Chapter 88 Chapter 88 "Bad"
In just a moment, the message on Xiang Tianyi's mobile phone was sent.
She not only sent it to Luo Qing, but also to Liu Yanran and the player group.
Xiang Tianyi sat in the coffin, hugging the coffin board. The wreath she had taken off was now put on her head again. She was fully armed and ready to fight!
Well, this was the first time she had encountered such a thing as a collapsed ceiling.
This unfinished house has now become a real unfinished house.
The ceiling collapsed, and dust and various debris, ceiling boards, plasterboards... were scattered all over the floor. Xiang Tianyi clearly saw a strange creature crawling out from among these waste building materials.
Perhaps, it would be more appropriate to call it weird.
That thing, it's a bit like... a lump.
She was holding the coffin lid. If this thing was about to come in, Xiang Tianyi would activate the coffin lid's weird shooting skills.
Of course, it wasn't a pile of feces, but something black, like a shadow, crawling out from the mess in the ceiling and running towards the door at a rapid speed.
Xiang Tianyi was stunned. She was holding the coffin lid. She didn't know what this weird thing was, but it didn't come to attack her?
Could it be that this thing is just a feint?
She didn't dare to relax, and moved one hand from the coffin to the wreath hanging around her neck.
This strange shadow-like creature seemed to have no intention of paying any attention to Xiang Tianyi. It kept pushing its way to the door and squirming in front of it.
Then, it stopped.
Xiang Tianyi was highly alert. What are you doing? What are you doing? What do you want to do?
I saw this strange thing suddenly change from a flat shadow on the ground to a standing state, a bit like a piece of paper.
Because it was a black lump, Xiang Tianyi couldn't tell whether it had eyes or not.
She raised the coffin lid higher and higher in her hand, ready to attack at any time.
When Xiang Tianyi saw the top of this thing, perhaps the part of his brain moved towards her, then turned towards the door and moved towards it.
She was confused. What did it mean? It didn't seem like it had any intention of attacking her.
The strange thing moved again, still at the security door. The black paper squirmed out a sharp corner, pointed in the direction of Xiang Tianyi, then turned towards the door and pointed again.
Xiang Tianyi felt that he understood. This was strange. Was it asking him to open the door and let it out?
But, if I went to open the door, would it attack me? More importantly, what was this weird thing planning to do? Was it going to knock on other people's doors and harass the residents?
No, although this thing doesn’t look aggressive now, Xiang Tianyi doesn’t dare to let it out casually.
The two of them were in a stalemate, with Xiang Tianyi still sitting in the coffin without moving.
The strange creature became a little anxious and moved forward two steps. Thinking that Xiang Tianyi still didn't understand what it meant, it made a new move.
It compressed and reorganized itself with great difficulty, and the black mass squirmed like liquid, and finally, it struggled to form a word on the ground.
【open】
It "stood up" from the ground little by little, tremblingly, as if performing some difficult movements.
After making sure Xiang Tianyi could see clearly, the strange creature suddenly lost its energy and fell to the ground, turning into a wriggling black shadow again.
It seemed to slow down for a moment, then struggled to utter a word.
【Door】
Okay, now Xiang Tianyi completely understood.
This guy really wants to leave, and he still has some intelligence to recognize words!
She knew that it was no longer possible to pretend that she didn't understand, so she climbed out of the coffin holding the coffin lid.
The creature was obviously very excited and jumped towards the door, waiting to go out like a puppy.
At this moment, there was a knock on Xiang Tianyi's door.
"Xiao Xiang, are you okay?"
She heard Luo Qing's voice.
This weirdness was also heard.
The moment Xiang Tianyi stretched out his hand to open the door, the moment the door appeared a crack, the monster "whoosh" rushed out.
Then, Luo Qing stepped on this thing.
"Huh——" Her tone rose, and she saw Xiang Tianyi, who was holding the coffin and unharmed, behind the open door.
After Luo Qing stepped on it, Xiang Tian saw the strange thing lying motionless on the ground.
"The ceiling fell down and that thing fell out, but I was not hurt in the coffin." Xiang Tianyi said.
"This thing didn't attack me, and kept signaling me to open the door for it."
In front of Luo Qing, she did not use the word "weird". After all, who knows if the native in front of her is super weird?
