Chapter 15 The Infinite Boss Invites Everyone to "Eat Melon" 15. Mouth...
When Pei Yanzhi arrived at the entrance of Xingfu Residential Area, the rain had begun to subside.
He got out of the car, opened his umbrella, and after walking a short distance, he suddenly stopped and turned around.
Two men and one woman appeared at the end of the road on the right.
Pei Yanzhi seemed to have expected this, slightly raising the edge of his umbrella and curving his lips into a smile: "You arrived quite quickly."
"Captain Pei, excuse me. The captain sent me here just to ask what you mean by doing this." The first to speak was an acquaintance, the handsome young man he had met at the movie theater a few days ago, Ji Chengchuan's teammate.
At that time, it was the girl in the white dress who was shouting at Pei Yanzhi and Lu Yu. The handsome boy didn't say anything, but the resentment hidden in his eyes was no less than that of the girl in the white dress.
Pei Yanzhi didn't answer; instead, he asked, "Where is Ji Chengchuan?"
The handsome young man paused, his humble smile unchanged, but a hint of wariness flashed in his eyes: "Why is Captain Pei asking this?"
“Of course I’ll go beat him up,” Pei Yanzhi laughed. “If you bark one more word, I’ll go beat him up. I can’t kill him, but I can beat him up at the same time every day. It’ll just take a little effort.”
The handsome young man forced a smile, but his face visibly darkened: "Captain Pei, personal grudges aside, we're discussing official business..."
"once."
Pei Yanzhi said, "I'll beat up Ji Chengchuan once. I'll choose an auspicious day to do it."
The handsome young man's face twitched, and he shut his mouth.
He knew that these words might be a joke or a threat to others, and difficult to accomplish, but for a "realm lord" who controlled the power of space, it wasn't entirely impossible, though it would come at a price. Ordinary people would certainly be unwilling to do it, but this wasn't an ordinary person; it was Pei Yanzhi, who liked to act unconventionally and was rumored to be half-mad.
Since he refused to be the first to speak up, the other two had no choice but to speak up.
They exchanged a glance, and the woman spoke first: "Captain Pei, you might know me, I am..."
"I know why you've come."
Pei Yanzhi interrupted her, "It's the middle of the night, and I need to go back to sleep. Why don't we get straight to the point?"
He looked at the three of them through the fine rain and said, "Two things."
"First, I didn't touch Lu Yu's work badge, so I don't know if it's a fragment of divinity. Like you, I don't have any other means to search for or verify the fragment of divinity besides the exploration points announced in the game and the adventure method that 'the monster will go out of control and collapse if it directly touches the fragment of divinity.'"
"Secondly, it was I who just blocked your prying eyes. I can also tell you clearly that as long as I am by Lu Yu's side, I will definitely use spatial power to block your prying eyes. I have no interest in displaying intimate things like kissing and sleeping together to the outside world."
"But don't worry, I didn't expose your spying on him. However, you should know that those little tricks can't last long anyway, since he's an SSS-level dungeon boss. Or have you really started treating him like an ordinary NPC after watching him at work for so long?"
Pei Yanzhi said, "Be careful, my boss might get angry and scatter you all like ashes."
“No need to exaggerate, Realm Lord,” another man wearing a baseball cap spoke up. “You’re not really terminally ill, are you? Have you even corrupted your brain? Do you think that by stopping us and getting mixed up with the Boss, you can get ahead of us and snatch the Godhood fragments? Be careful you don’t get played to pieces!”
Pei Yanzhi chuckled: "Here we go again, Dream Catcher. Is this baseball cap your new teammate? The last one you used to wear, is he/she never waking up again? You still like to hide in the shadows, using dreams to invade or control your teammates, coming out to be your eyes and mouth, like a rat in the gutter."
"So you're planning to get involved with Ji Chengchuan too? Then I'll have to keep a closer eye on you from now on."
The person in the baseball cap was hiding in the shadows, so their face was hard to see, but it probably wasn't a good look.
Pei Yanzhi is very sharp-tongued, but he's not unbeatable; it's just that very few dare to argue with him to the bitter end. Those who can out-argue him can't beat him, and among the players, there isn't one who can beat him yet.
The woman was neither Ji Chengchuan's teammate nor a member of the Dream Catchers' team, so she didn't care about the feelings of these two temporary partners at all. She just seized the opportunity to ask, "Captain Pei, why didn't you check Boss's work badge? Don't you think it couldn't be a fragment of divinity?"
