The wealthy guilds in the base were all built near the game hall, except for the Yongming Guild.
The Yongming Guild was built in a deep forest.
Looking around, the forest was shrouded in black mist, with all sorts of bizarre insects crawling on the ground, and eerie laughter and crying that seemed both near and far.
It perfectly matched the aura of the Yongming Guild.
After passing through the eerie forest, a black building came into view.
As Ning Su reached the entrance, he bumped into Guo Xiao who was just leaving.
“…”
Ning Su: “Hi.”
Guo Xiao: “Are you here to pick a fight?”
Ning Su: “I’m here to see the Gu Witch.”
Guo Xiao: “You have the nerve to come looking for the Gu Witch after what you did…”
“Come in.” Guo Xiao’s words were interrupted.
The Gu Witch stood right behind them, speaking to Ning Su in a calm voice.
Ning Su replied, “Alright!”
All the buildings of the Yongming Guild were black, and the place where the Gu Witch lived was no different.
At the back of the guild, there was a small courtyard.
The courtyard had four black grass huts, at least two of which were likely used for raising Gu insects.
Ning Su followed him into the hut directly facing the main gate. As soon as they entered, Ning Su said, “Gu Witch, I’ve come to return something to you.”
He took out a wooden box. “I heard that the Love Gu worm is hard to raise and very precious. Please keep it safe.”
The Gu Witch’s body stiffened, and he stood with his back to him, not speaking.
Ning Su said, “I can be your friend, but I can’t be your ghost friend*.” (T/N: Like the one in the <Manman> instance.)
The Gu Witch looked down at his fingers, his long white hair cascading over his shoulders and back, his gaze hidden within the white hair. His voice was faint, emotionless. “Do you also despise me?”
Ning Su replied, “If I despised you, I wouldn’t have said I’d be your friend.”
He placed the Gu worm directly on the table and told the Gu Witch, “Don’t put any more Gu worms on me; they have no effect on me.”
He left the Gu worm and departed, his visit solely to return the Gu worm and state his position.
At the door, Ning Su turned back and said to him, “Gu Witch, there is nothing about you that deserves to be despised by the public.”
In the dungeon world, he did not interact with his other self because he had long known that they were in opposing factions and would eventually confront each other, possibly even having to kill his other self.
There was no need to add unnecessary emotional exchanges.
Another reason was that he did not want to face his past self.
Ning Su said, “There wasn’t before, and there isn’t now.”
“It’s precisely because you used to be the Gu Witch and endured so many hardships that you have become the revered Gu Witch of countless people on the base.”
After Ning Su left, the Gu Witch finally turned around, watching his departing figure.
In his room, he didn’t wear a mask.
When Ning Su entered the room, he had already removed the mask and placed it on the dresser in front of him.
His face was neither rotten nor scarred, clean and flawless.
In his current appearance, there was indeed nothing to be despised, but he still couldn’t turn back and let Ning Su see.
He tightly gripped the box on the table, biting his lip hard.
In the black house, he watched Ning Su’s figure grow increasingly distant.
It was like a frog at the bottom of a well, watching a butterfly fly further and further away in the sky.
The butterfly had lifted the huge stone covering the well’s mouth, letting sunlight shine in, making him realize that the world he lived in was not an abyss of hell, just the bottom of a well.
But it was still the bottom of a well.
He was the frog at the bottom of the well; he was the butterfly.
After lifting the stone, the butterfly would still fly away.
The witch, watching Ning Su walk farther away, gripped the box and chased after him just as Ning Su’s figure was about to disappear from sight.
Ning Su walked very fast.
He was terrified of encountering the Human Pupa Master and the Black-clothed Azan again; if he ran into just two more of them, he might not be able to get out.
What one feared most would surely happen.
Just a few steps away from the main gate, a dazzling beauty in a red tank top and hot pants jumped in front of him. “Ning Su, are you here to offer your head?”
Ning Su: “...”
