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Seeing Su Rong confidently reveal her name, Ji Dong and the others exchanged a glance and smiled, but had no intention of revealing their real names.
“You have to tell me what to call you, okay?”
The beautiful sister persisted.
“Ji Xiao’niao.”
Ji Dong pointed to himself and introduced the other two. “Mr. Ren and Teacher Dagen.”
“Okay.”
Su Rong winked at him. Her gaze then turned to Ren Jianmo and Mo Tiangen. Her eyes glinted with a sharpness that made it clear she had some plan in mind.
“Sister Su.”
Seeing that the beauty was unwilling to leave, the two men behind her looked like they were watching a show, making it clear that they were not friendly. So he didn’t beat around the bush and asked directly:
“You came here to find us, is there something you want?”
“Hahaha! Actually, you don’t have to be so guarded, little brother.”
Su Rong laughed and looked at the three people sitting in the booth. “Is it possible you’re not aware? You three are already famous in the [Peach Blossom Spring]!”
Ji Dong: “???”
He really didn’t know what he did to become famous in the [Peach Blossom Spring].
“Haha, you really don’t know?”
As Su Rong spoke, she casually sat next to Mo Tiangen, lightly bumped his arm with her shoulder, and threw a flirtatious look at him.
Teacher Dagen just silently distanced himself from her—about three fists away—and leaned against the wall.
Unfortunately, although Teacher Dagen considered himself a straight man, he always liked gentle, quiet, and beautiful girl-next-door types. He was really afraid to provoke overly passionate and hot beauties like this.
After Su Rong sat down, the tall and lean bespectacled man and the blond, male Caucasian called out to a waiter for additional chairs and also sat down next to the booth, seemingly having decided that they would share a table with Ji Dong and the others.
Despite the abrupt intrusion, Ji Dong and his friends were really curious about how Su Rong knew them, so they didn’t say much and let them sit down.
“It’s like this.”
Su Rong added a bit of self-introduction, “The three of us are members of an elite guild in the [Peach Blossom Spring].”
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“It’s like this, there is an unwritten rule in our circle of senior participants. Only the guilds that recruit participants with A-level difficulty or above can be called ‘elite guilds.’”
She paused and added:
“It’s hard to come into contact with such guilds for newcomers like you who have only recently arrived in the [Peach Blossom Spring]. Generally, only after you have broken through the A-level difficulty and met senior participants in the [Film] will you encounter these guilds…”
“I see.”
Ji Dong nodded humbly. His bright eyes blinked, “May I ask, how many people are in your guild? Also, do all the powerful participants join the elite guild?”
“You little guy… okay, it’s okay to tell you, it’s not a secret anyway.”
Su Rong smiled and shook her head, apparently helpless with Ji Dong.
“Generally, the number of people in elite guilds are not many, usually within thirty people, and there are also those who claim to be a guild with less than ten people. As for our gang, until today, the number of people who have returned alive is nineteen…”
She implied that there were certainly casualties in this month’s [Film].
“When the difficulty increases, you will inevitably come into contact with more types of [Films]. Sometimes, you will encounter situations where you must join one side whether you want to or not. Unless you are strong enough to crush them, it is more advantageous to team up with those you’re familiar with than with strangers, right?”
“Mhmm!”
Ji Dong was listening attentively.
He knew that Su Rong’s words made a lot of sense.
The [Painted Wall of Souls] he just experienced was a typical [Film] that required “cooperation.”
If it weren’t for his reliable companions, Ren Jianmo and Mo Tiangen, as well as the cooperation of the Fan siblings, they would not have been able to investigate the situation of the mansion so smoothly and finally passed the [Painted Wall of Souls] perfectly by smashing the inkstone.
“So, although not everyone will join a guild, most of the participants who have broken through the A-level difficulty [Film] will have a reliable team of their own…”
Su Rong paused here and said:
“Of course, if you are as strong as the legendary ‘King of Lanling’, then it doesn’t matter whether you join a team or not, haha.”
Ji Dong’s eyes lit up.
This was the second time an experienced senior from the [Peach Blossom Spring] uttered the name “King of Lanling.”
For some reason, he seemed to have an inexplicable curiosity about this legendary figure. He always felt that there must be some secrets worth exploring about the strongest person who had disappeared in the [Peach Blossom Spring].
