64 Castle 1
◎Sowing discord◎
Weird bodies are very strange. Sometimes they can't feel pain, and sometimes they are just like humans. This young lady seems to belong to the former.
Sang Mian decided to be a good person. She bent down and pulled out the dagger.
When she looked up, she saw the young lady's surprised face.
"What are you doing?"
Sang Mian held the dagger in one hand and lifted her skirt with the other. Of course, she was doing good deeds, so she shook the dagger and said, "No need to thank me, my name is Lei Feng."
She thought that the young lady would definitely be very grateful to her, and maybe they would become good friends in the castle.
But the young lady didn't think so. Her face looked as ugly as if she had eaten a fly. "Give me back my knife." Before Sang Mian could do anything, she snatched the knife back and stuck it back into her thigh.
Sang Mian: “…” Sick.
Except for her two good sisters, no one noticed the little episode just now. Xia Qing held back her laughter and said, "Sister Sang, you are such a kind person."
Sang Mian rolled his eyes: "What's the point of doing good if it's not rewarded?"
After Manager Xu introduced himself, he took everyone to visit the castle. The castle has a total of nine floors, and the rooms become fewer as you go up higher. However, even so, Sang Mian felt the heavy task. Take the first floor for example, there are twenty or thirty rooms. No wonder it takes sixteen cleaners to clean it.
Xia Qing was constantly shocked along the way: "I thought this game was finally going to be easy, but I didn't expect them to make us do hard labor! How shameless!"
Sang Mian agreed with this.
Bai Tang was observing carefully, she thought the weird game wouldn't be that simple.
After Xia Qing finished complaining, she began to admire the magnificent decoration of the castle: "It's so beautiful here, Sister Sang, why don't you buy the castle too! I'll get married here in the future!"
Sang Mian didn't understand Xia Qing's train of thought: "Are you looking for a weird marriage?"
"I almost forgot that this is the Infernal Realm." Xia Qing chuckled, "It wouldn't be a problem if it was a handsome guy."
Sang Mian: “…”
Bai Tang touched Xia Qing's head with one hand and said, "Why does this child keep talking nonsense? Should we go to the Third Weird Hospital?"
Just as Xia Qing was about to retort, Manager Xu spoke up: "It's getting late. I'll assign tasks for today."
"The groom will come to the castle for dinner in the evening, so we have to clean the restaurant before that." Manager Xu led everyone to the restaurant on the first floor. "There will be eight cleaners in charge of the restaurant, and the remaining seven will wipe the collections in the antique room."
He looked up at everyone and said, "You can choose where to clean."
At the same time, the reminder sound of the side quest was heard.
[Side quest: Please choose the antique room]
[Side quest reward: 20 million ghost coins]
[Failure penalty: deduct 5 points of Weirdness]
In the weird game, the weirdness value is equal to life, and every point of weirdness value is extremely important, so the side quests can only succeed and not fail.
Sang Mian scratched his head. This mission was very simple. Whether it was the main quest or the side quest, it could be completed by simply exerting physical effort.
She was just about to recommend herself to the antique room, but unexpectedly four employees raised their hands before her.
"I need to clean the antique room!"
Four voices spoke in unison.
The four of them looked at each other and saw the signals from their companions in each other's eyes.
Sang Mian and Xia Qing understood that only players would receive task information, and these four people must be players.
There is one female and three males among the four. Together with these three, there are seven players in the castle dungeon.
Manager Xu's cloudy eyes swept over the others: "There are still three people missing."
The other employees shrank their necks like quails, and no one volunteered. Sang Mian felt strange, and she tilted her head and asked, "Aren't you going?"
The employees shook their heads wildly.
"Then I'll go." Sang Mian stood up fearlessly. What's wrong with these employees? They seem to be afraid of something.
Xia Qing and Bai Tang then said, "Let's go too!"
Manager Xu smiled with satisfaction: "Very good, go ahead and finish the cleaning before 6pm."
The seven players looked at each other and understood each other's identities.
