Chapter 88 Nightmare Community
【Death of Monster Bookmon】
[Players can view monster information]
Seeing that the information about the monster's death had successfully popped up on the panel, Xu Zhiyan shook his wrists, which were sore from flipping through books.
When I opened the door of the children's room, I saw a dead monster lying at the door.
The body of the book beast is made up of paper pages, and the content on them is the content of the picture book we just saw. Now, this monster is shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Xu Zhiyan thought of blood vessels and took out the prop sunglasses.
The perspective changes instantly.
A large number of blood vessels covered the monster like vines. They greedily sucked the body of the book beast and quietly passed on the absorbed power.
[Monster: Book Beast]
[Level: High]
【Threat: Medium】
[Note: This strange creature was born from a book and exists in a copy with text. Its specific attack strength is determined by the world strength and the content of the book.]
"It turned out to be a universal monster."
Xu Zhiyan took off his glasses, a little shocked.
The comments were also shocked, but they were shocked in the way that the book beast could be exhausted to death.
【？ ？ ？ ？ 】
[Wait? Can monsters also die of exhaustion? ]
[Maybe…]
[Hahahahahahahaha, he died of exhaustion? ]
[Theoretically, this is the case. As long as a monster has a physical body, there will be a "physical strength limit"]
[It really opens the door to a new world! 】
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[Damn! I learned something! I’ll do the same thing next time!]
[laughing to death hahahahahahaha]
[How could it be that easy? It must be in a favorable terrain. Xiao Baiwan picked the books by climbing the stairs. He didn't even read the monsters he found from other channels.]
[It's a pity that this copy has no rewards, otherwise the book beast would drop some items every time it dies. ]
[It's a punishment instance after all, so it's normal. 】
In the children's room, Xu Zhiyan did not try to find a way to deal with the other book beasts.
He didn't know that the Book Beast existed as a reward monster. It would drop items every time it was killed, and was very popular among players. It was a monster that players had to kill once they saw it.
I even think the design of this monster is speechless.
"It's too easy to just close the book and it will temporarily solve the problem. And nothing will fall off..."
He sighed and shook his head, put away all the remaining picture books, found a plastic bag to put them in, tied it up tightly, and put it back in his room.
Although the solution is simple, this thing is still quite dangerous for children. He will take it back to the room later to see if he can take it away and add to the safe house.
Half past eleven.
Xu Xiaohua was finally tired from playing and wanted to go to bed. Xu Zhiyan also successfully completed his parent-child task and was able to escape.
Before leaving the house, special orders for the night appeared.
Next to the shoe cabinet, Xu Zhiyan, who was changing shoes, suddenly shuddered and stared at his phone with a frown.
【The order assistant is serving you! 】
【Order number: ???】
【Running errands】
【Delivery address: Healthy breakfast shop】
[Pick-up address: 0101, Unit 1, Building 09, Meimeng Community, Ms. Wang, Tel: 17...]
【Delivery time: before 03:00:00】
【Please do not exceed the time limit! 】
[Estimated profit of this order: Correct time (3h)]
Yesterday's order?
No, the order number and delivery time have changed, and the prompt is also strange.
【Do you accept the order? 】
【yes】
There was no no button, and he had no choice but to press yes.
Xu Zhiyan thought for a moment and finally nodded [Yes].
It seems like I have to accept this order.
When the income and time are not fully guaranteed, he will not rashly exceed the time limit or let Chu Fei deliberately deliver the wrong thing.
The only drawback is that this errand task requires going to the commercial street after midnight.
Xu Zhiyan was also thinking about researching the mobile stalls as soon as possible.
Because Chu Fei worked long hours, Xu Zhiyan simply lent him the electric car.
Ms. Wang...Chu Fei's mother.
Thinking of this relationship, Xu Zhiyan felt a bit of a headache, but since things had come to this point he had no choice but to go ahead with it.
Before leaving, Xu Zhiyan took Ms. Wang's identity into consideration.
He ran back to the children's room, covered Xu Xiaohua with a blanket, took a photo of the little girl's cute sleeping face with drooling, and saved it in his mobile phone.
