The Furniture Has Been Repaired

Seeing that the audience had a strong awareness of fraud prevention, Ye Shengge nodded with satisfaction.

He remembered very clearly that in his original world, a type of online scam was quite popular, just like the “Authoritative Relationship Expert” scam account trying to add him now. Those online scammers loved to cast a wide net and add friends everywhere. Once they were added, they would immediately use the excuse of solving relationship problems for young people to chat with and gather information from suckers while looking for an opportunity to swindle them out of their money.

What Ye Shengge did not expect was that this kind of scam could be encountered not only in the real world but also in this horror dungeon livestream game.

However, it was not a big deal. For this kind of online scammer who cast a wide net, as long as one clicked to reject the friend request, they generally would not continue to harass you.

Thinking of this, Ye Shengge looked up and, with a serious expression on his small face, said to the livestream audience in a solemn tone, “Although it is not easy for everyone to earn money, there is some unethical money that we cannot take.”

Especially this kind of person who used the internet to swindle people out of their hard-earned money or marriage savings; they weren’t even afraid of divine retribution.

The livestream audience members sent out bullet comments one after another, stating that the beautiful wifey was right.

Seeing the bullet comments, Ye Shengge could barely maintain his serious expression. Just as he was about to say something to lighten the mood, he was distracted by a crisp message notification sound.

Opening it, he saw another new friend request message pop up.

Although the name and profile picture had changed, with two identical requests appearing one after the other, it was clear they were from the same account.

Was this person treating others like fools, or were they the fool themselves?

Ye Shengge’s expression instantly became hard to describe.

The livestream audience also went crazy with laughter.

[Hahahaha, wifey never expected this online scammer to be so persistent.]

[Exactly. Not giving up after being rejected once, changing their appearance to continue applying.]

[Tui! Does he really think that by changing his name and coming back to add the beautiful wifey, he won’t be recognized as the same scammer as before?]

At the same time.

The Dollmaker’s house.

“Why was it rejected? Are you actually capable? Are you sure this is his social account, or did you just add one at random?” Standing in front of the computer desk, the favored puppet, who had returned to his normal human appearance, kept his eyes locked on the computer screen while voicing his doubts.

Sitting in the computer chair, the puppet with the deepest resentment gave him a warning glance and said through gritted teeth, “Shut up. If you don’t know how to speak, then don’t. I’ve been by his side for so long; do I need you to doubt me? If it weren’t for you, he wouldn’t have been so angry that he ran away from home, and I wouldn’t have to go online and swindle people to save enough money to repair the furniture.”

The puppet simply did not want to recall the process of swindling; mentioning it felt like a blow to his prestige.

Just as the resentful puppet wished he could dismantle the culprit, the culprit’s exclamation suddenly rang out.

The content of the exclamation made the resentful puppet decide to temporarily spare the culprit’s life.

The eyes of the puppet most favored by the beautiful Dollmaker lit up, “I know! Is it because you were using that name? He thought you were a scammer and rejected you directly.”

The mouse of the resentful puppet, who was constantly refreshing the friend requests, paused. He realized belatedly that the account he used to add the beautiful Dollmaker was still named “Authoritative Relationship Expert,” a name he had specifically modified to trick a wealthy sucker.

As for the source of this swindling account, it was thanks to the resentful puppet’s good memory. He had seen the beautiful Dollmaker use it before. However, the Dollmaker had a poor memory and forgot the password after using it for a few days, later registering a new account. This happened to benefit the resentful puppet.

The resentful puppet was very smart. Although he could not speak or move while staying by the Dollmaker’s side, he had become familiar with how to use all electronic products by watching.

After logging into the social account on the computer, he immediately began to cast a wide net online, looking for naive relationship novices who were easy to trick.

However, there were truly too few relationship novices in this era, and even fewer willing to spend money.

Just as the three puppets were looking at each other and blaming one another, a wealthy sucker with more money than brains took the bait.

