Chapter 262
There were also a few people who tried to find a breakthrough from the little girl, but unfortunately she was just young and very smart, and she was very skilled at repeating the same things, so no useful information was revealed.
Bei Qiao stood outside the crowd, watching the brother and sister being surrounded and chatting, but she didn't approach them like the others. A few mischievous children ran up to her, crouched down, and tried to see her face through the curtains. Their parents caught up with them, grabbing their clothes by the back and pulling them back, making them flutter like captured frogs.
"Stop trampling!" Seeing more and more people gathering, the clerk in charge of record-keeping and organizing stepped forward to direct them to disperse, lest they trample the designated fields. The weeds in the fields couldn't be killed, but if they were trampled into the soil, the clerk would have to find someone to dig them out and replant them to pass them off as crops, which was quite troublesome.
Driven away by the petty officials, the crowds of people who had gathered to chat reluctantly and dawdled away. After all this commotion, most people were no longer in the mood to urge their children to work. Farming was a time-limited activity. Some felt their children had already endured enough hardship and immediately abandoned their farm tools and took their children with them. Others, feeling it was uneconomical to just leave, found a spot by the field, intending to linger until the time was up before returning to work.
Not everyone thought thirty taels of silver was a small sum. Even after being driven away by the clerk, some people waited anxiously for the man to finish his work, hoping to continue chatting with him and see if there was a chance to earn the thirty taels of silver. In their opinion, someone who regarded thirty taels of silver as a small amount of money would not be stingy in giving a little benefit to the person who helped him.
"Girl, do you want to try farming?" The clerk saw Bei Qiao standing by, not moving around or talking, and couldn't help but ask.
"No." Bei Qiao shook his head, turned and left, finding a nearby restaurant to sit down. The owner, a middle-aged man with a blank expression, sat alone behind the counter, fiddling with an abacus. A waiter passed by Bei Qiao carrying dishes, then passed by again after serving them, with no intention of stopping to wait for customers to order.
Bei Qiao wasn't used to eating in otherworldly settings, so she didn't mind. Looking at the fields not far away, she pondered: The shops nearby are quite close to the military farms, and I can clearly hear the people talking in the fields. But the people in the shops didn't approach the man. Was it because they didn't notice? Speaking of which, the clerk didn't react much to what the man said...
Business was pretty good, and as more and more people came in to eat, Bei Qiao, who hadn't planned to dine in, stood up and left to make room for others. The clerk didn't notice her sitting down, nor did he notice her leaving. He looked busy, but it was unclear what he was busy with.
After viewing the landmark Tuntian, Bei Qiao wandered around the area. Xiaoyue City's buildings were primarily utilitarian. The distant mountains were closed to the public due to military defense, and climbing the city walls was prohibited. There was a City God Temple, not crowded but still quite popular. However, it was quite small, and one could walk around the entire temple in less than thirty steps.
After lighting three incense sticks to honor the local hero, Bei Qiao left the City God Temple and found a private restaurant, intending to rest while checking to see if there was any further activity on her previous post. After opening the forum, Bei Qiao, sitting by the window, glanced down and noticed the wealthy brother and sister she had met earlier were passing by below, surrounded by a group of people as they headed towards her restaurant. It looked as if they were planning to find a private room for a chat.
"What a coincidence." Bei Qiao opened the post she had posted earlier and quickly checked the replies. After she announced the location of Rouge City, fewer people were posting in the thread than before. A player who had stumbled in curiously asked these people why they were looking for Rouge City, and the answer they received was...
Player looking for someone: Someone gave me a book as a gift, but I left it on the table without reading it, and my family saw it.
Player looking for someone: Then, my mom ran away from home with my wife, saying that all men are bad. Do you think the culprit deserves a beating?
Passerby player: Oh...
Passerby player: So you don’t log off to comfort your wife and mother, but vent your anger online?
Passerby: Did you really not read it? Could it be that the description in the book just happened to match your own?
System: This reply has been deleted. Message failed to send.
Passerby player: Hey! If you can’t win the argument, just run away!
Passerby players: Tsk tsk tsk!
After reading the replies, Bei Qiao added another thread about the missing siblings he encountered in Tuntian District and posted it. Unexpectedly, this time, he received even more replies. Many people, probably having set keyword alerts, came across the post and inquired about the siblings' characteristics and location.
What is going on here... Bei Qiao listened to the noise outside and noticed that the brother and sister entered the private room next to her with other people: "Oh." Isn't this a coincidence?
