Chapter 116

At the same time,

in another room full of pig faces.

Sucui, who was also wearing a pig face, squatted carefully under the chopping board, still not daring to breathe.

Because he was too nervous, his back was already covered with a layer of cold sweat, and the pajamas that should have been loose were stuck to his body by sweat. The pig face on his head was even tighter, a slippery layer that almost stuck to his skin, inexplicably giving the illusion that the two races were about to merge into one.

Perhaps because it was too tight, his skin was a little itchy. Sucui scratched twice in vain through the headgear, and his fingertips rubbed against the mucus on the surface of the pig face, and he was quickly put down in disgust.

After this collision, the pig face on his face was also knocked crooked, and Sucui felt even more uncomfortable. The field of view of this kind of headgear was originally very small. When it was worn on the head, the field of view seemed to be cut off in two circles. He had to turn his entire head to ensure that he could see things on the left and right.

Now the pig face became crooked, and the position of the eye sockets also moved, causing Sucui's field of view to be directly reduced by half. He had to suppress his disgust, and quickly raised his hand to adjust the position of the pig face's facial features again. After finally adjusting it, Fang looked around and shuddered involuntarily.

He saw that the hole-like field of view was now filled with human figures.

There were people wearing pig heads, sitting cross-legged in silence around him, with blurred outlines, translucent bodies, and heads drooping deeply. They were speechless, like mannequins, or like a group of silent ghosts.

... There were so many people.

Sucui sighed in his heart and curled up even harder.

Sucui knew he should get used to it. After wearing a pig face, he would see some unnecessary things, sometimes clues, such as a small note hidden in a pig's mouth; sometimes it was this strange shadow...

Even so, he still couldn't help feeling scared when he saw it, so scared that he felt cold deep in his bones.

Fortunately, those shadows didn't stay in his field of vision for too long. In the blink of an eye, all the figures disappeared completely.

However, Sucui didn't feel relieved. Because almost at the moment when these figures disappeared, he suddenly caught a familiar sound of footsteps in his ears -

heavy, slow footsteps, accompanied by a diffuse fishy smell, which gradually penetrated into the room along the crack of the door.

It was the butcher. The butcher is coming.

Realizing this, Sucui's heart suddenly turned cold again.

And soon, an even more frightening movement appeared.

Step by step, the heavy footsteps came from far away, until finally, they stopped completely.

Sucui was not sure whether it stopped in front of his door, but he was sure that through the door panel, he clearly heard some kind of harsh panting sound - it sounded like someone was snoring, and at the same time, there was thick phlegm in the throat.

The next second, the door was opened from the outside. A huge figure swayed in - almost at the same time, a strong stench rushed in from outside the door, making him almost nauseous.

The footsteps began to echo in the house, circling around the crisp sound. He pinched his hands hard, trying his best to suppress the urge to scream and run away, closed his eyes, and dared not look at the butcher's appearance.

But even without looking, he could roughly imagine what the other person looked like—a bloated, mountain-like body, wearing whitish blue denim overalls; a fat, big-eared pig face, with white granular protrusions all over the cheeks and nose, like a walking piece of rice pork, these granules will gradually mature like acne, and when they mature, tiny white worms will crawl out of them...

He carries a butcher knife with a curved blade, the blade is half a person's length, and the blade is one person's width; the butcher knife is covered with marks of different colors. The black is blood, the yellow is fat, and the white is brain matter.

Not only that, in the pockets of its bib pants there are dried fingers and ears, which are its snacks; between its fangs hang remnants of blood and meat. It once gnawed off one of its own hands and feet because of hunger, so its left hand and right foot are sewn with human limbs...

Sucui knows all of this very well, because that's how he wrote it. This space was like a magical re-creation derived from his writings. All the rules and designs were so unfamiliar. Even many of the self-protection rules were learned from the blood tea. But at the same time, it was a strange restoration in some aspects, including but not limited to the secret room full of pig faces, and the full design details of the pig-headed butcher...

So why do you have to write so much detail?

And why do you have to write about pig heads? Wouldn't a rabbit head or a dog head be good? What about a cat head?

Which one is better than a pig head!

Su Cui thought with regret, and after noticing the footsteps and breathing getting closer, he instinctively froze for a moment.

