Chapter 25 Tourism Administration
Hua Haoming was probably about to vomit out everything in his stomach, and he didn't come up for a long time.
He looked quite powerful, but Xia Bai remembered his intense reaction when he heard him talking about the God of Joy in his yard. He must have been afraid of or at least resisted corpses.
Now he knew he was chewing on a body in the morgue and that the body was in his stomach.
Xia Bai looked even more stunned.
The car drove for more than half an hour, and he sent a message to Xia Bai, [I'll go to the next door to get an ambulance to wash my stomach. The driver will take you to the Jiangqi City Tourism Administration Branch. Lin Xiang and Meng Tianyou will also be sent there.]
Xia Bai: [Okay.]
After a while, Hua Haoming sent another message: [Soul Skill?]
Before Xia Bai could type, another message came rushing in, [You don't have to tell me, this is the player's privacy, many players are hiding in secret, privacy can sometimes save lives.]
Xia Bai understood that there was actually competition between players in the game, and victory could only be achieved by using unexpected skills. If the skills were exposed, it would be very dangerous if the enemy deliberately targeted them.
Xia Bai: [Two-faced man?]
Hua Haoming: [Yes.]
Xia Bai: [I have one too.]
Xia Bai did not tell him specifically what his skills were, but he told him that he had soul skills because Hua Haoming really hoped that he would have soul skills.
There was another reason that Xia Bai was not sure about. He felt that Hua Haoming deliberately did not fully display his strength in the game. Hua Haoming had his own ideas. Xia Bai wondered if one of the reasons was to highlight him and let him get the soul skill.
Hua Haoming: [Not bad!]
Hua Haoming: [Don’t tell me, let me guess and look for it.]
After two minutes, Hua Haoming: [Oh, you are not on the list. Without your identity, I can’t find you.]
Xia Bai turned off the conversation with Hua Haoming with lifeless eyes.
Seeing that there were 99+ messages in the [Never Contact Each Other Again] group, Xia Bai clicked in and read for a while.
Today, it was Old Liu who spoke first, asking Old Xia whether his grandson was going to report to Heping Medical College today. Then Old Wang came out and asked them if everything was going well. Not long after, they started arguing again.
Xia Bai hurriedly replied.
Lao Xia: [Xiao Bai has reported in and has packed up his dorm. Everything is going well.]
Old Liu: [That’s good. The world is not peaceful right now. I will make sure Xiaobai pays more attention to safety.]
Lao Wang: [Xiao Bai has my phone number, right? If he has any urgent matters, he can call me.]
Lao Xia: [Okay, everything is fine, don't worry, and be careful. If you have anything to say, please talk to the group.]
In the era when corpse drivers were needed, some people traveled thousands of miles to return to their roots.
On the way of driving corpses, one makes friends and enemies. Different factions have different ways of driving corpses, and no one is willing to submit to anyone else. When they meet at the Xishen Inn, they always have a few words with each other.
Later, there was no need for corpse drivers in the world. They were very old, most of them had white hair, and they were about to step into the coffin and become corpses.
They gathered in this group called [Never Contact Each Other Again], and no one was willing to give in to the other, and they still loved to quarrel.
But as long as one of them leaves, they will be silent for a long, long time.
Xia Bai dived and watched for a while, and then the car stopped.
Hua Haoming got out of the ambulance in front, knocked on the door, and said to them: "Someone may ask you to register as a player at the Game Management Bureau later. You only need to register basic information. After registration, come to Lin Xiang and Meng Tianyou's ward. Someone may ask us something about the Heping Medical College dungeon."
Xia Bai understood what Hua Haoming meant and nodded.
As he said, Xia Bai and Song Mingliang were taken away by a friendly young lady as soon as they got off the car. "Hello, I'm from the Information Department of the Tourism Administration. I'll take you to register your player information so that the Tourism Administration can contact you in the future."
Xia Bai and Song Mingliang were not talkative people, so they squeezed out one word, "Okay."
The young lady still had a friendly smile. After adding them as her friend, she sent them a link. "Fill it out with confidence. The Game Management Bureau promises to keep it confidential for you. It will not be disclosed to all the players outside, or to the players who will enter the game through the Game Management Bureau. Even I can't see it. Only a few people can see it."
The registration form is very simple, with only five parts: name, age, contact information, skills and clearance map.
