The aftereffects of Lu Chenfei's item were very strong, and Song Yang slept for four hours before waking up. By then, he had been bombarded with messages from Lu Chenfei and You Ye, both of whom asked him if he had woken up.
After replying one by one, Song Yang thought of Xia Jing and paused.
During the period when he merged with the props, his memory was very vague, with only some intermittent images remaining in his mind.
For example, the young man who walked to his feet seemed to say something, and then he...
Song Yang's expression became subtle.
He took out a flower from his space bag.
The pink petals are a bit like roses, delicate and tender, and the long branches are contrasted with a few dark green leaves, which is very beautiful.
When he was about to lose consciousness, his mind, which had been stretched to its limit by the props, instinctively thought he might die. But before he died, he actually remembered to hide the flower in his space bag...
Jia Qing and Feng Shi were relieved to see that he was completely awake. But when they saw him staring at a flower with a very strange expression, they couldn't help but become curious.
Jia Qing gossiped, "What's the matter, Brother Yang? Which beautiful lady in the dungeon gave you this flower?"
Song Yang: "..."
Seeing him look choked, Jia Qing was even more surprised. He teased him for some reason, "Why? Isn't it a beautiful woman, but a handsome guy who gave it to her?"
Song Yang: "..."
Feng Shi looked at Song Yang and said, "Could it be that this wasn't given to you by anyone? Did you steal it yourself?"
Song Yang froze.
Jia Qing: "No way, our Yang brother is such a handsome guy, does he really need to do this?"
Feng Shi: "Not everyone looks at the face."
Jia Qing: "But our Brother Yang doesn't seem like the kind of person who would steal other people's things!"
Feng Shi: "Don't judge a person by his appearance."
Jia Qing: "Fuck!"
The two of them chatted back and forth, and Song Yang's silence became deeper and deeper, more and more subtle...
At some point, he stood up suddenly.
Jia Qing and Feng Shi stopped talking and looked at him.
Song Yang looked calm and said lazily, "It's about time for you to enter the dungeon. Be careful. I'm going to the game hall first to see if I need to replenish any supplies."
After he finished speaking, a door appeared in front of him.
He opened the door, walked out, and slammed it shut. The whole process took only two seconds.
Jia Qing turned his head to look at Feng Shi: "Look, Brother Yang is so calm."
Feng Shi: "He's pretending. Didn't you see he changed the subject?"
Jia Qing: "…"
*
The game hall is always bustling with people.
Song Yang's heart was beating fast, but he tried to keep a calm appearance on his face.
As soon as he came out, he scanned the entire game hall, but failed to find any strange figure. Finally, he calmed down as if he had been poured with a basin of cold water.
...That's right. That guy probably left the dungeon, raided the supermarket, and then left. How could he possibly stay here waiting for him?
Song Yang couldn't explain how he felt right now.
He let out a long breath, raised his hand and looked at the flower again...it was really beautiful.
The flowers were delicate and small, and it was hard to imagine that they grew from the young man who always appeared in front of him in strange postures.
If people are like flowers...
Song Yang suddenly laughed.
He had to admit that he always had an inexplicable expectation for the face under Xia Jing's mask.
Of course, he is not a person who judges by appearance. Even if Xia Jing's real appearance is really the same as his mask, Song Yang will not be disappointed, nor will he change his attitude towards Xia Jing.
But he still looked forward to seeing Xia Jing's true face.
Speaking of which, he had originally thought that they could exchange the holographic contact numbers after the dungeon was over and before exiting the dungeon, but he didn't expect that—
Suddenly, a noise in the distance interrupted his thoughts.
It turned out to be Lu Chenfei who was there. He was standing in front of a little child and arguing with two burly men with fierce looks.
He was talking incessantly with his mouth open, but Song Yang was too far away to know what he was saying. The two men obviously didn't dare to provoke him. They shrank their heads, glared at him, turned off the engine, and walked away.
Song Yang walked over and heard Lu Chenfei ask the child, "Did you enter Smiley City alone? No adults came with you?"
The child looked about twelve or thirteen years old, with large amounts of blood splattered on his body. He might have just come out of a dungeon.
He nodded.
Lu Chenfei frowned.
Song Yang asked, "What happened?"
As soon as Lu Chenfei saw Song Yang, he asked, "You haven't left yet?"
Lu Chenfei is younger than Song Yang, about the same age as Jia Qing, and is a sophomore.
There are not many classes in their major, so Lu Chenfei likes to stay in Smiley City when he has nothing to do, studying this and that. According to him, the more he understands about this horrible world, the more likely he is to leave it sooner.
