Chapter 104 Congratulations on clearing this dungeon...
After returning home, Xu Yi basically didn't leave her room and didn't hear any electronic voices coming from her, so she was certain that Miao Xin was still alive.
She doesn't have much to do at home. According to the timeline, the daughter she's playing is currently on summer vacation, so it's fine for her not to go out.
However, people still come to knock on the door at night.
Once, Xu Yi tiptoed over and took a look, and there was the auntie with her grandson outside the door.
Her expression was normal, but from a different angle, you could clearly see that her face had been burned, and her hands and feet were twisted in a strange way.
Perhaps sensing that Xu Yi was looking at her through the peephole, she pounded on the door even harder, her scarlet eyes pressing closer to the peephole, as if trying to see what was happening inside.
Xu Yi looked at it, rubbing her knuckles. She was fine dealing with the strange things.
For a fleeting moment, she had an impulse to open the door, rush out, twist off the monster's head, and kick it like a ball.
Don't act impulsively. As long as you don't break the rules, she won't go inside.
Xu Yi nodded, telling herself not to act impulsively.
She also has her own tasks.
Just as she was about to retreat, Xu Yi's "father" peeked out from the kitchen and smiled at her, "Yi Yi, what are you doing standing at the door?"
Xu Yi just smiled and shook his head. The banging on the door was so obvious, it felt like they were going to smash the door open, but they didn't react at all.
Perhaps it's because this is a strange world, so many strange things are normal in the eyes of these ghosts.
Xu Yi walked over and said softly, "It's nothing."
"Come on, come on, dinner's ready," Xu Yi's parents said to her.
"Mom" handed a plate of flavorful eggplant to Xu Yi. "You love eggplant the most. Your dad specially learned how to make it online. Try it and see if it's good."
"And there are also your favorite plum-flavored spare ribs and cola chicken wings."
Xu Yi looked at the parents in front of her, opened her mouth, and wanted to say, "I am not your daughter."
Don't feel pressured, just play the role of their daughter well.
Xu Yi ultimately didn't say anything and ate and chatted with the "parents" in front of her.
Before going to sleep, she glanced at the countdown. There were less than twelve hours left. If nothing unexpected happened, she and Miao Xin would be able to clear the game by tomorrow morning.
In the middle of the night, Xu Yi waited for the sound of the window being smashed, but this time it didn't come.
I could smell a strong odor of smoke.
Xu Yi paused for a moment, then sat up and took a sniff. Yes, it was indeed the smell of thick smoke.
Unlike the faint smell of smoke that had permeated the air before, it now felt as if something was burning.
The temperature in her room rose.
Xu Yi quickly got up and ran outside. Smoke was seeping in through the cracks in the door; it really was on fire. When she put her hand on the doorknob, she could still feel its scorching heat.
She had it on her body; even though it was hot, opening the door was still no problem.
Just as Xu Yi was about to turn the doorknob, she suddenly remembered something, turned back, and knocked hard on her parents' bedroom door.
"Mom and Dad, there's a fire! Get up quickly, there's a fire!"
But there was no movement inside the room, and no one came to open the door.
The smoke in the room grew thicker and thicker, and even with superpowers, one couldn't escape the physiological reactions caused by the smoke.
The fumes stung Xu Yi's eyes, making it almost impossible for her to see, and also made it difficult for her to breathe.
Go to the bathroom, wet a towel, and cover your mouth and nose quickly.
Xu Yi ran to the bathroom, grabbed her towel, wet it, and then slammed the door shut.
She couldn't break it no matter what she tried.
The smoke in the room grew thicker and thicker, and Xu Yi couldn't help but squat down.
Although she knew it was a strange world and that her parents were not human, in her eyes they always looked like normal people who cared about her and cooked delicious food for her.
That feeling was just like her real-life parents.
Xu Yi couldn't bear to let them be burned to death.
Here, eat this.
Xiang Bei gave Xu Yi a powerful pill, and Xu Yi swallowed it without hesitation.
