Star Trace Gate

Villa, second floor.

It is impossible for Xiao Shuai to just lick his big brother and not lick his fellow poor brothers. It is just a matter of sticking out his tongue, which is not difficult at all.

"Ahem... we had an argument the other day, and I did get a little carried away, so my words were a little naive, but I definitely didn't mean any harm." Xiao Shuai scratched his head, smiled awkwardly, and looked at Brother Tiger and said, "Your mind is as broad as Tiger Whip's, and you are a magnanimous person, so don't argue with me."

Yin Hu was stunned, and sneered arrogantly: "Oh, do you need me to tell you this?"

"Captain, even couples have their share of arguments. I'll buy you meals for the next few days." Xiao Shuai admitted his mistake and said neither servilely nor arrogantly, "Anyway, guys, just treat it as me farting that day."

"Little things."

"Oh, you bought food today just for this."

"Okay, let's just let this matter pass and never mention it again."

"...!"

Xiao Shuai is different from Xiao Yuan. He is more straightforward and open-minded. When he admits his mistakes, you can feel his personal attitude, so no one took it seriously. They all nodded and chatted with him.

"Come on, let's eat." Fatty Tan greeted them and took the lead in picking up his chopsticks: "Hey, how did you guys harvest today?!"

"I'm fine." Brother Hong replied casually.

"It's just normal progress, nothing unusual." The old cadre also interjected: "However, I always feel that the difficulty of today's task has been reduced, but the reward is still okay."

After everyone responded one by one, Fatty Tan looked at Ren Ye: "What about you?!"

"As for me, I am more great." Ren Ye's expression suddenly became serious.

"Damn it, what does completing missions have to do with greatness?" Yinhu was a little curious.

Ren Ye organized his words and said shamelessly, "Since yesterday, I have been thinking about how to let everyone quickly complete the core tasks from the perspective of a team and the idea of ​​common prosperity, so as to achieve the goal of accumulating important autobiographical fragments. So, I have been pursuing a clue all day today, and until the evening, I finally dug out important news, which illuminated the direction for the team."

"You use too many adjectives, brother. It's a bit fake." Brother Hong replied with a squint.

"The place I found is called Tiangong Tower." Ren also looked at everyone: "SSS+ difficulty, mission description: You must have five or more people to travel. If there are less than five survivors, all of them must go there to trigger the mission. This discovery is definitely a turning point for this star gate. Isn't it great enough?"

Everyone looked at each other with strange expressions and remained silent.

After a moment, Xiao Shuai suddenly looked up and said excitedly: "Brother is still awesome, lighting up the way forward for the team."

"Fuck you." Brother Hong was speechless.

Yinhu was more direct. He looked at Ren and asked, "Did you not gain anything all day? Then you were unlucky enough to encounter a big mechanism at night, and you couldn't trigger it yourself, so you had to come back to sell favors."

"Your thinking is very narrow." Ren was also exposed, and he pointed at him and said, "It's small, your pattern is small."

"Go, take your helper and eat at the kids' table." Fat Tan waved his hand jokingly.

The old cadre was the first to get into the state, and said thoughtfully: "It takes five people to trigger the task. Hmm... I think Comrade Shabao is right. This should indeed be a turning point task of the big mechanism. It feels like it will be difficult. Shabao, briefly introduce the situation there."

"That's a collapsed building, it looks like it's been through an explosion or burning, and it must be quite old, the yard is full of weeds and ruins." Ren Ye thought for a moment and said, "Oh, by the way, there are very few patrols around the building, and there are not many pedestrians. It gives me the feeling that people will take a detour if they see it."

Brother Hong added: "This further proves that this building is very evil, as if there is something unclean in it."

"Ah."

At this point, everyone fell silent.

"What do you say? Are we going here together tomorrow, or will we continue to go separately?" Ren Ye took the initiative to ask: "If we go separately, I will chase other lines first and wait for you. When we have gathered together, we will start again."

"Don't wait any longer." The old cadre looked up and said, "If you don't do the turning point mission, there will be missing information later."

"Fuck." Yin Hu's words were concise.

Everyone looked at each other, and Fatty Tan made the decision: "Since everyone agrees, let's go to Tiangong Building tomorrow to see what's going on there."

"It's an SSS+ mission, this is definitely difficult, we can't be careless." The old cadre suggested: "Everyone should be prepared tonight, sharpen your knives, and prepare some more violent magic props in advance, waiting for the door to open tomorrow."

"Row."

"That's it."

"...!"

After everyone finished the discussion, they finished their meal together and had some free time.

Around 8:20 in the evening, the old cadre suddenly seemed to remember something: "Oh, by the way, it seems that it is Genmen tonight, should Brother Hong change rooms?!"

Brother Hong looked up and said, "I just discussed it with Shabao. Xiaoshuai goes back to his room and I will go to the exchange room."

