Chapter 479 Above the Posa (14) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]

As the saying goes, there is no absolute garbage, only waste resources.

Chang William is such a misplaced piece of trash...well, resource.

Although he can be quite annoying at times, his fixed attributes are really useful. At this point, Bai Jinshu can understand why his previous teammates did not lose their patience and poison him.

When it is inconvenient to use force, verbal attacks become extremely useful.

No matter how eloquent a person is, he still relies on words to win people's trust, and the effect is definitely not as good as Chang William's fixed attributes when he appears.

From this perspective, Chang William is a perfect exploration team member. He is still wasting time in the unknown space of E and E+ levels. It is probably half because most investors are too annoyed by him and don't want to invite him to their investment projects. The other half is because Chang William's awareness of his own strength is far higher than his awareness of his own charm.

He knew clearly that he was a weakling. He could get by in the low-end space by relying on his fixed attributes, but once he entered the middle-end space, more dangers would be waiting for him.

So instead of going to the mid-range space, it is better to stay in the low-range space. At least your life safety can be guaranteed.

There are many exploration team members like him. Among the low-end team members, there are those like Tang Ling who are working hard to move towards the middle end. Naturally, there are also those like Bo Jiren and Di Xueni who have no special skills and just plan to spend their days in the low-end space.

Anyway, most low-end spaces are dangerous, but you won't necessarily lose your life. As long as you can survive the fixed exploration time, you can leave here and return to your own real world. Although you may never be able to touch the contract with the foundation in your life, the least valuable commodity in the foundation mall is the equivalent currency. Treat exploration as a job. Even if it is the lowest E-level space with 200 points per time, it is considered a high salary in any world.

Even if they save up points and wait for a critical moment to exchange them for props to turn the tide, the scattered points scraped out from the corners can allow the exploration team members who often disappear and have no chance of normal work to live in the real world.

So apart from those very far-fetched things that William Chang mentioned when he was showing off, such as "knowing the British royal family since childhood" and "being awarded the title by the Queen herself", if we only talk about the life he leads in the real world, he might really be living a good life and be a rich man.

"Brother Faye," Zhao Ying came over, "Are you planning to take Chang William to block someone tonight?"

"Well," Bai Jinshu collected his thoughts and looked at her, "What's wrong? What's the problem?"

Zhao Yinglai should be planning to continue looking for the Gu King tonight, but he will definitely go to block Wen Qi tonight. She will probably ask him what to do with his plan to find someone.

Sure enough, Zhao Yinglai raised his hand: "Brother Faye, you and Chang William go to find Wen Qi tonight, I'm going to find someone, what about the pharmacy?"

"What should we do?" Bai Jinshu didn't react.

"Watch the night," Zhao Yinglai blinked, "If the three of us leave, who will watch the night?"

Their current identity is still a pharmacy clerk. It would be fine if no one came at night, but if someone came, they would be discovered that they were not there at night.

The three people in the pharmacy are out tonight, so who will keep watch? This is a serious question.

"Qiu Zihan?" Bai Jinshu thought about it.

"Qiu Zihan will definitely not want to stay alone. He will definitely go with Tang Ling. This won't do. I need a helper. Tang Ling must go with me tonight," Zhao Yinglai counted on his fingers, blocking Bai Jinshu's way to propose another candidate. "As for the others, Di Xueni is not suitable because she has to work until after four in the evening. Bo Jiren is also not suitable because he has to get up after four. There is no one left!"

There are only a few people in the exploration team. Di Xueni and Bo Jiren are not allowed to keep watch due to objective factors. It is not ethical to force a fifteen-year-old minor to watch the store alone. Besides, apart from the morality, if something really goes wrong, Tang Ling will definitely be furious. This is unnecessary.

With this calculation, no one can stay.

"What a pity..." Zhao Yinglai curled his lips.

It's a pity that she came in using a shadow puppet. If she came in with her real body, the problem would be easy. We could just create a shadow puppet and put it here to watch over the store.

But there was no point in saying this now. She stood up, shook off the medicine residue that was drying outside, and went into the room to get the bag. She asked casually, "What should we do tonight? Who will stay here?"

The exploration team members are all busy.

"If you don't mind," Huai Jiamu said after thinking for a moment, "my team members can."

