Eighteen Ghost Emperors of my ancestors, how dare you make me live in terror?

The next morning, at the moment the pale sunlight rose again.

The entire city fell into a deathly silence right on time. The waiter and the owner, who had been greeting each other warmly just yesterday, suddenly turned into paper figures, wielding kitchen knives and rushing into the guest rooms.

Bang bang bang!

After the continuous sounds subsided.

Everyone jumped out of their guest rooms, which had been turned into a mess.

After waiting for a while, Lu Ye finally emerged from the inn, the last to walk out, stretching lazily and looking refreshed. "What's wrong? Didn't you all sleep well?"

"I'm not asleep."

"I can't sleep."

"I'm afraid some strange thing will attack me in the middle of the night."

Seeing that dark circles were starting to appear on the faces of others, Lu said with concern, "Even in the eerie dungeons, you must maintain good sleep. A healthy body is the foundation of a monster hunter."

"Maintaining basic vigilance is what a master of deception should do," Bai Ye said calmly, his clothes neatly arranged.

Lu Ye stared at the breast milk in his hand, then reached out and brought out her own goji berry tea. "Why haven't you weaned yourself?"

"My manager told me that drinking milk will make me grow taller, and I need to grow another ten centimeters to look more mature." Bai Ye also looked at the thermos in Lu Ye's hand. "Is this goji berries? Why do you drink this kind of stuff?"

"You're still young, don't ask such questions. You'll know when you start dating."

Even if a little boy who is still drinking milk is an S-class student, he is destined to be unable to empathize with her feelings right now.

However, Lu also felt a little resentful. Other people's managers knew to remind them to drink milk properly and grow tall, while his manager would only say, "If you can kill him, you must kill him."

Sigh, the difference in management.

Lu patted Bai Ye on the shoulder, which made the other party a little confused.

This guy hasn't made a move much since entering the dungeon; his eyes have been fixed on him. He thought the guy hadn't noticed him, but he just wanted to take the opportunity to see his trump cards so he could defeat him next time.

However, he didn't take action himself, and everyone kept it to themselves.

"Let's go, let's continue exploring."

Lu Ye turned and walked towards the main street outside the alley.

Lu Xiaoyao no longer needs him to lead her; she rides Lu Xiaohei with great pride.

........

As the leader of the team entering the S-rank dungeon this time, Lu also made this arrangement.

They traveled during the day and stayed at inns at night, exploring from the outer perimeter towards the city lord's mansion in the city center. They fought any strange things they encountered along the way, and put any ghostly artifacts they found in their pockets. When they encountered an inescapable danger, they would simply activate Lu Xiaoyao's "Discard Pack" evacuation.

Delicious.

As for that city lord and top scholar... I'll say it again, it's best not to mess with anyone.

Lu Ye looked up again at the giant ghost face floating in the sky and subconsciously touched his own face.

"I've disguised myself so well, they shouldn't have noticed me, right?"

Following Lu Ye's plan, the team explored forward for three days. After passing the Yin Wedding Forest and the Wedding Dress Alley, they arrived at the Scarlet Pavilion.

During this time, they encountered several minor but not major dangers, but the problems were not too serious. Moreover, the team collected a lot of high-level ghost artifacts in various places. As long as they killed the paper figures hiding in the houses, they could basically get something.

Upon discovering this, the students of the Mountain Ghost Academy charged forward like bandits, howling and thuggish.

Lu tried to manage it twice, but failed, so he just let it go. What could a mere S-rank do if even the principal couldn't handle it? As long as no one died, it was fine.

"Don't you feel like something's wrong?" Lu Ye simply turned to Chen Chen and asked.

Chen Chen nodded thoughtfully. "It seems a bit too easy?"

"Hmm, it's amazing that no one has been able to beat an S-rank dungeon yet. I feel like there's something fishy going on."

"Was that top scholar deliberately waiting for you?"

"That can't be right, I was pretty good at pretending."

Since no conclusion was reached during the discussion, Lu didn't take it to heart.

We walked for another day before finally arriving at the entrance to the Scarlet Pavilion.

This place is much bigger than Wedding Dress Lane.

The streets crisscrossed, with mansions on both sides, their vermilion gates tightly closed, faded red silk tied to the door knockers, and the windows dark and empty, with only the occasional fleeting shadow.

The entire area was as deathly silent as ever during the day, with only the red lanterns overhead swaying gently in the wind and making a soft creaking sound.

"We'll stay here tonight," Lu Ye decided, glancing at the sky.

The group stood on the street for a while until the sun in the sky turned into a dark red moon, and one by one the tattered red candle lanterns on both sides of the street lit up, and the whole street instantly became brightly lit.

Even more spectacular was the huge, multi-story beauty bar in front of the street, brightly lit, where one could vaguely see many scantily clad, charming young women waving their slender arms and smiling at the customers below, incredibly alluring.

