PFRG: Chapter 154

“Good morning, Captain.” Ji Xingque walked out of the room drowsily, and instinctively greeted. Then he froze there. After a few seconds, he seemed to react belatedly. “Why are you at the door of Room 6? Did you… sleep together again last night?”

It had to be said that the word ‘again’ was used very aptly. The others just happened to be coming out of their rooms one after another. After hearing this, they all looked over.

Chi Ting replied, “Yes, something happened.”

From the tone of his answer, it was obvious that he hadn’t noticed the subtlety in the atmosphere. Lou Yueren chuckled. By the time he leisurely peeked out from the room, he had already switched to an innocent expression in the blink of an eye. “Good morning, everyone. Did you sleep well?”

No one said anything. Everyone’s attention was focused on the slightly open collar.

The sudden sight of spring was undoubtedly a naked declaration of something.

“It was okay. In any case, I definitely didn’t sleep as well as the two of you.” Hua Qianmei sighed meaningfully before calling out to the person next to her. “Little Brother Lu, how about you?”

Lu Nanling said, “Are you checking your mailbox? What is the result?”

Hua Qianmei muttered, “…Really. All the atmosphere is gone in an instant.”

Chi Ting looked at Lou Yueren, who had deliberately caused the subject to deviate, but didn’t explain too much. He just showed the results of the inspection to everyone. “The purchase of the green incense has been completed. If I’m not mistaken, a small part of the purchase list for Room 5 should’ve been completed as well.”

Lu Nanling walked to the door of Room 5, opened the mailbox, and took a look. “indeed, one third of the total has been completed.”

Due to Chi Ting’s initial request, he assigned the most marginal ingredient to Room 5 from the beginning. The collection quantity was also set very low.

In the end, even such a low requirement wasn’t met. This was enough for Lu Nanling to realize that something was wrong. He asked directly. “Captain, did you find anything?”

Chi Ting waved at them. “Let’s talk in the room.”

The space in the single room wasn’t too large. The members of the Dawn team gathered around the bed one by one, making the entire space a bit crowded.

Chi Ting finished explaining his theory, and the room fell silent. Ji Xingque was used to thinking and speaking at the same time, so he spoke again for the first time among all the people. “Captain, what you mean is that the shopping list in the room every night was completed by dragging us into dreams? The larger the purchase quantity, the deeper the people in the room will sleep and the harder it will be to wake up. At the same time, the higher the requirement for sleep level will be?”

This summary made Chi Ting look at Ji Xingque with new eyes. “Not bad, Little Bird. This summary is quite accurate.”

Song Xuefeng hugged himself against the wall, his eyelids lowered. This made people suspect that he was taking a nap. Unexpectedly, he suddenly spoke out at this time. Then what do we consume in sleep? Incense… Based on Chinese horror style, it can’t be that it absorbs the players’ energy, right?”

Ji Xingque hugged himself instinctively. “Is that so? No wonder why I feel sleepy every time I wake up the past two days!”

“How can it be energy?” Hua Qianmei hit him on the head. “You might be sleepy. Don’t you feel anything after waking up every day? I took a nap yesterday afternoon, and my spirit has recovered quite well. In any storybook, do you see anyone whose energy has been sucked away be as lively as us?”

Ji Xingque wondered, “Ah… if it isn’t energy, what is it?”

“I think our current situation is more like the state after having a nightmare all night.” After noticing the gazes from others, Lou Yueren still kept leaning against the bed. He smiled and looked up. “I feel sleepy because my brain has been running quickly all night. I think everyone has had a period of frequent nightmares.”

Once he finished speaking, he stretched out his hand, grabbed Chi Ting, and asked, “What do you think, Captain?”

“Actually, I think it is because of a dream.” The overly natural action made Chi Ting not notice anything unusual. Instead, he leaned on Lou Yueren as a cushion and turned his head to meet his gaze. “You might not feel it while you are sleeping, but you did sleep very unsteadily last night. It seems like you were deeply trapped in a nightmare. I couldn’t wake you up no matter what I did.”