"Oh, that's fine." The old cadre nodded: "Okay, then I'll go wash up too."

After a while, the time came to eight twenty-five, and everyone returned to the room to rest at the same time.

After Ren Ye returned to Li's room, he tidied up a little and prepared to sacrifice the Human Emperor Sword to go to sleep. But just as he walked to the bed, he suddenly remembered what Xiao Shuai had just said to him.

On the first day, the other party was tempted and drew a scratch card, and got a very useless prop called a camouflage suit. This suit can disguise oneself as a law enforcer for an hour and reduce one's wanted scent level by 2.

This prop must be useless to others and of little use because the time is too short, but it can be used by Ren Ye.

His smell wanted level is very high now. When he moves with everyone tomorrow morning, he will have to take a detour, which will waste time, so he plans to go to Xiao Shuai's place, ask for his clothes, and see if he can use them tomorrow.

Thinking of this, he took a special look at the time on the wall. It was 20:28, and there were still two minutes before closing.

There is enough time to operate.

Thinking of this, he rushed to the door in one step and stretched out his hand to pull it open.

"Squeak...!"

A sound of teeth aching arose, and Ren slowly raised his head, only to see that it was pitch dark outside, with no sight of one's hand in front of one's face.

He was a little confused, thinking, it's not even half past eight yet, why are the lights in the second-floor hall turned off?

In his impression, this lamp on the second floor is a perpetual lamp. It is on before he enters the house every night and before he goes out in the morning.

what happened? !

Ren Ye looked up at the ceiling, but could not see any light.

He was a little confused, but he didn't dare to go out to check rashly, because the time was very close to half past eight. What if he went out and encountered something strange, causing the door to slam shut, that would be... too bad.

This is tantamount to suicide!

Ren blinked, then retracted his steps in confusion, deciding to wait until morning.

After entering and closing the door, he summoned the Human Emperor Sword and hung it above his head. He then sat cross-legged on the iron bed and slowly fell asleep.

……

Silent all night.

At six o'clock the next day, everyone left the room in an unison, and Fat Tan took a quick glance and found that none of the six people were missing.

"How were you last night?!"

Ren also asked Brother Hong.

"I couldn't fall asleep in the first half of the night because I was afraid of accidents. I was too sleepy in the second half of the night. I didn't care about who I was." Brother Hong yawned and replied, "It was very sweet. Nothing happened."

"Why are the lights off?"

At this moment, Xiao Shuai was the first to notice that the light on the second floor was wrong. There was only sunlight seeping in from the first floor, but the lights were not on.

Ren Ye noticed this when he went out, so he asked Brother Hong that question first.

Fat Tan looked up at the ceiling on the second floor and observed the light: "It seems to be broken. The light bulb is burned out."

"Will the lights in the secret world still burn?" Yin Hu squinted and asked, "Could this be a clue or a hint?"

"That's possible." Xiao Shuai nodded.

"Snapped!"

Fat Tan stepped onto the ceiling, checked it carefully, and confirmed: "It's broken. The filament is burned."

"Let's buy one tonight." The old cadre replied, then looked at Ren and asked, "Tiangong Building, is there a reminder trigger time?"

Ren also looked at him, "Yes, I'll be there before ten in the morning."

"Then everyone should hurry up and prepare, and decide whether to rush to the destination separately or act as a whole."

"it is good!"

Fatty Tan replied, jumped off the table and said, "The filament seems to be too old and overheated and ignited. This seems to be a normal phenomenon."

"Oh."

No one thought much about it, they just bent down and sat down, talking in low voices.

……

More than half an hour later.

The six of them came to the ruins of Tiangong Building together and walked to the main entrance of the building.

[Congratulations, you have come to the once glorious Tiangong Building. ]

[Mission Difficulty: SSS+ Level.]

[Number of participants: 5. Once the number of participants reaches the required number, they can collectively trigger the event by sensing the rules of heaven.]

[There is role-playing in this star gate, please be mentally prepared. 】

"...!"

After a series of reminders, Fatty Tan turned his head to look at everyone and asked softly, "What?"

"Dry!"

Everyone nodded in unison.

"Then come in."

As soon as the words fell, the six people sensed the Way of Heaven at the same time, and their consciousness quickly connected with the entire Tiangong Building.

In the crowd, Ren also felt that his heart was gradually becoming empty, and he vaguely saw a simple-looking building, like a palace of an ancient emperor, slowly appearing in his mind.

"Boom!"

After a while, the six figures disappeared in an instant.

Waves of shrill shouts reached everyone's ears.

“It hurts so much…!”

"Someone please save my child...!"

"…Those who shield this will be punished by God!!"

"...!"

The shrill howling sounded intermittent, like a ghost whispering in your ear, chattering away.