129 Enter the instance
My son also lost money.
"I agree with your point of view, but the fact is..." Qin Fu paused, then used a barely appropriate word to describe it: "This godforsaken place, it has taken my wife hostage!"
Kong Yu: "?"
For a fleeting moment, Kong Yu wondered if there was something wrong with his ears, but he never doubted that Qin Fu'an had a partner.
Meeting his suspicious and incredulous gaze, Qin Fu'an nodded with a sorrowful expression: "What I said is true. My wife has been kidnapped by them, and I'm still trying to find a way to save her. Otherwise, I wouldn't be getting deeper and deeper into that hellhole."
As he spoke, he added quietly, "All my possessions were swindled away, and now I'm practically penniless."
Kong Yu: "..."
Kong Yu has lost control of his facial expressions.
He grabbed Qin Fu'an by the collar with an almost ferocious grin, glaring at the young serpent cub and demanding, "You've lost everything you own?!"
Qin Fu'an paused for a second, then said softly, "My son was also lost."
Kong Yu: "!!!"
At this moment, the way he looked at Qin Fu'an had completely changed.
It's the look in the eyes of someone with the ultimate romantic mindset.
It is a feeling of disappointment and frustration towards children who have gone astray.
It was a vicious and cruel feeling that made them want to grab Qin Fu'an by the collar, shake his brains until they were splattered, and then give him two more punches.
But all the turmoil eventually turned into a powerless self-comfort: "Calm down, I need to calm down, at least... at least you haven't ruined yourself yet."
As soon as he finished speaking, Qin Fu'an smiled innocently at him, her light green eyes crinkling, "Yes, they're sending me wives. I've hit the jackpot."
Kong Yu: "..."
Call the police! I need to call the police!!!
Evil forces are using despicable and vile methods to lure my innocent and love-struck child away!
"Get out of here right now!" Kong Yu was furious for the first time, kicking Qin Fu'an in the shin and shooing him away in a fit of temper.
It seemed as if if he looked at him even once more, he would pick up a broom and clean up the mess for the Tengshe clan.
Qin Fu'an rolled away smoothly with his hands raised.
She showed no remorse for infuriating Kong Yu, her long, narrow eyes slightly upturned, clearly pleased with her successful mischievous act.
In the now quiet office, Kong Yu sat quietly for a while, propping his forehead up with his hand. Soon, he summoned all the little monsters currently on duty and off duty from the Demon Management Bureau.
"Go and investigate all the demons, both registered and unregistered but whose addresses you know. Be sure to probe them indirectly first, then observe whether these demons have increased in strength in a short period of time. Also, investigate whether any demons have died without warning."
“Make a comprehensive list of all suspected demons, then keep a close watch on them. If anything seems amiss, report it to me immediately.”
Recalling the information in Qin Fu'an's words, Kong Yu pondered for a few seconds and continued, "If we can confirm that there are indeed abnormal demons, don't question them directly. First, ask them if it's a place where once you go in, it's hard to be free again. If so, have them exchange contact information and try not to get close to humans. Let them stay in their respective territories and wait for us to contact them."
After arranging everything he could think of, Kong Yu rubbed his aching temples. Thinking of Qin Fu'an's words, which were seven parts true and three parts false, he couldn't help but take a deep breath, feeling even more exhausted.
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When Qin Fu'an returned from the Demon Management Bureau, Xie Zeyuan had already gotten off the plane with Xi Ya.
When the two arrived at the empty villa, Xi Ya looked around at this unfamiliar place, still thinking about her own corpse.
Upon seeing Qin Fu'an, she took out the corpse and placed it neatly in the center of the triangle formed by the three of them.
“On the plane, Yuanyuan told me that the reason it came with me was because there was a soul inside its body that did not belong to this body.”
Xi Ya frowned and explained, "But Brother Qin, you killed him yourself, and you watched me collect his body. What went wrong?"
Qin Fu'an shook his head and said in a deep voice, "No, I didn't kill him back then."
It is Xie Yunhuai.
"The rose branch pierced the heart; the soul of this corpse could not possibly still be alive." Qin Fu'an, who could see the soul of a living being, was the most qualified to speak on this point.
"Then let's see what kind of soul this is." Xie Zeyuan said, spreading his hand towards the two of them. A dark, ethereal soul was revealed in his pale, bloodless palm.
"What is this?" Xi Ya asked in surprise, leaning closer.
Qin Fu'an raised his hand to block her forehead from touching his, then stared at the ball in Xie Zeyuan's palm and pondered, "Does it look familiar?"
Xie Zeyuan had never experienced that instance, so he simply gave him the soul body to study while he went to find the spirit tea to brew.
"I also think it looks familiar." Xi Ya frowned, racking her brains but to no avail. Frustrated, she said, "Sorry, it's too ugly. My brain might be a little reluctant to recall it..."
Qin Fu'an: "No need to recall, I know who it is."
Qin Fu'an tossed the clump of souls back to Xie Zeyuan and calmly said, "It's Lan Bai's crow."
"A crow???" Xi Ya was a little confused for a moment, and said blankly, "But... after I left the instance, wasn't the crow still in the instance?"
Upon hearing this, Qin Fu'an chuckled softly.
Not only that, that crow eventually turned into a white dove.
At the time, he thought it was just a setting in the game, since the game had already stated at the beginning that crows represented darkness and doves represented dawn.