The young lady emphasized the skills part. "We respect any choice you make and can keep it confidential. However, if you want to join the Tourism Administration or take on bounty missions from the Tourism Administration in the future, it is better to fill in the skills truthfully if you have them."
Xia Bai quickly filled in the other four parts and spent two more seconds on the skills.
Do you have any skills?
A. Yes
B.No
C. Inconvenient to inform
Hua Haoming said that his God of Happiness might have been swallowed up by the game. If he wanted to find the God of Happiness, first he had to enter the game more often. Second, he had to go into the game more often and get acquainted with people from the Game Management Bureau who were familiar with the various maps of the game, so that he could make inquiries more easily.
Xia Bai chose A.
If you have skills, what are the attributes of the skills?
A. Weapon and item skills (the skills that come with the weapons and items that players obtain in the game.)
B. Physical skills (the abilities brought about by the evolution of the player's physical abilities, such as extraordinary improvements in strength and speed. Or the abilities brought about by the alienation of body parts, such as iron arms, nine tails, etc.)
C. Soul skills (powers that match the player's unique life experience and soul traits.)
D. Inconvenient to inform
Xia Bai chose C.
If you have skills, what are your specific skills?
Xia Baitian: It’s not convenient to tell you.
There is no need to fill in the game identity in the registration form, and the identities of the top 50 players in the ranking list are publicly disclosed. The identities are therefore very sensitive, and the Game Management Bureau considerately did not make any inquiries.
Xia Bai submitted the form. Song Mingliang filled it out faster than him. He waited for Xia Bai for a while, and the two went to the ward according to the young lady's instructions.
The branch of the Tourism Administration in Jiangqi City looks like a small western-style building from the outside that is rented out to different studios. The first, second and third floors are indeed like that, with offices. The fourth and fifth floors are more like a hospital, with people who look like doctors and wards.
However, the windows here are clean and the lights are bright, without any gloomy or depressing feeling.
Lin Xiang and Meng Tianyou were in the ward at the end of the corridor, and Hua Haoming was also here.
When they went in, Lin Xiang looked fine. He was calling his mother, "Mom, let me tell you, the day you gave birth to me was the day I was most grateful for in my life, but today is the most wonderful and unforgettable day of my life."
Not knowing what the mother on the other side said, Lin Xiang retorted loudly, "Am I such a naive person? I tell you I am not afraid of going to a haunted house anymore!"
After seeing Xia Bai, Lin Xiang quickly said a few words and hung up, staring at Xia Bai closely, as if he had a lot to say to him.
Xia Bai rolled his eyes guiltily.
Just then Hua Haoming said, "Aren't you afraid of going to a haunted house? Have you forgotten the haunted house in the amusement park where the game comes from?"
Lin Xiang looked painful, "I feel like I won't be able to go anywhere in the future. Do I have to stay at home?"
Hua Haoming smiled, "What if the game comes to your house?"
Lin Xiang: “…”
Hua Haoming said: "No one knows where the game will land, it could be anywhere, so don't let the game affect your normal life, otherwise your life will be meaningless."
People who have entered the game many times are free and easy.
"But there is a safe place, Xia Bai's dormitory. The game will not repeat in the same place." Seeing Meng Tianyou open his eyes, Hua Haoming smiled and said, "The bed in dormitory 312 is not something that can be exchanged for more than a thousand yuan. The person who can live in the vacant bed is definitely not an ordinary person."
Meng Tianyou pulled down the corner of his mouth awkwardly, and said palely and weakly: “Brother Hua, don’t make fun of me, I’m already like this.”
Meng Tianyou was rescued, but only the shape of a leg protruding from the thin blanket was visible.
In the real world, compared to the one he was an hour ago, he was obviously different, no longer vain and arrogant, and his self-esteem was not as strong, but the price he paid was too high. He lost a leg and his mother who loved him the most.
But, what is even more miserable is Meng Qing.
"Now that we're all awake, let's talk about the game. Someone will ask us what happened in the game..."
"Hello."
Before Hua Haoming finished speaking, a screen lit up on the wall in front of the two beds. Three people were looking at them, and the one who was speaking was the woman on the far left.
Xia Bai knew her. Yesterday, she, Hua Haoming and another man went to his house to look for the God of Happiness.
"Congratulations on beating the game. We are from the Game Management Bureau's Game Research Institute. Our group is mainly responsible for researching game clearance strategies. We hope you can talk about this instance to help us better study the game. The more strategies we have, the greater the chance that all the players involved in the game will survive, right?"
