"It is the god who created this world... it is humanity's sins that caused the gods to withdraw their protection from us..."
The burnt, rotten stench mixed with the salty scent of the ocean. The hallway of the hospital was lit by old incandescent lights that emitted a dim, eerie glow, casting shadows on the twisted bodies and scattered human remains along the corridor.
In the hospital's basement, an unknown experimental liquid emitted a pale green glow. Four men stood under a giant circular glass vessel, one of them quietly speaking about the gods.
[Medical bandages] were wrapped around Shi Yin's body, gradually treating his fatal injuries.
Jiang Yan reluctantly gave up his chair, lazily leaning against the desk as he listened to him recount the events that had unfolded outside.
"We are all sacrifices; everyone in this hospital is destined to be a sacrifice for the god," Shi Yin's expression was filled with terror.
"Unless we all die here, we will become part of the god."
"Part of the god?" Jiang Yan recalled the two monsters they had encountered earlier today.
"Yes... part of them." Shi Yin's breath was weak, and then he raised one of his hands.
All the fingers on that hand had been severed at the second joint, with the bones pulled out, leaving the skin loose and sagging where the bones once supported it, like five flaps of skin.
Tao Shi and Cao Youfeng couldn’t help but gasp in shock.
Jiang Yan, however, simply leaned lazily against the edge of the table, contemplating Shi Yin’s words.
Those two monsters were indeed made from human body parts, but if the hospital was creating gods using body organs...
What about his husband? What could that dark, silent mass possibly be, if not some part of the human body?
"Ah!"
Suddenly, a cold, damp sensation brushed against Jiang Yan's ankle, making him shiver.
He looked down and saw...
A short, slender black tentacle wrapped around his pale ankle, with tiny suction cups sucking at his skin.
Hmm? Speak of the devil, and he shall appear? Jiang Yan raised an eyebrow.
No one noticed this small anomaly happening to Jiang Yan.
Tao Shi and Cao Youfeng were both focused on Shi Yin, who was still explaining everything that had happened outside.
"Rather than calling this a hospital, it's more like a huge religious laboratory. And the creatures that are often used in experiments here—aren't they just rabbits?"
"Survival for seven days? It's all a scam! From the very beginning... we were doomed to die here."
Shi Yin’s voice cracked with emotion as he spoke.
It all started with a mysterious death. They had known that it was the rabbit that had killed the "Fifth Rabbit" and caused all the trouble.
At first, they thought the story would play out like this: their group would uncover the killer hiding among them, reveal the hospital’s secrets, and expose the mastermind behind it, all while managing to survive the seven days and reach the end.
But... this afternoon, the entire hospital turned into a hellish nightmare. Every NPC patient in the rooms had been dismembered and died in twisted and bizarre ways.
The smoke, like that from a fire, enveloped the whole hospital, but no signs of any actual fire could be found, no matter how much they searched the building.
At this moment, the players remembered that the smoke had appeared before—coming from Jiang Yan's "husband."
Afterward, they went to Jiang Yan's room to try and ask for "key clues," and at present, they had three NPCs and six key clues. So far, only Cang Rou had revealed one of them.
Now was a good time to ask Jiang Yan about the key clues.
However, when they arrived at Jiang Yan's room, they found that Jiang Yan was missing, along with Tao Shi and Cao Youfeng...
If the boss of the dungeon is hidden among the players, now with the "key NPCs" (those two) gone, they became the biggest suspects.
The remaining players gathered in the cafeteria for an urgent meeting, and opinions were split into two factions.
One faction firmly believed that the dungeon boss must be either Cao Youfeng or Tao Shi, while the other faction thought that perhaps Tao Shi and Cao Youfeng had taken Jiang Yan to refresh the map.
In the end, the two factions came to an agreement: it wasn’t as important to know where Tao Shi and Cao Youfeng were right now, but it was more crucial to find NPC Jiang Yan!
After all, the fog was deeply connected to Jiang Yan’s "husband"!
