PFC Chapter 181, Fifth Dungeon
Chapter 181, Fifth Dungeon
On the third day, the whiteboard was indeed updated with new content again.
[5: Humans and cats need food, and fresh blood is quite good, but blood still makes them hungry. Humans and cats want to eat... meat.]
"The requirements for this thing are indeed constantly being upgraded," Li Wu said.
"The things they're asking for in the next few days will probably be even more outrageous."
Fortunately, they still had the members of the Angel Guild, Sun Zhao thought, but when this thought came to mind, he subconsciously frowned.
In the past, although he would kill his opponent, he would not have this thought.
The box in front of them was less a cage for raising humans and cats and more a Pandora's box, slowly lowering their moral standards and making them subconsciously make cruel choices.
—At least a few days ago, Sun Zhao thought that if he didn't show up, they could feed the Angel Guild members to the box.
“It didn’t say it was human flesh,” Yan Xun said.
"There's some meat they've prepared in the refrigerator."
They found a food processor in the kitchen, along with the meat that had been their food for the past few days. They ground it up, mixed it with the blood of the Angel Guild members, and poured it over the two boxes.
The two boxes quickly developed the same level of favorability.
"It seems feasible." Sun Zhao breathed a sigh of relief.
Gu Jia also breathed a sigh of relief, perhaps thinking of something similar.
Su Yumin didn't think anything of it. Seeing that they were just looking for frozen meat, she couldn't help but snort, feeling that they were doing something unnecessary.
Yan Xun knew what Sun Zhao was worried about.
He was adhering to his bottom line as a human player: he could kill his opponents and enemies who threatened his life, but he could not feed other human beings to monsters.
This will blur the line between yourself and the monster.
If they don't understand, most of these players will eventually get lost in the dungeon and become new monsters.
As expected, the demands from the human and the cat continued to increase.
Most of these are acts that harm the player's body, and some can even be described as acts done to amuse the player by watching them suffer.
Li Wu and the others did not simply satisfy the human-cat pair—if there was already a "person" inside the box, the box would not pull any more players into it.
Arrival on the seventh day.
A mustache appeared before everyone.
He did not express regret over the disappearance of the other group, but congratulated Yan Xun and the others on successfully adopting the human-cat.
At this moment, Yan Xun suddenly realized a problem—
Where do the cats that are successfully adopted go?
The man with the mustache looked surprised. "Of course I'll leave with you."
He said to Yan Xun and the others, "Of course you should take the pets you have successfully adopted with you."
"After all, the human and cat will grant all your wishes."
Yan Xun roughly knew why the person from the Retrospective Guild didn't return to the guild in the end; it was probably out of guilt.
The members of the guild often team up, and their relationships are completely different from those of ordinary teammates.
Imagine what a player who successfully leaves a dungeon would do after discovering that their teammate has been turned into a human-cat and can never turn back.
Yan Xun guessed that it was because he felt guilty about living with his human-cat teammates.
Alternatively, you could kill your teammate to stop him from becoming a source of despair and resentment.
In any case, the other party will ultimately not choose to return to the Retrospective Guild.
Yan Xun thought for a moment. If it weren't for the Angel Guild, the cat-human in the box could be any of Lou Yanchuan or the others... or even himself?
His gaze lingered on his teammates for a moment, and he felt that even if Su Yumin turned into a human-cat, he would still feel regret and mourn for her.
"What's with that look?" Su Yumin noticed Yan Xun's gaze lingering on her.
“I think even if you become a human-cat, I will still mourn for you,” Yan Xun said.
Su Yumin: "?"
“Then I won’t.” Su Yumin looked at Yan Xun. “I won’t mourn for you.”
Lou Yanchuan looked at the two boxes and asked the man with the mustache, "Since the human-cat can follow me, can I make my remaining wishes to the human-cat at any time?"
This was the first time the player with the mustache had encountered a team of players who could adopt two cats. He thought for a moment and said, "Of course."
"Cats will unconditionally grant their owner's first wish, no matter what it is or where it is."
Lou Yanchuan's first wish was naturally to lead everyone out of the instance.
The second wish, after discussion in a meeting, was to revert to the idea of using a huge amount of points to buy the right to make individual wishes from other teammates.
Lou Yanchuan was unwilling to make a wish in front of everyone, which was understandable to everyone.
—As for the remaining members of the Angel Guild, they were dealt with by Su Yumin and left inside the instance.
……
After leaving the instance, they went directly back to the Rewind Guild's meeting room.
Everyone received a system reward, which was distributed based on each person's contribution within the instance.
Sun Zhao glanced at the rating.
“My rewards and ratings are indeed not high.” He leaned back in his chair. “That’s normal, I didn’t participate in anything major.”
He looked at Lou Yanchuan and said, "So when you buy back points, you don't need to give me too many."
Gu Jia nodded in agreement with Sun Zhao's statement.
Beside Lou Yanchuan was a shrunken box, which he had brought back from the dungeon. Inside was a human-cat that he had not yet made a wish upon.
The remaining one was dealt with by Lou Yanchuan just as he left the instance.
Yan Xun still gets goosebumps when he thinks about the human-cat that came out of the box—
It was a creature that was a hybrid of a cat and a human, with the appearance of a human but the body of a cat, which made its limbs and body appear unnaturally twisted.
When it saw Yan Xun and the others, it grinned and meowed.
He now understood why the man with the mustache was worried about an undercover agent.
If people knew that Jonathan's cat was actually this kind of monster, and not a kitten in a projection, the stock price would probably plummet by who knows how many points.
"Just transfer the points directly to my account." Yan Xun pushed back his chair and stood up.
"What's your next dungeon?" Li Wu asked.
Yan Xun didn't quite understand what he meant, but soon he saw a dungeon notification in his completion rewards.
【water.】
"Water?" He muttered the key word, somewhat confused. "What does that mean?"
"After about four dungeons, the fifth dungeon will become a level-up dungeon," Li Wu said. "If you successfully pass it, you can draw new abilities or items."
"However, these dungeons are also very difficult, and if you can't clear them, they will disappear directly."
Perhaps worried that he had made something too alarming, Li Wu added, "The difficulty of the level test dungeon will definitely not be higher than S-level, and it will generally be an A-level dungeon."
Sun Zhao listened from the side, then looked at Gu Jia and asked, "Are you going to take the grading exam for the second time?"
During this period, Gu Jia and his team have been using a lot of practice questions to complete many levels. Judging by the time, Gu Jia is about to start his tenth level.
Most players don't survive to the tenth dungeon run.
Upon hearing this, Gu Jia also began to check his own mission prompts... Then he looked up at Yan Xun, "I'm also water."
“That’s strange!” Sun Zhao blurted out.
“Logically, you should be taking different exams and shouldn’t be in the same instance.” He said, then realized he was probably overthinking it.
"There are too many copies with water as the keyword."
"It could be a coincidence."
But Li Wu felt that wasn't the case... After learning about the two instances Yan Xun had experienced, he felt that such a thing couldn't possibly be such a coincidence.
"It's best to be prepared," he said to Yan Xun.
A week later, Yan Xun entered the fifth instance on time.