Chapter 298 Safe House

Jiang Huaique looked down at his watch, then glanced at the lit street lights. He wanted to light a cigarette, but his lighter fell in the car.

In the end, he could only pace back and forth behind the car to kill time.

Drunk Xu Zhiyan is indeed a bit difficult to deal with.

He agreed to go home, but he clung to the car door and refused to get out, saying that he had just lost a dozen bills and couldn't find them.

Jiang Huai Que rolled his eyes.

"Are you all right?"

"...I'm sorry." Bai Jin's voice was slightly apologetic.

He changed from the cold and strong attitude he had when confronting Jiang Huaique before. It seemed that he had no way to deal with the drunk cat in the car. He didn't even dare to pull the person out forcefully for fear of hurting the other party. He was actually a little at a loss.

Jiang Huaique ate all the dog food he could, with his arms folded and a look of anticipation on his face.

Now, his last bit of worry disappeared.

Originally, Jiang Huaique was somewhat worried about the power suppression that Bai Jin displayed to the outside world, but now the man had no way to deal with Xu Zhiyan who was drunk in the car, and his face was full of helplessness.

After a while, the ghost sighed.

He stood up straight and said helplessly to Jiang Huaique who was watching the fun on the side: "I'll have to trouble you to help keep an eye on it. I'll go get the money."

Xu Zhiyan was determined not to get off the car until he saw the money.

Meeting those misty eyes, he really couldn't help but satisfy the other party's request, but there were other humans present, and he couldn't suddenly produce money.

Having seen enough of the show, Jiang Huai Que waved his hand.

Taking his wallet out of his coat pocket, he swore and pulled out a wad of bills, slamming them into the man's hand.

"Take it away, get out of here!"

It's really not worth making this trip. Not only did I waste my time and eat a mouthful of dog food, but my wallet also suffered serious damage.

The ghost was slightly stunned holding the money.

"Thanks."

He thanked him politely.

Jiang Huaique turned his head away and nodded perfunctorily.

In fact, he doesn't have a bad feeling about anonymity. Xu Zhiyan has revealed that Shell's blind box machine is an anonymous industry. The weapons he is using now are drawn from the blind box machine, and given the situation at the time, it is almost no different from a gift.

With this stack of banknotes, Xu Zhiyan was easily carried out of the car like a money-eating beast that smelled the scent of money.

"Well, I'm just saying..."

He was still not conscious, and he kept mumbling while holding the money, and he was not obedient even in the arms of the ghost.

A cold breeze blew by, forming a sharp contrast with the warm body temperature.

The young man felt a little cold, put the money in his pocket, and leaned into the arms of his client.

The faint smell of ash lingers at the tip of my nose, safe and familiar.

After a moment, the sound of regular breathing came from the ghost's arms.

He did not stay for long nor did he make any further invitations. He just nodded slightly at Jiang Huaique and walked slowly towards the old house with the person in his arms. The shadows of the two people gradually shortened and solidified under the street lights.

Jiang Huaique watched his teammates leave until he could no longer see anything, then he shook his head and laughed.

The car started and drove away after a moment.

…

We all know that drinking alcohol can cause dry mouth.

Xu Zhiyan woke up in the middle of the night.

My throat is dry and astringent, which is very uncomfortable.

And for some reason, he felt very hot. He opened his eyes drowsily, and saw darkness all around, as if the lights were not on.

The cup of water was handed to his lips, and Xu Zhiyan subconsciously took a few sips from the cup. He finally came back to life.

It was just getting light outside the window, around four in the morning.

He supported himself with his warm chest and sat up... No! Wait!

The touch from under his palm startled Xu Zhiyan's heart and he woke up instantly.

When he looked up and met the golden eyes, he was completely stunned.

What happened! Why did he wake up in the arms of a ghost? Wasn't he drinking at Jiang Huai's house? And what position was he in now? Why did he press Party A on the bed as a mattress?

"woke up?"

Listening to the smiling voice, he could even feel the slight vibration in his chest when the ghost spoke.

Xu Zhiyan rolled over using his hands and feet like a frightened cat. In his panic, he felt his palms getting hot, as if he had touched something incredible... Damn it, I can't think about it anymore!

As a pragmatic man, after giving up the master room, he still used the previous bed in the bedroom.

At this moment, the two of them were squeezed on one bed, and the distance between them was passively shortened a lot.

Xu Zhiyan found that he had changed his clothes into his usual pajamas, and there was no smell of alcohol at all, so it was obvious that he had taken a shower.

It is unlikely that it was washed at Jiang Huai's house, so it can only be...

