Chapter 117 (Catching Bugs)

"No, no, wait a minute--"

If Da Jinlianzi was just simply shocked when he saw the real body of Blood Tea being brought in, he was almost stunned after hearing Xu Ming's accusation. After being stunned, he

was belatedly flustered and made excuses:

"No, no, it's really not. Boss, did you remember it wrong? It was you who found me and said you needed me to play you, and took the first two keys from me... I also followed your arrangements for the keys later, and I didn't know anything about cards...

"Boss! Say something, Boss! "

The more the big gold chain thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong. Although he couldn't figure it out, he instinctively felt a little uneasy. He kept calling his blood boss and tried to get closer to him. Unfortunately, he just moved a little and was threatened by Xu Ming with a charged flashlight, and he was chased back.

Xu Ming didn't dare let them get too close. Although one of these two guys was thin and the other short, for safety reasons, It would be better to separate them as much as possible.

She was still holding the self-defense spray in her hand, so the big golden chain did not dare to act rashly. In addition, he was hit by the big boss and could not care about other things for a while. He just kept emphasizing the "truth" he knew to Xu Ming and Xueshui. The Xueshui tea master squatting not far away looked a little absent-minded. No matter how he called, he just squatted there stupidly, looking as if

he had lost his soul. "......?!" The big golden chain realized something was wrong. He turned around and looked at Xu Ming with reproach. He opened his mouth to question, but when he met Xu Ming's gaze, his tone softened naturally, "Big, what's wrong with the big boss? "

Thinking of what Xu Ming said before, "We have been watching him for a long time", and the boss's statement that he was excluded, he paused again, and a more terrifying thought immediately came to his mind - could it be that he was tortured??

Xu Ming didn't know what was going on in his heart, he glanced at the blood tea, his expression was a little troubled: "I don't know. Maybe he was scared? "

...So it turned out that they were tortured!

Da Jinlianzi took a breath subconsciously. Sure enough, this dark and old-fashioned mysterious organization was just as ruthless as the boss said!

"...After all, when I went to find him, I happened to meet the butcher..." Xu Ming slowly finished the second half of the sentence, and looked at Da Jinlianzi strangely after he was done - she didn't know if she thought too much, but she always felt that there was something strange in the way this guy looked at her.

Of course, strictly speaking, the statement "met the butcher" is not accurate. At least for her, it was not considered an "encounter".

——Just when she touched Xueshui's room, she saw that the door of the other room was open. Xueshui Jiancha himself was squatting in the corner of the room with his head in his hands, looking stiff and afraid to move.

So Xu Ming guessed that it must be the butcher who entered the room where he was.

But what does this have to do with her? She is just an idiot who can't see anything.

Unable to see and unable to sense, it means that the other party can't hurt herself. But others The butcher can still chop. Therefore, in order to ensure the safety of the bloody tea brother, Xu Ming made a silent gesture to him, signaling him not to move. She stayed quietly aside, waiting until the door shook again, then she tiptoed to the bloody tea brother and stated her purpose.

Out of caution, she still carried weapons at the time, including a sprayer and a flashlight. Surprisingly, the bloody tea brother seemed to be startled by something. He stared at me for a long time without saying anything, until I took out my work badge of "Strange Talk Demolition and Relocation Office", and finally came to his senses and nodded slowly.

It was only then that he began to answer Xu Ming's questions. His attitude was very cooperative and he spoke very clearly. The only problem was that some of the contents he explained were inconsistent with the version of the big gold chain, and could even be said to be completely opposite.

And there was also the matter of the membership card.

So Xu Ming simply took him over. It would be convenient for the two to confront each other.

Of course, it would be better if they could fight. She could save so much trouble.

Xu Ming thought silently, and glanced at Xueshui Jiancha who was squatting on the side. For some reason, he refused to speak since he entered this room.

Dajinlianzi seemed to have the urge to speak, but he couldn't speak clearly. He kept saying "I made a mistake" and "I don't have it", or emphasized that he didn't know anything about membership cards...

"You know."

As soon as the words fell, another voice rang out - Xueshui Jiancha, who had been squatting quietly on the side, suddenly spoke, raised his head covered with a pig face, and looked at him steadily.

"You know about the membership card. I was still listening to the rules at that time, and you suddenly came over, listened to the rest of the rules with me, and then said that the card had to be taken, and then took it from the scale. "

Big Golden Chain: "...Huh?!"

He looked completely dumbfounded: "What scale?"

