Chapter 244: Ghost in the Mirror (Part 7)
It’s really him!
Zhu Ping didn't know what to say for a moment. She opened her mouth, but all she could say was one sentence: "Why is it you?"
"Hmm?" Jie Fangcheng's voice was a little distorted in the receiver, but the doubt in his voice was quite obvious. "Didn't we agree that you would call me when you get to the community?"
As he spoke, Jie Fangcheng was a little puzzled: "You guys are not that fast. I've already arrived at the hotel, but you guys are just here now?"
Jie Fangcheng felt that he was slow enough, but why were the players on the opposing team even slower than him?
Can these people do this?
Zhu Ping reflexively refuted: "No."
After I finished my rebuttal, I realized that what I said was not easy to explain.
Of course they didn't believe that Jie Fangcheng would answer the call, so they didn't call.
Who would have thought that even though they didn't call, Jie Fangcheng took the initiative to call them.
Thinking of this, Zhu Ping came back to his senses.
"By the way...you're on the line now, how's the surrounding area?"
"Around?" Jie Fangcheng turned his head.
One, two, three or four of them are lying or sprawled against the wall, playing Jenga.
Of course, these were not all the ghosts in the hotel. After Jie Fangcheng killed a few and chased a few more, the remaining ghosts all ran away.
In the previous hotel, Jie Fangcheng could tear down the hotel and catch ghosts without restraint, but in this hotel, it was obvious that this phone call was very important.
Manager Xie is not an unreasonable person, so he certainly won't demolish the current hotel.
So when Zhu Ping asked this, Xie Fangcheng answered while chewing an apple: "Not bad."
Click, click…
Zhu Ping: “…”
Zhu Ping: "What are you eating?"
"Apple." Jie Fangcheng had a fruit basket filled with washed fruits next to him. He also changed into an unopened hotel bathrobe and had the TV remote control next to him.
"Where did the apples come from?" Zhu Ping was shocked. After being surprised, she felt that her three views were challenged. She said something that didn't make sense, "You...just ate it like that? Aren't you afraid that the food in this place might have problems? And your...hotel...didn't the ghost come out?"
"Ghost? Yes."
Zhu Ping heard the strange player on the other end of the phone say something like "come here", "say hello to someone", "how rude" and so on.
After a while, Jie Fangcheng said regretfully: "They don't want to come over."
Zhu Ping asked cautiously, "Who are 'they'?"
Jie Fangcheng replied: "A ghost."
Click, click.
The whole group of people was down.
Is it fake? ?
This kid... this kid...
Jie Fangcheng waited for a while, but the opposing players didn't say anything. He didn't have the patience.
"I left my phone here? Are you going to look for clues? Call me if anything happens?"
"...Okay." Zhu Ping put the security room's phone on the table with a dazed look.
At this moment, Guan Yingying came to her senses first.
"Wait a minute!" she asked, "What if the security guard comes back later?"
Before Zhu Ping could think about what to do, Jie Fangcheng on the other end of the line heard her and answered.
"The security guard is very easy to talk to."
That was not an easy thing to say. Jie Fangcheng was holding a stick at the time and his clothes were covered in dirt.
After arriving at the community, he wandered around like a headless fly, and found nothing else. However, he found a public washbasin and flushed himself there.
The security guard saw all this and greeted him warmly.
"Young man, what's wrong with you? Why don't you call your family?"
It was the security guard's call that allowed Jie Fangcheng to discover that there were three or four landline phones in the security booth.
As if to verify Jie Fangcheng's words, he had just finished saying "The security guard is easy to talk to" when a skinny old man in his sixties or seventies came back from lunch wearing a security guard uniform.
Seeing the player using the phone in the security booth, the security guard was also very friendly.
"Use it."
Even when Zhu Ping tentatively asked if he could keep the phone on, the old man nodded generously.
"Okay."
These people in front of me look so miserable, all of them are covered in dust and dirt, and some of them seem to be disabled, and their walking posture is a little weird.
After getting the old man's consent, everyone evacuated from the phone booth.
Under the scorching sun, a group of people looked at each other, standing at the door of the security room, not knowing what to say.
The development of this instance is really... really confusing!!
"What's the plan of that player?" someone muttered to himself.
The original method that Zhu Ping and his team had decided on to pass the level was to split the players into two groups, and given the situation at the hotel, more than half of the players would have to stay in the hotel to guard it.
Even this cannot guarantee that the call will be connected smoothly. It is very likely that the call can only be connected for a while at intervals, and then for a while again after a long time.
In this case, their efficiency in finding clues will be greatly reduced.
But now, Jie Fangcheng was the only one at the hotel.