The result was not the intended outcome, but rather that the crow's soul had already smuggled itself into the real world along with Xi Ya.
After briefly sharing his guess with Xie Zeyuan, Qin Fu'an teased him with great interest: "Now you don't need to smuggle your soul out of the game instance. Maybe before we even saw it, countless ghostly souls have already come to this world, hiding in places the players themselves don't even know about."
After saying that, he even curled his lips in great pleasure and said slowly, "It seems that the workload in Ghost City has been rising sharply recently. I wonder if your master and the others will be able to throw their soul-catching ropes until they are sparking."
Xie Zeyuan: "..."
If one day his master finds out about these things, and that he himself caused even a tiny bit of it, the Soul-Hooking Rope shouldn't be around his obedient disciple's neck... right?
However, their influence is not that great now. They are neither the heads of game guilds nor well-known high-level players in the game. It is not their place to worry about things like changing or controlling the monsters to come out of the dungeon.
Therefore, Xie Zeyuan quickly let go of the last vestiges of worry, went to work in the underworld on time every day and was scolded by his master, and spent the rest of the time lying dead in Qin Fu'an's villa.
A true corpse lying down.
Sometimes Xi Ya would bring out her collection of corpses to bask in the sun and moonlight, and Xie Zeyuan blended in without feeling out of place at all.
Qin Fu'an had already asked Kong Yu to put in a good word for him at the special office countless times. Fortunately, there was a protective array nearby that also prohibited drones and other electronic flying objects; otherwise, he would probably have been reported and imprisoned long ago.
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Time flew by, and it was the last day of my break.
During this week, Kong Yu actually found seven unlucky guys on the demon race side who had been accidentally dragged into the game.
Kong Yu created a group chat, and the moment he handed over the group owner's job title to Qin Fu'an, he was kicked out of the chat.
Qin Fu'an looked at the few unlucky guys in the group whose demonic characteristics were very obvious and shook his head helplessly.
A black bear demon, a mushroom cub, a three-tailed white fox, a pair of twin dog demons, a sparrow demon, and a camellia demon.
It has everything that flies in the sky, runs on the ground, and grows in the soil.
However, he didn't have a detailed chat with them yet, because after kicking Kong Yu out of the group chat, Qin Fu'an went into the game with Xie Zeyuan and Xi Ya.
There are still no team cards this time.
Or rather, after the three members of the team scraped together enough money to buy a team card for their team leader, Xiya, they were once again declared bankrupt.
In fact, this was exactly what Qin Fu'an and Xie Zeyuan wanted.
"Try to lengthen the time interval as much as possible so that we don't match up with each other," Qin Fu'an said, holding up three to indicate that he would be the last to enter the instance.
Xi Ya nodded in understanding, then turned to Xie Zeyuan and said, "Yuanyuan, let's both enter at the same time. If we can be matched into the same instance, you can help me search for souls while I'm encoffining the corpse. If we're not in the same instance, we'll try to make sure we can leave the instance around the same time, so we can take care of each other a little."
Xie Zeyuan tilted her head and smiled: "Okay, I can't carry anything, so I'll need the captain to take good care of me."
Standing in front of the dungeon entrance, the Funeral Crew entered in an orderly fashion.
[Please select a dungeon——]
[Currently available dungeon types of Tier 4 and below: Normal, Hard, Evil, Competitive, Cooperative, Solo, Double Points, Containment, Maintenance, Faction...]
Qin Fu'an discovered that as players' levels increased, the types of dungeons they could choose from also increased, and he estimated that the rewards from dungeons would also increase significantly.
He stared at the "Double Points Book" for a full ten seconds before looking away and touching the "Single Player Book" without hesitation.
In fact, he never intended to run the dungeon with his teammates from beginning to end.
Because there were seven unlucky little demons waiting for him outside, Qin Fu'an chose to play a single-player game first, planning to speedrun it and then leave more time for them.
Although time is the same outside, the flow of time in the game is different. The longer the time, the greater the test on the demons' condition. Qin Fu'an still wants to ensure that he is in the best condition possible when leading these demons.
After all, the demon race is small. They are not human, and the development of intelligence requires the right time, place, and people. Even fewer can successfully transform into human form in this era of declining Dharma. It can be said that every demon that can speak human language is a precious seedling of the demon race. Losing even one would break the heart of the entire demon race.
Qin Fu'an has taken care of many demon cubs over the years, but as a cub himself, he has also been cared for by many demons, so he cannot treat the demons with the same detached attitude he has towards humans.
Just like he could watch Xie Zeyuan get beaten half to death in the game, but he wouldn't allow his little cloud in the dungeon to have even a single flower branch damaged by the players.
In conclusion, he, Qin Fu'an, is a demon who is extremely biased and protective of his own.
Before I knew it, the copy had been selected.
[Solo dungeon currently in matchmaking -]
[The dungeon is locked. The dungeon shop is now open for a limited time of 5 minutes.]
In the past, Qin Fu'an would buy the most expensive items at the very top of the shop without batting an eye, but this time... this time he closed the shop without blinking and chose to enter the dungeon directly.
Thank you, but I can't afford it, so please don't bother me.
[Player detected entering dungeon. Live stream will start simultaneously. Please prepare for the live stream.]
[Author's Note]
Kong Yu: Beware of all types of online and offline scams during holidays.
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