The safe house began to drift.
The scenery outside the window keeps changing, and the light coming through the window is sometimes bright and sometimes dark, changing strangely.
In this changing light, Xia Jing checked the entire safe house's living room inch by inch, and then opened one guest room after another, his black eyes calmly scanning everything.
Nothing unusual.
Everywhere, every corner, was intact as usual.
Only the crack appeared on the wall to the right of the gate.
It seems as if this house is a real building made of cement bricks and tiles. After years of wind and rain, the walls have naturally aged.
The safe house suddenly rushed into chaotic darkness.
Xia Jing walked back to the living room window, leaned on the windowsill with one hand, and stared silently at the darkness outside.
This suffocating darkness, like the deep ocean, just like in the past, silently stared back at the young man in the safe house.
But something seemed different.
Amidst the eternally silent gaze of darkness, Xia Jing seemed to be able to sense another gaze hidden within.
But this feeling is too vague, so vague that it makes people unable to be sure whether it is just an illusion.
It was just like the vague gaze he felt in the game hall just now.
Xia Jing bent his index finger, tapped the windowsill, and fell into deep thought.
Finally, he stood up, took out the monster's body and repaired the crack.
And three days later, the safe house left the chaos.
*
Two days after Song Yang cleared the "Bionic" dungeon, he heard that Chai Feng appeared in the one-star dungeon "Fall in Love with Your Face".
The main monster in this copy is a faceless woman. If you take off the attacking part, it will be a human skin mask prop. Chai Feng was obviously forced into a desperate situation by a series of problems caused by the recent exposure of his supernatural powers, and began to want to disguise himself.
Unfortunately, by coincidence, he met another high-scoring player in this dungeon.
This high-scoring player once had a friend who entered the same dungeon as Chai Feng. Later, he was attacked by a player controlled by Chai Feng and almost died.
Now that he has figured out what happened, this high-scoring player dislikes Chai Feng very much. After he met Chai Feng in "Fall in Love with Your Face", he started a crazy kill-grabbing mode.
There were more than seventy faceless women in one copy, but he didn't leave any of them for Chai Feng. It is said that Chai Feng was so angry that he lost his composure on the spot.
If Chai Feng wants to clear the Faceless Woman dungeon again, he will have to wait a month. How will he clear the dungeons in the middle of this month?
Even if he could hold on, now that his special ability has been exposed, he has attracted too much hatred. After many people know that he intends to take the human skin mask, they may wait for him in this copy at any time. In this way, Chai Feng will never be able to successfully obtain the props!
When Lu Chenfei and Song Yang recounted this incident, he gloated that it would be a shame not to join in the fun, and that he would also go to the Faceless Woman dungeon to play next month.
As Song Yang listened, his mind suddenly moved, and he suddenly thought of -
Xia Jing walks around wearing a human skin mask all day long, so there must be a great demand for this prop, right?
then--
While Xia Jing was entertaining guests in the safe house, he suddenly received a private message.
This private message is very pretentious and full of temptation.
"I heard that the dungeon 'Fall in Love with Your Face' is quite fun, what do you think?"
Xia Jing's lips curled up immediately, and he replied in a good mood: "It's quite fun. I go in once a week."
The flow of time in the safe house is different from that in the game hall. Although Song Yang may have replied the next second after he sent the message, Xia Jing still received Song Yang's next private message an hour later.
"Really? Then maybe we can meet in there."
I can almost imagine the man's expression as he pretended to say this casually.
Xia Jing smiled, turned off the holographic screen, and served the food to the guests.
Half a day later, he received a resentful expression from Song Yang. Apparently, this guy had already cleared the "Fall in Love with Your Face" copy, but the meeting between the two that he had expected did not happen.
Xia Jing leaned leisurely against the window, looking at this expression with a smile.
After the two exchanged contact numbers, such things have happened frequently recently.
In the past, when there were no guests entering the safe house, Xia Jing could only stay in the house alone, which inevitably made him feel a little bored.
At that time, he would choose to water the flowers, listen to music, and play with Tuanzi.
Xia Jing rarely complains about the length of time, but it is undeniable that the time spent like that is long.
But now, no matter whether he is free or not, there is always a man who accompanies him across time and space.
Although there is a huge time difference between the information going back and forth, the process of waiting for Song Yang's reply to be successfully delivered to him through the time difference seems to be interesting.
This feeling was wonderful for Xia Jing.
Sometimes he would sit down on the sofa, and when he finished teasing the man opposite him, when he looked up, a whole day had passed in the safe house.
On the other side, Song Yang would say, "I'm going to class. We'll talk when I come back in the evening."
By the time Song Yang came back, it was actually five days later than Xia Jing.
Xia Jing casually calculated Song Yang's schedule.
On Monday, this guy was able to enter Smiley City to play dungeons in the afternoon, so he should have at least two hours of free time.
He has classes all day on Tuesday and Wednesday, and also in the evening, but this guy is obviously very energetic. Even in this situation, he can still go to Smile City to play a one-star copy after returning to his rented apartment off campus.