After eating, Xu Yi felt her strength return, and with a burst of energy, she smashed open the door.
The parents lay motionless in bed. Their bedroom window was open, and thick smoke was drifting in from outside. The smoke was even thicker inside the room than outside.
Xu Yi wrapped a wet towel around her cheeks and pushed it a couple of times, but neither of them reacted.
She simply carried one on each shoulder and rushed out.
When Xu Yi touched the doorknob, she got burned this time.
The fire had somehow spread to their doorstep. If they hadn't been cheating, the doorknob would have been so hot from that brief touch that they could have peeled off a layer of skin.
Xu Yi opened the door with a wet towel wrapped around her arm. A wave of heat hit her face, and the hallway was also on fire. There was a huge fire outside, so there was no way to get out.
She had a flash of inspiration and thought of the pond downstairs.
And the rules mentioned above.
Opening the living room window, you can indeed see the pond.
She tried it out: first, she tied something to "Mom and Dad's" heads to prevent them from hitting their heads when they fell, then she threw them into the pond through the window, and then jumped in herself to retrieve them. She figured there shouldn't be any problems.
It's better than waiting here to be burned to death.
She's stronger now, so lifting two people isn't a problem, not to mention Xiang Bei is giving her hints, even drawing a parabola for her.
Following that parabolic trajectory, she threw her parents into the pond, and then Xu Yi jumped in herself.
She took the things off her parents' heads in the pond and threw them away, then pulled them ashore, and finally climbed up herself.
The fire started strangely, engulfing the entire building, and she even heard painful screams. However, given that it was a strange world, Xu Yi didn't question why the fire was burning so irrationally.
The fire was so big that it seemed like no one had escaped, and no one had come out from the other floors either.
They couldn't leave through any of the other doors, so Xu Yi took her still unconscious parents to the east gate.
On the way, they encountered Miao Xin, who was carrying her mother down the mountain. Her "mother" was also unconscious. She used to have long hair, but now most of it was burned off, and she looked disheveled.
She was lucky; she lived on a lower floor, and when the fire reached her, the situation was discovered in time, and the stairs were still usable.
Miao Xin smiled immediately when she saw Xu Yi.
"I'm so glad you're alright. I wanted to go up and warn you, but the fire was too big for me to get up there. I could only carry Mom down first."
No sooner had he finished speaking than a huge explosion was heard.
"Let's go!" Xu Yi shouted at Miao Xin.
The fire seemed to have engulfed the entire building. It also triggered a natural gas explosion. They felt their legs trembling, but at that moment, there was no turning back; they could only run forward as fast as they could.
After exiting through the east gate, Xu Yi put the person down.
Miao Xin also put down her "mother," knelt on the ground, and gasped for breath.
Once outside the residential area, the smell of the fire seemed to have disappeared, and the sound of the explosion seemed far away, but when they looked over, it didn't feel too far.
They didn't have cell phones and couldn't make calls. Just as they were watching, they heard the sound of fire trucks.
They saw fire trucks coming into the community one after another, but no one paid any attention to them, not even their parents lying on the ground. It was as if they were being shielded from view.
Miao Xin slumped to the ground, looked at Xu Yi's parents, and then at the "mother" she had carried out on her back. She couldn't help but laugh.
“As long as I don’t break any rules, my mother treats me quite well. My own mother has never been this good to me.”
Miao Xin said that her father passed away a long time ago. After her mother remarried, her stepfather's family did not agree to her going with them, so they left her with her grandparents.
My grandparents are old and have underlying health conditions, but even so, we still try our best to treat them well.
After her grandparents passed away, she was sent to her uncle's house, where her biological mother provided her with a token amount of living expenses.
But living under someone else's roof, how could everything go as she wished? She could only be obedient and sensible, and study hard.
“Actually, I really want to be willful just this once. I’m quite envious of my mom’s younger brother, who was born later, and he can just ask for whatever he wants. In this strange world, my mom would buy me a lot of things on her own initiative, so even though I know she’s a monster, I still want to save her,” Miao Xin said, looking at her mother lying on the ground.