"Electronic scale." Xu Ming helped to explain, "He said that your current intelligence all comes from an electronic scale."

It was still a table scale, the kind of large square scale commonly seen in vegetable markets or butcher shops.

Xu Ming remembered clearly that this was what Xueshui Jiancha said to her at the time -

"I found a way to escape from the secret room by myself. The first person I rescued after escaping was the pig-faced boy. After that, we couldn't find anyone else for a long time, so we could only grope around by ourselves. "I was confused and found an electronic scale in a room..."

He was the only one who found the scale. The scale pan was empty and covered with blood. He tried to start the scale and the machine made a voice prompting him to put something on the empty scale pan first.

He tried to put his hand on it, but the scale didn't respond. He put a pig's face on it and the electronic voice made a few obscure sounds. He put his mobile phone on it and the sound of the scale was clearer this time. He roughly heard the words "game guide", but the voice stopped after a few sentences.

He took several more things and tried them, and finally figured out what this thing was. How to use it -

put something on the scale, and the electronic scale will make a voice broadcast based on the "value" of the item, and the content of the broadcast is the life-saving rules of this damn place. The more appropriate the item is, the more content will be revealed.

But he tried all the items he could find, and found that even if he piled everything on his body on it, the rules broadcast would not exceed two sentences at most. And just as he was trying to search further in the room, he saw a card.

A thin magnetic card was placed next to the electronic scale. It said "Pig Face Meat Market Membership Card". He put the card on the scale, and the content broadcast suddenly increased.

"Most of the information we know comes from that voice broadcast. Including the location of some safe rooms. A small part comes from the note seen later through the pig-faced mask." This is what Xueshui Jiancha said to Xu Ming at the time, "and just when I was almost finished listening, the pig-faced boy came over."

"He listened to the rest of the rules with me, and then told me that this card was not simple and we should put it away, and then he took away the membership card.

"Not only that, he also said that if too many people knew about this kind of prop that can give rules, it might cause disputes. So it is best to release all the information under the identity of Xueshui Jiancha. But I think he is too young and has no persuasive power, so it is better for him to temporarily take over the identity. The matter of the key is almost the same...

"What happened after that is what you know."

The above is what the original Blood Tea said.

He finally spoke at this moment, and he finally repeated these words briefly in front of the big golden chain. The big golden chain was confused and stunned for a long time before he finally found his voice:

"No, no, no, there is definitely something wrong. I have never seen the electronic scale you mentioned. Everything I know is what you told me later, including the identity exchange... And what about that card? What do I need it for! Rules are something that can only be remembered in your heart. It's just a card. What's the point of keeping it? As a souvenir-"

"You can still leave." Xu Ming added faintly beside him.

"……" In response to her, it was the astonished look of the big gold chain.

Not only him, but even the Xueshui Jiancha beside him looked over, his eyes filled with the same astonishment.

"Why are you looking at me like that? It's meaningless to continue acting at this time." Xu Ming tilted his head, "The membership card that can be exchanged for rules is also a necessary prop to pass through the exit. And in addition to the card given at the beginning, there should be other cards in this ghost story, which can also serve as the key to leave."

And it is possible that more rules will be provided.

Xu Ming was cautious about the second half of the sentence and didn't say it out loud. He just looked at the two people in front of him thoughtfully: "You guys were looking for more than just the door before. You probably searched everywhere before. You haven't found the other membership cards yet? You are not efficient enough."

"..." The big golden chain said "ah" in confusion, as if he suddenly understood something. He took a deep look at the big man next to him and stopped talking.

Bloody Tea spoke again, his voice was very low, but his tone was a little subtle: "How did you know about this?"

He was very sure that he had not revealed this part to Xu Ming before.

Xu Ming: "..."

You may not believe it, but I don't know anything. I'm just an information carrier who straddles two strange stories.

"...I have my own intelligence channels." After a moment of silence, Xu Ming chose the most applicable and universal answer. After that, she looked at the big gold chain again, and had some guesses in her heart.

"Come to think of it, I wanted to ask this before." She changed the subject and pointed at the two people's heads, "Can this pig face be taken off?"

"..." The two looked at each other and fell silent in unison.

"Or I can help you take it off?" Xu Ming took out a knife at the right time and snapped it open.

"......!" The two of them moved quickly, grabbing the pig face skin on their faces and pulling it up hard.

