Chapter 56 Xia Bai's Courtyard
By the time Xia Bai was in the mood to open the game app, two hours had passed since the wrong message was sent.
Another map lights up on the personal achievement page, this time it's a special map with the bloody stage of idol 404 as the cover, and a small yellow star in the upper right corner of the cover.
Xia Bai began to study the skills of Liu Qiang and Zhong Zicang again.
Zhong Zicang's skill is a prop skill. He has an item called [Ring of Time and Space]. As he said, this item can bind a person. After binding, both parties can summon the other party to their side, regardless of life or death.
Xia Bai thought about it and felt that this was a very powerful prop.
If the person you bind to is a very powerful person, it means that when you are in danger, the two of you can fight side by side. This is just the most basic. There are many more that can be expanded. For example, when one person is in danger, the other person can use this to summon him to your side and stay away from danger. This is another prop that can save your life.
There are other extended usage methods, such as multiple summons, using it as a stealth skill, using it as a sprint skill, etc.
No wonder Zhong Zicang could accept the bounty mission from the Game Management Bureau with his brother and play such a difficult map. If his brother had more skills, the two of them would become a very powerful pair, just like You Mohan and Shi Danfeng.
Xia Bai opened the corpse book and saw Zhong Zicang inside. When he looked over, Zhong Zicang looked up at him and smiled at him, just like the day he first moved into their dormitory.
"Senior, I'll take you back to school tomorrow." Xia Bai rubbed his head with his fingers and murmured.
He turned the corpse book to Liu Qiang's page, checked Liu Qiang's skills, and took out his assets.
Liu Qiang's skill has the same name as his in-game identity, both are [Thousand Faces]. Just as Xia Bai guessed, as long as he tears off someone else's face and sticks it on his own, he can become someone else.
Xia Bai was not interested in this skill. Unless he was in a desperate situation of death, he would not tear off other people's faces. What he was interested in was Liu Qiang's family background and how many faces Liu Qiang had that he could use.
There are 12 photos in total. There are men and women, old and young.
It seems that he has caused a lot of harm to people.
After looking at these two people, Xia Bai continued to look at the other teammates in the corpse book one by one. After looking at the corpse book, Xia Bai went to the player exchange center to take a look.
As expected, the main page of the Player Communication Center today was mostly about the Huaning TV station dungeon. The most discussed maps in the Communication Center were the recently completed maps, and Huaning TV station was a special map that rarely appeared in the game. With the participation of celebrity players and clubs, it was discussed much more than the previous maps, almost overwhelming the entire page.
《The players on this special map are so scary》
"Have all the players of the Holy Tour Guild been wiped out?"
"I still underestimated the Banyue Group. Does anyone know more about this group?"
"Am I the only one who noticed that silly boy?"
Xia Bai: “……?”
There seems to be a strange post mixed in on the homepage.
Is this silly boy referring to him? Why would someone open a thread to discuss him?
Xia Bai originally wanted to click on the most popular post, but he clicked on the strange post without hesitation.
"Am I the only one who noticed that silly boy?"
Host: [The first floor picture.]
The poster posted three pictures, which were photos of Xia Bai coming out of three games. In some of the photos, Xia Bai was in the corner, and he circled him specially.
OP: [Has no one noticed him? He downloads games so frequently that he has completed three games in a row. These three games are not easy at all, and one of them is a special map.]
2L: [Yeah! And there are members of the assault team in all three maps he went to!]
3L: [He doesn’t look that smart, but he’s actually quite smart?]
4L: [Is this the childhood of the big boss? Does anyone know who he is?]
5L: [Wow, is this a hidden boss? I hope the host won’t find the treasure!]
6L: [There are big guys in every game he goes to. He might have been led by them.]
7L: [I know him. He is a volunteer from the Peace Medical College who went to Quanguang City for rescue. I don’t know his specific name.]
8L: [If he is a volunteer of Peace Medical College, it makes sense. One game appeared in his school, and the other two games were in the place he supported. It can only be said that he was unlucky.]
9L: [What’s wrong with my luck? I always run into big guys. I wonder how many points I’ll get from playing three games. There may even be item rewards for special games.]
