Chapter 119 (Minor Repair)

- In a blink of an eye. About thirty minutes later.

The aisle full of pig faces was empty again. Only the heavy footsteps of the butchers could be heard slowly, coming from far away and approaching, with a strong stench.

Sucui hid under the table as usual, but his heartbeat was much faster than the previous times. After looking around for who knows how many times, he finally couldn't hold back and moved to the side of another person with small steps. He lowered his voice and asked worriedly :

"Boss, are you sure it's okay for us to hide like this?"

"Yeah." The big golden chain he asked nodded without hesitation, "Don't worry, everything is planned, don't panic. Just do it as before."

Sucui: "..."

No, the problem is that this time is different from the previous times! Very different!

The previous times everyone was minding their own business and just found an empty room to hide; this time everyone gathered together and hid in one room? !

Sucui shouted in his heart full of doubts, and scanned the surroundings again. I saw a circle of people wearing pig masks squatting around me, except for the girl Du Rong brought back. She didn't wear a pig mask, nor did she squat like them. Instead, she stood by the table on the other side, tiptoeing and studying the red ribbon hanging above the table.

Including her, there were thirteen of them, all here. The room, which was originally a little empty, now felt full.

"Don't worry." As if seeing that he was still worried, another schoolmate in school uniform came over and whispered, "Didn't I tell you all? We now have two professionals leading the team, so it's very stable. The reason for this arrangement is that Teacher Gu Ming has thought of a way to leave. Just get through this wave, stay calm."

"But isn't this too dangerous for Gu Ming?" This time it was Du Rong who spoke. She adjusted the pig face she was wearing, and did not hide the worry in her tone. After she finished speaking, she subconsciously glanced at Xu Ming, and her brows tightened even more.

Gu Ming is also a practitioner in the psychic industry, but he is a part-time worker, and he is not in the same unit as Boss Xueshui. She only learned this news not long ago, not much earlier than the others. She

had to admit that she was really shocked when she heard Boss Xueshui tell her this. But considering that her sister-in-law herself is a psychic, and Gu Juan has also emphasized her specialness... this does not seem so difficult to accept.

But being able to accept that "Gu Ming is a minor profession" does not mean that you can sit back and watch Gu Ming take risks - especially since the risk is so great. Once the butcher really enters the room, Gu Ming will be the first to be hit. Others can still pretend to be dead with their pig faces, but she can't even pretend.

This makes Du Rong worried, very worried.

Therefore, until now, she still did not give up persuading him to change his mind about making tea with blood. The butcher's footsteps were still far away from here, and it was still time for everyone to go out and find a new room. On the other side, Xu Ming was busy cutting the ribbon with a knife. Because of the distance, he did not hear their voices clearly, but he noticed Du Rong's frequent glances at him, and he roughly guessed what she was worried about. He waved his hand to comfort her and quickly turned his eyes to the ribbon in front of him.

And not long after she finally cut the ribbon with a knife, the butcher's heavy footsteps suddenly stopped outside the door.

The door was slowly pushed open, and the pungent fishy smell poured in along with the huge shadow. Du Rong curled up in the crowd. Even though she was mentally prepared, her heart still couldn't help but suddenly swelled with excitement when the butcher came in.

——And when she saw the butcher holding the butcher knife high at Gu Ming, her heart suddenly reached the top.

The knife rose and fell. Although they were far away, Du Rong seemed to be able to hear the sound of the blade cutting through the air. Seeing the knife falling heavily on the back of Gu Ming's neck, she finally couldn't help it and closed her eyes with trembling!

... She paused for a few seconds, but didn't hear any further movement.

So she tentatively opened her eyes.

A strong shock appeared in her eyes.

Then she tilted her head again, as if she saw something incomprehensible.

Her eyes were gradually filled with confusion. Confused and sluggish.

The confusion became more and more intense, and he even suspected that he was dreaming, so he pinched himself.

Finding that pinching himself was useless, he poked the person next to him.

