Transformed into a heartthrob's simp, every day is a battleground.

Chapter 260 Yan Xun and Su Yumin have a good relationship

Yan Xun glanced at Shuangshuang, who was sitting at the dining table eating cake, and noticed that she didn't react to the keyword "copy" at all, as did Zhugan, so he continued.

"Next to me is Lou Yanchuan, who is in a wheelchair and plays the role of my uncle in this family," Yan Xun continued.

"Soon the butler appeared, and we went into the mansion together..." He looked at the others, "but there's something that bothers me."

"This villa has many accessible facilities. The housekeeper said that the previous owner of the house had an elderly person with mobility issues, and these accessible facilities were specially designed to take care of him."

"As their business grew, the family sold the house and left."

After Yan Xun finished speaking, he looked at Du Yun and said, "It's your turn."

“I was pretty much the same,” Du Yun said. “When I woke up, I found myself standing outside the garden. The butler rushed over and said he was delayed by something.”

"The previous owner of my house was an illustrator. He left for a similar reason: after winning an award and gaining fame, he sold the house and moved to a more luxurious place."

Next up were Fang Shuo and Lin Wen.

"When I woke up, I saw Lin Wen standing opposite me," Fang Shuo said after thinking for a moment. "Before I could even speak, she asked me if I was a player."

"I nodded, and after learning that she was a player, we exchanged some information."

“We waited at the door for a while before the housekeeper arrived.” Fang Shuo thought for a moment, then recalled, “He didn’t say who the previous owner of the house was, but he said that the house was very suitable for newlyweds to live in.”

"It not only has a home theater, but also a nursery and so on."

After Fang Shuo finished speaking, it was Lin Wen's turn to speak. "I just entered the instance and saw him standing over there." She looked at the others and said, "I noticed that he looked a little confused and puzzled, so I realized that he must be a player and asked him about his identity."

"The rest of the matter is just as Fang Shuo described."

“We also saw the character ‘囍’ stuck on the wardrobe in the master bedroom, so we guessed that the previous owners of this house were most likely a newlywed couple who got married in this house.”

Yan Xun observed that after Lin Wen finished speaking, Shu Fan's expression showed a moment of inner conflict—

It's probably because the other person's description sounds too much like a gamer's.

But Lin Wen's profession also has characteristics that are only found in NPCs.

Shu Fan quickly suppressed his slightest outward expression and looked at the crew-cut man, "Your turn."

“I’m about the same as them.” Only the man with the buzz cut was speaking at the table; his roommate, the man in the shirt who was unconscious, was still not awake.

"I just opened my eyes and found myself standing in front of this house. Then the information in my head told me that we were roommates, living in the same dormitory."

"After graduation, my family bought me a house. I saw that the three of them had nowhere to go, so I simply invited them to come and stay in my house temporarily."

"Just help me clean up when you have time."

The man with the buzz cut looked at the bamboo pole as he spoke, "Right?"

Bamboo Pole sat in the corner, choosing a spot furthest from the crowd. Hearing Crew Head's words, he nodded, "Yes."

He quickly looked away, saying, "...I'll move out once I find a job."

The man with the buzz cut shrugged nonchalantly, "Who cares where you go in the future?"

"Just don't sneak off during this month."

Bamboo Pole hurriedly explained, "No, that won't happen."

"...I don't have the money to compensate you."

"Where is that person?" Yan Xun gestured for Zhu Gan to look at the shirt-clad man lying on the sofa. "And the one who works at the amusement park."

Is there anything wrong with them?

"Them?" the crew-cut man recalled. "Nothing special."

"He doesn't talk much, but the guy who works at the amusement park often chats with us."

"You guys in the dorm have a really good relationship?" Yan Xun asked again. "You're even still living together after graduation."

The crew-cut man carefully recalled the information he had received about the dungeon. "It didn't say."

"I guess we're all brothers. I'm relatively rich, so I'll help out if I can."

He glanced at the bamboo pole again as he spoke, "Why don't you leave first? I have something to say to them."

Bamboo Pole showed no resentment at this obvious exclusion; he simply stood up obediently and nodded to the others. The others at the table initially thought he was going to sit on the sofa, but to their surprise, he walked directly to the door.

