Chapter 124 Sea Amusement Park (Thirty-three)
The fog came very quickly, and in just a moment it was so thick that you couldn't see your hand in front of you.
Ning Hanqi could still hear the voices of other people around her the previous second, but the next second the world became extremely quiet, even the sound of the waves disappeared.
She was still standing on the boat, but she didn't know whether the space she was in now was still the same space as before.
Ning Hanqi walked a few steps carefully on the boat. Logically speaking, there should be a lot of people on the boat, especially after the tour guide drove the boat at a high speed, the players were almost gathered together. If she still stood in the same position as before, it would be impossible for her to not bump into people when she walked around.
After a little exploration, Ning Hanqi stayed where she was obediently. She couldn't see the surroundings clearly in the fog, and she didn't know where she would go. The safest thing to do was to stay where she was and wait for the fog to dissipate.
Perhaps it was Ning Hanqi's aura that was too strong, and the question he asked was so elusive. Song Yun was stunned for two seconds before he hesitated and said, "I...should I feel similar?"
Xia Yingnuan was speechless. How could NPCs these days not even have their own opinions? I didn't know what they were worried about.
Ning Hanqi didn't say anything. Song Yun observed her expression and added, "I was just guessing for fun. I hope I didn't offend you."
Xia Yingnuan: ...How is that offensive? We're like lovers, and yet you're feeling wronged?
Ning Hanqi finally glanced lazily at Song Yun, her face filled with disinterest. Without saying anything else, she took the potion and left with Xia Yingnuan, leaving Song Yun alone to ponder the meaning of her words.
It was already past noon, and no new tasks popped up on the game panel, so the two decided to go back to the room to eat something.
Lunch was still instant noodles, but with a different flavor. Ning Hanqi seemed hungry and made himself two buckets of noodles.
While waiting for the instant noodles, Xia Yingnuan took out the potion Mo Shu had given her. She handed Ning Hanqi a small bottle and opened another one herself, hesitating whether to drink it or not.
Even though this was a [cleaner] that had been certified by the system, for some reason, she still didn't feel relieved.
While she was hesitating, the person next to her had already opened the bottle cap and drank the liquid in it.
Ning Hanqi threw the empty bottle into the trash can, sat down and started eating instant noodles. He looked normal.
Seeing this, Xia Yingnuan gritted her teeth and drank it too.
The game panel popped up, and Xia Yingnuan saw that the buff [Xue Lan's Help] in the upper right corner had disappeared.
I guess I was overthinking it. She breathed a sigh of relief and took her instant noodles.
The window in the room was kept open for ventilation, and the temperature was a bit low. As soon as the lid was opened, a small cloud of hot white mist rose up.
Xia Yingnuan took a bite and asked Ning Hanqi, "Sister, what are we going to do this afternoon?"
Ning Hanqi lowered his eyes to eat, not even looking at her, "Sweep the floor."
"Okay." Xia Yingnuan had actually considered searching the apartment. They had found the apple in Liu Zhou's room that morning, and there were so many empty rooms in the apartment, so perhaps there were clues or other valuable items inside.
She looked at the trays of spare keys hanging on the wall and suggested, "Let's go through all the empty rooms."
Sweeping the building is a physical job. There are more than a hundred empty rooms. The two men patiently checked each one carefully, but they found little.
The empty rooms seemed to have been cleaned out, leaving them almost bare, with only the necessary furniture and a few miscellaneous items, not even a trace of a clue.
There was a lot of dust on the ground. Ning Hanqi had the foresight to cover her mouth and nose with silk, leaving Xia Yingnuan alone to cough from the choking.
Xia Yingnuan sighed. She didn't like pointless manual labor, but it was always difficult to avoid. She picked up a mineral water bottle and said, "It can sell for ten cents, why don't we pick up more?"
"No need to pick them up." Ning Hanqi was obviously more calm than her. "The empty bottles are now cheaper, so I can't sell so many of them."
