The Abyssal Garden: No Room for the Idle-Chapter 41: Master of Stealing Home (Seeking Followers)

In the darkness,

Su Qi was pondering everything.

Was it merely coincidence? Or was there a connection? The contents of the exclamation seemed quite profound.

Could it be that after winning the so-called Game Day, he could meet the Evil God again?

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Better not think about that.

After all, everyone was internet friends, meeting offline and dying wouldn't be good.

At that moment,

a system message appeared in Su Qi's vision.

[Main Quest Released]

[Survive Game Day and find the key to the orphanage gate to escape]

He squinted his eyes. It was a Nightmare-level dungeon... but the main quest didn't require him to win, just to survive.

It seemed that tomorrow's Game Day would be extremely dangerous.

In the darkness, Su Qi asked, "What kind of activities do you have on Game Day?"

These three guys weren't asleep yet, they had just been nearly trembling due to that inspection.

Snake Head Man immediately responded hoarsely, "It's different each month, depending on what the three staff members find amusing."

There were three staff members in total at the orphanage: the cook, the supervisor, and logistics.

"They are terrifying," Croc Brother revealed his fear, "If you rank low in the game, you will... be killed."

Su Qi asked, "How were you brought here?"

This place was called an orphanage, meaning the others here were also just children, young, parentless, abandoned.

"Because..." Spider Boy lifted his pale face, showing a bleak smile, "Outside, we are all monsters... others are afraid of us, including our parents."

Stop smiling, failed man.

It was really scary.

"Here, we can only struggle to survive like monsters," Snake Head Man said painfully, "The staff enjoy watching us like this."

He weakly added, "Me attacking you is just normal for this orphanage, after all, it's survival of the fittest."

"Just stop trying to justify it, it won't wash clean."

Su Qi rolled his eyes.

He withdrew his gaze, "So, it's the same with everyone else."

In this enclosed orphanage, everyone was forced to follow the primal rules of nature.

Croc Brother nodded with a sense of resignation in his tone, "Yes... but there's no choice, everyone is just fighting to survive, and those gaps left by the deceased... will soon be filled by newcomers."

"That reminds me," Snake Head Man's voice faltered, unable to help himself, "you should be careful about the people from room one tomorrow, don't provoke them."

"Uh?"

"They are among the earliest at the orphanage, having survived the longest by any means necessary, and they are very close to the three staff members, which makes them act without fear."

Snake Head Man pointed at Su Qi's bed, "The last person who lived here was Brother Dog, who angered the people from room one during the last Game Day, then was retaliated against. Those guys tied him to a street lamp and bit off his limbs."

"That night... Brother Dog never returned."

Croc Brother said softly, his head low, "Actually, I kind of liked him."

Su Qi fell silent; he looked at the tops of the others' heads, where question marks displayed their current thoughts.

[Submissive, not daring to make waves] from Spider Boy.

[Fearful of this life, missing the outside world] from Croc Brother.

[Revisiting the feeling of recent suffocation] from Snake Head Man.

"????"

Su Qi's eyelids twitched. What was up with the last one?!

"Let's sleep, we need to be fully alert tomorrow," Croc Brother reminded.

"It's already past midnight. If we don't sleep now and wake up too late tomorrow, it'll also be counted as a violation."

"Alright... good night, everyone..." Spider Boy said quietly.

But Su Qi didn't make a sound, as if he were already asleep. The others stopped talking too, and one by one began to close their eyes, preparing to sleep.

About half an hour later.

Su Qi slowly opened his eyes, gazing into the black-as-ink night outside.

In such a dangerous place, how could one possibly sleep?

After some deep thought, completing the main quest seemed not difficult to him, but... what he cared about more was the Sheep Head and the dark-red exclamation mark above it.

If he wanted to complete it, it might not be so simple.

Su Qi currently only possessed the Night Demon Gene as his trump card, and it only activated in the night or in darkness. If he wanted to gather more clues and help, he had to make use of it.

Su Qi watched as the other three slightly began to snore, shaking his head,

"At this age, you guys can actually sleep."

He slowly rose and cautiously pushed open the door, an endless darkness opening like a giant mouth, ready to swallow him whole as he stepped out.

Fear, chill, anxiety about the unknown...

Sorry.

Brother Su was unmoved.

He gently closed the door behind him and walked out.

His small body walked cautiously in the perilous orphanage, surrounded by darkness, with only the faint glimmer of the streetlights flickering dim yellow.

Su Qi continued down the corridor.

Besides the Night Demon bonus, he actually had a special ability, which was enhanced hearing brought by his long ears.

He could hear very faint sounds.

This was also a skill the instance gave Su Qi to survive.

But all these were still far from enough for Su Qi's goals.

The night was deep and everything was silent.

Su Qi walked down the corridor to Room Number One, and he could clearly hear the snoring of people inside, deep in sleep.

He then looked towards the end of the corridor.

The cafeteria was further away, the office cottage was on the left side of the orphanage's large iron gate, and the storage room was in the corner under the right streetlight.

It seemed these three staff members were residing here.

He hadn't approached yet.

His ears suddenly twitched, hearing a burst of talking coming from within the darkness.

"There's someone outside!"

Su Qi leaned against an object for cover.

He carefully moved closer.

In the backyard of the orphanage.

Three figures... stood by a campfire, their shadows casting eerie reflections on the wall.

"Blood... is there enough?"

"...adding tomorrow's, that should be enough."

"We've raised them too long, developed some feelings, hehehe!"

"What about the Old Director?"

"After checking the dorms, he should be preparing for tomorrow's arrangements..."

"The Old Director... has longed for this day for too long."

"After all, he was nearly dead six months ago, surviving only by consuming flesh and blood, finally looking forward to this day."

"Tomorrow's the last game day... everyone should enjoy it."

"Of course..." the guy emitting a strange laugh, was lifting a jar, pouring a large amount of fresh blood into a well.

While the other two seemed to be drawing patterns at the edge of the well, conducting some sort of ritual.

It looked... very likely.

Su Qi watched this familiar scene.

Sure enough, it related to his good brother, Evil God.

This proved one thing.

Each instance seemed not to exist independently, whether it be Pollutants or the followers of the Evil God... everything was interconnected.

"Time to sneak around." Su Qi looked towards the three houses.

With time pressing and tasks critical, he needed to find useful items before these people completed their drawings.

Or...

Find an opportunity to take down one?