Chapter 111

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——Further down, it is the ID of the person who issued this layer of speech rules.

——A series of *.

"..."

Wow.

At the desk, Du Rong was secretly browsing her phone. After carefully reading the new version of the rules on the first floor of the post twice, she said "Wow" from the bottom of her heart, and then switched to the small group of administrators of the forum.

Egg Yolk Lotus Pie: 【[Screenshot] Who changed this version of the rules? It's quite interesting. 】

Don't ask the common people, ask the gods and ghosts: [? Didn't you change it? 】

Egg yolk lotus pie: [No. I've been working overtime these past two days and don't have time to do this. I've talked to Lao Liu about it. 】

Egg yolk lotus pie: [So Lao Liu changed it? 】

Six Paths of Reincarnation: [I didn't. I didn't know about it. But it's quite interesting. 】

Six Paths of Reincarnation: [@Everyone, is there anyone who can claim it? 】

There are a total of ten people in the management group, and only seven or eight are online now. Soon, people popped up one after another, denying it. Du Rong looked at her phone and couldn't help but raise her eyebrows. Just then, a colleague came over and put the phone down quickly. When she picked it up again, the topic had been completely brushed off, and everyone was already talking about other things with great interest.

Seeing that no one seemed to care, Du Rong thought about it and did not investigate further. Anyway, the other party must be someone with administrative authority. Now no one in the group recognized him, so he was probably offline. As for some subtle wordings in the rules, she simply ignored them.

After all, they are a forum on the supernatural. It is not worth making a fuss about playing some mysterious and frightening word games.

In fact, when they opened similar activity halls before, they also did a lot of such pretentious things, some of which were even more exaggerated than this version of the rules, such as "When you are reading this content, if you hear footsteps behind you, please do not look back", which is simply easy to come up with.

In comparison, this forum is still too normal.

Du Rong thought silently, and while no one was paying attention, she quietly browsed the forum again - just like she said, she has been working overtime these days and has no time to go to the forum. Many of the content of the joint articles was the first time she saw it today.

Speaking of which...didn't they say there would be a lottery before? Has the lottery been completed? Who won?

This thought only existed in Du Rong's heart for a short moment, and was quickly put aside. It's not that she didn't care, but she suddenly saw something that could not be ignored -

someone was arguing in the post.

The more subtle person, among the people arguing, was the forum leader, "Blood Tea".

Of course, he didn't use his main account. But after all, he was a celebrity in the forum, and even if he was a small account, the administrators knew him. As for the cause of the quarrel, it is also quite difficult to explain.

To put it simply, there is a younger brother in the forum of Bloody Sencha, whose nickname is "Pig Face Boy"; and in this joint post, there happened to be a layer that also used the element of "Pig Face Man", and the description was quite disgusting.

If it was just that, it would be fine, but it happened that the layer owner and "Pig Face Boy" had quarreled for other reasons before. So this time, when the pig-faced boy saw the other party write such a hateful pig-headed man, he naturally thought that the other party was referring to himself, so he directly questioned him in his reply, and his tone was not very good; then the layer master also appeared and replied again, with the same bad tone, and the two of them talked back and forth... and they picked up the keyboard and started arguing.

And Bloody Tea, probably couldn't bear to see the little brother being bullied, so he also opened a small account to help out - at least he was more restrained and didn't directly open the big account, otherwise, based on Bloody Tea's popularity in the forum, I'm afraid he would have been able to argue a hundred times.

Even so, when Du Rong saw it, the battle was already quite intense. At a glance, there were at least five or six accounts, but the quarrel was so intense that Du Rong had no choice but to quickly log in with her administrator account and stop the farce.

...Only after she posted the message did she realize that there seemed to be something wrong with her wording. The rules of speech clearly stipulate that no reference other than "you" can be used, but in her words, she used "everyone" several times in a row.

Looking back at the quarrel floor, it was found that many other people made similar mistakes. Even the boss Xueshui Jiancha swore a few swear words, which was also a violation.

No wonder, after all, it is really hard to consider so many things when people are quarreling... But no matter what, a violation is a violation.

Just then, she received a notice saying that an urgent meeting was about to begin. Du Rong thought about it, and quickly returned to the administrator, asking other free moderators to help delete the illegal comments. After that, she stood up and walked to the bathroom - their meetings would last at least an hour, and if she didn't hurry up and go to the bathroom, it would be too late.

