Hearing this, Xu Youyou burst into laughter.
“Haha!”
“I knew it!”
“I knew you'd get me, Brother An!!”
“Think about it. We have so many people now. In the future, just buying bus tickets every time we go out will cost millions. Do you know what a million means? It's equivalent to one Contribution point.”
“Where are we supposed to get so many Contribution points just for bus tickets?”
“Isn't having an auxiliary rule like this incredibly convenient?”
“As long as you all trigger my rule, I can just go to Lingyang City by myself. Once I'm back, I can pull all of you straight home, and then we can head back the next day!”
“Going back and forth like this, the money saved over time is no small sum!”
Zuo Lin'an raised an eyebrow. Though he found it a bit absurd, when he thought about it carefully, it really was both convenient and cost-effective.
It was highly practical, whether for daily life or inside a dungeon.
Right then, a great idea suddenly struck him.
“By the way, Youyou, about this door... are there any requirements? Does it have to be a proper door to a room?”
He pointed to the main door not far away as he spoke.
Xu Youyou blinked and shook his head.
“No, as long as it's a door, it works.”
“Even if it's just a wooden frame, as long as you carve the word 'door' on it, walking through that frame counts!”
Zuo Lin'an suddenly smiled.
“Does a path of survival count?”
Xu Youyou froze for a moment, then shook his head repeatedly.
“No, no, no, that definitely doesn't count.”
Zuo Lin'an thought to himself that it made sense.
If a path of survival counted, then players entering Xu Youyou's dungeon would truly have no way of survival left.
The dungeon's underlying rules would never allow that.
Zuo Lin'an changed the subject.
“Youyou, do you remember where the path of survival in my dungeon is?”
Xu Youyou continued eating and drinking.
“Of course I remember. It's at the end of the path down the mountain, right near the white mist. Why do you ask?”
Zuo Lin'an kept his smile.
“What do you think if I built a stone archway there?”
“The old residence in the dungeon belongs to the Yao family, so I could carve 'Yao Family Village' on it... No, if it needs the word 'door' in it, I can change 'village' to 'door'.”
“How about 'Yao Family Door'?”
Xu Youyou stopped eating and stared at him blankly.
“Though it sounds a bit strange, it would work.”
Then, he suddenly realized what Zuo Lin'an was planning.
“Wait... Brother An, you're devious!”
If he did that, those players who went through hell and back just to locate the path of survival and reach it would end up right back next to Zuo Lin'an the moment they walked through that stone archway.
Just imagining that scenario was terrifying for the players.
Then, Xu Youyou corrected him.
“You don't need to carve 'Yao Family Door.' A stone archway is already a type of stone door, so you don't need to be so literal.”
“Carving 'Yao Family Village' or 'Yao Family Manor' directly would work.”
“Though... is 'village' a bit of a stretch? After all, your dungeon currently only has one old residence.”
But Zuo Lin'an didn't care.
“Just because there's only one household, it can't be a village?”
Xu Youyou fell silent for a moment, then slowly nodded.
“I suppose... that works too.”
Zuo Lin'an suddenly thought of something.
“Actually, what I'm more curious about is how you managed to establish this rule in Sin Hunter City?”
“After they trigger your Death Rule, how do you make those criminals appear directly in your space when they walk through a door?”
“You couldn't have achieved that entirely on your own, right?”
At this, Xu Youyou smiled.
“Oh, that. It's actually very simple. You just have to fake it.”
Zuo Lin'an frowned, not quite understanding.
“Fake it?”
Xu Youyou gestured with his hands. “It's just like when you went to Sin Hunter City to get your second rule. You took a watch and accelerated time to the hour, making it on the hour.”
“It's the same for me.”
“I had someone prepare a mannequin that looked exactly like me beforehand and placed it in a room.”
“Once a criminal triggered my rule, I'd purposely let them run and chase after them. The moment they went through a door, I'd speed up, grab them, throw them into the room, and kill them.”
Zuo Lin'an was surprised. “That actually worked?”
Xu Youyou looked a little sheepish.
“Though the process seems crude, it does work in practice.”
“However... Instructor An said that because there were too many loopholes, generating an official rule required a lot more energy. He said I just got lucky with the timing.”
“Since the Wuxia World was just successfully assimilated, we aren't short on energy for now. Otherwise, they wouldn't have let me pull this off.”
Zuo Lin'an nodded quietly.
“Then you really were lucky.”
When he had gone, he had people in high places looking out for him, and naturally, the same applied to Xu Youyou.
As expected, having connections made things much easier.
Xu Youyou quietly observed his expression, then pushed the plate of meat on the table toward him.
“Brother An, don't just sit there. Eat up.”
“I bought these specifically. They were very expensive.”
Zuo Lin'an didn't hold back either, picking up his chopsticks and digging in.
“You wanted to discuss teaming up to run a dungeon with me?”
Xu Youyou didn't feel embarrassed about being read so easily.
“Yeah. What do you think, Brother An?”
Since Zuo Lin'an had already agreed to it before, he naturally wouldn't back out now.
“Of course we can.”
He then told Xu Youyou about what happened during his business trip.
His intention was to explain the specifics of the battle royale dungeon, especially its pros and cons.
Yet, after hearing it, Xu Youyou's first words weren't even about the battle royale.
Instead, he asked...
“So you really went to mine coal?”
Zuo Lin'an was instantly speechless.
Fortunately, Xu Youyou quickly got back on track.
“I don't think we really need a battle royale or anything like that for now. We just need to make some minor adjustments to the storyline you planned before.”
Zuo Lin'an fell into a brief silence.
In truth, he wasn't particularly keen on a battle royale in the short term either.
After all, Fang Tang had set up a battle royale because her dungeon was already an abandoned mine, giving her a solid foundation to build upon.
Furthermore, she had spent a significant amount of Contribution points on subsequent renovations.
But their own place was surrounded by barren mountains.
To remodel such a place for a battle royale, how much Contribution would it cost, and how much time would it waste?
The most beneficial approach was indeed to modify the existing dungeon storyline.
That way, it wouldn't cost money—only a bit of brainpower.
Xu Youyou pointed outside.
“Based on what you just said, a battle royale indeed suits our situation, but you know what our dungeon is like. There's no way we'll have a suitable arena for a battle royale anytime soon.”
“However, we can keep the battle royale as a backup storyline for later.”
Zuo Lin'an looked at him.
“Since you put it that way, you must have some ideas. How do you think we should change the storyline?”
Xu Youyou stroked his chin.
“Regarding that, I actually discussed it with Instructor An after leaving Sin Hunter City.”
“I first told him about the storyline you originally planned for your dungeon, and he gave me a few suggestions.”
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