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In the common sense of games, white represents ordinary and green represents excellent.

That purple color is definitely a rare epic-level item!

Su Hao's breath hitched, and he abruptly stopped, staring intently at the drawer.

She seemed to have noticed Su Hao's gaze.

Grandpa Wang, who had just closed his eyes, suddenly turned over in bed.

He spoke slowly in an extremely low voice, a voice that no longer carried the mechanical NPC quality:

"Young man, you have a sharp eye."

"Want to see that thing down there?"

Grandpa Wang sat up and, quite unusually, revealed a sly, almost human-like smile.

"But that thing isn't sold for money."

"I have a side job. If you could help me clean up that thing in the laundry room next door that keeps making noise and keeping me awake..."

"That purple thing, I'll give it to you for free."

at the same time.

A crisp "ding" sounded in the minds of the four people.

A striking red exclamation mark exploded right in front of their field of vision!

As Grandpa Wang finished speaking, the blinding pink light flashed again on the retinas of the four people.

[The second stage of the chain quest has been activated: "Grandpa Wang's Peaceful Rest"]

[Mission Objective: Go to the public laundry room at the end of the first-floor corridor and thoroughly clean up the source of the noise that is affecting the NPCs' sleep.]

[Quest Rewards: Jiangcheng University Regional Reputation +5, Experience Points +50, and... a unique purple mysterious item from under Wang Jianguo's bed.]

[Failure penalty: None. However, you will permanently lose the chance to obtain this purple item, and Grandpa Wang's favorability towards you will drop to zero.]

silence.

A deathly silence.

The four people stared at the two bright purple characters on the system panel, their breaths catching in their throats.

"Purple...purple..."

Fatty Wang's legs went weak, and he almost knelt down before Grandpa Wang. His hand trembled as he pointed to the crack under the bed.

"Sir, you're not kidding, are you? You're really giving me purple-grade gear?"

Grandpa Wang had already turned over and lay down facing inwards, waving his hand impatiently.

"Get back to work. I'm a light sleeper, if you keep making noise, I'll block you all."

"Go away! Don't get in my way!"

Su Hao grabbed the fat man by the back of his collar and dragged him out of the dormitory room like a dead dog, then thoughtfully closed the door tightly for Grandpa Wang.

As soon as I stepped out of the dormitory manager's office, the chill and bloody smell of the corridor hit me again.

But at this moment, the mental state of the four people had completely changed.

The resentment I felt from being cheated out of gold coins was completely washed away by the words "purple mysterious item".

"Brothers, that's purple gear!"

Chen Fei was so excited that he kept rubbing his hands together.

"This game has only been open for a few hours! If we could get a purple-tier item, we could dominate the newbie village!"

"Don't be too happy yet." Zhao Lei was more composed after all. He tightened his grip on the broken broom handle and frowned deeply.

"Think about it. You killed so many rats through the crack in the door, and all you got was a green axe. Now the system is giving you a purple item as a reward. What does that mean?"

Zhao Lei glanced around at the three of them. "This means that thing in the laundry room is extremely dangerous. The level of danger is absolutely commensurate with the value of the purple-tier equipment."

Upon hearing this, the fervor on the faces of the fat man and Chen Fei subsided slightly.

Yes.

Pie won't fall from the sky; it'll only drop discus.

"No matter what it is, we have to go and see it."

Su Hao weighed the fire axe in his hand, his eyes calm.

"There's no reload/startup in this game. The bold get rich, the timid starve. Let's sneak over and check things out first."

"If the monsters inside are too strong, we'll turn around and run. We'll never fight them head-on. No matter how good the purple gear is, you still have to be alive to get it."

Su Hao set the tone.

In this game where you risk your life, those who act like saints or get carried away with their emotions die faster than anyone else.

"Listen to Fourth Brother. Let's go, sneak over there." Zhao Lei nodded.

The four rearranged their formation. Su Hao led the way, Zhao Lei provided cover, and Chen Fei and Fatty followed behind.

The corridor on the first floor is very long.

The communal laundry room is at the very end of the corridor, and it is usually the dampest and most rat-prone place in the entire dormitory building.

The further you go, the stronger the stench of the mutated rats becomes, mixed with a pungent smell of laundry detergent.

"Listen..."

As they approached the end of the corridor, Su Hao, who was walking at the front, suddenly stopped and turned off his dim flashlight.

The surroundings instantly fell into a deathly silence and darkness.

"Waaaaah... Help..."

"Is anyone there...? Help me..."

A faint, intermittent sob from a girl, mixed with the screeching sound of fingernails scratching at a metal casing, came from the half-open door of the laundry room not far ahead.

All four of them felt a sudden tightness in their chests.

"Holy crap, a female ghost?" The fat man shuddered in fright and exclaimed in a low voice.

"What the hell? Is that sound coming from the girls' dormitory? Wait a minute, this is a boys' dormitory, how could there be a girl inside?"

Chen Fei was also completely bewildered.

"Stop guessing, just go and see for yourself."

Su Hao tiptoed along the cold wall, slowly making his way to the door of the laundry room.

Instead of pushing the door open, he peeked through the half-open crack and looked inside.

There were no lights in the laundry room.

However, with the faint starlight filtering through the window at the end of the corridor, Su Hao could barely make out what was happening inside.

Upon seeing this, his pupils suddenly contracted.

The laundry room was a mess. Several large front-loading washing machines were overturned, and the floor was covered with white detergent foam and scattered clothes.

And in the very corner of this room.

There was a washing machine that had been knocked over.

A petite figure was awkwardly huddled at the top of the washing machine.

That's a girl.

She was wearing a JK uniform skirt that girls usually like, but now it was torn to shreds.

Several large rips were cut into the white shirt, revealing large expanses of snow-white skin and faintly visible black lace trim.

She was clutching her knees tightly, trembling like a leaf, tears streaming down her face, ruining her makeup, and desperately murmuring "help."

And below her.

Three giant rats, each a size larger than a normal mutant rat and covered in dark red spots, were frantically circling the washing machine.

Every now and then they would suddenly pounce upwards, their sharp claws scratching streaks of sparks across the washing machine's metal casing.

If the washing machine hadn't been positioned in a corner, the girl would have been devoured to the bone.

"Fourth brother, what's going on? What kind of monster is inside?"

Zhao Lei asked in a low voice from behind.

Su Hao did not turn around, but calmly focused his gaze on the tops of the three rats' heads.

The system panel popped up instantly.