Online Game: Crazy Skeleton-Chapter 1416 - 1302

"Then I’ll just keep drawing. It’s such a waste to hold onto so many points without using them!"

Su Ran grinned at Hei Xiao, planning to continue drawing talismans, hoping to draw out the remaining two Heavenly Talismans!

Hei Xiao jumped in fright, subconsciously taking two steps back. Just as he was about to figure out a way to refuse Su Ran, he heard chaotic footsteps approaching from afar.

"Enemies are invading, I need to go prove my innocence. We can chat later."

Finally seeing an opportunity to get away from Su Ran, Hei Xiao couldn’t let it go. Without waiting for Su Ran to say anything, he quickly made his way toward those players.

"Hey, Senior Hei Xiao, you know that wasn’t my idea. You better not pin this on me later!"

Su Ran wasn’t willing to be made a scapegoat again. He stated this upfront to prevent the old geezer from playing dirty!

"Warrior, it’s such a waste that you’re not in business."

After dropping that comment, Hei Xiao hastily left the place.

"Senior, that doesn’t sound like a compliment, does it?"

Watching Hei Xiao’s retreating figure, Su Ran couldn’t help but find it amusing. To have scared an NPC like this... he must be the first one, right?

With Hei Xiao gone, Su Ran summoned Wang Cai and made a clean escape.

He had no intention of waiting for this NPC, who would inevitably circle back to the topic of the Thunder Punishment Divine Stone. Whether it was sold or not, it would bring him no benefit. So it would be better to leave early. Even if Hei Xiao became enraged, he wouldn’t be able to do anything to him!

As he used his invisibility to pass by Hei Xiao’s location, he noticed that the fellow wasn’t driving the intruders away at all, but instead was doing brisk business. For a time, it was quite the booming scene.

The profit-driven merchant valued money more than life itself!

After leaving the underground palace, Wang Cai ran a good distance away and stopped in a very hidden spot. Just as Su Ran was about to take out the two fragmented maps, a friend notification sounded.

Upon opening the friend interface, it turned out to be from Cream Puff.

"Overturning Water, I’m back. Are you still in the underground space?"

"Yeah, still here. Where did you go just now? You logged off without a word. Was there an emergency?"

Something felt off to Su Ran, so he asked directly without overthinking it.

"Grandpa messed up my gaming pod; I just finished fixing it. What a terrible day!"

Feeling the concern in Su Ran’s words, Cream Puff felt a secret thrill and, with a twinkle in her eye, deliberately spoke in a serious tone, "Hey, guess what Grandpa wanted me to do?"

The gaming pod was broken?

Why does this scenario seem so familiar?

Su Ran recalled the scene of his mother violently flipping open... the gaming pod, and sighed. Neighbors indeed shared similar experiences. How interesting!

"How would I know if you don’t tell me?"

When Su Ran thought of the strict-faced Mr. Li, he couldn’t help but smile mischievously. Could it be that the old man fell into a late-life romance and brought home a partner?

Doubtless, your grandpa is still your grandpa.

"He wanted me to go to a matchmaking session... so annoying. He’s of such old age and yet worries about this. My parents haven’t even rushed me!"

"What? Matchmaking?"

Su Ran could already picture Mr. Li forcing Sister Wan’er to go matchmaking, which made him laugh inexplicably. It turned out Mr. Li had the potential to be a matchmaker. How surprising!

"Exactly. It’s the modern age, and yet they’re still into this nonsense. Isn’t it boring?"

The complaint from Cream Puff came through, "A command from the emperor is not to be disregarded, so I still went to the meeting place. Guess what happened next?"

But.

She waited for a long while but received no response from Overturning Water. She couldn’t hide her annoyance and couldn’t figure out if Overturning Water was jealous or simply didn’t care; it was too hard to guess...

"Hello? Anyone there?"

Cream Puff couldn’t hold back and sent a message, but it was like casting a stone into the sea—no reply came back.

"What’s going on? Did chatting with me cause any trouble?"

She thought more and more that it was possible. Overturning Water’s terrain was full of danger, even players had to be cautious, and with the Dancing Demons guild there, if it weren’t for the fact that this underground space couldn’t be entered a second time, she would have rushed over already. Why else would she be here, making wild guesses?

