Shi Rukui knocked on the door while holding a steamed bun, and it was Lu Cai who opened the door.
As soon as he stepped into the room, a chill hit him in the face. Shi Rukui couldn't help but become alert, but seeing that Lu Cai still looked very comfortable.
He walked slowly into the room, feeling chilled. He took a step forward and was surrounded by the bustling voices of people.
Shi Rukui was startled to find himself in a hall with white bricks and white walls. There was a checkout window on one side and public seats for waiting and resting on the other.
A master in blue overalls was pushing a trolley and taking a patient for examination.
This is the emergency room.
Shi Rukui looked around. It was a scene that was extremely familiar to him. The medical staff who passed by all greeted him.
It was like a dream. Was he in a dream?
After all, this scene doesn't look like a side story.
His hands unconsciously clenched, gripping a plastic splint. He lowered his head, staring at the dark blue medical record folder, feeling dizzy.
He seemed to be going to the emergency room to check on the patient...
"Doctor Shi——" someone called him from the side.
Shi Rukui responded subconsciously, leaning slightly sideways. A sharp pain suddenly pierced his abdomen, the blade sinking into his stomach. He took a closer look at the man before him: a middle-aged man in his forties, small in stature, with dark skin and a heavily wrinkled face.
A strong smell of alcohol wafted into Shi Rukui's nose, and he felt many people rushing towards him.
The other person slowly raised his head, but he slowly fell to the ground.
The cold air enveloped him, and he thought he was probably going to die...but he didn't want to die!
"Stop!" The girl's voice was like thunder, breaking the illusion in an instant.
Shi Rukui fell to the ground and returned to Room 204. The floor tiles were cold and he saw the dark blue figure sitting on the bed jump off the edge of the bed.
Yue Xiaoyan knelt beside Shi Rukui and carefully checked his condition. She breathed a sigh of relief when she found that there was still light in his eyes.
"I thought Mr. Shi was a man of deep thoughts and difficult to break through, so I accidentally used too much force—" A graceful woman approached.
Her black hair was as black as ink, her red dress was as fiery as fire. The cheongsam on Chunling was as bright as flames, highlighting her skin which was whiter than snow.
Lu Cai watched from the side without saying anything. Chun Ling was a ghost under Yue Xiaoyan's command and was not under her control.
"I'm asking you to show off your abilities, not to dig into other people's privacy or expose their weaknesses." Yue Xiaoyan was clearly displeased. "If you don't want to follow me, then we can just break up—"
Lu Cai had never seen Yue Xiaoyan angry before, but he didn't expect her to act so politely. He didn't know what secrets Chun Ling had uncovered that had made Yue Xiaoyan so angry.
The young man on the ground gradually woke up and propped himself up to sit up.
"It's okay. This is not a secret that cannot be told." Shi Rukui was not that angry. He supported himself and stood up. "Ghost descending? You took her in as a ghost descending?" He looked up at the female ghost in a bright red cheongsam.
Seeing that everyone was fine, Lu Cai returned to his chair, and the others also returned to their original seats. Shi Rukui handed the bun to Yue Xiaoyan.
There was a creaking sound beside him, and Lu Cai glanced sideways, only to see Chen Yina moving a chair and sitting next to him.
Shi Rukui raised his eyes and glanced at Chen Yina, but Lu Cai just waved at him.
Chunling was scolded by Yue Xiaoyan, but he didn't seem angry and just sat down at the end of the bed.
"Were you just reviewing the 'Ghost Mirror' side quest?" Shi Rukui did not sit down, but leaned against the TV wall.
Seeing Yue Xiaoyan's listless expression and her unwillingness to eat the bun, Lu Cai looked away: "Just now, Chunling told us the correct steps to find the 'Eye of the Ghost Mirror'—"
According to Chunling, players should first enter the fragmented passages in the corridor and find all the ghost frames.
The picture frame is a tool for recording the crimes of ghosts. Each picture frame contains a piece of ghost mirror fragment. Players find the guilty ghosts, kill them all, and then use the picture frame to release their memories and retrieve the ghost mirror fragment.
When the ghost mirror fragments are pieced together to form a complete ghost mirror, the evil ghost guarding the ghost mirror will be summoned. If the evil ghost is killed, the "Eye of the Ghost Mirror" can be seen in the reflection of the ghost mirror.