Song Yang said perfunctorily, and Lu Chenfei said, "This kid got in trouble. I happened to see it and scolded those two guys away."
There are many people in this place who specifically look for the elderly, the weak, women and children, and trick them into taking them into dungeons. When they encounter danger in the dungeon, or when someone needs to take risks to obtain clues, they will throw the person out as a sacrifice.
The two men who came to cause trouble just now obviously had the same idea.
Song Yang looked at the child.
The child looked very well behaved and whispered, "Thank you, brother."
"No need to thank me, it's just a simple thing for me." Lu Chenfei said.
But this kid can escape today, but he can't escape tomorrow. If there's no adult watching over him, even if he enters the dungeon alone, he'll be treated like a lamb by the others in the dungeon...
Lu Chenfei frowned even more tightly.
But he had no plans to raise children here.
After a moment of silence, the child smiled and said, "It's okay, actually. Everyone enters the login room individually. Once we're in the login room, they can't force me to choose the same instance as them."
Lu Chenfei was stunned for a moment and said, "Yes, as long as you know it in your heart and don't be fooled by them, it will be fine."
"Yes, I know it in my heart," the child said seriously, "Thank you, brother. My parents may be home soon, so I'll be leaving first."
Lu Chenfei: "Oh, okay, then be careful next time."
When the child disappeared in front of them, Lu Chenfei touched his head.
Song Yang said: "Children nowadays are very smart, maybe even smarter than you, don't worry."
Lu Chenfei glanced at him sideways, very dissatisfied with the possibility that his IQ was lower than that of a child.
He looked Song Yang up and down. "Are you okay? Honestly, even though you said that Xia Jing was your friend, I was a little worried that he might just abandon you there at the last moment. This kind of backstabbing has happened before in this place."
Song Yang said with a smile: "Don't you get along well with him?"
Lu Chenfei restrained his expression and said, "I'm just kidding. After all, I've known you longer. Where did you get to know that guy? It shouldn't be from the third dimension, right?"
Song Yang turned around and walked towards the official supermarket, saying as he walked, "We met in the dungeon."
After thinking for a moment, he reminded Lu Chenfei: "I'll be fine if I get along with him, but you're not familiar with him, so it's better to be careful not to provoke him."
Lu Chenfei choked: "...What is this, a domesticated dog, only obedient to its owner?"
Song Yang couldn't help but chuckle: "No, not only is it not a dog, it's not even a domesticated one."
It must be a wild cat.
When it is happy, it meows and wags its tail at passers-by.
If he is unhappy, he might even paw you with a smile.
Lu Chenfei looked at Song Yang from the side with a strange expression.
He suddenly asked, "You two are both men, right?"
"..." The corner of Song Yang's mouth twitched, "What makes you doubt this matter?"
Lu Chenfei said strangely, "At the last moment, he picked a flower for you, and you picked a flower for him. What were you two doing? It was like you were exchanging tokens of love."
Song Yang was stunned and turned around to ask, "He also picked a flower for me?"
Lu Chenfei was shocked: "Is this your main point?!"
Song Yang raised his eyebrows and asked, "Did he throw away the flower?"
Lu Chenfei: "No, I think he's in the space bag. Can you two do it? Why is this conversation getting more and more creepy?"
Song Yang turned around, thought about it, and laughed.
Lu Chenfei shuddered and followed him straight to the official supermarket: "What are you going to buy?"
Song Yang: "Buy a vase."
Lu Chenfei: "???"
It's great to have so many points, right?!
No matter how much he complained, his brother was about to take a detour, and Lu Chenfei couldn't stop him. In the end, he even helped Song Yang pick a vase.
It was almost evening. Before leaving, Lu Chenfei said, "I'll contact you when I return to reality. I have a new player forum to share with you."
Among the players of Smiley City, many people have tried to avoid keywords in the real world, set up forums, and form secret player alliances in the three-dimensional world.
However, as the number of forum users increased, it became impossible to control the comments. Someone would accidentally trigger the erasure mechanism of Smiley City, and the entire forum and its historical records would disappear completely from the Internet.
But at the same time, many players persevered in rebuilding the forum.
Hearing this, Song Yang nodded.
After leaving Smiley City, he soon received an email from Lu Chenfei with a link attached.
Lu Chenfei said something to him and returned to Smiley City, intending to continue to challenge low-star dungeons to accumulate points and props.
Song Yang took a shower, changed his clothes, leaned against the head of the bed, and opened the link.