Xia Jing leaned against the front desk, one hand supporting his cheek with his elbow bent, and the other hand writing and drawing on a piece of paper...
The man's condition on Thursday and Friday is still unknown, but based on Xia Jing's current understanding of humans, medical students should be very busy, and their classes are probably still full.
So will there be rest time on Saturdays and Sundays?
After writing and drawing for a while, Xia Jing suddenly wondered, if he had been a college student in real life, what major would he have chosen?
Xia Jing pondered this question with great interest until the evening.
It was not until Tuanzi's yawn brought him back to his senses that he realized that the safe house had been quiet for a day and a night, and Song Yang had also been quiet for a day and a night.
Xia Jing put down his pen and looked out the window.
Another familiar one-star copy drifted outside the window.
Xia Jing thought about it.
Song Yang has disappeared, so he should go out and stretch his muscles.
Xia Jing took the space bag and left the safe house.
*
The one-star copy is "Dragon King's Palace", and the copy map is concentrated in a magnificent pagoda-shaped building.
Screams could be faintly heard coming from the pagoda. Players in the U-shaped corridor were swarming and running around in circles, while the dragon king monster, with a hideous and twisted appearance like the reincarnation of an alien, was chasing them, roaring and flying.
Among this group of players, there was a man who seemed out of place.
He stopped and turned around.
An enthusiastic player beside him immediately exclaimed in surprise, "Why did you stop? Run, run faster! Don't give up on yourself, brother!"
The enthusiastic player roared, grabbed the man's arm and started running again.
Song Yang, who was being dragged away, said: "..."
——He wanted to kill the monster, not to die!
It seems that there is no safe house in this copy, so he wants to go out!
The corners of Song Yang's mouth twitched.
——That's right, Song Yang is here to brush the one-star copy again.
From the time he finished the "Bionic" dungeon until now, for a full four days, he has cleared at least three one-star dungeons every day.
Not only Feng Shi and Jia Qing were shocked by this frequency, but even Lu Chenfei, who often went to one-star dungeons to pick up bargains, was shocked.
Jia Qing said foolishly, "Brother Yang, are you really looking for a safe house? Why do I feel like you are looking for an enemy or a lover? Which one of the two?"
Song Yang: ...
Feng Shi and Lu Chen were also very excessive. They told him with very pitying eyes: Although you are the only one among us who has not entered the safe house so far, a man's desire to win does not have to be used in such a place.
Song Yang...
Song Yang was too lazy to pay attention to them.
Over the past few days, the monster props and monster body parts he collected almost filled the entire space bag, but he still hasn't seen any sign of the safe house.
Song Yang couldn't help but doubt himself. Is his luck really that bad?
The past twenty-three years had been so smooth sailing that Song Yang began to wonder for the first time, if it weren't for the brains and strong physique his parents gave him, would he have been so unlucky that he would fall into a roadside gutter while walking?
And in this strange self-doubt, Song Yang took a deep breath and finally couldn't bear it anymore.
At this moment, the players in front suddenly burst into a pig-killing scream and turned around and ran over!
The enthusiastic elder brother who was dragging Song Yang away asked in panic, "What's wrong? What happened?"
"Another one ahead! Another one!!"
The players roared heart-wrenchingly and passed by them.
The enthusiastic brother was so scared that he let go of Song Yang's hand and turned around to run away.
As the players ran past Song Yang, his vision in front of him became clearer.
—A gigantic black dragon monster was crawling in front of the corridor.
Its breath was like the wind, carrying a bloody smell towards them, eerie and cold.
Its eyes were blood red, staring straight at Song Yang, as if it was staring at the most delicious piece of meat.
A human standing in front of it is not even as big as one of its fingernails.
Facing this monster, Song Yang took out a long machete from his space bag without changing his expression. The blade reflected a sharp silver light.
One-star dungeons are already very simple for players like Song Yang. If it weren't for waiting for the safe house, he could leave these dungeons in less than an hour.
Even with monsters of such a huge size difference, it would only take a few more minutes.
However, at this moment, Song Yang did not rush forward immediately, only because he found that the monster's state was a little strange.
This is a Western dragon with a strong body and bat-like wings.
Its breath was very slow, and it was getting slower and longer...
And behind its head, where the shoulders should be... it looks like a tail?
The bat wings on its body also seemed to be growing in the opposite direction.
Song Yang paused and discovered strangely that the dragon had actually been beheaded, but the head had fallen behind the dragon's butt.
The next second, the dragon's breath completely stopped...
And a sigh, like a breath taken during work, came from behind the dragon's head.
A small figure stood up with its back to Song Yang.
The figure was tall and slender, splattered with blood. From the shape of the back of the head, it could be roughly seen that it was a triangle.
The strange figure raised his arm and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
However, when Song Yang saw the other person's white neck, his pupils suddenly constricted.
After a few seconds, as if sensing his gaze, the figure suddenly paused.
He turned around.
The young man's calm gaze swept over, landed on Song Yang, and stopped.
The two looked into each other's eyes.
There was silence in the air for a second.
Song Yang...
Song Yang's heart beat faster when he looked at the triangle.