"Oh my god, husband, this ceiling is too fragile." Luo Qing stared at the mess in the small house in amazement.
She originally came here in anger. After all, if the ceiling fell down, what would happen to her tenant Xiao Xiang? However, Xiang Tianyi's calm tone did cool her down a little.
But at this moment, seeing the mess on the ground caused by the collapsed ceiling, if it weren't for this coffin, Xiao Xiang would have suffered serious injuries!
Luo Qing's anger rose again!
She looked at the culprit, the thing that was currently being held in her husband's hand.
"Honey, don't let this thing play dead." She said angrily.
This was not the first time Xiang Tianyi had met Luo Qing’s husband. Before, when they were in Yinhuai Village, it was this man who sent a plaid shirt back to where they lived at the time.
Her heart suddenly paused.
etc!
In Yinhuai Village, Gezishan and Zhang Wei disappeared after the "Worship Moon-Locust" ceremony.
Afterwards, the tour guide said that their tour group always had only five people.
However, after Plaid Shirt fell and was injured in the back mountain, it was clearly Luo Qing's husband who brought him down and sent him to the village clinic, and then carried him back to the farmhouse where the players were living at the time.
The tour guide's memory seemed to have been wiped clean, but what about her husband? In her husband's memory, how many people were there in the tour group?
Or maybe... they knew the player was dead, but pretended not to know?
Xiang Tianyi's mind was racing when he saw Luo Qing's husband bring up that strange thing.
"It's a little delinquent, wife, and he can't afford to pay for it." He said helplessly.
Xiang Tianyi didn't dare to say a word, just listened secretly. "Little bad guy", is this a weird kind, or a name? Little should refer to size, so is the actual name of this thing "bad guy"?
Her mind was in turmoil, and she began to think about the posts she had read on the forum before.
Sister Xiao Liu said that on the first night she stayed there, she heard a knock on the door, but she didn't dare go out to check or open the door. When she opened the door, Luo Qing appeared.
Afterwards, the group of players in the wedding banquet dungeon also encountered a similar hair monster that came out of the sewer.
But in the end, Luo Qing overturned the entire community's sewer with a toilet plunger, and even his hair was gone.
But now, the weirdness is held in the hands of Luo Qing's husband, and the two of them don't seem to intend to do anything about it. Is it because they can tell whether this thing is aggressive or not?
At this moment, Xiang Tianyi could even clearly see that this thing called "bad", a sticky and wriggling black mass, seemed to be shedding tears.
Drop by drop, black liquid dripped from its body, faster and faster, as if it was wailing.
It was the first time that Xiang Tianyi saw such a strange scene.
It can understand what they say, recognize words, and has its own consciousness.
"Sister Luo Qing, was this thing trapped in the ceiling and unable to get out?"
Xiang Tianyi thought for a moment and then spoke.
This unfinished house was obviously uninhabited before, and no one knew how long it had been empty, so the thing in the ceiling had never been discovered.
"Or was it hidden there on purpose?"
Xiang Tianyi inexplicably thought of hiding the body in the ceiling.
This weird thing called "Little Bad" is really a "little Karami" compared to the weird natives she saw in her safe home.
Xiang Tian shed more tears when he saw the little bad boy.
Luo Qing put her hands on her hips, and it was obvious that she was in a bad mood. However, she spoke to Xiang Tian in a gentle manner: "Xiao Xiang, the ceiling has fallen down, and you can't sleep here tonight. I'll find you another room."
"Um... Boss, how about letting her stay with me for one night?" Tian Fang appeared at the door on the third floor at some point and quietly poked her head in.
Luo Qing was stunned when she saw Tian Fang appear, then turned to look at Xiang Tianyi: "Xiao Xiang, you..."
"I'll sleep with my aunt for one night. The ceiling has collapsed, so we just need to clear out the garbage. I don't need to move houses. Without the ceiling, the floor height will be higher and more comfortable." Xiang Tianyi said.
The tenant was easy to talk to, and there was also a new employee who came to help, so Luo Qing breathed a sigh of relief.
"Hubby, don't worry about it for now. Help Xiao Xiang carry the coffin up."
"No, no, I can do this myself. It's easy."
