The poor man, Fang Qi, paid 80 points and happily joined the ranks of those munching on sweet potatoes.
Pang Yang paid 120 points and exchanged them for a roasted sweet potato.
Players got off the bus one after another. Manman sold one for 500 points, but stopped selling after three. Other players took this opportunity to find a way to fill their stomachs.
However, they were not very good at roasting sweet potatoes. Some threw them directly into the fire, burning the outside while leaving the inside raw. Others, following Ning Su’s method, still ended up with half-cooked results.
Ning Su, having eaten his fill, continued to roast. The aroma was too tempting to resist.
Then, a man in a black windbreaker descended from a bus.
He was handsome with a unique temperament, but many players hadn’t seen him before, regarding him as a newcomer with good looks and not paying much attention.
He sat down beside Ning Su.
Ning Su glanced at him, touched his chest, moved back a bit, then approached again and handed him a roasted sweet potato.
His hands, perhaps elongated, with fingers delicately curved, possessed a cold and pale demeanor, creating a contradictory sensation as he held the roasted sweet potato.
The ash-covered sweet potato had just been roasted, warm but not scalding.
Ling Xiao lowered his gaze to the warm roasted sweet potato in his palm, his thin eyelids unmoving for a long time.
Seeing him like this, Ning Su inexplicably felt that he might not eat the roasted sweet potato.
Ning Su blinked, unsure of the feeling in his heart.
For him, the most precious thing in the world was food; being able to eat was happiness.
He said, “Just peel off the skin, it’s sweet, fragrant, and hot. It’s delicious.”
He kept staring at Ling Xiao until he took the first bite of the roasted sweet potato.
As he slowly chewed and swallowed, his Adam’s apple moved.
Ning Su watched him, and when he swallowed the first bite of the roasted sweet potato, he felt the heavy heartbeat in his chest slowly throbbing.
That heartbeat, it was unknown whose heart it was.
Ning Su looked at him, eating for a while, poking the fire with a stick. “Why did you come to find me only now?”
Ling Xiao turned to him, and in the flickering firelight, the young man’s profile wasn’t as pale, with a warm glow.
“In the game base, you saw me and immediately entered this instance. Here, as soon as you saw me, you ran to the bus.”
Ning Su: “...”
He was about to speak when Pang Yang, whose face was darkened from roasting sweet potatoes, lifted his head and saw Ling Xiao holding a roasted sweet potato.
He immediately asked Ning Su, “Didn’t you say you’re not selling anymore? How come he has one? Wait, I didn’t see you deducting his points?”
Fang Qi, who lost 80 points, also asked, “Why didn’t you deduct his points?”
Ning Su continued roasting sweet potatoes with a languid face.
The two kids looked at each other, then moved to Ling Xiao’s side, each squatting on his left and right, nibbling on the sweet potato.
Mannan: “Gui Sheng little brother?”
Gui Sheng: “Hmm?”
Manman: “Mom’s roasted sweet potatoes are really delicious.”
Gui Sheng: “Yeah!”
Manman: “The ones they roasted are not good at all, just looking at them, you can tell they’re not tasty.”
Gui Sheng: “Not tasty!”
Manman: “Mom is truly a virtuous wife and a good mother.”
Gui Sheng paused for a moment, “Virtuous wife and good mother... needs a dad!”
Ning Su: “?”
What did that even mean?
He glanced at Ling Xiao, seeing Ling Xiao’s dark eyes falling on his face. “Why didn’t you deduct my points?”
Ning Su was about to speak, but was interrupted again.
“Are you still eating? Hurry up and come over to discuss the instance. Don’t waste time!”
Players sat in groups of three to five. On Ning Su’s side, there were more people roasting sweet potatoes, and on the other side, there were also quite a few people.
In the middle sat a glamorous woman, raising her eyebrows and looking in their direction.
The man next to her spoke; judging by his attitude, he either wanted to flatter the woman or was a member of the Yongming Guild.
Several people had already walked over.
Pang Yang muttered, “Why do we have to go over there? Why doesn’t she come over? Does she think she’s the queen of the base?”
Ning Su made a sound of agreement and continued to roast sweet potatoes.
He was a dignified zombie. If he couldn’t embrace someone’s thighs, he wouldn’t tolerate being ordered so disrespectfully.
Pang Yang was angry and didn’t want to go over.
Ling Xiao remained motionless.
Fang Qi hesitated a bit, “She is the human pupa master.”
Pang Yang knew he shouldn’t be impulsive. Joking with life in a dungeon was inappropriate, but he really didn’t want to go over to her, feeling aggrieved.
Ning Su flipped the sweet potatoes in the soil and said, “If you don’t want to go, then don’t. We can discuss it ourselves.”
Ning Su knew that he couldn’t have a friendly relationship with the human pupa master, so he said this.
The relationship between the human pupa master and Shi Tianzhu was on the opposite side.
