Chapter 28

Chapter 28: Have You Heard of the Vacation Resort?

In the infinite game, no matter when, you could never easily trust NPCs. Otherwise, you would definitely receive a painful lesson.

After hearing that this sewer drain was not actually the escape exit, a trace of lingering fear flashed across Shen Xuan’s face. Just now, he had been eager to jump down immediately. Fortunately, Big Sister had told him to wait a little longer.

Ning Rong looked at the big boss and said meaningfully, “Doing business requires honesty.”

They had discussed things properly before—she would pay three months of wages for the employees, and the boss would send the other players out of the game. Yet the other party had immediately turned around and brought them to the wrong escape location, completely lacking integrity. No wonder she had managed the hotel into such a state.

The big boss knew she was in the wrong, so she said nothing and silently led them onward.

Shen Xuan could not help leaning over and asking, “Um... how did you know that just now was the wrong escape exit?”

Ning Rong said calmly, “Because I saw an escape exit in the last game. The feeling was different from that one.”

Shen Xuan and the others: !!!

As expected of the thigh they were clinging to. She had actually found the escape exit in her previous instance too!

You had to know, she had only cleared one game in total! She was still a newcomer! Yet the instances she cleared had all been passed using the simplest method.

Shen Xuan shamelessly asked, “Um, may I ask... do you already have a little brother?”

Ning Rong replied casually, “I do.”

Zhou Yujing: ???

He paused slightly. “Rongrong, the little brother you mean is?”

【Dying laughing hahaha, a love battlefield always appears when you least expect it.】

【Who would have thought Shen Xuan would bring up the little brother topic? Interesting, truly interesting!】

【Zhou Yujing is panicking. He really is panicking.】

Ning Rong said, “I met him in the last instance.”

Zhou Yujing lowered his eyes and gave an oh. “You carried him through the game?”

Ning Rong said, “Mm.” She glanced at Zhou Yujing. “He told me a lot of useful information about the game beforehand, which saved me from taking many detours.”

【Tsk tsk tsk. You went through the last instance with Tired Tired, while your girlfriend went through hers with a little brother. Any problem with that? No problem at all!】

【Lu Wen was genuinely a qualified little brother.】

【When will the newbie bring Lu Wen into another game? Want to see the love battlefield.】

【Wen Huai is good at flattering, but Lu Wen is also good at it, and very perceptive. By then, will our newbie’s official boyfriend Mr. Zhou Yujing die of jealousy?】

【No need to wait until later. He already looks like he’s about to die of jealousy now.】

Shen Xuan wanted to ask whether Ning Rong minded having one more little brother, but after glancing at Zhou Yujing’s expression, he ultimately did not dare ask.

Wen Huai carefully moved closer and asked, “Rich big sister, can I add you as a friend after we leave the game?”

Ning Rong did not have a bad impression of Wen Huai. In addition, the other party’s skill, [Eyes of the Future], was indeed very useful, so she answered directly, “Yes.”

Wen Huai’s eyes curved with happiness. She had just wanted to ask what Ning Rong’s name was outside the game when the boss brought them to their destination.

This was another unused kitchen, bright and spotless, clean and tidy.

Compared with the back kitchen just now, even the air here seemed much fresher.

The boss gestured with her eyes toward the drain here and said, “It’s this one.”

After speaking, she added another sentence. “This time it is definitely the real escape exit.”

Under the effect of the skill, Ning Rong did not think the boss would still bring them to the wrong place.

“Who’s jumping first?”

Shen Xuan stepped forward first. Before jumping, he did not forget to confirm one more time.

“Then, sis, I’m jumping?”

That “sis” slipped out unconsciously, naturally.

As if he had long since been won over by Ning Rong’s strength.

Ning Rong said, “Jump.”

Out of trust in Ning Rong, after receiving her approval, Shen Xuan did not hesitate and jumped straight down.

The next second, a mechanical voice sounded in the minds of all surviving players present.

[Player Shen Xuan successfully escaped.]

After him, it quickly became the others’ turn.

[Player Mu Xiaoyu successfully escaped.]

[Player Ji Ze successfully escaped.]

[Player Wen Sheng successfully escaped.]

After a string of successful escape notifications, it was finally Wen Huai’s turn.

She said reluctantly, “Sis, my name is Wen Huai. Wen as in gentle warmth, Huai as in the scholar tree. After we get out, remember to add me as a friend, or I can add you too. Your name is...”

The response she got was the boss’s merciless kick that sent her out.

【Dying laughing.】

【In some ways, Wen Huai really is quite similar to Lu Wen.】

【Lu Wen was even more reluctant in the last game, looking totally unwilling to leave.】

【This is Big Sister’s personal charm.】

The irrelevant people had finally all left. The boss looked at Ning Rong and said, “Now, can you let me see your financial strength first?”

When the escape notifications rang one after another, Tired Tired and the others were still fleeing all over the first-floor lobby.

After one batch of NPCs had been blown away, more NPCs continued to come down through the stairwell endlessly. These NPCs were infinite, as if no matter what, they could never be blown away completely. They seemed to all have the same face, with the same numb and hollow expression.

The guest NPCs were already hard enough to deal with, not to mention that mixed among them were the front desk clerk and a group of lust ghosts.

