Infinite Secret House 25: Enjoy the Moment
"The Secret House has incomplete information, so I can't give you an answer."
Xie Yunsui secretly instructed the little bee to answer from behind.
He Wei's question was a bit tricky. No matter how much Xie Yunsui paid to answer it, it meant that the secret house knew all the pure escape copies.
If Xie Yunsui pretended to know everything and asked for a price that she could never afford, such as one million life hours.
One million life hours, a number that can be resurrected in the original world according to legend.
It should discourage people, right?
Xie Yunsui rejected this idea after thinking about it for a while.
He Wei belongs to a large organization. The price that one person cannot pay can be paid by using human wave tactics.
By then, Xie Yunsui won’t be able to give the names of all the escape dungeons.
He Wei was a little disappointed.
Players in Star City who have entered the Secret House all say that it is amazing and contains all kinds of dungeon information. She thought the Secret House was omniscient and omnipotent.
It turns out there are things you don’t know about the secret house?
He Wei paused, then asked, "How many escape dungeon names can I buy with 3,000 lives?"
Xie Yunsui discovered that she only wanted the name and didn't care about the copy information.
She just wanted to enter the battle royale game, regardless of whether she could pass it or not.
Xie Yunsui had an idea and asked the little bee to draw a water curtain in front of He Wei. The names of the copies flowed in the water curtain, but each name was washed over by the water and the specific content could not be seen clearly.
Little Bee: "This is the information on all the pure escape dungeons currently available in the Secret House. Simply click on the one you want to know about, and a price will appear. You can buy as many as you want."
The names appeared and disappeared as the water curtain flowed, making He Wei unable to count how many names appeared.
He Wei tentatively clicked on one of them, and that name was picked out separately, with the price displayed next to it - 230 life hours.
She surrendered without blinking, and then received a rather familiar name.
Damn! Isn’t that Bai Xiao Lou’s classic escape game?
The Lock Monster is known to everyone in the Star City world!
I actually paid for this kind of information! How is this different from throwing money into the water?
He Wei realized that her random selection was like opening a blind box, and she would always get what she wanted.
There is a solution, which is to add qualifiers when asking, such as the price of other copies besides the copies she knows, and then tell her the name of the copy she knows, so as to rule out the blind boxes she has.
But it also means that she has to tell the Secret House all the information she has.
Lan Xi whispered, "Will she exclude what she knows?"
Xie Yunsui: "Probably not this time."
Sure enough, after hesitating for a while, He Wei chose to give up.
Xie Yunsui: "The Homecoming Club's attitude towards battle royale games is more complicated than I imagined."
Lan Xi was eager to try: "How about I go undercover in the Homecoming Club again?"
Xie Yunsui laughed: "Goodbye, you just settled down in Baixiaolou, and now you're going to another organization. What will Baixiaolou think?"
Lan Xi muttered, "I thought the other branches of the Guixiang Association were just like the Suzaku Hall, recruiting new members to serve the organization. If I had known that the White Tiger Hall was similar to the Baixiao Building's new branch, I would have stayed in the Guixiang Association."
"Homecoming is a complex name. You may not be free when you go there."
"Then when I go back this time, I'll check the situation of the Homecoming Association and see what they're doing with the escape dungeons."
"Isn't it already available?"
Xie Yunsui pointed at the players downstairs. They looked like they were no longer newbies and probably knew a lot about Star City.
He commanded the little bees to hint that the Star City organization's intelligence could be exchanged for lives, and the scarcer the intelligence, the more it could be exchanged for.
The players thought that if they didn't tell anyone, someone would tell them, so they might as well take advantage of it, and they rushed to tell everyone the information they had gathered.
Some talked about the origins of the information dealer, some talked about the auction house's process, and some talked about a secret group independent of Baixiaolou and the auction house...
Lan Xi didn't expect that there were so many things about Xingcheng that he didn't know, and he quickly memorized them.
After finishing the purchase, Gu Miaoyang also understood the hint from the little bee. After thinking for a few seconds, he confessed some information about the Homecoming Association.
The Homecoming Club was founded more than fifty years ago, and it attracted a large number of players from the very beginning, which was incredible at the time and even now.
