Chapter 65 Safe House
Four days passed in a flash.
The Blood Red Town dungeon is also coming to an end.
At twelve o'clock in the noon sky, a hole appeared in the clouds.
The faint sunlight fell like holy light.
But it couldn't dispel the bloody smell in the air.
In the ruins of the church that was almost completely soaked in blood, the players endured from night to day, and almost everyone tried their best to clean up the countless blood-sucking monsters that were gestating inside.
Among all the players, Lin Shao stood out.
He used highly targeted attacks, indiscriminately targeting the monster eggs and other creatures that came rushing over. With the help of force, he easily took the top spot.
Until the end of the copy.
As Lin Shao tried his best to insert the special silver cross provided by the safe house into the BOSS's heart, he was still shouting the advertising slogan.
“Safe house customization is great!”
At the same time, the scene at the Yunshan old house was completely different.
As usual, Xu Zhiyan slumped in his chair and played with his phone.
He looked at the screen and was almost moved to tears by Lin Shao's professionalism.
"If we didn't have a card system, I would definitely give him a VIP membership for free!" he said, wiping away non-existent tears.
[Should we introduce a membership system?]
Safe House System exclaimed.
"I'm just saying... um, but this seems like a good way to make some money."
Xu Zhiyan touched his chin and seriously considered the possibility of granting membership to players.
"When players enter the safe house for the first time, they only need to pay 5,000 points to become permanent members. If they enter again, all purchases will be discounted by 10%..."
But later he thought about it and gave up the idea with tears.
"Forget it, we are still in the development stage."
Five thousand is too little. When the subsequent construction level is reached, wouldn’t it be too much of a loss to pay a membership fee of five thousand? Especially for customized items, the price is determined by the item.
But if we charge too much and the current construction level cannot keep up, the number of players applying for cards will be greatly reduced.
"We'll talk about it later when the construction is more advanced."
Xu Zhiyan shook his head and sighed.
He put his phone down and looked around.
In the pleasant courtyard, Lao Yang took out a pile of bricks from a box and was thinking about building a barbecue grill. Qu Ji next to him was also taking apart a pile of cardboard boxes. Judging from their sizes, they were all filled with furniture.
The other monsters were helping to figure out how to install the disassembled furniture.
All this is because the interior decoration is finished!
The decoration team that Lin Shao stole are indeed professionals, much better than those players who were temporarily hired to do the work.
In just four days, the entire safe house lobby was transformed.
However, because all the NPCs in this copy are suspected to be vampires, the style of the hall has gradually deviated from the warm and simple style that Xu Zhiyan originally expected to become a dark Gothic decoration.
But as the dungeon is about to end, I’m not sure if I can still catch suitable workers in the future.
Xu Zhiyan thought about it a few days ago and decided to turn a blind eye and simply let this group of NPCs who looked like vampires have their fun.
Today is the last day.
The results are encouraging.
Although it only looks like two floors from the outside, once you come in you can see the towering vaulted ceiling.
The black dome has the beauty of wrought iron, but it unexpectedly blends in with the warm-colored walls in the lower half. Several exquisite windows were opened on the originally opaque walls, and traces of colored glass can be vaguely seen. The heavy curtains with exquisite lace decorations hang down to the ground, showing the unique softness and smoothness of the fabric...
The most shocking thing is that this group of creatures who are obsessed with decoration not only decorated the interior, but also dispatched two people to redo the original mismatched wall appearance of the exterior.
After the entire old house was renovated, it no longer looked shabby and gloomy.
On the contrary, in the hands of these artistic blood-sucking creatures, it becomes more dangerous and beautiful, filled with madness everywhere.
In Xu Zhiyan's words, it's becoming more and more like a haunted house.
Liu Liu found a large express box next to Qu Ji and took out a lot of things from it.
Twenty or thirty hands worked together to stuff the unpacked items into gift boxes and wrap each gift box neatly.
The copy is about to end, and the NPCs of the decoration team cannot stay in the safe house.
They must leave before the instance is closed.
Otherwise, they will be forcibly recalled and destroyed by the main system.
The safe house that automatically logs into the dungeon only at night will reappear in the dungeon during the dungeon settlement period.
Just enough for the decoration team to leave smoothly.
These days, apart from working with hammers, shovels and blueprints, these blood-sucking creatures spend the rest of their time either eating maoxuewang or studying how to make maoxuewang.
