Chapter 26 Tourism Administration
After getting off the bus, Lin Xiang took his good friend to the milk tea shop at the school gate to buy milk tea.
Lin Xiang has been friends with Xia Bai for three years. He really feels that Xia Bai has no desires. He doesn't like money or beautiful women, doesn't pursue fame, and doesn't study hard. The only thing he likes a little is milk tea, red bean and taro milk tea.
Of course, he now knows that Xia Bai is not without desires, but his desires are all focused on a strange place.
Good friends always drink milk tea together. Lin Xiang bought two cups and handed the milk tea with double the amount of ingredients to Xia Bai. The two of them drank while walking towards the school.
"Xia Bai, I received more than 1.1 million points as a reward. I spent 550,000 on treatment, so I have about 600,000 left. How about you?"
"I got 1.9 million points as a reward, and also gained a soul skill."
Lin Xiang quickly swallowed the milk tea in his mouth and swallowed the taro balls without chewing them. He asked excitedly but in a low voice, "Did you really get the soul skill?"
Xia Bai nodded, but was stopped by Lin Xiang just as he was about to speak, "Don't tell me what the skill is. I also know that it's better to keep it secret. If I'm caught by the enemy one day and forced to confess, I'm not sure if I will tell anyone."
Xia Bai was stunned. He actually thought so far.
As they were about to enter the campus, the two stopped talking about games.
On the day of reporting, the school was very lively. The two of them walked around and looked around, and took a tour of the campus.
Although the real Peace Medical College is not that new, it gives people a sense of history rather than gloom.
This century-old prestigious school was founded during the war, and the school motto of "Serve the family and the country, save the dying and heal the wounded" is engraved on the stone tablet in the center of the campus. There may be bloodstains on it, but there is no atmosphere of terror.
Most of the new students coming and going are happy and excited. You can see the expectation for the future in their eyes. Born into a prominent family, they save lives and become a respected doctor. Their journey is bright and glorious.
"That's great." Lin Xiang sighed, "The shadow of medical school that I left behind in the game is almost being healed."
Xia Bai nodded, chewing the sweet red beans and looking at the spacious campus streets. The bright lights fell on every hopeful face. He couldn't help but think that if a few years ago, there really was a girl named Chu Xuelin who came here to report, the light in her eyes must have been the same as theirs.
She was probably wearing simple clothes, most likely a white skirt, carrying a large luggage bag, an old green schoolbag on her back, with her mouth slightly open, looking at this campus that carries dreams with bright eyes.
Because it was the first day of reporting, the dormitory manager was busy and unfamiliar with the new students, and some parents were walking out, so Lin Xiang easily followed Xia Bai into dormitory 312.
When they came back, Meng Tianyou was the only one in the dormitory.
Lin Xiang asked: "Where is Song Mingliang?"
Meng Tianyou: "He's gone."
Lin Xiang didn't hear the other meaning of this sentence, "Where did you go?"
Meng Tianyou: "After he sent me up, he left with his luggage."
Xia Bai was stunned for a moment. He recalled the scene in this dormitory and in the game when Song Qiang beat and scolded Song Mingliang, the way Song Mingliang lowered his head and remained silent, and the scene he would never forget when Song Mingliang got into Song Qiang's mouth.
In fact, we can see the relationship between Song Mingliang and Song Qiang in their daily lives.
What kind of existence does Song Qiang have to Song Mingliang?
Perhaps Song Mingliang would not like him, and might even be afraid of and disgusted with him, but after he died, Song Mingliang never said another word, as if he had become invisible in this world, or the world had become invisible in his eyes, and many things had disappeared.
The three of them were silent for a while, then washed and lay down on the bed.
They all opened the game app on their phones and started reading the forum.
Lin Xiang suddenly asked: "After entering the game, what are your plans? I plan to buy a few houses near your school. Brother Hua said that your dormitory is the safest and the surrounding area is relatively safe, right?"
“…”
What plans can they make? They can’t afford to buy [several] houses.
Meng Tianyou said: "I want to install a prosthesis first, and then take some simple bounty tasks on the forum to earn points and heal my leg. If the simple tasks on the forum don't earn many points, then I might go play the game again."
