It's strange that glutinous rice flour is stored in the card slot as a prop.
But after entering the side story, Lu Cai completely forgot about the bag of glutinous rice flour.
If Shi Rukui hadn't mentioned glutinous rice, she probably wouldn't have been able to remember it.
"What kind of glutinous rice flour?" Shi Rukui asked her.
Chief Lu didn't waste any more time and directly took out the glutinous rice flour from the system card slot.
After taking the glutinous rice flour, Shi Rukui took a look and fell silent.
"What's wrong?" Cai Lu saw that he had a strange expression and thought there was something wrong with the bag of glutinous rice flour.
"You picked up this glutinous rice flour, right?" Shi Rukui handed the glutinous rice flour back to her.
Lu Cai didn't understand what was going on, so he just nodded and said, "I found it before entering the dungeon."
Seeing her still looking silly, Shi Rukui felt a pang of frustration. "This is a random item dropped in the community area. It's not for sale."
It sounds like it's quite rare. Cai Lu pinched the package and took a look at it.
"This bag of glutinous rice flour is priceless. You must keep it safe." Shi Rukui couldn't help but remind him, "With this, you can walk freely in the supernatural world."
Randomly dropped items are very powerful, but they are also not directly tied to the system like purchased items. In other words, random items can be snatched.
Lu Cai raised his head and looked at him: "Then is it possible to purify the ghosts?"
Shi Rukui felt even more upset. How could such a precious item be picked up by someone who didn't know how to cherish it?
He sighed, "It can't purify ghosts, but it can exorcise evil spirits and even unlock the 'Yin Yang Eyes' in dungeons, dispelling ghostly illusions."
Lu Cai frowned. It didn't sound that great... She raised her hand and put the glutinous rice flour away.
"So are we stuck now?" She glanced at the door. "I'm going to check out the contents of the Axe Ghost's picture frame first—"
Before he could finish his words, there was a huge tremor, dust fell from the walls, the glass railing of the bathroom suddenly shattered, and objects on the table fell down.
Earthquake?
Lu Cai steadied himself and watched the light around him gradually dim.
"The illusion collapsed--" Shi Rukui frowned as he looked at the scene around him.
Xiaoxiao in the corner looked at the cracked wall, a light flashed in her eyes, and she laughed, a shrill laugh in the shaking house.
The young man ran to the edge of the bed, intending to help Yue Xiaoyan up. Lu Cai also ran towards the bed, but as he took a step forward, he suddenly stepped on empty air.
This has happened for the nth time!
Lu Cai leaned back skillfully and fell into darkness. The light instantly shrank and disappeared, and in the silent darkness, light suddenly burst out again.
Her buttocks hit the ground, and she collapsed onto the tiles, the sound of shattering glass echoing in her ears.
"Lu Cai!" A figure jumped down from the edge of the bed.
She was slowly helped up, and in front of her was the TV wall of Room 204. The wooden board covering the mirror had been cracked.
His eyes swept across the scene in front of him, and then he looked at himself and found that he was holding a transparent card in his hand.
Memory fragments!
Is she...coming out?
This branch clue has not been collected yet, and the logic has not been sorted out, so how did it come out?
She received memory fragments, which shows that finding the "Eye of the Ghost Mirror" and purifying the "Eye of the Ghost Mirror" must be a task that she has to complete.
Is Chunling really the "Eye of the Ghost Mirror"?
Chen Yina helped Lu Cai stand up: "What happened?"
After carefully examining Chen Yina beside him and confirming that her data was normal, Cai Lu dared to speak.
"The wall was too hard. I punched it and it hurt my hand."
Chen Yina followed Lu Cai to the bedside and couldn't help but feel scared: "Is this hotel haunted?"
Isn't this obvious?
There was a knock on the door. The two looked towards it nervously, and then they heard Shi Rukui's voice: "Lu Cai, how are you?"
Chen Yina breathed a sigh of relief and was about to respond when Lu Cai pulled her away. Lu Cai shook his head. Who knew if it was Shi Rukui outside?
The sound outside stopped, and Chen Yina took a breath. Could this hotel be so weird?
"Have you packed the glutinous rice flour? It's a precious prop." Shi Rukui said indifferently outside the door.
Lu Cai breathed a sigh of relief: "It's okay, I'll go open the door."
He completely ignored Chen Yina's surprised expression on the side.
When she opened the door, she saw Shi Rukui in a white coat. She took the opportunity to analyze the player data and found that the data attribute reversal performed in the side story had not yet expired.
