Tingting's behavior is indeed different from other ghosts. From beginning to end, she never directly fights with the player.
But when Lu Cai was comforting Xiao Xiao, Ting Ting mentioned "we".
A superior, especially a willful and mischievous superior like Tingting, will not count his subordinates as "we". This is a name that symbolizes equality.
The fact that she could use this name only meant that there was someone in the hotel whom she admired and submitted to.
It is speculated that Tingting, out of pure "malice", established a superior-subordinate relationship with the copy boss and mixed in with the ghosts in the hotel to kill.
"Then what should we do?" Yue Xiaoyan frowned. The story of this copy was too confusing.
Lu Cai looked up at Chen Yina, who looked confused. "Do you know where Ling Fei is now?"
"Ling Fei?" Yue Xiaoyan also turned to look at Chen Yina.
Chen Yina was puzzled: "Why are you looking at me?"
"When did you meet Ling Fei?" Cai Lu asked her.
Chen Yina frowned and thought carefully: "We were classmates in high school——"
"When did Ling Fei start competing with you for Duan Ce?" Cai Lu continued to ask.
Chen Yina continued to recall, but she couldn't remember anything. It seemed as if it should have been like this from the beginning, without a starting point. In her cognition, this thing had always existed.
Seeing that she was in a state of confusion, Lu Cai stopped asking questions and guessed that as an NPC in the main world, Chen Yina's memory was restricted.
As an NPC, Lu Cai's only memory is of what happened on the day the disaster broke out, and he still can't remember anything before that.
"Ling Fei's counterpart is... Xiao Xiao?" Although they looked different, Lu Cai mentioned that Xiao Xiao's last name was "Ling." Such a coincidence couldn't exist in this instance. Shi Rukui suddenly thought, "Duan Ce and the others are in danger!"
Lu Cai also frowned. Duan Ce and the other two were definitely the people Xiaoxiao hated the most. Now that the three main culprits were dead, it was the turn of the three players.
"I'll go check out their guest room!" Shi Rukui quickly stood up and left Room 204.
"The glutinous rice flour should still be with you. You protect Chen Yina..." Lu Cai also stood up.
Yue Xiaoyan was nervous: "Where are you going?"
"Let's verify my guess." Lu Cai explained, "I suspect the location where the boss is triggered is somewhere like a warehouse or a basement."
In the Ghost Mirror's side story, there is an oil painting of a dark room with a crystal coffin in the corner.
In the foggy corridor, Lu Cai saw the scene where the hunchbacked security guard died, which was a room without windows.
The corner of the room looks very much like the one in the painting.
Cai Lu still felt that the focus should be on Xiaoxiao.
The picture of the crystal coffin in the ghost mirror also didn't find the corresponding ghost...
Therefore, she guessed that the crystal coffin was used to hold Xiao Xiao's body. The reason why Xiao Xiao's face was swollen was probably because someone put some potion in the crystal coffin, causing the body to be soaked in the potion and eventually become unrecognizable.
She searched for places like warehouses and basements, and when she finally found the entrance under the stairs, she still hesitated.
She left to call for help because she was worried that the situation might change. It would be too dangerous for her to go down alone. If she died in there, there would be no one to collect her body.
Lu Cai opened the system's friend list. This dog game rarely had a signal, so he quickly sent a message to Shi Rukui and Yue Xiaoyan, explaining the entrance location.
The news reached her, and she felt relieved a little. Then she went down the stairs and slowly entered the dark space.
Without any lighting tools, Lu Cai released a light red protective barrier, marking a safe area around her. The red barrier moved with her, and Lu Cai walked very slowly. When the barrier hit any objects, it would detect the presence of ghosts.
This basement is quite large, but unfortunately it is used as a storage room.
A message suddenly popped up on the system interface.
"Time is Deaf" a piece of news!
Cai Lu opened the message in the system and clicked to read it.
[Shi Rukui: Duan Ce and the other two are missing. Yue Xiaoyan just did some divination and it's a bad omen.]
Lu Cai laughed. Every time Yue Xiaoyan divined, the result was always bad luck.
[Shi Rukui: You wait at the door for a while and wait for us to come and discuss this together.]
Cai Lu paused and looked at the message that popped up in the chat box.
[Lu Cai: Now I can only wait inside the door for you to arrive.]
The other party was silent for a while.
[Shi Rukui: Be careful, we'll go over there now.]
Cai Lu was just about to ask, "Now that you're down, what about Chen Yina?" when a big exclamation mark, indicating no signal, appeared behind Shi Rukui's name.
When I exited, I saw that Yue Xiaoyan also had an exclamation mark.
Well, this game can't help but be praised, it will collapse if it is praised.
After closing the system interface, Lu Cai continued to check the situation in the basement.
Thanks to the little light from her red barrier, she could vaguely see the outlines of some objects.
Lu Cai had no idea how big this basement was. She walked slowly, and the red light was dim, but she always felt that it was very big.
She has a poor sense of direction and often loses her way while running, but her strong point is finding her way. After walking once, she can remember the route clearly and even draw a map in her mind. As long as she can find a reference, it is not a big deal if she loses her direction.
She used the entrance stairs as a reference and walked around the house several times, finally figuring out the whole house. Then she found that there was more than one room in the basement, and there was a wooden door on the left side of the stairs.
I tried pushing it twice but it didn't work. According to Lu Cai, the only way to force the door open was to force it...
