Chapter 81 Housekeeping and Cleaning Special (14)
No one expected that the real owner of this house was actually a doll.
This doll makes no attempt to conceal itself, walks stiffly, and has no facial expression when it speaks, with the corners of its mouth turned up as if it wants to smile, yet it gives off a very eerie feeling.
"Human player, get rid of these two pieces of trash first." As the doll spoke, it looked at the center of the three people.
Bai Ye met the other person's gaze, snapped out of his daze, and immediately nodded, "Okay, but ma'am, could we take the trash with us at the end?"
"Why?"
“Look, this house is a complete mess. A lot of furniture needs to be removed, and it’s all junk. We want to get rid of all the junk at once.”
The doll looked at the completely unfamiliar room, frowned even more, and quickly agreed.
"You all go out first, I need to change my clothes."
Bai Ye and the other two immediately left the master bedroom.
As Bai Ye closed the door, she remembered something and opened it again.
The doll had just entered the dressing room when it heard the sound and turned around.
The other end of the line turned 180 degrees, the voice icy cold, "You wanted to peek?"
"No!" Bai Ye waved his hands repeatedly, then pointed to the wardrobe, "My friend is still hiding inside."
Before the words were even finished, the doll quickly turned its head, lifted its finger slightly, and opened the door on the innermost side of the wardrobe.
Gou Wenyan was fast asleep, clutching his jeans, and even started snoring.
Bai Ye: "..." How can you sleep in a scene like this?
The doll, disgusted, pulled out Gou Wenyan and threw him away.
With a "bang," the master bedroom door slammed shut.
Gou Wenyan was thrown and fell, jolted awake from his dream, and opened his eyes.
"Didn't I hide?"
Looking at the three friends standing next to him, he jumped up and asked, "You guys took down those two high-level weirdos?"
Cheng Danyang: "He is definitely dead."
Gou Wenyan: "That's great. There are no strange things in this house, so cleaning is so convenient."
Bai Ye: "You're overthinking it."
"Huh?" Gou Wenyan turned his head, looked at the master bedroom, and asked as he came to his senses, "Why do I feel like I was thrown out? What happened?"
The four people sat on the living room sofa, their moods slightly mixed and somewhat anxious.
The anxious person was Gou Wenyan, who kept muttering to himself about whether he had gotten a pair of jeans dirty.
Bai Ye: "I told you to hide, not to take someone's pants."
Cheng Danyang: Serves you right! Why didn't you hold the dress? That Lolita dress has the most powerful ability.
Gou Wenyan: "Isn't it embarrassing? How can you take someone else's skirt? Besides, what if you wrinkle it?"
Cheng Danyang: "You know that too! So the jeans won't wrinkle? It's mainly because you handled them, they have a human touch, while that person didn't..."
“They’re out,” Xing Lei suddenly said.
The three immediately changed the subject and looked up at the bedroom passageway.
Sure enough, the door to the master bedroom opened, and a doll dressed in Lolita fashion walked out.
The other person had dressed up carefully, her hair had been restyled, and she wore a brightly colored headband. On her wrist, there was also a bracelet in the same color, wrapped several times.
"This is my new Lolita dress, isn't it pretty?" The doll stroked the fabric of her body, her expression slightly shy.
He lowered his head slightly while speaking.
However, the stiff movements were not aesthetically pleasing to Bai Ye and the others.
On the contrary, I felt that this doll was somewhat of a poor imitation.
But no one dared to tell the truth; they just kept nodding and saying, "It looks good."
The doll was quite satisfied and then said, "Then let's start the big cleaning and restore this messy, dirty house to its original state."
"Lolita said there's a specific cleaning list?" Bai Ye asked softly.
The doll nodded, but said, "I'm right here. As your master, wouldn't it be more standard to do things my way?"
The group thought about it and agreed; since the mistress was there, they could just do whatever she wanted.
The demolition of illegal buildings has officially begun.
The doll was afraid of getting its Lolita dirty, so it drew a circle around itself, isolating itself from the world.
Then he led the four people around, saying, "Here, here, here... tear it all down. And this wall, we don't need it anymore, we'll rebuild a wall over there..."
