NFBE Chapter 93 Tonics and Elder Abuse
Chapter 93 Tonics and Elder Abuse
When Yan Xun answered the phone, he found that Li Wu on the other end was in a very bad state. Not only were his clothes tattered, but he also had many wounds on his body.
Seeing that Yan Xun answered the phone, he breathed a sigh of relief and then explained his purpose.
"You mean... there's a dungeon where many people from your guild perished?" Yan Xun asked.
"Yes." Li Wu's background seemed to be in the guild's meeting room.
Seemingly feeling a little embarrassed to suddenly ask Yan Xun for help, a rare hint of awkwardness appeared on his usually expressionless face. "Since the start of the dungeon, seven people from the guild have disappeared from this dungeon."
“They’re not ordinary players.” Li Wu said, passing a document to Yan Xun. “This is an S-rank dungeon that our guild discovered.”
"It's a reward dungeon given by the guild leader after clearing the dungeon."
The information delivered by Li Wu was quickly brought to Yan Xun's attention.
[Task: Adopt a Human Cat (S+)]
Welcome to Jonathan's Company! You can now collect your human-cat...
“The mission had a seven-day deadline, and the first to enter were members of our elite team,” Li Wu said. “But when the seven days were up, they didn’t leave the instance. Six of them died, and one survived, but we can’t contact him.”
Perhaps noticing that Yan Xun lingered on that document for too long, Li Wu gave him a somewhat apologetic look, "That's all the information we have."
Yan Xun glanced at the document, which was only a thin sheet of paper.
Calling it "documents" isn't entirely accurate; it's a photocopied note, which appears to be the very clue from the copy obtained by the Guild Master.
Yan Xun has only cleared two dungeons so far, and he feels he's not yet so powerful that a vice president of a large guild in the game would come to recruit him. He also directly expressed his doubts—
“I know Sun Zhao.”
Li Wu said.
"I originally invited him too, but he recommended you to me..."
Yan Xun didn't expect that Sun Zhao and Li Wu knew each other, but given that Sun Zhao looked like a veteran player, it wasn't surprising.
“He told me about the Wusheng Village instance, and coincidentally, the Meimei Building instance is also related to puzzle-solving,” Li Wu said. “Although there is very little information about the Human-Cat instance, the guild leader and I both think it is most likely a puzzle-solving instance as well.”
Li Wu looked at Yan Xun as he said this, "That's why the president and I recommended you."
Yan Xun originally wanted to find an excuse to refuse—he was still busy piecing together Gui Yuchong's soul—but unexpectedly, the plush dinosaur bumped his shoulder and whispered in his ear, "There are a lot of fragments here!"
It was quiet, and Li Wu on the other side could only see that Yan Xun was bumped by a plush dinosaur.
Then Yan Xun said to him, "Let me think about it, I'll get back to you later."
Li Wu knew this couldn't be forced, so he repeated all the conditions offered by the other side, finally revealing a trump card—
"The guild leader has an item that can force players to leave the instance."
"The guild leader is also preparing to enter the instance this time."
When Yan Xun was browsing the forum, he had heard of the name of the Guild Leader Huisu more or less. Unfortunately, apart from a few high-level members, almost no players had ever seen the Guild Leader in person. Some people suspected that he was dead, but Huisu did not dare to announce this news and was just pretending.
—After all, judging from the timeline of its founding, this president must be at least 80 years old, right?!
The thought of an elderly man with gray hair, leaning on a cane and trembling, going through dungeons with them is unbearable.
Yan Xun felt a sense of guilt for mistreating the elderly.
"...Let's not make things difficult for the old man," Yan Xun subtly hinted.
Li Wu: ?
He felt that he didn't quite understand Yan Xun's words.
After politely bidding farewell to Yan Xun, Li Wu sent over a list of items and props that Hui Su was willing to provide, as well as the reward for completing the mission.
……
Yan Xun leaned back on the sofa, looking at the list sent by Li Wu.
Next to him was Gui Yuchong, who was still lying dead. The little dinosaur kept bouncing on Gui Yuchong's chest, trying to attract Yan Xun's attention.
Yan Xun glanced at it: "Even if you perform CPR on him again, he won't be able to come back to life."
“Host! Listen to me.” The dinosaur waved its short arms. “I was going to tell you that a large part of Gui Yuchong’s soul fragments have come to a dungeon that we can’t go to.”
"That instance requires a specific key to open..."
"I didn't expect it to come to me so soon." The system was obviously very excited and was jumping around on Gui Yuchong's chest. Yan Xun was terrified and felt that the system was even more disrespectful to the dead than he was—he had never dared to go so far as to dance on someone's body.
"And it's a really, really big fragment of a soul." The plush dinosaur gestured with its forelimbs with great effort.
Yan Xun wasn't affected by the soul fragments; he was purely affected by the list of items and the reward that Li Wu had given him.
The Guild not only covered the cost of each person's items, but also prepared a paper doll substitute for each player participating in the mission. They also promised that if the player could successfully leave the instance, they would receive additional points as a reward, in addition to the instance's own rewards.
Yan Xun looked at it again and again, and decided to search for information on the forum.
As expected, the first page of the most lively gossip section was about the quest from the Retrospective Guild—
[Let's have a rational discussion: Did the guild really fail this time?]
[I'm a professional bystander, and I heard a while ago that their guild leader got access to an S+ dungeon and gathered many of the guild's top players to go, but unfortunately, not a single one of them made it out.]
I heard they're planning to bring in outside help, and the club president himself will be leading the team, but I still have a high chance of failure.
【You're talking nonsense! The guild leader is personally leading the team, he's old and frail, who can he possibly carry? Are they going to the dungeon in a wheelchair?】
[...To be honest, I think you're actually one of the people from Backtracking, just to prove one thing to us bystanders: the Backtracking leader isn't dead, but nobody's seen him in the dungeon. You're just deliberately spreading misinformation, aren't you?]
[Someone with connections has arrived! I've managed to get the payment for hiring outside help this time around... Putting everything else aside, I'm genuinely envious of the paper doll substitutes each person gets.]
[Hehe, you're jealous of just one paper doll? Look how many streamers like Xiao Yan have received :), she gets two in one instance, that'll scare you to death!]
Who is the anchor Xiao Yan?
[Ta-da! It's our new streamer Xiao Yan! She cleared the dungeon twice without taking damage and achieved an S-rank rating. She'll receive a gift worth 24 points for her next dungeon run! Here's a link to the live stream clip—]