Chapter 26 Panic
Later, Ms. Lu learned her lesson and she must not be proactive in matters concerning Ning Hanqi. She let Xia Yingnuan do everything herself. Even though the ghost looked very unhappy, he didn't notice how slow she was.
Ms. Lu drove them to the nearest hospital. On the way, she told Xia Yingnuan about the deal between her and Ning Hanqi.
Yes, they are not even friends, just doing business at best.
"I have a friend who has a divination-type prop. While she was fortune-telling, she also did some calculations for me, and then... she found that there was a high probability that I would not be able to leave the next copy alive." Ms. Lu stopped the car at a traffic light and explained in detail to Xia Yingnuan.
"With the help of my friends, I spent almost all the wealth I've accumulated over the years on a single item. I wonder if you, Miss Xia, have heard of the [Privileges of a Freshman]."
Xia Yingnuan recalled that there were thousands of copies in the game, and the items produced were also various. She had never heard of this [Privilege of Newborn], but the function of this item should be defensive, so the opponent could escape from her hands.
"Then let's go back early today." Ning Hanqi was thinking about whether to cheat a little. The consequence would be that one of the scores on the head teacher's assessment booklet would change from excellent to passing.
"I should go back soon." Xia Yingnuan suspected that the faint howling sound belonged to the monster. What was it calling out for? Nothing in this school could respond to it, except... its children.
It was calling for the little monster, but the little monster was beaten by itself. The little ghost, which had not yet completely transformed into a monster body, was seriously injured. This was completely different from beating it at night. I don't know if it has any means to complain.
While thinking about the possibility of the big monster coming for revenge, Xia Yingnuan simply picked up Ning Hanqi.
The rules don't say that ghosts can't be used for transportation, so this way the speed will be much faster. Xia Yingnuan still hopes that Ning Hanqi's final score can be higher, so that he can get ten 90-point scores as soon as possible, leave the dungeon, and return to normal life.
They continued to move forward following the trail of blood. Sure enough, the bloodstain extended into the teaching building. Someone had cut the lock with a special weapon. Ning Hanqi pushed open the door and shone a flashlight. There were sporadic bloodstains on the door frame and walls. It should be that a player stumbled in, but because the situation was very urgent, he didn't even close the door properly.
"Is anyone still alive?" Ning Hanqi's voice echoed in the empty corridor.
The air in the teaching building became even more turbid, and Xia Yingnuan frowned unconsciously again.
"I don't sense any living breath."
Ning Hanqi waited until his voice echoing in the empty corridor completely disappeared and no one responded, then he gently closed the door and prepared to leave.
However, just as she was about to leave, a shadow suddenly fell from the sky.
"Bang!" The one-armed player fell with his eyes open about 2 meters in front of Ning Han's residence. Since he landed on his head first, the scene was quite horrific.
He was already dead, but his head was tilted so that his eyes, still open in death, were staring at Ning Hanqi.
This little trick was too naive to scare Ning Hanqi, but Xia Yingnuan cursed out loud and instinctively covered Ning Hanqi's eyes.
This death was exactly the same as the new player's from the day before. Was it a show of force from that creature? Or had the new player, through their own resentment, become part of this instance and now, tired of being lonely, sought companionship?
"There's something up there!" Ning Hanqi keenly noticed a shadow on the window on the roof of their building.
"Bang!"
As soon as Ning Hanqi finished speaking, Xia Yingnuan raised her hand and broke the window.
A sharp scream came from above, and Ning Hanqi suddenly found something strange in the reflection of the window on the first floor next to her. She shone the flashlight upwards, and a headless shadow appeared in the mirror.
This time, Xia Yingnuan directly shattered all the glass. Everything here would be restored the next day anyway, so she didn't need to hold back at all.
After the glass shattered, the shadow spread directly down from the wall, and it seemed that the target was Ning Hanqi's feet.
Xia Yingnuan disappeared from the spot holding Ning Hanqi. The shadow lost its target and wandered around the ground in a daze.
