Chapter 158 Hotel Copy (Sixteen)
"Click!" The supervisor didn't know what he stepped on, and there was a crisp sound under his feet. He was already highly nervous and couldn't help but shiver.
The ghost's power far exceeds that of humans. It can see things on the ground even in the dark. It raised its foot and took a look at the crushed object. It turned out to be a nut shell.
Another employee was lazy and didn't clean up properly! The supervisor was about to get angry, but when he thought of his own business, he suppressed his anger.
The inner door of the office was half-open, with light shining through the gap. The supervisor recalled the feeling of needing to take deep breaths due to excessive tension when he was still alive.
The supervisor raised his hand and was about to push the door open, but he thought about it and realized that the "person" inside did not move. He had just restrained his strength very well, and the foreman should not have noticed his coming.
"Do you think I'm a fool?" Xia Yingnuan's scarlet eyes revealed hostility, but she certainly didn't detect any lies in Ning Hanqi's words. "Do you have a prop to block my perception?"
"I don't have any props that can block your perception, and I haven't lied to you, Nuannuan. I'll explain it to you after we leave here..."
"Shut up!" Her scarlet eyes revealed a deep sense of disgust. "Don't call me that. Don't you feel disgusted at this point?"
Ning Hanqi opened her mouth, but ultimately chose not to defend herself. She knew it would turn out this way, but she had no choice. She couldn't just point at the corpse on the ground and say to Nuannuan, "I'm going to 'kill' you. This is for your own good."
Let alone Xia Yingnuan, even I found it absurd. Direct and precise strikes saved a lot of unnecessary manpower.
"Let's go back and drive that NPC away. That way, the seventh rule won't be a threat anymore, right?" The young player breathed a sigh of relief, but when he looked up, he saw that except for the bewildered new player, the others didn't look relaxed.
"Anything else...?"
"It's not that simple." The veteran player said this, feeling in his pocket, perhaps subconsciously trying to find a cigarette, but gave up when he found nothing. "Have you seen any speculation on the forum about the prototype of this dungeon?"
"It's that Xiao G's post, right? I saw it. What's wrong?"
Ning Hanqi had also seen the post about speculating about the prototype of the Sunshine Primary School copy.
More than 20 years ago, a bloody incident occurred in a mountain primary school. Because the murderer had a grudge against the principal, he took revenge on the students of the school. Some people speculated that this was the prototype of the Tongqiao Sunshine Primary School copy, but because the copy was too different from the real mountain school, this speculation has not been confirmed.
When Ning Hanqi saw the suspicious person mentioned repeatedly in the special school rules, she linked him to the murderer of that bloody case. If her guess was correct, she was more inclined to believe that the bloody case in the mountain village primary school was the prototype of this copy, or one of the prototypes.
This means that the suspicious person may be extremely dangerous.
"If this speculation is true, then this suspicious person is most likely the murderer. If we want to stop him, we must be mentally prepared." A serious expression appeared on the face of the experienced player.
However, there was no way to avoid what was written in the rules, and they might find out by night what the suspicious individuals were that the players needed to be wary of.
When Ning Hanqi was thinking about the possibility of being retaliated against at night after she drove the suspicious person away, she felt the corner of her clothes being gently touched.
She glanced at the new player next to her who had been silent until now.
After experiencing so many changes, the new players have given up struggling and faced reality. Faced with the huge information gap, they realized that if they want to survive here, they will inevitably need the help of old players.
"Well, can I ask what the prototype you just mentioned is?" Her voice was as soft as a mosquito's buzz, so soft that Ning Hanqi almost didn't hear it.
"Of course." Ning Hanqi's gentle look made the new player's eyes light up. Because of the noise made by another new player when he first came, she felt that the other old players seemed to have no patience with them, so she didn't dare to ask questions.
It took her great courage to try to ask Ning Hanqi, who seemed to have the best temper among the old players. Fortunately, he was a good person just as she imagined.
Unfortunately, before Ning Hanqi could finish explaining half of it, the bell for class rang.
“Ding ding ding…”
New players will have classes later, so now is obviously not a good time to explain the background of the dungeon.
"Let's talk while we're in the cafeteria. That's probably when all the players will be free," said Mr. Zhao, who teaches fifth grade.
"That makes sense. I'll send a message to everyone else and we'll meet in the cafeteria this afternoon."
The principal gave all the players a card, which they could use for eating, getting water, etc. The players didn't need to worry about their lives, as the principal had arranged everything.
However, when it was time for dinner, they realized that they were too naive.
As the head teacher of a boarding primary school, what they have to worry about has just begun.
There were only four players who could sit peacefully in the cafeteria to eat dinner at dinner time, one less than during the morning break. The long table that could originally seat twelve people was now occupied by those faceless students because there were only four teachers left. Looking at their faces, it was estimated that some players could not eat.
The other five players, including Ning Hanqi, didn't even have time to eat. The whole afternoon was in chaos.
For example, Ning Hanqi had just arrived at the cafeteria and had not yet lined up to get food when she saw students in her class fighting with each other. As a teacher, she had to stop them, but she was a step too slow. The two students knocked over the plates on the table, and all the soup and food got on each other.
Then one student started crying, and another student who had not cried originally saw Ning Hanqi coming and started crying out of fear of the teacher.
The principal was watching from a distance, so Ning Hanqi had to give up his plan to have dinner and took the two students to the dormitory building to change their clothes and throw their dirty uniforms into the washing machine.
In the laundry room, she met a player who was even more unlucky than herself. The other person taught first-grade students. Several children were playing in the toilet and one of them accidentally fell into the pit. She was now dealing with the students' dirty clothes.
