Now, when Lu Shi lay down on the bed again, he found that his body could only fit inside, with no extra room to move.
Although the floor under the bed was quite clean, preventing Lu Shi's obsessive-compulsive disorder from flaring up, the oppressive and cramped living environment still made Lu Shi feel uncomfortable.
It was so dark under the bed that he couldn't see anything.
In the pitch-black darkness, he could only hear his own uneven breathing.
The thought of living here for a while filled them with panic. Lu Shi realized that his mental state had been damaged.
Sure enough, his sanity had dropped by 5 points, which was more dangerous than the monsters he encountered in prison.
As expected of an A-rank dungeon!
After experiencing life lying on the floor for a while, Lu Shi wanted to get out.
He turned around with difficulty and caution before reaching out his hand.
However, this time Lu Shi discovered that he had encountered something.
Something fluffy and comfortable to the touch, about the size of a walnut.
With the help of the dim light inside the room, Lu Shi struggled to see what he had accidentally bumped into.
It was a plush toy with a room key attached to the other end. It clearly belonged to Lu Shi's other roommate.
Just as Lu Shi was pondering what to do with the plush toy, he heard footsteps coming from the corridor.
Has someone returned, or have other players like him ventured out on adventures?
The footsteps were getting closer and closer to Lu Shi. Lu Shi quickly made a decision and immediately pulled back his hand that was sticking out to keep watch.
Of course, Lu Shi also tightly clutched the plush toy with the room key attached to it in his hand.
The footsteps finally stopped.
Ye Bugui was holding his breath under the bed, but when he realized that the footsteps had stopped at the door of room 205 next door, his expression turned even worse.
"He'll definitely be fine," Ye Bugui thought to himself. That was Lu Shi, the man who could perfectly clear a dungeon on his own.
He remained curled up in the darkness; clearly, the space under the bed was too cramped for Ye Bugui, who was 1.9 meters tall.
The female player, whom Lu Shi remembered vividly and who seemed very kind, was now brazenly sticking to the door and looking out through the peephole.
She happened to live next door to 205, so she got a good look at Lu Shi's "roommate".
He was a boy with long hair and delicate features.
The boy, with his back to the female player, took out a room card from his pocket, swiped it, and the door opened with a beep.
However, the boy didn't rush in. He suddenly turned around, as if he had eyes on the back of his head.
He walked straight to room 209 across the street, his dark pupils fixed on the peephole.
He knocked on the door forcefully, but his tone was very gentle: "Little Wolf, are you home? Is that you?"
All six players, including Lu Shi, immediately perked up.
Lu Shi's mood was like a rollercoaster.
When he realized that the person returning was his roommate, he was indeed a little nervous, but also a little expectant.
After all, if he wanted to leave this instance as soon as possible, he had to get enough information from his roommate.
Just as Lu Shi was ready to "meet with his roommate across the bed," who would have thought that as soon as he opened the door, the person would run to the opposite room.
However, the light from the corridor also shone in, making the space where Lu Shi was not so dark.
Ye Bugui shook his head. Why would players still make such basic mistakes even in A-level dungeons?
From those few seemingly plausible rules, it's clear that their "roommates" are definitely not innocent people.
Peeping at them through the peephole was a risky move in itself, and it was to be expected that they would be discovered by their roommates.
Even if Ye Bugui wanted to save people, he couldn't do it now.
The female player behind the door was indeed startled. She could only pray that it was too dark inside so that the person at the door could not see her appearance clearly.
She could only remain silent, but the knocking grew louder and louder, and the door shook more and more violently.
At that moment, the female player thought the person at the door was about to break down the door.
At this moment, the seemingly kind female player had already quietly taken out her weapon. She thought to herself, "If all else fails, I'll fight the people outside."
"Huh, did I see it wrong?" The boy finally stopped knocking and reluctantly looked away from the peephole.
At the same time, the female player behind the door covered her mouth and slowly squatted down.
Tears welled in her eyes, but she knew she absolutely couldn't make a sound. Otherwise, the person at the door would immediately rush back and give her a big surprise.
Although the other players didn't see what happened outside, they knew how dangerous it had been just from the loud knocking.
So two players who had previously complained that the area under the bed was too dirty and were unwilling to lie down now hid inside without saying a word.
When a pair of gleaming sneakers appeared at the door, Lu Shi immediately looked away, even holding his breath.
