Volume 5 - CH 88.1

On the 31st floor, the Missiontakers are all astonished at the emptiness.

They all simultaneously exclaim, “the Nightmare is crumbling?!”

True, this is the third run already, and normally at this point, Nightmares would begin to show abnormalities.

Yet this time, the result is the direct disappearance of the little girl!

This is quite the headache of a situation they have to deal with.

Some Missiontakers are looking directly towards Lin Qin, to see that the extremely powerful dalao is already showing an expression of displeasure. Although if he did go berserk… the result would be similar, wouldn’t it?

So they manage to calm themselves down.

Suits immediately makes a decision, “there are no elevators on the 31st floor. The little girl can only have gone by the stairs. We split into groups. One group takes the stairs and see if they can catch up to the little girl. Another head for the 20th floor directly and take elevator Three. The last group head to the 9th floor to look for the cargo elevator.”

This time, Suits and Teen would never work together again.

During this, the impatient Lin Qin has already starting running down the stairs.

Wu Jian glances at Fei and Suits before dashing out after him.

Teen coldly chuckles and says, “elevator Three.”

Fei elects herself to go with him, and then drags Mystic with her, saying, “you’ll come with us.”

The other group is going to look for the cargo elevator on the 9th floor, where Mystic inexplicable took the little girl the last run. Fei is worried Mystic heading there would cause any troublesome reactions.

Besides, there is also the photograph on the 20th floor and elevator Three, which Mystic once took on the first run. Perhaps they can go through the procedures again to see if they make any new discoveries this time.

Suits also understands her position, and nods to tell the two remaining Missiontakers, “alright, let’s go to the 9th floor.”

Jiang Shuangmei and Shen Yünjü are the ones following him.

The eight Missiontakers head their separate ways, and leave elevators One and Two behind, instead paying attention to more important matters.

For example… where the little girl is.

Lin Qin and Wu Jian quickly run downstairs and they fail to spot the little girl anywhere all the way to the 16th floor. A little girl can never possibly outrun two fit, grown men here, so it must mean otherwise.

Lin Qin furrows his brows, but his instincts can’t tell him which floor the little girl could be on. So he walks through the door to the floor instead.

He heads right for Xü Beijin to ask, “did you see a little girl?”

Xü Beijin “…”

Looking up at the little apple that popped out of nowhere, he’s left speechless inside.

Wu Jian is hanging around behind Lin Qin, still rather breathless. He hears Xü Beijin answer after a brief silence, “I didn’t.”

Lin Qin then continues asking, “where do you think she could be?”

Xü Beijin wants to ask Lin Qin if he’s treating him as his mobile brain.

He sighs and then says, “I can’t possibly know…” Then he suddenly pauses when his glance passes over the streaming system, and feels somewhat guilty about it as he says, “there is no way I can even deduce it. I’m not some kind of seer.”

He says so with a straight face.

The viewers are having a fit of laughter in the stream for how their Bei has learned to lie with a completely straight face.

Lin Qin, though, is looking at him, and says with this serious tone, “I can tell you everything you need to know. In this Nightmare, or rather, in the entire Tower, I only trust you, and trust your deductions.”

Xü Beijin is silent. Something soft has crashed right into his heart.

Lin Qin only trusts him.

Why does Lin Qin only trust him?

Does he even deserve such unwavering devotion?

… Could Lin Qin, actually love him?

Xü Beijin can’t help but chuckle in his mind.

Has he been too stubborn about this? Is he assuming stuff? Did he unfairly, presumptuously assume Lin Qin can never like someone else romantically, and least of all himself?

What if Lin Qin has really, actually, decided to present this genuine feeling to him?

He remains silent for so long that Lin Qin is tilting his head in confusion.

Then he asks, “what kind of information do you need?”

Xü Beijin opens his mouth but he still isn’t sure what to say. He would really like to discuss what Lin Qin meant by what he said earlier, but circumstances mean he can only choose to keep it to himself here.

Just like how, not long ago, when Lin Qin showed genuine care for his well-being, he also chose silence and dodging topics.

Lin Qin’s passion is making Xü Beijin somewhat flustered.

So finally, he says, “the little girl…”

He is going to ask, but that is when a slightly unsure and worried voice chimes in, “excuse me… I’m sorry, but I really wanted to ask… is the little girl you’re referring to, my… my daughter, by any chance?”

Xü Beijin, Lin Qin and Wu Jian then reflexively turns to the woman.

Wu Jian, shocked, asks, “when we asked you all about the little girl earlier, didn’t you say nothing? So why…”

The woman seems confused, she asks, “I’m sorry, when was that?”

That is when Wu Jian realises that this woman has not yet had her memories of the previous runs unlocked.

This run of the Nightmare, she came out to admit being the mother, possibly because they are asking for the little girl’s whereabouts this time, which would imply that the little girl has gone missing…

But wait a minute, the little girl’s mother? Isn’t she dead???

Wu Jian’s jaws are wide agape with more shock.

The woman can’t help but ask again, “what happened to my girl? I heard you ask him if he saw a little girl; does this mean she left the 31st floor? Why would she leave? I told her to wait there for me…”

The woman is blabbering on, but no one is paying close attention to her now.

This woman who calls herself the little girl’s mother who came out of nowhere, has given shock to both the Missiontakers and the stream’s audience.

“holy shit! Beibei was right! the little girls mother is alive!”

“i suspect Beibei knew she was the mother already, isnt she an actor as well?”

Xü Beijin merely smiles on at the question.

“… yeah, got it”

“Beibei! you really are some saint of patience, i wouldn’t have been able to hold back from spoiling it!”

“Beibei wouldn’t even tell us the clues to his own nightmare!”

“… so now, the question is, if the little girls mother isnt even dead, then what is going in this nightmare? are the endings that teenage boy missiontaker came up with even valid anymore?”

“but like, a normal end where you take the little girl to her mother, can still be done right?”

“so what about the true end? if the little girl’s mother is still alive, the true end can’t be that anymore”

“… I was actually thinking the true end the missiontakers came up with was too simple

everything Beibei has streamed so far has never had such a straightforward true end”

“yeah, the missiontakers still had so many places to explore first, like anywhere below the 9th floor, like elevator four, like the three other buttons on elevator three…”

“+1, its too early to talk about the true end”

“… really guys? who was really impressed with all the deductions before? now you’re all in denial…”

“just call me ms indecisive”

“i go with whatever anyone else says [smile emoji]”

The viewers have then jokingly moved on from the fact that their opinions are about as reliable as a strand of grass swaying in the wind.