LGSG Chapter 6
by VolareShen Hua: “…”
The moment he was stared at by Mr. Xie felt like sinking to the bottom of a lake and encountering an unimaginable creature, chilling and terrifying. Without Xia Ran’s introduction, Shen Hua already knew the identity of this sickly young man in a wheelchair.
Holy crap! It’s the instance BOSS!
Not kneeling down on the spot was already the result of Shen Hua’s great effort. Being stared at by Mr. Xie, his legs went weak, and cold sweat poured down. He instantly sensed the undisguised murderous intent of this instance monster.
Although he knew that “Six-Sided Dice” was an Infinite Flow game, and the difficulty of the instances was related to life and death, Shen Hua hadn’t felt this way before encountering the instance BOSS. His previous encounters had been thrilling but without real danger.
But this was different.
He realized that the monster genuinely harbored malice towards humans.
Xia Ran, holding the roses, vaguely sensed that Mr. Xie’s emotions were off. A chilling remark reflected a deeper and truer side beneath the gentle, smiling facade. It even carried a negative emotion. This made him briefly stunned, missing a good opportunity to explain.
Mr. Xie coughed violently: “Cough cough cough cough…”
The butler drifted out like a ghost.
He worriedly said, “Sir, you are too close to the outside.”
Mr. Xie retracted his gaze: “You’re right, take me back to my room.”
From beginning to end, he didn’t look at Xia Ran again.
He just turned and left.
Shen Hua felt a chill in his heart, realizing that the instance BOSS might have misunderstood something. He didn’t want to do a good deed that backfired, not only failing to help Xia Ran but also lowering the instance BOSS’s favorability towards him.
“Um…” Shen Hua carefully poked Xia Ran, “Dude, are you okay?”
Xia Ran, holding the roses, his pale skin revealing a glass-like fragility against the deep red roses, pressed his lips tightly together, staring silently in the direction Mr. Xie left.
Until Shen Hua poked him back to his senses.
“I’m fine,” Xia Ran said blankly, “Am I off work?”
Shen Hua: “…”
You’ve got the wrong focus!
“Sir seems a little angry?” Shen Hua hinted.
Xia Ran: “It seems so. Why?”
He stared with wide eyes, honestly looking at Shen Hua, his expression serious.
Shen Hua: “… I don’t know either.”
He felt that humans probably couldn’t understand monsters’ thought patterns.
Unable to get an answer from Shen Hua, Xia Ran looked down at the roses: “Sir hasn’t received the gift yet.”
His tone faintly revealed disappointment.
Shen Hua: “I understand!”
He smiled ingratiatingly and snatched the roses from Xia Ran’s arms.
“Dude, some of these flowers already have fallen petals. I’ll go back and make sachets for you, okay?”
Xia Ran: “You can make sachets?”
Shen Hua: “When you’re wandering the world, you gotta know a little bit of everything, hehe. But that’s not the point. The point is I know why your Mr. Xie is angry.”
Shen Hua was still lingeringly frightened by that gaze and really didn’t want to get involved between the two of them.
He pushed Xia Ran to the rose field.
“Sir is angry because I gave you roses. We don’t need to worry about why he’s angry. I think if you personally pick roses and give them to him, Mr. Xie might be happier.”
Xia Ran: “…”
He wanted to say that although he liked Mr. Xie very much, even a little obsessed, the joys and sorrows of a paper figure were not within the scope of his liking. Xia Ran didn’t plan to coax Mr. Xie, but since Shen Hua had provided a solution, he naturally wouldn’t refuse. After all, everyone wants their favorite character to be positive, sunny, and happy.
“I will,” Xia Ran said.
Shen Hua breathed a sigh of relief.
He said goodbye to Xia Ran, saying he was going back to make dried flowers and sew sachets.
In fact, Shen Hua was half fooling Xia Ran with the method just now. But he instinctively felt that only Xia Ran could soothe the instance BOSS’s anger.
And Shen Hua had a terrible guess as to why the other party was angry. It was too terrible, and he didn’t dare to think about it. So he simply fooled Xia Ran and fooled himself.
Walking back, the moonlight was bright tonight.
When Shen Hua passed the lake, he didn’t see One-Eye.
He instantly quickened his pace.
He didn’t know how to describe the feeling at that moment.
Until he was almost to the dormitory building when someone patted him on the shoulder.
“Yo.”
A clear, youthful voice.
