Playing house in both directions
"Speaking of which, Jiang Daiyue...I seem to have heard of this name."
Zheng Nuo frowned and opened the folder in the computer to search.
Lin Shu came over curiously to take a look and couldn't help asking, "Newcomer, what is this?"
"The information of all graduates this year, including their destinations and personal resumes, has been marked with some information whose reliability is questionable. After all, our school has a very low graduation rate, so the workload of compiling this is not particularly large."
Zheng Nuo was scrolling the mouse wheel while talking. Suddenly he remembered something and turned to look at Lin Shu.
"Sister Lin, have we completed our project funding application? It's due next week."
Lin Shu moved away guiltily and didn't respond.
This class of newcomers is so scary.
Ji Yunding, while dodging the skinless man, continued to ransack each room as if he were ransacking a house, but he only found a few more hiding spots and some reminder notes that warned people not to hide.
After all, why can't these places be hidden?
According to Ji Yunding's observation, these places marked as places not to hide will definitely be searched carefully by the skinless people.
Is it an autonomous action, or are there regulatory restrictions that require it to check this side?
But before that, Ji Yun must make an attempt first.
Keep in mind Zheng Nuo's teachings and learn to communicate with others.
With this thought in mind, Ji Yunding bit his finger and wrote a few words on the back of the note.
——Please tell me your name.
If you are unsure, ask in person. If you can't answer, then talk later. But since the rules say to be careful to hide, it's better not to let it see you.
Ji Yunding hid in the closet, secretly observing the skinless man who picked up the note not far away.
Its originally ferocious smile froze, and it seemed to be in a state of confusion and bewilderment, and then it tore the note to pieces.
Of course, Ji Yunding didn’t really want to ask the question like that. He just nodded silently and made a preliminary judgment.
Literacy and the ability to think to a certain degree.
It's worth the torture.
Intelligence gives individuals the ability to think, but it also brings a variety of negative effects. A stone is not worth torturing - it is there and will not change. But intelligent creatures are different.
As time went on, the skinless man seemed to grow more and more irritable. He could sense that a mouse had entered the house, but he couldn't find it.
But soon, it heard the sound of plates breaking in the kitchen. As it turned around, the exposed tender pink muscles and tendons in the Achilles tendon area were slightly misaligned and entangled, and then reset like a rubber band with poor elasticity.
The kitchen door was open, and the scene inside was clearly visible - a quilt was spread out on the floor. It must have been brought down from the second floor. The shape of the quilt cover was a little unnatural, and some of the filling had been pulled out.
Obviously, the perpetrator had already escaped by taking advantage of his speed. The whole thing was too ambiguous, causing the skinless man to take two steps forward, as if he wanted to investigate.
At this moment, it suddenly felt a heavy blow on its back, and it staggered and lost its balance, falling towards the quilt in front of it. It instinctively used its left hand, which had not turned into a blade, to support itself, but felt a sharp pain in its palm.
The quilt cover was torn by the sharp wooden spikes stuffed inside, leaving a hole right in its palm.
The shrines and tables originally placed on the second floor had been dismantled into pieces, and Ji Yunding had cut them into pieces to use as weapons and traps.
Ji Yunding tried to poke him from behind with the sharpened table leg, but found that the muscle tissue in the skinless man's torso seemed to be denser than normal, and he could only make a shallow wound.
Before the skinless man turned around, Ji Yunding immediately dropped the stick and ran away - if he was seen, it would probably be strengthened. Moreover, the table leg was not as long as the blade in his right hand. As the saying goes, an inch longer is an inch stronger, so running away is the best strategy.
The sound of footsteps coming up the stairs echoed in the house. The Skinless Man was completely enraged. With a distorted expression, he pulled out the wooden awl from his palm. His eyeballs seemed to be about to fall out of his eye sockets without eyelids.
"Height, eye position, distance..."
Ji Yunding stood behind the wall at the corner of the stairs, leaning against the wall. He closed his eyes and simulated the situation in his mind for the last time. Then he opened his eyes and clenched the dagger in his right hand.
There is only one chance. If its eyes are blinded, it will never have the chance to "find" Ji Yunding in this game of hide-and-seek.
The heavy and angry footsteps gradually approached, and Ji Yunding's tense body relaxed instead, and the tension in his mind slowly faded away.
From Ji Yunding's perspective, she has always been a hunter.
It’s getting closer and will be around the corner soon.
"Game, play games."
The wooden sculpture in Ji Yunding's arms suddenly spoke, and the voice echoed in the empty room. At the same time, the footsteps stopped abruptly.
Discovered.
Ji Yunding didn't even think twice, and immediately ran upstairs with the wooden sculpture in his arms without looking back. He adjusted his breathing while running and whispered, "Sorry, it will come and play with us soon, I promise."
The sound of the wood carving stopped, and Ji Yunding, who had missed an opportunity, was not annoyed. He quickly pushed open the door on the left and hid behind the door. After the skinless man rushed in, he jumped lightly and grabbed the top of the door, then turned over and jumped out of the room.
It must have been seen just now, as its speed has obviously increased.
Ji Yunding leaned against the wall and took a breath, then gently patted the wood sculpture's head. He didn't care whether the other party was sorry or not, and he forgave him anyway.
It doesn’t matter, dealing with your sister’s little mistakes is part of the experience of being an older sister.