The antique room is located at the deepest part of the first floor. The walls of the entire castle are hung with golden European-style wall lamps. The candlelight inside is swaying slightly, adding a layer of horror to the atmosphere.
The players' faces turned pale. Although they were already as white as ghosts, they looked even more like ghosts now.
One of the female players with slightly curly hair said in a trembling voice: "Are we going to be okay?"
The tall male player next to her held her hand tightly, "It's just cleaning. It'll be fine."
The curly-haired female player whispered, "Do you think there will be some messy stuff in there?"
"Stop being such a pessimist!" growled another male player.
Bai Tang made a well-reasoned analysis: "It has nothing to do with the crow's mouth. It's mainly because secret rooms like the antique room are very mysterious and are a high-risk area for terrorist incidents."
Xia Qing: "Well said, it's normal to have messy things."
The female player trembled even more violently.
Sang Mian: "Okay, stop scaring yourself. There are so many of us, what are we afraid of?"
As they talked, the six of them walked into the antique room.
Sang Mian looked around and saw that the cabinets in the antique room were filled with beautiful blue and white porcelain, as well as many antique paintings. It would take a lot of time to clean them up.
The male player said seriously: "There are a lot of antiques here. We need to clean them up quickly."
"Well said. Let's start cleaning now." Sang Mian gave a friendly smile.
The six people then briefly introduced themselves.
The woman with slightly curly hair is named Jiang Jing, the tall man is named Fu Jiale, but the man who looks very strong is named Zeng Fan, and there is a male player with a mushroom head hairstyle named Gao Shuo. The four of them happen to be members of the Eternal Night Cult.
Sang Mian thought that there were so many members of the Evernight Cult, and the largest number of people in each dungeon were players from the Evernight Cult.
Jiang Jing's Weird Qi value is 24 points, Fu Jiale's is 28 points, Zeng Fan and Gao Shuo's are both 26 points. Among all the players, only Sang Mian has the highest Weird Qi value.
Xia Qing pulled Sang Mian's clothes and said, "How is it, Sister Sang? Are they strong?"
Xia Qing's weirdness value was 14 points, and she couldn't see the weirdness values of other players yet. Sang Mian suddenly thought of something, and she took off her earrings and handed them to Xia Qing.
The earrings were the evil spirit detectors that had never been returned to Jiang Sisi. Since she became the president, Jiang Sisi had never contacted her once, and she couldn't return them even if she wanted to.
Xia Qing took the earrings and exclaimed: "They look so pretty, will you give them to me?"
Sang Mian told Xia Qing the function of the earrings, "With this, you can see the value of other people's weirdness. If you encounter a strong weirdness, just run away quickly."
Xia Qing was so moved that her eyes filled with tears. She never expected that Sister Sang would give her such a valuable thing. It turned out that following Sister Sang was the most promising thing.
"Sister Sang, from now on I am yours in life and your ghost in death." Xia Qing hugged Sang Mian tightly and said, "Please give me your orders!"
Jiang Jing's hair stood on end when she heard this. This girl looked cute, but why did she speak in such a disgusting way?
Bai Tang on the side had already gotten used to it, and her ears automatically filtered out Xia Qing's words.
Sang Mian ordered bluntly: "First thing, let me go!" She even believed Xia Qing's strength when he said he wanted to strangle her to death.
Fu Jiale glanced at the time. There were still six hours left before the appointed time. He frowned as he looked at the antiques in the room. "It seems we didn't even bring the cleaning tools."
Bai Tang pointed at the mop, broom and rag in the corner and said, "Isn't that it?"
"Sorry I didn't see it." Fu Jiale scratched his head awkwardly: "This is the first time I've seen such an honest game. You can complete the task just by cleaning."
Gao Shuo, the mushroom-headed man, said as he distributed rags to everyone: "Yeah, our luck* is really good this time. The side quests are all players, so we don't have to fight with the weirdos."
The more they talked, the happier they became. However, Sang Mian felt something was wrong. How could this be so simple according to the nature of this weird game? The game was hoping that they would all die in it!
