Chapter 80 Imperial Apartment 7
"Captain Ling, have you ever seen this situation in the game?"
The players on the second floor are probably extremely anxious. They have never encountered such a situation, so they come to ask people who have played the game more frequently, hoping to find some peace of mind.
According to the points ranking list, Yang Mei should be the one who has entered the most games here, but with the captain here, Wei Jingyun certainly knows who to ask first.
Ling Changye smiled and said, "Don't worry. The more this kind of game it is, the more you need to be patient in finding clues. Anxiety will only lead to mistakes."
He didn't say whether he had seen it or not.
Wei Jingyun looked at him again, wanting to say something but stopping himself. He felt that the captain of this assault team had a bit of a foxy nature. He seemed easy-going and easy to talk to, but most of the time, when he thought about it, he didn't say anything.
Even so, his words still had a certain soothing effect, especially on Xiong Xiyuan, the fan player of Ling Changye.
He said, "Yes, let's quickly exchange clues. Let me talk about our second floor first. We didn't find any residents going to the altar last night, and we didn't find which room the strange noise came from."
Lin Xiang said, "It's the same on our second floor. I suspect the people behind the scenes may have noticed that we are investigating this matter, so they have put it on hold. It seems that the path of finding the key person through the altar is not feasible."
After a few words of conversation, his emotions, which had just been calmed down a little, immediately became anxious again.
Xiong Xiyuan said irritably: "Since we have been exposed, let's just go and look inside the altar to see what they are offering sacrifices."
Wei Jingyun said: "The altar itself is evil and has many taboos. It is obviously the key to the story here and may contain the rules of death. Moreover, if we look through it and are seen by the residents of the apartment building, they may drive us away."
When he first saw the altar, Xia Bai also wanted to see what was inside that half of the tent, but for this reason he did not take action.
Afraid of having too many taboos and afraid of touching the rules of death.
Xiong Xiyuan: "Just drive them away. We can sneak in like beggars."
"What nonsense are you talking about? How can we still get information from the residents?" Wei Jingyun said sternly.
Ma Xinjia sneered at the side: "Yes, yes, let's be thieves together and die together."
"Oh my!" Qian Xing stepped forward immediately upon seeing this. "Don't be anxious, don't quarrel, you are just too impatient. Don't we still have two nights? Instead of being anxious here, why not finish your meal and look for clues earlier?"
Ma Xinjia, this troublemaker, was always interrupted by Qian Xing, and he couldn't even curse at anyone, and this time was no exception.
Xia Bai noticed it, and this time he saw him staring at Qian Xing's face for a few seconds longer. When he shut up, he seemed to be in a good mood.
Could it be that he likes Qian Xing?
Generally speaking, players who are not in groups hostile to the Gaming Authority are quite supportive of the Bureau's work, at least they won't be sarcastic on the surface.
Ma Xinjia had already started mocking the work of the Game Management Bureau before he even entered the game. It seemed very likely that he was a player from a rival club, the largest of which was the Holy Game Guild.
Xia Bai: “?”
After Qian Xing came out to mediate, everyone started to eat breakfast.
While eating the melon, Xia Bai thought about the beggar they mentioned just now. No one has gone to the beggar to find out the situation yet.
After returning from breakfast, when they were redistributing the work, Xia Bai suggested that they could go and talk to the beggars and the owners of fast food restaurants and convenience stores.
Ling Changye: "I talked to the boss of the canteen when I bought something. He came here to do business and just took over not long ago. He doesn't know much about this place. You can ask the beggar. He looks sneaky. He would sneak into the empty room of the apartment and occupy the magpie's nest. He may know every room in the apartment well."
Lin Xiang: "Then I will continue to target the 211 one."
Yang Mei: "I'm going to find Xiao Qi. I can't wait."
Ling Changye nodded, "Xia Bai and I will go find the beggar."
After the work was divided, Yang Mei immediately took the snacks and went to find Xiaoqi in Room 209.
Xia Bai said: "Is it my illusion? Why do I feel that Yang Mei is working hard in this copy?"
He had only been to two dungeons with Yang Mei, and he felt that Yang Mei had worked harder in this dungeon than in the previous one.
