Chapter 124 (Minor Repair)

At the same time, on the other side.

In the empty living room, Xu Ming was trying to open the tightly stuck half-moon lock and looked out.

- Just as Chu Yun just said, looking out the window, you can see the flat outer wall of the building and the narrow eaves of the windows below.

Further down, you can see the street in the distance. In the night, the light of the street lamps is particularly dim, which makes the lighthouse in the distance look even brighter.

"Hiss... It's really not easy to climb." Xu Ming observed for a while and carefully retracted her head - the floor on her side was too high, and when looking down, people would instinctively feel a little weak in the legs.

Xu Ming pondered for a moment, but felt that it was not completely impossible: "You should be able to call out Ajiao directly. Let an Ajiao crawl over with the rule book?"

Although they all live in the rule book, the situation of the Ajiao is fundamentally different from that of Gu Yunshu and others. Gu Yunshu and others rely on their skills to temporarily live in the space constructed by the rule book. Unless they think of it themselves, or get instructions from Xu Ming, outsiders cannot easily call them out.

But the Ajiao are just attached to the pages of the rule book. As long as the signal is agreed in advance, they can be called out by saying hello, and anyone can do it.

And it just so happens that the Ajiao are very good at climbing... The more Xu Ming thought about it, the more he felt that this was feasible, but unfortunately the idea was soon broken by the whale man.

"It's hard to estimate." The whale man said honestly, "The house where Yu Fei and his family live is in very poor condition. The windows can only be opened a crack, and the Ajiao can't get out."

If it were in reality, the Ajiao could still go through the wall and the door directly, but in the ghost story, even the spirits have to obey the rules of physics, and the set physical collision area is so large that it is impossible to reduce it at all.

... And the crack is really narrow. It's hard to stuff the notebook out neatly. This is the case when the surface is not covered with whales. If it passes through, it estimates that the surface can be directly plowed off.

Xu Ming: "..."

"But, you can climb out, right." She said unwillingly, "You can change size anywhere."

The whale man: ... This child, how can you talk.

"Don't worry about the details, the important thing is that you can get out." Xu Ming tried to encourage, "Why don't you try? If you really can't, I'll tear the bed sheets from the bedroom to make a rope, hang it to Yufei's window, and you can climb up along it..."

The fat man: "..."

No, do you want to hear what kind of crazy things you are talking about.

"Are you really not going to consider it?" Xu Ming actively persuaded, "I remember that their shared house should be on the 30th floor, and here I am, uh..."

"Twenty-six." The fat man said coldly, "That bald kid said so."

Chu Yungang's original job was to keep an eye on various supernatural forums, and he was more meticulous. He started recording the post about lighting up the haunted building as soon as he took over. He remembered the general settings of each floor clearly, and it was in text format.

It was much more reliable than Xu Ming's vague memory.

"By the way, the floor where Yufei's child is is the thirty-ninth floor." The whale man added.

"That's good." Xu Ming said immediately, "From the twenty-sixth to the thirty-ninth, there are only thirteen floors in total. You just need to work hard to climb up, it will be quick."

The whale man: ... What do you mean there are only thirteen floors in total? You look like a fool.

"It's not that I'm afraid of death." The whale man said helplessly, although it was indeed afraid of death, "It's mainly because I'm really not very good."

It's whale fat, what if it accidentally slips.

"..." Okay.

The negotiation failed, and Xu Ming could only find another way.

"Don't you have any other clues?" The whale was afraid that she was going to make a fuss about his utilization rate again, so he actively changed the topic, "You have found something else, right?"

"Yes." Xu Ming sat back at the table in the living room and slapped a note on the table, "When you were away, I found a note in the bedroom."

There was an empty flower pot in the corner of the bedroom, and there was a rotten fruit in the flower pot. This note was found in the rotten fruit. The edge was very uneven, and it looked like it was torn from somewhere. There was only a short sentence written on it -

[The dog is crazy, and the cat is barking. Remember, don't stimulate the cat, and stay away from the dog. ]

There was a hole in front of "Remember", and it was impossible to tell what the original word was. The wording seemed a little unclear. All the words were uniformly slanted, and looked similar to some of the fonts in the precautions she had read before.