"Ugh, I have to work overtime when I get back, so I can't go out and have fun tonight!" the boy complained to himself, turning on the lights and quietly closing the door.
He now seems like a completely different person from the one who was banging on the door so loudly just moments ago.
When the boy walked to the front of the bed, Lu Shi subconsciously pulled his outstretched legs back.
Through the gaps in the room, he saw the boy walk around inside.
Then the boy sat down at the table.
Lu Shi then quietly took a breath.
Why would anyone think my posters are bad?
The boy was clutching a blonde girl figurine in his hand, his tone so aggrieved.
"Gamers these days are getting harder and harder to please." The boy poked the girl's cheek, as if she were his best friend, someone he could vent all his frustrations about the day to.
Lu Shi was also eavesdropping, not because he particularly enjoyed prying into other people's privacy, but because he needed to gather information to pass the level.
“You’re still the best,” the boy said with a slight smile, his eyes like crescent moons. “No matter how much I mess with you, you never get angry.”
Just then, the boy's phone, which he had left on the table, rang.
"Hello," the boy glanced at the caller ID on his phone—his mother—and pressed the speakerphone button with a hint of impatience: "What's up?"
Lu Shi then heard a caring voice from the other end of the phone:
Have you gone home?
"I'm back, Mom. I'm eating takeout right now. What's up?" The boy's tone was urging.
"You ordered takeout again!" The mother's words were immediately diverted. She frowned, muttered for a while about how unhealthy takeout was, and then continued, "Didn't you say you lost your room key? How did you get back to the apartment?"
"I got a new one from the receptionist." The boy yawned. "Mom, I'm hanging up now, or my food will get cold!"
"Oh, okay, okay, it's been cold lately..."
The mother's unfinished words of concern were cruelly cut off by the phone.
The boy, who was a little irritated after finishing the phone call, stood up again, and Lu Shi saw the shoes gradually approaching his side.
"How could I have lost my room key?"
The boy bent down as he spoke.
When Lu Shi saw the boy's legs bent, his brain started racing, thinking about how he should remedy the situation after his roommate found out.
"It must have fallen into some corner," the boy muttered, a clean, white hand resting on the floor.
The hand was actually only a shoe's distance from Lu Shi's face.
If he continued reading, he would definitely find Lu Shi lying under the bed.
[Supreme Demon Lord's Livestream]
"I've never seen this dungeon before, is it new?"
"It's a streamer development system! The first time I saw them, they were newbies, but by the third time, they were already in the Gold Hall!"
"The streamer is really unlucky. I looked at the other players in the same game, and none of them have roommates home yet!"
"What would happen if the streamer's roommate found out? Would they be instantly killed?"
"If this were a supernatural tale based on rules, such a thing could really happen!"
"He's about to bow his head, right? My God, he'll definitely be able to see the streamer!"
"Honestly, imagining this roommate is terrifying! There's someone lying under my bed, I'm too scared to sleep when I get back!"
The viewers in the live chat were projecting their own experiences onto the characters; they even subconsciously held their breath, afraid of being discovered by their roommate, who they didn't know was either human or ghost.
[In the instance]
Lu Shi seems to have only two paths to take now: either he can knock his roommate unconscious the moment they see him, or he can strike first.
The other option is to pray that God would grant the roommate intermittent blindness so that he wouldn't discover Lu Shi.
"Knock knock knock".
Just as the boy was lying on the floor and starting to slowly look under the bed, there was a knock at the door.
Lu Shi, who had been clenching his fists tightly, immediately loosened them.
Because after hearing the knock on the door, the boy got up and went to the door without hesitation.
"Little Wolf! You got off work pretty early today!" The boy leaned against the door frame, his tone somewhat obsequious.
Lu Shi opened his palm and glanced at the plush toy and room key in his hand.
Lu Shi could see clearly where the boy had been after he came in.
So he came up with a plan. While the boy was chatting happily with the person at the door and had no time to pay attention to himself, he slowly stretched his hand, which was holding the plush toy, out to the other side of the bed.
Then Lu Shi gently pushed the plush toy into the gap between the bedside table and the wall.
The plush toy's head was visible, making it easier for the boy to see it later.
After doing all this, Lu Shi finally mustered his energy and began eavesdropping on the conversation between the two people at the door.
Ye Bugui yawned under the bed; he hadn't expected his roommate to come home so late.
The initial tension and fear had dissipated, and now Ye Bugui just wanted his roommate to go home quickly so he could have a little thrill.