Chapter 73 Hell Community
"Ahhh! Don't feed me to the pigs!!!"
In the alley, the guy who was being pulled by Qiao Song by the collar almost screamed when he met the pink pig: "I can show you the way to the lower floors! You new players should need this! I can also take you to other areas, don't feed me to the pigs, please - I'm very useful!"
The kid in bandages was almost crying, and his snot was almost stuck on his bandages.
Qiao Song held him up by the back of his collar with some disgust.
In this situation of language barrier, two mutes and one illiterate...
It seems so inconvenient. Never mind, I might as well feed the pigs.
Feeling that the human holding him was getting closer and closer to the pink pig face, the bandaged ghost immediately struggled and shouted:
"I know you human players have a survival mission! I can tell you a way to clear the Hell Community in advance!"
Um?
How could such important news be known by a kid picked up randomly on the street?
Qiao Song had reason to suspect that this wasn't some common news, and that they would know the news if they stayed in the dungeon for a while longer.
The Bandaged Ghost seemed to be aware of her doubts and immediately stiffened his neck to add: "It's the punch-in sheet for the tourist mode! You can punch in to level up in the tourist mode. As long as you get a punch-in sheet for the 18th level of hell and check in more than half of the shops, you can leave this dungeon early!"
When they were leaving, the security guard seemed to have told them to go back to the apartment and punch in at 18:00. Did they mean to punch this card?
Seeing that Qiao Song didn't seem too surprised, the kid was afraid that he had no other use, so he immediately added.
"I also know a lot about the shops in Hell Community. You all come to Hell Community to buy things, right? It's not easy to buy things safely here. I can take you to find goods!"
The most famous thing about the Hell Community is its commercial street. In addition to the map that runs through the entire infinite domain, it also buys and sells some very useful props.
Of course, similar to player-made props, most of them are made by NPCs themselves. Props that cannot be put into cards are also mostly high-damage attack props full of hell characteristics.
So even though the name of the Hell Community sounds scary, there are still many human players who come here to play dungeons. After all, they can come in as tourists.
This is similar to hearse entertainment, where you can spend money to save your life.
This kid probably realized that if he didn't want to be fed to pigs, he had to tell everything he knew:
"Sometimes there are too many players and too few ghosts, so the community will arrest ghosts in large quantities, and every once in a while, Hell will open its gates and actively pull some ghosts in, but there seems to be no regular pattern to this opening and closing of the gates. I heard that a batch just came in recently."
Of course, there is no rule for opening and closing doors. After all, there is a card called Hell's Gate, which can be used actively to harm other ghosts.
Qiao Song ignored the Bandaged Ghost's last words without changing his expression. The hand that was strangling him loosened a little, and it seemed that he was quite satisfied with what he said.
The bandaged ghost swallowed his saliva, and then he saw the other party raised his chin to signal him to continue, and then he stumbled and said:
"The whole community is divided into 18 floors. The one you just entered is the first floor. If you go downstairs, you can enter other stores. But it's a bit late now. Humans are free to move around before 18:00. After dark, ghosts are out on the streets. It's not safe during that time. You see, there's not much time left now. How about I take you around tomorrow..."
Tomorrow?
Qiao Song raised her eyebrows, touched the pink pig that was rubbing her hand, and silently threatened: If you delay any longer, you will be fed to the pigs!
The bandaged ghost was now frightened when he looked at this pig head, and his speech speed immediately increased.
"Of course, there's still time today!" Although the little ghost could not read, he knew numbers. When he saw Qiao Song typed "18:00?" on her mobile phone again, he immediately knew what she wanted to ask.
"After 18:00 and before dawn, the Hell Community is the most chaotic. The entire street is filled with players going to various stores to check in, or ghosts out hunting. So, you should have tested your morality and sin values before coming in, right?
I don't know the specific rules of your players, but the default rule among ghosts in the Hell community is to kill players with higher moral values first... The badges they drop will be very valuable."
Qiao Song used his free hand to toss the small badge with a tongue on it up and down.
Use expression to signal Bandaged Ghost: This?
The kid opposite nodded immediately.
"Regarding badges, generally speaking, tourist players will choose to lock their badges directly in the building of their choice, but players with jobs must carry their badges with them, otherwise it will be very inconvenient. The badges in each building are different. Once lost, you can go to other buildings to exchange them. Especially those restaurants, I prefer the badges dropped by players in the first few floors..."