Xu Yi didn't say anything, but patted her shoulder and sat down back to back with her.
"Actually, it's not so bad. I have a lot more freedom after entering university," Miao Xin said with a smile.
The two looked up at the time; there were still less than six hours left.
They leaned against each other, and while talking, they unconsciously fell asleep.
When they woke up, their parents, who had been lying next to them, were gone, and the neighborhood in front of them was severely burned.
The fire truck is also gone.
The two went inside and took a look. There were no security guards at the entrance, and they didn't see a single person in the entire community.
The intact floors were deserted; only an entire building was charred, and the air still lingered with the smell of fire.
Several nearby buildings were affected by the blast wave, and their windows were shattered.
A newspaper fell from the sky, and Xu Yi reached out and caught it. It reported the cause and effect of the fire in the community.
It all started with the little boy they had met before.
The woman was taking her grandson to the supermarket to buy groceries. When they were crossing the street, the child saw the green light and ran across, but he tripped and fell. A drunk driver came speeding towards them. The woman was some distance away from the child and didn't have time to react. The car ran over the child's legs.
The child was later taken to the hospital, but ultimately could not be saved.
The driver offered the woman money to settle the matter privately, but she disagreed. He was her only grandson, and they had taken his life. Why should she accept a little money and let it go?
She persisted in suing the drunk driver, which ultimately led to her death.
The drunk driver came from a powerful family and became very impatient with the auntie's constant nagging, so he paid someone to warn her.
The person they hired was also unreliable; he brought a can of gasoline to the old lady's house and gave her a warning.
He even said that if she continued to cause trouble, he would kill her and send her to the underworld to reunite with her grandson.
The woman cursed them for being heartless, saying that her grandson was dead and she didn't care about anything else. She grabbed a kitchen knife and was ready to fight them.
The other party was only trying to scare the old lady, but they didn't expect it to actually lead to a death. In the ensuing scuffle, they spilled the gasoline they had brought with them, and the fight spread to the kitchen. The fire on the stove got wet with the gasoline and burned even bigger.
The man broke free from the woman, saw that his clothes were on fire, and ran towards her as if he were rolling.
The woman also caught fire, but driven by her hatred for her enemy, she chased after them.
The fire then spread to the entire building.
It was already the middle of the night, and although some residents were awakened, the fire hydrants had no water, so they shouted for help and called the police.
No one expected the fire to be so large, and it even triggered a natural gas explosion.
The incident escalated to such a high level that it couldn't be suppressed on the trending topics list. After the firefighters extinguished the fire, they investigated the source of the fire and discovered the incident at the woman's house.
"Drunk driving, killing someone, and then going to the victim's house with gasoline to threaten them—this kind of person deserves to die!" Miao Xin cursed through gritted teeth.
"That beast!"
Xiang Bei, realizing she had ended up here because of being hit by a car, also cursed a couple of times.
Those who drink and drive deserve to die.
It's one thing to be irresponsible with one's own life, but to put others in danger as well.
Xu Yi looked up at the burned-down building in front of her. That bastard wasn't satisfied with killing the child; he also killed everyone in the entire building.
How could such a scourge exist?
Newspapers reported that the incident had a huge impact, and there were calls online for the real culprit to be found and severely punished. During the investigation, the police discovered the source of the fire and followed the unidentified male corpse to find the hit-and-run driver who had hired the perpetrator.
This is a huge matter; even the driver's family can't cover it up.
"That's outrageous! How dare he warn people to let it go?" Miao Xin said angrily.
Such a person deserves to be torn to pieces.
There was only one report in the newspaper, and it was very detailed. The rest of the pages were blank, which was probably intentionally meant for them to see.
Xiang Bei herself was hit by a car that ran a red light and ended up here. She can't even imagine how she felt after being hit by a car, and then the other driver went and warned her parents not to cause trouble.
This is outrageous!
