Chapter 361 Safe House
At around eight o'clock in the evening, new guests arrived under the flickering street lights.
"call out--"
The tires made a mournful sound as they rubbed against the ground, and a black car stopped steadily in front of the orphanage.
Jiang Huaique turned off the engine, got out of the car, used a sack to lock the car in one go.
He was wearing home clothes underneath his coat, and it was obvious that he was in a hurry when he went out.
Frowning and looking at the slightly gloomy orphanage, Jiang Huaique walked inside without stopping.
God knows how many things flashed through his mind after he saw Xu Zhiyan’s message!
This unlucky teammate usually has a weird mouth. When he is not making money, his only pleasure is to act as a dad to everyone. He is so naughty and mean. Now he takes the initiative to call me godfather. He must have encountered big trouble!
The orphanage was dilapidated and run-down, and it didn't look like a place to keep children, but more like a horror scene.
However, as a human being who is constantly improving his physical fitness, Jiang Huaique is not afraid of these things. He walks fast simply because he is worried about Xu Zhiyan.
“Squeak—”
The heavy wooden door was pushed open.
As soon as he entered the hall, Jiang Huaique saw Xu Zhiyan standing in the hall waiting for him.
"What happened? Did you kill someone?" Seeing that his teammates were fine, he felt relieved and asked casually.
But when he saw Xu Zhiyan turned around with a heavy face, Jiang Huaique was stunned.
"Fuck, you didn't really kill anyone, did you?"
He was so shocked that he didn't know whether to lift the sack in his hand.
Xu Zhiyan sighed upon seeing this.
"I didn't kill anyone."
Not only did he not kill anyone, he was also tricked by a dead man!
Jiang Huai Que breathed a sigh of relief.
It was a pity that before he could catch his breath, he heard his teammate’s shocking remarks.
"Although I didn't kill the person, you have to help me carry the body back home and not alert other people." Xu Zhiyan said as he picked up a photo from the cabinet in the hall.
In the photo, Ran Que, a girl with a sweet smile, is standing in front of the gate of the orphanage with other children, smiling happily.
After a long silence, he wiped the photo and put it back.
Seeing that his teammates were not in a good state, Jiang Huaique resisted the urge to roll his eyes and stiffly changed the subject.
"Where is the body? How long has it been dead? We have to go quickly, otherwise the body will become hard and difficult to pack into a bag." As he spoke, he began to worry that the sack he had was not big enough, but he did not have any psychological barriers at all.
The two went to the fourth floor together.
On the way, Xu Zhiyan thought again and again and did not directly talk about the summoner, but just gave an example in a tactful way.
"I don't know if you've heard that some companies that are constantly losing money will make their financial statements look very good, leaving no flaws before the acquisition contract is signed."
“When the new owner took over and carefully checked the internal accounts, he discovered that the company had long been heavily in debt and had become a hollow shell…”
Jiang Huai Que spoke hesitantly.
"Xu Ba Pi, are you planning to set up a shell company and sell it to others?"
Xu Zhiyan was stunned for a moment, then immediately condemned: "How is it possible! Am I that kind of person? This is pure fraud! Although I love money, I would never do such a wicked thing!"
"Oh - I get it. You acquired a debt-ridden company and became a big victim." Jiang Huaique couldn't help but sneer.
He was a little surprised to see that his teammates didn't say anything, obviously what he said hit the mark.
"What? Is that really the case? You are usually quite a dog, but I didn't expect someone could actually scheme against you. It seems like you are an old dog."
Xu Zhiyan was so angry after being mocked that he couldn't help but make some jokes.
"Dad, if I'm a dog, then so are you."
Injure the enemy by 800 and lose 1,000 of your own.
"Son of a bitch, actually I picked you up from the trash can in front of the hospital. We are not the same species." Jiang Huaique has his own way to resolve the situation.
The two of them went to the fourth floor arguing.
Jiang Huaique had sharp senses. Without waiting for Xu Zhiyan to turn on the light, he had already accurately located the body in the corner.
"No need to turn on the lights, lest we be seen from outside."
After giving the instructions, he fished out a new pair of black rubber gloves from his coat pocket, put them on quickly, and picked up the sack to deal with the body of the summoner who had been dead for some time. He was very professional.
Xu Zhiyan looked at the other person taking the gloves with a slightly stunned expression.
"Hey, Jiang Jiang, you're still wearing gloves? You didn't really think I killed someone and you're here to help me deal with the body..."
After hearing this, Jiang Huaique turned around and gave his unlucky teammate a glare without saying anything.
Soon, the summoner's body was packed and stuffed into a sack. He deftly tied the mouth of the sack with a rope and easily lifted up the body.
“So light.”
Jiang Huai Que weighed it and found it was only about 100 kilograms.
"The skeleton is quite large, but there is not much flesh. Some of the wounds on the body can be traced back to a week ago..."
Although he was not short in height, the dead old man was very light, so light that Jiang Huai Que didn't even need to lift the sack and could easily carry it with one hand.
He did not ask who the old man Xu Zhiyan was, nor did he ask how he died.
"Leave."
"good."
