Since Zhuge An said so, the S-ranks gathered in the room let it go one after another.
The several other S-ranks had long been identified as puppets of the Devil. The well water doesn’t interfere with the river water and they wouldn’t appear here.
Without a No. 9 and a No. 10, there were now only three S-ranks in the room: No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4. Their combat power had been greatly reduced, but strangely, those puppets didn’t make things hard for them and were actually very leisurely.
Feeling the strange atmosphere in the room, the Exorcist spoke carefully, “What’s going on with them? Is it possible that the Magician and Yin-Yang Master are not in this orphanage?”
The S+ rank instance world they entered this time was a strange orphanage. After entering, all the trainees shrank in size and turned into six-year-olds.
The orphanage was very large and the setting seemed to be during World War II. There were dozens of children living in each room here, sleeping crowded on the floor. The living material conditions were extremely poor and quite simple.
Fortunately, the S+ rank instance was not so crazy as to add attributes such as hunger points to them.
To be honest, being smaller was enough to be debilitating.
In this room now, three S-ranks were sitting on stools, all with serious expressions.
In the eyes of others, the three little bean sprouts had a straight face, especially the black-haired little bean sprout, who looked bitter and resentful.
“No.”
Zhuge An’s black hair laid softly on his small, palm-sized face, making his serious expression particularly funny, “They are not in this instance.”
“How can it be?!”
The Exorcist opened his eyes wide, “Didn’t the system say this is a full instance?”
Zhuge An didn’t speak anymore, but closed his eyes again, secretly calming down his surging Qi and blood.
Fortunately, everyone knew that Zhuge An often only said half of his words. If someone insisted on asking him thoroughly, he would just say “heavenly secrets cannot be leaked”, so the Exorcist had no choice but to swallow his countless questions silently.
This orphanage was very large and had several floors. All the remaining more than a thousand trainees were in the orphanage without exception.
Kerosene lamps hung from the rotten beams, illuminating the damp and gloomy interior filled with gray colors, as if lighting a catacomb.
Just then, the bell rang.
Ring, ring, ring.
A voice came from far away, cold, ominous, swirling continuously, full of hateful whispers.
All the trainees in the room stood up, looked at each other, and left the room in silence.
The rules in the orphanage were that as long as the bell rang, everyone must gather downstairs within five minutes. If you disobeyed, you won’t die, but something more terrible than death would happen.
On the first day, they had witnessed a living B-rank trainee turn into a twisted rope. No one would try to test it again at this juncture.
Van Zhuo deliberately slowed down his pace and the broken wooden boards did not creak under his steps.
Even though he was only six years old, he still had a straight back and a stern face, without weakening the iron-blooded aura in his body.
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“I didn’t expect that despite not having a bloodline, the leader of the Night Clan would still be so sharp.”
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“In my impression, you are definitely not a person who is willing to be subordinate to anyone and help others.”
Van Zhuo looked at him deeply, his blood-red eyes cold and sharp, “As for respecting teachers? My intuition tells me that that is a big joke.
“Zhuge An, what on earth are you planning?”
For those who never faced No. 3 directly, the idea built from other people’s mouths was definitely not even one-tenth as good as personal experience.
At least for a leader like Van Zhuo who had been in a high position for a long time, Zhuge An was definitely a dangerous factor that would be destroyed if he couldn’t control it.
Unfortunately, from the moment Zhuge An appeared in the Cursed Mask instance, the strength he displayed reached a level that no organization could control at will.
Guiguzi had several S-rank props in his hands back then, and the Taichi Eight Trigrams Plate was the most important one. Since Zhuge An had inherited Guiguzi’s mantle, he was certainly not much weaker.
“What’s my plan? Would you believe it if I told you?” Zhuge An retorted, “What else is your intuition telling you?”
“My intuition also tells me that you’d better die in this instance,” Van Zhuo said coldly, “If I let you live until the decisive battle, something bad will probably happen.”
“Thank you for the blessing.”
Hearing this, Zhuge An smiled instead, “I have long since transferred the authority to carry props in this S+ rank instance to the Magician. Maybe you can really look forward to it.”
After finishing saying what he wanted to say, he stopped talking. He quickened his pace, passed by No. 2 indifferently, and took the lead in catching up with the trainees in front.
…
On the other side, Zong Jiu and Tsuchimikado were groping around, planning to search all the locations marked on the sign one by one to see if they could find any useful clues.
In fact, Tsuchimikado must be blamed for this matter. If he had passed the inspiration check just now and remembered what the symbol meant, they would not have to wander around like headless flies.
The problem was that they really didn’t have any clues or hints at all. So they could only try to blind cat catch a mouse.
Of course, there was one more thing they had to do before going over each place.
“Did you choose Tricky Hand?” Zong Jiu looked at the rabbit NPC in front of him and asked in a low voice.
The skill of Tricky Hand was commonly known as the skill of stealing. The ancients could describe thieves as gentlemen, so having tricky hands was a perfect metaphor for theft.
Although this skill was not classified as a must-have skill by trainees like detection, listening, and stealth, there were still many eccentric trainees who chose to move closer to this skill. There were also trainees in large organizations who had chosen this skill specifically. Sometimes a skilled trainee might be able to get some important props from an NPC.