"Your team member? Oh, yes, you are the captain of the special investigation bureau..." Zhao Yinglai came out with a dustpan and waved to Bai Jinshu, "Give me a hand."

It is not convenient for her to collect the medicine residue by herself.

"Let me do it," Bai Jinshu was about to stand up when he saw Huai Jiamu come forward and lift up the board for drying the medicine residue with both hands, "Is that so?"

"Yes," Zhao Yinglai opened the bag and used a small board to scrape the medicine residue off. While scraping, he continued the previous topic, "How many team members do you have? Are they suitable to come here to keep watch?"

"Suitable," Huai Jiamu nodded, "I'll just ask later."

Among so many members of the Special Investigation Bureau, there must be a few who don’t need to work late at night or go to bed early.

"Then the three of us will go and block Wen Qi tonight," Bai Jinshu thought for a moment, holding his chin, "and you go and continue looking for people."

As for Wen Qi, leaving aside her identity, she is indeed quite good at escaping.

The first time she escaped from Zhao Yinglai and Tang Ling's men, and the second time she escaped from Qiu Zihan's men. Although the former was due to the interference of Chang William being kidnapped, and the latter was due to a group of white-collar workers surrounding the office building, it can be seen from this that she is extremely vigilant and very good at escaping.

So in this situation, even though he knew that she would appear downstairs of the office building for the third time tonight, Bai Jinshu still doubted that the three of them alone would not be able to catch Wen Qi.

Unless Huai Jiamu mobilized people and had the members of the Abnormal Investigation Bureau ambush near the building and catch her with human wave tactics.

However, in this case, Huai Jiamu and his team would complete their mission too early and would have to leave early, which would be of no help to the subsequent exploration.

So Bai Jinshu's plan was very simple. Since he couldn't capture Wen Qi by force, he would use Chang William to control her.

Moreover, since the people in this world know that from time to time people from another world will enter here through some strange means, and they also know to block the places where they appear, then the office building tonight might be a trap, waiting for Wen Qi to return and catch the turtle in the jar.

If Wen Qi was captured by those policemen, then considering what A Lian and A Yuan said, and the car accident scene they witnessed as soon as they entered here, it would be difficult to find her again.

We must cut the Gordian knot and catch her as soon as possible.

"Don't let your teammates know that we're going to look for Wen Qi," he held up his chin and watched Huai Jiamu and Zhao Yinglai collect the dried medicine residue, "Just say we're going to look for someone."

"Are you worried that we will go back immediately after finding Wen Qi?" Huai Jiamu turned around and immediately understood his concerns.

"Well," Bai Jinshu stretched and yawned, "Aren't you here to look for her?"

"Actually not," Huai Jiamu answered quickly, "We came here to investigate the cases where the suspects disappeared without reason."

"What is this?" Zhao Yinglai asked as he tied the bag tightly.

Zhao Yinglai and Chang William had not heard the stories told by other team members before, so Huai Jiamu summarized them again in simple language, mixed with Bo Jiren's supplement, and barely explained the decades-long relationship between their Abnormal Investigation Bureau and this world.

Bai Jin had only slept for three or four hours last night, and he felt drowsy listening to the story. He closed his eyes and leaned back in his chair. He waited until Huai Jiamu finished speaking before interrupting, "So you are here to investigate this world, too?"

"Yeah," Huai Jiamu nodded, recalled the captain's plan in his memory, and repeated, "In the bureau...someone has always wanted to investigate this matter, but there is no entry point."

There is no time either.

Although they were sent in this time because the captain had offended someone, it was also a good opportunity. On the surface, everyone was implicated and came to find someone, but in their hearts they all intended to use this excuse to find out whether these suspects who disappeared mysteriously were evading sanctions here.

This coincides with the exploration team's investigation direction.

Huai Jiamu will definitely act with them. It is a good thing that the identity he uses and his team members can follow the same investigation direction as them.

Of course the more helpers the better.

"Then don't tell them about Wen Qi's whereabouts for now." Bai Jinshu made the final decision.

Although it seemed that everyone intended to investigate the contents extracted from Huai Jiamu's memory, who knew what everyone was thinking? Once Wen Qi was found, there would be a legitimate reason to leave here.

It is rare to have so many tools in an unknown space. Neither Bai Jinshu nor Skao have any reason to let them go.