Going into the game again, life or death is uncertain.
Many people may choose to live with prosthetic limbs, but Meng Tianyou’s choice shows that he still wants to live a good life with self-dignity.
Xia Bai: "I don't have any idea yet."
“…”
Xia Bai really hasn't figured out what to do. There are things he wants to do, but his current abilities are limited.
He seems to have a very good soul skill, but this is a growth skill. Now that he has no corpse, it is equivalent to not having any skills, and he dare not act rashly.
If there was one, he now wanted to find out where the God of Happiness in his family had gone.
Hua Haoming said that it was swallowed by the game. Maybe there are too many game maps. Where should he find it?
Xia Bai had an idea and went to look for it nearby.
He hadn't heard of how many games descended on Jiangqi City, but games frequently descended on the neighboring Quanguang City. Moreover, his God of Joy disappeared when the game outbreak in Quanguang City was blocked, so he wanted to go to Quanguang City to look for him.
However, Quanguang City was sealed off and ordinary people were not allowed to enter, so I didn’t know if he could get in.
Does he have to go through the Tourism Authority?
Just as he was thinking about it, Xia Bai received a message from Hua Haoming.
Hua Haoming: [Is your corpse-suppressing talisman left to you by your grandfather?]
Xia Bai: [Yes.]
Hua Haoming: [I talked to a reliable senior about this matter. We think your grandfather is a gamer, and a very good one at that.]
Xia Bai was stunned for a moment.
Hua Haoming: [You still remember what I said in the game, only skills acquired in the game can be effective in the game. Even if your grandfather is a corpse driver, these corpse-suppressing talismans are effective on the corpses he once drove, but they will not be effective on the dead bodies in the game. Unless, he obtained the talisman-drawing skill in the game.]
Hua Haoming: [Think carefully now, does he show any signs of being a player?]
Xia Bai: [Not when he was with me, nor when I was at home. He stayed at home all the time and didn’t like to go out. However, I didn’t know what he was doing when I was in school, and I often lived on campus.]
Hua Haoming: [We think this could be his soul skill or item skill. The soul skill is very consistent, as it is consistent with his experience of driving corpses when he was young. The item skill is also possible, as he has a prop pen for drawing talismans, and the talismans he draws can suppress corpses.]
Cinnabar pen.
Xia Bai immediately thought of his grandfather's cinnabar pen.
Just now Hua Haoming asked him if the corpse-suppressing talisman was given to him by his grandfather. He said yes, and he didn't lie but it was not the whole truth.
Grandpa used to be a corpse driver, but now there is no need for corpse drivers, so naturally he would not accept disciples like his master did. But he would occasionally feel itchy and teach Xia Bai how to draw talismans.
When Xia Bai had nothing to do, he would follow him to draw talismans. Later, he found that Xia Bai drew well, so he gave his cinnabar pen, which he had used for a long time, to Xia Bai, as if he had become his apprentice, and this craft was not lost.
——These are what Xia Bai once thought.
Some of the talismans were left by his grandfather, and some were drawn by him, and they were all put together. After learning that something strange might have happened in their world, he took some with him for peace of mind.
He really believed that his grandfather's corpse-suppressing talisman was effective on corpses. His grandfather was so serious that the god of joy in the family represented his merits. At that time, he didn't know that the corpse-suppressing talisman in the game was ineffective on dead bodies, so he gave it to Lin Xiang.
He was not sure whether the one given to Lin Xiang was drawn by him. If it was drawn by him, it could also suppress the corpse. That was the function of the cinnabar pen.
As Hua Haoming said, those are props obtained in the game, with built-in skills. His grandfather... is a player who possesses weapon prop skills.
Grandpa’s voice, appearance and smile are right in front of him. He is the only relative who has always been with Xia Bai in his memory.
He has a good temper and lives a free and easy life, but he likes to brag a bit. He often sits in a rocking chair in the yard, fanning himself with a palm-leaf fan and saying that he was the best corpse driver in those days.
But apart from driving corpses and knowing a little about Feng Shui, he doesn't seem to have any special abilities and lives a very ordinary life.
Is he actually a player?
