Chapter 10 Your Life is Mine
After Jian Yue finished chatting with them, he went back.
Shen Yushu had already taken the old lady back. The old lady's energy was not very good and she could only be awake for a short while a day. Jian Yue went to the study to find Shen Yushu. He had to find him. When he was healing the old lady, his safety value had dropped to 10.
Jian Yue stood at the door and said, "Master, I'm back."
Shen Yushu was processing documents. After hearing this, he finally looked up at him and said, "Have you processed it?"
Jian Yue nodded: "Yes, don't worry, no one was killed, this incident..."
He wasn't sure how to start the conversation, what if Shen Shuyu thought he was meddling in other people's business?
Shen Yushu suddenly said, "You did a great job today. I will give you a raise."
Jian Yue was stunned. To be honest, he didn't expect that the CEO would actually praise him. He said, "Master, don't you think I'm impulsive?"
He thought his boss had seen his abilities and would continue to recognize him.
Shen Yushu just glanced at him with a noble and cold look and said, "Aren't there enough impulsive things you do?"
Jian Yue: “…”
But he was still a little curious, so he asked, "Master, if I really didn't handle it well today and got you into trouble, wouldn't you be worried?"
"Of course not!" Shen Yushu smiled evilly and domineeringly: "Butler Wang, remember, your life is mine, and no one else has the right to take it away except me!"
Jian Yue was silent for a moment. Although he still felt that his boss was a little unreliable and his words were a little confusing, he was still somewhat touched. After all, it was rare to meet a boss who could protect you, and he just said he would give him a raise! This was the most important thing!
So Jian Yue stepped forward with emotion: "Master..."
There was dirt on his body from squatting on the ground, as well as Grandma Li's blood. When he got close to Shen Yushu, his mysophobia kicked in. He immediately said, "Butler Wang! Who gave you the guts to report to me without taking a shower? If you dare to take another step forward, your salary will be deducted!"
"...Yes, Master."
However, after Shen Yushu's two words of recognition, his precarious safety value rose to 15% again. This time, Jian Yue was really sure that the favorability of important NPCs could really stabilize his favorability.
But after all this trouble, the afternoon was over.
By evening.
The system panel popped up again.
Trigger limited-time mission: [Village Chief's Red Lantern]
Mission details: [Night is coming, it is pitch black, red lanterns can be used for lighting at night]
Mission time limit: 30 minutes
Jian Yue raised his eyebrows. This task came again. Now he understood that the system would not issue useless tasks. Every prop has its meaning. But he also understood that the meaning of props depends on how they are used.
Just thinking about it.
He saw the archaeological team coming in from outside, and it was obvious that they had also received the mission.
Jian Yue didn't know whether the two newcomers had told Scarface about what happened during the day, but Scarface, who usually didn't pay much attention to Jian Yue, took the initiative to say to Jian Yue: "Butler Wang, we want to go to the village chief's house to borrow another lantern. It's too troublesome that the lights are always not on at night. Do you want to go together?"
Their purpose is obvious.
It's a test.
Jian Yue didn't have to go, but he wanted to confirm one thing, so he smiled and said, "Okay."
A group of people went to the village chief's house together. As the sun gradually set, the sunset dyed the sky blood red. A layer of fog rose in the valley again. The villagers of the entire village disappeared. There was a chill in the air. Only the big red lantern was still hanging in front of the door of the village chief's house not far away.
Standing at the door, Scarface stepped forward and knocked.
But this time the door didn't open so quickly. After a long time, a voice came from inside: "Who is it?"
"Squeak"
The shabby door was reopened, and the village chief's thin and delicate face appeared in front of everyone. The only difference was that his expression seemed to be more gloomy than yesterday, especially when he saw Jian Yue behind him, murderous intent flashed in his eyes! !
Jian Yue raised an eyebrow.
It seems that Widow Li has been here and the money under the water tank must have been taken away.
The village chief asked unhappily, "What are you doing here?"
Scarface said politely, "We want to buy lanterns."
When the matter of buying lanterns was mentioned, the village chief's face finally looked better. His eyes lit up, and he turned around, smiled sinisterly, turned sideways and said, "Come in."
People walked into the house one after another.
The village chief said: "You can buy lanterns, but you need to pay, 500 per person!"