"Yue Xiaoyan hasn't woken up yet." Shi Rukui said this directly when he saw that it was Lu Cai who opened the door.
Lu Cai frowned, hurried out and walked to the next door.
The door of the next room was open. Lu Cai walked in sideways and saw Duan Ce was there too. He was sitting next to Ling Fei and comforting the girl in a low voice. He probably came here with Shi Rukui.
Ling Fei was wearing a long nightgown and had removed her heavy makeup. She was sitting on the edge of her bed, shivering and looking particularly pitiful.
Just as he glanced at them, Lu Cai noticed that Ling Fei's body stiffened slightly.
Now he couldn't care less about Ling Fei's abnormal behavior, and Lu Cai walked directly to the edge of Yue Xiaoyan's bed.
Yue Xiaoyan was in a very bad condition. Just like what she looked in the mirror, her brows were furrowed, her face was pale, and cold sweat covered her forehead.
Lu Cai placed his fingertips on Yue Xiaoyan's forehead and felt the player's data become disordered. She withdrew her hand and did not dare to force it.
"I just checked, and all her vital signs are normal." Shi Rukui also approached. He lowered his body and placed his palm on Yue Xiaoyan's forehead. His movements were very gentle and cautious. "She was given sleeping pills."
Lu Cai couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and stood up straight.
"Nana, are you okay?" Duan Ce stood up and walked towards Chen Yina who had just entered the room. His words were full of concern and tenderness. "You look very ugly—"
Chen Yina glanced at Ling Fei, who was shivering on the edge of the bed, fixing her hair. A wave of sadness washed over her. She dodged Duan Ce's embrace and walked over to Lu Cai.
"What's wrong with Yue Xiaoyan?" Chen Yina looked at Shi Rukui on the other side of the bed, only to see him slowly withdraw his hand and stand up straight. This was what it meant to truly care about gentleness.
After thinking about it, she was stunned. She carefully looked up at Shi Rukui and felt that something was strange.
The Shi Rukui in my memory was a tall, thin man who spoke little, was unremarkable, and had an ordinary appearance. But the Shi Rukui in front of me was still tall and thin, but with an upright posture and outstanding demeanor.
Her appearance is not particularly eye-catching, but after looking at her for a long time, I find her particularly pleasing and beautiful.
Because of his handsome features and imposing aura, he stood out from the crowd when he was with Duan Ce's group.
What happened? Chen Yina was a little scared. Did she cheat on him?
"The Spring Order should be the 'Eye of the Ghost Mirror.'" Lu Cai was talking to Shi Rukui. "I got a memory fragment, which proves that I should have completed one of the two tasks."
"You mean, she is so weak because she is purifying the 'Eye of the Ghost Mirror'?" Shi Rukui fixed his gaze on Yue Xiaoyan's weak and tightly furrowed brows.
Lu Cai was also puzzled: "We have all come out, so she should have been purified successfully."
Seeing how nervous they were, Duan Ce came over and said, "Maybe he caught a cold. I'll go ask the boss for some emergency medicine."
Shi Rukui bent down, wrapped Yue Xiaoyan tightly with a quilt, and then held her horizontally.
"Go to your room." He said to Lu Cai and walked towards the door.
Lu Cai saw that Duan Ce's face was not very good. He seemed to be about to get angry, but Shi Rukui gave him a cold look and he shut up.
"Let's go too." Cai Lu said to Chen Yina.
Chen Yina looked up at Duan Ce, then looked at Ling Fei who was trembling slightly over there. Just as she looked over, Ling Fei raised her eyes and smiled faintly at her.
She should be angry, but now she is extremely tired.
Without saying anything more, she followed Lu Cai out of the room. Duan Ce even came up to pull her wrist, but Chen Yina just shook her head: "I'm too tired. I need to go back and rest."
Lu Cai was waiting outside the door. Duan Ce didn't let go. He grabbed Chen Yina's wrist and said in a flattering tone, "What are you jealous of again, huh?"
I have to say that Duan Ce's face is pretty good, and he has an unruly feeling that comes from spending money. He looks a little stupid, but he is indeed a handsome young man.
But at this moment, there was an unparalleled arrogance on the handsome young man's face, as if his humble attempt to please Chen Yina was a blessing that Chen Yina had earned in her previous life.
Chen Yina didn't know what was wrong with her today. She was in a bad mood because he was pestering her. She was not as excited as before when he coaxed her.
