Marry the NPC with Money, Wife Comes Knocking - Chapter 148

Chapter 148

Scraping off one layer of iron plating every ten minutes was such slow progress that even Ye Susheng felt a little embarrassed. “Hua Hua, this thing is taking a while to dismantle. I don’t know if we’ll be able to break through today.”

Hua Suihe did not mind. “It’s fine. If we can’t get it apart today, we’ll do it tomorrow.”

Ye Susheng’s comfort zone was harvesting living beings. She was not especially practiced at attacking buildings. On top of that, in order to keep her emotions stable, she could not use her Anomalization state, so the black mist was also relatively mild in accordance with its main body’s mood.

For the people inside the Safe Zone, seeing the mountain-sized Iron Head outside being smashed apart was no different from being informed that the countdown to their deaths had begun.

“Waiting to die feels awful.”

“I’m still more used to dying suddenly, without even getting a chance to react. This is like having a blade hanging over my head. I don’t know when it’s going to fall, but I know it definitely will.”

“With them doing this, the defense system doesn’t even have a chance to repair itself.”

“The passage upward is still open. Why hasn’t the main control room activated the strongest defense?”

“It’s been occupied by the people from the Thriller Research Agency. It’s not like you don’t know how they act every time we run into them in a dungeon. They’re always so arrogant, looking down at everyone like we’re beneath them.”

“Huh? Why are there people in the upper zone heading upward? Are they trying to go outside?”

Someone in the surveillance room spotted Pei Ying and Xia Moyi heading out, and the news that people were making their way outside quickly spread. Some of the bolder players began to get restless too.

Before long, more than half the players chose to head upward in search of another way to survive.

After all, death seemed inevitable either way. But after guarding the Safe Zone for so many days, the Anomalies had come wave after wave, the defense system had repaired itself again and again, and they had endured one assault after another.

The Safe Zone was indeed safe, but the players had not received any clearance notification. There was no specific survival duration either. Some could not help suspecting that this dungeon might have some hidden condition they had yet to trigger. If they could not find it inside the Safe Zone, then perhaps it was outside.

Besides, Peanut had always held a high position on the points leaderboard. Her points had only ever increased and never decreased, proving that she cleared every dungeon she entered.

If she was doing this now, she must have her reasons.

With that thought, aside from the small number of cautious and pessimistic players who were still wavering, everyone else headed upward.

Xia Moyi had not expected so many tails to follow behind them. She and Pei Ying moved quickly and reached the conveyor belt first.

When Pei Ying saw her start the conveyor belt and immediately step onto it, he hesitated for two seconds before following her. He could not help asking, “We can’t see what’s going on outside from here. What if we go out and come face-to-face with the Life-Taking Scythe?”

The moment Xia Moyi heard that, she immediately crouched down and curled herself into a ball. “You’re only saying that now? Don’t jinx it. It’s not like we can really die anyway, so what’s there to be scared of?”

That was what she said, but the way Xia Moyi crouched there hugging herself made it clear she treasured her life very much.

After a wait that was both brief and agonizingly long, the world before them brightened. As soon as they came out, a sheet of iron plating crashed down right in front of Pei Ying.

Falling debris from above.

Xia Moyi raised her voice toward the sky. “Sister Ah He!”

In the next second, Pei Ying used a Short-Distance Teleportation Talisman to take her to a safe distance.

At the same time, another even larger sheet of iron plating smashed down where they had just been standing.

Hua Suihe was having so much fun with the bombs, and the explosions were so loud, that standing up high with Ye Susheng, she did not hear Xia Moyi call out at all.

Ye Susheng had naturally sensed it, but she had a wicked streak and simply chose not to say anything.

It was not until Hua Suihe got bored and stopped playing that she looked down and suddenly discovered, beneath the dented mass of iron, a line of people madly running outward.
“Huh?” Hua Suihe clutched Ye Susheng’s sleeve and tugged, signaling for her to look down. “Ye Zi, stop for a second. The people in the Safe Zone are evacuating outward.”

Ye Susheng curled her lip. “At least they know to run. Guess they’re not that stupid.”

They weren’t demolishing the Safe Zone very quickly, and with all the commotion, the people inside had a chance to escape. That was well within Hua Suihe’s expectations. “If they don’t run, they’ll be buried inside.”

Ye Susheng didn’t care about them. This dungeon wasn’t her responsibility, and it wasn’t a high-risk dungeon, so there was no death-rate requirement. Right now, all she wanted was for Hua Hua to hurry up, end the dungeon, and shut down the livestream. “Should we keep tearing it down?”

Hua Suihe didn’t answer. She had spotted someone waving frantically at her. “That looks like Xia Moyi.”

Ye Susheng gave a reluctant hum. “It’s her.”

“Let’s go over there first.” Hua Suihe wrapped both arms around Ye Susheng’s waist. “Come on, come on.”

Their figures blurred, and in the next instant, the two of them landed in front of Xia Moyi.

The people fleeing outward had hidden far away, as if ghosts were chasing them from behind.

Only Xia Moyi and Pei Ying remained out in the open on the flat ground. When Ye Susheng appeared before them with Hua Suihe, Pei Ying warily took two steps back.

Xia Moyi took two steps forward, but only calmed down when she met Ye Susheng’s warning gaze. “Sister Ah He, Sister Ye Susheng.”

Back when they had been neighbors, whenever Xia Moyi made tasty desserts or cookies and the like, she would take the initiative to visit and had managed to mooch a few meals. Even though she knew Ye Susheng didn’t like her, she wasn’t quite as afraid anymore.

With Sister Ah He around, Ye Susheng seemed rather like a normal person.

Hua Suihe was a little surprised. “You’re in this dungeon too? You’re not hurt, are you?”

“No. We have a bit of technology and a few tricks.”

Hua Suihe nodded in understanding, then looked toward the man standing more than three meters away and greeted him first. “We meet again, Mr. Pei Ying.”

Pei Ying looked somewhat awkward. He walked a few steps forward, closing the distance. “Hello.”

“Sister Ah He, I came out to tell you that that garbage Agency sent someone to capture you. You have to be careful.”

Hua Suihe gave a faint “oh” and commented evenly, “They’re certainly persistent.”

Ye Susheng’s gaze instantly sharpened. The hateful face from the last dungeon surfaced in her mind, and she asked coldly, “Where are they?”

“I didn’t expect so many people to run out, but she should still be inside. She brought a lot of strange things with her. Sister Ah He, you should stay farther away from the Safe Zone.”

Some of the items developed by World Eye were even more advanced than the talisman card exchanged from the points shop. The fact that Shanhu could enter and leave dungeons freely as a non-player meant she could also take people out of a dungeon.

Xia Moyi’s expression was grave. “They’re an evil organization. If they catch you, they’ll definitely use you for human experiments.”

“I understand. Thank you, Moyi.”

Black Cotton Candy wrapped several more loops around Hua Suihe’s waist, and the hand clasped with Hua Suihe’s tightened as well, revealing the tension in Ye Susheng’s heart.

“Hua Hua, let’s tear down the Safe Zone first. Once the dungeon ends, we’ll leave right away.”

Last time, in the Cruise Ship dungeon, when Song Qiyue had tried to take Hua Hua away, he hadn’t been able to leave the dungeon’s range directly. He could only wait for the dungeon to end by drifting at sea. But now, they had come prepared. If they succeeded, they would definitely take Hua Hua out of the dungeon.

She absolutely could not allow that kind of accident to happen.

Hua Suihe pinched her cheek. “Don’t get angry, be good.”

The red cracks had climbed upward and already reached her jawline.