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As soon as Gao Yi saw Qin Tan’s team, he showed a helpless smile, “I didn’t expect to see all of us grouped together. There are a total of 12 intermediate spirit weapon holders. Just thinking about it makes me feel unbelievable.”

Lou Fan has calmed down his feeling. What’s coming will come, they can’t stop it. So he smiled and said, “Brother Gao, this time it’s up to you to bring us together.”

Qin Tan also said, “That’s right. You are more experienced, I hope we can cooperate happily.”

“I will do my best.” That’s what he said, but Gao Yi is full of helplessness inside. With such a combination, he couldn’t even think of what kind of mission world it would be waiting for them. Although he knew the general information about the world, who knows what the situation actually looked like? Even so, he couldn’t show his weak side. It is a matter of morale for the group, so he couldn’t kill hope first.

When everyone arrived, Tong Fei greeted everyone to sit down and introduced the woman beside her, “This is my friend, Feng Zhi. She doesn’t like to talk, so please don’t mind that.” Then, she introduced Lou Fan’s team to everyone again. As for the 2 men on Gao Yi’s side, the strong-looking one is called Fan Dayong, while the other is an ordinary man in his thirties called Chen Man.

Lou Fan saw that Fan Dayong is holding a gun in his hand, Chen Man is holding an axe, and the woman named Feng Zhi had an oil-paper umbrella beside her. Tong Fei’s spirit weapon is a big sword, but Lou Fan has never seen Jiang Rou’s weapon. Same for Gao Yi’s weapon.

“Since everyone has the same mission and the same goal this time, I hope that we will give everyone complete cooperation this time.” Gao Yi took the lead, “I don’t know much of the situation at the moment. After we arrived, let’s check the situation first. To connect the two lakes, it must not be easy. First of all, we can rule out the possibility of using manpower to forcefully connect them…”

Gao Yi is worthy of being one of the managers of the intermediate weapon club. He has rich experience, clear thinking, and a well-organized speech, which undoubtedly gave everyone a lot of confidence and he faintly exuded the aura of the leader of the team.

After the discussion, Lou Fan’s team went to the registration office and listed 10 sets of spells to be sold. The price is very high, but they got sold out not long after they were released. When Lou Fan saw the huge amount of points he received, he clicked his tongue twice, “These people… they won’t be thinking about some strange ideas, right? They are fighting so fiercely over the amulets.”

Immediately, Lou Fan gave half of the points to Jiang Dong, “Jiang Dong, prepare more medicines. If you don’t have enough points, ask me again for it. I’ll prepare the food. It seems that points spend on upgrading the weapons are wasted this time.”

Before this, Lou Fan had upgraded the weapons of every team member to the next level, but now it seems that it is useless in a supernatural world.

“It’s not necessarily a waste. Close-combat weapons will always have a chance to be used, so you just don’t need to bring large weapons.” Qin Tan specially reminded Chen Shuyang that he didn’t need to bring his spear because it is really useless to carry those things around.

“Shuyang, did you feel any discomfort after drawing the amulets?” Lou Fan leaned over and asked.

Chen Shuyang thought for a while, “No, I feel good.”

Lou Fan nodded, “Okay, then draw as many as you can before our departure. We have to prepare some on hand for emergencies.”

After the assignation of duties, Jiang Dong and Wen Lang went to prepare medicines. Chen Shuyang focused on drawing more amulets with Nie Feng monitoring him, while Lou Fan and Qin Tan prepared food, water, and gadgets that might be used.

At 7.00 am on the 3rd day after the task announcement, Qin Tan’s team members gathered together in the living room, each carrying a large backpack. Lou Fan had Furball perching on his shoulders. He turned his head and looked around the living room to confirm that he didn’t miss out on anything. After that, they closed the door and walked towards the station.

Everyone agreed to meet up at 8.00 am, but when they arrived, the rest of the people had already arrived. Everyone is very proactive. The time is approaching 9.00 am, and no other team can be seen. Everyone knew that this time, the selected people should be just the two of their teams.

“Get ready, the train will be here soon.” Gao Yi stood up and threw his backpack on his back.

Everyone put on their backpacks and waited for the train’s whistle. At this moment, some people appeared out of nowhere. Some of them are familiar, but most of them had never been seen before.

“Good luck! You must come back.”

“Brother Lou, all the best.” Lin Man Man forced a smile. Her eyes are a little red, and she said to Tong Fei, “Sister Fei and Sister Rou, you too, take care of yourself.”

“All the best to you guys!”

“Good luck!”

Everyone did not expect that so many people would appear to support them, so they could only nod their heads and accept their blessings.

Boarding the train, the train drove away when the time is up. Those who came to see the teams off watched as the train disappears out of sight. There are sounds of constant discussions.

“Do you think they can come back safely?”

“Of course, they have 12 intermediate spirit weapons!”

“They are very powerful!”

“Yes, that’s right. They are high-leveled passengers.”

But saying this sounds like they are cheering each other up, filling each other with hope, as if as long as the teams can come back safely, there is still hope for everything. However, some people sighed about the difficulty of the task that can be done by 12 intermediate spirit weapon holders.

…

The weather is so gloomy that it seemed like it is going to rain at any time. After everyone got out of the train, they saw the lifeless environment around them and immediately decided to go to a place with no dark clouds. Next to them is a lake, the water is so dark and gloomy that it is impossible to see what was in it.

“This should be the ghost lake, it’s gloomy and dreary.” Gao Yi said. Then he told everyone to take their spirit weapons out and be vigilant.

There are many skeletons by the lake, all of which appear to be animals. They are piled up by the lake in large and small, and some of them are weathered out of shape. Strong winds blew from all directions, bringing up an unpleasant stench. Then, the rainstorm poured down, and everyone took out the prepared raincoats and put them on. Fortunately, the quality of Lazuli’s things is good. The rain has a burning sensation when it hits their body, and the surrounding bones make a small sizzling sound. But after putting on the raincoat, they don’t feel anything from the rain at all.

In the rainstorm, Fan Dayong, who is walking in the front, pointed to the front and shouted, “Look, there seems to be someone living there.”

Lou Fan had already vaguely seen a village ahead. It is sparsely populated so he can’t see how many families there are.

Gao Yi: “Let’s go over first. Everyone, pretends to be outsiders, talk less and observe more.”

Hearing that, Lou Fan is a little confused. Shouldn’t they ask more instead? But he didn’t say anything, just wanted to see the situation first.

The teams quickly ran into the village, only to find that the village is deadly silent. There is no sound, not even a guard dog like in an ordinary village. What’s even more strange is that this village doesn’t even seem to be alive, and there is no trace of life.

“Anyone there?” Gao Yi shouted loudly, “Anyone? We just passed by here and wanted to get a shelter from the rain.” He shouted twice in a row, and finally, an old and weak voice answered, “Who are you?”

Everyone looked over and saw an old man appearing by the door of a house. He is so skinny that he could only be described as a bag of bones. His eyes are empty, without a trace of expression, and his entire face is even more expressionless.

Gao Yi said loudly, “Old man, we are just passing by here. Unexpectedly, it started raining suddenly so we want to find a place to take shelter from the rain.”

The old man responded slowly, raised his finger, and pointed to a house next to him, “Go to that house, and leave when the rain stops.” After saying this, he turned around and walked into the house. The house is so dark inside that it is impossible to see the interior from the outside. They can only see the figure of the old man disappearing into the house.

Gao Yi glanced around and whispered to everyone to go over and take shelter from the rain.

The house beside the old man’s house is also very dark. As soon as they walked in, they couldn’t see anything at all, so someone immediately took out a flashlight to illuminate the room. The house is very simple, with only a table, a bed, and a stool, and there is an unpleasant smell inside.

Taking off his raincoat, Wen Lang muttered, “This village is even weirder than the small fishing village we’ve been to. At the very least, there are people there.”

Jiang Rou folded her raincoat and put it away. Then she took out a towel and wiped the ashes on the table, and said, “What’s so strange? There are so many weird places in the mission world, this is already considered normal.”

It’s not surprising anymore when one has experienced more.

Gao Yi stuck his head out of the house and looked around again. Then he returned and said, “It looks like it will rain for a while, so let’s think of a reason to stay.”

“Just use the usual reason – traveling.” Chen Man said.

Gao Yi nodded, “We’ll use this first. If it doesn’t work, we’ll say that someone in the team is sick and needs to stay for a few days.”

On the other side, Lou Fan’s raincoat is picked up by Qin Tan to tidy up. Lou Fan leaned over and asked Qin Tan, “Qin Tan, did the Lake Rakshastal you went to look like that?”

Qin Tan’s hands kept moving, he shook his head and said, “It’s different. Although it’s still called the ghost lake, it’s just called that in private. There are no ghosts in the lake and it’s not black. It’s just not drinkable.”

Lou Fan uttered an ‘en’ and propped his chin up in thought.

The task period is 21 days, and the time is not short. It can be said that there is plenty of time for missions that require them to just fight monsters. But if it is a supernatural task with a plot, it is actually not easy to do. This quest is similar to the Lao Ye Temple quest in the small fishing village, but that one can be cleared by killing the monsters, and violence can solve everything. The difference with this supernatural world is that they don’t know where the key point of the task is. His fingers tapped lightly on the table. If he has to make meaning out of it, the easiest thing to think about is that there are ghosts causing trouble where the 2 lakes are connected.

“The rain has stopped.”

Lou Fan was thinking about it when suddenly Fan Dayong shouted. He stretched out his head and looked outside for a long time, then retracted to look at everyone, “No one came out.”

When it rains, it’s normal that no one is outside. Now that the rain has stopped, it’s fine if some people wanted to continue to rest, but 12 outsiders just arrived, and there is not one person coming forward to ask them about their purpose. This plot is not right.

Tong Fei is carrying a large sword. Her spirit weapon is too conspicuous, and she couldn’t hide it. So she said, “Someone, go and ask the villagers. Find an excuse to talk, we can’t just sit and wait.”

Everyone agreed. Gao Yi is about to pick a name when Lou Fan said, “Let me go out to ask.”

Lou Fan’s appearance is clean and good-looking, and he makes people feel good about him at first glance. No one will be hostile to him. He is indeed a good candidate.

Gao Yi: “Okay, then you go, be careful.”

Qin Tan: “I’ll go with you.”

Qin Tan said to Lou Fan, Lou Fan nodded, and the two went out together. The torchlight in the house is replaced by solar lamps, and the two left. For a while, no one in the house spoke and stayed silent.

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On the afternoon of the 4th day they returned to Lazuli, Lou Fan went to Tong Fei’s house, wanting to ask her what her mission is this time. Tong Fei’s next mission should be a Level 12 mission. Thinking of Chen Shuyang’s inference, Lou Fan is still a little worried, and he also planned to ask Tong Fei if she found out about the organization that ‘pitted’ them.

“What? Your next mission isn’t released yet?” Lou Fan frowned.

On the contrary, although Tong Fei looked helpless, she is not anxious, “Recently, the schedule of Lazuli’s task release is a bit messy. Many people’s task release time is wrong so it is nothing unusual.”

Lou Fan thinks it makes sense. It’s not a good thing for things to get messy, but it’s out of their control.

“Have you found out who ‘pitted’ your team?”

Tong Fei snorted. With hatred in her eyes, she said, “I spent a lot of points to check and found out something. Have a guess?”

“Me?” Lou Fan felt a little inexplicable by Tong Fei. His team had very little dealings with the organizations in Lazuli. They only encountered 1 organization since they came to Lazuli, and the other party was completely annihilated in the mission world. He tentatively asked, “Could it be the Black Scorpion?” After thinking about it, Lou Fan felt that he only know 1 organization.

Tong Fei nodded, “Now, try guessing who planned it.”

Almost without thinking, Lou Fan blurted out, “Qi Haichao?”

Tong Fei clenched her fist and slammed the sofa hard, “I’m really blind. I’m the one who led the wolf into the house, otherwise, Xiao Yun would be able to…”

Lou Fan sighed and comforted Tong Fei, “That can’t blame you, Sister Tong Fei. They came prepared with a deliberate plan. If the perpetrator is not Qi Haichao, there would be He Haichao or Zhang Haichao (it could be anyone), you didn’t know it in advance. How to prevent it?”

Although the comfort is futile, Lou Fan can only try to ease her pain like this. Otherwise, she will put the responsibility on herself, and she will be even sadder.

Tong Fei gritted her teeth, “I can’t do anything to them now, but don’t blame me if they bump into me during the mission.”

Unexpectedly, Qi Haichao is actually a member of the Black Scorpion. He sure hides himself deeply. Lou Fan simply thought that he was trying to get some benefits from Tong Fei. Lou Fan changed the subject and told her about Chen Shuyang’s analysis.

Tong Fei frowned tightly and asked, “That is to say, the level is not important and the important thing is the upgrade of the spirit weapon?” She stayed silent for a moment, and then said, “Does that mean that if one doesn’t upgrade the spirit weapon to advanced level before the Level 15 mission, the person won’t be able to go out from Lazuli, and it will end at Level 15?”

Hearing that, Lou Fan is stunned. As if the information suddenly clicked, he finally understood. He stood up abruptly, with an imperceptible trembling in his voice, “Yes, it must be the case. If the spirit weapon cannot be upgraded to the highest level before the Level 15 mission, the person will be obliterated by Lazuli.”

All the information seemed to be connected now. Lou Fan grabbed his hair and almost wanted to shout, “Does that mean that no matter how high one’s level, as long as their spirit weapon is upgraded to advanced level, it is possible for them to get out of Lazuli? It must be like this, it must be!”

Lou Fan turned around twice anxiously. After excusing himself from Tong Fei, he immediately ran back. He is going to tell his team about the news. It is too important, the truth must be so.

