Chapter 129
"..."
As Guo Shuyi finished speaking, Xu Ming fell into thought again.
...In fact, if you think about it carefully, it is indeed more convenient to let others go to collect cards separately than to go out by yourself. First of all, they have been practicing this "one side sits in the middle, and all sides push forward" model for a long time, and have accumulated rich experience. They have already been familiar with emergency plans and communication processes; especially the ghost stories here are fake ghost stories without domain owners. The built-in monsters are not particularly powerful. It is difficult for humans, but not necessarily for them. If everyone acts together, there will be a problem of overflow of combat power.
Secondly, as abnormal existences that are bound to the rule book, they can all be taken back into the rule book.
This means that compared to other people, they have one more way out - as long as they find a window, climb along the outer wall to the window on the 26th floor, and then Xu Ming will take them back to the rule book, they can complete the painless transfer.
The most important thing is... there are other people in this building.
Thinking of this, Xu Ming's heart sank.
She remembered Du Rong and other people she had just met not long ago. Although it seemed absurd, she had to admit that the existence of the identity of "Blood Tea" actually played a significant role in the stability of the temporary small team - this identity with prestige became the leader with the help of Du Rong and the big gold chain, and it happened that this leader's mind was not bad, which prevented the small team from going to the worst situation.
... But what if it was in other situations? What if there is no such "leader" in other teams?
The Pig Face Maze, whether it is the setting of "In order to ensure the safety of everyone, one person must not wear a pig face", or the illusions and rumors that gradually appear over time, are obviously aimed at dividing humanity; the same is true for the room he is in now. If he is not careful, he will go to a situation of self-destruction. The shared rental house where Qiu Yufei was previously located seemed to be very fast, but that was also the result of Chu Yungang's exploration for a long time and without hiding anything...
Not to mention the various settings of the membership card and elevator rules, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is provoking trouble.
Xu Ming does not think that other people are two-legged crickets that are easily provoked, nor does he think that he can help everyone with his own strength. But since there is this opportunity...
maybe it is always right to do more.
The cockatoo crouching on the tea table blinked its eyelids quickly, lowered its head silently, and quickly turned a few pages of the rule book in front of it until it turned to the side where the dream bracelet was.
Then, in full view of everyone, it directly touched the bracelet pattern on the page with its paws, and its white and fluffy body immediately softened - replaced by another familiar figure, appearing beside the tea table.
"I agree with your plan." Xu Ming, who switched directly to the state of a dream walker, nodded neatly, and picked up a pen and paper from the table skillfully. "But let me say this in advance, because of the special mechanism of the elevator here, for safety reasons, everyone can only act separately, including Panpan - is this acceptable?" After
getting an affirmative answer, Xu Ming breathed a sigh of relief, lowered his head and quickly scribbled a few times on the paper in front of him:
"Okay, then let's arrange it this way. Guo Shuyi, you call two more helpers from your side, and bring more props. Everyone should equip themselves as much as possible, especially remember to take paper, pen, work badge and flashlight..."
Because she was afraid that the whale fat man would be startled, she used her original face when she switched to the state of a dream walker this time. Even so, the whale man who was squeezed aside by her was still frightened. He looked at her and then at the motionless parrot on the coffee table. It took him a long time to find his voice:
"So you can speak for yourself?" Then why did you bother it before?
"Because I'm lazy." Xu Ming was brief and to the point, and soon turned the topic back to the future arrangements. After quickly checking the inventory of flashlights and blank work badges, he quickly decided on the final plan -
just like Guo Shuyi said, he would stay in this room for the time being and not leave.
Niu Bugeng and Ma Taigor were both transferred to field work, Guo Shuyi and the whale man stayed with him and processed information, and kept an eye on the "cat" in the kitchen.
"Wait, that means we still have to clear this room first, right?" Lu Yueling finally reacted, "But if you want to pass the level before, you have to grow the potted plants first...how long will that take?" "
According to the 'Feeding Guide', the potted plants need to be watered twice a day, a total of fourteen times in seven days. If there is no damage in the middle and it is in a good mood all the time, it will bloom on the third day and bear fruit on the seventh day." Xu Ming carefully repeated what he had read before, and Lu Yueling was stunned: "Ah, it takes so long?"
"But." Xu Ming added, "I have got the rule book back now, so I should be able to operate appropriately in this regard..."
In fact, Xu Ming had thought about this before - potted plants are not normal potted plants, so it is naturally impossible for them to follow the laws of nature like normal potted plants. Its growth should be more like a kind of program, because it meets certain preconditions, so it will produce the corresponding specified results.
In this case, I can take advantage of the rule book and directly change the preconditions. For example, change "watering twice a day" to "watering fourteen times a day", and on this basis, add a corresponding watering schedule... It just
so happens that Xu Ming's rule book has a set of skills called "rotten fruit replacement", and she just happens to have the group rental rules that she dictated from Qiu Yufei not long ago - this set of rules is mainly composed of detailed activity schedules of landlords and other tenants, and the most abundant thing in it is various detailed schedules.
Xu Ming does what he says. Because she couldn't use other abilities in the sleepwalker state, she could only put herself back into the parrot body. Her tiny claws fiddled with the rule book and the previous notes for a while, but the crest on her head suddenly stood up in confusion.
"?" Everyone was immediately worried, and Lu Yueling asked nervously, "What's the matter?"