The person next to him did not respond, so he cautiously turned his head and found that the other person was also staring at Gu Ming's direction - he seemed to have been completely stunned.

He did not dare to make any further noise, so he could only force himself to turn his gaze back and continue to look at Xu Ming. He pursed his lips tightly, for fear that he would scream out accidentally.

- In the end, he did not know how long he looked in this posture, and his eyes finally calmed down gradually, as if he understood everything.

After an unknown amount of time, footsteps sounded in the room again, followed by the sound of a door being pushed open. With a sickening gasp, the butcher, who had been busy for a long time, finally left with heavy steps.

... The heart that had been hanging high finally settled down completely. Du Rong closed her eyes with a sense of relief, and then looked at Xu Ming, who had quickly packed his things and tiptoed to the door. He

looked like nothing had happened, and even said hello to others before leaving. Du Rong subconsciously called her, and when her eyes met, she didn't know what to say for a moment. She paused for a moment before she stammered, "Be careful."

"..."

As soon as she said this, she clearly felt that everyone else's eyes were focused on her. She didn't know whether she thought these four words were redundant or that the instructions were ridiculous.

Xu Ming smiled, then nodded seriously, turned around, opened the door, and followed her out.

The remaining group of people wearing pig masks were still huddled in the room, like a group of piglets huddled together. The door closed and then paused for a few seconds. Fang Du, as if waking up from a dream, chattered around the big golden chain -

"Oh my god! Oh my god, so what was going on just now? Am I seeing it right? Am I really seeing it right?!"

"It's amazing, how did they do it? I saw the butcher chopped him several times!"

"Someone tell me what happened first, I was too scared to open my eyes just now...Did that girl do something? She doesn't seem to be injured..."

"Boss, does this involve magic or something like that? For example, a stand-in, a golden bell cover, etc..." "Oh my god, this is awesome!

Boss, can you do it too?"

The big golden chain, who is known for brewing blood tea: "..."

No, no! Not even if you die! Thank you!

"Alright, alright, be quiet! You can wait until she comes back to ask for details. We have other things to do right now, so we have to hurry!"

Seeing that the discussion was getting more and more heated, Da Jinlianzi had to quickly control the situation. After everyone calmed down, he tilted his head slightly and exchanged a tacit look with the real Xueshui Jiancha.

So, after a brief pause, he spoke again:

"I have already said the reason why everyone is hiding here. Because Gu Ming needs to follow the butcher, if everyone is too scattered, it will affect her progress. But in fact, there is another reason.

"In another room, there is also an important clue about how to leave. But that clue will only appear when the butcher is around, and it will only appear when there is no one in the room. I was worried that someone might occupy that room in the chaos, so I called everyone over first..."

As he spoke, he observed the reactions of the people in the room - although they all wore pig masks and couldn't be seen, at least their body movements could be seen.

Some people murmured in a low voice, but most people did not raise any objections. So the big gold chain quickly moved on to the next step, pointing directly to the side, using this as an excuse to bring the real "blood tea" to the front. "Sent them out to "look for clues."

After being sent out, they waited for a while. Then he pretended to look at his watch and said that he shouldn't be

gone for so long. Then he pointed at Du Rong and asked her to go with him to have a look. Du Rong didn't understand why, but she still cooperated and followed. The big gold chain took Du Rong to the room that had been booked long ago. He pulled the pig face he was wearing nervously, and took the opportunity to go over in his mind what Xu Ming had emphasized to him before -

"The supplementary version of the rules mentions that you can confirm the identity of your companions by asking them to take off their pig faces. This seems to be reliable at the moment. But please note that this version of the rules also emphasizes one thing.

"This request cannot be made under certain special circumstances - unfortunately, the description of the circumstances is blurred. We cannot be sure of the details, but we can judge from the following text.

"The next sentence is, if you suspect that there are more than one, then pretend that you have found nothing - that is, quantity is the key point. When they have the advantage in numbers, we cannot show any doubt about them, which may lead to bad consequences.