She swept her eyes over the people one by one, and stayed on Hua Haoming and Xia Bai for a few seconds. "Of course, you don't have to talk about the part involving security and privacy. For the rest, I hope you can try to be as detailed as possible."
The man in the middle, wearing a black shirt and silver-rimmed glasses, looked up and asked, "Who's going to give the keynote speech?"
When Xia Bai looked into the pair of narrow eyes behind the lenses, his heart tightened inexplicably, as if he was being stared at by a snake, or as if he was being locked by a cold and precise instrument.
He realized that this problem was not that simple. The speaker must be the one who knows the game best and finds the truth. In other words, he is the one who gets the biggest reward from the game and is the one who is the most closely observed.
Hua Haoming: "We haven't gathered our own clues yet, and many of them are uncertain. How can we tell you? Give us a few minutes to review the accurate and complete map first."
The man in the black shirt said, "Hua Haoming, don't rely on the privileges of your assault team to affect the work of the various departments of the Tourism Administration."
Hua Haoming picked up the remote control on the coffee table and said, "Please don't use your research institute's power to study games to study players."
He pointed the remote control at the screen and smiled, "Go report me to our captain."
The man on the wall disappeared.
The smile on Hua Haoming's face also disappeared. "Let's review the game quickly. When they ask questions later, be careful to protect your own and others' privacy."
He looked at Xia Bai, "Xia Bai, tell me what the truth is."
Xia Bai told the truth he knew, and several people in the game were also surprised.
Xia Bai: "Many cadaver teachers had their mouths sewn shut, but the female corpse in Morgue No. 4 had her mouth open. We didn't think about this detail. My sister Xue Mu should have been in the mouth of the female corpse in Morgue No. 4, cursing everyone who entered Morgue No. 4 and got close to her and her sister."
"Her curse is to torture people to death due to their own fetishes. It stems from the perverted fetishes of those people that killed her and her sister."
After saying that, Xia Bai noticed a particularly strong gaze coming from Lin Xiang.
Xia Bai: “…”
Lin Xiang asked quietly, "Xia Bai, your hobby is actually necrophilia?"
After he asked, the other three people also turned their eyes heavily on Xia Bai.
Hua Haoming was a little excited, "Sure enough! But why didn't you react on the first night?"
Since they all knew, Xia Bai didn't hide it anymore. "First of all, I'm not a necrophile as rumored on the Internet. You are not allowed to insult my pure ideals. I just want to turn them into family. The more family the better."
“…”
Xia Bai said: "Actually, I had a reaction on the first night. It was milder in the dormitory. After all, there were no dead bodies in the dormitory. The mutation was not serious on the first night. I didn't go to the point of killing people and making corpses."
"When I went to the anatomy lab to look for you, my reaction was quite strong, but I suppressed it with something."
Lin Xiang: "It's that family tree! Is the power of family so great?"
Xia Bai: “…”
Hua Haoming looked at Xia Bai suspiciously, "Family can suppress necrophilia? What kind of family are you?"
Xia Bai lowered his head slightly, "Family members who became corpses."
“…”
Very reasonable.
Xia Bai: "Whenever I think of them, I suppress my love for the dead bodies outside. I always feel sorry for them."
Lin Xiang was shocked: "Xia Bai, you have such a strong sense of morality! I don't feel this way about my deceased family members."
Hua Haoming: “…”
Only he understood it. Thinking of Xia Bai's happy gods, he seemed to understand something.
But does the God of Joy have such a strong effect?
Hua Haoming asked: "Can you show me your family tree?"
Xia Bai carried the family tree with him and handed it to him.
Hua Haoming took it and read it quickly, then fell silent.
He even painted a portrait for each god of joy. Are you a portrait artist? You can draw a face just by touching the bones.
He even assigned them identities: grandma, dad, sister...
He even put his handprint on the God of Joy.
Seeing Xia Bai staring at him eagerly, Hua Haoming pinched his nose and quickly returned his precious family tree to him.
Xia Bai immediately put it in his pocket. He didn't intend to show it to anyone.
"But, but, how could Xia Bai be a necrophiliac?" Lin Xiang still couldn't understand why Xia Bai, who was as pure as a jasmine flower, would have anything to do with corpses, to the extent that the game considered it a fetish?
Hua Haoming: "...This is personal privacy. If you want to talk about it, we can talk later."