If he was a player, how did he die? There were even drugs to treat cancer in the player store, so how could he die?
It was snowing that day, and when he went home in such weather, his grandfather would go to the village entrance to wait for him. Xia Bai didn't see his grandfather at the village entrance, and he was a little worried. When he got home, he saw that his grandfather's body had already been cold and hard, without any breath.
He died peacefully.
Did he die in the game?
But Wen Dong and Wen Qiu died in the game and their bodies never came out.
Xia Bai thought again about the night when he heard that Quanguang City was going to be closed, and the photos he saw on that mysterious forum showed players who died in the game.
He withdrew his thoughts, suppressed the emotions that emerged, and continued to read Hua Haoming's news.
Hua Haoming: [Based on the fact that your grandfather is a player, and considering the disappearance of your family's God of Happiness, we can reasonably guess that those Gods of Happiness are not the homeless corpses that your grandfather took in when he was young, but the corpses of the game world that he brought out of the game, which is what we call NPCs.]
Hua Haoming: [You said that your family's God of Happiness is not a skeleton, but it has been so many years, how could it not have decayed? You are a student of Heping Medical College, you should know better than me. This can explain it.]
That’s because their yard is a Feng Shui treasure land, and a place with excellent Feng Shui can keep a corpse from decaying for many years.
Xia Bai thought so in his heart, but he knew it was meaningless to say this now.
Hua Haoming: [Because they were originally corpses in the game world, so after your grandfather died and the game got closer, they returned to the game, so everything can be explained.]
Yes, it all makes sense.
Xia Bai shrank into the quilt. Did they all go home?
But they are his family.
Hua Haoming, who was on the other end of the phone, didn't notice Xia Bai's change in mood. He continued: [Your grandfather's corpse-suppressing talisman can not only suppress corpses, but also bring corpses out of the game. It may be that he can control the corpses in the game world. This skill is terrifying when you think about it. He must be a very powerful player.]
[However, we did not find him among the registered players of the Gaming Authority.]
[Some players have never registered with the Gaming Authority, but regardless of whether they have registered with the Gaming Authority or not, if their points are high, they will appear on the game app rankings. The Gaming Authority Information Department records the rankings for each day. I will find someone to help you continue to look for it and see if there has been anyone who matches your grandfather's identity in the past.]
Xia Bai: [Thank you.]
After finishing his story, Hua Haoming finally realized that Xia Bai had written the God of Joy into the family tree so solemnly, and was able to suppress his necrophilia in the game by relying on his feelings for the God of Joy. It goes without saying how important the God of Joy was to him.
But now, the God of Happiness is no longer the God of Happiness in their family, and they have returned to the game.
He isn't sad now, is he?
Would that weird Dada be sad? He didn't look like he would be sad.
Hua Haoming put away his phone and went to have dinner with his teammates. Just as he reached the door, he came back angrily and asked: [What do you think?]
Xia Bai: [Go find them in the game and ask them whether they were forced into the game or if they wanted to return on their own.]
Hua Haoming: “…”
Do you love me so much?
Hua Haoming: [What if they were forced to return to the game?]
Xia Bai: [Bring them back.]
Hua Haoming: [What if they return to the game on their own?]
Xia Bai: [I will go and see them, what kind of place they are in, and whether they are living well.]
Hua Haoming: “…”
He loves it.
Since he had already thought it through, Hua Haoming didn't say much.
However, there is one thing he feels he needs to remind him of, [Do you know that soul skills can affect a person's soul? If your soul skills are related to corpses, you must be careful not to abuse them, otherwise the impact will become more and more serious, and you may end up like in the Peace Medical College dungeon.]
Xia Bai understood.
His skills are indeed related to corpses, and come with an additional effect of +100% intimacy with corpses. So the skill book also reminds us that influencing the soul will have side effects. In his case, it means that he will like corpses more when using skills.
Xia Bai: [Yes, I will pay attention.]
Although he didn't think it was a side effect.
Hua Haoming reminded him again: [Three players have been to your house to learn about the situation. The woman in the video yesterday was called Su Xue. She was okay, but the man next to her was a game research lunatic. He should have known about your situation from Su Xue. You should be careful. Tell me if you meet him.]