Yan Xun looked at the closed door. "Is he usually this obedient?"

"Pretty much," the crew-cut man said. "Anyway, whatever you say to him, his answers are always limited."

Perhaps because the bamboo pole was gone, the man with the buzz cut spoke much more casually. "I asked him a lot about our past, but he just shook his head and said he couldn't remember."

He looked at Yan Xun and the others, "I guess this is the design of the instance, so that we won't get too much information from these NPCs."

“That guy,” he gestured for everyone to look at the unconscious man in the shirt, “and the guy who works at the amusement park, we also asked him some information about our dorm.”

"He won't say anything."

"Just say we're roommates and have lived together for four years."

“However, I had others keep him occupied yesterday and secretly went to his room.”

He doesn't have much stuff.

"Didn't we all enter the dungeon empty-handed?" The man with the buzz cut asked, glancing at the others as he spoke, trying to get a response.

The other players at the table nodded.

"We didn't bring any luggage when we came in," Shu Fan said. "We only realized that our clothes were in the room after we got there."

The Yan Xun family was the same.

It looked as if the luggage had been delivered in advance.

The man with the buzz cut nodded in agreement, "That's exactly how it is."

"However, he had very few things in his room. I specifically opened the wardrobe and took a look. There were only two or three changes of clothes inside."

"Some of the clothes don't fit well and are a bit loose, as if they've been worn for a long time."

"Then the man in the shirt asked him if he was short of money and if he could tell us if he had any difficulties." The man with the buzz cut and the others repeated the scene. "He said it was okay and he would handle it himself."

"I guess he's a little short on cash."

"As for the shirt, he was fired from his company recently and is currently looking for a job."

As the man with the buzz cut finished speaking, the shirt-clad man on the sofa finally woke up from his coma... He subconsciously glanced at the broken glass and, seeing that the kobold was no longer there, breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Then he looked around again until he saw everyone sitting at the table, and only then did he feel completely relieved.

As the homeowner, Shu Fan explained the current situation in a few words. The man in the shirt sorted out his thoughts and sat down next to the man with the buzz cut.

“I lost my job about a month ago. From the messages on my phone and the termination certificate I received, it seemed like my breakup with the company was amicable. But after looking at my recent resume submissions and account balance, I felt like things weren’t so simple.”

The man with the buzz cut looked a little surprised, as if to say, "How come I didn't know that?"

Upon seeing this, the man in the shirt said, "I only found out this morning. I was thinking of mentioning it during the party."

Fang Shuo, who had just graduated from university and hadn't even started working, was pulled into this game world. Hearing this, he was a little confused. "What do you mean?"

"Look at this phone message," the man in the shirt said, taking out his phone and placing it on the table.

The page is a screenshot, and the person in the conversation has an unfamiliar name, but judging from their job title, they should be a junior manager in a department.

On the other side of the conversation was the name of the shirt.

"If I were resigning on my own, I wouldn't have bothered to screenshot and save this conversation," the shirt said.

"There must be some conflict between me and the company."

Yan Xun glanced at the screenshot. It was roughly about his boss telling Shirt to come to the office so they could discuss something else with him.

“But it’s strange,” the shirt said. “I took screenshots of everything, so why didn’t I include the whole thing?”

"At least tell me what exactly happened?"

"I wanted to find the chat history, but I found that I had deleted the app a long time ago. Even if I re-registered, I couldn't find the previous records."

“Perhaps your boss feels that this chat shouldn’t leave any evidence,” Yan Xun said. “This matter can only be discussed face-to-face.”

The man in the shirt sighed. "I glanced at the termination of employment certificate I had saved in my folder. My reason for resigning was also personal reasons."

"If you were to resign voluntarily, would you specifically keep this screenshot of the conversation?"

"So I feel there's something wrong with it."

"And I looked at my resume application history. Some companies that I had good conversations with said they would think about it and then I never heard from them again," Shirt said. "Others they were about to give me an offer, but then suddenly changed their minds."

"I suspect that I had some conflict with my former company, which led to them blacklisting me in the industry."

