The knock on the door made the old man hesitate for a moment. Instead of continuing into the warehouse, he turned to the living room.
The old lady rolled her eyes hesitantly, but was finally overcome by greed, eager to gather the fourth candidate, and turned and walked out.
Anyway, there was no way those three female students could escape, so it wouldn't be too late to catch the four of them together and make the soup base.
Inside the warehouse, Zhang You and the other two exchanged glances, their expressions both solemn and complex.
They couldn't hear any sound outside the door, and they only knew that the worst possibility was that the heart determination had also failed.
Once the worst happens, the only way to survive is what they just learned... No matter if it's too late or not, they can only give it a try.
Opportunity never comes again!
Zhang You gritted his teeth and said, "Now's the time! Get started!"
Tang Xinjue opened the car door.
The car jumped off the cliff, but did not fall. Instead, it drove in the fog for a while. When the fog dissipated, this unfamiliar new road appeared in front of her.
A red house stood by the roadside, and the house number indicated the identity of the owner: Grandma Mayas.
Their final mission goal is here.
Picking up the gift box containing the "specialties", Tang Xinjue knocked on the door without hesitation.
After a few seconds, the red-painted wooden door creaked open and an old head stretched out.
This was an old lady, perhaps seventy or eighty years old, with a red sweater and a green apron wrapped around her short, hunched body. Her shriveled figure was utterly disproportionate to her bloated, drooping face.
At this moment, this face was covered with an uncomfortable smile, and most of the body was eagerly leaning out: "Dear child, did you bring the specialty I wanted?"
Is this "Grandma Mayas"?
His eyes swept over the other person very quickly, and Tang Xinjue noticed that the old lady was holding a black cloth bag in her other hand, and he could faintly see the needle inside.
Before she could answer, the old lady chuckled. "Don't worry, I'm always very tolerant of stupid kids. Even if you mess things up, you can still stay overnight at my house."
As he said that, he stretched out his skinny hand and grabbed forward, trying to grab Tang Xinjue's arm!
The moment danger struck, Tang Xinjue had already stepped aside, avoiding physical contact with the other party, and said in a clear voice: "There's no need to stay overnight."
Her task was simply to deliver the specialties.
Grandma Mayas grabbed nothing with one hand: "..."
The old lady opened her eyes wide in disbelief, her eyelids bulging high: "You can still move?"
Her first reaction was that this student was wearing some powerful props. Just as she was about to show her ferocious look, she saw Tang Xinjue take out a purple gift box with a bow.
The old lady froze again.
"You, you actually succeeded?!"
This student actually managed to walk out of that road and actually delivered the specialty here?
Seeing the reaction of "Grandma Mayas", Tang Xinjue understood everything.
The maze on the circular highway is actually a trap set by this NPC!
The other party thought she had no specialties, but invited her in without surprise... This only meant that the old lady had done the same thing skillfully many times.
Where did the roommate who disappeared from the road go? The answer has been revealed.
The moment she saw the purple gift box, Grandma Mayas's eyes seemed to be sucked in and she couldn't move. She subconsciously stretched out her hand to take it, but missed.
Tang Xin Jue moved the gift box behind him and asked knowingly, "Excuse me, are you Grandma Mayas?"
The old lady's swollen face twitched constantly, as if she wanted to snatch it away directly, but she was intimidated by some unknown threat and was forced to stop where she was. She replied in a muffled voice, "Yes, I am Grandma Mayas... My dear child, give me this specialty quickly. I've been waiting for it all day!"
Tang Xin Jue, however, showed no intention of moving. Faced with the urging, she simply smiled, "Of course I understand. This specialty is very important to Grandma Mayas, so I have to check it carefully. It would be terrible if I sent the wrong one."
"That's ridiculous..." Grandma Mayas said angrily, "I'm standing right here, how else can I prove it?"
She was so angry that her eyeballs became more and more bulging, as if they were about to pop out of her eyelids.
"No evidence," Tang Xinjue shook his head. "Do you have an ID?"
Grandma Mayas: "..."