Xia Yingnuan was stunned: "You're even researching this?"
Ning Hanqi smiled and said, "I have a wide range of interests. Have you forgotten?"
Xia Yingnuan: "...as long as you are happy."
The scene of Ning Hanqi wearing high heels and an evening gown, dragging a snakeskin bag and picking up bottles couldn't help but emerge in her mind.
She really couldn't understand why Ning Hanqi, with his current status and assets, would still care about the recycling price of mineral water bottles.
What a weirdo.
However, this interruption made the atmosphere more relaxed. Xia Yingnuan cheered up and followed Ning Hanqi to the seventh floor, where Xue Lan was.
The corridor was quiet and no lights were on. Only the faint sunlight shone through the window at the end of the corridor, casting sparse spots of light on the nearby walls.
Xia Yingnuan asked, "Shall we go see Xue Lan?"
Ning Hanqi said, "Go next to Xue Lan."
Xia Yingnuan's eyes lit up and she lowered her voice, "Are you going to eavesdrop?"
She discovered yesterday that the apartment's sound insulation was not very good.
If you're lucky, you might run into other people looking for Xue Lan, and maybe you can hear something.
Anyway, they don't have any mission now and can stay here for a long time. She doesn't believe that they will find nothing.
The two men walked lightly to Xue Lan's room and quietly opened the lock with their key.
The moment the door closed silently, Xia Yingnuan breathed a sigh of relief.
She looked around. It was similar to the room they had just passed through. There was no bedding on the bed, and two of the bed boards were broken. The cabinet door was open, but it was empty inside, and there was a faint smell of mold.
Xia Yingnuan leaned against the wall, trying to hear what was happening next door.
But after listening for a long time, the other side was still as quiet as water. Xia Yingnuan was bored waiting and stared at a spider that was weaving a web in the corner.
Ning Hanqi moved closer and whispered in her ear, "I'll make a small hole in the wall and see if I can see anything."
Xia Yingnuan felt a bit uncomfortable with the heat. She shrank back and whispered, "How do I open it? Please keep your voice down."
Ning Hanqi raised his hand, and the black ribbon on his wrist rose slightly, and the tip became sharp in an instant.
The pointed corner of the ribbon slowly penetrated the wall and then cut silently.
Xia Yingnuan stared at the ribbon nervously, but Ning Hanqi didn't care much. He searched around the room and pocketed a pencil from the corner of the drawer, saying calmly, "It wasn't a wasted trip."
What was not wasted?
Xia Yingnuan was about to ask her, but at this moment, there was a sudden "click" sound behind her, followed by the sound of a door opening.
It's Xue Lan who's here! Have they been discovered?
Xia Yingnuan quickly turned around, leaned her back against the wall, and used her body to block the cut mark.
Then she reached out and pulled the person in front of her.
Ning Hanqi didn't expect her to do this. She leaned forward, and a few strands of soft silver hair fell down.
She paused and said calmly, "What?"
My cheeks felt a little itchy from being brushed by hair, and the cool and refreshing fragrance permeated every pore.
Xia Yingnuan looked at her and smiled, whispering, "Let her think we are doing something else."
As she spoke, she took advantage of the situation and hooked her hand around Ning Hanqi's neck, unbuttoning the two buttons on her collar with her other hand. Ning Hanqi let her do what she wanted and showed no resistance.
When Xue Lan pushed the door open, he saw such an erotic scene.
Her face was cold, and her eyes wandered around the room. "You two seem quite interested."
Ning Hanqi let go of Xia Yingnuan, ran his fingers across her collar, and slowly helped her button up her clothes. Then he turned his head and looked up at Xue Lan.
After staring at each other for two seconds, Ning Hanqi said, "It has nothing to do with you."
She glanced at Xia Yingnuan, who was still acting shy, and began to chase her away. "Ms. Xue, if there is nothing else, you can leave."
