PFRG: Chapter 155

The third day of business ended.

Each tragic and brutal instance scene should’ve revealed an extremely solemn atmosphere, but due to the apparently disharmonious style of a certain picture, all the passing players fell into a long silence.

After an unknown amount of time, someone finally spoke up weakly, “This instance… can it actually be played like this?”

No one answered the question that seemed to cross their minds frequently in recent days.

Yes, why couldn’t it be played like this? Wasn’t it just changing the accommodation area to large bunk beds that were fully connected?

Large bunk beds, what a common existence… how common was this? If they remembered correctly, this instance seemed to be a management game rather than a construction game?!

“Ahem, actually, if you think about it carefully, isn’t this a solution that minimizes the risk… right?”

There was a player who had been in the Dawn team’s live stream room the whole time. He compared the situations of other times and said a few words to help objectively at this time, but he was soon covered up by a series of violent explosions.

A series of loud noises came one after another.

The walls collapsed, and bricks and stones flew everywhere.

Such an earth-shattering scene had been presented before by Ji Xingque, but it was obviously different this time.

There were no brilliant flames comparable to special effects, only the pure physical bombardment that went straight to the depths of the soul. It was clean, neat, environmentally friendly, and rough.

The massive Grim Reaper’s scythe made a sharp friction sound when it hit the wall again. The broken stones created a cloud of dust, causing the row of people at the back to move two steps back in unison.

With graceful movements, Hua Qianmei put the black scythe on her sexy shoulders and smiled back. “This should be enough. Is everyone satisfied?”

Chi Ting felt Lou Yueren gently nudging him with an elbow, voice very low. “You are right. It doesn’t matter who you mess with, but it is best not to mess with her.”

Chi Ting laughed and said, “I’m glad you understand.”

Except for the two people who were talking to her, no one else responded for a long time. This made Hua Qianmei question the results of her work. “Why is no one talking? Isn’t this how we should open it?”

Lu Nanling told her, “…That is right. This is how you open it.”

Song Xuefeng silently scanned the messy scene of violent demolition in front of him. He answered without hesitation and in a firm tone. “I won’t clean the room a second time today.”

Ji Xingque laughed dryly. “Actually, the environment is already much better compared to before. We don’t have to rush to clean up before sleeping, right?”

Under such an inquiring gaze, Lu Nanling only said, “Clean up first.”

Ji Xingque wailed. “Do you want to insist on cleanliness at a time like this? I’ve never seen you so picky in such a messy and dirty place!”

Lu Nanling glanced at him calmly. “At that time, it was because the conditions didn’t allow it. Now, we can create more comfortable living conditions artificially.”

Ji Xingque muttered, “…Is it okay to curse at you?”

Hua Qianmei also reacted at this time. She looked back at the mess, which looked like the aftermath of bandits entering the village, and cleared her throat softly. “Yes… the cleaning should be pretty quick.”

“Okay, I’ll do it. Let me come.” Chi Ting couldn’t hold back his laughter when he heard this. He casually took off the beads on his wrist and called out a dozen phantoms in an instant. “Don’t worry about the cleaning. Come here and listen to Xiao Lu. How are you going to arrange our rooms tonight? I’ve already slept together with someone. At least according to the volume of green incense yesterday, there is no problem. It seems that there is a particularly large demand for two colors today. Who are you going to let sleep with whom? Old Song and Little Bird? Or…”

Ji Xingque looked at the phantoms cleaning virtuously and sighed a bit due to some familiar figures. Upon suddenly hearing this, he turned around and looked over. “Huh? Who do you want me to sleep with?”

Hua Qianmei asked, “…Can you guys change the wording? I feel like this description is weird.”

Lu Nanling flipped through the notebook in his hand and handed the notebook with the detailed distribution content to everyone. “Old Song and Little Bird will sleep in Room 3 first to complete the purchase of blue incense. Meimei and I will be in Room 4 and responsible for the purple incense. I… I will sleep on the world first. Captain, you should stay in your room tonight to ensure the purchase of red and green. Please pay attention at that time and try to wake up as soon as you can. If it is still early, you can get to Rooms 1 and 2 to complete the final part of the collection depending on the specific situation.”

Once he finished speaking, he looked at Chi Ting and Lou Yueren. “Today’s purchasing tasks for Rooms 5 and 6 aren’t too heavy. If you find any problems with us when you wake up…”

Chi Ting understood immediately. “I will just carry you back to my own room.”

Since it was directly linked to purchasing, theoretically leaving the corresponding room should be the best way to completely get rid of the nightmare.

Lu Nanling nodded. “Yes, let’s do it.”

After the discussion, many players who followed the instance felt that what the Dawn team did was completely unnecessary. From the live streams of other teams, it wasn’t difficult to see that many top teams had already noticed the trap of sleeping at night and started to arrange for two people to live in the same room to bear the risk of purchasing. In this way, the so-called operation of making all the beds into a big bed didn’t seem so important.

However, when they saw how convenient it was for the Dawn team members to go back and forth, combined with Lu Nanling’s previous statement, they finally realized the convenience brought about by this comprehensive situation. It wasn’t just the support that could be provided at the first moment of danger. If there were two people in a room like other teams, it meant there would definitely be an empty room where food couldn’t be purchased. This meant that every night, they would have one or even two less incense outcomes than the more flexible Dawn team.

Perhaps a single incident wouldn’t have much of an impact, but today was only the third day. If it continued until the seventh day when the top teams were already very close in the rankings, it would probably be enough to quietly open a big gap.

