As soon as Yin Xiu was freed, he immediately got up, dusted himself off, and finally found a reason to get up.
A slight silence fell over the room. Li Mo gazed at him with a smile, the pleasant scent lingering on her.
Yin Xiu looked at him and said seriously, "Out of respect for you, I reiterate that I have never considered having a boyfriend."
Li Mo remained silent.
Yin Xiu's eyes were cold, and he said in a calm voice, "But we can be friends. It's already a big concession of mine to reluctantly add you to the list of people I won't be wary of."
"You know I show no mercy to most monsters, especially those of unknown origin and extreme danger like you."
He stared intently at Li Mo. "If this is still not enough, I feel that keeping you by my side is dangerous."
Li Mo was silent for a few seconds, then smiled and uttered a single word, "Okay."
He didn't understand Yin Xiu's reason for rejecting him, but he had just learned of a more important identity, and he could slowly move closer to that identity without being in a hurry.
Yin Xiu was also satisfied with Li Mo's stability. He really disliked the responsibilities imposed on him. What he willingly accepted was different from what he had to accept. Although he was the one who brought up the topic of being a boyfriend first, it would still be a bit of a stretch to accept it without any real feelings.
My friends are alright, but my boyfriend is a whole different story.
Yin Xiu picked up the coin, wrapped it in paper again, and casually said, "Binding other sin gates? I was just saying that. One is troublesome enough."
Li Mo's smile widened. "Okay."
After wrapping up the coins from the Jealousy Gate, Yin Xiu turned to Ye Tianxuan, who was still squatting by the door rubbing his eyes, and asked, "How are you? What did you see just now? Why did you react so strongly?"
Ye Tianxuan stood up from the ground and rubbed his slightly reddened eyes. "I saw something that people shouldn't see, but luckily my defense is high, so it didn't have a big impact."
He blinked, his eyelids beneath his blue eyes were red, and tears were welling up. "You're with him every day, haven't you seen it?"
Yin Xiu shook his head, "He always tells me to close my eyes first..."
"Damn it." Ye Tianxuan gritted his teeth, rubbed his eyes, and muttered that it hurt as he went into the house. He threw the angry coin from his pocket onto the table before he gradually calmed down.
"I'm here to talk to you about something." Yin Xiu sat down after tidying up, and held up the handcuffs on his wrists. "Look what this is?"
Ye Tianxuan turned his gaze to the handcuffs on his wrists, "The legendary white handcuffs... it's not surprising that they're on your wrists."
You know?
"Of course I know." Ye Tianxuan wiped away his tears and nodded with a smile. "I heard about it from the gossip forum. Normally, they wouldn't tell other players about this item, but as you know, I'm special. There's nothing I can't get the answer to, so I made an exception and found out about this."
"It seems to be a special item from the warden in this instance. Players wearing handcuffs face a much greater challenge in the instance and are more easily corrupted, right?"
Yin Xiu nodded and told Ye Tianxuan the information he had heard from the monster, then said, "I suspect that only people wearing white handcuffs can learn about the warden through the monster."
Ye Tianxuan stood up and patted Yin Xiu's shoulder meaningfully, "Following you into the dungeon was definitely the right decision. With these handcuffs on, a five-star clear is guaranteed."
Yin Xiu looked puzzled, but Ye Tianxuan swaggered back to his chair and said leisurely, "You should remember that in each dungeon's five-star rating, there's always one star that comes from the dungeon's background, right? Players have to understand the dungeon's background to get that star."
Yin Xiu nodded, seemingly understanding.
In this instance, only those who wear the white handcuffs can learn about the warden's background from the monsters. And not just any player can wear the white handcuffs. Since Yin Xiu has worn them, Ye Tianxuan is guaranteed a five-star clear.
"I've become your tool for clearing the level," Yin Xiu concluded calmly.
"Don't say that. Aren't all the players in this instance just tools to me?" Ye Tianxuan narrowed his long eyes. "In exchange, I'll tell you some information that you probably don't know, information that I haven't told any other players yet."
Yin Xiu nodded. "Go ahead."
Ye Tianxuan glanced at the doorway, then leaned closer to Yin Xiu and whispered, "You should still remember the fourth rule of the Bliss City's passage, right?"
"Um."
Rule Four: Only those with value will be noticed by the warden. When you arrive in front of him, try to increase your value as much as possible.
Yin Xiu had been pondering what this value was.
Ye Tianxuan picked up the Angry Coin from the side and tossed it to Yin Xiu, saying, "The so-called value is this, and the number of people killed."
Yin Xiu silently held the Angry Coin in his hand. After taking the coin, he saw the red figure of the Angry Sin Gate slowly emerge next to Ye Tianxuan.
"How so?"
Ye Tianxuan tapped his prison uniform number. "Didn't you notice your number has changed?"
Yin Xiu was startled and looked down at his number. When he killed the first player, his number was stained with blood. He quickly washed it, but didn't clean it properly and then stopped caring about it. Now the number was a little blurry, but he could still recognize that it was no longer his original number 401.
The three-digit number has become a one-digit number, 2.
Looking up at Ye Tianxuan again, his number 103, which was already quite high, had now dropped to a single digit, 7.
"You've moved up in the rankings?"
Ye Tianxuan nodded. "According to my speculation, as long as you have the Sin Gate, you will immediately be ranked in the top seven. The only way to maintain your ranking or move up is to kill someone. I was fortunate enough to witness a player fight once, and the number on the surviving player's clothes changed instantly."
He scratched his brow, looking somewhat troubled. "After I gained the Rage buff, my stats immediately dropped to level 7. I haven't killed any other players, so I've remained at level 7."
Yin Xiu looked down at his number. "I possess the Gate of Sin, I've killed players, and I'm wearing white handcuffs, so it's number 2?"
"Yes, and the player you killed was one with the Sin Gate, but even so, your ranking is only 2. You can imagine how ruthless the person ranked 1 is, right?"
Yin Xiu pondered that the other party must have possessed the Sin Gate and had killed many players to accumulate value to a level that surpassed his own.
Ye Tianxuan sighed, propping his chin up with his hand and swinging his legs back and forth. "Look at my little group, there aren't many people, are there? I reckon it's the majority of the remaining players from this dungeon. I've picked up everything I could, and most of the remaining players outside have probably been killed by that number one player."
Yin Xiu thought that he had indeed encountered few players along the way. He bumped into a player as soon as he entered the Rage Layer, and he also heard the voices of many players while he was in the bathroom. However, after binding with Li Mo and coming out, he did not encounter many players, except for Zuo Meng.
It's strange that Zuo Meng is the only one in the Lazy Layer, and that he can easily bind to Lazy without anyone attacking him.
"Have you met that number one?" Yin Xiu couldn't help but ask.
Ye Tianxuan rubbed his temples, a rare complex expression on his face. "I... I'm not sure. I was lucky enough to catch a glimpse of it from a distance through the corridor window. Maybe I was mistaken..."
He slowly raised his blue eyes to meet Yin Xiu's gaze, "That person is slightly... a little bit..."
"Similar to you."