The sound of something crashing came from the room with the fluorescent powder. It was unclear whether she had damaged the doll ornament, but a smell of blood wafted from the room across from hers. Someone had been killed.
As Xu Huo left the painted woman's room, the door to the room across from hers opened too. The long-clothed man, his clothes spattered with blood, was removing his gloves as he walked out. When they came face-to-face, he gave Xu Huo a slight nod.
Xu Huo said nothing and returned to his room.
Nothing else happened that night. The next day, as he stepped out of his room, the sweet girl from the room next door was leaning against her doorway, waiting for him. When she saw him, she smiled brightly. "Well, I heard everything you said last night."
It wasn't surprising that a B-class player might have an item that could circumvent sound-dampening items.
"Is there a problem?" Xu Huo raised an eyebrow.
"I'm not here to threaten you," the sweet girl continued. "We could work together. Even if it means taking on the castle's owner."
Xu Huo looked at her steadily.
The sweet girl only smiled. "I don't believe you've never thought about killing the doll maker."
Xu Huo headed toward the dining room. "Putting aside how difficult it would be to kill him, even if you could, how would you clear the dungeon?"
The sweet girl didn't seem to care. "I don't believe the reward for clearing a B-level instance could be better than killing a B-level dungeon boss."
"You know the rewards aren't equal. The difficulty isn't equal, either," Xu Huo replied.
The sweet girl acted as if she hadn't heard him and quickened her pace, overtaking him. "Think it over. You have nothing to lose