"...The dog is crazy?" The whale man found the wording a bit irritating, "What does it mean?"

"Good question, I want to know too." Xu Ming said frankly, "After all, I can't see a single dog hair now."

Cats, dogs, birds, grass, all were nowhere to be seen. All the cages and nests were empty, and the flower pots in the storage room were empty. There was feed in the refrigerator, and she also put food into the cat and dog's food bowls according to the feeding guide - but all the food did not decrease.

"In other words, it's not that they are invisible, but that they don't exist at all?" The blubber man said "tsk" in Xu Ming's mind, "Then this is really tricky."

"I guess so." Xu Ming sighed, "They may have originally needed to meet certain conditions before they would appear, and they could also do a close-up kill or something."

But he happened to meet this idiot. After missing this, I don't know when we will meet again.

But it's hard to say, maybe everyone will be the same in two hours. No, it doesn't even take two hours-according to the time I came in, it will probably take more than an hour to wait.

"What should we do now?" The blubber man was helpless. After all, he couldn't really let such a delicate little thing climb up the stairs with the rule book on its back,

right? It's a blubber man, not Spider-Man.

Xu Ming closed his eyes and sighed, then resigned himself to taking out a pen and paper and slapping it on the table in front of him: "Tell me about the rules of Yu Fei."

Whale Blubber: "..."

Huh?

"The rules of Yu Fei." Xu Ming repeated tiredly, "I thought about it, and now there are only three measures I can take on my own initiative. Otherwise, I use the exchange card to exchange Baichi's ability. The problem is that I don't know if this method is safe, there may be hidden dangers, and it may not be wise to exchange Baichi's life-saving ability."

Otherwise, she could help Yufei and the others to think of a solution from a distance, first send Yufei out of the current room, and wait for her to enter a new room - what if she was lucky and the new room happened to have a window big enough for Ajiao to climb out?

Xu Ming admitted that he was gambling, but it was better than waiting here foolishly for his ability to expire or for a helper to fall from the sky.

She had been here for almost an hour, and the marks on her feet had grown more than one centimeter. If she stayed any longer, people might not even be able to find her body.

The whale fat man thought the same thing, so he cooperated and acted as a porter of rules, moving Qiu Yufei's rules one by one into Xu Ming's mind. Xu Ming wrote and drew along with its voice, and soon compiled a complete written document.

——Luckily, when Qiu Yufei entered the shared house, Chu Yungang was already inside. The clues, rules, and traps were almost all figured out. Apart from the inconvenience of movement and the inconvenience of searching, the actual distance to escape was not far.

This was indeed the case. There were not many places where Xu Ming's help was needed. She only helped to resolve the contradictions between the two rules. Not long after, she heard the news from the blubber man that Qiu Yufei and Chu Yungang had found the correct door and membership card and were ready to leave.

Considering that two people entering the elevator together might lead to the exchange of items, the two decided to enter the elevator one after another. Thanks to Xu Ming's help, they also found an extra card, just one for each person.

Qiu Yufei entered the elevator first, and in order to save time, she burned a card without saying a word. Xu Ming listened to their movements, secretly breathed a sigh of relief, stood up to confirm the time, and suddenly stood up and walked towards the cat's nest.

In the past hour, there was a meal time. Xu Ming, with the mood of giving it a try, specially added feed to all the animals, but unfortunately, he still saw nothing.

In order to help the pets maintain good eating habits, the "Feeding Guide" specifically requires that if the pets still do not eat after a period of time, the food in the food bowl must be disposed of and fresh food must be put in at the next meal time.

Regarding how to recycle food, the "Feeding Guide" also has detailed instructions: When recycling, you must first carefully observe the condition of the animal, especially cats and dogs. If the other party's eyes are always fixed on the food, don't move without permission, and greet the other party first to avoid the other party's anger...