...Don't move. Don't move. Don't move.

He warned himself desperately in his heart, determined not to close his eyes even if he died. He remembered the self-hypnosis method that someone in the team taught him, and began to recite it in his mind, pretending that he was a pig face, a pig face, a pig face...

I don't know if it's a psychological effect, but this method seems to be really useful - after reciting it silently for seventeen or eighteen times, the whole person really calmed down.

But his hands and feet were still cold, and his heartbeat was still fast. Su Cui forced himself to stay where he was, until he heard the butcher's footsteps leaving and the sound of the door being pushed open again, and then he hesitantly opened his eyes.

The moment he opened his eyes, he was frightened again - he saw that his surroundings were filled with pig-headed people again, and unlike before, all the pig-headed people had their heads raised...

like sunflowers catching the sun, staring at him with countless black eyes.

"......!" Su Cui was so scared that he sat down on the ground. Looking closely again, he could not see anything in front of him.

His heart was still beating fast, and he turned his head desperately in fear until he was sure that he could not see anything strange. Then he breathed a sigh of relief and climbed up in a cold sweat.

It should, it shouldn't be a big deal, right? It should be just a simple side effect or something... Just bear with it, bear with it.

He tried to comfort himself by thinking, and stretched out his hand to take off the pig face, but he didn't dare to do so. He turned his head to look at the door, and his heartbeat quickened again.

The butcher did not close the door tightly when he left. At this moment, the whole door was half-closed, and it was frightening just to look at it.

The fishy smell in the air was dissipating. Judging from the footsteps, the butcher had walked a long way.

Although he knew that the butcher would not go back and would not enter the house he had entered once again, Sucui still thought it would be better to close the door first. So he tiptoed to the door, and just as he was about to close the door, he heard a vague shout -

"Help, help -"

"Bang!"

Following the shouting, there was a sound like a door closing. Sucui frowned, mustered up the courage to stick his head out, but found nothing unusual. He looked at the room opposite him, the door was still closed, and the pig faces hanging on the door were neatly arranged, looking peaceful and quiet. Sucui

recalled carefully. If I remember correctly, the one who occupied the room opposite him was the Blood Tea Boss.

...Well, I must have heard it wrong.

Sucui was relieved, and hurriedly retracted his head and closed his door.

*

At the same time

The room opposite him.

Xu Ming retracted his foot that was used to close the door, lowered his eyes slightly, and looked down at the man who was rolling on the ground with his hands covering his face, and sighed undisguisedly.

"You are talking to yourself, just answer the questions you are asked. Why are you so angry?"

Xu Ming muttered, and touched the man's waist with his toes. The latter shrank like a shrimp, and his mouth still made unclear sounds. I don't know if he was mumbling or cursing -

how could I be angry? I just spoke a little loudly!

And he just spoke a little loudly, but this woman was serious...

Thinking of everything that happened not long ago, the man lying on the ground was even more sad for a moment -

he admitted that his attitude was indeed not very good after hearing what Xu Ming said. His face almost straightened up on the spot, and he didn't even think about giving a direct answer. He just went up and pushed the man out, intending to force him out...

But this wasn't a reason for the woman to spray him in the face, right?

Spraying him would be fine, but she also kicked him in the crotch. Kicking him over wasn't enough, she took out a thin belt from somewhere, grabbed his hand and started to wrap it up!

At this moment, the butcher's footsteps were heard outside the door. He was afraid that the butcher would hear the noise and come in, so he didn't even dare to make any big noise when struggling...

As a result, the woman took the opportunity to tie up his hands and feet, and even tied up his shoelaces.

Thanks to the fact that the other party seemed not very experienced in this area, the strap on his wrist was not tied very tightly; and although he was thin and weak, at least he still had some strength...

So while the butcher's footsteps were moving away, he quickly struggled to break free from his restraints and climbed up, not even bothering to untie his shoelaces. He pushed Xu Ming away and desperately rushed to the door, with a standard zombie jump - when he finally jumped to the door, he wailed in his heart again.

The door of this secret room can be opened directly from the outside, but from the inside, a key must be used. However, he was so stung by the spray that he couldn't open his eyes, and the keyhole was very small.

