Chapter 164 Trust Me

[Awesome, Kyujiro, awesome!]
[The big shot is incredible!]
[BAF]
[BAF]
[Wait, how on earth did he do that? Did he reverse-control that building?!]
[It must be through that soul thread between the streamer and the soul puppet. Remember when the streamer's first main quest flopped and his clearance rate fell short, so he sacrificed an arm to the grand CEO?]
[But wasn't that soul thread cut by Jun Wuming's sword of light?]
[Only one of the threads was cut. As long as the soul puppet remains by the streamer's side, and as long as that arm stays in a state of sacrifice, soul threads will naturally regenerate when the streamer rests.]
[Wait, isn't the soul thread something female ghosts use to control players? How come Kyujiro can turn the tables and control the building instead?]
[Unless a reversal of heaven and earth is triggered, the forces exerted by the two parties linked by a soul thread are actually mutual. Who controls whom depends on willpower and obsession, not absolute rules. However, between a female ghost and a novice player, without exception, the newbie is terrified of the ghost, leaving the ghost in control.]
[So when Silver Thorn got the junior sister's soul thread earlier, that's why she could control her so easily? Because she crushed the junior sister in both experience and star rating?]
[Right, you can put it that way.]
[So the streamer is a newbie whose willpower is actually strong enough to use a soul thread to reverse-control the building associated with Eileen, a ten-star female ghost?!]
[The hell is this a newbie! This must be a top-tier veteran among big shots!]
[And here I actually believed you bastards and staked my entire net worth betting the streamer would lose! Now I've lost everything down to my underwear! Am I the only pig in this chat room? Were you all just waiting to slaughter me for meat?!]
[Hahaha, you just figured that out now? Hahaha!]
[Pfft, who told you to be so naive and believe the streamer was a newbie? This is a legendary veteran!]
[What?! A legendary veteran?! Coming to a newbie pond to stomp fish?!]
[Of course! Why else did you think he was so badass? Facing a ten-star female ghost with a massive building pressing down on his head, he remained completely calm, didn't show a shred of fear or retreat, and even reverse-controlled the building?]
[F*ck! That's true!]
[Whatever, falling in a big shot's stream like this, I take it.]
[I'm camping out in this chat room, waiting for the next pig to walk in and win back all the money I lost.]
[Congratulations, you've just walked the exact path of our psychological journey!]
[F*ck! Dark! This chat room is way too dark!]
……
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Beside the furnace, the few survivors lifted their heads simultaneously, looking at the building that had collapsed onto the ground and lay motionless under Wen Nan's soothing influence.
"Holy crap..."
Huang Yan swallowed hard, his inner shock beyond description. Lacking adequate words, he could only blurt out, "The guild leader is awesome!"
Guo Xiaofu quickly chimed in right after, "The guild leader is so cool!"
Yang Mingzhong's gaze, however, turned somewhat grave. "There's only one minute left on the countdown. Our time... I'm afraid it's running a bit short."
Hearing this, the faces of the other two turned instantly pale, and they were just about to scramble back up at full speed when—
Beneath the night sky, a flash of golden light appeared on a distant ridge.
Yu Shujun flew over and landed in front of them, extending his sword of light to string them together like a row of skewered eggs. Hoisting them up, he flashed away from the scorching furnace in the blink of an eye, soared past the Eileen Building, and landed steadily right in front of the employee dormitory spawn point.
As the settlement countdown entered its final ten seconds, all players took their respective places, looking up at the constantly flickering numbers on the holographic screen with a collective, long-awaited sigh of relief.
Everything was finally settled.
The settlement had begun.
While all the guild members focused their attention on the settlement panel overhead, Wen Nan's mind was not on the spawn point.
He walked to the doorway and looked out, seeing the dilapidated building sitting crookedly on the ground, emitting faint, low wails.
The side wing annex trembled, as if trying to lift an arm to reach out toward Wen Nan. Yet, the overly weakened building could no longer manage even a simple gesture of raising its hand.
Deeply moved by the sight, Wen Nan was just about to raise his hand to do something when a beam of golden light pierced straight into the ribbon of light on the top floor of the building.
Crash.
All the floor-to-ceiling windows surrounding the president's office on the top floor shattered into pieces.
Yu Shujun flew inside, and when he emerged again, he was horizontally holding a frail figure in his arms.
In just a fleeting moment of distraction, Yu Shujun had already carried Guan Eileen to the front of the spawn point.
Having not reached an agreement to leave this dungeon instance, Guan Eileen was still classified as a character belonging to this map and thus could not enter the players' spawn point. Yu Shujun gently laid her down on the floor of the corridor outside the door.
Wen Nan knelt near the threshold, looking at the pale-faced woman before him.
Guan Eileen's complexion was as pale as ash, and her breathing was so faint that the rise and fall of her chest were barely perceptible. Her eyes were tightly closed, and her thick eyelashes trembled slightly like the fragile wings of a butterfly.
One of her hands rested against her chest, clenched into a fist, her fingers gripping something tightly within, refusing to let go.
Wen Nan raised his hand, intending to unclench her tightly closed fist. Just as his fingers reached past the threshold, a system prompt echoed instantly in his mind—
9527: [Warning! During system settlement, players are strictly prohibited from leaving the spawn point! Otherwise, it will be considered an absence, and there is a high probability of being disqualified from the settlement! Please proceed with caution!]
Wen Nan's fingers paused, and he sheepishly pulled his arm back.
Yu Shujun lifted his gaze, shifting it from Wen Nan's fingertips to the clenched fist on Guan Eileen's chest.
Raising his hand, Yu Shujun pried open Guan Eileen's fingers, retrieved what she was gripping so tightly, and handed it to Wen Nan.
They were two movie tickets.
Two hand-written movie tickets, bearing the title *Let's Raise a Dog*.
"Idiot..."
Wen Nan smiled, his smile mixed with a complex whirl of emotions.
"If I want to take you away, would you be willing to come with me to the end of the world?" Wen Nan asked the question once again.
Guan Eileen's eyelashes fluttered twice, and her eyes slowly cracked open a sliver. She lowered her gaze to look at Wen Nan, her lips parting and closing as if trying to say something.
Wen Nan leaned forward very low, bringing his ear as close as possible to her lips, expecting an answer. To his surprise, he only heard her whisper faintly:
"I... can't remember anything anymore..."
Wen Nan took a deep breath, gazing deeply into her eyes. After a brief pause, he slipped a ring off the base of his index finger.
It was the ring Yang Mingzhong had given Wen Nan earlier. From the moment he stepped into the secret passage leading to the furnace, Wen Nan had worn it on his finger all the way through.
At this moment, Wen Nan offered the ring to Guan Eileen and said earnestly:
"Eileen, trust me. Come away with me, and you will definitely remember everything again."
*(End of chapter)*