She left, but her phone was still on the table, on the administrator's chat interface. Shortly after Du Rong left, a question mark was slowly typed on the screen.

[? So will the illegal comments really be deleted? I thought it was just a bluff. ]

[Yes, I saw several records deleted this afternoon. ]

[Really? I can't find any records in the backend. ]

[Absolutely, I saw it with my own eyes. ]

[The server is too old, it's normal to have bugs. Who is responsible for this? ]

[…]

After a brief calm, a bunch of "It's not me" exploded in the group. No one admitted it.

...Only question marks from others were posted on the chat interface one after another. However, just like the previous question, so many question marks were finally left unresolved.

Soon, the screen of the unattended mobile phone gradually dimmed until it was completely off.

After an unknown amount of time, it lit up again. On the screen was a bright call invitation, and the caller ID was Gu Ming.

The call was delayed in being answered, and the vibrating phone kept spinning on the table. After a while, the call was finally hung up. Not long after, it lit up again, and this time the caller ID was "Gu Juan" - Xu Ming's brother.

After vibrating for a moment, the phone was hung up, and soon she called again without giving up. This was repeated several times, with several pop-up messages from WeChat and Ding Ding in between; however, no matter how many times it was repeated, all the messages and calls never received any response.

Just like the compartment door at the end of the corridor that Du Rong pushed open, it has never been opened since it was locked.

*

A few minutes later.

The living room of the small house.

Xu Ming was pacing around in the living room with his mobile phone under everyone's gaze, nodding at the phone from time to time.

"Yeah, okay, I know. I roughly understand the situation. Don't worry, ask them to look for it again... Let me give you a business card, she is also a professional, if you really find a problem, you can contact her... Yes, she may also contact you directly, anyway, you should cooperate at that time."

After giving a few more instructions, he finally hung up the phone. Turning his head to meet everyone's focused gaze, he sighed heavily.

"You guessed it right," she announced helplessly, "My sister-in-law seems to be missing too."

Everyone hissed in unison, except for the whale man, who was still concentrating on picking his feet. Qiu Yufei looked over with some concern: "Are you sure it's because of the forum?"

"Not sure, but it's likely. Otherwise it would be too coincidental." Xu Ming crossed his arms, "I have given all the accounts I just noticed to Shi Mian, they should be able to track them down."

All the accounts were almost all replies from the same floor - to be precise, replies to quarrels from the same floor.

At that time, she was just looking for clues and was wandering around in the post, and suddenly she noticed these layers of consecutive replies. Not long after, her sister-in-law's account also joined in the quarrel, and it died down after a quarrel.

The reason why she could recognize it was because Du Rong had revealed her administrator ID when she shared the Baizhu Forum with her. Just as Xu Ming was thinking about whether to go directly to Du Rong to inquire about the situation, her finger unconsciously pulled down and refreshed the interface directly -

looking again, most of the floors that had just been quarreled, including the floor where Du Rong spoke, were all gone.

If this was just an ordinary forum, Xu Ming would not think much about it. But this post was just identified as having problems not long ago, and Xu Ming was very sure that the disappeared floors were basically in violation of the rules...

The first floor rules were clearly written, and once the rules were violated, the speaker (person) would be deleted. That bracket was very spiritual, so spiritual that it was hard for people not to care.

So Xu Ming immediately called her sister-in-law on WeChat to confirm the situation, but found that no one answered the phone. She asked her brother to help call, but he couldn't get through after several attempts.

Her brother contacted her sister-in-law's colleague and confirmed that Du Rong was missing - her colleague's last impression of her was that she went into the bathroom alone.

Even if her brother was a thick-skinned person, he could realize that something was wrong.

Xu Ming was just comforting her brother, and while comforting him, she didn't forget to send a message to Shi Mian. After that, she switched her phone to the forum interface, stared at it for a while, and casually pushed her hair back, with a gloomy expression.

"...Um, Teacher Mingming?" Noticing that something was wrong with her expression, Qiu Yufei asked nervously, "Are you okay?"

"I know you're in a hurry now, but being anxious is not the right thing to do..."

"I'm fine." Xu Ming interrupted her directly, "Although the current situation is indeed quite daunting... But don't worry, I'm fine."

"And, on the bright side, we are not without any breakthroughs now." Xu Ming said, raising his mobile phone, "At least we seem to have found a way to enter the ghost story, right?"