At this moment, Su Ran wasn’t as the creamy-looking guy had thought. During their chat just now, he couldn’t help but put the two pieces of the incomplete map together, and at this very moment, something magical happened.

The lines on the map that represented the terrain seemed to come to life, turning into needles and thread, stitching the map non-stop. Who knows how much time passed by, but the map had become whole, with no signs of it ever being torn.

During this time, Su Ran’s curiosity about the map clearly outweighed the creamy-looking guy’s blind date, such that he became too absorbed and inadvertently ignored everything else...

"Eh? What’s this..."

Surprised, Su Ran discovered that after the map had been restored to completeness, the markings on it had changed significantly. Only a passage marked by the sun remained, along with the contours of an internal space, and even special locations were marked. It seemed that as long as he found this passage, uncovering the secret wouldn’t be difficult!

Seeing this, Su Ran couldn’t hide his excitement and quickly headed forward.

However,

He hadn’t gone far when he stopped, feeling annoyed. If he had known earlier, he would have just memorized the map. Why go through all this trouble?

Just as the thought occurred to him, Su Ran noticed that the map in his hands changed once again. The image flowed within the map like a liquid, and soon it returned to its original appearance.

"So it can revert to its original form, truly worthy of being the secret treasure map mentioned by Hei Xiao!"

Su Ran excitedly examined the map, but to his disappointment, he couldn’t find the passage marked by the sun.

"No wonder it’s not easy to find. If it were that simple, it wouldn’t be called a secret realm."

However, with the help of the map, at least he would take significantly fewer detours. With enough patience, he was certain he would find the secret realm!

Just then, his friend alert sounded again, interrupting his wonderful daydream.

"Oh no, I completely forgot about Sister Wan’er!"

Su Ran suddenly remembered the chat, hurriedly opened Sister Wan’er’s message box, and began to check the messages she sent.

"Where are you? Are you there?"

"Did you run into trouble?"

"Send me a message when you’re safe, I’m waiting for you."

Sister Wan’er was really a good person, she even made up excuses for him, which was quite considerate!

Su Ran promptly replied, to put her mind at ease.

"It’s good that you’re okay, I was so scared just now."

The creamy-looking guy didn’t dare to delay Su Ran any longer, getting straight to the point about the blind date issue, to save Su Ran from any trouble.

"Feels like you’re not going to have easy days ahead, daring to stand up a blind date arranged by your grandfather. Prepare to face the storm that’s coming your way!"

Su Ran found it rather amusing, mistaking the hoarse voice for himself. Sister Wan’er had fallen into some crazy fixation, truly silly...

"I don’t care. I’ll lock my room in the future, and if grandpa can’t come in, it’ll be fine. A girl’s boudoir isn’t a place even grandpa can just enter at will!"

The creamy-looking guy said indignantly, his insinuations meant for Su Ran’s ears too.

"I suggest you get your grandpa into square dancing, find him a dance partner, then he won’t have time to worry about your affairs."

"Eh? That’s a good idea! I’ll take him to square dance when I have the chance. He’s been too idle feeding the birds every day!"

The creamy-looking guy didn’t dwell on the blind date issue any longer and asked, "Overturning Water, when will you come out from the underground space? Let’s go do a dungeon together."

"It’ll be a while for me, just got a secret realm map and am looking for the location. Judging by how well-hidden it is, it won’t be found in just a short time."

Su Ran didn’t hold back and shared the secret, not worried about exposing the news, with the Heavenly Talisman by his side, whoever dares defy him, he’d blast them!

"A secret realm? You really have quite a few opportunities!"

The creamy-looking guy was quite surprised. She understood what the words "secret realm" implied and urged excitedly, "Hurry up with it, don’t let anyone else beat you to it!"

"Alright, if I find any secret realm treasures that suit you, I’ll save them for you,"

Su Ran promised, also as compensation for Sister Wan’er for having to leave the underground space because of him, a fact he always remembered.

After that, he embarked on his journey to find the secret realm, and as for what interesting stories might happen, well, that’s a tale for another day.