Chapter 1 Qiao Yu Enters the Inner World

After leaving the dormitory, Qiao Yu directly entered the inner world.

There was no way, if he continued listening, he felt Yang Xiangdi might say even more scandalous things.

The pitch-black tower rose to the sky, and Qiao Yu stood in front of this familiar tower, frowning in thought.

If the inner world and the real world were both normal worlds, what was the deal with this tower's dungeon?

Was this a passage to other worlds? But then how could the dungeon be reset?

After thinking without result, Qiao Yu shook his head, took a deep breath, and pressed his hand on the tower.

A light yellow ball of light slowly approached, enveloping Qiao Yu.

Qiao Yu was a little excited, Mechanical Labyrinth should become the first C-level dungeon he cleared.

And after Qiao Yu entered, a large group of people also rushed to the bottom of the tower, the young man at the head with a gloomy expression, and quickly found the light sphere of the Mechanical Labyrinth dungeon.

"Young master, are you sure Ji Pingyang is dead?"

"Don't worry! My grandfather said it himself, could it be wrong? With Ji Pingyang dead, I'll see who else can protect this kid! I'll settle both old and new scores with him!"

The group followed closely behind, also entering the Mechanical Labyrinth dungeon.

After a familiar, earth-shaking sense of dizziness, Qiao Yu received the task requirements to complete the dungeon.

To Qiao Yu's surprise, the hidden quest for this dungeon was given to him directly.

[Task Requirement: Leave the Mechanical Labyrinth dungeon alive, Difficulty: C-level]

[Hidden Task: Rescue all enslaved humans in the Mechanical Labyrinth, Difficulty: S-level!]

[Task Reward: Determined by player rating.]

[Warm Reminder: The Mechanical Labyrinth is the territory of semi-mechanical and fully mechanical beings. Ordinary humans who have not undergone mechanical modification are the lowest-level existences in the Mechanical Labyrinth, with a status equivalent to stray dogs.]

[Note: There is no penalty for failing to complete the hidden task]

Qiao Yu gasped. An S-level task meant that this task's difficulty was ranked first among all C-level dungeons!

However, Qiao Yu wasn't too scared. After all, he was just here to find a mechanical engineer to repair the Mechanical Empress. Whether or not he completed the dungeon was a minor issue to him.

Then Qiao Yu opened his eyes, ready to see where he was.

This look immediately dumbfounded Qiao Yu.

In front of him were two bowls, one filled with clear water, and the other filled with some granular stuff that smelled a bit fragrant.

He was surrounded by iron bars, and he also had a collar around his neck with an iron chain attached. Moreover, he was completely naked, without a single piece of clothing. Being butt-naked made Qiao Yu feel extremely insecure.

And Qiao Yu looked around and found that there were quite a few people who were also locked in cages like him. The decoration style of the whole room looked very warm.

Qiao Yu was silent. If he wasn't mistaken... this should be a pet store?

It's just that the pets sold in this pet store were rather special... they were humans.

Qiao Yu had heard Monde talk about ordinary humans being reduced to human pets in the Mechanical Kingdom dungeon, and Qiao Yu had chuckled at the time.

He never thought that fate would turn around, and one day he, Qiao Yu, would also become a human pet.

Qiao Yu wanted to tear open the iron bars and escape, but after thinking about it, he decided to wait and see what happened. He felt that this dungeon wasn't that simple.

"Hello~ Welcome~ What do you need?"

A tall man wearing a black trench coat pushed open the door and walked in. A male shop assistant immediately greeted him with a smile.

Qiao Yu activated his ghost eyes and quickly discovered...

That the man and the shop assistant both appeared to be human on the surface, but in reality, they had all kinds of metal structures inside their bodies, with motherboards, graphics cards, and memory sticks all present.

Even the man's eyes had been modified into mechanical eyes.

"Do you have any better human food here? My human pet hasn't been eating well lately, ugh, it's giving me a headache."

The man rubbed his forehead, looking somewhat helpless.

"Yes! Please wait a moment!" The shop assistant's attitude was very enthusiastic, and he quickly brought the man a large bucket of strange compressed food.

"This is our store's latest model. It's nutritionally balanced, and the first ingredient on the list is starch. It contains a lot of carbohydrates and fats, and we've also added a lot of palatability enhancers. We guarantee your human pet will love it, and will become chubby and cute after eating it!"

The shop assistant introduced it very skillfully.

The man picked up one, analyzed it with his mechanical eyes, and nodded in satisfaction.

"Not bad, what's the price of this human food?"

The shop assistant held up three fingers.

"Not expensive, only three mechanical coins per pound, and we're having a promotion in our store right now, buy three pounds and get one free!"

"Then give me three pounds first." The man smiled with satisfaction, then laid out nine coin-shaped things on the counter.

Qiao Yu stared intently and found that those mechanical coins were printed with a pattern that looked like two mechanical arms clasped together.

After the shop assistant took the money, he quickly packed the human food and gave it to the man, who left with satisfaction.

Then Qiao Yu began to observe the people in the store who were locked in cages like him. Those people were all purely flesh and blood.

There were men and women, and like Qiao Yu, they were all naked, but most of them seemed to have lost their souls, leaning against the cages with dull eyes, like walking corpses, with heavy iron chains around their necks.

But Qiao Yu quickly noticed something was wrong. A middle-aged man, about thirty years old, was staring at him with bright eyes. That look was completely different from the others.

