Chapter 130

After a while,

in another space,

Sucui pulled up the collar of his pajamas and looked at the person next to him cautiously. The latter looked calm and experienced, and was looking through the file cabinet in front of him, trying to find more clues.

"Hmm..." Sucui still didn't quite believe what he just heard. After a moment of hesitation, he spoke again as if to confirm, "So, what you mean is that there is no such thing as the 404 Mystery Agency in this world?"

"Hmm." The man standing in front of the file cabinet nodded without hesitation, took out a file bag, looked at it for a while, and began to open it.

Crisp: "...So that 'Blood Water Tea' is also..."

"Fake." The man continued without looking back, "But according to what you said, he is not a bad person. At least he didn't lead you into a trap."

"Oh yes, let me tell you one more thing. Our cooperative unit has investigated your forum and the person named 'Blood Water Tea'. The owner of this account should be a high school student in the south, so the adult version of 'Blood Water Tea' with a strong flavor of corn stalks that you met before is probably a fake."

Crisp: "..."

This amount of information is really a bit too much, and it has a greater impact on him. He felt his brain buzzing, and subconsciously leaned to the side, touched a pool of blood on the shelf next to him, and reflexively withdrew his hand, his heart pounding.

I shouldn't be dreaming - he thought involuntarily, or maybe he accidentally fell into a trap and fell into some new illusion?

Otherwise it's really too hard to explain... Everything from the moment he stepped out of the elevator to now is too hard to explain.

First, he was left alone the moment he left the elevator, and all the people who had walked out with him disappeared. When he reacted, he was trapped alone in this huge archive room. The mobile phone hidden in the pocket of his pajamas was gone, and a bunch of keys appeared inexplicably, and he didn't know what they were for.

There was no way, he could only bite the bullet and wander around in this dim archive room that seemed to have endless bookshelves.

The rules of the archive room are simple, but time-consuming. Simply put, it is to find all specific file bags in the empty archive room according to the requirements left by the administrator, check and organize them. The key and membership card to leave here are hidden in one of the bags.

If that were all, it would be fine. But this place is far from being as quiet as it looks. The huge room with dim light and countless dark corners is scary enough. Not to mention that as long as you concentrate and listen carefully, you seem to be able to hear some sounds hidden in the corners.

Fortunately, after experiencing a series of heart-pounding events such as "a figure suddenly appeared and disappeared in the administrator's position that was originally empty", "the phone hanging on the wall suddenly rang, but there was a strange sound inside after answering it", "when I took out a file bag from the file rack against the wall, I actually saw a pair of eyes on the other side", "I opened a file bag and found that it contained my own information, as well as detailed dates of birth and death", etc., Sucui finally met another living person in this space.

That is the one in front of him. He looked to be in his thirties or forties, with long hair tied in a high ponytail, his last name was Tian Yiliang - of course this was not the point, the point was that he also claimed to be an insider, and in order to find out the situation here, he deliberately found a way to get in.

Because of the relationship between "Blood Tea" and Gu Ming, Su Cui now has a natural liking for this kind of person who claims to be an insider, not to mention that the other party showed his skills as soon as they met - when he met Tian Yiliang, he was chased by a monster that came out of the bag because he opened the wrong file bag. Fortunately, the other party showed up in time and pulled him to hide behind the correct file rack, so he was lucky to escape.

Therefore, when they explored together later, he not only shared the information he knew, but also mentioned his previous experience.

Unexpectedly, he was ruthlessly exposed by the other party as soon as he finished speaking - he told Su Cui very confidently that there is no "404 Mystery Agency" in the world, and there is no psychic boss "Blood Tea".

... However, after the initial surprise, Su Cui's heart was filled with a little anger.

To be honest, his mind was completely confused by now. He couldn't figure out what was true and what was false, but there was one thing he knew very well -

it was Blood Tea and Gu Ming who helped them escape from the Pig Face Maze. If it weren't for them, he wouldn't know whether he was dead or alive.

Therefore, after hearing Tian Yiliang's total denial, he instinctively felt a little angry - but no matter how angry he was, he didn't have the courage to refute loudly since he had no idea and was still in shock.

So, after a moment of confusion, he could only say in a weird way as he could:

"Okay, okay, I understand. The Mystery Office and the Strange Talk Demolition Office are all fake, only your unit is real."

"Ah? No." Unexpectedly, the next second, the person standing in front of the file rack suddenly turned around, with a puzzled look on his face, "Who said the Strange Talk Demolition Office is fake?"

Sucui: "..."