Although he also wanted to listen and see Lin Xiang's expression to see if he could have any new thoughts about the fact that Xia Bai carried him out of the grave.
Meng Tianyou asked Xia Bai: "What's with those talismans on you? Why can they suppress dead bodies?"
At the last juncture of the game, he was saved by those talismans, and it was also seen that it was Lin Xiang who turned him out from Xia Bai's body.
Hua Haoming immediately looked at Xia Bai. When the game was about to end, many corpses left the morgue, but the corpses with the corpse-suppressing talismans were still fixed in place. He was also shocked when he saw it.
He saw with his own eyes that Xia Bai gave Lin Xiang the corpse-suppressing talisman. At that time, he thought that it was the talisman used by the legendary corpse-driver, and it was definitely useless in the game.
But it worked.
Xia Bai said: "I don't know either, it was given to me by someone else."
Meng Tianyou nodded and didn't ask any more questions. Asking further would become private.
Hua Haoming looked at Xia Bai thoughtfully. There were too many suspicious points about him. The corpse-suppressing talisman that could suppress the dead bodies in the game, the god of joy that disappeared out of thin air, what else did he not know?
Xia Bai turned around and gave him the back of his head, "Is it time to talk to them about the game?"
Hua Haoming: “…”
After they had agreed on the terms, Hua Haoming contacted the people from the research institute and told them the rules of the game and the background story in a businesslike manner.
The man in the black shirt in the middle asked: "How do you understand that a fetish that causes one to torture himself to death?"
Hua Haoming said: "For example, you, Vice President Yang, you like to study the bodies of skilled players. This kind of hobby of studying people is terrible in the Peace Medical College game. After your hobby is alienated, you will dissect yourself and study it carefully. Ah, the anatomy laboratory building is fully equipped with various equipments, which is really suitable for you."
After he finished speaking, not only was there no sound in the ward, but the other two people on the screen also held their breath.
They clearly felt that Hua Haoming really disliked Vice President Yang, and the atmosphere between the two was very tense.
The man in the black shirt pushed up his glasses and said, "Got it. Thank you for your cooperation."
The screen went dark.
Xia Bai and his team have completed everything they came here for.
After Hua Haoming left, they discussed and decided to return to the dormitory of Heping Medical College tonight.
They were all very sleepy. After hearing Hua Haoming say that their dormitory was one of the safest places in the world, they all wanted to go back and have a good sleep. Lin Xiang could sleep on bed number 2 which was unoccupied for one night.
Recently, games have frequently come to the neighboring Quanguang City. Not only are the medical resources there insufficient, but they are also very tight here. Even if they don't take the initiative to mention it, the people from the Tourism Administration want to drive them away.
Lin Xiang and Meng Tianyou registered their player information. The receptionist then told them some precautions, urged them to watch the Game Management Bureau's online novice game science and game strategy courses, and emphasized to them that the existence of the game must not be disclosed to the public.
Receptionist: "The Research Institute and the Information Department each have a player whose physical skills are at the level of brain evolution. Their technological products and skills are very strong and can capture game leaks. If you are found to have leaked information without reason, you may be taken to the Education Institute. If you pose a serious threat to social security, you will be locked up."
Lin Xiang said hurriedly: "Sister, don't worry, we are not that kind of people. These three are college students from Heping Hospital. I am also a rich second-generation after all, and I still want to enjoy my life."
Seeing Xia Bai nodded in agreement, the receptionist let them leave.
The player with healing skills was very powerful, and all of Lin Xiang’s injuries were healed.
Meng Tianyou had lost his legs and looked a little anemic, but he didn't look like he had been to the gates of hell. He was pushed by Song Mingliang in a wheelchair into the RV that Lin Xiang had specially called for him.
Xia Bai wanted to follow in, but was pulled into another car by Lin Xiang.
Looking at Meng Tianyou sitting in a wheelchair, Lin Xiang sighed, "His points are not enough to pay for his full recovery. He may need to install a prosthetic limb."
Only then did Xia Bai realize that the Tourism Administration’s rescue team was not providing them with free treatment.
Lin Xiang's injury was not that serious, so he paid half of his in-game points, 550,000.
It would cost more than three million for Meng Tianyou to fully recover, but he didn't have that much money. He only saved his life, but he still owed more than 700,000 points. If he couldn't exchange them, he would have to go to the Tourism Administration to work to pay off his debts after graduation.
