Chapter 46
For some reason, the moment the other party said those words, Ye Jia felt a chill run down his back.
He lowered his head and glanced at Ji Xuan who was standing beside him.
The boy raised his head and looked back at him.
He had his small, pale face tilted up and there was a faint smile on his face, making him appear calm and well-behaved. It was as if he was only casually asking a very ordinary question.
Ye Jia: “???”
Could he have been mistaken?
“Mhn, she’s someone I used to know.” Ye Jia thought for a moment and added, “A chance meeting.”
Soon following that, he seemed to have thought of something and lowered his head to ask, “Why did you come?”
The young boy held onto Ye Jia’s hand with his cold fingers. His voice was soft and slightly hoarse, and even seemed to be a little aggrieved, “I can’t be here?”
Ye Jia: “???”
What’s going on?
Why did the conversation suddenly develop in a weird direction?
He even forgot to pull his hand back and just let out a confused, “…….Huh?”
Ji Xuan inched closer and inserted his fingers between Ye Jia’s fingers, turning it into an interlocked handhold.
“Or…..did gege not want me to come?”
Ye Jia: “……..”
What the hell?
After successfully holding Ye Jia’s hand, the surging killing intent in Ji Xuan’s heart finally subsided.
Ji Xuan slowly narrowed his eyes and a gloomy and cold light flashed across the depths of his scarlet eyes, resembling an oncoming thunderstorm in the night sky. A warm smile flickered across his lips.
He raised his eyes and looked into the distance.
……..A chance meeting?
The empty and abandoned factory was shrouded in darkness in the dark night.
The strong yin energy had still not yet dissipated, making the dark doors and windows appear particularly terrifying.
Standing in front of the factory was the young woman. She was petite and slender, and her features were soft and sweet. With the gloomy building looming behind her like a terrible monster, the contrast was particularly impactful.
She pursed her lips shyly with flushed cheeks and bright eyes. She was like a young woman in spring, completely harmless.
Wu Su however couldn’t help but remain tense when standing before her.
He naturally knew who this great god was.
—– Maid, fifteenth on the leaderboard.
Her fighting style was extremely brutal, and her favourite weapon was the chainsaw. That chainsaw was a weapon that required a scarily high number of points to redeem in the game and its durability was also exceptionally low so it could be considered a not so cost-effective weapon, but Maid favoured it very much. In her words: “A horror movie without chainsaws and gore is not a good horror movie.” Many people had speculated that the reason for her remaining around the 20th or so rank on the leaderboard was because a large number of her points was used to redeem her weapons.
Moreover, although Maids body was frozen into that of a young woman’s appearance, her experience actually even exceeded Ace’s.
Although Wu Su knew that as soon as Ace’s signature is released, there would definitely be strong players making an appearance, he didn’t expect that the first one to appear would be Maid.
Like Ace, she was similarly a very unique player who rarely teamed up with others. Even if she was assigned to one in an instance, she would throw them aside using the fastest speed possible and do everything alone.
As such, it was very difficult for Wu Su to associate her with Ace.
Especially…..with a reason like that.
“…..Confess?” Wu Su slowly repeated her words with a complicated expression.
The young woman nodded, “Yes.”
She poked the ground again with the tip of her shoe and a bright and lovely smile formed on her lips, “You have a problem with that?”
Wu Su was taken aback. He quickly shook his head, “No, of course not!”
He swallowed with difficulty and spoke, “Um…..I will contact Ace and let him know of your arrival but what comes after that is beyond my control….”
The young woman narrowed her eyes and scanned over Wu Su, “What is your code name?”
Wu Su: “……Don’t have one.”
Only those in the top fifty have a code name given to them by the game and Wu Su was only in the fifties and sixties.
The young woman looked away in disappointment, “No wonder you’re so weak.”
Wu Su: “……..”
Well, I’m very sorry about that!
Wu Su couldn’t help but want to gossip, “How did you and Ace meet?”
Maid kicked a pebble with her foot, “In a team instance.”
Wu Su quickly understood, “Oh, you were teammates?”
The woman pursed her lips shyly, “No.”
Wu Su: “???”
Listening to the conversation between the two of them not far away, Ye Jia was left speechless.
—-Of course he remembered the other party.
Maid, even in the game, could be regarded as a difficult to deal with character.
At that time, Ye Jia had just received his code name Ace and Maid was already a top player with a strong reputation.
It was a competition-style instance. Players who were in that instance were all those with high ranks and they were divided into three teams and allowed to explore the deserted village in the instance freely. At the end of the instance, the two teams with the lowest number of points would be required to take part in a cruel elimination instance while the single player with the highest number of points could directly clear the instance regardless of which team they were in.
Ye Jia and Maid just happened to be in two different teams.
At that time, there was a black sheep in Ye Jia’s team. That player didn’t want to clear the instance and was more concerned with taking the other players points, including those of his teammates. Unfortunately for him, in an instance like this, players were not allowed to directly harm their own teammates.