We all come from single-parent families, so we should be able to have something in common.
When he got downstairs, he first drank a bowl of sweet hot soup, restored his health, and then walked towards Building 09.
Building 09 is next to the east gate of the community.
There were not many people in the Dream Community at night. Xu Zhiyan, with his black hair and black clothes, almost blended into the night.
“Don’t other players have to come out to work late at night?” He shook his head and sighed.
In the past few days, he only saw Gan Mi and Xinan at night.
The remaining players are nowhere to be found.
Xie Lingyi seemed to have completely integrated into the life of a corporate slave. She hadn't seen the magician He Zui, whom she met on the first day, in the past few days.
Aren’t community volunteers supposed to have a lot of free time?
This is a job that pays nothing but requires a lot of time. If I don't run around to work at night, has I starved to death?
This guy was nowhere to be seen, so Xu Zhiyan couldn't even get some props from him.
Sighing, he did not enter the elevator, but turned aside and stood in front of an iron door.
【0101】
The iron gate was relatively clean, with a row of fences on top and a wooden door inside.
The faded doorplate has spots of rust on it, showing that it is very old.
Before he knocked on the door, Xu Zhiyan heard faint clanging sounds coming from inside, as if someone was chopping meat at home.
“…Chopping meat.”
Countless stories related to human meat buns that I had read before came flooding back from the depths of my memory.
The corners of his mouth twitched and he was a little nervous.
Rather than Ms. Wang opening the door and chopping him up, he was more worried about other things, such as...
What if the other party turns into a monster? Should he kill him or not?
If he really killed the person, would Chu Fei still work as hard for him as he does now?
Even though this Ms. Wang might be a serial killer or have mutated into a monster, Xu Zhiyan still has some conscience and would not easily kill his younger brother's mother.
There’s no point in thinking so much, in the end you still have to knock on the door and go in.
Xu Zhiyan adjusted his attitude and raised the corners of his mouth into a standard smile.
He still remembers the rules of delivering takeout.
“Knock, knock, knock—Hello, I’m the errand boy you called.”
After knocking on the door, he took two steps back and waited for the door to open.
However, nothing happened.
The clanging sound of chopping meat continued inside, and the target, Ms. Wang, seemed to have not heard the knock on the door at all.
Xu Zhiyan had no choice but to knock a few more times.
“Boom boom boom—”
"Hello, the errand takeaway you ordered has arrived!"
No one answered.
Just when Xu Zhiyan was about to ask Chu Fei for the key, the sound of chopping meat inside stopped.
After a few minutes, the iron gate opened.
"Squeak--Gah--"
The sound of the door slowly opening was a bit harsh, and Xu Zhiyan couldn't help but take a few steps back.
When the wooden door inside was fully opened, he saw the thin woman he had met several times before standing inside the door, staring at him.
The gentleness in his eyes that he had when they met during the day was gone. Instead, his eyes were as cold as if filled with poison, and there was a hint of confusion in them.
Her figure was swaying, and she seemed unsteady and a little stiff.
Although he did not turn into a big-headed monster like Chu Fei, his appearance was inexplicably more terrifying, as if although he was covered in human skin, he had nothing to do with humans.
Xu Zhiyan's heart skipped a beat and he thought something bad had happened.
Judging from Ms. Wang’s expression, I’m afraid someone will die today.
There was no light in the room, only a little illumination from the corridor lights.
Xu Zhiyan hesitated whether to leave or not. The game system seemed to have guessed his thoughts and a new window popped up on the panel.
[Special order tips: Once the order is accepted, all current correct time will be deducted if it fails. ]
“…”
Damn, what a crap game.
Xu Zhiyan lowered his head and cursed the game eight hundred times in his heart.
But he couldn't clear his mind of all the right times for the moment, so he had to go ahead with it.
Fortunately, funds are not so tight now, and I still have a few defensive items on me that I can use, so I don’t have to worry too much even if the opponent attacks suddenly.
"Hello, I'm the errand boy you asked. Please take out the items you need to run errands for."
Xu Zhiyan had a beautiful thought.
If the other party can take the thing out, and he takes it and runs away, it should be possible.
