Zhu Yan could only regret that he hadn’t seen through the red text on the [Player Forum].
He anxiously hovered around Jin Rongxu’s head, circling him until the other man finally stood up with an air of absolute determination.
“If I don’t chop off both his hands, I’ll change my surname!”
……
The [Hunter] sat motionless, hooded and bound to a specially designed restraint chair.
It was a small interrogation room. To the left of the chair was a one-way mirror.
The room was brightly lit, ensuring that Director Jin could see everything inside with perfect clarity.
Without making a sound, Zhu Yan split off a strand of [Mist] and floated it above the interrogation room to observe the situation.
A uniformed player sat opposite the [Hunter]. Zhu Yan recognized him.
He was the same human lie detector Zhu Yan knew so well. When Zhu Yan had first registered under Zhu Zeyu’s identity, this was the player who had sat across from him.
Captain Zheng and another, slightly shorter man stood on either side of the player. They both looked highly capable in combat—probably there to prevent the [Hunter] from suddenly resisting.
“You say you’re Number Three Hunter,” the player in front questioned him. “What does that mean?”
Zhu Yan let out a cold laugh and steered the conversation elsewhere.
“Instead of asking that, why don’t you ask who I am?”
“Answer whatever you’re asked!” Captain Zheng barked sternly.
Downstairs.
Jin Rongxu had already left the room.
He did not notice the [Mist] clinging to his shoulder and simply walked toward the elevator.
……
Inside the interrogation room, Zhu Yan tugged at the corner of his mouth.
“Oh, come on. You may not know who I am, but surely you know about the Qiu family?”
“Our family has such enormous influence. Taking a little money from the Jin family as a kickback isn’t unreasonable, is it?”
Zhu Yan refused to follow the script in the slightest.
Behind the one-way mirror, Director Jin’s face had darkened completely.
“Take off his mask,” he ordered coldly. “Get a high-level player in here…”
The player beside him acknowledged the order, but Director Jin suddenly caught hold of him.
“Wait.”
He seemed to have thought of something.
“Forget it. Remove his hood first and see what we’re dealing with.”
For some reason, a faint sense of danger was rising in Director Jin’s heart.
But in the end, he shook his head and laughed at himself.
He was being jumpy.
The [Hunter] was already locked inside this heavily guarded chamber. What trouble could he possibly cause?
“Just do it. Take off his hood and continue the interrogation with torture. Where is Captain Jin?”
……
Jin Rongxu had already stepped into the elevator.
Zhu Yan clung to him, watching as the elevator rapidly climbed from Floor B23.
Another strand of [Mist] was waiting between Floors B19 and B17.
Jin Rongxu was in high spirits, humming a little tune. He had not even finished one line when the elevator gave a light, subtle jolt.
The pause was so slight that Jin Rongxu merely glanced up.
Floor B19.
He shifted his gaze away without a second thought, catching from the corner of his eye the floor number jumping from B19 to B17.
“Piece-of-shit elevator,” Jin Rongxu muttered with a chuckle. “Who the hell built this thing?”
……
“What kind of torture?” the player respectfully asked Director Jin.
“Electrocution,” Director Jin said flatly. “Why hasn’t Captain Jin arrived yet?”
The player said something into his microphone. Inside the room, Captain Zheng simultaneously adjusted his earpiece and received the message.
Captain Zheng immediately instructed Zhu Zeyu through the [Player Forum] to fetch the electric-shock equipment, then gave an OK sign toward the one-way mirror.
Only then did the player contact Jin Rongxu, smiling as he explained to Director Jin, “I asked him earlier, and Captain Jin said he was already in the elevator.”
“By my estimate, the elevator should be arriving any moment now.”
……
Inside the elevator.
Jin Rongxu glanced up at the newly appeared red text, looking somewhat annoyed.
“Didn’t I say I was taking the elevator? Why are you rushing me?”
“Director Jin is in a hurry,” the player on the other end said plaintively. “My dear captain, you’ve been in the elevator for two minutes now!”
Jin Rongxu still sensed nothing wrong.
He raised his eyes and peered outside through the gaps in the red text, but suddenly froze.
The elevator display showed Floor B19—the very floor he had just passed!
Jin Rongxu narrowed his eyes. The next second, the floor changed back to B17.
Had his excitement made him see things?
“I’m almost there.” Jin Rongxu breathed a sigh of relief. “I’m on Floor B—”
The display changed again, forcibly cutting off the rest of his message.
Floor B19!
Jin Rongxu froze.
He straightened and gripped the Level 13 fake blade in his hand, staring intently at the glowing green floor display.
It kept jumping back and forth between B19 and B17. The changes grew visibly faster and faster until the display began flashing wildly, like it was convulsing.
Jin Rongxu warily took a step back.
“…What’s going on?”
He muttered to himself, then sent a message in the private chat.
“The elevator seems to be broken. No, wait…”
After Zhu Yan’s tireless efforts, the elevator display finally stabilized.
This damned elevator couldn’t display B18 because there was no Floor B18.
He had wasted several more drops of [Trembling Pleasure] before finally succeeding in making the broken display obey his will—
fixing the number at the nonexistent “-18.”
Jin Rongxu’s hand trembled around the blade as he stared at the impossible green number.
Then his gaze shifted nervously to the side, where he saw a crooked metal handle that he had no idea when—or how—it had appeared.
……
Upstairs.
Zhu Zeyu slowly pushed the electric-shock apparatus into the room, then quickly backed out, watching Director Jin’s reaction from the corner of his eye.
Director Jin himself seemed fine, but the player beside him was visibly uneasy.
Biting his lip, he spoke hesitantly.
“Um… Director…”
Director Jin watched Captain Zheng attach the apparatus to the [Hunter], growing increasingly impatient.
“Stop stammering. What did Captain Jin say?”
The player swallowed with difficulty.
He opened his mouth, cold sweat beading on his forehead.
What was he supposed to do?
At a moment like this, in front of everyone, how could he tell Director Jin—who had just finished calculating the MVP results—that Jin Rongxu had been pulled into a dungeon?
Zhu Zeyu stood nearby, thoroughly enjoying the spectacle.
He edged closer, eager to see what would happen. In the end, the player lowered his voice and leaned toward Director Jin’s ear.
His voice was quiet, but Zhu Zeyu heard every word.
“Director, Captain Jin has been pulled into a dungeon.”
“What?”
Director Jin looked as though he could not believe it.
He glanced toward the interrogation room, where the [Hunter] suddenly raised his head and burst into laughter.
The clear, ringing laughter echoed through the speakers and reverberated around the room where Director Jin stood.
Director Jin abruptly seized the player by the collar, his hand trembling uncontrollably.
“Say that again!”
“Hey.”
The [Hunter]’s voice came through the speakers.
Director Jin whipped around, only to find the interrogation chair completely empty. There was not even a trace of the [Hunter].
Only Captain Zheng remained standing beside it, still holding the electric cables, caught completely off guard.
“You didn’t hear me?”
The [Hunter] was gone, but his voice remained unnaturally clear.
The voice let out an arrogant laugh and repeated the key point.
“He said your Captain Jin was dragged into a dungeon.”
“Oh—” The voice showed no respect for Director Jin, its words laced with amusement. “Yes. We. Did. It.”
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nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
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.
