Chapter 186 Ferryman Dungeon (9)
Xia Yingnuan originally wanted to say that of course she could be sure, after all, ghosts don’t need to look at a person’s face to confirm their identity, but before she could say anything, she realized a serious problem.
She could sense a person's soul, but that only if her perception wasn't affected by external factors. At the moment, she couldn't even sense the aura of a living person leaking from a player, so how could she be accurate in other areas? Xia Yingnuan's expression suddenly turned very ugly.
And according to another player, the "deceased" was not the first owner of the item. The item did not disappear when he killed people and stole the treasure. Why did it disappear when it fell into Xia Yingnuan's hands?
"If that body isn't his, whose is it?" Where is the person who was supposed to be dead? Xia Yingnuan also looked at the players on the shore. At this time, all the players had returned. In addition to Ning Hanqi, there were still six people, not one less.
Seeing Long Chendong tactfully step back a few steps, Xia Yingnuan snorted and returned to Ning Hanqi's side, "Boss Ning, this guy seems to have some problems with his brain. You'd better stay away from him."
Ning Hanqi didn't agree to her immediately, but she used her free right hand to grab Xia Yingnuan's wrist, frowned, and said with slight disapproval: "Yingdao is in danger, and you're still so close to him? Are you stupid?"
"..." Xia Yingnuan's eyes widened. She probably didn't expect that she would be the one being criticized in the end. She was stunned for a moment and muttered, "I told him that he couldn't beat me with both hands."
"Chen Dong... let's go." The heroine's voice was a little tearful. She was a little scared. Not only was she scared of Ning Hanqi, but she was also scared of the girl who looked very similar to the dead Song Qinuan. To be precise, this girl made her feel more scared.
"You look down on me too?!" Long Chendong was in a bad mood because he was confronted by the other two people. After hearing what his fiancée said, his fragile self-esteem suddenly couldn't hold back, and he shook off the heroine's arm.
"No, no! How could I look down on you? If I really looked down on you, would I wait for you for ten summers?" The heroine burst into tears.
Seeing the plot of the idol drama unfolding next to her, Xia Yingnuan felt like she was going blind, and quickly moved to Ning Hanqi's face to rest.
The heroine was so angry that she ran away crying. Of course, an arrogant straight man like Long Chendong would not chase her to comfort her. I'm afraid that what will happen next will be a stomach-breaking development.
"How pitiful."
Falling in love with such a person and waiting for him for ten summers, how can it not be pitiful?
Long Chendong, who was already feeling irritated and suffocated, blurted out after hearing Ning Hanqi's words: "Song Qinuan should be the more pitiful one. She died for you, and you kept a substitute by your side. That's why I feel pity for her!"
As soon as these words came out, Xia Yingnuan's face changed first. What was the male protagonist going crazy about? What did this have to do with her?
Ning Hanqi was stunned for a moment, then his gloomy gaze immediately fell on Long Chendong, and the atmosphere suddenly froze.
Long Chendong also realized what he had said. He shut up with an extremely ugly expression and fled. He didn't want to get entangled with this woman here any longer, so as not to expose the fact that he had killed Song Qinuan.
"Boss Ning, the last time I saw him, he kept saying some incomprehensible things. I think he has some serious brain disease. Don't pay attention to him." I've been dead in this world for ten summers, so why do people always want to drag me out and "whip my corpse"? Ning Hanqi is fine, but can everyone else please respect the dead?
Xia Yingnuan grabbed Ning Hanqi's sleeve and shook it, dispersing the anger that had accumulated in her heart.
Long Chendong seemed to have revealed a lot of things, and he had to confess everything. Ning Hanqi held Xia Yingnuan's hand and calmed down a little.
There were already quite a few people watching around, so Ning Hanqi could only ask Xia Yingnuan apologetically if she wanted to continue trying on clothes. Xia had long since given up wanting to be a dressing doll, so she naturally shook her head desperately.
"That's all, then." Ning Hanqi said to the shopping guide.
"Okay." The shopping guide immediately took out all the packed clothes.
Xia Yingnuan's eyes widened. "Isn't this too much? Are all the clothes I just tried on here?"
"Everything looks good on you." Ning Hanqi swiped the card decisively without giving Xia Yingnuan a chance to stop him.
Because of Ning Hanqi's VIP status, the manager personally delivered the clothes she bought to her car in the parking lot. Xia Yingnuan felt even more worried. As the saying goes, a man who eats someone's food is soft-mouthed and a man who takes someone's money is obligated. Now she is eating Ning Hanqi's food and using Ning Hanqi's things. Now all the clothes from head to toe are also hers. Xia Yingnuan inexplicably feels like she has become the little canary raised by the other person.
How could she, Xia, live like a gigolo! No, no, she had to do something. Counting the days, that traitor who cheated on Ning Yutian should be returning home, right?