He wanted to ask about ghosts and gods, but after looking up at the man who was rarely seen wearing modern clothes, he immediately lowered his head.

No, don't ask!

It won’t be awkward as long as you don’t ask!

As if sensing his nervousness, the ghost, whose black shirt was already wrinkled, got up from the bed. He did not say much about what had just happened, but naturally changed the subject.

"It's still early, you can sleep a little longer."

"Oh...oh, okay."

Xu Zhiyan agreed casually, his face feeling a little hot.

People have to face reality eventually, but his heart was in a mess and he pursed his lips, not knowing what to say.

Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of something shiny on the ground. Without having time to think about himself, Xu Zhiyan pointed at the floor and asked curiously, "What is this?"

It seemed like some radar had been triggered.

The room was pitch black, with only a little light coming in from the window, but that little light was enough to make the objects on the floor very conspicuous.

A dark shadow appeared in the corner, respectfully picked up the things on the ground and handed them to Xu Zhiyan.

It is a gem as big as a thumb.

The fine cutting technique allows this transparent gem to refract light to the maximum extent, emitting a charming and expensive halo.

"well?"

Looking at the expensive gem, Xu Zhiyan immediately forgot the embarrassment just now and widened his eyes.

In addition to the piece handed over by the black shadow, there were other odds and ends that fell to the ground.

He subconsciously glanced at Party A, who snapped his fingers very tactfully. After the lights in the room came on, Xu Zhiyan finally saw clearly what had fallen on the floor.

Banknotes with human heads printed on them, exquisitely crafted jewellery, and gold coins of all sizes scattered all over the floor...

There were also some little gadgets that he couldn't name, but he could tell at a glance that they were very valuable.

Grass? What's going on?

Xu Zhiyan's pupils shrank slightly, and he could hardly believe his eyes.

Money growing in his room?

As if pleased by the young man's confused expression, the ghost chuckled.

He leaned over, reached out and touched the side of Xu Zhiyan's face, and said softly: "These are all what you just threw on the ground."

"impossible!"

Xu Zhiyan refuted without thinking.

How could he throw such an expensive thing on the ground? Disrespecting money would offend the God of Wealth!

The ghost endured and endured, and finally restrained himself from doing anything out of line. His fingertips gently brushed the young man's lips, which looked a little plump and swollen, and said lightly: "You can ask the system."

He didn't block anyone this time.

Xu Zhiyan then realized that his lips were a little swollen, and he froze in place again.

Damn, drinking ruins things!

He had no memory of these messed up things...

The atmosphere was gradually pushed into another ambiguous state. Xu Zhiyan's fingertips, which were gripping the gem, turned white, and the force was visible to the naked eye.

The burning palms made him a little panicked.

I don’t know why, but the ghost who was very gentlemanly when he confessed yesterday is now full of aggressiveness today.

His burning gaze traced the outline of Xu Zhiyan, and finally when he woke up, the ghost could no longer endure it, and even his actions became much more straightforward.

Originally, based on Xu Zhiyan's reaction, He thought he would have to wait for a long time, but he didn't expect that Jiang Huaique's arrival would advance the progress.

Just as His hand was about to cover the back of Xu Zhiyan's hand, an uninvited guest appeared.

A silver hexagonal panel suddenly appeared. Asa rarely made such inappropriate moves, which showed that the situation he encountered was rather tricky.

[Mr. Guishen, here is a video recording that you may need to restore. It involves the last round of the game... no, or the round before that. ]

It knows the temperament of ghosts and gods.

If the matter wasn't really of such a huge nature, it wouldn't have popped up so suddenly.

[At the end of the currently visible scene, there is a familiar player. Of course, his face is unfamiliar, but his skills are familiar.]

[Now, players with the same skills are still on the leaderboard, but their names have changed. ]

A player who may have played the game more than once.

This is indeed something worth reporting.

Asa did not hide it, so Xu Zhiyan naturally saw the message as well.

As if he had grasped a life-saving straw, he raised his head and said with certainty: "Bai Jin, I think this matter is more important!"

It doesn’t matter what happens, just get Party A out of the way first!

If he were to be honest, he didn't hate ghosts and gods, but he was not mentally prepared yesterday, so there was no reason for him to be prepared immediately today!

At Xu Zhiyan's urging, the ghost nodded hesitantly.

"Then I'll go first."

The safe house connects the real world and the game, and he can no longer access the abandoned small world here. He can only take the special passage of the nightmare community.

Xu Zhiyan nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, and couldn't wait to see Party A off.

When the room became quiet again, he collapsed back, gasping for breath.