Qiao Song remembered that when he was leaving the house, the tall security guard reminded him that if the badge with a tongue on it was lost for a certain period of time, it would directly turn back into a tongue. In other words, how many restaurants here would accept human tongues?
Tsk.
Qiao Song pulled his bandage and gestured: What else?
According to the balance of the dungeon, it is impossible that only ghosts have the advantage. This is hell, an area dedicated to judging ghosts. How can it make sense to let ghosts have the advantage all the time?
The bandaged ghost stammered and didn't really want to say this, but when he looked at the pig, a kind of fear from the soul made him close his eyes and resigned himself to his fate:
"Players who go out after 18:00 at night can actively target ghosts with sin values higher than 60 if they hold a badge. Ghosts can also use the badge to identify players with morality values higher than 60 points."
Judge the ghosts.
This was not the first time that Qiao Song had heard this word. Although there was a concept of judgment in hell, how did players judge ghosts?
Fortunately, this little kid, who was wrapped in bandages all over his body, although illiterate, had a sharp mind and immediately figured out her question.
"The trial is to hand the ghosts over to the corresponding shops. During the day, these shops will recycle human-related badges and items. We little ghosts rely on this method to earn some pocket money. At night, humans can take the ghosts they have caught to the corresponding shops. Once they meet the other party's requirements, the ghost will be taken to the punishment prison corresponding to the shop. If the trial is successful, there is a chance to get the corresponding bounty."
There is actually such a good thing.
The bandaged ghost immediately discovered that there seemed to be light in the eyes of the human in front of him for a moment, as if killing ghosts was as easy and enjoyable as picking up money.
Qiao Song quickly typed the three words "bounty". He was originally thinking, if this kid doesn't know these three words, he could go outside and catch someone who knows. As for this guy, then...
Little did she know that the illiterate person opposite was now more scared than Qiao Song. If she didn't understand what she wrote, she would become pig feed in the next second.
"I know! I know the words 'bounty'! The bounty list will only appear outside the building after dark. Each store has a different list. Most of them are bounties on ghosts, and occasionally on players..."
"The reason for offering a bounty on ghosts is that all ghosts that enter the Hell Community carry different sins and must go to different numbered buildings to be punished. But after each punishment, the ghost will be released and continue to wander the street until it is caught and put back into the building next time."
But he did not say under what circumstances a bounty would be offered to players.
It is said that this bounty list will have names and portraits printed directly on it, and a high bounty can be exchanged for by catching the ghosts on the bounty list and bringing them into the corresponding building.
Now the situation is very clear. 18:00 seems to be a critical time, which should be similar to the boundary between day and night. Players are safer during the day, but there should not be many stores where they can check in. They just looked down floor by floor and it seemed that only a few stores were open.
But it is more dangerous after 18:00, as more shops are open and there are more ghosts wandering the streets.
Moreover, Qiao Song has reason to suspect that some stores that are more difficult to open deliberately do not open until 18:00.
The only thing she didn't expect was that she could actually check in and pass the level early. She originally thought that this was just a survival copy, and she could pass it after 10 days, just like the Ghost Story Middle School.
Large interactive copies are different.
Qiao Song looked at the time. There was still half an hour until 18:00. If he didn't go to the nearest store to have a look, he would be letting down his high moral value on the first level.
As for this little devil.
There was one last thread left in the ghost puppet, which became the fate of the bandaged ghost. Qiao Song led him with the translucent thread.
When the little ghost saw Qiao Song take back the pink pig, his resistance to being entangled by the puppet thread decreased a lot.
The shop closest to them was called Scissors Hair Salon, which spanned the entire first floor of the hair salon building.
The exterior is full of floor-to-ceiling windows, and you can see many people getting their hair done inside. At least for now, it looks similar to a hair salon in the real world. If there is anything wrong, it is that the hairstyles are all ugly and weird.
Some customers had dreadlocks or something on their heads, and upon closer inspection, the black shapes seemed to be wrong, as if human finger bones were dyed black and tied to the head one by one. It looked unnatural no matter how you looked at it.
There were many similar customers in the store, but the strange thing was that these customers all had very strange expressions, as if they were very satisfied with their hairstyle.
No, these guys seem to be ghosts.
Qiao Song had just been paying attention to those unconventional hairstyles, but now he noticed that most of the guys with those hairstyles had livid faces, exuding a weird feeling that only the dead have.
