Dijia felt a little uncomfortable.
He couldn’t quite explain whether this discomfort stemmed from hearing the young man being insulted and manipulated or from discovering the true nature beneath the young man’s innocent exterior.
As early as when Zhang Xiao asked him if he knew who the young man was, Dijia vaguely guessed that the young man’s background might not be clean. He speculated that the young man might have been one of Zhang Xiao’s former lovers, explaining why Zhang Xiao looked at the young man with such explicit and disdainful eyes.
However, he didn’t expect the truth of the matter to be like this.
Dijia: “He had no choice at that time.”
President Li: “Oh, my good President Dijia, he came on to me like a vixen, no one forced him; he willingly approached. He’s just a shameless whore.”
Dijia’s face turned livid: “Shut up and get out.”
President Li’s face stiffened, he looked at Dijia with an ugly expression, and left without saying another word.
Dijia stood in place, looking a little lost.
Should he disdain the young man for his promiscuity?
Or scorn him for serving others with his body?
But whenever Dijia thought of the way the young man looked at him, an inexplicable bitterness surged from the bottom of his heart.
The young man seemed to be around twenty-two or three, the age of a blooming flower. Most children his age haven’t entered society, and are still living in the golden ivory towers wrapped in fairy tales. He should have walked onto a sunny and beautiful campus like other students, carrying a schoolbag on his back. But fate played a cruel joke on the young man, allowing him to be controlled by a filthy old man who had mastered the rules of society, turning him into a tool for profit. He fell into a dark quagmire, treated as a squanderable commodity by those in power.
This was how society had been unfair to him from the moment of birth.
Good-looking people can often do the same things more easily.
Beauty is an advantage given by heaven, but if excessive beauty lacked corresponding strength, it would likely turn into a disaster.
The young man was such an existence.
Beautiful, dazzling, yet pure, a mixture of demonic and angelic looks. However, in an unguarded moment, he was discovered by hunters.
Thus, suffering became inevitable.
The hunters watched the young man trapped in the mud, as if watching a monkey show. The young man’s resistance only served as an exciting catalyst for the hunters.
So, the young man became what President Li called “proactive.”
In such an inescapable environment, whatever reaction the young man had should not become a reason for scorn and mockery.
“President Dijia.” A voice with a hint of probing quietly sounded in his ear. Dijia took a deep breath and pulled back his thoughts, only to find that the person was Fei Taizong.
Seeing Fei Taizong’s gentle face, Dijia’s expression that had just calmed down instantly darkened.
Dijia said coldly, “What’s the matter?”
Fei Taizong forced a smile, “Thank you for helping me and my son just now. I will personally bring my son to thank you another day.”
Dijia’s sharp gaze swept over Fei Taizong, “There’s no need.”
Fei Taizong: “I also wanted to ask President Dijia, I saw you leaving with my son just now, but I see that you’re alone now. I wonder where my son is.”
Dijia looked down at Fei Taizong, “Your own son, and you’re asking me? If you really can’t find him, just call him.”
“Well, unfortunately, he didn’t bring his phone today.” Father Fei smiled politely. “I wouldn’t dare trouble President Dijia to take me to find him. Just tell me where you parted, and I’ll find him myself.”
The man narrowed his long, slanted eyes dangerously, “Did he forget to bring the phone, or he simply didn’t have one, Master Fei?”
The curtain behind him rustled, and under Fei Taizong’s gradually stiffening gaze, Dijia emitted a cold snort from his throat, “Let’s go, Master Fei. I’ll take you to the place where we separated.”
With that, Dijia lifted his long legs and walked in the opposite direction of the curtain.
For some reason, even though he knew the young man would eventually return to the Fei family, the moment he saw Fei Taizong, he thought of what the man had done to the young man. He had no intention of handing the young man over to such a person.
Fei Taizong didn’t suspect anything and followed the tall man. The two quickly disappeared from view.
A few minutes later, in the corner of the balcony that no one noticed, the curtain shook twice, and a slender figure in pure white emerged from behind the curtain and quickly vanished into the crowd.
…
The surroundings were dim, and the corridor wasn’t illuminated.
Thick velvety carpets covered the floor, muffling the sound of Bai Lixin’s footsteps.
