Chapter 76 The Real World He looked very calm, yet it seemed as if he was...
The rain was heavy, and the sky was a dark gray, making it impossible to tell whether it was day or night. Shi Yu hung up the phone, not bothering to check the time, grabbed her umbrella, and headed outside.
The house where Shi Yu lives is a two-story villa with a garden and a basement. The garden has a grove of bamboo, a fishpond and a rockery next to it, and a cobblestone path at your feet.
In the distance, Shi Yu saw a tall figure standing outside the fence with a black umbrella, with heavy rain behind him.
Shi Yu stepped into the rain and started jogging. He quickly reached the iron gate, opened it with one hand while holding an umbrella in the other, and said, "Why are you..."
Even with an umbrella, the rain was so heavy that it was useless. It was only a few steps from the entrance of the main house to the iron gate, but Shi Yu's clothes were almost completely soaked.
He didn't know how long he had been waiting for him in the rain.
Shi Yu didn't understand why Shen Su couldn't talk about it on the phone when it was raining so hard and so late, and why she had to come all the way there herself.
Before he could finish speaking, he was pulled into an embrace.
The embrace was cold. Shen Su carried the scent of night dew and grass. His clothes were soaked from his outer garment to his inner garment. Shen Su held him tightly in his arms. His face was pressed against Shen Su's wet shirt. Beneath the shirt was a warm chest, and he could hear the sound of Shen Su's heart beating.
Thump, thump.
Strong and powerful.
It seems he jumps a bit faster than him.
The hug happened so suddenly that Shi Yu's umbrella fell to the ground. Shen Su held him with one arm and tilted his own umbrella towards him with the other.
"Chen Su, let go of me first..."
Shi Yu felt uncomfortable being hugged so tightly, but after he made this request, he was hugged even tighter, and he felt a sharp pain in the waist area where his arms were wrapped around him.
Shi Yu had never seen such a deep and quiet place.
He looked very calm.
Yet it seems to be out of control.
"Shen Su, what's wrong?" Shi Yu had never comforted anyone before, nor did he know how. He recalled scenes of comforting people from TV dramas he had watched, and gently patted Shen Su's back with one hand. "What happened? Let go of me first, let's go inside and talk..."
Shen Su ignored him and didn't budge, so Shi Yu had no choice but to try again, racking his brains for comforting words: "Can we go inside and talk? The rain is too heavy, and I'm a little cold..."
Shen Su finally let go of him, handed the umbrella to Shi Yu, took off his trench coat to drench Shi Yu, then realized that the trench coat was even wetter than Shi Yu, so he stopped.
"Let's go in first," Shi Yu said.
Shi Yu held the umbrella, and then Shen Su took it from her. Although it made no difference whether the two of them held the umbrella or not, the umbrella was still tilted towards Shi Yu.
The two entered the room one after the other.
There was a small puddle of water on the carpet in the entryway.
"Brother Shen." Qiu Xiaoyuan, who was sitting on the sofa, called out to Shen Su, and Shen Su nodded to her.
Shen Su's demeanor was a bit strange today. The usually jovial person had no expression on his face at the moment. Qiu Xiaoyuan glanced at Shi Yu again and found that her brother was also expressionless, so she didn't say anything more.
Shi Yu took out a pair of new slippers from the shoe cabinet and handed them to Chen Su, saying, "The bathroom is the second room on the left on the first floor. Go take a shower first. There are bathrobes in the locker."
Shen Su changed into slippers and went to the bathroom.
These slippers were bought by Shi Yu and were too big. Although they were still a bit small for Chen Su, they were still more comfortable than disposable slippers.
Qiu Xiaoyuan looked down at the disposable slippers on her feet: "..."
Her cousin was probably a free gift when she bought a phone.
While Shen Su was taking a bath, Shi Yu went to boil some ginger soup. After Shen Su finished bathing, he came out wearing a bathrobe and sat on the sofa. Shi Yu ladled out two bowls of ginger soup, placing one in front of Shen Su and the other in front of himself.
Qiu Xiaoyuan stared at the empty coffee table in front of her: "..."
Yes, she really was a free gift with the phone purchase.
"Xiaoyuan, would you like some ginger soup?" Shi Yu belatedly realized that there was no soup for Qiu Xiaoyuan. He said to Qiu Xiaoyuan, "There's still some left in the pot, go get some yourself."
Qiu Xiaoyuan went to the kitchen, took a bowl, and lifted the pot lid.
That was indeed just "a little," not even enough to fill half a bowl...
Qiu Xiaoyuan put down her bowl, left the kitchen, and went to the living room.
"Brother, I'm not drinking anymore. I didn't get caught in the rain. I'm going to your study to play some games." Let whoever wants to be the third wheel can be; she's not going to be one.
While drinking the ginger soup, Shi Yu checked the game results.
[Congratulations to the streamer for clearing the game dungeon: "Shengjing Entertainment"]
[You spent a total of 30 days, 21 hours, 35 minutes, and 11 seconds in the game instance "Shengjing Entertainment," gaining a total of 468,765 followers. The highest peak viewership in your live stream was 3,707,569. In summary, you earned a total of 4,705 game coins in the "Shengjing Entertainment" instance. Game coins can be exchanged for the player's world currency at a 1:100 ratio and can also be used for in-game purchases within the instance.]