While the players began searching the hospital systematically for Jiang Yan, they encountered the "god."
They encountered the "god" who was using humans as "nourishment" and was in the middle of feeding on them.
God... Shi Yin’s head hung in despair.
The god had taken his hands and the skin of his companions, but like a gluttonous child, it still wasn’t satisfied.
He didn’t know how he had managed to escape, nor did he want to recall it.
Even though he was no longer in mortal danger thanks to the medical bandages, his face remained pale, as if he were a corpse.
Not just Shi Yin, but even Tao Shi and Cao Youfeng looked pale.
In contrast, Jiang Yan, leaning next to the table, appeared relaxed and even slightly impatient.
His impatience was mainly directed at his troublesome husband.
No one noticed that a black tentacle was hiding under his blue-and-white hospital gown, crawling from his smooth back toward his chest.
Where the tentacle crawled, a sticky, damp sensation lingered, and the tiny suction cups left faint red marks, like kisses.
The tingling sensation made him shiver slightly, but he couldn’t show any signs of it.
Yu Xiu must have cursed him in his past life!
Why were even the system NPCs he created so annoying?
Jiang Yan tried to adjust his breathing, making himself appear normal, but the subtle stimulation made his abdomen uneasy.
Now, more than ever, he wanted to end this game!
Taking a deep breath, Jiang Yan forced his voice to sound calm as he spoke to 663: "Based on my years of watching horror movies, I think this dungeon should be about a group of players trapped in a hospital, fighting against an institution conducting illegal human experiments."
"Yet, it’s the third day, and the story is just entering the main plot?"
"Three days have passed, and there are still no clues on the undercover or the boss. These players might all end up dying here."
Upon careful listening, Jiang Yan’s breath still seemed slightly erratic, and his tone revealed a bit of impatience.
But 663 didn’t notice anything unusual: "Dying here? Are you referring to the top 20 players in the leaderboard? Do you know how many S-rank dungeons they’ve already cleared?"
"Exactly because they’ve cleared so many of these dungeons and have high-intensity items, that’s why they’re more likely to die here," Jiang Yan responded seriously, ignoring the restless tentacle on his chest.
He suddenly remembered something: "I recall... the performance of real NPCs is apparently also linked to their contribution to the dungeon?"
He remembered when he first entered the game, 663 had said, "The performance of real NPCs naturally increases the difficulty of the dungeon."
How could an NPC increase the difficulty of a dungeon? Naturally, they would create difficulties for the players.
However, since real NPCs have their own limitations, increasing the game difficulty for players also increases their own difficulty.
Just like in "Sheep's Forest," Jiang Yan hadn’t provided the correct answer, which made the game harder for the players, but at the same time, it also led to his own failure in the game.
And in the game, there was no doubt that the players were in the dominant position over real NPCs. If players tried to set traps for NPCs, it would be much easier!
663: "...What are you trying to do?"
He was increasingly confused about his host. He had always thought of him as a simple little kitten.
But once the protection of the owner was lost, this kitten would be devoured by the game’s monsters.
Now it seems, his impression of this host differs greatly from his initial thoughts.
"You say, if I... hiss!"
Jiang Yan only said half of it when the tentacle on his chest seemed to bite something it shouldn't have, and the tingling pain caused him to feel weak all over, almost losing his balance.
"What’s wrong?" 663 noticed his abnormality and asked.
Jiang Yan grabbed his hospital gown on his chest: "Nothing."
What could be wrong?
Could he say that, though he appeared neat and tidy, there was an evil tentacle inside his hospital gown doing whatever it wanted?
Although this worn-out blue-and-white hospital gown wasn’t exactly neat.
"But your face looks..." 663 was about to say, "Your face doesn’t look good."
But when he looked closely, Jiang Yan’s originally pale face now strangely had a hint of redness.
Hmm? His complexion seemed to be alright, but... why did it feel a little strange?
"Really nothing? You look a bit weird." 663 hesitated.