So when the other party was about to leave, Xu Zhiyan waved his hand and asked Qu Ji to place an order for a lot of Maoxuewang seasonings and semi-finished products as gifts for the decoration team.
Seeing the copy settlement interface pop up, Xu Zhiyan stood up and straightened his clothes.
The blood-sucking creatures in the decoration team also received their respective gifts.
From the upturned corners of everyone's mouth, you can feel that they are also very satisfied with the reward this time.
The decoration team said goodbye to everyone in the safe house and left before the copy was completed.
But when they happily returned to the town with their gifts, walking on the fallen leaves on the path outside the swamp, they found that the place was no longer as prosperous as before.
The blood-red town was in ruins, with blood splattered everywhere.
The church at the end of town is in ruins.
The powerful creature, which was rarely seen before, turned into a pool of blood and had no breath.
#I went out to work for four days and came back to my hometown and it was bombed#
#What should I do if my house is gone after work? I am waiting online urgently. #
Several decoration workers were so nervous that they were shaking while holding their Maoxuewang gift boxes.
The fat boss waved his hand and went to the door to sniff.
After making sure there was no smell of outsiders inside, it turned around to comfort the workers.
"It's okay, let's go back and eat some maoxuewang first."
“Okay boss!”
"Long live Maoxuewang!"
“Yeah!”
“…”
The proposal was greatly appreciated by the workers.
In this way, the blood-sucking creatures who went out to work finally returned home happy.
On the other side, Xu Zhiyan looked at the settlement information that popped up and felt happy.
In Lin Shao’s live broadcast room, his personal results were displayed on the public screen.
[Calculating the player Lin Shao's personal total score. 】
[Mainline Reward Points: 5000]
[Branch (Quantity: 0) Reward Points: 0]
[Bonus points for eliminating monsters: 4850+5000 points]
[Number of monsters eliminated: 97]
[Number of BOSSes eliminated: 1]
[Overall copy ranking: 1]
As the copy rankings appeared, Xu Zhiyan knew that the time to reap the rewards had come.
【Players Xu Zhiyan & Lu 7 start a private guessing game. 】
[Bet: 3,000,000 points]
[Bet content: Can the player Lin Shao win No. 1 in the current copy?]
He deliberately turned on the sound of points being credited to the account and changed it to a sound effect of money colliding before continuing to scroll down.
[Congratulations to player Xu Zhiyan for winning this guessing contest! ]
3 million points turned into the sound of coins falling, echoing in his ears. Xu Zhiyan couldn't help laughing as he listened.
"Don't be too greedy."
He muttered, not knowing who he was talking about.
After listening to it, the system always felt that something was wrong.
[Your characteristic is greed.]
"I'm different. I'll die if I'm not greedy."
Xu Zhiyan was confident and justified.
Just after I finished chatting with the system, a pop-up window suddenly popped up on the live broadcast panel that had not yet been closed.
【Player Lu 7 requested a temporary session. 】
"A temporary session?"
Xu Zhiyan raised his eyebrows. It was the first time he saw something like this.
[The main system is still relatively good at protecting player privacy. If you don't want it, you can refuse it.] The system thought that its host didn't want to talk anymore.
"It's okay, let's see what this person wants to say."
As he spoke, Xu Zhiyan clicked to agree to the temporary session.
The next second, his phone interface jumped from the empty live broadcast room to a temporary dialog box.
In an apartment in City A.
Lu Qiyi had already picked up the stainless steel ornaments in his hand and smashed the decoration of the house to pieces to vent his hatred.
The two bed partners he had paid for were frightened by his sudden madness. Seeing that the situation was not good, they made an excuse to go out to buy things and never came back.
After being hit until he was completely exhausted, Lu Qiyi collapsed on the living room floor.
The soles of his feet were pierced by various fragments and blood was oozing from the cuts, but he didn't care and his eyes were dull.
There were broken chandeliers and shattered color TVs around me. The circuits of the electronic products that were originally hidden behind the plastic material were exposed. After a brief crackling spark, the circuit breaker tripped with a "bang".
The room with thick curtains drawn suddenly darkened, leaving only a ray of sunlight to penetrate through the gap, shining on his bare back and the debris on the ground.
He turned his back to the window and stared at the temporary conversation window on his phone with a crazy look.
[The other party has agreed to start a temporary session...]