Qiao Yu instantly realized that this man was probably a player who had entered the Mechanical Labyrinth dungeon like him.

And the other humans with dull eyes were probably the real NPCs in the dungeon.

"Bro, are you a player who just entered the dungeon?" Qiao Yu took the initiative to say hello.

The man shook his head when he heard this, then glanced at Qiao Yu's crotch, a hint of jealousy flashing clearly in his eyes.

"I'm not. I've been in the Mechanical Labyrinth dungeon for almost two years and haven't left."

"Huh?" Qiao Yu was a little stunned. Were there really players who would stay in a dungeon and not want to leave?

"If you don't have anything to do, you should leave quickly. The people in this pet store don't have much combat power, they can't stop you." The man quickly urged Qiao Yu.

But this instead aroused Qiao Yu's vigilance. Why didn't this man leave himself but urged him to leave? Something was wrong!

"Then why don't you leave?" Qiao Yu asked.

Unexpectedly, the middle-aged man's expression instantly became strange, and he directly asked.

"Outside, I'm just a loser that everyone hates, with the worst grades in school, working for the boss after graduation as a wage slave, unable to afford a bride price, unable to marry a wife."

"But here, I have free food and accommodation, no need to go to work or school, eating and sleeping every day, except for not being able to leave the cage, no one cares what I do. Why should I leave?"

Qiao Yu was also stunned by the middle-aged man's remarks. Orcs will never be slaves, unless they get free food and accommodation?

He really didn't expect that there would really be players from the real world who would willingly become human pets. It was truly a sight to behold.

"If you're okay, leave quickly! There's really nothing here!" The middle-aged man's expression suddenly became a little anxious, and his tone quickened a lot, as if something was about to happen.

Seeing this, Qiao Yu was even less willing to leave. He directly lay down on the ground. He vaguely felt that this middle-aged man was definitely hiding something from him.

Maybe the key to clearing the Mechanical Labyrinth dungeon was in this pet store!

The middle-aged man became even more anxious when he saw this, his eyes frantically darting around, as if thinking of a way.

"Creak!"

At this moment, the door of the pet store was pushed open again. This time, a plump, middle-aged woman walked in. She was also a semi-mechanical being.

She was holding two thick iron chains in her hand, with two women chained to the chains. Both of these women had very beautiful faces and could be considered beauties.

Compared to the dazed and absent-minded human pets in the store, they were obviously much more glamorous. At least they had clothes to wear.

They were obviously human pets who were very much loved by their owner.

The woman smiled sweetly at the shop assistant.

"I heard that your pet store has a particularly good human pet stud. I specially brought my two darlings over to mate."

"Miss, you've come to the right place. Everyone who's mated with our store's stud says he's good! And several have even given birth to twins!"

The shop assistant enthusiastically led the woman to the middle-aged man, then opened the iron door of the cage.

"Look, how energetic he is!" After the shop assistant finished speaking, the middle-aged man immediately did several backflips in place, his movements smooth and fluid.

Qiao Yu's eyes widened instantly. He vaguely felt... that his guess seemed to have a small mistake.

He seemed to understand a little why the middle-aged man didn't want to leave and kept urging him to leave quickly.

It wasn't that this pet store had a secret, but that he was afraid he would steal his position as a stud? It was truly outrageous mom opening the door for outrageous, outrageous to the extreme.

Just as Qiao Yu was about to slip away, one of the human pets behind the woman noticed Qiao Yu lying on the ground in a wooden shape.

She instantly covered her small mouth in surprise, then her eyes were filled with joy.

She tugged hard on the iron chain, pointed at Qiao Yu, and said to the woman.

"Mommy, I don't want this man anymore, I want that one! He must be delicious!"

The woman turned her head and was also a little surprised after seeing Qiao Yu.

Then she said to the shop assistant with some dissatisfaction.

"You clearly have a better and younger stud here, why are you using this old one to fool me? It's not like I can't afford the money!"

The shop assistant was also a little dumbfounded. When did the store catch such a gifted human pet? Why hadn't he noticed it at all before?

However, the customer was god. Under the woman's urging, the shop assistant quickly opened the iron door where Qiao Yu was.

The middle-aged man who had been neglected on the side clenched his fists tightly. Finally, the thing he was most worried about had happened!

He had already guessed that this scene would happen when he saw Qiao Yu. In his heart, Qiao Yu was like him, here to be a human pet stud.

After the iron door opened, the two human pets that the woman brought pounced on Qiao Yu with excited faces.

Qiao Yu frowned tightly. He really couldn't imagine that humans would be trained into pets like cats and dogs, then abandon morality and shame, wagging their tails and begging for pity, and even doing such shameful things in public.

These people could no longer be called humans. They had completely lost all moral personality and were no different from animals. Perhaps death was a relief for them.

A huge bone hand stretched out from behind Qiao Yu, then slapped hard, and the two female pets who were pouncing towards him were slapped into meat patties, and the ground was stained red with blood.

The shop assistant, who was still chatting and laughing with the woman, was instantly stunned. He raised a finger with some fear.

"Esteemed madam, your two human pets seem to have been slapped to death!"

"What?!" The woman was shocked. These two human pets were the ones she liked, and she treated them like family!

She quickly trotted over and carefully observed the two piles of meat on the ground. After observing for five minutes, the woman breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thank goodness, these aren't my two human pets."

"Ah? They're not?" The shop assistant was a little dazed. He had clearly seen a bone hand appear.

Then the woman said confidently.

"My two human pets aren't this flat!"