The big gold chain was fine. Although it hurt a little when I took it off, it came off smoothly. Xueshui Jiancha had a hard time. It took a lot of effort to take the face off with the help of the other two. His cheeks were still burning after it was taken off. Xu Ming turned on the flashlight and took a look. She found that a pimple on his forehead was torn and bleeding.

She frowned, took out a pack of tissues and handed it over. She shone the flashlight on each of their faces:

"Can you recognize their faces? Check to see if it's someone you know."

"..." Xueshui Jiancha pressed his forehead with a tissue, turned his head and looked carefully at the person next to him, and nodded hesitantly.

He is a sophomore in high school, but he failed a grade because of his serious academic imbalance. According to the normal progress, he should be a senior. The pig-faced boy, who looks tall and wears a big gold chain, has a surprisingly gentle and handsome face. After taking off his pig face, he even took out a pair of glasses from his pocket and put them on.

But... how to say it, he is really handsome after wearing glasses, but he doesn't look very smart.

"Anyway, let's confirm that we know each other, right?" Xu Ming paused, and then said, "Then think about it again. When the other party told you that he wanted to exchange identities, did he show his face or was he wearing the pig face?"

"Wearing it." The two spoke at the same time without thinking, and seemed to realize something after speaking, looked at each other in surprise, and then fell silent again at the same time.

"Where are your clothes?" Xu Ming took the opportunity to ask, "Is the clothes you are wearing the same one you are wearing now?"

"..." Da Jinlianzi pushed his glasses unconsciously and instinctively wanted to nod. However, when he thought about it carefully, he frowned again - comparatively speaking, Xueshui Jiancha came to the conclusion faster.

"I can't remember." He said, "I thought so at first. But when I think about it carefully, I can't remember it at all."

"Okay." Xu Ming crossed his arms again, "Then the last question."

"When the 'person' you saw appeared and talked to you, did you have a pig face on your head?"

"…………" This time, the two of them were silent for a longer time. After a long while, Xueshui Jiancha nodded first.

"I knew it." Xu Ming closed his eyes and sighed, "In the monster talk, you still have to be vigilant against companions who show their faces. You can get along with a group of people who don't show their faces for so long. I don't know whether I should say that you are careless or you don't care about your lives."

"So, what is this situation?" Jin Lianzi's face turned pale, and he spoke stutteringly, "Could it be that what we encountered at that time was actually... fake?"

What is that? A monster? !

"Don't scare yourself." Xu Ming was kind enough to broaden his thinking for him, "It may not be a monster."

"Maybe it's just a dead person."

Jin Lianzi: "..." I didn't feel much better, thank you!

"Anyway, it's a possibility." Xu Ming stretched his shoulders, "Of course, there is another possibility."

"That is, the two of you are teaming up to play me. You are deliberately playing a double act in front of me."

"!" Upon hearing this, Jin Lianzi's face changed again, and he subconsciously seemed to deny it. But Xu Ming raised his hand, and his tone became a little casual:

"Don't worry, even if this is the case, I won't do anything to you - at least not now.

"I bring this up now just to let you know that as long as this possibility still exists, I will not let my guard down against you. In other words, I will continue to keep an eye on you."

Xu Ming said, his eyes swept over the faces of the two people in front of him again, and his speech suddenly slowed down, but his words were a bit serious:

"The Ghost Story Removal Office will try its best to save everyone who falls into a ghost story, but those who make trouble out of nothing are not included. Understand?"

"..." In response to her, the other two people's faces became more and more tense.

Seeing this, Xu Ming just shrugged lightly.

"Also, about that electronic scale, since its triggering conditions are rather strange, I think it's better to keep it a secret until a new card is found. But if possible, I hope you can take me to see it later."

Xu Ming quickly retracted his gaze after scanning the high school student who was still holding the tissue with a meaningful look: "As for the other information, I hope you can disclose it decently and stop trying to hide it - and I hope that the 'Blood Water Tea' I know is a reliable, fair and responsible person. At least he must be worthy of his reputation in Baizhu.

"So, don't try to use this account to play any tricks again, okay? If I find out again, I promise I won't stand idly by. "

…" This time, the two responded much more positively. They nodded hurriedly.

"I'm glad we have reached a consensus." Xu Ming finally smiled, nodded, and in front of the two of them, he put the knife and flashlight in his hand into the bag, and zipped up the bag.

It can be said that he was full of sincerity.

The other two finally relaxed completely, looked at each other, and helped each other to get up from the ground - the next second, Xu Ming seemed to think of something again, and suddenly frowned.