Xia Bai was about to say something when he was interrupted by Lin Xiang, who was almost suffocating. He brought Xia Bai to this car just to ask him, "Xia Bai, why do you like corpses? I know you were alienated by the game, but that also has something to do with corpses, how could that be?"
Xia Bai: “…”
"Are you so shocked?" Xia Bai asked.
"It will definitely shock my whole family!" Lin Xiang replied immediately.
Xia Bai was silent for a while, then told him from the beginning, "My grandfather was a corpse driver."
Lin Xiang was surprised. "Is it the legendary corpse-carrying person?"
Xia Bai nodded. "He drove corpses for many years during that turbulent era, and he would always come across homeless corpses. Grandpa took them in and gave them a home."
"I may have been influenced by him. I am not afraid of corpses since I was a child. I regard them as my family members. I think it should be since I was a child, because I had a serious illness when I was twelve years old and I have incomplete memories before the age of twelve."
Lin Xiang's mouth opened slightly, but his doubts were resolved.
This should be the reason why Xia Bai developed necrophilia in the game.
It also makes more sense that he said just now that the genealogy of his family members who turned into corpses can suppress his "necrophilia".
Wait, this doesn’t seem to make sense. The family tree actually contains an old dead body?
Is this how Xia Bai formally treats them as family?
Is this a bit too deep?
It’s okay, everyone has some quirks. Xia Bai is his best friend and is so good to him. He accepts and respects all of Xia Bai’s preferences that are not illegal.
"Wait!" The car had been driving for another ten minutes when he suddenly realized, "That time you carried me out of the cemetery..."
Xia Bai had a blank face, "I told you, I didn't chase you to the cemetery and carry you back on my back, you didn't believe me."
Lin Xiang: "You really went to the cemetery to take a walk and admire the moon in the middle of the night!"
It’s such a normal thing, but if he nodded, Lin Xiang would collapse.
Lin Xiang was a little broken in his silence, but he still thanked Xia Bai, "You were there admiring the moon, and you met me who was sleepwalking. You stopped admiring the moon and carried me back."
Xia Bai continued to remain silent.
Lin Xiang collapsed.
Xia Bai reached out and patted his wrist carefully, comforting him first, then told him the true situation and his thoughts at the time, "After hearing from the instructor during the day that there was a cemetery in the mountains, I wanted to go and see it, but it was not good to let others know, so I waited until everyone was asleep before going."
"I had just been there for a short while when I saw you lying on a grave."
Lin Xiang: “…”
Xia Bai: "You were cold and motionless, and I couldn't wake you up no matter how hard I called you. I thought you were dying of some disease, and were thrown here by your family from a nearby village."
Lin Xiang: “…”
The cheapest pair of his pajamas must cost at least 8,000 yuan. How can he look like the abandoned child of a nearby villager?
And even though it was the beginning of the first year of high school, they had already been in military training together for two days. Could it be that Xia Bai didn't notice his classmate?
Xia Bai: "I was so excited that I immediately carried you on my back. I wanted to take you home and give you a home. My family just needs a brother."
Lin Xiang: “…………”
Are you missing a brother? You are missing a brother in the family tree!
Lin Xiang, who always wanted to be Xia Bai's brother, was not very happy.
Xia Bai looked a little aggrieved on his dazed face, "I didn't expect that you would start talking after just a few steps."
Lin Xiang: “…………”
Are you disappointed?
I'm so sorry.
No wonder Xia Bai didn't say a word all the way that night, just lowered his head and walked forward silently with his back to him.
He thought Xia Bai was introverted and embarrassed to speak.
Lin Xiang began to doubt his life.
Xia Bai looked at him and asked seriously, "Are we still friends?"
"Of course!" Lin Xiang said without thinking.
Although their acquaintance was a misunderstanding, after spending such a long time together, he certainly knew that Xia Bai was the clean person he liked, a little weird, but very cute.
"You didn't carry me back from the grave on purpose, but you really broke into the morgue and rescued me from the corpse. You gave me a corpse-suppressing talisman, and saved my life when I was about to be dissected by the cadaver teacher. It really happened."
"You are my best friend." Lin Xiang paused and said, "If you want me to be your brother, that's absolutely fine, but don't be that brother."
Xia Bai pursed his lips and smiled.
Lin Xiang also laughed after seeing it. Xia Bai’s smile was so beautiful, like a pure white jasmine flower.
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