Huh? Isn't This A Galgame?-Chapter 160 - 157 Welfare Props

First, quickly browse through the messages in the Wenna Guild group.

It seems the members have successfully found the secret path leading to the underground furnace—right below the Erin Group Headquarters Building.

However, the temperature near the furnace is too high, making it difficult for players to charge in directly with just their bodies.

In an instant, Wen Nan's mind flashed back to the heartfelt words uttered by Yang Jingyuan's other soul in the underground garage not long ago.

Pulling up the chat box, Wen Nan quickly sends a message over—

[Nine: Don't approach that furnace directly]

[Nine: Try using the welfare item]

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Employee dormitory, respawn point.

Seeing Wen Nan's message, Hu Jiayao was a bit confused, "Welfare item? That wall butt? How do you use that thing? Put it on your chest to cleanse your soul?"

Gu Jinxing took that soft, pink blob from the equipment reserve slot and held it in his palm.

He'd studied this item quite a bit before, and had a vague theory, but was too self-conscious to try it in front of Hu Jiayao.

Now that the Guild Leader had given clear instructions, Gu Jinxing didn't care about appearances anymore. He lifted the pink blob to his lips, bit down on a spot in the middle, and began to blow air into it.

"No way, Xing..."

Hu Jiayao couldn't stand it, looking at him in disbelief, "You look like a pervert doing that."

Gu Jinxing lifted his eyelids, gave him a glance, ignored his questioning, and focused on blowing into the item.

Soon, the pink blob in his hand inflated, similar to the inflatable life jackets found under airplane seats for each passenger.

But this pink blob seemed to be made of some unknown material, highly stretchy, and instantly expanded into a semi-transparent enormous ball-like protective shield when air was introduced.

"Damn," Hu Jiayao was stunned, "it really inflates like that? This thing... is actually an airbag?"

"Holy shit! What a big ball!" Huang Yan exclaimed rather stupidly as he walked into the respawn point and saw the spherical protective shield in the center of the room.

Gu Jinxing put down the protective shield, turned around, saw Yang Mingzhong guiding Guo Xiaofu inside, and immediately went to the guild's equipment storage to fetch a first aid kit.

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Wen Nan hurried down from the top floor's CEO office and quickly found the drainage outlet, where he saw Yu Shujun emerging from the channel leading underground, looking unhappy.

"Did that person get away again?" Wen Nan asked.

Yu Shujun nodded, not planning to continue the pursuit—ensuring Wen Nan's safety was still Yu Shujun's primary responsibility.

In the message Yu Shujun had sent earlier, he directly used the term "Silver Thorn." Wen Nan didn't recognize this name, but immediately guessed it was referring to that silver figure.

"Do you know that Silver Thorn?"

Yu Shujun nodded again.

"What's their background?"

"A character controlled by the Guild Leader of the Ghost Control Master Alliance, at the eleventh-star level."

Eleventh-star? No wonder they could enter an instance that doesn't belong to them.

This star level was higher than any female character Wen Nan had strategized, except for the anomaly Yu Shujun.

Just as he was thinking, Yu Shujun continued speaking: "This path leads to an underground character and item incineration pool with the temperature too high for Silver Thorn's star level. Approaching would risk complete incineration, so she sneaked in and quickly left."

"…Character and item incineration pool? That furnace?"

Yu Shujun paused slightly, then nodded, "You could call it that."

Wen Nan fell into deep thought.

The last time Silver Thorn controlled Zhang Beibei while dining with Wen Nan, she tried to extract information on the key item in the secret laboratory from him. This time, she appeared at this newly discovered underground path leading to the furnace...

Although it's impossible to confirm her purpose for entering this instance map, judging by her current route, it overlaps significantly with the main missions of Wen Nan and other players.

If that's the case, her next move might very well...

"Return to the respawn point!"

Wen Nan turned around, rushing towards the employee dormitory at the fastest pace.

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Ten minutes ago, at the employee dormitory.

The not-very-spacious living room was filled with massive, semi-transparent pink bubbles.

Several members were deflating their "airbags."

Just moments ago, Hu Jiayao and Gu Jinxing had confirmed this pink balloon was even more formidable than the "safety bubbles" in the trial maps—Hu Jiayao's hammer, Gu Jinxing's lighter, and Yang Mingzhong's dagger couldn't cause any damage to the balloon's surface, not even a scratch.

The lighter could burn on the outside while a finger inside the balloon felt completely cool—this item even had a strong thermal insulation effect, yet the breathability was great.

Truly a "welfare item," it was practically custom-made for their infiltration into the furnace.

The three preparing to head back to the furnace confidently deflated the gases in those "welfare items" back to the size of a graspable small object, then proceeded to walk out one after another.

Guo Xiaofu, who had just recovered from heatstroke symptoms, held a bottle of iced mineral water and walked in front.

Huang Yan held the camera, giggling while recording.

Yang Mingzhong stood at the door, pulling up the guild group from the system just as he was about to report the situation to the Guild Leader, when a message came through—

[Nine: There's an ambush!]

[Nine: Don't leave the respawn point!]

"Little Fu! Come back!"

Yang Mingzhong called in a deep voice while rushing to the door and pulled Guo Xiaofu back into the respawn point with all his strength.

Guo Xiaofu, still dizzy, instinctively turned around at Yang Mingzhong's urging and cooperated by charging back into the room.

However, just as he stepped one leg into the room—

Whoosh!

A silver-white figure darted like lightning along the wall outside the respawn point.

Guo Xiaofu was so startled he took several steps back, instinctively wanting to protect his head. Raising his arm, he realized his palm was empty.

While in a daze, a golden beam of light followed closely behind, chasing after the silver figure as it disappeared.

Guo Xiaofu stumbled, falling back into the room.

Not long after, Wen Nan rushed back, scanning everyone in the room, "How are you all? Everyone okay?"

Huang Yan still held the camera up, waving, "We're fine, boss."

Lying on the ground, Guo Xiaofu, his face pale, said, "I... my welfare item got stolen!"fгeewebnovёl.com