And so, he had made use of a game prop to summon an evil god in the deserted village and led everyone over.
Ye Jia habitually acted alone. By the time he found out about this, the other party had already accomplished his purpose.
There were originally five people in their team, but now only Ye Jia and him were left.
Maid however could be regarded as an experienced veteran player after all. After the evil god appeared, she was still able to clear out a bloody path for herself and, in the end, only Maid and that player were left in the evil god’s temple. Although all the monsters were dead, only one of them could walk out of that place alive. If neither of them killed the other person and there were still two people in the temple when time was up, then the person who had summoned the evil god would die as sacrifice.
Maid however didn’t have the time to wait it out.
Her team had fallen behind, so she had to kill the other party, or she would still be forced to take part in the elimination instance when the instance was over even if the other party was killed from his actions backfiring.
By the time Ye Jia arrived, both of them were already covered in blood.
That player’s body was covered in pitch-black viscous fluid as he panted heavily while using a table to support himself.
As the person who had summoned the evil god, although he would be immune to the monster’s attacks, he was also unable to participate in the battle, so he could only escape from Maid’s offensive attacks time and time again.
Maid had already gone through a fierce battle earlier. One of her legs was broken with her bone jutting out through the bloody wound, half her face was peeled off and she was also missing an eye, but her other eye was burning with hatred and anger, shining brightly like a cold star in the dark temple.
The chainsaw in her hand had already lost its durability with its gears broken. Standing there with clothes that one could no longer see the original colour of, she looked like a ghost who had just crawled out from hell.
The evil god’s low voice echoed through the dark sky.
“Only one can be saved.”
The other player’s eyes lit up. He immediately called out with a stammer, “A-Ace! We’re teammates! Hurry and save me!”
He gritted his teeth and continued, “As long as you save me, I will give you half the points I got in this instance!”
Outside the ancient temple, the slender young man raised his head and looked at the sky in the distance.
There was a large leaderboard floating in the air.
There were still three minutes until the end of the instance.
Of the three teams, one had been completely annihilated while the remaining two teams had a similar number of points with Ye Jia’s team being slightly higher.
If Maid was left in the evil god’s temple, her points would be counted as the other player’s points and Ye Jia’s team would directly achieve first place in this instance, no longer requiring him to take part in the cruel and gruesome elimination instance.
—- That was a purely hell-level instance. All the players thrown into that instance were required to kill each other and only the strongest could leave.
No one wanted to take part in such an elimination instance.
Outside the temple, the young man withdrew his gaze.
He wasn’t wearing a hood. His light-coloured hair was ruffled by the wind that carried a strong smell of blood and his glass-like eyes were calm and cold.
Inside the temple.
The young woman whose appearance could no longer be seen clearly gritted her teeth with pure hatred burning coldly in her eyes. She looked like she could swallow up the two men before her and crush them to death with just her glare alone.
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She spat out a mouthful of blood and sneered, her voice filled with unconcealable irony.
The young man lowered his eyes and swept his gaze across the blood-soaked ground before him thoughtfully.
At this moment, there was only one minute left before the end of the instance.
The young man raised his eyes and said calmly, “I will save my teammate.”
Unsurprising.
Maid threw away the broken chainsaw in her hand and dragged her weak body over to a wall and slowly sat down.
The moment Ye Jia said those words, the points she had accumulated in this instance was transferred over to the other player.
On the leaderboard, Ye Jia’s team took first place.
—-Now, as soon as the game ends, the young woman in the temple would become the evil god’s sacrifice.
Maid snorted in disdain and closed her eyes.
She thought optimistically —— Dying here like this wasn’t too bad. At least she didn’t need to take part in the elimination instance.
The player who was covered in black fluid stumbled out of the evil god’s temple. He wiped some of it off his face and happily slapped Ye Jia’s shoulder, “Thank a lot, brother.”
However, the moment the other person’s hand was about to make contact, the young man suddenly stepped forward, avoiding the other person’s touch.
The player was slightly taken aback.
Immediately afterwards, the young man with the light-coloured hair lowered his eyes and tapped his watch a few times.
There were still thirty seconds until the end of the instance.
On the leaderboard in the sky ahead, a message slowly appeared, “Player Ace has transferred all his points in this instance to Player Maid’s account.”
Inside the temple, Maid opened her eyes in astonishment.
She looked down at her watch — She was now the player with the most points in the entire instance and her team had also moved up into first place.
Since she had the most points, even the evil god couldn’t do anything about it. She would naturally be directly sent out of the instance.
The young woman looked out of the temple in disbelief.
“You……you…….y-y-y-you!!!” That player’s face was distorted with shock, horror and anger, “You actually fucking let the opposing team win?! Do you realise what we will have to face ne…….”
Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by the young man’s unchanging voice, “Elimination instance, no?”
The player was left unable to speak. He looked at him as if he was looking at a madman.
The young man let out a short chuckle, “We’re teammates in this instance and cannot directly kill each other.”
He narrowed his eyes and a cold smile flickered across his lips, but his voice was still as calm as before:
“But it’s different in the elimination instance.”
The instance was counting down —– “…….5, 4, 3, 2, 1.”
The moment it reached zero, the instance was officially over. A door slowly appeared in the distance at the entrance of the deserted village.
The young woman stood up blankly and looked at the place where the two other players were standing originally —- That place was now empty.
As the defeated team, those two were sent to the elimination instance.
A fight to their deaths, until only one remained.
As if she was possessed by a ghost, Maid rejected the option to be sent out of the instance and waited in the same place for five days.
On the sixth day, a bloody figure appeared in the place where they had disappeared earlier.
The young man was in a particularly sorry state. From head to toe, he was completely covered in blood and even now, blood and flesh continued to fall from his clothes. His face was pale from blood loss, but his amber coloured eyes were still shining brightly like eternal flames that could never be extinguished. Even now, strong killing intent brought about from all that killing continued leaked out from his eyes.
His gaze swept past Maid who stood nearby, and he seemed to be a little surprised.
The young woman who had used her points to repair her body stepped forward and slowly spoke up:
“You could’ve chosen to save no one.”
If the other party had chosen not to save anyone, Maid would be sent to the elimination instance and the other player would die from his actions backfiring.
At that time, no matter what choice he made, he would still be the winner.
He didn’t need to take part in the elimination instance.
But he had chosen the most difficult path to take — He had entered the elimination instance together with that other player.
The young man raised a brow. He softly spoke with his slightly hoarse voice:
“That would be letting him off too easily.”
Maid was surprised.
Why did the other party choose to save the player who had played dirty?
It was because if he wasn’t saved, he would remain in the temple and die as the evil god’s sacrifice.
Dying like that was letting him off too easily…….
He didn’t deserve that.
“But aren’t you worried about not being able to get out from that elimination instance?” Maid asked the question that had been on her mind the entire time.
The elimination instance was extremely cruel. One could die in it as soon as they lowered their guard.
The young man chuckled. His eyes were cold and deep, like a sky covered by clouds, but the curve of his lips softened his overall appearance. His voice was even and gentle, and contained an almost arrogant level of confidence:
“No.”
The young man’s bloody figure stood tall and straight, like a sharp blade cutting through the night sky, solitary and arrogant.
…..He was really handsome.
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At the entrance to the abandoned factory.
The petite young woman withdrew from her distant memories.
She glanced at the bearded man before her and muttered a little jealously, “Why are you his contact person…..”
Wu Su: “…..You have a problem with that?”
Maid flattened her lips and complained bitterly, “How can you be worthy of such an important role?!”
Wu Su: “………”
Although he knew that he wasn’t very strong, saying something like that was too much!
He no longer cared that the other party was a powerful player. He crossed his arms and deliberately provoked her, “Then I’m really sorry about that. As I am the one who specially liaises with him, we have already met several times. How about you? How many times have you two met in the game?”
Seeming to have had a sore spot poked, Maid fell silent, “………”
Wu Su added more oil to the fire, “And he was the one who took the initiative to find me the first time we met. How about you? Was it like that for you?”
Maid gritted her teeth and glared at the man who as half a head taller than her in anger. She was so jealous, her eyes were red, “……You!!”
Far away, in a corner unnoticed by the others.
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The young boy’s slender figure was concealed in his darkness but his cold and gloomy scarlet eyes that glistened coldly in the dark was particularly noticeable. His voice was even calmer and softer than before, and it even sounded like he was acting coquettish.
“Gege is really popular.”
Ye Jia: “……..”
He only now realised that the other party was holding tightly onto his hand. He broke away uncomfortably.
He raised his eyes and glanced at the two people who were quarrelling like elementary students in the distance and a complicated look flashed across his eyes:
“No, their filter is just too thick.”
Ji Xuan wasn’t annoyed that he had broken free from his hold.
He instead reached out and grabbed the corner of Ye Jia’s shirt and raised his head to smile at him, “No, gege is indeed really good. It’s just that…..”
—– It would be better if he was the only one who knew that.
Ye Jia didn’t hear him clearly, “What?”
Ji Xuan shook his head, his smile particularly harmless, “It’s nothing.”
“So why did you come?” Ye Jia hadn’t forgotten his question from earlier.
“I received a report from my subordinates. There were some abnormal changes here.” As they were cooperating with each other, Ji Xuan naturally knew of Ye Jia’s current plan, so after the recruitment brochures were sent out, he had similarly sent out more of his subordinates to watch over the Bureau.
Ye Jia raised a brow, “This fierce ghost is only B-Level, but it actually drew your attention?”