Lou Yueren lowered his eyes and looked over, his gaze landing on Chi Ting’s lips. He whispered, “Yes, after waking up, I could feel that I seemed to have been dreaming for a long time. I just can’t remember what I dreamed about at all.”

Chi Ting looked at him intently and asked, “You don’t have any impression at all?”

Lou Yueren answered, “I don’t have any impression at all.”

Chi Ting turned around and looked at the others. “What about you? Do you remember what you dreamed about last night?”

The other four looked at each other and shook their heads.

The atmosphere became more subtle.

To complete the purchase, they needed to enter a dream state. It was precisely because they entered a dream state that they felt more tired after getting up. The key question was why no one could remember the content of their dream the night before.

There was no doubt that what this instance deprived them of was closely related to these dreams. However, now they still didn’t know what they needed to strive to maintain while fighting against this instance.

It was this feeling of the unknown that made people feel extremely uncomfortable.

In the absence of new progress, all the incense sticks in the mailboxes were collected and taken to the kitchen by Lu Nanling to set today’s meals. The others had a simple meal before going back to their rooms to rest.

The best solution to the lack of sleep caused by too frequent nightmares was naturally to make up for it appropriately. Song Xuefeng had the most say in this regard. He was the first to return to his room without any reluctance.

In a moment, there were only two figures left in Room 6.

“Then I will too…” Seeing that the team members had all left, Chi Ting was about to turn around and go back to his room. He didn’t expect that he was pulled back just as he stood up. As he turned over, he bumped into a broad chest. For a moment, it seemed that their heartbeats were suddenly disordered. “You… don’t you want to rest?”

“Rest. I’m very sleepy.” Lou Yueren answered like this, but he didn’t retreat. Instead, he moved closer to Chi Ting without making a sound. The whole atmosphere became more charming as his eyes stayed on Chi Ting’s lips. “With our current relationship, there is no need to rush back to your room. In any case, there is no procurement task to complete. It doesn’t matter where you sleep. Stay here with me, okay?”

Chi Ting was about to move when Lou Yueren turned over and pinned him down. “Looking at you like this… are you planning to force yourself on me?”

Lou Yueren laughed loudly. “Are you sure this idiom is used like this?”

Chi Ting thought about it and found that it seemed to not be the case.

Lou Yueren said, “Or rather, Captain Chi, what are you hinting at me?”

“Don’t use unnecessary imagination.” Chi Ting glanced at this shameless guy with both anger and amusement. After all, there was such a beautiful woman in front of him, and his breathing became a bit heavier unknowingly. But at least he remembered there was such a thing as a live stream. He took a deep breath and pushed the man back onto the bed with force. He pulled the quilt over and wrapped both of them in it accurately. “Okay, I’ll sleep with you. This should be fine.”

Lou Yueren: “……”

He actually planned to push for more and get something, but he never expected he would be brought down so easily.

As he was lost in thought, the shadow extending to the ground shook a few times imperceptibly, vaguely revealing the owner’s inner thoughts.

As expected, facing a man like Chi Ting, it was absolutely impossible to gain an advantage in terms of physical strength. It seemed that if he wanted to find another opportunity in the future, he still had to make full use of it and rely on the shadows to give full play to his abilities.

But no matter what, coming back to the point, as the one on top, wasn’t he a bit too delicate and easily pushed down?

Chi Ting didn’t know that Lou Yueren was feeling self-doubt. He was just surprised that this man was so obedient and didn’t react at all. He opened his eyes that had just been closed and looked over sideways. “Are you asleep?”

“No.”

He didn’t know why, but Chi Ting was poked by this dull tone that came from not succeeding.

He smiled and noticed the increasingly long silence around him. He cleared his throat softly. “Ahem. Um, do you want to secretly…”

Chi Ting actually regretted it a bit the moment he said this.

He strongly suspected that the person in front of him was deliberately waiting for this sentence. It was because before he even finished speaking, something suddenly wrapped around his wrist and pulled him away violently.

It was Lou Yueren’s shadow.

The judgment made in an instant only flashed through his mind. The next second, the entire quilt fell down and covered both of them.

In the darkness, something soft touched his lips.

The familiar and hot breaths intertwined in an instant.

