AWB Chapter 10 Pastry Chef
Chapter 10 Pastry Chef
Pei Xingyan's words immediately drew Chi Yuan's attention to Li Wu inside the room.
"A fake?" Chi Yuan looked at Li Wu. "It seems your relationship with your roommate isn't very good." He said cryptically.
“I have a very good relationship with my roommate.” Even after being falsely accused, Li Wu remained calm. He then said to Chi Yuan, “So I suspect that the person who came here is not my roommate either.”
Yan Xun stood at the door without leaving. He glanced at the very calm Pei Xingyan and Li Wu in the room, and immediately understood that this must have been planned in advance by the two of them.
"That makes things difficult," Chi Yuan muttered to himself, looking at his roommate standing outside the door and the person inside. "It seems you two will have to come with me."
As he spoke, he moved his fingers—
Even though nothing appeared, Yan Xun clearly saw that Pei Xingyan and Li Wu's hands were bound by something unseen.
"Alright, come with me."
As he spoke, the two men followed him uncontrollably.
As Chi Yuan passed by Yan Xun, he nodded to him and said, "Be careful, you might not be so lucky next time."
After he finished speaking, he glanced at Gui Yuchong, who looked a little uneasy, and said, "You too."
The corridor wasn't very wide, so when Li Wu and Pei Xingyan walked out behind each other, Yan Xun subconsciously reached out to block Gui Yuchong behind him, signaling him to step back with him—but to his surprise, the other didn't move at all.
Yan Xun had already taken a few steps back, so he inevitably bumped into Gui Yuchong.
...He turned and glanced at Gui Yuchong.
Gui Yuchong apologized to him repeatedly, then noticed Yan Xun observing her, and touched her cheek, asking, "What's wrong?"
"No," Yan Xun said.
"I can smell your scent."
"What does it taste like?" Gui Yuchong asked.
"An unpleasant taste."
Li Wu was walking at the back, so he could hear Yan Xun's words clearly... but...
He glanced at Gui Yuchong.
He couldn't smell any fragrance on the other person at all. In fact, when Yan Xun first spoke in room 508, he thought the person was just looking for trouble.
But after Yan Xun said something like that once...
Li Wu suddenly realized something—
Perhaps Yan Xun wasn't looking for trouble; he genuinely smelled Gui Yuchong's scent.
Thinking of this, Li Wu sniffed a few more times, but there was still an indescribable smell in the air, like fermenting garbage, or like the smell of a corridor that had been poorly ventilated for a long time and had become moldy due to the rainy season.
In short, it has nothing to do with sweetness or aroma.
He looked at Yan Xun, wanting to say something.
However, the "fake person" could not speak at this time; he could only stare at Yan Xun before being led away by Chi Yuan.
……
Yan Xun naturally noticed Li Wu's prolonged gaze, and was pondering why the other was looking at him.
He then felt Gui Yuchong quietly tug at his sleeve.
"...Is he a fake?" Gui Yuchong leaned closer and whispered.
As if to prevent Li Wu from hearing, he stood very, very close to Yan Xun, so close that his breath almost touched Yan Xun's earlobe.
This made him move forward a little more uncomfortably. "Don't get so close."
He said somewhat impatiently.
Gui Yuchong immediately lowered his head as if he had done something wrong, "...I forgot you don't like me."
Yan Xun: "..."
What's with this feeling that he's bullying me?
But according to the script, isn't he just a megalomaniacal idiot who excludes others?
Yan Xun cursed the system in his heart again, and awkwardly touched his neck—he always did this when he felt embarrassed—he looked at Gui Yuchong, who was looking down, and asked, "Why do you think that?"
"do not know."
Gui Yuchong shook his head. "I'm just a little afraid of him."
Yan Xun thought to himself, "That's normal."
In the novel, you're initially afraid of Li Wu, this powerful figure, finding his cold demeanor intimidating. But as a novel where everyone is a fan, even a powerful figure can become a sycophant.
Yan Xun looked at Gui Yuchong and said, "You don't need to be afraid of him."
Anyway, the "heartthrob" type is someone who will fall in love with the protagonist regardless of whether they are human or ghost, and Gui Yuchong is just there to win without lifting a finger.
As he spoke, he turned back to look at Li Wu's back again. He felt that Li Wu's gaze just now was loaded with meaning, as if he wanted to say something to him.
He felt somewhat confused.
She glanced again at the now-open door to room 508. Although she really wanted to go in and take another look, she knew that Chi Yuan's words were a warning.
Players can only explore this room once a day at most.
If discovered again, they will likely be eliminated by the "security guards" as imposters.
"Let's go back first." Yan Xun still had the supplies he had taken from the management office in his hand.
"That mixed-race man said that we should go to his room together later." Worried that Gui Yuchong might not know Su Yumin's name, Yan Xun specifically referred to him as the mixed-race man.
"Why do we need to go to his room?" Gui Yuchong asked, walking up to Yan Xun.
"Let's discuss how to leave this instance," Yan Xun said succinctly.
The two quickly passed the house where Yan Xun had first knocked on the door, and then arrived at the end of the corridor—
"What a coincidence." Gui Yuchong looked at the elevator stopped on the 5th floor and was about to press the switch when Yan Xun grabbed his wrist.
He recalled the fake mannequin he had encountered in the elevator earlier... and the administrator's warning, but there was another voice in his heart. However, Gui Yuchong's actions left him no time to think, and he reacted instinctively.
Gui Yuchong seemed startled and looked at him with some confusion.
At this moment, someone upstairs might need the elevator, and the elevator, which was originally stopped on the 5th floor, slowly changed its numbers in Yan Xun's sight.
"Never mind," Yan Xun said. "Let's take the stairs."
He looked back at the elevator as he left.
I'm still pondering a question—
The manager said the elevator was dangerous and told him not to go near it.
Flip-flops only attacked him after he left the elevator; while inside the elevator, he had been disguised as a human and had not been exposed.
Despite their desperate attacks on the elevator in an attempt to get inside, they were still just a step away.
Ultimately, he didn't trust the so-called building manager. In this kind of instance, all NPCs, except for the players, could instantly transform into the monster faction.
According to the timeline, players must find the fake person and leave the instance within 7 days, otherwise they will fail to complete the instance.
As Yan Xun walked through the emergency exit, he remembered his identity in this round—
The tenant of room 404 is a beautician.
"What is your identity?" he asked Gui Yuchong, who was walking a few steps below him.
"I?"
Gui Yuchong recalled, "My identity is that of a pastry chef."
He smiled at Yan Xun as he spoke, "Maybe the sweet smell you've always thought of is the scent of desserts on me."