Chapter 140 Call Me Senior
Li Ziyue moved back reflexively.
[The current person's identity has not changed]
The AI assistant in your brain reminds you.
Duan Yan was confused: "What's wrong with you?"
He touched his face and said, "I don't look scary, why do you look like that?"
Li Ziyue lowered his head and said in a hoarse voice: "...How can I..."
This time he woke up by the pool, and the person who asked him was no longer Liu Yuche. The sky was no longer gloomy. It rained last night, but the sun was shining today.
He was soaked in water, but he didn't notice it in the confusion just now. Only after he came to his senses did he realize that he was cold.
Duan Yan rubbed his sore shoulders: "Don't you remember? You were tangled in your hair and dragged to this side of the pool, and I fished you out."
"I wanted to take you back to your room," Duan Yan narrowed his eyes and glanced at the sun in the sky, "You were quite tenacious and woke up on your own."
"Thank you," Li Ziyue coughed twice again and heard his heart pounding in his chest.
Was it this pool that was causing his hallucinations?
Li Ziyue stared at the calm lake, thinking, and asked an irrelevant question: "What time is it?"
"..." Duan Yan hesitated for a while, "I can't say for sure."
Li Ziyue raised his eyes to look at him.
"The speed of time today is different from usual. I guess it's twice as fast," Duan Yan said solemnly, "but the time inside the house is normal. Maybe I'm overthinking it."
Li Ziyue's fingers slowly stroked the long and thin wound on the inside of his wrist. It was red and swollen, and he felt a stinging pain the moment his fingers touched the wound.
How long is left until the 24 hours agreed upon between Li Ziyue and him?
"Don't worry about this for now," Duan Yan opened the system interface, "Hurry up and do the task. If you don't start, Fang Yuan will get mad again."
"Task?"
Li Ziyue was stunned.
[Congratulations to the player for triggering the "Patrol" side quest]
[Congratulations to the player for triggering the "Pipeline" side quest]
…
Li Ziyue's mind went blank for a moment, and cold sweat soaked his back.
What's the meaning.
Could it be that he...hasn't really "woken up" yet?
Duan Yan didn't seem to notice Li Ziyue's abnormality. He grabbed Li Ziyue's sleeve and said, "Let's go. The plumber mission will expire in two hours. I heard from Fang Yuan that there will be penalties if it expires. There are so many missions now and they can't spare the time. We have to complete it."
He pulled twice but failed to move it, so he raised his eyes.
"Where is Zhang Lian?" Li Ziyue just asked.
"He went there first and is also over there."
Li Ziyue thought for two seconds and said, "I'll go find something and come right back."
The plumber's rules handed over by Duan Yan are as follows.
[1. As an excellent plumber, your main job is to clean up the debris accumulated in the pipes of residents' homes]
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【3】
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The rules they got were very strange. They could only see the specific content of the first article. Fortunately, the rules gradually became clearer as they got closer to the residential buildings.
Just after noon, the whole building seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep. The corridors were empty, with only the remaining water from last night's heavy rain swaying.
The air was filled with stuffiness.
"Duan Yan," Li Ziyue suddenly asked, "Where were you last night? I didn't see you."
Duan Yan said calmly: "I stayed in the room the whole time and didn't go out."
Duan Yan is an extremely cautious person. Although the system has released side quests, it is still too risky to actively challenge NPCs. He will not act rashly if he is not sure that he has the ability to complete it. Conservative observation is his style of doing things.
Li Ziyue paused for two seconds: "Are you alone in the room?"
"Um."
"No fake person was created?" He got straight to the point.
Duan Yan looked away: "The mirror in my bathroom was cracked, and I patched it up with blood."
Li Ziyue just nodded and didn't continue the topic.
When passing by a room, a voice rang in both of their minds.
[The pipes in resident No. 303 need urgent repairs, please go to the resident’s home to check]
Li Ziyue glanced at the turbid water below the door. There were even densely packed light black animal eggs in the water. The eggs were clustered together, like countless little eyes, which was extremely disgusting.
The person who opened the door was a short and fat middle-aged man in a dark short-sleeved shirt. His back was like a turtle shell, curled up. When he looked at Li Ziyue and Duan Yan, his tiny eyes were always looking upwards, with large areas of whites exposed, and a faint sinister smile hung on the corners of his mouth.
Through the crack opened by the short and fat man, Li Ziyue saw that there was no electric light in the room, many old things were piled together, the ground was full of water, and the residue of broken cardboard boxes was floating in it.
The sour, rotten smell wafted into his nose, but Li Ziyue remained calm.
2. Plumbers have no sense of smell
At the same time, the fourth rule also emerged.
[3. Please note that you only serve residents who do not have eyes in the back of their heads]
"No... water..." He turned around to lead the way for Li Ziyue, mumbling, "Water pipe..."
Li Ziyue looked at the back of the man's head carefully, but did not find the so-called "eyes".
After clearing away all the waste, they finally arrived at the kitchen.
The kitchen was even more horrible, with all kinds of food residues piled up together, and every place was moldy. You could even see the half-dried corpse of a mouse hanging next to the pipe.
Duan Yan’s face turned pale.
The short and fat man squatted on the ground for a long time and finally cleared a small corner. The end of the thick white pipe there was cracked in half, and a large black unidentified object was blocking the middle of the pipe.
He pointed at Li Ziyue: "You...clean it up..."
Then he waved to Duan Yan: "There is another...place, you...follow me...come."
Li Ziyue threw a small snake the length of a palm to Duan Yan. He made a phone call gesture, indicating that if there was any abnormality, Duan Yan could use the small snake prop to contact him.