But Su Rong did not continue to dwell on this topic.
“Okay, let’s go back to the original question.”
The beautiful sister smiled at them:
“You must be curious why I took the initiative to come and talk to you, right?”
Ji Dong nodded honestly.
“You just achieved a ‘perfect clearance’ in the previous [Film] right?”
Su Rong propped her chin with one hand and smiled slightly:
“I think many participants from elite guilds already know this news.”
“Ah?”
Ji Dong blinked.
They had only returned that afternoon, and both Ren Jianmo and Mo Tiangen were newcomers. They were not sociable people with many acquaintances. As for the Fan siblings, he remembered that they had mentioned that they had just fallen out with their former guild…
Thinking about it, the most likely to spread the news of “perfect clearance” should be Zhao Zhui and Chao Xi.
He voiced his speculation:
“So, it was the ‘Compass’ guild that said that?”
“Bingo!”
Su Rong nodded in satisfaction, “We’ve planted one or two spies in the ‘Compass’ guild. Just today… we heard about a fascinating incident.”
She smiled:
“There’s a girl in the ‘Compass’ guild named Chao Xi. She complained to their leader that Zhao Zhui disregarded her life in the [Film] and even killed another member with his own hands.”
Ji Dong: “???”
He subconsciously frowned and seriously tried to remember. He vaguely recalled that when they were busy looking for clues, Zhao Zhui’s side had indeed had a few internal transmissions with the identity of a [Ghost], and it seemed that someone had died in the end.
However, he wasn’t there at that moment and didn’t have time to ask carefully, so he naturally couldn’t explain what happened.
“The [Film] that you drew was originally a big escape-type game, right?”
Su Rong continued, “Although I’m not sure how you managed to get a ‘perfect clearance’ with seven people alive in an escape-type [Film], after Zhao Zhui explained it to the guild leader, their boss also thought that the situation was forced, so it’s no wonder that Zhao Zhui took action against his teammates.”
She looked very interested in the three people and seemed to be thinking about how they did it.
“However, with Chao Xi’s troublemaking, Zhao Zhui, as a core, has come to an end. After all, no one wants to stay in a team where the leader can abandon their teammates at any time!”
Su Rong gently shook her fingers and stared at the three people again.
“We are not interested in the internal disputes of their guild. What we are interested in is when Zhao Zhui said they achieved a ‘perfect clearance’ in the [Film] they just experienced, and it seems that this achievement was brought about by you. Is that true?”
“So that’s what it is,” Ji Dong eventually understood.
Then he tilted his head in confusion, “But is ‘Perfect Clearance’ rare?”
“Hahaha! You guys are newbies!”
Su Rong laughed.
“It is indeed rare. The last time I heard someone attain the ‘perfect clearance’ achievement was…”
She counted on her fingers, “About 10 months ago?”
“Tch!”
At this moment, a dissonant sound suddenly interrupted their conversation with Su Rong.
A tall, blond, white man reacted at a volume that the people present could hear:
“It’s just a B-level difficulty [Film]!”
“Oh, it looks like Mark is a bit dissatisfied!”
Su Rong did not stop the white man’s rude behavior but instead winked at Ji Dong and the others:
“What do you say, are you interested in convincing him with your strength?”
Ji Dong: “…”
Although Su Rong was speaking in a teasing tone, the blatant provocation between those words was as clear as day.
The [Peach Blossom Spring]’s rules stated that participants should not behave violently towards others.
Ji Dong squinted and gave her a sincere smile.
“Honestly, we have other arrangements later. At this point, I’m afraid we won’t be able to go to the training ground.”
“Hey, kid, are you guys chickening out?”
Despite being Caucasian, Mark’s Chinese was impressively fluent, and he even had a strong Northeastern accent.
He arrogantly swept his gaze at Ji Dong, and Ren Jianmo, and finally landed on Mo Tiangen.
“Why go to the training ground? I won’t make things difficult for you… Otherwise, let’s do something simple!”
He thought for a moment, rolled up his sleeves, and showed off those terrifying biceps of his, raising his chin towards the table:
“How about an arm-wrestling match? It’s not considered violent behavior, right?”
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