PFRG: Chapter 147

The staff accommodation area of the restaurant soon became quiet. There was only the faint sound of music from the lobby still floating in the air from the end of the narrow corridor.

Chi Ting thought that he would be lost in thought over the rules of the instance tonight, but he fell into a deep sleep as soon as he touched the pillow.

In a trance, he seemed to hear some subtle sounds coming from beside him, but he couldn’t get up at all.

This feeling was like being firmly imprisoned in a dark dream by an invisible hand. This was until there was a distinct movement very close to him. Chi Ting suddenly sat up from the head of the bed and realized that he had been sweating profusely without realizing it. This feeling was like trying his best to break free from invisible shackles, followed by a clear feeling of exhaustion after exerting too much energy.

However, without giving him a chance to catch his breath, Chi Ting raised his hand and attacked to the side.

“Don’t do it. It is me.”

This was until a familiar voice entered his ears. “Chi Ting paused as he was about to lock onto the opponent, and stopped just inches away from the opponent’s throat. “……”

His vision gradually became clear again. Due to the faint morning light coming in from the window, he could naturally see clearly who the person in front of him was.

He slowly exhaled and wiped the sweat off his forehead. “Didn’t I tell you not to demolish the room?”

“I didn’t demolish it.” Lou Yueren pointed at his masterpiece. “I just opened a hole very neatly.”

He wasn’t wrong on this point.

At first glance, the wall connecting the two rooms was obviously cut by a sharp object. It looked straight. If a door panel was installed, there would be almost no sense of incongruity.

Lou Yueren summarized it with a smile. “We are indeed lucky. The wall separating our rooms happens to not be a load-bearing wall.”

Chi Ting originally wanted to say something, but faced with this man’s calm attitude, he was speechless.

Soon, he laughed out loud. “You should be thankful that it didn’t collapse. Our team will be in trouble if the instance fails due to the collapse…”

Lou Yueren asked, “What would you do?”

Chi Ting glanced at him and said with a half-smile, “Punish, with, extreme, punishment.”

“Ahem.” Lou Yueren cleared his throat quietly. “Okay, thank God for your grace.”

Chi Ting smiled noncommittally and looked out the window.

The faint morning light could roughly tell the current time.

His sleep quality had always been quite good, and Lou Yueren definitely wouldn’t make any noise when touching him, but he wouldn’t wait until this man touched his bed before finally reacting.

No matter how he looked at it, he slept too deeply.

Chi Ting turned around and looked towards the door. “Did you notice any other movement?”

“Are you talking about the delivery of ingredients?” Lou Yueren instantly understood what Chi Ting was referring to and nodded. “Around half an hour ago, I heard some movement in the corridor outside. If nothing unexpected happens, all the ingredients have been put into the mailbox at the door. We can go out and count them at noon.”

Chi Ting asked, “Are you sure it was around half an hour ago?”

Lou Yueren said, “Yes, I happened to be working. I was afraid that the noise would be too loud and wake you up, so I was extra careful.”

“……” Chi Ting ignored the inexplicable sense of pride in the tone. “Looking at yesterday’s instructions, the delivery time should be the entire time period from 3 p.m. to 12 noon.”

Lou Yueren couldn’t tease this person, so he gave up. “This time span is indeed quite long. Then the noise I heard half an hour ago was either just a stage in the delivery process, or the food demand we set up last night only needed up to that time period to deliver it.”

Chi Ting nodded. “Yes, we will know if there is any movement outside after a while.”

Lou Yueren glanced at Chi Ting, who looked visibly drowsy. “It is my fault. I woke you up. Are you still feeling sleepy? Why don’t you sleep a bit longer? I’ll keep an eye on the situation outside.”

Chi Ting did feel a bit drowsy. He felt that this was somewhat inconsistent with his normal state, but he still decided to take a nap first.

Therefore, he yawned slowly and didn’t reject Lou Yueren’s proposal. “Okay, but aren’t you sleepy?”

“It’s okay, I’m fine.” There was a time difference between before and after entering the instance. In order to achieve spatial communication, Lou Yueren didn’t rush to adjust to the time difference that night. He wasn’t too sleepy for a while. He just lowered his eyes and looked at Chi Ting with a subtle smile on his face. “But if possible, I would like to lie down for a while. If you don’t mind that it will be too crowded to sleep together…”

“Don’t you think we are making too much noise?” Despite being half asleep, Chi Ting was amused by what he heard. “If I say it is too crowded, will you go back to your room?”

Lou Yueren’s expression remained unchanged. “No.”

Chi Ting sneered and rolled the quilt over himself, freeing up half of the bed.

Lou Yueren turned over and lay down on it very swiftly, but he still felt uneasy despite getting what he wanted.

Chi Ting could clearly feel that this guy was moving closer to him without leaving a trace. A familiar aura enveloped him. His eyelids trembled slightly, but then slowly drooped calmly.

A light laugh entered his ears. “If I remember correctly, it seems to still be airing live now.”

Chi Ting replied in a daze, “Hmm…”

The smile in Lou Yueren’s tone became more intense. “So we are just coming out publicly like this?”

Chi Ting’s chest rose and fell peacefully with his breathing. After a few seconds, he let out a dull ‘hmm’ again.

The man behind him finally couldn’t hold back the smile on his face any longer.

Lou Yueren lazily looked up, and his gaze fell on the ceiling. Suddenly, he became curious about what the outside world’s reaction would be at this moment.

It was already night in the safe zone at this time. Many players had set up their ‘homes’ in the square, while many others had returned to their places and continued to follow the latest developments of specific teams through the live stream room.

The viewing angle of the team’s live stream just happened to fall on Chi Ting’s room, so the conversation fell into everyone’s ears unexpectedly.