The tentacle seemed to shrink back obediently, not moving anymore after taking a sweet bite, as if it was trying to avoid angering him.
Jiang Yan collected himself. He originally thought this dungeon’s plot would be even more clichéd than the last one, but now it seemed to be a little more interesting than he imagined.
Moreover, he needed points, a lot of points. And then—
Jiang Yan’s eyes darkened, and the image of Xu Xiu’s beautifully severed head appeared in his mind.
Then, he asked 663: "In the game, is killing someone illegal?"
663: "Huh?"
Tao Shi is looking at Jiang Yan, who is standing off to the side, tugging at his shirt collar, lost in thought, and says, "What do you think?"
[Jealous! Is Tao Shi preparing to take Jiang Yan?]
[It seems like the Dawn Guild wants to assist him, right? Tao Shi has shown interest in Jiang Yan from the beginning!]
[Jealous! Really jealous!]
[Jiang Yan, an NPC with low mental strength and points—what’s good about him? Does the Dawn Guild’s recruitment standard really drop this low?]
[Heh, the person above is just salty!]
[Jiang Yan is performing pretty well in this dungeon.]
[Performing well? In what way?]
Because of the warm attitude the Dawn Guild has toward Jiang Yan, some players became jealous and unhappy, and the players on the game forum began arguing because of this.
Meanwhile, Jiang Yan had no idea what was happening on the forum. He leaned against the table, looking lazy.
"What’s there to say? A bunch of animals raised in a cage actually try to imitate humans to break out of the cage?" Jiang Yan said bluntly.
"Moreover, they are a group of defenseless rabbits."
Rabbits...
As soon as Jiang Yan said this, the three players present looked at each other with different expressions.
Up until now, the "rabbit" hidden among the rabbits that was killing players also had no clues.
"I’m curious about one thing, what exactly is this rabbit’s goal?"
"Is it purely for the pleasure of killing his companions? Or is he a spy hiding inside the rabbit?" Jiang Yan looked toward the injured Shi Yin beside him.
Shi Yin shook his head in despair.
Jiang Yan withdrew his gaze: "Then let me boldly make a guess, could it be to protect them?"
"Protect?" Shi Yin looked confused.
"Because he knows everyone will become the experiment subjects of the god, and doesn't want everyone to live a life worse than death, so he uses the extreme measure of killing his own kind to protect them." Jiang Yan tried to ignore the discomfort in his chest.
"I know this view is unreasonable, but this world itself is a crazy world."
"We are all patients. If that rabbit is also a mental patient, then such thinking isn’t impossible to understand," Jiang Yan explained.
"..."
As soon as Jiang Yan finished speaking, the nursery rhyme that sounded like it was playing from an old-fashioned phonograph echoed again:
"The big rabbit is sick, the second rabbit looks after it,
The third rabbit buys medicine, the fourth rabbit brews..."
The quiet nursery rhyme reverberated in the empty underground warehouse, floating between human organs and formalin. On the large iron door, the hanging Jesus figure showed a sorrowful expression.
"Szzzt...szzzzt..."
It seemed like something had been awakened.
"Careful!" Jiang Yan grabbed his clothes at his chest and shouted loudly.
"Ah!"
Tao Shi’s eyes turned cold.
A gust of wind brushed past his nose, and he instinctively dodged.
A pale hand appeared in front of him, holding a silver surgical knife that gleamed coldly.
He turned quickly and saw the head nurse’s pale face, adorned with a strange smile.
"Treatment," her voice carried an eerie and sinister laugh, "You need the treatment of the god."
Bang!
Tao Shi kicked the ground expressionlessly, and her body crashed to the floor, making a stone-like sound.
He realized that because the medical bandages emitted a white light when used, the area under the light formed a shadow, and the shadow coincided with where they originally stood. He had been focused on Jiang Yan, so he hadn’t noticed the movements of the others.
At that moment, the group of nurses, who had previously stood motionless like wax figures, had surrounded them at some point.
