Huh? Isn't This A Galgame?

In the pitch-black cave, you couldn't see your hand in front of your face.

Yu Shujun sat by the damp and slippery stone wall, one leg bent, an arm casually resting on his knee, his face cold, quietly observing a certain spot in the darkness.

Drip, drip—

The sound of water dripping from the stalactites constantly reached his ears.

The sound was faint, but for Yu Shujun, as long as he concentrated, it was enough to gauge the movements of the enemies around him.

But Yu Shujun, who was supposed to be focused on the task, was unexpectedly distracted at this moment.

His brow slightly furrowed, the pattern on his neck seemed to always have a faint warm feeling, making it hard to ignore.

He opened the character chat box from the system and clicked on a name—[Master-Self-Righteous Fool].

Their chat history wasn't extensive, the last message was sent at the Wenna Guild Office when Shao Ling appeared—

[Master-Self-Righteous Fool: A fellow enthusiast of yours has arrived, come down quickly and have a look]

Going up a message was when Yu Shujun assigned Qiqi to guard beside the opponent during a beginner-level instance—

[Master-Self-Righteous Fool: Caring about me that much?]

Just a few simple words, yet they successfully conjured up the image of that slightly cheeky face in Yu Shujun's mind.

"Idiot…"

Yu Shujun silently sneered in his heart.

The name at the top of the chat box suddenly changed to a line of prompt text—

[The other party is typing...]

The corners of Yu Shujun's mouth, which had unknowingly turned up, slowly fell, as he held his breath, waiting for the other party to send the message.

However, those words [typing] lingered for a while and then disappeared, reverting to the name Yu Shujun had noted for himself.

Nothing came through from the other side.

Yu Shujun stared at the chat box, lost in thought.

Whoosh—

The sound of an arrow breaking through the air came to his ear.

Instinctively, Yu Shujun tilted his head to dodge, yet the arrow still managed to pierce the skin over his cheekbone.

In the darkness, the sound of fighting ensued, followed by the moan and collapse of an enemy archer.

A figure dressed in black and wearing a black mask swiftly walked over, and upon seeing Yu Shujun, immediately knelt on one knee, asking, "Guild Leader, are you injured?"

Yu Shujun instinctively wanted to reply "I'm fine," but uncontrollably, the image of a man drawing near and placing a band-aid on his cheekbone surfaced in his mind.

The words of that man involuntarily echoed in his mind, "Don't get hurt again."

Yu Shujun was slightly startled, raised his hand, and gently wiped the wound on his cheekbone with his fingertip.

The person across from him observed Yu Shujun's actions, a strange light flashing in their eyes under the black mask, "Guild Leader, if you can't give it your all, it's better to retreat to the back. Leave this task to me."

"No need."

Yu Shujun coldly refused, stood up, and walked into the darkness.

...

...

Snow Mountain Villa, top floor, E.Y. room.

On the spacious bed, Wen Nan lay on his back, sinking into the soft mattress.

A chat box appeared in front of him, with the name [slave-Jun] written at the top.

He typed in the input box, deleting and rewriting, but in the end, not a single word was sent out.

Closing the chat box, Wen Nan sat up, asking the system in his mind, "Where is the activation point on this map?"

Might as well activate Qiqi first.

However, the system's cold prompt immediately dispelled Wen Nan's thought—

9527: [In this instance, the player's equipment backup slots are locked. The exclusive strategy character brought into the instance through the Silver Driving Pattern carries equipment attributes and cannot appear in this instance. Therefore, this map does not have a low-level character activation point. Please be aware.]

Wen Nan: ?

Not letting him use items and equipment is one thing, but not even allowing him to bring in his exclusive character? How can characters be equated with equipment?

Despite his grievances, Wen Nan couldn't change the system's rules, but...

"The Golden Driving Pattern supposedly has the highest priority and allows summoning across instances at will, right?"

9527: [Yes, you possess the exclusive character for the Golden Driving Pattern, Yu Shujun/Jun Wuming. According to the detection, the other party is currently using the Jun Wuming account. Jun Wuming is a player account and, per system rules, must enter the system-assigned instance within the specified time to complete tasks.

According to detection, Jun Wuming is currently in a LV.29 high-level instance, engaged in the 2nd mainline task. If you are resolved to perform a pattern summon on him, following the Golden Driving Pattern's highest priority selection, Jun Wuming will be forced to terminate the mainline task within the instance and enter your instance, awaiting your command.

Would you like to initiate the pattern summon now?]

Wen Nan was momentarily dumbfounded.

... During a task?

So, even players of such high levels as Gold tier still have to do tasks in instances?

Until now, with Yu Shujun constantly by his side, Wen Nan had developed the illusion that the other had completely shed the basic rules of this game world, not needing to do tasks anymore.

Now it seemed, the other was just taking a slightly longer "halftime break," but he couldn't escape the instances required.

Since he was on a task, Wen Nan naturally had no reason to forcefully summon him, so he clicked [No].

After closing the explanation interface in front of him, Wen Nan brought up a drawing interface from the system, sat cross-legged on the bed, and began scribbling in the void—

On the surface, this Snow Mountain Villa had six floors. Recalling the image of this villa from the outside, Wen Nan remembered that this building, resembling ice and snow, was strictly symmetrical on the left and right, and each floor's rooms were built in a square shape.

That silhouette...

Wen Nan quickly sketched several contour lines on the drawing interface, then, like playing a fill-in-the-blanks game, filled in the names of the rooms the players had been assigned to in sequence.

Soon, a clear picture emerged, and the abbreviations of those guest rooms were deciphered.

Following the floors from bottom to top—

L.F.→Left Foot, R.F.→Right Foot;

L.H.→Left Hand, R.H.→Right Hand;

M.O.→Mouth;

N.O.→Nose, E.A.→Ear;

E.Y.→Eye.

This Snow Mountain Villa was like a massive mech made of ice and snow!

Such a structure was very similar to the Erin Building in the previous instance.

This means that if the hidden G-point in the villa can be found and the D.U.D.U. chip connected to it, he could bring the villa to life!

If Guan Ailin used the soul threads to control this villa, her star level would surely be restored.

The question now was, where was the villa's hidden G-point?

Thinking of this, Wen Nan opened the guild system and quickly found the panel of a member among them.

Looking at the person's talent skills, Wen Nan's lips curled up.

The problem, wasn't it easily resolved?