After leaving Lin Yuanzhou's room, Shen Jiahe disappeared down the corridor.
Fei Bai emerged from some unknown corner, looked in the direction Shen Jiahe had disappeared, and raised an eyebrow, asking, "Are you really letting her go out alone?"
Lin Yuanzhou retracted his gaze, his tone much calmer. "Since she's entered the instance, she must have the ability to face it alone. I can't protect her for life; I can only let her grow quickly."
"Tsk, you say one thing but mean another. You're clearly scared to death inside, and you even left your aura on her," Fei Bai grumbled.
Lin Yuanzhou kicked him out the door. "I need to recuperate. Don't come looking for me, whether there's something or not."
Fei Bai was annoyed and wanted to say more, but the door slammed shut with a 'bang'.
It almost hit him in the face.
On the other side.
After leaving Lin Yuanzhou's room, Shen Jiahe walked along the corridor and headed out.
As soon as she turned a corner, she ran straight into two Prison Guards.
The Prison Guards were also startled to see Shen Jiahe. The two immediately pretended to be busy, gesticulating wildly as they started to work.
Patting their pockets, touching their hats.
"Where are my keys? My keys don't seem to be on me."
"Yeah, your keys aren't with me either. Maybe... maybe they dropped when we just killed someone. Should we go back and look for them?"
"Right, right, right, look for them! Go back and look!"
With that, without giving Shen Jiahe a chance to react, the two grabbed hands and scurried away in a hurry.
Shen Jiahe: "..."
Such clumsy acting...
At this moment, the two Prison Guards who had run several kilometers in one breath.
"Phew, you scared me. Luckily, I found an excuse quickly and ran!"
"Yeah, she has the Warden's aura on her. This aura is too strong; it's almost like a note saying 'This is my woman' is plastered on her forehead."
"Fortunately, fortunately! What if we scared her, and then they blame us for it later?"
Prison Guard A hugged his arms and shivered violently.
Their BOSS had been irritable lately, like he'd eaten gunpowder. If they offended his woman now, they would be in serious trouble.
"Wait, where did our BOSS get a woman from?" Prison Guard B scratched his head, sounding puzzled.
"That woman seems to be a player!"
The two Prison Guards looked at each other, finally coming to a conclusion, "Our BOSS is playing the 'domineering BOSS forced love' trope!"
"Notify the brothers, when you see that woman, keep your distance. Don't get her hurt, bumped, or scared, and then have it blamed on us."
Shen Jiahe attributed the strange behavior of the two Prison Guards just now to the powerful item Lin Yuanzhou had given her, which scared away these anomalies.
Shen Jiahe walked up the stairs along the corridor. When her face appeared on the live stream, the bullet comments collectively gasped.
"Hiss~ This woman is actually fine! She disappeared for so long before, I thought she was dead already?!"
"So she didn't enter the BOSS's room?"
"Something's not right. If it's not the BOSS's room, why is her live stream showing a black screen?"
"Could it be that she's some hidden big shot? Hiding her identity to enter the instance?"
The bullet comments began to get curious about Shen Jiahe's identity.
After Shen Jiahe came out of Lin Yuanzhou's room, she started wandering around the eerie dormitory.
When she reached the second floor, she heard something rustling.
Shen Jiahe pushed the door open directly. The people inside were startled, and the moment she opened the door, they immediately assumed a defensive stance.
Seeing that it was Shen Jiahe who entered, everyone's expressions were a bit strange.
Their gazes subtly shifted towards Ding Dong.
Ding Dong looked at Shen Jiahe, his originally solemn expression immediately replaced with surprise. He took two steps forward, walking up to Shen Jiahe, "Sister, you're still alive. I thought something had happened to you."
"Are you very disappointed?" Shen Jiahe looked calmly at Ding Dong.
Ding Dong smiled, placing a hand over his chest, "I was very worried about Sister."
Shen Jiahe scanned the busy people present, "What about these people?"
Ding Dong lied without batting an eye, "An accidental encounter, a coincidence."
Shen Jiahe smiled, her tone a little nonchalant, "Is that so? I thought you intentionally tricked me over there and are now reuniting with your accomplices."
"How could that be?" Ding Dong stepped forward, just about to say something, when Shen Jiahe suddenly felt a gust of wind at her back.
She instinctively dodged to the side.
With a 'bang', a chair hit the ground, making a sound.
Shen Jiahe looked back and saw a tall, muscular man behind her.
Seeing that the chair missed, Zhao Jingning immediately pulled out a knife, intending to attack Shen Jiahe.
"We're all friends, why are you being so physical?" Ding Dong spoke up.
Zhao Jingning immediately obediently put his knife away.
Shen Jiahe looked at Ding Dong, pointed at Zhao Jingning, and said, "He's so obedient, is it still a coincidence?"
Ding Dong showed no embarrassment at being exposed, his eyes slightly curved, "Sister, this is a horror instance. When we look for partners, we always need to find someone of comparable strength, after all, it's very difficult to have an idiot in a team."
"Congratulations, Sister, you've officially become our partner." Ding Dong extended his hand in a friendly manner.
Shen Jiahe glanced at it but did not reach out.
Ding Dong was not awkward and continued, "Sister, in an instance, fighting alone will always get tiring. Join us, and with trusted partners, you won't get tired."
"You've been scheming against me all this time, and now you're saying you want me to join. Don't you think that's shameless?" Shen Jiahe said coldly.
Ding Dong smiled, "Shameless is better than dead."
"I won't team up with people who scheme against me and want to kill me." Shen Jiahe flatly refused.
Ding Dong lowered his hand, the false smile on his face gradually fading, "Sister, are you really not considering it? It's easy to die alone in a horror instance. With partners, at least you can help each other out."
"Moreover, this is your first time entering an instance, and you don't know many things. Join us, and I can share my clear-instance experience with you for free, how about it?"
Shen Jiahe silently rolled her eyes. If she wanted to know about clear-instance experience, she could just ask Lin Yuanzhou. Why go through such a big roundabout way?
"Your eloquence is so good, were you in multi-level marketing before?" Shen Jiahe scoffed.
Zhao Jingning walked beside Ding Dong and whispered, "Brother Ding, since this woman is unwilling to join, why not just kill her to prevent future trouble?"
"This woman really doesn't know what's good for her! Brother Ding even actively invited her to join the team, and she actually refused!"
"Tsk, she's too pretentious. She should be secretly rejoicing that she can join Brother Ding's team!"
"Why didn't I have such good luck to be invited by Brother Ding to join the team back then! Their team is famous for clearing instances quickly and having a low death rate! Although their methods are a bit despicable."
"If this woman knew how powerful Brother Ding's team is, she'd definitely be regretting it bitterly!"
"Alright, she's seeking her own death. Since she's unwilling to join Brother Ding's team, she's probably going to be eliminated. If she were to grow stronger, it would be detrimental to Brother Ding and his team."