207: Chapter 207 A Touch of Green

However, when Xiao Niao walked a few steps behind the pitch-black boulder, he hesitated and stopped. It wasn't that the black boulder couldn't hide his slim figure, but even though he was hiding behind it to avoid the line of sight of Gualing and Tang Yao, he was still quite close to them. This made Xiao Niao, an intellectual who prided himself on being refined, feel a bit uncomfortable. He scanned the distance, wanting to look for a more suitable 'Changing Room'.

With this look, he actually found a more suitable place.

Inside this Dungeon, most of the area was empty loess ground. However, along the surrounding walls, there were countless '| =' shaped earthen structures resembling small cubicles. These small square cubicles, enclosed by three earthen walls, all had one side open, like single-person restrooms with the doors left open. But since the sides of the cubicles were blocked by tall, long walls, as long as he walked inside, he didn't need to worry about Gualing and Tang Yao seeing him through the open side.

Thinking this, a relaxed smile appeared on Xiao Niao's face as he walked out from behind the pitch-black boulder, pointing at the earthen wall in the distance and saying, "I think I'll go over there. You guys wait for me for a moment, it'll be quick."

Just as Hu Gualing saw Xiao Niao's figure emerge from behind the boulder, he was about to praise him for being so fast, but it turned out this guy was still holding the linen pants he had given him in his hands; he hadn't even changed yet!

"Go, go, go, hurry up!" Hu Gualing waved his hand at Xiao Niao, out of patience. As Xiao Niao turned and walked toward the distant wall with a relaxed gait, Hu Gualing helplessly shook his head at Tang Yao while pointing at his retreating figure. "This guy..."

Seeing Xiao Niao walk away, Hu Gualing had nothing to do. He walked around the black boulder in front of him. After examining it and placing his hand on it to touch it, he didn't feel anything other than a chill. "It seems this thing is just a rock placed here for looks, nothing special, right?" Hu Gualing patted the rock twice, confirming he hadn't missed any treasure, and then asked for Tang Yao's opinion.

Tang Yao looked at it carefully and even tried to put it into her backpack, but the result was naturally wishful thinking. She couldn't help but say with regret, "This rock is actually quite good-looking; it seems to be glowing. I wonder what it looks like at night... It's a pity I can't put it in my backpack and take it back. Otherwise, if I put it in the courtyard, it might serve as a large lightbulb."

"This lousy rock, a lightbulb? It's clearly the chair that White Wild Boar usually sits on." Hu Gualing couldn't help but laugh when he heard Tang Yao's idea. "I just don't know what material this rock is. It feels ice-cold to the touch. I wonder if the White Wild Boar's butt gets cold sitting on it."

"A chair?"

Hearing Hu Gualing's words, Tang Yao stepped back a few paces, stood a bit further away, and carefully examined the full appearance of the large boulder.

The jet-black rock, which seemed to emit a faint gleam, had a very unique shape. Looking from bottom to top, the base of the rock stood straight on the loess ground. Above that, a section slanted out at a nearly eighty or ninety-degree angle. Further up, the rock bent again, angling steeply upward. Overall, it really did look a bit like a giant stone chair with legs, a seat, and a backrest.

Tang Yao watched for a while, then rubbed her eyes. Through her blurred vision, she suddenly felt that this black boulder looked more like a stone staircase than a chair. She felt confused for a moment, but when she opened her eyes completely and saw it clearly, she felt it didn't look like one anymore. "Strange." Tang Yao told Hu Gualing her thoughts.

Hu Gualing took another look, but shook his head without hesitation. "What kind of stone staircase is that? Besides, why would you put a stone staircase in the middle of the hall? I think it's just a stone throne made by the Development Team, used as a decoration here to boost the BOSS's coolness factor."

Hearing Hu Gualing say this so definitively, Tang Yao didn't doubt it and nodded. She must have just been seeing things earlier.

...

After leaving the hall, Xiao Niao walked towards the wall built of yellow mud in the distance. He had looked there from where Hu Gualing was standing earlier. Due to the distance and the oblique angle, his line of sight couldn't see into the cubicles protruding from the wall at all, making it undoubtedly an excellent place to change clothes or use the restroom.

Moreover, they had checked earlier, and all the cubicles were completely empty. Not to mention monsters, they couldn't even see a color other than loess. Furthermore, Xiao Niao himself had carefully deduced that this Dungeon should only have one BOSS, and apart from that, there shouldn't even be any minor monsters. Now that the only BOSS had been turned into loot and divided among them, this Dungeon should be very safe.

With this thought in mind, Xiao Niao walked very relaxed to the small cubicle he had already chosen while in the hall. Seeing that it was indeed empty, with nothing but loess and air, he smiled with relief and walked into the cubicle. The next second, he poked his head out from the edge of the cubicle to look at Hu Gualing in the middle of the hall. Confirming they couldn't see here, he walked further into the cubicle.

...

Taking off the torn novice linen pants and putting them into his backpack, he changed into the intact linen pants Hu Gualing had given him. Xiao Niao lifted his leg to test it and found that the linen pants, which were originally very baggy, did not feel as loose and ill-fitting as he had expected after putting them on. Instead, they fit his legs perfectly and didn't hinder his movement at all!

This naturally wasn't because his physique was similar to Hu Gualing's, but because the equipment in the game would, to a certain extent, automatically change size to fit the user's physique. This gave Xiao Niao a small surprise. However, upon reflection, this was an understandable design. Otherwise, the equipment dropped from killing a BOSS wouldn't be distributed based on character ability, but rather based on who could fit into it... that would be too ridiculous.

Thinking of this, Xiao Niao couldn't help but be amused by his own thought. He walked out of the cubicle wearing the well-fitting linen pants. With his mood relaxed, his mind became active.

'What kind of design are these cubicle-like things, anyway? In a game Dungeon, it's impossible to really have changing rooms or restrooms.'

'And in this Dungeon, other places would rather be left empty than have meaningless things placed in them. These cubicles protruding from the wall can't just be for decoration, right?'

As Xiao Niao thought, he stopped his footsteps and touched the rough, hard wall. Looking at his fingers, there wasn't a speck of dirt or dust on them. It seemed that these cubicles, like the pitch-black boulder in the center of the hall, were non-interactive environmental elements in the Dungeon.

Since that was the case, Xiao Niao didn't intend to waste any more time. Just as he turned to leave, he suddenly noticed a hint of deep green flash in his peripheral vision.

Huh?

In this Dungeon, where everything was earthy yellow as far as the eye could see, except for the endless pitch-black darkness overhead, any other color was incredibly eye-catching, let alone the naturally conspicuous color of green.

Xiao Niao immediately sensed something was wrong. He stopped and turned his head to look diagonally backward, and found that spot of deep green in the cubicle to the right of the one where he had just changed his pants!