Chapter 98 Nightmare Community
“What do you think about when you paint?”
"Miss you."
Bai Jin answered frankly.
It felt that it had given enough hints in advance, such as that what was drawn might not be what Xu Zhiyan wanted.
But when it came to this question, the first person Bai Jin thought of was the handsome young man in front of him.
It looked at Xu Zhiyan who was standing there at a loss.
Probably because of shyness.
The young man's face flushed, and the exposed skin also turned pink.
Bai Jin suddenly realized that what he had just drawn was actually wrong. The young man on the velvet should not still have a fair complexion after experiencing those things. He should have a layer of blush.
It looked down at the palette in its hand and sighed.
I don’t know if it can be changed today.
Unlike Bai Jin who was calmly thinking about how to change the painting.
Xu Zhiyan was furious.
He pointed at Bai Jin's nose, hesitating for a long time, but couldn't say a word.
By the time he had time to react and smash the guy in front of him to the ground, Bai Jin spoke again before he could give the order.
"I created everything according to the propositions you gave me."
"Inspiration is something you can't grasp. No one can guarantee what you can create. I've already told you that I may not be able to draw what you want."
Bai Jin took a few steps to the side, fearing that he would destroy the painting when he smashed it to the ground.
“I don’t know what kind of work you want me to create, but after meeting you, when I hear this proposition again, I can only think of you.”
Xu Zhiyan was so angry that he almost laughed when he heard the other party's righteous words.
However, when he thought about the fact that he had not met Bai Jin when "The Last Dream" was created, he could only reluctantly accept this excuse.
A few minutes later, Xu Zhiyan finally regained his senses.
He first went to the kitchen to find a piece of black cloth to cover the painting. Without this eyesore, he could finally have a normal conversation with Bai Jin.
"Regarding creation... never mind, just look at this sculpture."
Xu Zhiyan held up his cell phone, which contained the photo of the red electric ball he had just taken that morning.
Bai Jin took the phone calmly, feeling a little confused.
It didn't expect to be let off so easily. It thought it would at least be beaten up. It seems that this proposition is really important to Xu Zhiyan.
Xu Zhiyan carefully observed Bai Jin's expression.
When the other party saw the photos on the phone, his expression became a little strange.
"This should be the sculpture you created before you lost your memory. It's called the Last Sweet Dream. I heard that the developer paid you a lot of money to create it."
He tried to explain to Bai Jin the origin and meaning of this thing.
"I've recently observed that many residents look at this wire ball... ahem, sculpture ball" when they pass by.
"After seeing the sculpture, the residents' expressions became relieved, as if they had gained some kind of strength from it. That's what the people at the second-hand housing transaction center said at the time."
After listening to the explanation, Bai Jin shook his head.
"No way, this is not my work."
"well?"
Xu Zhiyan didn't expect that after going around in circles, the other party would deny it.
But seeing Bai Jin's look of extreme disgust, he began to wonder if the Bai Jin in front of him was not the same person as the great artist Bai Jin mentioned by the employees of the second-hand housing transaction center?
Before he could ask, Bai Jin pointed at the picture on his phone and asked, "The sculpture in the picture is simple and crude, supported by iron rods. Do you think it looks good?"
“It doesn’t look good.”
Xu Zhiyan answered honestly.
He had long felt that this broken electric ball was ugly.
Bai Jin nodded and continued, "Art is not about random creation. This sculpture sphere seems to be a mixture of many lines. It has neither beauty nor meaning. If this can be called art, then the developer might as well make one himself."
After saying that, it reached out and lifted the black cloth covering the painting, pointed at the black hand on it with interest and began to explain.
“Art is fluid. You can get a glimpse of my thoughts from the paintings. My feelings towards you…”
It licked its lips and found that Xu Zhiyan seemed unable to get away from the previous topic. It took the opportunity to walk to the side and hugged the young man from behind.
"Look at this hand. Although it is still, as long as I put it here, you can imagine that it will slide further down without me having to explain it in detail..."