There were still four or five hours until ten o'clock in the evening, and the old man who went to the emergency room had not returned yet. Considering that he didn't know how long he would have to stay up tonight, Bai Jinshu very foresightedly prepared to catch up on some sleep.

Huai Jiamu took on the role of captain, so he was responsible for the safety of his team members. He had to check on their job search one by one. Bai Jinshu closed his eyes without any reluctance to sleep. When he woke up, the sky outside the window had darkened a lot. There were a few more people in the pharmacy. Zhao Ying came to introduce them to him: "The one over there is the one recommended by the captain to keep watch for us at night. His name is Xiao Guo. He has a good temper."

The identity of the eighth team member is not convenient to disclose. Anyway, it doesn’t matter what he is called, so Zhao Yinglai will just follow Huai Jiamu’s team members and call him the captain.

But including her, this was the third time Bai Jinshu heard someone say that Xiao Guo had a better temper.

Bai Jinshu looked in the direction she pointed and saw Xiao Guo sitting opposite Chang William, listening to him bragging and applauding him.

When Chang William sees a stranger, he will actively trigger his bragging skill. It's okay if he meets someone like Huai Jiamu who is not flattering, but it's terrible to meet someone like Xiao Guo who responds to every long sentence.

What's more, Xiao Guo's response was not perfunctory like Bai Jinshu's "hmm" or "right", but was unexpectedly sincere. He was actually listening to what Chang William said, and responded sincerely based on what he said, such as "I have never been to the South Pole or the North Pole", "Wow, Brother William, you actually went to watch the ceremony in person", and "I have only seen these scenes on TV".

Bai Jinshu was puzzled by what he heard. He wondered why he was ostracized by his former superior and sent to the action team of the Abnormal Investigation Bureau to cause trouble for Huai Jiamu.

Being able to tolerate Chang William, Bai Jinshu couldn't help but give Xiao Guo the nice guy card.

After all, Chang William would die if he didn't brag, and now that he can brag to Xiao Guo, he won't torture his ears.

"The old man came back just now and happened to run into people from the Abnormal Investigation Bureau." Zhao Yinglai roughly mentioned to him what happened when he fell asleep. "I told him that these people are our friends, working as waiters in the nearby commercial street. The old man didn't say anything, but just said that these people didn't look like waiters. I just fooled him and said that they just couldn't find a job and had to make a temporary transition."

"I didn't expect the old man to have such a sharp eye," she muttered, "He told them not to work as waiters in the restaurant anymore, and that their situation was more suitable for the government office, and then everyone just laughed it off."

After all, if they really go to the police station to find a job, they will be arrested first.

"Yamen?" Bai Jinshu raised his head slightly.

This wording is quite retro...

"His shop has been open for 400 years, so it's probably more than 400 years old," Zhao Yinglai shrugged. "It's just their habit. Anyway, it's enough for us to know that it's a police station."

"Where is that old man?" Bai Jinshu didn't hesitate about his wording.

"Outside," Zhao Yinglai raised his chin, "No one came to see the doctor this afternoon, and the medicine was finished, so he didn't care about us slacking off."

To be fair, the work in a pharmacy is very leisurely. Things like seeing patients and writing prescriptions are all the owner's jobs. They are only responsible for helping out, and their job is also very simple, which is to pick, boil and package the medicine.

There is nothing to do without patients and new prescriptions. The owner is at least four hundred years old and he doesn't have the temper to sit still while his employees are busy. When there is nothing to do, Bai Jinshu and the other three can do whatever they want.

For example, now Chang William is bragging, Bai Jinshu is sleeping, and Zhao Yinglai is chatting with Tang Ling in the temporary group chat, but he doesn't care at all.

As soon as it was past ten o'clock in the evening, he collected his bag and left on time, leaving the shop assistants to assign themselves to watch the night. Xiao Guo closed the shop door and lit a small lamp in the room.

Bai Jinshu, Chang William and Huai Jiamu went to look for Wen Qi, while Zhao Yinglai, Tang Ling and Qiu Zihan continued to look for people along the direction of the fate card.

It was past ten o'clock in the evening and there were still many people on the street. It was only after they walked out of this commercial street last night that they gradually felt that there were fewer people as time went by.