Additionally, Ning Su remembered what Manman had said back at the base. She mentioned that the human pupa master had taken an interest in her and Gui Sheng’s bodies.
Manman and Gui Sheng did have unique bodies. The human pupa master might feel that using ordinary players as human pupae was not enough and wanted to go further, using slightly more special bodies.
Not feasible.
“Hmm!” Pang Yang made a decision because of this statement.
Fang Qi hesitated for a moment, but didn’t walk away.
Ning Su lifted his eyelids and glanced at him.
Fang Qi was now different from the timid high school student on the bus he remembered.
He also thought about Fang Qi’s brave decision in the <Flower Servant> dungeon and the words he said to him and Ning Changfeng.
He didn’t want to be weak anymore.
People around them gradually walked over to the side of the human pupa master, leaving only one female player who didn’t know why she didn’t go over.
Zhao Kehan, who had been standing in the middle for a while, finally walked over.
They all understood that the human pupa master instilled fear in people at the base. Those around her had already called out. If they still didn’t go over, it would be open rebellion, and they might be killed in this game.
The person who called them sneered, full of disdain.
In his eyes, those still doing dungeons at this time, except for the top ten players and players from the large guilds, were mostly people without much ability.
They seemed to have said something over there, and suddenly a group of people looked over and laughed.
Pang Yang’s face turned sour.
Fang Qi’s expression didn’t look good, either.
Ning Su continued roasting sweet potatoes, unaffected.
With slender fingers, he skillfully peeled off a piece of sweet potato skin covered in ash, his eyes deep and chaotic.
After glancing over there for a while, Fang Qi said, “Five players died last night, leaving 25 players. There are only 19 players outside right now.”
Pang Yang nodded, “There are still 6 who haven’t come out, including one on our bus.”
Fang Qi asked, “You didn’t find this person last night?”
“No, it’s because we didn’t recognize him. Knowing that he was there, I was deceived by a corpse last night.”
Pang Yang recounted the incident of being deceived by a corpse pretending to be a player last night.
Both Fang Qi and another player were stunned, their faces heavy.
They hadn’t expected the corpses to evolve to this extent.
“If you hadn’t told me, I might have been deceived, too,” Fang Qi said.
After all, most corpses couldn’t speak. Subconsciously, they treated them as mindless corpses. Even the others said it out loud, indicating a lack of suspicion.
“Fortunately, you told me,” he said with gratitude. “Having this awareness will make us much safer.”
The poor man, Fang Qi, paid 80 points and happily joined the ranks of those munching on sweet potatoes.
Pang Yang paid 120 points and exchanged them for a roasted sweet potato.
Players got off the bus one after another. Manman sold one for 500 points, but stopped selling after three. Other players took this opportunity to find a way to fill their stomachs.
However, they were not very good at roasting sweet potatoes. Some threw them directly into the fire, burning the outside while leaving the inside raw. Others, following Ning Su’s method, still ended up with half-cooked results.
Ning Su, having eaten his fill, continued to roast. The aroma was too tempting to resist.
Then, a man in a black windbreaker descended from a bus.
He was handsome with a unique temperament, but many players hadn’t seen him before, regarding him as a newcomer with good looks and not paying much attention.
He sat down beside Ning Su.
Ning Su glanced at him, touched his chest, moved back a bit, then approached again and handed him a roasted sweet potato.
His hands, perhaps elongated, with fingers delicately curved, possessed a cold and pale demeanor, creating a contradictory sensation as he held the roasted sweet potato.
The ash-covered sweet potato had just been roasted, warm but not scalding.
Ling Xiao lowered his gaze to the warm roasted sweet potato in his palm, his thin eyelids unmoving for a long time.
Seeing him like this, Ning Su inexplicably felt that he might not eat the roasted sweet potato.
Ning Su blinked, unsure of the feeling in his heart.
For him, the most precious thing in the world was food; being able to eat was happiness.
He said, “Just peel off the skin, it’s sweet, fragrant, and hot. It’s delicious.”
He kept staring at Ling Xiao until he took the first bite of the roasted sweet potato.
As he slowly chewed and swallowed, his Adam’s apple moved.
Ning Su watched him, and when he swallowed the first bite of the roasted sweet potato, he felt the heavy heartbeat in his chest slowly throbbing.
That heartbeat, it was unknown whose heart it was.
Ning Su looked at him, eating for a while, poking the fire with a stick. “Why did you come to find me only now?”
Ling Xiao turned to him, and in the flickering firelight, the young man’s profile wasn’t as pale, with a warm glow.
“In the game base, you saw me and immediately entered this instance. Here, as soon as you saw me, you ran to the bus.”
Ning Su: “...”
He was about to speak when Pang Yang, whose face was darkened from roasting sweet potatoes, lifted his head and saw Ling Xiao holding a roasted sweet potato.