Compared with the guest NPCs, the front desk clerk’s lethality was obviously much higher. Clearly, working the front desk in this hotel had filled her with grievances toward the job, and she wished she could fire the boss on the spot.

If she couldn’t get rid of the boss, couldn’t she at least get rid of these players?

She guarded the stairwell, preventing Tired Tired and the others from leaving through there.

Just as Tired Tired was about to use a second large-scale destructive item, she heard the prompt that Shen Xuan had successfully escaped.

Then came the others. It could be said that within three minutes, five players had successfully left.

Teacher Dan could not help but say in surprise, “Did they find the escape exit?” Otherwise, it was impossible for them to clear the game so quickly.

Having held on until now, A Leng’s mentality completely collapsed. “I want to go to the escape exit too! I don’t want to stay here anymore!”

While using an item to hold back the NPCs’ advance, Teacher Dan shouted loudly, “No one wants to stay here, A Leng. The more it is times like this, the less we can throw ourselves into chaos.”

A Leng screamed in breakdown, “But everyone else has already cleared the game, and we can’t see any hope at all!”

With so many NPCs, could they really kill them all?

They did not have many usable items left.

When they ran out of weapons and resources...

If only they had not stayed on the first floor.

It was because Tired Tired had said there was no meaning in going back to the fourth floor that they had remained on the first floor this whole time!

If they had gone to the fourth floor, would the situation now be different?

Gu Yu could no longer endure hearing this and roared, “Stop saying demoralizing things!”

Seeing that the item’s duration was about to end, Teacher Dan could not help reminding her, “Tired Tired, you can use your other explosive item now.”

They had to rely on that explosive item to break through the encirclement and leave the first floor, otherwise they would be dragged to death here.

After speaking, Teacher Dan began waiting patiently.

Unfortunately, she waited and waited, but never saw the item take effect.

Just as she was about to turn around, she heard Tired Tired’s apologetic voice.

“Sorry, Teacher Dan. This game is too difficult. I can’t carry you all through it.”

Teacher Dan’s heart sank fiercely. “Tired Tired, what do you mean?”

A Leng instantly went hysterical. “What are you trying to do?”

“Sorry.”

After saying that, Tired Tired directly used a life-saving item and left the game.

At the very moment she exited, Ning Rong and Zhou Yujing almost simultaneously heard the notifications in their minds—

[Player Chi Juan successfully escaped.]

and

[Player Qi Leng has died.]

Only a few seconds later, they heard another notification—

[Player Dan Ping has died.]

Once Tired Tired left, their team no longer had any usable items. Teacher Dan and the others ending up like this seemed predictable.

【Tired Tired is really something. She ran incredibly fast too.】

【She probably pulled out the life-saving item she’d been keeping at the very bottom of the box.】

【Tsk tsk tsk, abandoning all teammates and escaping alone. From her standpoint it’s not wrong, but it really makes the others look like suckers.】

【Horror game. Weakness is the original sin. Who told them they couldn’t break free of Chi Cheng’s control and could only accompany Tired Tired?】

Ning Rong was not familiar with Teacher Dan’s group. When she heard their death notifications, she was currently taking cash out from her [Personal Space].

Fortunately, before entering the game, she had withdrawn plenty of cash from her black card for backup. Otherwise, she would have had to pull out the black card in front of the audience.

One stack.

Two stacks.

Three stacks.

...

Only after taking out a full thirty stacks of game currency did Ning Rong slowly say, “Is three hundred thousand enough?”

The big boss said, “Enough. That’s enough. The head chef’s monthly salary is four thousand, the rest of the staff earn twenty-five hundred a month, the front desk earns three thousand a month. Our hotel currently has thirty-two employees. You even gave extra.”

【So much game currency! Really so much!】

【Making the sound of someone with no worldly experience.】

【Among a bunch of players poor to death, she’s rich in a way that feels completely out of place.】

【Horror game, weakness is the original sin. By the same logic, if you’re strong enough, no matter what you do you can be forgiven! The newbie is too fierce!】

This was Zhou Yujing’s first time directly facing his girlfriend’s immense wealth.

The game currency she possessed in the game was even more than he had imagined...

Much, much more.

He was certain that the entire City A Team 37 could not gather such a huge sum of game currency.

The boss’s attitude toward Ning Rong immediately changed.

Although she had signed an agreement with Ning Rong, before the money was actually handed over, she had always held some suspicion toward Ning Rong in her heart.

But now the money had arrived, and she had also witnessed Ning Rong’s extraordinary capability, so naturally she trusted her several degrees more.

She asked, “May I ask something presumptuous? Where did you get so much money from?”

At this moment, only the hotel boss and her boyfriend Zhou Yujing remained beside Ning Rong. Although there were still many viewers in the livestream, those viewers could sometimes also provide her with useful information.

She thought for a moment and said, “I wonder if you’ve heard of Su Mountain Vacation Resort.”

After trying hard to recall, the boss said, “I’ve heard of it. But the investor of that resort ran away, and afterward it seemed the matter was dropped?”

Ning Rong gave a slight nod. “Yes. But now the resort has been taken over by me, and it has officially begun operating.”

“If you have time, you can also go spend money there once in a while. As my employee, I can give you a ninety-nine percent discount.”

Zhou Yujing: ???

The hotel big boss: ???

The livestream audience: !!!