Bai Ye followed first behind, knowing exactly where to dismantle.
But upon hearing the rest, she was stunned and couldn't help but interrupt, "Ma'am, is this wall also an illegal structure?"
Doll: "No."
"Then why?"
"I want to renovate, is that not allowed?"
Bai Ye remained silent, beginning to ponder whether this could be considered part of a housekeeping and cleaning service.
After much thought, I realized something was wrong.
He turned to look at the other three, silently seeking their opinions.
Gou Wenyan shook his head directly: I'm scared, don't cause trouble.
Cheng Danyang meant something similar: Brother, just bear with it.
Xing Lei frowned: "They can do the work, but the pay is too low."
Bai Ye and Xing Lei shared the same thought: what do working people care about most? It must be their pay!
You do as much work as you're paid for.
Even if the employer is weird, there's no room for negotiation.
"Ahem! Madam, our housekeeping services do not include demolition or construction of walls, or renovations."
"Can't we do it?" The doll tilted its head, its eyes sweeping casually over the four people.
The four people being watched felt a heavy weight in their hearts, as if they couldn't breathe.
This is the strangeness of the second-highest level; a single glance is enough to suppress it.
But Bai Ye still spoke up, "It's not that we can't do it, it just requires more money."
Xing Lei chimed in, "Yes, we need to pay extra because the work hours have exceeded the limit."
The doll shook its head, "I have no money."
The conversation reached a stalemate.
The dungeon quests are issued and settled in a mysterious way. Players in the small world within the dungeon will indeed encounter situations where they have no Ghost Coins.
Bai Ye was well aware of this.
In the previous farming instance, the group of plant monsters didn't even know what money was. Even if they did, they wouldn't care.
However, "you can also use goods as collateral."
Bai Ye recalled the strange gift of friendship he had received before.
This person in front of me is a second-highest level of strangeness. If I could give them some items...
All four men's eyes lit up; this was a great deal!
The doll eventually agreed, but requested a shorter timeframe: "I need to finish cleaning in two days. I'm sleepy and need to go to sleep."
The implication is that everything will be settled within 48 hours.
The four of them discussed it and decided that it wouldn't be a problem to reduce the workload by two days.
Thinking of something, Bai Ye walked up to the doll and asked, "Madam, since the work was completed ahead of schedule, do we need to sign a new contract?"
Seeing that the other party did not speak, Bai Ye said again: "We are a legitimate work team. We will be evaluated after we finish the work. We agreed to finish cleaning in a week. If we finish early, we will have to explain to our superiors."
This explanation is to prevent [unexplained] arbitrary deductions of money.
The doll's face darkened, and its tone turned sinister, "Human player, you want to unravel the mystery step by step."
"What?" Bai Ye didn't understand.
"Signing a contract requires a blood fingerprint. Once a seal is formed, you can follow the clues to find the other party's whereabouts."
At this point, the doll raised its hand and casually fanned the white night away like a withered leaf.
"Bang--"
It crashed directly into the wall.
That wall was supposed to be demolished anyway, and it collapsed immediately after being hit.
"white night."
"Brother Bai!"
"brother!"
The three of them immediately ran over and helped the person up.
Cheng Danyang was furious and looked up, immediately asking, "Why did you hit me?"
Gou Wenyan immediately followed up, "We have to pay compensation!"
white night:"……"
The doll waved its hand, and Gou Wenyan and his two companions took off, only to crash into the wall.
The wall collapsed completely, and dust flew everywhere.
"Get to work quickly, don't have any ulterior motives, and get out of here as soon as you're done."
The doll went back to the master bedroom and didn't come out again.
Bai Ye stood up, still thinking about what the doll had said earlier.
A signed contract is like a seal, and a bloody fingerprint is a guide that allows one to trace the trail.
Before that, he and that female ghost were not...
"It's no use now, that weirdo has been killed." Bai Ye felt regretful, thinking that they could have really followed the clues to find the source.
The second-highest level of bizarre suppression left them with no choice but to accept their fate and do their work.