10L: [Maybe he is good at sucking up to others.]
Seeing this, Xia Bai breathed a sigh of relief. Soon this post was pushed off the front page and not many people paid attention to him anymore.
He went to the most popular post to see everyone's discussion about the game without any worries.
This became Xia Bai's new emerging hobby. Every time after coming out of the game, he would watch other players discuss the games they had completed, but they would not discuss him.
After looking at it for a while, as expected, the hot post turned into a quarrel post because someone mocked the Shengyou Guild, saying that it was the Shengyou Guild that started the trouble and ended up being wiped out in the game.
Only then did Xia Bai know what happened at Huaning TV station before the game appeared.
The Half Moon Group and the Holy Travel Guild have the same stance. They basically welcome the arrival of the game. The Half Moon Group is very powerful, and the Holy Travel Guild wants them to join and expand their sphere of influence, but the Half Moon Group disagrees.
This time, the Holy Travel Guild learned that the president and his wife of the Half Moon Group were coming to Quanguang City, so they chased them here to discuss the matter with them again. The Half Moon Group still disagreed, so a fight broke out, and the people from the Travel Administration found out.
Considering that the presidents and veterans of the two clubs were involved, but there were not many powerful players in the business department of the Quanguang City Tourism Administration, the Tourism Administration transferred Ling Changye, who was idle.
This group of volunteers thought there was a fire there and rushed over.
44 people from four teams and three camps entered the game together.
After the Shengyou Guild was mocked, many players came to the thread to curse people, and both sides quarreled with each other. This thread became meaningless, so Xia Bai closed it.
He went to the internal database of the Tourism Administration and carefully looked through the information of the Holy Tourism Association again.
The Shengyou Guild is the largest of all the societies that welcome the advent of the game. It has a president, two vice presidents, and ten veteran players. Originally there were thirteen veterans, and three of them died. Of course, now there are five dead, and two of their bodies are here with Xia Bai.
These people were the earliest players of the Holy Tour Guild. They welcomed the advent of the game and helped the game "screen" humans. It was obvious that none of them were good people. There were criminals, perverts, and lunatics.
According to historical records, the president of the Holy Tour Guild has never appeared in public. It is speculated that he was in very poor health and often lay in bed. But for some reason, the people of the Holy Tour Guild were particularly respectful of him.
Because the president is unable to work, the two vice presidents are the actual leaders of the Shengyou Guild. One of them is the [Psychic] who is ranked second on the points list, and the other's in-game identity is unknown.
Xia Bai looked at it for a while and closed his eyes in a deep sleep.
The next day, Ling Changye and Yang Meilai came to have breakfast with Xia Bai. After breakfast, Xia Bai was going back to school.
Ling Changye said: "Huaning TV, you have completed the game mission for next week in advance. Go back and have a good rest. You will officially start taking on the mission of the assault team in two weeks."
"Oh." Xia Bai glanced at him, buried his head in eating two mouthfuls of rice, and asked: "What about you? Are you still staying in Quanguang City?"
Yang Mei said: "We are leaving too. The situation in Quanguang City has stabilized."
Xia Bai: "Where are you going?"
Yang Mei: "Fengning City, the Tourism Administration Headquarters. Brother, do you want to come over this weekend? Ask them to prepare a house for you nearby. Most of the players in the assault team live there."
Xia Bai: “…”
In the Tourism Authority, houses are free, right?
Xia Bai nodded, "Okay, I'll go play with you guys after I finish cleaning up here."
"What are you packing?" Ling Changye asked.
Xia Bai was a little embarrassed. "My personal assistant Song Lu said that she could build a yard for me. The yard doesn't need to be built. I just want to expand it a little. It will be more comfortable for the gods of joy and the corpses to live in. Last time, I almost couldn't find a place to bury my grandfather."
“…”
Yang Mei was very curious, "Where is your yard? I'll come to your house when I'm free this weekend?"
Xia Bai told them the detailed address.
After breakfast they separated.
Xia Bai went back to Jiangqi City Heping Medical College with the volunteers.
At that time, the bus carried 49 students away. When they returned to school, there were 9 fewer students and 8 more anatomical teachers.
