After being yelled at by Ye Bugui, Wang Qifan finally regained his senses.
He glanced at Ye Bugui across from him and finally nodded: "Then what should we do?"
"You just need to stay here and trust me, I can handle it."
"Hmm." Wang Qifan sighed, seemingly about to say something, but then remembered Ye Bugui's slap just now, and changed his mind: "Then little brother, you must be careful and don't get into any trouble."
At the same time, Ye Bugui also successfully unlocked the story mode.
And the transparent umbilical cord between him and Dr. Wang was also severed.
Lu Shi from class 205 naturally heard the news. He curled his lips and immediately revealed a satisfied expression.
“Not bad,” Lu Shi said, not surprised at all. “Now we’ll see what it does.”
Lu Shi originally thought that Dr. Wang, who was the dungeon boss, would make some moves.
Unfortunately, the other party wasn't in a hurry at all, and didn't even show up, as if it were just a peaceful night.
Their only regret was that the other female players did not trigger the storyline.
Lu Shi couldn't help but worry, what if something happened to them?
At the same time, Ye Bugui sat down on the edge of the bed, with Wang Hu kneeling in front of him.
He was preparing to interrogate Wang Hu, who had just woken up.
"I'll tell you whatever you want to ask!" When Wang Hu saw Ye Bugui's face, he had already guessed his identity.
Wang Qifan's deceased younger brother.
Faced with a ghost, especially one that harbored hatred towards him, Wang Hu dared not resist.
"What I want to ask," Ye Bugui said with a smile, sitting in his chair, "is related to Tai Sui. Tell me everything you know about the Black Tai Sui!"
Wang Hu was immediately shocked. He looked at Ye Bugui and never expected that this person would be so bold as to want information about Lord Tai Sui.
"Aren't you going to talk?" Seeing Wang Hu's hesitation, Ye Bugui got up and walked in front of Wang Hu. He simply raised one hand, and Wang Hu was so frightened that he covered one side of his face.
"I...I can't say!" Wang Hu screamed hoarsely, "Lord Tai Sui said that I can't tell anyone about him! Otherwise, otherwise I'll die!"
No sooner had he finished speaking than a blackened tentacle suddenly emerged from Wang Hu's mouth.
Immediately afterwards, the same tentacles emerged from Wang Hu's eyes, nostrils, and even from every pore on his body.
These tentacles quickly drained Wang Hu's blood and life force, turning him into a dried-up corpse resembling a relief sculpture.
Upon witnessing this scene, Wang Qifan fainted on the spot.
Ye Bugui's sanity also dropped a few points. He rubbed his temples and said, "Goodness, I didn't expect him to die so quickly. This divine messenger's temper doesn't seem very good!"
Ye Bugui waited for the waiter's next move, but to his surprise, the waiter did not appear again until midnight.
That night, Lu Shi and Ye Bugui were both invited to sleep in the same bed by their roommates.
However, both of them had clearly gotten used to living off the bed, and they both refused each other's offer and lay down on the floor.
This time, before they could even glance at their roommate's phone, their bodies had barely touched the floor beneath the bed when they suddenly passed out.
When they woke up, it was already nine o'clock.
Lu Shi rubbed his neck, surprised that he had slept for so long last night.
He didn't have a single dream last night. Did that waiter really not intend to take action?
Lu Shi then got up from under the bed, and at that moment he suddenly smelled a faint aroma of food coming from the room.
He followed the scent and glanced at the head of the bed, never expecting to find a bag of still-warm steamed buns there.
Next to the steamed buns was a note, the handwriting of which appeared to be written by Gao Yang for him:
"Brother, I don't know if you can eat steamed buns as a ghost. This is my favorite flavor, and I hope you like it too. Brother, no matter what you do next, I just want you to be safe and sound. It would be even better if you could be reincarnated. Brother, you must have a better life."
Looking at the dense text, Lu Shi seemed to see Gao Yang smiling as he wrote these words by the bedside that morning.
He took a bite of the steamed bun, and it tasted really good. The pork and scallions were mixed together, and there seemed to be some lard added. One bite made him feel completely satisfied.
He hadn't eaten anything for a long time.
After finishing the steamed buns, Lu Shi found the pen by the bedside and left a note on it.
Unfortunately, the props he bought in the store only allowed him to understand simplified Chinese characters, but the characters he wrote were still in traditional Chinese characters. It's unclear whether Gao Yang could understand them.
"It's delicious, I really like it."
Lu Shi then pushed open the door and went out, and a strong smell of smoke hit him.
When he stood at the door, he almost immediately wanted to go back inside.
But to his surprise, the room behind him had changed completely.
The room was empty, a desolate wasteland, with withered flowers and plants growing all over the floor.
The layout of the room looked very familiar; it seemed to be an operating room in an underground hospital.
Just like the corridor outside, littered with severed limbs and hands, he returned to the underground hospital.
Or rather, this is what Good Family Apartments truly looks like.
It seems that the waiter did take some action.
"Lu Shi!"
Lu Shi immediately looked around for Ye Bugui's figure, not believing that he was alone here.
Upon hearing Ye Bugui's voice, the Demon Lord replied, "I am here."
Clearly, Ye Bugui was also looking for him; this was an unspoken understanding between the two of them.