“It shouldn’t be because of it.” Ji Xuan shook his head. His eyes darkened slightly, “This time, the abnormal changes here was something that couldn’t have been done by a B-Level fierce ghost.”
Ye Jia was slightly surprised.
…..Indeed.
He and this fierce ghost had only met in the campus instance and at that time, he was still considered a newcomer. Although he managed to clear the instance in the end and also destroyed the fierce ghost’s den along the way but compared to the other fierce ghosts who held grudges towards him, this was a matter not worth mentioning. No matter how he looked at it, this fierce ghost shouldn’t hate him so much so that it would actually rush over to M City as soon as it heard news about him.
Ye Jia narrowed his eyes slightly and asked, “What are you suspecting?”
Ji Xuan answered, “I have sent my subordinates after it. After capturing it, the truth will be revealed.”
Ye Jia nodded.
He raised his eyes and once again looked at the abandoned factory in the distance.
Now that everything was basically all settled —- Maid and the Human Resources team had successfully established contact and Cheng Cezhi was no longer in danger —- there were only some follow up work left to do that didn’t require his involvement.
He turned to leave but then seemed to have suddenly thought of something and turned to look back at Ji Xuan.
“Has my apartment been repaired?”
Ji Xuan shook his head without a change to his expression, “There were too many things to deal with. I will tell you as soon as the repairs are done.”
Ye Jia glanced at him suspiciously:
“…….Alright.”
“If you get tired of staying in the hotel, gege, you can actually……”
Ji Xuan wasn’t able to finish before Ye Jia interrupted him:
“No need, I like hotels.”
The young boy smiled and let out a regretful sigh, “Alright then.”
As he watched the other party’s back disappear, he suddenly said:
“The blood gu fish misses you a lot.”
Ye Jia’s actions paused briefly, but he still left using his ghost domain.
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The next day.
Ye Jia stared at the familiar factory in front of him and slowly sighed.
He had only said that he wasn’t required here last night but in the end he was still sent over.
Seeing the newcomers’ busy backs, Ye Jia breathed a sigh of relief.
Now he can finally slack off in peace.
At this moment, a voice sounded from behind him, “Hey, are you also a staff of the Bureau?”
Ye Jia was taken aback. He turned to look behind him.
A young woman was wearing a pink dress. She tilted her head and looked at him, a thoughtful light flashing across the depths of her large and round eyes.
…..Maid.
Ye Jia’s muscles tensed up instinctively. He replied slowly, “….Yes.”
Did she notice something? That couldn’t be.
The young woman suddenly laughed, “That’s great. I thought all the employees here would be like that big beard last night. Looks like there are handsome guys too.”
Ye Jia: “……”
He breathed a sigh of relief.
The young woman stretched out her hand and smiled at him, “Hello, my name is Wei Yuechu.”
“Ye Jia.”
“So, what are you guys doing?” Wei Yuechu watched the newcomers busying about inside the factory with curiosity.
Ye Jia answered, “Collecting the remaining yin energy to analyse and destroy later.”
Wei Yuechu nodded, “I see…….”
She wrinkled her nose, “Your job is so boring.”
Ye Jia, “Oh.”
Wei Yuechu seemed to be a little disappointed, “But I’m also bored…..”
She sighed and said, “I came to M City to find someone but I still haven’t managed to get in contact with him so I can only wait.”
Ye Jia, “Oh.”
Wei Yuechu frowned, “Why aren’t you asking me who I’m looking for?”
Ye Jia did as she asked, “….Who are you looking for?”
Wei Yuechu pouted her lips in frustration, “You’re so boring.”
“But since you’ve asked, I will tell you.” She giggled, “I came here to find my future boyfriend!”
The young woman had her hands on her waist as she scanned her eyes over Ye Jia. She sighed, “If my heart didn’t already belong to someone, your appearance is actually my type….”
The corners of Ye Jia’s lips twitched, “Thank you for the compliment.”
“No need, no need.” Wei Yuechu nodded with a serious expression.
She seemed to be about to say something else.
But suddenly, a soft and charming female voice travelled over from the other side of the door:
“Um…..Is Ye Jia here?”
When Ye Jia heard his name, he was taken aback. He turned and looked back.
Standing at the door was a tall woman with an extremely sexy figure and waterfall-like and wavy hair that shimmered in the sun. She wore a tight-fitting red dress that cleverly outlined her gorgeous lines, and her appearance was also especially exquisite with dark eyes and deep features that contained a few degrees of coldness. Just one glance was enough to take their breaths away.
The moment she saw Ye Jia, her eyes lit up:
“Darling!”
She quickly leapt into his arms, “I missed you so much!”
All the hairs on Ye Jia’s back instantly stood on end. He had almost turned around and ran off in fear.
What the fuck?!
Ji Xuan, what the fuck are you doing?!!!!