Lou Fan has just entered the house, and Chen Shuyang saw him at a glance. He rushed over to grab Lou Fan, and said excitedly: “Brother Lou, I know! I know what is it! The crucial point is the level of our spirit weapon, while our own level is a limitation. If we can’t upgrade our spirit weapon to advanced level before the Level 15 mission, I think we won’t survive that world. Simply put, there will only be death for us.”

Lou Fan got stunned for a moment, then laughed. He patted Chen Shuyang on the shoulder for a long time and said, “You really are our team’s little genius. I was discussing it with Sister Tong Fei just now and came to this conclusion. Then I thought to come back and tell you guys… I didn’t expect you to come to this conclusion as well.”

Chen Shuyang touched his head and looked at Nie Feng. He said, “I didn’t come up with it myself. It’s only when Nie Feng reminded me that I thought of it.”

“Come over for a meeting.” Qin Tan came out of the kitchen with a plate of fruits and called everyone immediately.

The meeting concludes that each team member should strive to find an opportunity to advance to the advanced level as soon as possible while making themselves proficient in using their intermediate spirit weapon. Everyone smiled bitterly. They have just upgraded their weapon to the intermediate level, and haven’t had the time to use it yet. But now, they have to find out how to upgrade it as soon as possible, what a headache.

Before they can stop the headache about the matter, Lou Fan asked, “Do you know who ‘pitted’ on Sister Tong Fei and the others? It’s Qi Haichao and he is from the Black Scorpion organization. At first, I thought it has nothing to do with us. But now, could it be that the Black Scorpion organization knew about our relationship with Tong Fei and did it on purpose?”

“But it wasn’t our fault that the Black Scorpion team got annihilated at the time. Besides, they didn’t know that we got into the same mission world with their team,” Wen Lang said immediately.

Qin Tan shook his head, “You forgot that there is another person besides Lin Man Man that returned to Lazuli with us (Gong Yi).”

Wen Lang immediately reacted, “Oh yeah, I forgot there was another person. Black Scorpion must have known about us from him.”

Qin Tan snorted, “Anyway, let’s be careful. Jiang Dong and Nie Feng have to be careful too.”

…

Training is the same as always, but when Qin Tan’s team sold the amulets, they deliberately stated that they are not selling to the Black Scorpion organization.

3 days later, as the team is training as usual, 6 beeps suddenly sounded at the same time, and everyone looked at their watch.

Wen Lang exclaimed, “Fck, why suddenly a mission is announced?!”

Holding the bow in his hand, Lou Fan shot out the arrow he has been pulling. It hits the bullseye steadily. “Tsk, the mission finally came, huh?”

Mission content: The ghost lake changes to a holy lake. Please get on the train on time at 9:00 am on March 10.

Mission time limit: 21 days.

Team information: Lou Fan Level 6, Chen Shuyang Level 6, Jiang Dong Level 6, Qin Tan Level 7, Wen Lang Level 7, Nie Feng Level 7.

“Ghost lake?” Chen Shuyang murmured, “There are too many ghost lakes in the homeland and abroad. What’s going on?”

Qin Tan thought about it twice, touched his chin with his fingers, and said, “If I guess correctly, it should be Lake Rakshastal (La’angcuo), which is called the Ghost Lake, and the other side of it is called the Holy Lake.”

Seeing Qin Tan seemed to be familiar with the place, Lou Fan asked strangely, “How do you know so clearly when even Shuyang doesn’t know?”

Qin Tan raised his eyebrows, “I know more than that, I’ll tell you later. Also, I know about this place because I did a mission nearby there a long time ago.”

Lou Fan said in realization, “Oh yes, you were in the army before.”

Knowing the exact location of the mission, Chen Shuyang started the top student mode and gave general knowledge about the legend of the ghost lake. The name was given due to its property as ‘poisonous black lake’ as the water of the lake is not drinkable. Plus, if looked down from the sky, the surface of the lake is like flayed human skin, which is even more terrifying, hence the name. Next to the ghost lake is a holy lake separated by a hill. The lake is clear and has a sweet taste, forming a strong contrast with the ghost lake.

While Chen Shuyang is talking, he jotted down important information as well. Suddenly, he stopped writing, looked up, and said seriously, “There is another problem, we need to pay attention to the difference between the mission world and the real world. Although the general myth may be similar, the key point may be the difference in the mission world.”

While the team is discussing, someone knocked on the door. Wen Lang went to open the door and is surprised when he saw the visitor, “Sister Tong Fei?”

Tong Fei smiled and saw that everyone is looking at her. She asked jokingly, “Why do you guys look at me like this, am I not welcome?”

Lou Fan stood up immediately, “No, it’s just that we have just received our next task and are discussing it.”

“You received your mission?” Tong Fei asked in surprise, “I’m here for this too. What is your mission?”

Wen Lang grinned and interjected, “What a coincidence, wouldn’t we be on the same mission?”

As soon as Wen Lang finished speaking, he found that Tong Fei and Lou Fan are looking at him, making him feel a little guilty for some reason. “It won’t be so coincidental…”

Tong Fei: “Ghost Lake…”

Wen Lang: The Hell, it’s really the same mission!

Lou Fan instantly became happy, “Sister Tong Fei, what a coincidence.”

Tong Fei: …

Qin Tan: “Are all your team members familiar people, or are they randomly assigned?”

“It’s all familiar people.”

Qin Tan nodded, “Then you can discuss the task with us first.”

Tong Fei thought for a while and said, “Okay, I originally wanted to come over and ask if you know about Ghost Lake, but now it seems that you have reached a conclusion.”

Chen Shuyang repeated the points he mentioned just now with great enthusiasm and raised key issues.

“Sister Tong Fei, what is your mission?” Lou Fan asked.

They are an intermediate team, while Tong Fei’s team is a senior team. They didn’t expect to bump into each other, which means that their mission world is definitely not simple. Tong Fei stretched out her wrist, and Lou Fan took a look at her watch. It turned out to be the same task content. He frowned, feeling ups and downs in his heart and an indescribable heaviness.

As if Qin Tan knew what Lou Fan is thinking, he patted Lou Fan on the shoulder, “Don’t think too much.”

Lou Fan rubbed his face. He didn’t know what is going on recently. Probably because he is surrounded by all kinds of nervous emotions, which made him who was usually free and easy feeling a little intimidated. Qin Tan already comforted him last night but when he saw that Tong Fei had the same task as them, he became anxious again.

Tong Fei didn’t stay long and said she is going to go back to discuss with her team members first. Both teams would discuss what to bring together tomorrow. At present, they only know of their two teams, but it is already enough because this time there will definitely be no newcomer team. As for whether there are other teams, they can only find out on the train platform at that time.

In the evening, Qin Tan made a hot pot meal. The air is full of fresh and spicy aromas, which stimulated people’s appetites.

“Come!” Qin Tan raised his glass. “Since the mission task came out, everyone knows what they have to do. I only have one request. All members must come back alive. We are passengers with intermediate spirit weapons so you all have to do well.”

Fortunately, this mission can basically be determined to be a supernatural mission. Chen Shuyang has an intermediate-level spiritual book in his hand so his heart felt assured. He immediately echoed, “Brother Qin, don’t worry, it is a must (to come back alive).”

Lou Fan also smiled, raised his glass, and said, “Everyone, take good care of ‘your partner’ and be mentally prepared. Even if there is only one breath left, you will return to the train.”

Those who understood what Lou Fan meant looked at each other, and then lowered their heads to look at their ‘partner’. Lou Fan smiled, but these words undoubtedly made everyone vigilant and thought deeply about the situation.

The next day, Qin Tan’s team went to Tong Fei’s place, as if they had already regarded it as a base. One of the reasons is there are too many people watching in front of their door, and it is not conducive for everyone to get together to discuss their tasks.

As soon as they entered the door, they saw an acquaintance. There’s Tong Fei and Jiang Rou with another unfamiliar woman, as well as Gao Yi and 2 other men who they don’t know, but they have all seen these faces in the intermediate level club.

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Not expecting such a question, Gao Yi is stunned for a moment. Then he said, “There are 2 that are recently drawn while the others are from the past. As for the specific time…” As he said that, he tapped his head and hurriedly walked to the studio.

There is a date written on the back of each painting. Except for recent ones which were drawn half a month ago, the rest are actually dated 3 years ago.

Lou Fan took out a piece of paper and wrote down the content and the date.

“Come here and see, I found something.” Chen Shuyang’s voice came from the bookshelf, and the team immediately surrounded him.

It is a diary in a notebook. The owner of the notebook has beautiful handwriting, but the content looked rushed and anxious.

[May 24th – On the 7th day after returning from the previous mission, we received the notification of the next mission. The mission interval has changed, and the next mission’s title ‘Deserted World’ does not sound like a pleasant mission. I’ve been feeling very flustered lately as if something big is about to happen. It’s about us and Lazuli.

We’re at Level 13 now and have intermediate spirit weapons. I don’t know when we’ll be able to go out from Lazuli. Team leader said that he felt that his spirit weapon is about to be upgraded to an advanced level, and we were looking forward to it.

Hope we can come back safely.]

The diary entry stopped at this point, and there are no further records after that. No one knows whether they managed to get out from Lazuli or died in the mission world. But the entry mentioned the advanced spirit weapon and the team leader felt it, which means that before one’s advanced spirit weapon is upgraded, they will have a feeling.

Lou Fan and Qin Tan looked at each other.

“Everyone, look around for more diary entries, see if there are other records.” Qin Tan said to everyone, “Try to find the information that is useful for us.”

Lou Fan turned to Gao Yi and asked, “Brother Gao, have you sorted out any information about advanced spirit weapons? Or, has anyone felt ‘the feeling’, can you share it with us?”

Gao Yi shook his head regretfully, “So far, I haven’t heard any intermediate-level spirit weapon passengers talking about it. As for the information on advanced spirit weapons, we don’t have any more information about it, except for the occasional mention in the diary you saw.”

It’s like a knowledge gap that leaves people nowhere to look.

Lou Fan scratched his hair irritably, but Qin Tan grabbed his hand, “Don’t worry, we’ll find it slowly.” Qin Tan looked at him firmly and tenderly, soothing all his anxiety.

That’s right, with Qin Tan by his side, what is he anxious about? The desire to return to Earth is not very strong, But his heart stubbornly focused on the matter, like a donkey blindly moving forward, chasing the carrot dangling in front of it. It seems that he is used to constantly thinking about how to get out of Lazuli. Looking around his teammates, Lou Fan can see that they are seriously checking the data and notes. They didn’t look anxious and irritable, it was just him. Lou Fan rubbed his face with his hands. He was impatient, probably because of the influence of the figure enveloped in white light. It is making him eager to understand what is happening, and the restlessness in his heart overwhelmed all reason.

“En, I’m too impatient.” Lou Fan smiled embarrassedly and squeezed Qin Tan’s little finger. Taking Qin Tan to a place where no one is around, he whispered, “As long as you are beside me, I think it’s not bad to stay in Lazuli.”

Qin Tan glanced at Lou Fan and said, “You are very skilled at ‘hitting snake up the stick’. You might want to stay but not me. Every time I get anxious and scared in the mission world, it makes me feel insecure.”

Idiom: 打蛇随棍上 – It’s talking about people who can see opportunities and follow the trend, fighting for the greater good or benefit for themselves.

So, this is what Qin Tan actually thought? Lou Fan’s eyes widened, obviously not expecting him to think like this. But there is no doubt that no matter how bad things are on Earth, living in a peaceful and stable world is far better than here in Lazuli.

“We will definitely go out.” Lou Fan said, “I will find you when the time comes.”

Although the entire 2nd floor is full of bookshelves, there are not many materials and notes that are useful. In the middle of the afternoon, the team read all the diary entries. At this moment, there are not many people in the house except them, and Chen Shuyang is lying on the table writing rapidly. When his hand is sore from copying the information, he raised his head and asked, “Brother Gao, can I borrow some of the notes to study?”

Gao Yi: “No, you can read it here, but you can’t take it away. There are too few materials and notes, which is very important for other intermediate-level spirit weapon passengers.”

Chen Shuyang nodded in understanding.

Nie Feng stretched lazily and said slowly, “Read slowly, I’ll accompany you.”

In fact, there are only a few important notes, and Chen Shuyang simply copied them all down. Everyone stayed back to accompany him, and when they left, it is already past 7.00 pm.

Tong Fei invited the team to dinner but Lou Fan and the others decided to go back first to sort out the information they got today. The amount of information they obtained today is a bit large so Tong Fei didn’t insist. Lou Fan told her that once they found out anything new, they would tell her as soon as possible.

Chen Shuyang is frowning and deep in thoughts along the way. When he is about to hit a wall, it was Nie Feng who pulled him away. It wasn’t until he sat down on the chair that he came back to his senses and found that he didn’t know when he had come back.

“When did we come back?” Chen Shuyang raised his head blankly and then said, “By the way, I want to say that for our situation right now, we should focus on advanced spirit weapons. As for the paintings, I will study them later.”

Chen Shuyang spread out his notebook where he copied several diary entries on it, all of which mentioned advanced spirit weapons. He pointed at the entries and said, “Look, these diaries all mention advanced spirit weapons, but I realized something. They have yet to upgrade to an advanced spirit weapon yet, although the mission level is high-level ones. Also, there is no record after the 12th or 13th level. According to my analysis, there is a high probability that those teams did not survive.”

Chen Shuyang licked his lips and Nie Feng handed him a glass of water. After gulping the whole glass, he continued, “If I’m right, completing a high-level mission doesn’t mean you can go out of Lazuli. The key point should be on the level of the spirit weapon.”