The next second, the headless corpse lying on the rooftop suddenly turned around. Because its head had exploded, no one could see its panicked expression.
Under the moonlight, the woman in the red dress opened her eyes that were the same color as her skirt. The difference in strength made the newly born ghost tremble and feel fear from the depths of its soul.
"Just like when you were alive, you can only bully ordinary players." Xia Yingnuan sneered. Perhaps her ridicule pricked the self-esteem of this new ghost. The headless monster, still wearing the clothes in front of it, took two steps forward, but its courage was only enough to support it to take these two steps.
As the ghost that indirectly killed it, this monster actually had a fear of Xia Yingnuan engraved in its soul. Just like the monster was very afraid of sirens, it was very afraid of Xia Yingnuan.
The ghost, who had just taken two steps forward, took three or four steps back and leaned against the edge of the rooftop. These three or four steps were just the limit of the distance to the rooftop of the teaching building, not the limit of this monster.
It’s a pity that as an assimilated body of that monster outside the school during his lifetime, his power after death was also provided by that monster outside the school. His soul had become a part of that monster, so he could not escape the monster’s control.
It would be happy to hunt those players and let those people who just watched the fun and didn't save it die with it, but it didn't mean to cause trouble for Xia Yingnuan.
"Gurgle..."
A strange sound came from its body, as if something was wriggling. The monster's body suddenly knelt down and swelled, and its belly swelled up like a balloon.
"boom!"
Xia Yingnuan lightly tapped the air, and then a dozen-meter-long blood nail directly pierced through the floor and the monster. This time, she did not rashly split it apart, but simply restrained its movements.
What else could be in its stomach? It was nothing more than a part of the monster. The monster seemed quite satisfied with this body and even took off its head, inflated it and gave it to the child to play with.
The blood nails slowed down the monster's formation. Xia Yingnuan hugged Ning Hanqi and jumped down from the building. The moment she jumped, Ning Hanqi saw an arm covered in blood stretching out from a window. She said something to Xia Yingnuan.
Xia Yingnuan took a look at the dying man, then threw out a red gauze, wrapped the man into a red mummy, and took him away.
"mine……"
Ning Hanqi noticed a clear voice coming from the strong wind. She listened carefully and found that the voice was saying: "My child..."
The sound was quickly blown away by the wind, and they could not tell where it came from.
"That monster didn't chase us." Ning Hanqi looked in the direction of the teaching building and had a strange feeling in his heart. If that monster really was parasitic in the player's corpse, then where did the sound just now come from?
After returning to real life, players can store their props in the cross. Of course, most props cannot be used in reality, otherwise the world will be in chaos, but players can transfer and trade props between each other.
The certificate item they received was too restricted and could only be used by returning to the Shuitian Apartment copy. Unless a player bound another person to enter actively, they would not be able to enter the same copy. Therefore, this item was useless to Ning Hanqi. It was just right to sell it for some money to supplement the family expenses.
Ning Hanqi was a little worried that her physical condition would make it difficult for her to support the next work, so she decided to try to find a job from home.
"I'll talk to her." Ning Hanqi picked up the phone.
After hearing that Ning Hanqi had woken up and had an item entrusted to her to sell, Ms. Lu came over immediately after finishing her current work.
This time, Ms. Lu brought another person with her, saying that he was a professional who could assess the prices of props.
"How are you? Are you okay?" Ms. Lu also bought some supplements. She looked at the man and the ghost in front of her inconspicuously. Compared with the last time, the relationship between them seemed to have eased a lot. When Miss Xia found her just now, she didn't have the calmness of a dungeon boss at all. She couldn't hide her panic and it was completely revealed in her expression.
"Much better. Thank you for your help this time. Did it not delay your work?"
"No, it's the weekend and I don't have classes today. I just... took care of some personal matters. Let me introduce you, Miss Ning. This is our person who specializes in prop valuation. She will definitely be able to help you sell the props at the most suitable price." Ms. Lu patted the shoulder of the person next to her.
"Hello, Miss Ning. My last name is Li." The appraiser was a woman who looked to be in her 30s, with a serious expression.