"But on the other hand, this also means that if humans have the advantage in numbers, then we can do whatever we want to them... I mean, there are certain restrictions.

"Oh, and the rules also say that the monsters that sneak in have very fake joints. Therefore, I suspect that if we remove the pig faces, they themselves may be things like puppets or dummies.

"One of my companions once encountered a similar thing in another area. She found a membership card inside the body of this thing. So I guess that the membership cards of this area should be hidden in the same place...

"--To sum up, I think the next time the butcher appears, it will be a very, very good opportunity for us... Do you understand what I mean?"

...

...

"...Probably, maybe, understand? "

Five minutes later, in another room.

Du Rong struggled to lift her pig face slightly, revealing the lower half of her face, to further prove her human identity - while proving herself, she was also trying to digest what the big gold chain had just told her.

Looking to the side, the "pig-faced boy" who was the first to move to this room was crossing his arms and looking at her seriously, with an unprecedented solemnity on his face, and wearing a cartoon brass knuckles on his hands - it was said that it was a military resource temporarily funded by Gu Ming.

Du Rong looked at his brass knuckles, then at the folding knife that the big gold chain handed to her, blinked quickly, and finally understood everything thoroughly:

"So you are planning to trick people out one by one and put them in sacks?!"

"It's not really sacks. "The pig-faced boy" hurriedly said, pausing subtly, "Don't deceive those who can prove their identities, and only deceive those who cannot be proved."

During the period of the butcher's activities, the monsters that mixed into the crowd did not dare to run around. At the same time, there are two people in the team who have their own metaphysical prestige, and they can launch and promote the plan more quickly...

To put it bluntly, it is easier to deceive people if the name is bigger.

So Du Rong's conclusion is actually correct-they are now planning to trick out and kill all the people wearing pig faces one by one.

Du Rong: "..."

She lowered her eyes again and looked at the knife handed to her. Her throat moved slightly: "Why did you find me first?"

"You have a connection with Gu Ming, so your identity is more credible. "The big golden chain said truthfully, "and I've observed it before..."

Whether Du Rong thought Xu Ming was going to be cut by the butcher, or watched Xu Ming being cut by the butcher, her reaction was quite human and convincing.

"Okay." Du Rong pursed her lips and finally took the knife, "Then what should we do next? Should I go and pull someone out again?"

"No, no, let him go." The big golden chain pointed to the real blood tea, "Our next target is Sucui. He interacts more with Sucui, so it's better for him to go. "

When it comes to fraud, it's always easier to succeed if you

target someone you know. Sucui is also a group with a more reliable identity . If they pass the verification, they will have a further advantage in numbers. The next step is to catch the fake person.

Du Rong nodded in understanding and lowered her head to study the knife in her hand. The big gold chain at the side suddenly said, "By the way, there's one more thing."

Du Rong: "?"

"Gu Ming said that for the sake of insurance, she also prepared a spell. We can recite it more when we have time, maybe it will be useful."

"?" Du Rong became more and more curious, "What spell?"

"The action of force is mutual." The big gold chain said seriously, "If you can be attacked by something, then in turn, you can definitely attack it."

Du Rong: "...??? "

Huh?

*

The big gold chain's expression was actually correct.

Xu Ming really couldn't be sure whether this "rule" would be useful. He couldn't even be sure whether this rule should be used.

First of all, although Qiu Yufei had a precedent of beating puppets, Qiu Yufei now had a psychic physique. Who knew if she became a "villain" because of awakening? If so, then other people might not be able to attack the dummy, and everything would be in vain.

On the other hand, although the rule book is in the same ghost story, it is not with her, so she dare not say whether this skill that does not require contact can be used normally; so when she said this, she was just trying it out.

Fortunately, from the perception of the body, it seems to be effective - after the words came out, there was a sudden pain in the knee. It's just that the soreness ended quickly, and it felt like a price was paid, but not much.