Unfortunately, the opposite happened.
Ms. Wang suddenly smiled, and her whole person was in stark contrast to her previous coldness and hardness. She became like the enthusiastic and hardworking breakfast shop owner during the day.
She opened the iron gate outside and invited Xu Zhiyan in.
"You have to wait a while. It's too cold outside. Come in and wait."
Xu Zhiyan waved his hands repeatedly.
"No, no, I'll just wait at the door."
Hearing the rejection, Ms. Wang just smiled and looked over, turned her body sideways, and did not move.
It seemed that as long as Xu Zhiyan didn't agree to come in, she would not continue to prepare the unfinished commission.
The two of them were in a stalemate for a while.
In the end, Xu Zhiyan was defeated.
"Excuse me."
He put his hand on the door and slowly opened the iron gate.
Xu Zhiyan lowered his eyes and prepared himself mentally before looking over.
Unfortunately, the preparation was not sufficient.
After seeing Ms. Wang's body below the neck, he almost vomited on the spot.
The other person was wearing loose clothes, and although his head still looked like a human, his waist and abdomen had become extremely bloated.
There were some strange things that formed weird shapes through the thin fabric of the pajamas.
There was a man's face on the waist, a hand sticking out from the chest, and two more feet sticking out from the bottom of the loose clothes...
Xu Zhiyan turned his head away and stopped looking.
If he guessed correctly, the object embedded in Ms. Wang's body in a strange shape should be Boss Chu who disappeared two months ago.
"Would you like to come and help? It would be faster. I heard from Boss Zhang that you are very hardworking."
Ms. Wang made a request to Xu Zhiyan.
Xu Zhiyan thought about it for a moment and nodded in agreement.
No wonder this task takes so long, it turns out that you need to wait for the NPC to prepare the things you need to run errands for.
And since the other party has not taken the initiative to attack, there should still be room for negotiation.
Ms. Wang took the person to the kitchen.
On the narrow cooking table, there was indeed a pile of uncut meat.
Xu Zhiyan took a closer look and confirmed that it was pork. He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief... He was really worried that Ms. Wang would suddenly push out a lot of corpses for him to chop.
Ms. Wang staggered to the cooking table with some difficulty.
She put the chopped meat into a bowl and put a stack of bags aside.
"Thank you for wrapping the meat filling I prepared and putting it in there."
Seeing Xu Zhiyan take the bag, she said no more, picked up a piece of pork from the side, put it on the chopping board, and started chopping it with the knife.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
"Bang..."
Xu Zhiyan stood aside, watching Ms. Wang chop the meat.
So the specific time to deliver the goods depends on when the other party finishes processing all the things...
He suddenly felt somewhat relieved.
Fortunately I didn’t answer it yesterday!
Otherwise, I would have to chop the meat until four o'clock, who could stand it?
“Bang, bang, bang…”
At midnight, the sound of chopping meat was particularly clear.
After standing for a while, Xu Zhiyan felt his legs go numb and couldn't help but change his posture.
Just when he thought he could complete the task successfully today, Ms. Wang spoke while chopping meat.
"What did you say to Xiaofei? Why did he give up the postgraduate entrance examination?"
Xu Zhiyan pursed his lips, thinking that he had finally come.
As early as when he persuaded Chu Fei to do this, he realized that sooner or later he would have to face Chu Fei's family.
After all, Chu Fei had taken the exam for five years just to meet his parents' expectations, and he almost collapsed.
These pressures played an important role.
Hearing the other party's slightly complaining words, Xu Zhiyan sneered, did not answer, and asked back.
"I would like to ask, is Chu Fei your biological son?"
"Bang! What did you say?"
Ms. Wang lost control of her strength and the kitchen knife in her hand got stuck on the chopping board.
Without waiting for the other party to speak, Xu Zhiyan said with anger and regret: "I am also a father of a child. Like you, I have deep feelings for my child."
First identify yourself and then build a relationship.
Hearing this, Ms. Wang, who was angry just now, was stunned at first.
"You...you have a child?"
"certainly!"
Xu Zhiyan held up his cell phone and took out the photo of Xu Xiaohua that he had prepared in advance.
