WTNL Chapter 577

Lucky Cruise Ship
Chapter 577: Say hello?

“…”

Wu Zhu raised his head, his golden eyes flashing slightly under the black mask as he looked at Wen Jianyan.

Wen Jianyan shifted his weight impatiently: “Are we going or not?”

“En.”

Wu Zhu didn’t hesitate and followed him straight away.

Wen Jianyan took two steps forward, then suddenly stopped, turning his head uneasily to instruct: “Don’t talk nonsense later, understand?”

Wu Zhu: “En.”

“No, actually, just don’t say anything at all later. Let me do the talking, okay?”

Wu Zhu: “En.”

Wen Jianyan: “…”

He agreed quite readily.

He took a deep breath and closed his eyes.

He hoped he wouldn’t regret this impulsive decision later.

Not far away, outside the dance floor.

After a period of observation, Chen Mo and the others also realized that whatever these “honored guests” wrapped in black cloth were, they posed no threat—at least for now.

Moreover, this Captain’s Dinner didn’t seem to force people to stay. They had just witnessed several waves of anchors leaving openly through the main entrance without being stopped.

Although they still hadn’t relaxed their vigilance, they were finally not as tense as before.

“Did you discover anything?”

Chen Mo looked at Blond and Ma Qi and asked.

Ma Qi’s face was still very pale, but compared to just now, it seemed to have eased somewhat: “The atmosphere around those ‘guests’ is very bad, very dark… They are one hundred percent not human, very terrifying, full of malice. Although they aren’t hurting anyone now, I’m afraid this situation won’t last too long.”

“Ma Qi is right, I… I saw it with my own eyes.”

Blond raised his head, squinting his remaining eye, which was completely crimson inside.

“There is nothing under their masks, nothing at all.”

Even though he only had one usable eye left, inexplicably, Blond could see more, deeper, and further than before.

After the consumption at the racecourse earlier, his vision had become sharper and more easily stimulated than before. Ma Qi was obviously in the same situation.

Although they had already guessed that the newcomers were unfriendly, hearing it with their own ears felt different after all.

The details revealed by this instance so far were already terrifying enough. And now, the arrival of these uninvited guests meant that what they had seen so far was still not the full picture. This instance harbored some deeper, darker possibilities.

Just as the group was discussing in low voices, the first dance ended, and their guild leader left the dance floor, walking in their direction.

However, before they could relax, they immediately realized—the black shadow that had just invited their guild leader to dance didn’t seem to intend to leave, but was following closely behind him, walking towards them together!!

“…!”

What is going on?!

Everyone was startled, their bodies reflexively tensing up immediately. They held their breath, staring fixedly at Wen Jianyan and the tall black shadow following behind him, ready to deal with any potential crisis.

Even stranger was that Wen Jianyan didn’t seem nervous about this, nor did he show any special attitude… He just signaled the group with his eyes to leave this place and talk outside.

The group looked at each other, all with expressions of astonishment.

On the contrary, Blond stared at the shadow behind Wen Jianyan with a confused expression, looking like he wanted to say something but stopped.

Although they didn’t know the reason, the group immediately followed, chasing Wen Jianyan’s steps out of the hall to an empty corridor.

Wen Jianyan stopped, turned to look at the group that had followed him out, and got straight to the point:

“I know what these ‘honored guests’ are.”

All of Chen Mo’s attention was on the black shadow behind Wen Jianyan, but hearing this sentence still startled him, and he couldn’t help but stare at Wen Jianyan.

“What?”

“They are tenants living in the cabins on the negative eighteenth floor,” Wen Jianyan said concisely. “I was briefly imprisoned on that floor as an auction item before. My escape released them from the cabins.”

That infinite corridor trapped not only Wen Jianyan but also countless tenants in the cabins. To escape from it, Wen Jianyan had to break its seal, which naturally brought uncontrollable consequences.

“However, I think the reason they can appear on this floor is probably mainly due to those unknown ‘buyers’ at the auction.”

Wen Jianyan took a deep breath and said.

Although when Wen Jianyan left the negative eighteenth floor, they had already been released from the infinite corridor, according to the information given by Wu Zhu, after Wen Jianyan left, because they didn’t board the elevator together, they couldn’t leave the eighteenth floor with him.

After a long time, the empty elevator slowly opened.

And this coincided perfectly with the time Figaro sent him the message.

Wen Jianyan’s guess might have come true—the auction and the buyers reached an agreement, and releasing the tenants on the negative eighteenth floor was obviously part of it.

At this point, the group’s gazes simultaneously turned to the black shadow behind Wen Jianyan, the vigilance in their eyes instantly doubling: “Then… why is this ‘tenant’ following you?”

Looking at it this way, their guild leader was being entangled and was currently in a dangerous situation.

The atmosphere in the air suddenly tensed up.

“He is not a tenant.”

Wen Jianyan seemed to be choosing his words carefully. He paused for a moment before continuing, “He is… an ally.”

An ally?

The people present were all stunned.

“Do me a favor, turn off the live broadcast,” Wen Jianyan said.

The group looked at each other.

Although they didn’t know the reason, out of trust in Wen Jianyan, they still did as asked.