Everyone thought they were well prepared this time, so they all brought money, but they didn't expect that they were not fully prepared. Who would have thought that a broken lantern would cost 500 yuan?
The faces of the archaeologists changed.
But after what happened last night, they didn't dare not buy it.
Wen Yusheng was pretty and elegant. She was the first to test the waters: "Village Chief, can you give us a discount? We are all from other places. It's not easy to make a living..."
The village chief said impatiently: "It's easy for anyone. I get up early and work late to make lanterns. Is it easy for you to buy them if you want or not? Get out!"
Wen Yu's expression changed, looking somewhat ugly. She probably didn't expect that the old man, the village chief, would be so greedy. However, she was a very flexible woman, so she nodded and said, "Okay, we'll buy it."
Everyone went over to pay, so Jian Yue was the only one who hadn't bought anything.
However.
Just as Jian Yue walked over, the village chief stared at him intently, his eyes full of undisguised malice, and he sneered, "You, have to give three times!"
When the words fell, everyone was shocked.
Even the audience in the live broadcast room were shocked:
"This old man is asking for too much."
"You're avenging yesterday!"
"He is really stingy!!"
The village chief dared to ask for such a high price today, firstly because he was sure that the players knew the importance of the lanterns and would not dare to refuse them, and secondly because he had run out of his own money under the water tank!!
As the culprit of the whole thing!
Naturally, he was going to cause trouble for Jian Yue!!
Under the village chief's vicious gaze, Jian Yue smiled gently and said, "Okay, but since you're asking such a high price, I can always check the lanterns to see if they're good or bad. I've spent so much money, I can't just buy a bad lantern. What do you think?"
If it were in the past, the village chief would never agree to such a request.
But now, the village chief really wants revenge!
So the village chief gave in and said, "Hurry up and look, and get out of here right after you finish looking!"
Jian Yue slowly walked to the rack where the lanterns were placed. Lanterns were placed one by one. He picked up one of them and examined it carefully. A familiar smell came, and he was sure that the lantern from yesterday was not an accident, but a human oil lamp.
He had encountered this situation in a case before.
In order to dismember his wife, the abuser killed her and boiled her body into oil for storage. This was the smell he smelled when he opened the kitchen. Unexpectedly, a few years later, he smelled the same smell again in this lantern.
Put down the lantern in your hand.
Jian Yue picked up the other lanterns again and looked at them, then confirmed that they were all human oil lamps.
Seeing how he was hesitant, the village chief impatiently urged him, "Look, these are all handmade red lanterns. You can't buy them outside!"
Jian Yue/audience in the live broadcast room: “…”
What a pure artificial one.
Under the impatient gaze of the village chief, Jian Yue finally said, "Watch it."
The village chief was overjoyed, he even rubbed his hands at his sides, showing that he could no longer control his emotions. His shrewd eyes radiated a calculating light. He had waited for a whole day, as if he had finally avenged yesterday's humiliation, and now he was going to blackmail her for a big sum!
"Have you seen it?" The village chief snorted and said, "Which one do you want to buy?"
"Oh." Jian Yue slowly put down the lantern in his hand and smiled at the village chief: "I won't buy it."
“…”
The world was silent for a moment.
The village chief froze in place as if struck by lightning. From the perspective of the audience in the live broadcast room, he stood there motionless without any slow-motion surprise: "You, you don't want to buy it?"
Jian Yue smiled and said, "Yes, I think it's too expensive."
The village chief had never encountered such a situation before. You know, once people from other places are scared by those things on the first night, they will buy them no matter how high a price he offers the next day!
The other players were also a little surprised.
Scarface originally suspected that Jian Yue was also a player, but he didn't expect that Jian Yue didn't want the lantern. Could it be that he really wasn't a player? But if it wasn't him, who did the gold card in this copy belong to? Could there be another player that he hadn't discovered?
Everyone standing there had different thoughts.
"You, you better think about it." The village chief tried to threaten: "Without my lantern, you will have nothing to light up at night."
Jian Yue: "Oh, it's okay. I sleep well at night and don't get up."
village head:"……"
If looks could kill, Jian Yue would have died a thousand times by now.
Under his eerie gaze.
Jian Yue seemed to have suddenly come to his senses: "Oh, I suddenly remembered."
"What?" Hope surged in the village chief's heart again.