No matter what, it works. At least it can make her feel more at ease when she leaves the main force to follow the butcher alone.

In comparison, the bruise on her ankle makes her more worried...

In the empty corridor, Xu Ming is trying to move forward as carefully as possible, relying on all the movements she can capture. From time to time, she glances at her ankle, with obvious solemnity on her face.

... During the time she was looking for rules, making preparations, and waiting for the butcher, the bruise on her foot has grown a lot.

The distance between the beginning and the end is less than one centimeter, and it will be completely closed in just a little bit.

Maybe it was a psychological effect, but Xu Ming even felt a dull pain in her skin, itchy and painful...

However, before she could think about it, the door suddenly opened in front of her, instantly drawing her attention.

Because she couldn't see the butcher himself, Xu Ming could only judge the butcher's direction by the door that suddenly opened in the corridor, and the red ribbons hanging on the wall - these were all taken from other rooms by her before the butcher arrived, and they helped to hang them up with blood and tea.

She couldn't see the butcher. But the butcher was very big and walked with the wind. Therefore, Xu Ming hung extra red ribbons on the pig faces at many corners, so that when she chased to the intersection, she could determine which way to go based on the movement of the ribbons.

It was uncertain whether it was effective or not, but at least the ribbon was indeed floating... The only thing Xu Ming could do was to pray that this method would work, otherwise if he found the wrong direction, he would be finished.

Calming his mind, Xu Ming quickly identified the floating direction of the ribbon in front of him, endured the abnormality at his ankle, turned around and walked forward quickly.

——Fortunately.

Facts have proved that her judgment was correct.

After a long follow, Xu Ming finally heard that shrill buzzing sound again.

The buzzing came from a wall. Xu Ming was not sure what the butcher did to the wall, but what was certain was that shortly after the butcher came to this location, a sharp buzzing sound was heard from inside the wall.

The wall covered with pig heads opened to the side automatically, and Xu Ming realized that behind the wall, there was an elevator.

It was a large elevator, more like a passenger elevator in an office building. The interior of the compartment was bright, which was incompatible with the surrounding environment. It seemed particularly clean from the outside.

Xu Ming did not dare to follow in rashly, so he had to stand there and wait for the elevator door to close before he went forward to check the wall in front of him. He noticed a black tooth in the mouth of a pig mask, and tried to poke it. The wall covering the elevator opened outwards again.

This time there was no one there. Xu Ming acted decisively and quickly opened the elevator. After entering and taking a closer look, he became more and more convinced that this was probably one of the exits here -

the reason was simple, there was a place to swipe the card in the elevator. It just matched the design of "cannot be used without swiping the card".

Not only that, the floor keys inside the elevator were much more unusual - Xu Ming didn't know who came up with this weird story, but at least he was very serious about it. This weird story took a hundred floors, and he really installed a hundred floor keys on the wall of the elevator. They

were densely packed, filling up most of the wall.

On the opposite side of the button group was a hanging notebook. The edge of the notebook was tied with a pen. Xu Ming was now extremely sensitive to this kind of paper products, and he picked it up and read it without saying a word.

Of course, before turning the page, she did not forget to look at her ankle again. She was surprised to find that the bruise, which had grown to a gap of less than one centimeter, had shrunk again, and the gap had been widened to nearly two centimeters.

... So what was going on?

Xu Ming frowned slightly, and finally had some vague guesses in her heart; at this moment, the whale fat man was poking his head into her mind again, so Xu Ming took the opportunity to distract himself and asked it to tell Qiu Yufei that the exit might be an elevator. While talking, the notebook in her hand happened to turn back a page...

Xu Ming looked at the neatly arranged words, and his breathing stagnated again.

*

At the same time, in the parking lot on another floor——

"No way? Are you sure it's an elevator?"

Qiu Yufei rubbed her arms that were peeling from the cold, and couldn't help but sigh in regret:

"I happened to see the elevator when I came here before! I've seen it from a distance, but I just didn't dare to go there!"

