15F When the Boss Grabs Food I Spin the Table: Huh? What's going on? Where are the replies? Why is no one replying?
No one wants to hear it, huh? Well, even if no one wants to hear it, I'm saying it anyway.
16F When the Boss Grabs Food I Spin the Table: Remember one thing: if you aren't ruthless to yourself, your position won't be secure.
In the early stage, just honestly slack off and do your job while keeping an eye out for investigations. Once you get the clues, you can stop. The rest is just following the trail; you don't actually have to stay in the tailor shop.
Just deliberately slip up and injure your hand, pretending you can no longer hold a needle. Take this chance to ask the boss for a long leave of absence or a transfer. That way, you can still maintain contact with the tailor shop while running around the main quest to investigate cult clues.
17F When the Boss Grabs Food I Spin the Table: The latest you can pull off this stunt is the third day.
Because you have to hand in your work on the fourth day. If you have an accident then, it looks way too intentional. You might end up getting fired instead of getting a long leave.
Offending the tailor shop boss will affect your subsequent investigations, so I don't highly recommend doing that.
18F Afanti's Donkey: The fourth day has its own way of playing. The guy above left the stage way too early.
On the fourth day, the boss's daughter appears. This NPC is incredibly jealous. Anyone even slightly younger and prettier than her who hangs around her will trigger her jealousy.
As long as you act like, “Oh dear, I cherish my hands so much, I value my tailoring skills so much...” if she doesn't ruin your hands that very day, I'll eat my hat.
19F OP Reply: How does it feel like you already knew about the boss's daughter NPC beforehand? How did you do that? Please guide me.
Is it a class skill?
20F Afanti's Donkey Reply: It has nothing to do with classes. The most important thing when entering an instance is to communicate more with the NPCs. A lot of times, clues are hidden in these conversations.
On the first day, I got on the good side of the embroiderers. They specifically warned me that the boss's daughter would be coming in a few days, and since I was fair-skinned and clean-looking, I should stay out of her way.
They also told me about how several previous embroiderers had been injured by the boss's daughter. From that, I roughly deduced her personality and then targeted her triggers.
21F Afanti's Donkey: The advantage of this move is that even though your hands are ruined, it's not your fault. The boss bears full responsibility.
This way, you hold the moral high ground. Not only do you get more money, but you can also naturally use your trauma as an excuse to frequently return to the tailor shop.
22F Type 1 for Free Gold Skin: The guy above is still a bit too naive.
Let me share a clue that many people overlooked. The boss's daughter NPC isn't actually his daughter.
She's the boss's mother.
23F Funeral of Roses: 111, are you really giving it away?
24F Funeral of Roses: No way? That female NPC looks so young and cute. How could she be of the mother's generation?
25F Type 1 for Free Gold Skin Reply: Fake giveaway.
Also, did you forget that this tailor shop is an important cult stronghold? The boss's mother relies on evil arts to preserve her youth and maintain her young, beautiful appearance.
Otherwise, why do you think she can't stand young and beautiful women the most?
Because she knows deep down that she's actually old and ugly, so she's jealous.
26F Tail of July: Friendly reminder, if you are a player born in July, you'd better not hang around in front of this mother NPC.
Although it's unlikely we'll enter this instance again, I'm still leaving this friendly warning.
27F Li Hua's Letter: Can the guy above elaborate? What's going on?
28F Tail of July: What else could it be? That old hag was also born in July, and she's looking for young women born in July to refine medicine for preserving her youth.
And you can't even lie about your birth date, because you have official household registration records that can be checked instantly.
29F Bayi's Beard: Is this July in the lunar calendar or the solar calendar?
I have two birthdays, and they aren't in the same month. I don't know what algorithm the Anomalous Infection uses.
30F Red Snapper, Green Snapper, and Donkey: Exit the thread and turn right. Go find the Explorers' Q&A thread and leave a comment. Those guys are the most interested in researching this kind of stuff.
31F July Fire Means Cool Weather: Although I didn't enter this instance this time, seeing this screening condition makes my spine go cold as someone actually born in July.
Is the Anomalous Infection starting to do targeted assassinations now?
32F Eating Melons Every Day is Great: Got some new idiom trivia.
By the way, my heart goes out to the female players born in July who happened to stumble into this instance for a second.
33F Bracing the Brunt Means Taking the First Hit: Speaking of idiom trivia, I just have to show up.
I don't know what else to say, so let me dig up some dirt on Wang's Tailor Shop for everyone.
This shop is an important stronghold of the Double Snake Cult. That mother NPC is one of the core members of the cult. She's also responsible for refining the Body Stitching thread, which is a crucial item for the final ritual of this instance.
34F What's Going On Here?: Speaking of digging up dirt, I just have to show up.
Simply put, the final ritual of the instance is to steal fortune. The target of this fortune theft had a rather ill-fated life—sick every three days, seriously ill every five—and died before the instance even began.
Without the Body Stitching thread to resurrect the target, the ritual really couldn't have proceeded.
35F Won't Change Name Until I Clear: Speaking of having to show up, I just have to show up.
??? Forgive me, but I don't understand the instance boss's train of thought.
The target of the fortune theft was already so miserable. Why on earth did the boss want to steal his fortune?
36F What's Going On Here? Reply: He was the incarnation of the Wenqu Star! The kind of genius who absorbs knowledge just by looking at it, plus he had Scholar's Dao fortune and all that.
Just tell me, if it were you, wouldn't you covet that?
37F Strawberry Bubblegum Reply: Yes, yes, yes! I'd covet it so much. I really, really need a good brain.
38F Handsome White Dragon: I get it now. So the tailor shop had clues that directly connected to the Xu family.
Then what was the point of my hard work carrying bricks and painstakingly planning to save the damsel in distress?
39F Cold-Faced Green Dragon: Replying to the guy above: it means you're a pretty boy who wants to live off a woman.
38F Handsome White Dragon Reply: It counts as me saving the damsel in distress, hehe. I can do it even without clues. A slightly tsundere young lady is exactly my type.
39F Masked Yellow Dragon: Has anyone seen what that Xu family Wenqu Star looks like?
I've only heard NPCs brag about how incredibly good-looking he is and how wonderful his temper is.
40F Blue-Eyes White Dragon: Joining the queue.
I don't know if the Xu family Wenqu Star is good-looking, but his personality is seriously too convenient.
As long as you interfere with the Xu family's affairs even a little bit—regardless of whether you succeed or not—he will choose to commit suicide at the final moment.
When that happens, the final battle for players is just against the normal, standard cult leader. It's very easy to beat, and the difficulty isn't high.
41F Safe and Sound Reply: What happens if you don't interfere?
42F Blue-Eyes White Dragon Reply: Ah—what a rare little newbie. You're a newbie, right?
That's pretty much how the Anomalous Infection works. If your clues didn't lead you to the Xu estate and you didn't interfere with the Xu family at all, you'll end up triggering the buffed ultimate boss at the end.
The cult leader absorbs the Wenqu fortune, doubling his combat power, and the difficulty of clearing the instance skyrockets.
Rate on N.U.