"Damn it, these places that look dangerous are always designed to be so tempting," Chen Chen gritted his teeth.

He noticed the longing looks on the faces of the other male members of the group.

Lu was somewhat hesitant. "I can go in and take a look, but I can't bring you guys with me. It must be very dangerous inside. You can leave the dangerous stuff to me."

"No, no, I can't stand the thought of you being the only one having fun in there." Chen Chen locked Lu Ye's arm tightly and dragged him into the inn. "If we're not going, then we're not going. We can't make an exception."

After paying for the guest rooms, Bai Ye pondered for a long time before finally unable to resist asking the question she had wanted to ask earlier: "Are the rooms in that alley different from those in the inn? Why do you all want to stay there?"

Lu Ye and Chen Chen didn't want to pay attention to this kind of question at all. It was Wang Chao who couldn't bear to see Bai Ye, an S-level, being ignored, so he answered, "Staying at an inn is called 'staying,' while sleeping at a hotel is called 'sleeping.' Staying and sleeping are two different concepts."

Bai Ye frowned in deep thought.

.........

They each returned to their rooms.

Lu Ye pulled Lu Xiaoyao and Lu Xiaohei to play Dou Dizhu (a card game).

In another room, Wang Chao carefully laid out several talismans and began to sit cross-legged to refine the eerie energy.

Ling Xin'er remained by the window, closing her eyes and concentrating.

Li Yi sat on the table, using various tools to chisel a wooden board, intending to handcraft it into a sword sheath to give to Ling Xin'er.

Because he knew that after Ling Xin'er went to the academy's exclusive A-level dungeon, she came out with an extra sword, but without a scabbard.

This sword is clearly his signature weapon; it would be especially moving if it were sheathed in a scabbard he crafted himself.

They remained silent until late at night.

a moment.

Ling Xin'er, who was standing by the window, suddenly pulled away and retreated, causing all the evil spirit talismans placed in the room to burst into flames.

"A bizarre attack!"

Wang Chao sprang into action immediately, his straight sword already in hand. Li Yi reacted just as quickly, raising his hands to form a shield in front of him.

But the expected attack did not come. Instead, a giant ghost hand suddenly appeared under Ling Xin'er's feet.

"Watch out, it's coming for you!" Wang Chao shouted urgently to Ling Xin'er.

Ling Xin'er naturally noticed it as well. A strange aura surged from her body, and a crystal-clear, jade-like longsword appeared from behind her, thrusting towards the ghost hand with all her might.

However, she was directly swallowed by that ghostly hand, and Ling Xin'er's face turned pale, with a trace of blood spilling from the corner of her mouth.

The next moment, he was completely enveloped by the ghostly hand and vanished with a "bang".

Everything happened in the blink of an eye.

Looking at the empty room, Wang Chao and Li Yi hadn't even reacted yet, and were just about to issue a warning.

Rumble.

A figure smashed through the wall and appeared in the room like a bulldozer.

Lu Ye stood where the ghost hand had just appeared, turning his head to look out the window.

"The enemy attacked. It was a ghostly hand that kidnapped Ling Xin'er. It was very strong; we didn't even have time to react," Wang Chao quickly recounted the situation.

After the commotion was heard, the others also rushed over, their expressions somewhat solemn.

"Isn't she supposed to have double A's? How come she had no chance against that?"

"Why haven't there been any strange attacks in the past few nights?"

"What do we do now? Should we activate the 'key'?"

Everyone was thinking quickly. Bai Ye reached out and sniffed the air a few times, as if he had "smelled" something. His eyes became serious.

Chen Chen took out a jade tablet, glanced at it, and nodded seriously, "Still alive, but the location of the brand aura cannot be seen."

Li Yi pushed through the crowd to the front, gritting his teeth as he looked at Lu Ye: "Quickly activate the 'key'! As long as the key is activated, we can teleport out and she won't be in danger!"

"It's not that simple." Bai Ye said softly, "It was that S-rank boss who made the move. Being captured by the S-rank boss herself, at such close range, the enemy had enough time to attack her the moment she was teleported away."

Li Yi's expression suddenly changed: "S...S-rank?"

"Why did you stop barking? Since you're so worried about her, why don't you go and fight that S-class beast?"

Lu Ye turned and smiled at Li Yi, who froze.

"So what do we do now?" Chen Chen stepped forward and came to the window, looking at the high platform hanging in the center of the city in the far distance.

At this moment, he could already sense countless eerie creatures approaching the inn from the surrounding darkness.

"Heh, so you were spotted on your first day. You're quite the player."

Lu Ye removed the disguise from his face, revealing his true appearance. He looked up at the ghostly face looming over the night sky, grinned, and showed off a set of big white teeth.

"You didn't want to live, did you?"

"You son of a bitch!"