. Otherwise, you can only wait to die step by step and have to feed your own flesh and blood to those seeds...]

[This is chilling to think about; no wonder this dungeon has a 0% completion rate so far. Hopefully, the streamer can make it out alive.]

[Hilarious! Your streamer's got the nerve to be talking about love? You should be more worried about the NPCs in this dungeon. The NPCs in the first two beginner dungeons probably have a lot of advice to say to them.]

The final comment summary: Although the streamer is a bit love-obsessed, the degree of his love-obsessedness is proportional to his ability. He can easily manage both love and career, so the audience doesn't need to worry too much.

“If you do this, you’ll anger the entire Hundred Flowers Town.” Xie Yunhuai walked beside Qin Fu’an, glancing occasionally at the bone vine he was holding.

"Is that so?" Qin Fu'an seemed unconcerned, chuckling as he countered, "What do you think they would do to me if they were angered?"

"Besides, if we're really talking about angering them, wouldn't bringing you home make them angrier than bringing this vine home?"

Xie Yunhuai choked.

That seems to be true.

It was just a bone vine that was stolen. Compared to that, Xie Yunhuai probably still held a greater place in the hearts of all the gardeners in Baihua Town.

At the time, they only made threats and did not retaliate. Now that Qin Fu'an has only taken a vine and Teng Yan himself has tacitly accepted the loss, it seems... that it is not a particularly serious matter.

Upon realizing this, Xie Yunhuai was taken aback.

This seemed to be the first time he realized that the overall combat strength of Baihua Town was relatively low.

"Of course, after all, they're just a bunch of summoners who can't even kill a chicken." Qin Fu'an seemed to have completely associated this dungeon with a single-player game, and pondered, "But some summoners are powerful too. Who knows, maybe one of the gardeners will suddenly summon a plant that can destroy the world?"

After saying that, he turned his head and looked thoughtfully at Xie Yunhuai.

Meeting his scrutinizing gaze, Xie Yunhuai blinked in confusion: "What?"

Before I could even ask, the person in front of me raised an eyebrow with a smug look, clenched their intertwined fingers again, and boasted with exceptional confidence: "I suddenly realized they have no chance, because the most amazing plant is planted in my flowerbed."

As everyone knows, Qin Fu'an only grows one plant in his flower garden.

Xie Yunhuai: "..."

How does this person manage to speak anytime, anywhere, and still leave people feeling so helpless?

It seems a bit suspicious, but I'm not entirely sure. I'll have to wait and see.

"Aren't you afraid this plant won't survive?" Xie Yunhuai asked, his ears turning red, trying to change the subject, a blunt but effective question.

Qin Fu'an then looked down at the half-dead bone vine in his hand.

"It's just a try," Qin Fu'an explained. "If it succeeds, great; if it doesn't, there are other, less-than-ideal methods."

"...Another way?" Xie Yunhuai was intrigued by the cruelty hidden in his words.

Perhaps Xie Yunhuai himself is not a conventional person, which is why he can laugh as Qin Fu'an steals other people's plants, and also curiously ask questions at this moment.

He never cared about whether something was right or wrong, just like the moon hanging high in the sky, which would never change its phases according to human expectations.

The young man's usually indifferent eyes brightened slightly, and Qin Fu'an keenly sensed the curiosity and interest hidden within.

He chuckled softly, his sharp fangs gently biting the soft flesh in his mouth. The slight stinging pain made him even more alert, and his eyes grew increasingly cold and cruel.

As the young man's eyes widened in astonishment, he said calmly, "For example, hanging a wooden plaque with their name engraved on it in front of their gardener's hut?"

Xie Yunhuai gasped.

Such a simple and blunt statement, yet behind it lies a deadly intent that could send shivers down the spines of all the gardeners in Hundred Flowers Town.

Under what circumstances can a gardener hang his own wooden sign on his/her cottage?

There is only one answer: death.

A new occupant will only be able to move in when the original owner dies.

“Just like the house I live in, isn’t it?” Qin Fu’an walked to a dusty gardener’s cottage with bloodstains on the walls and said softly with an ambiguous meaning, “Little Cloud, before I moved into that cottage, can you remember how many owners it had changed hands over?”

Xie Yunhuai couldn't remember.

All he knew was that the cottage was specially built by Hundred Flowers Town for newlyweds to live in. Just like the flower garden that was overgrown with weeds at the beginning, whenever the previous owner died, the cottage would be left empty for a few days, and the flower garden would quickly be overgrown with weeds.

But in less than three days, new faces will move in, and the weeds in the flowerbed will be cleared away again.

Therefore, he did not answer Qin Fu'an's question, but instead looked up and followed Qin Fu'an's gaze.

Behind the sparse and desolate flowerbed in front of us, in front of the gardener's hut with its walls stained with blood, hangs a brown wooden sign.

Baihua Town - Li Yi.

Xie Yunhuai was slightly lost in thought.

He recognized the name and the person sitting at the door.

About a month before Qin Fu'an came to Baihua Town, a newcomer named Li Yi arrived in Baihua Town.

Xie Yunhuai had no fixed abode and often wandered aimlessly in Baihua Town. That day, he happened to see Li Yi talking with the town mayor.

Li Yi, in his early twenties, was not particularly calm. When communicating with the town mayor, he was wary and cautious, but also curious about Baihua Town. His eyes were bright, full of vitality, and his determination was remarkable.

He seemed to regard Hundred Flowers Town as a new challenge, without fear, only confidence and anticipation.

Xie Yunhuai even heard Li Yi mutter to himself, "Being able to enter here, does that mean... they acknowledge my strength?"

Confident and proud, just like Qin Fu'an when he was showing off the Xie Yunhuai plants in his flower garden.

They just weren't as arrogant and shameless as Qin Fu'an.

Perhaps Li Yi wasn't as ruthless as Qin Fu'an back then.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have ended up like this, sitting in front of the small house like a withered, wrinkled corpse, his eyes vacant and numb, staring blankly at the flowerbed.

In just one month, everything changed, but the Buddha amulet on his chest remained as lustrous as jade.

[Author's Note]

Anzai: Discard morality, break the rules, eat the softest rice, and talk about the best wife.

Yunzai: Silently removes the title of "liar" and holds up the "[robber]" sign and sticks it on Anzai's head.

Fujiiwa: Is nobody going to speak up for me?

Bone Vine: QAQ~

Good news: There will be an update tonight too!

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