Everyone stared at Chen Shuyang, and Lou Fan said thoughtfully, “That means one may not be able to go out of Lazuli after passing Level 15 mission world. They must have an advanced spirit weapon instead?”

Chen Shuyang nodded, “Yes, that’s what I guessed. Otherwise, it doesn’t make sense. Why did Lazuli make us do the tasks? Its purpose must not be to send us to our death. From the moment we arrived in Lazuli, the importance of our spirit weapon is self-evident. Every seemingly useless spirit weapon can actually be the best weapon, but how many can upgrade their spirit weapon? I think Lazuli must have a deeper meaning in its doing.”

Chen Shuyang’s analysis and ideas coincided with what Lou Fan thought, but it is more careful and comprehensive.

Qin Tan saw that everyone is a little sleepy and interrupted them, “Go to rest first. We will continue the discussion tomorrow, we still have time.”

Chen Shuyang still felt unfinished with his inferences and wanted to say more. But he scratched his head and felt that he is still a little unclear at some points so he stopped talking and turned to head upstairs while thinking.

Nie Feng grabbed Shuyang’s collar and said, “Wait with me. We’ll go up together and you can tell me what you think. I’ll listen to your thoughts first to see if there is anything wrong with the direction.”

Chen Shuyang’s eyes lit up and nodded like a little puppy, “Okay, okay, I’ll tell you first. You can help me to see if there is any problem.”

Jiang Dong followed Wen Lang upstairs like a loyal follower. Then, Nie Feng went upstairs as well with the little nerd. Lou Fan laughed inexplicably at the scene and got up to wash to prepare to sleep.

The lights in the bedroom went out all of a sudden. Before Lou Fan could react, he got pulled into Qin Tan’s arms and got nibbled on.

“Mhmm…” Lou Fan protested, “I haven’t showered yet.”

Qin Tan: “Wash later.”

Lips and tongues intertwined. Qin Tan’s movements are ruthless and impatient as he has gone without kisses and hugs for more than 10 days. Throwing Lou Fan on the bed, he eagerly pounced on him next. 2 heated bodies pressed tightly together as they entangled and tumbled on the bed. A suppressed growl sounded, accompanied by a gush of hot liquid, sending the connected couple into the most dizzying climax.

Lou Fan is spread out on the bed. Having too many things in his mind today made him very tired. And so, after a lot of ‘exercise’, he doesn’t want to move anymore. Just as he is about to ask the person on top of him to go down, he felt something hard moving inside him. Lou Fan glared at the perpetrator, “You are a beast!”

The person shamelessly bit Lou Fan’s earlobe and licked it gently. His voice is low and full of desire, “That’s right, last time you said I was a dog.”

Lou Fan gritted his teeth, “You!” Before he could say the words, Qin Tan gave him a hard thrust and his reason got shattered into pieces, and he couldn’t get angry anymore.

The advantage of being tossed around in the bed is that he slept very sweetly that night. Lou Fan didn’t even have a dream and slept until noon. Rubbing his hair as he came out of the bedroom, he smelled the fragrance of breakfast and instantly felt happy.

Hearing the sound of movement, Qin Tan stuck his head out from the kitchen and asked, “You are awake? Did you sleep well?”

Lou Fan smiled helplessly, “Thanks to you, I slept well.”

“Thank you for the compliment, I didn’t waste my hard work ‘plowing’.”

That caused Lou Fan to spray mouthwash on the mirror and his hand holding the toothbrush trembling (in anger).

Nie Feng and Chen Shuyang came downstairs after noon, and both of them looked drowsy. Lou Fan asked Chen Shuyang if he had any new thoughts. Chen Shuyang shook his head and said it is the same direction, but a little smoother.

At present, they are only guessing about prophecy paintings and advanced spirit weapons. But they can’t stop practicing so they resume training after research. Lou Fan asked Chen Shuyang to draw a lot of spells every day. Although they have not tested the effect of Chen Shuyang’s upgraded spirit book, the amulets drawn will definitely not be worse than when it was not upgraded yet. So the price of the spells has also increased, and they are listed to be sold on the electronic screen publicly this time.

Because of the high price, the high-level officials of the registration office couldn’t privately buy it all and had to give up. Hence, every day in the North Square, people can be seen waiting under the electronic screen for the amulets to be listed, and they will be sold out almost instantly each time.

Right now, their team holds a lot of points in hand, and Lou Fan’s unspeakable sense of urgency makes him replace the team’s equipment with the best he can afford.

“It’s really fortunate that Shuyang is on our team. If we don’t have Shuyang as our money-growing tree, I don’t know how long it will take for everyone to upgrade our equipment. Everyone should thank Shuyang well.”

Chen Shuyang immediately waved his hands vigorously, “No no no, Brother Lou, don’t say that. Without you guys to protect me, I would have died many times in the mission world, let alone upgrading my spirit weapon. So, you must not say that.”

Wen Lang hooked an arm around Chen Shuyang’s neck and said with a smile, “I’m the most useless anyway. I won’t say anything more than this. Thank you, Shuyang.”

At a moment like this, it is the best time to consolidate the unity of the team. Qin Tan said, “We are a team, and we can go further by encouraging and helping each other. I have nothing special to say. In short, for everyone to get together as a team, we are a family. I treat you all as my little brothers.”

Lou Fan smiled and leaned over, “What about me? Am I also your little brother?”

Qin Tan’s eyes flashed and he said, “En, you are my dearest ‘little brother’.”

Lou Fan’s face darkened when he saw where Qin Tan is looking. *spit Damn pervert!

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“You saw it too?” Lou Fan said, “What did you see?”

Although Qin Tan didn’t know why Lou Fan reacted so much, he still shared what he saw. It was the mural he saw on the domed roof at the last level. The portrait of the angel turned into a picture of a river of blood, and there is also a bundle of light in the high place.

Rivers of blood. Lou Fan pursed his lips and his expression turned ugly. From the sound of that, it didn’t sound like a good omen.

“Then, have you seen it?” Lou Fan asked the other 4 members, and they shook their heads and said no.

Tong Fei watched Lou Fan’s expression change several times and asked, “Lou Fan, you saw that too?”

Lou Fan nodded and told them the painting he saw, but he didn’t say what he saw in his dream. His expression is a little terrible, and he frowned as he said, “I have a bad feeling that these paintings should be very important to us. It would be nice if we could get more information like this.”

Hearing that, Tong Fei stood up and straightened her clothes. Then she said, “Let’s go then.”

“En?” Lou Fan hasn’t come to his senses, “Where are you going?”

Tong Fei answered as she walked, “Going to a nice place, where there should be the information we need.”

Everyone in Qin Tan’s team looked at each other. They immediately got up and followed Tong Fei. Following behind Tong Fei, they went to the North Square and went all the way to the 1st ring of the north-side residence. At the circle of residences closest to North Square, they stopped in front of a house. The railings in the garden were removed, and 2 people are guarding the door. After Tong Fei took out her spirit weapon and showed the guards, she asked everyone in Qin Tan’s team to take out their spirit weapon. After the guards had seen it, they let them in.

The arrangement of the house is all the same in Lazuli. Once inside, they can see that it is quite empty. There are only a few sitting cushions on the ground. Also, there are many whiteboards hung on the surrounding walls. Several people are talking together in front of the whiteboards.

Seeing the group of people coming in, several people turned to look at them. One of the tall men came over to say hello to Tong Fei, “You’re here, who are these? I don’t think I’ve seen them before.”

Tong Fei looked indifferent, but what she said is like dropping a bomb,”These are the 2 friends I told you about before, Qin Tan and Lou Fan. The other 4 people got upgraded in their latest mission, and they are all in the same team.”

“4 people upgrading together?” The tall man is very surprised. “How difficult is the task? All 6 of you actually have intermediate spirit weapons.”

When other people in the room heard the man’s exclamation, they immediately gathered around, wanting to see what kind of monstrous this team is.

“Team leader Qin, right? My name is Gao Yi. Can you tell what level of your team members and what mission you were doing?” Gao Yi’s eyes swept around among them, and his attitude became warm.

Qin Tan shook hands with Gao Yi and answered indifferently, “We have 3 Level 6 members and 3 Level 5 members in our team. The latest mission was a transitional mission.”

“Transitional mission!”

“It got to be a lie, right? 4 people upgrading their spirit weapon in a transitional mission world? You thought we had never done the task before?”

“It’s impossible.”

Immediately, there are sounds of discussions in the crowd, all of them disbelieving. Gao Yi calmed the crowd and said with a frown, “It’s not like you haven’t heard of the recent increase of difficulties in the mission world. It is normal for the difficulty of transitional tasks to increase as well.”

When Gao Yi said this, everyone felt that it is reasonable. But it is one thing to know it’s reasonable, and another thing to believe it. There are many doubts in their eyes as they looked at the 6 people.

Tong Fei said to Gao Yi, “I brought them here so I’ll leave it to you to explain the rest. I’ll go shopping first and come back later.”

Lou Fan and the rest are at a loss, but they knew that Tong Fei wouldn’t do anything unreliable, so they let Gao Yi lead them to the sitting cushions on the side.

The crowd scattered to do their thing. Gao Yi didn’t hesitate, and went straight to the topic, “Don’t be nervous. This place is called ‘Intermediate club’, which means literally, only those with intermediate spirit weapons can enter. We welcome passengers with intermediate spirit weapons from any organization. Also, there are many materials to share here, and seniors’ notes to borrow.”

Qin Tan asked, “Are you the organizer?”

Gao Yi smiled and shook his head, “We don’t have an organizer here. These materials are also left by the previous seniors, and this place is managed by intermediate passengers in turn.”

“In here, there is information about going out from Lazuli?” Qin Tan asked again.

This question is a real question that everyone is concerned about so everyone immediately stared at Gao Yi.

Of course, Gao Yi understands their feelings very well, but he can only shake his head with a wry smile, “Unfortunately, there is no exact information about leaving Lazuli, only some notes left by seniors. There may be clues somewhere, but I haven’t come to a conclusion yet. After all, the only person who is said to manage to leave is no longer in Lazuli.”

That name listed on the electronic screen in the South Plaza. No one knows how long it has been up there, and no one knows the person at all.

Wen Lang asked persistently, “But with so many high-level passengers in Lazuli, it’s impossible that none of them manage to leave, right? Everyone gets a mission every half a month, plus the time needed to do the mission… It’s like once a month, 12 times a year, 24 times for 2 years. Is there really no one managed to leave?”

Wen Lang felt choked, he could hardly say the last sentence. He didn’t know what answer he wanted to hear.

Gao Yi said with a bitter face, “I believe you all know Lazuli’s most basic rules for grading. As far as I know, at their Level 15 mission, those who entered the quest have never appeared again. We don’t know whether they went back to the real world or disappeared.”

Lou Fan felt that something is wrong, “Wait, at Level 15, only a team enters the mission world? If not, there will be people who will survive in the other team that goes with them.”

“No.” Gao Yi shook his head, “Actually after Level 10, the mortality rate is very high, and there are very few people who can reach Level 15. Moreover, many advanced team missions will involve 2 senior teams entering together. Such difficulty is very high.”

Two senior teams doing missions together?!

“How many passengers have reached Level 15 so far?” Qin Tan asked again.

Gao Yi stretched out 3 fingers.

Lou Fan thinks it’s unbelievable. If that’s the case, wouldn’t it means Lazuli didn’t plan to let the passengers live? Then, what is the purpose of them coming to this strange world? Just to die?

This was originally a heavy topic, and Gao Yi felt that he has finished his explanation so he let them move freely.

“Just take a look around. There are also some materials upstairs, as well as the notes of the seniors.”

“Excuse me.” Lou Fan stopped Gao Yi, “Is there any record of passengers seeing pictures in the mission world? There is also a bundle of white light at the corner.” Lou Fan looked at Gao Yi nervously, not missing the surprised expression on his face.

Gao Yi: “Did you see it too?”

Lou Fan nodded, “Sister Tong Fei also saw it. We want to collect some information about this, it gave me a feeling that it’s important.”

Of course it’s important! Gao Yi looked at the group thoughtfully. He pondered for a while before leading them up to the 2nd floor. The 2nd floor is full of bookshelves, with some folders and notebooks on them. But Gao Yi’s destination is not this. He walked to the door and pressed the fingerprint lock. Next, the door opened with a click. This is a room that is like a studio. There are several easels in it. When they saw the pictures on the easels, their eyes widened. Lou Fan ran to a picture and looked carefully.

There are 7 paintings in the room. 3 of them are very blurry, and the other 4 paintings are actually very similar in content. Beneath a white light, a group of people is kneeling. They bowed their heads as if the light is God, the ruler. Only one of the paintings is slightly different. It is still showing the same white light, but there is only a vague figure of a person below, and there is a door opposite the person. But the man is drenched blood red, which made it uncomfortable to look at. In the lower right corner of the painting, there is a flowy signature, which Lou Fan couldn’t recognize after trying to read the name for a long time.

“This painting is…” Lou Fan asked, pointing to the signature.

Gao Yi glanced at it, “It is said that it was drawn by the only person who left Lazuli, that name on the electronic screen.”

Lou Fan looked at the painting again, wishing to engrave it in his heart. But the signature is fundamentally different name from the one listed on the electronic screen.

Chen Shuyang turned around and said to Lou Fan, “Brother Lou, let’s go and look at other materials.”

Wen Lang echoed, “Yes, maybe there will be other clues.”

Nie Feng remained silent. Jiang Dong stood at the side and said nothing, just waiting for their decision.

“You guys go first.” Lou Fan turned to ask Gao Yi, “Can I look at these paintings for a while?”

