LGSG Chapter 27
by VolareChapter 28: Desire Potion, Mr. Xie Gets Drugged
All the way back to the small Bamboo Pavilion, Xia Ran displayed a dazed and absent-minded look.
The impact was simply too great.
This was the marriage dowry Mr. Xie was saving for his future wife?
But why would Mr. Xie give it to him?
After thinking for a long time, beyond the initial subtle flutter in his heart, Xia Ran didn’t consider other possibilities.
Mainly, he still felt it was impossible.
It was like, when you watch anime, you don’t really expect to fall in love with your favorite character, or for your favorite character to fall in love with you.
That would be too presumptuous.
Xia Ran touched his earring.
This was a subconscious action of his.
When his mind was unsettled, he always liked to rub his neck, touch his earlobe, and keep rubbing until his skin was red and hot. He used these small actions to shift his attention.
He went all the way back to outside the Bamboo Pavilion.
Xiao Xie’s steps suddenly paused.
“Your friend seems to be in trouble.”
A slightly gloating tone.
Xia Ran turned his head and saw Shen Hua and an unfamiliar baby-faced person.
He was a little puzzled.
How did Xiao Xie know Shen Hua’s identity?
But before Xia Ran could ask, his attention was drawn to the commotion over there.
“Hey, do I have to spell it out for you?” It was rare to see Shen Hua so angry. “Everything about you screams bad intentions!”
The baby-faced person waved his hand: “Look, I didn’t even die at the Boss’s hands, doesn’t that prove I’m innocent?”
Shen Hua: “…”
Shen Hua rolled his eyes.
He didn’t want to waste any more words on this idiot.
Mu Jingyao had been arguing and dodging Shen Hua’s anger from the very beginning.
He appeared outside the Bamboo Pavilion, blocking Shen Hua who was trying to find Xia Ran, clearly targeting Xia Ran.
Naturally, Shen Hua didn’t want this troublemaker to pester the big guy.
Therefore, he had been trying to drive him away.
It was already late at night, and it wasn’t easy for Shen Hua to come all this way. If he didn’t sleep in the staff dormitory at night, he would easily trigger a death condition. But Mu Jingyao saw through Shen Hua’s anxious mind and deliberately delayed him in various ways.
Shen Hua suspected that Mu Jingyao wanted to wait until he couldn’t hold on any longer and turned to leave.
But if Shen Hua wasn’t there, who knew what Mu Jingyao would do outside the Bamboo Pavilion.
Fortunately, Xia Ran finally came back.
“Shen Hua, why are you back again?” Xia Ran asked, looking puzzled.
Shen Hua “ah”-ed and said: “I almost forgot the task the head chef gave me.”
As he spoke, he held a long, narrow wooden box and, ignoring Mu Jingyao beside him, handed it to Xia Ran.
Shen Hua was a little embarrassed.
When he was getting off work, the head chef knew that he would occasionally go to Xia Ran, so he asked Shen Hua to bring a bottle of wine over.
He said it was a new wine that the head chef had recently developed.
If Mr. Xie liked it, it would be used for his birthday banquet.
As a result, Shen Hua was only focused on talking to Xia Ran about Mr. Xie’s birthday banquet, and it wasn’t until he was halfway there that he remembered he hadn’t given the wine to Xia Ran, so he hurried back, only to be told by the butler that Xia Ran had just left. Shen Hua could only wait here for a while. He had originally planned to wait for a while, and leave when it got dark, but Mu Jingyao suddenly appeared and kept pestering him.
Shen Hua thought Mu Jingyao’s attitude was strange.
After surviving and escaping death, his already crazy personality became even more unpredictable after being stimulated.
Shen Hua was a little afraid of Mu Jingyao. But the more afraid he was, the more he felt that his appearance here was with ultimate motors. He didn’t want big boss to be ambushed by Mu Jingyao alone.
Shen Hua handed the wine to Xia Ran and briefly explained the cause and effect.
Xia Ran said: “I understand.”
Shen Hua breathed a sigh of relief.
Big Boss’s personality was always so efficient.
