Infinite Secret House 28 Stand-in?
As the morning light faded, the black fog mountain ghost that had been fighting with He Wei for half the night gradually dissipated.
She half leaned against the mottled stone wall, calming down quietly.
"Thank...thank you."
A faint voice of thanks from the side drew He Wei's attention back. She squinted her eyes and finally recognized the player: "Bai He?"
Bai He was chased for most of the night and had used up all his props. If He Wei had not come to his rescue, he would have sacrificed most of his wealth and returned to Xingcheng by now.
He thought he was just a random player offering his help, but unexpectedly, the person called out his name: "Do you know me?"
He Wei was silent.
Not only does she know him, she also knows all the players in the entire dungeon.
She had memorized the Homecoming Player's Handbook so well that she simply forgot that others didn't recognize her.
Bai He climbed up the steps of someone's house and said, "I don't have anything to compensate you with. When I return to Star City, I'll sell this copy of the intelligence and transfer the money to you. Where are you from? How can I find you?"
He Wei: "No need. Even if you die, there's still a chance the mountain ghost will come after me. I have to fight this one."
Bai He was searching the dungeon, and when he heard her refuse so straightforwardly, he certainly wouldn't rush to pay, so he quickly shut up.
As the daylight gradually brightened, the ancient town came alive. The creaking of doors and windows and the crackling of fire in the pot could be heard continuously.
Bai He was being chased without any image at all. This scene might scare people, so he rested for a while and planned to leave.
He Wei suddenly asked, "When the mountain ghosts were chasing you, you said there were three of them. Why did you choose only you? Is there something fishy going on? What does that mean?"
Speaking of this, Bai He was filled with anger and immediately complained to He Wei.
"Just talking about this makes me angry. Two players and I were going to trap that NPC who's been flirting with Lan Xi... I didn't expect those two players to actually live in the same yard. Two of them! They didn't even move when the mountain ghost came! Such an obvious target, but the mountain ghost actually let them go and chased me. Isn't that evil?"
He Wei found the key point in his broken rant: "You said you were going to find the NPC next to Lan Xi?"
Bai He was stunned: "Yeah, I originally wanted to put him in a sack and take him away, and ask him if he knew any clues to pass the customs."
He Wei: "Didn't catch him?"
Bai He rolled his eyes. "We hid so well, just waiting for dark to strike, but before we even made a move, Gu Miaoyang was like he had placed a tracking device on us and caught us in an instant. Those two ran fast, and I... was a step slower, so I was caught."
He paused, then suddenly thought: "Is there a traitor among the three of us? Damn, we've been tricked!"
He Wei's mouth twitched. "They abandoned you yesterday, and they're definitely avoiding you today. You should take some time to heal your wounds."
Having said that, she turned and left.
After fighting with mountain ghosts all night, she should have gone back to catch up on some sleep, but she turned around and headed towards the courtyard where Lan Xi was staying.
There's something wrong with Lan Xi's boyfriend in that copy.
After several days of investigation, He Wei clearly knew that every NPC followed a rule - they could only move during the day.
The night belongs to the mountain ghosts.
Once it gets dark, there will be no one in the ancient town except the players.
Bai He saw Lan Xi and the NPC only returned home after dark.
He Wei sighed, realizing that she was actually blind to the truth.
Because Lan Xi and her boyfriend were showing off their affection in the streets every day, He Wei couldn't stand it and basically avoided them and never thought about checking on that person.
The dungeon was on its fifth day, and she had been dragging on in it for quite some time.
In the past few days, she has confirmed the identities of most of the residents.
At first, I didn't intend to find so many people. I just found that these settlements were connected to each other, and I thought they were not important, but they were actually part of the clue.
The scope was gradually expanded, and now almost everyone has been checked.
They're all monsters.
None of them are human.
Although I don't have much hope for the remaining small group of people, but since the investigation has come to this point, I might as well go through everyone so that I can report back with confidence.
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"Xiaoxi, get up."
Lan Xi was half asleep, burying her head in the quilt: "Today... rest."
"Someone's waiting for you outside." Xie Yunsui tried to pull someone out of the bed: "It's He Wei."
Lan Xi was forced to wake up, and dazedly woke up: "She is looking for me? Is she looking for Gu Miaoyang?"
"Gu Miaoyang left the cottage early in the morning. When He Wei came, she asked the lady in the yard and found out where she went, but she was still waiting in the yard."
Then we can only wait for Lan Xi's answer.
Lan Xi sat up lazily and stretched out his hand: "Give me another bottle of recovery potion."
Xie Yunsui raised his eyebrows: "I drank two bottles last night."
Lan Xi fell on him, weakly: "Did you mix water into your medicine? I drank two bottles and it didn't work..."
Xie Yunsui pinched his thin arm and said, "I really need to train hard when I return to Star City this time. Our intensity last night was only half of what we did in the last world."
"You actually compared my body to Themis's..."
Lan Xi finally understood why he had to drink two bottles of potion every night!
Well, he was mentally accustomed to the strength of the previous world, but he didn't expect that the body in this world would be so weak.
Xie Yunsui still gave him a bottle of recovery potion and said to himself seriously, "I'll be more restrained next time."
Lan Xi swallowed the potion and suddenly felt less listless. He straightened up, smiled, and reached out to touch Xie Yunsui: "Really?"
Xie Yunsui took his hand away expressionlessly: "You can't drink anymore today."
Lanxi: "..."
Considering that there were players waiting outside, Lan Xi did not continue flirting.
After washing and changing into new clothes, he opened the door.
He Wei was dozing off on a small stool. When she heard the door open, she suddenly woke up and looked over.