"I'm not here to be a teacher, I'm here to be their mother." The player seemed to have been quite shocked. "Why am I so unlucky to be assigned to the first grade?"
Students in higher grades generally have stronger self-care abilities. Students in grades one and two inevitably need more care from teachers. The weird actions of that class of kids throughout the afternoon made her physically and mentally exhausted.
She was prepared for Nuannuan to resent her.
But when the day finally came, she found that she was not as strong as she had imagined.
"Cough cough..." Ning Hanqi suppressed his cough twice, and his face gradually turned pale.
"Okay, since your goal has been achieved, give the ring back to me and get out." Xia Yingnuan hated her as much as she had been gentle to her before. Even though her power was gradually being stripped away, she still forced herself to remain in a half-ghost state to intimidate the other party.
Unfortunately, she was not sure whether she could drag Ning Hanqi to die with her. She could not see through Ning Hanqi's depth. Instead of struggling ugly, she wanted to save some dignity for herself.
God knows how difficult it is for her to maintain her remaining sanity. However, she didn't know whether the human in front of her was too confident or felt that he had become a fish on her chopping board that she could bully at will. Ning Hanqi actually walked in front of her.
The distance was very close, so close that she could pierce her heart with just a raised hand. The human body is fragile. If she could learn from Ning Hanqi and trick the other party into letting down her guard, would she have a chance to succeed?
Xia Yingnuan's eyes were red as if blood could drip out. Even though such thoughts came to her mind, she still just watched Ning Hanqi walk step by step to her. The other party held her hand and placed the ring in her palm. For some reason, Ning Hanqi's hand holding the ring was shaking violently.
After getting her precious ring back, Xia Yingnuan directly shook off Ning Hanqi's hand.
She looked at Ning Hanqi warily. As the corpse was destroyed and the copy entered the countdown to collapse, the power that was dependent on the copy in her body was gradually deprived. Before long, her half-ghost appearance could no longer be maintained. As the dirty power from this copy dissipated, Xia Yingnuan returned to her original appearance.
Even the makeup she had previously maintained with the help of ghost power disappeared. What Ning Hanqi said before was right. After removing the makeup, she looked more pure and less fierce and charming. That kind of pure desire was even more touching. Except for her slightly paler face, she really looked exactly like a human being now.
Another thing that might make Xia Yingnuan angry is that the redness of her eyes is more obvious now, making her look a little more pitiful.
If she knew what she looked like now, she would probably turn around and leave. In any case, she was unwilling to expose her vulnerability in front of Ning Hanqi, the liar.
"If you don't leave, then stay and die with me." Xia Yingnuan gritted her teeth. She did not hesitate to use the most malicious thoughts to speculate Ning Hanqi's thoughts. She even suspected that Ning Hanqi had an extremely bad mentality, so he wanted to watch her die in agony with his own eyes.
"Nothing will happen to you, Nuannuan." Xia Yingnuan didn't believe a word of her comfort.
But I don’t know if it was Xia Yingnuan’s illusion, Ning Hanqi’s voice was a little strange, and his breathing was a little short when he spoke, as if he was enduring something.
There seemed to be some cold sweat on her forehead, and she was in a very bad condition.
Thinking of this, Xia Yingnuan wanted to slap herself to wake herself up. She was still subconsciously caring about this liar. It turned out that the stab of the knife was not painful enough. She deserved to be deceived again and again!
Xia Yingnuan was angry at herself for not fighting back, so she naturally took out her anger on a certain liar. "Are you going to die? Remember to stay away and don't dirty my land."
She thought Ning Hanqi would at least be a little unhappy, and even so, she still won half a game. However, the other party's temper might be terribly stable. He actually laughed out loud when he heard such a provocation from her. It was not a sneer, but more like a smile with some relief.
Is she crazy?
The next second, Ning Hanqi suddenly hugged her. Xia Yingnuan subconsciously wanted to struggle but found that she could not move.
Ning Hanqi understood her inner resistance, but she didn't let go. She patted Xia Yingnuan's back again and again like coaxing a child, "I know you won't believe anything I say now, but I promise you that I won't hurt you, and you'll be fine. Get some sleep, and you'll be fine soon."
"I don't believe you."
"Yeah, I know." The figure in Ning Hanqi's arms gradually faded away, and finally all that fell into her hands was the doll she made by herself and a ring.
At this moment, Ning Hanqi could no longer hold on. She fell to her knees as if exhausted. Because she subconsciously protected the doll, she could only barely support her body with one hand.
"Tick-tock, tick-tock..."
Red blood flowers bloomed on the ground.
The corpse not far from her gradually turned into powder with the wind. The copy was collapsing. Without Xia Yingnuan's power to support it, the ball of light that illuminated Ning Hanqi also dissipated.
In the pitch darkness, there were only the trembling breathing of humans and the painful groans that seemed to be grinded out from between teeth.
In this dungeon, the NPC's identity is determined only by the skin. As for what is inside, other ghosts don't care.
"Go and watch other employees work first." The foreman said to the new supervisor.
"Okay." Sister Yang was indeed very obedient and left the office without asking any questions.
"You've replaced more than a dozen of them. You'd rather put up with those weirdos than take that position yourself?" The number of more than a dozen was slightly beyond Xia Yingnuan's expectations, which meant that he had to endure at least a dozen weird bosses, and finally replaced them when he couldn't stand it anymore. This kind of patience impressed Gui.
"It's not so easy to wear someone else's skin. Once you put it on, you can no longer be yourself. I don't like the feeling of being out of control, so I'd rather be a little troublesome." The foreman also had his helplessness. Then he took out a key and handed a document he had prepared earlier to Xia Yingnuan.
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