Chapter 105 Xia Bai 5
Xia Bai and Ling Changye returned to the house near the school together.
Erwa's assistant has already brought Erwa over, and the assistant hasn't left yet.
Xia Bai felt a little strange. The assistant just stood there and didn't know how to start the conversation.
Ling Changye asked with a smile: "Is there anything wrong?"
Xia Bai also said: "Miss, if you need any cooperation, just tell me directly."
Ling Changye has always been very gentle to others. Except for those people in the assault team, no one thinks he will make things difficult for others. Xia Bai's mood has also been relatively calm during the journey, and he did not give people the impression that he was in a bad mood.
Seeing this, Erwa's assistant felt relieved. She said, "Captain Ling, Minister Yan heard that Erwa can use skills now, and wants him to follow other members of the assault team to go to dungeons more often to get familiar with his skills."
The Minister Yan she was referring to was Yan Song, the director of the business department of the Tourism Administration.
The assault team is under the business unit, but the assault team came first, and then the business unit came into being. The assault team is not just the core of the business unit. The director of the business unit generally does not interfere in the affairs of the assault team.
The assistant said, "It's like this. The Research Institute and the Ministry of Information just issued a notice that the frequency of games coming to Dahui City has increased. It may become the second Quanguang City. In less than a year, two cities have experienced this. They told us to be fully prepared to deal with games and to be prepared to make games public to the whole society."
The summary is that because of Dahui City, the situation has become critical, and their department will face greater pressure, regardless of whether the game will be made public or not.
Erwa was originally one of the reserved trump cards of their assault team. Now that he can use his skills, they naturally hope that he can be trained into a strong combat force as soon as possible to cope with the upcoming tough battles.
Xia Bai asked: "Why is Dahui City suddenly going to become the second Quanguang City?"
Ling Changye said: "Do you remember how the game problem in Quanguang City was solved?"
Xia Bai nodded, "After the large game in Quanguang City was cleared, the frequency of small game maps appearing has decreased. Now Quanguang City should be the city with the least game appearances?"
Even he knew that housing prices in Quanguang City had risen sharply recently.
"Yes, it's because of the large-scale game map. There are only three large-scale game maps in the country. One of them is the Orthopedic Hospital in Quanguang City. Of the remaining two, one has been cleared and the other is in Dahui City. It may be because of this large-scale map that more and more small-scale games are available in the entire city."
Xia Bai remembered that at that time in Quanguang City, the Minister of Logistics Wei Zhengyu told them that solving the problem of large-scale game maps might reduce the frequency of small-scale game maps, which could be regarded as a way to kill small-scale games.
But at that time, there were insufficient samples, so they couldn't be sure whether this was the case.
Now it seems that this is indeed the case.
The increasing frequency of game launches in Dahui City is a crisis, but it may also be a hope.
Therein lies their ultimate solution to the game.
The three of them talked for a while, but Erwa didn't say a word.
Xia Bai said: "Let Erwa decide for himself."
The three of them looked at Erwa, who silently sat on the sofa holding a coffee cup.
Ling Changye usually looks very gentle, but occasionally he can be a little fierce. "If you want to go, just say you want to go. If you don't want to go, just say no. You can't just keep silent like that."
Then he added, "Aren't you a well-mannered child? Well-mannered children aren't like this."
Erwa: "I have a tutor and will ask for parents' opinions."
“…”
Ling Changye said: "I suggest you go. I hope you can grow up to be someone who can stand on your own and protect your family. Of course, if you want to be a small salted fish, that's fine too."
Erwa looked at Xia Bai again.
Xia Bai was in a dilemma. He felt that Erwa didn't want to go, but Ling Changye's words made sense. He thought about it and said, "It doesn't matter whether you go or not. If you go, let Sister Xuemu go with you."
Erwa is capable of fighting, but he is still young and doesn’t understand many things. He doesn’t look very smart.