He will die at the hands of Long Chendong, but this way of death is a bit of a waste. It would be better for him to take it and "pay off the debt".
Ning Hanqi's hands were not convenient to use, so the driver drove them here. She had just finished dealing with a work news, and when she looked up, she saw the murderous expression of the girl next to her.
Xia Yingnuan was keenly aware of the gazes around her and looked up warily. When she saw Ning Hanqi's somewhat puzzled look, she immediately became serious and said, "You've spent a lot of money today."
"Just a few pieces of clothing." Ning Hanqi paused, then suddenly added, "I remember you should be looking for an internship next semester, right? How about coming to my company?"
“???!!!” Xia Yingnuan’s eyes gradually widened, and her expression looked horrified.
Ning Hanqi seemed amused by her expression, and her eyebrows curved slightly. "Don't you like coming to work in my company?"
No... She simply didn't want to go to work. "It's probably not her biological child, so I guess that has something to do with it. Let's send it to the principal right away." To avoid any further complications, Ning Hanqi prepared to take it to the principal's office immediately.
"I won't go!" the child yelled. Although we couldn't see his expression because he had no facial features, an astonishing murderous aura erupted from him. If he had eyes, his expression would probably be filled with resentment.
"Hey, kid, which school do you go to?" Xia Yingnuan suddenly asked.
"...I won't go to school anymore." The rebellious kid subconsciously told the truth.
Well, the kid didn't lie.
Since it is not a student, the rules do not apply to it.
So Xia Yingnuan reached out and hit it hard on the head.
Due to the overwhelming difference in strength, the hostility around the child disappeared instantly.
The principal was not surprised when he saw the child. He just frowned and took the student from other school into his office. He expressed his gratitude to Ning Hanqi and said that he would make good arrangements for the child.
"After the principal sends it out, it will be difficult for the monster outside to convey information in, but it will also be difficult for us to know its movements afterwards." Xia Yingnuan said with some regret.
Pulling out the nails that the monster has planted in the school can directly cut off the other party's channels for spreading information. After all, this monster only dares to sell things in remote corners. It is difficult to do business without the students knowing. If it were a normal person, he would definitely give up, but this is a monster transformed by an evil spirit, and its obsession is incomprehensible to others.
Keeping this child might be more useful, but Xia Yingnuan has been in the copy for such a long time that she knows the nature of the rules here very well. There is a time bomb behind every rule. If this child is kept, it may cause disaster in the future.
Players can spend more time playing hide-and-seek with the monster, but don't try to jump left and right on the red line of rules.
"I'm just afraid this matter is not that simple." Ning Hanqi's mind still flashed with the look of the principal when he saw the child just now, an expression of helplessness and numbness.
Ning Hanqi felt that the principal's reaction was very intriguing, and that the trouble this child had brought them might not be completely over yet.
"The principal's attitude is a little strange..." She told Xia Yingnuan about her discovery.
"In that case..." Xia Yingnuan pondered for a moment, "If the principal sends the child out, then when that monster enters the campus at night, he can still bring the child in."
Xia Yingnuan gradually frowned when she thought of this possibility. She just sent the person away during the day, and he can come back at night?
"The principal wouldn't be that stupid, would he? He already knows that monster outside is causing trouble, yet he's so foolish as to let the tiger go back into the mountains and wait for him to come back in?"
"Maybe the principal is also helpless. Just like the school nurse said, they have gotten used to it." Even the dungeon boss has times when he is helpless, not to mention that they are not powerful, they are just part of the dungeon boss.
After the school doctor said the word "we", Ning Hanqi confirmed that the boss of this copy was indeed a whole, which should include the faculty and staff they met and all the students.
All individuals in this type of copy boss are very weak, but as long as their power is gathered in one place, and then a main consciousness is selected to control the whole, the maximum use of power can be achieved.
But no matter how powerful the dungeon boss was, wouldn't it eventually drain your sanity bit by bit according to the game's arrangements? If what the principal was about to do to that child was also recorded in the game's rules for ghosts, it wouldn't be surprising if it had that expression.
"Let's see tonight. If it comes looking for us, maybe we can actually meet this child." Considering the grudge they already had with the monster outside, they might become the focus of its attention tonight. Ning Hanqi has already prepared herself mentally and prepared a small gift for the monster. "By the way, let's try to see if the method the school doctor mentioned can work."
In order to obtain information on how to leave the copy, the school doctor almost revealed all the secrets of the thing outside. The monster outside could not be killed by normal means, but it was afraid of something.
All ghosts have psychological traumas caused by the things that killed them, and the monster outside is no exception.
"I thought the criminal who committed such a bloody crime must be a very powerful character, but it turns out that he is afraid of that..." Xia Yingnuan's expression was hard to describe.
When she heard the school doctor say that before, if she didn't know that the other party was not lying, she would definitely think that the ghost was joking.