But today, as they got closer to the office building, everyone noticed the subtle atmosphere around them.

"There are too many people," Bai Jinshu looked around vaguely, "Someone is watching this area."

If they had not been here yesterday, they would not have been able to feel it, but when comparing it with last night, they could immediately detect the owners of these gazes.

I guess these are the police of this world.

"It looks like we won't be able to find anyone tonight," Zhao Yinglai gave up immediately. "The police are watching this area. If we go around in circles, we'll be too conspicuous. I'll find a chance tomorrow morning."

It was obvious that all the police came from the office building whose door was broken yesterday.

Since entering here, they have never seen the police arresting outsiders, so they didn't know it would be such a big scene.

"There are at least thirty or forty people watching." Huai Jiamu also whispered.

"Thirty or forty people just to catch a girl?" Qiu Zihan was shocked. "Isn't that too exaggerated?"

"How can thirty or forty people be too many?" Chang William had been showing off for the whole afternoon. He still hadn't recovered from Xiao Guo's flattery. He started to speak, "When I went out with the British royal family, there were at least two hundred people, including bodyguards and people who secretly protected us. There were people clearing the way along the way. We had to plan the route in advance to eliminate all dangers, especially in some high-rise buildings where there might be snipers. For dignitaries like me..."

He talked incessantly, but unfortunately no one paid any attention to him.

The comments were all about these policemen:

[If Wen Qi dares to come here tonight, she will definitely be caught, right? ]

[With so many people watching here, can Aoshen still catch her? ]

[It should be possible, with Chang William here, but how to catch him quietly without the police noticing the problem would be a bit troublesome.]

[I hope Wen Qi doesn’t react too strongly and cause trouble for Aoshen and the others…]

"Thirty or forty people is not an exaggeration," Huai Jiamu shook his head slightly, "They don't know exactly how many people got here through the elevator game, so it's normal for there to be so many people."

They knew that Wen Qi was the only person who showed up last night, but the police in this world didn't know.

There are many people and eyes during the day, so the first night spent by people from another world after coming here is definitely the best time for them to go back to the entry point and try to go back. As long as they squat around here, they will find someone sooner or later.

"Oh, I see. Captain, you know a lot." Qiu Zihan nodded, not quite understanding.

"What if Wen Qi gets caught..." Tang Ling frowned.

There are police eyes everywhere now, and we don’t know how long these people will stay there, maybe even all night.

Because of these eyes, they definitely couldn't enter the office building openly like they did yesterday, and they definitely couldn't wait for Wen Qi to come downstairs of the office building.

Without them to stop her, what would happen if Wen Qi was caught?

"No," Bai Jinshu answered confidently, "Wen Qi is very vigilant."

Qiu Zihan hadn't even shown up this morning, but she had already turned around and ran away like a rabbit that had smelled blood. It was difficult for them to catch Wen Qi, and it was not easy for these policemen to arrest Wen Qi either.

"We came here in advance to check out the location, and she will definitely come here in advance to check out the location as well."

"Where would she go to check it out?" Tang Ling thought for a moment, "She can't just walk directly to the bottom of the office building, right?"

At this time, the workers working nearby had all gone off work, and the office building she came from had been sealed off for the day. If she suddenly walked in front of the office building at this time, anyone would notice that something was wrong.

"That location," Bai Jinshu looked around and saw a convenience store, "She should go there."

He remembered that the lights in this convenience store were on last night, but there was no clerk behind the counter. This was a 24-hour unmanned convenience store.

The location of the convenience store is very clever. From a geographical point of view, this small store is still a long distance away from the office building, but there is a small row of tables in the corner of the convenience store. From the position of the tables, you can just pass through the first-floor lobby of another building in front of the office building, and vaguely see the entrance of the office building through two glass doors.

Next to this row of small tables there is a machine that dispenses hot water, which requires coins to be inserted. It seems to be prepared for people who plan to eat on the spot after buying instant noodles. It can seat five or six people side by side.

It was not yet time for the shop assistants to get off work, so Bai Jinshu and the others pushed the door open and saw two people sitting next to a small table.

"Police." Zhao Yinglai mouthed a message to them.

It seems that they are not the only ones who have discovered the special features of this convenience store.

Bai Jinshu nodded calmly, walked to the counter and raised his phone to the clerk: "Hello, can I borrow your charger? My phone is out of battery."