[Lu 7: Xu Zhiyan, can you return the money to me? You are not short of money. These three million points are just a drop in the bucket for you, but this is all my belongings! ]
After typing this sentence tremblingly, he pursed his cracked lips.
【Xu Zhiyan:? 】
[Xu Zhiyan: If Mr. Lu wins this time, will he return the money to me? ]
When Lu Qiyi saw this sentence, he was suddenly stuck.
How is that possible!
How could anyone in this world throw away the money they earned?
As soon as the thought came to his mind, he understood.
Lost points cannot be regained.
On the other end of the conversation, the messages are still increasing.
【Xu Zhiyan: Why is Mr. Lu silent? 】
[Xu Zhiyan: Speaking of which, Mr. Lu is so skilled in private guessing, he must have asked many people to guess for him, right? I wonder how much Mr. Lu earned when he guessed with others? ]
Lu Qiyi was breathing heavily, looking like he had been hit.
That’s right, relying on his own characteristics, he often hangs around in the live broadcast room to make guesses.
In the first 12 hours, it is difficult to tell whether a player is good or not, so there are many viewers who just want to watch the fun or feel sorry for making the wrong bet and frequently post comments.
He took advantage of this mentality of everyone. After often encouraging people in the barrage, he would select a few people with poor eyesight to start private guessing games.
Most players rarely participate in this kind of guessing. From time to time, when he meets a novice, he will add an extra 0 to the bet, or change an item that the opponent is bound to lose.
If it's discovered, just say it's a wrong number.
If you don't get noticed, you'll make a lot of money.
There's nothing to lose anyway.
Since Lu Qiyi targeted newcomers most of the time and didn't mess with people who were really capable, even though he cheated a lot of points, he was not targeted by anyone.
If Xu Zhiyan hadn’t offered such a high price this time, and the other party hadn’t acted so carefree and had no shortage of money…
Lu Qiyi seemed to have thought of something and suddenly replied.
[Lu 7: You will die! You will definitely die in the next dungeon! Someone has already got the list of punishment dungeons, and you will be killed by them! ]
After saying this, he couldn't bear it any longer and threw his phone against the wall, breaking it into pieces.
These 3 million are all the money he has saved from betting for so long!
【The temporary session has been closed. 】
On the other side, Xu Zhiyan stared at the screen, a little dazed.
"Punishment copy list?"
What the hell is this? Is there anyone who can get a copy in advance and get on the list?
The safe house system also fell into a brief moment of thought.
After a while, it retrieved relevant content from the database.
[Punishment dungeons are usually customized for players who have committed serious violations.]
For example, Xu Zhiyan overturned the copy twice in a row, and the second copy seemed to be about to be upgraded to the highest level.
[Due to the different characteristics of players, some players with stronger abilities can influence the system's judgment in certain situations.]
[Someone has previously used intrusion-related features to try to manipulate the game system. Although the manipulation failed within the instance, if the other party persists, they may be able to obtain relevant instance information in the shell.]
Speaking of this, the safe house system is very grateful.
Fortunately, it only stays in the safe house with iron walls!
Otherwise, before it is upgraded, it will be full of loopholes and will definitely be controlled if it encounters that player!
"……shell?"
Xu Zhiyan frowned slightly, but when he thought about it, it seemed reasonable.
The shell is the space built purely by the main system.
If the system within the game is only a part, then the system inside the shell will be finely divided.
It seems possible for players with specific skills to get the copy list in advance.
"Who was the player who was penalized for intrusion?"
Those who can obtain the list in advance are most likely to have relevant characteristics.
[Replying to the host, the last player who was penalized for intrusion has died. It was a long time ago in the system files.]
"Okay, I understand."
Xu Zhiyan nodded, still a little concerned about the information given by Lu 7.
Who could 'they' be?
After touching his phone, he first transferred 30,000 points to Jiang Huaiqie, then switched back to the normal interface, found Jiang Huaiqie's contact information, and sent him several messages in a row.
After I finished all this, I realized that it was already afternoon.
[Host, should I arrange for you to search for new clues in the shell now?] The system also saw Lu 7's message and became a little nervous.
Xu Zhiyan stood up and shook his head.
"No, we'll talk about that shit tomorrow."
"Today the new shareholders of the great safe house are going to have a barbecue!"
He snapped his fingers and pointed toward the gate.