"I'm really tired and need to go back and rest." She frowned and pulled her hand away.
But Duan Ce did not let go. He always thought that the little girl was angry with him and was just trying to get what she wanted.
"Didn't Shi Rukui take Yue Xiaoyan away? You can rest here--" Duan Ce smiled faintly.
Chen Yina looked up and found Duan Ce very annoying. She was getting a little angry when a girl's cold voice came from the door.
"Let go." Lu Cai was really fed up with watching this. He had thought it was just the pleasure of a young couple and was about to leave when he saw that Chen Yina's face was really unhappy.
The three people in the room didn't expect Lu Cai to get involved in this matter. They were all shocked and then stood there in a daze.
Duan Ce sneered in his heart. Now this Lu Cai dared to challenge him?
He sneered and was about to say something when the girl at the door walked in. Looking at the short-haired girl in the black T-shirt, even someone as domineering as Duan Ce was frightened and broke into a cold sweat.
Seeing that he didn't say anything, Lu Cai walked into the room and grabbed Duan Ce's wrist. As soon as he applied a little force with his fingers, his facial features twisted and he pulled Chen Yina's fingers loose.
Lu Cai raised his eyebrows. "That's it? That's too weak."
Thinking of this, she let go and pushed Chen Yina out, then followed behind to prevent Duan Ce from pestering her.
Duan Ce was originally frightened by Lu Cai's manipulation, but now that he was free from the shackles, he began to swell up again.
They were so shameless! He was furious and rushed forward to beat them up.
Lu Cai felt it when he caught up with her. As soon as Duan Ce got close to her, she turned around quickly and pressed Duan Ce against the wall before anyone could see her movements.
"You need to calm down—" Lu Cai said earnestly, his face still indifferent, his eyes deep and unfathomable.
After saying that, she was stunned, staring at the side face of the boy she was holding against the wall. She moved closer and carefully studied Duan Ce's face. After looking at it for a long time, she narrowed her eyes slightly.
Duan Ce, who was being held down, was also feeling uncomfortable. Who would have thought that this skinny and frail girl, with barely any flesh on her body, could have such strong hands? Not to mention her sharp eyes at this moment, sweeping across his body, it felt like a layer of skin was being peeled off.
Lu Cai's expression gradually darkened, and she knew why he looked so familiar.
Tongue ghost! Scumbag! Scumbag!
It seems that disgusting people even look alike.
Lu Cai's face was filled with disgust. In fact, Duan Ce looked somewhat different from the Tongue Ghost from the front. The Tongue Ghost was more Westernized, with more three-dimensional features.
Duan Ce's appearance and bone structure are more Chinese. If Lu Cai had not turned his face to the side, he would not have noticed that the two looked so similar.
Even though his wrist was released, Duan Ce didn't dare to breathe out loudly.
Cai Lu pulled Chen Yina out of Room 205.
Entering his original room, Lu Cai turned around and closed the door. He saw that Chen Yina was still in a daze, but Lu Cai did not have time to comfort the little girl's injured and fragile heart.
"What's wrong?" Lu Cai walked to the end of the bed and watched Shi Rukui move his hand away from Yue Xiaoyan's forehead.
Shi Rukui frowned and said, "She might need to sleep for a while."
"Why did Ling Fei give Yue Xiaoyan sleeping pills?" Cai Lu pulled over a stool and sat down.
It was not difficult to guess that Ling Fei had drugged them. They were a group of people locked in a confined space, and there were only a few people who could drug them. And among them, the only one who could make Yue Xiaoyan drink sleeping pills without any precautions... was Ling Fei.
"Ling Fei gave Yue Xiaoyan sleeping pills?" Chen Yina was finally no longer sad. She sat on her bed with a look of surprise on her face.
"Duan Ce was there when I entered the room." Shi Rukui's face darkened. He saw Lu Cai's eyes wide open, as if he was guessing something terrible. "Duan Ce should have gone to find Ling Fei, but Ling Fei thought Yue Xiaoyan was in the way—"
Lu Cai raised an eyebrow. She had heard stories of people sleeping with their boyfriends after booking a double room. But this time, he drugged her because he thought she was in the way. What about next time? What if Duan Ce really had some dirty thoughts...
Thinking of the pencil drawing in the mirror, Lu Cai also mentioned that Duan Ce looked like the original form of the headless ghost and tongue ghost.
Shi Rukui thought for a moment and said, "You're saying that in the past recorded in the picture frame, that man raped an underage girl?"