"Everyone stay alert at all times. After all, this is a weird game." Bai Tang reminded, and it was obvious that she and Sang Mian had the same idea.
Zeng Fan was mopping the floor vigorously, waving his muscular arms. After hearing Bai Tang's words, he replied, "I think you are overthinking it. There are only seven of us here, and the door is closed. Even if there is something strange, he can't get in."
Bai Tang was silent for two seconds and asked, "Then can we still get out?"
Zeng Fan stopped moving, looked at the door and said hesitantly, "We didn't lock the door, did we?"
Xia Qing raised his hand and answered, "No, we only closed the door but didn't lock it."
To be on the safe side, Bai Tang decided to try to open the door. She walked to the door, grasped the door handle and pulled back, but the door did not move at all.
Sang Mian had a plan in his mind, and Tangtang came right. The door of the antique room could not be opened.
Zeng Fan: "Why are you back again? Are you too weak to pull it?"
Bai Tang shrugged: "If you can do it, go ahead." After all, she bought 22 strength points, so it should be possible for her to open it.
Zeng Fan dropped the mop and went to open the door. The double doors of the antique room were made of wood and were carved with flowers, which looked quite charming. He took a deep breath, grabbed the door handle and pulled with all his might, but the door didn't move after he pulled for a long time.
“I really can’t open it!”
Jiang Jing got angry when she heard this: "How is this possible? This is really weird! We didn't lock the door!"
"We just separated from the ghost. It was a ghost in the first place." Sang Mian told the four people the cruel truth.
Gao Shuo's mind was buzzing: "Then what should we do? Murder in a closed room?"
The thought process was so chaotic that Sang Mian almost couldn't catch up. She comforted everyone, "Maybe the door will open automatically at six o'clock. Are they locking the door because they're afraid we'll be lazy?"
Xia Qing nodded: "It's very possible, let's get to work."
Gao Shuo was holding a rag. He was a heavy escape room player. In the real world, he would play escape room games every night after get off work.
Now that the real secret room has descended upon him, he can't even wrap his mind around it.
"Do you think there might be corpses or body parts hidden among the antiques here?"
Jiang Jing threw the rag at him: "Gao Shuo, are you sick? Why are you telling such a ghost story here?"
"I'm sorry! I forgot that this is a weird game." Gao Shuo apologized repeatedly, and then added in a low voice: "If you want to hide, you should hide the weirdness. There are no corpses in the world of hell."
The corners of Bai Tang's mouth twitched. She felt that there was some truth in it.
Fu Jiale, who had been silent the whole time, pursed his lips and said, "Sang Mian, you have the highest level of weirdness among us. Do you think there is something wrong here?"
Sang Mian shook his head: "No problem for now."
Xia Qing looked at the antiques around her and found that most of them were porcelains, with blue and white, black glaze, white glaze, and doucai ones filling up most of the cabinets.
The most beautiful thing was the porcelain on the cabinet behind Gao Shuo. It was so big and beautiful! She didn't know how to describe the jar, but it was black and colorful.
"Sister Sang, how much ghost money do you think this room is worth?"
Sang Mian touched the tip of his nose and said, "The ancient castle may not be as valuable as this room."
The black porcelain looks very beautiful. If it were in a museum, it would definitely be the treasure of the museum.
"Chairman Sang, are you sure there is nothing strange in the antique room? If not, let's clean it up quickly." Gao Shuo asked again worriedly.
Sang Mian was about to answer when she suddenly saw a thin and pale hand appear on the edge of the black porcelain.
The Dogecoin game really had a trick up its sleeve. Sang Mian said calmly, "I'll clean it up later."
When these words came out, everyone was shocked. Is there something strange here? !
Sang Mian signaled everyone with his eyes to look at the black porcelain. After everyone looked at it, their eyes were filled with confusion.
"President Sang, is there any problem?"
Sang Mian pointed at the black porcelain and whispered, "Didn't you see it?"
Xia Qing rubbed his eyes and said, "I only saw an antique that is priceless and I can't even afford it even if I sell it."
