Chapter 86
So the question is, is a person who is 1.7 meters tall considered to have a decent figure in the eyes of these people?
"Why think so much?" Bei Qiao shook his head and continued to scroll through the group chat logs. Judging from their origins, there were actually quite a few players from all over the place, but no one had revealed any flaws along the way. This showed that everyone's acting skills were really good.
In fact, there are many dramatic players among the players who play Resident Account. If the other world does not have many similarities with the real world, and the official deliberately creates a layer of game skin for the other world, long-term travel between the two places can easily have an impact on the players' psychology, especially the adverse effects here.
"Nightlife... forget it. It's not good for your health if you don't go to bed before 11 o'clock." After closing the forum, Bei Qiao hesitated for a while between going out and practicing martial arts in the house, and finally chose to practice martial arts.
After practicing her internal energy, Bei Qiao wiped the sweat off her body and subconsciously opened the forum to see if there was an advanced version of the official internal energy course. Just then, she heard a knock outside the window.
Bei Qiao's room is on the third floor. It is almost eleven o'clock now, which is probably the middle of the night. If it weren't for the shadow of a cat on the window, this situation would be a standard beginning of a horror movie.
"If this were a horror movie, the next thing would be the cannon fodder opening the window and getting killed instantly, only to be discovered as a corpse by the protagonist or an important character..." Bei Qiao muttered to himself as he walked to the window, but stopped without opening it. The cat outside the window heard what Bei Qiao said, tilted its head, and continued to knock on the window.
Seeing the cat knocking anxiously on the window, Bei Qiao took out a magnet from her bag and tested it around the window. After ruling out the possibility of someone lurking in the blind spot with a weapon, she covered her mouth and nose with a wet handkerchief and pushed the window open a crack.
Seeing the window open, the calico cat outside nimbly squeezed in through the gap in the window, which was not yet fully opened, as if it was afraid that Bei Qiao would go back on his word.
After closing the window, Bei Qiao looked at the calico cat in front of him that was limping a little, put down his handkerchief, raised an eyebrow and asked, "Is there anything I can help you with?"
"Meow?" The calico cat turned around, tilted its head towards Bei Qiao, blinked its round eyes, gently wagged its tail, and acted cute with an innocent look on its face.
"You are from the same hometown, right?" Bei Qiao clicked on the forum. Sure enough, after the cat appeared in the house, the forum could not be opened. Instead, an application screen popped up automatically and it would not open until another person confirmed it.
"You don't want to sell me out too, do you?" After learning that Bei Qiao was also a player, the calico cat became alert and stopped wagging its tail happily.
"If I really wanted to sell you out, why would I reveal your identity?" Bei Qiao yawned. "You're here for help, right? If you have something to say, just say it and leave." Also? It sounded like a story, but she didn't want to ask about it right now.
"Maybe you are... Never mind." The calico cat stood up, holding on to the table leg beside her. "Please give me some bandages and send me to the shopkeeper. I'll transfer the money as a reward." Cash? Sorry, she didn't have a single pocket on her body.
"Sure, do you need help bandaging it?"
"...Can you promise not to pet the cat while you're bandaging it?"
"Of course." Bei Qiao suppressed his laughter: His expression was so serious, it turned out that he was worried about this.
I have to say that cats are really born to be popular. Although this player’s attitude in asking for help was not very good, after reaching out and holding her plum blossom claws, Bei Qiao felt that he could still forgive her this time. After all, she is a cat now.
The calico cat had injuries on all four limbs, with the most serious injury being on her right hind leg, which was why she limped. Seeing that her wound was bleeding a little, Bei Qiao cleaned the dirty fur around it, applied some medicine, and carefully bandaged it.
"Thank you." The calico cat glanced at Bei Qiao awkwardly.
"You're welcome. Are you going to find the shopkeeper now?" Bei Qiao clapped his hands and stood up.
"Yes, please."
Bei Qiao didn't want the calico cat to be discovered by others, so he put it in a cross-body bag. After going out, he stopped the waiter in the corridor and asked him where the shopkeeper was.
"The shopkeeper has gone to bed. Is there anything urgent for you, guest?"
"Well...are you anxious?" Bei Qiao lowered his head and glanced at the calico cat in the bag.
The calico cat poked its head out of the bag and looked around. Although there was no one else in the corridor, the calico cat was worried that someone was hiding behind the door and eavesdropping, so it was very cautious and did not speak. Instead, it used its tail to repeatedly make the "s" gesture in the air.
Upon seeing this, the waiter immediately turned serious and said, "I see. Please follow me." It turned out to be a player who came to ask for help.
Putting down his cleaning tools, the waiter led the two men to the door of the shopkeeper's room and knocked. It was not the shopkeeper's working hours, so if he wanted to call him online, he had to knock regularly on a specific area of the door, using a mechanism to send the shopkeeper an overtime signal.