He immediately asked Ning Su, “Didn’t you say you’re not selling anymore? How come he has one? Wait, I didn’t see you deducting his points?”
Fang Qi, who lost 80 points, also asked, “Why didn’t you deduct his points?”
Ning Su continued roasting sweet potatoes with a languid face.
The two kids looked at each other, then moved to Ling Xiao’s side, each squatting on his left and right, nibbling on the sweet potato.
Mannan: “Gui Sheng little brother?”
Gui Sheng: “Hmm?”
Manman: “Mom’s roasted sweet potatoes are really delicious.”
Gui Sheng: “Yeah!”
Manman: “The ones they roasted are not good at all, just looking at them, you can tell they’re not tasty.”
Gui Sheng: “Not tasty!”
Manman: “Mom is truly a virtuous wife and a good mother.”
Gui Sheng paused for a moment, “Virtuous wife and good mother... needs a dad!”
Ning Su: “?”
What did that even mean?
He glanced at Ling Xiao, seeing Ling Xiao’s dark eyes falling on his face. “Why didn’t you deduct my points?”
Ning Su was about to speak, but was interrupted again.
“Are you still eating? Hurry up and come over to discuss the instance. Don’t waste time!”
Players sat in groups of three to five. On Ning Su’s side, there were more people roasting sweet potatoes, and on the other side, there were also quite a few people.
In the middle sat a glamorous woman, raising her eyebrows and looking in their direction.
The man next to her spoke; judging by his attitude, he either wanted to flatter the woman or was a member of the Yongming Guild.
Several people had already walked over.
Pang Yang muttered, “Why do we have to go over there? Why doesn’t she come over? Does she think she’s the queen of the base?”
Ning Su made a sound of agreement and continued to roast sweet potatoes.
He was a dignified zombie. If he couldn’t embrace someone’s thighs, he wouldn’t tolerate being ordered so disrespectfully.
Pang Yang was angry and didn’t want to go over.
Ling Xiao remained motionless.
Fang Qi hesitated a bit, “She is the human pupa master.”
Pang Yang knew he shouldn’t be impulsive. Joking with life in a dungeon was inappropriate, but he really didn’t want to go over to her, feeling aggrieved.
Ning Su flipped the sweet potatoes in the soil and said, “If you don’t want to go, then don’t. We can discuss it ourselves.”
Ning Su knew that he couldn’t have a friendly relationship with the human pupa master, so he said this.
The relationship between the human pupa master and Shi Tianzhu was on the opposite side.
Additionally, Ning Su remembered what Manman had said back at the base. She mentioned that the human pupa master had taken an interest in her and Gui Sheng’s bodies.
Manman and Gui Sheng did have unique bodies. The human pupa master might feel that using ordinary players as human pupae was not enough and wanted to go further, using slightly more special bodies.
Not feasible.
“Hmm!” Pang Yang made a decision because of this statement.
Fang Qi hesitated for a moment, but didn’t walk away.
Ning Su lifted his eyelids and glanced at him.
Fang Qi was now different from the timid high school student on the bus he remembered.
He also thought about Fang Qi’s brave decision in the <Flower Servant> dungeon and the words he said to him and Ning Changfeng.
He didn’t want to be weak anymore.
People around them gradually walked over to the side of the human pupa master, leaving only one female player who didn’t know why she didn’t go over.
Zhao Kehan, who had been standing in the middle for a while, finally walked over.
They all understood that the human pupa master instilled fear in people at the base. Those around her had already called out. If they still didn’t go over, it would be open rebellion, and they might be killed in this game.
The person who called them sneered, full of disdain.
In his eyes, those still doing dungeons at this time, except for the top ten players and players from the large guilds, were mostly people without much ability.
They seemed to have said something over there, and suddenly a group of people looked over and laughed.
Pang Yang’s face turned sour.
Fang Qi’s expression didn’t look good, either.
Ning Su continued roasting sweet potatoes, unaffected.
With slender fingers, he skillfully peeled off a piece of sweet potato skin covered in ash, his eyes deep and chaotic.
After glancing over there for a while, Fang Qi said, “Five players died last night, leaving 25 players. There are only 19 players outside right now.”
Pang Yang nodded, “There are still 6 who haven’t come out, including one on our bus.”
Fang Qi asked, “You didn’t find this person last night?”
“No, it’s because we didn’t recognize him. Knowing that he was there, I was deceived by a corpse last night.”
Pang Yang recounted the incident of being deceived by a corpse pretending to be a player last night.
Both Fang Qi and another player were stunned, their faces heavy.
They hadn’t expected the corpses to evolve to this extent.
“If you hadn’t told me, I might have been deceived, too,” Fang Qi said.
After all, most corpses couldn’t speak. Subconsciously, they treated them as mindless corpses. Even the others said it out loud, indicating a lack of suspicion.
“Fortunately, you told me,” he said with gratitude. “Having this awareness will make us much safer.”