Gao Yi nodded, “Of course, the information here is shared among the members. You can take your time and I’ll take the rest to find more information.”

After a long time, when Lou Fan turned his head, he saw Qin Tan standing behind him. Tong Fei is also there but he didn’t hear any movement earlier.

“Sister Tong Fei, why didn’t you call me when you came?”

Tong Fei said casually, “Seeing as you are focused, I’m not going to disturb you. How is it? Did you see anything?”

Lou Fan rubbed his eyebrows and shook his head, “Nothing special, but these paintings should be very important. The most important thing should be this light, what do you think it is?” He had an answer in his heart, but he didn’t know what it meant.

“Lazuli.” Qin Tan and Tong Fei said in unison.

Lazuli, to them, is the Lord, a god-like being.

Lou Fan nodded in agreement and stretched out his fingers, “So, down here should be ‘us’, the people in Lazuli. Look at this painting, the man is covered in blood with a door in front of him. Does it indicate that he really left Lazuli?”

Tong Fei shook her head, “If the person can predict that he will be able to go out before the next mission, it is unlikely.”

Qin Tan: “It’s possible that one of them went out.”

Lou Fan nodded, “Yes, this signature is not the same name that is listed on the electronic screen. It may have been left by someone else. The only clear thing is that this painting should be drawn a long time ago.”

Qin Tan stayed silent for a moment, then said, “Let’s go and ask Gao Yi again.”

Lou Fan nodded and said yes. The 3 of them left the studio together and found Gao Yi at a bookshelf. Jiang Dong is talking to him, and Chen Shuyang is looking at the information at the side.

“Gao Yi, I want to know, how old are those paintings in the studio?” Qin Tan asked.

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Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, Nie Feng watched the passerby walking back and forth outside with his drooping eyes, not oblivious to the people observing them. Then he curled the corners of his mouth.

“These people, they should either check us out openly or just do it secretly. Walking around like this, countless back and forth, without turning their eyes when they pass by, what can they see actually?”

Wen Lang just returned to the dining table from the window, he took a sip of beer, and said with a smile, “These people probably want to see what our spirit weapon looks like, and then want to ‘kneel and lick’.”

The corners of Lou Fan’s eyes twitched and he saw Wen Lang downing the beer like water. He took a side glance at Jiang Dong and curved the corner of his mouth, “Wen Lang, are you trying to get yourself drunk? Jiang Dong should take care of you later.”

“Who wants him to take care of me? Besides, I’m good at drinking.”

“Oh, your drinking is good, huh? Well then, drink more.” Lou Fan stretched his words and winked at Jiang Dong, who looked nonchalant but had been staring at Wen Lang.

The thickness of Jiang Dong’s face is comparable to the city wall, and he is not embarrassed at all. Instead, after receiving Lou Fan’s pointed gaze, he said with a calm expression, “I will take good care of him.”

The time is already 10.00 pm. After Jiang Dong said that, he put down the beer in his hand, got up, and walked to Wen Lang’s side. Wen Lang’s eyes are already hazy so he lifted him up and put him on his shoulders. After excusing themselves to everyone, Jiang Dong took Wen Lang upstairs.

Chen Shuyang sipped the juice and sighed, “Ah Lang and Dr. Jiang are getting friendlier to each other now, they used to bicker like cats and dogs.”

Lou Fan laughed, “Aiya, I have to think about what to put in that extra room.”

Hearing that, Chen Shuyang puzzledly tilted his head and asked, “Why is there an extra room? Isn’t there no extra room now?”

Lou Fan only smiled and didn’t say anything. Nie Feng bent his index finger and tapped Shuyang’s head, “Silly.”

Chen Shuyang touched his head aggrievedly, with a blank expression on his face, “What the hell are you talking about?!”

Suddenly hit in the head, Lou Fan turned his head and glared at Qin Tan angrily.

Qin Tan shook the water from his hand and handed Lou Fan a bowl of milk custard dessert, “Don’t teach bad things to children!”

Lou Fan silently disdained himself twice. That’s right, he shouldn’t teach bad things to children. Children don’t know anything yet, they only have studies in their hearts!

After eating the dessert, Lou Fan got to take a shower. Nie Feng took the initiative to stand up and take Chen Shuyang away with him. Lou Fan felt that it made him feel a little blush inexplicably like he is going to do something embarrassing soon. However, after he took a shower and fantasized about 10,000-character of OOXX in the bathroom, he still didn’t see Qin Tan. After he came out, he went to the bedroom and found Qin Tan lying on the bed in his home clothes; fallen asleep.

Well, pushing through the maze these days, Qin Tan should be quite tired ba.

A small table lamp is turned on by the bed, and the orange light illuminated Qin Tan’s face, softening his sharp facial lines. Sitting down beside Qin Tan gently, Lou Fan watched him sleeping and then carefully covered his own mouth to chuckle. This person, he looked quite gentle when asleep, but then when he is ‘exercising’ on the bed…

Lou Fan reached out and poked Qin Tan’s face lightly. After that, he leaned down and pressed their lips together. He silently said good night before turning off the small lamp.

…

“Scram!”

“Walk slower, urgh, don’t take such a big step.”

“Hiss……”

Lou Fan was leaning against the door with a glass of milk as he watched Qin Tan making omelets. He vaguely heard the voice of someone talking, and a smile appeared on his lips as he could guess who was coming. Seeing the 2 people entering the door, Lou Fan swept his eyes up and down both men and said with a smile, “Why don’t you guys sleep for a while longer? That’s very early of you.”

The weather is fine today and the sun is already high.

Wen Lang’s face turned red. Like a child who did something wrong, he didn’t dare to look at Lou Fan and could only give Jiang Dong a vicious glare. Seeing that he is about to sit down, Jiang Dong immediately ran to get a cushion and put it on the chair causing Wen Lang to glare at him again.

Lou Fan clicked his tongue twice. He could only sigh in his heart and didn’t dare to say it. He is afraid that Wen Lang would die of shame if he said it out loud. Right now, Wen Lang’s face is redder than an apple, the heat on his face might even cook an egg.

At this moment, Chen Shuyang came into the hall and saw Wen Lang sitting there. He slapped Wen Lang on the shoulder and said, “Ah Lang, you drank too much yesterday. It was Dr. Jiang who took care of you yo. You must thank him nicely.”

Wen Lang felt a throbbing pain in ‘that place’. His whole body stiffened and he broke out in a cold sweat. Hearing what Chen Shuyang said, he sneered and squeezed a sentence out of his teeth, word by word, “I. Fcking. Thank. Him!”

Nie Feng, who was following closely behind, sighed and flick his finger on Chen Shuyang’s head, “Stupid, don’t talk nonsense.”

Chen Shuyang covered his head and protested with a look of grievance, “Why do you always say I’m stupid? Which part did I say any nonsense?!”

Lou Fan: “Because you’re stupid to start with.”

…

Upon walking out the door, Lou Fan felt that the people walking back and forth on the road all turned their attention to them. It is the first time he got stared at like this outside of competitions (back in the real world) and he touched his nose helplessly.

Lou Fan has been to Tong Fei’s house so many times, but this time it feels different. He usually feels relaxed and happy when he arrived, but this time, there is a tense atmosphere in the air. He can see the girls training hard everywhere, all with sweat all over their faces.

“Come here, just sit down.” Tong Fei said lightly. Seeing Lou Fan looking around, the corner of her mouth twitched and she said, “Do you think everyone is very hardworking? I forced them to train every day. At the very least, they can run faster than others.”

Her last words are barely audible.

In the past, they always prepared refreshments and fruits when Lou Fan and his team came, but this time, Tong Fei threw them a can of beverage instead of tea.

Lou Fan opened his mouth, but before he could speak, Tong Fei said, “I looked for you guys to exchange information. Also, there is a place I want to take you to. It just so happens that you are all qualified to enter.”

Sitting on the single sofa with a cold expression, Tong Fei continued, “In my previous mission, only me and Jiang Rou came back. There are 14 people in the mission world but only we survived. If it wasn’t for the spell you gave me, I’m afraid it would be a complete annihilation for that mission world. It was a supernatural world. At first, we thought it is just a mission of normal difficulty, but then we found out that the difficulty has more than doubled compared to the normal mission, and we had no power to defend against it at all. Jiang Rou and I upgraded our spirit weapon successively. And with this, when the train arrived, we have to drag ourselves up into the compartment. I have 2 hands left while Jiang Rou only has one. But everyone else…”

Tong Fei closed her eyes, too choked to speak. Lou Fan and the others didn’t bother her. Just by hearing about it, they couldn’t imagine how tragic it was. 5 minutes later, Tong Fei opened her eyes again, but there is only ice in her eyes.

“I don’t know why the intermediate team knew that we had amulets in our hands but they snatched away what I gave to my team members. I’m not sure how they managed to do it, but it must not be a legit way.” Her team members are not that stupid (to give away life-saving items to other people).

Everyone on Lou Fan’s team changed to a solemn expression, they didn’t expect that someone would actually make a sneaky move like that.

Tong Fei said viciously, “I have already some leads. If I find out which organization they are from, I will not be soft-hearted. They better pray they won’t bump into me.” She paused and sighed, “My topic is stretched too far. What I want to say actually is that the difficulty of the mission worlds has increased so you guys must be careful.”

Regarding this matter, everyone on the team has discussed it before. Lou Fan said, “Our task is definitely not as simple as the transitional mission as you mentioned previously. I got lucky and felt that the task is not difficult for me but Wen Lang and the others think that the level of difficulty is not easy.”

The difficulty of transitional missions has also increased? Tong Fei’s beautiful brows knitted into a knot. She didn’t know what to say for some time and her lips felt so dry. She thought about the situation of several people, and still asked the question, “Except for you and Qin Tan, how come everyone also upgraded their spirit weapons?”

Tong Fei only saw their spirit weapon when they got out of the car, but then she realized that the 6people were off to do a transitional mission. Among Lou Fan’s team, 3 of them are still at Level 5, while the other 3 are at Level 6. Logically speaking, the mission world shouldn’t be difficult, as she also has experienced it before. But for the other 4 to upgrade their spirit weapons at the same time, even in more dangerous spiritual worlds, there is not such a high upgrading percentage. She asked Zhuo Lan before but Zhuo Lan didn’t know much about it. She only said that she almost couldn’t come out in the last test, concealing the content of the test.

Hence, Lou Fan asked the 4 members to talk about their own situations. It’s actually quite simple, the 4 people traveled through a maze in their respective ‘dreams’. To not get lost in it, they must have their own beliefs. Just like when one practices kung fu, they must maintain their initial belief and intention to make a breakthrough. The rationale is the same here. The 4 people accepted the test against their hearts, and stand by their beliefs, so they woke up from the ‘dream’.

“Their situation is actually somewhat similar to the time I upgraded mine. I got enlightened by the Master’s chanting and realized my beliefs, while they found their beliefs in their own dreams. To be honest, their situation is more difficult and dangerous than mine.” Lou Fan said. He had a feeling that there’s a fleeting thought within his reach. “I always feel that regarding the upgrade of the spirit weapon, although it is related to one’s personal strength, what’s more important is the heart.”

Tong Fei listened carefully to what Lou Fan said and showed a thoughtful expression. Then she started talking about another topic.

“In my previous mission, I saw a very strange picture.” Tong Fei said.

Lou Fan’s heart jumped and he looked at Tong Fei sharply. Tong Fei continued, “It’s a very weird picture. There is a bundle of light in the high place, dazzling like the sun. Below is a group of people who are fighting. Some of them are holding a bundle of an orange-colored item in their hands, which looked kind of like a…spirit weapon.”

Lou Fan’s eyes widened, and he could barely stand up.

“I think.” Tong Fei said word by word, “I saw myself.”

Lou Fan stood up, feeling cold sweat oozing from his forehead. The painting he had seen flashed in his mind, and then the picture in his ‘dream’, as if he saw that kind face enveloped in the light again. His brain suddenly felt like a needle is stabbing in his head.

“I also saw a similar picture.”

Lou Fan’s neck almost stiffened and he turned to Qin Tan who just said that.

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“It’s the last day already? Why isn’t Wen Lang awake yet?!”

Chen Shuyang was gobbling up food when he heard that today is the last day of their task. He couldn’t be bothered with eating anymore and immediately ran to check Wen Lang’s breathing. Then, he squatted beside Wen Lang and began to mutter.

“Wen Lang, why are you so stupid? You are stupider than me! Wake up quickly. You can’t take my position as the No.1 stupidest member on the team. If you are still not waking up, I will push this position to you. If you don’t speak, it means you agree with this…”

Lou Fan interrupted Shuyang helplessly, “Shuyang, come and eat first. Wen Lang will wake up in a while.”

Chen Shuyang lowered his head and no one couldn’t see his expression clearly. After a long time, he raised his head. His eyes are a little red as he said, “Brother Lou, Ah Lang must be able to wake up, right?” His voice is very low. When he is looking at Lou Fan’s eyes, a little light flashed in his own.

Lou Fan looked at Shuyang and stayed silent for a long time. Then he affirmed, “It’s definitely possible. After you finished eating, go to his ear and nag him, he will wake up soon.”

Chen Shuyang gave a heavy nod and started eating again. After he finished eating, he downed a bottle of water. Wiping his mouth, he started nagging in Wen Lang’s ear.

Nie Feng leaned against the edge of a pillar, with one leg propped up. Staring at Chen Shuyang with drooping eyes, he silently muttered a word, “Silly.”

A hand suddenly covered Chen Shuyang’s mouth and the owner of the hand said, “Are you a duck? I can even hear you quacking in my dreams.”