Bai Xiaolou didn't know the reason, but he guessed that the homecoming concept of the Homecoming Club might have attracted a group of like-minded players.
The Homecoming Association is divided into four halls. The Suzaku Hall is responsible for welcoming new players and recruiting them, while the White Tiger Hall is responsible for randomly entering dungeons and opening new dungeons at any cost.
Gu Miaoyang said, "As you can tell from the names, there are two other branches, Qinglong and Xuanwu. However, there is very little information available about these two branches. It is said that players recruited into these two branches are forbidden from revealing their identities. We at Baixiaolou spent a long time to find out that the Xuanwu branch is responsible for intelligence gathering and organizing dungeon data within the Guixiang Association."
"It's very strange. Our Baixiaolou's responsibilities are similar, and other small organizations also organize their own intelligence. Why do they keep it so secret?"
"As for the Azure Dragon Hall, we only know the name. We have no idea what they are responsible for or how many people they have. It is said that no player can infiltrate them. The Guixiang Club is extremely secretive about this aspect."
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Gu Che and Gu Miaoyang have been in Xingcheng for quite some time. As they are in Baixiao Building, they have considerable authority and can access a lot of internal information. They have a relatively thorough understanding of what organizations are in Xingcheng and what the situations are within those organizations.
Despite this, not much is known about Homecoming.
Lan Xi complained silently, "Manager Tao told me that everyone in Baixiao Tower knew about it, but it turns out that even the Qinglong Hall couldn't get in."
Xie Yunsui suspected that Yin Hui, who could not be found, might be in the Qinglong Hall. Even if he was not there, they should know something.
"The current head of the Guixiang Association is called Chen Yuan?" Xie Yunsui asked.
Lan Xi: "Yes, Gu Che mentioned it to me."
Xie Yunsui said, "You don't have to go undercover in the Homecoming Club, but you can get in touch with this person more."
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As the sky brightened, the fog in the ancient town dissipated under the sunlight.
The townspeople in the yard got up in the morning light, hammered and banged, washed, and cooked.
Gu Miaoyang stretched and came out of the room. Seeing Lan Xi next door also got up and opened the door, he greeted her, "Good morning."
Lan Xi replied, "Good morning, what are you planning to do today?"
Gu Miaoyang: "What else can I do? I need to find some items to defeat the dungeon boss and get ready to clear it."
The boss of this dungeon is a mountain ghost who will chase players at night. The way to pass the level is to not be caught by the boss during the seven-day tour of the ancient town, or to find props to restrain the dungeon boss and defeat it.
The former is pure escape, while the latter adds a decryption mechanism, which is to find the real body of the mountain ghost, understand the reason why the mountain ghost incarnates as a mountain ghost, and then seal it.
Players can choose their own way to pass the level.
Thanks to Lan Xi, Gu Miaoyang found a courtyard to live in with him, and the two lived next door to each other.
Even if you are chosen and hunted by mountain ghosts at night, the owner of the secret house will protect you.
Compared to other players, she can sleep soundly.
If you can muster up the energy to go out and look for clues during the day, of course you should choose the second method to pass the level.
After she finished speaking, she glanced at Lan Xi, confused: "Don't you want to pass the level as soon as possible?"
Lan Xi smiled and said, "I've never been to the ancient town before, so I thought I'd just wander around the dungeon for a bit."
As he spoke, a man walked out of the door behind him.
This person was wearing casual clothes of similar color to Lan Xi's, and at first glance they looked like a couple's outfit.
He casually closed the door, glanced at Gu Miaoyang, and then said to Lan Xi, "The tofu pudding at the corner of the street is pretty good. Do you want to try it?"
"Sweet or salty?"
“Spicy.”
"...Well, let's try it."
Gu Miaoyang was stunned. Who is this?
During the day, the ancient town is full of the hustle and bustle of the city, and the smell of food wafts from every household.
The family that He Wei borrowed from looked very poor, and they explicitly or implicitly said that if He Wei wanted to add more food, she would have to pay extra.
He Wei refused the extra meal and left.
She hadn't taken two steps when an old lady carrying morning tea cakes passed by and asked her with a smile if she wanted two.
