Chapter 4.
Tang Yu was very moved, but the other two dared not move.
The girl in the bright red scarf came out with a steaming bowl of mutton soup. The light bulb above her head cast a pale green light, making the atmosphere in the whole store a little eerie.
"Sorry for the long wait, this is the soup you ordered."
Tang Yu placed the soup on the table and added with a smile, "But this soup is best drunk while it's fresh and hot. How about you two sit down and taste it first?"
It would be great if you could give some advice or something!
The two people who were about to pay the bill and leave felt a chill in their hearts when they heard this. It turned out that this kind of behavior of taking advantage of loopholes would not work.
How could such a weird boss be so easy to talk to and let people go?
Li Jia froze in place and winked at Ning Xuanqing frantically. Ning Xuanqing was also a little nervous at this time. The temperature became even colder at night, but beads of sweat had already appeared on the foreheads of both of them.
They all had a bad guess in their minds. If they rejected the boss's proposal at this time, the little girl who looked so kind in the last second would probably show her true colors in the next second.
But it was even more impossible to sit down and drink the soup. The soup looked fresh and delicious, but you could tell with your toes that it was absolutely fatal!
what to do?
Faced with a dead end, Ning Xuanqing and Li Jia looked at each other and made a tacit decision.
run!
Almost at the same time, the two of them turned around and rushed out of the mutton soup restaurant, disappearing into the night.
Tang Yu: “…”
On the empty and silent dark street, there were two figures running frantically.
Li Jia dragged Ning Xuanqing and ran desperately on the street, praying to God for protection in his heart.
As she was running, she suddenly felt Ning Xuanqing stopped. Li Jia took the time to turn around, only to see Ning Xuanqing standing there in a daze. She was so anxious that she broke out in a sweat.
"My ancestors! Run! We don't want to do this dungeon anymore!"
The reason why the two chose this copy was because there was no penalty for failure, and they could choose to leave even if the mission failed.
The two decided to give it a try when they saw this good thing. If they found out the situation was not right, they would just run away. At worst, they would just not get any reward.
As long as you survive, everything is fine!
Judging from what happened to the two in the mutton soup restaurant today, this dungeon is not something they can handle with their current level.
In this case, if not now, when?
Seeing Li Jia jumping up and down anxiously, Ning Xuanqing frowned and narrowed his fox eyes and asked, "Do you feel something is wrong?"
Li Jia was so panicked that her afro grew bigger. She pointed at Ning Xuanqing and said unhappily, "I think you are very wrong. If you don't run away, I won't care about you anymore!"
Ning Xuanqing glanced at her and said directly: "Didn't you notice that the boss hasn't been chasing us?"
Li Jia felt a little relieved after hearing this. She breathed a sigh of relief and looked behind her: "Yeah, we ran pretty fast!"
Ning Xuanqing looked at her speechlessly and continued, "I think there is something wrong with that boss."
Li Jia wiped the sweat off his head and agreed casually: "It is indeed a problem, but no matter what the problem is, we can't fix it anyway."
Ning Xuanqing reached out and pushed the frame on his nose, and a gleam of light flashed in his lake green eyes behind the crystal lenses.
She asked, "Where do you think the biggest danger of this copy lies?"
"Of course it's the mutton soup restaurant's soup." Li Jia said as a matter of course, but after she finished speaking, she saw Ning Xuanqing looking thoughtful, and she asked hesitantly: "No, isn't it?"
"I thought so at first, but I just thought of a possibility."
Ning Xuanqing raised his head and looked at Li Jia: "Do you think it is possible that we have not given up the option of the copy at all?"
"Ah?" Li Jia was a little confused.
Ning Xuanqing said it another way: "I think the biggest flaw of this dungeon is that there is no penalty for failure. Among all the dungeons of all levels so far, have you ever seen a second dungeon without a penalty for failure?"
Only if you succeed can you escape. If you fail, you will die in the copy.
Li Jia felt a little uneasy when he heard this, "Are you saying that except for successfully passing the level, there is no way we can leave alive?"
Ning Xuanqing nodded solemnly, "But we have escaped now."
Li Jia was even more confused: "Then...then the boss let me win?"
"...I think there's something wrong with the owner of the mutton soup shop."
Ning Xuanqing pursed his lips and said something unexpected: "Do you think she could be a survivor?"
Li Jia: “!!!”
In the mutton soup restaurant, Tang Yu propped up his chin and looked at the pot of soup in front of him with some worry.
She was secretly annoyed in her heart, thinking that it must be because she took too long to make the soup and made the customers impatient.
Alas, it turns out that I have no experience in doing business for the first time!
I was hoping to get some advice from the guests, what a pity.
I can’t finish such a big pot of soup. What should I do?
I don’t know what my neighbors are busy with recently. They are not at home at all, and I can’t even share the soup with them.
When Tang Yu was secretly worried, the shop door opened and she was surprised to find that the two customers who had just left in a hurry had returned.
"You're back!" Tang Yu stood up and was about to greet them.
This action frightened the two of them and they both stepped back.