The passion that had just been suppressed resurfaced. Chi Ting closed his eyes. This time, he raised his chin and actively responded.

……

As the third day’s business hours approached, members of the Dawn team went downstairs to gather one after another.

No one was surprised at all when they saw Chi Ting and Lou Yueren appear together.

Ji Xingque noticed Chi Ting’s somewhat stiff movements and asked with concern, “Captain, what happened to your right hand? Is it injured?”

The moment he finished speaking, Lou Yueren couldn’t help but burst out laughing.

Chi Ting glanced at the culprit speechlessly and said calmly, “Nothing. I didn’t pay attention when I was sleeping, and someone pressed me down.

Ji Xingque: “.”

Of course, he knew who the so-called someone was. He quickly imagined a thrilling drama in his mind, which made his expression brilliant for a moment. After a long while, he finally said, “Captain… I don’t mean anything else. I just want to kindly remind you that our instance should, um, still be live.”

Chi Ting wanted to say that he naturally remembered they were still live streaming, but he didn’t realize it until he heard Lou Yueren laughing. He cleared his throat heavily and tried to change the subject to ease the awkwardness. “Xiao Lu, do we have enough ingredients for tonight?”

Lu Nanling said, “It is enough. Let’s open for business today.”

Lu Nanling had always been absolutely confident about the projects in his field. Since he answered ‘enough’, it meant it was really enough.

At midnight that evening, a new batch of customers entered the restaurant. As expected, after the Lv 2 fox-faced woman, a new Lv 3 customer appeared today. The types of food ordered by these customers were all under Lu Nanling’s control.

Enough green incense ensured that there were sufficient food reserves for today’s business. Not to mention the end to slaughter a corpse on the spot for customers, there was no trouble until the end of business hours.

In some ways, this business process was as smooth as the first day. Once it ended, the final problem returned to the starting point.

“On the fourth day, there will still be new customers joining us. But according to the increase in daily demand for ingredients, we will need to double or triple the purchase quantity of some incense sticks if we want to continue to maintain it tomorrow.”

It wasn’t stated explicitly, but everyone actually knew the crisis hidden behind Lu Nanling’s seemingly understated statement.

Hua Qianmei said, “Okay, stop keeping me in suspense and just tell me. Have you thought of any solution?”

Lu Nanling didn’t answer directly but looked at Chi Ting. “Captain, are you sure that other people are allowed to assist in the purchase of the same room?”

Chi Ting had already checked the test results at noon and nodded. “Yes, confirmed.”

“That’s good.” Lu Nanling nodded. “So, if you want me to provide a solution, my suggestion is to connect all the rooms in the accommodation area first.”

Hua Qianmei blinked as she realized what was going on. She rolled up her sleeves elegantly and said, “This is easy. Leave it to me.”

Ji Xingque added, “Me too…”

Before he could finish his excited words, the originally daydreaming Song Xuefeng suddenly reached out his hand, grabbed Ji Xingque by the collar, and dragged him back. “Stand aside and watch. Let them go.”

If he let this guy take action, he felt like he would have trouble finding a place to sleep tonight.

“Then I’ll go and set up the shopping list. You guys can take care of it first,” Lu Nanling said. He turned around and glanced at the figure next to him. “Sorry, I think I have to disrupt your world of two. Besides, instead of writing a paper scolding me in your heart, you can just say it out loud.”

The words seemed very sincere on the surface, but with such an expression, they really weren’t sincere.

Lou Yueren met such a gaze and finally raised his eyes slowly. “You’re welcome. I don’t mean to scold you. After all…”

He looked at Chi Ting with a half-smile. “Compared to the small profits in front of me, I am more looking forward to how Captain Chi will reward me after the instance is over.”

Before Lu Nanling’s gaze fell on him, Chi Ting had already grabbed Lou Yueren and turned to leave. “Everyone else, go out first. You’ve already demolished a wall once, so you have some experience. Go and tell Meimei what can be moved and what can’t be moved. Don’t let her demolish all the load-bearing columns later, or there is really no point in passing this instance.”

Lou Yueren staggered a few steps as he was dragged. His peripheral vision fell on the figure walking briskly, and a smile appeared on his face. “Got it, Captain.”