Wen Lang’s tone is impatient, but his eyes are sparkling. He put down the hand covering Chen Shuyang’s mouth and pulled out the poker in his pocket, it got upgraded too. Chen Shuyang looked at Wen Lang like a large dog with bright eyes, and his mouth wide open to reveal 2 rows of white teeth.

“Ah Lang, you finally woke up! Why are you so stupid? You only woke up now.”

Lou Fan walked over with a smile, “Shuyang, all thanks to you for waking Wen Lang up.”

Wen Lang: …

Qin Tan stood up, also with a smile on his face, “Alright now, it’s great that you managed to wake up. Wen Lang, eat something first. After that, we’re going to look for the exit.”

Probably because their luck is used up, they can’t find an exit after looking for a long time, and everyone is puzzled. It stands to reason that this level should be a Pass (because they woke up from the white world). Even if there are 2 people on the other team who did not pass it, everyone here passed it. Why is there no clue at all now, can it really be impossible to get out?

As they are wondering what to do, the clock struck 12.00 pm.

The dome roof above their head suddenly made clicking sounds. Everyone looked up and saw that the dome is opening up to both sides. Strong sunlight shone in from the outside, forming a strange angle in the middle. Then, everyone saw a door appears on the wall. They immediately became happy, it turned out that this is the exit.

Lou Fan opened the door and walked out. The scene outside the door is a completely different place, no longer the old abandoned amusement park. He turned his head and looked at the exit. The mission world this time is very different from the previous one. He had a feeling that the reason is an important key point. Of course, this time their team had gained too much.

The familiar train whistle sounded, and apart from the 7 of them, no one else can be seen[1].

Wen Lang sighed, “This is the first time for them to be an intermediate team, but both the Level 1 team and the newcomer team are almost obliterated. It’s a bit embarrassing!” Only Zhuo Lan survived apart from their team so it is no different from total team destruction.

Glancing at his spirit weapon, Wen Lang felt even more depressed. A team of 6 intermediate-level spirit weapons, people won’t believe it even if they say it out. They only need to lead a junior team and a newcomer team but the teams ended up completely wiped out. People might say that they sent the juniors and newcomers to their death, but Heaven can be their witness, they really did their best to protect them.

Zhuo Lan got into the train compartment alone. Looking at the empty carriage, she sighed.

In the other train compartment, except Qin Tan and Lou Fan, everyone else is observing their spirit weapon, but Qin Tan frowned and thought for a moment. He said solemnly, “Upon returning to Lazuli, try to put away your spirit weapons. The 4 of you, try to hide your spirit weapons as much as possible, and try not to be seen by others.”

The members who got cue-ed raised their heads in unison. Lou Fan also smiled bitterly, “We have just been promoted to the intermediate team but our spirit weapon got upgraded to intermediate level right away. If we say it out, ill-intentioned people might notice it. It’s not that we can’t beat them, but let’s avoid trouble.”

There are so many organizations in Lazuli. Although they can fight, they can’t go against a big crowd. Lou Fan and Qin Tan are both people who prefer lesser hassles.

The scissors in Nie Feng’s hands have changed back to its original size, and they are being turned around at his fingertips. Nie Feng casually said, “It’s not possible to keep it under wraps for long so it’s better to show other people if you have the strength to flaunt it. In Lazuli, spirit weapon is a symbol of strength, more convincing than the level of rank. If you don’t want to be harassed, you just have to speak with your strength. There may also be unexpected gains.”

Hearing that, Qin Tan looked at Nie Feng with burning eyes, and Nie Feng returned the gaze without fear. His eyes are so frank that people won’t think he said it casually or with a purpose.

Lou Fan thought about what Nie Feng said, it actually made sense. Before this, they agreed that only being low-key can prevent others from snooping. In fact, this is a misunderstanding in itself. The world they currently live in is actually very simple, that is, to speak with strength. Whether it’s a spirit weapon, luck, or fighting strength, it’s all part of strength. The stronger the strength, the less the people in Lazuli would dare to look down on them. Instead, they will treat them with caution and wariness. Lou Fan patted his head and suddenly realized, “Nie Feng is right. We have the strength so why should we hide and tuck like a thief? Shouldn’t we flaunt it and let others ‘kneel and lick’[2] us?”

Everyone: …

This way of thinking is changing too fast, we can’t keep up!

Qin Tan seemed to agree with this statement and said with a smile, “Lou Fan is right, everyone can do whatever you want. Shuyang can also sell his spells publicly. Nie Feng’s reminder is right. This kind of weapon we have is useless when hidden. The benefits are better when they are known to the public.”

Chen Shuyang turned to look at Nie Feng with admiration in his eyes, “Nie Feng, you are amazing. Why are you so smart?”

Nie Feng looked down at Chen Shuyang for a few seconds before reaching out to rub his hair, “Stupid.”

Chen Shuyang chuckled a few times and scratched his head, “I’m just a little stupid.”

Wen Lang: “…”

Can you talk properly? A top student saying that he is stupid, what on Earth is wrong with you guys?

Jiang Dong’s eyes wandered on the 2 people with the light of gossip in his eyes, and a penetrative ‘aunty smile’ hung on the corner of his mouth. Sure enough, nothing can escape his all-seeing eyes!

Since they have decided on the plan, the team swaggered down the compartment when the train arrived at the station. Wen Lang and Jiang Dong’s spirit weapons are spinning around at their fingertips, Chen Shuyang is holding his spirit book, while Nie Feng made the scissors bigger and carried it on his shoulders.

Lou Fan doesn’t know if he should laugh or cry. Although they decided not to be low-key anymore, they don’t need to be so high-profile either!

Wen Lang winked at Lou Fan, “Our goal is to make them ‘kneel and lick’.”

Lou Fan has the urge to cover his face. He shouldn’t get too excited and say the word kneeling and licking, but he can’t stop it now.

As soon as he got off the train, Lou Fan saw Tong Fei waiting in the station. He immediately smiled, waved his hand, and shouted, “Sister Tong Fei!”

Tong Fei looked like the same Tong Fei he knew, but Lou Fan noticed the change in her for the first time. The bright and beautiful women in the past have now become restrained and calm. Seeing them, her eyes only flickered and returned to calm again. The corners of her mouth just twitched, not laughing like she used to and coming over and giving him a hug.

Tong Fei came over and looked at the team. She raised a faint smile and said, “You guys sure have gained a lot from this trip.”

They are indeed high-profile and flamboyant but Lou Fan was observing Tong Fei’s expression so he didn’t pay too much attention to the sensation caused by his team. People who came to pick up people, or people who have just come down from their train are watching them, especially when they see that their spirit weapons looked different. Recently, there is more information about intermediate spirit weapons in Lazuli, so with a glance, they can guess that Lou Fan’s team has intermediate spirit weapons. Immediately, countless envious and jealous gazes came from all directions. It’s like hungry wolves, with a faint green light in their eyes, but also with a hint of timidity.

“Sister Tong Fei, in your last mission…” Lou Fan hesitated, wondering if he should ask.

Tong Fei turned her head to look around and said, “Go back first, I’ll talk more about it tomorrow. And I have something to tell you guys as well.”

Lou Fan replied with an acknowledgment and turned his head to look at Zhuo Lan. He immediately introduced, “This is Zhuo Lan, the newcomer this time, and the only one who survived. I think she should be very suitable for your organization.”

Zhuo Lan looked at Tong Fei nervously. She is rubbing her fingers unconsciously and her palms are sweating slightly. Tong Fei looked her up and down, and she also looked up at Tong Fei.

Tong Fei asked Lou Fan, “Your mission is very difficult this time? Why there’s only 1 survivor left?”

Lou Fan helplessly replied, “I should say that the mission this time is very strange. There are a lot of surprises in the first part, and then the latter is a test of individuals. We can’t help much.”

Tong Fei nodded and looked at Zhuo Lan, “Then, you come with me. I’ll take you to register first, and then we will go to my place so you can see if you want to join me.”

Zhuo Lan immediately cheered up, nodding swiftly and saying yes.

Lou Fan and his party separated from the two and they walked back to their residence.

By the time they arrived at their residence, word had spread all over Lazuli that everyone on Qin Tan’s team had an intermediate-level spirit weapon. When the people from several major organizations heard about it, they couldn’t believe it. They thought that the person who obtained the information just saw it wrongly. After receiving a confirmed answer, they looked surprised. They have never heard of such a powerful team in Lazuli before, why did it suddenly appear? Even if there is 1 person with an intermediate spirit weapon in a team, the team will be recruited by their organizations, let alone all 6 members in a team. What a terrifying power this is.

The most important thing is that the premise of upgrading one’s spirit weapon is they need to improve their physique first. Not to mention how lucky one needs to be to get this opportunity, it is practically impossible for a team of 6 people to get this opportunity. After the physique is improved, then it is a matter of upgrading the spirit weapon. This does not mean that one can upgrade their weapon anytime they wanted to upgrade. The correct combination of time, place, and people is indispensable.

So, it brings them back to this question – what kind of team is this? Why are there no rumors at all? It’s too scary to appear so suddenly. Who dares to recruit 6 holders of intermediate spirit weapons? Even their organization relies on the fact that they have 2 or 3 intermediate-level spirit weapon passengers to recruit other people to join them. Who has the ability to recruit this group of god-like characters?

When several larger organizations thought about this point, they also felt relieved at the same time. If their organization could not recruit this team, other organizations could not have this opportunity too so it won’t cause any disputes for a while. However, there are significantly more people around the team’s residence after that.

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[1] Meaning, the other 3 who ran the other way previously didn’t survive.

[2] It probably meant ‘to give the utmost respect’ but it’s not funny as what the author intended.

According to Zhuo Lan’s 10 years of gaming experience[1], this level should be they let the jumping frog chase them down, leading them to the big boss eventually. After killing the big boss, they can clear the level.

“Of course, this conjecture is according to my experience. I can’t guarantee that it’s correct, I’m just throwing out an idea to consider.”

Qin Tan: “Then we should let ourselves be chased by the jumping frog before we can find the big boss?”

Zhuo Lan crossed her hands, “If my assumption is correct.”

Lou Fan frowned. Letting the jumping frog chase after them? gags It’s so disgusting.

Qin Tan nodded, “Then we’ll decide it that way. We should clear this level earlier, so we don’t have to stay on this floor.” Thinking of the frog’s entrails scattered on the ground after he killed it, Qin Tan’s face also turned a little pale.

However, it is still early. Since the group had enough rest, they simply started walking around randomly. Lou Fan patted Furball and asked Furball to find the frogs. Furball stretched out its small paws and spread out in front of Lou Fan.

Lou Fan: …

Holy crap, Furball has gained intelligence huh?! It even took the initiative to ask for food!

Feeling helpless, Lou Fan bared his teeth at Furball and took out 10 butter beans. He said, “After you found the frog, I will give more to you. Right now, there is only this much.”

Fortunately, Furball is very easy to satisfy. After taking the butter beans, it stuffed them into its mouth. Then it jumped to the ground and started running forward.

[Ding dong! The chase mode will start in 10 minutes. The charming jumping frog will be waiting to meet you…]

When the pleasant mechanical sound rang again, it hasn’t had time to say the rest, the group had already seen a huge jumping frog with a height of 3 stories under Furball’s lead. Compared with the previous small frogs they met, this frog looks like a big boss at first glance, looking obviously uglier[2]. The ugliness of a jumping frog is fully expanded by this frog, causing Lou Fan to silently take a few steps back. The mechanical sound disappeared silently, and the giant jumping frog looked down at a group of ant-like people, croaking with excitement.

Wen Lang: “Shit, that’s disgusting!”

Chen Shuyang: “This is the first time I have seen such a repulsive frog. I will never want to eat any types of frogs again.”

Nie Feng yawned, “But bullfrog’s meat is quite tender.”

Lou Fan couldn’t take it anymore and shouted, “Make this a swift fight!” The trembling in his voice is almost uncontrollable.

Furball rushed out when it heard the order. With such a big frog, Lou Fan is afraid that Furball might not be able to handle it, so he is ready to help with his arrows. The arrow is notched on the bow, but before Lou Fan could shoot, the snow-white dumpling can be seen circling quickly around the boss. After a dizzying moment, the huge frog seemed to be skinned by a sharp knife. Pieces of frog skin fell from the body, followed by pieces of frog meat. And so, the whole frog got dismembered by Furball.

“Furball, how can you be more disgusting than Qin Tan?!” Lou Fan yelled.

Qin Tan: “…”

Furball blinked: It’s my fault again?

A door appeared behind the dismembered giant frog, which turned out it got blocked by the frog’s huge body. The group carefully bypassed the horrific minced meat on the ground. Qin Tan is about to open the door when Wen Lang stopped him.

“Urm, Brother Qin, just let Brother Lou do this. This kind of trivial matter should be left for Brother Lou to do. Hehe.”

Qin Tan: … Then he silently let go of the door handle.

Lou Fan looked at the 2 people with an inexplicable expression, not knowing what riddles are they talking about. But he took the initiative to step forward and pushed the door open.

A long staircase appeared before them, with dim wall lamps on either side. The stairs are revolving type, and the group walked down for more than an hour before finally reaching the end. The sudden strong light caused everyone to block their eyes uncomfortably. When they opened their eyes after getting used to the light, they realized that they have arrived at a large dome building. It is somewhat like a European dome building, with a mural painted on the top and surrounded by surrounding 8 pillars.

“Is this inside the maze too?”

The surrounding area is extremely empty. Except for the 8 pillars, there is nothing else to see.

Qin Tan reminded, “Everyone, don’t be careless.”

10 minutes later, nothing happened.

“What the hell is this place?” Wen Lang said irritably and kicked a pillar.

Jiang Dong glared at Wen Lang and scolded, “So anxious to seek death? Don’t touch anything randomly. Else, you won’t even know how you died.”

