Chapter 33: Single-Player Instance! Chronicles of the Desolate Village!

Three days passed in the blink of an eye.

"Pick it up! I told you to pick up the ear!"

Wu Wang, expressionless, scolded his second sister, who was sticking out her tongue and making strange "lue-lue" sounds.

The other party shrugged helplessly and said, "Oh dear, this pig ear fell on the ground and got dirty; it can't be eaten. Your clothes are dirty too, aren't they? Take them off, and I'll wash them for you later."

"I can understand you dropping food because you didn't pick it up steadily," Wu Wang said, looking down at his clothes stained with red oil.

He then looked at the distance between himself and his second sister, which spanned more than half the dining table.

His mouth twitched as he said, "But I cannot understand your act of flicking the pig ear off your chopsticks onto my clothes across the table. If this wasn't intentional, I'll jump off the building right now."

Having said that, he returned to his room and took off his clothes.

Click—

Then, amidst his second sister's dazed expression, he locked the door, and the sound of a small washing machine rumbling came from inside.

"Oh my God! We are siblings! You don't even have that much trust? You actually secretly bought a small washing machine and hid it in your room? Just so I wouldn't take your freshly worn clothes?"

Wu Xiaoyou said fiercely.

But her face was simply too exquisite.

Even when she deliberately made a fierce expression, she still looked cute, even charming.

Wu Wang's voice also came from inside the room.

"Trust? The day before yesterday, you took my clothes to a fortune-telling blind man under the overpass, saying there was a second fool in the family with a brain problem who wanted to commit suicide every day, and asked him to help exorcise evil spirits, only to be cheated out of 200 yuan. You think I don't know about that?"

"Who are you looking for this time, another 'half-immortal'?"

Hearing this, the fierce expression on Wu Xiaoyou's face gradually disappeared.

It was replaced by an expression of slight shame and unwillingness, and she refuted somewhat resentfully, "What else could I do? What if your desire to commit suicide wasn't a psychological problem but was caused by a ghost? I had to try..."

As she spoke, she suddenly frowned.

"That's not right! How did you know about this? I never told anyone!"

Silence filled the room for about three seconds.

Only then did Wu Wang's proud voice come out.

"Because that fortune-telling blind man was me in disguise, and I earned those two hundred yuan."

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Wu Xiaoyou's chopsticks clattered onto the dining table.

This time, she was truly so surprised that she couldn't hold on.

Floating in her mind was the fortune-telling blind man's trembling walking posture, his tattered long robe and slightly dark skin, especially the long hair growing on the small black mole on his chin, which was the size of a little finger.

Could that be painted with makeup?

She suddenly stood up, pounded Wu Wang's bedroom door with her fist, and cursed, "Damn bastard! That was my hard-earned money after a day of labor! Give it back to me quickly!"

"Second sister, do you know why nouveau riche people usually get poor very quickly?" Wu Wang said cheekily after opening the door, "All wealth that doesn't match one's intelligence will eventually flow back into the market in various ways."

He pointed to the dishes on the table with his left hand.

He placed his right hand on Wu Xiaoyou's forehead, ignoring her weak punches and kicks.

He spoke, "Part of those two hundred yuan was also eaten by you. I'm always the one going out to buy groceries and cook. Damn it, you should at least give some money!"

Speaking of the issue of food.

Wu Xiaoyou immediately lost her temper.

This was the one thing she truly couldn't refute.

She was the kind of genius who, if left unsupervised in the kitchen for half an hour, could burn down the entire building.

Sometimes when Wu Wang wasn't home or was too busy at work to cook, she could only eat instant noodles.

Why not order takeout?

Because under normal circumstances, Wu Xiaoyou was extremely stingy; the 10 yuan packaging fee on that garbage platform was practically asking for half her life.

The only place where she spent money lavishly.

Was hiring a psychiatrist for Wu Wang, or occasions like the fortune-telling and exorcism the day before yesterday.

"Alright, stop dragging it out, finish eating quickly and go to work," Wu Wang said, checking the time.

