Chapter 138 Second Floor
When I woke up, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon.
It seemed like it was going to rain at night, and the air was thick with moisture.
Li Ziyue slowly got up from the bed. He rubbed the aching back of his head, frowned, and thought carefully about everything that had happened before.
However, no matter how hard he tried, his mind was only black and white. A layer of dampness and coldness rose inexplicably from the depths of his heart, and his throat seemed to be blocked by something whose shape he could not grasp. He curled up his body and could not help coughing twice.
A drop of water rolled down his cheek and fell into the palm of his hand resting on the quilt.
For some reason, Li Ziyue was suddenly frightened by the water, as if he had drowned once.
There were two knocks on the door. Liu Yuche pushed the door open and saw that Li Ziyue had woken up. Her eyes lit up for a moment.
"Ah, finally woke up."
Li Ziyue looked over in confusion.
After seeing Liu Yuche and looking around the room, the lost memories were gradually restored.
Li Ziyue vaguely remembered that he was trapped in a high-level pseudo-human copy and learned from the landlord that the twin murderers would appear at night. The player received a task to kill the twin murderers...
He recalled the heavy rain that fell at night, the dark corridors, the mist, the cold water washing over the peeling walls, the bodies of the dead bobbing up and down in the water, their bodies swollen to twice their size by the blisters, and the faces of the people could not be seen clearly...
Then what?
Everything seemed nothing like something he had personally experienced, but rather vaguely like a strange movie he had briefly glanced at as a child.
The fog in the corridor seemed to obscure all his senses.
Li Ziyue's head hurt like never before.
"I..." He spoke with difficulty.
"You fell into the pool last night," Liu Yuche sighed, "When we rescued you, you were already in a coma. It seemed that the back of your head hit the edge of the pool. Does your head still hurt now?"
Li Ziyue nodded.
Liu Yuche touched the top of his head.
"Zhang Lian gave you some medicine to drink. It works quickly, but it has side effects. Try to avoid water at night," she looked up at the dark clouds outside the window, "It looks like it's going to rain again tonight. You'd better not leave the room."
Liu Yuche comforted him: "Don't worry, we have solved the twin murderers. All players can get the mission rewards. Look at your backpack. Is there an extra 'Boy's Letter Paper' item? It can help you find the 'Gatekeeper'."
Li Ziyue lowered his head: "And then?"
"Then?"
Liu Yuche smiled and said, "There are so many things going on right now. Didn't you receive the mission reminder? Fang Yuan is very anxious and has already started the mission with his brother."
As soon as she finished speaking, a message popped up on her player system. After reading it, Liu Yuche hurriedly said goodbye to Li Ziyue.
Task?
Li Ziyue opened the system and saw several densely packed lines of task notifications.
[Congratulations to the player for triggering the "Aftermath" side quest]
[Mission Difficulty: Two Stars (Mirror Residential Area has very high requirements for cleanliness within the community)]
[Task requirements: Before night falls, clean up all traces of last night (this task is optional and not mandatory)]
[Task Reward: None (maybe the reward will be obtained during the cleaning process, or maybe there is no reward at all, who knows)]
[Congratulations to the player for triggering the "Patrol" side quest]
[Mission Difficulty: Two Stars (Recently, strange guys have appeared in the Mirror Community, and the residents are very panicked about this)]
[Task requirements: Before night falls, find out all suspicious people in the community. You have the power to make fair judgments on them (this task is optional and not mandatory)]
[Task Reward: None (maybe the reward will be obtained during the inspection, maybe there is no reward at all, who knows)]
[Congratulations to the player for triggering the "Pipeline" side quest]
[Mission Difficulty: Two Stars (Some facilities in the Mirror Community are old. In order to further upgrade the community, all pipelines in the community need to be repaired and inspected)]
[Task requirements: Before night falls, ask residents whether their water pipes need to be replaced. If necessary, you must enter the residents' homes (this task is optional and not mandatory)]
[Task Reward: None (maybe the reward will be obtained during maintenance, maybe there is no reward at all, who knows)]
…
There are more than a dozen refresh tasks, all of which are related to the daily operation and maintenance of the community and are required to be completed before nightfall.
Li Ziyue's scalp felt tingling.
Generally speaking, the dungeon environment is relatively dangerous, and players will only have 1-2 tasks at the same time. Whether it is a side quest or a main quest, they will proceed step by step. After the player completes the task, collects the corresponding props and then challenges the boss, a dungeon ends like this.
It was the first time that Li Ziyue encountered a mission bombing.
Fortunately, Fang Yuan was in the player team this time. Fang Yuan was a person who couldn't stand the accumulation of multiple tasks. When he received the task, he was lying sickly on the bed. The next second, he jumped up and grabbed the players he met to complete the task together.
All tasks are shared, and now it shows that 9 out of 16 tasks are left uncompleted.
Li Ziyue rubbed the back of his head and included the "aftermath" task in his plan.
His brows were still furrowed and his gaze remained fixed on the room for a long time.