Okay, now he is really confused.

"Wait, so what you mean is that the Mystery Office does not exist, but the Demolition Office... exists?"

After getting Tian Yiliang's affirmative answer, Sucui was even more dumbfounded.

Who can tell him why the one with the more outrageous name is the real one?

"Speaking of this, I want to ask you something." Tian Yiliang put down the things in his hands, "Who is the person from the Demolition Office you said you met before?"

Sucui was seriously frightened before, and his words were a bit confusing. He kept referring to the employee of the Demolition Office as "the moderator's sister-in-law." He listened carefully for a long time, but didn't hear the name once.

"Ah, didn't I say that?" Sucui blinked in confusion, "It should be... Gu Ming?"

"Oh, her." Tian Yiliang nodded in sudden realization, "No wonder."

"What's no wonder?" Sucui couldn't help but say, "Do you know each other?"

"I guess so." Tian Yiliang said, "We have contact."

After all, Gu Ming is the only designated external window of the Demolition Office, and he also has contact information. Of course, it is usually his assistant who communicates more.

"..." Sucui listened and became more and more confused.

Didn't he say he was just a part-time job? How did they really know each other?

"But she... also said that the Mysterious Agency exists." Sucui murmured in confusion.

"Ah? Did she say that?" Tian Yiliang looked at him and seemed stunned for a moment. After a moment, he nodded in understanding: "Oh... I see, then I must have made a mistake. Maybe I am really ignorant, sorry."

Although he was not clear about the situation at the time, Gu Ming must have had a reason for doing so. In this case, there was no need for him to expose it.

Tian Yiliang was thinking naturally, but he didn't know that his words made Sucui feel even more complicated.

No, what's wrong with your tone of "Well, since the people from the demolition office said so, I'll just agree with them reluctantly"? This makes the bloody tea even more watery, okay?

Tian Yiliang didn't seem to want to continue the topic. While tying up the bag in his hand, he asked seriously: "Did she tell you that besides her, she has other colleagues coming in?" Sucui

was stunned for a moment, but shook his head.

He didn't have much direct communication with Gu Ming, and for him, just keeping calm was hard enough, and he didn't have that much energy to inquire about other people's affairs.

"Oh." Tian Yiliang put down the bag in his hand, thinking a little.

He was not particularly surprised that Gu Ming was in this strange talk. Long before he entered here through the forum, Gu Ming had already lost contact. Now that he thought about it, it was probably because she entered the strange talk first.

The problem is that this strange talk is extremely special. Both the form presented and the hunting method are unprecedented. From the current intelligence, it is more likely to be related to the "door" and "key" mentioned by the Demolition Office. For such a special strange talk, he didn't think that the Demolition Office would only send Gu Ming in.

No, it is better to say that they would actually send an intern in, which is unreasonable in itself... No, no, wait a minute.

Tian Yiliang paused, and suddenly realized that Gu Ming had suddenly lost contact at that time.

He had confirmed with Anxin Gardening that before losing contact, Gu Ming did not give any notice of preparing to enter the strange story. She even said to keep in touch. But according to her usual character, if she was ready to enter the strange story, she should have said hello in advance.

And the information Gu Ming gave before included the method of entering the strange story. So the probability of her accidentally getting in here is not high... There are only two possibilities.

First, Gu Ming entered the strange story on a whim, and did not intend to let the leader know. To be on the safe side, she hid her thoughts from everyone, and then sneaked in when others were not paying attention.

The second is that this strange story has launched a special hunt against her, and has swallowed her in by force in a way that breaks the existing rules.

If it is the former, it means that there is probably something in this strange story that she cares about very much, so much that she is willing to risk breaking in even if it means violating the orders of her superiors; if it is the latter, it indirectly proves their long-standing guess - Gu Ming himself is special enough.

Well... As for the former, there seems to be no more clues. The only thing they know is that an alien root has disappeared from the Strange Story Demolition Office, and it is the one that confronted Guo Shuyi

in the strange story... Speaking of which, the Demolition Office did convey a guess through Gu Ming, that is, it is believed that all the disappeared alien roots were brought into this strange story.

So, is there a possibility that Gu Ming... came in because of that dog-raising guy?

Tian Yiliang: "..."

No, no, no, it's unlikely.

After a moment of silence, Tian Yiliang decisively denied this guess.

How desperate must the girl be to be interested in such a clear thing, and he has talked to Landor, and that guy is obviously interested in their director...

... um.

It should, indeed, not be the case, right?