Sang Mian looked at the black porcelain in disbelief. Impossible! The hand was almost coming out of the porcelain, why couldn't anyone see it?
She suddenly thought of something and quickly closed her left eye. Sure enough, there was nothing in the black porcelain in her right eye. Sang Mian suddenly opened her left eye again, and she saw the gray and skinny hand in the porcelain again.
It's really strange. In the weird game, everyone can see the weird, but why can't anyone see it today? Does this weird have special abilities? For example, invisibility?
Moreover, Sang Mian had never thought that the left eye that could see ghosts in the human world could play a role in the game. But before she had time to think about it, a skinny and boneless woman had poked her head out of the porcelain, her long black hair wrapped around her body, and only her two pitch-black eyes were particularly eye-catching.
The jar next to the black porcelain fell to the ground.
“Bang!”
The beautiful Doucai jars were shattered all over the floor. Gao Shuo was so frightened that he dodged to the side. "I was so scared! How did the jars fall?!"
Bai Tang was also stunned. She saw with her own eyes that the jar next to her fell down by itself without anyone pushing it.
Is there something here that they can't see?
Fu Jiale shuddered. He didn’t know if it was an illusion, but the room seemed to have become colder.
Although others didn’t see it, Sang Mian saw it clearly. It was the woman in the black porcelain who knocked him over. Half of her body was almost crawling out of the porcelain.
Moreover, the woman’s weirdness value is not low either, it is 49 points.
There’s no point in worrying about that. Who knows what kind of trouble will happen when she crawls out of the porcelain.
Sang Mian made up his mind, picked up the mop and hit the woman with it. A look of panic flashed across the woman's face, and before she could react, she was hit in the face by the mop.
"Are you trying to trick me? Go back and practice for a few more years." Sang Mian used the mop, which was still wet from mopping the floor, to brush her face without any hesitation.
At this moment, the woman's head was buzzing, and a line of lyrics flashed through her mind - the cold mop was slapped on the face ~ the warm tears mixed with the mop...
"You hit me with a mop!?"
A woman's voice suddenly appeared in the antique room, and the other five players were in disarray. Who could tell them what was going on? Why was President Sang talking nonsense into the air, and a woman's screams kept coming out of the air?
Everyone was an old player and they quickly figured out that there must be something in the antique room that they couldn’t see, and Sang Mian was fighting with her.
The woman in the porcelain wants to cry but has no tears. Why can anyone see her? This is not in line with common sense! According to the general routine, she can stand behind the player and eat the player effortlessly, but today she was mopped by the mop. It's so embarrassing!
Sang Mian hit her seventy-nine times, and the monster finally shrank back into the porcelain and didn't come out.
Xia Qing looked at the debris on the ground curiously: "Sister Sang, what did you see? Tell us quickly."
Sang Mian: "A weird one with very long hair, a small face, big eyes, thin lips and a high nose bridge. But a little thin."
Xia Qing exclaimed: "It sounds like a beautiful ghost, but it's a pity that we can't see it."
The other four looked at Xia Qing with horror. Was he crazy? Did the player want to see the strangeness? Did he think his life was too long?
But Bai Tang is already immune.
"Find something to block the mouth of the porcelain and don't let her out." Sang Mian got down to business. As long as it was weird, there would be danger, and she must be controlled in the enclosed space.
Fu Jiale and Zeng Fan found a huge piece of bronze and quickly pressed it on the mouth of the porcelain.
After doing all this, the six people breathed a sigh of relief. Sang Mian sat on the ground. She finally understood why that group of weirdos didn't speak when Manager Xu was assigning rooms. It turned out that they knew what was inside and deliberately didn't go there.
The most hateful one is Manager Xu. This is not just cleaning, it's clearly sending them to hell!
The woman in the porcelain was completely panicked when she saw the light above her head was blocked.
She screamed wildly into the porcelain at the top of her lungs.
"Let me out! Let me out!"
Xia Qing snorted coldly: "Scream as much as you can! Even if you scream your throat out, no one will come to save you!"