Ling Changye said: "He may want to prove himself in front of Yang Yi and prove that he can do without his brother."
Xia Bai was stunned for a moment.
Does he need to prove anything? He is already the top player in the standings.
Ling Changye: "Don't think about it. We can't be lazy this time. Let's go."
Xia Bai: “Yeah!”
When they went to find the beggar, he was still sleeping in the empty room.
The two followed his example and climbed in through the window. This was the benefit of looking for clues from beggars. They couldn't break into other residents' rooms, but they could break into the beggar's room, which was not his to begin with, and he couldn't kick them out of the apartment.
The beggar was about to shout when he heard the voice, but Ling Changye waved a bowl of fried rice noodles in front of him.
The beggar's stomach immediately began to growl.
“…”
Xia Bai even thoughtfully brought him a box of soy milk. "We are just curious whether what the lady boss of Room 303 said is true. Do you want to gossip?"
The beggar swallowed his saliva, and said weakly, "What did she say to you?"
Ling Changye said: "She said that the woman in 305 was having an affair with the man in 406, and it was the woman in 305 who took the initiative."
After saying that, he showed a meaningful smile on his face, tilted his head and pointed at Xia Bai, "We brothers love to listen to this kind of gossip."
Xia Bai: “…”
He is not, he doesn't. He is an honest, kind and clean boy.
The beggar showed a similar but dirty smile on his face and snatched the fried rice noodles from Ling Changye's hand, "Hey, why didn't you tell me earlier? I understand."
He took the fried rice noodles and started to eat them ravenously. He choked and took the soy milk from Xia Bai's hand. He took two big gulps to suppress it. "The boss lady didn't lie. Besides, since you are the first people to give me food in the past two days, I will tell you another secret. The boss lady's man is also having an affair with the woman in Room 305."
Xia Bai was stunned, "How is it possible, he dares?"
“…”
Xia Bai thought about it. It sounded absurd, but it was possible. When they went to 303 to wash their hair for the first time, the lady boss said in a sarcastic tone that her husband thought the woman in 305 was a fairy.
Xia Bai: "Doesn't he love the boss lady very much?"
The beggar sighed with vicissitudes and understanding, "It's because I love you so much that I'm like this."
Summer White:
"? I don't really understand your love."
He turned to Ling Changye and asked, "Captain, do you understand?"
Ling Changye was abnormal: "I don't understand, I don't comprehend."
"Ah." The beggar looked at them and sighed, looking experienced enough to be their teacher. "You are just too young. He loves the boss lady very much. In order to pursue her, he spent all his father's compensation money. But after marriage, he was suppressed and ridiculed by the boss lady every day. The boss lady would feel uncomfortable if she didn't ridicule him every day, no, every hour. Just imagine how he feels."
Xia Bai: "Is he crazy?"
The beggar was silent for a few seconds and looked at him. "That's about it. He is finally going to do something big to rebel against the boss lady and provoke her at the same time."
Xia Bai: "He is really useless."
The beggar disagreed strongly, "Is this hopeless?"
Xia Bai: "What he calls a big deal, what he calls resistance, is cheating on his wife, and doing it with another woman. If this isn't a lack of ambition, then what is this? If he has the guts, he should get a divorce."
beggar:"……"
Ling Changye: "Do the people in the apartment building know about this? I think they all know about the man in 406 and the woman in 305."
"They probably don't know. I discovered it secretly." The beggar said, "That night I wanted to go to the rooftop to enjoy the cool air, and I saw the two of them. Well, you know what happened."
He smiled obscenely and squinted at them, "If I had another pack of cigarettes, I'd tell you something even more exciting."
Ling Changye didn't smoke and didn't usually participate in any social events involving smoking and drinking. There were no cigarettes in his space props, so he immediately went to the canteen to buy cigarettes for the beggar and even thoughtfully brought him a lighter.
The beggar immediately lit it and took a deep breath. The smoke came out of his mouth, covering his face as if he was savoring the taste. "I saw the woman in Room 406, taking pictures with a camera."
Xia Bai: "The woman in 406, is she trying to find evidence of her husband cheating on her? And she ended up photographing the man in 303 and the woman in 305?"
The beggar said, “It should be.”
