Not Asking for Your Opinion, Just Informing You

"So happy?"

Yu Fengchen Zheng Zhan. The usually nonchalant man paused for a moment, then took two steps back in disbelief. "You two know each other!?"

He seemed aloof and reserved in the group; why would he ask such a question if we didn't know each other?

But those three robber-like guys just now clearly acted as if they were very curious about Shen and knew nothing about him. Were they just putting on an act?

Who is the real traitor?!

Zheng Zhan thought he had already been incredibly foolish for leaking information, but he never expected that someone as handsome as Shen would do such a thing.

Yu Xing's attention was focused on Yu Fengchen, so she didn't miss the somewhat familiar look in Yu Fengchen's eyes when he looked at Carlos.

Strange, does Shen know Carlos?

Or perhaps we've met in another timeline.

Carlos sized up Yu Fengchen, raising an eyebrow. "Don't know him."

This was a response to Zheng Zhan, and the next sentence was addressed to Yu Fengchen: "Tsk, this aura really does remind me of the puppets I used to use to scare people when I did magic tricks."

"You flatter me." Yu Fengchen accepted Carlos's "praise" very politely. A certain pattern flashed in his dark eyes behind his glasses. He pulled Zheng Zhan back a little, as if he was protecting Zheng Zhan.

However, Yu Xing was able to sense from the other party's overall micro-expressions and movements that this was not protection, but rather that he found Zheng Zhan in the way and wanted him to step back a little.

He returned Yu Fengchen's smile with a much brighter one, "I am quite happy. I've never liked not returning things I find. Now that the owner has come, I can return this doll that only girls would like to you."

"This level of mockery won't provoke me." Seeing Yu Fengchen Yu Xing took a step back, his refusal quite obvious. "No need to give it back to me, so you don't have to worry about it later."

"Are you so sure I'll want you in the future?" Yu Xing stopped, her gaze pointed. "Isn't this our first meeting?"

"This isn't the first time for me. You're a very troublesome person," Yu Fengchen commented matter-of-factly.

A troublesome person...?

Upon hearing this adjective, Yu Xing laughed out loud with delight.

The familiarity conveyed in this description is clearly beyond what a tomb could achieve; in other words, he has met someone from another realm... or rather, another world.

Looking at the doll in her hand, its eyes gleaming with an eerie, almost living hope, Yu Xing's lips curled into a smile, but she still tossed it away. "I don't want it. No matter what I think at other times, I don't like it right now. If you want to give me a gift, then choose another one."

Yu Fengchen out and steadily caught the puppet that had drawn an arc in the air, then lowered his eyes to think for a moment.

What, since Yu Xing hasn't given him the [Weird Doll] yet, the return gift he wants is no longer this doll?

That does fit this person's unpredictable temperament.

Yu Fengchen stuffed the doll into his coat pocket and deliberately said, "Then I won't see you off."

His pocket twitched, and a small black cat poked its head out. Its dark golden eyes were clearly not ordinary; they not only exuded an evil aura but also a sense of weight, nobility, and rust.

The little black cat's pupils were round in the darkness. After looking around for a while, it made eye contact with Yu Xing.

It bristled.

"Meow!!" A somewhat fierce meow echoed in the tomb passage, sending chills down everyone's spines. Zheng Zhan, who was nearby, changed his expression and moved away from Yu Fengchen as if avoiding a plague.

Just a moment ago, his eyes "saw" an extremely strong black aura, and his senses told him that this was Bad Luck, and that getting involved would lead to eternal damnation.

He hesitated, unsure whether he should remind him, "Shen, you cat..."

"Your eyes can even see its characteristics?" Yu Fengchen was somewhat surprised, astonished by Zheng Zhan's ability. He apologized to Zheng Zhan, "It can now control its own calamity effects, so you don't need to worry."

Then he lowered his head, pinched the little black cat's scruff of the neck between two fingers, and chuckled, "What's wrong, Bad Luck? Did you meet this guy without my knowledge?"

"Meow~" Bad Luck waved its limbs in the air a couple of times, then swung its body a couple of times and grabbed Yu Fengchen's wrist tightly, clearly not liking Yu Xing.

Yu Xing recognized the cat and reflected on why he had left a bad impression on it. All he had done was scare it a couple of times and casually throw away the cat that had taken his spot.

It's not something worth remembering until now... right?