They were holding surgical knives and other instruments, their faces sporting a friendly yet strange smile, repeatedly chanting: "Treatment! You need the treatment of the god."
Whoosh—
White bandages wrapped around their hands and feet, attempting to stop their movements.
"Boss! These things are alive!" Cao Youfeng said uselessly.
"Ah—!"
The medical bandages were torn apart!
Cao Youfeng took a step back and Tao Shi immediately pulled him behind. The head nurse’s shining surgical knife slashed past Cao Youfeng’s throat.
Cao Youfeng barely dodged, but a shallow cut appeared on his neck.
This dangerous scene made Shi Yin, who was sitting in the chair, feel terrified.
At this moment, Jiang Yan, standing beside him, said, "Aren't you going to help?"
"Oh, right!" Shi Yin was stunned for a second, quickly realizing that Jiang Yan had no combat ability and was even worse off than himself, who was injured.
At this point, apart from the parts taken by the gods, most of his injuries had healed, so without hesitation, he stood up and rushed forward to help.
As soon as Shi Yin stood up, Jiang Yan quickly sat back down.
He snuggled into the office chair and let out a comfortable sigh: "Finally sitting down, my legs are sore from standing."
663: "Have some shame!"
An arm, who knew which nurse it belonged to, flew toward him, and he casually tilted his head to dodge it.
At this moment, the tentacle that was coiled around his chest seemed to sense that its beloved wife (Jiang Yan) was in a good mood and stirred again, eager for some sweet reward.
However, as soon as the soft tentacle lightly swished, Jiang Yan’s expression quickly turned cold: "Try moving again."
"Huh? What did you say?" 663 asked.
The tentacle, feeling aggrieved, rubbed against Jiang Yan's chest and obediently shrank back again.
"Nothing." Jiang Yan tugged at his collar, the warm, sticky feeling of the tentacle making him feel a bit uneasy.
The fighting in the lab grew more intense, blood and severed limbs flying.
The glow from the players' items and the eerie green light from the blood-soaked glassware above intertwined, casting a special aura over Jiang Yan, as if enveloping him in a unique protective barrier.
At that moment, he looked so calm and leisurely, as if he were merely a traveler checking in to observe the battle scene.
Of course, no one knew that, at that very moment, a dark tentacle was coiling around him, greedily absorbing this tranquility and leisure.
"Ding!"
A sudden, hollow bell sound echoed.
At the same time, the once-violent medical staff suddenly froze, ceasing all movement.
Is the energy exhausted?
The three players looked at the situation in confusion.
Shi Yin was about to breathe a sigh of relief when he saw one of the doctors in front of him, whose pale skin had begun to rot with countless small holes, from which red tongues emerged, twisting and writhing like tentacles in the air.
"This..." Shi Yin recoiled in terror.
In the eerily silent warehouse, the wet, sticky sound of tongues emerging from the skin sent chills down their spines, while the stench of blood and decaying flesh made their stomachs churn.
Compared to Shi Yin, Tao Shi and Cao Youfeng, experienced players, remained much calmer.
Tao Shi stood among the mutated medical NPCs, holding the [Divine Staff], his blue hair reflecting the holy light of the gods, exuding less of the youthful recklessness and more of a solemn, divine presence.
"Disgusting!"
Tao Shi frowned, feeling his stomach turn.
This damn hospital had only served bland, watery food these past two days, with the drinking water smelling of disinfectant. Combined with the game’s buffs, dragging a sick body while eating tasteless, nutrient-deficient food, and now this disgusting NPC appeared!
Damn! The main system is truly terrible!
At this moment, he glanced at Jiang Yan, who was leisurely sitting in the computer chair.
This person’s facial expression hadn't changed from beginning to end, and there was even a hint of... a smile?
Huh? A smile?
Jiang Yan looked at the bizarre and disgusting monster in front of him, feeling inexplicably familiar with it.
This style, he had seen it before.