“I don’t think so,” Pei Yanzhi said. “Have you all heard that I’m close to being severely polluted? It’s a miracle that I’m still alive and conscious. How could I dare to risk being devoured by the monster to test for some godhood fragments?”
"Even throwing an unclaimed object into the past is dangerous. Better safe than sorry. If my contamination is really triggered, wouldn't it just explode?"
Woman: "Then go find Lu Yu..."
Pei Yanzhi smiled and said, "Haven't you ever seen anyone in love? I miss him, so of course I'll go find him."
The woman raised an eyebrow, clearly not believing the claim.
“Alright,” Pei Yanzhi said, “I’ve given you the information you wanted. Fair trade between players, so now it’s time for you to offer your bargaining chips in exchange for the information, right?”
"What?" The woman was taken aback.
The handsome young man in the baseball cap also looked up.
"You call this intelligence?" the handsome young man asked incredulously.
The baseball cap-wearing figure, controlled by the captured dreamer, spoke up: "What do you want?"
Pei Yanzhi smiled: "I want you to withdraw from here."
"impossible!"
"You're insane!"
Both the handsome young man and the woman looked angry, but the man in the baseball cap remained silent, then suddenly turned and fled.
The handsome young man and woman realized what was happening and immediately tried everything they could, but it was too late.
A few minutes later.
On the small road near Xingfu Community, the surveillance cameras, affected by the space, hang low, and the images are messy.
Pei Yanzhi stepped out of the shadows without dodging or avoiding, and with a flick of his finger, he shattered the three Blue Star ID cards he had just obtained, which were also S-level player access cards.
He didn't kill them, but without the passes, those three could no longer appear in Fools' Kingdom. At least not for the two months that Smile Games is renewing their passes.
The rain had stopped, and Pei Yanzhi folded his umbrella and walked into the residential area.
Halfway there, my phone vibrated; it was a group chat notification.
Xiao Wan: [Captain, I heard you took down one member each from the Dream Catcher, the Blade Emperor, and Ji Chengchuan's teams?]
Pei Yanzhi: [Rumors. They weren't killed; we just kindly sent them back to Jinshui Star to enjoy their newfound happiness.]
Xiaoqian: [Captain, the players' gossip group is saying that you and Lu Yu had a passionate encounter in a convenience store for over half an hour. Is that true? Will it make the news?]
Pei Yanzhi: [Rumor, I'll definitely do it next time.]
Wang Kun: [Captain, did you suddenly attack them because of a new plan? I saw the other five teams have moved, but the three of us have been playing games at the internet cafe all day. I feel like throwing up just looking at game icons now...]
"No, it's just laying the groundwork for our old plan," Pei Yanzhi replied. "Just hang in there a couple more days, I'll cover the internet."
Wang Kun: [...]
In the internet cafe's private room, Xiao Wan went to buy late-night snacks. Xiao Qian sat in front of the computer, her ponytail swaying slightly, and while skillfully beating people in the arena, she shouted, "Brother Xiao Wang, stop sending messages, heal me, I'm dying!"
Wang Kun put down his phone and pressed a skill key with a worried expression: "Xiao Qian, don't you think the captain has been acting a bit strange these past two days..."
“It’s normal,” Xiao Qian said without blinking, “The captain’s love star is shining.”
Wang Kun was stunned: "What the hell?"
“You’re not in the players’ gossip group, so you wouldn’t know, but the captain kissed the Boss a couple of days ago,” Xiao Qian said. “He said he got close to the Boss to test the Boss’s stance and see what the Boss’s abilities were. His real purpose was to purify the pollution and execute the plan. But we know him, if he really didn’t like him at all, let alone purification or the plan, even if he was about to be cremated, he would at most hug someone, but he would never kiss them.”
"You've already kissed her, that means you like her, why are you still being stubborn? You'll be kissed until she softens."
Wang Kun was greatly shocked.
It wasn't because Pei Yanzhi's love star was shining, but because of Xiao Qian's wild remarks.
"Hurry up, stop thinking about it!" Xiaoqian cried out even more wildly, "Heal me, I'm out of health!"
Wang Kun hurriedly pressed the skill button, and a few seconds later, he whispered, "Xiao Qian, could you add me to that gossip group you mentioned?"