Qiao Qiao: The location is in Xiaoyue City.
After sending out the name of the restaurant, Bei Qiao dealt with other people's replies while processing the data sent by the escort agency. He also took the time to listen to the movements next door to see if he could get any results.
The post about Rouge City has completely gone off topic. Everyone is discussing enthusiastically below the post, talking about everything from the sinking market to romantic records, and then to a profiling competition among Rouge City readers. Players who clicked in later saw the content below the post, compared it with the title of the post, and after a moment of surprise, they would join in the discussion, making the discussion more and more heated.
In a new thread, other players were checking information with Bei Qiao. Unlike the siblings in Rouge City, Bei Qiao didn't know their names or their transportation, so he couldn't provide much information. But upon seeing how generous the two were in their search, many players seemed to be spurred on, pleading with Bei Qiao for more information. Players closer to the area even flocked directly to the restaurant.
Bei Qiao didn't mention he was also in the restaurant, only that he'd just happened to see them nearby. It was difficult for the players to openly ask the waiter about it, especially since there were already so many people dining there. Simply looking for a man and a woman surrounded by a group, whose names they didn't know, would be too far away. After some discussion, the players finally decided to split up and go into a private room, hoping to see who would be lucky enough to run into them.
Did they suspect this brother and sister were the same scammers they'd encountered before? Sitting in a private room, Bei Qiao rubbed his chin. According to the information he'd gathered from the group chat, many people had been scammed by a man and woman, sometimes siblings, sometimes husband and wife, and the sums swindled ranged from one to a hundred taels. No one had considered that they might be the same group. Even before the scam began, the couple had used the excuse of looking for someone, and they'd been willing to spend a fortune. Until one day, two gamers skilled in portrait copying bumped into each other, holding their own homemade wanted posters... Hey!
A scammed player said: "I tried to send quests before, but these two are good at disguising themselves and can run very fast. They are really hard to catch. I sent the quests until the time limit expired, but I didn't see any results... Damn it! Give me back my hard-earned money!"
Bei Qiao commented on the post, saying he couldn't confirm whether the two men were the scammers the players were trying to catch. Other players said it didn't matter, saying it was better to be wrong than to let them go. If the two weren't scammers, then the extra thirty taels of silver would depend on their own abilities. If they were, regardless of whether they were scammers they had encountered before, they'd considered themselves to be doing a good deed by taking action.
Player: We've eliminated several private rooms now, leaving only two to check. The room next to one of them is already occupied. I heard it's a wealthy young lady, but the waiter advises us not to approach her. Sigh.
Bei Qiao, who was still eavesdropping on the noise next door: It seems like you are talking about me...whatever.
After the players left the corridor and entered the private room, the outside gradually quieted down, and the sounds of clinking glasses in the adjacent room gradually became clearer. Bei Qiao, holding his teacup close to the wall, heard the man next door, after a lot of boasting, finally, under guidance, reveal the person he was looking for: his missing love, Liao Xi.
Snap! In the other private room, the teacup in a player's hand unfortunately shattered into pieces: Damn it, it must be this bastard!
"Calm down, calm down..." The other players hurriedly tried to pry her hands apart to prevent her from unconsciously grabbing the broken pieces of the cup and scratching her palms.
The man still used a new identity this time, but because he was not good at ventriloquism, even after disguising his voice, his voice still sounded familiar to the victims present, not to mention that there was another voice next to him that also sounded familiar to them as evidence.
"This feeling can be cherished, but it was already gone by then..." The man sighed in the private room, "Don't worry if you all laugh at me, I haven't married in over 20 years because I wanted to find my sweetheart and rekindle our past relationship. In this life, there's no room in my heart for another beautiful woman."
"Stop it right there! Don't put any more money in! If you waste money again, I'll complain to my parents!" The little girl angrily slapped the man on the back of the head: "Do you hear me?"
The player eavesdropping next door: "Haha!" It really looks like the real thing. It's time for the old show next, right?
As expected, the brother and sister acted out a double act, one pretending to be generous while the other pretended to block them. After a while, the girl pretended to need something and left temporarily, repeatedly telling the man not to spend any more money before leaving. The man pretended to agree, and after the girl left, he began to act out his words: "Dear fellow villagers, brothers from a foreign land, please help me in this emergency! Please, please! Lend me some money first to fool my complaining sister, and then I can get the money back..."
"Bullshit!" The player, unable to bear it any longer, rushed out of his private room and kicked open the door of the man's room. "Swindler! Give me back my hard-earned money!"
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