Because Xia Bao'er was with them on this trip, not everyone entered the instance.
Zhao Maomao was still shaken by what happened on Bird Island, so she volunteered to stay outside the instance to look after Xia Bao'er and wait for everyone else. Therefore, only Xia Chuhe, Lu Dangui, Li Qiusheng, Wang Yan, Bu Yi, and Li Yue entered the Animal World instance this time.
Before entering the dungeon, Bu Yi used her special ability and hesitated before saying, "Great fortune."
Bu Yi's expression wasn't very pleasant.
Under Xia Chuhe's persistent questioning, Bu Yicai finally said, "After great fortune comes great misfortune."
Bu Yi forced a smile: "I've never gotten such a result before, so it might not be accurate. I'll calculate it again after the auspicious day."
Xia Chuhe asked once, but only received two words in response—"wait and see."
Xia Chuhe was speechless at the ambiguous wording used by Wenji regarding his supernatural abilities.
Considering that Li Qiusheng and Bu Yi were entering the Peach Blossom Village instance for the first time, the other four people specially protected them in the middle, and Li Yue even held one of them in each hand.
The moment she stepped into the instance, Li Yue exclaimed, "Something is pulling them!"
The other three immediately reached out and grabbed Li Qiusheng and Bu Yi.
However, that force tore at Li Qiusheng and Bu Yi's bodies with an irresistible force.
Li Qiusheng cried out in pain, "Boss! It hurts! It hurts so much!"
If they keep tearing like this, Li Qiusheng and Bu Yi's arms will be torn off.
Xia Chuhe immediately let go: "Let go!"
The others let go, and Li Qiusheng and Bu Yi's figures were quickly pulled away.
Xia Chuhe shouted, "Remember, after you draw an animal, try your best to keep it and don't hand it over! But if you follow the rules, you'll definitely survive! Especially you, Qiusheng!"
The two figures receded into the distance, and it was unclear whether Li Qiusheng heard their last words. Whether they chose to live or to create more trouble was up to them.
Xia Chuhe reminded his teammates, "It seems this is the difference between the first and second times we entered Peach Blossom Village. Everyone who went in the second time died, simply because they entered a completely different place. We need to be careful!"
Before the words were even finished, countless dark shadows swiftly pounced on the group, enveloping the four of them completely, leaving them nowhere to hide.
Xia Chuhe and Wang Yan desperately launched fireballs, Lu Dangui threw out two throwing knives, and Li Yue crouched down and fired her gun.
A slender black shadow shot out from Xia Chuhe's wrist, emitting a low, hoarse hiss.
The dark figure in the air cowered uncontrollably, completely losing the courage to attack.
After landing, the dark figures kept retreating. Only then did Xia Chuhe and the others realize that they were a group of large black rats, numbering at least a dozen.
The thing that ran out of Xia Chuhe's wrist was the little snake that she had decided to keep outside.
The big black rats, frightened by the little snake, all transformed into human form.
Lu Danggui showed no mercy, swiftly reaping the lives of the dozen or so large black rats as if cutting grass.
Having briefly escaped danger, Xia Chuhe and the others looked around at their current location.
This still looked like Peach Blossom Village, because not far in front of them stood the familiar lucky draw wheel. The only difference was that the wheel was covered with a thin layer of dust, as if it hadn't been turned for some time.
Further out, the peach grove was no longer as quiet as before; instead, many other animals were present: horses, sheep, pigs, dogs...
This reminded Xia Chuhe of the Free City where rats had been judged.
There are two possible explanations for the current situation.
First, the current Taoyuan Village and the previous Taoyuan Village are not the same village; they only have a similar layout.
Secondly, during the time they were away, Tiger and his companions had defeated the gods, overthrown the established system, and made every Peach Blossom Village a free village.
Xia Chuhe looked at the corpses on the ground: "Do you remember how many rats we drew and how many rats we handed over when we first entered the Peach Blossom Village instance?"
Li Yue counted on her fingers: "On the first night, I think I drew nine, and after that... I don't remember."
Wang Yan diligently wiped the turntable clean: "Boss, didn't you bring the Rat Killer? You're not afraid of how many come, right?"
Just as Xia Chuhe was about to approach and examine the turntable, Li Yue suddenly said, "Wait a minute."
She used a dagger to cut open the back of her ear, pulled something out of the wound, threw it on the ground, and crushed it.
“I have something to tell you. I’m one of the higher-ups, and I belong to a different department within the same organization as Jin Zhong. My job is to gather information that the higher-ups need. I started collecting information about you the moment you stepped into my shop. I’m sorry about what happened with Bao’er before.”
Li Yue was extremely candid: "I wanted to tell you before, but I never had the chance. As long as we're in the store, there's no privacy in our conversations. This Animal World instance is the only instance that Jin, he, allowed me to enter, so I can only tell you here."
After Bao'er was kidnapped, Xia Chuhe deduced through the process of elimination that Li Yue was likely the informant, or one of the informants.
When Li Yue asked her to help buy gene potions last time, she guessed that Li Yue might confess in the dungeon.
However, this could also be another order Li Yue received—to feign surrender so that Xia Chuhe would take her away from the base, and then continue to monitor Xia Chuhe's movements.
It's a pity that the farm can't be accessed in Peach Blossom Village, otherwise we could see Li Yue's loyalty and thus determine whether she is genuinely surrendering or using a trick.
Xia Chuhe raised his hand and wiped behind her ear, and the wound healed.
"You're injured, and blood has stained your hair. Don't you cherish your hair?"
Li Yue smiled sadly, gathered her hair, and cut it off fiercely with a dagger: "These precious strands of hair have never belonged to me. My hair, my body, my clothes, my skills, my shop... none of them belong to me."
Her hair, brutally severed by a dagger, hung neatly beside her ears without any embellishment. Li Yue seemed like a completely different person, transformed into a battle-damaged version of Dora.
Li Yue slightly unzipped her clothes and pulled them back, revealing the skin on the back of her neck, where a stone entwined with vines was tattooed.
She is an artificial human; her identity code is hidden beneath her tattoos.
"So, what do you want me to do?" Xia Chuhe asked knowingly.
“You don’t have to do anything. I want to make it up to you.” Li Yue gave you a coordinate where she could find things that her trustee had hidden. She had originally planned to use these things to get Xia Chuhe to take her away, but now it seemed unnecessary. She had already severely overdrawn her trust in Xia Chuhe.
No one will believe a liar, a traitor.
Li Yue had made up her mind; she was going to die in this instance. The butler had said that no one had ever come out of this instance, so this would be her final resting place.
Peach Blossom Village has plenty of ingredients; you can make so many delicious dishes...
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