On that day, the four people in Rooms 3 and 4 woke up at almost the same time because they were purchasing the same amount of goods. After everyone gathered together, Song Xuefeng and Hua Qianmei went to Rooms 1 and 2 to sleep for a while according to their current mental state.

Chi Ting also did some testing. He hadn’t succeeded in using the princess carry in the end, and Lou Yueren used his shadow to take the person out of the room, but at least he successfully confirmed that in a deep sleep, it was enough to pull the person out of the sleeping state by taking them out of the corresponding room.

By the time it was noon again, the food needs for another day were successfully met.

The members of the Dawn team were naturally very satisfied with the result. But after all, they were still in the instance and didn’t have a more intuitive feeling. However, there were already data parties outside who had completed all the data statistics and published them clearly in the player forum.

This post listed the current total sales and inventory status of various ingredients according to the current team rankings. From such clear and straightforward data, one could feel the wealth of the Dawn team at a glance.

[Huh? The Dawn team? Is there a mistake in the statistics? Where did they get so much inventory?]

[Oh my god, based on this situation, their total sales in the next two days won’t be able to squeeze into the top three, right?]

[No, I have been watching in the Prisoner’s live stream room before. Their means of solving problems are as sophisticated as ever. I personally think it is perfect. The Dawn team can still lead by so much inventory. Could it be that they adjusted the purchase quantity to the highest amount and directly made the players work for it?]

[The sales in the beginning weren’t as high as those of the Prisoner team, and the consumption was lower. This is normal.]

[Please read carefully! This isn’t a problem of low consumption. Go to live stream room 89. It won’t be too late to solve all of your confusion.]

[…Thank you for the directions. I’ve been there and came back. How should I put it? I feel like this team’s style of playing this game looks, well, pretty unrestrained.]

……

[F*k, what data are you looking at? Don’t look at those gods. I’m in live stream room 184, and I’m completely numb!]

[Hmm? What happened? Let’s go check it out.]

[It isn’t just Room 184. There is also room 45 here. It should be the same situation. This instance is really…]

The fourth day of the Seven Days Sales instance competition was about to arrive. The Dawn people in the instance were unaware of the commotion outside. As they waited for Lu Nanling to go to the kitchen to update the new menu, the five people were waiting in Room 1 in a very casual manner.

Song Xuefeng had lost count of how many times he had yawned. His eyelids, which were usually droopy, made him look like he was about to fall asleep at any moment.

Ji Xingque glanced at him a few times and felt a bit sorry for him. “Old Song, why don’t you go back and catch up on some sleep first?”

Song Xuefeng shook his head but still said something.

Such a numb expression made Ji Xingque sigh. “You have completely let go. It doesn’t make any difference whether you stay here or not.”

“Brother Lu is so slow this time. I also want to go back and catch up on my sleep.” Hua Qianmei was also very sleepy. She pressed a hand on her temples as she spoke. “But it is okay. At least, I have a basic idea of how to deal with it. I just feel that after such a night like last night, there is still an essential problem that hasn’t been solved. How about you recall it again and make sure you remember what you dreamt about yesterday?”

No one said anything.

Hua Qianmei sighed again.

Chi Ting swept his gaze over everyone, leaned against the wall, and slowly lowered his eyes.

It was just as Hua Qianmei said. The fundamental problem hadn’t been solved. Even if they shared the losses in the procurement equally, they still had no idea what the losses were.

After a moment of silence, he looked towards Lou Yueren.

He didn’t say anything, but Lou Yueren obviously understood Chi Ting’s thoughts. He shrugged helplessly. “Sorry, I don’t have any idea either. If you must ask, I can also say that I might not have any basis for it, but I do have a bad feeling.”

Chi Ting told him, “…What a coincidence. I feel the same way.”

There were footsteps in the corridor. Knowing it was Lu Nanling returning, Chi Ting turned around and looked towards the door.

At this time, Hua Qianmei asked in a strange tone, “No way, Little Bird. Have you even learned the bad habit of refusing to pay your debts?”

Ji Xingque looked innocent. “How can you say that? Why do I have to pay a debt?”

Hua Qianmei narrowed her eyes in a threatening manner. “Hey, think carefully. It was when we went to the Celer Safe Zone to provide support. On the way back, didn’t you say you would lend me your toys anytime I wanted to play with them?”

Ji Xingque immediately held his weapon bag tighter. “Don’t talk nonsense. You weren’t on the list of people going to the Celer Safe Zone. Sister Meimei, even if you want to play with my weapons, you should make up a more reliable reason.”

“Ah, you… No, I wasn’t on the original list, but when you sent the support application back, I rushed over as soon as possible.” Hua Qianmei laughed angrily. Then she caught Ji Xingque’s increasingly confused look, and her brow gradually furrowed. “Do you really not remember, or are you playing dumb in front of me?”

“Huh? Did you come later to provide support?” Ji Xingque quickly searched for that memory only for his expression to darken. After a pause of a few seconds, he slowly looked at Chi Ting. “Captain… I seem to have blacked out. I really don’t remember what happened after that.”

This was the first sentence Lu Nanling heard when he entered the room.

Chi Ting caught a glimpse of the rare panic that flashed across Ji Xingque’s eyes. The corners of his mouth lowered slightly.

All along, he could feel a sense of loss brought about by these nightmares, but he had no clear conclusion until just now.

In the blink of an eye, the answer was found.

All he could say was that it was indeed a bit unexpected.

Originally, once it was related to Incense, people would always think of the souls and spirits in Chinese horror. They never expected that during this instance, what they were gradually losing was—memories.

The most important thing was that they didn’t even know what they were forgetting.