Chapter 83 Imperial Apartment 10
"Why are you crying?"
Lin Xiang squatted in front of Yang Mei at a loss, and took out a tissue to hand it to him.
The things sold in the canteen here are all the cheapest and lowest quality, and this tissue is so rough that it hurts. Lin Xiang put it back as soon as he took it out, and raised his sleeve to wipe his tears.
"If you don't want him to go, I'll go get him back for you right away. Don't cry."
Yang Mei was lying on his knees, almost the same height as the squatting Lin Xiang. Xia Bai and Ling Changye couldn't see his face, nor did they know what expression he had.
Ling Changye asked him directly: "Yang Mei, what do you think?"
Yang Mei said, "I'm not going."
Xia Bai said: "Okay, you and the captain stay here."
After saying that, the two of them went out, leaving the space to him and Lin Xiang, who was not sure if he was redundant or not.
After returning to their room, Xia Bai asked, "Why did Yang Yi say that Yang Mei was a poor child? Why did Yang Mei react so strongly?"
Ling Changye answered every question, "That should be it. Yang Mei was indeed quite pitiful in the past."
When Xia Bai first met Yang Mei, Yang Mei was carefully surrounded by a group of service personnel from the assault team. When he wanted to listen to a concert, the assault team would invite the star to the hotel and sing for him. It felt like he could get whatever he wanted, the stars and the moon.
At that time, he felt that Yang Mei lived like a "little princess", very far away from him, a child who grew up in the countryside.
At that time, he would never think that Yang Mei was a poor child.
Hearing Ling Changye say this again, he felt that this should be the case.
The last time Ling Changye mentioned the relationship between Yang Mei and Yang Yi, he said that their family had a difficult life in the past, and perhaps during that time, Yang Mei was a poor child.
Xia Bai said, "There's still half an hour left. I'll go ask Qian Xing if he wants to go up."
Ling Changye: "Go ahead and ask."
Xia Bai felt that there was something else behind his words, but he had no evidence, and his doubts lay in the word "well".
When he looked at Ling Changye, there was an impeccable smile on Ling Changye's face.
Xia Bai: "Oh."
He just wanted to ask nicely.
As soon as Xia Bai stood at the door of Room 205, Qian Xing opened the door for him. "Xia Bai, you're here. What's up?"
When Xia Bai's slightly dull face frowns and looks at people sideways, there magically appears a sense of disgust that does not make people unhappy, and is very suitable for being made into a cute emoticon package.
Qian Xing: “…”
He still insisted and asked, "What's wrong?"
Xia Bai walked into the door and closed it, and Qian Xing's heart trembled inexplicably.
"I can't find any clues here. I need to go to the Yangjian Apartment." Xia Bai said.
Qian Xing nodded immediately, "Okay!"
Xia Bai: "It will be very dangerous over there. Is there anything you need to tell me about?"
Qian Xing: “…”
Xia Bai said: "You don't have it, but I do."
Qian Xing gritted his teeth and said, "You say."
Xia Bai found a chair and sat down. "My family lives in Minshi Village, Jiangqi City. I have lived with my grandfather since I was a child. My grandfather is a corpse driver. There are five gods of happiness in my family."
Qian Xing: "To arrange funeral arrangements, do I need to arrange my household registration first?"
Xia Bai glanced at him and continued, "Later, my grandfather died, the game came, the God of Joy was lost, and my family was destroyed."
Qian Xing: “…”
Xia Bai: "My grandfather has a group of old friends who quarrel every day. They are all corpse chasers he knew when he was young. Any two old people in the group are over 120 years old. I thought they were a group of pitiful old people abandoned by the times."
"How pitiful! I was thinking that when they died, I would collect their bodies and send them to a beautiful place to spend their afterlife."
Qian Xing: “…That sounds good.”
Xia Bai continued, "Later I found out that among this group of poor old men, one is a powerful mysterious player, one is the director of the Game Management Bureau, and one is a veteran of the Holy Game Guild. Maybe there is more to come."
Qian Xing: “…”
Xia Bai: "That elder of the Holy Travel Guild may have a fetish for cross-dressing and a love for disguises as beautiful women."