Originally, the three puppets, having saved enough money to repair the furniture, planned to find an excuse to log off and return the money later when they had enough.

But when they received the money and saw the “beautiful, delicate, and timid sweetheart” described by the wealthy sucker, they immediately thought of the equally delicate and timid beautiful Dollmaker.

The sense of substitution was too strong. The three puppets looked at each other and couldn’t help but remotely guide the wealthy gold mine on how to pursue his sweetheart.

It was as if if the wealthy sucker succeeded in his pursuit, they could also successfully pursue the beautiful Dollmaker.

However, they soon snapped out of that illusion. Coupled with the urgent need to contact furniture repair personnel, they hurriedly logged off to make preparations after collecting the hard work fee.

At seven in the morning, the damaged furniture and the names and styles of the missing pieces were written on paper and pasted onto the surfaces of the damaged furniture to ensure the workers picking up the items would find them.

Calculating the time, the workers who were paid a premium for expedited repairs would have the items fixed and delivered by this afternoon at the latest. However, before they could be happy, they suddenly realized that the beautiful Dollmaker did not have their contact information, so he naturally would not know when the furniture was fixed, let alone return after the repairs were done.

Fortunately, the resentful puppet had a good memory and remembered the Dollmaker’s social account. Otherwise, being restricted within this villa, there would truly be no way to go out and tell the beautiful Dollmaker that the damaged furniture had been repaired and new ones had been bought for those swallowed by the black mist.

However, the Dollmaker kept rejecting the friend requests on the social account.

The resentful puppet was very anxious about the reason for the rejection. But after being reminded by the annoying puppet beside him and gaining some confidence, he quickly calmed down and changed his information at an unprecedented speed.

After the modification, the resentful puppet, full of anticipation, sent another request and waited patiently for it to be approved.

But unexpectedly, his application was rejected again.

Not only that, after this rejection notification, there was an additional message attached.

Ye Ye Sheng Ge: [Do you think that by changing your profile picture and nickname, you can change the fact that you are a scammer?]

The resentful puppet blinked and sat blankly in the computer chair, feeling inexplicably aggrieved.

He was adding the beautiful Dollmaker, but not to swindle money.

At the same time, Ye Shengge, who had sent a paragraph to reject the online scammer, let out a long sigh of relief and continued to educate the livestream audience, “When you encounter such persistent situations, you can be like me—reject them and directly expose their scam. That way, the other party will stop harassing you.”

The livestream audience sent matching bullet comments of agreement.

But before Ye Shengge could look at more comments, the message notification sound rang out again.

Familiar profile picture, familiar nickname.

Ye Shengge frowned and thought about closing the permission for others to add him as a friend, but his gaze was drawn to the additional message in the friend request column.

Additional Message: [The furniture has been repaired. When are you coming home? [Shy.jpg]]

The words “furniture” and “home” struck Ye Shengge like a bolt from the blue, and a terrifying guess surfaced in his mind.

He instinctively went to find the system, hoping the other party could deny this terrifying guess: [System, is the person behind this account… the Puppet Boss?]

The system remained silent for a few seconds before asking back: [What do you think?]

Although it did not directly answer whether this guess was correct, its attitude represented everything.

The faint smile on Ye Shengge’s lips vanished instantly.

The system continued: [If you don’t want to reply, just act like you didn’t see it. The NPC Heavenly Master of this dungeon promised to help you solve this matter. All you need to do is wait.]

Ye Shengge’s frozen expression finally relaxed. He decided to act as if he hadn’t seen it and opened a game mini-program, using games to numb himself.

After playing a few rounds of single-player mini-games to pass the time, Peng Biao happened to come upstairs and knock on the door, telling him to go downstairs for lunch.

Ye Shengge stuffed his phone into his pocket, quickly got off the bed to put on his shoes, and then went out to follow Peng Biao downstairs for lunch.

