Chapter 50 Un Entertainment "And what about you? Without a soul, and with monsters..."
Upon hearing the familiar voice, Jiang Yang and Ji Yang each grabbed their own tools and began digging at the hole.
Before long, Hoshino and Tsukie emerged from the other side, one after the other.
Hoshino looked around. "Could it be that there's no road here either?"
【Un Entertainment Observatory - Starry View】
"Aaaaaah, it's finally out!!! I've been watching them dig in the dirt for thirty days!!"
"Huh, when did Jiang Yang revert to his player identity?"
"Wait a minute, Jiang Yang has recovered, but Ji Yang hasn't!"
"What the hell happened? (scratching his head and crawling in the shadows) When will the Jiangyang observation room be reopened?!"
Jiang Yang touched his nose. "We're looking for it too."
As he spoke, he looked the two of them up and down, noticing their disheveled appearance, as if they had been digging for a long time to find a way.
He caught a glimpse of Yuejiang's gaze behind him, and his heart skipped a beat.
Silently blocking the way between Yuejiang and Dajiang, Yuejiang made no further moves, her gaze falling on Jiang Yang's face. Jiang Yang quickly asked, "What's going on between you two?"
"We went to the 23rd floor."
...
When Hoshino met Tsukie during her lines class, she noticed the changes happening to her.
After parting ways with Jiang Yangji at noon, he directly activated the power from the "devil".
Following the directions, they passed through a hidden door and, after much wandering, arrived at the 23rd floor of Un Entertainment.
Here they met the players who had been taken away, and almost got reported and trapped.
The demons chose a player as a sacrifice to intimidate everyone. Just then, the announcement that the performance class was ending was broadcast, and they broke through the encirclement and discovered the original boundary line in the stairwell on the 23rd floor.
They thus came to see the core that keeps this skyscraper running.
furnace.
"What is that?!"
Hoshino looked up and exclaimed in surprise, reaching out to grab nothing but empty air.
Turning her head, Yuejiang stood on the high platform beside her, her tone indifferent, "You'd better run faster."
My attention was fixed on Hoshino's side and rear.
Hoshino followed the gaze and saw a gigantic, shapeless monster not far away, its front paws rubbing against the ground as if it were taking a running start. White gas wafted from beneath its nostrils, carrying a pungent stench and creating a wave of heat; Hoshino felt the temperature around the furnace rise even further.
Suddenly, it leaped into the air.
"What the hell is this?!"
[Unlock Monster: Forge Guardian]
The Guardians will stop at nothing to drive away anyone who dares to enter the Forge.
The good news is that its purpose is not to kill them.
The bad news is, given its current offensive trajectory, it's unlikely to survive.
Hoshino quickly ran to the same spot as Tsukie, who coldly asked, "What's up there?"
"You're the boss! You didn't watch with me! You ran off on your own!" Hoshino was very angry.
"It's okay, I know even without looking that it's a soul hanging there, right?"
Yuejiang knew how to provoke Hoshino, but the provocation unexpectedly unleashed Hoshino's deeper potential, and he ran ahead of Yuejiang in a huff.
Of course, he wasn't wrong; the furnace does indeed contain the soul.
Their purpose was to find, among countless souls, the part of Yuejiang that she had lost in her lines class.
Hoshino understood very well that Tsukie was doing this to save him, so even though he was hoping for Tsukie's death all the time, he still tried his best to look up at her.
He wanted to find Yuejiang's soul.
He wanted Yuejiang to find herself again.
He said, "You can only die by my hand, brother."
The heat was so intense that it was almost impossible to open their eyes; they had already circled the stove three times.
The souls hanging above, scorched by the furnace, were often so unrecognizable that their features were completely obscured.
The severed limbs fell into the furnace with a sizzling sound as they churned and rolled. Hoshino stopped in his tracks as the monster's claws landed on his back.
The pain brought him to his senses. Yuejiang reached out and pulled him up, saying slowly, "A person with a soul will lose themselves if they stay here too long."
"And what about you? Without a soul, what's the difference between you and a monster?"
Hoshino gritted his teeth. He could hear the concern in Yuejiang's tone, but his pride wouldn't allow him to back down.
The accelerator was dropped again, and the intense physical exertion caused a strange tremor in my heart.
Finally, everything went black and he collapsed, his head lolling to the side.
His consciousness was wavering, and the various noises made him furrow his brow in frustration. His mouth moved, and the words of greeting were on the tip of his tongue, but he was too exhausted to open his mouth.
Hoshino's fainting spell wouldn't solve the problem. Tsukie knew that regardless of whether they found the soul or not, they couldn't stop running while being pursued by the Guardians. So, she dragged Hoshino along with one hand and continued running forward.
They switched to a two-wheeled vehicle midway, which instantly doubled their speed, leaving the Guardians far behind.
He glanced back at the face in the back seat that looked almost exactly like his own, and uttered two words with a complicated expression, "Idiot."
"Hehe, didn't anyone tell you not to talk badly about others?"
Hoshino woke up, only to find himself sideways in the back seat after Yuejiang's several drifts and dodges. The churning in his stomach made him anxiously shout, "Stop, stop, stop!"
With a sudden stop, Hoshino jumped down and vomited.
Yuejiang noticed that his clothes, torn by the guardian, were stretched open by his bending over. The clothes were stained with blood, but underneath was a thin but intact spine.