As it spoke, it placed its hand lightly on the young man's waist through his clothes, and the warm body temperature of the other person was transmitted to it, making people unable to stop.
Bai Jin has been trying very hard to restrain himself.
It kept telling itself to stop playing, because if it continued to touch it, Xu Zhiyan would definitely embed it into the floor when he reacted.
But reason does not work everywhere and at all times.
When Bai Jin found that the young man was still frowning and thinking about something, he reached into the young man's clothes along his hem...
The sudden touch on his waist made Xu Zhiyan shiver, and he quickly realized what Bai Jin was taking advantage of the opportunity to do.
"Bai Jin? Are you sick?"
In the end, Bai Jin got what he wanted and was embedded deeply into the floor.
In the live broadcast room, audiences lit candles for the perverted artist.
[How come this perverted painter only remembers to eat but not to be beaten? Hahahahaha]
[Look, someone got stuck in the floor again! ]
【Hahahahaha, after all, I just finished drawing a pornographic picture.】
[I want to see my wife's pornographic pictures, too! Slurp! Hehehehehe, kiss my wife! ]
[@Audit, can you give the above thread a permanent ban package? ]
【Hahahahahahaha】
[The painter got what he wanted, but I want to know more about how Xiao Baiwan managed to control this powerful NPC. ]
[+1, I thought before that Xiao Baiwan used his body as a bargaining chip, but now it seems that’s not the case.]
[+2, after all, it's not shameful to swap bodies when you're passing a dungeon! ]
It turns out that in the dungeon, there are also NPCs who are extremely pursuing human appearance.
As long as the NPC is powerful enough and can provide enough help, most players would not mind having a romantic encounter with it.
After all, isn't it better to get help in a more labor-saving way than to risk your life to kill the other person?
[But looking at the painter, it’s obviously not the case. I’m really curious! ]
[The main reason is that I didn't see any traces of control props on the painter, nor did I see Xiao Baiwan using any control props. ]
[I am curious too. I hope there will be an answer later.]
[If this kind of item can be sold, I will buy it all! ]
Xu Zhiyan didn’t know that the comments were all guessing what props he used, so he covered the painting again and threw it into the toilet. When he came back, the man was still lying on the ground, motionless.
Looking over coldly, he kicked Bai Jin's arm.
"You said this sculpture is not your work?"
This is strange.
Theoretically, everything matches up, so why does it not match up when it comes to this electric wire?
Could it be that Bai Jin just made up a ball to fool the developer in order to defraud money?
"Well, how could I create something so aesthetically pleasing?" Bai Jin raised his head and denied it vehemently.
It didn't understand why Xu Zhiyan would put that ugly thing on him, but it had to admit that it was absolutely impossible.
In order to reconfirm his identity, Xu Zhiyan cited the contents of the album he had seen at the second-hand housing transaction center.
It turns out that the design concepts of other propositions are completely fine.
Basically, after hearing the title, the first things that Bai Jin thought of, except for pornography, all matched the pictures in the previous album.
Xu Zhiyan felt that his thinking had reached an impasse.
In his plan, if Bai Jin continued to supply the copy with power, the entire copy would collapse on its own if the supply chain was cut off or Bai Jin was eliminated.
But now the sculpture that is most likely to serve as a channel for transmitting power is not created by Bai Jin himself.
After much thought, Xu Zhiyan decided to go to the central pool at night when no one was around.
But it's too early now.
Xu Zhiyan ignored Bai Jin who got up from the ground. Instead, he took out the "Kindergarten Admission Manual" from his bag and went to Xu Xiaohua's room.
In the children's room with warm lights on, a girl with two pigtails is writing and drawing on the drawing board.
Xu Zhiyan went over and sat aside, looking at the contents on the drawing board.
"Dad! You didn't go out today!"
Xu Xiaohua was very surprised. In her impression, her father was very busy and had not been with her for a long time.
Xu Zhiyan had just sat down cross-legged when he heard the child's surprised voice. Then he realized that he had not been with Xu Xiaohua for several days.