The Human Pupa Master licked his lips and smiled, “You, a player who didn’t even participate in the individual competition, can’t use your pitch-black flower in the base, right?”
Ning Su: “...”
“Ning Su, come here!” Ning Changfeng’s voice reached both of their ears.
Ning Su looked up and saw Ning Changfeng standing at the main entrance of the Yongming Guild, waiting for him.
Truly the best dad at the base!
Ning Su glanced at the Human Pupa Master’s unhappy face and dashed towards Ning Changfeng.
The Human Pupa Master bit her lip, feeling increasingly dissatisfied, and followed with a freshly renewed pupa canister in hand.
Ning Su: “Brother, why are you here? Hasn’t it been less than half an hour?”
Ning Changfeng: “I was worried you’d get ganged up on inside.”
Ning Su: “...”
It felt like if Ning Changfeng hadn’t come, it could have been possible.
Ning Changfeng: “Can we start the next instance?”
Ning Su: “Yeah, I’ll let our president know.”
After sending a message to Shi Tianzhu, Ning Su pondered whether to tell Ning Changfeng that Ling Xiao would also be joining this instance.
How should he say it?
Ning Changfeng: “I’ll let Ling Xiao know too, and see if he wants to join us.”
Ning Su: “...”
About a minute later, Ning Su casually asked: “What did he say?”
Ning Changfeng: “Unexpectedly, he replied quickly with a yes. This person seems indifferent, but he’s actually quite happy to play with friends.”
Ning Su: “...”
Ning Changfeng: “Once we’re in the instance, stick close to him and get familiar.”
Ning Su: “... Okay.”
When the two of them arrived at the game hall, more than half of the people there were watching them.
Ning Su had made a name for himself in the guild competition and was the most talked-about player recently.
Entering together with Ning Changfeng doubled the effect.
“Ning Su is going into an instance with Ning Changfeng?”
“Then they must be going for a level ten instance?!”
Not long after Ning Su and Ning Changfeng entered the game hall, Shi Tianzhu from the Yinhua Guild came in with two kids.
Shi Tianzhu frowned at Ning Changfeng but still walked over.
“Wow, even Shi Tianzhu is here!”
“Could it be that Shi Tianzhu is joining the same instance as Ning Changfeng?”
“This instance is definitely going to be exciting!”
The two kids saw Ning Su, stretched out their arms, and ran towards him with their little backpacks, hugging his legs.
Today was the first day of classes at the Yinhua School, and both of them had attended.
Ning Su put their backpacks into a crystal ball and patted their heads.
Two children appeared, attracting even more attention.
Immediately afterward, two more people entered the game hall.
They were the Gu Witch and the Human Pupa Master.
They also looked at Ning Su.
“???”
“A regular instance? This looks like the setup for a competitive instance!”
“Won’t the instance explode?”
“As long as it’s not a level ten instance, I definitely want to follow and watch!”
Ning Su: “...”
Shi Tianzhu and Ning Changfeng naturally had no objections, letting Ning Su choose the instance.
The Gu Witch and the Human Pupa Master also seemed eager to follow Ning Su.
Everyone clicked their tongues in amazement.
As a result, every time Ning Su moved, the eyes of all the players in the game hall followed him.
Ning Su: “...”
He just wanted to choose a warm and cozy little instance to clear up the misunderstanding between his parents.
Under the watchful eyes of the entire game hall, Ning Su stood there stiffly, with a long-lost dumbfounded expression on his face.
At this moment, he glanced at a man in a black shirt.
At some point, the man had silently appeared in front of a light screen in the game hall.
He stood there, smiling at Ning Su through the crowd.
Ning Su was saved.
He knew that Ling Xiao had chosen for him. Without even looking, he squeezed through the crowd and ran over.
Afraid that his parents wouldn’t get a spot, he ran while shouting to Shi Tianzhu and Ning Changfeng, “It’s the one in front of Ling Xiao!”
This was the fastest time in history for an instance to fill up.
Ning Su entered the instance less than a minute after shouting.
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