Yesterday, this man is still affectionate to him. How come he is so mean to him today? Wen Lang looked at Jiang Dong aggrievedly.

Jiang Dong rubbed Wen Lang’s head helplessly. As patiently as he could, like he is comforting a child, he said, “It’s not your first time going on a mission, you can’t be so reckless.”

Wen Lang pouted and nodded reluctantly.

After walking around the domed building, carefully looking at every possible place where something could happen, the group of people found nothing so they simply sat down to rest.

Lou Fan raised his head and stared at the mural above his head. As he is staring at it, he felt like his consciousness is gradually turning blurry. His consciousness seems to be immersed in warm water. It is as if he is not himself, but also himself at the same time. He couldn’t move and could only follow the ups and downs of the water flow. Not sure how long it took, but his body felt soft and powerless. Then, as if he had been washed to the shore, his consciousness became clearer. Slowly, he opened his eyes and he can see the surrounding clearly.

This is a pure white and blank world. There is nothing to see, like being surrounded by the fog and one can’t see very far. Feeling a little confused, he tried to think about something but soon he found that he had forgotten who he is and where he is supposed to be. He could only walk forward unconsciously, keep walking, and walk for a long, long time. But he didn’t feel tired, as if his senses aren’t registering.

“Lou Fan…”

He turned his head and looked around. Who is it? Who is calling what?

“Lou Fan…”

Is the voice calling him? His name is Lou Fan?

That’s right! His name is Lou Fan, so where did he come from?

A huge white wall appeared in front of Lou Fan. There are 2 ancient characters inscribed on the wall. After staring at it for a long time, the words appeared in Lou Fan’s mind – 琉璃(Lazuli).

Lazuli, what is that place?

Stretching out his hand, Lou Fan touched the white wall lightly. The moment he touched it, a wave of ripples spread out, forming a door enough for a person to pass through. Without hesitation, he stepped in and walked passed the door. Scene after scene flashed in front of him, like a movie. After Lou Fan passed through the 5th one, a painting appeared in front of him. Inside the painting, a huge figure is enveloped in white light, and in front of the figure is a group of people as small as ants. A small group of people stood among them, holding something red in their hands. Lou Fan stared blankly at the white figure. Suddenly, he seemed to be able to see the person in it clearer. She smiled at him. The smile is kind and gentle, and it seemed to carry infinite compassion, which astonished his heart.

Lou Fan came back to his sense and he looked around him. The pure white world has disappeared and he is still sitting by the pillar beside Qin Tan. Qin Tan’s eyes are closed and his expression looked like he is struggling internally. All the members around him are also the same with their eyes closed, their expressions dazed. Lou Fan pursed his lips. This level’s checkpoint should be a personal maze for everyone. They can’t rely on others to help them and can only rely on themself. Lou Fan looked at his team members worriedly. When he turned around, he saw Qin Tan open his eyes and looked at him.

Seeing Lou Fan looking over, Qin Tan smiled at him. His face is still a little pale, but Lou Fan looked at his Tang sword and felt that there’s something different about it. Thinking of that, Lou Fan raised his bow and clenched it hard. He only felt a little unusual, but he didn’t know what is different.

Qin Tan also felt that his Tang sword is a little different than usual. He picked it up and took a closer look, but couldn’t tell why it is different.

“Qin Tan, I feel that this checkpoint is a fortunate encounter for us.” Lou Fan said slowly, looking at his other team members with fiery eyes.

Hearing that, Qin Tan showed a shocked expression. Then, as if he understood what Lou Fan is talking about, he slowly replied, “I hope they can persevere.”

“En, even if they missed the opportunity this time, it’s fine as long as they could wake up smoothly.”

Lou Fan raised his watch and glanced at it. The next moment, his eyes widened abruptly, “Qin Tan, there are only 3 days left.”

He just closed his eyes and 2 days are gone. Right now, Lou Fan is a little anxious as he is afraid the rest of the members won’t be able to keep up with the time.

…

2 days later, Lou Fan could only practice fighting with Qin Tan to while the time away, occasionally playing with Furball. He also spent some time observing everyone’s situation. Unfortunately, nothing could be seen from their faces.

That night, Zhuo Lan opened her eyes. There is a hint of joy in her eyes when she saw Lou Fan. Lou Fan greeted her with a smile, only to think that the look in her eyes is different now.

“Why do I feel so hungry?” Zhuo Lan asked with a frown, clutching her protesting stomach.

Lou Fan laughed, “It’s been 4 days, of course you get hungry.”

“4 days?” Zhuo Lan said incredulously, “Didn’t people say humans will die if they don’t drink water for 3 days?”

Lou Fan: “That’s under normal circumstances. But from the moment you came to this world, you are no longer a normal person.”

Hearing that, Zhuo Lan is stunned for a moment. Then she chuckled, not knowing whether it is self-deprecating or something else, “That’s right…” Before Zhuo Lan could finish her sentence, her eyes caught sight of the 2 people lying on the ground. Then she looked at Lou Fan and asked hesitantly, “They, could it be…”

Lou Fan nodded without saying anything. When the 2 people fell to the ground from their sitting pose, he and Qin Tan went over to check and found that they are no longer breathing. Therefore, he is even more worried about his own team members. Lou Fan had to check for their breathing many times every day, afraid that they would leave soundlessly.

Zhuo Lan stared blankly at the 2 people and her expression changed a few times. In her heart, she is glad that she persevered with the little faith and gritted teeth. Otherwise, she will stay in this world forever. How she wished it is a dream, but the feeling of realness made her understand that this is definitely not a dream.

In the early hours of the night, Jiang Dong and Nie Feng’s spirit weapons shone bright orange at the same time. Lou Fan immediately got up from the ground and walked over excitedly. Soon, the two woke up one after another 10 minutes later. They both felt a little unreal when they saw the spirit weapon with an orange glow in their hands.

Lou Fan patted his 2 team members on the shoulders and said, “Good job, you guys finally woke up. Right now, we just have to wait for these 2.”

Jiang Dong looked at Wen Lang with a worried look, and Lou Fan comforted, “It will be fine, you have to trust him. Shuyang will also make it.”

Jiang Dong looked at Lou Fan fixedly. Seeing his firm eyes with a soft smile, somehow, Jiang Dong felt relieved.

Nie Feng’s eyes swept across Chen Shuyang and stopped for a while on the spiritual book in his arms. Unoticeably pressing down his lower lip, he raised his water bottle to drink some water.

At 6.00 am, with 12 hours left before their deadline for completing the task, Lou Fan crouched between Wen Lang and Chen Shuyang. He turned his head left and right, staring intently at the members. When he put his finger under Chen Shuyang’s nose again, he realized that his breathing is normal as usual. Lou Fan sighed, why doesn’t he wake up?!

“Brother Lou, what are you doing?”

Chen Shuyang’s voice seemed to ring loudly beside his ears. Lou Fan turned his head sharply and saw Chen Shuyang staring at him blankly, followed by a rumbling sound in his(CSY) stomach.

“I’m very hungry.”

Lou Fan looked up and down at Chen Shuyang’s body. When he saw Chen Shuyang’s spirit book, he became speechless. Even the upgrade of his spirit weapon is raised so silently. Ain’t that a little too low-key?

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[1] Banana: Hmm, I think the author should let other people give this info (albeit unuseful) rather than Zhuo Lan. It doesn’t fit her image as a strict higher management staff.

[2] Banana: This is the reason why I said the above info is unuseful, because they found the Boss already :v felt like it’s just filler for the word count.

Inside the rolling transparent bubble ball, everyone is knocked into a daze, not knowing where they are taken to. When the transparent ball finally broke, they fell to the ground miserably.

“Ouch!” “Damn!” “Frick!”

A bunch of scolding could be heard, and the group of people stood up while rubbing their buttocks. Then, they keep rubbing the place where they got hit during the tumble.

“We’ve changed places.” Nie Feng suddenly said to attract everyone’s attention. He didn’t care about the pain in his body and began to look around.

It’s like entering the basement floor after clearing the first round in the Super Mario game. The light in the place where they are is very dark, which is very different from the bright maze before. There are high black walls all around. The only thing in common is they are still in the maze passages.

The sensory stimulation of light on humans is very obvious when it changes. When they got here, everyone immediately became nervous, even holding their weapons tightly.

“Tsk, I have a bad feeling.” Lou Fan tutted.

As soon as Lou Fan said that, his team immediately looked at him. Lou Fan only spread his hands and said, “I feel like we are going to need fighting force, so Shuyang and I will depend on you guys.”

Wen Lang snorted, “What kind of bad premonition is that if you only need fighting force? It’s those stuff that needs luck that will make people bald, okay?”

Qin Tan glanced around and confirmed that there is no danger at the moment. So, he said, “Let’s eat something to replenish our strength first. Also, those who are wounded, go and apply medicine.”

As the only woman in the group, Zhuo Lan is rubbing her knees silently at the moment. She is in great pain, and it must have been blue and purple all over her body. However, she just rubbed the sore spot, trying to reduce the pain. Suddenly, a bottle of medicine appeared in her sight, and she knew it is medicine for wounds. Looking up, Zhuo Lan saw Lou Fan squatting down with the medicine. He is looking face to face with her and she pursed her lips.

“This medicine is not bad, the wound doesn’t hurt anymore when you apply on it.” Lou Fan said, “I’ll block the sight for you, you can apply it yourself.”

Zhuo Lan bit her lower lip and said softly, “Thanks.”

Lou Fan squatted with his back turned and spread his coat, just managing to block Zhuo Lan who is sitting on the ground. Lou Fan said softly, “I have a good friend with temperament very similar to yours. She has gone to do her mission, and I don’t know if she will return smoothly. When I see you, I think of her.”

Zhuo Lan smiled and replied, “You must have a good relationship.”

Lou Fan also nodded, “It’s good, she’s just like a big sister. Although she has a bad temper, she’s actually a good person. When we go back, I’ll introduce you to her, and you can join her organization.”

Zhuo Lan uttered a sound of acknowledgment. Different from when she first came into this world, the thorns all over her body seemed to have been removed, and she became humble.

After resting for a while, everyone packed up and is ready to move on. The wounds on their body have been smeared with the medicine, which is very effective.

[Ding dong!]

A mechanical sound rang out, startling everyone.

[Ding dong! Congratulations to the players for passing the 3rd level. Welcome to the basement floor maze. The chase mode will be launched in 10 minutes, and the charming jumping frog will be waiting to meet you. Note that players can get a 5-minute rest time by killing a jumping frog. The chase mode will be activated for 1 hour. The more rest time you get, the longer you can delay the chase mode from being turned on.]

This time, the mission world even gave them a hint.

“Frck, how do we get through this level? Is there any checkpoint left?” Wen Lang yelled.

Lou Fan frowned, “Jumping frogs, it doesn’t sound like a good thing to hear.” He hates this kind of sticky stuff the most.

Qin Tan calmly said, “Let’s take it one step at a time. This layer is different from the above, maybe er will encounter something, don’t worry.”

10 minutes passed quickly, and everyone are still standing there, waiting to see what the jumping frog looked like. With a ‘croak’, everyone saw its true appearance. It is a giant frog[1], but it looks so ugly. Its skin is darker than that of a toad, and there are lumps all over its body. It has the size of a small car but it seems to move quickly. Within a few jumps, it has arrived in front of them.

Lou Fan is disgusted, and Zhuo Lan’s face turned pale.

“Go go go, it’s disgusting.”

Unfortunately, before they could leave, the jumping frog stuck out a tongue and hit Nie Feng. The heavy force is mixed with disgusting saliva, making all the liquid splash over Nie Feng’s body. The tongue hit him like a whip and it hurt so much that he bared his teeth.

Obviously, it was still so far away just now. Why it can come over so fast? Now, they have to face the frog no matter what.

Seeing that Nie Feng is entangled, Lou Fan immediately took some arrows and shot. 3 arrows flashed and happened to hit the lump on the jumping frog. With a ‘pshh’, the lump burst, and a foul-smelling black liquid flowed out.

“Blergh!” Lou Fan is even more disgusted.

Chen Shuyang held the long spear and poked it at the jumping frog. Probably due to its rough and thick skin, the tip of the spear sank under the skin. The jumping frog immediately flicked its tongue.

Seeing the tongue is about to hit Chen Shuyang, Qin Tan swept forward with his Tang sword. The orange-yellow blade slashed across the long tongue, just like cutting tofu. The long tongue is cut into half, and the one that fell on the ground is still twitching. Qin Tan swung his long sword and slashed at the jumping frog. The jumping frog made a ‘croak’ and pounced at Qin Tan. Qin Tan also rushed towards the frog quickly, and the edge of his sword swept across its belly.

BLEARGH! Lou Fan almost vomited out at the sight of viscera all over the place. It’s really repulsive.

A snow-white cloud emerged from Lou Fan’s pocket, staring at him with its curious little eyes. The snowball tilted its head as if it doesn’t understand what happened to its master. Lou Fan paused, and an idea popped into his head. Then, he hugged the fur ball and kissed it. Lou Fan didn’t turn around and just shouted to the back, “Quick, quick, let’s find the next frog. I have a good idea.”

Wen Lang immediately opened his mouth and laughed, “Ah, is my Brother Lou going to do something extraordinary again?”

Lou Fan really disliked this jumping frog so he replied, “There’s no other way. Who made these frogs so nauseating.” Otherwise, he would not have done this.

There was no need for the group to look for the frogs. Soon, the second jumping frog appeared not far away. When it saw them, Lou Fan felt that its bulging eyes are flashing with green light and that ‘croak’ contained a feeling of infinite excitement.

