Chapter 46

The air was permeated with a tense, drawn-swords-and-bent-bows atmosphere, surrounded by the low growls of lions, close at hand.

The moonlight outside the window sprinkled down remotely, illuminating the room with its brilliance. Everyone’s face seemed to have a layer of filter applied, yet was distinctly visible.

They were all looking at him.

It seemed he had come at a bad time.

Excuse me, is it still possible for him to leave now?

Xie De looked stiffly at Pearl, who had returned from the dead, and cursed the unfairness of heaven in his heart once again. Seriously, why couldn’t Hu Songlin’s luck be shared with him just a little bit?

Just out of the wolf’s den and now he’s in the tiger’s lair.

God closed a door for him, didn’t open a window, and even conveniently blocked the crack for him.

You ask why he is so pessimistic? Oh, it’s because there are no more bullets in his gun. Haha, in order to walk from the outside into the mansion, he shot and killed a few monsters, and now he had just run out.

In this situation, of the four people present, only Xie De had no weapon. Moreover, he threw himself into the line of fire, and this Boss had a grudge against him.

Laughable to death.

“Gibberish, I asked you to find where the protagonist is, and you pushed me straight into a fire pit.”

“You were the one who asked me to help you find where the protagonist is. You tell me, is he here or not?” Gibberish spoke with a lack of will to live.

They entered through the back door of the mansion. The back door was the kitchen area, and originally there weren’t many people there. The lions were all gathered around Wei Yanchi. Their path here was unobstructed. They didn’t see any corpses, nor did they see any traces of fighting.

Because the outside was too dangerous, it led Xie De to mistakenly believe that the inside of the mansion was safe and only required deduction.

But deduction wasn’t his strong suit, so of course he had to find Wei Yanchi.

He just didn’t expect that where the protagonist was would be even more dangerous. How did he happen to run into the movie boss who had a grudge against him? He didn’t have any bullets in his gun right now, so he felt somewhat flustered.

Thinking this, Xie De self-consciously revealed a smile he considered awkward yet polite, even wanting to say, sorry to bother you, please continue.

Xie De stood at the spot furthest from the window. Originally, half of his face was vaguely visible in the dark. The short silver hair falling on his forehead obscured his eyes a bit, yet he still maintained a condescending posture. He slowly hooked up the corners of his mouth. To call it teasing would be considered friendly.

He was practically just watching a play, watching with a bit of mocking appreciation the miserable posture of predators lower in the hierarchy biting at each other.

Wei Yanchi’s voice was a bit low, “Mr. 39…”

“I’m not crude at all!” Pearl angrily interrupted him and shouted at Xie De, “I saw this group of upper-class people dancing terribly, they weren’t elegant at all. If you had come a few minutes earlier, you would have seen them stumbling around on the ground, crying with their snot and tears all mixed together. Your evaluation of me is wrong, because I very elegantly killed these disgusting things.”

Her angry appearance was exactly like Xie De’s rebellious younger sister.

Hu Wei’s eyes were full of astonishment. This scenario boss actually know Mr. 39? Is their relationship this good?

But thinking that it’s Mr. 39, she felt it was completely normal. Everyone has their own special abilities and encounters. It’s quite normal for Mr. 39’s network to be a bit formidable.

Hu Weil thought of the words Wei Yanchi had said to her earlier, and for a moment felt ashamed of her previous words that underestimated Mr. 39. That is Mr. 39! A proper powerhouse.

This dreamscape should be successfully cleared very soon!

Wei Yanchi, however, wasn’t as surprised as Hu Wei. He had smelled the scent of Mr. 39’s tobacco on Pearl, he just hadn’t expected 39’s relationship with the instance boss to be this familiar.

Xie De hadn’t expected it either.

Gibberish hurriedly sized things up left and right, and immediately spoke.

“Aiya, this scenario boss doesn’t seem to mind at all that you blew her head off. I understand now, you hurry up and pretend, maybe there’s still a glimmer of hope for survival.”

“Pretend what?” Xie De was sluggish.

“Just like how you acted in front of her last time.”

“But I was just pretending blindly at the time, who knows what the hell I said…”

Collapsing like a landslide, breaking like a breached dam.

