Marry the NPC with Money, Wife Comes Knocking - Chapter 138

Chapter 138

Song Qiyue saw right through Ye Susheng’s thoughts, but he felt no fear. After standing up, he lowered his eyes to look at Hua Suihe and silently mouthed: “I’m taking you with me.”

Hua Suihe couldn’t read his lips, so she turned her head away, refusing to look at him.

Faced with his silence after standing up, Ye Susheng ruthlessly slammed the Extinguish Light button. Standing up without speaking was considered a violation of the rules.

However, the button on Song Qiyue’s table remained lit, unchanged.

The atmosphere in the room froze for a moment. Seeing him standing there perfectly fine, Ye Susheng frowned and slammed the Extinguish Light button two more times, confused by the situation.

The light in front of Hua Suihe flickered for a second. Sensing something, she looked down at her own table; the button that had been glowing was now dark.

Hua Suihe blinked blankly. …Huh?

Did the circuit break?

But before she could think further, her vision went black, and she vanished from her seat instantly.

Ye Susheng noticed Hua Suihe’s abnormality immediately. Her black mist lunged toward her but caught nothing; Hua Hua had simply disappeared into thin air.

“Hua Hua!” Ye Susheng’s face turned pale. She teleported to Hua Suihe’s seat, her black mist spreading outward to feel for spatial fluctuations and track Hua Hua’s scent.

But there was nothing. Even the black mist she had left on Hua Hua showed no reaction; she couldn’t sense her at all.

Ye Susheng panicked completely. She reached out and grabbed Song Qiyue’s neck. Failing to control her strength, she made his bones creak. Song Qiyue’s face turned a deep purple as he instinctively struggled.

Ye Susheng’s eyes were blood-red, and her silver hair drifted as if caught in a windless gale. She demanded harshly, “Is this your doing? Where did you hide Hua Hua!”

Song Qiyue smiled silently, a trace of blood trickling from the corner of his mouth. He repeated what he had just mouthed: “I… am taking… her… away…”

As soon as he finished speaking, his entire body dissipated from Ye Susheng’s grip, turning into specks of starlight that scattered away. Ye Susheng was left clutching empty air.

He was gone.

He said he was taking Hua Hua away.

Ye Susheng was at a loss. Her black mist expanded and surged. The players in the room shrank under their tables in terror, while the other six colleagues on stage were crushed by her Psychic Power, unable to stand straight as they began to show their mutated forms.

The giant monsters that had been peering through the windows of the Cruise Ship quickly sank back into the deep sea. The entire Cruise Ship was shrouded in steaming black mist.

Ye Susheng forced herself to calm down. That man hadn’t finished his task, so he couldn’t have cleared the game. This meant he was still locked within the dungeon Cruise Ship, which in turn meant Hua Hua was still here too.

However, just as she was about to search for Hua Suihe, a spatial rift tore open in front of her, and an invisible hand pulled her inside.

Ye Susheng’s pupils contracted for a split second before she was pulled into the Thriller Consciousness Space, completely caught off guard.

Red patterns flickered on Ye Susheng’s face-a sign that she was on the verge of mutating. “Let me out!”

Meanwhile, the mysteriously vanished Hua Suihe found herself in a pitch-black environment.

She tried to feel her surroundings, but she felt as if she were floating, unable to control her body or breathe. It felt exactly like drowning.

Just as she was about to suffocate, a hand grabbed her wrist and pulled her upward with a powerful jerk.

Hua Suihe collapsed onto the ground, coughing violently and gasping for air. She was soaking wet and took a long time to recover.

Hua Suihe looked up at the well-dressed man and said in a hoarse voice, “I don’t recall ever offending you, Song Qiyue.”

Song Qiyue carefully touched the red marks on his neck, hissing slightly in pain before speaking to Hua Suihe. “I told you, I will definitely take you away.”
“I just didn’t expect the teleportation point to be slightly off, causing you to take a dip. But as long as you’re okay, that’s all that matters.”

Hua Suihe scanned her surroundings and took a quick peek at her backpack. The Eye of Fate had already been used to collect the Storybook, but the Truth Serum and the Life-Saving Talisman remained unused.

Hua Suihe activated the Truth Serum and then asked, “Where is this?”

“This is a Life Pod. We can leave now.”

Hua Suihe looked out through one of the circular glass portholes. She could see a faint glow-bioluminescent deep-sea creatures. The Life Pod had already detached from the Cruise Ship.

“Where are you taking me?”

Song Qiyue answered candidly, “The Thriller Research Agency. We need you.”

“We have been working hard to mitigate the spread of the Thriller, but the results have been less than ideal. Now, human survival is under serious threat.”

“Miss Hua, you are a special human being. I apologize for the aggressive nature of my actions in taking you away, but please understand-we need you.”

[Holy… crap.]

[You’re quite the clever one, aren’t you? Daring to snatch Hua Hua away right in front of Ye Susheng.]

[Song Qi is known in the game for being a smooth talker with a silver tongue, but seeing him use this moral kidnapping routine on my Hua makes me really want to punch someone.]

[Is this mysterious Agency going to slice Hua Hua up for research?]

Hua Suihe remained emotionally stable. She stood up, feeling a bit chilled from being soaked. First, she wrung the water out of her hair, then she began squeezing the moisture from her clothes.

Watching her movements, Song Qiyue felt slightly embarrassed. “Sorry, I’ll have to ask you to endure this discomfort for now.”

Hua Suihe looked out the window again and asked him, “How can you be sure the Life Pod can leave the boundaries of the dungeon?”

“Because I know the plot that needs to be presented at this Discussion Meeting.”

Song Qiyue checked the time and sat casually on the floor. “I’ve put a lot of thought into this Life Pod over the last few days. Doing this might not necessarily succeed, but following the main quest line properly definitely won’t.”

“The hosts of this Time-Space Cruise Ship, the Seven Young Masters and Misses-they all lost their lives due to various hardships. Those are merely their stories.”

“The real protagonists are us, the players in this dungeon.”

Song Qiyue gave a mocking smile. “This dungeon itself never intended to leave a way out for the players.”

As the protagonists, were the players supposed to discuss their own plots at the Discussion Meeting? Of course not.

Instead, after the players understood the causes of death for the Seven Young Masters and Misses through various clues, they-as the protagonists-were meant to project those past stories onto themselves during the meeting.

In other words, they had to die once according to those specific methods of death.

Since they had to die once, to what extent would they have to go to achieve a conceptual death and successfully clear the game?

Given how strict the seven Judges on stage were, how much would the people below have to do to satisfy them?

No matter what, it was a dead end.

“The path we’ve chosen now is a path to life.”

Perhaps…

The window in front of Hua Suihe was suddenly obscured by a black object. The light inside the pod was sufficient to clearly see what was pressed against the glass: massive, writhing suckers and razor-sharp teeth.

Hua Suihe took a step back. “Whoa…”

The Life Pod was like a leaf drifting in the wind, snatched up and shaken by the creature.

Hua Suihe fell back onto the floor, watching helplessly as terrifying serrated teeth pierced the Life Pod, and seawater began to pour in.