He didn't lie this time. Even though he was not his biological son, he still called him dad.
"I just put my daughter to sleep when I received the order. I have to rush back soon."
Ms. Wang looked at the happy expression on the young man's face and hesitated.
"So, I understand your feelings." Xu Zhiyan would not miss this opportunity to be stunned and continued to condemn.
"But I really can't understand why you put so much pressure on Chu Fei."
Ms. Wang retorted subconsciously.
"His father and I work so hard just to support him in his studies..."
Xu Zhiyan shook his head and interrupted the other party.
"May I ask what your educational background is? Doesn't it mean that his life will be meaningless if he doesn't follow the path you have planned?"
"In your eyes, what exactly are children? Are they tools for you to fulfill your dreams?"
"Didn't you notice that Chu Fei became much happier after delivering the food? He hasn't smiled like that in front of you for a long time, right?"
However, although Xu Zhiyan sounded heartbroken, he himself did not feel anything.
The cooperation with Chu Fei is a win-win situation.
He had never had the experience of being overwhelmed by other people's expectations. Even in his brief memory, it seemed that no one had any expectations of him.
Now I am just applying some words to liberate my little brother.
Although he still sighed in his heart, those who are thirsty will die of drought and those who are flooded will die of flood.
For him, he has to fight for what he wants. If he falls behind, he will have nothing.
Xu Zhiyan lowered his head, took a deep breath, suppressed some bad memories, and looked up at Ms. Wang.
Ms. Wang was so shocked that she took a step back.
She nodded like a deflated ball, turned around and picked up the kitchen knife again.
"You are right."
"But only in this way can it be correct, correct, correct, correct..."
"Right, right, right..."
Later on, the words became an endless repetition.
Xu Zhiyan listened to the voice getting lower and lower, and suddenly realized that the words that followed were not said by Ms. Wang.
Boss Chu, who was embedded in him, was also speaking.
Seeing this, the comments started discussing this horrifying scene.
[What the hell, what kind of strange creature is this? ]
Is she still human?
[Count it? But it counts as two. ]
[So Xiao Baiwan isn't afraid? This kitchen is so small. If the other person turns around and stabs him, the damage will probably be as high as possible.]
[Ah... those limbs are moving! ]
[I feel like this woman has become a wrong beast, but it seems like she hasn’t? ]
[The Beast of Error changes from scratch. So far, I have not seen anyone whose body has mutated...]
[Ah, how weird! ]
This picture is indeed a bit strange.
But the kitchen was too small and Xu Zhiyan had no choice but to retreat.
"Right, right, right..."
Suddenly, Ms. Wang spoke.
"Shut up!"
After saying that, she swung the kitchen knife and chopped the meat on the chopping board frantically.
Boss Chu's hand, which was sticking out from his collar, also had two fingers chopped off.
Xu Zhiyan watched his fingers fall onto the chopping board, one of them was chopped into pieces, while the other rolled to the side.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
"Bang! Bang! Bang..."
Ms. Wang chopped the meat frantically for a few minutes and finally calmed down.
She didn't notice at all that the hand where her fingers had just been cut off was bleeding, and something seemed to be growing out of the wound.
When Xu Zhiyan saw her pouring her fingers mixed with the meat filling into the bowl, he couldn't help smacking his lips.
I finally know where the finger that Xie Lingyi ate that day came from.
I really don’t know who is more unlucky, him or the person who borrowed his life.
Seeing that Ms. Wang had finally calmed down and Boss Chu stopped talking, Xu Zhiyan tried to get some words out of him.
"Why is it the right thing for Chu Fei to continue to go to school?"
In fact, he had already vaguely guessed it.
Everyone in this strange community seems to be bound by rules and regulations.
We can only do the 'right' thing.
Will people like Chu Fei, who fail to meet the "correct" standards, become monsters... beasts of error?
Looking at the hand stretched out from Ms. Wang's collar, after two fingers were chopped off, new fingers grew back, and Ms. Wang's face became increasingly paler.
Xu Zhiyan thought he might know why Ms. Wang had become so thin.
Every time she cut off a part of her body that did not belong to her, the other party would absorb her vitality again to grow new limbs.