The school held a private memorial service for the nine people. Xia Bai left the school on the day of the memorial service because he did not like to participate in such activities.
As he walked out of the school gate, he saw Lin Xiang's SUV.
He now has a car, but when Lin Xiang heard that he was back, he couldn't wait to see him and actively offered to take him home.
Before getting in the car, Lin Xiang started talking excitedly, "Xia Bai! I have good news to tell you! Very good news!"
Xia Bai sat in the passenger seat, and seeing that he looked like he was holding back, he asked him cooperatively, "What's the good news?"
Lin Xiang didn't say anything, he showed it directly to Xia Bai.
Under Xia Bai's puzzled gaze, he took out a rotten apple from the bag at his feet, deliberately turned it around in front of Xia Bai, and then stopped in front of him.
The rotten apple recovered little by little right before Xia Bai's eyes, and the rotten smell was gone, as if it was a fresh apple just picked from the tree.
He was not being mysterious, and Xia Bai was really stunned.
It was a rare occasion to see such an expression on Xia Bai. Lin Xiang was so satisfied that bubbles were bubbling in his eyes. He had been holding it in for so long without telling Xia Bai that he was almost dying of suffocation. When he saw Xia Bai's surprised expression, he felt that it was all worth it.
He handed the apple to Xia Bai like offering a treasure, "Try it quickly."
Xia Bai took the apple and took a bite. "Crunch." From the sound, one could tell how crisp it was, sweet and juicy it was. "It's delicious, even better than the ones I picked in the mountains."
Lin Xiang felt even more satisfied, and the corners of his mouth were almost pulled to his ears.
Xia Bai: "Healing skills?"
Just as Xia Bai had speculated before, the game was not just about killing people. The game came and gave humans skills, and the most common skills were healing skills. During the time Xia Bai was a volunteer, he met many healing players, and when he saw Lin Xiang's move, the first thing he thought of was healing skills.
Without his knowledge, Lin Xiang entered a game and obtained healing skills?
"It should belong to the healing department, or to be more precise, purification." Lin Xiang said.
Xia Bai was stunned again. If Lin Xiang hadn't said it was purification, he would never have thought of it. He was more inclined to believe it was restoration. If even a rotten apple could be purified back to its original state, then Lin Xiang's purification ability was definitely not purification in the general sense. His skills covered a very wide range.
Lin Xiang was already talking excitedly, "It can purify all spiritual pollution, and it can also purify all physical pollution. I have tried it, and it can even purify part of the cancer cells in the human body."
Xia Bai also became excited, "Can the decay of corpses be purified?"
Lin Xiang: “…”
"Yes, I can. Eh? What was I going to say? Yes, I'll tell you how I acquired these skills."
It turned out that on the day Xia Bai and his friends set out for Quanguang City, Lin Xianglai came back empty-handed. He did not give up, but drove to Quanguang City as well. As a result, when he was buying water on the road, he was drawn into the game.
That game, like the Harmonious Cinema that Xia Bai went to, had mental pollution, but it was more direct than the Harmonious Cinema. Pollution was the main theme of the game. Lin Xiang was not the only one who passed the level, but Lin Xiang was the most sober and the least polluted among them, so he got this skill.
He immediately went back to experiment. He was able to purify many things that had anything to do with pollution. According to his skills, apples that had been stored for a long time and were invaded by fungi and bacteria were considered pollution, and cancer cells in the human body were also considered pollution. The scope of the definition was very broad, but someone like Meng Tianyou whose leg was broken was not considered pollution.
He specifically contacted Meng Tianyou and tried to treat him, but it was useless and only cleansed his infected wounds.
Xia Bai suddenly realized that in the Heping Medical College copy, Lin Xiang had always said that they had no fetishes that could be alienated. In fact, he was alienated, but Lin Xiang had never shown any signs of alienation. At that time, he thought that Lin Xiang entered the morgue late and had no reaction. It turned out that Lin Xiang was truly clean and his heart was not easily polluted.
Lin Xiang said: "Xia Bai, I also have a skill, and this skill looks pretty good. If you enter the game in the future, I can follow you, right?"
Xia Bai: "I joined the assault team."
Lin Xiang: “…”
How hard would he have to try to catch up with his best friend?