Compared to this somewhat stomach-breaking guess, Tian Yiliang is more willing to believe the second possibility.

But no matter which one it is, he believes that the Ghost Story Demolition Office will not ignore it.

And for such a special ghost story, they will most likely send a big boss to calm the scene. I just don't know who is coming? The legendary Director Xu? Or that teacher Su Ming? He had seen the methods used by Teacher Su Ming before, but in his impression, she also claimed to be only at the intermediate level...

I just don't know if I will have the chance to meet her in the future. After all, the mechanism of this strange story is too troublesome. Even the demolition office would probably have a headache...

While thinking about it, he heard Su Cui scream. Tian Yiliang was startled and turned his head immediately: "What's wrong?"

"Window, window..." Su Cui swallowed his saliva and pointed to the window on the other side tremblingly. His brain, which had just calmed down, was frightened by the previous glance and almost panicked, "There seems to be someone behind the curtain..."

The windows here originally had no curtains drawn. Through the windows, you can see the bright lighthouse in the distance. He felt that the windows in this place were a bit scary, so he drew the curtains not long ago.

Because he was too panicked, he didn't pull it tightly, leaving a gap in the middle - and just now, it was from this gap that he saw clearly.

Something was sticking to the window and suddenly swayed past.

... If I remember correctly, the floor here is particularly high...

Realizing this, Sucui's face suddenly became uglier. Tian Yiliang's expression instantly fell, and he made a soothing gesture to him, and approached the window carefully.

After getting closer, he found that what Sucui said was indeed true - through the thin curtains, he could clearly see a shadow swaying outside.

It had long arms and legs, and was shaking its head. It looked like a human figure. Tian Yiliang took a deep breath, stepped forward, and pulled open the curtain. After seeing the situation outside clearly, he gasped for air, and the crispness behind him could not help but let out a terrified moan from his throat!

Outside the window, there was a figure lying there - a figure with a charred body and a blurred face!

The man's hands and feet were clinging to the window, and his right hand seemed to be holding something and putting it into the window frame. Noticing the two people in the room, he was obviously stunned, and suddenly stuffed the things in his hand into the window frame, without hesitation, he turned around and left!

Using his hands and feet, like a gecko, he disappeared in the blink of an eye. The two people left in the room were stunned where they were, and they still hadn't come back to their senses.

After a long while, Sucui spoke hesitantly: "That, it seems to have left something outside the window?"

Tian Yiliang looked closely and saw a piece of paper stuck in the gap of the window frame.

"What is this?" Sucui was still shocked, "Is it a fine?"

"..." That shouldn't be it.

Tian Yiliang walked forward carefully, gently opened the window, and took the paper in. But he was still thinking about something else in his mind.

I don't know if he thinks too much, but I always feel that the small sign hanging on the chest of the charred figure seems familiar...

While thinking, the paper in his hand has been unfolded. Tian Yiliang took a quick look and saw a line of elegant large characters on the top of the page, which immediately caught his eye -

[A letter to all those who accidentally entered - Our [Strange Story Removal Office] has released a public notice of the emergency handling measures for current strange stories 1.0]

Tian Yiliang: "..."

After quickly scanning the contents on the paper, with a subtle awe, he silently smoothed the wrinkles on the paper and handed it to the crisp behind him. After a moment of silence, he opened the window again and looked out tentatively.

——On the outer wall of the building, several charred figures were busy crawling around, either busy stuffing flyers into the window frames or on the way to stuff flyers.

...So after a brief silence, Tian Yiliang quietly retracted his head.

——I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, I'm ignorant.

I actually thought that a mere ghost story mechanism would hinder the demolition and relocation office's steps...

After all, I am too narrow-minded.

*

Same time.

In the living room on the 26th floor.

On the object's table, Whale Fat Man and Guo Shuyi were sitting together, busy hand-copying the latest "Letter to All Accidental Intruders". As the drafter of the text, Xu Ming also deliberately switched to the form of a sleepwalker, took a pen and paper and copied it with them.

The written papers will be handed over to A Jiao, and passed to other windows one by one - for this purpose, Xu Ming also gave them special emergency training, especially emphasizing that you can attract people

's attention, but don't scare people, especially don't scare people away directly. If you see a window open, just roll up the paper and throw it in. If the window is not open, try to clamp it in the window frame, and then make a noise to attract people. If a paper is accidentally dropped, make a record, come back to collect it and distribute it again... The most troublesome step of the whole process is copying.

