Chapter 117 Night Moon Town (7)
"Still can't get in touch?" Cheng Danyang saw that Zhang Tao's expression was not good, so he said, "How about we try our communication channel?"
"That second-high is strange? Nobody can contact her, right?" Bai Jin's appearance was too sudden, and Zhang Tao couldn't completely believe it.
Furthermore, he was only considering a temporary collaboration with Cheng Danyang and could not fully disclose his true intentions.
Cheng Danyang didn't have much time for that. He opened his communication device and first contacted Gou Wenyan. Then, through Gou Wenyan, he relayed the message to Bai Ye, who then asked Bai Ye to find a way to notify Bai Jin.
This roundabout approach to achieving the goal actually worked somewhat.
She looked up with a smile, about to speak, but when she saw the person opposite her looking increasingly grim, she couldn't help but frown.
"What, you don't want to know?" Cheng Danyang had a feeling that Zhang Tao seemed very dejected at the moment.
"Go ahead," Zhang Tao said, looking up.
Cheng Danyang then spoke up: "Brother Gou told Brother Bai that Brother Bai used the [Infinite Communication Card] to contact Bai Jin. The two of them have already gone up to the seventh floor. Because they are busy destroying the treatment pods, they don't have time to pay attention to anything else."
After a pause, Cheng Danyang added, "By the way, Kong Yuehan asked us to pass on a message to you: don't trust the player's screen, and retrieve the important items as soon as possible."
After saying that, Cheng Danyang began to operate on his own, taking out all the usable prop cards inside.
Finally, in an even more outrageous move, he removed his own health bar from the screen.
"You!" Zhang Tao was utterly stunned by what he saw.
After Cheng Danyang finished peeling it off, he chuckled and said, "Brother Gou and Brother Bai both said this thing isn't safe, so I definitely trust them. Perfect timing, Brother Lei and I have figured out a way to partially peel it off, do you want to dig it out too?"
Zhang Tao was torn between his feelings and his decision, but in the end, he was so bewitched that he actually agreed.
Once his life points were completely stripped away, an unprecedented sense of ease swept over his entire body.
He looked at the other side in surprise, his mind racing, and finally forced three prop cards over.
"What?" Cheng Danyang asked, completely bewildered.
"A reward, thank you for your method."
Cheng Danyang, who felt nothing like Zhang Tao, was puzzled, but she didn't dwell on it and happily accepted the three cards.
Bai Jin and Kong Yuehan were on top, while Cheng Danyang and Zhang Tao were on the bottom. The two teams searched for the secrets within the building.
Meanwhile, Gou Wenyan and Bai Ye, having cards meant they were all powerful, and they quickly opened up a fixed channel.
When I saw the eerie convenience store again, the scene before me was completely different.
“The two spatial dimensions overlap.” Bai Ye stood in the open space of the convenience store, rotating his body left and right, and could clearly see the two parts inside and outside the game instance. They existed separately, yet were completely integrated.
But at this very moment, they also caught his eye.
Gou Wenyan, through Bai Jin's gaze, saw even more.
The shop owner, in particular, used to look respectable, but now he's just a blurry shadow.
"A puppet?" Gou Wenyan murmured to himself.
Bai Ye turned his head, asking in confusion, "What puppet?"
Gou Wenyan pointed tremblingly to the recliner in the middle of the convenience store, "Shop owner, it's an illusion, a shadow."
Bai Ye was shocked. Just as he turned his head, the shop owner who had been lying down stood up and floated to the two of them in the blink of an eye.
He looked her up and down, and finally fixed his gaze on Gou Wenyan. "I've finally found you. It's you who ruined my lottery pool."
"What?" Gou Wenyan didn't understand.
The shop owner snorted, "You must have cheated. You always make a profit from the lottery. I clearly set the probability to 10%, so how come you can get 100%?"
"No, you're way over 100%!"
The shop owner was heartbroken; almost half of what he had earned from other human players over the years had gone to Gou Wenyan.
"I'm not human, you're a real dog!" The shop owner's heart was bleeding.
One second he was pounding his chest in frustration, the next he quickly changed his expression and questioned the two of them about what they were doing there.
"You have been blacklisted from my shop. From now on, all purchases for the prize draw will be cancelled."
"Especially you!"
After the shop owner finished speaking, he scurried back onto the recliner like a gust of wind.
Bai Ye couldn't understand why just two hundred prop cards could enrage the shop owner so much.
