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chapter 41

Lin Ruo left the library with a lot of questions in her mind. At the same time, she finally noticed that the message she sent to Song Yiran last time still hadn't been replied.

She stared at the message she sent for a few seconds, vaguely feeling that

something seemed to be wrong. Song Yiran... if there was nothing wrong, there was no reason for him not to even reply to a message.

After thinking about it, Lin Ruo came out of the library and turned around to go to the convenience store.

The boss was unloading goods at the door of the store. Seeing Lin Ruo, he greeted her as usual: "You're here."

"Yeah." Lin Ruo didn't beat around the bush. Standing aside so as not to affect his work, she asked straight to the point: "Boss, have you seen Song Yiran recently?"

This was another place she could think of where they had an intersection.

"Xiao Song?" The boss looked up and thought for a while while carrying the boxes. "It seems that I haven't seen him for a while. Do you have something to do with him?"

"No, just asking." Lin Ruo lowered her head and thought for a few seconds. Suddenly she remembered another thing and looked at the boss again: "Is the box he left in the store for me still there?" The

box that the boss had taken out to her at the beginning, but she didn't take it away at that time.

"Yes." The boss said while carrying the cardboard box into the store: "You didn't take it, so it has been here. Do you want to take it away now?"

Lin Ruo followed him: "Then give it to me." No matter what it is, take a look first.

The boss put the box away, took out the square box from the counter and handed it to Lin Ruo. As if he remembered something, he added: "Take it away. Even if Xiao Song can't be contacted, don't worry. He will be fine here."

"Yeah." Lin Ruo nodded, his attention was on the box, and he didn't pay too much attention to the boss's words. He took the things and said hello and left.

So she didn't see the convenience store owner who was stocking the shelves behind her suddenly paused, took out a pen and leaned on the counter to calculate something. After a while, he raised his head and muttered to himself: "It's almost time again..."

Lin Ruo went straight back to the dormitory, intending to study what Song Yiran had left for her.

The box she brought back was square and very similar to the iron box that usually holds snacks.

She opened the box and was stunned for a moment, because there were no precious items inside, let alone snacks, but one after another colorful small notes with words written on them.

There were two people's handwriting on the notes, one of which was her own handwriting.

But the content on the notes...

Lin Ruo frowned slightly. Could it be that these were all written by her when she was still a player in the game? It seems that this is the only possibility.

But the notes are extremely second-year...

She tapped her fingers awkwardly, and her face rarely showed a look of helplessness.

Did she really write these small notes that were comparable to love words? It was self-evident who the note was addressed to. Moreover, each note was accompanied by a neat reply - most likely in Song Yiran's handwriting.

No, a small note or something, why would they do such a childish thing?

Lin Ruo flipped through a few more pages, trying to maintain her expression, and finally took a deep breath and closed the box again, still not figuring out the problem.

When Song Yiran appeared, she thought that they might have had some relationship in the past, but she definitely didn't expect that such a box would be directly displayed.

So, from the beginning, the box that Song Yiran left in the convenience store was to tell her this?

Lin Ruo had not yet recovered from this sudden exposure of the relationship, and suddenly her eyes blurred uncontrollably. She subconsciously stood firm, rubbed her eyes, and found that the scene around her had changed.

Layers of thick fog, all around were white, this was obviously not a scene that could appear in the dormitory.

Entering the dungeon? But it was not yet the time to enter the dungeon next time.

Lin Ruo tried to check the data panel that had just been updated, but it only showed a mess of characters, and there was no useful information at all.

She did not choose to act rashly, but stood firm, always paying attention to the movements around her. After about half an hour, the fog around her slowly dissipated, revealing a large open space and other people who were confused about the current situation. Judging from the number, there were hundreds or even thousands.

They talked in twos and threes.

"Where is this?"

"Are you players?"

"Yes..."

"We are not. It's strange. Why are there no task prompts? I can't see the points either..."

"What's going on? Why are there so many people?"

The people around her talked openly, and Lin Ruo listened to everything. Finally, she judged that this place was obviously no longer a work area. Currently, there were not only NPCs but also players standing here. It was probably a game dungeon, but strangely, no one saw the dungeon task.

"No tasks? What should I do?"

"What should I do? There were no tasks before. Just survive!"

The people next to him were talking loudly.

This also reminded Lin Ruo that no matter where he was, as long as he was in the game or in the dungeon, as long as he could ensure his survival, it would be fine.

While everyone was talking, the fog around them gradually dissipated. Lin Ruo looked forward and saw a huge city on the water gradually emerging.

Adhering to the principle that there must be a reason for new things to appear in the dungeon, she bypassed the crowd who were still standing there talking and approached the city.

"Lin Ruo!" A shout suddenly came from behind.

Lin Ruo stopped and looked back.

Yang Cheng trotted a few steps from the side and caught up, asking in confusion: "Lin Ruo, why are you here too? Do you know where this is?"

There was an acquaintance. Lin Ruo shook his head and said truthfully: "I don't know. I don't know how I suddenly got here."

"Me too." Yang Cheng sighed, "I thought I remembered the time wrong. It's not time to enter the new dungeon yet, but I found myself here when I opened my eyes."

He turned his head and looked around, as if he was sighing: "I have never seen so many NPCs of players in a dungeon at one time..."

As he spoke, Yang Cheng fell silent, because he suddenly realized a problem. The more people there are in the dungeon, the more difficult it is.

"And the dungeon quests haven't been displayed yet." Lin Ruo added, and looked around again. If she could run into Yang Cheng here, did it mean that she might run into other people as well?

Ye Ziyang? Zhou Xiangnan? Or maybe Li An?

Looking at the dense crowds of people around her, she frowned, and suddenly had a bold guess: "Could it be that all the players and NPCs have come to this dungeon?"

"All?" Yang Cheng subconsciously thought it was impossible, but after noticing the abnormality around him, his thoughts began to waver, "If so, that would be too scary."

"No." Lin Ruo disagreed with him, her eyes fell on every corner, looking for a figure that she remembered or was familiar with, "If that's the case, then there's nothing to be afraid of."