Thinking that there was something in his palm, he raised his hand to the light and stared at the high-quality gem that was desperately trying to shine.

"Hey, why are you so quiet today?"

He put away the gems, called out to the system, got out of bed barefoot, and began picking up the gold coins and banknotes scattered on the ground.

The system replied slowly.

[Hey, I just slipped out to watch for a while. This stupid high-tech AI doesn’t look that advanced. Why is it coming here to cause trouble at this critical moment?]

Xu Zhiyan paused while picking up the things.

"…What do you know? Of course, special information is more important."

If it weren't for Asa, he wouldn't know what to do now! The atmosphere just now was so wrong!

After wiping his lips with the back of his hand, Xu Zhiyan felt a slight swelling pain. After hesitating for a long time, he still asked in a low voice: "So what happened? Didn't I go to Jiang Huaique to drink?"

Picked it up all the way from the room to the bathroom.

As soon as Xu Zhiyan opened the door, he was almost blinded by the gold coins all over the floor.

The system is happy to explain.

[The host was driven back by Jiang's mother. Alas, the process was very tortuous. The ghosts and gods did not listen to advice at all!]

It had previously given Guishen some emergency training on how to face Jiang Huai Que, but the atmosphere suddenly became tense and it was almost scared to death! Fortunately, the Otter Monster came to the rescue in the end.

[…But only ghosts and gods can leave the safe house far away, so no one knows what happened near the car.]

Before the system finished speaking, Xu Zhiyan frowned and asked it to stop.

"Jiang Huai Que and Bai Jin swapped their names?"

Sitting on the edge of the bathtub, Xu Zhiyan felt inexplicably nervous.

In order to bring him back, the ghost changed into modern clothes and even his hair was much shorter, but this look was too similar to the Slice in the copy.

He was not sure how his teammates would view the name and appearance of the slice in the copy.

The system understood its host's concerns and quickly explained.

[Don't worry, host! The name and appearance of the Ghost God are taboo. As more and more slices are collected, his influence becomes greater and greater, and players will gradually forget the information about the Ghost God.]

The forgetting process is smooth.

So much so that in the previous copy, few viewers noticed that the appearance of the Ghost Slice was similar to that of the NPC that had appeared before.

Xu Zhiyan felt relieved.

But the next words from the system almost made him lose his balance and fall to the ground.

[The host was brought back by the ghost god. When you came back, you were drunk and confused, like a drunkard, and you were still mumbling...]

"stop--"

Xu Zhiyan called a halt again.

For some reason, he always felt that there was something ambiguous in the system's words.

"Is there a video? I can watch it myself."

Damn it, even though I know that the system and humans are completely different species, it still feels so socially deadly to hear this kind of thing coming from the system's mouth!

"I just want to explore the source of the gold coins."

He spoke very seriously, bent down and picked up another gold coin. Holding the heavy gold in his hand made him feel very satisfied.

The system didn't waste any time and released the video directly.

Time goes back to last night.

The confused Xu Zhiyan was carried back to the second floor by ghosts.

But home is different from outside. As soon as the drunk Xu entered the house, he started to pull his collar frantically, shouting "It's too hot, gold will melt."

Seeing that the man was still drunk and unconscious, the ghost reached out and stripped the wriggling young man naked, leaving only a pair of underwear.

It should have been an erotic scene.

But who knew that the ghost hesitated for a while, and suddenly took out two pairs of new slippers from his coat.

When Xu Zhiyan saw this, he turned off the video with a snap, raised his head, took two deep breaths, and tried to explain to the system.

"Jiang Jiang gave it to me. I was still awake when he took the slippers..."

In the end, he decided to buy Jiang Huaique's woolen slippers and picked out two pairs with little strawberries hooked on them.

[Yes, host, you also said the same thing to the ghost master.] As a younger brother, the system affirmed this.

"……Grass."

Xu Zhiyan cursed inwardly, then opened the video and continued watching.

As expected, when the new slippers were found, the drunk on the screen snatched them away, and explained as if to take credit, "Jiang Jiang gave them to me, one pair for you and one for me!"

"No, Tong, this video of human social death doesn't suit me."

The picture is frozen on the gentle smile of the ghost.

Xu Zhiyan paused the video again, unable to bear to watch himself look silly.

"I think the idiot in the video must be me being possessed by some dirty thing." In order to prove that there was nothing wrong with him, he even used metaphysics.

[Fortunately, compared to what happened later, this is not considered social death at all.]

The system's comfort seems particularly pale at this moment.

"???"