"Found it." Zheng Nuo moved his hand from the computer's touchpad, looked at the information on the screen, and sighed.
Seven years ago, a left-behind child was brutally murdered after his eyes were gouged out by criminals who broke into his home and robbed him, which caused a huge public outcry.
The deceased, Jiang Daiyue, was the eldest daughter in the family. Her parents went out to work, and during that time, they gave birth to their second daughter, Jiang Chengyue. The second daughter was brought up by their parents, while the eldest daughter was taken care of by her grandparents in the countryside.
So…
"The core desire is, do you want to be a sister?"
Zheng Nuo didn't know what to feel, so he just sighed deeply again.
The weird rules that form weird stories are generally related to personal experiences and core desires.
The rule of appeasing it should be "treat it as a sister." Ji Yunding also hit this point by accident.
The elder sister would not stab her younger sister with a knife. If Ji Yunding did so, the wooden sculpture that was no longer "sister" would have become the second monster to join the game of hide-and-seek.
“So, sometimes ‘identity’ can also be a key point in a strange story.”
Zheng Nuo summed up and recorded the experience in a shared document.
Unlike Ji Yunding, who relies on personal experience, talent and inspiration, and is more like a traditional insider, the academic school relies more on summarization, induction and general rules.
As long as we can summarize the general rules, ensure that the attrition rate of ordinary investigators and the efficiency of solving ghost stories are within an acceptable range, and then delegate special tasks to elite investigators, we can effectively alleviate the increasing pressure of ghost stories by relying on numbers.
The frequency of ghost stories coming to reality is now at a level similar to war. Therefore, those who once possessed mysterious powers had to enter the world and rely on the government to absorb ordinary people into ghost stories.
In the final analysis, the world is the world of ordinary people, and war is the war of ordinary people.
Ji Yunding didn't know what information Zheng Nuo had found, but he felt that the expression of the wood carving in his hand seemed to be much softer. Upon closer inspection, it closed its dark eyes.
Ji Yunding certainly didn't know that she and the core monster were running in two directions, one satisfying her sister's desire and the other satisfying her sister's desire. She just guessed that this might mean that it was not going to embarrass her again in the short term.
"It's always better to end it as soon as possible. We have to find a way."
As he spoke, Ji Yunding rolled up the quilt in the kitchen, collected the wooden awl he had finally sharpened, and then caught a glimpse of a large box of fine salt on the table.
"ah."
There is a way.
The increased speed of the Skinless Man did cause some trouble for Ji Yunding, as he was spotted several times. This minor violation in turn strengthened the Skinless Man.
The situation seemed to be stuck in a vicious circle, but when it stood in front of a cabinet where hiding was prohibited again, it heard some noise coming from above.
Just as it raised its head following the sound, it was hit by the salt blowing in its face. The tiny particles mercilessly invaded its naked, rotating eyeballs that had no eyelids or eyelashes to protect them.
Ji Yunding walked out from behind the cabinet, holding one end of the quilt cover that was cut into strips in his hand. The other end was placed under the salt jar on the cabinet. With this pull, the salt jar fell forward.
Ji Yunding first stabbed the opponent's eyes twice to be on the safe side, then ignored the skinless man who was screaming and rolling around, stood on tiptoe to take down the salt jar, looked at the remaining salt inside, and frowned.
“It always feels a bit wasteful.”
Looking at the salt on the ground, Ji Yunding couldn't help but mutter and complain,
“How many dishes can be cooked with this… Never mind.”
As she spoke, Ji Yunding made another move that silenced the entire audience - she spread out the bed sheet that she had just rolled up and filled with wooden cones next to the skinless man, then kicked it from the side and helped it roll up.
Make the best use of it. If the wound is shallow, let it roll a few more times.
Rather than passively hiding and searching for clues, Ji Yunding prefers to be the hunter, which is more interesting to her.
"That's convenient. By the way, it just occurred to me that you seemed to be a ghost from the beginning."
Ji Yunding squatted down at a safe distance and said to himself to the skinless man,
"I don't know if it will work, but there's no harm in trying. Now, it's my sister's and my turn to be ghosts."
After saying that, Ji Yunding closed his eyes, counted to ten, and opened his eyes again.
The skinless man stumbled a few steps and fell again because he couldn't see.
Ji Yunding walked up to the skinless man holding the wooden sculpture and lifted it up: "We found it, sister is awesome."
After saying that, Ji Yunding raised his dagger and stabbed it again and again. He dug out its eyes with two slashes, and was about to stab the other side's neck with one slash, when he suddenly remembered something and asked loudly to the air.
"Um, is it a core monster or a derivative monster? If you don't stop me, I will kill you."
There was no response, so Ji Yunding assumed that it was an agreement. He murmured to himself as he chopped down the knife, "It's just a derivative weirdness. Doesn't this count as a perfect clearance..."
Before he finished speaking, the wooden sculpture in Ji Yunding's arms suddenly opened in the middle, revealing a beating human heart embedded precisely inside the wood sculpture.
Ji Yunding watched for three seconds and raised his hand to signal the referee team: "This is a core anomaly. I request to end it..."
"Please...kill me."
Ji Yunding was halfway through his words when he heard the wooden sculpture in his arms speak.
"Please..."
"The first round of the game is over. Ji Yunding of group one killed the opponent's core monster, and Jiang Chengyue of group fifteen banned the monster in the second round of the game."
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