He was the only one there! The phone was always on, and the NPCs around him were moving around as usual.
One minute passed, two minutes passed... five minutes passed, and the NPC was still there.
The player named Jie Fangcheng, he was not lying? He is really strong! !
Zhu Ping was indeed wary of him at the beginning, but now, the smart man instantly understood that in the face of absolute strength, any ulterior motive would only bring humiliation to oneself.
If the other party wanted command power relying on his own strength, would Zhu Ping dare not give it to him? What else should she be on guard against when someone has such strength?
It’s almost the same as offering it.
Zhu Ping's tone changed: "Now that the important task of guarding the hotel has been handed over to that player, we can say that the risk factor has been reduced by half. Let's go and find clues about this Qiao Qiang first, and then make other plans!"
This is also the initial goal of the players.
But now it’s different from when you first entered the community. When you first entered the community, there were no NPCs in the community, and players didn’t actually have much hope of finding key clues.
But now, NPCs are all around.
The weather was clear and the sun was scorching.
This copy is really different from the ordinary copy!
In the dungeons that players go through, the NPCs that have close contact with the players are basically enemies, and they always want to eat the players within the rules.
However, in Xinxin Home Community, the NPCs that players have encountered so far have very good tempers, just like ordinary people.
This is naturally not because the copy is not difficult - on the contrary, as the most difficult ghost copy, He Mingguang was killed at the beginning, and the strength of the ghosts in the hotel is really impressive.
If Jie Fangcheng wasn't here, how could the players search for clues in the community like they are now? The difficulty in this community is really not high.
Jie Fangcheng, who was considered by the players to have been given an important task, turned on the TV, changed channels twice, and found that there were no programs on TV, so he turned off the TV without interest.
Manager Xie then took out a deck of cards from the counter and looked at the trembling ghosts.
"Would you like to play Landlord?" asked Jie Fangcheng.
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In Xinxin Home Community, the players finally found Xiaoqiang Supermarket.
The community supermarket is not big and you can see the scene inside clearly from the door.
It was hot at noon. The owner was sitting on a bamboo chair in short-sleeved shirt and shorts, fanning himself gently with a palm-leaf fan in one hand. At first glance, Qiao Qiang seemed really honest.
Just at this moment, an elderly resident came into the supermarket to buy something.
Qiao Qiang greeted him with a smile, found the goods and paid the bill quickly, and did not forget to show concern for the other person's health.
"Aunt Liu, do you still have knee pain recently? I went on a trip some time ago and bought some plasters specifically for rheumatism...Hey, take it. I don't want your money. I bought it especially for you."
After the two men declined twice, Aunt Liu accepted the bottle of ointment embarrassedly.
"Xiao Qiang is such a good boy." She sighed.
Qiao Qiang pursed his lips and smiled, looking like a really nice guy.
This made the players a little uncertain.
"Qiao Qiang has such a good personality and is a very honest man. How could he make enemies with others?"
The players all had their own concealment skills, some were hiding on the stairs, some were hiding in the corners of the store, all were staring at Qiao Qiang.
Half of the afternoon had passed, and the sun outside was not as scorching as before. Apart from discovering that Qiao Qiang was a good man, the players had no other clues.
"No need to wait. Just leave two people here to watch, and the rest of you follow me." Zhu Ping said.
Just after she said this, a new customer came into the store.
"Hello." A female customer who looked like she had just graduated from college, wearing a T-shirt and black-framed glasses, came into the store holding an electronic desk lamp and placed it on the shelf. "I bought an electronic desk lamp from our store this morning, but when I went back and tried it, it didn't light up."
"Really? Let me see."
Qiao Qiang walked over and took the desk lamp out of the box.
Qiao Qiang fiddled with the electronic desk lamp for a few times, but it still showed no sign of lighting up. Instead, Qiao Qiang saw obvious signs of having been dropped on one side of the lamp.
"Is this broken?"
Hearing him say this, the girl frowned and said, "I just bought it this morning. I tried it at home and found it didn't light up, so I put it back in the box. I didn't drop it at all."
Qiao Qiang glanced at her and said, "I didn't say I wouldn't refund it to you."
The girl looked unhappy - but it was just a minor friction. Qiao Qiang quickly returned the money and the customer left.
The players didn't take it seriously, and just when they were about to retreat, Zhu Ping moved his ears.
"You stinky bitch, who are you trying to show off to? Sooner or later I'll find someone to kill you, you idiot..."
Zhu Ping turned her head suddenly.
After Qiao Qiang cursed "honest man" viciously and dirtyly for a while, he lay back on his bamboo chair.
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