"……"So the two of them paused tacitly.

Xu Ming just glanced at them inexplicably, and then her eyes fell on her ankle again.

For some reason, the bruise on her foot suddenly itched. This made Xu Ming a little concerned. After staring at it for a while, her brows tightened even more.

I don't know if it was her illusion, the mark on her foot... seemed to be shorter?

The handprint was around her ankle, and it was originally about two or three centimeters apart from the beginning to the end. Previously, as she stayed on this floor longer, the bruise stretched a little, but now it seemed to have shrunk again...

But why? Is it because of something she did?

Xu Ming quickly looked back at himself. What they did before didn't seem to be anything special. It was nothing more than rushing into someone else's room recklessly, beating someone up recklessly, then rushing into another room recklessly, and finally bringing another person out recklessly...

it couldn't be that he was so reckless, right?

Xu Ming was wondering in his heart, and seeing that the two were still squatting on the ground, he quickly raised his hand and motioned them to hurry up.

The two of them then stood up again, arm in arm - and almost at the moment they stood up, a shrill buzzing sound suddenly rang out in the empty air.

The sound came so suddenly that they were almost scared to squat back down again. After they came to their senses, the two boys simultaneously revealed expressions of relief.

"...What? "Xu Ming observed their expressions and raised his eyebrows.

"Didn't you hear the noise just now?" Perhaps Xu Ming's last words were too righteous and matter-of-fact, causing the big golden chain to call her to a higher level, "That 'buzzing' sound..."

"Oh. That one." Xu Ming nodded calmly. He did hear it, but his reaction was not that big. It felt quite tingling. "It's the first time I heard it. What does that mean?" "

The appearance of that sound means that the butcher's activity time is over." Xueshui Jiancha said, "I just don't know when it will appear next time..." Fortunately, the

butcher's appearance is always predicted. The preview will be presented in the form of a piece of paper clue, and it will appear in more than one place. As long as it can be found in time, it will be fine.

"Oh..." Xu Ming nodded in sudden realization, and took the initiative to step forward and open the door. Not surprisingly, she heard the voice of the whale man in her mind again, chattering to her about Qiu Yufei's latest exploration progress.

Xu Ming listened attentively while motioning for the other two to go out. Da Jinlianzi quickly untied the restraints on his feet and the knotted shoelaces, and walked out first. Xueshui Jiancha was a step behind him because the acne on his forehead had not stopped bleeding.

Just as he was about to walk out of the room, Xu Ming suddenly frowned as if he had noticed something.

Then he pulled him back and closed the door next to him. Before

Xueshui Jiancha could react, she suddenly spoke again, and the question she asked was out of context -

"What is the ability on that card? "He heard Xu Ming asked.

Xueshui Jiancha was shocked by her: "What?"

"I said, the ability on the membership card." Xu Ming turned his head slightly to look at him, his beautiful face looked a little cold because of the dim light, "Each membership card has an attached ability, don't you see it?"

Xueshui Jiancha suddenly widened his eyes, his expression became more and more surprised: "How do you know..."

"I said, I have my own intelligence channels. "Xu Ming said slowly.

Well, specifically referring to Qiu Yufei.

She certainly couldn't say that it was because she had a remote autonomous little prop that kept beeping in her mind, and at the same time, the temporary partner that followed this prop happened to have successfully obtained a membership card a few minutes ago, and at this moment, the little prop was happily sharing the peculiar card in her mind -

she just frowned coldly and tightened her hand that was pulling the collar of Xueshui.

"So, what is the additional ability on the card you saw?" She softened her voice and asked again.

As if frightened by her sudden attack, Xueshui Jiancha obviously froze again. After a pause, he hurriedly said:

"Exchange, it's an exchange!

"It seems like you can pay a price and get some clues in exchange... but I just took a quick look, I'm not sure."

"...Oh." Xu Ming blinked thoughtfully, and finally let go of his hand.

Xueshui Jiancha looked at her in shock, rubbed his hands on his trousers nervously, hesitated for a moment, and tentatively walked towards the door again.

"I don't believe it." Xu Ming spoke again at this time, and one arm stretched out straight, blocking Xueshui's way, "Unless you show it to me."

"..." Xueshui closed his eyes and took a deep breath with restraint, "I want it too, really. The problem is that the card is not here now..."

"Still pretending." Xu Ming raised his eyebrows slightly, "I have tried my best to save your face. You don't want your true identity to be made public, right, Brother Xueshui?"