The next second, the doorbell rang.
The express delivery I ordered this morning has arrived!
Qu Ji put down the work in his hands, ran to the door skillfully, and told the delivery guy that it was inconvenient to open the door and asked him to just leave the food at the door.
It waited until the delivery guy left before it sneakily opened the door.
After making sure that there was no one outside the door, Qu Ji stretched out his hands and brought in the boxes wrapped in tinfoil that were stacked up to half a person's height.
After looking at the order information above, it was very surprised.
"Brother Xu! It's meat! Are we really having barbecue today?"
Xu Zhiyan looked at Qu Ji and the excited monsters behind him, waved his hand and smiled.
"Well, I also ordered beer takeout, but Qu Ji you can only drink juice."
The frog eggs we brought back from the dungeon last time were well received and the monsters in the safe house liked them very much.
But after seeing the monsters' weird diets, Xu Zhiyan would order more takeout when he occasionally ordered these days, trying to feed the monsters some food from the human world.
This opened the door to a new world.
Almost all monsters become fascinated and unable to extricate themselves after trying all kinds of delicious food in the human world.
Qu Ji drank beer secretly for the first time and soaked in the pool in the courtyard for a whole day. He insisted that he was a fish and wanted to change rooms.
The other monsters are not much behind.
Xu Zhiyan couldn’t finish the barbecue he ordered the night before.
He just washed his hands and came back to find that the monsters had not even spared the plastic bag containing the barbecue, and had swallowed up the bamboo skewers and tin foil.
The experience of forcing the monsters to spit out plastic bags late at night was too terrible. Some monsters even cut open their stomachs out of grievance to let him take out the plastic bags... Xu Zhiyan quickly shook his head to get rid of those horrifying scenes.
"Everyone is off work today, take a break."
He cleared his throat and stared at the monsters in the yard.
Now the interior and exterior decoration of the safe house is complete, and the furniture is almost all there. The installation will not take a day or two, so why don’t we all take a holiday to celebrate.
Turning his head to look at the box of meat, Xu Zhiyan began to doubt whether this amount of meat was enough...
Just when he couldn't help but take out his mobile phone to place an order, Qu Ji seemed to have thought of something and suddenly rushed upstairs.
A few minutes later, Xu Zhiyan looked at the body parts held by Qu Ji and fell into deep thought.
"Brother Xu! Can you grill this? I think this will taste better than beef!"
Qu Ji's eyes were sparkling, and the eyes of the other monsters who were looking at Xu Zhiyan also became watery and full of longing, without any of the fierceness that monsters should have.
The monster room in the safe house serves as a resting place for monsters and provides unlimited food that the monsters like.
Xu Zhiyan was at a loss. The expressions of these employees inexplicably reminded him of Xiaoyi.
The dog also had this expression when he wanted to be patted on the head.
"It's okay."
He finally relented.
Amid the monsters' cheers, Xu Zhiyan turned around, stared at Lao Yang, who was trying to hold back his laughter, and gave serious instructions.
"Build two stoves, one big and one small."
Barbecuing separately from the monsters was his last act of stubbornness!
The safe house will not enter two copies on the same day. Today, I just left the blood-red town, and until the sun set, the sky still looked familiar.
Occasionally, vehicles pass by the Yunshan old house.
When all the drivers saw the house, they felt that it was pitch black inside and they could not see anything, just like an abyss. The ominous premonition made their hearts pounding and they could not help but step on the accelerator and leave quickly.
However, the old house was bustling with activity.
A group of monsters who had never enjoyed any pleasure since their birth had never seen such a large-scale barbecue event.
Except for the beginning when everyone was a little reserved, they completely let go later on, especially after opening the two boxes of beer, when they let themselves go.
At first, Xu Zhiyan was able to guard his own small oven, but later, when he saw that a fight was about to break out over at the big oven, he felt that he was almost full, so he gave up his small oven and started drinking with the monsters.
After a while, Xu Zhiyan looked at the monsters who were getting stronger and stronger after drinking, and finally he was defeated.
Seeing everyone having fun in the yard, he took the plate in his hand and two cans of beer and came into the room drunk.
There was a hole on the long table without the shrine.
Xu Zhiyan climbed onto the long table skillfully and covered the hole with a plate. He then opened two cans of beer, placed one next to the barbecue, and took the other in his hand, tilting his head back and drinking half of the can.