Unfortunately, there was a BUG among these players. They just started smashing things randomly from the beginning, and did not use their brains at all during the process of passing the level. They just killed half of the evil spirits with their bare hands.
"I've been in the ghost mirror for so long, and this is the first time I've encountered this situation. A player challenges the entire ghost camp alone at the start..." Chunling smiled lightly. After she became the prop "Ghost Descent", her memories of being an NPC were also awakened.
Lu Cai suddenly thought of a serious question: "If I kill you without caring about anything, will we be trapped in this branch line forever?"
Chun Ling covered his mouth and said, "Perhaps after you finish assembling the Ghost Mirror, you will get a prompt - the 'Eye of the Ghost Mirror' is blind and cannot be loaded temporarily."
Dog games are full of pitfalls.
Lu Cai complained that he should thank Chunling for being so pretty, which stimulated his own beauty-loving nature. He was only able to survive because he felt guilty at the time...
Lu Cai stuffed his hands into his pockets and remembered that he still had a memory fragment in his pocket, but unfortunately the system card slot could not accommodate it.
Well, after this copy is over, she will take advantage of her free time to see if she can expand the number of card slots.
"Yue Xiaoyan, did you get the 'memory fragment'?" Lu Cai looked at Yue Xiaoyan who was still dazed.
Yue Xiaoyan raised her head and was stunned for a moment: "Yes, but I haven't had time to see it--" Her eyes were blank.
"Do you want to see it?" Lu Cai took out the memory fragment, waved it at Shi Rukui, and threw it to him.
Ignoring Shi Rukui's surprised expression, she looked at the data above Yue Xiaoyan's head and began to read the contents of the memory fragments that Yue Xiaoyan had read -
[Memory Fragment I Ghost Mirror, loading...]
[——Ms. Yan said she could find me a respectable job. Of course, with my education, the work would definitely be tiring, but I'm not afraid.]
[——Miss Yan introduced me to a hotel as a front desk cashier. Although I had to work the night shift, this job was much better than I expected.]
[——I received roses again today, and a beautiful dress... He said I should wear beautiful clothes...]
[——He said he was drunk... I don’t remember what happened...]
[——My manager was touching me, and I told him about it, but he just told me not to think too much about it…]
[——Sister Chunling told me to be careful...Sister Chunling is missing...I don’t know what to do, I want to leave here...]
They caught me... I was locked up in room 204... They came every night... Sometimes it was just one person... Sometimes they came in groups of three...
[—I asked a tenant for help... and she betrayed me!]
[——The cook put drugs in my food...]
[——I don’t want to live anymore.]
[Source: "Front Desk Cashier" Xiao Xiao.]
The room was silent. Lu Cai went to look at Shi Rukui's system interpretation again, and the content was the same.
After a while, Lu Cai asked, "Do you have a pen?"
"I brought it—" Not knowing what they were doing, Chen Yina didn't dare to say a word. Only after Lu Cai spoke did she dare to respond.
Shi Rukui took out the memory fragment and handed it back to Lu Cai: "What do you think?"
Taking the memory fragment, Lu Cai stuffed it into his pocket and said, "I need to sort out the relationships between the characters first."
Chen Yina handed her a ballpoint pen. Cai Lu took it and took out the notebook from the system. She lowered her head and wrote on the paper.
No one interrupted him, and they quietly waited for Lu Cai to finish. The room was utterly silent, with only the sound of the pen scraping across the paper. When she finally put down her pen, she handed the small notebook to Yue Xiaoyan.
Yue Xiaoyan took it, Shi Rukui also came over and sat down, and they both looked down at the small notebook.
——Xiaoxiao (a ghost that appears in the side quest), Miss Yan (unknown), the manager (unknown), Chunling (a ghost that appears in the side quest), a tenant (unknown), the cook (unknown), "he" (a headless ghost + a tongue ghost?).
——Side quest ghosts: Xiaoxiao (victim + coffin painting?), long-haired ghost (unknown), Chunling (another victim?), axe ghost (unknown), voodoo doll ghost (unknown), strange girl (unknown), tongue ghost + headless ghost ("he").
——Mirror reflection: The woman with a swollen face who looked very similar to Xiaoxiao did not crawl out.
——There are overlaps and I can’t understand them.
Yue Xiaoyan and Shi Rukui looked at each other and really couldn't understand.