"That's right, be optimistic!" The whale man was still busy digging his feet. Hearing this, he spoke without raising his head, and did not hide the perfunctory tone in his voice, "Think positively about everything! Although the progress is not obvious now, it is obviously progressing!" As

soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly realized that something was wrong, paused, and raised his head.

"Wait." He lost his voice, "What do you mean by 'we'?"

Where does 'we' come from? ?

Xu Ming glanced at it, but did not say anything. Instead, he took the rule book from the side and held it high.

"I'm sorry, you all roughly know the situation. Landor was taken away, and I have to go and bring him back. So I have to go out now... and the risk of this trip is definitely not low."

Xu Ming spoke again, his tone was calm as if he was going out to buy groceries: "Excuse me, is there anyone willing to go with me?"

The fat man: "..."

Since it is a voluntary registration... that is to say, it is okay not to go, right?

The fat man thought uncertainly, raised his hand weakly, and was about to say something when he heard a series of banging sounds behind him - front, back, left, and right, people with hands and without hands all raised their hands, and there was even a hoof of a not-so-standard shape in the middle.

"Are you all going? Are you sure?" Xu Ming was surprised, and he looked down at the fat man, even more surprised, "You are going too?"

The fat man: "..."

If I said, I just wanted to ask if you could give me a work badge before leaving, would you believe it?

*

Of course, the fat man didn't dare to say that in the end.

So the final result was that everyone went. Only Qiu Yufei, who was a human, stayed outside.

Xu Ming spent some time to urgently mark out a large area in the rule book, and included Gu Yunshu and the others one by one; the laptop that could be used to observe strange stories was given to Guo Shuyi to take back to her strange stories. If needed, just go to her and get it. Taking

advantage of this time, Xu Ming tried again and touched the record of Landor's work card again. Unfortunately, it was the same as before, pitch black, nothing could be seen, nothing could be sensed.

Tried to send a message to Landor's work card, and the result was the same. No matter how many times I sent it, I didn't get any response.

Xu Ming did not waste any more time on this matter. He directly put the rule book into his shoulder bag, along with his aunt's unlocked notebook. After sorting out his things, he turned around and gave his mobile phone to Qiu Yufei, and taught her carefully how to reply if there was a message from Anxin Gardening. After teaching, he took a deep breath and sat down in front of the computer carefully.

Because the mobile phone was to be kept for Qiu Yufei to use, Xu Ming opened another computer and logged into Baican Square again.

On the homepage, the post "Lighting up the Haunted Building" was still floating on the homepage. Xu Ming thought about it, but did not rush to click in. Instead, he posted another message, claiming that someone in the "Lighting Building" next door had posted a virus link, which might lead to the theft of mobile phone information after loading. After posting, he opened the post, found the post that Du Rong had replied to before she disappeared, and typed a line of words carefully:

[Please return my things to me. ]

It was just a few simple words, but typing them made people feel heavy on their fingertips. After Xu Ming finished typing, he did not dare to post it immediately. He went back to carefully study the rules of the first floor, and his face became more solemn.

The first post he posted did not have any special purpose, but just thought that as many people as possible would be saved. Since it has been confirmed that there is a problem with the post in the ghost building, the fewer people who click on it, the better. Of course, she also knew that such a rumor-mongering post would not survive for long, but no matter what, it was a good thing that it was seen by others.

Shi Mian also said that they were already contacting to delete the post and close the website. The main pressure of evacuation was on them.

The real key was in that reply - although it was not 100% certain, "if you reply to the illegal message, you will be taken away", and this speculation seemed very likely at the moment...

Xu Ming thought to himself, took a deep breath, and finally hit the enter key heavily.

The content was successfully published and jumped onto the screen. Xu Ming took a deep breath, subconsciously tightened the bag of his shoulder bag, and began to hold his breath and wait.

...After waiting for a while, nothing happened.

After a while, the blubber man attached to the rule book quietly poked his head out of the bag and asked if he could get some more tissues. Xu Ming bandaged his face and pulled out more than a dozen pieces of paper and covered its head heavily.

After a while, the time in the lower right corner of the computer jumped again. Qiu Yufei said "uh", and spoke carefully:

"Well, Teacher Mingming, if you are not in a hurry to leave, can you help me get the charger first? Your phone seems to be only 20% charged..."

Xu Ming: "..."

Is this a question of whether I am in a hurry to leave?

This is a question of whether I can leave, okay!

