82. Mysterious Dream Fairy Tale (5)

Dr. Bear? I'm a toy repairman.

"Excuse me, have you seen a transforming car toy?"

The boy's voice was gentle and polite, and upon closer listening, one could also detect a vibrant energy within it.

Inside the room, Qin Fu'an and Xie Zeyuan exchanged a glance, then simultaneously looked down at the pile of unrecognizable fragments of materials on the ground.

"His teammates?" Xie Zeyuan asked quietly, mouthing the question.

Qin Fu'an shook his head, kicked away the metal plate blocking his feet, and then reached out to open the door.

The newcomer seemed surprised to see him. The exceptionally beautiful sunflower stared blankly up at him for a second before its eyes crinkled with delight: "Oh, it's you! We meet again."

It then asked, "Is this your home?"

Before it stood the black, blocky bear that had lost its ears but gained new hands, silent for a moment before gently chuckling, "Yes, we are truly destined to meet."

Xie Zeyuan, who was quietly observing from the back: ...?

To hear the word "fate" from this Teng Snake in my lifetime is truly like seeing a ghost in broad daylight.

The sunflower seemed taken aback by the word "fate," its smile fading slightly before it returned to its initial question: "Have you ever seen a toy car that can transform?"

Qin Fu'an stood at the doorway, unable to completely block the large pile of metal materials on the ground behind him, but he didn't even blink, asking in confusion, "A transforming toy car? What do you want with it? I think I've vaguely seen it before, but I don't remember it very well."

Upon hearing this, Sunflower subtly withdrew her gaze from the ground behind Qin Fu'an, and shook her head with a smile: "It's nothing. I just received a notice from the city guards saying that there are toys killing residents in the city, and everyone should be careful. One of the released killers is a transforming toy car. I'm worried that he will continue to kill residents, so I wanted to follow him to try to stop him."

As she spoke, Sunflower politely took two steps back, raised a large, soft leaf, and waved it gently at Qin Fu'an: "Since he's not here, I won't bother you. You should also be careful lately. If you encounter any danger, you can ask the city guards for help."

Once its figure disappeared from the vicinity, the rag doll Xie Zeyuan narrowed its eyes slightly and chuckled softly, "Mr. Qin, you should have sensed it, right?"

"Hmm." Qin Fu'an smiled and slowly replied, "It seems we accidentally stole someone else's prey, so now we're being treated as prey ourselves."

The audience was completely confused, not understanding what the two were talking about in an encrypted conversation.

But if you don't understand, you don't understand. Why make things difficult for yourself? Anyway, once the live stream recording is released, there will always be experts on the forums who will help analyze it frame by frame and sentence by sentence.

So the viewers, who decided to temporarily set aside their thoughts, started discussing where the little clouds in this instance might be hidden.

Xie Zeyuan tossed the shiny toy heart up and down, pondering how to get those "tails" to find the two of them one by one, instead of swarming up at once.

In other instances, with their combined abilities, Qin Fu'an and I could easily handle even a horde of "little rats" swarming in. But this instance, from the very beginning, imposed significant limitations on all players.

Even its body is a tattered toy body.

In this state, if those players were to swarm him, Xie Zeyuan estimated that he would be at their mercy.

In the end, I'll be a lump of cotton that can't get hard, while Qin Fu'an will be scattered pieces of debris. The dignified leader of both the demon and ghost realms (??) will be taught a lesson without any dignity.

After listening to his grand vision, Qin Fu'an raised his eyes indifferently, "Since that's the case, do you have any wicked ideas?"

Xie Zeyuan's good idea = his wicked idea.

no problem.

The dirty cotton doll sat on the edge of the table, answering with a deep expression, "Mr. Qin, how about we join the city guards? It's reasonable, legal, and perfect!"

Join the city guards and fight to protect Fairy Tale City. This way, you won't have to wait for others to come to you. Instead, you can hide in the shadows and follow the clues to solve problems openly and honestly.

"That's a good idea." Qin Fu'an nodded in agreement. "Then don't delay any longer, go now."

Xie Zeyuan: "Me?"

He tilted his head to look at the little bear with building blocks sitting on the stool, swinging its toolbox, and asked, "Mr. Qin, do you have any better ideas?"

Qin Fu'an shook his head without hesitation: "No, but I'm curious, as a product of cotton, where do you get the confidence to join the city guards to deal with those players?"

Xie Zeyuan: "..."

That's a bit too much of a personal attack!

Xie Zeyuan quickly dismissed the idea, lazily yawned, and slowly said, "Then forget it. With Mr. Qin here, I don't think I'll die so easily. So I'll take a nap first."

After saying that, it lay back on the table, avoiding the sunlight streaming in from the window, hiding in the shadows, and closing its eyes in comfort and leisure.

Qin Fu'an sat on the stool, leaning lazily against the back of the chair. The thin blade in his hand had turned into several different colored building blocks, which he rubbed like walnut beads.

In Qin Fu'an's opinion, this first official dungeon he experienced as a formal player was not difficult at all.

Compared to the beginner dungeons "Mysterious High School" and "Gardener's Flower Garden," the difficulty of the "Mysterious Fairy Tale" dungeon is far from enough to make Qin Fu'an brace himself.