Lan Xi greeted with a smile: "Good morning, what can I do for you?"
He Wei shifted her gaze from the red mark remaining on his snow-white neck and said, "I'm looking for your new boyfriend."
Lan Xi: “Ah?”
He Wei: "Can I talk to him alone? I have a question for him."
Lan Xi was puzzled and was about to turn around to see what Xie Yunsui meant when she suddenly heard Xie Yunsui whisper, "Don't move, don't turn your head, don't look at me."
Xie Yunsui continued, "I opened a private chat with you. You pretended to be the player I was controlling. Now you reply to whatever I say."
Lan Xi paused, looked straight at He Wei, and said slowly: "He is resting. What do you want to see him about? Tell me."
Of course He Wei noticed his unnaturalness, frowned, and took a few steps closer.
Lan Xi: "Stop, don't move."
He Wei stopped, with a small prop in her hand.
Lan Xi watched her movements and shook his head slightly.
He Wei frowned: "I just want to say a few words to him, nothing else."
Lan Xi still said stiffly: "He is my boyfriend, how can he talk to a girl alone? If you have something to say, tell me and I will help you convey it..."
Before she could finish her words, He Wei rushed into the room, throwing out the props in her hand, trying to control everyone in the room in one fell swoop.
However, the room was empty, without even a single extra person in sight.
"Where are the others?" He Wei turned around.
Lan Xi seemed to have lost control of himself and sat on the ground, gasping for breath. "He left. He must have realized you were up to no good and ran away."
He Wei looked him up and down: "Have you been controlled by him?"
Lan Xi swallowed and said, "Yes, I seemed to have lost my mind and treated him as my boyfriend. If you hadn't come, I would probably have been controlled by him forever."
He Wei was puzzled: "Among the eight players, why did he choose you?"
Lan Xi: "...Because I'm the prettiest?"
He Wei: "..."
Lan Xi: "Just kidding."
He Wei said coldly, "You still have the energy to joke around. It seems like you're enjoying it."
Lan Xi sighed, "Alas, the truth has already happened. I'll just treat it as a dog bite. Luckily, my boyfriend doesn't know... I hope you can keep it a secret for me and don't tell anyone."
He Wei squatted down and looked him in the eye. "There's no such thing as a free lunch. I can keep it a secret, but what can you give me?"
Lan Xi looked at her silently for a long time before he spoke with difficulty, "During that time... he often looked at me and called me other names, as if he mistook me for someone else. Maybe he was using me as a substitute? I really don't know much else. When I was being controlled, I really thought he was my boyfriend and didn't notice anything unusual."
He Wei: "What's his name?"
Lan Xi thought for a moment and said, "Xia...Shi or something, it seems to be pronounced this way."
"Xia Shi?" He Wei corrected.
"Yes! That seems to be the name!" Lan Xi's eyes moved: "How do you know this name? Do you know this person?"
He Wei did not answer his question, but continued to ask Lan Xi where he knew the person and whether he could find him again?
Lan Xi shook his head, pretending to be very scared and said that he didn't want to see him again. He said dejectedly that he would take the initiative to hit the mountain ghost to leave the copy tonight.
He Wei's expression softened. "There's no need to leave so early. There's definitely something fishy about this guy. Perhaps catching him will allow us to successfully clear the mission. You've already persevered for five days, and victory is within sight. Instead of failing the Mountain Ghost mission and losing a large number of lives when you leave, why not persevere a little longer? If you win, you'll not only gain lives but also item rewards."
She slowly tempted: "If you can help me catch him, I can give you another life."
Lan Xi bit her lip and hesitated for a moment: "Really?"
He Wei directly transferred 500 lives to him: "This is a deposit."
Lan Xi was speechless for a moment when he was shocked by the appearance of wealth and power. The Homecoming Club was really rich.
He was silent for a long time, then asked, "How do you want me to help you?"
Asking about its origins and whereabouts probably wouldn't yield any answers. He Wei pondered for a few seconds and then pulled out a prop shaped like a flying pigeon: "If he comes looking for you again, pinch this pigeon and let it go."
Lan Xi blinked: "Won't you stay by my side to protect... and watch over me?"
He Wei: "I can't just sit here and wait for him to come. What if he doesn't come? I have to go to the ancient town to find him."
The clue she had been searching for for a long time finally came to her. There were only two days left before the end of the copy. He Wei couldn't just sit there and wait for death. She had to search the ancient town again.
After leaving the courtyard, Lan Xi slowly stood up and looked at the flying pigeon prop in his hand.
"The prop also has monitoring and surveillance functions." Xie Yunsui appeared nearby and blocked the pigeon prop. "She doesn't believe you."
"That sounds outrageous. I wouldn't believe it either." Lan Xi placed the prop on the table and glanced sideways. "You seem to know why she came to see you?"
"She probably wants to verify whether I am a monster in human skin."
Lan Xi suddenly realized: "That means I need to hide for a while."
He asked again: "What's this about Xia Shi? Why did you suddenly bring him up?"
"She's looking for someone, and the only person who's appeared in the dungeon is Xia Shi. I suspect Gui Xiang might know something, so I'm going to give it a try."
Xie Yunsui propped up his chin, his mind racing. "We can't let this dungeon drag on until the seventh day. You should go find Gu Miaoyang and finish the dungeon immediately after you find the item that can defeat the mountain ghost. He Wei had a clue but lost it. She'll definitely report it to the Guixiang Society and send someone in. If the people behind them can't find me, an NPC, they'll eventually find you."
"It just takes a chance to talk to the Homecoming Club."
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