Chapter 114 Night Moon Town (4)
The two ran up the stairs, from the 36th floor all the way to the 40th floor.
Without time to think too much, Bai Ye and Gou Wenyan entered the transparent layer. When they emerged, they were already on the 78th floor.
At that moment, the elevator numbers displayed were on the 36th floor.
Gou Wenyan got goosebumps all over. "This is obviously aimed at us, your Ms. Ruan."
Bai Ye glared, "What do you mean, 'my Ms. Ruan'? This is extremely bizarre."
"Old Bai, are we still going to run upstairs?" Gou Wenyan turned to look at the stairwell.
Bai Ye stopped him, staring at the elevator that was continuing to descend, and asked in confusion, "Both elevators have gone down."
"Aren't you going to cause us any trouble?" Gou Wenyan asked curiously, staring at them as well.
As the two were studying the situation, a sound came from the stairwell.
"Tap-tap-tap-"
It's the sound of someone lazily walking in slippers, the sound of the slippers rubbing against each other.
"Someone's there!"
"Bullshit, it's a trick!"
Gou Wenyan quickly pressed the elevator button, but the elevator couldn't possibly come up so quickly.
Take the stairs?
Absolutely not, that voice is right next to my ear, it's too late.
So he quickly flipped through his various cards, thinking, "I told you to keep running, but you wouldn't listen. Now look what's happened, Ms. Ruan came up to me herself, and I'm going to lose one of my cards."
Gou Wenyan took out the card, ready to use it.
Bai Ye, quick as a flash, grabbed the card and said, "Wait a minute."
"What are we waiting for? That's a second-highest level monster. Neither of us has any strength points. We're weaklings, understand?"
Gou Wenyan is very self-aware; in dungeon games, he either plays defensively or uses items.
Of course, if you can survive, you should never waste any item cards.
Bai Ye stuffed the card back in, a rare smile appearing on his face. "I heard Tao Zhizhi's voice."
"You heard that? What kind of ears do you have?" Gou Wenyan didn't believe it.
"Her voice is so unique; I've heard it several times and I can't forget it."
Bai Ye recalled the hospital scenario, where Tao Zhizhi's loud voice, shouting and making a scene in the inpatient department for several days in a row, was truly "deafening."
The nurses had no choice but to "flee," leaving Bai Ye to deal with this difficult patient's family member. As a result, he had to have Ms. Tao Zhizhi chant scriptures in his ear for a full three hours.
It's just missing the headband that's on its head.
Hearing the soliloquy coming from the stairwell again, Bai Ye was absolutely certain that it was Tao Zhizhi.
Moreover, the other person was holding a cup of milk tea, and, well, it probably had popping boba in it, and they were chewing it.
Bai Ye patted Gou Wenyan, signaling him not to move, and then slowly walked to the stairwell.
As Tao Zhizhi turned a corner on the stairs, she looked up and met a familiar face with a fawning smile.
"Ms. Tao, hello, it's been a long time." Bai Ye waved to her.
Tao Zhizhi's face turned ugly. "What's so good about it? You've ruined my mother. It's not good at all."
"Hasn't Aunt Yao gone home yet?" Bai Ye asked in surprise. Where on earth did this old lady take Lin Xiaojuan?
Tao Zhizhi said it casually, without intending to do anything to Bai Ye, and shuffled up a floor in a few steps.
When he faced Bai Ye, he looked her up and down, "Back to delivering food again?"
Bai Ye gave a wry smile. "Ms. Tao, don't tease me. I'm being chased by a monster and I'm on the run."
"oh."
The peach branches remained unmoved.
Bai Ye wanted to ask for help, but the words stuck in her throat, and she couldn't say them.
Across from her, Tao Zhizhi took a big sip, sucking all the popping boba pudding into her mouth and chewing happily.
"Then you keep running for your life, I'm leaving."
"Hey! Ms. Tao, I need your help urgently." Bai Ye shamelessly grabbed her.
Tao Zhizhi didn't want to agree, but the other party directly offered a price of 10,000 ghost coins.
“My brother and I, just the two of us.” Bai Ye led Gou Wenyan to Tao Zhizhi.
Gou Wenyan's eyes widened in disbelief. He hid behind Bai Ye while taking in the girl across from him.
Bai Ye and Tao Zhizhi haggled for a long time over whether the 10,000 Ghost Coins should be calculated by the day or by the hour.
In the end, a compromise was reached: 10,000 Ghost Coins for six hours, and the deal was struck.
Then, Tao Zhizhi led the two of them up the stairs back to the 100th floor.
The door opened, and Tao Zhizhi went in first, casually changed into indoor slippers, and walked inside.
"You two can do as you please. The last one to come in can close the door."
Just as Bai Ye was about to walk inside, Gou Wenyan grabbed him, exclaiming, "Brother, this isn't human!"
“I know that Ms. Tao Zhizhi is Aunt Yao’s daughter. Aunt Yao is a second-high level ghost, well, at least a second-high level. Ms. Tao is at least a high level ghost.”
Bai Ye smiled as he spoke, "But it's alright, Ms. Tao is quite cunning."
“No.” Gou Wenyan glanced inside, then leaned close to Bai Ye’s ear and whispered, “She’s not just strange, she’s covered in hair.”
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"Long-haired, big ears, hopping around when it walks, hmm... kind of like a mutant rabbit."
Gou Wenyan had never experienced a bizarre animal-themed instance before, and he was somewhat unaccustomed to seeing Tao Zhizhi's true form for the first time.
"Bai Jin's eyes are really sharp; he can see through everything. I never expected he could even see strange animals. Speaking of which, wouldn't these animals be more aggressive?"
