Chapter 69 No Man's Land "I'll make him my dog!"...
"Hello Mr. Jiang, these are the clothes you ordered last night. Would you like me to put them back in your room for you?"
Jiang Yang, who was awakened by the doorbell, did not react for a moment. The servant in front of him was smiling stiffly, and next to him, wearing white gloves, were two mobile clothes racks full of clothes.
"My...mine?"
"Yes, Mr. Jiang, we've verified it, there won't be any problems."
The servant tried to enter forcefully, but Jiang Yang blocked him with her hand on the door frame. "Just leave it here for now, I'll handle it myself later."
"Okay, you can call me again if you need anything."
After saying that, he didn't leave immediately, but kept staring at Jiang Yang with a wide smile.
Jiang Yang snapped out of his daze and looked at the name tag on the other person's chest. He clicked on the panel, entered the number, and sent a tip. It was obvious to the naked eye that the corners of his mouth widened even more the moment he received the tip.
Jiang Yang pushed the cart back to her room and soon hung it all in the wardrobe.
The hotel inside the tower was one of the few places that Jiang Yang found relatively humane. The reason was that the rooms were linked to the player's identity. Therefore, when entering the trial, players could leave all their belongings in the room without worry and only needed to pay the rent for the actual stay in the room. When the room needed to be upgraded, the belongings would be replaced accordingly.
The wardrobe door was wide open. Jiang Yang sat back on the soft bed, her eyes fixed on it, her heart filled with hesitation.
The panel showed that Nan Ke had just asked him when he would get up and leave, so the clothes were obviously not bought by him.
So, perhaps only... Ji Yang remains?
But when I chatted with Ji Yang last night, he didn't mention that he would buy clothes and send them over.
Jiang Yang was conflicted. What if she was just imagining things...?
But if you take it too easily, wouldn't it seem very impolite...?
The young man stood up, his cheeks puffed out, and his fingers ran through the clothes carefully, selecting items.
Finally, he quickly took a few pieces off and threw them onto the bed. The camel-colored outfit on the white quilt resembled autumn leaves. He nodded in satisfaction, picked up the clothes and casually draped them over his arm, then turned and walked towards the bathroom.
When he came out of the restroom, he had tucked his white shirt into his dark brown suit pants. The young man's open collar revealed a small patch of his prominent collarbone. In front of the full-length mirror, he picked up his last wool coat, instantly covering the waistline cinched by the belt and the pert buttocks that were inadvertently outlined.
The clothes were bought almost exactly to Jiang Yang's size, and after putting them on, he casually called for the trial assistant.
The assistant took a picture of him, which was then sent directly to Ji Yang's chat box with the caption, "Shall I wash your clothes and give them to you?"
The photo naturally doesn't show Jiang Yangxin's selfie after changing his clothes; it shows the clothes he took off and left on the bed.
Now it's up to Ji Yang himself to admit it.
After tidying everything up, Jiang Yang also received a message from Nan Ke.
It only has two simple words: "restaurant".
...
But as Jiang Yang stepped into the restaurant, the first thing she heard was Hoshino's voice.
Hoshino shouted at the top of her lungs, "Jiang Yang, why aren't you replying to my messages? Why aren't you replying even though you've read them!"
The sound attracted the attention of other players. Jiang Yang took two quick steps under pressure and finally rushed over to stop Xingye before he could speak, saying, "I forgot, I forgot."
After sitting down, a waiter handed over the menu. Nan Ke gestured with her chin towards Xing Ye and said, "Order whatever you want. It's on him."
Jiang Yang didn't stand on ceremony after hearing this. She lowered her head and poked the menu several times before handing it back. After the waiter left, she turned to Xingye and suddenly remembered to ask, "What are you doing here?"
"miss you."
He spoke with a smile, but before Jiang Yang could react, Nan Ke punched him first.
Hoshino slammed his fist on the table, stood up, and yelled, "Are you crazy?! Do you want to fight?!"
Nan Ke added coldly, "You can't beat me."
Hoshino rolled up his sleeves in a fit of impotent rage: "What do you mean! A one-on-one fight! Don't say I'm bullying you!"
A player nearby couldn't stand it anymore and complained, "They have no manners at all. How can they make such a racket while eating?"
"Then you shouldn't eat!" Before Jiang Yang could even see clearly, Xingye threw something out of his hand. After an arc, the thing landed on the opposite table. "If you can't handle it, let's fight!"
Jiang Yang craned his neck to look, and... well, it was a brick.
Nan Ke, who had just been embroiled in internal strife, suddenly joined forces and slammed their fists on the table, shouting, "That's right, that's right, or let's fight!"
A waiter approached and advised, "Sir, for your safety, we suggest we reschedule our meal."
The man was still indignant, "What do you mean! I paid for it!"
The waiter gave a standard, perfunctory smile. "One of them is the first president of Leviathan, and the other is the current president of Leviathan. If you insist, then you will have to bear all the losses caused to our store personally. Of course, if you unfortunately die in an accident, the losses will also be wiped clean."
Sure enough, after hearing this "advice," the player simply slunk away, not forgetting to compensate Hoshino for the broken plate before leaving, and the brick was cleaned up and returned by the waiter.
Nan Ke muttered under his breath, "This is boring."
Hoshino held the brick in his hand and made a tossing motion in the air, turning his head to smugly tell Jiang Yang, "How about it, want to follow me? I'll protect you."
Jiang Yang's dishes had all been served. As he ate slowly, he glanced at them, but he still couldn't accept that someone would use a brick as a weapon. This even made him think of the Leviathan guild, which had the title of "demon".