After waking up Shopkeeper Lu, the waiter gestured for the two to go inside, while he closed the door and stood guard at the door.
"What do you want to ask for help, sir?" Shopkeeper Lu, who was woken up, sat down at the table and drank two cups of tea. He felt a little depressed: He has been in Qingtian City for three years, and this is the first time he has encountered a player asking the official for help.
Official inns scattered across the country have a hidden mission: to protect players' safety to a certain extent. However, they only handle disputes between players, similar to otherworldly courts. As for matters between players and locals, the authorities generally leave it to the players themselves to handle, encouraging them to resolve issues through quests.
"Hello, Shopkeeper. This is my player ID." The calico cat emerged from its bag and hopped lightly onto the table, showing Shopkeeper Lu its forum interface. "I want to report player Tan Zhen. She claimed to be a fellow villager and lured me to the natives with the intent of murdering me. If I weren't a demon, I wouldn't be able to escape now."
Shopkeeper Lu entered the calico cat's player ID into the system and checked her game data: "Huazhi, a demon, has been confirmed. Tan Zhen, a human... Her address is in Luodan City. I need to contact the inn in Luodan City to find out how to handle this matter. In addition, the guest will need to pay a dispute handling fee first. If the situation is true, after the matter is resolved, the system will deposit the compensation paid by the other party into your account, and the dispute handling fee will also be refunded."
"Okay." The calico cat raised its front paws and pressed the confirmation button on the screen in front of it.
After completing the process, Shopkeeper Lu turned to look at Bei Qiao: "What does this guest want?"
"I'm fine, I just came to send the cat off." Bei Qiao spread his hands: "Can I leave now?"
"sure."
The calico cat turned around and carefully looked at Bei Qiao's figure: "Well, it's okay, you should be safe."
"What's the meaning?"
"Height? Have you ever seen the Chamber of Commerce mission? I only realized it after I escaped. I almost became someone else's scapegoat." The calico cat stood up unhappily, waving its front paws and angrily slapping the air to vent its anger. "You know that the only way for the demons to transform into human form early is with the help of elixirs, right?"
Bei Qiao nodded: "Indeed, I have heard of it." He didn't know what happened to those demon players he met before. He probably still maintained his original form.
"I saved up my money to buy the transformation pill, and just after taking it and turning into a human to meet my friends, I was kidnapped. Can you! understand! the feeling?" The calico cat slammed the table while grinding its teeth.
"Ah..." Bei Qiao felt a little complicated because it was the first time he saw a cat so angry that it gnashed its teeth.
"The cheapest transformation pill is only effective for three days and will automatically lose its effect after you change back to your original form. I wasted two full days of the medicine to escape, and I was almost bitten on the butt by a wild dog when I was trying to hijack someone's carriage. I'm so unlucky, meow..." The calico cat lay down on the table aggrievedly, and at the same time kicked away the hand of Shopkeeper Lu that was sneaking over: "Get out of the way, don't pet me!" So, I don't want to turn into a cat at all. A small furry ball has no deterrent power at all! Even if I get so angry that I smoke, others will just think I'm so cute... Ah, the more I think about it, the angrier I get!
Repeatedly telling himself not to pet the cat, Bei Qiao took advantage of the calico cat's inattention and retracted his half-extended hand: "Don't be sad, maybe you're not unlucky, but just encountered the same situation? In other words, is there a possibility that the two families are looking for a scapegoat?"
Shopkeeper Lu's mouth twitched: Are you sure you are comforting me, sir?
"Is that so?" The calico cat wiped away tears with its paw, its emotions calming down a bit. "So I didn't meet their criteria for arresting people, I was just caught by another bastard who wanted to kill people?"
Shopkeeper Lu: No, can you be comforted like this? Is it you who is wrong or me?
"It's hard to say. Who says there can only be one villain in one place? This is not a TV series." Bei Qiao pulled out the handkerchief embroidered with gold ingots from his sleeve and handed it to the calico cat so that she could wipe her tears: "If there is nothing else, I'll leave first." Although it's not polite to think so, the crying calico cat is really super cute.
"Okay, send me your player number. After I log off, I'll transfer you a few dozen dollars as a reward." The calico cat nodded, raised its paw, and pressed its face against the handkerchief.
"I sent it to you."
Bei Qiao said goodbye and left, leaving the calico cat with the shopkeeper. The calico cat player herself was not a pretentious person. After her emotions calmed down a bit, she began to describe her previous experience in detail to the shopkeeper Lu.
This is the mandatory process for players to resolve disputes. Both the reporting party and the reported party must provide relevant information about the matter being reported. Their entire statement will be recorded by the system and used as evidence in court. If someone lies, the fine will increase by at least 30%.
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