The existing three-piece funeral set is Xiang Tianyi's binding prop. She can retract and deploy it freely, and with her current strength, she can easily carry a coffin.
Xiang Tianyi directly pulled his coffin over, put the coffin lid in his hand on top, and lifted it up.
"Auntie Tian, thank you for your help tonight."
"No trouble, no trouble."
"By the way, how did you get down here?" Xiang Tianyi asked Tian Fang.
"Xiao Liu sent me a message. When I opened the door, I found that the neighbor opposite also opened the door. When I went downstairs, I found that all these neighbors had opened the door." Tian Fang said.
"Ah?" Xiang Tian was stunned. Why did the other natives open the door?
Walking from the third floor to the fifth floor, Xiang Tianyi saw that the strange natives living on these three floors were secretly peeking through the cracks in the door to observe the situation outside.
"Um, may I ask, what happened downstairs? Why did Xiao Qing come here?" The owner of 501 who lived opposite Aunt Tian Fang's room raised his hand quietly.
"The ceiling of the house I rented in Room 303 collapsed, and there's something inside. What's it called? " Xiang Tianyi said while carrying the coffin on his back.
"Bad boy?!" The resident of 501, who was still wearing a facial mask and a hair cap, shouted out immediately.
"Thank you. Got it."
Xiang Tianyi saw her immediately go in through the door, which was still half open, and he didn't know what she was doing.
【Ping An Home Family Group X (500)】
[The weak couple on the third floor of her house]: What’s going on? My sister and brother-in-law are coming downstairs and they look furious. Everyone, be alert and prepare for defense!
[Building 9 - No Late Night Snacks]: [Shivering]
[11-1-701]: I just want to say that it seems like there are quite a few new tenants today. But while my sister was away traveling, didn't the temporary security team at the complex already check everything out?
[Building 3 - I'm Not Crazy]: Yeah, that shouldn't be the case. The butcher and I checked everything out. Could someone have brought him in? An undercover agent?
【12-2-501】：I heard from the new tenant that he is a bad tenant.
【12-2-501】：Hidden in the ceiling.
[AA professional pig butchers, come to me]: Hiss, that girl wouldn’t get angry over an ant that can be crushed to death with one foot.
[12-2-501]: But the ceiling of the house I just rented out is gone. I feel like there's a wave of aftershocks. Be prepared for aftershocks.
[God rewards hard work]: The whole family has temporarily moved into the corridor. I am afraid that the ceiling will collapse and I won’t be able to sleep tonight.
[Barbell Expert]: There are still bad ones these days? Holy shit, who just released these? Or are they just old stock? This is so unethical! The penalties for littering bad ones are written into the Public Security Law!
Ping'an Home was exceptionally quiet tonight. In a neighborhood group where Luo Qing was not present, residents had been discussing the matter for most of the night, but they still had not seen the aftermath of tonight's event.
In Unit 2, Room 503, Building 12, where Aunt Tian Fang rented a house and had the living room all to himself, Xiang Tianyi, lying in the coffin, couldn't sleep at all.
On her phone, she was sending messages to Liu Yanran.
Bad, bad, Xiang Tianyi kept trying to figure out the meaning of this word in his mind.
Literally, bad means "bad things".
Is such a weird thing also a bad thing in the eyes of the natives of this strange city?
Xiang Tianyi felt that her thoughts were a little confused, so she temporarily put the things in Yinhuai Village behind her.
Weird, what is weird?
Weird, odd, and out of the ordinary are called weird.
Different, distinguishable, and strange are called "different".
After this special world was connected with reality and humans were pulled into the copy, Xiang Tianyi didn't know who came up with the definition of weird. It seemed like someone had called it that from the beginning.
Anything in the dungeon that shows malice towards the players, is bizarre, has special and extraordinary ideas and means, and is tangible and visible, is usually called weird by players.
Before Luo Qing appeared in the vision of a large number of players, players uniformly called those human-shaped or human-like people living in dungeons NPCs. It was not until recently that they discovered that there was a unified world and city in the dungeon, which was a connected whole, that they changed the term to indigenous people.
If Xiang Tianyi were to say it now, the locust tree she encountered in Yinhuai Village was absolutely weird!
