Marry the NPC with Money, Wife Comes Knocking - Chapter 13

The function of the glass bead was indeed to be shoved into the security guard’s mouth, resulting in his death.

For players fighting for survival, this step was anything but easy. The security guard wouldn’t open his mouth and wait to be fed. Under normal procedures, a player needed to sacrifice a life, swallowing the glass bead while being devoured by an Anomaly.

That human just now was bait, pushed out by their own companions.

But unfortunately, Anomalies are not pets to be toyed with. No one who tried to be clever survived.

If the person carrying the glass bead was lucky enough to escape to the third floor, that was the extent of their luck. Even though the security guard never left the eighth floor, there were other Anomalies guarding the stairwell, so death was almost certain.

But in Su Sheng’s hands, it was just bad luck for the guard.

Su Sheng took the cup of water from Hua Hua, then took her hand and walked toward the stairwell, steadily climbing to the eighth floor.

The corridor door ahead was open. Outside, a man in a security guard’s uniform sat with a large iron bowl, his face buried in whatever he was eating.

The light stretched his shadow into the open corridor, probably from an old, swaying chandelier, making the shadow on the floor twist and sway.

He smacked his lips as he ate.

Hua Suihe glanced at the cup of water in Su Sheng’s hand. How could she trick him into drinking it?

‘Sir, isn’t it dry just eating? How about some water to moisten your throat?’

She would probably be chased off as a lunatic.

Maybe she could secretly pour it into his food bowl.

Thinking this, Hua Suihe was about to reach for the cup in Su Sheng’s hand when Su Sheng suddenly let go of her and strode directly toward the security guard.

Hua Suihe’s eyes widened instantly. She was stunned for a moment, and by the time she came to her senses, the security guard had already looked up from the iron bowl, his face smeared with ketchup.

Hua Suihe’s heart skipped a beat. She hurried after Su Sheng, wanting to pull him back.

Su Sheng was already standing before the security guard, red eyes swirling with black mist, his tone icy, “Open your mouth.”

Hua Suihe tried to pull him away, “This isn’t-”

“Ah-” The security guard opened his huge bloody mouth.

Su Sheng poured all the water into his mouth at once, then tossed the empty cup into the clean-licked food bowl.

The security guard was very cooperative and immediately slumped over, falling asleep.

Hua Suihe: …

Does this really make sense?

“This drug is… pretty potent.”

Seeing the security guard’s head slumped on the table, Hua Suihe wanted to tentatively poke his shoulder, but her outstretched hand was intercepted by Su Sheng.

“Let’s go. We’re going to the director’s office.”

“Oh, okay.”

Not long after the two of them walked in hand in hand, two other people came up to the eighth floor via the stairs.

Compared to the lower floors, this place seemed almost too normal on the surface.

The whole floor was brightly lit, illuminating every corner. The ‘security guard’ lay slumped over the table, and besides him, there was no sign of any other terrifying Anomaly.

Standing by the closed door were two women: Fang Ge and Yi Shuang.

Fang Ge had been acting alone on the third floor. While searching for a safe elevator, she encountered an Anomaly. She had to use all her strength and exchange items for points to escape its grasp.

After entering the corridor, she ran into several Anomalies devouring a person. They seemed to have caught her scent and were about to turn toward her.

She thought she was doomed to die in the stairwell, but someone appeared out of nowhere and saved her, bringing her to the fifth floor.

The player who saved her was Yi Shuang.

She had never met her before, but she looked like a veteran player.

Her actions were decisive, overly calm, and she could even kill an Anomaly barehanded.

“Kill him.”

Fang Ge, distracted for a moment, was pulled back to her senses. She whispered, “Should I go?”
Yi Shuang lowered her gaze and glanced at her, the meaning in her eyes was clear.

Fang Ge swallowed nervously. She knew that no one would save a stranger in such a dangerous environment for no reason-there must be something they wanted.

Now it was her turn to play her part.

She gripped the knife tightly, steeled herself, and crept toward the security guard, her footsteps utterly silent.

Just as she raised the dagger high, aiming to stab the guard in the neck, a force pulled her shoulder back. Fang Ge was so startled that she turned the knife toward her side.

Even though she struck with all her tense strength, the dagger in her hand was easily snatched away by Yi Shuang.

Yi Shuang shoved the dagger back into her hand. “The guard seems to be dead. Leave it.”

“Find the director’s office.”

Fang Ge numbly responded, her hand trembling as she clutched the dagger. All her strength seemed to drain away in an instant, and her steps grew weak.

“Yi Shuang, how many times have you been through a dungeon?”

Yi Shuang lifted her eyelids, her scrutinizing gaze falling on the woman beside her. She let out a cold laugh and didn’t reply.

Seeing her silence, Fang Ge wisely shut her mouth.

Meanwhile, Hua Suihe and Ye Susheng stood at the door of Room 07, while the room next to 07 was numbered 09-the 08 director’s office was missing.

Hua Suihe pressed herself against the door of Room 07, trying to observe the interior through the small window. “The room numbers are scrambled. Room 08 isn’t here.”

“There are 200 rooms on this floor.”

Hua Suihe glanced at the other room numbers. “Is there really no one here except the security guard?”

Although the corridor was brightly lit, every room was dark. Peering through the small windows, the rooms inside were empty.

Ye Susheng nodded obediently and explained, “The director isn’t in the hospital. He only appears during the day.”

Hua Suihe checked the time on her phone-it was already four in the morning. Time had passed so quickly; she remembered it was just past midnight not long ago.

“No, we need to hurry and find it.”

Their normal conversation echoed clearly in the empty corridor, reaching the ears of the other two living people.

Fang Ge crouched at the corner, peering toward the source of the voices. It was a pink-haired girl and a very familiar White-Haired Girl in a lab coat.

She quickly pulled her head back after just one glance, looking at Yi Shuang and communicating only with her eyes, not daring to make a sound for fear of being noticed.

That was Ye Susheng.

Aside from taking a quest from her in the morning, she hadn’t encountered her at night, but Ye Susheng was definitely the most dangerous Anomaly in the dungeon!

She also remembered the pink-haired girl’s name was Hua Suihe-Ban Ting had said her veterinarian was Ye Susheng, and now that it was past midnight, she still dared to stay with Ye Susheng.

Seeing Hua Suihe and Ye Susheng, Yi Shuang also frowned in thought.

In Ye Susheng’s office on the fourth floor, she had escaped out the window in a hurry and hadn’t managed to pull Hua Suihe along. She thought Hua Suihe had died at Ye Susheng’s hands.

Unexpectedly, she was still alive, and they could even stand together harmoniously.

Fang Ge tugged at Yi Shuang’s clothes, her eyes asking what to do.

Ye Susheng was an Anomaly that couldn’t be killed, not someone they could handle, and she hadn’t expected Ye Susheng to be guarding the eighth floor.

“Room 08. Find it.”

Those two were strange, and their interaction was odd as well. Yi Shuang hadn’t figured out the mystery yet.

For now, the Room 08 they mentioned should be the director’s office.

Find it first-there wasn’t much time left.

For some reason, the flow of time felt off; dawn was approaching quickly.