"Sorry, I've been a bit busy at work."
He had never taken care of a child, so like all adults in his impression, he could only blame his busyness on work.
Xu Xiaohua nodded seriously.
"It doesn't matter! I know Dad is so busy for our family. Xiaohua will be good, so Dad should cheer up!"
Xu Zhiyan touched Xu Xiaohua's head and looked at the girl's cute face. Apart from the fact that she was pale and looked like a living person, he couldn't imagine what kind of monster such a young child could turn into.
Not knowing her cheap father's complicated thoughts, Xu Xiaohua was still trying hard to introduce her "masterpiece".
"This is dad, this is me, and this is mom."
“This one has rainbows and little flowers.”
The painting made by a four-year-old child with colored pencils cannot be said to be very beautiful. You can only barely make out that the circle is the head and the matchstick-like black lines are the arms and legs.
Xu Zhiyan looked at the screen and saw the little figures representing his father and Xu Xiaohua smiling happily and standing under the rainbow.
The other little man in black clothes, representing the mother, was thrown far away into a corner by the two men.
Well, it turns out that even though this child has accepted the setting, he is still afraid of Bai Jin in his heart?
He accompanied Xu Xiaohua in painting for a while.
He originally wanted to show his great fatherly love, but after he started drawing, nothing looked like a father, and Xu Xiaohua almost cried in frustration.
This painting activity of fatherly love and filial piety had to end early.
Seeing that the atmosphere was about right, Xu Zhiyan took out the admission brochure and asked, "Don't you want to go to school? Let's take a look at what we need to prepare for school, okay?"
"good!"
Xu Xiaohua, who had just been so angry at her father's poor painting skills that she didn't want to talk, suddenly brightened up.
She took the booklet and although she didn't know the words, she flipped through the simple drawings with great interest.
Xu Zhiyan took the opportunity to take a look at the content above.
【Meimeng Kindergarten Admission Notice】
【1. Report at 2 p.m. on Sunday. 】
【2. Collect the registration form when reporting. 】
【3. Pay tuition and miscellaneous fees upon reporting. 】
【4. After paying the fees, please go to the third floor to collect clothing and textbooks. 】
【5. Please prepare the following items for your child before Monday:】
【Water cup, school bag, pencil, eraser...】
Next comes a series of items that need to be prepared.
Very general admission instructions.
Xu Xiaohua watched it very seriously, and Xu Zhiyan found it a little funny.
"Do you want to go to school so badly?"
He put himself in the shoes of others and felt that he didn't have any strong desire to go to school.
After listening to this, Xu Xiaohua nodded seriously.
“Because going to school is the right thing to do.”
Hearing such a serious answer, Xu Zhiyan inexplicably thought of two people... no, it should be said that they were monsters.
In the first copy, he met his adopted son and daughter, two monsters who also had a strange obsession with going to school.
But the thought was fleeting.
Xu Zhiyan smiled and patted his adopted daughter's head, then changed the subject.
"Besides going to school? What else is right?" He wanted to know more and wondered how much the child knew.
Xu Xiaohua didn't expect her father to ask this.
She frowned and thought for a while, then said seriously: "It is right to listen to adults, it is wrong to be without parents, it is wrong to run around, and it is right to eat..."
"It's not right to not have a mom and a dad?"
Xu Zhiyan discovered the problem.
"Yes, how can a child be without a father and a mother?" Xu Xiaohua looked up and answered as a matter of course.
"What would happen if a child didn't have a father or a mother?" Xu Zhiyan lowered his eyes.
“That would be horrible!”
Xu Xiaohua seemed to have thought of something and suddenly began to shake her head frantically.
Afterwards, no matter how Xu Zhiyan asked, she refused to say anything.
Seeing Xu Xiaohua’s resistance, Xu Zhiyan had no choice but to give up and turn the topic back to a warmer place.
Tomorrow is Sunday.
He had to take care of other chores tonight.
Just then, Bai Jin knocked on the door and invited the two to have dinner.
Xu Zhiyan put away his messy thoughts.