On a previous Valentine’s Day, Yu Xiu had specifically told him to go out and have fun for the day, saying that when he came back, he would prepare a cosplay surprise for him.
Jiang Yan had seen other people's cosplay surprises, usually cute things like little bunnies or kittens—beautiful and sexy, sure, they could spice things up.
However, on that Valentine’s Day, when he had wandered around outside and was getting ready to come home to see whether he was going to be greeted by a "little bunny" or "little kitten," he opened the door and saw—
On his bed was a pile of human arms, put together to form a thing lying on the bed. Each arm was covered with eyes.
Yu Xiu excitedly said to him, "Yan Yan! This is an angel!"
Looking at the doctors, whose bodies were covered in tongues, and the huge inhuman monsters in front of him, the scene in front of him now seemed somewhat familiar.
"Ugh... enough," Jiang Yan covered his chest, blushing slightly, and whispered a warning.
The excited tentacle grew quiet again, its suckers gently sucking, as if it were breathing or kissing.
This restless tentacle suddenly made Jiang Yan recall the aftermath of that night, those details that made him feel utterly uncomfortable…
Damn it! This marriage really had to end!
"Boss... Is Jiang Yan sick?"
Cao Youfeng watched Jiang Yan go from a faint smile, to annoyance, then suddenly blushing inexplicably.
It was the first time he had seen so many expressions on Jiang Yan's face, and for a moment, it even felt somewhat eerie.
Tao Shi opened his mouth, about to say something, but then saw a dark shadow slowly rise from behind Jiang Yan.
Tao Shi's pupils contracted: "Jiang Yan! Watch out!!"
A woman with messy hair tried to wrap a bloody, wet rope around Jiang Yan’s neck.
In that instant, a black flower bloomed from the boy’s chest, its petals mercilessly swallowing the woman who had appeared behind Jiang Yan.
Next, the petals grew long and massive, as if a black flower, darker than oil, was blossoming from the boy's pale chest. In the next second...
A gigantic, oil-black monster used its tentacles to wrap around its beloved wheat and forcefully pulled it into its oily, sticky body.
Its voice was hollow and hoarse, like a prehistoric beast imitating human speech:
"Why? Didn’t I teach you to call my name when those scoundrels bullied you outside?"
"When will you learn to obediently listen? Baby."
---
"Search, search, my little rabbit~ Found a little rabbit~"
Accompanied by light footsteps, the young man’s clear singing voice sounded eerily out of place in the corridor filled with death.
"Save... life..."
A pair of withered hands reached out from the adjacent sickroom, and the person inside scrambled to crawl toward the outside after hearing the footsteps and the song.
The singing and footsteps were getting closer and closer, and with great difficulty, he half-dragged his body out of the sickroom, stretching his hand toward the direction of the sound!
This was his last chance for help—
"Save..."
"Slap!"
His hand was stomped on by someone, and the bones made a crisp cracking sound.
The sharp pain was so intense that his dry throat couldn’t even produce a scream. His sunken eyes stared in disbelief at the person stepping on his hand.
The young man’s clean face bore a radiant smile: “Did you see Jiang Yan? Oh, our dear madam.”
He shook his head in denial!
The enormous pain made him open his mouth, and a sound like "spitting" escaped his throat, sending chills down the spine.
That dear Madam... The pure blue eyes flashed in his mind, and in the next second, those eyes were swallowed by a vast darkness.
Right, it was like this!
"He..."
On the ground, the man writhing in agony seemed to have thought of something. He began to laugh: "Ha... haha..."
The pain contorting his body made his smile twist and distort: "The... chosen... bride..."
"Crack."
Another bone snapped.
His neck twisted like a knot, and the contorted smile froze on his face as his pupils rapidly dilated.
He died.
Li Yun stood in the corner, feeling his blood turn cold, his trembling hand pressed against his pants seam.
Another one died...
In this endless corridor, every room that was opened revealed twisted bodies piled together in pairs or threes.