Seeing this, Wu Xiaoyou's heart jumped.

She immediately ran back to the dining table and began to wolf down her food without any decorum, her cheeks puffed out like a hamster as she chewed non-stop, afraid she wouldn't be full before work.

Wu Wang shook his head.

He turned and went back into the bedroom, dragging out a tattered bamboo hat from under the bed.

Coincidentally, it was the bamboo hat he had picked up before crossing the overpass on the day he used the 【Fake Smile Mask】 to play the fortune-telling blind man.

It saved him the trouble of spending money to buy a new one.

Three days had arrived; the instance was ready.

"Come on! Abyss God! Activate!"

Click—

With the bamboo hat covering his head, Wu Wang's vision instantly became pitch black, and the environment around the bedroom twisted in the blink of an eye.

【Nightmare-level Single-player Story Instance Matched】

【Welcome to Yin Yuan Village】

【Instance Name — Chronicles of the Desolate Village】

【Instance Introduction: This is a village that has long resided in the mountains. Surrounded by mountains and with inconvenient travel, it has little communication with the outside world, but this does not affect the village's prosperity and wealth at all. Everyone can live in peace and happiness without pressure. All of this is thanks to the rules passed down by our Laozu Sect, and the Yin Yuan Holy Maiden will protect us】

【As an ordinary orphan in the village, you have survived to this day entirely thanks to the villagers' charity】

【Now that the Yin Yuan Sacrifice is approaching, the village is still troubled by the search for the Yin Yuan Holy Maiden. While gathering herbs on the mountain, you met a young lady who fell into Luoshan and fell into a coma. Her birth date and time happen to meet the requirements for serving as the Yin Yuan Holy Maiden. Your choice is...】

【Life or death, redemption or sin】

【All lies in you, all is fate】

【Main Quest: #%&*&%#*】

【Side Quest 1: Investigate the Village Chief's Secret】

【Side Quest 2: Uncover the Truth of the Yin Bond Sacrifice and Find the True Yin Bond Sacred Maiden】

【Side Quest 3: Resolve the Haunting at the Ancestral Hall and Eliminate the Ghost Within】

【Clearing Reward: 2000 Misfortune Coins, one Fine-quality Equipment, one Skill Evolution Guidance Item, one Fine-quality Consumable】

【Hidden Reward — Condition Unknown】

【May you find your own death】

Wu Wang had never seen such a long dungeon description before, and with these side quest requirements, this Yin Bond Village was clearly hiding something deep!

There were surely many unspeakable secrets within.

But what troubled him most was—

Where was the main quest?!

He stared at the red vertical pupil on the inside of his wrist and cursed bitterly: "Last time I could understand you twisting my quest, but now you're giving me pixelation? What the hell? I want to be infantry, not cavalry!"

The clearance rate for Nightmare-tier dungeons was already terrifyingly low, and now he didn't even know the main quest.

This is like playing a flea market!

And the clearing reward was simply too generous.

Generous to the point…

Wu Wang felt this was a trap.

【Dream of Calamity】 wasn't stupid—it wouldn't hand out so much for free. Clearly, the game considered this dungeon's difficulty worthy of such a lavish reward.

"Hmph, no main quest? Fine, I'll just strangle that damn Yin Bond Sacred Maiden the moment I see her! Good! I'll try threatening her right now!"

Wu Wang slowly opened his eyes and officially entered the dungeon.

What met his gaze first was not the environment, but a girl lying before him.

Her appearance…

Could no longer be described as beautiful.

The main reason was that she looked exactly like Wu Xiaoyou!

The two of them might as well have been carved from the same mold!

The red vertical pupil on his wrist blinked at Wu Wang, as if asking why he hadn't strangled her yet.

"Sss…"

"Then again, I don't think I need to rush. She must have plenty of secrets too—we should start here."

Wu Wang's moral bottom line was always flexible.

He could defy authority and trample the law.

He could hide in stinking ditches playing hide-and-seek.

He was very practiced at blustering.