Watch Your Words

The Weird Mother left with a smile, Qin Rang and An Ying immediately crawled out from under the bed. Fortunately, the Weird Mother was very diligent in cleaning, and there was no dust under the bed.

Lin Nieran bent down and pulled out the Chainsaw. Tao Yuan squatted on the ground watching him, and asked curiously, "Only Qin Rang handle this Chainsaw without being corrupted by it. Boss, you can handle it too?"

Lin Nieran raised an eyebrow. "Do I look that weak? Just an A-Rank Weird Object."

"The boss seems more like a support staff member," Wang Ding said.

"Logistics doesn't mean a lack of combat capability," Lin Nieran said. "What level do you think Weird Object capable of forging A-Rank Weird Artifact would be?"

Some things don't need to be said too explicitly.

Could this be the legendary reclusive master?

[Looks impressive]

[I wonder how they'll perform in actual combat. Hopefully, they're skilled; otherwise, how will they get out of this S-Rank Instance?]

[If I went into this Instance, I would have died hundreds of times over.]

[Boss Lin has unique hobbies; he's quite good at hiding things under the bed.]

Lin Nieran dragged out the Chainsaw and then bent down to call the Little Dumpling out.

"Come out."

"Is she Jiang Tuanyuan? The Master played the bomb game, Little Dumpling?" Qin Rang asked. He had seen her in the files before and knew her name.

"Yes," Lin Nieran said. "She's my neighbor. She came to me this morning wanting me to take care of her. I was too lazy to take care of her, so I lied to my mom and said she had to go home first, and then I hid her here."

"Who knew you'd come? I'd forgotten about her here too."

The truth is that the Little Dumpling still had memories of yesterday in the morning. After her Dad brought her here, she made a scene, threatening to report him for abusing her the day before. Lin Nieran lazy to argue with her, so she simply beat up the strange creature and stuffed it under the bed to lie to the strange mother.

Qin Rang realized that he had originally wanted to find Jiang Tuanyuan, but he didn't know which room she was in. He never expected to run into her here.

But Jiang Tuanyuan is of no use to them now.

There are some things that she definitely won't tell you, even if you ask her.

"You just said you knew how he got the injury on his face. Did he really cut himself?"

Lin Nieran: "I only know... I just said I know, right?"

Qin Rang's fox-like eyes widened, feigning innocent confusion. "Huh? Didn't you just say that? I remember you did." He had just seen Lin Nieran's reaction when the Weird Mother spoke of Lin Yi's face.

"Are you lying to me?"

[Haha, host, you've finally met your match!] 007 happily danced above his head.

"I do know," Lin Nieran said, abandoning his lazy attitude, "But what I know is just hearsay, and I can't guarantee it's accurate."

"There's something strange about this neighborhood called 'Neighbors.' They have a lot of information to share, and it's easy to get it from them. However, sometimes the information they share is exaggerated, so you need to be able to verify it yourself."

"I heard that Lin Yi's parents divorced once years ago, but the divorce didn't go through, so his mother is rarely home, and his Dad has a bunch of women on the side."

"When he was young, his Dad had a big fight because of his infidelity. His father got drunk and tried to kill his mother. He stood in front of his mother to protect her, and that's how he got slashed on the face."

After hearing what he said, everyone fell silent.

Wang Ding had already felt a bit of sympathy for the boy named Lin Yi: "Is that so?"

Lin Nieran laughed and said, "That's right, I also know that if the Actors were to redo everything, they would definitely remember to also redo today, which is actually Lin Yi's special day."

"Special day?"

"Today is his Dad's day off, and it's also the day his mother comes back once a month," Lin Nieran a smile. "You can go and see him. I still need to take care of the Little Dumpling. We'll meet at the Life Supermarket tonight, and I'll give you the Chainsaw I just finished."

Qin Rang glanced at Moonlit Night and the others, and only stood up after seeing them nod. "Alright, be careful."

"Oh, right," Lin Nieran said, "Take this phone and save this number. You can call if you need to."

Qin Rang looked at Lin Nieran seemed a little confused, but he didn't ask any further questions. He saved the number on his phone and set it as an emergency contact.

Standing by the window, watching their departing figures, Lin Nieran smiled and patted 007: "Commander."

007: [What does the host need?]

"It's nothing, just a bit of a sigh," Lin Nieran said. "Why is it that sometimes you only meet someone you want to redeem when there's no going back?"

"They arrived too late."

[Host, that's just a secondary personality, a fabricated backstory and past you created, perhaps enhanced by the background provided by the Instance. The Protagonist Group's redemption is merely a means to overcome the Instance.]

"Stupid system, you can't understand me."

[Host, 007 has been rated as an excellent system.]

"So it seems your headquarters isn't all that great?"

[Host, watch your words! If your boss hears you, you'll lose Points!]

Lin Nieran's eyes widened. "Wow, shameless!"

Shh! Stop yelling!

Seeing 007 pacing anxiously, Lin Nieran changed the subject. "Look how Fame I am now? It's been two days since this Instance, my popularity should have increased quite a bit."

Here, Qin Rang and his team described what they had seen here yesterday, and also recounted their original discovery.

Tao Yuan was a complete stranger. Although Qin Rang said she had been here before, this strange Rules could actually completely overwrite her memories, which were at least S-Rank.

"It was almost noon when we got there. An Ying said she found blood in his house, so I think something must have happened this morning," Qin Rang in a low voice. "If we see his parents later, we must not make any rash moves. His parents have a very strict set of Rules that control them."

As he spoke, he looked at Moonlit Night and Ji Fengbai and said, "You will also be suppressed by these Rules, at least I'm sure Moonlit Night will."

Moonlit Night asked curiously, "What Rules?"

"It must be Rules based on identity. His parents have a strong influence over who he is," Qin Rang said. "Fortunately, I am the father, which allowed me to escape by chance."

But he bumped into Actor on his way out, and it's hard to say whether that was lucky or unlucky.

Among them, Tao Yuan is also a daughter, Wang Ding is a high school student, An Ying is a brother, and also a child. Bai Yang is Doctor, Moonlit Night is a child, and Ji Fengbai is special because he killed 303 and moved in; whether he counts as a participant in this Instance is still uncertain.

Arriving at the fourth floor of Building One Unit One, I casually chatted with a few eerie people who struck up a conversation. Suddenly, a series of crackling sounds came from upstairs.

"What's that sound?" An Ying and arrived in front of the group.

"That young man is fast enough." The strange-looking face that spoke to them had only a mouth. "That's Lin Guang's house. It's Sunday today, he probably drank all night and just got home acting crazy."

"You'd better stay away from him; drunk people are dangerous."