Suddenly I thought about it and it was terrifying.
"Is Duan Ce related to that ghost?" Lu Cai was talking completely to himself.
Chen Yina sat on her bed, listening to the two of them talking back and forth, not really understanding what they were saying. But she knew one thing roughly -
Ling Fei knocked Yue Xiaoyan unconscious, and then secretly met with Duan Ce.
Chen Yina's face was ashen, she was completely disappointed. In the past, when she found out that Duan Ce and Ling Fei were not in an affair, she could find various excuses to persuade herself, but today she didn't want to do that.
She was in love, not a slave, and she had no aspirations of "marrying into a wealthy family."
At first, she agreed to Duan Ce's pursuit, but it was just vanity that got the better of her. Later, she gradually fell in love with Duan Ce, thinking that he had many bad habits and was a bit fickle, but he was really good to her.
But now she felt that since Duan Ce didn't like her that much, they might as well use this incident as an opportunity to break up.
Thinking of this in her heart, Chen Yina couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and felt a lot more relaxed.
Cai Lu then remembered that there was Chen Yina next to them. They were talking about her boyfriend cheating in front of others without batting an eye. He felt a little embarrassed when he thought about it.
However, it would be better for Chen Yina to see through this scumbag as soon as possible. They are doing a good deed every day to help the lost girl turn back to the right path.
"You go to sleep first. Shi Rukui and I will stay with you." Lu Cai turned his head and looked at Chen Yina.
It was late at night and no one was at peace.
Shi Rukui shook his head: "I'm going back to my room first. I'll see if I can break through from Duan Ce and get some clues to the plot."
Lu Cai nodded and sent Shi Rukui away.
——
When Yue Xiaoyan woke up, it was already dawn. She stared at the ceiling in a daze, then glanced around.
Until she saw Shi Rukui pulling a stool and sitting beside the bed.
He was wearing a white coat and holding a notebook with a worn cover in his hand, flipping through the pages for something.
Yue Xiaoyan just stood there in a daze until Shi Rukui's eyes met hers.
"What's wrong?" Shi Rukui knew it when she woke up, but he was a little surprised that she looked at him in a daze.
Yue Xiaoyan opened her mouth and asked him hesitantly, "Are we leaving the side storyline now?"
Shi Rukui smiled and said, "Do you think the side storyline allows you to sleep so soundly?"
Seeing him smile, Yue Xiaoyan looked away expressionlessly: "Where's Lu Cai?"
"She stayed with you all night and just went downstairs to have breakfast." Just as he finished speaking, he heard the sound of the room card being swiped on the door.
Cai Lu came in carrying soy milk buns, and Chen Yina followed closely behind her.
Just now in the restaurant on the first floor, Duan Ce came up to bother me again.
After a night of recollection and reflection, Chen Yina felt something was wrong. How could she have fallen in love with Duan Ce?
He was undoubtedly good-looking, with more three-dimensional features than others, and he was taller. But aside from his looks and family background, he probably had nothing else.
I used to care a lot about a person's inner qualities... She even changed her dressing style for this person.
The more I think about it, the more incredible it becomes.
Cai Lu saw Yue Xiaoyan was awake. He handed the soy milk to Shi Rukui and said, "I didn't know you were awake. There's only one portion of soy milk, but the buns can be shared between two people. I sprinkled glutinous rice flour on them, so it's no problem."
Shi Rukui had just picked up the cup of soy milk and taken a sip when he heard this. His expression froze. He looked at the soy milk in his hand. It was in a paper cup with a hand-mill and a lid, and it opened easily with a flip of the lid.
He looked up at Lu Cai and asked, "Is glutinous rice flour added to the soy milk?"
Lu Cai replied as a matter of course: "As you said, everything you put in your mouth should be sprinkled with glutinous rice flour to check."
Despite this, Shi Rukui still placed the soy milk on the bedside table. Seeing Yue Xiaoyan trying to stand up, he stood up and supported her back to help the girl up.
Yue Xiaoyan must have been extremely hungry. She took the bun given by Lu Cai and started to eat it in big mouthfuls.
"She must have consumed a lot of energy from her supernatural powers and needs more nutrients." Shi Rukui was a little worried when he saw her eating like this. "This breakfast may not be enough. I'll go buy some more buns."
Seeing Shi Rukui stand up, Yue Xiaoyan stammered, "I want meat buns and pickled mustard greens buns!"
