Chapter 479: Two Fools Who Got Screwed Over by the Mad King Building...

[Elite Super Weapon Spirit Core]

[Type: Item]

[Level: 25]

[Rarity: Excellent]

[Effect: Upon use, creates a weapon armory constructed from the user's own life data. This armory is an independent internal space. Weapons placed into the armory gain entirely new set attributes and become permanently bound to you. Vitality can repair weapon durability. Can store up to three items.]

This was an item that dropped in the previous game round, extremely rare.

Such distinctive Excellent items only appear a few times per round.

"Xu Lang, can I use it?" Kui Zi swallowed her pride, ultimately unable to hold back, expression full of envy.

"No." Xu Lang refused without mercy, then pulled out three accessories and stuffed them all into the Elite Super Weapon Spirit Core at once.

Kui Zi stomped angrily. "Is this how you cultivate tenants?"

She turned to leave, but with a sidelong glance saw Xu Lang take out a second Elite Super Weapon Spirit Core!

Instantly she froze in place.

"You haven't contributed to Dorm 400 yet. I only have two of these things in total, why should I give one to you?" Xu Lang said calmly.

"Last night... just now... isn't that enough?" Kui Zi inhaled deeply and said in a low voice.

"If that's also a bargaining chip, you should give me money instead," Xu Lang said lightly. "I don't feel obedience from you. What I want is an attitude!"

Using sex as a special female bargaining chip? He neither needed it nor was he a spineless man!

Whether it felt good was secondary — the main thing was he wanted to see Kui Zi's sincerity.

Kui Zi flustered, chest heaving twice, forced a smile and stepped forward, stiffly massaging Xu Lang's shoulders. "What do you want, then?"

Xu Lang's gaze swept from Kui Zi's ankles to her head, and even he wasn't entirely sure what he wanted.

Kui Zi clearly misunderstood something.

"I can't take it anymore, really can't!" Kui Zi panicked.

"Hmph, crafty rabbit with three burrows!" Xu Lang played along.

...

While Kui Zi fussed, Xu Lang had already chosen the core facility.

It was a coffee machine. Coffee ground from it could restore SAN value when drunk and improve study efficiency — perfect for an environment like the Mad King Building.

The Mad King Building map had already been completed.

Now Xu Lang sipped coffee while studying the map, occasionally adjusting the radio, living in blissful ease.

The Mad King Building map was one of the Dorm Owner Tokens. It included all the safe zones within the Mad King Building; each red dot on it represented a Mad King Building player.

Suddenly, all the red dots surged toward one location.

It was the direction of Clear Sky University’s main gate, which was still shrouded in Blood Mist and not part of any safe zone.

"Did something happen?" Xu Lang felt a stir in his heart, suspecting another Black Market Merchant had shown up. He steadied himself and shared the viewpoint of a frontline player.

...

"I saw that monster come out of the gate with my own eyes!"

"Someone else has come, brothers!"

"That isn't human, that's a monster. The monster broke through the Blood Mist!?"

"Go notify the Dorm Owner!"

"Where are the Inspection Department members? Come save us!"

"......"

Inside the safe zone, players clamored, surrounding a single-horned, blue-skinned fiend.

Behind the fiend was a black-and-gold swirling doorway.

Sensing things going wrong, the one-horned fiend tried to retreat into the doorway, but the door vanished the instant he turned his head.

"This must be a monster spawned from a treasure chest. Charge, brothers!" A player brandishing a long blade shouted.

"Why don't you charge?" another player cursed.

They tried to probe the fiend with player permissions, but could not detect any basic information — it was very mysterious.

Just as tensions rose, the Inspection Department arrived.

The leader was Deputy Minister Zheng Kai; Wang Yazhi and Cao Yaxuan were still asleep at this time.

"What kind of monster are you?" Zheng Kai, clad in heavy armor, radiated imposing momentum.

"I am a warrior of the Blue Ghost Tribe, Tulu." The one-horned fiend showed a wary face, as if willing to communicate.

But Zheng Kai had clearly prepared for a sudden uprising, and immediately ordered his subordinates to form a formation.

"How did you get here?" Zheng Kai asked in a heavy voice. "Do you know this is the Mad King Building?"

Behind the scenes, a team member with detection abilities sent a message warning that this Tulu was extremely dangerous.

"I... I was fleeing and saw a door. It told me if I went in I would gain power to take revenge on the ghost samurai!" Tulu's voice was like distant thunder. "After entering the door, I appeared here."

Some players exchanged puzzled looks.

They couldn't quite make sense of that tale.

"Blue Ghost Tribe... I've read about them in books. I think they're a powerful superhuman race with a savage lifestyle," one player muttered, glancing at the beast-skin skirt Tulu wore, which seemed to match the descriptions.

"Regardless of how you came, put down your weapon. This is our territory!" Zheng Kai declared.

Tulu immediately bared his teeth and tightened his grip on his spiked club.

The spiked club looked like a stout wooden stake, about two meters long and thicker than a man.

"Brother Kai, should we consult Sister Yazhi?" one teammate suggested softly.

"If we can't handle this small matter, how will Minister Wang trust us with missions later?" Zheng Kai snorted coldly and produced a bottle of buff potion, preparing to fight.

In truth he had messaged Wang Yazhi and Cao Yaxuan privately, but neither had replied.

Tulu seemed highly sensitive to battle intent; while Zheng Kai popped the potion, Tulu charged fiercely, bringing his spiked club down like a small mountain.

Though cumbersome-looking, Tulu's speed was like a whirlwind, and Zheng Kai hadn't expected him to attack first!

It was too late to dodge; Zheng Kai pulled out his shield to brace.

Boom!

The ground collapsed, slabs of stone flew outward like bullets!

"Damn, why is this monster so strong!?" Zheng Kai suppressed surging blood and cursed inwardly.

Just as he prepared to counterattack, a black-and-gold doorway materialized out of thin air, dusted with golden particles that shimmered like flowing light.

This time, someone saw information about the doorway.

"Gate of Ten Thousand Lies... hiss, this seems to be the Mad King Building's special recruitment apparatus!"

The crowd erupted, shouts crashing like waves.

Tulu turned his gaze. Zheng Kai took the chance to get away from the battlefield.

From the black-and-gold doorway stepped a long-armed swordsman with a beast's head.

"Is this the promised hope of the post-apocalyptic world?" The beast-headed swordsman bared his fangs, face ferocious, yet his tone was surprisingly gentle. "I am the guardian who entered the Gate of Hope... this is the key it gave me."

He produced a silver key stamped with the number 20.

The players' pupils shrank; they recognized it as a Dormitory Key!

"Gate of Hope? Isn't it supposed to be the Gate of Power?" Tulu felt an ominous premonition and hurried toward the Gate of Ten Thousand Lies.

Naturally, it was a wasted effort.

"Big guy, do you have a dormitory key?" Zheng Kai suddenly asked.

Foiled, Tulu's forehead flushed red with rage. He glared viciously at Zheng Kai and raged, "You bunch of scum, how dare you deceive me! I'll kill you all!"

Thud-thud~

He took two steps and another figure blocked his path.

"You're going to stop me!?" Tulu looked down at the beast-headed man, chest heaving violently.

"Brother, we seem to be in the same situation. I don't want you to light the fuse of war lightly." The beast-headed swordsman shook his head gently, speaking calmly.

At this moment the players realized.

These two idiots seemed to have been screwed over by the Mad King Building...