Although sister Xue Mu looks very young, she has actually lived for many, many years. She has spent more than 20 years with her highly educated sister and has seen through the evil of human nature.
Moreover, with Sister Xue Mu around, Er Wa is more willing to use his skills. With Er Wa around, Sister Xue Mu eats better.
The two of them together are a great pair.
Erwa immediately jumped off the sofa, holding his coffee cup, and walked quickly, "What are you waiting for? Let's go."
“…”
When Erwa walked to the door, Xia Bai called him and Erwa turned around and looked at him seriously.
Xia Bai smiled and said, "I look forward to seeing you next time. I hope Erwa can become a little hero."
A small white flower appeared above Erwa’s head, swaying left and right and floating away.
After they left, only Xia Bai and Ling Changye were left, and Ling Changye didn't look like he was going to leave.
Xia Bai asked directly: "Captain, are we going to live together now?"
Ling Changye said very gentlemanly, "I am your tutor."
“…”
Xia Bai attended two classes in the afternoon, and then came back to spend time alone with Ling Changye.
They didn't do anything, at most a simple kiss, and Ling Changye's main purpose was to provide companionship.
After two days, Xia Bai said to Ling Changye, "Captain, I want to contact the [Psychic] of the Shengyou Guild."
"You want to go see their president?" Ling Changye asked, "Why don't you contact You Yue?"
"I want to see their president." Xia Bai said, "I also want the Psychic to see my soul. He can sense the game from the dead president, so he may be able to sense the game from me. Maybe we can find a way to conquer the game from him?"
Ling Changye pinched the bridge of his nose, "Let me confirm again, you don't want to save the world, right?"
Xia Bai: "... Mainly I want to see their president."
"Okay." Ling Changye said, "Then we have to go to the headquarters of the Holy Travel Guild. You don't have classes tomorrow afternoon, so let's go there."
This matter was arranged by Ling Changye, and Xia Bai just had to take a car to the airport at noon the next day.
"Captain, what did you tell him?" Xia Bai asked Ling Changye on the plane.
Ling Changye said: "The Psychic is a very difficult person. I wanted to tell him that I could let him communicate with your spirit in exchange for him taking us to see the president, but he obviously wouldn't agree. As long as we meet, he can communicate with your spirit and there is no need to take you to see the president."
That's true. This transaction condition is not very cost-effective for the Psychic.
Ling Changye said, "I guess his skills are the same as Jing Yan's, and have a time limit, so I told him that he can feel the game with you just like he does with his president. I let you meet the president in exchange for him channeling you a few more times."
Xia Bai: "Will he believe it?"
Ling Changye: "I asked Lao Qian to endorse me."
Xia Bai: “…”
Outsiders don't know what the "psychic" is called, so they all call him his game identity, the psychic. He is in his forties and wears black clothes all year round. In the cold winter, he wears a delicate and warm cashmere scarf around his neck, which is still black. He looks difficult to get along with. But when he sits down, takes out a black puppy from his arms, and gently touches the puppy's head, the feeling is different.
According to Lao Qian, many people in the Holy Game Guild looked at the people in the Game Administration Bureau as if they were a joke. They learned from the president that the game was something that humans could not compete with, but the Game Administration Bureau was still wasting people's money and energy on making a ridiculous resistance.
This is what a psychic is supposed to be like.
Ling Changye booked a coffee shop near the Holy Travel Guild. After the psychic sat down, he just paid attention to the puppy he had brought out. The puppy should have been picked up by him in the snow. He wiped its fur and paws and didn't even look at them.
It seemed that in his eyes, they were not as good as that little dog.
If it weren't for Lao Qian, he might not even meet them.
Xia Bai got straight to the point: "How about you try to communicate with my spirit? I won't go to see your president first. If you can see something from me, you can go to see the president later. You just need to tell us what you saw through your spirit."
The psychic laughed, "Why do you think our president became the president? Do you really think there is anyone who can be like him?"