They never dwell on trivial matters.
If Xia Ran were to ask about the relationship between Mu Jingyao and Shen Hua now, Shen Hua would have a headache.
But Mu Jingyao, like a rebel, insisted on going against Shen Hua.
He approached Xia Ran and said with a smile: “Hello, Xia Ran, we meet again.”
Shen Hua: “Pfft.”
He laughed out loud without any sense of decency.
He later realized that big guy wasn’t deliberately putting on an act. Everything they did that shocked everyone wasn’t to show off or to be unique.
But was truly and genuinely a naturally eccentric brain circuit!
Sure enough, naturalness defeats everything!
Seeing Mu Jingyao get frustrated, Shen Hua was so happy.
Anyway, he had finished his task, and since wouldn’t be tricked by Mu Jingyao, he could leave with peace of mind.
But of course, he had to watch Mu Jingyao’s embarrassment to the end.
The corners of Mu Jingyao’s mouth twitched.
He said: “Xia Ran, it hasn’t been a few days since that all-member interrogation, right?”
His tone was slightly unfriendly.
Being treated as background noise by Xia Ran once or twice, Mu Jingyao, with his high aspirations, couldn’t take it anymore.
Xia Ran: “…”
Xia Ran blinked.
Was there such a person?
Because of his social anxiety, Xia Ran generally tried not to actively pay attention to strangers.
Like a snail, he curled up his body, only exposing a little bit of soft tentacles to explore the world.
Xia Ran tried hard to recall, picking out a little impression from the depths of his memory.
The black-haired youth suddenly understood.
“So you’re the one who was dragged down that day?”
Mu Jingyao: “…”
It was really hitting a sore spot.
Good news, Xia Ran still remembered him.
Bad news, what the hell did he remember him as.
Speaking of this, Mu Jingyao got angry.
“Yes, it’s me,” Mu Jingyao said.
Xia Ran remembered that it was because Mr. Xie was “suspected” of being attacked that two players were taken away. This was also a strange ending that would appear in some management games. So Xia Ran didn’t pay much attention. After all, Mr. Xie had also said that it was just a false alarm.
And Mu Jingyao had been released anyway.
But Xia Ran really had no interest in chatting with strangers.
Although Mu Jingyao was also actively approaching him, Xia Ran just felt that he gave a different feeling than Shen Hua.
He was a little resistant to Mu Jingyao.
“I’m going back,” Xia Ran said. “Goodbye.”
Shen Hua: “Big Boss, goodbye!”
He glared at Mu Jingyao.
Hoping that this guy could read the room.
He thought Mu Jingyao would cause more trouble, but he didn’t expect the other party to honestly reply: “I hope the next time we meet, you can remember me.”
Shen Hua: “?”
Shen Hua felt that something was wrong.
But after saying goodbye to Xia Ran, Mu Jingyao quickly disappeared.
He didn’t know where he went.
Shen Hua could only attribute it to his own paranoia.
Maybe this guy just wanted to get familiar with the big guy.
When he returned to the staff dormitory, Shen Hua found Fu Qu standing at the door.
He was smoking.
The firelight fell on the ground, reflecting the man’s somewhat cold and hard outline.
Shen Hua thought, if he removed the one-eyed exterior, Fu Qu’s features should be very outstanding.
Beauty lies in the bones, not the skin, and the same goes for handsome guys. The same features, placed on Fu Qu, inexplicably had a special charm.
Fu Qu saw Shen Hua coming, he lowered his eyelids, threw the cigarette on the dirt road, and extinguished it with the tip of his shoe.
“Where did you go so late?”
Shen Hua was flattered: “You’re actually concerned about me?”
Fu Qu: “Afraid you’ll die outside, and I’ll be the only one left to serve the head chef.”
Shen Hua: “…”
No matter how handsome this guy is under his skin, he’s doomed to be single for life with that mouth!
Shen Hua snorted coldly.
Not wanting to argue with Fu Qu, he walked past him.
Fu Qu touched his pants pocket.
He had just been possessed and put out the cigarette in front of Shen Hua.