Qian Xing immediately said: "I'm not! I didn't!"
Xia Bai looked at him quietly with his eyes slanted.
Old Qian: “…”
Xia Bai looked at Lao Qian like he was looking at a primary school student who had done something bad, "What happened? Tell me."
At this point, Lao Qian couldn't hide it anymore. He sat opposite Xia Bai and said, "Yes, we are players, and we are one of the earliest players."
Xia Bai: "How many players are there in the group?"
Lao Qian said conservatively: "There should be quite a few."
Xia Bai: “…”
Xia Bai: "I understand. At that time, Lao Wang said in the group that there was a problem with our world, and sent a link to the group for me to see. You guys were acting crazy and stupid in the group."
Xia Bai had a good memory, "At that time you said that you had just put on your reading glasses and looked like you knew nothing and hadn't caught up with anything."
Old Qian: “…”
He changed the subject by telling the truth. "Well, you should have realized it now. The skills given to players by the game are often related to the players' experiences and the souls shaped by their experiences. For those of us who have been chasing corpses for many years... as long as we enter the game, we have good skills."
"When the game first came out, we didn't understand anything. Some of us were afraid of being alone so we set up a small club, some didn't understand so we joined some teams, and some people wanted to maintain world peace so they set up the Game Management Bureau."
Xia Bai: “…”
Lao Qian began to explain, "Later, these groups and bureaus grew bigger and bigger, and became a bit complicated. We didn't want you to get involved, so we never told you. Unexpectedly, you ended up in the Tourism Management Bureau, and became part of its assault team."
Xia Bai was curious: "Do you know each other's identities?"
Lao Qian: "It has never been officially announced, but there are speculations. For example, Lao Wang is the director of the Tourism Administration, which cannot be hidden. It's hard to say about other people."
Xia Bai was silent. It turned out that they were not only acting crazy and stupid towards him in the group, but also towards each other.
"So, you don't know much about my grandfather's gaming identity?" Xia Bai asked.
They are in different places and it is impossible for them to be involved in the same game at the same time. The identities of one or two of them can be guessed because their identities are not ordinary. His grandfather seems to be a very low-key person. If he doesn't say it himself, it would be difficult to understand.
Sure enough, Lao Qian said, "I didn't know your grandfather's gaming identity. I only confirmed that he was a player after you told me just now. Either he hid it too well, or he only entered the game once or twice and retired."
Xia Bai: "But you know he is dead."
Old Qian: “Yes.”
Old Qian remembered that when he first met Xia Bai, it was not long after Xia Bai recovered from his illness.
Old Xia was really out of money, so he asked them to borrow money. Only then did they know that he had a seriously ill grandson.
After Xia Bai recovered from his illness, he went to see Xia Bai with Lao Wang and Lao Li, who also lived not far from Jiangqi City.
At that time, Xia Bai was twelve or thirteen years old. He felt very insecure and had to sleep in the tent instead of on the bed. He didn't like to talk much and only showed his little head in the tent when he looked at people. His little face was pale and thin, and his eyes were full of defensiveness.
Old Xia was very worried about him, always afraid that he could not support him, but he vowed to raise him.
It seemed like not much time had passed and Xia Bai had grown up.
Not long after, Old Xia died.
One day, Old Xia suddenly stopped arguing in the group. Instead, he thanked them for lending him money and taking care of Xia Bai. He said that if possible, he would take care of Xia Bai more in the future.
They realized something.
Later, they knew who Old Xia was who appeared from time to time.
Lao Xia was a corpse driver. When he was young, he fell in love with a girl. However, the girl’s family thought he was unlucky and married her off to another village. Since then, Lao Xia never fell in love with any girl again and remained single for the rest of his life.
Therefore, Xia Bai is not his biological grandson.
Xia Bai is also a poor child without parents, and he has lost his only grandfather.
This child was quiet when he was young, but he was not without emotions. The death of his grandfather was a big blow to him. At first, they all thought that he was using his grandfather's mobile phone to talk because he couldn't accept his grandfather's death, so they all pretended that they knew nothing and accompanied him to use this method to keep his grandfather alive in the world.