But soon, he seemed to remember something, turned his head and asked in a low voice, "Wenyan, what other cards are you hiding?"
"Huh? No, I took them all out." Gou Wenyan pretended to be stupid.
Bai Ye chuckled, "Go ahead and tell me. I know you definitely have some trump cards up your sleeve. We've connected and solidified the passage between the dungeon's small world and the convenience store, but if we want to connect the convenience store to Nightmoon Town as well, we probably can't do it without the shopkeeper's help."
Operating on someone else's turf without the owner's permission, Bai Ye believed that the shop owner was definitely capable of kicking them out.
Gou Wenyan hesitated for a moment, then took out the last three prop cards he had hidden.
Bai leaned closer to take a look, and lo and behold! He simply couldn't believe it.
[Nine Deaths and One Life], [Summoning Spell], [King's Judgment].
Although we don't know what these cards are for, just by looking at their names, we can tell that they are all high-end cards.
Gou Wenyan: "The [Nine Deaths and One Life] card is for surviving desperate situations. As long as I have the will to live, the monsters can't kill me. However, this is a one-time use card."
"【Summoning Spell】is used to summon a strange army, which I can't use, but this card can be used by Bai Jin, which might be a surprising move."
"And there's [The King's Judgment]. I never understood what it meant until you mentioned the power of judgment. Hmm... I think this card might have been drawn for you."
Gou Wenyan had already arranged the three cards and had a plan in mind as to who should use them.
Bai Ye never expected that two of the three cards were actually prepared for him and his daughter.
Looking at the person in front of him, Bai Ye's feelings were complicated.
"Hey, hey, don't look at me like that, it's creepy. I'm just trying to save my life. I think Bai Jin is very strong, and I didn't originally plan to consider you, but since you can use the power of judgment, I now think you might also be able to save my life in a critical moment."
Gou Wenyan was telling the truth; his plans were entirely based on his own interests.
Bai Ye was still very moved and secretly vowed: if possible, he would try to get another revival ticket and take Gou Wenyan out with him.
After discussing for a while, Bai Ye asked Gou Wenyan to use the "King's Judgment" card as a bargaining chip to negotiate with the shop owner about opening a passage.
To everyone's surprise, the shop owner wasn't interested in this card; instead, he wanted another one: [Summoning Spell].
"What? Boss, you want to summon the wind and rain? What are you going to do with all those weirdos? Have a brawl?" Gou Wenyan snorted.
The shop owner glared at him, snatched the card, and wiped it away with his hand; the card vanished without a trace.
"Idiot, [Summoning] isn't what you're talking about. Never mind, I'm too lazy to explain. But let me make it clear beforehand, you can only create portals in the corners, so don't ruin the overall aesthetics of my little shop."
Looking at the dilapidated and outdated decorations, Bai Ye couldn't see anything beautiful about them.
However, following the boss's request, we chose the most remote location and used the twelve cards again to create a permanent, fixed passage connecting to Night Moon Town.
While they were working, the shop owner watched with interest and said, "You two humans, why do you have to figure this out? Just focus on making money in the dungeon game, earn enough to exchange for a resurrection ticket, and then leave."
"One of you is favored by the law, and the other is the king of lottery cards. You'll probably be able to collect them very soon."
Bai Ye turned his head and asked, "Boss, what are you thinking? Doing business inside and outside the instance, just to make money?"
"What else can we do? We're just trying to make a living."
"Is the shop owner's ability higher than the second-highest level of weirdness?"
"What, you want to try it?"
"I wouldn't dare, but boss, you've traversed so many dungeon games, I'd like to ask you about a mystery."
The shop owner was in a good mood. "Go ahead and ask."
Bai Ye then asked, "Do you know Yao Tao?"
"What the heck? Never heard of it."
"She took Lin Xiaojuan from the hospital instance."
Bai Ye clearly saw that the shop owner's expression changed very subtly when he heard the name Lin Xiaojuan, but it only lasted for a moment.
Then she lay there lazily, no longer looking in their direction, saying, "I don't know them, I don't deal with doctors."
Bai Ye chuckled inwardly, knowing he had never said that Lin Xiaojuan was a doctor.
He said no more and turned back to continue working with Gou Wenyan.
When the second passage was opened, the anticipated scene of passing through the passage and returning to Nightmoon Town did not occur.
Instead, they returned to Taozhizhi's house.
The two stood in the living room, looking at each other, completely bewildered.
