Chapter 89 Chapter 89 (Part 1)
June 8th.
In Building No. 12, Luo Qing handed the thick white bag in his hand to Xiang Tianyi.
The remnants of the suspended ceiling in the house on the third floor have been cleaned up completely. The suspended ceiling has disappeared, and the cement floor and cement walls make the house feel more like an unfinished house.
"Xiao Xiang, this is compensation for mental damage. If you don't plan to install a suspended ceiling, I will buy you some more furniture for your daily life." Luo Qing looked at Xiang Tianyi.
Xiang Tianyi had already moved her coffin back. After hearing Luo Qing's words, she fell into deep thought.
For her, a house is just a place to live, where she can sleep and eat.
An idea suddenly struck her, and she said to Luo Qing, "Sister, look at my coffin. Is it missing a bedside?"
bedside?
Luo Qing looked at Xiang Tianyi's coffin without much thought. "So, do you want a custom tombstone?"
Xiang Tianyi immediately clapped his hands: "That's right, I also want to get an enlarged personal photo to hang on the wall."
"Sure." Luo Qing agreed immediately.
"Then you can choose the stone. I'd like to think about providing you with a complete package of tombstone and photos. Do you want to bring your own photos, or have one taken on-site?"
"Let's shoot a new one." Xiang Tianyi said.
"Okay, are you in a hurry? I'll find a photo studio. You can look through catalogs and materials there to choose the stone for the tombstone. You can also have the photos made into black and white, color, or laser flashcards."
Luo Qing pushed a business card to Xiang Tianyi on her phone. "Just add this. Ruyi Photo Studio. I've made the appointment with her. You can go any time."
Xiang Tian nodded. She would soon separate from Luo Qing and take the subway back to reality, so she definitely couldn't go today.
Luo Qing made some arrangements for Xiang Tianyi and then returned home. With Liu Yanran guarding the store, she was not in a hurry.
Well, she first needs to study her job as a tour guide at Happy Amusement Park tomorrow. It has been so long since she last went to the park, so the activities will probably remain the same, and the map will remain the same.
However, she would not do a part-time job as a group tour guide at Happy Amusement Park for a long time. The main reason is that she is leading a lot of tourists, and playing in the amusement park for a whole day requires walking a lot, which is a very physically demanding task.
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Before leaving his unfinished house, Xiang Tianyi took a careful look at the room.
The bathroom still lacks a hair dryer, and she can sleep in a coffin. What she lacks is kitchen utensils. She plans to bring an electric rice cooker and a wok from reality. The electric rice cooker can not only cook, but also make soup by high-pressure braising meat. She is not a good cook, and usually at home she just makes some vegetable and shredded pork noodles for herself. She only needs one set of bowls and chopsticks.
Anyway, there is nothing weird in this house now, and she will be the only one living here from now on.
Well, at most you can bring one more suitcase to carry all your clothes for the four seasons. A suitcase is like a small coffee table, which can be used to store things and also as a dining table.
Xiang Tianyi took stock in her mind and thought about it. She did not take her coffin with her. She changed into normal clothes and went downstairs.
On her phone, she did not forget to send messages to Liu Yanran and Tian Fang. This time, when she returned to reality, considering that she had to report the copy records of the [Seventh Middle School] to the authorities, and also talk about the "bad" rental situation, she would have to stay in reality for two days.
Sister Xiao Liu sent her the latest information about "bad things", which made Xiang Tianyi scratch his hair.
This explains that “bad” means medical waste?
But this medical waste can cry, communicate, has intelligence, and can even read, which makes people think more.
These traits are more like a part of a person.
Is the "bad" part deliberately cut off by the strange, the unwanted part? Or is it that for some special reason, the aboriginal strange had to remove a part of their body to become "bad", and at the same time, they also gave up some of their own memories or emotions?
Xiang Tianyi didn’t know, and she didn’t completely believe Luo Qing’s answer.
The existence of "bad" should be something that the strange indigenous people know in common, but they maintain a tacit understanding among the group. If Xiang Tianyi asks other indigenous people, it would probably be difficult to get a more accurate answer.
