“Phew...”
Zuo Lin'an stood up and let out a long sigh as he looked at the scattered corpses on the ground.
“It's finally over.”
His phone suddenly buzzed.
It was his work phone.
He pulled it out and glanced at it. It was an official message.
【Congratulations! In your first dungeon run, you successfully wiped out all players. You have been rewarded with 1 Contribution point and one million in cash. Note: Cash rewards are only granted for the first completion.】
【Note: The cash has been credited to your store account balance. It can be spent in the store or withdrawn to any linked bank card.】
Zuo Lin'an stretched his limbs as he watched the flesh and blood on the ground slowly dissolve.
Eventually, all traces belonging to the players vanished, including their corpses, the clothes and accessories they wore, and those few 【Death Dolls】.
It made sense. Although the 【Death Dolls】 were creations of a player's talent, they were ultimately items brought into the dungeon. Once the player died, the things they brought with them disappeared as well.
Zuo Lin'an did a quick sweep of the area. After confirming there was nothing unusual, he walked toward the tallest mountain.
In a pile of withered leaves, he found that branch and the specter item leaf stuck to it.
Picking up the leaf, Zuo Lin'an immediately began modifying it on the spot.
First, he would remove the special effect that allowed a player to completely avoid the next specter attack... Hm?
Remove!
Huh?
It didn't work?
Why?
Zuo Lin'an was puzzled, but he quickly understood the reason.
This specter item he made was also considered a path of survival for the players. A One-Star difficulty dungeon was the lowest level, so there had to be more than one path of survival.
The reason his application had been approved earlier, aside from modifying the time limit to one day, was actually due to the special effect of this specter item.
Zuo Lin'an sighed.
“Path of survival, path of survival...”
Fine.
After all, his dungeon was just a One-Star Daily Dungeon, the lowest difficulty level.
Zuo Lin'an didn't dwell on it. He used his specter aura to stick the leaf back onto the highest branch and headed out.
Along the way, he received a call from Xu Youyou.
“Brother An, you should be done by now, right?”
Zuo Lin'an replied, “Yeah, I'm out. I'll open the door for you now.”
Opening the door was actually just clearing a passage through the white mist of the outer ring. Xu Youyou was finally able to enter.
“Great, great. I'm coming in.”
By the time Zuo Lin'an returned home, Xu Youyou was already sitting in the living room.
“Brother An, what happened on your end? You said you got ambushed? Tell me the details!”
Zuo Lin'an didn't hold anything back. He told him everything about the players he had encountered, their identities, their talents, and how many martial artists there were.
“Oh, right. That last guy, Lin Deyou, ended up suffering Qi Deviation just from a few words of mine. How about that? You've never seen Qi Deviation before, have you? I even recorded a video. Come take a look.”
Xu Youyou's eyes lit up. Instantly intrigued, he leaned in to watch the video.
“Holy crap, Brother An, why is your dungeon so much more fun? The players in my dungeon were a bunch of idiots.”
“As soon as they entered the dungeon, a few women started screaming and running away. There were also a couple of wealthy-looking old men pointing at everyone's noses and yelling, calling them peasants and rabble.”
“I felt a massive headache coming on, but to get used to controlling a dungeon boss, I held back a bit.”
“I even let them live a little longer just for that.”
Zuo Lin'an uploaded the video he had recorded to a forum post as he asked, “So, you didn't encounter any danger on your end? Like special talents or specter items?”
Xu Youyou nodded. “Of course I did. I messaged you earlier. All those players only had a single specter item between them, but it was pretty strong.”
“It was a consumable specter item—a mirror shard that could directly repel specters.”
“But it had a weakness: the player had to physically scratch my body with the edge of the shard for it to take effect.”
“I almost got caught by it!”
“Luckily, you shared that post with me earlier. I quickly switched to my living body state, so the mirror shard only left a small scratch on me before vanishing.”
“Come to think of it, if it weren't for you, Brother An, I might have failed. If that happened, the dungeon would have been locked, and who knows how long I'd have to wait for the next world.”
Zuo Lin'an nodded silently and did some mental math.
“Didn't Instructor An Wen say so before?”
“The assimilation rate of the Wuxia World is already nearing sixty percent. To reach this point in less than three years means complete assimilation will probably only take about two more. It's not that long.”
“Not to mention, we are now Human-Specter Symbionts, so we'll never age.”
Hearing this, Xu Youyou suddenly remembered something and slapped his thigh, bursting into laughter.
“Right, right, we really won't ever age.”
“By the way, Brother An, when you entered Sin Hunter City, you seemed to be...”
He thought of Zuo Lin'an's situation.
“Hehehe, hahahaha!!”
“So, you'll always be...”
Zuo Lin'an's cheek twitched. “Shut up!”
He had no comeback for that because it was the truth.
Even though he was only a few months away from adulthood, a miss was as good as a mile.
In other words, Zuo Lin'an would remain a teenager forever.
However, Zuo Lin'an had developed a thick skin by now. “What's so bad about that? Plenty of girls like guys like me. I look fresh.”
“Pfft!”
Choking on his own spit, Xu Youyou coughed violently. “Cough, cough, cough!!”
“You...”
“Cough, cough, cough!!”
“Holy crap!!”
“Brother An, you're amazing!”
“Cough, cough, cough!!”
Seeing him coughing like he was on his deathbed, Zuo Lin'an walked over and patted him on the back. It took Xu Youyou quite a while to recover.
“Alright, back to business. My aunt messaged me earlier and asked us to head back.”
Zuo Lin'an was taken aback. “Us?”
Xu Youyou nodded. “Yeah. There are seven days before the next dungeon opens, so heading back won't hurt. Aunt said she wants to celebrate for us.”
“Besides, we have money now! The first time you wipe out all players, you get an extra million. We can afford to buy bus tickets. What do you think?”
Zuo Lin'an thought about it, then slowly nodded. “Sure, let's go now. It's only morning anyway. We might even make it to your house in time for lunch.”
Xu Youyou pulled out his phone. “Alright, buying the tickets now...”
The two of them tapped on their phones, selecting ticket purchase, entering their starting point, destination, and departure time.
And the result...
Xu Youyou's face paled in shock. “Holy crap, one hundred thousand!!”
“A single bus ticket costs one hundred thousand! A freaking hundred thousand!”
“A round trip is two hundred thousand!”
Zuo Lin'an was also quite surprised. He hadn't expected a single ticket to cost one hundred thousand.
But on second thought, considering it was a specter bus, the price made sense.
Rate on N.U.