—“So we are just coming out publicly like this?”

—“Hmm…”

There was a sudden and eerie silence in the open space in front of screen 89.

After dozens of seconds of silence, someone finally spoke tentatively. “What are they… doing?”

After a long and subtle interval of time, someone finally spoke in a complicated tone. “…It is the legendary, let’s sleep together?”

The extremely subtle atmosphere lasted for a long time. Then everyone finally came back to their senses.

“What, is this what I think it means? These two, these two, these two… are they coming out?”

“Is the question whether they have come out or not? They are still in the instance! They opened a door in the room just to sleep together? There is really no sense of urgency. Where is the most basic respect for the instance?”

“But… I’m sorry, these two are indeed a bit pleasing to the eye. Just a little bit, cough cough cough.”

“What is the point? This is really a bit too much. This is an instance competition. Why is there this weird honeymoon atmosphere?”

“Come to think of it… when I didn’t know that Yue Ren was that Yue Ren, I always felt that such a scene is familiar.”

“Huh? Can you elaborate?”

“The peaceful and tranquil scene makes me unable to look directly at the tragic instance scenes of other teams.”

The discussion caused by the unprecedented scene became increasingly uncontrollable.

Finally, someone sighed with mixed feelings. “I don’t know if it is my illusion, but did you see that guy’s expression? Why do I always feel like he deliberately made it public?”

Word of the ‘honeymoon instance’ spread like wildfire.

This was until more than a dozen related discussion posts appeared in the player forum. Even though the entire bed and the people on it were blurred out in the instance screenshot according to the rules, it made the whole scene seem even more imaginative.

As one of the protagonists who came out publicly in the rumors, Chi Ting didn’t wake up from his sleep until noon.

After getting up, washing up, and walking out the door, he saw that the other members of the Dawn team were already waiting there. The moment he heard the door open, he looked back and saw Lou Yueren, who had gone back to his room to wash up. Lou Yueren walked out of his room right after Chi Ting.

Lu Nanling had completed the inspection of the ingredients.

Chi Ting noticed that Lu Nanling looked over as soon as Lou Yueren came out, and asked, “Xiao Lu, is there a problem?”

“Everyone slept well last night. So far, nothing has happened. In addition, the ingredients we ordered have basically been delivered to the mailbox. There is no problem with the quantity and quality.” Lu Nanling paused here and glanced at Lou Yueren again. “Except for Room 6.”

Chi Ting frowned.

Room 6 was next door where Lou Yueren lived.

Lu Nanling asked very directly, “So Mr Lou, do you have any idea why the purchase failed?”

Lou Yueren could sense early on that Lu Nanling was very clear about his background, so he calmly accepted the title of Mr Lou.

Hearing this, he glanced at Chi Ting meaningfully and cleared his throat quietly. “I do have some ideas. At present, the most likely possibility is probably… I wasn’t in the room?”

Ji Xingque was yawning beside him. Then he became stunned when he heard this. “Not in the room? Isn’t it said that you can’t go out into the corridor? You went out last night? So brave!”

Lou Yueren told him, “I won’t do anything that is clearly stipulated in the rules.”

“You didn’t go out into the corridor? Then where else could you go…” Ji Xingque ran into the room in confusion. He just peeked inside casually and immediately exclaimed, “F*k! You… y-y-you opened a door directly in the wall?”

Lou Yueren was calm. “Yes, is there a problem?”

Hua Qianmei was also attracted by Ji Xingque’s words and walked over. She saw it and also laughed. “So this means that you weren’t in your room yesterday, but went to visit the room next door? If I remember correctly, Room 5 seems to be the captain’s room, right? So last night, you two… Yo~!”

The meaningful ‘yo’ pulled Ji Xingque’s thoughts back, and his tone rose again. “Why is your quilt on the captain’s bed?”

Song Xuefeng made a noise. “Hmm?”

Lou Yueren laughed in a good mood. “As you can see, I’m a bit afraid of the dark. Therefore, I slept with your captain yesterday.”

“……”

Chi Ting pressed a hand to his temple and kicked the guy next to him without hesitation. He stood up straight with satisfaction after hearing the loss hiss. Then he looked at Lu Nanling. “But it shouldn’t be related to whether we are in the room or not, right?”

“Yes, if we have to stay in the room, then the rules wouldn’t simply mention not setting foot in the corridor,” Lu Nanling responded slowly. “So whether you left your room to sleep together or not, this shouldn’t be the real triggering of the rules.”

Chi Ting prompted, “You can omit the weird accents.”

Lu Nanling smiled slightly. “Sorry, I always subconsciously emphasize the focus of my current concern.”

Chi Ting: “.” So his current focus was on whether they slept together?”

A few seconds later, Chi Ting looked away speechlessly at Lu Nanling and looked at the others. “Do you have any other questions?”

“I do.” Ji Xingque raised his hand.

“Hmm?”

Ji Xingque swallowed slowly. Under Hua Qianmei’s encouraging gaze, he asked the question that had been lingering in his heart for a long time. “Captain, are you and Brother Ren in that… that relationship now?”

Chi Ting’s mouth twitched slightly. “I wanted you to ask questions related to the instance.”

The moment he finished speaking, he felt a slight weight on his shoulder. He turned around and met Lou Yueren’s expectant gaze. “Yes, Captain. I also want to know the answer to this question.”

Their eyes met silently in the air.

Finally, Chi Ting revealed a faint smile under this meaningful and expectant gaze.

It was fine. It was better to do it today than to wait for another day. it would be made public sooner or later anyway.

He looked at his teammates steadily and stated slowly, “Yes, Lou Yueren and I are now boyfriends.”