Ye Bugui emerged from behind, clapped his hands, and walked up to Lu Shi, appearing unharmed.
"I just woke up, and I didn't expect the outside world to look like this when I opened the door."
Ye Bugui's tone was very relaxed, mainly because they had already triggered the story completion mode, and if that waiter hadn't made any move yet, Ye Bugui would have looked down on him.
“It must be related to the fact that we’ve confirmed our identities,” Lu Shi said softly. “Now that we’re ghosts, we should have figured out the true nature of the Good Family Apartment.”
"What about them?" Ye Bugui glanced at the rooms opposite, which belonged to several female players. Without exception, there were soot marks on the outside of the doors, indicating that a fire had taken place there.
"I didn't hear any system notifications before I went to sleep last night, so maybe they didn't trigger the plot," Lu Shi said with some regret. "I wonder how they are now."
"They should still be alive." Ye Bugui pulled out his game console, which showed that there were still seven surviving players in the dungeon. "Right now, we should be more concerned about ourselves. I suspect we'll have to face the Boss head-on."
"Isn't that a good thing?" Lu Shi said casually. "We'll have to face it sooner or later. It seems that even in the story-driven mode, we'll still need to kill it."
"Of course. The story mode only weakens the boss while increasing the rewards. I think this time when we face him, there won't be any rules that allow us to be instantly killed." Ye Bugui patiently explained to Lu Shi.
Just like the previous hidden dungeon, Lu Shi also needs to kill the demon to achieve 100% story completion.
“Before that,” Lu Shi said, carefully avoiding the scattered limbs in the corridor as he walked step by step to the stairwell, “we probably need to find out where he is first.”
No sooner had they finished speaking than a door behind them was suddenly pushed open.
If they remembered correctly, this door once belonged to the noblewoman who had been very kind to Lu Shi.
However, when they turned around, they saw a woman with a swollen face and a belly as wide as a bed crawling or wriggling on the ground.
“This is…” Lu Shi calmly pulled out the game console, scanned it, and sure enough, information appeared:
The Mutant Tenant
[Level 5, skills unknown.]
“A level five monster,” Ye Bugui suddenly produced a stick and charged forward without hesitation: “If there’s only one, the two of us can kill it together.”
This stick was a weapon that Ye Bugui had just bought from the dungeon, and it didn't have any special effects.
Lu Shi followed behind Ye Bugui. Just as he was thinking about how to make use of the little spiritual energy left in his body, the woman crawling on the ground changed again.
Her large belly suddenly burst open, and out emerged eight jet-black, shiny branches that looked like rotten wood.
This made the woman look like an eight-legged spider, a kind of demon that Lu Shi had encountered in the cultivation world.
"Its legs are its weak point!" Lu Shi reminded Ye Bugui as he rushed towards the monster.
Ye Bugui immediately twisted his wrist, and the stick that was originally aimed at the woman's head changed angle and struck her newly grown leg unexpectedly.
These legs, which looked like they were made of wood, were actually quite fragile. They broke very easily after being hit by Ye Bugui.
At this moment, Lu Shi glanced at Ye Bugui and suddenly felt that he might not need to go anymore.
“It seems they’re right.” Lu Shi couldn’t help but think of a saying he had heard in the cultivation world: “Although martial arts cultivation is not as lofty as immortal cultivation, it is effective and quick, and for the poor, it is the fastest way to defy fate.”
Given his limited spiritual power, if Lu Shi also knew martial arts, he wouldn't need to stand by and watch now.
Ye Bugui's so-called street fighting skills were clearly an understatement; he wielded the stick with great skill and ease.
It can be used to block the eight-legged spider's sneak attack, and also to take advantage of the monster's weakness to break its legs.
Soon, Ye Bugui killed the mutated level 5 monster with a stick that had no special effects.
This feat naturally caused Ye Bugui's live stream to gain immense popularity.
Many people are curious about what Ye Bugui does in the real world and why he is so powerful in combat.
"Just how high is your strength level?" Lu Shi then walked to Ye Bugui's side: "I feel like even without using your skills, you wouldn't be afraid of these monsters at all."
"Is Your Majesty envious?" Ye Bugui laughed. "After we get back, why don't you go to the gym with me?"
"Fitness?" Lu Shi looked a little confused. "What's that?"
"A way of practicing martial arts," Ye Bugui started to ramble, "is very efficient in modern times. But don't bother looking for a personal trainer."
"Why?" Lu Shi followed Ye Bugui and searched the room, but found nothing. In his understanding, a fitness instructor was just like a martial arts master, and should be quite important.
“They’re all not as good as me, and I’ll teach you for free.” Ye Bugui walked to the top of the stairs and said softly, “It seems we still have to go to the third floor.”
"Hmm." Lu Shi glanced back at the first floor, where the reception desk had disappeared.
He figured that the receptionist must have revealed her true identity and was hiding somewhere waiting for them!
"My spiritual power is insufficient, next..." Lu Shi hadn't finished speaking when Ye Bugui interrupted him.
"Now it's my turn," Ye Bugui said softly. "Your secret weapon will be used when we meet the Boss."
Lu Shi immediately stopped talking, and after taking a few steps, he suddenly felt a little relieved.
Yes, with Ye Bugui's keen observation skills, how could he not have noticed his own trump card?