Later, they found that Xia Bai was also taking care of their feelings, fearing that they, a group of fragile elderly people, could not accept it. After realizing this, he didn't know how others felt, but it was hard for him to express his feelings.
Lao Qian said: "It's wrong for me to act in the group, but you can't smear me, saying that I love women's clothing. You can ruin my reputation for the rest of my life."
Xia Bai asked: "You still blame me, why are you like this?"
Lao Qian: "Aren't you afraid of being discovered?"
Xia Bai: "If you're afraid of being discovered, why are you playing this game?"
Lao Qian: "I just want to see if I can rest assured."
Everyone in the group knew the day Xia Bai reported to university and the university he was admitted to. When he saw the map of Peace Medical College in the game app announcement, he immediately went to the player exchange center and saw Xia Bai.
Others didn’t know, but Lao Qian watched every game Xia Baijin played and knew that Xia Bai had joined the assault team.
His performance was impressive, but he was still worried, wondering if Xia Bai really had the ability to walk in the game. This time he happened to be in Datai City, and when he saw this bounty mission, Xia Bai immediately accepted it.
After coming here, he felt relieved.
He knew that Xia Bai didn't use his skills much, and even if he didn't use his skills, it was reassuring. Moreover, he still had his friends and teammates, which was also an important point that made him feel at ease.
It’s good to have friends, it’s good to have teammates, it’s good to have people who depend on you for life and death.
He has a vivid connection with the world. He is no longer alone, nor is he on guard against the whole world.
Lao Qian: "Who knew you would recognize me? How did I reveal myself? How did you recognize me?"
Can Xia Bai say that he has a captain who can see through all disguises?
cannot.
They are currently rival teams.
Xia Bai said: "You look like an old man, not a beautiful woman, and you pay special attention to me."
Lao Qian admitted it.
Xia Bai looked at him in surprise, "I didn't expect you to be a veteran of a society like the Holy Travel Guild."
Old Qian: "...I told you, I didn't understand it then. At that time, the Holy Travel Guild wasn't like it is now. It was just a few people who were heartbroken by the world and huddled together for warmth. Later, I returned to the village and didn't really care about the Holy Travel Guild."
"Didn't they tell me a few days ago that the Shengyou Guild was in a serious crisis and asked me to leave the village? That's why I came out."
Xia Bai: “…”
After hearing what Lao Qian said, why did he feel that the Shengyou Guild was particularly unreliable?
Is this the largest gaming support group that dares to challenge the Gaming Authority?
Xia Bai blinked, "At that time, did you feel that you were hurt by the world?"
Old Qian: "... Two years before that time, I was the poor, lonely old man abandoned by the times as you said, and I was almost dying."
Xia Bai understood.
At least his feelings weren't entirely wrong.
Xia Bai still had a lot to ask Lao Qian, but now he didn't have time. He said, "The Yang Apartment is really dangerous. Do you really want to go?"
Lao Qian: “Go.”
Xia Bai: "My skill is picking up corpses, resurrecting the dead, what is your skill?"
Lao Qian stretched out his hands, and countless paper figures ran out from his sleeves and collar. "My skill is very ordinary, that is, making paper figures. It's not that I don't need to drive corpses later, so I make paper figures for the dead to support myself. I didn't expect to get this skill in a ghost marriage game."
Those little paper people were thin and small, but Xia Bai did not forget how strong the power was when Lao Qian pushed them.
Xia Bai: "Okay, let's get ready to leave now."
When the two came out of the room, Ling Changye had already told Wei Jingyun and the others about the new situation. Not counting the two who were actually dead, there were still six players upstairs, three of whom were sure to go, and the other three were hesitant after hearing that the world of the living was dangerous and didn't really want to go.
It's normal not to want to go. It has been confirmed that this place is much safer than the living world. If Xia Bai was not a member of the assault team, he would be tempted to wait in the underworld to be taken out of the game.
Those who finally went to the human world were: Xia Bai, Lin Xiang, Lao Qian, Yang Yi, Wei Jingyun and Ma Xinjia.
Xiong Xiyuan was originally struggling with this, but when he saw that his idol Ling Changye didn't go, he immediately decided not to go.