Tang Yu was puzzled and asked, "What's wrong?"
Ning Xuanqing stared at Tang Yu for a while, then asked directly, "Are you a human or a ghost?"
Tang Yu gave the two a look of sympathy between fellow patients, and then answered the question in a friendly and patient manner: "I am a human being."
The book says that when communicating with this kind of person, you must be calm and avoid saying or doing anything that may irritate the other person.
So, when Ning Xuanqing tried to touch her, she chose to remain motionless.
Li Jia stared without blinking as Ning Xuanqing's fingertips touched Tang Yu's cheek, her palms sweating.
After a long while, Ning Xuanqing exhaled: "Warm, she is a survivor."
Li Jia's heartstrings relaxed, and he couldn't help but blurt out a curse: "Fuck! When did you enter this copy?"
She clearly remembered that when she chose this multiplayer copy, only she and Ning Xuanqing went in!
Ning Xuanqing's eyes flickered, and he looked at Tang Yu carefully and asked, "Where is the boss here?"
Tang Yu looked at Ning Xuanqing in confusion, thinking that this patient's words were very strange. She thought for a moment and asked, "Are you talking about the former boss lady of this store?"
"Um."
"She's dead, lying on the ground. Can't you see her?" Tang Yu said, "Oh, I remember now. You're just like me. Just forget about not seeing her."
Li Jia and Ning Xuanqing couldn't help but look at each other, and saw shock in each other's eyes.
If the logic is correct, this girl in front of them, who is about the same age as them, somehow killed the boss of the E-level multiplayer dungeon by herself.
Does this mean you have passed the level?
They won easily.
This is the boss!
When they looked at Tang Yu again, their eyes were different.
Especially Li Jia, whose eyes were as bright as a cat in the dark night. She stepped forward and held Tang Yu's hand, wishing she could become sworn brothers with him on the spot.
After a brief self-introduction, the three got to know each other, and after learning about each other's situation, both sides were shocked.
Tang Yu: "What? Humanity is going extinct? There are ghosts all around me?"
Ning Xuanqing and Li Jia: "You said you have always lived here?"
Half a month ago, a global weirdness befell, and humans suddenly found that everyone around them had transformed into monsters.
As strange things happened one after another, less than one percent of humans survived.
Just when everyone was in despair, a place called the "Middle Realm" appeared out of nowhere, and no one knew its origin.
But what is certain is that it is the only shelter that can protect humans from powerful and strange harm.
But now such a person suddenly appeared. She did not enter the middle area, but lived in a place full of strange activities until now.
And if Ning Xuanqing and the others hadn't discovered him, it seemed that this big guy could continue to live a comfortable life!
Finally, the two men, completely shocked and numb, taught the dazed Tang Yu how to enter the middle realm.
"So far, no survivor has discovered the real location of the middle realm, so many people speculate that this place may exist in another time and space."
Ning Xuanqing pointed to his forehead.
"What is even more incredible is that the key to such a space that can accommodate all the survivors actually exists in everyone's consciousness."
Yes, the method to enter the middle realm is in the minds of all survivors. As long as the idea of entering the middle realm comes up, they can escape from the real space.
Of course, this does not apply to dungeons. Unless you clear the dungeon, you cannot enter the middle area.
Tang Yu tried it half-believingly, and sure enough, he saw that the old store in front of him gradually blurred, and what came into view was a vast gray space.
The space before my eyes gradually solidified, forming a huge black and white city without color.
This strange city had no lights and was completely shrouded in dark gray, as if even the light had turned black and white.
There are tall buildings all around, and the identical buildings are like neatly stacked dominoes, stretching to the endless distance and turning into clusters of rich ink.
There were many people moving around at this time, some of them were in a hurry, some looked frightened.
Tang Yu was standing in an open square. In front of the square stood an electronic screen about ten meters long. This was probably the only modern equipment in this black and white city.
The screen was about one person tall, with rows of font labels listed on it. Many people were standing in front of the screen in deep thought.
Tang Yu was surprised to find that after someone touched a label on the screen, the whole person disappeared.
Faced with this strange scene, she subconsciously wondered if there was something wrong with her brain.
The world finally became something she couldn't understand!
Li Jia's clear voice sounded at the right moment: "Boss, welcome to the middle realm!"
Tang Yu managed to calm down her shock and pointed at the passers-by: "How many people are there here?"
Li Jia thought for a moment and said, "I haven't counted them, but there are quite a lot. All the survivors from all over the world have gathered here, so there must be at least several hundred thousand of them."
Tang Yu was shocked again. "With so many people, how big must this middle area be? Do they all live in it?"
Li Jia shrugged: "I don't know, anyway, we have a place to stay, we'll take you there when we have time."
As they were talking, a huge and majestic mechanical voice, which could not be distinguished as male or female, suddenly sounded above everyone's head.
"A warning to the human race. The E-level multiplayer instance of Midnight Lamb Soup Restaurant has been destroyed. The survival rate of the human race is 0.0001%. Please note that this world-destroying disaster will test everyone equally. The only advice from the Middle Realm is - don't give in!"
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