Don't pretend, everyone knows you're the villain!

Gu Junbai looked at the window shrouded in darkness. If entry required a trigger, the black handprint would be the passage for the shadowy intrusion.

There are no glass windows in the hallway... Leave the room.

The NPC at the front desk said that two people share a room, but didn't say that you can't leave the room.

They fell into a misconception from the very beginning.

If they are not in the room, then no matter how dangerous the marked room is, it has nothing to do with them.

Gu Junbo shouted at the crew-cut man, "Qi Rang, get out of here! Don't stay in the house!"

Qi Rang reacted quickly, grabbing a tinderbox and running towards the door. As he passed the bathroom, he heard an even clearer squeaking sound.

A chilling gaze focused on Qi Rang, greedy and devouring, at the many rats.

At first glance, it's impossible to count exactly how many there are.

Qi Rang felt his hair stand on end, and he couldn't move his feet any further.

Gu Junbo then came over and asked, puzzled, "Why aren't you running?"

Qi Rang swallowed hard, struggling to speak: "There are... old... rats."

The rats pounced from every corner of the bathroom.

Qi Rang was completely numb, his mind was filled with only one thought: escape, but his legs wouldn't obey him.

Gu Junbai twisted the doorknob and pushed the crew-cut man out, then followed closely behind. He even threw a tinderbox at the bathroom door to delay the rat from following.

The moment the door closed, the man with the buzz cut slumped against the wall, taking deep breaths to calm himself.

You can hear the squeaking of mice even through the door.

The sound of banging on the door... made people panic and lose their composure.

Things that could be easily crushed with a flick of the wrist somehow ended up forming a particularly terrifying group.

Gu Junbai could clearly sense Qi Rang's helplessness in the face of this situation, as he lacked even the instinct to escape.

Apart from Feng Tianlan, the other two were carefully selected after undergoing numerous trials on the first floor.

Is it too much to just bring two people who are entering the second level of the dungeon for the first time?

But... if Qi Rang can't change things, it's not as simple as just stopping at the second floor.

His life will end in some copy, and he will be forgotten.

Gu Junbo wasn't good at offering comforting words; he simply stated the reality calmly.

"Qi Rang, being too afraid will kill you."

The man with the buzz cut scratched his head, trying to force himself to calm down. But he couldn't; his hands were still shaking.

The rats' eyes looked as if they wanted to devour him completely, leaving not even a trace.

How could I not be afraid? Fear of death is an instinct, and it is not wrong to be afraid of something that is threatening.

If you want to survive, you can't let this instinct prevent you from escaping.

It needs to change.

Qi Rang was still recovering when two people came down the stairs. They were Lu Tiannan and Shen Yi.

Lu Tiannan looked at the two people standing in the corridor with surprise, and waved to them as if they were old friends.

Not embarrassed by the lack of response, he continued walking towards 206 on his own.

As they walked, she said to Xi Mingzhu, "Brother, I knew it wasn't just us who were so unlucky. Four unlucky people, that's bad luck."

The phrase "unlucky guy" was uttered with particular schadenfreude, as if he himself wasn't one of those unlucky people.

The corridor has a wall on one side and a room on the other.

There wasn't even a ventilation window at the very end.

Lu Tiannan walked up to Gu Junbai and got straight to the point.

"Let's add each other as friends and collaborate."

Gu Junbo noticed the two of them as soon as he entered the instance; they had always seemed like lone wolves who didn't care about anything.

This naturally leads to a situation where there is no communication. Is the current cooperation due to the dungeon being too difficult? Or is it to find someone to test the waters and die?

"why?"

Lu Tiannan couldn't help but chuckle, then pursed his lips and struggled to hold it in.

Lu Tiannan stared at Xi Mingzhu with bright eyes.

"The reason is that I always have to listen to my brother."

Gu Junbai was puzzled; the other person didn't seem like an obedient person.

"?"

“My brother said that if we don’t cooperate, more and more things will be released. You guys encountered those things and that’s why you ran away, right? Do you need me to help you remember again?” Lu Tiannan said with a smile, his tone casual.

"We killed the first woman who knocked on the door. The second shadowy figure couldn't handle us, so it came to you, right? Otherwise, it wouldn't have come out... And isn't the last rat banging on the door right now?"

Qi Rang's expression changed immediately when he heard that they had killed one of the monsters. How terrifying must a person be to talk about killing so casually?

Hearing that the shadowy figure couldn't do anything to the other party, they became even more convinced that the other party's skill level was far above theirs, and that he was the same kind of person as Brother Gu and Brother Zhai.

If Gu Ge gives them the impression of being calm and reliable.

But the person in front of him was more like a bloodthirsty madman, ready to tear off his hypocritical mask at any moment and start killing indiscriminately, friend or foe.

Working with someone like that? Is it really a good idea?

"We've been discussing other ways the rats can leave the room. So we came to ask if you'd like to join us in fighting off these annoying creatures, so we can finally get some peace and quiet and get a good night's sleep?"

Lu Tiannan spoke slowly and deliberately, and the banging on the door did indeed seem to have decreased.

Gu Junbai agreed with Lu Tiannan's question, "How do we kill them?"

Lu Tiannan smiled slightly, "You take charge of one, and we'll take charge of one. It's that simple."

Gu Junbai glanced at the crew-cut man and said, "Okay, let's kill the rats."

"What?!" Qi Rang panicked. How could he possibly kill all those rats?

A dark, oppressive mass, a chilling sight.

Gu Junbo made the decision after careful consideration.

To kill the thing outside the glass, you have to break the window. Once the window is broken, it's impossible to tell whether the thing will become stronger or weaker. Taking Qi along makes it too risky for him.

Rats can be killed with the most primal violence, requiring no skill whatsoever; it's much simpler.

"Then, it's a pleasure to cooperate." After adding Gu Junbo as a friend, Lu Tiannan immediately knew the other party's name.

All the mobile apps in the instance require real-name authentication using your real name; there are no nicknames allowed.

I borrowed the room key for room 206 from the other party and went to open the door.

As Qi Rang pushed open the door, he wanted to tell Lu Tiannan to watch his step, but then flames exploded from under Lu Tiannan's feet.

The rat that was banging on the door was instantly burned to ashes.

The other rats that pounced on them also disappeared in an instant.

The rats that had gathered in the bathroom didn't dare to pounce any further, but they didn't just flee either. The number surging up the pipes was increasing; the number that had just been burned to ashes was negligible.

This scene left Qi Rang completely stunned.

Lu Tiannan gestured towards the bathroom with his chin and almost immediately spotted the most unusual rat inside. That rat was the leader who commanded the other rats.

"Gu Junbo, I hope we can have a pleasant collaboration."

After Lu Tiannan finished speaking, he grabbed the dagger and rushed toward the glass.

The shadowy figures in the room stopped devouring after Gu Junbai and Qi Rang left, but for some reason, the shadowy figures covering the glass had not left.

Before they went downstairs, Xi Mingzhu opened the door to room 303 again. Apart from a few rats scurrying around, there was nothing on the glass inside.

They could have easily gone to sleep peacefully, but ignoring this potential hazard would only cause trouble if they encountered it again tomorrow.

The two exchanged a smile and decided to eliminate the threat completely.

There's no need to hesitate when choosing between getting one good night's sleep and getting many good nights' sleep.

So the two of them came downstairs and then met the two people in front of door 206, and their cooperation was naturally reached.

The simplest win-win situation.