Midnight, the corridor on the third floor of the villa.
Xiao Jin silently closed the large door behind her, hastily covering the broken chain. Then, she leaned against the door, her eyes vacant, seemingly... lost in thought?
Immediately, Xiao Jin also raised his hand. At this moment, the actions of the two people in different spaces seemed to overlap.
For Xiao Jin, this kiss was a first, whether in her past life or this one. As for how it felt, it seemed pretty good so far.
As for her thoughts on Jian Yiqiu.
I like him? I probably do, but it's more about impulse and infatuation.
In this perilous world, love and romance are too much of a luxury; physical attraction is much more direct.
In short, Xiao Jin was lusting after Jian Yiqiu's body, and Jian Yiqiu was quite to her liking, so everything fell into place naturally.
Okay, okay, I don't want to think about it anymore!
Xiao Jin shook her head.
However, she had only taken a few steps when a system notification sounded in her mind—[Ding! The Red Team has successfully defeated the BOSS-level Polluted Toy, reward points +5000]
Almost at the same moment, Xiao Jin's body began to shrink, and the familiar magnified perspective returned. A few seconds later, she turned back into a cotton doll.
"Tsk." Xiao Jin looked down at her soft, limp hands.
However, this time the 'pollution boss' was defeated by our own team, so Chu Yuan and his team must have put in a lot of effort.
Without time to think, Xiao Jin quickly moved along the corridor toward the bedroom.
Before she even reached the bedroom, Xiao Jin bumped into Chu Yuan and the others who were returning.
"Huh?" Chu Yuan was surprised.
"I'm so glad to see you! Why weren't you here for the boss battle?"
Xiao Jin glanced at the players behind Chu Yuan. They all seemed to be in good spirits, as if they hadn't suffered any losses, and there was even a hint of smugness in their expressions.
They had the boss stolen by the blue team yesterday, and those guys have been resentful ever since. It looks like they'll get their revenge tonight.
"I've discovered a side quest," Xiao Jin said briefly, but she didn't mention Jian Yiqiu's existence: "There's a locked room on the third floor, you all probably know about it!"
Upon hearing that Xiao Jin had triggered a side quest, the group envied her good fortune.
Everyone knows that games are notoriously stingy with main story rewards; the real prizes are in the side quests. Once this side quest is triggered, the Xiao Jin dungeon is considered complete.
Even if they lose in the end and don't get a large number of points, the rewards from the side quests alone will be enough for Xiao Jin to eat her fill.
The group nodded: "We know, it's so obvious, only a blind person can't see it!"
Xiao Jin continued, "I went in, and inside is the workshop for making polluted toys..." Then, Xiao Jin told all the players the complete world view of this instance that Jian Yiqiu had told him.
It even included his subsequent tasks.
Xiao Jin wasn't being magnanimous; rather, she believed that once she released Jian Yiqiu, the dungeon would undergo irreversible changes.
She hadn't forgotten that this was a confrontation with Ben.
With the players on the red team prepared, unnecessary losses will naturally be reduced.
"What?" exclaimed one of the players, who had turned into a plastic literacy machine. "So those NPCs are the players, and the toys are the humans?"
Xiao Jin nodded: "Yes, at the same time, they also use the power of the author to pollute the humans in this world. Those we killed were the original inhabitants, but after being polluted, they lost their consciousness and became complete monsters."
A few strands of cotton peeked out from Chu Yuan's severed leg. He scratched at it irritably, "This dungeon is getting weirder and weirder..."
As soon as he finished speaking, several players walked out from around the corner; they were from the blue team. Upon seeing Xiao Jin and the others, their faces all showed anger.
However, perhaps because they had been taught a lesson, these players from the blue team didn't dare to say a word.
Xiao Jin immediately locked onto Chu Yuan based on her intuition. Chu Yuan picked at his ear, but because of the toy's body, he could only touch his head with his soft hand.
He seemed completely oblivious to the blue team player on the other side.
His arrogant demeanor elicited another series of grinding teeth sounds...
In this eerie atmosphere, the sound of a door opening suddenly came from one side of the corridor, instantly shattering the peace among the players!
"Someone's coming!" Tong Xiaolu jumped down from the curtains, her metal legs making a dull thud on the carpet, but she moved quickly and instantly hid behind a flowerpot.
Xiao Jin, Chu Yuan, and the others also made their escape very quickly.
Unfortunately, a few players remained standing there, dumbfounded. When the door was pushed open, they met the boy rubbing his eyes.
"I'm so thirsty..."
The boy walked to the desk in a daze, picked up the water glass, and gulped down a few mouthfuls. Just as he turned to leave, he suddenly stopped.
"Huh?"
His gaze fell on the corner—where several players stood stiffly in place, their plastic bodies trembling slightly as they looked at the boy.
The air froze.
The next second, the boy's scream pierced the night sky—
"Aaaaah! The toy moved! Another moving toy has appeared!!!"
The villa was instantly illuminated!
"What's wrong? What happened?" The woman's voice came from upstairs.
"Mom! The toys are alive! I tidied them up before I went to bed, but now they're in the hallway!" The boy backed away in terror, knocking over the bookshelf.
Two players who hadn't managed to hide fell to the ground with a thud, and could only grit their teeth and frantically flee under the villa owner's eerie gaze.
"Damn it..." Chu Yuan's low curse was drowned out by the chaos.
When the man and woman and the servants rushed into the room, this was what they saw: a plastic soldier dragging a broken leg under the bed.
The gears of the robot toy spun wildly, trying to stand up; a fluffy duck even flapped its wings, trying to fly away, although it only flapped three centimeters before falling back down.
The woman's face instantly darkened: "They're heretics..."
"Arrest them all!" the male homeowner roared, grabbing a broom from the corner and lunging forward.
Xiao Jin made a quick decision and whispered to the red team player next to him, "Run! Hide if you can, don't go back to the bedroom!"
Chu Yuan's teddy bear rolled into the ventilation duct, Tong Xiaolu's springy legs kicked out of the window, and Xiao Jin took advantage of the chaos to slip to the door and escape towards the kitchen along the shadows of the corridor.
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