Mistaking a horror game for a romance novel, he unexpectedly became a legend.

Cheng Donglai sneered and ignored these clueless people. A wise man knows when to yield. They're all grown up and they don't even understand this basic principle. If they're targeted in a couple of days, they might even ask him for help.

Cheng Donglai left, but everyone seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

Seeing that no one was speaking, Xu Dachun said:

"Do you share the same idea as Cheng Donglai? If you want to leave, we have no objection."

This time everyone shook their heads. Xu Dachun:

"In that case, I'll assume that the remaining players will help each other out."

Meng Jing nodded vigorously: "That's how it should be. This game allows everyone to complete it together. It's not like Werewolf."

Everyone nodded: "Then what about Song Yi and Lu Xiao?"

Meng Jing: "Judging from today's situation, they are definitely going to get beaten up, but I don't know how severe the lesson will be."

Xu Dachun: "I'll go to the sergeant's room later to check the situation and see if I can plead for leniency."

After discussing for another two minutes, everyone dispersed and was about to leave when Song Yi and Lu Xiao suddenly came over, each carrying a bowl of hot and sour noodles.

The army's location was remote, on a mountain. No one would come to the watchtower at night except for the soldiers on guard duty. Behind it was a training ground, and in front was a vast expanse of wilderness.

Xu Dachun, Meng Jing, and the others were stunned when they saw Song Yi and Lu Xiao. Song Yi and Lu Xiao also did not expect that they would find so many people, all of them players, just by randomly choosing a place and turning a corner.

Everyone stared at each other, until Meng Jing finally reacted and stammered:

"What are you two doing here?!"

Song Yi and Lu Xiao simultaneously raised their bowls of hot and sour noodles:

"We didn't eat enough for dinner, so we made two boxes of hot and sour noodles."

Everyone tilted their heads in confusion. Meng Jing:

"No, I wasn't asking you two what you wanted to eat. Weren't you two locked in the dark room? How did you get out?"

Some soldiers had said that anyone locked in a dark room would at least be beaten before being released, and some even suffered internal organ rupture. But looking at these two, they seemed to be perfectly fine.

Song Yi: "You mean this? We've already figured it out."

Solved? They're both privates, newbies who just started the game. How do you solve this?

Xu Dachun: "How, how was it resolved?"

Everyone was incredibly curious.

Indeed, as they said, Song Yi and Lu Xiao were interrogated by the sergeant and two of his men. When the three of them came in, each of them was holding a stick. They didn't say a word and were about to hit them. It was obvious that they wanted to teach the two of them a lesson.

Song Yi almost pulled out his Gatling gun, but Lu Xiao stopped him.

Although this game didn't award any points, Lu Xiao, that big spender, still managed to win.

It's unclear how long ago it was in a game, but Lu Xiao entered ancient times and stole from the emperor's private treasury. Song Yi liked to take things out of the game alive, but he preferred to take the dead ones. There were still more than a dozen boxes of small yellow fish in his backpack.

Just as the captain's men were about to make their move, Lu Xiao pulled out two small yellow croakers, the color of which almost blinded them.

Lu Xiao threw the small yellow croaker directly on the ground, and the two men next to the captain picked it up themselves. At first, the captain didn't believe it was gold. To be precise, he had never seen such a large piece of gold before.

He couldn't help but bite it with his teeth, and it seemed to be real. The captain was immediately stunned. If it was real, this one piece would be worth thirty or forty million in their currency, not to mention there were two pieces now!

Captain: "Where did you come from?"

Lu Xiao naturally couldn't say that he stole it during a raid on his home: "My family gave it to me to use when I joined the army and make friends."

The captain's eyes lit up when he heard that. Who gives gold as a gift when making friends?

The captain was initially quite reserved, but when Lu Xiao threw out the fifth rule, the captain personally escorted them out of the small dark room and instructed the two soldiers beside him to take good care of Lu Xiao and Song Yi.

Lu Xiao: "I bribed the sergeant, and then I was released."

Xu Dachun: "Oh, you can do that? But the money you brought is from a currency different from ours, right?"

Song Yi: "The currencies are different, but there is hard currency."

Everyone:! ! !

Hard currency? That's gold, for those poor bastards!

Xu Dachun: "Alright, we were just thinking about how to get you two out of here. Now that you're both safe, we're relieved."

Song Yi looked at everyone and said, "You all gathered here just for the two of us, didn't you?"

Meng Jing: "That's right. We're afraid you two will get beaten up. No one who goes into that dark room ever comes out unscathed, so we're discussing a plan."

Song Yi and Lu Xiao were surprised that everyone was quite nice during the game. Song Yi:

"Did you have a full dinner? How about some?"

Everyone looked at the hot and sour noodles that Song Yi and Lu Xiao were carrying, and they could smell the sour and spicy aroma. To be honest, they were quite tempted. No one had eaten very well at dinner that night.

Meng Jing: "When I was in the army, I had never eaten so many pickled vegetables in the field when conditions were bad. They were so hard to eat."

Song Yi smiled, then took out nine more boxes of hot and sour noodles from his backpack and distributed them to everyone:

"Then don't be shy, let's eat together."

So they huddled together and made hot and sour noodles. Because there were many of them and they had been together for a long time, the patrolling soldiers noticed them.

Just as everyone started soaking their drinks, a shout suddenly rang out:

"What are you doing, gathering together so late at night to start a rebellion?"

Xu Dachun quickly stood in front of the crowd, thinking that since he was a private first class, the other party would be more accommodating to him.

As it turned out, the other party was also a private first class, and happened to be one of the sergeant's subordinates. He didn't give Xu Dachun any face at all.

The other party got angry when they saw everyone gathering together to cook for each other.

"Has the discipline of the army been eaten by dogs? Your behavior today was appalling. I must tell the sergeant."

Xu Dachun was now filled with remorse. How could he have succumbed to the temptation and eaten? Didn't he even know where he was? At this moment, he was thinking about how to quell the other party's anger when a "slurp" sound came from behind him.

The soldier immediately flew into a rage. He had already said so, how could anyone still dare to break the rules? He roughly pushed Xu Dachun aside, but when he saw Lu Xiao, he was like a firecracker that had gone silent.

"You, what are you doing here?"

Lu Xiao took a sip of the soup; it was sour and spicy, and incredibly refreshing—a hundred times better than the swill and bean sprout soup he'd had that evening.

"I was hungry tonight, so I had a snack with my buddies."

Everyone else had stopped eating, but Lu Xiao and Song Yi were eating with gusto, completely oblivious to the others. Everyone was on tenterhooks, worried that the two of them would be sent back to jail. But then the other party said:

"Okay, then keep it a secret from everyone, and clean up the trash after you finish eating."

After saying that, the soldier turned and left.

Everyone looked at Lu Xiao with surprise and doubt. Lu Xiao said, "It's okay, I have money. I'll protect you from now on."