"No, do we have to write this?" The whale man's hand was broken from copying. He picked up his fallen palm and put it on his wrist, and said helplessly, "Can't you just let them go directly like Gu Yunshu did?"

Gu Yunshu was originally with Qiu Yufei. Just about ten minutes ago, the two had successfully broken through another room and separated again - Qiu Yufei moved to the 30th floor, and Lu Yueling also went down to help her. Gu Yunshu took the lead in starting free activities and randomly found a floor to explore.

"It's always right to build a good mass foundation first." Xu Ming had his own ideas, "and spreading the name of the demolition office more often will do us more good than harm."

"Are you really not afraid of being targeted again?" The whale man sighed and fell on the table tiredly, "I'm running out of paper here!"

"Wait a minute, let Guo Shuyi go back and get some more." Xu Ming didn't even raise his head. Guo Shuyi nodded quickly beside him.

It's just paper and pen, she has a lot of them in her strange talk.

Whale man: "..."

"Well, I suddenly thought of something." After a subtle pause, the whale man slowly straightened up, "Since you can get paper from your own home... can you use a printer directly?" If

there is no printer, a copier will do? It's really not that high-tech, so what if you just go in and let the people inside copy it by hand and then take it out? Seven people are always faster than three people, right? ?

"...Of course I can." Guo Shuyi blinked and looked at the pile of copied papers next to him, "But I thought it was not necessary..."

Totally forty-four copies, plus fifty or sixty with backup, it was very fast to copy.

Whale Blubber:...How can it be fast!

"Okay, I'm almost done copying, let's talk about this." Xu Ming casually put the copied copy aside, his face was so calm, as if the person who just realized that he could use the printer was not himself.

"By the way, is it almost time to leave?" Guo Shuyi looked up cluelessly, and he did not stop copying while speaking.

"Yeah." Xu Ming came back to her senses and looked at the time, nodding affirmatively, "Almost."

She had already modified the rules for watering the potted plants, just as planned before, and drew up a schedule to water them fourteen times a day. At present, all the water has been watered.

And Panpan has been keeping an eye on the changes in the potted plants. According to her report, the growth progress of the potted plants has been advancing according to the number of watering. Before the fourteenth watering, it has reached the stage of bearing fruit. It is estimated that it will be fully grown in a while.

As if echoing her thoughts, five minutes later, Panpan was seen trotting along the corridor lightly.

"Sister!" She seemed to be afraid of being startled by something, and even spoke in a low voice, "That weird thing... I mean the potted plants, the fruits are ripe!"

Xu Ming straightened up immediately after hearing this. Panpan added: "But its current condition doesn't seem to be very good."

"..." Xu Ming thought that it was a critical moment, so it had to be better. She immediately switched back to parrot mode and called the blubber man frantically in her heart, "Hurry up, hurry up, drive!"

The blubber man:... It's just such a short distance, why don't you fly over by yourself!

Despite this, he still cooperated and carried the man to the door of the storage room - and it was not until this moment that Xu Ming deeply realized what Panpan meant by "not in good condition".

Before the door was even opened, she heard the earth-shaking cry coming from inside.

After opening the door and going in, miserable cries broke out all of a sudden:

"Wow wow wow - you actually brought a bird in... and it came in with its left foot first! I won't live anymore, I'm going to die in front of you -"

Xu Ming: "..."

Very good, it seems to be well raised. It could only cry before, but now it can even talk.

Looking at the flower pot more closely, Xu Ming's mood suddenly became more subtle - if the original appearance of this potted plant can only be regarded as sick, then its current appearance can definitely be called poisonous.

The spine is the stem and the lungs are the leaves. On this basis, there are several more pink brains on the branches... According to Panpan, this is the "flower" that blooms with watering.

Now, one of the "flowers" has completely withered, and its brains are all over the floor. At the original "flower" position, there is a small, gray-red oval body - without a doubt, this is the so-called "fruit" it produces.

Considering the strange composition of this thing, Xu Ming has reason to suspect that the full name of the fruit is called the enlarged version of the pineal gland.

Xu Ming wanted to go up and peck the fruit off, but the potted plant was crying too loudly. While crying, it was really dropping its head, as if it really didn't want to live. Xu Ming was afraid that it would be unhappy, so he had to take the whale fat man and Panpan and retreat first.

After retreating out of the door and walking a few steps away, the crying gradually weakened and turned into a slight sob. Xu Ming was silent for a while, and helplessly asked the whale man to help speak, and confirmed with Panpan: "How long has it had this symptom?"