Xia Bai: [Okay.]
At this point, their chat seemed to be coming to an end, and two minutes later another message slowly came in.
Hua Haoming: [Um, do you still have the corpse-suppressing talisman? Sell it to me?]
Xia Bai: “…”
Hua Haoming: [I have quite a lot of points, it’s okay if you can take a little more.]
Xia Bai: [Can I buy it with money instead of points?]
Hua Haoming: [……]
Are there still players these days who don’t want points but want money?
Hua Haoming: [How much is one ticket?]
Xia Bai thought about how he spent several minutes drawing a picture last summer, which was not easy. He asked for a high price, [Ten thousand?]
Hua Haoming: [……]
Hua Haoming ordered ten corpse-suppressing talismans from Xia Bai at a price of 100,000 each.
Xia Bai was a little dazed. One million yuan, according to his consumption level, could allow him to lie down for decades.
You can also buy plane tickets wherever you want to go in the future.
Xia Bai suddenly wondered whether the cinnabar pen could continue to draw such a talisman to suppress corpses.
In fact, it was not just a corpse-suppressing talisman, his grandfather also taught him to draw a corpse-controlling talisman. According to Hua Haoming, his grandfather should have used the corpse-controlling talisman to bring the God of Happiness out of the game.
Without bothering Hua Haoming anymore, Xia Bai went to the game app player forum to search himself.
Many novice players would come here to ask questions. Xia Bai searched with keywords and quickly found the answers he wanted.
After the player dies, the game app in the mobile phone will automatically log out, the identity will be logged out, and the skills will disappear.
In other words, even if he went home and found the cinnabar pen, he would not be able to draw the corpse-suppressing talisman that was effective in the game.
Fortunately, he still has some.
Just like his family still has his middle school textbooks, he and his grandfather also kept the talismans they had drawn before. The corpse-controlling talisman is much more difficult than the corpse-suppressing talisman, and they drew less, but there are still some.
With these, even if his own soul skills are now equal to zero, he can go to the game to find the God of Joy, and he can also pick up corpses and upgrade his skills.
After knowing that Xi Shen might have been taken out of the game, he not only did not give up looking for them in the game, but became even more eager.
Xia Bai decided to find a way to go to Quanguang City this weekend.
After thinking about all this, Lin Xiang and Meng Tianyou, who were exhausted from the game, had already fallen asleep, and Xia Bai still had one last thing to do.
He opened the personal skill item page of the game app and looked at the [Parasite Xue Mu] inside.
The parasite Xue Mu feeds on love and blood.
Xia Bai didn't know how to feed her, so he tried to prick his finger with a needle and dripped a drop of blood on the screen made of snow wood. The blood was absorbed by the screen.
Xia Bai fell asleep peacefully.
Hua Haoming said that their dormitory is now one of the safest places in the world, and the people who can live here are definitely not simple people.
They had expectations in mind, but they didn't expect people to arrive so soon, and two of them at once.
It was still daybreak when they were awakened by a knock on the door. Lin Xiang, who was closest to them, muttered to himself, got up from the bed and opened the door.
"Hello, we have just been transferred to room 312."
Xia Bai and Meng Tianyou also sat up and looked down at them.
Lin Xiang rubbed his eyes, "Two? Song Mingliang is not going to live anymore?"
One of them said: "Student Song Mingliang dropped out of school."
The three of them were stunned, but didn't say anything.
Lin Xiang invited them in. "Sorry, I stayed here for one night yesterday. I didn't expect you to come so early."
"It's okay, it's okay." One of the men wearing glasses said, "We're not sleeping now."
They both seemed easy to talk to.
A few people briefly introduced themselves to each other. The two new roommates were also a freshman named Wu Chu, and the other was a junior named Zhong Zicang.
After chatting for a while, Wu Chu asked, "Xia Bai, Meng Tianyou, do you want to change dormitories? Feel free to ask for any conditions."
Meng Tianyou: “…”
Lin Xiang, who was washing his face, looked at him and thought to himself, "You didn't expect that this day would come." Then he said loudly, "We won't change Xia Bai, not even for 10 million!"