I seem to have forgotten a lot of important details.
What?
He stared at the headcount next to the door [1/2 of the current number of people in the room, meeting the rule conditions] and bit his lower lip.
Countless fragments flashed through his mind quickly and his heartbeat gradually quickened. However, his brain seemed to refuse his permission to query his memory. The more he thought about it, the more nauseous he felt.
There's something blocking my throat.
He couldn't spit it out.
Li Ziyue's face turned paler and he leaned against the wall for a few minutes before coming back to his senses.
He hadn't felt this way for a long time. Every cell in his body was saying something was strange, but he couldn't pinpoint exactly what was strange.
He slowly raised his hand, wanting to feel the warmth of his forehead, but the moment he raised his hand, he suddenly froze.
The long, dark red scar on the inside of his wrist stared at Li Ziyue quietly.
Li Ziyue seemed to have lost his breath.
...When did the wound appear? Why did it appear like this?
He shook his head.
never mind.
The mission is important.
…
Holding the portable vacuum cleaner in his hand, Li Ziyue slowly recalled the rules he had read before.
【Cleaners' Rules】
[1. The Mirror Community attaches great importance to environmental hygiene issues and does not allow any blood stains to appear during the day. If there are any, please clean them up completely]
[2. The community is very safe and there will be no mutilated human bodies. If there are any, please chop them into pieces and collect them with a vacuum cleaner, and send them to the drainage outlet at the back door on the east side of the community before night falls.]
[3. Please remember that you have no colleagues. If you meet someone who claims to be your colleague, please observe his feet. If he walks with his toes pointing inward, please stay away from him in time.]
[4. The community has a complete security system. If you hear someone screaming during the cleaning process, please ignore it. If someone asks you if you heard it, please shake your head.]
[5. Only blind people can serve as community cleaners]
There are obvious contradictions in the code. Article 5 states that only blind people can be cleaners, but Article 3 emphasizes that one should be careful of people who walk with their toes pointed inwards and claim to be colleagues.
How can a blind person tell the direction of the other person's toes when they walk?
There was no time for Li Ziyue to think.
Most of the blood stains appeared on the second and third floors. It was not a difficult problem for Li Ziyue to identify the blood stains. As long as he conducted a carpet scan, all the blood stains would be cleaned up sooner or later.
The sound of the vacuum cleaner was particularly harsh in the silent floor. Li Ziyue reached out and felt the surrounding furniture to move his feet.
Things started to go wrong when he cleaned up the third room to the left at the third floor staircase.
The moment the door was opened, the smell of rotting flesh and blood hit his nose. Li Ziyue was choked by the smell and took two steps back, hearing his own heart pounding.
The strong sense of smell and visual stimulation made his abdomen twitch, and he felt like he was about to vomit out something long and thin from his throat.
Li Ziyue's face had turned blue, but he still held the vacuum cleaner in his hand.
Countless corpses piled up in front of him, as if all of them had been drained of blood. The dry parts were filled with stinking rain water and swelled up again. If one poked them with one's fingers, small sunken pits would appear on the corpses, and an unknown yellowish liquid that seemed to be filled with fat would overflow from the pits.
Facing this situation, Li Ziyue only remembered one thing in his mind: [2. The community is very safe, there will be no mutilated human bodies. If there are any, please chop them into pieces and collect them with a vacuum cleaner, and send them to the drainage outlet at the back door on the east side of the community before night falls]
The mutilated human body, chopped into pieces, collected before night falls, after the back door is drained.
Clean up.
All need to be cleaned up.
I am a cleaner.
He was suddenly startled, and when he came to his senses, he was already standing in front of the pile of corpses.
A pair of white bones stared at him quietly.
At some point, the corpses seemed to come alive, and all the remaining human heads were facing him.
Protruding eyeballs, hollow bones, and broken fingers.
Under the extreme stimulation, his head started to hurt again.
The vacuum cleaner, which was not turned off, was whirring and sucking up human hair floating in the sewage.
The hair seemed to have entangled the gears inside, and the vacuum cleaner was stuck for half a minute. The warning red light flashed a few times and finally went out.
Li Ziyue slowly closed his eyes.
Strange rules and a certain degree of mental pollution are also common routines in dungeons, so there is no need to panic.
He comforted himself in this way.
Li Ziyue took a small step back, but when he was about to reach the door, the light behind him dimmed significantly. Li Ziyue narrowed his eyes slightly, and then bumped into a cold body that seemed to have no temperature at all.
"Do you need help?"
He heard the man behind him repeat it again.
"Excuse me, do you need any help?"
Li Ziyue looked down without leaving a trace.
He was so close to the man that he could see the toes of the man behind him without having to change his perspective.
The toes are pointed abnormally inwards and the big toes are pressed tightly together.
There are two frighteningly long and narrow pieces under the thick black shadow.
The crisp sound of the blades colliding was particularly terrifying in the room.
"I can help you chop up these bodies."
The people behind said.
"You're looking forward to my help, aren't you?"
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