“Go! Brother Lou!” Wen Lang shouted.

Lou Fan’s eyes are throwing daggers at Wen Lang to shut up. Next, he said a few words to the fur ball, and it nodded slightly.

A flash of lightning-fast white figure rushed towards the oncoming jumping frog, like a small cannonball. It rushed into the jumping frog’s opened mouth. The next moment, the jumping frog that was still excited just now fell to the ground heavily and stopped moving.

Furball flew back, and immediately wanted to run up to Lou Fan’s shoulder but got stopped by Lou Fan. Lou Fan held Furball in front of his eyes and stared all over it carefully. After that, he sniffed Furball carefully to make sure that there is nothing strange on it or exuding a strange smell. Only then did he reluctantly let Furball stand back on his shoulders.

Before the people behind him could come back to their senses, Lou Fan already raised his arms and shouted, “Let’s go! The chase mode is on, let’s look for the frogs!”

Everyone: …

Black lines [-_-ll] can no longer be used to express the complexity of their hearts. Is it really okay to cheat freely like this?

Lou Fan is very happy that he doesn’t have to come into close contact with such foul things again. There is nothing nicer than that. He can’t wait to kiss Furball again, but, en… the way Furball killed the frogs… Lou Fan really can’t bear to drop that kiss. Thinking like this, he took out a handful of butter beans and fed them to Furball with a smile.

Qin Tan curved his lips behind Lou Fan, feeling a little helpless.

Nie Feng is very curious about the fur ball on Lou Fan’s shoulder. He originally thought it is just a small pet. Although he had seen only this pet in Lazuli, he didn’t expect it to be so powerful. He was hit by the tongue of the leaping frog before so he knows how painful it is.

Zhuo Lan feels a little confused now. She remembers that when she was chatting with the Level 1 team before, she heard that the missions in each world are very scary. But according to what she encountered so far, apart from getting exhausted from the Guard Patrol, she does not feel very horrible. Or rather, did the Level 1 team exaggerate the difficulty? She is a little confused now.

A group of people walked slowly in the maze, carefully checking for checkpoints. The oncoming jumping frogs are all killed by Furball, so they had no chance to take action themselves. Also, Furball moves faster than anyone else, because Lou Fan would give it a big handful of butter beans every time it killed a frog.

Furball: Butter beans are the best.

After an hour.

[Ding dong! Calculating the number of jumping frogs killed…]

5 minutes later.

[Calculating…]

Lou Fan had a feeling that he could hear the mechanical voice saying the words with imperceptible gnashing of teeth.

[Ding dong! According to the calculation, a total of 378 jumping frogs were killed and 31.5 hours of rest time were obtained…]

Lou Fan sighed, “Ah, finally I don’t have to see such disgusting things anymore. Why don’t they come more? It would be better if I didn’t have to see them at all until the end of this level.”

Everyone thought about it and felt that what Lou Fan said is very reasonable.

Without the jumping frogs coming to attack them, the group is more leisurely and relaxed. Their goal is very clear, that is, to find the checkpoint and clear it. However, they have been searching for a few hours and have not seen any checkpoints.

“Take a break to replenish your strength and eat something,” Qin Tan said.

After walking for a long time, everyone is really tired. They didn’t sleep much at all. Now that they had enough time, the group couldn’t help but relax. As soon as they sat down, they feel like they can’t open their eyelids. After closing their eyes for a while, a slight snoring sound could be heard.

Lou Fan rubbed his eyes, feeling a little tired too. Qin Tan sat beside him and patted his own shoulder for Lou Fan to lean against.

“Go to sleep, I’ll keep watch.”

Lou Fan took Furball out and said to Qin Tan, “You sleep too. Let Furball stand guard, you haven’t slept much before.”

Qin Tan is quite an alert person, so with Furball helping out, they are relatively safe. He nodded and closed his eyes, resting against Lou Fan’s head.

…

Hearing someone talking, Lou Fan woke up and saw that Zhuo Lan is writing on a piece of paper while Chen Shuyang stood beside her and watched. The rest of the people also woke up gradually. Lou Fan looked at the time, he actually slept for 6 hours.

Chen Shuyang walked over happily and said with a smile, “Brother Lou, we have a new idea. It is Zhuo Lan who thought of it, and I think it should be alright.”

Lou Fan stood up, rubbing his hair, and asked, “What new ideas?”

Zhuo Lan showed her first smile after arriving here, “I think this level is a bit like a game.”

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[1] Banana: I will keep the word Frog instead of Toad here because that’s why the author wrote, despite the appearance are described like a toad. I guess author just combined both attributes and named it as a jumping frog.

Zhuo Lan took a deep breath but felt that she had never been so tired in her life. She already doesn’t know how to move her hands and feet and is completely powerless. Just now, she could only mechanically run with the group. At this moment, she looked back and saw that except for the 6 members of the intermediate team, there are only 3 of them left. The rest of the junior and newcomer team is nowhere to be seen.

“The other 3 people…” Zhuo Lan hesitated and asked timidly. She already has the answer in her heart, but she can’t believe it.

“If they run fast enough, then they are probably resting somewhere. If they are unlucky…” Wen Lang’s voice lightly sounded in Zhuo Lan’s ear, as if it is spoken from a long distance.

At the same time, Zhuo Lan fell down to the ground with a THUMP and lay motionless, startling everyone. Jiang Dong checked immediately and waved his hand, “She’s okay. She is just too tired and a little dehydrated.”

Qin Tan nodded, “Then, let’s rest for a while. There is still more than 3 hours before the Guard Patrol started again, so hurry up and rest.”

It’s fine if Zhuo Lan is okay. They wouldn’t want to carry someone on their back while running in this maze. But it would be a bit unkind to leave her behind.

Lou Fan glanced at his watch. Before he knew it, the current time is already early morning. Thinking that he would have to work hard in 4 hours, the most important thing right now is to rest. From the moment they entered the maze, they have been moving non-stop like a spinning top, even people made of iron can’t stand the intensity. Thinking that there are still a few days to go through this cycle, Lou Fan felt that he had to speed up.

Though Lou Fan said to rest, his tense nerves couldn’t relax, so he simply started a discussion with everyone. “What do you think is the most important thing about this mission world?”

After a few seconds of silence, the other 5 said in unison, “Clear the levels.”

Lou Fan praised his team’s tacit understanding and nodded with a chuckle, “I also think so, the biggest point of this mission should be clearing the levels. We passed the 2nd level and started the Guard Patrol mode. But now what I’m worried about is, that if we cleared this level later, other modes will be opened. However, all of this is based on general level clearing knowledge. Once we clear more levels, it means we are getting closer to the exit. Of course, this is my current guess.”

Lou Fan’s guess made sense.

“That is to say, we need to find checkpoints to clear the levels as soon as possible,” Jiang Dong said.

Speaking of which, he and Wen Lang both shivered.

Lou Fan nodded, “While dodging the guards, we have to look for checkpoints. I think the previous 2 levels are actually easy to pass, right?”

As soon as Lou Fan said these words, he saw Qin Tan’s face darken while Wen Lang and Jiang Dong’s expression is indescribable beyond words.

Qin Tan squeezed his eyebrows, “It shouldn’t be difficult with you here.”

Wen Lang and Jiang Dong: The difficulty is, facing those without you.

The corridor is quiet. After everyone casually ate something to pad their stomach, they closed their eyes and rested, holding their weapons in their arms.

When Lou Fan wakes up, he is lying on Qin Tan’s lap. The moment he opened his eyes, he saw Qin Tan with his eyes closed and his chin[1] is a little blue/green. He stretched out his hand to touch it, but the man opened his eyes and looked down at him.

“Awake?” Qin Tan rubbed Lou Fan’s head.

Lou Fan sat up and looked around, inexplicably feeling a little strange. Chen Shuyang is sleeping soundly against Nie Feng’s shoulders. What is stranger is that Wen Lang and Jiang Dong are sleeping sweetly with their heads touching, the atmosphere is very harmonious.

“What happened to these two people while I was away?” Lou Fan asked Qin Tan in a low voice, with a gossipy expression on his face.

Qin Tan has a smile in his eyes as he replied, “Probably just opening up to each other?”

“Huh?” Lou Fan is stunned, “That explosive? What the hell did you guys encounter?”

As soon as Lou Fan asked the question, Qin Tan stopped talking and randomly shifted his gaze elsewhere, not meeting Lou Fan’s eyes. And at this moment, the others also woke up.

Zhuo Lan rubbed her head and sat up, only to feel pain in her head. When she touched it, there is a sore bump.

Lou Fan stood up and clapped his hands to get everyone’s attention. He glanced at the time on his watch, and said quickly, “The time is almost up, the patrol mode will be turned on immediately. Everyone, get ready.”

“Zhuo Lan, are you okay?”

Suddenly being called, Zhuo Lan is stunned for a moment. She nodded and said, “It’s fine, I can do it.” She pursed her lips and said, “Thank you, everyone.”

[Ding dong! Now the Guard Patrol mode has started. The guard patrol time limit is 1 hour, and the location is random. Please hurry up and escape. Be careful, don’t get caught by the guards, otherwise, there will only be a dead end yo!]

A nightmarish voice sounded, and everyone sighed involuntarily. Just as they are about to run, Lou Fan suddenly stopped everyone.

“Wait a minute. Let’s run after the guards appeared. Running around randomly will only waste our energy.”

Everyone: It makes sense, so why did they take the initiative to show up in front of the guards before this?

10 minutes later, a guard appeared in the distance. This time, there is no need to say anything and everyone tacitly ran away. But they already learned their lesson. This time, the remaining 2 people from the Level 1 team and Zhuo Lan followed the group closely, afraid to go the wrong way. Song Ye has separated with them from the 1st Guard Patrol, and they don’t know how he is right now. They can only pray that he is still alive.

When running through an intersection, Qin Tan paused, “There’s a checkpoint there.”

There is a guard in the back and a checkpoint in the front. If they missed this checkpoint, they don’t know if they can return to it later. This is really a dilemma.

There are still 5 minutes left so Lou Fan gritted his teeth and said, “Go, we’ll go to the checkpoint. If the guard arrived, let’s try to last for 5 minutes.” After he finished speaking, he took the lead and rushed into the checkpoint area. The few people behind him didn’t say a word, they all followed and ran after him.

Zhuo Lan thinks this group of people is crazy. Didn’t they hear that being caught by the guards means death? Now, they are rushing in like this, the checkpoint area is a dead end! She roared in her heart, but she didn’t dare to run away by herself, so she could only follow the group to the checkpoint.

The guard at the back obviously saw them and followed them all the way. But when the group is about to prepare for a fight, the guard magically stopped at the entrance of the checkpoint area, as if not seeing them. It wandered there for a while and then turned around to leave.

The whole group saw the joy in each other’s eyes. It turned out that the guards could not enter the checkpoint area!

Lou Fan pondered for a moment, “So that’s the case. That is to say, the checkpoint area is a ‘way of life’. Once we found the location of a checkpoint, we can avoid confronting the guards, which is much easier.”

However, as soon as Lou Fan turned his head, he saw something on the wall and stood there dumbfounded – what is this pile of weird stuff?

There are a bunch of tubular things piled up in pieces on the wall. There are 6 valves in the front, and 6 colors of red, yellow, blue, green, orange, and purple in the back. Lou Fan stared at it for a long time, but he doesn’t understand what it is.

[Banana: Here’s the example of the game – https://i.imgur.com/kl5XvAa.png ]

“I know this.” Wen Lang said with a grin, “It’s a pipe connecting game. Just that this one looked a bit complicated, and… I don’t know which color to choose.”

Jiang Dong rubbed his brows and sighed, “Why do we have to choose again.”

Chen Shuyang frowned and stared at it for a long time, then said aloud, “I know how to match the pipes, but which valve should I choose to match which color? Or are there requirements for both the valve and the color?”

Oh, that’s a real question there.

The people who were standing beside Chen Shuyang suddenly took a step back. But Chen Shuyang only looked at them eagerly, waiting for their answer.

Lou Fan: “Why do you all step back? Let’s think about it together.”

Wen Lang shrugged, “Brother Lou, don’t make it hard for us. How can we think of anything out of this? You should just KO everything in seconds with your luck!”

Qin Tan, Jiang Dong, and Nie Feng nodded in agreement.

Lou Fan scratched his head, messing his hair, “How to KO this? You tell me how to KO it?”

“Overwhelm everything with your luck. You can do it, Brother Lou!” Wen Lang made a cheering gesture.

I C.A.N.N.O.T ——Lou Fan rolled his eyes, frowning at the mess.

There is no hint of what is on the wall at all. Lou Fan thought for a while, and said to Chen Shuyang, “Let’s connect one and see what happens first.”

“Okay.” Chen Shuyang agreed and started rolling up his sleeves, “Which valve and color?” He then chose the 2nd valve and the purple counterpart.

The tube on the wall cannot be taken off. It can only turn in place, and be connected to other pipes by turning. Soon, Chen Shuyang connected the 2nd valve to purple. He stood up straight and stared at the wall. The other people behind them are also very nervous. 10 minutes later, nothing happened. Everyone is relieved and at the same time, their nervousness is raised again.

Chen Shuyang: “It seems that we need to connect all valves together.”

Lou Fan walked around, rubbing his chin in thought, without a clue.

No one else could help, Wen Lang bumped Jiang Dong with his shoulder and asked, “Hey, what’s your favorite color?”

Jiang Dong glanced at Wen Lang and replied with a raised tone at the end, “Yellow, color[2].”

Wen Lang: …how come it sounds weird?

PA! Lou Fan clapped his hands and shouted excitedly, “I see!”

Qin Tan: “What?”

“Come on, tell me your favorite color.”