Without further ado, after packing up the summoner's body, the two walked towards the stairs in tacit understanding.
But when going downstairs, Jiang Huaique tried to hold back but still couldn't help speaking.
"Hey, even though you've been wronged, it's just a broken company. If it were you, there should be many ways to escape, right?" He was very confident in Xu Zhiyan when it came to trading matters.
Hearing this, Xu Zhiyan pinched the bridge of his nose.
"Well, there are many ways."
After realizing that the summoner had cheated him, Xu Zhiyan stood in front of the corpse for a long time and thought of many ways to get rid of the summoner's debt.
Not to mention anything else, just the few remaining players in the Dark Alley, it would be no problem to fool them a little and sign an agreement.
Not only can you get rid of your debt, but you can also keep only the useful parts.
But does he really want to do this?
Xu Zhiyan asked himself.
Being in debt was indeed annoying, but considering his current strong financial resources, it was not fatal. He simply hated having less money and being taken advantage of.
Suddenly, a strange noise was heard at the corner of the stairs.
“Boom—”
“Boom boom boom…”
"hiss--"
First there was a crash, followed by a suppressed inhalation.
Xu Zhiyan and Jiang Huaique stopped and looked towards the corner of the corridor where the dim light was on.
There were several children lying on the ground.
They probably noticed some unusual noises, so they couldn't help but run out to check.
The one who was knocked down in the front looked the oldest, but he was only about seven or eight years old. At this moment, he was glaring at the little followers behind him with an angry face, trying his best to lower his voice and warning them fiercely.
"Shh - the dean said that the teachers won't let us out after get off work, so keep your voice down and don't let anyone find out..."
However, to those who are involved in the game, this sound is not much smaller than the sound of thunder.
Jiang Huaique did not comment on this. He just looked for a while and then looked away. After glancing at his teammates, he continued to go downstairs with the sack.
The same is true for Xu Zhiyan.
He's not ready to be a victim yet.
After leaving the orphanage, Jiang Huaique stuffed the sack into the trunk, called his teammates to get in the car, and drove towards the Yunshan old house.
On the way, seeing the scenery outside the window constantly receding, Xu Zhiyan felt like he was being scratched by a cat, with a lot of things in his mind, but he finally spoke tentatively.
"Jiang Jiang, don't you have anything to ask?"
He didn't know how to explain the safe house, the mimic, and the last round of the game to Jiang Huai Que...
Jiang Huai Que found it somewhat amusing.
"No, you will tell me what I should know."
Trust does not appear out of thin air. It is something that is accumulated from one thing after another when two people are together. It is precious and powerful.
"You are a human, not a god. There is no need to push yourself too hard. Isn't winning and losing in business very common?" He comforted her awkwardly.
Although he also didn't understand what the story of the loss-making company had to do with collecting corpses in the middle of the night.
"Do what you want to do. Don't complain all day long and disturb your father's driving." However, after comforting him, Jiang Huaique's true nature was exposed.
Xu Zhiyan laughed out loud while sitting in the passenger seat, and his mood improved a lot.
Not long after, the car stopped steadily in front of the door of Yunshan’s old house.
Before getting off the car, Jiang Huai said casually: "It seems that the orphanage only accepts disabled people. The children just now were all missing limbs."
After saying that, he got out of the car, took out the body from the trunk, walked a few steps to the door, and dropped it at the gate of Yunshan Old House with a 'bang'.
"I won't go in."
Seeing that Xu Zhiyan was still unhurried, he took out a cigarette from his pocket, leaned against the car door and lit one, then spoke with a look of disgust.
"Get out of here."
"Hey, you were trying to comfort me when we were in the car, but you told me to get lost when we got out of the car."
After regaining his spirit, Xu Zhiyan is still as mean as ever.
Jiang Huaique sneered and gave his unlucky teammate a middle finger. There was nothing he could do. He felt that he could not beat Anonymous at the doorstep, so he decided to spare Xu Zhiyan's life today.
Only after seeing Xu Zhiyan dragging the sack into the door did Jiang Huaique put out his cigarette, get in the car and drive away.
There was silence outside Yunshan's old house.
And inside the building, unnoticed, a carnival is about to begin.
…
As soon as he entered the yard, Xu Zhiyan, who was dragging a sack, was stunned by what he saw.
All the branches in the yard are hung with strange-shaped ornaments, including blinking eyeballs, crying human heads, and hands constantly making various gestures... It is obvious that this is the aesthetic of the monsters.
Every monster had a happy expression on his face.
As the soul of the safe house, Xu Zhiyan received a warm welcome as soon as he entered the door.
"Hello, Brother Xu!"
"Wow! Brother Xu, what are you holding in your hand?"
"I smell... smell... I, I smell..."
"Wow! It's a corpse! Is Brother Xu going to give us a snack?! Great!!"
"More food! More food! More food!"
The monsters all rushed forward. Xu Zhiyan didn't expect the summoner to be so popular, so he quickly stood in front of the sack.
"Eat something else. I'll need this later."
This old bastard still owes him tens of millions of points, and he can't be allowed to die before he pays off the debt!
Fortunately, the monsters didn't care.