At this moment, Xia Qing looked more like a villain than a real villain, which made Zeng Fan feel uneasy.
Sang Mian, who was sitting on the ground, became more and more angry the more he thought about it. She was a vengeful person. If no one offended me, I would not offend anyone. If someone offended me, I would definitely offend them, even if it was weird!
Bai Tang: "Mianmian, you seem very angry, what's wrong?"
Sang Mian snorted coldly: "I've been tricked. I'm not happy. I really want to teach Manager Xu a lesson!"
Bai Tang stared at the porcelain for two seconds: "Is it the woman who just spoke?"
Sang Mian nodded: "Yes, Manager Xu must know about this, he did it on purpose."
Bai Tang nodded and murmured in a low voice: "It's not a bad idea to give him some color." Then she stood up and walked to the porcelain and knocked on it: "Don't cry, do you know why we can see you?"
A woman's low sobbing could be heard from the porcelain. She didn't want to pay attention to the hateful human outside, but this question made her feel itchy. Before her brain could react, she blurted out: "Why?"
Bai Tang: "You know Manager Xu, right? We are Manager Xu's favorite employees. How could he allow you to hurt us? He asked me to warn you, don't even think about doing anything to us. Do it to him if you have the guts!"
The woman in the porcelain had her pupils tremble. How could it be Director Xu? She and Director Xu had known each other for so many years. It was impossible for Director Xu to backstab her. Moreover, she had just heard clearly that the six people outside were all human. How could Director Xu help humans?
After sorting it out, she said calmly: "You lied to me."
Bai Tang said in an indifferent tone: "Whether you believe it or not is none of our business. You can't get out anyway, so there's no need for us to lie to you."
Xia Qing was completely confused. What was Sister Tangtang saying to the things in the porcelain? Why couldn't she understand a word?
Sang Mian instantly understood Bai Tang's intention, and then patiently explained to Xia Qing: "The weird in the porcelain is not an ordinary character. If even I couldn't see her just now, we wouldn't know how we died. It was because Manager Xu knew the danger of the antique room that he asked us to clean it. He wanted to kill the six of us!"
"So we have to retaliate. Tangtang is trying to sow discord between Porcelain Weird and Manager Xu, causing the two Weird to kill each other."
After listening to Sang Mian's explanation, Xia Qing suddenly realized, "Manager Xu is too mean!"
Sang Mian blinked: "After all, this is a weird game."
After Bai Tang finished talking to Ciqiguiyi, she directed everyone to clean up. No matter how loudly Ciqiguiyi shouted, she ignored him.
"Hahaha, you want to trick me! No way!"
"I won't believe what you say!"
"I'll be the first one to come to you when I get out, so just wait!"
Xia Qing scratched his head as he listened to the insults coming from the porcelain: "Will this work? A few words won't stir up the weirdness, right?"
Bai Tang thought for a while and said to Xia Qing: "Don't worry about the weirdness in the jar. Let her figure it out slowly."
Xia Qing asked curiously: "Why ignore her?"
Bai Tang smiled slightly, touched Xiao Qing's head and explained: "Suspicion can easily lead to evil, we have to give her enough time."
Xia Qing: “?” She began to doubt if there was something wrong with her brain. How could she not understand such a simple sentence?
The afternoon passed in a flash. Sang Mian wiped her sweat. It was really tiring to work. The Dogecoin game not only played dirty tricks on them, but also tortured them physically.
The three of them seriously suspected that if they continued working for seven days they would suddenly die in the castle.
Ciqi shouted strangely for about an hour and then stopped because no one paid attention to her and it was useless to shout. During the lonely time, she thought about what Bai Tang said over and over again.
Ordinary humans and monsters can't see her, so why can this woman with only 50 points of weirdness see her? It seems that there is no other explanation except for Manager Xu.
The more she thought about it, the more she felt that it was Supervisor Xu who betrayed her. Damn Supervisor Xu, he actually colluded with humans behind her back. Porcelain Weird almost bit her back teeth off. It was because of Supervisor Xu that she was hit in the face with a mop. She must avenge herself!
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