Chapter 82 Following

It was very quiet at night. Benfu huddled by the stove in the east-facing room, warming himself. He had been chosen as the night watchman for the room.

He was on the second shift. The first shift was Yu Man, who was next door.

There was no such thing as ladies first here. Everyone had to create value for the team. The old rules: two hours of night watch for each person, and wake up the next person when the time was up.

He stared at the ladies' watch in front of him.

His shift was almost over. In another 20 minutes, he could wake up Pei Qian for the next shift.

Benfu slowly stood up and did some simple stretches, rubbing the outside of his thigh with one hand. He had been sitting for too long, and it was a little numb.

He yawned and casually glanced diagonally ahead. There was a large hole in the window of the room, through which he could see the gate.

But that one glance made him unable to look away.

In the darkness, he saw a familiar face.

Although it was only a fleeting glimpse, he immediately recognized Zhou Rong.

Zhou Rong was facing away from him, close to the fence next to the gate. His originally tall figure was slightly hunched over, acting suspiciously. There was another figure beside him.

Benfu stared at the other person, his pupils suddenly constricting. It was Yin Zhiping!

What were these two doing out in the middle of the night?

He immediately thought of what had happened in the inn that morning. Zhou Rong and Yin Zhiping had made an excuse to return the keys, but they had lingered upstairs for more than ten minutes.

At the time, he had thought it was strange. Now it seemed that the two of them had reached some kind of agreement.

Although Benfu was timid, he was clear-headed about important matters. His first feeling was that these two had found some clue; otherwise, they would never risk coming out at night.

And they had avoided everyone else.

After thinking for a few seconds, he made a bold decision.

He didn't alarm the other three people in the room. Instead, he carefully moved the wooden stick that was propped against the door, walked out, and quietly followed them.

Zhou Rong and Yin Zhiping seemed to be very cautious. They chose a very difficult path, trying to lower their bodies as much as possible to blend into the night.

The more they acted like this, the more Benfu, who was following not far behind, felt that there was something wrong with these two.

To his surprise, they didn't leave the courtyard. Instead, after going around in a circle, they came to the abandoned building.

Benfu's throat bobbed. He squatted behind a clump of messy bushes, pushed aside the branches, and looked out. He saw Zhou Rong open his mouth and say something softly. Then Yin Zhiping, with a gloomy face, nodded fiercely.

The two of them actually found the location of a window and climbed in, one after the other.

This really shocked Benfu. He hadn't expected the two of them to be so bold.

He had a very bad impression of this building. He couldn't say why, but it was like a premonition in the dark.

About half a minute after Zhou Rong and Yin Zhiping went inside, Benfu quietly approached. He carefully chose where to step, afraid of stepping on dry branches or anything that would make a sound.

Walking here, he couldn't help but admire Zhou Rong and Yin Zhiping. Experienced players were different; their footsteps were almost inaudible.

He hid under the window, took a deep breath, and then quickly peeked inside.

He just managed to catch the moment when Zhou Rong and Yin Zhiping disappeared before the corner of the stairs.

They went upstairs.

Could it be... Benfu's expression was strange. Was the clue upstairs?

He stared fixedly at the last place where the two of them had disappeared. It was pitch black there, like the gaping mouth of a monster, waiting to devour everything that approached.

At the same time, veins gradually appeared on the hand he was using to support the wall.

At this moment, Benfu was like a different person. There was suppressed madness and entanglement in his twisted eyes. He was brewing an even bolder action.

He was going to follow them and see what was inside.

Although the idea was bold, it was also a last resort.

He was just an ordinary person and could clearly feel the indifference of his teammates. This team was much stronger than the one in his last mission.

This was a good thing, but in a way, it was also a bad thing.

According to his understanding, if there were no newcomers on the team, it meant that the difficulty of this mission was higher, which meant that only a few people were destined to survive.

Three, or four... Even if it was five, he pursed his lips, he didn't think he would be one of them.

He was too weak, so weak that he didn't even know he had fallen into the trap of a ghost.

So, in order to survive, he could only find another way.

Benfu silently calculated in his heart: Zhou Rong and Yin Zhiping were not ordinary people. They were willing to take such a big risk, so there must be a crucial clue inside.

Maybe he could survive by relying on this clue.

He wasn't too worried about being discovered, because someone from the previous instance had vaguely revealed that killing teammates in a nightmare would trigger something very terrible.

So, even if he was discovered, Zhou Rong and the other would not dare to do anything to him. On the contrary, they would be caught by him for leaving without permission.

In other words, the cost of trial and error was very low, and the benefit was extremely high.

He no longer hesitated. After listening quietly for a while and not noticing anything unusual, he placed both hands on the windowsill, tried several times, and finally climbed up.

Coming inside this building, he realized that it was much more luxurious than he had imagined. In comparison, the room outside was no better than an outhouse.

But it was very dark here. He could only see a little bit around him. He found a wall, then held onto the wall and slowly moved towards the stairs.

"Thump!"

His attention was focused on the stairs, and he didn't expect to suddenly bump into something with his leg. Although the sound wasn't loud, it was very abrupt in the absolute silence of the night.

Benfu felt like his whole body was bad.

He pricked up his ears, listening carefully to the movement upstairs.

Upstairs... there was no sound, as if the two people had disappeared into thin air.

Of course they wouldn't disappear. Benfu guessed that they must have heard the sound downstairs, then quietly hid and didn't dare to move.

Thinking of this, Benfu no longer hid his footsteps, but ran up the stairs in a few steps.

The moment he poked his head out from the stairs, Benfu's originally nervous face gradually turned rosy. He slowed down his steps, making himself look confident.

"Why aren't you sleeping in the middle of the night? What are you doing here?"

Benfu walked towards the two.

Zhou Rong and Yin Zhiping stood not far from him, looking at him coldly, their arms hanging down naturally, without saying a word.

Benfu frowned. This scene was different from what he had imagined.

He stopped, and after a long while, he mustered up his courage and asked again, "Why aren't you talking?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Zhou Rong and Yin Zhiping slowly raise their right hands, pointing at him with a very strange coordination. Then their necks seemed unable to support the weight of their heads, and they tilted sharply to the right.

"Crack—"

Benfu turned around and ran.