To avoid causing trouble, the four of them worked overtime, day and night without stopping for a moment.
During this time, the doorbell rang three times, and neighbors from upstairs and downstairs came over and started yelling at people.
But they were all just ordinary weirdnesses; intimidated by Xing Lei's aura, they turned and left.
Two days later, all the illegal structures were demolished. Bai Ye and Cheng Danyang packed up all the trash and took it to the designated garbage collection point downstairs.
When throwing away the last bag, Bai Ye stood still, hesitating.
"Brother Bai, let's go." Cheng Danyang called out.
"They're here."
Bai Ye responded, then casually pulled a handful of bone fragments from the trash bag and stuffed them into his pocket.
In the last dozen or so hours, the doll came out of the bedroom again, leading a few people around and pointing things out.
They made all sorts of demands, even more outrageous than the previous cleaning list.
But nobody dared to complain; this guy was a master!
"Old Bai, do you think we'll work so hard, but what if she turns her back on us and gives us a bad review?"
Gou Wenyan felt a pang of bitterness when he thought about the meager reward. "How disgusting are the high-level dungeons, especially the team quests? I'm never doing them again."
"One out of three times is inevitable; there's no other choice," Bai Ye reminded him.
Gou Wenyan sighed, resigned himself to his fate, and began wiping and wiping again.
48 hours passed quickly, and the time for acceptance finally arrived.
All four of them were very nervous, following behind the doll, afraid that the other person would suddenly blurt out, "It's not clean."
Fortunately, this did not happen.
"Well done, you can go now." The doll waved its hand, shooing people away.
Bai Ye and his companions left the house carrying the last few bags of trash.
While throwing away the trash, Bai Ye noticed that the previous trash hadn't been cleaned up yet, so he rummaged through it again and put all the remaining bone fragments into his pocket.
Turning around, just as I was about to explain to my companion, I found myself in the familiar dungeon lobby.
Then I looked again, and the garbage dump next to me had disappeared.
He immediately checked his pocket, and the powder was still there?
"It was not recycled."
Bai Ye held the powder in his hand, his expression unreadable. This was the last trace of those two high-level, eerie beings.
The second tallest, most bizarre doll swallowed and spat it out, leaving only these bits and pieces.
However, due to his strange attributes, Bai Ye couldn't sense anything from these scumbags.
"Could it be a decoy?" These are not strange remnants at all.
"I might give it a try."
Bai Ye recalled that he and the female ghost had signed a contract before, and they had both pressed their bloody fingerprints on it. If what that second-highest level ghost said was true, perhaps he could sense something.
However, before it even started, a mechanical voice announced:
[Congratulations to the player for completing the team mission. The mission is now settled, and the player has received 2500 Ghost Coins.]
[Players can activate hidden quests during the day and night. Quest completion will result in a deduction of 2000 Ghost Coins if the quest is not completed.]
[Players have received additional Strange Sludge. Do you wish to recycle it?]
Bai Ye knew that his hidden mission was most likely to be abandoned.
Indeed, they were very lazy in their work and did not fully understand or diligently implement the strange principles.
But when I actually heard that they were deducting two thousand, it still hurt my heart a lot.
After working so hard, I only made a net profit of 500.
This raid is such a rip-off!
[Players have received additional Strange Sludge. Do you wish to recycle it?]
Bai Ye held the powder in his hand, not saying whether to exchange it or not, but instead turned on the screen.
The second instance is finished, and I don't know if the information bar has changed.
"Um?"
The red color disappeared.
Bai Ye was astonished. He flipped through each page and found that all the fonts had returned to normal.
Looking at the health and damage values that were previously displayed on the screen, oh, they still can't be shown. It seems the problem hasn't been completely resolved.
"Strange, how much is this slag worth when recycled?" Bai Ye asked casually.
Players can redeem their items at the eerie convenience store; prices are fair and honest.
Bai Ye opened the convenience store, found the recycling and exchange counter, and then... lol!
High-level bizarre scum, 1 for 100.
In other words, if these two high-level weird scum are real, they can directly gain 200 health points.
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
Bai Ye didn't believe it, feeling there was a trap involved.
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