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Chapter Twenty-Seven: Then have some water.
Finally, after what seemed like the umpteenth time in a year that he had launched an uprising, Li Ji uttered a scathing statement:
“Miss Nian, you don’t want to have to eat only sweet food from now on, with no one else in the 24-hour squad except Sister Shu, and having to stay alone in the room when there are no missions…”
After this long string of demonic whispers, Nian still succumbed to Li Ji's tyranny and voluntarily signed the "Rhodes Island Personnel Dispatch Unequal Agreement" regarding the first Rhodes Island operator transfer authority.
Even after the agreement was signed, a red dot suddenly appeared in Li Ji's unread messages.
[Not a homebody]: [Forwarding chat log with Nian]
[Not a Homebody]: This guy seems to have suddenly gone crazy. He even sent me a 2000 LMD red envelope as a dowry. Do you have any clues?
……
We have now reached the third level, the ruins of our homeland. From here on, we have truly entered the ancient castle.
Compared to the flat plains before, this place is like a naturally formed maze.
The dim candlelight illuminated the path ahead. The weathered wooden floor was covered in dust, and the ground creaked and groaned underfoot, making one wonder if the ground might suddenly break and trap them in some strange contraption.
With so many doors and corners in this environment, it's hard not to think of the horror games you've played.
I'm afraid that something terrible will pop out and scare me every time I open a door or turn a corner.
I don't know how long I walked or how many doors I opened.
Suddenly, several noisy voices came from the distance of the corridor, as if they were shouting something.
"Drink, it's so delicious! This is how it should be drunk!"
"Your turn, three sixes, call it, hurry up!"
"Open it, open it, you lost, drink it now!"
Li Ji led the group to the source of the sound and discovered that it was coming from a hidden door that led directly underground.
They walked down the steps and discovered that it was a wine cellar filled with aged wines.
The wine cellar was dimly lit, with only a few old oil lamps flickering weakly, illuminating a few simple wooden tables and chairs in the center of the cellar.
The shouting Dulin men, also drunk, looked towards Li Ji and his group at the door.
"Another brother has arrived?"
One of them, Du Lin, staggered up, his eyes glazed with drunkenness, and laughed loudly at Li Ji in front of him, "Come on, come on, let's drink... have a drink!"
Looking at the group of drunkards and the plot in front of him, Li Ji had a general idea of what was going on.
Another unexpected encounter—[a waste of resources]
Here, depending on how much alcohol you choose to drink, you will lose a certain amount of health in exchange for items.
2 Blood - 6 Originium Ingots
3 Blood - A random recruitment ticket.
6 Blood - A random collectible.
If you refuse to drink, you will pass the node directly without any reward.
"Okay, let's have a drink together."
Li Ji readily agreed with a smile. If Du Linren hadn't been so short, he would have grabbed the man's shoulders and carried him inside.
"Hey, you're just going to agree like that? What if it's a trap?!"
Seeing that Li Ji had won without even thinking, Raven hurriedly tugged at his sleeve.
But Li Ji simply waved his hand, indicating that Raven was alright.
"I love straightforward people!"
Seeing Li Ji's straightforwardness, Du Lin picked up his wine glass again and gulped down the rest of the wine in one go.
"Brother, we're drinking here with the host's permission, so feel free to drink as much as you want. I like people who drink heartily."
Du Linren led Li Ji to a wine barrel that was as tall as a person.
He patted the barrel, making a solid clanging sound.
This means that it is absolutely full of wine, with no deception whatsoever.
"If you can get us all drunk, then whatever you say goes!"
After the Dulin man patted the barrel and assured himself, the other two Dulin men swayed over, carrying their wine glasses.
The person behind them even brought a set of dice and several cups, seemingly to provide some games to liven things up, in case Li Ji couldn't drink alone.
"This...so much wine, won't you be able to drink it all?"
Ling looked at Li Ji and asked him with some concern.
Are you going to drink it for me?
Li Ji raised his eyebrows, suddenly remembering that there was a guy in the team who could drink a lot.
Unfortunately, this statement also seemed to have reached the ears of a few Dulin people.
They immediately walked up to the group and slammed their hands heavily onto the wooden barrel.
"Hey, no way! This brother promised to drink with us. If you want to drink, just take a bucket and drink it yourself. Don't stop us from drinking with our brothers!"
They seemed a little unhappy, and it appeared that this hurdle even restricted the cunning tactic of having someone else drink for them.
"Or let the woman next to him come; only she can replace this brother."
[Only Wan Ge and Raven can do it? The recruited team members aren't good enough?]
[I remember Raven being a heavy drinker on TV before, so let's let her drink.]
[They've all been drunk, so they'll believe whatever they say... Could we ask them to help us clear this entire rift?]
[Raven, raven, raven~!]
Raven looked at the bastards in the comments section and really wanted to curse them, but he couldn't bring himself to do it to their faces right now.
Although she can usually hold her liquor, seeing this scene, especially that huge barrel of liquor, she knew she would most likely end up crawling out of there standing up.
You might even end up in the hospital with alcohol poisoning!
"Oh no, I've run into a real drunkard. How am I supposed to outdrink him?!"
But just as Raven was looking at the barrel of wine, unsure whether to agree to drink it for Li Ji, Ling suddenly looked at everyone with a strange expression.
"No... I didn't say I was going to drink for the doctor. I was just worried that he wouldn't have the energy to drink alone, so I drank with him so we could finish faster."
audience:[?]
Chongyue, Shu: "?"
Dulins: "?"
Li Ji: "?"
Hey bro, when did you get here?
Does this mean that Li Ji has to drink all the wine he couldn't drink with her before, and he has to drink it all with her today?
good good!
"It's okay, you can have a drink if you want, let's drink together!"
Li Ji sighed and agreed, thinking that if she wanted to drink some, she could. As long as it didn't affect the cracking later, it didn't matter. She should know her limits.
Moreover, he doesn't intend to drag this out with the Dulin group this time.
It's just a few barrels of wine, isn't that a small matter?
"Alright, alright, we'd love to have a drink together! Pick any wine you like, let's drink together! Let's drink together!"
The group danced merrily as they carried the wine barrels back to the depths of the wine cellar with Li Ji and the others.
"You're not really planning to finish it, are you?"
As Raven walked along, it whispered to Li Ji, "Didn't you see those empty barrels...? There's no ambulance here! What if someone gets alcohol poisoning?"
Li Ji also glanced at Raven.
"How could I possibly outdrink these drunkards? Don't even dream about it. Look at those empty barrels over there."
He had a matter-of-fact expression on his face. He was just an ordinary person. Why should he drink with these guys who were always drinking?
"It's precisely because I can't outdrink them all that I need to do. Why do I have to drink them all?"
After hearing this, Raven wondered if he had drunk too much and was even talking nonsense.
"No, if you don't drink, how are you going to get them all drunk?!"
Raven looked at Li Ji's inexplicably confident expression and didn't know how to comment.
"Wouldn't it be fine to just drink some water?"