*
The other end.
Many guests have entered the safe house today.
All the players who came in were mentally prepared to welcome hardcore rock music, but they didn't expect that when they entered the door today, what they saw was a cluster of vegetables!
——The entire safe house is filled with vegetable bowls... and fruit bowls!
The plump fruits hanging from the branches, the vibrant cabbages growing in the pots... and the beautiful store manager who stood up after watering the cabbages and said "Welcome" to them with a smile...
The players were stunned, their heads in disarray.
Not long after, a post appeared in the forum.
"Family, why do I feel like the safe house scene is gone forever?"
1L: "Come on, what surprises does the safe house have today that I don't know about?"
2L: "I took a peek today while I was doing a dungeon run. I think I saw a lot of flowers. Isn't that a sign of a peaceful and tranquil life?"
3L: "Friends on the second floor, you're seeing things wrong. QAQ Those aren't flowers, they're pots of cauliflower! Broccoli! Chives! Rapeseed flowers!"
4L: "And those huge watermelons that can't even fit in the basins!"
5L: "????"
6L: "What's going on? The beautiful store manager has switched to farming? [laughing and crying]"
7L: "I also like farming beauties [saliva][saliva][saliva]"
8L: "I went in and saw it too. I have to say that the beautiful store manager has grown those vegetables and fruits really well. My family is a farmer, and I even want to ask the store manager where she got the seeds..."
In the safe house, in the kitchen that no one dares to enter.
Xia Jing stuffed a bloody piece of monster body into the flowerpot with a serious look on his face, and then stuffed a few bloody seeds into the body.
Immediately, the seed and the body began to tremble, as if both of them could not bear it.
"Universal Seed", the name of this monster item is very straightforward.
Unlike in the dungeon, once the seed item leaves the dungeon, it can take root and sprout as long as it is stuffed into any piece of meat, and anything can grow into it.
Xia Jing waited for two seconds, and a small tender leaf emerged from the monster's body. Then a branch slowly grew out from it, and more leaves grew on the branch... and a small strawberry.
Xia Jing raised his eyebrows and said in a gentle voice, "Another fruit?"
Little Strawberry shuddered.
Xia Jing stood up, leaned his elbow against his chin, looked down at the pot of strawberries, and murmured, "Only one out of twenty pots has bloomed. The blooming rate is very low."
He sighed softly, and the little strawberry trembled even more violently, until the whole basin began to shake.
Xia Jing thought carefully and it seemed that in the previous copy, only he and Song Yang had flowers blooming on their bodies.
Although the two little flowers look ordinary, they are very much in line with Xia Jing's aesthetic.
He thought, next time he met Song Yang in a dungeon, maybe he could try again...
In the three-dimensional world, Song Yang, who was browsing the forum, sneezed.
In the safe house, Xia Jing heard Tuanzi's cry outside. He put the matter aside for the moment and walked out of the kitchen.
Most of the time, Tuanzi doesn't make any noise. If he barks at this time, it probably means that a new guest has entered the safe house.
Xia Jing walked out of the kitchen and said with a smile, "Welcome to the safe house."
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw who it was and raised his eyebrows.
Lu Chenfei, Jia Qing, and Feng Shi were standing at the door.
These three people came from the same copy. At this moment, they were all a little tattered, as if they had been blown up, like three beggars.
Jia Qing, dressed in tattered clothes, said excitedly, "Holy crap, holy crap, is this the legendary safe house?!"
Lu Chenfei's face was as red as a cat's, and he sighed: "I really can't get along with that guy Song Yang, isn't he coming in now?"
Feng Shi's hair was in a mess, and he looked at Xia Jing calmly.
Some time ago, Song Yang kept breaking into low-star dungeons just to get into the safe house.
The most special thing about the safe house is naturally the mysterious store manager...
Jia Qing also saw Xia Jing at this time.
The young man stood not far away, with a handsome appearance and a hint of thought and interest in his phoenix eyes.
As those eyes slowly scanned him, Jia Qing felt his hair stand on end. He couldn't tell if it was because the young man was too strange, or because he was too beautiful, like a bewitching monster from a Chinese story...
Jia Qing swallowed hard, forgetting that the holographic screen had no camera function. His heart was pounding as he said foolishly, "Manager, can I take a picture with you?"
Xia Jing asked gently: "Why?"
Jia Qing was so amused that he said excitedly, "I'm going to show it off to my brother Yang. He's been wanting to see you for a long time!"
Xia Jing's smile gradually widened.
He whispered, "Really?"