What the weird world shows to players is just what they want players to see.
In the past, we didn’t want players to know that this was a connected world, so players could only stay in and see the situation of the dungeon they were in.
Therefore, for the "bad" answer given by Luo Qing, Xiang Tianyi chose to believe it 50%.
It was not yet ten o'clock in the morning when Xiang Tianyi returned to reality. She first went to the Special Affairs Bureau. As expected, she stayed in the bureau for most of the day and had lunch and dinner.
By the time she returned home and opened the Rugui Forum, it was already eight o'clock in the evening.
"Further Evidence Screening of Copies of Harmonious Community Cleaning Project Copies"
I wonder if there are other natives roaming around in dungeons?
"I'm going to find a way to rent a house after entering the dungeon tomorrow. Please give me your blessing."
Xiang Tianyi was not in a hurry to post his own message, but first browsed the large number of recent hot posts on the forum.
She had been at No. 7 Middle School for five days. Although she had received some information from Sister Xiao Liu and other players yesterday, it was relayed after all. It was better to get information directly from them.
What Xiang Tianyi was most concerned about was the recent changes in the strange world. She focused on screening out changes in copies, posts related to Luo Qing, house rental posts, job search posts, as well as some widely discussed high-rise buildings and meaningful speculations.
Xiang Tianyi was the first to click on the post discussing the Harmonious Community Cleaning Project.
The author of the main post is not a player participating in this dungeon, but has opened a separate discussion forum.
[Original Poster]: Did everyone read the post about the [Harmonious Community Cleaning Project] dungeon? The big data filtering we speculated about dungeons is real! For property managers, plumbers, cleaners, and janitors, the dungeon directly filters players who have actually worked in related professions!!! Does this mean that in future dungeons, we're more likely to be assigned to dungeons related to our past jobs? Of course, if the spooky dungeon is even more malicious, we might end up in an entirely unrelated dungeon.
[There were so many of them, 20 per dungeon, and they were all unscathed. I'm really envious. But I can't understand why most of them came out, especially since some players were taking them to rent a room in Ping'an Garden.]
I'm particularly interested in the assistance provided by the natives to the players in this Harmonious Community dungeon, navigating the challenges they face. This is especially true of the photo of the native Luo Qing (PS: I'm personally very curious). As soon as the photo of Luo Qing was shown, the natives in Harmonious Community recognized her. This suggests that Luo Qing is quite recognizable in Ghost City, and she's likely a high-level spook. Of course, we don't yet know how the identities of the natives in Ghost City are determined.
What you said is a bit scary. I was a student before entering the dungeon. I had just been admitted to university and didn't have a job. So if I were assigned to the dungeon, what kind of job would I be assigned? Or would I go to university to study?
I've suddenly come up with a rather outrageous hypothesis. In previous posts, some fellow players have suggested that the strange world is recruiting us from the real world as a labor force to immigrate and work. If the dungeons we experienced before were meant to help us adapt to the strange world, then isn't the current "screening" a tacit revelation? They're simply creating a detailed division of labor, forcing players to work there, first acclimating them to the environment, and then adapting to the strange world's alternative "cleaning" and "security" jobs.
I feel like this "Harmonious Community Cleaning Project" dungeon might have another hidden meaning: it's offering players a choice: find a job, or continue in the dungeon. If players actively seek a job, they can choose a job different from their previous profession. If they don't, will the dungeon just throw them into a class-specific dungeon next time?
The discussion in the post was very lively. Xiang Tianyi held a lollipop in his mouth and opened the interfaces of multiple posts at the same time for quick browsing.
After gaining some information that he had not known in the past five days, Xiang Tianyi began typing quickly, typing out his experiences at the Seventh Middle School and the night he rented the house afterwards, and integrating them into a new post.
Especially regarding the "bad" information, Xiang Tianyi gave a detailed description and asked if other players had seen similar existence.
While waiting for a reply to the post, Xiang Tianyi took a quick shower.
