Chapter 93: Join Us in the Abyss

But after lying there for a while, Lin Bufei somehow, for no reason at all, truly fell into a dead faint.

“That old rascal Lao Ji must be weeping buckets by now. I do feel a little bad for him, but really, isn’t this perfect? I can give him a proper surprise when we meet again.”

“Heh heh heh. In the end, children are still children. I, after all, am still a cut above!”

As he muttered to himself, Lin Bufei laughed and lifted his shirt, revealing the protective suit beneath, complete with a simulated blood sac.

[Love Protection Suit]

[Item Quality: High-end (A-rank)]

[Item Description: It is love! It is love! Believe in this love; perhaps one day it will save your worthless life.]

“Tsk, tsk, tsk. I knew long ago that little maniac had murderous intent toward me, so I specially wore my most treasured item. That’s what you call adult wisdom!”

Lin Bufei shook his head smugly, when suddenly, he noticed something.

There was not the slightest damage on the protective suit on his body. Even the blood sac had only been torn at one corner.

What was going on?

Had Qin Feng not really stabbed him?

With his sharp eyes, Lin Bufei suddenly noticed something faintly hidden in his blood sac, and hurriedly pulled it out.

A small slip of oilpaper lay pinched between his fingers.

[Surprise]

The handwriting on the note was neat and rigid, clearly the result of painstaking practice, all so it would look more pleasing to an invigilator’s eyes.

“Surprise? That kid Qin Feng really is...”

Lin Bufei brushed the dust from his body and looked around.

The mall had been flattened to the ground, and many of the non-player characters had died in the collapse.

As for the handful of surviving players, they stood together, utterly bewildered, unable to make head or tail of what had happened.

“Xuanxuan! Baby! Mommy knew you were here... Mommy finally found you!”

Not far away, a woman in a red dress trembled violently as she wrapped her arms around the little girl barely reaching her waist.

The lovely little girl hugged her mother tightly, lifted her head, and revealed a pair of pale red eyes.

“Mommy, I met the fairy sister again!”

“The fairy sister looked very sad, so I comforted her! She said I was a good girl, and told me she was here looking for me!”

Tears rolled from the girl’s eyes as she trembled and buried her head in the woman’s embrace.

“Mommy... I... I never want to be separated from you again!”

Mother and daughter clung to each other and sobbed, just as they had many years ago.

Only this time, it was not from sorrow, but from joy.

“Sir, sir! Did you witness this miracle?”

Beneath the convenience store sign, Lin Bufei flashed a greasy yet sincerely earnest smile at one of the players, a man with slicked-back hair.

“All of this is a miracle bestowed by the God of the Abyss!”

“It is the great Abyss that shattered our suffering and let us all escape the mall!”

The slick-haired Lin Hao hurriedly waved a hand, then looked at the scar-faced man before him and impatiently dismissed him.

“Please stop spreading superstition, thank you. I received nine years of compulsory education; I don’t need a charlatan.”

Lin Bufei only grew more excited. He took out the ragged little handbook from his bosom, the New Recruit’s Essential Guide to the Abyss Guild, and kept thrusting it toward the man.

“Sir, have you heard of the Miracle Worker?”

“The reason the Miracle Worker was able to create miracles and leave this abyss was entirely because the God of the Abyss showed him the way!”

Hearing this, Lin Hao’s expression changed at once, turning fiercely angry.

“What nonsense! The Miracle Worker escaped the horror world through his own strength! Stop spouting this garbage!”

But Lin Bufei was not in the least anxious. He turned to one page in the little booklet.

On the page, a boy in a school uniform was crying, while behind him, a girl who looked like an angel lightly rested a hand on his shoulder.

“Sir, our Abyss Guild never talks nonsense!”

“We have veteran players who witnessed the Miracle Worker with their own eyes, and even doctors who treated the aftereffects of his trauma!”

“It is said that back when the Miracle Worker first entered the game alone, he often muttered to the air, and always prepared two portions of food and water, calling the air his teammate!”

Lin Hao could bear it no longer. In fury, he grabbed Lin Bufei by the collar.

“You, you, stop making things up! Are you trying to say... the Miracle Worker had split personality disorder?”

But Lin Bufei shook his head solemnly.

“No, that wasn’t split personality disorder. That was a miracle!”

“One of the earliest members of our guild personally saw the despairing Miracle Worker, after whispering to the air, recover his fighting spirit as if he had been given aid, and successfully break the game’s deadlock!”

“Such a miracle—how could that possibly be split personality disorder? Even if the Miracle Worker truly went mad, that too would be the guidance of the God of the Abyss!”

When Lin Bufei finished speaking, he spread his arms wide, his expression intoxicated, as though bathing in holy light.

“Of all the lunatics! Keep away from me!”

Seeing the strange man before him, Lin Hao was so frightened that he shuddered and quickly fled.

But Lin Bufei, watching the retreating figure, could only scratch his head helplessly.

“Damn it, I told you proselytizing like this makes me look like some village roadside charlatan, and they still wouldn’t believe me!”

“No choice. I’ll have to use my special move.”

After muttering this under his breath, Lin Bufei shaped his hands into a trumpet and put them to his mouth.

“Hey, hey, hey! Handsome guy! Join the guild and we’ll give you an A-rank dungeon item!”

“And not only that! The guild also provides cigarettes, beer, women’s magazines, and plenty of beautiful, sexy, experienced older ladies who can treat your wounds!”

Lin Hao, who had already walked some distance away, suddenly came to a stop.

After a long silence, he spoke in a low voice.

“Really? There are really... older ladies?”

“Really, really! I’m not lying to you! They’re top-class at bandaging wounds!” Lin Bufei said with a grin as he threw an arm around Lin Hao. “As long as you sign on and become my teammate, all of this is yours!”

After a series of formalities, Lin Hao scratched his head in great embarrassment, his face reddening.

“Ahem... that’s not what I meant. It’s just, the older ladies you said could bandage wounds—do you have any photos?”

“Of course, of course!”

Lin Bufei cheerfully produced the photo. In that instant, Lin Hao’s expression changed from hope, to expectation, to shock, regret, and finally ferocity.

“You! You’re talking nonsense! Since when is this an older lady? She’s older than my mother!”

Who would have thought that Lin Bufei would burst out laughing, slapping Lin Hao’s shoulder hard.

“I already said she was an experienced older lady, not some young little older lady.”

“What, you don’t like the woman in this photo? This is my elementary school teacher. You actually think she isn’t experienced enough? What terrible taste!”

As Lin Hao beat his chest in exasperation and begged to have the guild binding removed, Lin Bufei had already run up to the next player and begun a new round of proselytizing.

“Beautiful lady, join us in the Abyss!”

“Our guild even has a handsome celebrity heartthrob!”