“Come and eat quickly. After eating, we will go to your house to check the situation.” Wen Jinshi waved to his neighbor with a beaming smile, gesturing for him to sit by his side as if Peng Biao did not exist.

Peng Biao frowned and was very unhappy. But as long as he thought about how he could be with his sweetheart once the matter of the evil puppet was resolved, he did not dwell too much on the loser.

“Are you going too?” Ye Shengge asked with some curiosity.

“If he wants to go, let him follow. With my strength, protecting two people is not a problem.” Peng Biao gave a simple and honest smile, but his words were implicitly calling Wen Jinshi redundant.

If this sentence were said at any other time, it would definitely result in chaos. But now, in this special period, the most important thing was to solve the matter of the evil entity.

Wen Jinshi’s face still bore a flawless smile as he said word for word, “I don’t need your protection. I have things for self-protection.”

Peng Biao gave a cold snort, not wanting to say a single word to the hypocrite in front of him.

This atmosphere, full of the smell of gunpowder, also affected Ye Shengge.

Ye Shengge did not dare to say a word and tried his best to lower his presence, eating the food in his bowl in small, cautious bites for fear that his childhood friend and the big dummy Heavenly Master would start an argument and disrupt the plan to investigate the Puppet Boss today.

Although lunch was eaten carefully, fortunately, no problems occurred.

After eating, Peng Biao took the cleared dishes and stacked them in the kitchen, not bothering to wash them, and said to Ye Shengge, “Let’s go. We’ll go to your house to take a look.”

Wen Jinshi was waiting for those words. He smiled slightly and said to the neighbor, “I remember Peng Biao didn’t buy a car. Shengge, why don’t you and he take my car together?”

“Okay, thank you.” Although Ye Shengge really wanted to take the electric scooter with the big dummy Heavenly Master, the car was much faster.

Peng Biao followed aggrievedly behind his sweetheart and got into his rival’s car together, thinking secretly to himself that the matter of buying a car must be prioritized.

Ye Shengge did not know what Peng Biao was thinking. He sat quietly in the passenger seat, his eyes constantly looking out the car window, hoping to reach the villa entrance in the next second and solve the matter of the Puppet Boss sooner.

Wen Jinshi did not make Ye Shengge wait too long. The car was driven steadily and quickly, soon reaching the villa entrance.

However, there was not only their car at the villa entrance but also a truck.

Several workers stepped down from the truck with beaming smiles, constantly moving furniture down and placing everything in the villa. While moving, they even gathered together and spoke loudly.

Unfortunately, there was some distance between them and Ye Shengge, so what was being said could not be heard.

But when Ye Shengge saw those furniture pieces with incredibly familiar styles, his expression changed instantly.

It seemed that the content of the additional message sent by the Puppet Boss when he added him before lunch was not a joke, nor was it intended to trick him into coming back. It had truly repaired the furniture and even added many extra pieces.

He didn’t even know where this sum of money came from.

Wen Jinshi looked at the workers who were constantly moving things into the villa, then at his neighbor’s dazed expression, and said softly, “I’ll go ask what the situation is. You wait for me here.”

“I’ll go too!” Peng Biao spoke up before Ye Shengge could nod. Because his emotional fluctuations were too great, his volume was also affected to some extent, becoming much louder than before.

It wasn’t his fault for reacting so strongly; it was truly because those furniture pieces looked far too familiar.

They were exactly the same styles the Authoritative Relationship Expert had shown him.

At that time, to prove he wasn’t a scammer, the Authoritative Relationship Expert specifically showed him photos of the damaged furniture at his home, saying he urgently needed money to repair the furniture destroyed during a fight with a rival in order to coax back his runaway wife.

The fact that the styles of the furniture in the photos were very similar to those in the beautiful youth’s home was a large reason why Peng Biao chose to place an order with this Authoritative Relationship Expert.

But now, with so many coincidences gathering together, it was hard for Peng Biao not to think more deeply.