Seeing their attitude, both of them brought up the matter again.
Lin Xiang left after washing his face. Today was Xia Bai's first day of class, so he didn't stay here to delay him.
Before leaving, Xia Bai gave him a few corpse-suppressing talismans and said, "Be careful."
Lin Xiang accepted it happily, "You are also Xia Bai. I will come to play with you after I report for school."
Lin Xiang also went to college locally, in the university town of Jiangqi City, but he reported for admission late, six days later.
After Lin Xiang left, Hua Haoming came again at noon. He came to buy the corpse-suppressing talisman that he had agreed to buy.
After playing two games in a row, he had a long vacation. After buying a corpse-suppressing talisman, he leisurely ate his meal in this relatively safe school before leaving.
After both of them left, Xia Bai began a normal college life for a few days.
While attending classes at school, I watched the online courses about games provided by the Game Management Bureau and looked for an opportunity to enter Quanguang City.
His original idea was to first look for a team mission on the player forum and then quietly enter the city. If there was none, he would then seek help from the Tourism Administration to enter the city.
Unexpectedly, the opportunity was right beside him.
It is said that a source of pollution has appeared in Quanguang City, many people have been contaminated, and medical resources are tight.
Peace Medical College is going to form a team of volunteers to support Quanguang City. The school encourages senior students, especially those with internship experience, to participate.
Xia Bai heard the news first, because the person in charge of this matter was his new roommate, the president of the Student Union of Heping Medical College, Zhong Zicang.
When Xia Bai heard the news, his heart skipped a beat.
He knew that there were not many players with healing skills, and they could no longer cope with the frequent arrival of games in Quanguang City, so they needed the help of ordinary people. But in this way, the volunteers would know that there was no pollution source in Quanguang City, and some ordinary people knew about the existence of the game.
Perhaps, ordinary people have already known that the Tourism Administration has branches in every city, and it is impossible for all of them to be players.
Xia Bai asked Zhong Zicang: "Are there many people who signed up?"
Zhong Zicang moved his laptop screen away, which was filled with names of people. "We only need 100 people, and more than 3,000 have signed up."
Xia Bai called and told Lin Xiang about this.
"But if they go, they will easily be drawn into the game." Lin Xiang said, "What a pity! They are all future elites and pillars. How can the leaders of your school bear to let them go? You should let other people go."
"It's not a pity, everyone is equal." Xia Bai said calmly.
Lin Xiang suddenly understood from his calm voice.
He almost forgot that this top medical school in the country was established during the most dangerous era of war. Generations of students grew up under the school motto of "serving the country and family, saving lives and healing the wounded". How could they be afraid of difficulties at this time?
The school leaders knew about the situation in Quanguang City, so they decided to form a team of volunteers to provide support. They were also very confident that even if the students knew about the situation in Quanguang City, most of them would not back down halfway.
Lin Xiang clenched his phone tightly, "Xia Bai, why did you call me on purpose..."
"I also submitted an application." Xia Bai said.
"But don't they encourage senior students to go? You're just a freshman who's only been enrolled for a few days!" Lin Xiang said anxiously.
"I may not have as much medical knowledge or practical experience as them, but I can sew corpses and I am also an experienced gamer. Senior Zhong told me in advance that my application was approved." Xia Bai said, "Don't worry, I still have soul skills."
Lin Xiang on the other end of the phone was silent for a while, then said, "Okay, I understand."
Xia Bai was silent for a few seconds. "My grandfather is buried on the left side of the gate of my yard. During the time I am in Quanguang City, if there is a heavy rain, please help me check it out."
Lin Xiang: "Okay, when are you leaving?"
Xia Bai: "Monday."
Early Monday morning, Lin Xiang drove an off-road vehicle to the gate of Heping Medical College, pulled down his sunglasses, and sent a message to Xia Bai.
Lin Xiang: [Xia Bai, I've been inspired by you guys and decided not to just eat and wait for death anymore, but to be a useful person.]
Lin Xiang: [I will go with you. I am at the west gate of your school now. Can you take my car?]
Xia Bai: [We left in the early morning and are now in Quan Guang.]
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