The parrot Xu Ming looked at her, and before he could say anything, the whale man had already made a sound and spoke for him: "It can't be changed."
"......?!" Lu Yueling was even more panicked, "Does it mean that the rules can't be changed?"
"No, no, no!" This time it was Xu Ming herself who answered - she hurriedly switched back to the state of the Dream Walker and said, "No, it's probably just because... this is not within the scope of modification of this skill."
Seeing that Lu Yueling was even more confused, she hurriedly gave a further explanation, and considering that there was a restless cat tied up in the kitchen, she deliberately lowered her voice: "There are two ways to use rotten fruit substitution. One is to extract keywords from your reading records to replace the vocabulary in the monster talk rules; the other is to extract keywords from the existing monster talk rules to construct new rules..."
Xu Ming used the second method this time. But because this ability is used relatively rarely, she forgot that this usage actually has an additional limitation -
the legend rules used to extract keywords must come from other legends. If the text comes from the current legend area, the modification will be invalid.
"......Ah?" Lu Yueling listened and frowned even more. Guo Shuyi beside him tilted his head, his brows visibly relaxed: "Hey, that's a good thing."
...?
Lu Yueling looked over in disbelief, but the next second, the dream version of Xu Ming sitting on the sofa also nodded gently:
"Yes. To be honest, it's quite surprising."
...? ?
"Indeed." Comrade Niu Bugeng smoothly integrated into the conversation, "This way it will save more effort later."
...? ? ?
"No, wait!" Lu Yueling finally couldn't help it and stopped the conversation, "You guys slow down, I don't understand - didn't you say that the modification is invalid?" How did it become a good thing?
"Yes." Xu Ming chuckled, "But the modification is invalid this time. The essence is that the rule text I used is considered to be from the current ghost story."
Lu Yueling: "...so?"
"That is to say, the rules between the small ghost stories are not completely independent." Guo Shuyi interjected, "All the rules are considered to be a whole and belong to the huge ghost story of 'Ghost Building'."
Lu Yueling felt that she seemed to understand a little this time: "In other words..."
"The director cannot use the rules of the forty-first floor to change the rules of the twenty-sixth floor." Niu Bugeng said, "But correspondingly, as long as she has enough information, even if she stays on the twenty-sixth floor, she can change the rules of the forty-first floor."
"...Oh! Oh oh!" Lu Yueling finally understood it after hearing this, "It means that she doesn't have to go anywhere, she can change the rules of this building at will!"
"It's not very casual." Xu Ming added. At least the rules in the elevator are probably the core part, so she can't change them.
But just this is surprising - this means that as long as other people can provide their own rules, she can remotely assist in modifying them, and as long as she doesn't leave the building, the modified parts will always be effective. This is much more convenient than the previous remote mode.
"But... in this case, how do we modify the watering schedule?" Lu Yuling paused, and was confused again, "Do we have any other texts available?"
"Yes, there are many." The whale man said, pointing at Xu Ming, only to see that the latter had already flipped back the rule book skillfully.
——When Xu Ming was dispatching everyone to run around a few days ago, he was particularly careful and prepared a copy of all the rules that could be collected, and put them all in the rule book. Now they come in handy.
Time is a common element in ghost stories, and it is not difficult to find content suitable for extraction.
What's more, in addition to extracting elements from other ghost story rules, she can also directly find replacement elements from the reading records provided by others. The text library is still relatively rich...
[Yang Duoduo smiled and looked at the man in front of her, but tears flowed down her face as she smiled. Her heart was shaking, but the hand holding the sword was steady. With a slight force on her wrist, the sword blade embedded into the flesh, oozing a line of red.
[[Senior Brother Xiao. ] She said softly, looking at the panic eyes of the man opposite her, she felt more and more ridiculous, [It’s me who let you down. If you want my bones to achieve the great Dao, then take it. Anyway, I owe you a life, so I’ll consider it as paying you back. In the future, you and Senior Sister, you must be good...]]
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[[Yes, I am using you, so what!] With her wide scarlet sleeves flying, Yang Duoduo raised her head without any fear, looking directly at the man with red eyes in front of her, [Xiao Zhenglan, don’t forget, you also used me in the past. Why, you are allowed to use my bones to overcome tribulations and cultivate the Dao, but I am not allowed to use your heart to break the curse and save people? To be honest, you are doing it for yourself, and I am doing it for him, both of which are sneaky activities. I am still more noble than you.]]
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[[Xiao Zhenglan, recognize your own position. ] In front of the dressing mirror, Yang Duoduo picked up a pearl hairpin nonchalantly and gestured on her braid. She didn't even turn her head while speaking, but only looked at the man behind her lazily through the mirror, [It was because you wagged your tail and begged for mercy, and swore to be loyal to me, Lianyan Peak, for a thousand years, that I reluctantly gave you the status of a concubine. This is already a special favor from me.
[[If you are still not satisfied, pack up your things and get out. I usually have to deal with a lot of affairs, which is already very annoying, and I am not interested in dealing with a troublesome dog. ]]
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did not continue to read down. Xu Ming was silent for a while, gently closed the rule book in his hand, and exhaled lightly with restraint.
After a moment of entanglement, he raised his head in confusion.
"Yang Duoduo, isn't she a modern person?" Xu Ming asked from the bottom of his heart.
"..."
The others looked at each other, and after a while, Guo Shuyi whispered:
"Well, sister. Don't you know... what 'fast wear' is?"
Xu Ming: "..."