Since her friends hadn't arrived yet, she was afraid of alerting the enemy, so she didn't do anything.
Lu Cai walked around a few more times until her eyes adjusted to the darkness and she gradually felt bored. She walked up the stairs and stopped at the top exit.
At the top of the stairs was a wall, and the exit door—gone.
The door is gone!
Lu Cai sat down on the steps. Come on, are you going to let her fight the Boss alone again?
Looking at the glowing red light surrounding her, she didn't actually complain about this "dog game". She even thought it was a routine operation and no big deal.
With a helpless sigh, Lu Cai stood up and planned to force the door open, at least to get a thorough understanding of the situation in the basement.
As I walked down the stairs, a shadow passed by my eyes, bringing with it a gust of cold wind.
Lu Cai stopped and looked around. The furnishings and miscellaneous items were just vague outlines in the darkness.
——
"What should I do?" Yue Xiaoyan squatted beside the stairs, looking at the stained wall, frowning slightly, her eyes full of worry.
Lu Cai had told them that the entrance was at the bottom of the stairs on the first floor. They had already rushed over quickly, but who knew something would go wrong.
Shi Rukui also frowned and carefully checked the wall under the stairs to make sure it was just a normal wall.
"Brother and sister, what are you looking for?" The girl's innocent question sounded like the most vicious curse to the two men.
Yue Xiaoyan trembled, and a feeling of fear rushed to her head.
According to Lu Cai, they had already determined that Yue Xiaoyan corresponded to "Miss Yan." She had personally experienced Miss Yan's near-death state and could understand her fear of Tingting.
Shi Rukui reached out and held Yue Xiaoyan's wrist, squeezing it slightly with his fingers as if to comfort her.
Warmth spread from his fingertips to her whole body, and the chill that came with fear was dispelled.
Yue Xiaoyan was comforted by his healing power and was finally able to calm down and think.
The opponent separated the three of them and dealt with them one by one. Is this a random setting of the game, or an arrangement made based on the players' aggressiveness?
"Brother and sister, hold hands! Tingting wants to hold hands too!" The little girl ran forward with a smile.
Shi Rukui quickly raised his long stick and pointed one end of it at the little girl who was running towards him briskly, and the other party stopped.
Tingting looked aggrieved: "Why don't you play with Tingting?" Tears were almost falling from her eyes.
"Playing with you is fatal." Shi Rukui stood up slowly, his left hand still holding Yue Xiaoyan's wrist, and pulled her up with force.
Yue Xiaoyan noticed that he was still transmitting healing power, so she rummaged through the storage card slot and found a red bead bracelet.
[Cinnabar Peace Bead]: A spiritual power item that can resist all spiritual attacks three times.
She put on the bracelet, took out a yellow talisman, held the talisman in one hand, and cast a spell on her sweatshirt. The talisman was burned by the glowing sparks.
[Exorcism Talisman]: A defensive item that can resist all mental attacks for 30 minutes.
Seeing that she was frantically stacking mental defense items on herself, Shi Rukui let go and looked indifferently at the little girl in front of him.
When Tingting saw Yue Xiaoyan taking out so many things to exorcise evil spirits, she let out a strange laugh.
The two saw a scarlet rune pattern appear in the air half a meter in front of Yue Xiaoyan, as if it was burning in a raging fire, and it was sizzling in the air.
Tingting's expression looked a little strange, her smile froze on her face, and her childish face was twisted into an ugly, devilish look.
Only after seeing the rune did Yue Xiaoyan breathe a sigh of relief.
I bought this talisman from a second-hand grocery store where one was offered a buy-one-get-one-free deal. It's a second-hand item to begin with. Although I've heard that the owner is quite skilled at repairing props, second-hand items are still second-hand after all.
Now it seems that this talisman is quite effective and the runes are complete. She doesn't ask for it to last for thirty minutes. Since it is buy one get one free and the effectiveness is discounted, fifteen minutes is enough!
Since the other party had taken the initiative, Shi Rukui didn't want to fight her with courtesy first and then force. He swung his long stick and rushed forward.
The little girl swung the long stick and moved her gaze away from Yue Xiaoyan, then looked at Shi Rukui who attacked her with a smile.
Watching the two figures darting up and down ahead, Yue Xiaoyan quickly settled down to meditate. Taking advantage of the side storyline, she looked at some offensive spells. Some spells required too much supernatural energy, and at her current level, she couldn't carry it.
But there are a few auxiliary attack spells that she can try -
With her ten fingers together, Yue Xiaoyan closed her eyes, changed a few gestures, and began to chant a spell slowly with her lips.
The sound of incantations hummed and hummed, echoing in the hall. The lights dimmed, and Tingting, who was dodging the stick, frowned.
Shi Rukui noticed the changes in the little girl before him; she had been affected by Yue Xiaoyan's spell. As expected, using abilities like "Witchcraft" and "Buddhist Cultivation" to crush NPC spirits was more suitable.
The little girl stepped on the coffee table and prepared to jump up, when suddenly a circular symbol similar to a talisman array appeared on the table. The symbol emitted a light green glow, and countless lines were drawn in the circle, some straight, some curved and twisted, forming a complex shape in the blink of an eye.
The symbols in the graphic rotated, and at the moment the little girl jumped up, a green line suddenly stretched out from it, like a resurrected whip.
Snap——
There was a loud whipping sound, and the green line wrapped around Tingting's left foot, pulling her down fiercely and throwing her onto the corner of the coffee table.
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