Xueshui: "..."

"Or, I can contact my colleagues outside." Xu Ming continued, "Do you know that we have been paying attention to your chat records and forum speech records? Although there is something strange about the posts in the forum, the forum itself should still be running. It is not difficult to copy some records from it and send them to your parents, friends and teachers..."

Xueshui: "..."

"Even so, do you still insist on what you said?" Xu Ming tilted his head, "Do you really insist that the card was taken away by someone pretending to be a pig-faced boy?"

"That's a card with built-in skills. And you're a smart person who can fool most of the forum. Do you really think I will accept everything you say?"

Xueshui Jiancha: "…………"

He was trying hard to avoid Xu Ming's gaze not long ago, but now he finally couldn't control himself and looked at Xu Ming deeply.

I have to say that Xu Ming's intimidation is quite effective. Some people are dead, but he is still alive; some people, when they are dead, they wish they could really die. And Xueshui Jiancha happens to be the latter type of person - to put it bluntly,

he just wants to save face. If it weren't for face, he wouldn't have pretended to be so arrogant in the forum, and he would have become more and more aggressive, and his biography of the character almost took up half a book.

But compared to the fear of social death, what occupied his mind more at this moment was the scene he saw not long ago -

in another room, he was squatting in a corner full of pig faces. Xu Ming stood in front of him, and the butcher stood behind Xu Ming.

To be honest, the moment Xu Ming just appeared in the room, he wanted to ask her to leave. In front of the butcher, she still had a chance of survival with the pig face, but without the pig face, she would only be chopped to death - but he was too scared at the time. He was so scared that his whole body was stiff and he couldn't make a sound.

So he watched Xu Ming enter the room with his eyes wide open, and calmly made a gesture to himself to stay still. Then he found a place to stand by himself. Although the butcher's eyes had turned to her, she was so leisurely that she didn't care at all.

From beginning to end, he didn't give her a single glance. It was as if the other party did not exist at all. Xueshui Jiancha originally did not understand what gave her the confidence until she saw the butcher breathing heavily and slashing at her with a heavy knife.

The knife just cut through her body like cutting through a piece of air. It did not hurt her at all, but it shattered his three views.

It is no exaggeration to say that he was completely dumbfounded at that time. His brain was spinning desperately, trying to find any feasible explanation. He guessed from his hallucination that the other party was a ghost. It was not until Xu Ming showed him the work badge of the weird demolition and relocation office that he gradually understood everything.

- This woman did not look at the butcher, not because she was blind.

That was contempt. A kind of fearless contempt from the strong.

...Is this the real world of talented people?

An inexplicable impulse suddenly surged into her chest, and Xueshui Jiancha's breathing stagnated. She felt a slight heat from her chest to her eye sockets.

Then she saw him reach into his pocket without hesitation, take out a thin card, lower his head, and hand it over with both hands.

Xu Ming's mouth twitched slightly, and after taking it, he glanced at it and put it away. Looking at Xueshui Jiancha with his head drooping, his expression was even more subtle.

"Okay, I was almost fooled by you." She couldn't help but say, "You realized it a long time ago, right? The pig-faced boy was impersonated."

"...Actually not that early." Xueshui Jiancha turned his head slightly and whispered.

To be precise, it was after Xu Ming came to him and told him what the pig-faced boy said. Realizing that the other party's statement was inconsistent with his memory, he naturally reviewed the scene in his memory. Then he naturally found that he could not remember what the other party was wearing at the time. In

addition, after putting on the pig face, the only phantom wearing a pig head often appeared in his field of vision. So he immediately thought of the possibility of a monster impersonating, and quickly made up his mind:

the card with skills must be kept with him for the safest.

In this case, it is better to lie that the card was taken away by the monster, so that he can embezzle it more smoothly.

That's why there was a subsequent statement. I thought I could really hide it like this, but who would have thought that Xu Ming would find out in the end.

Thinking of this, Xueshui Jiancha couldn't help but secretly glance at Xu Ming, his eyes becoming more and more surprised.

"Can I ask you? How did you know about this?" He whispered, "Your intelligence channels can even find this?"

That's amazing. Amazing to the point of being terrifying.

Unexpectedly, Xu Ming just glanced at him indifferently.

"No, I don't know." She said, "I lied to you."

After that, she used the key to open the door and went out, leaving Xueshui alone, stunned where he was. His

face was full of dullness.