Pei Yanzhi had no idea that his teammates were gossiping about him behind his back. After finishing his business, he went home, quickly washed up, and prepared to rest.
Because of his player status, he was quite wealthy on the planet Mercury and was unemployed. But on the planet Earth, he was just like Lu Yu, a wage slave who had to get up early.
While Pei Yanzhi was preparing for his rest, Lu Yu had already finished getting ready and was lying in bed.
He picked up the spare phone he'd found, casually opened a novel, and began his pre-sleep activity. The spare phone didn't have a SIM card, but there was Wi-Fi at home, so he didn't have to worry about not being able to surf the internet or use his phone.
As midnight passed and all was quiet, the lights in every household were turned off, and the Morning Dusk Apartment gradually fell into a hazy darkness.
Tieshan used a strange object to deceive the senses of the old man on duty at the gate, and successfully climbed over the gate of the community and walked in.
In the latter half of the night, the streetlights in the neighborhood gradually dimmed, becoming dim and indistinct. Tieshan crept in the shadows, carefully avoiding the light of the streetlights. The few surveillance cameras he had set up had all been destroyed by his magical artifacts. Most S-level players who have spent a lot of time in the game world have some way of dealing with surveillance cameras.
Around 1 a.m., Tieshan arrived near Building 13.
The Morning and Evening Apartments had nice greenery. He concealed himself among the bushes and looked out the window of bedroom 1301 on the thirteenth floor. The light from the desk lamp was still shining from there, indicating that the room's occupant was still up all night and had not yet fallen asleep.
Tieshan remained calm and focused, gazing intently without any haste. As a veteran player who had conquered three S-rank dungeons, patience was the least of his worries.
This time, his initiative to ask Ji Chengchuan to come and explore Chenhun Apartment at night was not a spur-of-the-moment decision.
Regardless of whether the incident involving the work badge went wrong, he had planned to act the same way tonight. There were far too many men and women surrounding Ji Chengchuan. Aside from his good physique, extensive dungeon runs, and decent physical strength, he didn't possess any other outstanding qualities. But he was ambitious, and he hoped to squeeze out the others and gain more of Ji Chengchuan's favor.
A nighttime visit to the Morning and Evening Apartments would be the perfect opportunity to showcase one's abilities.
Dawn and Dusk Apartments is an S-rank instance that has only been opened twice, with very little information available, and most players are unaware of it. However, Tieshan is different. He once unexpectedly saved an S-rank player, from whom he learned some secrets about Dawn and Dusk Apartments, and verified their authenticity using points. Therefore, while infiltrating the area at night would be extremely dangerous for him, it's not entirely impossible.
He dared to say that, apart from him, no other player would dare to sneak into Lu Yu's house tonight. He would obtain firsthand intelligence that even S-rank players couldn't get.
The thought that tonight's harvest might earn him Ji Chengchuan's admiring gaze filled Tieshan with excitement, and he even looked at the mosquitoes buzzing around him with a touch of tenderness.
That tenderness vanished two seconds later.
Afraid of disturbing the residents on the first floor, he dared not swat the mosquitoes. In the blink of an eye, most of his bronze arm was covered with large, red, and swollen welts, and he immediately began to scratch incessantly, itching intensely.
Damn it, how much longer do we have to wait?!
It's already 1:30 AM, why isn't this boss asleep yet? Is his phone that fun to him?
Tieshan's gaze, fixed on the window of room 1301, gradually hardened with resentment.
Lu Yu upstairs was completely unaware of Tie Shan's resentment; he was still reading a novel.
He lay down on the bed, replied to Pei Yanzhi's message that he had arrived home, and officially started reading the novel before 1 a.m. When he opened the first chapter, he told himself that this kind of light-hearted novel was perfect for reading before bed, to relax his mind and help him fall asleep. He would only read for half an hour, and as soon as the time was up, he would immediately put down his phone and go to sleep, without delay.
With this in mind, Lu Yu confidently and boldly began watching.
The hands of the wall clock turned one tick at a time.
The novel's contents were turned page by page.
Lu Yu was so immersed in the fantastical world of the novel that he gradually lost sight of what the world was like.
One and a half, two o'clock.
2:30, 3:00...
Wait, three o'clock?!
As Lu Yu turned the page, a casual glance caught sight of the time in the upper left corner of the phone screen, and he was instantly stunned, as if struck by lightning.
