Floor 28: An'an is Happy Every Day: Don't just talk about the weaknesses Brother Hui caused for the enemies; the support he left behind is also amazing.
Floor 29: Poplar Blossoms Fall and Cuckoos Cry: Shen Jiayi is indeed a very cost-effective support. With her around, you are one hundred percent guaranteed to get information on Shen Tan's side.
Otherwise, if you actually try to talk to Shen Tan, it's completely impossible to keep a conversation going. She won't say a word no matter what you ask, leaving zero room to fish for information.
Floor 30: Soft Evening Breeze: It's not that bad. As long as you find the right approach, Shen Tan is actually quite easy to talk to. For example, perfume.
She's a professional perfumer herself and highly talented. If you ask around in the instance, she's actually quite famous in professional circles.
Floor 31: Soft Evening Breeze: I went through the whole thing with the mindset of freeloading clues, so I just complimented her perfumes whenever I had the chance. It was super easy to farm her favorability.
She gave me two bottles of perfume in the instance, and they both smelled amazing. For one bottle, she let me choose from her previous works, and the other was custom-blended specifically for me, saying it was my scent.
Floor 32: Soft Evening Breeze: The scent was incredibly high-end—a crisp, subtle fragrance that wasn't cloying at all. I kept smelling it over and over again!
It's a pity it wasn't an item, so the instance wouldn't let me bring it out. I'm genuinely so devastated; I'll probably never smell that scent again in my life. Who else understands this kind of regret?!
Floor 33: Cheese Foam Without Sugar: I am so incredibly jealous!
I talked to her so much, but I must have failed to find the right topic because she didn't say a single word. Forget a custom perfume, I didn't even fish up a single line of extra clues.
Floor 34: Flowers Bloom and Fall to Fill the Sky: Stop obsessing over the perfume. I ran into a situation—how did you guys find the kidnapped Shen Tan?
I got completely stuck on a key plot point and ended up with a Bad Ending. The more I think about it, the more frustrating it is.
Floor 35: Having You: Before we talk about how to find her, why was Shen Tan even kidnapped in the first place?
Floor 36: Flowers Bloom and Fall to Fill the Sky's Reply: Because my randomly matched teammate was a total idiot. His mouth moved faster than his brain, and he blabbed about the secret of Shen Tan's pregnancy.
Then Shen Jiayi came to find us, saying the old geezers in the village had taken her away under lock and key overnight. If we didn't go rescue her soon, Shen Tan would have her belly cut open, and she'd definitely die.
Floor 37: Flowers Bloom and Fall to Fill the Sky: Shen Jiayi said Shen Tan left behind a scent trail, but I'm just an ordinary human. How could I possibly smell it?
No one on our team had a tracking item, and we had no clue or breakthrough whatsoever. The questline was completely deadlocked.
The next day, the village chief came forward directly and said the Honey Rite was canceled, but our wages would be settled in full as normal, and told our entire team to head back.
Floor 38: Flowers Bloom and Fall to Fill the Sky: I was literally forced to evacuate with the rest of the group, with zero opportunity to salvage the situation throughout the entire process. In the end, my final evaluation score was a C. I really had a mental breakdown.
Everything was going so well in the early stages. We got the clues we were supposed to get and built a relationship with an important NPC. I never expected to fail at this step.
Is this really an unsolvable dead end without a tracking item? Do any pros know how to break this?
Floor 39: Koi Copy: The exact same experience. Getting matched with a terrible teammate can really ruin a run. They can't keep a single secret and completely ruin the plot.
Floor 40: Dreaming of a Storage Space: Haha, hoarder players win again! I collect all sorts of bizarre items, and they finally came in handy.
Too bad I didn't get randomly matched into this instance. What a shame.
Floor 41: Red Shoes: Even if you have a tracking item, it's useless. You can't even get into their secret base. This part is a pure dead end.
Floor 42: Tangyuan Dumpling Soup: You only need to track down the location of the entrance. As for getting in, isn't that resolved by relying on the NPC's luck?
I followed the NPC, and not only did I miraculously luck my way inside, but I also luckily managed to open the escape route and get out.