The system said, "The things in the Ghost Realm are actually things that happen in other worlds. Those ghosts were originally living people. After tragic events, they were chosen by the Ghost Realm to become ghosts."
The realm of ghosts is dangerous because if you accidentally do something wrong, you will be killed by those ghosts, or you might even be eaten.
In the realm of ghosts, ghosts can devour those who do not follow the rules.
Xiang Bei relayed the important points to Xu Yi.
Tell Xu Yi and the other girl that the reason they were able to pass the dungeon was because they both chose to save their parents.
This level looks simple, but there are some hidden rules.
It's like when a fire breaks out, if Xu Yi and Miao Xin try to run away, one will be kicked out of the instance, and the other will be killed by her monstrous mother.
Xu Yi frowned, feeling saddened as she thought about how her "parents" had already suffered the pain of being burned to death.
They were reluctant to turn on the air conditioner, so they opened the windows to let in fresh air. Unexpectedly, they inhaled thick smoke, fell into a coma, and were eventually burned alive.
"They must have suffered terribly when they were burned to death."
Miao Xin thought Xu Yi was talking to her, so she quickly nodded, "Who says otherwise?"
The countdown above has ended.
The electronic voice sounded again.
Congratulations to both players for successfully completing this dungeon!
A door appeared in front of them.
Miao Xin also obtained an item called Angel Wings through this dungeon.
It is said that using the Angel Wings allows one to fly for a short time, but if used for an extended period, the wings will dissolve.
Miao Xin took the prop, assuming Xu Yi had also received it, and looked around before saying, "Let's go."
Xu Yi saw that Miao Xin had received the reward for this level of the dungeon. She was waiting for her own reward, but it didn't appear after a while. She was a little confused as to why she didn't have any items.
Hearing Miao Xin's words, he nodded first and followed Miao Xin into the door.
After Xu Yi came out of the door, she was not greeted by a new instance world; she returned to her own room.
"Strange, how did I get back?" Looking at the familiar scene, Xu Yi thought the new instance was the same as her room. After switching perspectives several times, she realized that she had really returned to her own room.
"Tongzi, what's going on?" Xiang Bei was also puzzled.
"Wait a minute, let me take a look." The system glanced at it and came to a conclusion.
"Host, I've found the reason. It's like this: Xu Yi wasn't chosen by the strange world. I put her in through connections. Each instance of the strange world has a different person in charge. The previous person in charge is not the same as this one. That person in charge didn't recognize stowaways and rejected Xu Yi. You wait, I'll find other people to pull some strings for me."
Xiang Bei: "...Smuggling? Boss, didn't you say you were better than them? Is your relationship only worth one copy?"
To put it bluntly, Xu Yi was a nepotism hire who got in, and she also had such a big advantage that the person in charge of the instance who had been contacted was able to accept her in.
They wouldn't let her into the instance without prior notice.
Moreover, since she already has a cheat code, it's not suitable for her to take items from the dungeon. So while others get item assistance after clearing the dungeon, Xu Yi only has a seemingly ordinary cheat code.
Xiang Bei rubbed her forehead, never expecting such a thing to happen.
"Even if you want to use connections, you still have to go through the process one by one, right?"
"Well, there's nothing we can do about it. Luckily, I recently met a leader who handles infinite flow dungeon missions. In the realm of the supernatural, its network is incredibly extensive; there's no dungeon leader it doesn't know. Wait a minute, I'll contact it."
Xiang Bei felt back at the time when she first learned of the existence of the system, and that unreliable feeling returned.
"Are we still going?" Xiang Bei asked Xu Yi.
“Yes, I went.” Xu Yi nodded.
Xiang Bei sighed, but ultimately said nothing more.
Wait a moment, I'll think of something for you.
"Okay." Xu Yi nodded.
Just as she was about to sit down, her door opened.
Yu Meiling was still somewhat incredulous when she saw her daughter sitting in the room.
"Xiaoyi, you're back?"
"Mom." Although only a few days had passed in the strange world, Xu Yi felt like she hadn't seen her mother for a long time.
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