His words silenced everyone at the table.

“But why would the company do this?” Du Yun said, looking at the others. “Isn’t your background information a bit too much?”

“Perhaps it’s not that he’s too complex, but that we haven’t found the corresponding clues for our own roles,” Lou Yanchuan suddenly said.

The man in the shirt looked at Du Yun and said, "I don't know why I told you this information."

"The result is that I can't find a job now, so I have to stay here and keep sending out resumes."

The shirt made the players at the table fall into deep thought again.

Finally, Shu Fan spoke up, saying, "My character design isn't that complicated."

"I just appeared on stage and found myself standing outside this villa, with Duan Songen looking at me warily next to me." She said, glancing at Duan Songen beside her.

"I initially suspected she was an NPC," Duan Songen admitted directly.

“In this game, we’re not only good friends, but we’ve also been very close since we were kids,” Shu Fan said. “Our parents knew each other, so we’ve been neighbors since we were little.”

“We went to elementary and middle school together, but in high school, her family had some problems, and when we met again, she was already of college graduation age.”

“My family just happened to buy me this house, so I invited her to live with me,” Shu Fan said. “After all, the house is quite big, and I’m a little scared to live alone.”

“She also works from home, and we have similar schedules. Plus, we’ve known each other since we were little, so we decided to live together.”

"So you didn't see each other at all between high school and college graduation?" Yan Xun asked.

“Yes, I went to another city,” Duan Songen said. “But we often chat online, so we still have a good relationship.”

"What's your reason for leaving?"

“Our family business failed,” Duan Songen said. “I found debt collection text messages on my phone. The borrowers are probably my parents. I moved here partly to avoid them.”

"This is also my new phone number."

"It looks like they just got my new number not long ago."

Duan Songen looked at the others and said, "I think your characters should also have other backgrounds."

"It's impossible that only our character designs are this detailed."

Yan Xun leaned back in his chair without saying a word.

He looked at the text messages on his phone and the luggage in his room; they were all very ordinary.

No matter how you look at it, she seems like a carefree, innocent, and naive college student.

Could it be that the key to their family lies with Lou Yanchuan...?

Yan Xun couldn't help but turn his gaze to Lou Yanchuan, only to see that Lou Yanchuan was also looking at him.

Lou Yanchuan shook his head.

Yan Xun knew that this meant the other party was saying that they had not found any useful clues.

...To be honest, Yan Xun didn't really trust him.

This is what distinguishes Lou Yanchuan from others.

If the people here were Gu Jia, Sun Zhao, or even Li Wu, Yan Xun would believe them without hesitation.

But Lou Yanchuan... Yan Xun felt that the credibility of this statement was only 30%.

Seemingly knowing that Yan Xun wouldn't believe him, Lou Yanchuan moved his lips—

"You don't seem to believe me?" Lou Yanchuan asked.

"Do you think I should believe it?" Yan Xun asked.

"Why not?" Lou Yanchuan said. "I'm your uncle, what can't you trust about me?"

"Heh." Yan Xun sneered.

Lou Yanchuan shrugged.

Fang Shuo watched their conversation and quietly nudged Lin Wen, "You said you'd heard his name before?"

Lin Wen's gaze lingered between Yan Xun and Lou Yanchuan. "Hmm."

"However, I don't know much about the person next to him."

He usually acts alone.

As Lin Wen was speaking, she suddenly mentioned someone, "Do you know Su Yumin?"

Upon hearing this name, Fang Shuo nearly choked on his own saliva. He coughed so hard in his seat that he attracted everyone's attention. He gestured to himself that he was alright while looking at Lin Wen.

Once he stopped coughing, he hurriedly spoke, "How could I not recognize you!"

"...Isn't that just pure neurosis?"

"A pure madman who just loves to blast fish and hunt other players," Fang Shuo said, recalling Su Yumin's incomprehensible ability... When his gaze fell on the slices of cake on the table, he felt an urge to vomit.

Why are you talking about him?

"Oh," Lin Wen said casually, "I was just reminding you."

"Yan Xun seems to have a good relationship with Su Yumin."