Chapter 223 Scavenger (19) Misfortune
Wei Wei couldn't believe that the scars on his face that were still firmly attached to him last night, the scars left by the dead, disappeared without a trace after a good night's sleep. He checked it over and over for five minutes, and looked at Gao Mengtang in surprise: "Mr. Blind, what's going on?"
"It's good that the scar has been removed. You are very beautiful. It's a pity to leave a scar." Gao Mengtang said with a smile.
“Thank you, but I’m really curious, how did you do that?”
Gao Mengtang recounted what happened on the ghost ship. When he heard about the transaction, Wei Wei frowned slightly: "What you are exchanging is the ability to deceive yourself?"
"Well, that's what he said."
"Are you feeling unwell at the moment?" Wei Wei asked carefully.
Gao Mengtang shook his head: "I don't feel any discomfort... and, I don't know if it's my illusion, but I think my eyesight is a little better? The eye-protecting blueberries are more effective."
The driver came to pick them up, and the two paused their conversation, got in the car, and headed to Ximing Medical College.
Chen Yuan's major is biochemistry, which is related to medicine. This winter vacation, he joined a research project team at Ximing Medical College to do experiments.
Ximing Medical College is very famous, not because it is a famous school, but because it has a mysterious subject - folk medicine. Chen Yuan is in the laboratory of this specialty.
According to legend, this academy uses human blood as medicine...
In real life, Gao Mengtang had heard about Ximing's campus ghost stories, but he didn't believe them at the time. But this was the Black Tower game instance, and Ximing Medical College appeared as a small map, so things became more believable.
While driving, the driver threw a backpack to them, which contained evidence that could be used to frame Chen Yuan. The driver asked them to find a chance to put it next to Chen Yuan.
"Be careful, use your little magic with caution," the driver said threateningly, "Don't reveal your identity and cause trouble for Lei Gong, otherwise... hey, you know how the miracle doctor died."
"Brother, what did Lei Gong arrange?" Tu Cheng naturally took a cigarette from Wei Wei and handed it to the driver. "What is our identity to enter the school? Will we be expelled as outsiders?"
The driver chuckled. “Don’t worry. Your new identities mean you’re very important people on campus. Without you, this campus won’t be better.”
"Are you a student?" Tu Cheng asked.
“It’s much more important than students.” the driver replied.
Tu Cheng looked quite happy. He said he had always wanted to go to university, but he had committed too many murders and could not take the college entrance examination. Once he sneaked into the university, but was chased out by the security guards before he could find the classroom.
When they arrived at the destination, the driver stopped the car in a remote place. The player then realized that the driver had not lied to him and that they were indeed crucial people - cleaners.
Well, without cleaning staff, the school would not be good.
Before entering the campus to report, the driver called Gao Mengtang aside and stuffed a small object into his hand: "This is given to you by Lei Gong. Take it. Don't lose it. Keep it with you."
It was a plush rabbit pendant, delicate and cute.
"Why?" Gao Mengtang held it up in front of his eyes and looked at it, a little confused.
Driver: "Leigong values you. I don't know why. Maybe because you are good-looking?"
Gao Mengtang was mistaken for a successful hollow man in the experiment. He looked like Lei Gong's adoptive father, so he deserved to be valued. But Gao Mengtang didn't ask that: "I want to know why Lei Gong asked me to carry it with me?"
"It's a good luck charm. It'll keep you alive," the driver said. "It'll protect you from a fatal blow."
Gao Mengtang didn't believe such nonsense.
If you are really afraid that he might get into an accident, why do you let him participate in the mission?
But Gao Mengtang smiled and put away the pendant: "I will carry it with me."
They reported to the administrative office, received their work clothes, and returned to the uniformly arranged accommodation, where 12 people lived in a room and the conditions were very ordinary.
There was suddenly a knock on the door and the miracle doctor slipped in. He was electrocuted to death by Lei Gong's high voltage electricity and then resurrected by Wei Wei, but Lei Gong didn't know and thought the miracle doctor was dead.
The other 10 players sat in the driver's car, and the miracle doctor hid in the trunk, and came to Ximing Medical College with them.
The doctor asked as soon as he entered the room: "What's going on? Are you the cleaning staff?"
Everyone talked about what happened. The doctor sighed and gloated: "I will accompany you to complete this mission. I will pretend to be a teacher's child. No one will suspect me."
After half an hour, someone came to assign tasks, including sweeping the men's toilet, sweeping fallen leaves, wiping the classroom blackboard, etc. Cleaning the toilet was the dirtiest and most tiring, so two people worked in a group, and the others were done by one person.
"I want to clean the toilet!" Gao Mengtang immediately raised his hand, "Awei, can you clean it with me?"
Wei Wei moved his lips as if he wanted to say "no", but he held back and nodded with difficulty.
"Okay, you two will clean the toilets." The person who assigned the work handed them two work badges and said, "Today, only the toilet in the Folk Medicine Building is not assigned. Go ahead, it's in the southwest corner of the school."
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"Why did you ask me to come down to clean the toilet?" Wei Wei glanced at the students passing by on both sides, "Why did the driver call you away alone just now?"
"I just wanted to talk to you about this, but I just couldn't find the right time. We all live in one dormitory, so I couldn't find the right time to talk to you." Gao Mengtang said, walking forward briskly, and suddenly, he stepped on a moving brick, lost his balance, and fell forward. Wei Wei quickly grabbed him.
