Transformed into a heartthrob's simp, every day is a battleground.

Chapter 42 I've been waiting for you for so long

Chi Yuan returned to the security office and turned on his phone, only to find that Yan Xun had sent him a clue for Task 1, which was probably about exchanging the computer he had helped him with.

On the 11th floor, Li Wu knocked on the door of the next room. After finding no one there, he immediately used a prop to open the door to the next room.

Pei Xingyan, who remained in room 1101, suddenly changed his expression. "This is bad."

"Su Yumin has gone mad."

His ability is the "Sixth Sense," which allows him to foresee a dangerous event that will occur within 10 minutes.

The image that appeared in Pei Xingyan's mind at this moment was Shen Rui cut into countless even pieces, and Su Yumin looking at him with a smile, "Do you want me to do it, or..."

He stood in front of Pei Xingyan and asked for his thoughts.

Before Pei Xingyan could even speak, Su Yumin lost his patience. The last thing he could see was him and Shen Rui lying scattered on the floor of 1101, like a knotted rope.

"I'm going to find Li Wu!"

"Run first, then we'll figure it out!"

Shen Rui was still a little confused, but seeing that Pei Xingyan didn't seem to be lying, he could only stand up with him.

As they were talking, Shen Rui's phone rang.

He looked down and saw that it was his temporary roommate calling—the future Shen Rui described was too frightening for him to answer, so he could only pretend he hadn't seen it.

“I’ll talk to Li Wu,” Pei Xingyan said. “You call Yan Xun and the others.”

"He's definitely planning to kill all the other players and leave the instance!"

……

Yan Xun stood on the first floor waiting for the elevator.

The elevator was slow today, but he wasn't in a hurry, so he just stood on the first floor and waited.

His phone kept vibrating, and Gui Yuchong asked him why he hadn't come back yet.

"Waiting for the elevator." Yan Xun replied to the message.

Fortunately, the elevator eventually arrived. With a "ding," the elevator in the Meimei Building reached the first floor.

The elevator was empty; there wasn't a single person inside.

Yan Xun stepped into the elevator and pressed the button for the "4" floor.

"and many more!"

Someone shouted and waved towards Yan Xun, "Wait for me!"

The person didn't look familiar. Yan Xun glanced at him a few times, pressed the door open button, and the person quickly walked in.

She thanked them while carrying the plastic bag in her hand, and looked like she had just picked up the supplies.

Yan Xun noticed that she had pressed the number "12" for the floor.

"...Sigh, I wonder when this will end." She was wearing a floral dress and a dark brown short jacket. Perhaps because she didn't want to wash her hair, she was wearing a baseball cap. She spoke with her head down, not looking at Yan Xun, as if she were talking to herself.

"It'll be over soon," Yan Xun said after thinking for a moment. "Didn't the old man at the management office say it would only take a week at most to finish?"

"If only that were the case," she muttered to herself. "I don't want to eat instant noodles anymore."

Because the floors of the Meimei Building are arranged in a disorderly manner, the girl's 12th floor will be reached faster than Yan Xun's 4th floor.

She left the elevator with her shopping bags, and the elevator doors closed quickly again, but this time, the elevator remained still.

The numbers on the screen remained motionless, as if there was a malfunction.

Yan Xun looked up at the malfunctioning elevator but did nothing.

Fortunately, the elevator only malfunctioned temporarily, and the numbers inside the car started spinning rapidly again—like a slot machine in an arcade, with the patterns on the screen spinning rapidly, and as long as three identical patterns appeared, a large number of vouchers would be dispensed—Yan Xun leaned against the side of the car, watching the constantly spinning floor numbers.

"Click click click".

Accompanied by a tooth-grinding vibration.

The elevator seemed to have gone out of control and suddenly plummeted!

The numbers on the screen started scrolling rapidly again, as if something was vying for power—finally, the number on the elevator stopped at 12.

The elevator car finally stopped when it reached the 12th floor, and remained motionless on the 12th floor.

"Ding--"

The elevator doors opened at that moment.

Out of the corner of Yan Xun's eye, he caught a glimpse of a familiar floral dress.

In the metallic reflection, he could clearly see the back of a woman in the previously empty space behind him.

She was wearing a familiar floral dress and a brown jacket.

She had long hair and wore a baseball cap. Because her back was to Yan Xun, he couldn't see her face clearly.

Yan Xun looked down... but the other person's shoe tip was pointing towards the elevator door.

Her head and feet were facing two different directions.

The elevator doors opened at that moment, and out of the corner of Yan Xun's eye, he saw the other person extend their hand—

Yan Xun grabbed her hand and pushed her away.

She seemed surprised that Yan Xun would do this, and finally tore off her disguise at the elevator entrance... She had no face at all; it was all hair, both the front and the back.

Yan Xun pressed the close button, "Bye-bye~"

She wanted to squeeze in and grab Yan Xun, but perhaps because she was worried about something, she could only stand on the 12th floor without moving.

Even after the elevator doors closed, Yan Xun could still see the other person's long black hair and open mouth at the neck.

……

【Host! You scared me to death just now!】The system cried loudly in Yan Xun's head.

"Let's do a little test." Yan Xun looked up at the elevator screen, which had returned to normal.

What test?

"The building manager told me before that it was best not to take the elevator because it often malfunctions and is a bit dangerous," Yan Xun said. "We remembered that and have never taken the elevator since."

There will be no useless items or settings in the dungeon.

Yan Xun thought that since there was an elevator and they, the passengers, could ride it, then the elevator must have its purpose.

If it weren't a pure trap—any player who went in would immediately die.

Or is it for some other purpose?

He remembered that when the old man at the management office was talking to him, he showed absolutely no intention of getting into the elevator.

I also warned him that the elevator was unsafe and that it was best not to ride it.

Given that the old man might not be human, is it possible that he was being sarcastic?

"He didn't attack me while I was in the elevator with Flip-Flops," Yan Xun said to the system in his mind. "He only attacked when I refused to leave the elevator with him and realized his identity had been exposed."

"But he never got into the elevator."

“The most recent time, he was about to enter the elevator, but I still kept him outside, and then he said to me, ‘Next time,’” Yan Xun recalled. “If you were in his shoes, and you saw that flip-flop guy outside the elevator not chasing after you next time, what would you do?”

"I'll definitely run first!" the system said in my head.

"That's what I thought too."

If he hadn't caused the elevator to malfunction and stop temporarily, when the elevator opened on the next floor and there was no one at the door, his first reaction would definitely have been to leave the elevator first.

"But now I think..."

"Flip-flops has always followed one rule: not to attack players in elevators."

As Yan Xun spoke, the elevator continued to run. "So I just did a little experiment."

“She threatened me in the elevator, hoping that I would run out out of fear.”

He had barely finished speaking when the elevator arrived at the 4th floor.

As soon as the elevator doors opened, Yan Xun saw Gui Yuchong standing in front of them, waiting.

He looked at Yan Xun and a relieved smile appeared on his face.

"You said you were waiting for the elevator, so I came here to wait for you."