The clerk looked up at him and pointed to a power socket behind the freezer: "There is a socket over there, but I don't have a charger. You have to buy one now if you want to charge it."

Bai Jinshu nodded: "Is there anything for sale here?"

"Over there." The clerk pointed behind Bai Jinshu.

After buying the charging plug, it is natural to stay here.

The "dead cell phone" was provided by Huai Jiamu. The policemen who were also sitting at the small table just glanced at them briefly and continued to pretend to be ordinary customers, eating and chatting.

The members of the exploration team also pretended to be customers who came here to borrow some power because their mobile phones were out of battery. Qiu Zihan squatted on the ground with his mobile phone, while the others bought some things casually and stood next to the freezer to chat.

"Eh?" Qiu Zihan plugged in the phone and fiddled with it curiously for a long time before he said in surprise, "It won't charge."

"It can't be charged?" William Chang looked at it in surprise, "Really? Is the charger broken?"

"I just bought it." Qiu Zihan wondered.

"Is the plug out of power?" Tang Ling lowered his head.

"Here." Qiu Zihan pointed to the freezer she was leaning against.

The freezer and the charger use the same socket. It is impossible that the freezer has electricity but this socket does not.

"It may be related to another world," Zhao Yinglai said softly, "Don't tell anyone."

Huai Jiamu came from another world, and so did his phone. Now his phone couldn’t be charged, probably because this was not that world.

Now that the police are here, they have to be more careful with what they say.

Qiu Zihan made a zippering gesture with his mouth, and immediately pretended to be playing with his cell phone, leaning against the wall and tapping on the phone.

Charging while playing is slow, and they don’t know when Wen Qi will come, so of course they have to extend their time here as much as possible.

He could still pretend to play with his phone, but the rest of the people could only pretend to chat. Any content that was not related to this world might be heard as wrong by the police, so Tang Ling had no choice but to stand up and start complaining about his job.

With Tang Ling as an example, Zhao Yinglai soon followed suit and started to complain. The two of them spoke back and forth, and Bai Jinshu would add a few words from time to time, complaining that the person they were waiting for had not shown up yet. They sounded like a group of workers who were full of resentment after being stood up.

I don't know how much time has passed. The number of people coming and going outside has gradually decreased, and the clerks in the convenience store have also reached the end of their shift. Zhao Yinglai looked around obscurely and lowered his voice to the lowest level: "No. We can't stay here any longer. If we stay any longer, we will be noticed."

It's almost midnight, and no matter who we're waiting for, it's not convenient to stay any longer at this point.

"Where are the people outside?"

"There are fewer people," Tang Ling went out for a walk and came back complaining softly, "I estimate that there are still about ten people around here. We are the farthest place from the office building."

Their small convenience store is uniquely positioned as the best observation point, so it's no wonder that two policemen would be waiting here.

There is a 90% chance that Wen Qi will come tonight, but if they wait any longer they will be discovered.

"What should we do? Should we leave?" Tang Ling whispered.

"Wait another ten minutes," Bai Jinshu looked at his watch, "If she doesn't come, she may not come again tonight."

Wen Qi was too alert. She might notice someone staring at her from a distance and then turn around and run away. If that was the case, they could only try their luck in running into her at a roadside shop.

Fortunately, Scario has always had good luck.

Nearing midnight, a familiar figure appeared in front of the convenience store.

Wen Qi is here.

But she was indeed very vigilant. When she saw two people sitting in the convenience store, she turned around and prepared to leave.

Chang William saw the opportunity and immediately shouted to her, "Wen Qi! Wen Qi! Here! You are finally here! We have been waiting for you for a long time!"

When Wen Qi heard her name, she paused and was unable to leave.

Bai Jinshu signaled with his eyes, and Tang Ling immediately stepped forward and pretended to grab Wen Qi's arm in a friendly manner: "What are you standing at the door for? Come in."

The noise they made was quite loud, and the two policemen sitting at the small table heard it and looked in her direction.

The police looked over. Wen Qi didn't dare to run away, so she could only struggle a few times and looked up at the person who called her name.

Her eyes met with a familiar face.

This is the person I met when I got out of the elevator yesterday.

Wen Qi's face suddenly turned pale.

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