The others had already returned to the ancient town and were sitting in a lounge bar drinking, waiting for Su Yang and Ren Lingxi.
Pan Ning, Meng Qianyu, and the others were still playing script murder with the new friends they had made in the afternoon.
Meng Wenzhou, thinking the girls were still gaming, decided not to tell them about the incident for now, since Su Yang was fine anyway.
If he told them, Pan Ning and the others would definitely come looking for them immediately.
It wouldn't be too late to mention it tomorrow.
The police station wasn't far from the ancient town. Seven or eight minutes later, Su Yang and Ren Lingxi arrived at the lounge bar where the group was.
The bar was located on the bar street within the ancient town. Although it was very late, the place was still packed.
Tables of guests were chatting, laughing, drinking, and playing games. On a central stage in the bar, two dancers in sexy outfits were swaying their hips.
Liu Bo was the first to see Su Yang enter the establishment. He stood up and waved, shouting, "Brother Yang, over here!"
Seeing him, the two quickly made their way to the booth and sat down.
"Phew, I'm exhausted," Su Yang said, picking up a beer from the table and downing it in one go.
The others all stared at him with looks of eager curiosity.
"Brother Yang, come on, tell us what exactly happened."
Su Yang, holding the bottle, looked at Liu Bo who had asked the question. "Didn't Lingxi already tell you?"
"She did, but not in enough detail. How about you recount it for us?"
With a helpless smile, Su Yang went through the entire incident again in detail for everyone.
After listening, Liu Bo refilled Su Yang's glass and then poured one for himself.
He raised his glass and said, "Brother Yang, I'd like to toast you!"
Su Yang was taken aback, then laughed. "Toast what? Cheers."
"Wait, let's all have one together," Ji Bo and the others quickly filled their glasses and raised them towards Su Yang.
"Come on, cheers!"
After everyone downed their drinks, Ji Bo said with a grin, "Brother Yang, you're seriously awesome. If it had been me back there, I'd probably be a goner."
"Their security measures for the back mountain really aren't sufficient, so they've suspended operations."
"Fortunately, no one was seriously hurt, otherwise this would have made the news."
Ji Bo said, looking at Yang Xiaoling beside him, "It's a good thing you were lucky, otherwise, the consequences would be unthinkable!"
Yang Xiaoling was indeed feeling a bit of lingering fear now, though she had only encountered the real NPCs throughout the ordeal.
"Alright, let's not dwell on tonight's events anymore. In the future, when playing these large-scale escape rooms, try to stick to the indoor ones."
"Mhm," the girls all nodded in agreement.
Meng Wenzhou then looked at the girls next to him and asked, "Ladies, you're all staying within the ancient town, right?"
"Yes."
"That's good. No plans for tomorrow?"
"Nope."
"Alright, then let's just enjoy our drinks. After we finish, we'll head back to sleep."
"Okay."
No longer fixated on the escape room incident, they started focusing on playing drinking games.
At 4:30 AM, the four girls other than Ren Lingxi were quite drunk.
Seeing this, Chu Qiunan said, "How about we call it a night? The girls are pretty much done for."
Meng Wenzhou nodded with a smile. "Sure, it is really late. Let's wrap it up and go back for some proper rest and sleep."
"Sounds good, let's go."
Chu Qiunan went to the front desk to settle the bill first. Then, the four guys helped their respective partners as they walked out of the bar one after another.
Su Yang and Ren Lingxi followed behind.
"Is your inn far from here?"
"Not too far."
Su Yang glanced at his watch. "Forget it, I'd better walk you back. It's too late."
"Well... thank you, Brother Su Yang."
"No problem."
As they talked, they caught up with the others in front.
Everyone exited the bar and gathered in the square outside.
The guys exchanged glances.
Meng Wenzhou, supporting the wobbly Wang Shuyue beside him, looked at the others and said, "How about we each take our own partner back to their inn? It's not very safe this late."
Zhang Ziming nodded. "Right. After all, they came out with us. We should make sure everyone gets back to their inns safely this late."
Liu Bo grinned. "Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's go."
"Okay."
After everyone agreed, they each helped the girl beside them and left.
Su Yang and Ren Lingxi also headed towards the street where they had met earlier that day.
Over ten minutes later, the two arrived at the small shop selling chicken pea jelly where they had met during the day.
Ren Lingxi turned to look at the now-closed shop and said, "That jelly was really delicious today. It's a shame they're closed."
"Their flavor is indeed good. We can come back for another bowl tomorrow."
They chatted idly for a few more sentences and continued walking. Because it was so late,
aside from the area near the bars, the other streets were mostly empty.
Strolling under the night sky, Su Yang spoke up, "Sleepy?"
"Not really. Mainly because I got scared too much tonight, so I'm not sleepy at all now."
"Haha, me too."
"By the way, Brother Su Yang, have you trained in martial arts?"
Hearing this, Su Yang thought for a moment and smiled faintly. "You could say that. I practiced some combat skills like sanda before."
"No wonder! When I was hiding behind the tree earlier and saw you fighting that person, I was absolutely shocked. You were amazing!"
"It was alright. Mainly, that guy was a bit strange, like he couldn't fight upright properly. Otherwise, I wouldn't have won so easily."
"Anyway, I think you're the most impressive person I've ever met in real life!"
"Is that so?"
"Mhm, yes. Not an exaggeration at all."
Su Yang smiled slightly.
Ren Lingxi continued, "So now, walking with you, no matter how late it is, I feel completely safe and not scared at all~"
[Ding, detected Ren Lingxi's favorability towards the host has increased to: 60. Reward: 3 million.]
Hearing this, Su Yang turned to look at Ren Lingxi, about to reply, but he found that she was also looking at him.
They both stopped in their tracks simultaneously, gazing at each other.
Ren Lingxi's heart instantly began to race.
Su Yang also swallowed hard.
On the empty street, a young man and a young woman stood facing each other, their eyes locked.
......
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
pression Bureau] Transported to a fantasy world overrun by demons and monsters, Gu Qingfeng becomes a jailer in the Demon Suppression Prison of the Great Yan Dynasty's Demon Suppression Bureau. From this point on, bizarre cases frequently occur in the Demon Suppression Prison, once known as hell on earth and infamous for its gloomy, terrifying atmosphere! Why do the demons and monsters in the prison wail miserably every night? Why has the corpse demon, capable of transforming into various beauties, donned black stockings and switched careers to become a foot massage therapist? Why has the eye demon, expert in soul-snatching and illusions, turned into a VR headset? Why is the fox spirit performing otaku dances? Are all these occurrences a twisted expression of demonic nature, or a descent into moral depravity? After peeling away layer upon layer of mystery, all clues ultimately point to a jailer named Gu Qingfeng. Gu Qingfeng: "Hehehe... My dear demons and monsters, whose card shall we flip today?"
