The man in the windbreaker looked Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian up and down. "This seems even more impossible. They look like two poor bastards."
Xiao Tangqiu: "..."
It hurts!
The only possessions he had were a flashlight and hemostatic agents, and all his points combined weren't enough to buy him a practical weapon...
To sum it up in one word, poor!
At this moment, Shen Yuan, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke: "What is your first mission?"
Xiao Tangqiu was stunned for a moment. He obviously didn't expect Shen Yuan to actually speak to him. He stared at Shen Yuan blankly for a while before hurriedly explaining, "It's just a D-rank mission..."
After he finished speaking, the man in the windbreaker raised his eyebrows: "The final mission has been upgraded? From a D-level mission to an S-level mission, this is really unheard of..."
A girl glanced at Xiao Tangqiu indifferently and explained, "It's not uncommon for missions to mutate and upgrade, but they usually only increase by one level, such as from B to A... Usually, this happens when a player performs well in a dungeon mission, and the system determines that the player has great potential, so the mission level will be increased."
"What is the system?" Xiao Tangqiu couldn't help but ask the question he wanted to ask most.
"The supreme will of the Abyss City, you could also think of it as the Lord God," the girl said calmly. "It can dictate the life and death of players. It's a powerful force above all other players. All the rules of the Abyss City are set by it."
Xiao Tangqiu nodded thoughtfully, while Tang Mianmian beside him chuckled, "Doesn't the system think we have great potential?"
The other girl rolled her eyes immediately: "You all failed your mission, what qualifications do you have to say this?"
Tang Mianmian hid behind Xiao Tangqiu embarrassedly. Xiao Tangqiu subconsciously looked at Shen Yuan in the crowd. Shen Yuan's eyes passed over him lightly, as if he glanced at him, but also seemed not to look at him.
"You will be with us on this mission."
Hearing Shen Yuan's cold voice, Xiao Tangqiu was stunned: "Me?"
"Brother Chen!" The more outgoing girl immediately pouted in dissatisfaction, "He's just a newbie, why do we want him to come with us?"
The cold girl also frowned slightly: “Brother Chen, do you want to reconsider it?”
The man in the windbreaker curled his lips and said nothing, but his expression clearly showed that he did not agree.
"Brother Chen," the cold girl paused and began to persuade, "If it was any other mission, even an A-level mission, bringing a newcomer wouldn't be a big deal, but this is an S-level mission. If we're not careful, we might not be able to get out..."
Shen Yuan interrupted her calmly: "I have made up my mind."
The girl bit her lip and stopped persuading him.
Shen Yuan looked at Xiao Tangqiu again: "Do you want to join us?"
Xiao Tangqiu couldn't believe his ears. Shen Yuan actually invited him to join the team?
Although he didn't know why, he immediately agreed: "Of course! But can my friend come along?"
Shen Yuan glanced at Tang Mianmian calmly, and Tang Mianmian immediately held her head high and chest out to show off: "I'm very strong... and I eat very little!"
Shen Yuan nodded: "Okay."
Xiao Tangqiu smiled: "Thank you..."
Shen Yuan glanced at Xiao Tangqiu, but quickly looked away: "Open the door."
Xiao Tangqiu scratched his face: "I don't know how to unlock..."
How come he can't unlock it?
"I'm not talking about you," the outgoing girl said, glancing at Xiao Tangqiu. She raised her hand and took off the hair tie she was using to tie her hair. Then she pulled out the wire from the hair tie and squatted in front of the brass lock. "Although there are more convenient and quicker ways to do it, we can't let anyone see us right now, so we can only use this relatively gentle method."
Xiao Tangqiu stared in amazement as the girl fiddled with the keyhole for a few seconds. After a moment, the brass lock opened.
"Holy crap! There's even this kind of operation!"
Tang Mianmian at least remembered that they were doing something bad secretly, so she didn't shout loudly, but just lowered her voice and said "awesome".
"What a fuss!" The girl glanced at Tang Mianmian and put her hairband back on. "Brother Chen, are you coming in?"
Shen Yuan nodded, and then was the first to enter the attic.
Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian were the last to fall behind. When they walked into the attic, they found it was dark and there was not even a candle.
Xiao Tangqiu quickly took out a flashlight and turned it on. The man in the windbreaker gave him a half-smile and said, "Well, it seems you can at least provide some light."
Xiao Tangqiu: "...then...thank you?"
Under his lighting, everyone finally saw the whole picture of the attic. It seemed to be an abandoned attic, full of old and broken furniture, and some messy wood, which seemed to be some extra scraps.
The place was covered in dust. The furniture was covered in dust, and there were many spider webs in the corners and cracks. The pungent smell of smoke and dust was unpleasant to the touch.
Xiao Tangqiu frowned and pinched his nose, then started searching the attic with the others. Although no matter how you looked at it, it was just an abandoned attic, and there seemed to be nothing except some old and broken furniture.
But how could such an ordinary attic become a taboo among the people in this castle?
"There's a bookcase here," the cold girl seemed to have found something and turned to Shen Yuan and said, "There are some books on the bookcase..."
Shen Yuan walked over and picked up a book.
When he opened the title page with his slender and beautiful five fingers, Xiao Tangqiu moved closer curiously, only to find a string of English letters - "Alice".
"Alice? Who is this?" The cold girl frowned slightly. "Could it be one of Lepnobet's former wives?"
"Probably not," Xiao Tangqiu thought of the music box and said solemnly, "Lepnobet's second wife was named Maria, and the third wife is unknown yet, but Alice... should be his daughter."
"How do you know?" The cold girl was a little skeptical.
Without waiting for Xiao Tangqiu to explain, Shen Yuan said calmly, "This really does look like a child's handwriting."
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