Can't Take a Day Off

[Slacker Craft Shop] On the campus of Boyang University, several people followed the bright yellow arrows on the wall and walked in the direction of Boyang University.

The passage was not long in total. After a few minutes, Zhu Yan breathed in fresh air again.

"But there may be an unexpected situation today."

Yuan Chen lowered his head and flipped through his phone.

"There's news in the Boyang University players' group that the [Slacker Craft Shop] has closed because it's fully booked with orders."

"Look—"

He held up the phone in front of the others. In the photo was the rolling shutter door of the [Slacker Craft Shop] tightly pulled down.

There was a notice with very beautiful handwriting on the door, roughly saying that the shop owner was very busy and the shop would be closed for at least three days.

Zhu Yan understood.

He still remembered the four hundred bone gold coins he paid to Dragonfly.

Closed, my foot.

Most likely, this guy just took a direct vacation.

"Ah... well, it's okay." Yang Zhanbai touched his head somewhat nervously. "We can go the day after tomorrow."

He had just done some zero - yuan shopping in the [Slacker Craft Shop] before.

It's just a behavior in the copy. Shouldn't it affect the real world?

Now that the Dragonfly had closed the shop, to be honest, he actually felt a bit relieved.

Go there tomorrow or the day after tomorrow then.

If all else fails, he'll return all the useless items and only keep his favorite pistol.

Zhu Yan glanced at the others.

For these people, it was indeed okay to go there the next day or the day after tomorrow.

But for Zhu Yan, who was planning to cause some trouble, going the next day or the day after tomorrow was too late.

However, Zhu Yan didn't want to be too blatant.

He still had a puppet whose attributes he hadn't had time to check and could use.

Although the [Realistic] attribute of the puppet was really lousy, having a doppelganger would make things much more convenient, right?

"I think it'll work."

Thinking this way, Zhu Yan nodded in agreement.

"I just need to go to the toilet. Who can take me to the bathroom?"

Go to the bathroom, activate [Imitation], and then take out the puppet.

The puppet would follow Yang Zhanbai and the others back to the dormitory, while Zhu Yan's real self would stay outside and continue to have fun.

What a great way to escape like a cicada shedding its skin. Why didn't he think of it before?

Really, a brain that hasn't had enough sleep just doesn't work well.

Zhu Yan silently sighed with emotion, gave a grateful smile to Qin Yang, who was actively showing the way, and then turned to Yang Zhanbai, Qi Yinming, and Chen Zhaoxing.

"...Do you want to go together or wait for me?"

...

Five minutes later.

Zhu Yan was hiding in the cubicle, putting a ring containing a small amount of supplies into the puppet's pocket.

This was to prevent any issues when they went back to distribute the supplies.

Zhu Yan decided to let this puppet talk less and use the excuse of "being too tired and wanting to sleep" to lie in bed as soon as possible.

The rest could wait until his real self came back.

Zhu Yan activated [Imitation], as usual separated a wisp of mist, and it seeped into the puppet's body.

He repeatedly confirmed his own state to ensure that he wouldn't be affected by the loss.

It wasn't until Yang Zhanbai's inquiring voice sounded outside the door that Zhu Yan controlled the puppet to open the cubicle door.

"Coming." Zhu Zeyu said, walking out with a natural gait. "So sleepy. I'm going back to sleep right away."

The footsteps of the group gradually faded away.

Zhu Yan transformed back into his original appearance. After confirming that there was no one in the toilet, he opened the cubicle door and walked out.

He stared at his left hand, entered the [Thrilling Map], and quite purposefully searched for the location of the [Slacker Craft Shop].

After not seeing it for a few days, the state of the map had become even more terrifying.

In the layer belonging to the [Happy Paradise], many buildings had grown thin red lines.

They were stretching upwards, and at first glance, they were like emerging parasitic worms, trying to stretch their thin and soft bodies towards the host.

In different areas of Anwu City, there were also scattered and overlapping small building complexes.

For example, the [Fake Person Block] in the west, and a small Chinese - style building complex on the mountain in the east that Zhu Yan had never noticed before.

The huge [Floating Clock] he was quite familiar with was quietly floating over Anwu City, rising and falling, like a huge moon.

"Really."

As Zhu Yan walked out of the building, he muttered to himself.

"Where on earth did all these things come from? I feel like the scale of the [Happy Paradise] has expanded again."

Because the boundary of the [Thrilling Map] had obviously spread and become blurred.

Originally, its outline was the same as that of Anwu City on the upper layer.

Now, the [Happy Paradise] on the lower layer of the [Thrilling Map] was extending in all directions. The three - dimensional building patterns had extended several meters away, and then the edges were blurred.

"...The public beta is about to start. So, is it spreading towards the edges?"

Zhu Yan let out a soft sigh.

Originally, it was already very difficult to suppress the news of the game's arrival.

I wonder what the situation is like in other cities...

He quickly shifted his gaze, enlarged the area belonging to [Boyang University], and soon found the [Slacker Craft Shop].

Different from the [Frog Convenience Store], the [Slacker Craft Shop] was actually located very far from the student accommodation area.

This place was near the newly built administrative building of [Boyang University], in a corner of the campus.

Zhu Yan walked around in a circuitous way. It took him a full half - hour before he found the familiar shop in front of a small desolate mountain.

The shop was embedded in the mountain, and there were several students standing outside.

Seeing that Dragonfly still hadn't opened the door, they gradually left disappointedly. Some even waved to the new - comers to remind them.

"Still not open... Disperse, disperse."

"We'll send a few people to take turns coming. We'll let you know when it opens. Go back first."

Zhu Yan stood still from a distance, squinting at the shop more than ten meters away.

...No, this isn't right.

The photo Yuan Chen showed him wasn't a full - view shot. It was taken by a student standing close, only capturing the upper part of the tightly pulled rolling shutter door and the notice on it.

But the lower part of the rolling shutter door wasn't even fully closed.

Even though it was locked, there was a gap of about three centimeters at the bottom. Looking from afar, it was almost like a coquettish refusal.

So funny.

Did Dragonfly leave this entrance specifically for his [Mist] state?

Well, okay.

Zhu Yan wasn't sure, but at this critical moment, he squeezed in!

He activated [Imitation] and quickly flowed in the state of [Mist].

Sure enough.

Both the rolling shutter door and the glass door were deliberately left with gaps.

The lights were still on in the shop, and when Zhu Yan slipped in, a man in a neat lead - gray suit with thin gold stripes was standing with his back to him.

The man had striking silver hair—

The kind of real, pure white silver that would reflect light under the lamp, making Zhu Yan unable to tell for a moment whether this was a craft puppet or a real person... No, a terrifying creature.

"Here?"

The man made Dragonfly's voice.

"...I knew I couldn't take a vacation today."