But his nicotine craving hadn’t passed.
Fu Qu felt like he was really sick.
Shen Hua wouldn’t care if he smoked.
Fu Qu took out another cigarette, holding it in his mouth without lighting it.
Just to satisfy his craving.
Mu Jingyao walked out of the shadows.
Fu Qu didn’t raise his eyelids: “Continue talking about our business.”
Mu Jingyao muttered: “Shen Hua that kid is too clever, I didn’t expect you to fool him, Boss.”
Fu Qu: “If you want to talk nonsense, I’ll kick you into the lake right now.”
Mu Jingyao: “…”
Where did all this anger come from?
Mu Jingyao honestly said: “I put the potion item in that bottle of new wine.”
Constantly showing curiosity about Xia Ran, constantly making provocative words and actions, was just to divert Shen Hua’s attention, so that Mu Jingyao could easily drug him.
“Where did the potion come from?” Fu Qu asked.
Mu Jingyao: “The top-grade prop obtained from a unlucky guy.”
Fu Qu: “…”
Fu Qu’s eyes showed a bit more disgust towards Mu Jingyao.
If it wasn’t for needing this guy to go and die for him temporarily.
Fu Qu wouldn’t want to let this bug live another day.
But Mu Jingyao’s lack of a bottom line also had its advantages.
Fu Qu didn’t even know that there was actually a potion specifically designed to restrain the dungeon Boss.
It was said that after taking the potion, the strongest desire in the dungeon Boss’s heart would be stimulated.
After Fu Qu figured out the background of the dungeon, he decided to let Mu Jingyao take such a ruthless approach.
For a wealthy young master who died unjustly like this, the desire for hatred in his heart should be the most intense.
Then, it must be murderous intent.
Of course, Fu Qu wasn’t naive enough to think that he could kill Mr. Xie with one blow at this time.
But he needed an index.
An index buried in the hearts of all the players who wanted to survive in peace.
He wanted to force all human players to give up their neutral stance, to make them fear the Boss who could go crazy at any time, so that they had no choice but to kill the Boss to clear the stage.
This was not difficult to do.
After all, death was very easy in an Infinite Flow game.
Suspicion and fear were like sparks in the grassland, which could start a prairie fire from a single spark.
After calculating everything, Fu Qu felt that this plan was very perfect and comprehensive.
But for some reason…
Fu Qu: “…”
He always felt that something was not quite right with this dungeon.
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“Is it really for me?”
Xia Ran touched his earring, feeling a little restless.
Xie He opened the bottle of wine and poured it into the glass.
“A little employee benefit.”
Xia Ran wanted to say something but stopped: “…”
Which boss would use their prized dowry as a benefit?
Xie He sighed pretentiously: “I thought we were friends, so I wanted to give you the best.”
Xia Ran: “Of course we are! But…”
The black-haired youth’s face was slightly red.
“Isn’t this for when you marry a wife?”
Xie He smiled: “Kids say things they don’t understand.”
Xiao Xie had been asked by the butler to “go to bed early and get up early” in a spare room.
Now Xia Ran had no way of verifying whether Mr. Xie’s statement was correct.
But he still secretly believed in Xie He in front of him.
“So that’s how it is…” Xia Ran breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, it wasn’t a worse development.
And fortunately, it wasn’t given to someone else.
Xia Ran was a little happy.
Xie He lowered his eyes.
His fingers touched the cold glass wall.
Clearly, he had worked hard to hide his true feelings, which were part of his plan to slowly boil the frog in warm water.
But for some reason, at this moment, Xie He felt very unhappy in his heart.
The unhappiness was like a dry fire, burning from his lungs into his throat.
It was burning and painful.
Xie He lowered his eyes to look at Xia Ran’s earlobe.
The fiery red agate hung heavily below.
Only a short distance away from the side of his neck.
That section of the neck had smooth lines and fair skin.
Faintly visible blue blood vessels.
Xie He’s teeth suddenly itched.
He wanted to bite it a little.
“I…” Mr. Xie said in a hoarse voice, “I seem to feel a little unwell.”