"I want two." He Wei said, walked up to her, raised her head and touched her hair: "Auntie, you have a little bug here."
The old lady let her brush it behind her ears, and when she stopped, she gave her two morning tea cakes: "One for a life."
When He Wei passed away, she took the breakfast cake with a smile on her face, but she was very disappointed in her heart.
She lived in the same room with the tour guide's mother and little daughter. She checked at night and found that they were all monsters wearing human skins.
Now this lady is the same.
The entire ancient town seems to be full of people, but in fact they are all monsters.
Are there really humans serving as NPCs in the dungeon?
Those gourds with sawed-off mouths in Xuanwu Hall can't explain anything clearly.
I've been searching for so long, but when have I ever seen anyone?!
He Wei walked towards the street while munching on a morning tea cake.
She didn't plan to check all the residents of the town, that was a big project, she just wanted to find some that looked special and examine them.
I met a player on the road. He looked pale and was in a hurry. I didn't know where he was going.
He Wei thought for a moment and didn't follow.
She has enough life time to offset the penalty for failing the dungeon. The White Tiger Hall's requirement is to focus on collecting information, and the task of passing the dungeon is incidental.
After turning several corners, we finally came to the bank of a small river that runs through the ancient town. There were many stalls on both sides of the river and there were crowds of people.
The morning tea cake tasted good, but it was a bit choking. He Wei wanted to get something to drink.
The sign in front of the shop clearly said "Tou Pudding". He Wei walked over and saw a familiar-looking player in front of the stall.
Lanxi?
He Wei looked around but didn't see Gu Miaoyang.
Did something happen last night and he has left the copy, or did he and Lan Xi separate to search for clues?
He Wei was about to go forward and ask, but just as she raised her foot, she saw Lan Xi put the tofu pudding in his hand aside with a look of disgust. A copy NPC next to him moved the one in front of him to him, and Lan Xi started eating without hesitation.
He Wei: ...?
The tofu pudding stall sold many flavors of tofu pudding. Lan Xi bought them all out of curiosity and almost vomited when she ate the salted fish tofu pudding.
Xie Yunsui gave him the regular spicy tofu pudding in his hand.
Lan Xi desperately ate the spicy tofu pudding to suppress the fishy taste in her mouth. As she ate, she complained, "Salted fish tofu pudding is still too novel..."
"Can we share a table?"
A female voice came from her ear. Lan Xi looked up and saw that it was He Wei. She nodded and said, "Okay."
He kindly recommended: "The regular sweet, salty and spicy ones are all fine, but the others are all unique in their own way. If you don't have a strong tolerance for them, I suggest you don't try them."
"Okay." He Wei ordered a bowl of sweet tofu pudding.
While waiting, she asked about Gu Miaoyang's condition, and after learning that Gu Miaoyang was still alive, she said nothing more.
The fresh tofu pudding was very hot, and He Wei was not eating quickly, so she overheard Lan Xi talking to the NPC.
At first she thought Lan Xi was just asking the NPC for clues and information, but as she listened, she felt something was wrong.
"There aren't many entertainment activities here. There's a pottery shop in front where you can go and have some fun."
"Let's go make pottery in the afternoon. I want to go boating in the river in the morning."
"Okay, I'll go talk to someone and borrow a boat. What would you like to eat for lunch?"
"What's here?"
"There's an old craftsman who's very good at cooking duck. One duck can be used in ten ways."
"Just go to his place."
…
Those who are gathering intelligence have found out that they can eat ten of the ducks?
He Wei couldn't help but ask: "Don't you have a boyfriend?"
Lan Xi was stunned and turned to look at Xie Yunsui.
He Wei couldn't help but look at Xie Yunsui twice more, and then found that this NPC was particularly good-looking.
Gentle and handsome, he has a completely different style compared to other NPCs.
She suddenly understood: "That's right, enjoy life while you can."
Anyway, we are in the copy, and the boyfriend outside can't come in. After leaving the copy, the boyfriend in the copy won't leave.
Lanxi:! ! !
Wait! You seem to have misunderstood!
Xie Yunsui smiled kindly: "Xiaoxi?"
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