Where's the cute girl we were promised? She's completely wiped out S-rank dungeons!

After being pulled into the black hole, Song Yuan clearly felt the temperature around her change; the two of them were teleported into the air, and just before landing, she helped Qiao Ran up, and the two of them landed steadily on the ground.

"what!"

Qiao Ran gasped and placed her hand on her chest, touching her heart.

"How could this happen? Where am I... bang!"

Before he could finish speaking, a bullet struck near his feet. Qiao Ran immediately crouched down, leaning against the wall, and warily peered into the darkness before him.

Could the person with the gun be...?

Before they could think it through, a familiar male voice yelled at them:

"Who! Who's standing there!"

No way? That voice is... He Xiao?!

Song Yuan and Qiao Ran were stunned for a moment, but Qiao Ran got into character first; her eyes immediately became incredibly affectionate, she interlocked her fingers and placed them on her chest, and cried out in a voice trembling with emotion:

"Baby! Is that you?! It's me! Can't you recognize my voice?"

Song Yuan glanced at him in surprise in the darkness:

Seriously?! How could you even say that? And how do you know how He Xiao and Zhao Meng address each other in private?! What if they called each other the wrong thing?

In the darkness, He Xiao's fierce gaze actually relaxed slightly, and he said uncertainly:

"Zhao Meng?"

Qiao Ran: "It's me, baby! And why did you call me by my name directly? I've had such a hard time these past two days, and there are so many things I haven't told you, sob sob... And why wasn't my concern the first thing you did? Don't you care about me at all?! Sob sob..."

Song Yuan: "..."

Wow, this guy is amazing! So he can bring any character to life so vividly?

After complaining, Song Yuan followed behind Qiao Ran and spoke up:

"It's me, Song Yuan."

Perhaps hearing Zhao Meng's familiar love-struck words, He Xiao's guard lowered slightly. However, his attitude remained violent; he raised his gun and fired a shot at the two of them from a random direction.

"Explain yourself! What are you two doing here?!"

The bullet struck near Song Yuan's feet, yet she remained standing, unmoved and fearless. She was just a little confused:

When did He Xiao's temper become so bad?

Although he wasn't usually a calm person, she felt that his current state was abnormal; he was breathing heavily and making a constant hissing noise.

[Ding~ Player "He Xiao" please note, player "He Xiao" please note]

[Your mental strength is about to drop below 15! You are about to enter the alienation stage!]

Please leave this scene as soon as possible!

He Xiao was already anxious, and hearing the system's notification in his mind only made things worse.

Just as Song Yuan was pondering how to fool He Xiao, Qiao Ran tugged at her cuff—right, they hadn't agreed on a story before they arrived. In a situation like this, only one person could speak, otherwise they'd easily be exposed.

After withdrawing her hand, Qiao Ran cleared her throat and began to sob:

"Ugh, why are you being so fierce! We went through so much trouble to find you! Ever since that night..."

Song Yuan remained silent, wanting to observe her surroundings and determine where she was:

It was pitch black here, truly so dark you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. The surrounding air was exceptionally cold, mixed with a damp, musty smell—the season setting for this instance was summer, and although Song Yuan's little black dress was originally a bit stuffy, she still felt noticeably cool here.

According to her and Qiao Ran's original assumptions, He Xiao should have already had his health bar completely devoured by the monsters. And where are the monsters?! Where did those monsters that were chasing He Xiao go?

She raised her hand, making a circle with her arm as the radius, and her fingertips touched something cold and soft:

It's soil, moist soil—this is a wall made of soil.

I probed around with my foot again and seemed to touch something hard. But its shape didn't quite resemble a stone...

Her mind raced, and in the next second she immediately guessed where they were:

Isn't this the mass grave behind the school?!

Her feet didn't touch a stone, but rather the white human bones at the bottom of the pit.

While she was exploring her surroundings, Qiao Ran started spouting nonsense. He said that he had been kidnapped and imprisoned by a monster that night, and that his experience there was incredibly miserable. Then Song Yuan arrived, and after learning that he was He Xiao's man, she took him out.

He Xiao listened with skepticism. Actually, the timing of "Zhao Meng's" appearance was quite inappropriate. He was on the verge of death, and it was uncertain whether he could even escape this instance. How could he be in the mood to pursue women? Of course, he couldn't possibly have a good attitude towards Zhao Meng.

"You two had better be telling the truth!"

Qiao Ran: "Seriously, what are you saying! I'm your girlfriend, of course I'm here to save you! If you keep being so indifferent to me, I'm not going to talk to you anymore!"

Song Yuan calmly said, "What I'm more interested in is that when we entered the mountain just now, we were suddenly sucked into the ground by an unknown force. Do you know why? Or did you get in the same way?"

He Xiao was taken aback by her retort and could only angrily retort, "Since when did it become your place to ask so many questions! You've come at the perfect time, hurry up and think of a way to get out of this godforsaken place!"

Song Yuan: "I don't have any clues at all. How am I supposed to figure out a way out? Tell me the whole story of how you got here so I can deduce how to get out."

He Xiao, panting heavily, slowly lowered the gun—it wasn't that he didn't want to talk about it, but the experience of being "played by a coward like Cui Xiaofei" was just too humiliating. His livestream chat was filled with mockery; his uncle was sure to give him a good scolding when he got out!

Of course, he didn't know that he wasn't the only one playing tricks on him. He also didn't know that Fu Zhengyang was already furious.

After hesitating for a moment, He Xiao decided to alter some of the facts before telling Song Yuan and Zhao Meng.

Although he looked down on women, losing face in front of them was something he couldn't accept. Anyway, once he finished the game, he'd kill those two women.

Especially Zhao Meng, if it weren't for trying to show off in front of this stupid woman, how could he have ended up like this! These two women had better pray that he killed them in the dungeon. If they were to leave... well, Song Yuan and Zhao Meng are both quite pretty, especially Zhao Meng. He could just give her away as a gift to the Crystal Guild members.

How did he get in?

This all started when that idiot Cui Xiaofei betrayed him, causing him to miss his shot and the NPC's screams attracted a large wave of monsters to chase him down—He Xiao omitted the part about Cui Xiaofei's betrayal and went straight to what happened after he was chased down.

His weapon—a revolver—had now been upgraded to Grade A, with unlimited ammo, zero recoil, and the ability to fire in rapid succession. He kept shooting at the monsters rushing towards him, but they kept reviving. And when he finally realized what was happening, he discovered they seemed to be driving him somewhere.

He couldn't struggle and was thus driven up the mountain behind the school. The monsters all carried torches, but the torches went out automatically as soon as they entered the forest.

He Xiao and Qiao Ran, disguised as Cui Xiaofei, had been here once, but it was during the day. He didn't know that there was absolutely no light here at night. The tree canopy completely blocked the moonlight, making it impossible to see anything. When he turned on the lighting equipment, the system kept prompting him in his mind:

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[Ding~ This item cannot be used in this scene either~]

[Ding~ This item is also unavailable in this scenario~]

He was furious and desperate. Everything was black, except for the countless monsters behind him with their fluorescent green eyes, smelling the fresh flesh on him, rushing towards him with frenzied rage.

In the darkness, shooting accuracy was greatly reduced. The distance between the monster and He Xiao was also closing rapidly. Just as he was panicking and running for his life, his footing gave way, and he fell into a large pit, six or seven meters deep, on the shady side of the hillside.

"Aaaaaah!!!"