Duan Yan looked like his soul had half floated out of his body, and he followed the short and fat man in a daze.
Li Ziyue pursed his lips, squatted down and took out the task props from the system backpack.
The plumbers required by the task are somewhat different from the plumbers that the public understands. They only need to do simple cleaning and repairs.
Li Ziyue used a long iron clamp to pull out the thing that was blocking the front end. There were a few long thin hairs at the tail of the object. When he saw those tangled thin wires, countless blurry images flashed through Li Ziyue's mind.
His hands loosened and he broke out in a cold sweat uncontrollably.
The two previous times his hair got entangled in the water had left him with an indelible psychological trauma.
The moment the black object left the pipe mouth, something suddenly fell from the pipe above, making a "bang" sound.
A head, from which all the blood had been sucked out, stood upside down, its empty eyes staring at Li Ziyue.
Countless soft black objects similar to wood ears grew in the blistered areas. They stuck to the plump white skin like countless molds on a cake covered with cream.
Li Ziyue stared at the head, his pupils shrank slightly, and he couldn't help but take a few steps back.
Dead heads are not uncommon in the dungeon, so Li Ziyue shouldn't be so shocked.
The strange thing is that he recognizes this head.
That is... Wu Tian.
Why did Wu Tian die?
Is this Wu Tian’s fake person?
Why did his head appear in the pipe?
Why does it look like this?
Countless questions instantly filled Li Ziyue's mind. He frowned and forced himself to suppress the discomfort.
[4. Remember, it is normal for an inverted face to appear in the pipe]
Maybe it's the mission design.
But why was it Wu Tian?
At the same time, there were faint sounds behind him and ripples appeared under his feet.
Something is approaching.
[5. As a good plumber, you should know that the residents behind you will not have a dead face, and will not smile at you]
If this happens, you should look at it, but don't look back.
How can you look at what is behind you without looking back?
Li Ziyue turned slightly sideways, revealing the small mirror he had hidden on the edge of the pipe.
The mirror helped him a lot in the early stage, so Li Zi would carry one or two small mirrors wherever he went. Unexpectedly, it came in handy here.
The mirror showed the strange appearance of the monster behind him.
That is no longer a human being. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a mermaid with an extremely long neck.
Li Ziyue felt dazed.
This mermaid head looked like the upside-down Wu Tian he saw in the pipe, the only difference was that it had the smile of a short and fat man on its face.
Its body seemed to be severely compressed by a heavy object, becoming elongated and tightly stuck under the dirty water, quietly crawling towards Li Ziyue.
When Li Ziyue stared at its pupils in the mirror, it seemed to freeze into a stone and stopped moving forward.
Then what?
Li Ziyue couldn't take his eyes off it, but he couldn't just squat here and look at it forever.
The approaching danger is not scary, what is scary is being helpless.
In the last cleaner incident, the solution lay in the cleaner's code, which was contradictory in itself. Li Ziyue could use this to fight back, but there were no obvious loopholes in the plumber's code. It seemed that there was no other way except to "not look back."
But if you really don't look back...
Li Ziyue felt a pain in his eyes, and the physiological reaction made him close his eyes.
In the next second, he felt a chill on the back of his neck, and the creature's tail wrapped around his skin.
"It's fixed... no..."
Its hoarse voice rang in his ears, with a foul smell of dampness.
The disgusting taste was beyond Li Ziyue's tolerance. His brain was buzzing and his thoughts began to become slow and confused.
The turbid air here was like a chronic poison. Li Zi felt the air was becoming thinner and thinner, and it was becoming increasingly difficult to breathe.
His fingers touched something quietly.
[The 'Boy's Letter' item is being used, the guard is on his way]
Li Ziyue glanced at the image in the mirror and frowned slightly.
"Guardian, check the room!" The front door was knocked twice. The thing behind him trembled uncontrollably and struggled to shrink into a ball, but was grabbed by the head and neck by the guard in blue. The guard increased his strength and the thing was squeezed into a ball of dirty blood.
The security guard was tall and wore a dark blue hat. His face could not be seen, but we knew he was a man.
Blood dripped onto the ground, and Li Ziyue then placed his hands on a relatively clean place.
His forehead was covered in cold sweat, and his palms were wet.
The back of his neck felt burning where the fish's tail had touched it, and the more Li Zi reached out to touch it, the sticky it felt.
The guard just turned around when Li Ziyue grabbed his wrist.
"Who are you."
The hair on his forehead was all wet and his lips were pale, but his voice was exceptionally calm and indifferent.
This man is definitely not an ordinary security guard.
Li Ziyue had seen two blue figures in his lens before. At the same time, the system showed that the use of the 'Boy's Letter Paper' item was blocked and the progress had been suspended.
Who can crush an NPC into pieces with bare hands? Even if it is fake, the ability is too strong.
Li Ziyue raised his head and saw a small part of the guard's chin hidden under his hat.
For some reason, his heart was beating very fast and he felt that the person in front of him was particularly familiar.
So familiar...that it scared him a little.
The guard stopped moving, turned around slowly and took off his hat.
He had a pretty face that didn't match his body, a broken eyebrow, and a nonchalant smile on the corners of his mouth.
The moment he saw his face clearly, Li Ziyue's breathing stopped abruptly, his lips moved uncontrollably, and two words rolled out of his throat: "Bai...Yu..."
"Didn't your senior sister tell you?" Bai Yu squinted his eyes and smiled, and put his hand on the top of Li Ziyue's head and rubbed it, "I will come to help you."
"Also, you have to call me senior, Yuezi."
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