Even Scarface, who was not far away, was filled with hope. The other players in the archaeological team all looked at Jian Yue, who was standing in the spooky courtyard, surrounded by a row of blood-red lanterns, yet still looked calm and composed, as if he had really come here for a trip.
Jian Yue smiled: "I remembered that I have something else to do at the house, so I'll go back first."
village head:"……"
The audience in the live broadcast room were almost laughing like crazy:
"Hahaha, I give in!"
"This old Deng must hate the anchor."
"He always exploits the players."
"He always asked for exorbitant prices before, and finally someone disciplined him!"
Watching Jian Yue's back as he left, hatred slowly emerged in the village chief's eyes, but he slowly revealed a cold smile. He had already smelled the scent of blood on Jian Yue's body. Tonight, that old woman would definitely make sure that Jian Yue died without a burial place and became material for someone else's oil lamp! !
…
night.
After coming back and taking care of things, Jian Yue returned to his room.
Perhaps because of yesterday's psychological expectation, he was not in a hurry to go to bed tonight. He installed a mirror outside the corridor with the window slightly open so that he could see what was outside last night through the reflection of the mirror.
Know yourself and your enemy, and you will win every battle.
He didn't want to be in a passive situation all the time.
The audience in the live broadcast room also approved of his behavior after seeing it:
"This anchor is a little clever."
"Someone almost died during the day, so it's not peaceful tonight."
"The danger of ghosts increases every night."
"The cyberlight may not be useful tonight."
The system may allow people to find one or two bugs, but it also fixes bugs very quickly. In the past, there were anchors who wanted to rely on clever tricks to survive until the end of the dungeon, but the facts proved that it was impossible.
The audience in the live broadcast room went from just watching the fun in the beginning to sincerely hoping that Jian Yue could live two more days.
Jian Yue in the room had no idea that his life was in danger.
After lying on the bed, he did not turn off the lights, but tied the light switch cord around his wrist, so that he would wake up immediately if there was a power outage and the lights were turned off. After taking care of everything, he lay down and fell asleep with peace of mind.
The room was quiet.
There was only the quiet sound of the wind outside.
Until the clock hand officially landed on the 12 o'clock button, the lights in the whole room went out in an instant, and the silent and deserted house even the sound of insects disappeared. There was only the rustling sound of the wind, and some figures that seemed to suddenly emerge from the ground, dragging sticky blood across the corridor, and something crawling on all fours, slowly approaching the room.
Red lanterns have been lit outside several courtyards.
The audience in the live broadcast room suddenly became excited:
“Here it comes!”
"Fuck, it's really her."
"I said it's no use saving people."
"She's here to kill!"
Jian Yue couldn't hear anything coming from the live broadcast room, but he could hear something coming from outside the window. The light went off, and he slowly opened his eyes, sat up, and looked outside through the gap in the window.
In the corridor dimly lit by moonlight.
A figure crawling with a hunched back appeared in the mirror, her clothes were stained with blood, her long hair hung down and her bloodless face was lowered. As if she noticed people's gaze, she suddenly raised her head and revealed a cold smile.
Then--
The door opened.
Jian Yue stood in the corridor and looked at her. There was a moment of silence in the air. She probably didn't expect that he would come out so directly without waiting for her to react.
"Grandma Li, it's you." Jian Yue spoke first. He said, "What did I tell you during the day? I told you that you were a patient, that you had injuries and you might have a concussion. I exchanged medicines and bandaged you with great difficulty, and told you to rest. But you are not lying in bed in the middle of the night, but you come here to act like a ghost?!"
The person on the ground had no idea that what would greet her was not a scream but discipline.
Jian Yue even took a few steps forward: "What's with the blood on your body? Is your wound broken again? Have you forgotten what I told you during the day? If you don't take care of your own body, who do you expect to take care of it? I can save you once, but can I stay by your side every time? You are so old, why are you still so rebellious? What do you mean by not talking? Did I get it right? You..."
Just as Jane was getting closer.
The closer he got, the more Grandma Li, who was kneeling on the ground, backed away. Just when the two people looked at each other, under the gaze of all the viewers in the live broadcast room, the crazy old lady who slaughtered several people in one night without mercy, suddenly ran away like a gust of wind, unable to bear Jian Yue's nagging... ran away!
Jian Yue:?
Audience in the live broadcast room:? !!!
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