She had been busy coming up with a new scam... no, notifying the copy, and after coming up with the idea, she was busy organizing people to copy and submit it, and she really didn't take care of this potted plant. Panpan was responsible for watering and observing it.

Panpan quickly gave the answer: "It became like this after the fruit grew. It was obviously very happy when it bloomed."

Xu Ming: "..." Okay, that might be a purely physiological problem.

At this point, slowly coaxing it will definitely not work. Besides, she now looks like a bird, and the other party will get angry when seeing her - but she flies very slowly, and it is not realistic to peck the fruit before the other party finds out. So

after a moment of thought, Xu Ming flapped his wings and went back to the living room first. Not long after, he flapped his wings and flew back.

"Wait...it seems to have stopped crying." The whale man listened attentively to the movement in the storage room, with a look of surprise on his face, "What did you do?"

"Nothing, just slightly changed its characteristics." Xu Ming flapped his wings and landed on its shoulder, and said in his mind, "Changed it from a fragile and sensitive grass to a grass that is 'not timid' and very able to 'know its place'."

In fact, she originally planned to add "wagging its tail to beg for mercy" in the description. However, on second thought, this word is actually more suitable for the "cat" in the kitchen, so she decided to keep it for now.

Fortunately, the facts proved that the change this time was quite effective - not only did the crying gradually stop, but when Xu Ming and the others walked into the house again, the potted plant did not react any more.

Very quiet, very upright, just like a real plant.

Xu Ming was very pleased, and then he asked the whale man to become taller so that he could reach the small fruit directly.

The moment he got close, a pungent fishy smell came over him, and along with the fishy smell came a strong feeling of hunger and appetite.

Xu Ming asked the whale man to hold on to him tightly, and resisted the impulse of his heart beating. He stretched out his beak and pecked at the still agitated fruit.

The fruit fell instantly, bringing down a piece of petals. It was shattered into pieces when it hit the ground, and a little light flickered inside - it was a small copper key.

The next second, Xu Ming turned around and stumbled out, all the way to the living room. After switching back to the sleepwalker state at the speed of light, he rushed to the bathroom and vomited a burst of dry vomit.

The whale man picked up the key conscientiously, went to the study, opened the middle drawer - inside, there was indeed a key to open the door and a membership card.

It happened that Guo Shuyi had just finished copying another card, so he immediately got up and went home, called Guo Da and Guo Xiao, and brought out a bunch of flashlights and self-defense weapons to distribute to the people present. Then he opened the door and went out, and entered the elevator one after another according to the previous plan.

Xu Ming couldn't change the rules in the elevator yet, so they still had to write the settings in the elevator notebook as required. Fortunately, Xu Ming and Guo Shuyi had planned this before, and they didn't waste too much time on this matter.

Just before the elevator door was about to close, Xu Ming thought about it and rushed out again, hurriedly wrote a note, and asked Lu Yueling to put it in a conspicuous place. Lu Yueling opened it and saw two lines of words:

[Don't be afraid, we are still here. ]

[Strange Talk Demolition and Relocation Office. ]

"..."

With a slight curl of the corners of her lips, Lu Yueling turned around and looked for a suitable place to put it. Outside the closed elevator door, the whale man moved his sore wrist, but thought about it and felt strange.

"Come to think of it, didn't Yufei give you a list of floors? If you really want to help, why don't you just stick it in the elevator?"

"Stick it in there so that it's convenient for others to write settings, right?" Xu Ming couldn't help but take a look at it, paused, and sighed softly.

"Besides, we always have to be on guard."

Whale fat man; "... huh?"

"Did you forget? The woman you and Qiu Yufei saw, the one who looked weird. She can also take the elevator." Xu Ming said, "And Chu Yun just said that there are more than one people like the masked man who will maliciously snatch other people's cards..."

So, those who can be helped should be helped.

But those who should be guarded against should also be guarded against.

*

The other side.

In a dark space.

Bare feet stomped on the ground, making crisp sounds. The woman in the red dress ran forward without looking back, turning her head in panic from time to time, as if she was desperately avoiding something. In a panic, a beam

of light suddenly hit her in front of her, which scared her and froze her in place. After a while, the flashlight moved to the side. The person holding the flashlight approached slowly, his voice was not loud, but very calm: "Are you okay?"

"......?"

Faintly feeling that this voice seemed to have been heard somewhere, the woman in red shoes was stunned for a moment, and raised her eyes tentatively.

Beyond the light of the flashlight, she clearly saw that the girl standing in front of her was a familiar girl.

A girl wearing a cleaning uniform and a dust mask.