novelhk Chapter 3 is so tacky! You guys are disgusting!
Chapter 3 is so tacky! You guys are disgusting!
After being unemployed for a week, Yan Xun temporarily moved into her ex-boyfriend's studio apartment.
Because the rental did not take into account the possibility of two people living together, Gui Yuchong's apartment only had a single bed.
Just as Yan Xun was about to go out to look for a job, something strange happened. Countless bizarre phenomena appeared in the city, and fake people appeared in the Meimei Building... In order to prevent the fake people from leaving and to prevent more fake people from entering.
Therefore, Mei Mei Building has temporarily suspended outbound and inbound permits.
All daily necessities and food were purchased by the administrator and delivered to Meimei Building. However, three days ago, the person responsible for delivering the goods never came back.
They now have only enough food left to last a week.
That's the whole background of the instance.
Gui Yuchong sat on the sofa with only two bags of bread and some fruit in front of him.
"We need to collect our food from the administrator every morning." Gui Yuchong looked at Yan Xun. "Are we going to collect our food tomorrow?"
Yan Xun then realized that this instance was not as simple as the system had described.
All residents in the building must collect their food from the building manager, but the person responsible for delivering the food has disappeared—meaning their food supplies will continue to dwindle, and they may run out of food in the coming days.
Who knows what kind of accidents might happen in this building at that time...
“It was intentional,” Yan Xun said. “To make us argue.”
He had been wondering why the dungeon rooms were limited to two people, but now it seems it was simply to cause conflict between them over food distribution.
He looked at Gui Yuchong in front of him, then glanced at the food in front of him.
It doesn't take much; just on the third day, when all that's left in a room is a piece of bread, arguments and conflicts will arise.
With a 7-day instance time limit, it's clearly impossible to complete only the two tasks: finding the fake person and discovering the secret.
It looks like there will be specific tasks every day.
He was sitting opposite Gui Yuchong when he spoke, and Gui Yuchong kept staring at him... making Yan Xun's scalp tingle. Then the other man smiled and said, "You're amazing."
"So clever."
"I can't think of that many things."
He sat down next to Yan Xun. "...Do you really hate me?"
In the original work, Gui Yuchong is a delicate person who is not good at sports. She gets easily frightened by anything scary and is not good at solving puzzles. She is a typical silly beauty.
However, Gui Yuchong now...
Yan Xun glanced at the other person's height and physique, which did not seem like someone who was weak and helpless.
He even thought this person could go out and fight ghosts and monsters hand-to-hand—
It wasn't that Gui Yuchong was particularly strong, but he always felt that this person didn't look so delicate.
"Yes."
Yan Xun looked at him and said, "I hate you."
Gui Yuchong seemed surprised by Yan Xun's directness. He looked somewhat taken aback before lowering his head and saying, "...I see."
As they were talking, the clock in the room had already struck 10.
This seemed to be a signal. When the time came, the corridor outside suddenly became lively. Yan Xun could hear people whispering and smell the aroma of food... It was obviously not the dry bread in front of him, but a freshly cooked feast.
"Hey."
"Number 404."
There was a knock at the door. "We made something."
"Would you like some too?"
Yan Xun glanced at Gui Yuchong and gestured for him to shut up.
Even without his reminder, probably no one would think that the people outside are still alive.
It was a mechanical, repeating sound, accompanied by the cassette tape.
Soon a series of busy tones appeared, followed by a faint sound, as if the tape had finished playing.
It's familiar again—
"Hey."
"Number 404."
"We did something."
"Would you like some too?"
Then it repeated itself, and soon the sound playing on the tape got faster and faster, until it turned into a piercing and terrifying noise after accelerating wildly.
"404!"
All he could hear was that strange sound, like a scream.
at last!
After making a sound, the tape seemed to break.
There was no sound at all.
Yan Xun stared in the direction of the door, then felt a weight beside him... He turned his head and saw that Gui Yuchong had already leaned against him.
When Yan Xun looked at him, Gui Yuchong looked at Yan Xun pitifully, as if hoping that Yan Xun would not push him away.
Yan Xun glanced at it.
stand up.
Gui Yuchong, having lost his support, collapsed onto the sofa.
Gui Yuchong: "..."
He propped himself up on the sofa with one hand while looking up at Yan Xun as she walked into the bathroom, probably feeling that closing the door wasn't safe in this supernatural scenario.
When Yan Xun took off his clothes, he didn't close the door. He simply bent down, took off his T-shirt, and threw it into the laundry basket next to him.
The other person had some scars on their body, some of which were whitish and looked like they were left many years ago.
The hair tie that had been used to tie his hair was now stuck on his wrist, and his half-black, half-white blonde hair was now draped over his shoulders... Gui Yuchong's gaze slowly traveled down the other man's face and landed on the waistband of his pants that had just been tied around his hip.
"Your hair looks beautiful."
Gui Yuchong asked, "Was this a special design?"
It seemed as if only then did Yan Xun realize that Gui Yuchong was positioned so he could see him. He walked over and leaned against the bathroom doorframe, his expression somewhat bewildered.
"of course not."
"I don't have the money to dye my hair."
"So black hair grew out."
As he spoke, he closed the bathroom door in front of Gui Yuchong. After a while, the sound of water came from the bathroom.
……
"Is Gui Yuchong really like this?" Yan Xun asked the system again while taking a shower.
Then, as if remembering something, he stared at the system—
"This segment shouldn't be broadcast, right?"
[Rest assured, host!] The system assured us, [We are a legitimate live stream and will absolutely not broadcast any suggestive content!]
As it spoke, it glanced at the live stream screen—
[Livestream Room: xxaazbj0051d]
[Number of online users: 5]
[Number of online users: 60]
[Number of online users: 100]
The number of viewers in the live stream continued to rise. The young man in the video had half black and half platinum blonde hair. Due to the limitations of the live stream, only his shoulder-length hair could be seen. Water droplets streamed down his cheek. He looked down at the ground, lost in thought.
[Protect My Contract: Reward with 100 Lollipops]
[Protecting My Contract: I like it, I'll wash it a little longer :)]
Yan Xun turned off the shower, wrapped a towel around his waist, and casually draped a dry towel over his hair. "Do I really want to do this?" he asked the system.
Just now, he discovered that the original work, which only had a plot summary, had been made available to him in some additional segments.
—Yan Xun complained about Gui Yuchong's scent, but secretly approached him after he fell asleep.
Then she whispered, "It smells so good."
Yan Xun: "..."
"How tacky! You guys are!"