Chapter 87 (1/2)

Shen Yuan’s reaction left Xiao Tangqiu’s heart somewhat empty. Fortunately, Tang Mianmian’s attitude towards him was quite normal, otherwise, he would have to wonder what wrong he had done.

“Wuwuwu! Where have you been in these three months?” Tang Mianmian hugged him and cried, “Since you aren’t dead, why didn’t you come back earlier?”

Xiao Tangqiu gave a wry smile, “This matter… it’s a long story. It’s hard to explain.”

At this moment, Fei You’s voice rang from behind them, “So you know each other?”

Tang Mianmian’s mood recovered quickly, he laughed and threw an arm over Xiao Tangqiu’s shoulder to introduce him, “He is my best friend, Xiao Tangqiu! He is also a stream host!”

Fei You suddenly realized, “It turns out that he is the friend you mentioned before… But didn’t you say that he has disappeared? So he’s back now?”

Xiao Tangqiu smiled and was about to respond, but Duan Hongzhen suddenly appeared. He crossed his arms and snorted, “Hey, don’t just stand around chatting and forget about proper business.”

Tang Mianmian immediately straightened up, “Understood! Let’s find clues!”

Duan Hongzhen glanced at Xiao Tangqiu and said casually, “I didn’t expect you to be able to come back… I really didn’t expect it.”

As soon as Xiao Tangqiu saw Duan Hongzhen, he subconsciously looked for Shen Yuan in his peripherals. But he didn’t see Shen Yuan, Duan Hongzhen seemed to have come alone. He was a little disappointed, but he squeezed out a smile, “Yeah, I also didn’t expect… I could come back alive.”

“No matter what, thank you for saving the boss,” Duan Hongzhen reached out and patted Xiao Tangqiu on the shoulder, “I know you don’t want to hear this from me and just want to hear from the boss himself… but the boss hasn’t been doing well recently.”

Xiao Tangqiu never expected that the first person to come to him, besides Tang Mianmian, was Duan Hongzhen. It was a little unexpected, but it also seemed within reason.

“Not doing well? What do you mean?” Xiao Tangqiu frowned slightly, “He was injured so badly? He’s still not recovered?”

“Injury is one thing,” Duan Hongzhen raised an eyebrow, “but there is something else…”

Xiao Tangqiu was about to continue asking, but Duan Hongzhen was stopped by Xue Junli’s call in the distance.

Duan Hongzhen sighed, “Making me open locks again! What do they take me for? A locksmith?”

Although his mouth complained, Duan Hongzhen immediately turned around and left. Just as he was about to leave the deck, he looked back at Xiao Tangqiu and waved his hand in the air, “Anyway, I’m thanking you for the boss.”

After speaking, he walked away without looking back.

Xiao Tangqiu had a hunch about something, but before he could think more on it, he was distracted by something else, “By the way, what is your mission this time? Let’s go over and take a look!”

Tang Mianmian nodded, “Let’s go over, too, and talk as we walk.”

Fei You and Zhang Zuo glanced at each other, “Then we’ll go and see too!”

Leaving behind the couple of newbies who stayed in the captain’s room to continue to look for clues, Xiao Tangqiu’s group of four people headed in Duan Hongzhen’s direction. Along the way, Tang Mianmian gave Xiao Tangqiu a brief introduction to their mission.

This was an S-level mission, the content of the mission was to find the “lost treasure.”

This task sounded vague and confusing. Lost treasure? Who lost it? What kind of treasure was it?

They appeared directly on this small wrecked ship from the get go. The style of this ship was very similar to pirate ships of the Age of Exploration, invoking their imagination. Was the so-called lost treasure pirate’s treasure?

When Xiao Tangqiu heard this, he intuitively felt something was wrong, “Pirate’s treasure? Is it just a few boxes of gold and silver jewelry? How can it be so simple?” This was an S-level mission. How could it possibly be just finding a few boxes of gold and silver jewelry hidden by the pirates? What about the S-level difficulty? Moreover, this ship was not big and could be thoroughly searched in a short amount of time. If the so-called treasure was on this ship, they could find it easily.

Tang Mianmian nodded, “I also don’t think it’s that simple. But since we’re here, of course we have to search the ship first to find some useful clues, like maps.”

“And then there will just happen to be clues about a lost treasure on the map, so we’ll follow the map to find it?” Xiao Tangqiu raised an eyebrow, “How can it be so simple? If S-level missions are so simple, we can all be Shen Yuan.”

Tang Mianmian chuckled, “You don’t have to make S-level instances so mythical. We have been to a lot of S-level instances recently. Aren’t I still alive?”

Xiao Tangqiu was taken aback, “You have been to many S-level instances recently?”

Tang Mianmian nodded very naturally, and then couldn’t help complaining, “Since you disappeared, Shen Yuan has been going crazy entering instances day and night. One foot would have just left the previous instance and the next foot immediately entered the next instance. We didn’t have any buffering time at all. Our day and night output was crazy during this period. If it weren’t for the occasional rests in the instances, I would have keeled over.”

Xiao Tangqiu was dazed for a while, then he asked, “…You have been going into instances nonstop this period of time?”

“Yeah! The Great God is simply not human! He thinks we were all Superman!” Tang Mianmian complained, but then sighed, “But, while he treats us as Superman, he doesn’t treat himself as human at all. Although we continuously enter instances, we could occasionally take a break in them. Great God doesn’t give himself time to rest and breathe at all. I bet he hasn’t closed his eyes for almost a month…”

He murmured, “Even someone made of metal wouldn’t be able to stand it! I don’t know how he can!”

Xiao Tangqiu fell into silence for a long time. After a while, he asked Tang Mianmian softly, “Why didn’t you stop him? What about Xue Junli? What about Yu Fuling? Didn’t they stop him?”