Chapter 46
For some reason, the moment the other party said those words, Ye Jia felt a chill run down his back.
He lowered his head and glanced at Ji Xuan who was standing beside him.
The boy raised his head and looked back at him.
He had his small, pale face tilted up and there was a faint smile on his face, making him appear calm and well-behaved. It was as if he was only casually asking a very ordinary question.
Ye Jia: “???”
Could he have been mistaken?
“Mhn, she’s someone I used to know.” Ye Jia thought for a moment and added, “A chance meeting.”
Soon following that, he seemed to have thought of something and lowered his head to ask, “Why did you come?”
The young boy held onto Ye Jia’s hand with his cold fingers. His voice was soft and slightly hoarse, and even seemed to be a little aggrieved, “I can’t be here?”
Ye Jia: “???”
What’s going on?
Why did the conversation suddenly develop in a weird direction?
He even forgot to pull his hand back and just let out a confused, “…….Huh?”
Ji Xuan inched closer and inserted his fingers between Ye Jia’s fingers, turning it into an interlocked handhold.
“Or…..did gege not want me to come?”
Ye Jia: “……..”
What the hell?
After successfully holding Ye Jia’s hand, the surging killing intent in Ji Xuan’s heart finally subsided.
Ji Xuan slowly narrowed his eyes and a gloomy and cold light flashed across the depths of his scarlet eyes, resembling an oncoming thunderstorm in the night sky. A warm smile flickered across his lips.
He raised his eyes and looked into the distance.
……..A chance meeting?
The empty and abandoned factory was shrouded in darkness in the dark night.
The strong yin energy had still not yet dissipated, making the dark doors and windows appear particularly terrifying.
Standing in front of the factory was the young woman. She was petite and slender, and her features were soft and sweet. With the gloomy building looming behind her like a terrible monster, the contrast was particularly impactful.
She pursed her lips shyly with flushed cheeks and bright eyes. She was like a young woman in spring, completely harmless.
Wu Su however couldn’t help but remain tense when standing before her.
He naturally knew who this great god was.
—– Maid, fifteenth on the leaderboard.
Her fighting style was extremely brutal, and her favourite weapon was the chainsaw. That chainsaw was a weapon that required a scarily high number of points to redeem in the game and its durability was also exceptionally low so it could be considered a not so cost-effective weapon, but Maid favoured it very much. In her words: “A horror movie without chainsaws and gore is not a good horror movie.” Many people had speculated that the reason for her remaining around the 20th or so rank on the leaderboard was because a large number of her points was used to redeem her weapons.
Moreover, although Maids body was frozen into that of a young woman’s appearance, her experience actually even exceeded Ace’s.
Although Wu Su knew that as soon as Ace’s signature is released, there would definitely be strong players making an appearance, he didn’t expect that the first one to appear would be Maid.
Like Ace, she was similarly a very unique player who rarely teamed up with others. Even if she was assigned to one in an instance, she would throw them aside using the fastest speed possible and do everything alone.
As such, it was very difficult for Wu Su to associate her with Ace.
Especially…..with a reason like that.
“…..Confess?” Wu Su slowly repeated her words with a complicated expression.
The young woman nodded, “Yes.”
She poked the ground again with the tip of her shoe and a bright and lovely smile formed on her lips, “You have a problem with that?”
Wu Su was taken aback. He quickly shook his head, “No, of course not!”
He swallowed with difficulty and spoke, “Um…..I will contact Ace and let him know of your arrival but what comes after that is beyond my control….”
The young woman narrowed her eyes and scanned over Wu Su, “What is your code name?”
Wu Su: “……Don’t have one.”
Only those in the top fifty have a code name given to them by the game and Wu Su was only in the fifties and sixties.
The young woman looked away in disappointment, “No wonder you’re so weak.”
Wu Su: “……..”
Well, I’m very sorry about that!
Wu Su couldn’t help but want to gossip, “How did you and Ace meet?”
Maid kicked a pebble with her foot, “In a team instance.”
Wu Su quickly understood, “Oh, you were teammates?”
The woman pursed her lips shyly, “No.”
Wu Su: “???”
Listening to the conversation between the two of them not far away, Ye Jia was left speechless.
—-Of course he remembered the other party.
Maid, even in the game, could be regarded as a difficult to deal with character.
At that time, Ye Jia had just received his code name Ace and Maid was already a top player with a strong reputation.
It was a competition-style instance. Players who were in that instance were all those with high ranks and they were divided into three teams and allowed to explore the deserted village in the instance freely. At the end of the instance, the two teams with the lowest number of points would be required to take part in a cruel elimination instance while the single player with the highest number of points could directly clear the instance regardless of which team they were in.
Ye Jia and Maid just happened to be in two different teams.
At that time, there was a black sheep in Ye Jia’s team. That player didn’t want to clear the instance and was more concerned with taking the other players points, including those of his teammates. Unfortunately for him, in an instance like this, players were not allowed to directly harm their own teammates.