Gao Mengtang moved his sore ankle and said, "My eyes are blurry, I didn't see clearly that there was a movable brick there... The driver called me away and gave me this little thing. It was given to me by the god of thunder, and I was asked to carry it with me."
"Plush toys?" Wei Wei ignored the "No Smoking Campus" sign and lit a cigarette. "What's the use?"
Gao Mengtang: "The good luck charm is said to be able to block a fatal blow."
He pinched and rubbed it, and found a hard spherical object in the cotton.
Wei Wei obviously didn't believe that this thing could bring good luck.
Soon, they were no longer in the mood to care about the plush pendants, because the men's restroom was dirtier than they had imagined.
Most of the students at Ximing Medical College are graduate students. The timing of the winter vacation depends on the mood of their tutors. Most students do not leave school, and the toilets are always crowded, making it inconvenient to use their skills.
Wei Wei was cleaning the mop head angrily. Just as he finished wiping the floor clean, a student walked in, leaving a row of dirty black footprints.
"Didn't school teach you to respect the fruits of others' labor?" Wei Wei stared at him. "What's your instructor's name?"
The boy had just taken off his pants and was standing in front of the urinal. When he heard this, he turned around with a look of astonishment. Under the sharp gaze of Wei Wei, he quickly slipped away.
"Avi, don't be like this..." Gao Mengtang comforted.
"I just mopped the floor!" Wei Wei's face was full of anger.
Gao Mengtang was somewhat helpless: "What I mean is, don't work so seriously. Our task is not to be a good cleaner and just do a good job. Whether the bathroom is clean or not will not affect our completion of the dungeon mission."
"...Oh." Wei Wei finally reacted and said blankly. He was used to being a winner. No matter what he did, he had to be more serious and better than others. Even if it was just sweeping the toilet.
He still cleaned up the row of footprints.
Gao Mengtang was unwilling to set foot in the public toilet area, holding a rag and wiping the faucet for the 20th time. When the class bell rang and no one was around, he immediately took out the plush pendant.
"I want to take it apart and take a look." Gao Mengtang rubbed his eyes and fiddled with the little thing. "Maybe there is something inside."
But what if something more terrible happens if the pendant is removed?
When he was struggling, Wei Wei handed him a coin: "One-time prop, [Problem Coin]"
The method of using the prop is very simple. When tossing a coin, silently recite the question in your mind. The front and back sides represent different answers.
The guidance of the question coin is likely to be correct. Moreover, the higher the luck value, the greater the probability of making a correct guidance. The lower the luck value, the smaller the probability of making a correct guidance.
Gao Mengtang's luck value is 50. In the Black Tower game, there are few people with a higher luck value than him.
"Open the front side and keep the back side." Gao Mengtang repeated it three times, tossed the coin and held it on the back of his hand.
I moved my hand away and looked at the front.
Gao Mengtang immediately took action, using scissors to pick up the thread and pull apart the cotton inside. There was a small dark red bead hidden inside, and the material could not be seen. After fiddling with it for a long time, he could not figure out what it was.
Gao Mengtang spent the entire afternoon soaking the beads in hot water and cold water, gently smashing them, throwing them on the ground... He tried countless methods but found no difference in the beads.
Gao Mengtang vaguely felt that something was not right... It seemed like something was missing this afternoon...
Gao Mengtang couldn't remember what it was exactly.
When it was time to get off work, it was already dark, and they went downstairs together and walked towards the dormitory.
The voice-activated light from the fourth floor to the second floor was broken, so the students who went downstairs together used the flashlights on their phones to illuminate the steps. Gao Mengtang was still holding the small bead and studying it.
When the flash passed over Gao Mengtang, a scream of "Ah" was heard behind him.
"What's wrong?"
The two turned their heads quickly and saw a student with a pale face and trembling lips: "Die, die..."
"What?" His classmates laughed and scolded, "Have you become stupid?"
The student's hands were shaking so much that he could hardly hold the phone. He pointed to the floor and said tremblingly: "Just now, I saw a word death on the floor!"
"Stop saying such unlucky things. Our profession is enough..." The man fell silent halfway through his words.
Gao Mengtang seemed to have thought of something, and tightly grasped the small bead. He pulled Wei Wei to a deserted place, turned on the flashlight, and shone it at the bead.
The light passed through the beads and projected onto the wall, forming a dense, blood-red "death" character!
The shadow was still moving, and every stroke was dripping blood.
Gao Mengtang quickly moved his phone away and took several deep breaths. "What good luck spell? It's clearly a bad luck spell. I tripped over some broken bricks on the way here. I guess this is what caused it."
"Throw it away? Carrying this thing with you..." Wei Wei suggested.
Before he finished speaking, Wei Wei suddenly stopped talking, and Gao Mengtang's face changed. They both thought of one thing at the same time:
If this plush pendant brings bad luck, then the guidance they just gave using the [Problem Coin] is... wrong?
They shouldn't have taken apart the pendant because that would likely lead to something even more horrible.
Wei Wei snatched the small bead, threw it away, dragged Gao Mengtang, and quickly returned to the dormitory.
Before he could catch his breath, the farmer came running back in a panic: "The miracle doctor is missing!"
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