Xue Lan's eyes were gloomy. "You are disturbing me."
"Really?" Ning Hanqi smiled frivolously and said nonchalantly, "Then please wear earplugs."
For some reason, Xia Yingnuan felt that Xue Lan looked a little weak and irritable now, completely different from the calm and indifferent last night. Ning Hanqi's casual words immediately angered her.
"Very good." Xue Lan glared at her fiercely, squeezing out a few words through gritted teeth, "I hope Miss Administrator won't regret her actions in the future."
Ning Hanqi said: "Just you?"
The atmosphere in the room suddenly became tense, and for a moment both sides were on the verge of a fight.
Isn't it a bad idea to offend the NPC like this? Xia Yingnuan was just hesitating whether to say something to ease the atmosphere when Xue Lan spoke again.
She looked straight at him with a cold look in her eyes, "Don't think you are so smart."
After saying that, she turned and left.
Since the whereabouts have been exposed, there is no need to continue to do anything.
It was getting late, so the two men locked the door and returned to the administrator's room.
No one mentioned the ambiguity that had just occurred. They both understood each other tacitly and had an inexplicable understanding.
Xia Yingnuan wasn't one to dwell on things; it was all just a cover-up, and she'd let it go. As for what Ning Hanqi thought, she didn't care, but she probably thought it was even more indifferent than she did.
She took the small notebook she had searched out of Xina's body and read it over and over again, but she couldn't decipher anything new.
My train of thought seemed to have hit a bottleneck, the clues were tangled up, and I didn't know how to solve it.
In comparison, Ning Hanqi acted calm and composed.
She sat on the edge of the bed and took out a pencil from her pocket. She had found it in the room next to Xue Lan's that afternoon.
Xia Yingnuan looked at the pencil in Ning Hanqi's hand and suddenly realized something.
Her fingertips suddenly felt empty, and it was Ning Hanqi who reached out and took the small notebook from her hand.
She said, "Come here."
Xia Yingnuan quickly sat over.
Several pages were torn from the middle of the small notebook. Ning Hanqi flipped through the last page with words and stopped at the first blank page.
Xia Yingnuan narrowed her eyes and looked at the faint mark on the blank page. Her heart beat faster.
She had been so busy studying the written part that she hadn't noticed the blank page at all.
Only now did she realize that the person who wrote on the previous page might have been too excited and used too much force, resulting in colorless writing on the blank page behind.
Just use a pencil to paint over it and you can restore the content.
Ning Hanqi held the pen at an angle and lightly swept it across the paper.
She curled up the corners of her lips, smiling lazily and comfortably, as if everything was under control.
The pencil marks gradually covered the entire page, and lines of handwriting emerged.
It was so densely packed that it filled up an entire page.
Ning Hanqi noticed the words mentioned repeatedly in the logbook. The reason why the ship was destroyed was because something went wrong in the sacrificial ceremony. It seemed that in order to dispel the thick fog, this sacrificial ceremony had to be performed.
The ceremony requires three offerings, namely gold, flesh and blood, and something unknown. The owner of the logbook doesn't know much about this ceremony. The final offering and the process of the ceremony are the responsibility of the old captain. If you want to find out what this sacrificial ceremony is, you may have to investigate the old captain.
Ning Hanqi guessed that this logbook was equivalent to a hint that if the player did not perform the sacrificial ceremony correctly as required, he would not be able to leave this foggy sea area.
What's strange is that there was no information about the ghost ship in Gao Yu's information, and even the sea slug was not mentioned. The tour guide's panicked expression seemed to confirm that this was an accident, so... did they accidentally trigger the side "mission"?
Ning Hanqi pushed open the shaky door. There were a lot of dark red bloodstains in the room. Someone might have been killed here, but she didn't know if it was the owner of the room. She picked up the kerosene lamp in the room and carefully examined this ominous place inch by inch to see if there were any other clues.
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