The food bowl in front of Xu Ming was full, and the surroundings were empty. Even so, she still stared at the air for a few seconds in place to show respect for the rules, and then greeted very attentively, then stretched out her hand and slowly dragged the food bowl in front of her.

——However, at the moment when the food bowl rubbed against the ground, she suddenly felt something shaking in front of her eyes.

A large shadow suddenly jumped out in the afterglow, and at the same time, there was a strange and clear heavy breathing. Xu Ming slowly raised his eyes, and then he realized that a figure had appeared on the empty floor in front of him.

...Yes, a figure.

It was a person lying on the ground. To be precise, a dummy. From Xu Ming's side, he could clearly see the spherical joints at his shoulders and elbows, but the joints were not exactly the same as those of humans. The proportions of his forearms and forearms were extremely strange. There was a flesh-colored strip behind his body, and his face was obviously deformed. His lips were curled to the sides, and his nose was flattened. He looked like the leopard demon in Journey to the West...

or, a cat.

His heart skipped a beat, and Xu Ming finally realized that it was a cat.

Wait, so what's going on now? Why can she see suddenly? No, no, let's talk about this later. The important thing is what to do now. I need to figure out my situation first...

Xu Ming's brain was spinning rapidly, and she quickly sorted out the relevant rules one by one. She lowered her body slightly, with a thin layer of sweat on her forehead, and carefully observed the state of the "cat" in front of her.

No bending of the waist, no breathing, no wagging of the tail... It's okay, it means it's in a good mood.

Looking back at her previous actions, she observed and greeted it. Did she violate the rules? No.

So Xu Ming calmed down and took away the bowl of food according to the rules.

As it turned out, her judgment was correct - the cat just stared at her closely, but it still looked calm and had no intention of attacking.

Xu Ming secretly breathed a sigh of relief and continued to retreat. Just as she was pondering the current situation in confusion, the voice of the whale man in her mind suddenly rang again:

"Did you find help?"

"?" Xu Ming had a question mark on his head, "No, what happened?"

"That weird thing." The whale man said, "The child Yufei entered the elevator, and she found a new setting for the 26th floor in the notebook. The setting is that the people entrusted to take care of the animals must love these creatures, so they must see these creatures in their eyes, and no power can reverse it..."

That's fine. A special item was added after the key point, "Even the distorted characteristic called 'idiot' is the same."

In other words, Xu Ming's idiotic characteristic was directly abolished-at least in this strange story, Xu Ming's characteristic can no longer be used.

Xu Ming: "..."

???

What's going on?

Xu Ming was also confused. She put the food bowl on the tea table beside her. She opened her mouth to say something, but there was another flash in her peripheral vision - a clear flash passed through her field of vision. She turned her head subconsciously, and then she found that there was a mirror on her side.

It was a large floor-length mirror with a smooth surface, which clearly reflected everything around her.

However, she was not in the mirror.

There was only a bird standing in her place.

It was a small, snow-white cockatoo with a large blush on its face.

Xu Ming: "...???"

What the hell? ?

She couldn't help but take a breath, and subconsciously looked at herself - fortunately, she saw a human body.

It's just that the parrot reflected in the mirror also moved.

——A strange feeling of uneasiness suddenly surfaced, causing Xu Ming's scalp to numb. Almost at the same time, the relevant rules rushed into her mind, causing her face to change again.

[…There are mirrors only in the bedroom and bathroom. If you see a mirror in other rooms, it's best not to look at it. ]

[If you accidentally look at it, no matter what you see, don't make a sound. ]

[Stand in front of the mirror for a while, until you are sure you can leave, then leave. ]

...Stand for a while? Are you sure you can leave?

——Then how long should you stand there?

Waiting for the reflection to disappear? Or waiting for her own shadow... to return to normal?

Xu Ming was not sure. But she felt vaguely that she did not seem to have time to "stand here for a while longer" -

not far from her, at the location of the cat's nest, a strange sound of movement was heard. Out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of a shadow slowly approaching.

The upper body was lowered, but the shoulder blades were raised - it looked like a cat ready to hunt birds.