Just as he was about to drink it all in one gulp, a hand clamped his wrist.
"…Don't drink so hastily."
Ghosts appeared at some point, and a low, hoarse voice came from above.
Xu Zhiyan put down the can, wiped his mouth, and asked, "Bai Jin, aren't you going out to play? Everyone is having fun."
The ghost paused, not expecting that the young man in front of him would call out his name so directly.
"I don't like crowds."
He replied calmly, with a hint of tenderness in his voice.
Hearing this answer, Xu Zhiyan shook his head, looking like "I really can't do anything about you".
"I think you still want to go out and play."
He finished the remaining half of the can and counted on his fingers.
"Several times, every time I fed them, you couldn't help but look at me. You thought I didn't know, but in fact I knew everything."
The ghost looked at the slightly tipsy young man, and his nonexistent heart began to beat.
Had His eyes, which had been following the young man closely, been discovered?
Then, is His hidden thought also...
However, Xu·Master of destroying the atmosphere·Zhi·Contestant allergic to romance·Yan's next words made the ghost give up the idea of expressing his love.
"Bai Jin, are you greedy?"
Xu Zhiyan tilted his neck back, and a drunken blush appeared on his fair skin.
"If you want to eat it, just tell me. It's okay. We have nothing to do with each other. I'll buy it for you secretly. Don't worry about being an idol!"
He patted his chest, looking like he was just a brother.
After saying this, he seemed to be afraid that the other party would not be able to adapt.
Xu Zhiyan quickly picked up the plate and stood up, looking at the ghost at eye level, picked up a piece of barbecue from it, and handed it to the other's mouth.
"Come on, let's eat alone."
"Ah—open your mouth!"
However, he forgot that he had already had a drink outside, and after sitting down, he gulped down another can of beer. The alcohol content in his blood was too high, and he was a little unsteady on his feet.
Just when Xu Zhiyan thought he was going to fall, a tail as thick as his wrist tightly wrapped around his waist.
Worried that he couldn't hold the meat in his hands, he finally turned around and stuffed it into his mouth.
These are all bought with money, we can’t waste them!
The ghost looked at the young man in front of him helplessly and couldn't help but want to hold him in his arms.
Action is always one step faster than thought.
By the time he reacted, the drunken young man was already in his arms.
Xu Zhiyan felt his vision turn around and he seemed to see Party A’s chin.
But his mind was numbed by alcohol and he didn't notice the problem.
He looked at Party A's hard and cold lips, and suddenly became stiff, and hurriedly got out of the other's arms.
After standing firmly, Xu Zhiyan put his hands on the ghost's shoulders, stared at the other's lips with burning eyes, and spoke curiously.
"Bai Jin, do you have a tongue?"
Before he regained his sight, he didn't know whether his Party A ghost had eyes, but before he regained his tail, he could clearly see the translucent shadow.
What does the other person's mouth look like if they don't have a tongue?
Probably drinking to give him courage.
Seeing that the ghost was stunned and did not answer, Xu Zhiyan was so bold that he stretched out his hands to grab the sides of the other party's chin and pinched Party A's mouth open.
The next second, the view reversed again.
Before he could see clearly what was happening, he was stuffed into the ghost's arms again.
"You should rest."
The restraint in that voice startled Xu Zhiyan, who was already half drunk, and made him sober up a little.
He felt that the other person was holding him and walking upstairs.
He couldn't help but struggle and pointed to the opened beer can on the table.
"But the wine is not finished yet."
The next moment, the tail that had just been wrapped around his waist rolled up the opened beer.
Xu Zhiyan was a little dumbfounded.
Is the tail so useful?
The ghost looked down at the dazed young man, sighed, and took him back to the bedroom on the second floor.
By the time He put him on the bed, the young man who had been chattering about wanting to see His tongue a minute ago had fallen asleep.
The bright moonlight shone on Xu Zhiyan's face.
The long eyelashes sway with the breath.
Casts an arc-shaped shadow under the eyes.
He tilted his head back and drank the somewhat bitter beer.
The ghosts and gods don't seem to understand why humans like this kind of thing.
Gently place the empty can at the head of your bed.
Before leaving, He leaned over and placed a reverent kiss on the forehead of the sleeping young man.
This is His moon.
It was the one who woke Him up from the bottom of the water.
Xu Zhiyan was the only light in His long and painful darkness.
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