Won't It Be Seen Through

Sure enough, just as the blond guy in the dorm had said, horror creatures were absolutely not as simple as he had imagined!

Qin Yang looked up at the massive bulge on the toad's neck, so terrified he didn't even know how to crawl away.

This wasn't some kind of task-based instance like "help the frog find the [Hunter]" at all!

Now this was just great.

He only wanted to find a [Hunter]!

Under extreme fear, Qin Yang's pupils dilated slightly, and he didn't dare to shift his gaze away from the toad.

He smelled a strong stench of urine coming from his companions behind him.

"Spare... spare our lives..." The voice was already tinged with a sob. "We... we only wanted to help you!"

Zhu Yan quickly moved a bit further away from these players.

His hand still tightly gripped that "heart".

And just a few steps away from him, the supermarket boss maintained a stiff, cold smile.

However, the muscles around its eyes drooped unnaturally, making those dull gray eyeballs look even colder.

Zhu Yan noticed its saliva dripping down in long strings, staining its clothes.

This probably meant its patience was reaching its limit, ready to start feasting at any moment.

But Zhu Yan still had to ask for the Transformation Password for the floor where [Auntie Jin's Braised Noodles] was located.

If he asked directly, the boss would likely suspect he was trying to escape and attack him outright.

If he didn't ask directly, he could only try his best to... try to attract the supermarket boss's interest and stall for time...

Zhu Yan's breathing became very light and shallow, but his heart was in his throat.

He could feel that the boss's aura was slightly weaker than the toad's.

But that was useless, because the other party's strength was still far above his; he couldn't beat it.

Just now, this supermarket boss exposed him, saying he was extorting money.

Then what about this horror creature itself?

Would it be interested in money?

"I chased the [Hunter] all the way here."

Zhu Yan opened his mouth and lied effortlessly, his gaze darting between the statues and the supermarket boss.

"He deceived the honorable Mr. Frog and stole the fragment it had worked so hard to guard!"

"Moreover, I am absolutely certain he has been to this floor."

The supermarket boss's level was not low, at least higher than that Auntie Jin.

If it knew what the "fragment" was, then this was definitely a blockbuster piece of news that could grab its attention!

Zhu Yan waited nervously.

One second.

Two seconds.

"Fragment?"

Sure enough.

Those statues were probably too low-level and still showed no reaction.

But the muscles around the boss's eyes tensed up again, piling into a restless smile.

"Are you sure it's the guarded fragment?! Hehehehe... Now this is interesting."

Obviously, it was very interested in this.

Zhu Yan squeezed the heart in his hand slightly, and the statues trembled in unison.

"My lord! My lord, please let us go!"

The supermarket boss, however, rolled its gray glass-like eyes and stared fixedly at Zhu Yan's face.

"What else do you know?"

This was a breakthrough. He could manipulate the statues, and now he had found the boss's point of interest.

He wondered if it was possible to use this to lure the boss away.

As long as the boss wasn't present, he could interrogate the statues freely.

Zhu Yan swallowed hard.

Anyway, his dorm was on this floor.

What if he repeated his old trick, hid in the dorm, and made the supermarket boss think he had actually escaped?

Adding a bit of misdirection on top of that, could he lure the supermarket boss to another floor?

Thinking of this, Zhu Yan, wearing that ugly toad face, pulled a creepy smile.

"I also know that the damn, cursed [Hunter] managed to get the whereabouts of the second fragment!"

"There is a higher-level existence providing information to that [Hunter]!"

"I know where he might go—if he's not on this floor, then he's highly likely to be there!"

This sentence had the potential to expose his true identity.

Because Zhu Yan was pretending to be a toad, and the real toad probably knew all the floor commands.

The real toad probably wouldn't waste time interrogating like this.

Zhu Yan tightened his grip on the statues' heart in his hand, ensuring they wouldn't act up.

Only then did he slowly continue speaking.

"It's a pity. My tracking ability and the information I got were only enough for me to track him to this floor!"

The boss's smile widened, revealing a full row of fine, dense teeth.

It understood.

The player pretending to be a frog in front of it had more than one ability.

Just as the player had confessed, his abilities should include a disguise type and a tracking type.

This player probably only saw the [Hunter] stealing and extracting information, and then used his tracking ability to follow him.

The boss thought of the scene where this player was muttering to himself in the convenience store earlier.

He was probably trying to guess the floor command.

But this player was still too stupid.

How could a specific floor command be guessed correctly just by luck?

Because he couldn't guess it, he pretended to be a frog and put on this act.

"I understand... Heeheeheehee." The boss looked at Zhu Yan like a chef looking at fish on a chopping block.

"I can tell you what you want to know—the command."

It didn't say the word "command" out loud, only mouthing it to Zhu Yan.

"But first, tell me, which floor will he run to?"

900 bone coins for just lifting a finger, who wouldn't be tempted.

The boss looked Zhu Yan up and down.

A level-seven player, the same level as the [Hunter] in the wanted poster, which was also quite rare.

But he probably wasn't the [Hunter].

Because that real toad was level 14, and the wanted poster said that the [Hunter] disguised as The Demon could deceive it.

What did this mean?

Although the wanted poster said "ability at least level 6," any high-level discerning creature would know at a glance that this statement was conservative.

The [Hunter]'s ability to disguise as a horror creature had to be at least level 14!

The one in front of it was much weaker.

It was only level ten itself, yet it could see through this player's clumsy disguise at a glance!

The saliva the boss had managed to hold back began to drip down again.

Just a rookie, it could eat him.

The floor transformation command, this player shouldn't even think about getting it.

Once it knew the specific floor the [Hunter] was on, it would kill him.

Then, it would take the delicious corpse and leave directly to take a shot at the easily obtainable 900 bone coins.

"Let me think, I really don't know the exact floor number."

Asking like this meant it took the bait.

Zhu Yan really wanted to take off his bracelet and experience a wave of intense pleasure.

But he couldn't.

He couldn't pop the champagne at halftime, and in the current situation, he didn't really dare to move.

"He said he was going to—"

The supermarket boss, however, raised a finger to stop him.

"Wait a moment!" It remembered it still had a question it hadn't asked. "Honorable Mr. Frog."

The tone of this sentence was highly sarcastic.

"Does that [Hunter] have any highly offensive abilities?"

Zhu Yan observed the supermarket boss's expression, pondering.

Asking about abilities, what did that mean?

Had his cover been blown?

"None," Zhu Yan ultimately decided to play dumb. "He is a total rookie who can't do anything but run away and tell lies."

...Whatever.

If his cover really was blown, he would just hide back in his dorm room and wait for the floor to shift on its own!