Wu Shaozhen had no idea what was happening outside. His face had gone green as he stared at the ground. Beside the Dark Night Lord's corpse lay just one pearl and one token. There was nothing else.
"This is fucking pathetic! You're a major boss who tortured me for hours, and this is all you drop?" Wu Shaozhen complained.
Just then, the entire hall began to shake, as though it was about to collapse.
Wu Shaozhen had no time to complain anymore. He hurriedly picked up the two items the Dark Night Lord had dropped, then used Blink to reach the mechanism and quickly activated it. As the stone door slowly opened, he pushed his speed to the limit and rushed outside.
Shortly after Wu Shaozhen escaped, the entire hall began to collapse. Before long, it had been reduced to rubble.
Looking at the ruins before him, Wu Shaozhen felt a surge of emotion. He had been tormented inside for hours, almost enough to leave him traumatized.
Exhausted in both body and mind, Wu Shaozhen took out a Town Portal Scroll and crushed it. He would return to town, log out, and get something to eat first. It was already past three, and he had been starving for ages.
As soon as he returned to Jinling City, he saw several messages in his private chat channel. He opened them and found messages from Leng Yue, Su Muxue, Wu Ziyin, and even Astro Boy, whom he had just added. He read them one by one. They all asked what had happened and expressed concern for him. Checking the timestamps, he saw that they had all been sent while he was in the hall.
Could I not receive messages inside the hall? Wu Shaozhen wondered. After thinking it over, he decided that