209.
Xiao Qi sighed, "The last time I went to see my boyfriend..."
Yang Mei leaned forward and asked, "How is it?"
They chatted for a long time and finally came to what Yang Mei thought was the key point. He didn't dare to get too excited, nor did he dare to go along with her lies. He just showed a little curiosity, the way good girlfriends would chat about their feelings in their daily lives.
Xiao Qi: “He’s crazy.”
Yang Mei didn't know why she suddenly felt a chill in her heart.
He never expected it to be these two words. He thought Xiaoqi was going to say that her boyfriend was sticking to her all day long. At most, he thought Xiaoqi would tell him that her boyfriend was becoming less clingy, but not to the extent that her boyfriend had a new lover.
He didn't know what this meant, but he somehow felt something was wrong and dangerous.
He could hardly hold back the curious smile on his face, "Are you crazy in love with me?"
Xiao Qi's face was full of confusion, but she could also see her grievance and sadness. After a few seconds, she pursed her lips and smiled again, "Yeah, why is he like this? He said he loves me madly. Isn't this bad?"
Yang Mei tried hard to keep a smile on her face, "He is indeed possessive and clingy."
Lin Xiang squatted in front of the door of 211, put his ear to the crack of the door, and heard his grandmother scolding her grandson.
"If anything happens to you, how am I going to explain it to your parents?"
Do you know that if something happened to you, I would not be able to survive.
"She beat me, she would lock me in the toilet, she would make me eat pig food."
"You can't play with that girl in Room 305, do you know that? Do you know that? Do you know that?"
"Do you know?" she said it twice, becoming more and more crazy, but with a sobbing sound.
Maybe she realized that she had scared her grandson, or did something wrong, because another anxious voice came from the other side of the door, "Grandma is wrong, my dear grandson, does your leg hurt? Grandma will rub it for you. Grandma is wrong, grandma is wrong."
"Then can I go out and play?" The boy's voice was so low that Lin Xiang had to struggle to hear it clearly.
Grandma's voice suddenly changed, "No! You can't go out! You must stay at home. It's very dangerous outside. You must stay by grandma's side, understand?"
204.
Qian Xing ended his long rant with a sigh: "It's not easy to be old, it's all bitterness."
Lao Wang sighed, "Isn't it?"
"Take the one from 211 for example. Her son-in-law and daughter-in-law don't treat her like a human being. Whenever they are unhappy, they beat and scold her. She is so scared that she trembles with fear. She has to pay for her grandson to look after him. If the grandson gets bumped or bruised, her son-in-law and daughter-in-law will beat her with a stick until she can't get out of bed. Fortunately, her son-in-law and daughter-in-law are working outside now, so she can finally breathe a sigh of relief."
Qian Xing: "If you ask me, having children is a sin, it's better not to have them."
"It won't work if there isn't one." Lao Wang said, "Look, the old couple in Room 308, their child died when they were young, and they have been relying on each other until they are old. At this age, they can't leave each other. We suspect that the old man is dead. We haven't seen him for a long time. Look at this old lady, she looks like she has lost her soul."
Qian Xing was so sad that his eyes turned red. "Getting old is suffering."
Seeing this, Lao Wang was very sad and surprised. "You are the one who can empathize with us old people the most that I have ever seen. It is not easy. You understand us too well."
Qian Xing: "No, everyone gets older. I just see and think a lot."
Xia Bai and Ling Changye agreed with the beggar to come to him next time to listen to gossip. When they returned, Yang Mei and Lin Xiang were already waiting in their room, and even Qian Xing was there.
Yang Mei was the most anxious. He quickly told the two what he had heard from Xiao Qi, "I feel something is wrong. Captain, Xia Bai, what about you?"
The surveillance prop was still on the stairs, so they couldn't see Xiaoqi's expression at the time. Ling Changye asked him to tell them the whole story, as well as Xiaoqi's detailed expression at the time.
After hearing this, Ling Changye said affirmatively: "Something is wrong. The real breakthrough may have come."
"Ah?" Lin Xiang thought for a moment and said, "Her boyfriend doesn't love her as much as she said. She ran away from home for him in her second year of high school and gave so much for him. Finally, after she realized that her boyfriend had abandoned her, she did something to her boyfriend, and her boyfriend went crazy."