"It failed?"
"No way!"
"Then why..."
"Wait, the communication is working."
Gou Wenyan tapped the screen and found that his personal information panel had changed. Much of the content was gone, replaced by a prominent "Savings Portion".
"What is this?" Gou Wenyan touched it lightly with his finger, but there was no reaction.
Bai Ye had a strong feeling that something must have happened to her daughter, so she took out an [Unlimited Communication Card] and handed it over.
"Contact Xiaobai."
Fortunately, Gou Wenyan is a card king, so he doesn't feel bad about using item cards.
Once the two sides established communication, Bai Jin output all the information at once:
"Father, Father's friend, I have destroyed the twelfth-floor treatment pod and extracted three golden threads."
[Additionally, I tested the two transparent layers; there was no function to randomly teleport to different floors, but I felt the building vibrate. I plan to test it a few more times.]
[Dad, I'm on the thirteenth floor. Can you and your friends come down to the thirteenth floor? I've made a small discovery.]
Gou Wenyan wanted to ask for more details, but the [Unlimited Communication Card] had stopped working.
Bai Ye: "It should be [weird] control, or it could be what Xiao Bai said, that their control became unstable after the golden threads were extracted."
"But the prop cards don't belong to the shop owner?"
As soon as Gou Wenyan finished speaking, he immediately realized something was wrong: "The shop owner is in cahoots with them!"
Bai Ye shook his head. "It shouldn't be, but the shop owner might be doing business on both fronts." He's an absolute egoist.
"So what do we do now? Shall we go out and go down to the thirteenth floor to take a look?"
Gou Wenyan stood at the door, unable to bring himself to open it. "Old Bai, what if that skeleton attacks us? It's dangerous for us to go out."
"What are you afraid of with so many cards?" Bai Ye didn't understand.
Gou Wenyan gave him a look as if he were a spendthrift, "Use it sparingly, you never know when it might be very useful later."
After saying that, he gritted his teeth, opened the door, and dragged Bai Ye down the stairs.
The two of them scrambled down one level after another, so fast that it seemed as if something was chasing them.
Perhaps it was luck, but I ran all the way to the thirteenth floor without encountering any danger.
Gou Wenyan reluctantly used another [Unlimited Communication Card], this time to receive a message from Kong Yuehan.
[Kong Yuehan: Bai Jin has opened the mezzanine space on the thirteenth floor. You may attempt to enter apartment 1304.]
[Kong Yuehan: Too much gold thread has been removed; communication should stop working soon. We'll figure out a solution.]
After receiving just two messages, the communication was disconnected again.
Bai Ye and Gou Wenyan exchanged a glance and tiptoed to the door of apartment 1304.
After some thought, he silently said "I'm sorry," and then quickly used [□□] to open the stranger's door.
The environment was pitch black; you couldn't see your hand in front of your face.
Gou Wenyan grabbed Bai Ye's arm and pulled her closer, saying, "Let's go together."
Bai Ye pushed open the door, holding the card in his hand, taking each step with a deep breath.
However, a miraculous thing happened.
After the two were completely immersed in darkness, a faint light suddenly appeared before their eyes. The light slowly shone on them, and they immediately felt a strong sense of dizziness.
When they opened their eyes again, it was pouring rain. Bai Ye and Gou Wenyan were standing next to a dilapidated bus stop.
"Where are we? Didn't we just enter someone's home? Where is this?"
Bai Ye looked at the wooden sign beside him that was about to fall over. Three characters written in red paint could be vaguely seen on it: "Zi Shi Cun".
He was immediately terrified.
"Wenyan, we may have entered a small instance world."
"What?"
"Resident 1304, no, it should be the 13th mezzanine that Xiaobai mentioned, is a small instance world."
Gou Wenyan looked at the wooden sign and shook his head. "Zi Shi Cun? What kind of dungeon game is this? I've never heard of it before."
"It's a dungeon I've experienced before, with many strange plants."
As Bai Ye spoke, he looked up and gazed into the distance. In the heavy rain, the entrance to Lijia Village was barely visible.
"Let's go into the village first and take a look. If it's the same instance I experienced, then the two elders of the Li family must be quite cunning. The entire Li Family Village is also very friendly."
He paused, then added, "Those plants don't harm people either."
Bai Ye led Gou Wenyan forward, pondering as they walked: Wasn't this instance collapsed? Now that it's recreated, is it still the same one as before?
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