The others continued to stay here to look for clues. They agreed that if there were any key clues or help was needed, they would communicate through voice between 11pm and 12pm. The method of communication was Morse code that was understood by people on both sides.
Just in case, at 11 o'clock, the players who remain in the underworld will go to the doors of each household to help them guard. If the residents find that they are dismantling the altar, they can help them delay time.
At the same time, provide quick cleanup for them after they leave.
Move away the fruit plate and other things, and dismantle half of the small tent, and there will be normal steps underneath.
Xia Bai was just about to try using his earthworm arm drill when he was pushed away by Lao Qian. Several little paper figures poked their heads out of his sleeves, ran up to the steps, and banged their heads against the steps, making a hole with each hit.
“…”
Xia Bai turned to look at Ma Xinjia, who had no obvious reaction. He didn't know whether it was because Lao Qian rarely went to the Shengyou Guild and the people below didn't know his skills, or because he was not a member of the Shengyou Guild.
Soon a hole was knocked out of the stairs by the little paper people, who very touchingly led the way for them and burned their arms to light the way for them.
Xia Bai was so envious of this skill.
The little paper figures are extremely powerful and selfless, these may be just their two most common qualities.
Lao Qian waved at them and jumped into the hole first.
Xia Bai jumped in after him.
A dazzling light flashed through my mind, as if the game lock state had ended and I had re-entered the game.
After jumping down from the cave, Xia Bai came to Room 202 of Dihao Apartment.
The Dihao Apartments in the underworld are how the dead ghosts lived when they were alive, and this place in the world of the living may be their even more dilapidated and terrifying future after they die.
There are still residents here. Xia Bai opened the door and saw light coming out from the crack in the corridor. At the same time, there was light on the stairs, which was the light of fire.
He immediately returned to the room, closed the door, and called out his own prop [Harmony Grab].
[Harmony Grabber] is a prop he obtained in the Harmony Cinema, which can be used to pick up objects across space. He doesn't know whether Yin and Yang belong to the space that can be crossed.
no.
Yin and Yang are separated, and heaven and man are separated forever.
Xia Bai had no choice but to knock on the ground twice to report that everything was fine. Then he began to check the wall, wanting to see the situation in the next room 204 through the hole, but he found that there were no holes drilled in the wall here, not even one.
Xia Bai was stunned for a moment. So the old man next door didn't have voyeurism when he was alive, and he only developed it after he died?
Yes, he remembered that the landlady of Room 303 said that the old man was not a voyeur before, he followed other people's homes to watch, and he only peeped when others didn't let him watch. This was not voyeurism in essence.
Then why didn't he peep when he was alive, but only developed this hobby after he died?
After looking around, Xia Bai quietly opened the door again and looked towards the stairs cautiously.
Someone was burning paper at the altar and seemed to be mumbling something.
Xia Bai was wondering how he could hear clearly when he suddenly saw a little paper man sticking his head out from the corner of the stairs, looking at Xia Bai, then stretching his short legs and running over silently, all the way to Xia Bai's shoulders, tiptoeing to his ear, and then Xia Bai heard the sound from the other side.
Xia Bai: “…”
The talisman paper drawn by his grandfather can be sold, but is the paper figurine made by Lao Qian for sale?
He now understood why Lao Qian had become the most powerful and mysterious veteran player in the Shengyou Guild. It wasn't just that he had one skill; the little paper man was simply too versatile.
This thought flashed through his mind, and Xia Bai listened carefully to the voice in his ear.
"Qiqi, I was wrong."
"Qiqi, let me go, please."
"Qiqi, I will burn paper for you every day, please don't come to me anymore, okay?"
Xia Bai quickly guessed the identity of this person, Xiaoqi's boyfriend in 209. Xiaoqi told Yang Mei that when she went to see her boyfriend, her boyfriend went crazy.
Xia Bai didn't know whether he should go over or not. If he used some tricks now, he should be able to get the cause of Xiaoqi's death from him.
But he doesn't know much about the situation here now. Lan Xiang and Yu Chao died here. It is very likely that they died on the first night when they arrived here. This place is much more dangerous than the underworld.
Just as he was thinking, Xia Bai heard a clearer voice coming from the corridor, "Why are you sorry for me?"