"She, she wouldn't kill her boyfriend, would she?! That altar was her...?"
Ling Changye didn't say anything. He didn't know why he didn't say anything. His eyebrows were slightly furrowed, and it was unknown what he was thinking about.
Seeing this, Lin Xiang, who was the most anxious, did not dare to disturb him until he asked, "Did you find anything else?"
Lin Xiang and Qian Xing immediately told them about the situation on their side.
Lin Xiangshi raised his doubts, "Grandma doesn't let her grandson play with the little girl in Room 305. Why is that?"
Xia Bai murmured: "305 again..."
He also felt something was wrong. This feeling was very similar to the feeling he had when he thought he had discovered the truth at the Peace Medical College and the Harmony Cinema copy, like the feeling of missing a hidden condition when solving a big math problem.
What's missing?
This copy must not be as peaceful as it seems on the surface, there must be something hidden.
He combed it from head to toe.
Ling Changye said: "Let's go see what the players on the second floor have discovered."
Xia Bai temporarily stopped thinking and said "hmm". He also wanted to know what new discoveries the players on the second floor had. He felt that he just needed someone to kick him.
"There's nothing of value." Wei Jingyun was almost dying of worry. "We've drilled holes in the walls of several residents, but we didn't find anything after watching them for the whole morning."
Ma Xinjia was also very annoyed, "Fuck! How do you play this crappy game?"
Xiong Xiyuan said: "It's not that I didn't find anything. Didn't the old couple in Room 406 guess that the old man died at home? No, I looked in every corner of the room, unless the old man's body was stuffed in the refrigerator or the closet."
"What kind of discovery is this? It's useless!" Ma Xinjia sneered.
"What's your attitude? You can't speak properly, right? Then what useful things have you found?" Xiong Xiyuan retorted loudly.
They had been keeping an eye on these families for the entire morning, and this was the only useful thing they had concluded. Yet he was being laughed at. How could he remain calm and not get angry?
If it really doesn't work, they will have no other choice.
"Why are you guys arguing again?" Qian Xing said helplessly, "What's there to argue about?"
This time her attempt to mediate the quarrel was not very effective. Xiong Xiyuan stretched out his arm and pointed at Ma Xinjia, "I didn't want to quarrel, he was just looking for trouble!"
"Try pointing to another one?" Ma Xinjia rolled up his sleeves and stepped forward. "Do you believe I can interrupt you?"
"Come on, do you really think I'm afraid of you?"
Seeing the two men approaching and about to fight, Qian Xing, who was standing in the middle, pushed his hands to both sides. The two strong men suddenly flew twenty or four meters away and hit the wall respectively. The old wall was fine, but the two men both spat out blood.
The first floor suddenly became quiet.
Even Xu Qingming looked over.
Xia Bai noticed that when Qian Xing pushed his palm, something seemed to go out from his palm, but it was too fast and he couldn't see it clearly.
This may be the reason why the wall behind the two men was intact, while blood spurted out of their mouths.
Qian Xing raised her red lips slightly, then quickly lowered them, and said earnestly: "You two, why don't you listen to my advice? Can you calm down and study the game properly now?"
As he said that, he walked over to help Ma Xinjia. Ma Xinjia looked at him in a daze and was helped up by him like a good child. When Qian Xing went to help Xiong Xiyuan, he was still looking at him.
Xia Bai: “…”
After this incident, no one made any loud noise anymore, and several players looked at Qian Xing secretly with fear.
However, even if we quieted down, no one had any ideas.
They have tried every possible way to find these households, but they have reached the end of this direction, the game has not responded, and they cannot find any other directions.
The players sat in silence. At noon, the sunlight could not penetrate into the first floor of this dilapidated apartment as it was completely blocked by the magnificent building in front. The humid air was mixed with the greasy smell of fast food, which fermented in the cool room and could not be dissolved or dissipated.
Wei Jingyun said, "Why don't we switch rooms and swap the quest targets. Our players on the second floor will investigate the residents on the second floor, and you players on the second floor will investigate the residents on the second floor. Maybe we'll find something new."