After the live broadcast was turned off, Wen Jianyan turned to look at Wu Zhu: “You can take off the mask now.”

The black shadow that hadn’t said a word since just now, following silently behind Wen Jianyan like a ghost, slowly raised his hand and pressed on the mask on his face.

“…”

Watching this scene, everyone’s hearts were in their throats. They stared tightly at the shadow’s movements, not blinking, afraid of missing something.

The next second, the mask was taken off.

Underneath was a face so handsome it almost exceeded the scope of cognition, with pale skin and golden eyes.

Although there wasn’t “nothing” under the mask as Blond had said, no one felt relaxed because of it.

Because when stared at by those eyes, they had never felt so vividly…

That the other party was not of their kind.

It was a ghost, a deity, a monster.

Definitely not a human.

“…!”

Ma Qi stared fixedly at Wu Zhu. Not knowing what she sensed, she gasped sharply. Her intuition as a psychic roared in her mind, her pupils dilated suddenly, and the shadow of fear crept onto her face:

“…Run! Run quickly!”

The atmosphere around this guy was far less chilly than other tenants. If it were her past self, she might have thought this guy wasn’t as threatening as his other kind. But for her, whose senses had been doubly amplified, the shadow before her had an aura she absolutely didn’t want to approach.

Like a bottomless abyss, just looking at it would swallow you up.

Terrifying, extremely terrifying, must stay away immediately!!

As soon as Ma Qi said this, the barely maintained peace collapsed immediately. The atmosphere suddenly tightened, swords drawn and bows bent. Wen Ya reacted the fastest; she lunged forward, grabbed Wen Jianyan, and retreated.

Caught off guard, Wen Jianyan stumbled from the pull.

In just a few seconds, the pressure in the air was on the verge of exploding.

While trying to break free from Wen Ya’s hand and regain his footing, Wen Jianyan tried to calm the chaotic situation before him: “Yes, he is indeed not human—”

Hearing this, the group turned their heads in unison, looking at Wen Jianyan in astonishment, as if asking:

You fucking knew??

Under everyone’s shocked gazes, Wen Jianyan very strongly continued to complete the remaining half of the sentence: “…But he is indeed an ally, that’s correct.”

“He has the same stance as us, a common enemy,” Wen Jianyan said. “Although we were indeed hostile for a period of time, he has now proven himself trustworthy…”

“Hostile?”

Wen Ya was stunned, seemingly realizing something abruptly, her eyes suddenly becoming grave: “In an instance? Is he an NPC? Or a BOSS?” With every word she said, the surrounding atmosphere tensed for a moment.

Wen Jianyan: “…”

Sis, your ability to grasp the main points is somewhat god-tier.

Worse still, she actually grasped the right points.

“I… I remember him.”

Amidst the chaos, Blond’s faint voice sounded from behind.

Everyone was stunned and turned to look.

Wen Ya frowned: “What do you mean? You’ve seen him?”

“En,” Blond stood not far away, looking somewhat dazed as if recalling something. “Just in the Xingwang Hotel instance, I used an item called Ox Tears. I saw him beside the captain at that time. He… seemed indeed to have no malice, and he probably did help us back then.”

Hearing this, Chen Mo was stunned, seemingly awakened to distant memories.

Indeed, there was such a thing. At that time, because Blond kept yelling that there was an invisible person beside Wen Jianyan, he was dragged into the bathroom. However, he didn’t know what happened inside.

Blond continued, “Moreover, if I remember correctly, he looked like his relationship with the captain was very—”

“??”

Wen Jianyan hurriedly interrupted: “Alright, that’s enough, stop there.”

With Blond as a witness proving Wu Zhu’s harmlessness, the extremely tense surrounding atmosphere finally eased gradually. Although the gazes the group cast at Wu Zhu still carried vigilance, at least they didn’t react as intensely as before.

Wen Jianyan took a deep breath: “We don’t have much time, so I’ll make a long story short.”

“His name is Wu Zhu. He is indeed not human, but neither is he a ghost or monster. His soul was split and trapped in the Nightmare, used as fuel to drive the instances. So, he has the same goal as us—”

During Wen Jianyan’s introduction, Wu Zhu maintained an expressionless state, standing motionless in place. He seemed indifferent to everything, like a cold stone statue. Despite his amazing looks, it instead deepened his non-human qualities, making one’s hair stand on end and completely unable to generate a shred of trust.

Looking at such an “ally,” although Chen Mo, Wen Ya, and the others didn’t say anything, the hostility in their eyes didn’t diminish in the slightest.

Halfway through speaking, Wen Jianyan really couldn’t stand it anymore: “Hey.”

“?”

Wu Zhu’s eyes moved, his gaze falling on Wen Jianyan. In an instant, the cold stone statue seemed to suddenly have the breath of a living person.

“Say something,” Wen Jianyan urged.

Wu Zhu: “You told me not to speak.”

Wen Jianyan: “…”

He took a deep breath and whispered, “But you can’t really say nothing at all. At least say hello, right?”

The handsome alien seemed to undergo brief contemplation.

He turned his head to look at the people in front of him and greeted them matter-of-factly: “Hello?”

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Author’s Note:

You two are acting weird (pointing fingers).

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