"Great! Eat something else!"
“Eat—eat—”
“…”
The ignorant monster ran off to have fun somewhere else, while the sensible monster helped carry the sack.
When Xu Zhiyan looked up, he saw the ghost standing at the door of the hall.
Their eyes met, and he looked at the pair of gentle golden eyes filled with joy, and his anxious heart was gradually calmed.
"Are you done with your work?" the ghost asked in a gentle voice.
Xu Zhiyan took a deep breath, and found the other party's question inexplicably funny, and also had a warm feeling as if his chest was filled.
"No, I need your help with something."
His tone returned to its previous confident state, and he briefly explained what had happened as he went upstairs with the ghost.
"This stinky old man tricked me and made me take over the inheritance with a loss of tens of millions of points. Haven't you been to a high-level magic dungeon before? Do you know anything about undead magic or something like that?"
The answer is of course.
"Yes, what do you want to turn him into?"
Not to mention things that they already know, even if they don’t know, as long as Xu Zhiyan needs it, ghosts and gods will be willing to learn.
Looking at his reliable party A, Xu Zhiyan felt very confident.
"The old bastard is very cunning and speaks in a mix of truth and lies. He is suitable for negotiation. Moreover, he has lived long enough and can play the emotional card..."
He was thinking about how to revive the summoner so as to maximize his abilities.
"It can't be a skeleton. It has to have a mouth."
"Okay." The ghost nodded in response.
Considering that the oil pen had been played with to the point of being patinaed, He had no intention of rebuilding the black magic altar.
The next second, the two of them fell into the void along with the sack.
…
In the void and darkness.
The summoner opened his eyes.
He looked down at his palms and found that his whole body was glowing, which was out of tune with the darkness.
"Is this the world after death..." he muttered to himself.
He felt relieved when he thought about how he had handed over everything properly before he died. Not only could the children he had taken in survive, but even the debts that should have been owed to the Clown and others were paid off.
Although I didn't get what I wanted, my final effort was not in vain.
He slowly lay down in the darkness, hugged his knees, curled himself up into a ball, and simulated the movements at the beginning of his life.
Just when the summoner thought he would be trapped in the boundless dark world forever, a vague voice sounded.
"Aren't you afraid?"
He was stunned for a moment and asked, "What are you afraid of?"
"I'm afraid that the final choice I make may not be realized as I expected." The strange voice explained the problem. It seemed to know a lot and even analyzed the content carefully and continued speaking.
"You concealed the debt and cheated Xu Zhiyan. Aren't you afraid that he would use other means to kill those children?"
The summoner propped up his hunched body and sat up.
"Then there's nothing I can do. I'm already gambling..." His voice was very calm.
"Xu Zhiyan is the best choice. I originally thought that those children could only survive half of their lives at most. You know, many of them have psychological trauma, and some have physical defects."
Thinking that he was already dead anyway, it would be nice to have a voice to chat with, so the summoner started talking calmly.
"If he doesn't want to, then that's the life of these kids. I'm just betting on a possibility... I'm betting that my death will calm him down. He will definitely dig up my body and take the cube. After getting some benefits and more things from the main system, he should calm down."
So he took advantage of his ability to control the space and did not use it to make any attack moves, but just to ensure that he could die peacefully.
"And…and he's different."
The summoner chuckled, his words full of admiration.
"It's hard for me to describe my luck. I didn't expect to meet such a high-quality person to take care of my child before I die. He is different. There are things that only he can do... I hope my corpse can add a little more chips to him."
He knew that what he did was not fair.
But people always look at things from their own perspective first.
"I know this is mean, but if my condition allowed it, I would really like to tell him that I would do anything as long as he is willing to take over my mess."
If the summoner had any idea of his own value at the time, he would not have concealed the debt.
But the problem is that he has nothing.
His health was broken, his company was not doing well, and he was heavily in debt because of setting up a relief center...
A long time passed.
The strange voice continued.
"If there is a chance now to make up for your mistakes, are you willing to take it?"
The summoner sensed something was wrong.
But he looked down at his own glowing, colorless body and couldn't help but sneer.
He is dead, so how can Xu Zhiyan chase him to hell to ask for money?
"Of course I don't want to."
After all, he has lived two lives and is very cautious. He looks highly respected on the outside, but in fact he is a slippery old dog who never promises others anything, not even verbally.
"Oh, it's too late, come back and work for me!"
The strange voice spoke in a mocking tone.
Following the last sentence, the summoner found that his body was fading...fading...
When he woke up again, he found himself in a wooden cage. What was even more frightening was that everything around him had become huge!
Suddenly, he heard a familiar voice!
"Crow? Not bad, he can talk back, and is perfect for conversation."
It’s Xu Zhiyan’s voice!
On the other side, Xu Zhiyan discovered that the summoner's undead transformation had been completed, and he tilted his head to look at the dark crow in the birdcage.
"Welcome back from hell."
He smiled and held up three fingers.
"I've had someone calculate it. You'll have to work for me for 3,162 years to pay off the debt. If you take a day off during the period, it will add another year."
Anyway, the summoner has become an undead creature, and the year is just a number.
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