Lou Fan took out a piece of paper and scribbled something on it. After filling it, the result is:

Qin Tan – blue
Lou Fan – green
Chen Shuyang – purple
Wen Lang – red
Jiang Dong – yellow
Nie Feng – purple

He handed the paper to Chen Shuyang, “Just follow this order[3].”

Wen Lang: “Brother Lou, your decisions are as flashy as ever. No one will ever think like this except you!”

Lou Fan helplessly replied, “I can’t do anything either. I don’t have any hints, so we’ll just do whatever we can.”

Chen Shuyang arranged the order in the list without comments. Lou Fan stared at the pile of pipes with his chin up. Suddenly, he recalled the painting he saw before. He remembered in a trance that among the group of people standing below the figure, there seems to have these colors too. But Lou Fan shook his head, it might be just an illusion. It can’t be that coincidental.

This pipe puzzle is really a bit complicated. Chen Shuyang has to turn a few times at a time and stand far away to observe for a while. The rest of the people couldn’t help, it gave them a headache from just looking at it. Hence, everyone could only try not to make noise to disturb Chen Shuyang.

With a click, as the last tubular pipe is connected, the valve spewed liquid, and the transparent water pipes are filled with colorful liquids, which looked kind of nice for a while.

The group of people gathered in front of the puzzle, and a huge bubble suddenly appeared and wrapped them in it. Then, they saw a large amount of water pouring out from all directions, and the bubble they are in is carried by the current as it began to roll and float.

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[1] Not sure if the author really meant to write chin or it’s a typo?

[2] Jiang Dong said 黄色 which yellow is a slang for nsfw stuff. The last word 色 is also can mean nsfw stuff ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[3] If anyone noticed the ranking, you are correct. It’s the ranking of when the members joined the team.

When Qin Tan and his party arrived in the room with a huge picture frame, 2 hours had passed. Ignoring the fragments on the ground, Wen Lang walked to a door with a flower pattern drawn on it and pushed the door open without any hesitation.

Jiang Dong responded very quickly and shoved Wen Lang aside. At that moment, Wen Lang saw countless flowers with sharp teeth rushing out of the door. Qin Tan decisively swung the Tang sword in his hand and quickly cut off the flower that is pouncing at him with a wide opened mouth. The flower fell to the ground, and the wound dripped bright red ‘juice’.

Wen Lang and Jiang Dong immediately took out their weapons

Others are not so lucky. They couldn’t dodge in time and get bitten on the neck by the big mouth of the man-eating flower. Next, the petals bulged, and the person got sucked into the flower. The flowers that managed to devour prey seemed to be satisfied. Moving its cheek-like petals, they quickly retreated behind the door.

A few minutes later, the other man-eating flowers seemed to have received some instructions. Seemingly dissatisfied, they still returned to the door without hesitation. The door with the flower painted closed with a bang as if something so terrible had never appeared before.

Qin Tan looked around with a sullen face. Both the Level 1 team and the newcomer team lost a member each. Then, of the remaining 3 survivors, one of them lost an arm. The other 2 got lucky and only suffered minor injuries.

[Banana: Apologies for breaking immersion here. Just want to provide an update of the currently surviving people in case anyone wants to know. Also, Song Ye (the temporary leader of the junior team was not mentioned anywhere so far so I’m not sure if he is one of the people who fell into the trap previously)]

Team 1 (from 8 ppl to 6 ppl now)
Qin Tan
Wen Lang
Jiang Dong
1x Level 1 team (1 just died from the man-eating flower)
2x newcomers (1 just died from the man-eating flower)

Team 2 (still 6 ppl)
Lou Fan
Chen Shuyang
Nie Feng
2x Level 1 team
1 newcomer (Zhuo Lan)

“Treat your injury.” Qin Tan gave some medicine to the wounded people.

Jiang Dong helped the newcomer to bandage his wounded arm as he gro.a.ned in pain. The wounds that had been treated with medicine quickly stopped bleeding, and Jiang Dong wrapped them up with a layer of bandages.

Wen Lang bowed his head and stood aside. He was a little reckless just now, opening a door without even being prepared. He glanced up at the 3 remaining doors, hesitating.

After Jiang Dong finished with the bandages, he put away his things and walked to Wen Lang’s side. Then he said in a low voice, “I’ll open the door, you stay away.”

Wen Lang frowned at Jiang Dong and retorted, “With your luck, a monster might come out and we’ll be finished.”

“Even if a monster appears, I will be blocking in the front so get out of the way.”

Wen Lang pulled Jiang Dong, not giving an inch, “I refused.”

Jiang Dong stroked his hair irritably and grabbed Wen Lang. The two of them looked at each other face to face, their noses almost touching. Jiang Dong stared into Wen Lang’s eyes. Gritting his teeth, he said to Wen Lang, “I said I’ll go, I don’t want you to get hurt.”

Wen Lang stared at Jiang Dong. He could even feel the hand grabbing him shaking slightly. Wen Lang sighed. His palm touched Jiang Dong’s arm, and he said softly but firmly, “We will do this together. You will choose a door, and I’ll by your side.”

A steady stream of heat is transferred from Wen Lang’s hand to him. Jiang Dong looked at Wen Lang’s firm eyes, and there is an indescribable light shining inside. He smiled helplessly and pulled Wen Lang’s hand down. He gave it a squeeze before letting go.

“Okay, we’ll do this together, but you have to stand behind me.”

Wen Lang wanted to say more, but Jiang Dong stopped him.

Qin Tan made the wounded stand farther away, before walking to stand behind his 2 team members. Jiang Dong glanced at the remaining door and walked to the door with the bird pattern. Wen Lang couldn’t help but raised his hand to touch Jiang Dong’s arm. Jiang Dong didn’t even look back as he patted Wen Lang’s hand comfortingly. Then, he pushed Wen Lang away and moved his body to block in front of him. Jiang Don took a deep breath and pressed the door slightly harder, the door opened silently, Jiang Dong held his weapon tightly and held his breath. However, 10 seconds later, everything is calm as usual. Then he heard a voice.

…

Chen Shuyang took some time to sort out all the fragments, and with his excellent memory, he quickly filtered the patterns in his mind. One has to say that Chen Shuyang is indeed a figure of academic dominance; being calm and organized.

Half an hour later, Lou Fan stood under the huge puzzle and looked at the painting with admiration.

On the far right side of the painting, a tall figure surrounded by white light stood there. Lou Fan can’t see his face clearly, but he can feel the divine aura emanating from the figure. The figure is painted with his left hand in a downward gesture. On his right shoulder, there is a huge bird. Its species can’t be identified, but its eyes are sharp. It looked like an eagle but even more ferocious. At the feet of the figure, a group of people is crawling on the ground. There is a small group of people standing in the middle. They are looking up at the figure, holding a mass of red things in their hands.

As Lou Fan looked at it, an absurd feeling arose in his heart as if he is inside the painting itself, looking up at the tall and vague figure in front of him. But he had a feeling that the figure is looking down at the group of people below with a kind and solemn gaze. There’s even a little expectation and hint of hope inside.

“I know which door to choose!”

Chen Shuyang shouted, pulling Lou Fan’s thoughts back in an instant as if his soul had returned to its original place. When Lou Fan looked at the painting again, the scenery just now has disappeared. The jigsaw that Shuyang completed is clearly a landscape painting with shining dots in it. When one looked at it with concentration, it can be seen as a simple pattern of the bird.

Chen Shuyang jumped up happily to push the door with a bird pattern but is pulled back by Nie Feng. Chen Shuyang looked at him puzzledly, with a question in his eyes.

Lou Fan angrily stepped forward and smacked Chen Shuyang on the head, “So reckless. If it’s not correct, wouldn’t you just send yourself at death’s door?”

Chen Shuyang said aggrieved, “It’s definitely right, I can’t be wrong.”

Hearing the reply, Lou Fan felt helpless, not sure if to laugh or cry. What can he say to such a serious and confident top student?

Nie Feng pulled Chen Shuyang aside and walked up to the door. After he opened the door, everything around is calm.

Chen Shuyang exclaimed, “See! I already said it is correct.”

“Alright, alright, you are the best.” Before Lou Fan could finish speaking, he heard an excited voice calling him.

“Brother Lou!” Wen Lang shouted, “Brother Lou, I finally see you!”

This tone is like meeting a savior, with impatient and infinite grievances.

Lou Fan subconsciously looked for Qin Tan’s figure. When he saw Qin Tan coming out of the door opposite, he is stunned for a moment. Then he burst out laughing so hard that he couldn’t straighten his back.

“Hahaha……”

Chen Shuyang puzzledly looked at his other team members with splashes of colors on their faces, “What’s wrong with you guys?” Such a sorry state.

Wen Lang exaggeratedly sighed, “Without Brother Lou, I can’t live anymore. It’s too sad to say it so let’s not talk about it. It’s finally a victory reunion!”

Both teams walked out of the door and into the corridor. Before Lou Fan could speak to Qin Tan, a familiar and cheerful mechanical voice sounded in the air:

[Ding dong! Congratulations to the players for passing the 2nd level. Right now, we will immediately start the Guard Patrol mode. The guard’s patrol time limit is 1 hour. The location is random, so please hurry up and escape. Be careful and don’t get caught by the guards, otherwise, there will only be a dead end yo!]

Its voice is pleasant and cheerful as if the result of getting caught is not death but some great reward.

Black lines above everyone’s head [-_-ll], but there is no time to think too much. 3 long sirens sounded in the air. Lou Fan did not doubt the words of the mechanical voice at all. He shouted for everyone to run. Immediately after, he took the lead and ran in a direction. No one knows what that ‘Guard’ looks like, but it doesn’t sound easy to mess with. However, his luck must have run out because when Lou Fan turned a corner at a T-junction, a soldier-like guard covered in silver armor spawned in the area. The word ‘turn around’ is still stuck in Lou Fan’s throat and the guard had already rushed over. It moves mechanically but is not dull at all. Rather, it is very flexible. It is holding a long spear in its hand, which is emitting a cold glint.

Lou Fan stopped on his track and stepped back. Qin Tan, who is behind him, is already facing the guard with his Tang sword held up. The iron weapon collided with a ‘BANG’, and Jiang Dong, Wen Lang, and Nie Feng immediately swarmed forward. Chen Shuyang wanted to go up with his long spear as well but got pulled by Lou Fan. Lou Fan turned his head and said, “Everyone, go back to the previous junction. You have to immediately escape when you see the guards.”

The junior team and the newcomers immediately turned around and ran. They don’t know where to go but turn to whichever path they saw.

Lou Fan pulled out some cross arrows from the quiver at his waist and shot 3 arrows at the guard. However, the omnipotent cross arrows are like an egg hitting a stone. When they hit the guard, they simply fell to the ground, not even causing a scratch on the guard. Lou Fan’s expression changed. Looking at the guard who is only feeling tickled from the 4 people’s attacks, he said decisively, “Stop fighting and take the opportunity to run. You can’t be caught.”

Chen Shuyang hurriedly yelled, “Try using the immobilizing amulet!”

Wen Lang pulled back and got an amulet out. Then he sticks it on the guard, and the guard is immobilized! The four immediately pulled away and ran. 5 seconds later, the heavy footsteps of the guards sounded again.

This immobilizing amulet can only last 5 seconds!

The 6 people ran together, and Qin Tan said, “Don’t separate, run together.”

Wen Lang immediately nodded with understanding. They must not separate, promise him!

Lou Fan nodded, it would be best if the six of them stayed together, so that they won’t have to worry about the others.

However, in their hasty escape, the 6 people from the junior team and the newcomer team, are now left with only 3 running ahead of them. No one knows where the other 3 people have run off to.

After running through a few forks, the guard behind him had been thrown off so the group stopped to take a breath and rest. But before their breathing could turn stable, the familiar heavy footsteps sounded from another direction so everyone immediately started running again.

After an hour.

[Ding dong! The Guard Patrol mode is turned off, see you again in 4 hours yo!]

The alarm is lifted, and several people immediately collapsed to the ground without caring about their image. Their eyes are closed and their faces are pale as if they are terribly sick. Only the rapid ups and downs of their chests indicated that they are still alive, and their hearts are beating strongly.

“Have we really entered just a maze? Who said this mission is a transitional mission, which is easy, and not difficult at all?!” Wen Lang gritted his teeth, “It’ll be fine if we just be careful?! Man, … I felt… like dying.”

As the last 2 words are spoken, Jiang Dong covered Wen Lang’s mouth and said, “Children’s words carry no harm (idiom), don’t talk nonsense.”

Wen Lang: Frck your ‘Children’s words carry no harm’, who are you scolding?!

However, Wen Lang could only glare at Jiang Dong. For some reason, he didn’t dare to refute, and he subconsciously spat twice (to undo the words he said).

Lou Fan propped himself and sat up. His eyes looked back and forth between Wen Lang and Jiang Dong and finally smiled with a motherly look on his face. Wen Lang rubbed his arms, only feeling Lou Fan being creepy while Jiang Dong grinned at Lou Fan, showing a knowing look.

Tsk, Lou Fan felt like he has underestimated Jiang Dong’s mensao-ness!

Lou Fan stop bothering with them and turned to look at Qin Tan, scanning up and down. Before he could see enough, he got hugged by Qin Tan.

“Stop looking.”

Lou Fan buried his head in Qin Tan’s chest. Qin Tan’s voice sounded muffled in his ears, tickling his heart. His fingers unconsciously pressed on Qin Tan’s thigh. Immediately, someone grabbed his unruly hand.

“Are your skin feeling itchy, hmm?” (Do you want to get spanked?)

Lou Fan’s face twitched. Does he know what kind of situation is this? Still talking nonsense!

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