Bai Lixin walked quietly along the corridor, and above his head, the little black furry monster was constantly flying and circling around.
At this moment, the eyes of the little black furry monster were wide, staring fixedly at Bai Lixin, its chubby cheeks puffed up.
“It’s a mess, a complete mess!”
“This place isn’t finished. Click the next page to continue reading the game’s match venue. You should enter the third game after completing the second game! Why are you at Moon Bay Hotel before finishing the second game?!”
Bai Lixin held the corridor wall with his left hand and continued walking forward, “Moon Bay Hotel is the venue for the third game, meaning this hotel has supernatural activity. What is it?”
The little black furry monster’s arms shook up and down in the air as it said angrily, “I won’t tell you! Do you know that with your confusion, these games have become even more chaotic!”
Bai Lixin continued walking, his expression calm, “Even if you don’t tell me now, you will appear when I trigger the plot and tell me the task of the third game, right?”
The little black furry monster suddenly froze in mid-air, staring at Bai Lixin with wide eyes, “You, you, you actually took advantage of my game rules! I tell you, you will get retribution for doing this!”
Bai Lixin rolled his eyes, “I have already received retribution by entering this game. Is there anything more retribution than this?”
The black furry monster trembled, and looked at him with dumbfounded eyes: “…”
‘I’ve never seen such an unreasonable player, so infuriating!’
Finish one game before moving on to the next, just like a mainline task. Who has seen someone start the next task without finishing the previous one?
But with Bai Lixin, it’s all messed up, completely messed up!’
It’s been a bit of a mess since the start of the second game.
The first game took place in an abandoned unfinished building.
The second game’s venue was at the Fei family.
The third game’s venue was Moon Bay Hotel.
According to the original game logic, the time gate after the first game should have opened around the early morning of the second day.
During this time, players would be walking on the road, and “accidentally” encounter Master Fei from the Fei family. After getting discovered, the player would be taken back to the Fei family, successfully initiating the second game.
The second game’s task is to uncover the secrets of the shadow and the Fei family. After completing this task, Bai Lixin will receive a hotel invitation. Using this invitation, he can enter the Moon Bay Hotel and officially start the third game.
The player was not supposed to attend this current banquet.
By the time the third game started, this banquet would have already ended. The ongoing events in this banquet were crucial prelude scenes for the beginning of the third game.
This plot did not require Bai Lixin’s participation; he just had to enter later and participate in the decryption.
However, due to the premature activation of the time door, the game was completely messed up!
If the presence of the young man disrupts the occurrence of the prelude scene, the third game might face the possibility of collapse.
Without a complete logical chain supporting it, this world could become shaky.
Damn it, it will be killed by Bai Lixin!
Initially, it had been observing Bai Lixin from the shadows, but when it saw Bai Lixin walking towards this floor, it couldn’t stay still and took the initiative to show up.
But what’s up with this player? Instead of retreating because of its appearance, he’s more determined to move forward?
It’s just an NPC, it lacked the right to interfere too much with the game.
All it can do now is pray that the prelude scene of the third game progressed smoothly without any hitches.
Bai Lixin didn’t know about the black furry monster’s rich inner world and continued walking along the corridor.
This floor was above the banquet hall. It stands to reason that for such a large and high-end hotel, the lights on all floors would be on during business hours. However, the lights on this floor were off.
When he first entered the banquet hall, he noticed that it was on the sixteenth floor. The Moon Bay Hotel stood tall with thirty floors. The sixteenth and eighteenth floors were well-lit, but the lights on the seventeenth floor, as seen from outside, were off.
The unusual scene seems to be signaling an issue with this floor, urging him to come and investigate.
The elevator buttons also caught his attention.
While the buttons for the sixteenth and eighteenth floors were present, the button for the seventeenth floor was replaced with a fake one.
Sure enough, as soon as he walked up the stairs to the seventeenth floor, the long-unseen black furry monster appeared in front of him, blocking his way.
S419M: [Lord Host, it’s anxious, it’s anxious. There must be something wrong with this floor.]
Bai Lixin: [The exploding fur is quite cute.]
S419M: [So?]
Bai Lixin: [Since that’s the case, I should make it become even cuter. It’s not fluffy enough.]
S419M: […]
‘Be a human, Lord Host.’
