Upon hearing that Zhong Mu had been taken away by an acquaintance, the town player slapped his thigh and said, "That's alright then, let's get back to work."
The people in the town were busy, but one of them managed to give Ye Tianxuan a summary of the current situation.
"Did the Night Goddess put Town 35 into a dungeon and turn it into a dungeon?"
"yes."
"It's because of Yin Xiu's words... that's possible. It seems they knew they couldn't kill him, so they chose another method."
"In addition, the people in the town have all become sacrifices, which has caused conflict with the players who came to this instance. The situation is still not stable because the other side does not trust us."
"And another thing is... we haven't found a way to return to normal, and they haven't found a way to leave the instance either. That's how it is for now."
The speaker was still somewhat frustrated. Although the town had barely managed to stay afloat, there were a lot of problems that were just piling up without being resolved. They couldn't solve them either, and could only hope that Brother Xiu or Boss Ye would come back and help. As for independence, they were still a long way off.
"It's alright. It's quite good that this situation can be maintained. Even I didn't expect that Lady Ye would turn the town into a dungeon." Ye Tianxuan sat there slowly, flipping through the dungeon rules they had written themselves, and also looking at the hints that Zhong Mu had given him before he fainted, which he had obtained from Ling Feng.
"Did you write this yourself to restrict players in dungeons?" Ye Tianxuan raised the sign in the town.
"Yes." The player clenched his fists urgently. "Isn't it still not perfect?"
"That's good." Ye Tianxuan nodded with a smile. However, the situation in the dungeon is constantly changing, and it's normal that a single set of rules can't restrain those dungeon players.
"And this one," Ye Tianxuan picked up the two slips of paper he had obtained from Ling Feng, "These two slips of paper, which look like rule hints, are fake; they're not hints from the dungeon."
"Huh? We thought this was a note that only dungeon players could find, but it turns out it's fake?" The players were stunned. They were also nervous when they heard that this dungeon only lasted two months under the three-times speedup.
Ye Tianxuan casually glanced down at the note in his hand. "Yes, the actual handwriting color of the dungeon rules is purple. Although you see it as black, it is actually purple. It is the symbol of the dungeon administrator. In addition, the restriction prompts in the town are blue. That is the symbol of the Night Goddess."
"The handwriting on this note is very ordinary; it's most likely written by a player." Ye Tianxuan smiled as he crumpled the note into a ball. "Judging from the content, it's deliberately meant to provoke conflict between you and the dungeon players due to time constraints. It must have come from the dungeon players' side."
"Yes, Zhong Mu went to the dungeon players' side to spy on them and got it. I didn't expect that someone among the dungeon players was deliberately escalating the relationship between us and the dungeon players. No wonder our control over them wasn't effective. I thought we weren't doing enough." The player clapped his hands angrily. "Zhong Mu turning that person into a little wooden doll was too good for him."
"It's alright. The life-threatening issues have disappeared now. They'll calm down and listen to advice. These aren't major problems. The biggest trouble is that there are no rules for this instance." Ye Tianxuan exhaled a puff of smoke and looked up at the gray sky.
"The lack of rules means this is an incomplete instance. Whether it becomes a real instance or reverts to a small town depends on the instance manager's decision."
The player's face tightened upon hearing this. The good news was that the place could be transformed back into a town; the bad news was that it might also become a dungeon.
"However, it all depends on Yin Xiu's situation. Our town is still in a rather passive position." Ye Tianxuan smiled and stubbed out his cigarette. "Go ahead and get busy. I have some things to ask Yin Xiu. You don't know his situation."
"Okay, okay." The player nodded quickly, feeling extremely reassured as he watched Ye Tianxuan's retreating figure.
Although the situation in the town was still uncertain, the mere presence of Boss Ye made me feel that nothing was too difficult.
The players in the town continued to busy themselves with packing up, while Ye Tianxuan went to the edge of the town to find Yin Xiu.
He had thought there were many strange creatures, which was why the God of Slaughter hadn't returned after so long. When he went over to check, although there was blood on the ground, there were no corpses. Yin Xiuzheng was wiping his knife and sitting with Li Mo under the bus stop, looking at the scenery, looking very relaxed.
"Are you two on your honeymoon?" Ye Tianxuan raised an eyebrow. "Wouldn't my arrival be ruining your good time?"
Yin Xiu lazily raised his eyelids. "Then why are you still coming?"
"I just came to check on you." Ye Tianxuan smiled and took a few steps closer to Yin Xiu. Taking advantage of Yin Xiu's inattention, he suddenly reached out and grabbed the hem of Yin Xiu's clothes.
But Yin Xiu reacted even faster, grabbing his hand and coldly saying, "Although I haven't acknowledged Li Mo as my boyfriend yet, you're going to be in mortal danger if you act like this. I can't control a jealous monster."
Ye Tianxuan remained unmoved as he looked up at the dark-skinned man staring intently at him, and said with a suggestive narrowing of his eyes, "Yin Xiu has a mole on his waist, in a very hidden location. You probably haven't seen it before, have you?"
Li Mo was taken aback, then frowned. He was always clinging to his boyfriend's waist, so how could he not remember having a mole?
He was determined to confirm it, and turned to lift Yin Xiu's clothes.
Yin Xiu retorted angrily, "Don't listen to his nonsense! What mole do I have on my waist?!"
Taking advantage of his distraction, Ye Tianxuan grabbed the hem of his shirt and lifted it up.
There were no moles on his waist, but the skin on one side of his waist had turned black due to an abnormality, and the lines at the edges were still spreading outwards.
"I knew it." Ye Tianxuan sighed as he looked at the markings on Yin Xiu's body. "When I heard the people in town talking about sacrificial offerings, I knew something was wrong. You've already mutated, haven't you?"
Yin Xiu remained silent, while Li Mo, standing to the side, looked tense, staring at the spot on his waist, wanting to touch it but not daring to.
"I reckon even Lady Ye and the others are helpless in putting you in this situation." Ye Tianxuan crossed his arms and stared at Yin Xiu casually. "But don't worry, since they are still using this method to coerce you, it means that the situation is not yet under their control."
"The objective of this instance is to find the origin of all the anomalies. Now that you have brought the origin of these anomalies to the town, I think they will begin the next step of their operation."
It seems like they've turned the town into a dungeon, throwing in some troublesome players to clear it, and it looks quite professional. But Lady Night doesn't have the time to deal with the whole town; their real target is Yin Xiu.
The town was drawn in solely because Yin Xiu lived there, causing hardship for ordinary players.