"Relax, Mr. Li." Su An kicked the person on the floor, as if checking if the other was completely dead.
Then, he turned around and flashed Li Yun a bright, sweet smile: "This is just an NPC from the system."
Li Yun took a deep breath and silently clenched his fists.
Yes, this was just a system NPC.
He was just a string of data in the game, and dying... didn’t mean anything.
Li Yun knew that what he needed to do now was to stay rational.
Before entering this game, he had already prepared himself for this purgatory. He kept convincing himself that the people dying before him were just... strings of data. In reality, there were only a few actual players, like them.
A few deaths... meant nothing in this world.
Jiang Xiu walked over to Li Yun’s side, patted his shoulder, a fitting smile on his face, his expression indifferent: "It’s normal not to adapt right away. After all, not everyone is like Jiang Yan, who can enjoy life in this game."
Jiang Yan...
Li Yun’s inner fear lessened somewhat, though he couldn’t help but frown in displeasure.
He had been through so many years of struggles in the business world, what kind of big waves hadn’t he seen?
Now he just wasn’t used to this world, which was like a "jungle," where people fought at will.
Someone like Jiang Yan, how could he be compared to him?
Li Yun smiled at Jiang Xiu and said with a helpless tone mixed with a bit of disdain, "Jiang Yan is probably just a little scared. He is indeed someone who doesn’t care much about the feelings of those around him, but that guy is also capable of being afraid."
Su An briskly stepped over the bodies on the floor and walked to Li Yun’s side. "I’m actually quite curious, why did you two start dating? And why did you break up?"
Li Yun looked at him with a little confusion.
Su An smiled and waved his hand, "We’re not like the 'Dawn Guild,' we’re not interested in players’ privacy, so we didn’t investigate you in advance."
"I just wanted to know a little about Jiang Yan’s personality in the real world. Since you’re his ex, you should know him well, right?"
Jiang Yan, Jiang Yan, Jiang Yan! Again, it was Jiang Yan!
Li Yun silently clenched his fists. How could someone like Jiang Yan, who was useless in the real world, survive in a world like this jungle?
"He... as you see, he is someone who isn’t very remarkable in every way."
"In his previous marriage, most of his life was managed by his ex-husband. I guess his ex-husband couldn’t stand his idleness, so he probably chose to divorce him."
Li Yun irritably ran his fingers through his hair. "Thinking about it, how could two young people who don’t even have jobs maintain a marriage?"
"So, what was the reason you chose him?" Hearing Li Yun say this, Su An was a little curious.
Li Yun didn’t want to get entangled in talking about Jiang Yan, so he casually replied, "As you can see, he’s good-looking."
At this moment, the hospital’s old broadcast system once again played the eerie nursery rhyme:
"The big rabbit is sick, the second rabbit looks after,
The third rabbit buys medicine, the fourth rabbit brews..."
"Zzi... Zzi... Dinner time is here... Please go to the cafeteria to eat, all patients."
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[Dungeon: "Jianshe Road Private Hospital," Dungeon Progress: 40%]
[Game Rules: Survive for 7 days in the hospital.]
[Total Players: 14, Remaining Players: 8, Real NPCs: 3, Uncontaminated NPCs: 3]
In the hospital cafeteria, under the dim lights, a veil of disgust hung over the entire room, like thin gauze. The players once again sat at the long table.
At this point, out of the original fourteen players, only eight remained.
The sudden slaughter, the unseen murderer, and the strange "deity" had left several new players struggling. Now, including Li Yun, several of the new players were helplessly scratching their heads.
Only four more days left, they had to survive in this rotten world for four more days!
On the other side, the old players didn’t look much better.
The Dawn Guild and Valen Church had always been rivals, and now the game’s boss might even be hidden among the players.
But so far, not even the boss had been found. Not to mention the mysterious "bunny" executing the "direct tasks" hidden among the players.
It was the third day, but it seemed the dungeon's storyline had only just begun.