Shen Hua jumped in fright, turned his head, and found one of the players he had flirted with yesterday.
Curly hair, a baby face, but tall, with a bit of a mixed-race look.
“Mu Jingyao, why are you behind me?” Shen Hua said, “Are you still working at night?”
In fact, Mu Jingyao was quite nice, at least he didn’t show any contempt towards Shen Hua.
There was a contempt chain among the “Six-Sided Dice” players, with older players seeing new players as disposable tools, so they naturally didn’t have a good attitude. Shen Hua had wandered around yesterday, and most of the time he was met with cold faces, so he was very grateful to the cold-faced but warm-hearted Xia Ran.
But Shen Hua had a bit of a fearful attitude towards Mu Jingyao.
Mu Jingyao’s smile wasn’t sincere, it was too fake.
And his behavior was a little neurotic.
Mu Jingyao raised an eyebrow: “Is that guy going to give the BOSS roses?”
Shen Hua: “You mean Xia Ran?”
He suddenly realized something was wrong.
“You were there?”
“Yeah,” Mu Jingyao nodded seriously, “You were yelling so loudly in the corridor, a lot of people were watching your show.”
Shen Hua: “You guys…!”
He inexplicably felt a sense of humiliation.
These people watched him being chased by the monster so miserably, and they were all watching the show in the dark?!
Weren’t they just treating him like a monkey to watch?!
“Don’t be so angry, little newbie,” Mu Jingyao patted Shen Hua’s cheek, “We also have to evaluate your value. If we save a waste, what’s the difference between that and throwing props down the drain?”
Shen Hua: “…”
A breath stuck in his throat.
He knew that there was no kindness in Infinite Flow.
But this twisted value system made Shen Hua a little breathless. Because he had to agree with the survival rules revealed in Mu Jingyao’s words.
Mu Jingyao said: “So, can you tell me what Xia Ran is doing giving roses?”
Shen Hua said stiffly: “A gift.”
“A gift?” Mu Jingyao raised one eyebrow, his eyes looking down with a kind of mockery, “It’s fine if you new players don’t know, but does that guy named Xia Ran not know?”
Mu Jingyao’s main focus in the instance was Xia Ran and Shen Hua. The latter was mainly because he, as a new player, was too conspicuous and eye-catching, and not only One-Eye but probably many people had the idea of using Shen Hua as a blood bag. But Xia Ran was different. Xia Ran’s specialty was his calm attitude and the specialty of his identity card.
A player who can work peacefully and calmly under the BOSS is definitely not a newbie.
Where would a newbie have this kind of psychological quality?
Mu Jingyao and the other players also didn’t think that Xia Ran was sincerely treating the instance BOSS.
Sure enough, they saw the scene of Xia Ran preparing to give the BOSS “roses”!
“Do you know that the roses in Sui Yuan Ju have a special name?” Mu Jingyao smiled, “They’re called ‘Chains’. Guess who they’re chaining?”
Shen Hua: “Wait… no way…”
Mu Jingyao: “Not bad. It’s a prop that the game releases to restrain the BOSS.”
Shen Hua: “…”
Shen Hua was dumbfounded.
Then why would the dude give the BOSS roses?!
Isn’t that just poisoning?
“Right. I knew he was planning something. Oh my god, this idea is so crazy and so great! A player with such great strength and ability, if he’s a newbie, it’s impossible for him to do something like restrain the BOSS with chains, right?” The more Mu Jingyao spoke, the more excited he became, and a morbid flush appeared on his face. “What will we see tomorrow? A notice of the player being erased by the rules after failing, or a stage clear completion screen caused by the BOSS’s death?”
Shen Hua frowned.
His intuition told him that something was wrong. After all, the suggestion to give roses was indirectly thought up by him to help Xia Ran. But if it was really as Mu Jingyao said, the dude must know the effect of the chains, right? Is he really planning to play along and duel with the BOSS? But no matter which possibility, at least when the instance BOSS sees the poison that restrains him, he will definitely be furious and want to kill the dude!
“The dude is in danger!” Shen Hua subconsciously wanted to run back and stop Xia Ran.
Mu Jingyao stopped him: “Are you crazy? Can you beat the instance BOSS?”
Shen Hua: “…”
He really couldn’t.
Just one look from the instance BOSS could make Shen Hua’s legs tremble.
Mu Jingyao patted him: “I also think Xia Ran’s brain circuit is very unique. He actually dares to provoke the instance BOSS.”