By the time he inserted the key into the keyhole with trembling hands, Xu Ming had already rushed over again. He had just pushed the door open with his front foot when his waist was shaken by his back foot, and at the same time his foot was tripped again - when he reacted, he had fallen to the ground again.

The door was closed again, and the key in his hand was taken away directly. He tried to open his still functioning eyes, and then he saw that Xu Ming had a stick-like object in his hand. It was short, like a flashlight, but the top was faintly flashing with electric light.

Man: ...

At this moment, somehow, he suddenly remembered what happened when Du Rong came to him to beg for mercy not long ago.

What did she say? Yes, I remember, she said that my sister-in-law is alone, weak, pitiful and helpless...

the helplessness of the master!

Looking at Xu Ming, who lowered his head and looked at him coldly, the man wanted to die on the spot.

Damn weak and helpless! Your weak and helpless sister-in-law even carries a stun baton when she goes out!

... Of course, you can curse in your heart, but cursing out loud at this time is courting death. The man with the big gold chain lay on the ground for a while, and wisely chose to shut up.

And according to Xu Ming's request, he got up and squatted with his head in his hands.

But in response to Xu Ming's question, he still chose to bite the bullet and be tough - don't ask, if you ask, you are wrong, I will boil blood for tea. What high school student, there is no such thing.

Not only that, he did not forget to seize the moral high ground again -

"I don't know where you heard this rumor from, but you are repaying kindness with enmity!"

After calming down for a moment, he pretended to be calm and said: "I found the door and asked someone to rescue you from the secret room! If Du Rong hadn't pleaded for you, I would never have kept you in the team... If I had known you were so ungrateful, I should have locked you up to death in that secret room!"

Rotting, stinking!

"Maybe." Xu Ming just shrugged lightly after hearing this, "Or maybe, I can actually put on the pig's face myself, then find the key in the house and open the door to go out, right?"

Big Gold Chain: "..."

"You know?" He nodded in surprise, "Du Rong told you? But how did she..."

People who are not wearing a pig's face cannot see the key, but not to mention those who are not wearing it, even those who are wearing it may not know it - because when ordinary people are trapped in a secret room, they rarely take the initiative to wear such a disgusting and bulky thing on their heads. Basically, they will put on the pig's face after being rescued by them.

Not all rooms have keys. At least as far as the rules they know are concerned, only the secret rooms that are initially locked up will have their own keys. They would enter the room before others could react and take away the keys that were not found. They would then distribute them as rare items. They

would give keys to the more obedient ones and not to the disobedient ones. Once the latter were trapped again, they would have to wait for others to rescue them. As time went by, their authority in the team naturally became higher.

To be more precise, it was the authority of "Blood Tea" that became higher.

The problem was that they had not told anyone else about this rule... So how did Du Rong know? Did he guess?

The man with the gold chain lowered his eyes, hiding the suspicion in his eyes. Xu Ming seemed to see what he was thinking, and spoke again calmly:

"What else do you think? Do you think everyone else is a fool?"

People who have no experience in ghost stories may not take it seriously, but she remembers clearly that there is a keyhole on the inside of the secret room door. This means that the room itself can be opened from the inside with the key. And Du Rong also said that Xueshui Jiancha was the first person to escape from the room by himself - if there was no key in the room, how did he get out?

So the key must be found inside the door.

But no matter how she searched before, it was useless. There is only one possibility: the key does exist, but it can only be seen by wearing a pig mask. This is exactly what Du Rong said, "Wearing a pig mask can see additional clues."

Of course, this doesn't really mean anything to her. To some extent, what he said about making tea with blood was even right - this setting was almost a dead end for her.

If no one opened the door from the outside, her only possibility of escaping was to spend enough time in the room, until her idiotic ability was weakened to a sufficient degree, and then find the key to escape... But Xu Ming herself couldn't say how much time it would take.

But does this prevent her from pinning the man to the ground and hammering him?

Xu Ming thought about it seriously and felt that it would not prevent her.

So he just moved his hand and pressed the other person's head down again.

"I knew you must have some clues!" Xu Ming said bluntly, "Don't change the subject anymore. Who are you? I know you are not blood, nor a monster!"