He finally spoke, his tone sarcastic and cold.
Ling Changye: "Since we are here, what's wrong with taking a look? Even if you don't believe us, you should believe Lao Qian, right?"
The psychic put the puppy down with a cold face, "If it weren't for Old Qian... Fine, let's take a look. I want to see whether the soul of the person that You Yue put in his soul is dirty or white."
As he spoke, he raised his head, his eyes filled with red light.
What exactly is the soul?
If we talk about the three souls and seven spirits, then is the soul the three souls of a person? I heard that the color of the three souls is red. Does the red light in his eyes touch the three souls?
The soul is not just three souls.
Psychics who possess psychic skills know this best. There is a saying that it is engraved into the soul and cannot be erased.
The soul is the deepest origin of a person. A person's memory can be erased, but the part engraved into the soul cannot be changed like the soul.
What can be engraved into the soul are the things that are hard for a person to forget. It may be hard to forget because it is very precious, it may be hard to let go, it may be hard to let go because it is heartbreaking. It is the basic color of a person.
After about ten minutes, the psychic lowered his eyes and head, picked up the coffee on the table and started drinking.
He still didn't speak.
Ling Changye said: "Then we won't bother you anymore."
As he spoke, he picked up his coat which was on the chair beside him and looked as if he was about to leave.
"Wait a moment." The psychic called out to him.
Xia Bai said: "According to the agreement, you have to tell us what you saw."
The psychic stopped talking again and buried his head in his coffee.
"Let's go." Ling Changye said, "Don't ever see someone like him who doesn't keep his promises again."
As he spoke, Ling Changye picked up Xia Bai's down jacket as well.
"I saw you and the president." The psychic said as he looked at the puppy that was trying to escape.
“…”
The cafe is quite quiet.
Ling Changye smiled kindly, as if chatting with a family: "Why do you think your president can become the president?"
“…………”
The psychic seemed not to have heard what he said. His phone suddenly seemed to become particularly interesting and he kept looking down at it.
At this moment, Lao Qian sent him a message: [Have you met Xia Bai and the others? I tell you, don’t be too crazy when you meet them. I’m doing this for your own good.]
The psychic pressed the phone to death.
Xia Bai finally raised his eyebrows and breathed a sigh of relief, and raised his small chin very high, "Now, immediately, take us to see your president."
The psychic gritted his teeth and said, "Why are you so arrogant? I hate it most when you guys from the Game Management Bureau act so arrogant, as if you can fight against the game and save the world."
"Oh." Xia Bai wrapped himself in his down jacket, "Then let's go."
Ling Changye cooperated with him and walked out of the coffee shop with him. Just as he took two steps towards the car, he heard a muffled voice from behind, "You're going the wrong direction, this way."
The cold-faced psychic held the little black dog he had just picked up and led them towards the Holy Travel Guild, all the way to the gate of a company.
Company name: Shengtian Wealth Company.
Scrolling on the screen: A variety of financial products with annualized returns exceeding 20% are waiting for you.
“…”
It's a very fraudulent company.
Xia Bai was curious, "Does anyone really come here to buy financial products?"
The psychic's voice sounded even more muffled, "Yes, a lot."
“…”
Ling Changye comforted him very considerately, "Many people want to get rich, and they all have the dream of becoming rich overnight."
The placebo effect was negative.
After entering the door, Xia Bai figured out why some people would come for financial management. This company looked quite large, not like a small scam company.
There were several Western-style buildings in the yard. The psychic put the puppy down and took them into the six-story building in the middle.
The fraudulent company looks very modern, with iris scans along the way. Outsiders may be caught before they even enter the door, and I don’t know how they are dealt with.
After they entered the small building, they did not go upstairs but went underground.
As soon as I stepped out of the elevator, I was greeted by a cool breeze. It was dark underground, with only dim light from the wall lamps, and a long path leading directly to a room at the deepest part.