After she came back from blow-drying her hair, she refreshed the post and saw 99+ replies.
Xiang Tianyi swiped the mouse and saw a familiar reply ID. It was... Murphy!
The strategy guide for Yinhuai Village was originally posted by Mo Fei. Although it was unclear why the other party did not report to the official Special Affairs Bureau, Xiang Tianyi and the other party had added each other as friends on the Rugui Forum.
Murphy obviously sent her a private message at this moment.
[Murphy]: Congratulations on going home, Tianyi.
[Murphy]: Do you have any more information about the "bad" creatures you saw while renting this time?
Xiang Tianyi: Thank you. I've posted all the information I know so far in the thread. Have you seen it?
[Murphy]: I'm not sure, because it's been a long time, and we all regarded these things as weird.
[Murphy]: I’ve seen so many weird things in the past few years, [bitter smile] I can’t remember them all.
Mo Fei replied to Xiang Tianyi's message word by word, and rubbed his temples with both hands.
In fact, the message he replied to Xiang Tianyi was probably only half true.
He wasn't sure, but he actually remembered it very clearly.
Murphy's "golden finger", the fortune dice that can be rolled once every three days, was triggered after he was pulled into the strange copy.
To be specific, it was triggered on the first night of his first dungeon, when he encountered something strange.
Murphy always thought that he was in a life-and-death crisis and triggered the golden finger.
But the "bad" behavior described in Xiang Tianyi's post made him recall that night when someone mysteriously entered his room and his bed, even crawled to his side and touched Murphy's hands and face.
He had excellent eyesight and night vision since he was a child, so even though it was pitch dark at the time, he still had some impression.
The strange thing did not hurt him. It was like a ball of nothingness in the dark night. He dared not move at that time, but he could clearly feel the strange sticky and rough organ touching him.
The thing gradually wrapped around Murphy's palm, and he was scared to death.
And at that moment, Murphy used his golden finger.
He rolled the dice at lightning speed and landed a lucky 5! Seconds later, the door was knocked open by other players in the dungeon, who came to rescue him.
And that strange thing did not cause any actual harm to Murphy, and it never appeared again in the later part of that copy.
The "bad guy" described by Xiang Tianyi is literate, intelligent, and able to communicate. But when Mo Fei first met him, he always thought it was a weirdo who wanted to hurt him, but after the cheat code was triggered and his teammates saved him, it never appeared again.
If Xiang Tianyi hadn't specifically mentioned in the post that "no harm was caused to the players", Murphy would never have thought about such a long-ago experience.
But when he thought about this memory, Murphy, who has been playing for nearly three years, couldn't help but feel his legs shaking.
Is his “three-day fortune dice” really a “golden finger” triggered by himself?
Murphy and Xiang Tianyi chatted for a while. As both were surviving players in the Yinhuai Village dungeon and had a "golden finger", he had been observing the recent changes in the strange world.
Rent or not? Work or not?
For Murphy, what has always been troubling him is the "?" that appeared when he rolled the dice when he met Luo Qing.
He has been trying to figure out the meaning of the question mark "?". It represents the unknown and is also a variable.
Murphy was afraid that his peculiarity would be discovered, especially in Luo Qing, the unpredictable indigenous person.
But now it seems that he can't wait any longer.
Delay will lead to changes. The strange domain is constantly changing. The sooner you enter this vortex and enter it personally, the more you can find out everything, including the "fortune dice" on your body. If you don't enter the tiger's blood, how can you get the tiger cub!
Xiang Tianyi's post about "bad" naturally triggered a new wave of discussion among players in the Rugui forum, and even caused a lot of people to question whether this "bad" was made up by you.
Xiang Tianyi did not pay attention to or care about these replies that were not her priority.
She had to stay in reality for two more days in order to wait for more constructive replies and speculations in the post, as well as to check the official Special Affairs Bureau's copy record database.
June 9th, ghost city.
Luo Qing went out early in the morning fully armed to prepare for his part-time job and headed for Happy Amusement Park!
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