"..." Back to the original question again. This time, the big golden chain seemed to have made up his mind. He squatted there without saying a word, and seemed to be determined to fight to the death with Xu Ming until the butcher's patrol time was over and other people came to open the door.

Xu Ming: "..."

What a stubborn pig head. To be honest, you will die, right?

If possible, she would rather take off the other party's hood directly. However, on the one hand, there was a butcher wandering outside, and Xu Ming didn't dare to take the risk for fear of unnecessary trouble; on the other hand, the teeth of this pig face were really sharp. If you really pull it hard, you might cut yourself...

So after a brief thought, Xu Ming chose a more traditional approach.

She took out a knife in front of the other party.

The folding knife is actually not as useful as the multi-functional flashlight, but it has a stronger intimidation power. Xu Ming slowly opened the folding knife, and was not surprised to see that the other party obviously shrank back - and almost at the same time, the voice of the blubber man sounded in his mind again.

The blubber man was here to synchronize Qiu Yufei's experience and intelligence. From the 1.6-meter-tall and 1.7-meter-tall monster hunting, to the self-service car washing machine with a membership card.

Xu Ming listened distractedly while playing with the knife in front of the other party. When the blubber man had almost finished speaking, he waved him away, leaned over again, and gently touched the other party's protruding pig nose with the knife.

"I reiterate that I'm really not a bad person."

She said softly, and slowly stood up and picked up the strap that the big gold chain had broken off from the ground. I didn't pay attention to the big gold chain before, but now I realized that it was a ribbon that can be hung around the neck, and there was a plastic-sealed work ID card attached to the other side of the strap.

Xu Ming handed his work badge to him, squatted down, and tried to look him in the eye as straight as possible:

"As long as you cooperate, everything will be fine... I'll repeat the previous question again, think it over and then answer me."

Big Gold Chain: "..."

In the dim light, he could clearly see the name of the unit on the work badge: "Strange Talk... Demolition and Relocation Office?"

"The unit I work for." Xu Ming said, and straightened up again, and took out a piece of paper from the plastic shell containing the work badge and handed it to the other party, "You should understand the specific nature after taking a look at this." Afraid that

the other party couldn't see clearly, she enthusiastically turned on the multi-function flashlight in her hand and took the initiative to illuminate it for him. While lighting the big gold chain, he observed its expression, and until he was sure that the other party had seen at least half of it, Fang said faintly:

"Generally speaking, we will not take the initiative to reveal our identity in front of other people. But there is no way, your behavior this time is really too bad - you found an important clue, but chose to hide it because of your own selfish desires. What do you think human life is? Do you know how serious your behavior is? Not to mention that you are still using the identity of Blood Tea...

"I'm not lying to you, we have been keeping an eye on him for a long time. His bad behavior is enough for us to throw him into a hundred ghost stories as a punishment. I didn't expect to meet someone who would take the blame... You are so determined, what benefit did he give you? Or are you actually one of his accomplices? "

Xu Ming raised his eyebrows slightly, and seeing that the other party had almost finished reading the content on the front of the paper, he immediately reached out and took back the "Employee Code of Conduct" -

thanks to his habit of carrying a few extra blank work badges, and two of the blank work badges happened to have extra employee codes stuffed in them. Otherwise, I'm afraid I really can't show off anything at this moment.

On the other side, Big Gold Chain looked completely dumbfounded. After a long while, Fang muttered in disbelief:

"What a mess..." "

The unit that Blood Water Tea reported to the outside world is 404 Mysterious Affairs. If I remember correctly, there are quite a lot of people in your forum who believe him." Xu Ming hinted, "Otherwise why do you think we would target him. "

Because she was unsure of the other party's relationship with the real blood-water tea, she deliberately made her words ambiguous. But no matter what, one thing is certain -

the guy in front of her may be dead, but he is definitely not a monster.

...Otherwise it would be too weird.

And as long as he is a human, he may be fooled. Especially under the premise that she directly shows her work ID and employee code of conduct - it may be too fake for elementary school students, but for adults trapped in ghost stories, the impact is still quite big.

After all, who would carry this with them? It's not like they are mentally ill.