There is a saying in home feng shui that it is not suitable to have a long corridor at home. Some people call it a ghost corridor, which is used to lead ghosts. But it is not a living person, but a dead person's home, which makes sense.
The verification for the last door was more complicated. After passing the three levels of verification, namely iris, fingerprint and password, the heavy door slowly opened.
Xia Bai thought that since he had walked through such a long passage, the house here should be small, but he didn't expect it to be very large, maybe even connected to the underground of the yard.
In the room of over a hundred square meters, there was a round table in the middle, on which lay a person who looked like he was still alive.
Xia Bai stood at the door for several seconds before slowly walking over.
The psychic warned sternly: "Don't touch it!"
As soon as Xia Bai walked over, the president extended his hand to him.
“…”
Lin Xiang said that in the game at Heping Medical College, the corpse in the morgue seemed a little unusual to him.
However, that was the first copy he entered, and he did not have the skills to pick up corpses at that time. Now Xia Bai knew why.
The corpse scavenger skill has an additional function, which he saw when he first read the skill book. The intimacy with the corpse will increase as the skill is upgraded. This can be regarded as a reward to encourage him to sign more corpses.
Maybe when he was testing the game, his skill level was very high and his intimacy with the corpse was also very high. After he left the game, he no longer had this skill, but some of his intimacy with the corpse still remained.
Now his skill level is starting to rise again, and the corpse intimacy is higher.
Of course, there is also the possibility that the corpse in front of him is the one he once signed a contract with and fought side by side with. Even if his skills have been initialized, some things still exist between them, just like him and the God of Joy at home.
Xia Bai reached out and held the president's dry hand, feeling a sour sense of relief in his heart.
The psychic's teeth are about to break.
Xia Bai asked him, "You said you saw me and the president. You watched for such a long time. You didn't just see one scene of us together, did you? Did I do anything with him?"
"How much do you think I can see? Do you think the president was the only one there in these ten minutes? There were many other people, such as Captain Ling." The psychic said coldly.
Ling Changye laughed and said, "Thank you. But now we should be able to reach a cooperation. Vice President, please talk to us. We may have to get along for a long time, right?"
What he meant was that the psychic had the opportunity to communicate with Xia Bai many times.
The psychic stood there depressed for a while, and perhaps he came to his senses, and described to them in detail a scene he saw in Xia Bai's soul about him and the president.
It was in a snowy area that was not completely white. The snow was very thick, and many corpses were half buried in it.
Some have turned into ice sculptures, eternally recording their curled-up deaths, while others must have died not long ago, leaving behind a red depression in the white snow.
There was a young man in black clothes, carrying a young boy on his back, walking hard in the snow against the howling cold wind.
The psychic recognized this man at first sight. He was the president of the Holy Travel Guild who was lying there. He had seen him countless times and would definitely not make a mistake. He even saw the mole between his eyebrows.
Maybe he was injured, but he walked very slowly. He smiled and said to the boy on his back, "Xiaobai, you must hold on. Otherwise, what's the point of me living?"
The young man on his back raised his head with great effort, stretched out his two frozen hands, and covered the ears of the man in black that were blown red by the biting cold wind.
The boy looked forward. The cold wind blew up the snow. The sky and the earth were all hazy white, and it seemed as if he would never be able to get out.
This is a picture that makes people feel despair, but the psychic sees warm hope. Perhaps it is because of the life-and-death relationship between the two people, or perhaps it is the influence of Xia Bai's soul. This scene is warm in his soul.
That's why he agreed to bring them to see the president.
He knew that Xia Bai and the president were not enemies.
The psychic then asked, "You should also tell me why I see this scene, right? Xia Bai and the president seem to be in the game, but how could they have been to the same game? Did the president go there through an out-of-body experience?"
Chu Ling Changye took out the contract he had prepared long ago, which he had bought from the game store, and said, "We will tell you after we sign the game contract and make sure we cooperate well with each other and won't betray each other."
