Wang Chenzhong (Ping): "Brother Hong, how was the wine I got for you last time?"

Wei Chenghong : "?"

Wang Chenzhong (Ping): "I just had a question I wanted to ask you, Third Brother, hehe!"

Wei Chenghong's "Xiao Ji": "Speak your mind."

Wang Chenzhong (Ping): "What do you mean by 'charm' that Brother Hao mentioned?"

Wei Chenghong (Xiao Ji): "Well, you can want to know if you want, but..."

Wang Chenzhong (Ping): "Don't worry, there's plenty of alcohol!"

Wei Chenghong (Xiao Ji): "Okay. You're not stupid, but you can be quite clever sometimes. You're clever, but sometimes you're really clueless. With tea and wine, do you think there's anything missing?"

The downside is that it's a good cigarette!

Wang Chenzhong scoffed, then spat at the chat history on the screen. He was just having a craving for a cigarette, yet he had the audacity to talk about "charm"...

Everyone knows that the three Wei brothers haven't had much schooling, yet they really think they're royalty!

Even so, Wang Chenzhong replied with a smile, "Oh dear, look at my brain, I still haven't figured it out. Brother Hong, you are so knowledgeable. I understand now, please get it!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Chenzhong immediately changed his expression, a shadow falling over his eyes, revealing a slightly tired look.

His hair looked like it hadn't been properly groomed in a long time, covering his scalp in a messy manner, and his chin and cheeks were covered with thick stubble, making him look somewhat unkempt.

In this godforsaken place, where is he supposed to find cigarettes?

It's all that damned woman Rui Xiaomin's fault! She ruined what was supposed to be a perfectly good game!

Wang Chenzhong pondered for a moment. He originally wanted to pimp Rui Xiaomin and Wei Chenghao to gain Wei Chenghao's trust. However, Rui Xiaomin was a vain and foolish person. Before she could even hook up with Wei Chenghao, she made a fool of herself time and time again.

A few days ago, he tried every means to get Rui Xiaomin to send some ambiguous photos to Wei Chenghao, but her attitude was indifferent, clearly indicating that she was being rejected.

What he found hard to swallow was that Wei Chenghao also looked down on him, his words laced with disdain.

Wang Chenzhong had no choice. He had worked under Wei Chenghao for so many years and was about to achieve great success. He couldn't afford to ruin it all at the last minute.

Furthermore, Wei Chenghao is extremely petty; being targeted by him will not end well.

He had no choice but to try every means to please Wei Chenghao, even reluctantly sending over the tea he had bought at a high price.

Who knew that Wei Chenghao would make such an outrageous demand, wanting cigarettes in addition to tea?!

Wang Chenzhong impatiently opened the public chat and finally typed out a long-term transaction for buying and selling cigarettes and alcohol...

On the other side, Xi Xi and her group were traversing the sewers under the cover of night. She dragged her light-bladed scythe and pulled a skeleton out of a rat's nest.

The skeleton seemed to still maintain the posture of the person at the moment of death, even wearing tattered clothes and carrying a broken backpack.

Without hesitation, Xi Xi started rummaging through the bag and quickly found a torn page of a diary.

Sam's Diary Day 9

"The ghost relentlessly pursued me; it seemed that the more I tried to escape, the tighter it chased me."

“I’ve gotten used to the smell of the drainpipes, but I’m still terrified of the darkness here.”

"The charcoal fire is almost gone, and I don't know what to do next."

"It seems that I not only have hallucinations, but I also have auditory hallucinations. I keep hearing one thud after another, but there is clearly no one else around except me."

"I comforted myself, thinking it must be those wretched hole rats causing trouble again."

"This time I couldn't hold back. I grabbed a stone from the ground and threw it at the rat that was stealing my only food."

"I hit it hard, and as the gravel rolled into the sink, the noise finally subsided."

"Oh my God, thank goodness, it really was just a mouse..."

"But after a short while, I heard splashing sounds again, and the sounds became more and more intense, sounding like someone was walking in the water."

"Could it be that there's someone else here?"

“I dared not linger any longer, so I immediately packed my bag and decided to leave the drainage pipe.”

"Just then, I tripped over something and stumbled into the stinking sewage trough."

"Luckily, I'm a good swimmer and managed to climb out, but I injured my foot."

"To be honest, I..."

Compared to the previous fragments of the diary, the handwriting on this page is exceptionally messy, as if the writer was also in a state of extreme confusion and haste at the time. Even the strokes at the end seem to be dragged infinitely by an invisible force, as if the writer wanted to express more but ultimately failed to do so.

Xi Xi stared at the elongated stroke at the end of the character "我" (I/me), and roughly grasped the deeper meaning it contained—

This is very likely a fragment of the last page of the diary.

After that, the unfortunate train conductor was attacked by a horde of rats and ultimately lost his life.

His body and provisions had long been swallowed by these cave rat monsters and dissolved into their blood.

Thinking of this, Xi Xi's expression remained calm, but a trace of melancholy welled up deep in her heart.

She looked at the corpses of the rat monsters scattered on the ground with a feeling of nausea; these were all conceived from human flesh.

Unaware of the danger, Sallyman raised her sword hilt and seemed to begin slaughtering the rats. Xi Xi sighed and looked away.

So far, these fragments of the diary have a total of 9 pages. They have obtained 4 pages of diary 3569, and are still missing 5 pages.

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