Rather than completing the main quest or dealing with the trailing foes with Xie Zeyuan, Qin Fu'an was more interested in whether Xiao Yunduo would appear in this instance.

He didn't see any overwhelming black tentacles in this instance, nor did he sense Xie Yunhuai's presence from the soul contract.

This made him vaguely suspicious, wondering if Xie Yunhuai only existed in the beginner dungeon and would not appear in the official dungeon.

If that's the case, Qin Fu'an really doesn't know where to start in finding his destined wife.

However, Xie Zeyuan's leisurely state and Qin Fu'an's lack of focus were quickly disrupted by the progress of this instance.

There are 24 players in this instance.

Not all players are as lazy and inactive as Qin Fu'an and Xie Zeyuan. Almost from the moment they received the main quest, the players started looking for opportunities to do the quest.

So, in less than half a day since the start of the instance, more than ten vicious killings have occurred in Fairy Tale City.

This is only what has been discovered; the killings that were handled more secretly and went undetected may also be increasing in the shadows.

After all, looking at the leaderboard, some players have already obtained a total of 7 toy hearts. Although they are all low-level, the number of them adds up to the life of seven toys.

And this was less than five hours later.

Xie Zeyuan stroked the leaderboard with his soft hands, and asked thoughtfully, "Mr. Qin, do you think that if things continue like this, there are really that many toys in Fairy Tale City for them to kill?"

The main quest says that Fairy Tale City will be open for a month, but it's not even been half a day yet, and the leaderboard already has 29 Toy Hearts.

Over the course of a month, the number of toys will dwindle, and their resistance to players will decrease. If this continues, will the city eventually be annihilated?

"Don't forget, this is a challenging competition manual." Qin Fu'an took out a piece of metal and placed it into the wooden bowl he had just carved out.

The next second, spiritual energy surged in his hand, and the metal piece visibly transformed into a pool of flowing crimson liquid.

Qin Fu'an used his spiritual energy to cleanse the impurities and then conjured a sharp dagger shape out of thin air.

While he was doing all this, Xie Zeyuan watched quietly from the side. As the dagger gradually solidified, Xie Zeyuan looked at the sharp tip and considered the possibility that Qin Fu'an would disembowel him.

"You mean there are other dangers in Fairy Tale City?" Xie Zeyuan looked away.

Qin Fu'an placed the finished dagger aside, glanced at him, and said meaningfully, "The Mysterious Dream Fairy Tale, we are already in Fairy Tale City, but so far, we still haven't received any information about the Mysterious Dream, have we?"

Xie Zeyuan pondered for a moment, then slowly applauded him: "Mr. Qin, our Underworld is in dire need of talents like you. I wonder if you have any thoughts about finding a job?"

"No." Qin Fu'an replied without hesitation.

Xie Zeyuan: "...Okay."

He shrugged helplessly: "It seems that the benefits for jobs in Ghost City have been too poor in recent years. Once I leave the game, I must report this to the higher-ups."

The two bantered like companions, yet their words were always laced with playful banter, leaving viewers in both live streams eager to know the true nature of their relationship.

A new patrol of city guards arrived outside the gate.

Qin Fu'an opened the door, looked at the broken and empty lucky cat piggy bank in front of him, and smiled politely: "Are you here to check? We've been here the whole time and haven't seen any suspicious toys that have escaped."

Qin Fu'an and Xie Zeyuan had gone through this whole process of knocking on the door, asking questions, checking, and giving instructions no less than ten times in three hours.

But this time it was a bit unexpected.

A deflated ball slowly rolled out from behind the lucky cat piggy bank, pleading in a soft voice, "Excuse me, could you please perform surgery on the injured city guard?"

As if afraid Qin Fu'an would refuse, or that it would find another excuse, it hurriedly rolled forward a little more and said in a soft voice, "Just like the surgery you performed on your companion before..."

Qin Fu'an knew that it was one of the toys that the gatekeeper had secretly watched from afar.

Perhaps it started as surveillance, but later it turned into curious peeping.

As it waited anxiously, the black block bear looked up at the lucky cat piggy bank behind it and calmly asked, "Who needs to have surgery? I need to see them before I can decide."

As soon as he finished speaking, the ball rolled away at at least twice the speed it had been before.

In less than ten seconds, it rolled back, covered in dust.

Behind it followed a rabbit that was more than ten times its size.

"Captain." The rabbit greeted the lucky cat piggy bank first, then looked down at Qin Fu'an curiously, "Are you the amazing little bear doctor that Qiuqiu mentioned who can perform surgery?"

Dr. Bear...

Qin Fu'an was speechless for a moment, then nodded in acknowledgment under the gaze of the three toys: "Yes, or you could call me a toy repairman."

[Author's Note]

Anzai: I'm not a doctor, I'm just an ordinary repairman~

Yunzai: (Domineering CEO indifferently) My prey has been killed by you. Very well, you have successfully caught my attention.

Yuanyuan: Trying to experience a thousand different ways to die at Qin Fu'an's hands...

My daily writing routine: I turn on my computer, think about the plot, daydream, look for good novels, if I can't find any, I get back to writing, if I find one, oh wow, it's good, I love it, I'll keep reading...

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Time, Mukawa Megumi, and Qingyu Guzhou (1 bottle);