But the strange-looking indigenous people in these Ping'an Home communities made her a little hesitant. From their appearance, they had strange features, but some of the indigenous people looked no different from ordinary humans.
The thing that came out of the ceiling tonight was definitely weird by the players' standards.
But the indigenous people call it "bad", and they are fully aware of its existence.
Do the natives of this strange world have their own set of standards for distinction?
Because she brought the coffin up, Xiang Tianyi had no idea how Luo Qing and her husband dealt with that "bad guy".
She remembered that Luo Qing's husband said he couldn't afford the compensation for this little thing.
Xiang Tianyi couldn't help but think about it. She didn't seem to have seen anything similar in her previous copies.
This "bad guy" has been hiding in the ceiling. It is a creature that has existed for a long time.
In the message she sent to Sister Xiao Liu, Liu Yanran knew nothing about this "bad guy" and was even shocked.
[Sister Xiao Liu]: In my personal experience, I have not encountered the bad things you mentioned. Among the more than 30 fellow villagers who started renting houses in Ping An Home, you should be the first one to encounter this thing.
[Sister Xiao Liu]: But I'm not sure. The "drain hair" that three fellow villagers encountered while renting a house after the wedding banquet might be real, but it might not be.
Xiang Tianyi: I think the key point is that the "bad guy" I encountered didn't show any hostility towards me from the beginning to the end, and was always trying to open the door and leave. But the one my fellow villagers encountered at the wedding banquet was aggressive.
[Sister Xiao Liu]: In short, your experience tonight will be reported. My personal knowledge is limited, so I suggest you ask an authoritative expert after you go home.
Considering that this is the Ghost City app, they did not talk directly about weirdness and players, but used aliases instead.
In the dungeon, sometimes when the natives are not convenient to speak, some pronouns are used. Fellow villagers refer to players, after get off work means completing the dungeon, the end of the holiday means the end of the cooling-off period, authoritative experts refer to the official, fellow villagers group refers to the forum, and universal netizens refer to the players in the forum.
Xiang Tianyi originally thought that he would return to reality tomorrow to settle the dungeon and then return to Guicheng. Now it seems that this plan will be temporarily shelved.
As the only "bad" observer, she would probably have to spend some time with the expert group after returning to reality, as plans could not keep pace with changes.
After chatting with Liu Yanran for a while, Xiang Tian closed half of the coffin lid, leaving only the upper part for the head to breathe. She closed her eyes and fell asleep in seconds.
*
In Unit 601, Building 9, Luo Qing had no desire to sleep.
Her husband was preparing pre-cooked meals for her at home, while she was using her notebook to look up housing listings in the Harmonious Community.
Because it was common for things to happen at night when a large number of tenants came, Luo Qing stayed up that night.
Because it was an unfinished house, Xiang Tianyi decided to rent it very quickly. He only looked at the whole house for a few minutes, and Luo Qing had no idea that there was a defect hidden in the ceiling.
What a shame, what a shame!
This happened because Xiao Xiang was used to sleeping in a coffin instead of a bed. Otherwise, if it fell on the tenant, it wouldn't matter if he had to pay compensation, but the most important thing was to worry about people getting hurt.
Luo Qing lay down and sighed, Yan Fufeng gently rubbed his temples.
"Husband, what do you think he was thinking? He moved out and released a bad guy into my life, hiding him in the ceiling so I can't see him." Luo Qing said in an incredible tone.
"At least release it where the Urban Management Brigade can see it, and sign a consent form. Hiding it like this is incredible."
"It was like a bolt from the blue, causing all the trouble tonight. Maybe he originally wanted to come back, but forgot about it after a long time, or he kept it on purpose." Yan Fufeng said.
"I'll transfer the mental damage compensation to Xiao Xiang tomorrow morning. As for the money for the ceiling, let's see whether she wants to put it up or not, or buy her something else." Luo Qing said.
If Xiao Xiang was hit by the ceiling and got hurt, how could she still rent a house?
She suddenly pushed her husband's hand away and sat up quickly from the bed.
"Husband, tell me, is there anyone trying to sabotage my rental business?"
Yan Fufeng thought for a moment and said, "From the owners' group, the neighbors in the community have no objections and are very eager for tenants to move in. Based on the normal aging of the house, sewer backflow and ceiling collapse are also possible causes of years of aging. Isolated evidence is not enough."
