Pretending to be Mysterious

Cloud's Nemesis used her chopsticks to stir a few times before picking up a piece of meat and placing it into her mouth.

Before she even chewed, the taste of the seasoning was enough to bring hot tears to her eyes.

Heaven knows what kind of things she had been eating since entering this world? Not to mention the moldy, expired food! Buying a bag of bread from Crow with money usually counted as an improvement to her diet, and even then, she had to watch the time to snatch it!

Suddenly eating such fragrant food, she truly shed tears of emotion all at once.

She did not know that her sharp-tongued and aloof best friend was no different from her.

The two of them did not send any messages, maintaining a tacit understanding.

After a good while, just as Cloud's Nemesis was about to finish her meal, she finally received a message from Mr. Dumpling.

【Mr. Dumpling】: Should we trade the remaining seedlings with him again?

Regarding this proposal, Cloud's Nemesis naturally agreed.

Crow's reputation was big enough, and she did not use her influence to bully others, making her a very good trading partner.

Of course, the most important thing was that they had only found this one trading partner.

They had no other choice.

【Cloud's Nemesis】: I'll go talk to her!

【Mr. Dumpling】: Don't be in a hurry. Let's talk about what to trade first.

Cheng Shuili did not yet know that she was about to possess a large number of plant seedlings; she was eating dinner right now as well.

Unlike the wolfing down of food by Cloud's Nemesis and Mr. Dumpling, her eating manners were extremely refined, truly deserving to be called chewing slowly and swallowing carefully.

What Su Rui could not stand most was the way this person ate, not because she lacked a sense of taste, but because Cheng Shuili was truly too refined when eating.

She would hallucinate a person with an excellent and very elegant personality.

It could be anyone, but it definitely was not Cheng Shuili, and that was very bad.

Su Rui silently withdrew her gaze and, taking advantage of the fact that it had not yet turned dark, began driving seriously again.

There was nothing to report tonight.

The sixth day of the famine finally arrived.

According to custom, today was the day for the dungeon.

After washing up, Cheng Shuili checked the regional channel as part of her daily routine.

Unlike the previous few days, the regional channel was exceptionally lively this morning.

"Sigh, being both afraid and relieved, humans are truly too complicated."

"Completely understand the person above. Not having to worry about beastmen coming to rob is a real relief, but thinking about having to participate in the dungeon... and the mortality rate of the dungeon is... haha, actually, if you are optimistic, isn't it death either way? Just different ways of dying."

"Is this optimism? Do you call this optimism?"

"Don't know what kind of dungeon it is this time, is there any inside information?"

"Are you crazy? This is a once-a-week dungeon, besides Crow, I don't believe anyone who says they know what the dungeon is!"

Crow didn't know either.

Cheng Shuili's lips pressed into a rigid straight line.

She had just received the breakfast brought by Qi Wanyi, rice porridge and tea eggs, and because it was hot, she could not put it in her mouth yet.

"I know the inside information."

"I know too, I know too~ Stop bragging, buddy, attracting attention shouldn't be done like this."

"If you don't know and are just spouting nonsense to get attention, you deserve to die. If you do know and come out to say you know, you will definitely die, understand? Some jokes cannot be made casually."

Cheng Shuili agreed with this person, but she agreed even more with the former; the probability of this kind of dungeon... being predictable in advance was truly not high.

But it certainly could not be ruled out.

She raised her hand to rub her eyes and suddenly felt much more energetic.

The chat on the regional channel continued.

"What if I really know? Let me first put up a shield: this information was not obtained through any item, nor was it predicted through any item; it was told to me by a merchant NPC I met at the gas station. So as long as something happens to me, you all can forget about knowing the dungeon content in advance. There is one more important point: if we can know about this dungeon in advance, we can survive 100%. Now, is there anyone who wants to question me, attack me, or even use a Designated Player Duel Card to kill me? I only have one cheap life, but if I say it, I can save countless lives. Do you want to bet?"

Whether what he said was true or not, the merchant NPC at the gas station was real.

Cheng Shuili raised an eyebrow; things had suddenly become interesting.

Now she was even looking forward to what this person could actually say.

It was a pity that the regional channel was full of guys who ate soft but not hard, especially when faced with this kind of tough attitude, which could even be considered a threat.

"Sister, you had better really know, otherwise if you don't die today, it will be really hard to wrap this up."

"Tsk, buddy, it's not like I'm saying, even if you want to pretend, say something everyone doesn't know, right? Who hasn't been to a gas station? Who hasn't met a monster merchant? The regional channel didn't mention this NPC at all before you! If you lie, you have to make it half-true and half-false; that way more people will believe it!"

"The person above, I have seen one."

"A merchant NPC at a gas station? I have seen one too, at that time they gave me a message, saying it was the most useful thing for me, only I still haven't figured out what use this message has for me to this day."

Cheng Shuili narrowed her eyes; there were actually so many people who had seen the merchant NPC at the gas station.

So many people had seen it, and she, the top-ranked player, had not... was it a bit...

"Dog system!"

Cheng Shuili cursed inwardly.

This kind of random setting was simply not reasonable at all!

What if some people never encountered one in their whole life?

Just like blueprint improvement... Cheng Shuili frowned, if blueprint improvement was a fixed success probability, then it was entirely possible for her to improve a blueprint and keep failing! Failing every single day!

This was absolutely unreasonable!

Thinking this, Cheng Shuili took out an energy stone and got up to go in front of the workstation.

She had sworn yesterday that Su Rui would press the confirm button today, so she handed the energy stone directly to Su Rui, and after carefully explaining what the blueprint to be improved was, she silently closed her eyes.

Succeed.

This time, it must succeed!

How many times had it failed already! If it fails again, it really would be unreasonable!

Cheng Shuili did not really want to accept reality, so the time she spent with her eyes closed this time was exceptionally long.

Long enough that after Su Rui saw the successfully improved blueprint appear, when she turned her head, she realized Cheng Shuili still had her eyes closed.

Su Rui was a bit surprised that this boss had such a side, but she really looked more like a living person this way.

"It's done, boss."

Cheng Shuili did not open her eyes: "Did it succeed?"

"Succeed?" Su Rui was being intentional, "It succeeded... right?"

Upon hearing the word "succeed" in a declarative tone, Cheng Shuili had already opened her eyes.

The moment she heard that final "right," she looked at Su Rui in disbelief; this person was actually teasing her?

Fine, Su Rui really looked like a human now.

The two people in the vehicle today both felt that the other looked like a human.

Truly a beautiful day!

Cheng Shuili's gaze swept over the panel in front of her; fortunately, it had succeeded. If it had failed, she would have really had to cosplay as a slave owner for a day.