She stopped in front of the last pane of glass.
Qiao Song had to admit that people have different aesthetic tastes, and she respected some people's preferences, but no girl would change her aesthetic taste in just one hour and flatten her beautiful long black hair as soon as she entered the store.
At this time, the little girl sitting by the window was even crying while having her hair shaved. It was not because her hair was gone, but because the unmanned red scissors behind her floated in front of the little girl after cutting her hair.
The latter almost screamed and stretched out her hands, as if out of control, watching the red scissors cutting her hands like cutting paper, but there was no bloody scene in front of her eyes. The girl just went limp and kept crying.
It was as if he had experienced something more tragic than losing a finger.
Tang Xiaoxiao gently tugged at Qiao Song's clothes, as if she recognized him.
This is the girl who was at the door of the apartment and went to the second level hell building after being persuaded by her boyfriend.
Because hair salons all use transparent floor-to-ceiling windows, Qiao Song was able to see the badge on the other person's chest. There were two crossed hands drawn on it, but the palm part was not visible. Only a Q-version pattern of 10 fingers could be seen.
Those ghosts don't have badges on them, so this is a special provision for players.
If we infer from the function of the badge, Qiao Song and the others could no longer speak after their tongues appeared on the badge, so this girl has lost 10 fingers now?
This made her curious. What would appear on these badges on the remaining dozen or so floors of hell buildings?
Eyes? Ears? They should all be related to hell.
The badge was taken off and a hairdresser with a mask on his head put it away. Only the girl was left sitting on the chair crying, unable to raise her hands.
Qiao Song remembered the second level of the 18 levels of hell, which was called the Scissors Hell... The judge should be...
Seeing that they were targeting the barber shop, the Bandage Ghost thought that his life might be linked to these players, so he whispered a reminder: "It's better for you to check in at your own apartment on the first day, it's safer, and the tongue-pulling apartment on the first floor is more difficult than the second floor..."
Before he finished speaking, the door of the barber shop was pushed open, and a hairdresser with heavy makeup saw the badge on Qiao Song's chest and immediately came up to him enthusiastically:
"Oh, so you are a resident of the apartment. Would you like to come in for a haircut? It's free if you come in before 18:00."
Free is the most expensive.
Qiao Song stood leisurely at the door and continued to observe the customers who were getting their hair cut, with no intention of moving. The barber had no choice but to turn his attention to the student girl who was obviously easier to deceive.
Tang Xiaoxiao snorted immediately. She was not a fool. However, the way she held her hands in front of her chest allowed the other party to see the white wristband with only a trace of red line on Tang Xiaoxiao's wrist.
It's a fat sheep with high moral values!
Of course, Tang Xiaoxiao did this on purpose.
The hairdresser's eyes immediately widened and he looked around the two players carefully. Except for a little ghost who was following them for some unknown reason, there seemed to be no other big ghosts nearby. This was a good opportunity.
He raised his wrist to check the time. There were only 20 minutes left until 18:00. By then, the evil spirits that were judged in hell last night would be released. With so many ghosts around, he might not be able to kill such a good fat sheep!
"Well, would you two like to come into our store and take a look at the other services we offer after 18:00? Although they will cost money, I will give you a 20% discount."
When he mentioned the 20% discount, there was a trace of heartache on his face this time. Qiao Song was not tempted by the 20% discount, but when he saw the two blank badges he took out in his hand.
When he was told that haircuts were free before 18:00, he had no intention of taking out his badge.
If merchants offer discounts on their own initiative, it only means that they can gain greater profits.
If it's 20 minutes, then I can give it a try. I hope I won't be late on my first day as a security guard.
Qiao Song and Tang Xiaoxiao took the badges, walked into the barber shop, and heard the system prompt.
[Do you want to enter the Hell Community Scissors Salon? The store entrance fee is 1,000 soul coins. Due to the NPC's initiative to discount, the current discount price is 800 soul coins. ]
Even though Qiao Song had become rich, she had to admit that this barber shop was really shady. They charged her 800 yuan as soon as she entered the door. She chose yes.
[Ding~ The haircut fund has been deducted. What is about to start is the Ten Fingers Connected Hairdressing Game. If you pass it successfully, you can unlock the second level check-in form of the Hell Community~ Please be sure to protect your fingers.]
After the two customers took the badges and walked in, the barber's face was almost visibly beaming with joy. His originally ordinary short black hair grew longer little by little, flowing behind him like a shadow.