...Besides, with the boss of the mysterious agency Xueshui Jiancha in front of them, Xu Ming felt that it should not be difficult to make them believe in another strange story about the demolition office.

And just as she thought, the big golden chain fell silent again - and after a long pause, he lowered his head again and spoke in a complicated tone:

"You, are here after all."

Xu Ming: "......?"

Wait, why does this development seem a bit strange?

Xu Ming muttered uncertainly in her heart and decided to wait and see; in front of her, the man with a pig face suddenly straightened his back and made a sound of understanding:

"Boss Xueshui once said that some of your internal staff have always been dissatisfied with his actions and wanted to make things difficult for him. Now it seems that it is true. "

Xu Ming: "…………"

Huh???

...Forget it, think on the bright side, at least this guy finally admitted that he is not the one making tea with blood water.

"Then does your Blood Water Boss know that you are using his name to cheat?" Xu Ming crossed his arms.

"I have authorization!" the big gold chain said immediately, "the Blood Water Boss said that he is too young in real life and not easily trusted, so he swapped with me..."

"Switch." Xu Ming nodded in understanding, "so you are the pig-faced kid."

Big Gold Chain: "..."

"So what?" After a pause, he said desperately, "the Blood Water Boss said that this is to ensure the unity of everyone's will..."

"What about the rules of self-preservation? And the idea of ​​making everyone wear pig faces?" Xu Ming raised his chin slightly, "Did you think of this with him, or..."

"These were all planned by the Blood Boss." The Big Gold Chain said seriously, "It's just that he is not in a convenient state now, so I am the one who announced it."

Xu Ming: "... Because of the inconvenience, some clues are simply not mentioned, right?"

The Big Gold Chain: "He said that at this time, some powerful restraining measures are very important!"

For example, use the number of control keys to control everyone's actions - what if someone decides to fly alone because he has a key in his hand? At this time, unity and cohesion are the most important!

"What about the rule that you can only bring five people at most?" Xu Ming continued, "Did he tell you that too?"

"..." The big golden chain was silent again. After a few seconds, he whispered, "At that time, I just wanted to show off..."

We are all trapped here, it's impossible for us to just ignore it.

Xu Ming: "..."

Xu Ming: "So you really didn't consider the possibility that he was lying?"

"I know he was lying." Da Jinlianzi said seriously, "The 404 Mysterious Agency doesn't exist at all. He made it up."

Xu Ming: "Then you still..."

"He is a wild crane." Da Jinlianzi continued to be serious with a pig head, "A young genius, unrestrained. Unlike you old-fashioned civil servants who stick to the rules and are self-satisfied. It's you who can't tolerate him."

Xu Ming: "..."

Thank you for lifting the hat for me. Private enterprises are directly upgraded to the system. It's okay.

But then again, what kind of outrageous personality did that guy create for himself...

"Okay. That is to say, you don't know the specific source of the clues." Xu Ming nodded, put his work badge and employee code of conduct in his bag, and suddenly said, "Then do you know which room the real blood is in now?"

"Turn right here, the first door on the left." Da Jinlianzi spoke without thinking, and was suddenly stunned after speaking, "Why are you asking this?"

Xu Ming: "..."

Xu Ming did not answer, just waved at him, turned around and walked towards the door.

And soon, he knew the answer -

because not long after, the door opened and closed again. Another man with a pig's head entered the room under Xu Ming's drive...

and squatted down with his head in his hands.

Even in dim light, he could still clearly see the school uniform the other person was wearing.

This shocked Da Jinlianzi.

——Following that, he suddenly realized another fact, which made him even more shocked.

Wait, if I remember correctly, the butcher seemed to be still outside...?

Da Jinlianzi thought doubtfully, and even looked at Xu Ming with a bit of disbelief. Unexpectedly, Xu Ming's words in the next second directly made his shock soar to the peak——

"Sorry to have kept you waiting. I brought him here for a confrontation." Xu Ming closed the door with his backhand and crossed his arms again, "I asked, and his words are different from yours."

"He said that whether it was the exchange of identities or the matter of hiding the key, it was all your idea. And you also took away a membership card that can read the rules.

"What do you want to say about this? Mr. Pig-faced Boy?"

Big Gold Chain: "..."

Big Gold Chain: "Huh?"