"It's not surprising. When he was alive, he had grudges against the principal and teachers, but he only dared to attack children who had no ability to resist. This kind of person is an incompetent and cowardly waste." Ning Hanqi showed a look of disgust when mentioning what the monster did in his lifetime. If there is a chain of contempt among ghosts, ghosts like this are at the bottom.
"You're right." Xia Yingnuan nodded. "It's really frustrating to have to tolerate it constantly stalking around in front of me. The dungeon boss here is also quite frustrating."
They are different from herself. She has the final say in the copy. As long as she is unhappy, she can kill those murderers and torture them in any way she wants. Although those murderers will reappear when the copy is updated, they are still in absolute power.
After a lifetime of work, a migrant worker finally has the chance to rebel. How could he possibly continue to work?!
"It's not that I don't like it, it's that I feel I'm not capable enough!" Xia Yingnuan politely refused.
"I invited you to our company because you are outstanding. Think about it carefully. You can come for internship at any time." Guo Yuzhen is outstanding, but he is too timid. Xia Yingnuan made up for this problem after she came.
Xia Yingnuan hid her conflicted expression. How could she politely decline Ning Hanqi's kindness?
However, Ning Hanqi didn't mention this matter again along the way. Xia Yingnuan felt something was wrong, so she quietly raised her head and observed.
Ning Hanqi tilted his head slightly, staring at the scenery outside in a daze, with a bitterness in his eyes that Xia Yingnuan could not understand.
Xia Yingnuan pursed her lips and awkwardly reached out to tug at the corner of Ning Hanqi's clothes. "Are you still thinking about what that psychopath said?"
Otherwise, she would secretly go to the hero's house tonight and poison him to silence him.
Ning Hanqi was stunned for a moment, then realized that the little girl was concerned about her. She reached out and touched the little girl's head, telling her not to worry, and said nothing else.
Xia Yingnuan didn't show any emotion in front of Ning Hanqi, but her face was frighteningly grim behind her back. The system floated beside her tremblingly, not daring to say a word.
"system."
[Here, here!]
"Do you understand what I suddenly feel today?"
How could I possibly reflect the Dao?! The system launched a powerful attack in its mind, but in reality it timidly replied: [No reflection.]
"It's clearly a story about three people, but I feel like an outsider." Xia Yingnuan complained while looking at the night sky.
【ah? 】
She felt that Long Chendong seemed to have misunderstood something and distorted the past events in a strange direction.
But this is not the point. The point is that Long Chendong's presence is a bit annoying to her. Maybe he is the culprit for Ning Hanqi's recent bad mental state and nightmares!
Xia Yingnuan stood by the window, and Ning Hanqi's fragile expression during the day unconsciously emerged in her mind, making her feel very annoyed.
[Host? Aaaaaaaa!] The system saw the host suddenly open the window and jump out.
This is a very tall apartment building. Although Ning Hanqi's house is on the lower floor, it is still a certain distance away from the ground. It is pitch black outside and you can't see your hand in front of you. The system looks at the ground that is as dark as hell and almost crashes and falls down.
Xia Yingnuan landed steadily on the ground, and at the same time a transparent familiar raincoat fell on her.
Completing tasks in the system space will earn you points, which can be exchanged for some props, but she failed all the way to the end, and her points had long been deducted into negative numbers. The only little gadgets she had left were bought with the private money of the previous system.
By putting on this "coat", she can disappear from surveillance in a short time.
When Xia Yingnuan had already reached the gate of the community and needed someone to show her the way, she realized that the little thing that had been following her and nagging her all the time was gone.
"System?" Xia Yingnuan shouted in her heart.
After a few seconds, the system rushed up crying, crying and accusing Xia Yingnuan of being so audacious and almost scaring it to death!
"Alright, alright, don't you know whether my host is in trouble or not? There will be many more such things in the future. Be good and help me locate where Long Chendong is."
[Male, male protagonist?!] The system suddenly had a sudden realization, forgetting even to cry. It couldn't possibly let the Great Demon King go see the male protagonist alone! What if the Great Demon King got upset and strangled the male protagonist to death? Wouldn't that mean the world would be gone?!
"I know you've placed a location on the hero." Xia Yingnuan smiled maliciously, "Be good, I won't kill him. Lead the way."
As if they had discussed it beforehand, they boarded the remaining six boats evenly, except for the one with the wedding sedan. In the pitch-black night, only the endless sound of funeral music could be heard.
Perhaps to complement the music, a howling wind suddenly blew on the originally calm lake surface, as if the wind was carrying a cry.
“Crash!”
Ning Hanqi heard an abnormal sound in the wind beside her ears. Xia Yingnuan immediately reminded her. She turned around and saw... that the paper figures who should have been standing at the bow of the boat were all gathered behind her.
The paper money pasted on their faces had disappeared, perhaps blown away by the wind, revealing their eyes. The person who drew the paper figures had added spirit to their eyes, making her feel as if she was looking into the eyes of a living person.
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