In the blink of an eye, the barber disappeared.
Not only that, the layout of the store also changed after Qiao Song and the others entered the store. The surrounding chairs and mirrors were pulled far away in an instant, and they appeared in a brand new empty space.
A huge chair conveyor belt appeared in front of him. Qiao Songren was already sitting on the barber chair and was moving inside along the conveyor belt.
It seems that there are several different areas in total, and each area has a corresponding hair design magazine, with different options from whether to cut the hair short, whether to soften the hair, to straighten the hair or curl it, to choose the color.
It looks like an ordinary hairdressing game, but hanging above the head is a huge thing that looks like Medusa's head.
It was the male hairdresser who said welcome.
Every strand of his hair floated up, and the end of the hair was gathered into a small bunch, like a black hand, which directly grabbed the scissors, hair dryer, comb, various prepared hair dyes, hair softening cream, curling irons, etc.
"Welcome to the Scissors Hair Salon, dear customer, start choosing your hairstyle now~"
Qiao Song immediately felt that Tang Xiaoxiao beside him was also pulled far away in an instant.
It doesn't feel like an attack, but more like forcing different players to be placed in different independent spaces, that is, each customer can only sit in his own seat and receive a hairstyle transformation.
This should be a small single-player level.
That’s great, so I don’t have to worry about not being able to talk to my companions.
Qiao Song stretched his muscles and opened the first magazine: Should I trim my hair?
[Your current choice is: Keep the status quo]
After Qiao Song made her choice, the scissors hanging above her head all stabbed towards her at once, as if they had discovered that there was no hair left to cut and could only target her.
Qiao Song immediately took out a hammer from the toolbox, sat motionless on the massage chair, and knocked all the scissors away with a clanging sound.
After all the ordinary scissors were knocked away, red scissors appeared.
This time, the aura coming from the red scissors finally made Qiao Song look a little serious. This pair of red scissors was different from the previous ones. It was the tool that cut the fingers of the girl who was sitting at the door before.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, a system prompt sounded.
[Determining morality, your current morality is: 99.9]
The red pair of scissors shrank to the size of a hairpin in an instant. With a puzzled look on his face, Qiao Song knocked the little shrimp out with a hammer.
That’s it?
Are you kidding me?
The massage chair continued to slide forward, and this time out came the hair dye, then the hair dryer, and the curling iron...
Every time you move forward a certain distance, various props will float down to attack based on the customer's choice in the magazine, and then suddenly change into red tools.
But how to say it, if the red tool's attack was more fierce, Qiao Song would pay more attention to it, but I don't know if it's because of the moral value, the red tool is not even as useful as the ordinary tool.
This level was much easier than Qiao Song had imagined. She even found that if she chose other hairstyle options, the words "Please pay soul coins" would appear on it.
It seems that as long as soul coins are spent, those tools will not harm players, but will actually style their hair.
No wonder Gao Chengcheng said that this copy might be even simpler for the rich than the hearse entertainment.
It was boring. Not only did she find it boring, but the hairdresser who was rubbing his hands in anticipation also found it boring. Where was the fat sheep that was promised? Why didn't this guy choose any of the money-spending options but kept the status quo, and then was beaten up by those hairdressing tools...
No, he beat up his hairdressing tools.
15 minutes later, Qiao Song, who had already completed a circle with his tools, arrived at the finish line and saw a barber with a sad face.
"Your hairdressing process is over. Welcome to come next time."
It sounded like she was going to a grave when she said this. Qiao Song was also very unhappy. She spent 800 soul coins not to experience a 15-minute speedrun.
The badge on Qiao Song's chest had turned completely black at this time, and the pattern of ten fingers no longer appeared on it. She took off the badge, and it turned directly into a pitch-black card.
On the back of the black card were written the words "Hell Community" in large letters, surrounded by many dark red patterns.
There are a total of 18 blank circles on the front of the card, and now a finger-crossing pattern has been drawn in the second small circle.
The system prompts: [Congratulations to the player for obtaining the Hell Community check-in slip. Check in at least nine stores in the dungeon, or survive for 10 days, and you can clear the Hell Community. ]
Is this what is called checking in and passing the level early?
But compared to playing cards and passing levels, Qiao Song was more interested in the bounty order. She took out her cell phone and started typing away.
"Boss, do you have a bounty?"