Ms. Wang did not answer.
Instead, he asked another question.
"Do you think it's wrong for a mother to protect her child?"
"That's right."
Xu Zhiyan gave an affirmative answer without even thinking about it.
This answer seemed to give Ms. Wang some strength, and her complexion improved a lot.
What surprised Xu Zhiyan was that the part of her that belonged to Boss Chu had actually shrunk.
What is this? The power of language?
Perhaps because she felt that Xu Zhiyan treated her son sincerely, Ms. Wang's thoughts were confused and she spoke about things intermittently.
"If I don't kill him, he will kill his son."
"I don't want to do that either. I know it's wrong. It's not right... not right."
"But I can't, can't, can't, can't not kill him..."
"I want to protect my children."
"I am right."
“…”
Xu Zhiyan roughly pieced together what happened in Chu Fei's family through these intermittent conversations.
The right thing Chu Fei had to do was to take the postgraduate entrance examination, but he failed for a long time, so he was on the verge of collapse and became a "mistake".
In order to be "correct", Boss Chu decided to kill his own relatives for the sake of justice, but was then killed by Ms. Wang.
Ms. Wang's current state is probably somewhere between "right" and "wrong". She is not a complete human being, but she is not a true beast of error either.
Ten hours...
Xu Zhiyan suddenly realized that he might have missed the four-hour bonus time.
Even though Chu Fei brought a lot of benefits, he still couldn't help feeling a little heartbroken.
Soon, the minced meat that was to be delivered was prepared.
Xu Zhiyan looked at Ms. Wang, whose body was deformed, and couldn't help but wonder.
The reason why she is hesitating now is that she doesn't know whether she is right or wrong. If more people come to tell her that she is right, then she will be able to regain her human form.
And correspondingly, if someone tells her that she is wrong, then she will become a beast of error.
Just as Xu Zhiyan was sorting the takeout at the counter, someone knocked on the door again.
“Boom boom boom—”
Ms. Wang silently put away the kitchen knife and dragged her bloated body to open the door.
Xu Zhiyan honestly organized things in the kitchen and did not go out. After all, those who came so late at night must be close friends, and it would be inappropriate for him to go out as an errand boy...
But the person who came in obviously didn't think so.
"Bang!"
"ah--"
The explosion and Ms. Wang's scream sounded at the same time, indicating that the person was up to no good.
Xu Zhiyan quickly put down the packed meat filling and rushed to the living room.
Ms. Wang's leg was cut in half and she was lying on the ground, her life or death unknown. Only the limbs belonging to Boss Chu were swinging wildly and she was screaming "Ah ...
The two intruders stood with their backs to the kitchen.
One was wearing a security guard uniform.
The other person had a head full of silver hair, held a double-edged knife, and stood straight.
Although they were acquaintances, Xu Zhiyan was still worried when he saw this configuration.
The two heard footsteps and turned around quickly.
Especially Xinan, his attack was faster than his thought, and the double-headed knife was already swung into the air.
But when he saw Xu Zhiyan, he stopped abruptly.
Xu Zhiyan stood there as if nothing had happened, as if he didn't care at all about the attack that Xinan almost launched.
His eyes fell on another person.
It was the security guard who crushed a monster in front of him last time, Gan Mi, a smiling tiger who was even more difficult to deal with than Xinan.
"Oh! We meet again!"
Although Gan Mi is not short in height, she has a harmless baby face and is very lovable with a smiling face.
"I won't let you get away this time."
He opened his eyes slightly, with a fierce gleam in his eyes.
"You are the first person to ignore my handsome appearance." When Gan Mi mentioned this, her voice was filled with a hint of gritted teeth.
Unexpectedly, Xu Zhiyan frowned and murmured.
"What? A handsome appearance?"
Did he miss something?
On the other side, Gan Mi couldn't laugh after hearing this.
That night, the image of the pink electric scooter driving off into the distance reappeared, reminding him of the embarrassing moment of his social demise during the live broadcast.
But in the end, Gan Mi shook his head.
"nothing."
"Once I'm done with the Beast of Error, I'll deal with you."
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