After dinner, the family of three spent a false yet warm evening.
Coax Xu Xiaohua to sleep.
The time came to half past eleven.
When Xu Zhiyan came to the living room, he found that the hole in the floor had been repaired.
Bai Jin leaned against the kitchen door frame with his arms folded, looking unhappy.
It knew that Xu Zhiyan was going out again.
...Damn it, it would be great if my strength could recover faster.
Xu Zhiyan ignored Bai Jin's sour look, walked past it, went to the kitchen, got a hammer and stuffed it into his sleeve.
I'll check the sculptures in the central pool later and try to save as many props as possible.
Before leaving, he suddenly called Bai Jin.
"Bai Jin, you tried to capture Xu Xiaohua once before. What was she like then?"
The man, who was bending down to tie a scarf for the young man, did not expect to hear this question, but he still stood there and thought about it honestly.
"She's become a kind of monster."
"It's black, the kind of black that doesn't reflect light."
"From a distance it looked more like a black shadow, but when we fought it, we could feel that it was a solid entity."
After saying that, it also evaluated Xu Xiaohua's combat power.
"Very weak. If I hadn't restrained my strength, I'm afraid I would have accidentally beaten her to death."
At that time, it really tried very hard to complete the task given by Xu Zhiyan.
However, Xu Zhiyan did not listen to the rest of the content.
He thought of the strange corpses piled up like a hill in the abandoned kindergarten...
So, here, it is wrong for a child to be without a father and a mother, and a child who loses his father and mother will turn into this kind of black monster.
Before Xu Zhiyan could react, the barrage of comments exploded after hearing it.
[??? In other words? The monsters that Xinan cleared out yesterday were all orphans? ]
[It seems to be correct. ]
[Tsk tsk tsk, but it's not the children's fault that they don't have parents, why do you turn these children into monsters? ]
[Indeed, this is a little hard to understand.]
[I feel this instance is more suitable for people who rush in without thinking. ]
[Yes, yes, yes! I don’t think the other people who are still alive have dug into the dungeon content as deeply as Xiao Baiwan.]
[After all, there is no reward in this dungeon, so the task is done. ]
[I think the life borrower has almost completely integrated into this dungeon. He is either at work or working every day.]
[…It’s terrifying to think about it. Does she still remember that she is a player? ]
Central pool.
Xu Zhiyan hid his hands in his pockets, huddled in a corner, and stretched his head to observe for a while.
After making sure that there was no one around, he sat down next to the pool, looked down, and slowly stretched his hand towards the water.
"hiss--"
As soon as the icy water touched his fingers, he gasped in shock.
“It’s so cold…”
But to check the sculpture in the middle, he had to wade through the water.
Looking at the large pool with a diameter of more than ten meters, Xu Zhiyan began to miss Xiaoyi madly. It would be great if his partner, the helicopter dog, was there!
After much thought, he gave up the idea of using flying props.
There is no other reason, it’s just too expensive.
It's not worth it for such a broken pool.
In escape games, flying can ignore terrain obstacles and is a very valuable ability.
Even Gan Mi's almost miraculous skill in controlling the air can only suspend objects and cannot affect himself.
Xu Zhiyan finally chose to wear the Ouroboros ring before entering the pool.
The Ouroboros Ring can turn a person into a swimming expert in seconds and give them a certain resistance to cold water.
The water in the pool was not very deep, almost reaching Xu Zhiyan's thighs.
Even though he was resistant to cold water, he still shivered when he went into the water.
Time was running out, so he didn't dare stay any longer.
Although there are basically no people outside the community after 11:30, it is still better to be careful.
Quickly arriving at the center of the pool, Xu Zhiyan was finally able to take a closer look at the red electric ball.
It was similar to the picture he took with his mobile phone, just some iron wires wrapped together and then painted with a layer of red paint.
No wonder Bai Jin denied that this was his work.
This thing looks pretty rough and sloppy when you look at it up close. I don't know what the developer was thinking back then.
Xu Zhiyan walked around the red electric wire ball and found nothing unusual.