What? There is something even more socially dead? Xu Zhiyan didn't dare to look at it.

[Well, later the host felt sweaty and wanted to take a bath, but he was carried to the bathtub and refused to take a bath. He complained that the water was too hot and said that the gold would turn into golden water, and then he complained that the water was too cold... I forgot to mention that I was the one who added the water, and I added it six times.]

This is why the system was not blocked.

The ghost god couldn't handle it alone. Xu Zhiyan just couldn't go down into the same water temperature. Once the ghost god exerted a little force, he turned his head and cried out in pain.

Although Xu Zhiyan has acted in many dramatic roles in the past, he is essentially a very determined person and rarely shows signs of weakness.

Seeing the young man crying out in pain, the ghost could only use the gentlest movements possible and barely carried the drunk into the pool. At this point, both of them were soaked.

[Alas, this is too much, it has made the ghost master's brain go crazy.]

The system sighed and summarized.

"Well... You can't have such high expectations for a drunk person." Xu Zhiyan shamelessly excused himself. Who can expect a drunk person to be normal?

Drunks are unreasonable.

The bathing process was extremely difficult.

As if he was scalded, Xu Zhiyan pressed the fast-forward button frantically, but found that it took a long time to fast forward.

The system chuckled and informed the source of the gold coins.

[The host insisted that Master Ghost bring the money and count how many bills there were, otherwise he would not continue washing... Fortunately, Master Ghost was smart and took out a gold coin, so you don't want the bills.]

"etc……"

Xu Zhiyan had a bad feeling.

[That’s right, host, after you discovered that the ghost master can conjure gold coins, you no longer worry about banknotes! ]

The system is also a bit tired.

The bath lasted nearly two hours, and it had to keep the water warm at all times, because its unfortunate host only wanted water from the faucet.

"Hey, don't think I can't hear you being sarcastic."

Xu Zhiyan turned his head away and glanced at the gold coins piled on the ground with mixed feelings.

He resigned himself to his fate and clicked to continue playing.

In the picture, the single bathtub that is suitable for Xu Zhiyan's size is a bit narrow for the ghost. Although he is sitting in the pool holding the moving human youth, he cannot free his hands and can only let the tentacle-like black shadow do the work for him.

Soon, He discovered a way to quiet the drunkard.

Whenever he took out a gold coin, Xu Zhiyan would remain silent for ten to thirty seconds, as if he was confirming the quality of the gold coin.

In this way, the young man covered in water found a new way to "make money".

As long as Xu Zhiyan shouted, the ghost would take out a gold coin, and then he would obediently let the black shadow holding the towel hit him with foam...

One of them shouted with his neck stretched out.

One kept taking it out.

When the long bath was finally over, the ghost took the trouble to change the young man into pajamas, and the gold coins had already been scattered all over the bathroom.

Xu Zhiyan was silent for a few minutes before speaking in a low voice.

"I remember that I was a pretty good drinker."

What happened! He remembered that he only slept when he was drunk before. No, that's not right. It seemed that he pinched Party A's chin to see his tongue last time...

Assaulted by memories, he pursed his lips and said nothing.

[Well, I believe it.]

The system is merciless.

It reminded, thinking of what was to come.

[Of course, the drunk host is also very sincere... He does not hide his love for money.]

At ten o'clock in the middle of the night, Xu Zhiyan watched himself being carried to the bed, and he finally understood where the things in the bedroom came from.

The ghosts and gods were very restrained from beginning to end.

He gave his beloved enough respect.

So he probably never thought that there would be a day when Xu Zhiyan would ride on him.

The young man, who had changed into clean pajamas, pushed his partner down mercilessly, sat on the other's waist, and grabbed the black shirt that had just been dried by special means with both hands.

The confused look in his eyes could not conceal the arrogance in his tone.

"Hey, why are you still hiding your little stash? Aren't we partners?"

The ghost didn't say anything, but his breath became much heavier.

From the side angle, one can see the bulging blue veins on the back of His hands, and it is obvious that He is enduring something.

However, Xu Zhiyan, who was riding on the ghost, was unaware of anything.

The moonlight poured in through the window, making his skin exposed outside his pajamas look even whiter and a little pink, moist from moisture. Even the faint teardrop mole at the corner of his eye became less clear.

He leaned down, rubbed the tip of the ghost's nose, and spoke in a soft, seductive tone.

"You like me, don't you?"

"Then I'll kiss you, and you'll produce more money for me."

The back of his head was grabbed and he was speechless for the next second.

This time, not only gold coins appeared in the room, but also many expensive gems and other strange and priceless things...