Since Yue Qi had spoken, and based on Yan Qing's understanding of him, he must have a solution. So, without hesitation, she spoke.
"Just tell me what to do next. I'll listen to you."
Strangely, Yue Qi remained silent. At this moment, the writhing blood-fiend threads rushed towards the two of them once again. Because Yan Qing was protected by the blue light shield, the blood-fiend threads couldn't penetrate them at all.
Therefore, naturally, all the attacks were directed at Wen Jiajia.
Wen Jiajia was truly terrified now. At this point, she couldn't care less about the S-rank clearance rules. The clothing store owner hated her to the core; it was like he was trying to drag her down with him even in his dying moments!
No, Wen Jiajia can't die here!
She began frantically calling out to the system in her mind, "Quickly, I'm willing to spend points to exchange for a dungeon escape ticket, please take me away from here!"
The system replied calmly in his mind, "Dear host, as you wish."
Then, a white mist suddenly appeared out of nowhere around Wen Jiajia's body. The mist came and went quickly, and when it disappeared, Wen Jiajia was gone too.
Yan Qing received a notification in her mind that Wen Jiajia had left the instance.
Yan Qing admitted that it was impossible for her not to feel jealous when she heard those words. After all, she already knew that the female protagonist's system in the book was powerful, and the ability to leave the instance at any time was one of the advantages of her system.
Moreover, all of this comes at a price. Although it's not mentioned in the book, the female protagonist, Wen Jiajia, experienced dozens of trials and only used it once or twice when her life was hanging by a thread. This already suggests that the price must have been very high.
There's no point in saying more now. With only two people left in the four-player dungeon, she couldn't imagine what other changes might occur in this upcoming three-star dungeon.
Seeing Wen Jiajia's sudden disappearance, the clothing store owner, who was practically a dried-up corpse on the ground, completely lost it.
"Hehehe—you—you all have to stay and die with me! Hahahaha—"
As he spoke, the clothing store owner's entire body rapidly inflated like a balloon, growing larger and larger until it became an almost perfectly round sphere.
Blood and tears streamed down his face, and finally he laughed in their direction.
"Destroy them all, destroy them all, ha ha ha ha ha—"
Yan Qing's eyelids began to twitch wildly, and the bracelet on her wrist began to flash incessantly, signaling an imminent great danger.
"No, we must find a way to break this formation!" Before Yan Qing could finish speaking, Yue Qi once again grabbed his longsword and slashed at the crumbling formation.
One sword, two swords... The formation was about to completely collapse. Before Yan Qing could even feel happy, she saw the clothing store owner opposite her, who had swollen into a ball, explode in an instant.
Blood mixed with minced flesh smeared all over the ground. In the blink of an eye, it all merged into the formation and disappeared.
At the same time, countless blood-red threads emerged from the array on the ground all around them, and the Seven Star Blood Fiend Array, which was on the verge of collapse, started operating once again.
They were ultimately a step too late.
The moment Yue Qi saw the Seven Star Blood Fiend Array restart, his face turned completely green. They were so close, just a tiny bit more, to getting out.
Yan Qing now wanted to curse Wen Jiajia's entire family and ancestors for eighteen generations. How many bad things must she have done to give birth to such a descendant who didn't care about the lives of others?
What's worse is that she, Wen Jiajia, caused all the trouble, but they've become the ones taking the blame. Who can she turn to for justice?
Moreover, it's not certain whether we can break this Seven Star Blood Fiend Formation right now.
"Cough cough cough..." Yue Qi coughed violently, leaning on his long sword. Yan Qing quickly helped him sit down to the side. Looking at the increasingly thick blood mist around them, she was extremely worried.
"Yan, Yan Qing—" Yue Qi grabbed her hand, his expression extremely grave. "Wait a minute, I'll find a way to break a small hole, and you can take the opportunity to get out quickly! Remember, whatever you do, don't go back to the inn. Go find that family of three at the stationery store first, understand?"
His tone was as if he were giving his last instructions, and Yan Qing naturally guessed his intention, immediately shaking her head like a rattle drum.
"No, if we're going now, we can both go together! I'm not going by myself!" Taking advantage of Yue Qi's weakened state, she snatched a piece of parchment from his hand, her tone extremely willful.
"Don't think I didn't see it just now. Although Sun Jue's body was just a human skin, his clothes were still there! I actually saw you secretly take this parchment note out of his pocket!"
Unfolding the parchment, sure enough, it contained the S-level clearance rules.
"S-Rank: Kill the woman wearing a red flower to activate the Seven Star Demon-Subduing Array in the temple's main hall. You and your teammates will then be able to leave directly. However, the journey will not be smooth; a man and a woman will be needed as sacrifices at the array's core."
Yan Qing suddenly realized that the "Yongning Lane" instance was originally a team-based PvP instance. This meant that only one team could win.
Presumably, the proud and arrogant Wen Jiajia would look down on these insignificant nobodys. From the very beginning, in her eyes, they were already dead men.
Yan Qing didn't know how they obtained this pass rule, but it was probably related to the clothing store owner. These two were pretending to cooperate while simultaneously scheming against each other.
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