"Hello." Ning Hanqi shook hands with her politely.
"Then let's get straight to the point. I think the item I want appraised isn't..." Ms. Li glanced at Xia Yingnuan. The fact that she had no shadow in the sunlight spoke for itself. She understood without saying anything, but she also said, "This item...can't be appraised."
Xia Yingnuan glared at her. How dare she treat herself like a commodity?
Ning Hanqi chuckled, "You're right, she is a priceless treasure."
Xia Yingnuan glared at Ning Hanqi again, trying to stop her from talking nonsense, but two bystanders looked at her, one clearly and one not so clearly, which made her unable to stand. She took Ning Hanqi's phone, said she would buy her some food, and left the ward.
"This is the prop I want to sell this time." Ning Hanqi took out the certificate and handed it to Miss Li.
After Ms. Li touched the certificate with the cross, the introduction of this prop immediately emerged in her mind.
Shuitian Apartment...she had an impression of it.
After putting down the cross, Ms. Li took out the laptop she was carrying, opened it, went to the player forum and clicked on a post.
"Ms. Ning, did you just come out of the Shuitian Apartment dungeon?"
"Yes." Ning Hanqi nodded.
"Then take a look at this post to see if it's true." Ms. Li turned the computer screen to Ning Hanqi's side.
The content of the post is about the strange incident at Shuitian Apartment.
"Originally, this item wouldn't fetch much, but if the current Shuitian Apartment copy really becomes like this, I'm confident I can help you sell it at a good price," said Ms. Li.
The post was made by a surviving player of Shuitian Apartment. Due to various restrictions of the game, many words cannot be posted directly in the post, so the players have integrated a set of code words. 507 saw that it was impossible to understand this forum within a day, so it might have been posted by 302.
The difficulty of the Shuitian Apartment dungeon has increased dramatically, and only three out of ten participants remain.
Two old players were killed instantly by the dungeon boss. The dungeon boss sneaked into the player group to play Mission Impossible, which was hard to guard against!
Having written this, the poster excitedly greeted the mother of the dungeon boss. After all, if it weren't for the mother's mischief, this dungeon would not have been created.
…
Very good, he kept his promise and didn't mention himself.
"Ms. Ning, has the Shuitian Apartment dungeon really become like this?"
"That's right, the dungeon boss is showing signs of losing control." Ning Hanqi said.
"Out of control...it seems the danger level is about to rise. So, Miss Ning, are you in urgent need of money? If not, just wait a while. Once the Shuitian Apartment dungeon is listed, this item will be able to be sold for an unimaginable price."
The so-called "on the list" is a dungeon difficulty list compiled by players. It is not complete, but as long as it is on the list, the value of this item will increase several times.
"No rush, I'll just follow your arrangements, Miss Li."
"Okay, then I will be responsible for contacting the buyer." Ms. Li quickly finalized the terms of reference.
"No, no need, you just stay here with me... okay." After walking around in the copy, Ms. Lu was a little traumatized by Xia Yingnuan's voice. If possible, she didn't want to be alone with Xia Yingnuan at all, but the other party's expression did not allow for rejection, so she could only sigh and walked out of the room with Xia Yingnuan.
"Don't be so nervous, I just want to ask you what the medicine is used to treat." Xia Yingnuan asked straight to the point after closing the door of the ward.
It turned out to be because of Miss Ning's illness, Ms. Lu suddenly realized.
"This medicine... has many uses. The most important one is to heal soul damage. It also has some other mysterious effects. It can heal some injuries sustained in dungeons that the game can't recover from. But..."
"Miss Ning's condition may not be good. I've never seen anyone recover so slowly after taking medication. If you need help, I can introduce you to my friend. She's quite knowledgeable about this."
After hearing Ms. Lu say that Ning Hanqi's condition was very bad, Xia Yingnuan's right eyelid twitched suddenly. As the old saying goes, a twitching left eye means good fortune, and a twitching right eye means disaster. She felt inexplicably panicked.
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