"But if you want, you can come with me. The game really needs skills like yours." Xia Bai said.
More than good.
As far as Xia Bai knows, when the assault team goes to the dungeon, they also like to bring a healing player who can save lives. Lin Xiang's skills are not just healing. It can be said that he is the most suitable player for going to the dungeon among all the healing players.
Lin Xiang nodded vigorously: "Xia Bai, I also want to be a useful person like you. If you need me, please call me."
As they were talking, they arrived at Xia Bai's yard.
Xia Bai immediately took him to the yard and dug out his grandfather. His family's god of joy was lost, but his grandfather was still there, buried in the yard.
There were already obvious corpse spots on Grandpa's body, and Xia Bai looked at Lin Xiang expectantly.
Lin Xiang: “…”
Lin Xiang squatted down with his palm facing down. A strong white light emanated from his palm and slowly moved along the place where the corpse spots appeared.
The corpse spots were really gone.
Grandpa recovered to the state he was in when he just died. Xia Bai happily carried Grandpa out and rubbed his shoulder for a long time.
Lin Xiang looked at Xia Bai's happy expression and suddenly felt that this setting was not unacceptable.
What's so scary about Grandpa Xia?
What's wrong with liking corpses?
Xia Bai and Lin Xiang moved Grandpa back to his room. That afternoon, someone came to expand the yard for Xia Bai.
Perhaps because there was a god of joy to be buried at home, Xia Bai's yard was originally far away from other villagers' homes, so there was ample space for this expansion.
Song Lu had already found someone to design a general plan for him, and Xia Bai's yard was expanded in one afternoon. Not only did they double his yard, they also set up protection and shielding for him, so that he could do anything in the yard without being seen or heard by people around him.
It happened to be the weekend, so Lin Xiang stayed here to help him clean up.
When Hua Haoming brought Erwa to the door, he saw at the door that Xia Bai was plowing the cemetery in his new home with earthworm arms, the two evil leaders of the Shengyou Guild, Gu Quankun and Liu Qiang were drying coffins, and Lin Xiang was wiping the hands of a corpse.
“…”
He took a step back, thinking that there was some fantasy world ahead.
It's fine for other people, but why is Lin Xiang...
Didn’t he say he was most afraid of dead bodies or something?
Erwa was standing behind the door, looking into the yard. Suddenly he saw a circle of hair coming out of the water tank. He was so scared that he fell to the ground.
After hearing this voice, Xia Bai saw Hua Haoming and Erwa coming.
"Erwa!" Xia Bai was a little happy to see him.
Erwa got up from the ground with a red face, hid behind Hua Haoming, and tried hard to stick out his little head to tell Xia Bai that he was not afraid of him.
Xia Bai introduced Erwa to Lin Xiang. Lin Xiang was shocked to find that this kid was the third-ranked player in the points ranking and the little star in the promotional video of Qili Village. He gathered around him and looked at him in amazement.
Erwa was still quite nervous when facing strangers. When Lin Xiang was looking at him, he hid around Hua Haoming's legs and soon felt dizzy.
Hua Haoming held his head helplessly and explained his purpose, "I'm going to attack a game map tomorrow. It's not convenient to bring Erwa with me. Can you take care of him for a few days?"
The terminology of their assault team, "attack the map" means to go to a map that has already arrived, but the first batch of players all died in it and no one can pass it.
Not all players in the assault team have to be on call at all times, as that would be too tiring. Each of them only has to play one game a week, and has specific dates for them to be responsible for. Hua Haoming is on duty on Monday, and Xia Bai, who has to go to class, is on duty on Saturday.
"I can take him, but I still have to go to school."
After taking care of Yang Mei for a few days, he was no longer opposed to taking care of Erwa. Erwa would never wear a Lolita dress and call him brother in public, but it was not right to take a child to class.
"That's not a problem." Hua Haoming took out a pocket and put it on Xia Bai, picked up the second child and stuffed him in, "Our team's special baby-caring tool, a space pocket."
Xia Bai looked at the pocket with only a small head exposed, "..."
Hua Haoming pressed the little head down again and asked, "Is it okay now?"
Xia Bai: "...Okay."