Is this the voice of Xiaoqi from Room 209?
Xiaoqi came to see her boyfriend again?
This point in time is indeed the time when yin and yang alternate and ghosts appear.
But, is it such a coincidence that they can hear the cause of Xiaoqi's death as soon as they arrive here?
Not long after arriving here, Lao Qian had already figured out the situation on the second floor, some of which needed to be "seen".
Xia Bai thought about it, tore off the little paper man beside his ear, and stuck it to his eyes. Sure enough, he saw the situation in the stairs in the best visual field.
The stairs were not cluttered with clutter like the ones in the underworld. All you could see was a boy's back, a fire in front of him, and the very familiar yellow altar cloth illuminated by the fire.
However, this corridor looked more eerie and terrifying than the underworld. On the wall illuminated by the firelight, one could see a bloodstain that had been cleaned but not completely cleaned.
For the first time, Xia Bai intuitively felt that the eeriness from ghosts and death only existed in the human world, in those traces that were only slightly revealed.
Apart from this, Xia Bai didn’t see anything else, including Xiao Qi, whom he wanted to see the most.
Perhaps it was because he was a human now, so he could no longer see ghosts that had no causal relationship with him.
No, if that were the case, then while he couldn't see Xiaoqi, he shouldn't even be able to hear Xiaoqi's voice.
After just a quick glance, Xia Bai immediately put the little paper man to his ear.
Xiao Qi's voice: "You don't even know how you wronged me, and you still say you sincerely regret it?"
He must have missed a sentence, but it didn't have much impact.
Then he heard footsteps. It should be the boy who stood up and took two steps in an unknown direction.
Xiao Qi's voice: "Don't worry, I will always come to see you, every day, every day."
Boy’s voice: “No! No! Qiqi, it’s my fault!”
"It was my fault at the time, but you want to leave. I'm really heartbroken and panicked. I waited so hard for you to give in and brought you here. I carefully decorated our home. How could you be so cruel to leave?"
"Who are you looking for? Is it your class monitor, or that top student?"
"I had no choice, I had no choice..."
"Ah!" A new cry of pain appeared. Because this sound had appeared many times before, it was only one word, a cry of pain. Xia Bai also recognized that it was Ma Xinjia.
Boy's voice: "...I'll give you a beating."
His voice before had been full of fear and pleading, but the second half of the sentence suddenly had a hint of a gloomy smile.
Xia Bai immediately moved the little paper man to his eyes and saw only a flight of stairs, as if a person was lying on the stairs.
He immediately moved the little paper man to his ear, but he only heard footsteps and no other sound.
It was quiet outside for a while, and Xia Bai heard very light footsteps.
He looked through the crack in the door and saw it was Lin Xiang, so he quickly opened the door for him.
As soon as Lin Xiang came in, he asked him quietly: "Did you hear the sound just now? I couldn't hear the others clearly, but there was one cry of pain that was particularly clear."
Xia Bai whispered to Lin Xiang what he heard and saw.
Xia Bai: "Xiao Qi's voice should be Ma Xinjia's disguise. This may be his skill. He heard Xiao Qi's boyfriend burning paper to confess and ask for forgiveness, and thought this was a great opportunity, so he pretended to be Xiao Qi to trick her. I don't know why Xiao Qi's boyfriend found out and did something to him that was not particularly terrible, but painful."
Lin Xiang reviewed the information and said, "So Xiaoqi is not the love-brained person they say she is. She wanted to leave the apartment, but her boyfriend put a spell on her?"
Xia Bai nodded, "Yes, this can be connected to the sorcerer who came from the apartment building. His boyfriend should have gone to find that sorcerer to cast a spell on Xiaoqi."
Lin Xiang guessed: "The spell her boyfriend cast on Xiaoqi must be to make her love him forever and never leave him?"
Xia Bai continued to nod, and based on the conversation it seemed to be the case.
Lin Xiang: "But, isn't Xiaoqi dead? How can she still love him so much after she died?"
Xia Bai whispered, "You said forever."
What vows and love words do young people in love like to say most? I will love you forever, until death, for all eternity.
Lin Xiang instantly got goosebumps.
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