Floor 43: May the Mercury Snake Bless Us: You say it's the NPC's luck, but I think you're the one with hidden insane luck to stumble through like that.
In my instance, we had to rely on a player using brute force to blast open the ground to enter the spaceship.
Floor 41: Flying Butterfly: Actually, you can search for it.
Shen Jiayi has a secret base in a cave on the back mountain. If you look closely, you can find a mark left behind by Brother Hui.
Behind the mark is also an entrance, and the process to open the door is much simpler.
Floor 42: OP: Hahaha, more than half of the clues to beat this instance were set up by Brother Hui. All hail the authority of Brother Hui!
Floor 43: Shennongjia Savage No. 1: I've been to that cave too, but I didn't see anything. Where's the mark?
Floor 44: Flying Butterfly's Reply: The mark is a bit hard to find. It's not obvious and is close to the ground, so you have to search all the way around the rock wall.
Floor 45: Shennongjia Savage No. 1's Reply: You actually managed to find it in that spot? This savage bows down in defeat. I hereby crown you Savage No. 2.
Floor 46: Why Bother: Actually, there's another way: go blow up the Red Church immediately. The villagers and aliens will panic.
The alien boss makes quite a ruckus when it moves. If you leave someone near the back mountain, they can work backward to find the entrance.
Floor 47: Watch Me Perform: Blowing up the Red Church is indeed incredibly satisfying. Shen Tan is worthy of being a chemistry major; she made a whole church's worth of explosives. We got to watch fireworks on the day of the Honey Rite, hahahaha.
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Floor 62: Master of Pre-packaged Meals: Seeing how happy everyone is talking about this, let me share something disgusting. Can you guess what raw honey actually is?
Floor 63: Late Love: Isn't it just a special kind of honey? There are so many flowers in the village.
Floor 64: Watch Me Perform's Reply: Here's a hint: you only saw the flowers. What about the bees? Did you see any?
Floor 65: Linjiangxian: Gasp, that's terrifying when you think about it.
I've drank raw honey; the villagers enthusiastically fed it to me. I downed it in one gulp back then. Not only was it sickeningly sweet, but I felt dizzy and lightheaded afterward, as if I were drunk.
Now that you mention it, I'm starting to feel a chill down my spine.
Floor 66: Master of Pre-packaged Meals: Someone actually drank the raw honey? Anyone else? Leave a comment.
Floor 67: Heart's Direction: I feel like the person above can't even hide their schadenfreude anymore.
Floor 68: Stardew Valley is My Home: Basically, any player who made it to the Honey Rite plotline drank raw honey. The NPCs were handing it out that day.
Floor 69: Little Sun Who Plants Bombs: How should I put this... I got the feeling that raw honey isn't anything good. Even the replaced alien NPCs looked disgusted when they saw it.
Floor 70: Crimson Bellflower: I know why. Of course they'd look disgusted—I would too if I were them, hehe.
The NPC in our run who counter-possessed the alien said that stuff is waste produced during the alien's growth process. In short, excrement. To put it plainly, it's... well, you know.
Since it's literally waste, how could you not feel dizzy and lightheaded after drinking it?
Floor 71: A'xing is a Grass Carp: Help! I was literally just reminiscing about that sweetness!
Why did you have to make me read this thread? I don't want to understand! I don't want to know!
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The reply section of the thread descended into complete chaos and wailing. What had started as a lighthearted and pleasant topic had turned into a massive psychological trauma scene.
Who would have thought a thread praising an NPC could derail to this extent?
Bai Ci stared at the screen full of vomiting emojis and silently exited the forum.
Her rest period this time was longer than any before, but time in her personal independent space always flew by quickly.
Soon, it was time for a new round of instances to begin.
With her enhanced Withered Flower and Ring, Bai Ci chose to add another point to her Agility this time.
The familiar sensation of weightlessness washed over her. This time, the teleportation seemed exceptionally long.
Bai Ci counted several of her own breaths before a rich scent of sandalwood finally awakened her sense of smell.
She opened her eyes. Before her was pitch-black darkness, and a piece of red cloth, or something else red, was draped over her head.
“We reverently invite Lady Ming—”
Someone kowtowed.
Rate on N.U.