I didn't feel relieved or redeemed after watching it, it seems that kind of 'relief' only happens to NPCs.
He tried knocking on the ball of unknown material.
“Boom boom boom—”
Hollow.
Before he put his hand down, a tiny sound suddenly came from inside.
“Boom boom boom boom—”
It felt like something was hitting the ball.
Xu Zhiyan was startled by the sudden sound and couldn't help but take two steps back.
But the thing in the ball seemed to sense that he was leaving, and the collision became more rapid.
“Boom boom boom—”
Xu Zhiyan felt a little strange.
“…Alive?”
Not really. It's just a hollow sphere made of unknown material. The iron pillars underneath are mainly used for support. It doesn't look like it can transport any substance.
Didn't feel any malice.
Xu Zhiyan took out a hammer and tapped the ball lightly.
It was still a "dong dong dong" sound, and it was relatively small. I thought that if it was broken, it wouldn't make any big noise.
Having already prepared himself to smash the ball, Xu Zhiyan did not hesitate any longer. He first pulled up his scarf to cover his face, then swung the hammer.
"Bang--"
The sound was about as expected, not too loud.
He felt relieved and knocked a few more times.
"Bang bang bang bang bang -"
Finally, a small hole appeared in the ball.
Before Xu Zhiyan could get closer, he saw a ray of light whooshing out from the small hole.
This change came so suddenly that he hadn't reacted yet.
The view in the live broadcast room is wider, and I am already starting to worry about him.
【Ah ...
[What the hell, what the hell, what are those things squatting in the green belt? ]
[Is it a human? Is it a human? Is it a human? ]
[When did it start? Why didn't Xiao Baiwan react at all? ]
[The first hammer begins to appear! ]
[I've seen the one under the tree before. He was the one holding the dog before! ]
[Ahh, is this some kind of protection mechanism? ]
[I think there is something wrong with the water. The water seems to be able to diffuse the sound, but the sound will be suppressed in the center. You can see it by looking at the water waves...]
[It's over. Is Xiao Baiwan going to be beaten by 150? ]
When Xu Zhiyan was sure that the ball was empty and was about to leave with a disappointed look on his face, he finally noticed something strange.
There seemed to be several people squatting in the green belt around the pool...
Oops, it looks like something is going to happen.
Xu Zhiyan pretended not to notice anything unusual in the green belt, took a few steps back, and glanced around other places.
It seemed that quite a few residents appeared around the central pool.
He looked towards the nearest green belt and found that the residents there were all wearing pajamas. They looked as if they had been teleported here directly from their beds. Their eyes were dull and filled with confusion.
Xu Zhiyan slowly retreated to the edge of the pool and touched the scarf on his face, unsure if these residents were verifying his identity.
But if you don’t run now, you might not be able to escape next!
The next second, Xu Zhiyan turned over, left the pool, and rushed towards the commercial street.
In a few minutes, the boss of the Toothless Shop will close the stall. Looks like we have to hide outside the community tonight!
Cold commercial street.
The toothless boss was looking into the distance with eager eyes.
Someone asked him if he was waiting for old customers, and he smiled and nodded.
"That guy is a good person, but he runs a little slowly...slowly...or not really slow?"
The toothless boss was speaking, but as he looked into the distance, his voice became smaller and smaller.
Behind Xu Zhiyan, there was a large group of residents with stiff postures and ferocious expressions, running towards this side like crazy, shouting.
“Run—run!”
When the toothless boss saw the other party's gesture, he hurriedly began to pack up his stall. Although he didn't know what happened, he ran away first!
A minute later, Xu Zhiyan, panting, successfully sat on the back seat of the toothless boss' pedal tricycle.
1402 In the living room, the easel was set up again.
Bai Jin found the painting that Xu Zhiyan had put away during the day and was making the final revisions.
Suddenly, a beam of white light broke through the glass and flew straight towards it...
The shrunken limbs in the living room swayed as if something exciting had happened.
As more power emerges.
Cracks appeared in the bone shackles.
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