The psychic took it and read it one by one.
To be fair, there is nothing wrong with this contract and it is not unfair to him.
The psychic read it carefully twice and signed his game identity.
Now they were officially partners, the kind where betrayal would be wiped out by the game.
Xia Bai then frankly told him what they knew and their speculations.
The psychic didn't believe it at first, "You completed all the games and successfully got rid of them?"
Ling Changye: "It's hard for you to believe. Your Saint Tour Guild firmly believes that games are something that humans cannot compete with. Would it be a bit embarrassing to accept that?"
Psychic: “…”
"Wake up." Xia Bai said, "You sensed from the president that the game cannot be resisted because the president died in the game. The deepest part of his soul should be his thoughts when he died. When he died in despair in the game, it is normal to feel that the game cannot be resisted. But I came out alive, which means that the game can be completely cleared. Humans must have a way."
The psychic's worldview was shaken, and he kept saying, "Impossible, impossible..."
Xia Bai continued to instill the light of righteousness in him, "We are looking for you to find out what happened during the internal test, and we also want to see if you can see a way to crack the game in my soul."
The psychic still said that he didn't believe it, but whether he believed it or not and to what extent he believed it was only known to him.
Xia Bai and Ling Changye did not force him to accept it immediately. They all knew that the game could not shake not only what the psychic had always believed, but also the foundation of the existence of the Holy Travel Guild, a foundation he had laid single-handedly.
If he believed that humans had a way to defeat games, even to rebel against them, then what was the Holy Game Guild? The joke would no longer be the Game Administration that they had always mocked.
Xia Bai asked: "Where did you find the president's body?"
The psychic said absentmindedly, "It was sent by someone else. Before the game came, my family was in the business of dealing in dead people, and someone would send corpses to our family."
Xia Bai: “…”
"What kind of dead body business would involve collecting corpses? Are you corpse dealers? Are you organizing ghost marriages?" Xia Bai said with disgust.
It's rare to see such clear disgust expressed on his face.
"How can you talk like that? Who would do such a shameless business?" The psychic said, "Our family doesn't hold weddings between the living and the dead. We do good deeds."
Seeing that Xia Bai was getting serious and wanted to have a good talk with the psychic, Ling Changye stopped him and said to the psychic, "Go on."
The psychic looked at Xia Bai and said, "We found something wrong with the president's body, so we kept him. Later, I entered the game and got the psychic skill. I can communicate with the spirits of players and NPCs in the game. I wanted to try if I could communicate with the spirits of the dead, and that's when I sensed the game in the president."
Ling Changye asked: "So, you can communicate with the spirits of the dead?"
The psychic said, "It depends on the situation. If the person has just died, then it's OK. But if the person has been dead for more than an hour, then it's not OK. The president is the most special. He has been dead for several years, but I can still communicate with his soul. It may be because he has been dead for too long. I can't see a very clear picture and can only sense some vague things."
He added to himself, "It's like a prophecy that needs to be carefully considered."
"So you took it out of context, concluded that the game could not be fought, and established the Holy Tour Guild?" Xia Bai said with a disgusted expression.
“…”
The psychic is already regretting signing the contract.
Why is this person's expression so flexible when he is arguing with others?
"There is one thing we need to know. How long is the cooldown time of your skill after you use spiritual power on a person?" Ling Changye asked.
Psychic: "I can only communicate with the same person twice a day, once during the day and once at night. The communication effect is better if I communicate at night while sleeping."
As expected, the more powerful the skill, the longer the cooldown period. Jing Yan saw that the cooldown period was only three hours.
Ling Changye said: "Then it may take us some time to find out the truth."
Xia Bai said: "The situation is this, I'm very busy recently and can't accommodate you, you have to follow us. You wait for me when I go to school, you follow me when I go to visit relatives, and you have to accompany us when we do assault team missions and play games."
Psychic: “……?”
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