"It shows that sometimes, being too cautious is not a good thing." The whale man held the edge of her bag and said slowly, "Look, if you had dared to try it before, wouldn't you have left by now?"

Qiu Yufei: "..."

Qiu Yufei had already turned around and ran back. After thinking about it, he couldn't help but reply: "But didn't you also say that the elevator compartment looked gloomy, and it was obvious that there would be a power outage and monsters crawling out after entering?"

"Is that what I said?" The whale man muttered, and quietly hid in Qiu Yufei's bag; after a while, he complained, "You are such a nasty kid."

Qiu Yufei: ...? ? ?

Fortunately, she knew the way clearly, and soon, the two of them rushed back to the elevator again - unlike the pig heads on Xu Ming's wall, the elevator in the parking lot was still easy to recognize. It was just an ordinary elevator.

Qiu Yufei also thought about whether to wait for Xu Ming to come and join her, but there was no way, it was too cold... I don't know what's wrong with this parking lot. The longer I stay, the colder I feel. Her clothes are still thin, and now my teeth are chattering when I speak.

Therefore, Qiu Yufei decisively chose to leave directly - if everything goes well, she will take the elevator directly to the 75th floor where Xu Ming is, meet her first, and then act together.

... However, the moment the elevator opened, Qiu Yufei was stunned.

There was a woman standing in the elevator compartment. A

strange woman, with delicate features, but a very haggard expression, a delicate red dress, and messy hair. Her skin was pale as if she had not seen the light for a long time, and her bare feet stepped on the ground.

"......!" The visual impact was a bit sudden, and Qiu Yufei took a step back involuntarily.

Looking more closely, she saw the other person's shadow was printed on the wall of the elevator, and she calmed down a little.

If it was a monster, she could ignore it. But if it was a person, it would be better to pay attention to it.

"Hey?" So she tried to say hello, still looking a little nervous, "Are you okay?" "

...Hmm?"

The woman looked up in confusion, and seemed to be stunned when she saw Qiu Yufei, then blinked and showed a shy smile.

"I'm fine." She said softly, "Do you want to take the elevator?"

"If you need it, just come up. I've already triggered the elevator. You can use mine."

The woman said, and smiled again. The smile looked warm, gentle, and friendly.

Qiu Yufei looked at her opening and closing lips, but her expression changed slightly.

"? Why aren't you moving?" Just at this moment, the blubber man in the bag curiously poked his head out again. Qiu Yufei was startled and pressed it back on the spot, then zipped up the zipper with her backhand, tightly grasped the bag in her hand, and a smile appeared on her face, but it was a very forced smile.

"It's okay, it's okay, I'm waiting for my friend... You can use it, you can use it..." Qiu Yufei said as she kept backing away. Seeing that the woman seemed to want to invite him again, she turned around and ran without saying a word! He

ran a hundred or eighty meters in one breath, and just happened to hear the elevator ring again. When she turned her head again, she saw the elevator door slowly closing. A woman's face appeared in the gap, looking at her steadily, her eyes wide open, and there was no smile on her face anymore.

... Qiu Yufei was so scared that her breathing stagnated again, and her already cold hands and feet became even colder.

She didn't dare to breathe again until the elevator door was completely closed.

"? Are you okay?" The whale man pushed the zipper open from the inside and looked around nervously, "What did you see just now that scared you so much?" "

?" Qiu Yufei looked at it with a subtle expression and asked back, "Didn't you see it just now?

"I was just making a long-distance call with Xu Ming kid..." The whale man asked curiously, "So what happened?"

"Her tongue! "Qiu Yufei said, thinking of what she had just seen, she couldn't help but shudder again.

The woman spoke very quickly and moved her tongue frequently. But she was sure she was not mistaken.

...There was a hole on the woman's tongue.

Right at the tip of the tongue, there was a strange, heart-shaped hole.