Regret, anxiety, pain, and the freedom and joy brought by reading novels and staying up all night all surged up at once, intertwining in a chaotic mess, leaving him with mixed feelings. He could only let out a long sigh at his phone, then move his finger to turn to the next chapter.
The protagonist is about to break through his current level and slap the villain in the face! After watching this scene... he immediately went to sleep!
At 3:30, Lu Yu put down his phone with a sense of satisfaction, reluctance, and extreme sleepiness, then turned off the light and closed his eyes.
He vowed that this was the last time he would stay up all night.
Although he carefully observed himself while washing up tonight and discovered that he seemed to have won the genetic lottery—no matter how late he stayed up, his face and body didn't show any signs of sleep deprivation—he couldn't be too reckless and take this for granted, staying up too late too often. Good health is still very important; early to bed and early to rise will start with me.
Lu Yu silently recited some words that he had chewed over countless times, slowly relaxed, and drifted off to sleep.
Downstairs, Tieshan, whose body was covered in sores and whose legs were numb from squatting, looked at the darkened room 1301. Two hot tears finally streamed down his face, which was covered in mosquito bites.
How can this dungeon boss last so long?!
The intelligence report said he's very early to work, usually going to bed no later than 1:00 AM. Is this 1:00 AM? How can he stay up this late? Will he even be able to go to work tomorrow?
Tieshan roared inwardly.
If two hours hadn't passed and no one had come to arrest him, he would have even suspected that Lu Yu knew he was coming and was deliberately messing with him.
Finally shaking off the mosquitoes and crawling out of the bushes, Tieshan felt that the resentment he carried was even heavier than that of Sadako.
But it's okay. He tried to cheer himself up. It was only 3:30. The most dangerous time at the Dawn and Dusk Apartments was during the transition between dawn and dusk, when indiscriminate pollution or bizarre killings could occur. There was still a long time until 6:00 in the morning, enough for him to climb over the outer wall and sneak into Lu Yu's house.
Yes, he didn't plan to enter through the unit door of Building 13, which had no access control; instead, he planned to climb up the outer wall.
In the Dawn and Dusk Apartment instance, most of the dangers are inside the building. As long as you don't go inside, don't step on the stairs that seem like a maze with no end in sight, and don't wake up the residents in certain rooms, it's relatively safe.
Of course, pollution is unavoidable.
Or rather, once you enter this game world, which the NPCs call Blue Star, it's impossible to avoid pollution. Pollution is everywhere, just to varying degrees. Higher-level dungeons are more heavily polluted, while areas without levels or dungeons, like the main roads outside, are less polluted.
NPCs too.
Within the current instance, those heavily corrupted are the Bosses. Those relatively normal, but mostly twisted and no longer normal, are the Eerie. Those lightly corrupted and still relatively normal are ordinary NPCs. They are not categorized by combat strength, but by corruption. However, those heavily corrupted are often more twisted, and naturally have higher combat strength.
However, before the final boss battle in the dungeon, even a heavily corrupted boss will not suddenly become monstrous, but will maintain a relatively normal state unless the player deliberately provokes it.
Not becoming corrupted doesn't mean you can come into contact with them. If a player's corruption worsens, they will only collapse and die, not become corrupted. Therefore, even S-level players dare not stay on Blue Star for long or have too much contact with NPCs and bosses. They also need to periodically go to the game to exchange for items to remove corruption.
This is one of the reasons why S-class players rarely have stable jobs or social relationships on Earth.
Tie Shan had rarely seen anyone as daring as Pei Yanzhi to date an SSS-level Boss in his entire life. He genuinely suspected that Pei Yanzhi was committing suicide, and choosing the romantic way to die under the peony blossoms.
Before his thoughts could race, Tieshan had already arrived at the place he had chosen to start.
His special ability lies in physical enhancement, so climbing thirteen floors is effortless for him. But this only applies to ordinary buildings. Climbing the exterior wall of the Dawn and Dusk Apartments, while less polluted and dangerous than climbing the stairs inside, still presents some challenges.
However, he was prepared.
Tieshan smiled confidently, silently leaped up, and clung to the exterior wall of the apartment building.
at the same time.
After Pei Yanzhi left, they began to spy on Lu Yu again, but due to the interference and blocking of the S-level dungeon in Chenhun Apartment, they could not see him directly and could only vaguely monitor Tieshan outside. The other players who had been squatting there with him and were still grumbling with him also couldn't help but wake up.
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