Doomsday Wonderland Vol. 10: Lava [Complete]

1274: Isn't He Lacking Crisis Awareness?

After both sides confronted each other for a few seconds, the middle-aged man suddenly turned his head and jumped off the sofa, disappearing into the living room. Lin Sanjiu and Ji Shanqing exchanged a glance, puzzled. Just then, the intercom near the gate rang. "Who are you? How do you know I'm here?"

The middle-aged man probably mistook them for people who had entered the pocket dimension to find him.

Lin Sanjiu was about to respond when the grand prize lightly pinched her finger. She turned to see his eyes blinking with a mischievous smile, though he tried to maintain a serious expression. He cleared his throat and said, "You should be well aware of the situation, Mr. Ito. Debts must be repaid."

"Don't talk nonsense. I owe wh—" The voice on the intercom suddenly cut off, as if he had second thoughts. He then asked, "Who sent you? Is it the Roma Guild?"

Ji Shanqing remained silent.

"Mr. Ito, will we go in, or will you come out?" he asked again.

There was a sarcastic laugh from the intercom. "It seems you haven't fully understood the situation, and you've come here to risk your lives for others. If you have the ability, try breaking in! I'd like to see how long you can endure outside compared to the refugees."

Ji Shanqing lightly sighed, thought for a few seconds, and leaned in to whisper to Lin Sanjiu, "Sis, it seems we need to get into a villa as soon as possible."

"What?" Lin Sanjiu was still trying to grasp the situation, not understanding how he knew about the other party's debt. "Why?"

"He said so."

When did Mr. Ito say anything like that?

Ji Shanqing tilted his head, didn't explain further, and simply responded to the intercom, "You're mistaken, Mr. Ito. We understand the situation here very well and have ways to handle it. We can stay outside as long as needed, and eventually, you'll have to come out."

There was a moment of silence on the intercom before he finally said in a low voice, "Well, let's see if you can hold out until 11 PM," and abruptly ended the call.

Lin Sanjiu stared at the grand prize, waiting for an explanation. She had initially planned to knock on the door, explain the situation, and apologize in a friendly and sincere manner to inquire about the pocket dimension. But instead, the grand prize had triggered an inexplicable conflict.

Ji Shanqing didn't seem to be in a hurry. He just held her and retraced their steps for a while, stopping at the front of Villa F04. While individually designed, these villas followed a modern geometric style and featured extensive glass walls. Standing outside, one that seemed unoccupied, he tiptoed to peer inside for a while before turning back to say, "Fortunately, this one has a clock, sister."

"What?"

"I just realized that in these modern designed houses, there are very few traditional, wall-mounted-"

"No, I need you to explain from the beginning."

The grand prize wrinkled his little face. "But it's a long story..."

"Don't be lazy."

With a sigh, the grand prize said, "Sis, in doomsday, not all posthumans are as clean as you without dirty blood on their hands. If you say 'debts must be repaid,' anyone can become suspicious."

That made Lin Sanjiu realize that she, too, had done things she felt guilty about afterward. She began to understand and asked, "But why did you let him misunderstand our identity?"

"No matter what the real reason is, in his eyes, we came specifically to find him. There's nothing you can say to change that. Being polite and sincere might not make him believe us, and words spoken could be taken as true or false. If there were hidden dangers and he concealed them, it could have led us into trouble. But in this situation, what he said was all true. To scare us away, he wanted to list all the terrifying aspects of the pocket dimension."