"That's true." Luo Qing touched his chin.
She has indeed rented out quite a lot of houses recently. Old houses are rarely perfect, and no one has lived in them for a long time. The house has lacked popularity, and any damage cannot be discovered in time, so an incident occurs every few days, which makes Luo Qing feel that it is a bit too frequent.
The second day.
Early in the morning, Yan Fufeng gathered a team of warm, kind and helpful neighbors in the community to clear out the construction debris caused by the collapsed ceiling. He then said that he would be on a business trip for more than ten days and asked the neighbors to take care of him.
Brother Wang, who had just finished transporting a truckload of garbage with him, almost knelt down in front of him. "Brother-in-law, I know you're busy, but can you come back earlier? Try to come home as early as possible."
"Brother-in-law, I have a great job. Ask me if I'm interested. I'll be taking a group to Happy Amusement Park and providing customized tour guides! I'll pay one hundred and fifty per tourist, no, two hundred! A group must have at least ten tourists."
"Brother-in-law, you left tonight. Are you sure there are no aftershocks?"
Yan Fufeng looked at them helplessly. "You said my wife has a bad temper. Last night, that bad guy was dealt with according to the Public Security Punishment Law. The normal procedures were followed, and he also compensated for the damage. My wife won't be angry anymore."
"Don't worry, don't worry. Please give me the details of the work at Happy Amusement Park." Yan Fufeng thought for a while.
"It seems some of the tenants are also going to work part-time at the amusement park recently. If my wife is willing to take care of them, she might be willing to take them."
"Okay, okay, I'll send it to you right away."
Luo Qing sent a message to Xiang Tianyi early in the morning, but little Xiang didn't seem to wake up. She was not in a hurry, but instead contacted Aunt Tian Fang, who had signed the contract yesterday, and transferred 1,000 ghost coins to her as funds for purchasing cleaning tools for the cleaner.
It would be better to give Xiao Xiang compensation for mental damages directly in the form of a physical white envelope, which would add a sense of ceremony. Direct transfer of money would be a bit perfunctory and show no sincerity.
While she was eating breakfast, she saw her husband sent her a message saying that the ceiling cleaning was done and he still needed to do some more cleaning. His good neighbor, Uncle Tan, had introduced her to a part-time job as a tour guide at an amusement park.
Luo Qing chewed the steamed bun. Two hundred per person, and a group of ten people would make two thousand a day, which was enough for a month’s rent. This was what she got directly. Take it!
Come to think of it, she hasn't been to the amusement park for a long time.
At this moment, she saw that Xiao Xiang had replied to the message. Luo Qing finished the last piece of steamed bun in her hand, threw the pots and pans into the dishwasher, washed her hands, and went downstairs with the things.
"Sister, are you going to the store?" Liu Yanran from the fifth floor had just come out.
"Xiao Liu, you go first. I'll go to Xiao Xiang." Luo Qing said.
Liu Yanran said "Oh" and said with her, "Xiao Xiang told me that there was a problem in her ceiling."
"Sister, this is something that we country people have never seen before. What is it?" Between cautious testing and asking directly, Liu Yanran decided to give it directly.
Rather than guessing endlessly with them, she wanted to bet that her sister would give a reference answer directly.
Luo Qing hummed "hmm" when he heard that and asked a completely unrelated question.
"Did you have your appendix removed?"
Liu Yanran was stunned.
"If the appendix becomes inflamed, it needs to be removed, right?" Luo Qing asked.
"Bad means something bad, something that has been taken away," she said.
Liu Yanran's pupils shrank slightly, so what sister meant was that this so-called "bad guy" was the unwanted part that the weird natives cut off from their bodies?
No, don't you have a hospital? Do you throw away the broken parts like that? And even throw them in the ceiling?
Liu Yanran thought about it and realized that if that was the case, she knew why her sister didn't get angry last night.
Who would be angry with someone whose appendix had been removed? Luo Qing went downstairs very quickly. She left Liu Yanran behind and walked towards Building 12. Liu Yanran looked at her back and felt that her sister was walking so fast, as if she didn't want her to continue asking questions.
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