Seeing the kitten's Yu Fengchen had already confirmed his answer. He looked at Yu Xing with a curious gaze.

Yu Xing said in a good mood, "I've seen her, with a beautiful woman who called herself Witch."

"Beautiful woman..." Yu Fengchen strange for a moment, "I really envy you. Your deepest impression of her is still that extremely deceptive appearance."

His tone was probably the same as saying, "I'd pay a fortune for a pair of eyes that have never seen the true nature of Witch."

"What kind of riddles are you playing?" Lin frowned slightly. "Whether you know each other or not, or whether you have mutual acquaintances, I don't care. Don't you think the most urgent thing is to find the demon daoist's tomb?"

He didn't stay in this simulation for long, but his task was time-limited.

Therefore, Lin was in a great hurry.

"Hey, why do you look like you've already decided to cooperate?" Zheng Zhan wasn't happy. He held a grudge; he'd just been threatened at gunpoint, and these guys even claimed to have saved his life.

Even if he hadn't been rescued by these people, he would have had a way to escape the swarm of bats. The reason he insisted on being rescued by these people was simply to keep them there and wait for the impending sinking to extract information from them.

And guess what? They actually knew each other.

Yu Fengchen didn't answer Zheng Zhan, but looked at him and brought up another topic. "Your eyes are very useful. If I remember correctly, your ability is to ignore obstacles and see everything within a meter of you. This is a very useful ability in tomb traps. So, when you stepped on the trap, I knew you were an outsider. You deliberately stayed alone to look for something, right?"

"So what? Aren't you the same? You really couldn't avoid the trap that Alice fell into? Pretending to fall into the trap with her unintentionally, could it be that you also came to find these people to be alone?" Zheng Zhan knew very well that Shen was not on the same level as him. He couldn't see how deep Shen's power was, and that was precisely why Shen was so terrifying.

Look, Alice isn't with Shen anymore.

"You guessed right, but I'm not just looking for them; I want to find all the outsiders," Shen said to Zheng Zhan, and also to Yu Xing and the others. "I need you to complete your mission as soon as possible and leave."

"Why?" When there were many people around, Carlos liked to become an eavesdropper. After listening for a while, he had some guesses in his mind.

This Shen should be a high-level experience tester. He seems to have some connection with Yu Xing, but in this simulation, Yu Xing is not the reason for Shen's presence.

The task Shen was about to undertake might affect the very foundation of the entire tomb, or even destroy it, which was why he wanted all the experiencers and deducers present to leave first.

"It's a secret." Yu Fengchen smiled, as if the puppet had come to life. Although he was very handsome, he also gave Carlos a dangerous feeling. Reason told him that he could not ask this question anymore. Chen was not the gentlemanly and polite person he appeared to be. If he were placed in the Deducer system, he would at least be a person whose degree of Mutation Path had reached the limit.

This was his intuition.

"Are you asking for our opinion, or are you informing us?" Lin's eyes showed disapproval.

"Someone as kind as me, of course I'd... notify them."

Yu Fengchen was very polite, but Zheng Zhan, fearing disapproval from the other side, reminded him, "They have guns."

"Fake." Yu Fengchen didn't even glance at it. "Just a magic prop..."

He smiled at Carlos, "Come and object to my decision when you become that 'Magician' who blurs the lines between magic and reality. Besides, I just want to speed up your mission; you won't lose anything."

"Of course there will be losses, but I want to see the Ghost Tree." Yu Xing said bluntly, as if he would be unhappy if Yu Fengchen insisted on sending him away before he Ghost Tree.

"You can't see her, something bad will happen if you do." Yu Fengchen seemed to have thought of something amusing, his smile becoming more genuine and lively. He glanced meaningfully behind Yu Xing.

That was the place where Yi Qing, transformed into an invisible blue mist, drifted about.

"Well, I've been warned, so I can't tell you these things." Yu Fengchen paused for a moment, then shook his head. "Wait for the Witch to contact you. There's no need to be upset; even if I don't interfere, someone else will stop you."

Yi Qing: "..."

Yi Qing finally understood why the system had specifically told him that there was someone he needed to be careful of among the testers. This person was indeed someone to watch out for, as not only could he see Yi Qing's carefully concealed presence, but he could even guess the tasks the system had given him.