And so, he had made use of a game prop to summon an evil god in the deserted village and led everyone over.
Ye Jia habitually acted alone. By the time he found out about this, the other party had already accomplished his purpose.
There were originally five people in their team, but now only Ye Jia and him were left.
Maid however could be regarded as an experienced veteran player after all. After the evil god appeared, she was still able to clear out a bloody path for herself and, in the end, only Maid and that player were left in the evil god’s temple. Although all the monsters were dead, only one of them could walk out of that place alive. If neither of them killed the other person and there were still two people in the temple when time was up, then the person who had summoned the evil god would die as sacrifice.
Maid however didn’t have the time to wait it out.
Her team had fallen behind, so she had to kill the other party, or she would still be forced to take part in the elimination instance when the instance was over even if the other party was killed from his actions backfiring.
By the time Ye Jia arrived, both of them were already covered in blood.
That player’s body was covered in pitch-black viscous fluid as he panted heavily while using a table to support himself.
As the person who had summoned the evil god, although he would be immune to the monster’s attacks, he was also unable to participate in the battle, so he could only escape from Maid’s offensive attacks time and time again.
Maid had already gone through a fierce battle earlier. One of her legs was broken with her bone jutting out through the bloody wound, half her face was peeled off and she was also missing an eye, but her other eye was burning with hatred and anger, shining brightly like a cold star in the dark temple.
The chainsaw in her hand had already lost its durability with its gears broken. Standing there with clothes that one could no longer see the original colour of, she looked like a ghost who had just crawled out from hell.
The evil god’s low voice echoed through the dark sky.
“Only one can be saved.”
The other player’s eyes lit up. He immediately called out with a stammer, “A-Ace! We’re teammates! Hurry and save me!”
He gritted his teeth and continued, “As long as you save me, I will give you half the points I got in this instance!”
Outside the ancient temple, the slender young man raised his head and looked at the sky in the distance.
There was a large leaderboard floating in the air.
There were still three minutes until the end of the instance.
Of the three teams, one had been completely annihilated while the remaining two teams had a similar number of points with Ye Jia’s team being slightly higher.
If Maid was left in the evil god’s temple, her points would be counted as the other player’s points and Ye Jia’s team would directly achieve first place in this instance, no longer requiring him to take part in the cruel and gruesome elimination instance.
—- That was a purely hell-level instance. All the players thrown into that instance were required to kill each other and only the strongest could leave.
No one wanted to take part in such an elimination instance.
Outside the temple, the young man withdrew his gaze.
He wasn’t wearing a hood. His light-coloured hair was ruffled by the wind that carried a strong smell of blood and his glass-like eyes were calm and cold.
Inside the temple.
The young woman whose appearance could no longer be seen clearly gritted her teeth with pure hatred burning coldly in her eyes. She looked like she could swallow up the two men before her and crush them to death with just her glare alone.
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She spat out a mouthful of blood and sneered, her voice filled with unconcealable irony.
The young man lowered his eyes and swept his gaze across the blood-soaked ground before him thoughtfully.
At this moment, there was only one minute left before the end of the instance.
The young man raised his eyes and said calmly, “I will save my teammate.”
Unsurprising.
Maid threw away the broken chainsaw in her hand and dragged her weak body over to a wall and slowly sat down.
The moment Ye Jia said those words, the points she had accumulated in this instance was transferred over to the other player.
On the leaderboard, Ye Jia’s team took first place.
—-Now, as soon as the game ends, the young woman in the temple would become the evil god’s sacrifice.
Maid snorted in disdain and closed her eyes.
She thought optimistically —— Dying here like this wasn’t too bad. At least she didn’t need to take part in the elimination instance.
The player who was covered in black fluid stumbled out of the evil god’s temple. He wiped some of it off his face and happily slapped Ye Jia’s shoulder, “Thank a lot, brother.”
However, the moment the other person’s hand was about to make contact, the young man suddenly stepped forward, avoiding the other person’s touch.
The player was slightly taken aback.
Immediately afterwards, the young man with the light-coloured hair lowered his eyes and tapped his watch a few times.
There were still thirty seconds until the end of the instance.
On the leaderboard in the sky ahead, a message slowly appeared, “Player Ace has transferred all his points in this instance to Player Maid’s account.”
Inside the temple, Maid opened her eyes in astonishment.
She looked down at her watch — She was now the player with the most points in the entire instance and her team had also moved up into first place.
Since she had the most points, even the evil god couldn’t do anything about it. She would naturally be directly sent out of the instance.
The young woman looked out of the temple in disbelief.
“You……you…….y-y-y-you!!!” That player’s face was distorted with shock, horror and anger, “You actually fucking let the opposing team win?! Do you realise what we will have to face ne…….”
Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by the young man’s unchanging voice, “Elimination instance, no?”
The player was left unable to speak. He looked at him as if he was looking at a madman.
The young man let out a short chuckle, “We’re teammates in this instance and cannot directly kill each other.”
He narrowed his eyes and a cold smile flickered across his lips, but his voice was still as calm as before:
“But it’s different in the elimination instance.”
The instance was counting down —– “…….5, 4, 3, 2, 1.”
The moment it reached zero, the instance was officially over. A door slowly appeared in the distance at the entrance of the deserted village.
The young woman stood up blankly and looked at the place where the two other players were standing originally —- That place was now empty.
As the defeated team, those two were sent to the elimination instance.
A fight to their deaths, until only one remained.
As if she was possessed by a ghost, Maid rejected the option to be sent out of the instance and waited in the same place for five days.
On the sixth day, a bloody figure appeared in the place where they had disappeared earlier.
The young man was in a particularly sorry state. From head to toe, he was completely covered in blood and even now, blood and flesh continued to fall from his clothes. His face was pale from blood loss, but his amber coloured eyes were still shining brightly like eternal flames that could never be extinguished. Even now, strong killing intent brought about from all that killing continued leaked out from his eyes.
His gaze swept past Maid who stood nearby, and he seemed to be a little surprised.
The young woman who had used her points to repair her body stepped forward and slowly spoke up:
“You could’ve chosen to save no one.”
If the other party had chosen not to save anyone, Maid would be sent to the elimination instance and the other player would die from his actions backfiring.
At that time, no matter what choice he made, he would still be the winner.
He didn’t need to take part in the elimination instance.
But he had chosen the most difficult path to take — He had entered the elimination instance together with that other player.
The young man raised a brow. He softly spoke with his slightly hoarse voice:
“That would be letting him off too easily.”
Maid was surprised.
Why did the other party choose to save the player who had played dirty?
It was because if he wasn’t saved, he would remain in the temple and die as the evil god’s sacrifice.
Dying like that was letting him off too easily…….
He didn’t deserve that.
“But aren’t you worried about not being able to get out from that elimination instance?” Maid asked the question that had been on her mind the entire time.
The elimination instance was extremely cruel. One could die in it as soon as they lowered their guard.
The young man chuckled. His eyes were cold and deep, like a sky covered by clouds, but the curve of his lips softened his overall appearance. His voice was even and gentle, and contained an almost arrogant level of confidence:
“No.”
The young man’s bloody figure stood tall and straight, like a sharp blade cutting through the night sky, solitary and arrogant.
…..He was really handsome.
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At the entrance to the abandoned factory.
The petite young woman withdrew from her distant memories.
She glanced at the bearded man before her and muttered a little jealously, “Why are you his contact person…..”
Wu Su: “…..You have a problem with that?”
Maid flattened her lips and complained bitterly, “How can you be worthy of such an important role?!”
Wu Su: “………”
Although he knew that he wasn’t very strong, saying something like that was too much!
He no longer cared that the other party was a powerful player. He crossed his arms and deliberately provoked her, “Then I’m really sorry about that. As I am the one who specially liaises with him, we have already met several times. How about you? How many times have you two met in the game?”
Seeming to have had a sore spot poked, Maid fell silent, “………”
Wu Su added more oil to the fire, “And he was the one who took the initiative to find me the first time we met. How about you? Was it like that for you?”
Maid gritted her teeth and glared at the man who as half a head taller than her in anger. She was so jealous, her eyes were red, “……You!!”
Far away, in a corner unnoticed by the others.
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The young boy’s slender figure was concealed in his darkness but his cold and gloomy scarlet eyes that glistened coldly in the dark was particularly noticeable. His voice was even calmer and softer than before, and it even sounded like he was acting coquettish.
“Gege is really popular.”
Ye Jia: “……..”
He only now realised that the other party was holding tightly onto his hand. He broke away uncomfortably.
He raised his eyes and glanced at the two people who were quarrelling like elementary students in the distance and a complicated look flashed across his eyes:
“No, their filter is just too thick.”
Ji Xuan wasn’t annoyed that he had broken free from his hold.
He instead reached out and grabbed the corner of Ye Jia’s shirt and raised his head to smile at him, “No, gege is indeed really good. It’s just that…..”
—– It would be better if he was the only one who knew that.
Ye Jia didn’t hear him clearly, “What?”
Ji Xuan shook his head, his smile particularly harmless, “It’s nothing.”
“So why did you come?” Ye Jia hadn’t forgotten his question from earlier.
“I received a report from my subordinates. There were some abnormal changes here.” As they were cooperating with each other, Ji Xuan naturally knew of Ye Jia’s current plan, so after the recruitment brochures were sent out, he had similarly sent out more of his subordinates to watch over the Bureau.
Ye Jia raised a brow, “This fierce ghost is only B-Level, but it actually drew your attention?”
