In the guest room on the east side of the third floor, Xu Dongsheng sat on the floor by the door, feeling a bit hopeless.
The guild leader had entrusted him with the important item, [Little P.’s Meat Bone], yet he still couldn’t gain even the slightest progress from that giant dog with saliva like "concentrated sulfuric acid" to complete the task.
He did gain some friendly sentiment, though. Shortly after he threw the meat bone to Little P., he received a system notification indicating that he gained 5% exclusive friendly sentiment. However, this portion of friendly sentiment did not increase his task completion rate at all.
Moreover, that big dog ran off with his item again.
As it got darker, Xu Dongsheng recalled the terrifying appearance of the female ghost that roamed the villa at night before, and he shivered involuntarily, becoming even more reluctant to leave the room, even more unwilling to chase the dog.
At this rate, when would he ever complete the task?
Just as he was thinking about this, a system prompt rang in his mind—
W.C.:[Congratulations, contestant! Your main quest 2 completion rate has increased to: 10%!]
Xu Dongsheng was stunned.
During this time, he hadn’t even left his room, so where did this task completion rate come from, and how could it be as high as 10%?
He brought up the Wenna Guild’s chat group from the system and sent a message—
[Winter.: My task completion rate suddenly skyrocketed!]
[Winter.: Does anyone know why? Did someone do something to Little P.?]
[Han Feng: That dog? It would be a blessing if it didn’t drool on people’s faces, who would do anything to it]
[Jiu: Sorry, that was me]
Xu Dongsheng hurriedly clicked on the image sent by the guild leader and found it was a hastily taken photo of his own room.
The photo was taken hurriedly, and the picture was blurry, vaguely showing two arms in the corners on either side, and in the center of the picture were the guild leader’s hands taken using the system in his mind.
Although the photography was quite abstract, Xu Dongsheng could vaguely decipher the theme—raising hands as a sign of innocence?
But, why was there a need to prove innocence?
He saw the other person quickly send a message again—
[Jiu: Azi and Xiao Huang are both in my room]
[Jiu: Sorry @Winter.@1Ming]
[Jiu: They insisted on barging in]
[Jiu: I didn’t actively touch them, if you mind]
[Winter.: No, no, no]
[Winter.: I don’t mind at all!]
[Winter.: Guild leader, if possible, please do help me! I beg you!]
[Winter.: What did you do to them, guild leader? How did my completion rate suddenly soar by 10%?]
[Jiu: If I tell you I didn’t do anything, would you believe me?]
[Winter.: I believe you!]
[Jiu: Really, I did not]
[Winter.: If possible, please do something!]
[Winter.: As long as the guild leader is willing to help, I will definitely perform well in future guild tasks and fully repay the favor]
[Winter.: I’m begging you!]
[Winter.: [Kneeling and bowing thank you].gif]
In the guest room on the sixth floor, in the entrance area, Wen Nan was caught between two maids, feeling troubled. Originally, he wanted to send a message in the group, asking Liang Yiming and Xu Dongsheng to come over quickly to take away their strategy targets, to avoid further guild internal ethical conflicts from arising.
Unexpectedly, he received such a series of replies from Xu Dongsheng.
Wen Nan didn’t understand but was greatly shocked.
He didn’t expect that there would be such talent in their guild, into the bull|head|man trope, huh?
But Liang Yiming hadn’t replied in the group all along, seeming to have some criticism towards Wen Nan’s actions?
It seemed he needed to find a way to explain it clearly to him.
While he was thinking about this, there was a knock at the door.
Wen Nan squeezed out from between the two, hurriedly went to open the door, and saw Liang Yiming standing at the entrance, with a not-so-good expression.
Wen Nan’s eyes fell on the three bloody wounds on his arm, startling him, "Are you okay? Should we go downstairs to see Doctor Lu?"
Liang Yiming shook his head, suddenly raised his hand, and pulled out a bundle of ropes.
For a moment, Wen Nan suspected that he wanted to fight him for taking his target, just as he was about to explain, he heard the other say in a deep voice:
"Guild leader, this is my personal item. If possible, please take this and continue with Xiao Huang.
"Please, do not stop, guild leader!"
After saying that, he stuffed the ropes into Wen Nan’s hands and left without looking back.
Wen Nan held the ropes, speechless as he watched Liang Yiming’s back disappear at the staircase.
His guild truly was a gathering of talents...
Liang Yiming walked down from the sixth floor, directly heading toward Doctor Lu’s dispensary.
Earlier, on his way to the dispensary, he saw the messages in the guild group and immediately turned to the sixth floor.
From Xu Dongsheng’s messages in the group, it appeared Azi or Little P., during some interaction with their guild leader, successfully helped Xu Dongsheng gain 10% task completion.
This indicated that the task did not necessarily have to be completed by the designated player; other players, as long as they could "conquer" the strategy target, could also help complete this main task?
However, Maid Azi and Maid Xiao Huang were both clearly in the guild leader’s room, engaging in "close interaction," yet why did Xu Dongsheng’s task completion rate increase by 10% while his remained at a meager 1%?
Liang Yiming thought for a moment and quickly realized the most likely answer—it was that personal item.
In this second main quest, to "conquer" the strategy target, it didn’t necessarily have to be the designated player, but it had to be done with the specified "personal item."