After staring at the computer screen for a while, Xu Ming couldn't help but doubt his own judgment. After thinking about it, he simply stood up and went to find a charger for Qiu Yufei.

They are now in the living room, and the charger is in the bedroom on the second floor. Qiu Yufei has been in a tense state since she came back. She has not put down her bag since she entered the room, and has been hanging it on her shoulder. Seeing Xu Ming going to the bedroom, she quickly followed him, intending to take this opportunity to change her clothes.

Xu Ming's judgment seemed to be wrong, and he was not in the mood to talk, so he remained silent all the way. Qiu Yufei, on the other hand, was still trying to comfort him when she went upstairs. Xu Ming responded with a heavy heart, quickened his pace, and came to the bedroom door. The moment he pushed the door open, his expression suddenly froze -

something was wrong.

A strange smell almost instantly hit her face. Almost at the same time, the panicked scream of the whale man rang in Xu Ming's mind. The long-lost sound confirmed her judgment on the spot. Without thinking carefully, Xu Ming turned around and pushed hard with both hands behind her! Immediately afterwards

, her movement paused again.

There was nothing behind her. There was no Qiu Yufei, no open door, and she pushed into nothing.

Looking to the side, she saw that the scene around her had changed -

a cramped space and dim light. There were wet bloodstains on the chopping boards on both sides, and above the bloodstains were hanging red ribbons, the kind used to drive away flies in the vegetable market, which were now spinning continuously.

Behind the ribbon was a wall. With the red light, one could see that the walls on both sides were covered with pig heads.

Xu Ming: "..."

Recalling the contents of the floor she had replied to before, she roughly guessed where she was.

"Hey? Kid?" At this moment, the voice of the blubber man sounded again, buzzing in Xu Ming's consciousness, "Are you okay? What's the situation now?"

"It's hard to say whether it's okay or not, but optimistically, at least I'm in." Xu Ming also replied in his consciousness, "Can't you see the situation outside?"

"You stuffed me in your bag, and there are a bunch of things on top of me. What are you going to let me see?" There was some resentment in the tone of the blubber man for some reason, "Why does the atmosphere of this place seem to be wrong..."

Although he hadn't seen anything yet, he instinctively felt uneasy in his heart. The blubber man suddenly felt a little regretful. If he had known earlier, he might as well have asked Xu Ming for his work badge with a thick face.

But at this time, it was too late to think about these things. The whale man regretted it but could only force himself to continue asking Xu Ming about the situation outside. He was stunned to learn that there were pig heads outside.

"Pig heads?" It was a little surprised, "Isn't that what was written in the layer you replied..."

"Yes." Xu Ming nodded, "It seems that this strange scene is very likely to come from those joint text descriptions, maybe for reference, or maybe directly generated according to the description..."

The specific relationship remains to be verified. But the most urgent thing is to find the exit first.

And those who were also pulled into the strange scene... If the strange scene you enter really depends on the floor you reply to, then Du Rong and others are probably also pulled into this place. If that's the case, then we have to pay attention...

Xu Ming was thinking in his mind, and part of his thoughts were transmitted to the blubber man at the same time along with the binding of the rule book. The latter clung to the cover of the rule book, raised his eyebrows in confusion, and was about to climb out to see the situation himself when Xu Ming's voice rang in his consciousness again:

"Hey, can you come out? I found a door."

Blubber man: "......?" What kind of cause and effect is this?

"The door is locked and can't be opened from the inside. But there is a crack under the door. You can crawl out through the crack and then help me open it." Xu Ming patiently explained it again. Seeing that the whale man didn't move, he simply reached into the bag to take it out. "Anyway, try again. We'll tell you if it doesn't work."

"What do you mean we'll tell you if it doesn't work... Although my waist is very weak, it's too much to ask me to crawl through the crack of the door." The whale man complained softly, and then he felt the thing pressing on his body being taken away, and a hand reached down from above.

"Let me make it clear first, I still want my ID card." Until this moment, the whale man was still bargaining, letting the hand take out the rule book with him, "Or you can mark an area for me like the others. Why should I be on the cover just because others are in the book?"

The whale man stopped talking before he finished, and looked at Qiu Yufei who was holding him in her hand.

Almost at the same time, Xu Ming's restrained voice rang in his mind:

"Po Haitang. You are not in my bag at all.

"Where are you?"

The whale man: "..."

What, I said I took your rule book and the whole family in the rule book and ran away with your best friend...

Do you believe it?