Transformed into a heartthrob's simp, every day is a battleground.

Chapter 279 Travel Videos

“I used to think that the secrets of our five families were all about doing bad things.” Yan Xun sat on the edge of the bed. “You and Kong Ling are both residents of the Black Roof, and you both actively help animal shelters.”

"It's not that I have a stereotype, but when such a very obvious trait appears in a dungeon, you know what it means."

"We're actually abusing animals?" Although Du Yun was a newbie, it wasn't his first time entering a dungeon, so he naturally understood what Yan Xun meant.

Yan Xun nodded, "This is the direction I initially envisioned."

"The five houses correspond to five different emotional connections."

"Family, friendship, love, love for pets, and friendship with classmates."

“The crew-cut guys betrayed their friendship. Since the five houses are arranged in this way, the people in the remaining four houses have probably also betrayed their corresponding feelings.”

The only confusion in Yan Xun's family was whether they had betrayed Lou Yanchuan or their grandmother who had never appeared.

If Lou Yanchuan hadn't entered this instance, the difficulty of Yan Xun's house would have been much lower, as his grandmother would have appeared in the house in his place, and some clues would have been easier to find.

"...But I don't have any pets...?" Du Yun said uncertainly.

In this particular instance, the corresponding memories will not appear in their minds until enough clues are found.

“The houses with red roofs are all inhabited by couples or newlyweds,” Yan Xun said, recalling the red roofs he had observed on his way to the convenience store. “Houses of the same color look pretty much the same from the outside.”

"Neighbors living in houses with the same roof color serve as a control group for the player."

“Some clues that you can’t find in your own home can be obtained by talking to your neighbors,” Yan Xun said.

Du Yun still trusted Yan Xun's judgment. He planned to go home and look for any clues hidden in some corners that he had forgotten.

“There’s something that might be a clue,” Du Yun suddenly said. “In the story, I’m a shut-in who loves playing video games and has my days and nights reversed.”

"But I really enjoy cooking for myself, and I mostly eat vegetarian food. The only meat I have in my refrigerator is fish."

Yan Xun questioned, "Didn't you just eat the grilled sausage at the market?"

"Yes, I felt unwell after eating," Du Yun said. "I just felt a little embarrassed and didn't say anything."

"At the time, I thought I had eaten something unclean..." Du Yun stroked his chin thoughtfully, "but I felt that the symptoms were a little different from food poisoning; it was an instinctive feeling of nausea."

“You might not be able to accept meat of unknown origin and things whose raw materials you can’t see,” Lou Yanchuan said quietly.

Du Yun looked at him, "I have this secret?"

"Hmm." Lou Yanchuan nodded. "Is there a possibility?"

"Did you eat your pet without knowing it?"

"That's why you have an instinctive aversion to meat of unknown origin and with unknown raw materials," Lou Yanchuan said. "At least with fish at home, you can clearly tell that it comes from a fish."

"The same applies to vegetarianism."

"I cook for myself because I don't want to eat food from outside where I can't tell the difference between the ingredients and the food."

“But…” Du Yun wanted to say that he didn’t even have any pets, so where would he get pets from?

But he also had a vague feeling that the direction Lou Yanchuan mentioned might be true. He looked at the two of them from left to right and said, "I'll go home and take a look."

"If that's the case, there should be clues in my home."

He said this as he prepared to leave, "I'll go back first, and contact you online if I have any leads."

After Du Yun left, Yan Xun suddenly spoke up, "There's blood on the cow bone stick in Kong Ling's house."

"They said that the monster that appeared in Shu Fan's house in the thick fog that day was Kong Ling with a dog's head on her head."

"At the time, Du Yun also mentioned the game he was streaming. In the game, the protagonist was being chased and bitten by a dog in his dream. When he woke up, he found that the wounds had appeared on his body."

"And the dog in his dream looked more and more like someone he knew."

“He probably hasn’t been playing this game lately,” Yan Xun said.

After all, Du Yun was too busy to continue playing this game, both to survive and to find the truth.

Even the live stream is paused.

Do you think the truth is hidden in the game's ending?

"He's a game streamer, isn't it normal for clues to be hidden in the game's ending?" Yan Xun asked. "Besides, it's darkest under the lamp."

"Because players are busy looking for clues, they don't have time to play the game."

"Naturally, I missed crucial clues in the game."

At this point, Yan Xun suddenly realized he had made a connection.

"Lin Wen is a landscape photographer who often goes outdoors to take pictures."

"You are an adventurer."

"Could it be that you two had been in contact before?" Yan Xun wondered.

As he said this, he started searching for Lin Wen's keywords online and quickly found someone else's vlog.

The person was a travel blogger. They were going to visit a unique natural landscape, but local transportation was inconvenient, so they had to hire a guide and driver, and they had to travel in a small group, with no one allowed to leave the group without permission.

In that vlog, Yan Xun saw the blogger introducing the people around him.

Lin Wen's face appeared in the camera's view.

At the end of the video, a man wearing a windproof mask appeared.

Although the other person had covered his mouth and nose, Yan Xun still recognized him at a glance.

He held up his phone and said, "This is you, isn't it?"

Lou Yanchuan stared intently at the man wearing a windproof mask in the video, then looked up at Yan Xun, "I didn't expect..."

"I never thought I could find this clue! Isn't that amazing!" Yan Xun also felt very proud of himself.

"No." Lou Yanchuan shook his head.

Yan Xun looked at him in confusion, "No?"

"what is that?"

"I just didn't expect that even though I'm all disguised, you would still recognize me," Lou Yanchuan said, not denying that the person in the video was him.

Seeing that Yan Xun was about to get angry, he calmly said, "But after seeing this video..."

"I did have some memories coming to mind."

“I’m not familiar with Lin Wen, but since she graduated from Yunshan University, I told her that I have a nephew who also graduated from Yunshan University.”

"And so we started chatting."