"So, this is the background story of the copy. The memory fragments tell about when they were alive, and the ghost mirror tells about after they died." Shi Rukui could only see this.
On the page, "Strange Girl" was circled.
"Who is this 'strange girl'?" he continued to ask. Lu Cai was the most powerful output among the three. He had seen the most ghosts and monsters, and his exploration of the "Ghost Mirror" was the most comprehensive.
"She killed the voodoo doll ghost." Lu Cai sighed. "Xiao Xiao said there were eight ghosts in the ghost mirror, but now it seems there are far more than that."
"According to this little calculation, there are indeed eight ghosts in the ghost mirror." Chun Ling suddenly spoke with a smile.
Lu Cai raised an eyebrow: "Don't you forget?"
Chun Ling has been transformed from an NPC into an item, making it distinct from the "Chun Ling" in the dungeon storyline. If the Chun Ling in the dungeon storyline is the "original," she is the "reprint." Therefore, the storyline of the "original Chun Ling" has nothing to do with her.
The second version of Spring Order only remembers the events in the side story, that is, it has some memories after the death of the "original Spring Order".
So, the dog game is too stingy and doesn't provide any plot clues.
"After all, I've worked with Xiaoxiao for so long, I do have some understanding of her." Chunling sighed, "'Long-haired Ghost' is Xiaoxiao's reflection in the mirror. In human terms, it's a schizophrenic ghost personality. So Xiaoxiao and the long-haired ghost are the 'complete body', but they are also considered two ghosts-"
Lu Cai didn't expect that the long-haired ghost and Xiaoxiao were together. After all, Xiaoxiao was extremely indifferent to the long-haired ghost.
"So the headless ghost and the tongue ghost also count as two, one voodoo doll, one strange girl, one axe ghost, and one ghost mirror guardian ghost... that's exactly eight." Lu Cai muttered to himself, "Who is that strange girl?"
"I don't know." Chun Ling said confidently, "I just noticed it recently, and since it didn't cause any trouble, I ignored it."
Judge Lu let out a long sigh, feeling that his temper seemed to have improved a lot.
"But there are a few ghosts in there. What does it have to do with our current main world plot?" Yue Xiaoyan was dizzy with these numbers.
"It means they correspond to six living people." Shi Rukui replied.
Yue Xiaoyan still didn't understand.
"No matter how many people there are, come and beat them. What the brain can't solve, a fist can definitely solve." Lu Cai waved his hands and stopped thinking about it. She was a poor student, so why bother with her brain.
Yue Xiaoyan was curious: "What if a fist can't solve it?"
"Then let's solve it with two fists." Lu Cai was fearless.
Bang bang bang!
Chen Yina, who was standing beside him, trembled with fear. Cai Lu guessed that she was still frightened by the knock on the door last night.
"Shi Rukui! Get out!" a hoarse male voice shouted outside the door.
Kunyu, the tall fat man who always follows Duan Ce, usually looks fierce, and at this moment he seems to be in a rage.
Comparing Kunyu and Shi Rukui's size in his mind, Lu Cai averted his gaze. Shi Rukui was a player with items and abilities; it was simply a pipe dream for a dungeon NPC to cause trouble for him.
After all, not all dungeon NPCs are like her, Lu Cai felt inexplicably pleased.
Shi Rukui sighed, stood up and walked towards the door.
I heard the sound of him opening the door, but before the door was fully opened, a sturdy figure rushed in.
Lu Cai frowned but did not stand up.
Shi Rukui stepped back to dodge, and Kunyu rushed into the room.
Considering that this was a girls' room, Shi Rukui frowned and grabbed the other person's wrist, dragged and pulled hard with his hand, and pushed the other person out of the door.
"Sorry--" Shi Rukui turned his head to apologize and left the room.
Lu Cai relaxed, only to hear the sound of fighting outside. Of course, it could also be that Shi Rukui was unilaterally beating up the other party.
She set her eyes on Yue Xiaoyan who turned back to look at the door. Yue Xiaoyan also turned back at the right time: "The doctor seems to be in a particularly dangerous situation——"
"Is he a doctor?" Cai Lu followed up her question.
Yue Xiaoyan nodded: "I just saw it in Chunling's illusion. He was stabbed to death because of a medical dispute..." I won't say more, it was so tragic...
Lu Cai was in deep thought.
