Zuo Lin'an looked at those few short words and could easily guess how excited the other party was right now.
【Zuo Lin'an: Come over and talk.】
【Xu Youyou: You got it, I'm coming over right now!】
Not long after, Xu Youyou came sprinting all the way to Zuo Lin'an's house.
The moment he arrived, he grabbed a bottle of drink from the cabinet and chugged it down.
By the looks of it, he hadn't even had time to go back to his own home.
“Oh my god, I am seriously so lucky!”
Xu Youyou casually tossed the empty bottle into the trash can and threw himself onto the sofa.
“When I messaged you earlier, I noticed that player was stirring!”
“I didn't know what was going on at the time, so I posted on the forum to ask.”
“Then someone told me that the player was acting like that because he hadn't fully mastered his martial arts. Plus, because of my constant harassment, his qi flow went awry, and he was highly likely to wake up.”
“From then on, I kept my eyes glued to him, not slacking off for even a single second!”
“I stared at him like that for several hours. The instant I saw him react, I did exactly what you said and whispered in his ear, ‘You've cleared the dungeon!’”
“He actually replied with an ‘Mm’ right then!”
“Ahahaha!”
Xu Youyou laughed heartily.
“I am seriously so lucky!”
Zuo Lin'an was also happy for him; now he wouldn't have to wait a year.
“You got purely lucky this time. That player's martial arts were lacking, which gave you an opportunity, but you probably won't have such good luck in the future.”
Xu Youyou reined in his slightly exaggerated grin and coughed dryly twice.
“I know. I'll pay extra attention in the future.”
“Oh, right! You have unsolvable specters in your dungeon. Take me to see them! I've never seen what an unsolvable specter looks like.”
“What's there to see? They just look like regular specters.”
“I'm curious! Come on, take me to see!”
Unable to withstand his nagging, Zuo Lin'an relented and took him to take a look.
Unsurprisingly, the specters were met with all kinds of disdain.
“How come these unsolvable specters look so brainless and dorky? They don't look like rare specimens worth 5 Contribution points each.”
Zuo Lin'an was speechless. “I told you, there's nothing to see.”
Over the next few days, Zuo Lin'an waited for the staff to retrieve the unsolvable specters. During this time, Xu Youyou wiped out two more teams of players.
He was quite lucky these two times as well, running into players with relatively average strength and nothing formidable.
Meanwhile, the staff member Zuo Lin'an had been eagerly waiting for to retrieve the unsolvable specters actually arrived at his dungeon exactly on the last day of the fifteen-day limit.
Early this morning, Zuo Lin'an received a notification.
It said that a staff member would come at noon to retrieve the unsolvable specters.
Although he lamented the low efficiency, he was also helpless. After all, he was currently just a One-Star dungeon boss of the lowest difficulty level.
Low status, no say in anything.
As noon approached, Xu Youyou came to find him, his expression and tone filled with some dissatisfaction.
“Instructor An said before that retrieving unsolvable specters would take a few days or up to ten-plus days, but I didn't expect it to actually take as long as fifteen days!”
“Could other dungeons really have so many unsolvable specters that need retrieving? Are they really that busy?”
“Or could they just be slacking off on purpose?”
“I've already opened my dungeon twice over there! Even though I only got two Contribution points, which can't compare to unsolvable specters, I trained my abilities and perfectly wiped out the players both times.”
Zuo Lin'an raised an eyebrow. “It's fine. I can afford to wait anyway.”
Not long after, a familiar bus appeared outside his house, and the two went out to greet it.
Stepping off the bus was an unfamiliar man who was very tall, nearly two meters.
He looked cold and unapproachable.
He didn't waste any words, directing his gaze toward Zuo Lin'an. “That's you, right? You have unsolvable specters in your dungeon?”
Zuo Lin'an nodded. “Yes, please follow me.”
He led the man to the cave.
At this moment, all the unsolvable specters were still inside. They had a deep obsession with this place, or rather, the place where Xuan Liu had died.
The staff member didn't say a single unnecessary word either. With a swift movement, he reached out and made a grasping motion toward all the specters from a distance.
The unsolvable specters were drawn uncontrollably toward his palm as if pulled by some gravitational force, eventually turning into small black spheres in his hand.
“Five unsolvable specters in total. I'll take them now. The Contribution points will be credited to you soon.”
Zuo Lin'an couldn't tell if it was just his imagination, but he felt that the staff member's expression seemed to soften quite a bit when he saw that there were five unsolvable specters here.
He and Xu Youyou formally escorted the man back to the waiting bus.
Just when they thought the man was about to board the bus, he unexpectedly pulled two necklaces out of his pocket and handed them over.
“Take these.”
Zuo Lin'an was stunned for a moment and instinctively took them.
“What are these?”
Without looking back, the other party stepped onto the bus, leaving behind only a single sentence.
“The symbol of identity for Starry Group members.”
The bus quickly drove away, leaving Zuo Lin'an standing dazed in place with the necklaces in hand.
Xu Youyou hurriedly leaned in.
“Huh? A black hexagram? Let me see...”
He took it to look and found that the front of one hexagram featured a chibi-style avatar, and the back had the name 'Xu Youyou.'
“Hey? This is mine!”
He took the other one to check; it belonged to Zuo Lin'an.
“So this is the symbol of the Starry Group members? Wait a minute!”
Xu Youyou suddenly noticed something amiss.
“So, why was it the staff member who retrieves unsolvable specters who delivered this to us?”
Zuo Lin'an picked up his own and looked at it for a bit.
“Aren't there a lot of dungeon bosses in the Starry Chat Group? Maybe that guy was also a group member, and he just delivered them to us on his way.”
Xu Youyou nodded thoughtfully.
“Fair enough.”
After thinking about it, he still felt a bit confused, so he pulled out his phone and started typing, though it was unclear who he was contacting.
However, Zuo Lin'an soon found out.
Because he saw that Xu Youyou was asking in their small four-person group.
【Bai Yuan: Oh? What does he look like?】
Xu Youyou described the man's appearance.
【Bai Yuan: That fits. It's definitely him. He is the former group owner and the current deputy group owner, Fanxing.】
Upon seeing this, Zuo Lin'an and Xu Youyou were instantly bewildered.
The former owner of their Starry Group was actually the staff member in charge of retrieving unsolvable specters?
Why did it feel a bit...
【Xu Youyou: Why do I feel like there's such a huge gap between expectation and reality?】
【Bai Yuan: You didn't actually think Fanxing was weak, did you?】
【Bai Yuan: You saw how he retrieved the unsolvable specters just now, right? Compressing the specters into a black ball—how do you think he did that?】
【Bai Yuan: He wrapped the unsolvable specters in his own specter aura, then used absolute, overwhelming strength to compress them directly. There was no technique involved whatsoever.】
【Bai Yuan: Next time you guys encounter an unsolvable specter, you can try it yourselves.】
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