After hearing this, the barber, who was still in pain, immediately straightened his back and looked at her suspiciously.
"Why are you asking that?"
'I want to get my money back.'
Qiao Song held a mobile phone in his left hand and a hammer in his right hand, which he placed on his counter without any courtesy. He exuded an unhappy aura, as if it was written on his face: I just lost 800 soul coins and didn’t get much useful level information. I’m very unhappy now.
The hairdresser who led her in shook unconsciously, and driven by some intuition, he immediately took out a stack of portraits.
"This will automatically appear outside the wall at 18:00, but I think you like it, so take it and have a look first."
These dozen bounties made Qiao Song quite satisfied. She roughly looked through them and found that the minimum bounty amount under almost every name was 1,000 soul coins. She flipped through them and it seemed that there were even higher bounties.
Wait, this one...
Tang Xiaoxiao, who had successfully passed the test, also came out from the back at this time. When the boss saw her, his face fell.
How come one or two of them were able to complete the game without any loss and without spending a penny more? What bad luck!
After Tang Xiaoxiao came out, she also saw what her sister Qiao Song was holding.
What is Sister Qiao Song looking at? A bounty order?
Hmm? Isn't this it?
Tang Xiaoxiao looked at the portrait that Qiao Song had picked out with a reward of 1,000 soul coins and recognized it. This was the man called A Yue who had dragged his girlfriend to the second floor.
Just now when they were watching from the outside, they remembered that the hair of the female player in front of them had been shaved off, and after the badge was taken back by the NPC, her fingers seemed to have lost their response.
According to their experience of just passing the level, the girl should have spent soul coins to save her life at the beginning, so the scissors only cut her hair at the beginning.
But why did they suddenly cut off her 10 fingers later?
The reason should be this wanted poster. Her boyfriend, as a human player, was offered a reward of 1,000 soul coins by Scissor Hell.
Qiao Song saw the instructions at the bottom.
Judgment clause: Betray your lover and go to the scissors hell, where you will suffer the pain of having your heart cut out by ten fingers.
'I see. '
After muttering this in his mind, Qiao Song took the confused Tang Xiaoxiao back to the back door of their apartment.
Tang Xiaoxiao typed silently: "What do you mean, Sister Qiao Song, did that A Yue betray his girlfriend?"
Qiao Song did not tell her the answer directly, but asked her first: "When you were making the barber shop game, did you think the game was difficult?"
Tang Xiaoxiao shook her head. It could even be said to be very simple. Even if the player did not have offensive skills, he could still find other tools on the massage barber chair. For example, the hairstyle booklets distributed to the players in advance were very thick and could be rolled up to barely provide defense, not to mention that the player could also use props.
A player who can come to the Hell Community shouldn’t be without any props, right?
Qiao Song typed: "In the haircut game, the only danger is red tools, such as red scissors. But since that girl can enter the first-floor apartment, it means that her moral value is higher than her boyfriend, so it is very likely that even if she encounters red scissors, she will not lose her fingers."
For example, for Qiao Song, after the moral value was judged to be 99.9, the red scissors turned into a red hairpin.
But the same cannot be said for that girl’s boyfriend. He even stayed in the barber shop for one more day, but he came specially to persuade his girlfriend to go to the same floor with him.
The emblem of the Scissors Hair Salon represents fresh human fingers, which are hard currency in the Hell community.
Tang Xiaoxiao paused for a few seconds, silently tapping the screen, and added the conclusion that Qiao Song didn't say directly: "What really made her lose her finger was not the level, but her boyfriend?"
Qiao Song nodded, put away the bounty order, and wrote down the only thing he needed to pay attention to: "This player named Ayue may have special skills, so be careful when the time comes."
It was already 18:00 and they were going back to Bashe Apartment to clock in. Qiao Song also had a bag of bounties in his pocket and was ready to put on his security uniform and go to work.
The author has something to say:
The content of the 18 layers of hell involved in the Hell Community is information found on the Internet, but most of the hell content I wrote has variants and will not be the same as the original. At most, the names are similar. Every time I write about one, I will release the original information of that layer of hell.
Second level: Scissors hell
If a woman becomes a widow after her husband dies, anyone who instigates the widow to remarry or helps her to get married will be sent to the Scissors Hell, where all ten fingers will be cut off.
PS: Actually, it’s nothing for a widow to remarry… so I changed this to betraying a lover and cutting off ten fingers
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