"Are you sure it's a rabbit? Maybe it's a dog?" For some reason, Bai Ye remembered what the old lady called her white dog.
Maybe the old lady's daughter is also a white dog.
The two whispered to each other at the door, while a shadowy figure gradually approached from behind.
Gou Wenyan turned around unintentionally and saw the phantom. He screamed in fright and immediately pushed Bai Ye into the house.
"Bang--"
The door was tightly shut.
"What's going on? Closing the door so hard will easily get complaints from the downstairs neighbors."
Tao Zhizhi had changed into her pajamas and sat down on the sofa in the living room, starting to eat fruit. "Who did you two offend? You're being chased and killed."
“There’s a ghostly figure at the doorway, no, it’s a skeleton, and it’s blood red.” Gou Wenyan saw it very clearly and tried to describe the shape of the skeleton he saw. “It’s so eerie, I can even see blood flowing on the skeleton.”
"Oh, so you're about to gain weight," Tao Zhizhi said casually.
Bai Ye and Gou Wenyan exchanged a glance and walked to the sofa in tacit agreement. One squatted down by the coffee table to peel fruit, while the other picked up a wooden comb from the coffee table and helped groom the fur.
At least in Bai Ye's view, Gou Wenyan held the comb in the air and swung it down from top to bottom in a very professional manner.
He couldn't see it, but the other person might really be grooming the fur on Tao Zhizhi's body.
"I don't eat this fruit."
Tao Zhizhi rejected Bai Ye's attentiveness, but instead really liked Gou Wenyan's service. "For my mother's sake, tell me, what happened this time?"
"Ms. Tao, for Aunt Yao's sake, could you reveal a little information about the residents of Building 13?" Bai Ye seized the opportunity.
Tao Zhizhi scoffed, leaned back on the sofa, and gestured for Gou Wenyan to continue combing the hair on his back.
Turning to Bai Ye, she said, "Which level do you want to know about? Actually, I don't know everything either."
"Is that person in 8004 the second most mysterious? What's the situation with that Ms. Ruan?" This was what Bai Ye was most concerned about.
Tao Zhizhi recalled, "I've never been to the 80th floor before, but once I brought my mom here and we climbed the stairs to the 80th floor. She said something."
"What?"
"My mom said the 80th floor is incredibly smelly."
Gou Wenyan stopped grooming himself. "Stinky? Where does it stink? Those weirdos smell bad. Don't they take baths?"
Bai Ye understood, and recalling Bai Jin's reaction, guessed, "It should be related to those things, probably the effect of the insect eggs."
"Oh right, the first time you delivered takeout to me, didn't you have a piece of hand bone following you? That thing stinks too."
Bai Ye wanted to say no, but before she could speak, she froze. "So, Ms. Ruan, it's that piece of hand bone."
Gou Wenyan: "That skeleton at the door just now, it's definitely her. The skeleton shape is bizarre, it's the first time I've ever seen one like it."
Tao Zhizhi nodded, "This is the first time I've seen this either. It's a bizarre form after death, and it's not easy for it to form."
"Afterlife form? You're strange. How many forms do you have?" Bai Ye asked.
Tao Zhizhi: "There are only three forms: the form before death, the form during life, and the form after death. The form before death is what was conceived and fermented in my hometown before I became unconscious. I have never been to my hometown. From the time I became conscious, I have been with my mother."
"The way of life is what I am now. Of course, there are all kinds of weird things, but we never distinguish between them."
"Another one is that after a bizarre death, if the spirit doesn't dissipate, it will settle and turn into a skeleton. That's what you just saw."
Thinking of something, Tao Zhizhi added, "The skeleton-shaped monsters can live by absorbing life force. Yes, it's the sweet and fragrant smell of you human players."
As she spoke, Tao Zhizhi leaned closer to Bai Ye, took a deep breath, and exclaimed with obvious enjoyment, "It smells so good!"
Bai Ye was so frightened that he immediately retreated, becoming fully alert and on high alert.
Tao Zhizhi scoffed, "What's there to be afraid of? My mom taught me from a young age that I can't absorb life force, otherwise why do you think I drink milk tea every day?"
"ah?"
"Only the taste of milk tea can make me resist the deliciousness of life."
After saying that, he picked up the half-finished milk tea from the coffee table and took another big gulp.
After chatting for two hours, Tao Zhizhi told many things about Building 13.
This information is something that human players would never know.
Tao Zhizhi said she was tired, got up and went back to her bedroom to sleep, taking the milk tea with her before she left.
Bai Ye and Gou Wenyan sat on the floor, leaning against the sofa, each with a small notebook in hand, and began to check the information.
"The residents of Building 13 generally have lower abilities the lower the floor they live on."
"Residents below the 50th floor are rarely seen; you almost never see them. Ms. Tao, who climbs the stairs dozens of times a day, has never encountered one."
"Residents on floors 50 to 80 seem to travel frequently for work and prefer to take the elevator rather than climb the stairs."
"The 80th floor is a watershed; residents living on the floors above that seem to be the second most strange."
The two checked each item one by one, and finally turned their heads in unison to look at the bedroom.
Gou Wenyan couldn't help but swallow hard. "Old Bai, Ms. Tao is a second-highest level of the supernatural being, right?"
Bai Ye thought of the old lady and felt uneasy. "If Ms. Tao is a second-highest level of supernatural being, then her mother, I mean Aunt Yao, could she be a top-level supernatural being?"
"Huh?" Gou Wenyan turned his head.
Bai Ye shuddered. "I'm a little scared of this conjecture."
Gou Wenyan was preparing his words when he looked down and saw that his player's screen had suddenly lit up.
"Old Bai, Danyang has reconnected to our communications!"
Gou Wenyan was excited, "Maybe they've also discovered important intelligence over there."
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