Chapter 26.2: Game Base (1)

Shi Tianzhu didn’t push her deliberately or even look at her. It was just a collision that happened during her normal walk.

However, when the pregnant woman fell, Shi Tianzhu paused for a moment and turned to look at her, who was lying on the ground holding her stomach in pain.

Ning Su saw a flash of silver light in her eyes, which briefly enveloped her pupils and then disappeared.

In just that moment, it seemed as if Shi Tianzhu had scanned the pregnant woman from top to bottom and then focused her gaze on the woman’s belly.

“Did you think it was heroic to get pregnant in the game world?” Her voice was not overly cold, but clear and emotionless. “You’re just stupid and reckless if you don’t even have any self-defense weapons.”

Ning Su pursed his lips and returned to Chen Tian’s side with the child in his arms.

Zhu Shuangshuang had already helped Fang Qi up.

When Chen Qing learned that Fang Qi was a newcomer who entered the game world with Zhu Shuangshuang and the others, she couldn’t help but marvel at the high quality of players in that bus.

She said to Fang Qi, “Most of the injuries sustained in the game can be treated with points. You should have earned some points after completing the dungeon, right?”

After Fang Qi’s injuries had recovered, he said “thank you” to them and left.

As he passed by Ning Su, he asked him, “Are you going to find that person again?”

Fang Qi nodded at him and said, “Goodbye.” He then walked back towards the game hall.

“It’s really strange,” Zhu Shuangshuang said, “How did he know the person he was looking for is here?”

However, she didn’t have time to pay attention to others immediately.

Their group was also under the attention of others. As soon as Shi Tianzhu left, they came around to ask for information.

“Can you tell us about the ‘Ghost Animal’ dungeon? I can give you points, and the price is negotiable.”

“Did you get any weapons? What is your weapon? Our guild is willing to pay a high price for it!”

A woman in a white dress walked up to Zhu Shuangshuang and glanced at her red veil. “Hello, little girl. Would you like to join the Yongming Guild?”

The people around were stunned when they saw the red veil on Zhu Shuangshuang’s head.

In the eyes of Ning Su and the others, it seemed not too difficult to have their own weapon or equipment, and there were already two in this group.

In reality, a dungeon usually only dropped one weapon or piece of equipment, and it’s highly probable that it wouldn’t drop any at all on the first attempt. Therefore, players who owned weapons or equipment were in the minority in the game base.

When players first entered the game base without any dungeon experience, their individual panel data was the most important.

However, there were also high-data players in the game who were not very skilled, and whether they could survive and obtain weapons in the game was the most direct manifestation of their strength and potential as a player.

Obviously, it was reasonable for Zhu Shuangshuang, who had obtained a weapon on her first attempt, was invited by the Yongming Guild, which was ranked first.

Zhu Shuangshuang was also stunned for a moment. As a small fry, she naturally didn’t dare to directly refuse the guild ranked first.

She said, “Thank you for your trust. I want to think about it first.”

The woman in the white dress nodded in understanding. “Okay, you can learn more about our guild first.”

After she left, Zhu Shuangshuang immediately asked Chen Qing, “What kind of guild is the Yongming Guild?”

“I’ll explain it to you by describing the professions of their main members,” Chen Qing said. “There are pupa masters, witches, black robe masters, yin-yang masters, witch doctors...”

Zhu Shuangshuang understood, and the name of their guild seemed to fit.

“She invited me because she saw my red veil?”

Before “Ghost Animal” started, everyone basically guessed that it was a supernatural copy. Obtaining a red veil in a supernatural copy, it was obviously some kind of underworld weapon.

Chen Qing nodded. “Yes, at that time Black Robe was also invited multiple times by the Yongming Guild because of his Soul-Locking Rope. However, because Shi Tianzhu saved Black Robe’s life, he has been faithfully following Shi Tianzhu and has firmly refused them.”

Ning Su turned his head and asked, “Black Robe is faithfully following Shi Tianzhu?”

“Yes. Don’t you know that Black Robe is a high-ranking member of Yinhua? In fact, Yinhua’s high-ranking members are all very loyal to Shi Tianzhu. After all, she was the one who created Yinhua.”

Ning Su lowered his eyelashes, lost in thought.

Zhu Shuangshuang tilted her head and looked at Ning Su. “What’s going on? Why do I feel like you’re really interested in Shi Tianzhu? Did you forget about me, your sister who was going to buy you a big bag of candy, when you saw the fairy sister?”

As soon as he heard “a big bag of candy,” Ning Su’s eyes lit up.

Chen Tian said, “Stop teasing him. Let’s go. I’ll treat you all to a meal. We’ll go over “Ghost Animal” together. We came out in a hurry and we haven’t had a chance to gather some information yet."

As soon as he heard “meal,” Ning Su followed him, bringing everyone along.

After all, he had no points at the moment, and getting a free meal was better than nothing.

When they were about to leave, many people still didn’t give up on trying to get information.

“If you don’t want to talk about the copy or yourself, just tell us about the other people who cleared it. We’re willing to pay a good price for any information.”

Zhu Shuangshuang was a kind girl. She thought for a moment and said, “If you meet that particularly handsome young man in the dungeon...”