Judging from this, the amount of information that Shen possesses is absolutely unimaginable. Among the five people and one ghost present, only Yi Qing can contend with Shen, and even Yu Xing cannot resist Shen.

Shen is like a high-level player using a secondary account; he's someone who shouldn't be in a deduction that Yu Xing's level can access. So, his purpose in coming here... can only be the Ghost Tree, which is also beyond the deduction's capacity.

If the sinking and Ghost Tree disappear, the simulation will return to normal difficulty, there will be no more inescapable death scenarios that the player cannot resist, and there will be no need for system patches.

[Cooperate with him]

The next second, a message came from the system. Yi Qing's eye twitched; he knew the system wouldn't let this opportunity pass.

It's really annoying... His rare moment of fun hadn't even gotten going before it was nipped in the bud by so many people.

Yi Qing floated over to Yu Xing's side and fanned herself to calm down. "You really can't reach that level right now, but there will be plenty of opportunities in the future. Let's be patient?"

Yu Xing felt that Yi Qing himself was unwilling to accept the situation, yet he still tried to persuade him, which was truly pathetic.

Carlos was still savoring Yu Fengchen's words, "Reality and magic are intertwined and indistinguishable," when he suddenly felt a familiar chill in the air.

The ghost that Yu Xing was protecting hasn't left yet...

He pursed his lips and tugged at Yu Xing's sleeve. "That's enough. You probably won't get much more information out of her now. Anyway, you two have secrets, so let's talk about it privately after we leave here."

Yu Xing nodded, agreeing readily, as if he hadn't been the one who had been unhappy just moments before. "Okay."

He raised an eyebrow at Yu Fengchen: "What do you plan to do?"

Yu Fengchen looked at the dark tomb passage behind him. "I'll send you to the main tomb chamber, reconnect the timelines, and then destroy the power that the demon daoist stole from the Ghost Tree."

What else can anyone say?

They were all people who frequently came into contact with supernatural forces, so they could easily sense the overwhelming power emanating from Yu Fengchen that they couldn't resist. If they didn't want to die, they had no choice but to cooperate.

The group followed Yu Fengchen into the tomb passage. Yu Xing felt no resentment at being forced into this situation. He had already made a mental note of it: the time chaos in other worlds was probably the work of the Witch whose abilities were related to time. Even if this wasn't the "first time" he and Chen had met, there would always be a first time.

For him, he already has the memory of meeting Shen, so the next first time will be an exchange of information, with the future him meeting the past Shen.

He'll get his revenge for what happened today. If he doesn't teach Chen a lesson then, he won't be himself.

Thinking about the future, Yu Xing became somewhat neurotically happy, and the smile on his face made Carlos, who was walking beside him, secretly worry that he had gone crazy.

The tomb passage is winding and circuitous, with traps appearing from time to time.

However, with Zheng Zhan as their detection tool, they were never caught off guard and walked safely for more than an hour. Yu Xing could sense that they had almost crossed a quarter of the mountain.

This tomb is really big and troublesome. Yu Xing has no liking for this place at all. Rather than wandering around in the tomb passage, he would rather wander around a mirror room in an amusement park or something, preferably one full of ghosts, where at least every ride is interesting.

Inside the tomb passage, there are only delicate ghosts, cold and impersonal mechanisms, zombies whose physical Combat Power is inferior to that of outsiders, and water Water Ghost that cannot kill him even in water.

Finally, after several failed attempts by the hair demons to entangle them, they arrived at a tomb chamber only slightly smaller than the palace with the throne.

This tomb chamber was not illuminated by Mingzhu, but the interior was dry, and there were torches on the walls. Even though a thousand years have passed, the torches are still stubbornly fixed on the walls, and the cloth on them can still be lit.

"I'm going to light it now. If you're worried about the open flame igniting the poisonous gas, use your own abilities to take precautions." After saying this, Yu Fengchen deftly pulled out a lighter, a faint flame leaking from between his fingers.

The lighter tilted, and the flame touched the tip of the torch, spreading out with a roar, like a blazing flower blooming in an instant.

The group walked around the tomb chamber, lit all the torches on the walls, and the entire tomb chamber came into view.

According to Yu Fengchen, this is the main burial chamber, demon daoist's coffin is placed here.

But... all I could see were countless black coffins.

At a glance, there are at least a hundred coffins on the ground. If you want to find the demon daoist's coffin here, you'll have to open each coffin lid one by one without any special clues.