What is an ID card? Can it be eaten by ghosts?
"It seems not," Tang Xinjue smiled. "In that case, I can't give you the special products easily. Unless..."
"Unless what?"
"Unless there's a witness."
Tang Xinjue's smile faded. "If Grandma Mayas could get my roommate to come out and help confirm, I'd be happy to believe it."
The old lady slowly withdrew her hand and no longer maintained her hypocritical smile.
It realized that the student before it had truly passed the highway checkpoint and had already grasped the true nature of the dungeon. The affirmative tone of the request had thwarted its original plan to feign ignorance and deceive. So, it simply sneered:
"Don't forget your mission. If you don't hand the things over to me immediately, you will never leave here. Poor child, you will starve to death on this road and be corroded by the night fog into a pile of bones!"
The girl said calmly: "I will leave here - with my roommate."
She wouldn't listen to any persuasion.
"Okay, okay." The old lady seemed to compromise. She turned her shriveled body to the side, making a gap for people to pass through. "Your friends are in there. If you really want to see your friends, go in and call them."
Tang Xinjue looked coldly at the hypocritical old ghost. Every word it said was not credible.
"If Grandma Mayas really wants to get my specialties, she can send all my roommates out. One hand for the person, one hand for the goods."
In the gradually darkening night, the girl's voice was soft, but there was no room for comment.
The examinee narrowly escaped death and left the road in an almost unsolvable predicament. Compared with those who were automatically teleported here due to failure, all he got was a light specialty.
The so-called "importance" of this specialty to the dungeon boss is the restrictions imposed on ghosts by the rules.
——A condition that will definitely enable candidates to pass the exam successfully as long as there are no unexpected events.
Grandma Mayas's face gradually twisted and deformed, her yellowed teeth creaking, as if she was about to pounce on Tang Xinjue and drag him into the house. But it never moved.
Tang Xinjue guessed correctly.
Once the candidate knocks on the door with the specialty, the rules and restrictions are immediately reversed. She can move freely, and the object of restriction is changed to ghosts.
Even if Grandma Mayas wanted to tear this human girl apart, she couldn't really do it. She could only lure her into the house and try to control her using the rules of the house.
Tang Xin Jue was like a nail in the ground, his voice growing colder and colder: "Grandma Mayas, I have painstakingly loosened it according to the rules. Are you refusing to sign for it?"
“…”
The old lady's expression changed from time to time. Finally, she took a deep breath and squeezed out a reply through her teeth:
"Okay, wait here and I'll return them to you."
"But your friends are just as cunning as you. I don't know where they are hiding right now. I'm going to find them one by one..."
Tang Xin Jue casually waved the gift box in his hand. "The four of us spent a whole day delivering these specialties. You wouldn't repay them with ingratitude and let them suffer any harm, right?"
Mayas's blood pressure was about to rise, and she said bitterly, "Don't worry, these cunning freshmen, their vitality is more tenacious than mice in a rice warehouse."
It was already a cunning and shrewd ghost, knowing what was important and what was not, and would not be easily provoked to the point of losing its mind. Therefore, even if its painstakingly planned gains were ruined, it would still endure the humiliation and fulfill the requirements of the rules.
"Oh, right," it suddenly remembered something and forced out a sinister smile, "Dear child, thank you for sending such an important thing. In return, I will give you a very beautiful gift so that you will always remember this wonderful road trip..."
Before it could finish its words, it heard a loud bang that exploded from the side of the house! !
The man and the ghost turned their heads at the same time, and saw that a half-person-sized gap had been opened in the right wooden wall of the red house, and a fist shaped like an iron pot flashed in the gap.
Zheng Wanqing shouted, "I broke it open! Hit it!"
"one two three!"
The next moment, Zhang You and Guo Guo each lifted a corner of the freezer and broke through the wall.
Grandma Mayas: "..."
Tang Xin Jue: "..."
Wood chips flew everywhere. Zhang You and the other two immediately got up and looked around, then met the sight of the door from afar.
The four people and the ghost stared at each other in confusion.
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