For a moment, the instinct to survive took over. Xie De maintained the curvature of his hooked mouth, and the depths of his eyes also seemed to carry some perfectly pitched malice.

“But my dear lady, I didn’t see it.”

Pearl’s aggrieved eyes brimmed with tears.

“That’s because you were late. You missed the most magnificent performance, and this is not my fault again.”

“But it’s not my fault either.”

Xie De took a few steps forward. His beautiful, slender fingers gently wiped away Pearl’s tears. He spoke in a low voice, like the whispers of a devil, laden with seductive malice.

“Darling, I didn’t come over to see some mangled mess, nor did I come to see your tears. How about you perform a play for me again?”

Pearl’s face flushed slightly.

“Happy to be of service to you. What do you want to see?”

“Screaming, death, just like what you did before.”

“Okay.”

What Xie De said was exactly what she wanted. Pearl became excited instantly. Waving the steel pitchfork in her hand, one lion after another entered from the balcony.

These lions bared their fangs, their bodies slick and smooth. There was blood all over their teeth and claws. They circled them, letting out low roars.

Xie De patted the gun in his pocket tightly. His eyes unnaturally dodged the lions. But fortunately, everyone was attracted by Pearl’s actions, and no one noticed this point, just thinking he was turning a blind eye to it all.

Pearl had the lions roar ferociously at the three people in front of her, using death to stimulate them, vainly trying to make them scream. However, out of the three people, only Juliet was shivering non-stop, even looking like she was about to faint from fear.

“No fainting allowed!” Pearl said loudly in anger, but Juliet was truly scared into fainting by her. Yet unfortunately, even while being scared so miserably, Juliet hadn’t screamed.

Actually, when someone is scared to the extreme, they can’t scream. But Pearl grew more and more angry, believing that Juliet was deliberately going against her. In a fit of rage, she viciously plunged the steel pitchfork in her hand into Juliet’s head.

Xie De was suddenly a bit surprised because the moment Juliet died, the dreamscape constructed by this movie began to collapse.

A look of realization flashed through Wei Yanchi’s eyes.

The surrounding space-time shattered. Pearl was still angrily mashing Juliet’s head again and again, like the repetitive movie fragment Xie De saw at the beginning of the instance.

The world before them went black.

They woke up in the damp and dark movie theater in the first-level dreamscape.

Hu Wei immediately ran in front of Xie De, her eyes sparkling, but she still looked at him expressionlessly, like a pet aloof little dog wagging its tail at its master.

“Mr. 39, you are truly too amazing.”

Xie De had been under a lot of pressure just now, and currently had his eyes closed due to a headache, rubbing the bridge of his nose. Hearing this sentence, he accepted Hu Wei’s praise with a bit of a guilty conscience.

He conveniently asked in his mind, “Gibberish, are you okay?”

“Not so good. We’ve been trapped in this scenario for almost a day and a night. I’m running out of power.” Gibberish sounded weak.

Uh oh.

Not far from them, Yue Xiamo got up, still somewhat bewildered. She patted Wei Yanchi’s shoulder.

“What happened? Did we clear it?”

Wei Yanchi looked at Xie De with a gentle smile, and then his tone couldn’t hide his smugness.

“Yes, Romeo and Juliet’s movie has already been cleared. This scenario will also be cleared right away, because I already know.”

Already know?

Xie De felt a surge of joy in his heart. Great, finally getting out of here. Just in time, as Gibberish was about to run out of power too.

Just as he stood up and swept his gaze around, he unexpectedly saw Hu Songlin squatting pitifully at the entrance of the screening room. He was squatting there boredly drawing circles. They were just five steps away from him, yet not a single one had noticed him.

What is he doing here?

Is he coming up with some bad idea again?

Xie De walked over grumpily and asked in a cold, hard tone.

“What are you doing here?”

As soon as he walked past, Hu Wei, Wei Yanchi, and Yue Xiamo all looked over. When did this person appear? Everyone’s eyes instantly filled with doubt, vigilance, and curiosity.

Hu Songlin raised his head. What he saw was Xie De standing at the very front, and behind him were the gazes of the other three people cast towards him.

He was noticed by others once again.

“I… I’m waiting for you.”