“It shouldn’t be because of it.” Ji Xuan shook his head. His eyes darkened slightly, “This time, the abnormal changes here was something that couldn’t have been done by a B-Level fierce ghost.”
Ye Jia was slightly surprised.
…..Indeed.
He and this fierce ghost had only met in the campus instance and at that time, he was still considered a newcomer. Although he managed to clear the instance in the end and also destroyed the fierce ghost’s den along the way but compared to the other fierce ghosts who held grudges towards him, this was a matter not worth mentioning. No matter how he looked at it, this fierce ghost shouldn’t hate him so much so that it would actually rush over to M City as soon as it heard news about him.
Ye Jia narrowed his eyes slightly and asked, “What are you suspecting?”
Ji Xuan answered, “I have sent my subordinates after it. After capturing it, the truth will be revealed.”
Ye Jia nodded.
He raised his eyes and once again looked at the abandoned factory in the distance.
Now that everything was basically all settled —- Maid and the Human Resources team had successfully established contact and Cheng Cezhi was no longer in danger —- there were only some follow up work left to do that didn’t require his involvement.
He turned to leave but then seemed to have suddenly thought of something and turned to look back at Ji Xuan.
“Has my apartment been repaired?”
Ji Xuan shook his head without a change to his expression, “There were too many things to deal with. I will tell you as soon as the repairs are done.”
Ye Jia glanced at him suspiciously:
“…….Alright.”
“If you get tired of staying in the hotel, gege, you can actually……”
Ji Xuan wasn’t able to finish before Ye Jia interrupted him:
“No need, I like hotels.”
The young boy smiled and let out a regretful sigh, “Alright then.”
As he watched the other party’s back disappear, he suddenly said:
“The blood gu fish misses you a lot.”
Ye Jia’s actions paused briefly, but he still left using his ghost domain.
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The next day.
Ye Jia stared at the familiar factory in front of him and slowly sighed.
He had only said that he wasn’t required here last night but in the end he was still sent over.
Seeing the newcomers’ busy backs, Ye Jia breathed a sigh of relief.
Now he can finally slack off in peace.
At this moment, a voice sounded from behind him, “Hey, are you also a staff of the Bureau?”
Ye Jia was taken aback. He turned to look behind him.
A young woman was wearing a pink dress. She tilted her head and looked at him, a thoughtful light flashing across the depths of her large and round eyes.
…..Maid.
Ye Jia’s muscles tensed up instinctively. He replied slowly, “….Yes.”
Did she notice something? That couldn’t be.
The young woman suddenly laughed, “That’s great. I thought all the employees here would be like that big beard last night. Looks like there are handsome guys too.”
Ye Jia: “……”
He breathed a sigh of relief.
The young woman stretched out her hand and smiled at him, “Hello, my name is Wei Yuechu.”
“Ye Jia.”
“So, what are you guys doing?” Wei Yuechu watched the newcomers busying about inside the factory with curiosity.
Ye Jia answered, “Collecting the remaining yin energy to analyse and destroy later.”
Wei Yuechu nodded, “I see…….”
She wrinkled her nose, “Your job is so boring.”
Ye Jia, “Oh.”
Wei Yuechu seemed to be a little disappointed, “But I’m also bored…..”
She sighed and said, “I came to M City to find someone but I still haven’t managed to get in contact with him so I can only wait.”
Ye Jia, “Oh.”
Wei Yuechu frowned, “Why aren’t you asking me who I’m looking for?”
Ye Jia did as she asked, “….Who are you looking for?”
Wei Yuechu pouted her lips in frustration, “You’re so boring.”
“But since you’ve asked, I will tell you.” She giggled, “I came here to find my future boyfriend!”
The young woman had her hands on her waist as she scanned her eyes over Ye Jia. She sighed, “If my heart didn’t already belong to someone, your appearance is actually my type….”
The corners of Ye Jia’s lips twitched, “Thank you for the compliment.”
“No need, no need.” Wei Yuechu nodded with a serious expression.
She seemed to be about to say something else.
But suddenly, a soft and charming female voice travelled over from the other side of the door:
“Um…..Is Ye Jia here?”
When Ye Jia heard his name, he was taken aback. He turned and looked back.
Standing at the door was a tall woman with an extremely sexy figure and waterfall-like and wavy hair that shimmered in the sun. She wore a tight-fitting red dress that cleverly outlined her gorgeous lines, and her appearance was also especially exquisite with dark eyes and deep features that contained a few degrees of coldness. Just one glance was enough to take their breaths away.
The moment she saw Ye Jia, her eyes lit up:
“Darling!”
She quickly leapt into his arms, “I missed you so much!”
All the hairs on Ye Jia’s back instantly stood on end. He had almost turned around and ran off in fear.
What the fuck?!
Ji Xuan, what the fuck are you doing?!!!!