But... "So you were in the same guild before, and you've known each other for a long time?"
“Not really,” Nan Ke said, stirring his coffee with a small spoon. “He and Yuejiang joined the union after I left it.”
"And among you..."
Jiang Yang struggled to find the right words, but before she could even ask, Xingye's brick fell onto the table.
Dust flew up, and Jiang Yang paused in her act of putting something in her mouth. She sighed silently, took one last bite, and then put it down.
Hoshino grinned and said, "He was killed by me and my brother."
Hmm...that does fit the question Jiang Yang wanted to ask, and it is indeed the answer of a devil.
Jiang Yang silently opened the panel, where the conversation with Ji Yang was still the one he had before leaving.
He lifted his eyelids and looked at Hoshino again, casually inquiring, "Where's Tsukie?"
"At the guild."
Nan Ke brought the cup to her lips and took a small sip. "What's wrong?"
Jiang Yang shook her head, not saying it was because Ji Yang hadn't replied to the message, but she was a little uneasy.
...
After finishing his guild affairs the night before, Ji Yang ordered clothes for Jiang Yang and, in order to save time, switched to 007's identity to enter the permission check. The check was similar to the one Jiang Yang experienced at the bug fix site, with mental interference lasting all night. The next step was the final question.
Wu Yibai was in charge of the questioning phase for 007. At this time, Wu Yibai did not know that the 007 in front of him was Ji Yang, who had tried to use the power of justice against him and was aggressive just a few hours earlier during the trial.
Wu Yibai asked, "What does the trial mean for the Tower?"
007 replied: "The trial provides nourishment for the tower, keeping it running."
Wu Yibai pressed further: "What are the responsibilities of the Tower's management?"
007 replied: "To maintain the progress of the trial and to ensure its proper conduct."
Wu Yibai pressed, "Then why did you guide players to submit bug reports? Did you know that this interfered with this trial?"
The blinding white light blurred 007's vision for a moment. His white mask fluttered slightly with emotion, and strands of hair, damp with sweat, clung to his forehead. Remembering Deyue's instructions, he obediently replied, "Sorry, I was probably a little scared as a player at the time."
The interrogation lasted for almost three hours. Wu Yibai asked questions intermittently, while 007 answered with ease.
As he was leaving, Wu Yibai suddenly asked, "Are you afraid too?"
Through their masks, their eyes met in mid-air, and 007 replied without any pretense: "Everyone has weaknesses, and everyone with weaknesses is afraid."
As noon approached, the sun shone brightly over the deserted land, a rare sight indeed.
After saying goodbye to Wu Yibai, 007 stood by the window for a long time before turning around and going upstairs to the bug fix site.
Time to catch up on sleep!
Then I was woken up by 008 after only half an hour of rest.
008, in a high-pitched voice, drawled out the last syllable, "Be good~ be good~ wait~ for~ me~ oh~"
007 gripped 008's neck with his arm, gritting his teeth, "Are you looking for death?!"
After being tricked and forgotten by Jiang Yang, 007 had anticipated this turn of events. Provoked by 008, he childishly pulled up the player popularity ranking and pointed to the tag after Jiang Yang's name, saying proudly, "See? I typed it."
"I want him to be my dog!"
The labels applied by the judges are unaffected by the three hundred observers; they simply require the expenditure of the "wages" earned by the observers working diligently for the tower. The high price, however, is a symbol of the judges' possessiveness.
This means that in the future, whenever a person needs to be monitored by an adjudicator, they can only be matched with one adjudicator.
He's going to play himself to death.
"007! Come in here!" Deyue's voice came from the transparent office inside.
007 shut down the engine, said "Oh," and went inside looking disheveled.
...
Inside the restaurant, Jiang Yang sneezed.
Nan Ke checked the temperature, then glanced at Jiang Yang's clothes and asked in confusion, "Aren't you cold?"
He paused for a moment, then said, "Wait, who bought you these clothes?"
“I feel like I’m a little anxious,” Jiang Yang said, rubbing her nose. The topic changed abruptly.
Nan Ke pursed his lips, guessing it was someone's doing. Seeing that the person didn't want to talk about it, he went along with it and said, "Many people don't know what to do after leaving the trial."
"Perhaps it's because No Man's Land is too boring? So they'll be back in the Trial again in a short time."
Hoshino added, "Until death."
Jiang Yang guessed, "Perhaps the tower did it on purpose?"
After the tense and exciting trial, they returned to the no man's land. Among the group of people who had no life and no social interaction, even the air was thick with a low-pressure atmosphere, just like the conflict that Hoshino and Nanko had initially tried to escalate.
Tyrannical and warlike.
Nan Ke suggested, "If you're really bored, you could join some guilds."
“Yes, you can come to our Leviathan,” Hoshino exclaimed excitedly.
Nan Ke glanced at him sideways, "Being a middleman is fine too. Huang Er has a pretty good team of subordinates."
"Where is Mou Guang?" Jiang Yang asked.
Hoshino, who was drinking water, spat it out, and Nanko also choked and coughed incessantly.
Hoshino asked in horror, "Are you planning to have Ji Yang pull strings for you?"
Nan Ke put down his coffee cup, carefully examined Jiang Yang, nodded, and said seriously, "It does seem quite possible..."
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Author's note: Hehe, tomorrow should be the start of a new trial o~
Warmest congratulations to our Qiaozuizui team on successfully cultivating seedlings!
If you have a baby, you can go to the breeding center to raise our Jiang Yangyang! Thank you! [cat emoji][cat emoji][cat emoji]
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