On certain matters, A Lu proved remarkably cooperative.
Bai Zhi had not even finished speaking. He had merely brought it up in passing, and the other party promptly took out a black box and handed it over to him.
"Here, you wanted this, right? I was just worrying about how to get rid of this thing."
As if he had just tossed away a hot potato, A Lu looked immensely relieved.
"You have no idea how sinister this thing is. Whatever you plan to use it for, you'd better be careful."
"...And you're just abandoning your quest?"
Bai Zhi glanced at the utterly unremarkable box in his hand, then looked thoughtfully at the other man.
"What quest? I'm about to lose my life here. Do you think I'd still care about those later Quest Rewards?"
Pulling his hood back on, A Lu spoke in a muffled voice.
"I only have one goal now: getting back safely. I thought a quest accepted by so many people wouldn't be too difficult, but who knew this damned place would be such hell? Not only did I fail the quest, but the Teammates I'd worked so hard to recruit were nearly all killed..."
"C-Captain, I'm still here."
Before A Lu could finish, a certain fat man lying on the ground stubbornly raised a hand.
A Lu: "..."
"Go run a few laps around this room."
Glancing at A Lu, who was beginning to build up anger again, Bai Zhi thought for a moment before issuing an order to the fat man sprawled on the floor.
"Uh... how did you do that?"
Watching the fat man actually start running laps around the room, A Lu could not help but freeze.
"What, you didn't know?"
Bai Zhi gave him a strange look.
"Then how have you