After wandering through the "Goose" world for so long and standing at the top as game players, they naturally weren’t worried about losing in this dungeon.
But if they watched the other side gain the upper hand and claim the MVP of this game… it was so frustrating!
For a moment, the atmosphere among the old players was more tense than the new players' despair.
Originally, Jiang Yan should have been sitting at the same table as the players, but now, he was being inserted into his husband's body.
He was "chewing" his wife, like he was savoring a delicious candy he didn’t want to swallow directly, only letting it rest on his tongue and tasting it repeatedly.
Jeff Hunter also appeared at the dining table, as he was technically the "organizer" of this game. At this point, he looked even worse than on the first day.
His hair was messy, with scorch marks, his patient gown was tattered, his cheeks were sunken, and his eyes were huge and bulging. He looked like a scarecrow in an abstract painting.
"Good evening, Madam." He greeted Jiang Yan, who was entangled with his husband.
Jiang Yan’s long eyelashes trembled, and he dizzily nodded in response.
Then he spoke to the other players at the table:
"The director is very concerned about everyone’s condition. He visited the hospital this afternoon and was deeply saddened to hear about the unexplained deaths of patients."
"The director? When did the director come?" A player asked, very puzzled.
"This afternoon," replied the injured Shi Yin. "He came while they were trying to perform a god-making ritual."
"God-making?" Li Yun was somewhat confused.
At this point, Ding Wanyu, a real NPC, spoke up: "We once had a god. He was the ruler of our world. But later, he went missing. In order to save this endangered world, the director began planning to create another god."
[Ding! Real NPC Ding Wanyu Keywords: The god was the ruler of our world.]
The players gasped, as each real NPC now had two crucial clues.
Now, Cang Rou had spoken one clue, and Ding Wanyu had spoken another.
The only remaining real NPC to reveal a clue was…
Everyone’s gaze turned to Jiang Yan in the monster’s embrace.
At this moment, Jiang Yan was poking at the bubbles that the monster was gurgling up. It seemed he had no intention of participating in the discussion.
Since finding out that this horrifying and disgusting creature was made from Yu Xiu's data, Jiang Yan had lost his resistance to this NPC.
But he hated it even more now, since anything related to his ex-husband was hard to not dislike.
"Hey! It's been a while since these two have been seen together, but it seems like they're getting along better?" Su An crossed his arms, his tone curious yet tinged with sarcasm.
Jiang Yan's acting skills were truly impressive to him.
An NPC with such "acting skills" was ranked at the bottom of the entire game. No wonder all the major guilds were interested in him.
"Madam, is there something you'd like to say to us?" Su An asked.
[Has Jiang Yan not spoken any crucial clues yet?]
[Maybe Jiang Yan doesn’t know how to say it? After all, this is a high-level game, and if he doesn’t find the right moment, he might be doomed.]
[Feels like Su An is being quite gentle with Jiang Yan, giving him the chance to speak.]
[Jealous!]
Jiang Yan stopped poking the bubbles, broke free from his husband's grasp, and turned to face the players at the table.
He knew what they wanted, but...
Seeing Jiang Yan silent for so long, no one urged him. After all, Jiang Yan’s performance in the game had been impressive.
Li Yun’s gaze turned mocking and disdainful.
It was already a good thing that this person could stammer out even a single clue.
Maybe he still couldn’t say it?
As expected, after a moment of silence, Jiang Yan spoke, "I don’t know what you want to know."
"Heh!" Li Yun openly sneered.
The expressions of the players around the table turned ugly.
[Jiang Yan is useless!]
[Can’t even move! These big shots are struggling.]
[If I encountered this kind of real NPC in the dungeon, I’d be furious!]
"But..." Jiang Yan suddenly changed the subject.
Everyone’s gaze turned back to him.
Jiang Yan was bound by black tendrils, resembling a butterfly caught in a spider’s web.
He smiled lightly and said, "I caught the rabbit."
The players: ?!!
[What the hell?!]
[Huh??]
[Is he bragging?]