PDLP Chapter 365 Breaking Up a Couple
Chapter 365 Breaking Up a Couple
Sun Zhao didn't understand the riddle the two were playing at first, but after hearing Gu Jia's words, he immediately understood what he meant—
"Don't play dumb with me." Sun Zhao slammed his fist on the table and stood up. "I won't allow you, an old cow, to eat young grass."
The more he looked at Lou Yanchuan, the more repulsive he found him, and the more he felt that this person was wicked. "I told you, you and Yan Xun are impossible!"
Sun Zhao looked Lou Yanchuan up and down. "People say that having an elder in the family is like having a treasure. I don't think Yanxun needs your treasure."
Lou Yanchuan was not angered by Sun Zhao. "You're not satisfied with me, but are you satisfied with Gu Jia?"
He quickly added, "Or do you think you have a better chance?"
Sun Zhao immediately jumped up and down, "Don't try to shift the blame." He added, "I'm talking about you, why are you dragging me into this?"
“Yan Xun and I are good buddies. He got married, so I’m still family to him.” Sun Zhao said, then patted Gu Jia’s shoulder next to him. “I think Gu Jia is pretty good, more reliable than you.”
Sun Zhao patted Gu Jia on the shoulder, "I just said it's impossible for you, why are you biting everyone you see?"
“We’re all buddies,” he said, giving Gu Jia’s shoulder a hard pat. “Right?”
"Dude..."
Sun Zhao took pictures for a long time, but Gu Jia didn't say a word.
His movements slowly became hesitant, then he suddenly looked down at Gu Jia, “…?”
No? Bro, what's going on?
Gu Jia shook off Sun Zhao's hand. "Boring."
“Right, how boring!” Sun Zhao agreed enthusiastically. “I told you not to make such pointless jokes.”
Lou Yanchuan was too lazy to pay attention to this desperate straight man.
"Do you and Yan Xun have other plans?" Gu Jia asked.
Lou Yanchuan chuckled, "I'm an outsider, how can I tell you what the plan is?"
"Why don't your family members go and ask Yan Xun themselves?"
"Nonsense, if they could just ask Yan Xun now, would they be sitting here chatting like this?" Sun Zhao thought.
"You're the one who brought us into this mission," Lou Yanchuan said. "Didn't you give us any hints?" he asked Sun Zhao.
"I really didn't," Sun Zhao swore to the heavens.
“I cleared the dungeon and got this quest box.” He looked at the remaining two people. “I think this dungeon isn’t too difficult, so it can be used as a transition dungeon to buffer the next dungeon.”
"It can also occupy one copy quota."
Sun Zhao: This is also a common practice among veteran players. As the dungeon level gradually increases, in order to give themselves some breathing room, they will specifically look for some low to medium difficulty dungeons that can occupy dungeon slots.
As it stands, this instance does indeed fit the difficulty range set by the system.
“I think there are only two solutions to this problem,” Sun Zhao said. “One is to curry favor with Master Gao and become the one who doesn’t attend the banquet.”
"Or maybe..." Sun Zhao made a subtle gesture of slitting his throat.
"This instance probably wants to see us kill each other," Sun Zhao said.
Upon hearing this, Lou Yanchuan added the banquet conditions that Yan Xun had told him—that lord needed players as sacrifices.
"There's this additional setting?" Sun Zhao clicked his tongue in amazement. "This dungeon is quite insidious."
He looked at Lou Yanchuan, "You went to the ancestral hall, what did you say?"
What he wanted to ask was whether Lou Yanchuan thought the thing in the ancestral hall was a boss that could be defeated.
Lou Yanchuan shook his head.
"No way!" Sun Zhao cried out in despair. "You really think we can't win???"
Lou Yanchuan felt he couldn't beat them, so what was this...?
Sun Zhao immediately thought of the Compassionate Mother Goddess in the movie instance. Fortunately, this instance did not require them to defeat the Compassionate Mother Goddess, and the Compassionate Mother Goddess did not have any ill intentions towards them, otherwise they would not have been able to leave the instance.
Surely this dungeon can't also be a dungeon with this kind of mechanism, right?
Is it possible for only one person to complete the game?
"No." Lou Yanchuan shook his head.
"I can't feel Him."
Sun Zhao: "..."
"President, could you please not speak so dramatically next time?"
"So, it's possible for us to defeat it and escape the instance directly?"
"Perhaps," Lou Yanchuan said conservatively.
Gu Jia looked at Lou Yanchuan. Based on his understanding of Yan Xun, the other party would most likely not choose the route of currying favor with Master Gao and getting other players to attend the banquet... But Master Gao's arrow was so obvious that this outcome was inevitable.
The information they had mentioned that the strange artifacts worshipped by the Gao family were in Master Gao's room.
Meanwhile, the very person the Gao family worshipped was also receiving offerings in the ancestral hall…
Gu Jia frowned. "What exactly did you say to Yan Xun?"
“Yeah, yeah,” Sun Zhao chimed in. “Aren’t we teammates now?”
Lou Yanchuan put on that fake smile again, "Who's your teammate?"
"Aren't you the bride's family, the ones who break up the couple?"
……
Before Yan Xun even got close to Master Gao's courtyard, he could smell a strong medicinal odor.
The stench was almost overwhelming, accompanied by wafts of incense; it was unclear whether this was intended to mask the medicinal smell or had some other purpose.
There weren't many servants in Master Gao's courtyard. The people accompanying Yan Xun weren't Xiao Hong and Xiao Lü, but people sent by Master Gao.
The man was very old, his face was covered with skin like dried orange peel, his eyelids drooped and covered half of his eyes, and he walked with a shaky gait. Yan Xun was worried that he would collapse before him.
However, this man walked steadily. He was said to be the former steward of the Gao family, who had watched Master Gao grow up since he was a child and was one of Master Gao's confidants.
Upon seeing Yan Xun, the butler forced a smile, "Young Master hasn't been this happy in a long time."
Yan Xun: "..."
Do all your butlers have the same lines?
"Is that so?" Yan Xun said. "But besides me, aren't there six other wives?"
"I heard that the master once had a child bride?"
The butler's expression remained unchanged. "You're different."
“A child bride…” the butler pondered, but perhaps because he was too old, he shook his head and said, “I can’t remember.”
He said to Yan Xun with a smile, "Young Master's favorite is definitely you."
He led Yan Xun into Master Gao's courtyard. By then, it was completely dark, but fortunately, the steward was still carrying a lantern.
When they arrived at the gate of Master Gao's courtyard, the steward said to Yan Xun, "Young Master has been waiting for you for a long time."
He said he had no intention of going any further.
Besides the suffocating incense, the courtyard of Master Gao was filled with the strong smell of medicine. Yan Xun looked at the steward waiting outside the courtyard and finally went into Master Gao's courtyard.
He had only taken a few steps inside when he saw Master Gao, dressed in white, approaching him with a lantern.
Upon seeing Yan Xun, he hurriedly quickened his pace... but perhaps because he was moving too fast, he couldn't help but cough a few times, causing the lantern in his hand to sway.
Yan Xun looked at Gao Ruiyun, and finally walked over and took the lantern from his hand.
"You're not feeling well, so just wait for me in the room."
He looked at Gao Ruiyun, who was coughing while covering her mouth, and said, "I'm not going to get lost."