Xia Linyin's actions were so cute that he couldn't help but do the same.
This was the first time he had ever touched a girl's head.
But it wasn't bad at all; I didn't dislike it as much as I had imagined.
His movements were so natural that Xia Linyin didn't notice anything amiss at first. After hearing Su Jinyan's words, she quickly and apologetically stepped aside to let Su Jinyan in, giving an awkward smile.
Su Jinyan felt that Xia Linyin was a bit silly, very different from the one in the game. Seeing this other side of Xia Linyin made Su Jinyan very happy, and her eyes were filled with an unconscious smile.
As Xia Linyin closed the door, she asked, "Do you also live in a room like this? How did you know I lived in this room?"
“Knock on each of the new residents’ doors,” Su Jinyan explained. “You looked really bad when the game ended, so I came to check on you.”
Xia Linyin was surprised and touched that Su Jinyan would knock on each door to find her. It always feels good to be cared for.
She smiled and said, "Thank you."
Su Jinyan pulled out a chair and sat down, her gaze sweeping over the red high heels on the blanket. "You're lucky."
"Oh right, I just received a message on my palm saying that this high heel is a ghost artifact with a soul damage value of 20. One ghost coin can increase the damage value by one. I have five ghost coins now." Xia Linyin sat down on the edge of the bed, reached out and grabbed the high heel, and said.
Su Jinyan turned his palm over, and his baton appeared out of thin air in his hand. Xia Linyin then noticed that there was a small baton pattern on his wrist, like a tattoo.
"This baton of mine is also a ghost artifact. I got it in the first game. The game was set up so that a famous musician was framed and fell from grace. The musician committed suicide because he could not bear the blow. After his death, the musician became a vengeful ghost. The player is the person who framed the musician. We suffer the revenge of the vengeful ghost. This baton was the musician's favorite thing when he was alive."
Su Jinyan raised her baton.
"The game's hint was to find the musician's favorite thing in life, because only that thing could destroy the vengeful ghost. We quickly deduced that the musician's favorite thing in life was his baton, but we couldn't find it no matter how hard we looked."
Xia Linyin listened intently, and when she heard this part, she couldn't help but feel worried for Su Jinyan and the others. The situation must have been extremely critical. She could imagine the anxiety of having a ghost approaching and knowing how to deal with it, but being unable to find the key item no matter how hard they tried.
"Later, I saw a sentence in the conductor's diary, 'My beloved, rests with me forever.' Suddenly, an idea flashed through my mind. Actually, we had already searched the conductor's body before it was cremated, but we couldn't find the baton. Lin Yin, do you know where it is?"
Su Jinyan twirled the conductor's baton between her slender fingers and asked softly.
Xia Linyin was taken aback for a moment, then began to think seriously. She was very happy that Su Jinyan was able to ask her questions and let her deduce the answer instead of directly giving the answer. These were all valuable experiences.
"My beloved, rest in peace with me." Su Jinyan had already mentioned that the conductor's beloved baton was his baton, so this sentence means that the baton would be buried with the conductor. However, Su Jinyan and his team did not find the baton on the body.
Even without that sentence, it would be easy to deduce that the conductor would sacrifice the baton. But why did Su Jinyan specifically point out that sentence? That sentence made Su Jinyan think of something. What could that be?
"My beloved, rest in peace with me..." Xia Linyin murmured these words as her lips moved slightly.
The fact that the conductor used the word "beloved" to describe the baton proves that his feelings for it were truly profound. He would take the baton with him to his final rest, and it would certainly never leave his side.
If you didn't know that a conductor's greatest love is his baton, you might think that the conductor was talking about someone he deeply loved when you saw this sentence.
Moreover, many artists think differently from ordinary people.
I will never leave my side...
Carry it close to your body...
Not outside the corpse...
Could it be inside the corpse?
Xia Linyin's eyes lit up; she seemed to know the answer.
Xia Linyin eagerly asked for confirmation: "The conductor's baton is inside the conductor's body, right?"
Su Jinyan's eyes showed admiration. "Yes, the conductor committed suicide after swallowing the baton. He had regarded the baton as his spiritual companion. After death, he even merged the baton into his body and became one with him. After figuring this out, I opened up the conductor's body and found the baton inside him. When I left the game, the baton came out with me."
Xia Linyin genuinely admired Su Jinyan. Even if most people thought the baton was inside the corpse, the idea of cutting open a corpse was still terrifying. Just seeing a cold, lifeless body would make them tremble with fear, let alone having to take something out of it.
Su Jinyan should have no pressure doing this kind of thing, since he is a doctor and has such a strong mental fortitude.
"This conductor's baton, because it carries the conductor's intense obsession, has become a ghost weapon that can be used to deal with ghosts. Your high heels are a bit special. They were originally just ordinary high heels and had nothing to do with the ghosts in this game, but because they ended up killing a ghost in such a bloody way, it is estimated that they absorbed the ghost's resentment and became a ghost weapon."
That's why Su Jinyan said Xia Linyin was lucky; not everyone can get a ghost artifact, it's something you can only come across by chance.
In the first game, he figured out that the baton was inside the conductor's body. He had to evade the ghost's pursuit, cut open the corpse to get the baton, and only then could he obtain the ghost artifact after killing the ghost. The other players were lucky to even survive.
There were no ghost artifacts in the game "Bus No. 44", but Xia Linyin's high heels unexpectedly turned into a ghost artifact, just like winning the lottery.
However, items like red high heels are inherently prone to becoming ghost artifacts. So, it's both unexpected and reasonable that they would become ghost artifacts after being stained with so much blood and the resentment of ghosts.
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