“I don’t know if he’s missing a screw, or just purely crazy. But it has nothing to do with you, a newbie.”
“You can barely protect yourself.”
Shen Hua dejectedly went back to his room after Mu Jingyao left.
He could only desperately comfort himself that the dude never did anything he wasn’t sure of. He would just be making trouble if he went.
That night was a sleepless night.
Everyone was curious about how Xia Ran managed to do something so awesome as to provoke the BOSS.
And they were also looking forward to whether he could survive.
As a result, they stayed up all night for this.
The next day, Mu Jingyao, with huge dark circles under his eyes, knocked on Shen Hua’s door.
Shen Hua hadn’t rested well either, and had slept a confused sleep.
But he didn’t expect Mu Jingyao to be even more haggard than him.
Shen Hua: “You weren’t waiting for news all night, were you?”
Mu Jingyao rubbed his temples: “Why isn’t there any movement?”
If the BOSS was angry, logically speaking, they should have heard fighting sounds.
If the BOSS wasn’t angry, why hadn’t Xia Ran come back all night?
Mu Jingyao had been looking forward to it all night, and couldn’t figure it out, and now his head was about to explode.
“Brain is a mess…” he gritted his teeth, not knowing who he was cursing.
Shen Hua said worriedly: “Why don’t we go and find out the situation?”
Mu Jingyao glanced at him, Shen Hua had said what was on his mind. This feeling of eating melon seeds and not having a follow-up was too uncomfortable!
But he couldn’t seem so eager, it would lower his status.
He deliberately mocked: “It’s just right to collect the body for your dude.”
Shen Hua silently treated the crazy person as air.
As soon as he pushed the door open.
Whirr—
The heads of the nine players other than One-Eye squeezed at the door.
Staring at Shen Hua with wide eyes.
Their mental state was the same as Mu Jingyao’s.
Dark circles, tired and haggard.
Shen Hua: “…”
Shen Hua covered his face.
Dude, your operation is really too awesome!
This is a little too much of a spectacle!
A fat player with dark circles under his eyes muttered: “Why would someone actively provoke an NPC to seek death?”
“Crazy!”
*
A group of people sneaked towards the Bamboo Pavilion.
And Xia Ran, whose life and death everyone was concerned about, was standing at the door of Mr. Xie’s bedroom.
Holding newly picked roses in his arms.
“Mr. Xie, may I come in?”
The young man on the bed opened his eyes.
He felt inexplicably unwell today, as if someone had strangled his throat. After becoming an instance BOSS, Mr. Xie rarely experienced such human pain again.
His already pale face was even paler now.
Mr. Xie sat up laboriously, lowering his eyes.
Thinking, although he hadn’t slept in a long time.
But this didn’t look like a good night’s sleep.
His gaze slowly moved upward.
Mr. Xie saw a fragrant rose hanging on the bedside.
Mr. Xie: “…”
Mr. Xie: “…”
“Please come in,” he said hoarsely with a cold face.
The black-haired young man holding the roses happily came in.
“Did you sleep well?” Xia Ran said.
Mr. Xie looked at the roses in his arms: “This is…”
Xia Ran said shyly: “I didn’t have time to tell Mr. Xie yesterday, this is a gift I prepared for you.”
Mr. Xie glanced at the rose hanging on the bedside that had poisoned him.
And then looked at the culprit again.
“Very good,” Mr. Xie said through gritted teeth.
Xia Ran’s eyes lit up.
He said the gift was very good, and he gave the right gift!
He walked to Mr. Xie’s side with concern.
“Why is your face so pale?” Xia Ran touched Mr. Xie’s forehead, “So cold!”
[Should I put some long johns on Mr. Xie?]
[But this sickly Mr. Xie is still charming, drool drool—]
The overly frivolous inner voice was very incongruous with the black-haired young man in front of him. He had always been calm and taciturn, and even now that he was testing Mr. Xie’s temperature, he was just lowering his eyes indifferently.
His dark eyelashes were cast on his fair skin, like butterfly wings. Mr. Xie raised his eyes, his gaze falling on his lips.
Rosy, full. Clearly much more beautiful than roses.
Mr. Xie had a moment of distraction, and inexplicably hummed “Mmm.”
After humming, he realized what he had agreed to.
Looking at the red long johns that Xia Ran had pulled out from somewhere, he fell into silence.
Mr. Xie: “…”