The streamer received 15 high-level item blind boxes, 30 mid-level item blind boxes, and 50 low-level item blind boxes. The game items obtained from these blind boxes can be sold.
Players will have a seven-day break after the game ends, which they may choose to forgo.
Players are prohibited from disclosing any game-related information in their world in any form.
Normally the game ends here, but the system lags and another message pops up—
[The streamer successfully completed the main quest and three side quests, gaining 100 favor points with the important NPC Lu Chengjing in the dungeon, and having Lu Chengjing modify the dungeon rules for them. Because the streamer's performance far surpassed 99% of other players in the same dungeon, the streamer can now unlock the advanced dungeon trial channel. Do you wish to unlock it?]
【whether】
Open the advanced dungeon trial channel?
Shi Yu's breathing slowed slightly when she saw those words.
Yun Yi once said that there is a way to quit the game in high-level dungeons. There was a legendary player named Jiang Liuyue who quit the game after frantically grinding high-level dungeons.
Shi Yu also wanted to try out the advanced dungeons, but because his streamer level wasn't high enough, he didn't know how many dungeons he would need to complete before he could enter an advanced dungeon. However, he was now able to access the advanced dungeon trial channel.
However, Shi Yu did not click "Yes" or "No" for the time being.
He can enter high-level dungeons, but since the streamer's level is too low, he can't enter. It's not very meaningful for him to enter high-level dungeons alone.
Shi Yu opened all the blind boxes he had obtained, and he got a somewhat special item:
Item Name: [Player Team Card]
Item Description: Players with a team card can invite other players to enter the game instance together.
(Note: The number of people invited is limited to seven, and there are no restrictions on the level of the invited players or streamers.)
Upon seeing the message "Advanced dungeon trial access available," Shi Yu felt a sense of "wish fulfilled," but upon seeing the item, Shi Yu felt no joy whatsoever.
He wanted to enter the advanced dungeon, and then he obtained the permission to "open the advanced dungeon trial channel". He wanted to enter the dungeon with Shen Su. Then he opened the "player team card" item. Isn't all of this too suspicious?
Shi Yu told Shen Su about obtaining the access to the advanced dungeon trial channel and opening the team item card. Shen Su slowed down his hair drying. His hair was still wet. He threw the towel aside and stopped drying. He inserted his fingers into his hair parting and brushed his forehead hair back, revealing a face with sharp and handsome features.
Shen Su's expression also turned serious. He said, "Before the finals started, I was forcibly kicked out of the game."
Shi Yu was taken aback at first, and then he understood why Shen Su's state was not right today. Was it because he was worried that Shen Su would not be able to appear when he used the mentor's help card?
"It's alright," Shi Yu comforted her. "The mentor help card can't be used in the finals. Even if you weren't kicked out of the game, I wouldn't be able to summon you."
Shen Su: "After I came out, I asked Qin Ke for information. Qin Ke said that usually, guests who are dropped in won't be kicked out of the game midway."
Shi Yu fell silent.
Shen Su then asked, "Did you notice anything strange about Yun Yi on the last day of the game?"
Shen Su was much more serious than usual today, so he probably wouldn't ask meaningless questions. Shi Yu thought for a moment and said, "There is a bit. His appearance when we were hiding in the cave was a bit strange, and the rain that fell when we were about to leave was also a bit strange. But this shouldn't have anything to do with Yun Yi; it's a problem with the instance itself."
Shi Yu thought for a moment and continued, "As for Yun Yi, I haven't known him for very long and I don't know him very well. Besides, people have many facets..."
"Besides the seven of you who formed the group, all the other players in this instance are dead," Shen Su interrupted.
"How could this be?" Shi Yu's eyes widened in disbelief. It took him a few seconds to process what he'd just heard. He sighed, "I didn't expect the completion rate for this dungeon to be so low..."
“It has nothing to do with the pass rate; these people were all killed by Yun Yi,” Shen Su said.
Shi Yu was startled again.
"After I was kicked out of the game, I entered your live stream. The fire was set by Yun Yi. He trapped everyone except you in the forest and burned them all to death. Strangely enough, you could have escaped the fire circle by moving forward a few meters, but those people seemed to be trapped in a maze. No matter how far they ran, they couldn't escape the fire circle and were eventually burned alive."
Shen Su's gaze fell directly on Shi Yu. He asked, "Is the Yun Yi you know such a ruthless killer? Or rather, is the Yun Yi you know capable of doing such a thing?"
Shi Yu fell silent again.
“Some players in the comments said that the system has no physical body, but everyone in the game can be its vessel.” After Shen Su finished speaking, Shi Yu murmured, “So, the things the system did while occupying Yun Yi’s body can explain why it suddenly started raining in a clear sky.”
"First, they opened the trial channel for the advanced dungeon, then they made me open a team card. It's like the system knows what we're planning to do? They deliberately dug a trap for us..." Shi Yu looked up at Chen Su, her almond-shaped eyes clear and clean under the light, her light-colored lips slightly parted, "So, should we go in?"
The two looked at each other for a moment, then Chen Su chuckled softly and asked, "Why not?"
"Isn't this the 'trap' we've been looking for?"
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