Qin Yu had previously said he was dragged in for no apparent reason, and now, according to Yue Xiaoyan, Shi Rukui was here because he was on the verge of death. Lin Yong had previously said he woke up from a nap and was in the game...
Is the mechanism for recruiting people in this KB game really so casual?
"What about you before?" Lu Cai asked her, "You looked like a student."
Yue Xiaoyan lowered her eyes: "When I entered the game, I was a sophomore."
"Why are you here?" Lu Cai asked casually.
"On the way back to school, I had a car accident." Yue Xiaoyan gestured, "I was sitting in the passenger seat of a taxi. There was a truck in front of me, and a steel bar went straight through me—" She pointed to her chest.
Lu Cai swallowed and didn't ask any more questions.
Another player who entered this world on the verge of death.
"What about you?" Yue Xiaoyan didn't care.
Lu Cai smiled and said, "I'm a supermarket cashier. I was working. For no apparent reason, this happened—"
Anyway, she didn't lie, Lu Cai thought.
"I'm planning to take a look at this hotel. Would you like to join me?" Lu Cai invited Yue Xiaoyan.
"good--"
——
The risks in the hotel were unknown, so it was difficult to act separately. Furthermore, Chen Yina was frightened by Duan Ce's harassment and had to follow them...
"What are we looking at?" Chen Yina's voice was very soft. She was not impatient, but just a little curious.
They have already looked at these corridors for the second time...
"Difference." Lu Cai replied.
She wanted to see how the mirrors twisted the corridors into the ghostly mirror. If she could find the key point of the distortion, she might be able to uncover the main plot of the dungeon.
Apart from this, Lu Cai really couldn't think of any other solution. After all, just from analyzing the clues obtained from the first side storyline, she could only feel more and more dizzy the more she thought about it.
"There are thirty rooms in this hotel. Do I need to knock on the doors of each room one by one starting from the fourth floor?" Yue Xiaoyan really planned to knock on the doors of each room one by one.
Lu Cai pondered and thought that this was a good idea.
Seeing that Lu Cai remained silent, Chen Yina quickly asked, "You guys don't really want to break down the door, do you?"
Cai Lu glanced at Chen Yina. If she could, she would have wanted to destroy the hotel.
"Today... I won't smash it." Finally, Lu Cai sighed and told himself that this was a supernatural copy. Before they understood the copy thoroughly, they couldn't play too big.
The rumbling sound of cart wheels came from far away.
The three of them looked in the direction of the sound, which came from the direction of the last guest room. A middle-aged woman in work clothes was pushing a small roller cart carrying bed linens.
The pencil drawing flashed through Lu Cai's mind...
The middle-aged woman approached and saw three girls standing in the corridor, so she asked, "Are you hungry?"
Chen Yina held his arm tightly, and Lu Cai finally saw the appearance of this middle-aged woman.
This was a skinny old woman, short and hunched, with gray hair tied behind her head in a black hairnet.
"The elevator is in that direction—" The woman was smiling, but her expression made people's scalps tingle and was very creepy.
"There's resentment..." Yue Xiaoyan approached Lu Cai and whispered softly, cautiously watching the woman spread her hands. "Also, this is a sign of great misfortune—"
On her palm was a blood-red pattern that Lu Cai couldn't understand.
"We—" Lu Cai was about to say "not hungry" when his stomach growled, "...we are indeed hungry."
It doesn't make sense, she just had breakfast...and she hadn't eaten for a few days, so she wasn't that hungry.
She looked up at the woman and said, "Auntie, what time is it now?"
The woman laughed "ho ho ho" and Chen Yina's grip on Lu Cai's arm tightened.
"It's already half past twelve at night, and you three little girls are so brave—" After saying that, the woman walked away with a strange smile.
Following the woman's steps, Lu Cai looked at the red carpet under his feet.
It seemed like some places were wet... Lu Cai squatted down and reached out to wipe the darker part of the carpet.
Her fingertips were sticky and slippery. She raised her hand and saw a thin layer of red liquid on her fair skin.
"What is this?" Chen Yina's voice became shrill and a little harsh.
"Bloodstains." Yue Xiaoyan also squatted down. She took out a long yellow strip of paper, wiped it on Lu Cai's fingers, and then folded it away.
After putting away the yellow talisman paper, Yue Xiaoyan looked up at Lu Cai's curious gaze and explained, "When you have time later, you can find the owner of this blood... Now let's go eat. I..." She dodged a glance, "I have low blood sugar and might faint."