“Yes.” Tsuchimikado nodded.
He also allocated fifty points to his Tricky Hand, which was a skill that was parallel to his inspiration.
Logically speaking, there was a 50% success rate.
At this time, a warm reminder came from the sub-system.
[Due to the special nature of the Tricky Hand skill, if the check fails, some special circumstances will definitely occur]
“What’s the circumstances?”
[For example… suddenly pounced on the NPC] The sub-system euphemistically said [If you fail, you can pass another luck check. If you pass, the NPC will not notice. If you fail the luck check, the NPC will most likely notice that you intend to steal.]
Zong Jiu was speechless after hearing what the subsystem said.
He stopped the Yin-Yang Master’s hand that was about to throw the die, “I hope you can remain silent forever about what happens next.”
Tsuchimikado: “…?”
Just when the Yin-Yang Master was full of questions, he saw the Magician unfold the black folding fan in his hand, covering most of his face, his eyes moved, and he walked forward quickly.
He simply chuckled, his voice gentle and cold, making half of people’s bones feel numb.
The rabbit in front was speed walking, but when he saw the appearance of the qipao beauty, he couldn’t even walk.
It was already weak and silly, and it was hit with another critical success with Charm. Now Zong Jiu was like a walking humanoid aphrodisiac in front of it. It was alright if it didn’t see him, but as soon as it saw, it forgot all about the things the circus leader ordered it to do. All it could see was the beauty in front of it. Whatever the other party asked for, even the stars and the moon in the sky, the rabbit had to find a way to get it for him.
The Yin-Yang Master just watched Zong Jiu’s movements numbly.
Just when he was wondering when the Magician learned this trick, the other party came back with the pass easily.
“Let’s go.”
Zong Jiu weighed the strange round pass in his hand and looked at the Yin-Yang Master who was still in a daze, “Hey, are you going?”
Tsuchimikado hurriedly followed with complicated emotions, “I didn’t expect you to be like this…” He kept the secret.
Although the Yin-Yang Master has complicated feelings, the two of them were grasshoppers tied to the same rope, and there was no way he would choose mutual destruction of their prestige.
Zong Jiu made a random joke, “I’ve never eaten pork, but I’ve seen pigs running around, right?”
Following the direction of the sign they memorized, the two of them turned left and right and stopped at the entrance of the livestock farm.
After having the pass, the two of them could even be said to have been let in without any hindrance.
The pair stood high and looked at the scene below.
Countless human beings wore shackles and collars, and were naked in the pig pen, with dull eyes and drooling.
Buckets of black and yellow feed were poured into the troughs of the pig pens by the cows on the farm. The humans who had been hungry for a long time rushed up with low roars. They opened their mouths like crazy and fought for it.
Naturally, it wouldn’t look all that great. There were even a lot of humans eating and shitting inside. What a beautiful scene.
Surrounded by sewage, the stench rose to the sky, and endless flies circled in the dim light.
Eating, drinking, and defecating, unless they are slaughtered, these captive humans would never be able to step out from here until they die, just like the livestock raised by humans in other societies.
It was clearly marked on the outside as a pig farm.
In the eyes of the animals, these humans were no different than pigs.
“Any other discoveries?” Zong Jiu asked Tsuchimikado, and the two of them made a roll for reconnaissance.
As expected, Yin-Yang Master failed and the Magician succeeded.
[Your throwing result is 21/30, the detection check is successful]
[In this dirty and dark pigsty, you are very lucky to find the same symbol, but this symbol does not seem to be the exact one as the one on the sign]
Since they were not the same one, Zong Jiu boldly guessed that the clues were not here.
But Tsuchimikado and he did not leave the pig farm and rushed to the cultivation farm.
Because Zong Jiu discovered a problem, “Have you noticed that I am very lucky.”
Tsuchimikado: “…”
Yes, it was really good. He hadn’t failed a throw since he entered this instance.
But that wasn’t a reason to show off in front of an African chief!!! Rage!!!
However, Zong Jiu had no intentions to joke around. He put away the folding fan in his hand, frowned and waved his hand, “It’s not what you think. Although my luck is better than yours usually, it is definitely not as good as this.”
In order to test this, Zong Jiu began to call the sub-system to throw dice for him.
“Sub-system, give me a stealth roll.
“Another disguise.
“Listening check.”
…
The Yin-Yang Master watched in stunned silence as he threw the dice.
He threw it five times in total and didn’t fail even once. Not to mention that some of the skills only had 20 or 30 skill points, and there was even a 10 points library skill.
This time even Tsuchimikado could tell something was wrong.
“Did you see it? It’s not an illusion.” Zong Jiu whispered, “My luck has really improved.”
It was impossible for people’s luck to change for the better out of thin air, not to mention for no reason or rhyme like this.
If he wanted to get better, either someone had to use special props for him in advance, or someone had to secretly help him and lend him their luck in advance.
What I’d give to see their little kiddie-selves :”D ty for the chapter
Thankyou for the translation! OMG, i feel like either n.o 1 or Zhuge An lent him that luck ability.
🤔
It’s either a good intention foundationalized with good heart or good intentions caked with a bigger malice of the heart or simply, selfish outcomes.
Idk. I’m throwing my guesses.