At this moment, she was holding a half-eaten meat bun in her hand, with a very satisfied expression.
After Shi Rukui left, Yue Xiaoyan swallowed the last bite of her steamed bun before asking Lu Cai, "How did we get out?"
Lu Cai pulled Shi Rukui's stool over and said, "I have to ask you, what did you do to Chunling?"
"Yes, Chunling is the 'Eye of the Ghost Mirror', but now she is my 'Ghost Descent'!" Yue Xiaoyan was a little excited.
"Ghosts descending?" Lu Cai felt that he needed to brush up on his knowledge of the gaming world.
Yue Xiaoyan quickly took a napkin to wipe her hands: "Wait a minute, let me look through the reference book..."
An old gray notebook fell into Yue Xiaoyan's hands, and the two of them completely ignored Chen Yina, who was sitting opposite them and had a shocked face.
"'Ghost Coming' is an ancient technique whereby a mage manipulates corpses to perform their duties. In the KB game world, the 'Ghost Coming' Card is used to seal away supernatural ghosts. A 'Ghost General' Card can contain a single ghost."
As Yue Xiaoyan read the words in the book, she suddenly realized, "So that card is a ghost card. When I picked it up, I thought it was something special. But I showed it to many people, and no one knew what it was..."
"So, you turned the dungeon NPC into a prop?" Lu Cai thought of the bag of glutinous rice flour he picked up.
This dog game has set up the supernatural book in such an anti-human way that all the advantageous props have to be picked up. Are they afraid that players will pass the level too easily?
Yue Xiaoyan raised her head: "Yes, she got into my system and occupied the Ghost Card in my card slot, and then I fainted..."
So, the game data we saw earlier being entangled and crushed by player data is the assimilation mechanism of the Ghost General Card props? Is the player system directly assimilating the game NPCs?
Lu Cai lowered his eyes in thought.
"Did we scare her?" Yue Xiaoyan looked at Chen Yina opposite her.
Turning around slowly, Cai Lu saw Chen Yina sitting on the bed holding the quilt, with some panic in her eyes.
Lu Cai took a look and sighed: "It seems we can't hide it anymore——"
"?" Yue Xiaoyan turned her gaze to Lu Cai.
"In fact, Yue Xiaoyan is the descendant of Maoshan Taoist priests. She fainted last night because of catching ghosts--" Lu Cai said it very seriously. Even Yue Xiaoyan herself believed it and wanted to jump up and draw some talismans.
"But isn't it because of the sleeping pills that Yue Xiaoyan hasn't woken up yet?" Chen Yina's face turned from panic to fear.
Lu Cai nodded: "She did take sleeping pills, but she has a special physique, so sleeping pills are useless to her. She was mainly injured because of catching ghosts..."
Yue Xiaoyan was also furious when she saw Cai Lu talking nonsense. Cai Lu looked quite reliable and serious, so how could he be so good at making up stories?
Lu Cai's idea was simple. This was a supernatural book, and seeing ghosts was inevitable. It was necessary to inform his comrades of the player's identity in a way that could be understood by the game NPCs.
So as to avoid having bad teammates holding you back.
After scaring Chen Yina, Lu Cai turned to Yue Xiaoyan and asked, "Can you use the Spring Order to scare her?"
It just so happened that they also needed to find out the clues for the side story. If they could come up with the main clues sooner, they might even be able to go home from get off work early.
Yue Xiaoyan was a bit embarrassed: "The Ghost General Card requires supernatural energy of the 'supernatural' attribute to activate. My current attributes are different from those of the copy. If I force it to activate, the gains will outweigh the losses."
"It's okay—" Lu Cai said easily, and she raised her fingertips to touch Yue Xiaoyan's forehead.
Closing her eyes, Yue Xiaoyan sensed another powerful force operating in her own world of consciousness.
After a while, the feeling of full energy spread throughout the body through the blood.
Yue Xiaoyan opened her eyes in surprise: "Is this your special ability?" She had never seen a special ability that could reverse the player's attributes.
"It's only temporary. Just adapt to it. You don't know what difficulties will come in the future..." Lu Cai has always believed that the more helpers the better. The price of being a lone hero is too high.
She couldn't help but rub her left arm.
Yue Xiaoyan, who was standing aside, looked excited. She tried to move her hands and made a few gestures, and a few light green runes appeared faintly in the air.
"Really!" Behind the large glasses, a pair of sparkling eyes appeared. "I'll call Chunling out right now!"
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