"You've leveled up."
Each upgrade of the Devil card heals all the wounds and scars of the Devil's holder.
Therefore, Yuejiang's words were not a question.
Hoshino gave a sly, mischievous smile. "Yeah, and I also know how to find your soul. Why don't you beg me?"
He was also quite surprised. During the period when he was unconscious, although he couldn't speak or move, he could feel the demon slowly devouring the hot and burning marks on his back.
So he waited patiently.
[Player Hoshino's talent has been upgraded; player's body has been automatically repaired.]
[You can make a wish to the assistant for this upgrade reward. The success rate of this wish is 75%. If your wish fails, the reward will be forfeited. Please make your wish carefully.]
As clever as Yuejiang was, he guessed Hoshino's wish.
Hoshino pursed his lips and commanded, "I'll distract it, you go find the highest point of the furnace."
After saying that, he suddenly turned around and faced the Forge Guardian.
The guardian was stunned for a moment by his action.
In the silent standoff, it hesitated, clutching its ear, while Yuejiang seized the opportunity to climb onto the furnace.
The guardian moved.
It discerned the intentions of the two, and the established procedure led it to decide to first chase after the guy it found annoying.
Hoshino had been waiting for this moment. As the monster lunged at him, he first ducked to dodge and changed direction, then carried it straight in the opposite direction.
Yuejiang stood on the edge of the furnace, the liquid hitting the inner wall, trying to knock him over.
But as Hoshino said, what difference is there between someone without a soul and a monster? The furnace cannot distinguish between him and a monster.
After scaring him for a while, he gradually stopped and began to look for the highest spot.
Hoshino's curses and urging could be heard from below from time to time. Yuejiang herself didn't realize it and let out a soft laugh.
Finally, after comparing the distance of the soul above his head, Yuejiang found a red button about the size of a palm at the southwest end of the furnace.
“There’s a button,” he shouted.
Hoshino responded in a fit of rage, "Go ahead and press it!"
The instant the film was taken, a huge steel plate extended inward from the furnace, covering the scalding hot liquid below.
Without the interference of the furnace, Yuejiang also saw the red line connecting the soul and the body.
I tentatively stepped onto the steel plate, and sure enough, I was on the right track.
"Ten minutes!" Hoshino shouted. His guardian had already fallen, and he was able to catch his breath.
Yuejiang calculated that he had to find it within five minutes, otherwise the furnace would resume operation in ten minutes, and the two souls might not be able to escape.
Following the red line, Yuejiang moved swiftly across the plank.
After the soul returned to its place, only three and a half minutes had passed.
The ample time he had led him to a crazy idea.
only…
[The death of executive agent Roue has been detected; the dialogue lessons are immediately suspended.]
The new announcement caused an earthquake-like upheaval within Un Entertainment.
Tsukie staggered off the furnace and ran back to the way they had come with Hoshino.
It wasn't until the door closed automatically after they left that Yuejiang realized he had completely missed the chance to destroy the furnace.
The sense of separation between space and time branched out into countless forks on their return journey.
They got lost.
While getting lost, they even discovered that the environment was slowly shrinking, and they had to carve out new roads while some gaps were still open.
One day... two days...
Hoshino counted, and a full twenty-seven days had passed.
In fact, you can't feel the passage of time, or even hunger and exhaustion.
"I'm so bored, I'm going crazy!"
"No, I might as well just die. You can kill me, or I can kill you."
Hoshino vented his anger on the wall.
Yuejiang didn't react much; he vaguely felt that he had glimpsed some secret of Un Entertainment.
He didn't think he and Hoshino would be trapped here forever.
On the thirtieth day, Hoshino excitedly shouted at the hole he had drilled, "It's Jiang Yang!"
The wall was knocked down, and they returned to the corridor where the dialogue class was held.
Even through the river, Yuejiang recognized the person at a glance.
...
"You've been inside for thirty days!!" Jiang Yang exclaimed in surprise.
Hoshino rolled her eyes. "Otherwise what? Damn, you have no idea I almost suffocated in there."
"Holy crap, Jiang Yang, I haven't seen you for thirty days and you even have a child now!" Hoshino saw the child tugging at Jiang Yang's trouser leg.
The child made a face at him, then turned and crawled into the hole that everyone had just dug open.
"Don't let him in!" Yuejiang couldn't hold back any longer when he saw this.
But he moved so fast that even Ji Yang, who was closest, didn't react in time. Xingye looked distressed and said, "It's not Jiang Yang, you really have to keep this child."
“I feel like there’s life in there,” Dajiang said, walking over as well.
Jiang Yang was certain that Yue Jiang would see her this time.
Dajiang said, "Let's go in."
Yuejiang pushed Hoshino back inside. "Go in."
Ji Yang would inevitably advance and retreat with Jiang Yang, and followed behind when Jiang Yang went inside.
Dajiang didn't move, but glanced at Yuejiang.
Yuejiang clasped her hands together, her thumbs and index fingers pinched until they were red, and she cried out in struggle.
"teacher."
haven't seen you for a long time.
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Author's Note: Hehe, I'm secretly updating today!
Because there might be no update tomorrow or the day after.
Jiang Yang in his thirties is called Da Jiang, and Jiang Yang in his twenties is called Xiao Jiang. Isn't that cute?
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