He himself didn't seem to have much confidence in what he said, it was just a change of name but the substance remained the same.
Others have no objections, I don’t know if they have any other ideas.
Just like that it broke up.
"Oh, this is the first time I've encountered this kind of game. I was completely confused and it didn't make any splash at all. Of course, I didn't play many games." Lin Xiang said.
As they talked, they went up to the second floor.
Lin Xiang asked: "What should we do now? Why don't we go check the altar?"
"I've looked at the altar and there's nothing wrong with it," said Qian Xing.
Xia Bai asked: "Did you see inside? Are there any tablets inside? Can you tell if they are worshipping or something?"
Qian Xing said: "I took a quick look and there should be nothing inside. It was pitch black. There were no rankings, no statues, and no photos. However, I just took a quick look and didn't really check it."
"Oh my god." Lin Xiang said in agony, "The altar clue is useless. Is there any other way for us to go?"
"Yes." Ling Changye said, "The sound from 11 to 12 o'clock at night."
"We can all hear that sound, but we can't find its source. This is the biggest doubt at the moment."
Ling Changye said: "If we can't find other useful clues from the residents, we might as well follow the sound and study it."
"Okay." Lin Xiang cooperated very well. "How do we study it?"
Ling Changye: "Let's summarize the basic information first. First, the time when the sound appeared. It was between 11 and 12 o'clock for two consecutive nights. Why was it at this time?"
Qian Xing answered this question, "From 11 to 12 midnight, it is the time when yin and yang change. It is said that you can see ghosts at this time."
"I know!" Lin Xiang said, "These noises are made by ghosts! That's why we can't hear them! There are ghosts in this apartment! I was wondering why this game is so peaceful and not scary at all. There are so many noises, we might be surrounded by ghosts!"
"Really?" Yang Mei's eyes lit up, "That's great!"
The more he thought about it, the more horrified it became. Lin Xiang's hair stood on end: "..."
Xia Bai, who was frowning in thought, heard their voices and his eyes widened little by little, "Yin and Yang alternating, Yin and Yang alternating..."
【Welcome everyone to stay at Dihao Apartment and experience the fireworks here. 】
There are burning incense, fresh fruits and paper money on the altar.
Several residents smelled of incense.
305 The fruit on the girl’s table and the money in her pocket.
209 When the girl went to see her boyfriend, he went crazy.
Boys and girls who don't go to school, apartment buildings where no one goes out.
…
Xia Bai suddenly ran out and ran to the altar at the stairs.
"Xia Bai!" Lin Xiang ran after him.
Others followed.
Xia Bai stared at the altar, and after a few seconds he looked at Ling Changye. Ling Changye had already bent over and picked up the plate of fruit on the altar to check. The fruit was fine, but there was a tiny name on the back of the paper money next to it.
Li Shiqi.
"Li, Li Shiqi?" Lin Xiang stuttered, "Why, why is it the name of the girl in Room 209? Is it true that she set up this altar?"
Ling Changye used the light from his cell phone to illuminate the inside of the altar. There was a piece of black cloth inside, and there was no ranking or anything like that. But when he turned over the back of the black cloth and shone a strong light on it, he could barely make out rows of words on it.
Li Shiqi, Wang Fugui, Li Chaofeng...the names of every resident.
Lin Xiang got goosebumps all over his body, and a chill ran up from the soles of his feet to his forehead. "What...what is this...ha, I know. These are the names of the people who set up the altar. At that time, they..."
When Xia Bai heard the noise, he quickly covered his mouth and dragged him into room 202.
After everyone came in and the door was closed, Xia Bai said, "The strange noises from 11 to 12 o'clock at night were not made by ghosts. We are the ghosts, and this side of us is the underworld."
Xia Bai took a breath. He was not calm after making this discovery. "They, all the residents from the first floor to the fourth floor are dead."
"The sound between 11pm and 12pm is made by the living people in the world of the living. It is leaked to us during the transition between yin and yang. We can hear it because we just died not long ago. They have been dead for a long time, so they can't hear it."
"If we are not mistaken, those sounds should come from the altar."
Yang Mei was confused.
Lin Xiang felt a tingling sensation on his scalp.
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