Lu Cai opened his eyes wide and saw that there were indeed fine beads of cold sweat on her forehead.
[Ding Dong——]
Lu Cai seemed to hear a system prompt sound, and then looked at Yue Xiaoyan, whose lips were dry and white. Her eyes were blank at the moment.
Not surprisingly, a string of words appeared above Yue Xiaoyan's head -
Downloading the side story...
[Side story: Waste is the most shameful thing.]
[Quest Description: You wake up hungry at midnight. You originally planned to go to a nearby late-night snack stall to fill your stomach, but you learned that the hotel restaurant offers late-night snacks. Starving, you decide to give this thoughtful hotel a five-star review!]
[Mission Objective: Resolve all midnight snacks and never waste food!]
[Failure penalty: Players who fail will be deemed dead (ps: Resurrection card props will not be available in the side story)]
Just looking at the mission description, I don’t think it’s very good.
Lu Cai swallowed her saliva. Her stomach was obviously aching with hunger. She had sworn that she would never try the midnight snacks in this "five-star rated" hotel.
When I looked away, Chen Yina was nowhere to be seen.
World view NPC cannot enter the side story......
Yue Xiaoyan also regained consciousness. Her expression became even uglier, turning pale. She turned to look at Lu Cai: "What should we do?"
Cai Lu could see that Yue Xiaoyan wasn't looking forward to this midnight snack either.
"Let's go to the restaurant first. I'll make some glutinous rice flour paste to fill our stomachs." Cai Lu helped the girl beside him to stand up.
When Yue Xiaoyan heard the words "glutinous rice flour paste", her face became even uglier.
Lu Cai comforted her: "At least glutinous rice flour won't kill you—"
Yue Xiaoyan's expression finally softened: "I don't dislike it, it's a non-saleable item. If I resell it, I can exchange it for a lot of points——"
Lu Cai didn't care. She didn't even know what points looked like, and her pockets were empty. She was broke.
"Think of it this way. This is free. We didn't spend any points, and it can even save lives in an emergency. We've made a profit."
Yue Xiaoyan thought it made sense. It was all picked up, so it was a win anyway. But these were Lu Cai's props, and even though she was poor, she felt embarrassed to use them for free.
"Let's add each other as friends—" Yue Xiaoyan said weakly, "I'll transfer points to you."
Can points still be transferred?
This thing is really the currency in the KB game world——
"You can add me as a friend, but I won't charge you for the points." The two of them arrived at the elevator, and Lu Cai pressed the down button. "Didn't you give me your 'blessing'?"
Yue Xiaoyan wanted to say that the energy that changed her attributes also belonged to Lu Cai, but seeing Lu Cai's expression, she felt that it would be ignorant of her own behavior if she refused.
"Okay..." Yue Xiaoyan nodded. She would definitely give Lu Cai more "blessings" in the future.
The elevator descended to the first floor. Lu Cai supported Yue Xiaoyan as they reached the dining room. He raised an eyebrow and saw that the restaurant was quite crowded. The sounds of conversation and laughter rose and fell, adding a touch of human energy to the pale light.
There were ten long tables inside, each with six seats. Lu Cai took a quick look and saw two seats at the window-side table on the left side of the center. A tall, thin young man in a white coat sat at the very edge of the three-seater bench, his back to the dark window.
In front of Shi Rukui was a pot of steaming Maoxuewang. The emerald green coriander leaves floating in the red chili oil soup were very conspicuous, while the three young men opposite him were eating the rice in their bowls in an almost exaggerated manner.
The two men staggered over, and Shi Rukui raised his head. His face looked very ugly and his complexion was very bad. He didn't know if it was an illusion, but his cheeks were even a little shriveled, as if he had been hungry for a long time.
Lu Cai helped Yue Xiaoyan sit down next to Shi Rukui. She clutched her stomach and said, "I'll go get some hot water—"
Just as she was about to leave, Yue Xiaoyan grabbed her arm and said, "Go from there—go around that man in security uniform—"
Following the direction of her finger, Lu Cai looked over. On the side of the aisle leading to the free drinking water, sat a burly man with a hunched back.
The man lay on the dining table, his arms moving rapidly, eating haphazardly, and the rice and soup splashed all over the table.
Lu Cai narrowed his eyes and looked at the figure from behind. He was a hunchback.
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