“Okay!” The person collecting information vigorously nodded, overjoyed that they finally got something. “What should we do if we meet him?”

Zhu Shuangshuang replied, “If he shows any intention of wanting to curry favor with you, let him do it.”

The person who asked: “???”

Zhu Shuangshuang then slipped away while the person was still confused, and the group entered the game base.

Near the entrance of the base, they encountered Ji Mingrui, the man in the suit who had entered the game with them in the same bus before.

At the time when they arrived at the game base entrance, Ji Mingrui quickly understood the new member recruitment of the base guild and told them how to distinguish fake guilds. He didn’t want to join them and went to earn points by himself.

When he saw them, Ji Mingrui’s mood was very complicated, especially when he saw the red veil draped over Zhu Shuangshuang’s head.

“Did you come out of the dungeon?” He asked Zhu Shuangshuang. The other two boys didn’t say anything, and Zhu Shuangshuang replied, “Yes, have you entered the dungeon?”

Ji Mingrui shook his head.

Zhu Shuangshuang could sense his complicated emotions.

Chen Qing had talked to them about the ecology of the game base. To truly become a capable person, they must go through dungeons, preferably the newly opened ones. The rest was all meaningless.

With Ji Mingrui’s strong ability to gather information and his intelligence, he must have already figured that out.

Zhu Shuangshuang understood people like him who wanted to make adequate preparations before entering the game, but there were no foolproof preparations for this game.

“You should also enter early, don’t delay anymore,” Zhu Shuangshuang said.

Ning Su said, “I’m so hungry.”

“...” Zhu Shuangshuang said to Ji Mingrui, “Then we’ll leave first.”

After walking away, Zhu Shuangshuang sighed with relief, “I suddenly feel like I’m back in the classroom watching other classmates take the college entrance exam after being admitted to a prestigious school in advance.”

Su Wangsheng nodded, “Now that you mention it, I suddenly feel a little happy. What’s going on?”

Ning Su followed suit, nodded and squinted his beautiful peach blossom eyes, “Happy, let’s go eat.”

“...”

For the sake of convenience, Chen Tian directly booked a private room with a good privacy.

Chen Tian arranged a seat specifically for Gui Sheng, but the child refused to get off Ning Su’s lap.

Ning Su looked at him, his eyes brightened, and he happily let the child sit on his lap and eat.

As they ate, they reviewed all the information in the instance and drew a map to plan their strategy for clearing the instance.

Chen Qing asked, “Snowball wants to punish the grooms, and marrying the bride and animals is a very painful punishment. Why does it have a punishment for giving birth to demon beasts in the hospital?”

“At that time, Yin Daijun had a difficult pregnancy, and Snowball wanted to use this method to make them feel Yin Daijun’s pain. This method is also extreme. For the grooms, it’s not just physical pain, but also mental torture to conceive and bear a beastman day and night,” Zhu Shuangshuang explained.

“Is that all? Why did Snowball wants them to give birth to so many beastmen?” Chen Qing felt it wasn’t that simple. The beastman cubs were placed inside the grooms’ stomachs before they were born, so where did they come from? The grooms didn’t do that kind of thing with the animals, did they...?

Chen Qing had a terrible thought.

Zhu Shuangshuang thought back and pondered, “Many of those little beastmen have dog faces and human bodies. I guess Snowball actually wants to remove the red veil and come out into the light someday. With the existence of these demon beasts with animal heads and human bodies in the inner world, its appearance will not be considered an abnormality and it won’t have to endure strange looks?”

Su Wangsheng said, “Is it possible that they are conducting experiments to create a hybrid creature by combining humans and animals?”

“Why would they do that?” someone asked.

The group fell silent, perhaps holding back an answer, but in reality, only Snowball might know the real reason.

Ning Su recalled how Snowball had looked at Yin Daijun and blinked, lost in thought.

He looked down at the child on his lap and asked, “Has Snowball been bullying you?”

The child had been hiding in a small warehouse in the slaughterhouse corner when they first met him, looking timid and shy in the darkness, not wanting anyone to see him.

He smiled happily when Ning Su complimented him.

Hearing Ning Su’s question, everyone at the table turned to look at Gui Sheng.

The child was sitting on Ning Su’s lap, his small head peeking out from the tabletop.

There was a small mouth under his head, with a straw in it, drinking from a bottle of milk on the table.

Meanwhile, Ning Su was feeding him fish balls in front of his face.

He had finished the fish balls in front of him and was now drinking milk, eating and drinking at the same time.

“...”

“...”

Zhu Shuangshuang took a long time to recover before asking, “Why?”

Ning Su thought she was asking why he ate like that, “It’s faster this way.”

They hadn’t had a good meal in a while, so why not eat more when they had the chance?

Seeing the child with a full belly and shining eyes, Ning Su picked him up, put a bottle of milk in his arms, and said, “We’ve eaten enough, let’s go now.”

Zhu Shuangshuang wanted to suggest they stay and check out the house, but Ning Su said seriously, “We have other things to do.”

It was getting late, and they had to hurry to the bottom of the bridge to secure a place to sleep, or they wouldn’t even have a bridge to sleep under.

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