Chapter 691: High Heels

In the rest area, quite a few game players who had also made it through the maze were gathered in small groups, quietly exchanging information.

Bai Youwei did not see Yan Qingwen.

She didn’t know whether he hadn’t managed to exit the maze or if he had already returned to the base with Su Man and Zhu Shu.

After a brief chat to ensure everyone was safe, they prepared to return to the base.

A minor episode occurred in the process—

When Bai Youwei gave Asarina and Along two puzzle pieces as agreed, their glowing wristwatches immediately showed a change, adding an icon for King’s Territory.

In other words, from this point on they were bound to Bai Youwei, and could only switch locations between the rest area and King’s Territory, unable to leave the King’s Territory for anywhere else.

On Bai Youwei’s side, her King’s wristwatch also displayed an additional information column that showed the profiles of Asarina and Along, and the number of puzzle pieces each held.

Currently, it showed Asarina with four puzzle pieces and Along with three.

From this, Bai Youwei knew that during the maze’s reward settlement, Asarina had obtained two puzzle pieces and Along had obtained one.

The design of this function was likely meant to allow the King to easily control their subjects, clearly showing how many puzzle pieces each subject held, making it impossible for them to hide any.

Bai Youwei gave Xiaoxin one puzzle piece.

The character icon on the watch was updated to include Xiaoxin with two puzzle pieces.

After sorting out recruitment matters, the group left the rest area and returned to base.

Then a new problem arose.

After leaving the maze and the game, in reality the miraculous “simultaneous translation” function was no longer working, and no one could understand the Thai spoken by Asarina and Along.

Fortunately, both of them understood some English. Although their accents were heavy, they could still be somewhat understood, so this issue was temporarily resolved.

On returning to the King’s Headquarters Building, Chu Huaijin was overjoyed and enthusiastically arranged rooms for Asarina and Along. He reminded everyone to rest well, confirming that as soon as Yan Qingwen returned, they would hold a big celebration party.

Only then did Bai Youwei realize that Yan Qingwen, along with Su Man, Zhu Shu, and Lu Yuwen, had not emerged from the maze yet.

Perhaps because her leg had healed, Bai Youwei was in high spirits and feeling energetic. Even on knowing that Yan Qingwen could be in danger, she wasn’t too worried. Instead, she was optimistic that they would overcome this hurdle and return with huge rewards.

Everyone was exhausted after coming out of the maze, and practically went straight to bed once they were back at headquarters.

Except for Bai Youwei.

Her emotions were running high, and, stifling her excitement, she quietly inquired the front desk about shoe stores nearby.

Having received special training, the front desk staff treated each candidate for the King’s role with the utmost respect.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

“Do you need shoes? If you could provide us your size and preferences for style and color, we’ll do our utmost to meet your requirements…”

“No need, just tell me the location. I’ll pick them myself.” Bai Youwei responded.

The front desk recommended, “There are a few shoe stores on Nanjing Road. It might rain tonight, I’ll arrange a car for you.”

Bai Youwei nodded, emphasizing, “Don’t tell anyone else that I’m going to buy shoes.”

She wanted everyone to be surprised.

Of course, she mainly wanted to surprise that person. Would his usually calm and indifferent face show some interesting reaction? She was really looking forward to it.

The driver dropped Bai Youwei off on Nanjing Road, stopping specifically outside a sports store.

Bai Youwei wasn’t interested in sports shoes, she asked the driver to keep driving and finally stopped outside a luxury store—

Inside, there was an elegant and refined collection of high heels on display.

In this transformed world, they seemed like gorgeous and dreamy illusions. Beautiful, yet unreal. As a result, the store didn’t have many visitors and still looked more or less the same as pre-transformation.

Bai Youwei chose a pair of champagne-colored stiletto heels.