"I heard that you might be going to the headquarters next weekend. You can take Erwa with you and let someone else take care of him for a week." Hua Haoming looked at Erwa who was secretly looking up at Xia Bai and said, "If possible, try to guide him to use his skills."
Xia Bai nodded in agreement.
Hua Haoming had dinner here and left with Lin Xiang at 6pm. Lin Xiang enthusiastically offered to drive him to the airport, and he did not refuse.
Xia Bai started her six-day life of taking care of the baby.
They were the only ones left in the yard. Xia Bai took Erwa out of the space pocket and fished out Sister Xuemu from the water tank.
After such a long time of getting along and being fed with blood, Sister Xuemu was willing to come out, but she still didn't like being stared at, especially by adult men, so Xia Bai put her in a small water tank and covered her with a few leaves.
Xia Bai introduced Erwa, who was not so shy after eating, "This is sister Xuemu."
Erwa was still a little scared. When he first came in, he was startled by the full tub of hair. But when he saw clearly that Sister Xuemu was actually such a tiny person, his eyes gradually widened and he whispered, "Sister?"
Xia Bai nodded with satisfaction. He knew that these two were suitable to play together.
Because Erwa was not well developed in the mother's womb and had several near-death experiences when he was born, he is much smaller than his peers. His tiny blood vessels cannot support a large body. Small is the most obvious word to describe him, but small has a different meaning for him.
There is no one in the world younger than Sister Xue Mu.
It’s not even as big as a palm, but Erwa can pick her up.
Sister Xuemu hates adult men, Erwa has nothing to do with adulthood, is timid, and has no aggressiveness at all.
It's a good idea to raise them together.
Xia Bai sat on the stone steps and tried to put Sister Xue Mu on the right into Er Wa's hands on the left. Seeing that Sister Xue Mu did not resist, he slowly handed her to Er Wa, "Er Wa, you must protect Sister Xue Mu like you protected me and Sister You Yue in the game."
Erwa didn't dare to move, and asked blankly, "Protect?"
"Yeah." Xia Baixuan swayed his feet under the stone steps, feeling the countryside evening breeze, looking at the starry sky and said, "Erwa should take his sister to see the vast world. When someone is staring at his sister, he should bravely block her and grow up happily and healthily with her."
Erwa lowered his head and stared at his sister Xuemu under the night light.
The next morning, Xia Bai put the two dogs into his space pocket and went to school in the car provided by the Tourism Management Bureau.
Because he had to take care of the baby this week, Xia Bai didn't go back to the dormitory much. Instead, he moved into the house that Song Lu bought for him in the community opposite the school.
The house was decorated very cozy, with all the furniture and appliances in it. Xia Bai could cook rice for Erwa every day. Considering Erwa's nutritional needs, he also added shredded potatoes and sugar-coated tomatoes.
Erwa asked, "Sister?"
Xia Bai: "Sister Xue Mu doesn't eat food, she eats blood and love."
Erwa stared blankly at his sister Xuemu who was sitting on the small plate.
Xia Bai talked about her sister's other hobbies. "My sister likes to look at the sky and likes pea flowers, um, white and purple ones."
Erwa looked at him and lowered his head again, and asked with red ears: "What about you?"
Seeing him like this, Xia Bai was so timid that he didn't dare to look him in the eye for two days. He couldn't tell him that he liked corpses, for fear of scaring him to tears, so he said, "I like flowers, too."
That night, when Xia Bai woke up, he found that Erwa was gone.
He turned around and saw that a corner of the curtains of the bay window was pulled open, revealing a little moonlight. Erwa was sitting on the cushion in the bay window, feeding blood to sister Xuemu in the cup.
A small drop of blood dripped out from his tiny blood vessel. Sister Xue Mu, who was bathing in the moonlight, held the rim of the cup with both hands and raised her head to catch the drop of blood.
At that moment, Xia Bai felt the magic of nature. A drop of blood as small as a millet could flow out of Erwa's blood vessel. Sister Xue was so small that she could stand in the cup and drink just that drop of blood. If it was bigger, it wouldn't work.
Even if the world is distorted and nature is distorted with it, it is still magical and gentle.
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