Chapter 137

"…So, what's the situation now?"

After another moment. Lu Yueling looked at the note handed over by Xu Ming, not hiding her confusion at the moment:

"The one who wrote in italics is the person who gave you the hint before, that is, the consultant of Anxin Gardening. I roughly figured this out. But what about this cat and dog happy bucket?"

Moreover, they had always guessed that those mutant roots were taken away as the "key" to open the door. Why are they saying now that they are not the key? Who should they believe?

Lu Yueling was really confused; and Xu Ming, although not completely clueless at the moment, was indeed a little confused.

"Well... first of all, we can be sure that the cat, dog, and happiness should refer to the people who traveled with her."

After a pause, Xu Ming finally spoke again: "The dog should refer to Landor, and the cat, well..."

She thought about it, and suddenly took out a card from her body - she now has two cards in total, one can be used to summon shadow dogs, and the other can be used to heal wounds. Coincidentally, there is a cat drawn on this card.

Speaking of which, she had been a little concerned about this card before. Because in her memory, she had come into contact with another cat, the one in the eye hospital.

And when she was in the eye hospital, she used the energy of the next month to exchange for the healing of the wounds on her body. Both the treatment method and the effect correspond to the function of this card.

And from the information that Landor revealed before, the cat's identity is obviously not ordinary, most likely it is also an alien root...

that seems to make it clear.

"There are probably four alien roots trapped here. Cat, dog, 'Happy', and Anxin Gardening's consultant." After thinking for a moment, Xu Ming said in a deep voice, "'Happy' should refer to the alien root consultant who is doing great weeding. Landor once said that it can allow people to exchange things through a price, and it matches the ability of the 'Exchange' card..."

And the ability of Anxin Gardening's consultant happens to be in the field of intelligence collection, and can obtain clues about strange stories from a distance and transmit them - this also corresponds to the ability of the "Peeping" card.

"That is to say, the four types of cards are actually made with the abilities of four mutant roots?" Lu Yueling pulled her sleeves unconsciously, with a look of doubt on her face, "But aren't cards for people to use..."

When she was a special soldier in the ghost story upstairs, she used two cards to save trouble.

"That's what I'm worried about." Xu Ming pursed his lips, "Especially since Landor's card is so cheap..." It is

still unclear what effect the consumption of cards will have on the corresponding mutant roots. But if there really is any negative effect, Landor, as the one with the highest cost-effectiveness among the four, will probably be affected the most...

"Ah, could it be because of this that it says 'the dog is sick'?" Lu Yueling's eyes turned slightly, and suddenly she realized, "But the first sentence says 'it's getting more and more chaotic', what does this mean?"

What is chaotic? Rules?

Xu Ming had no idea about this, and after a moment of silence, he sighed again.

"Forget it, let's take a look." She said this, but her eyes were still glued to the note.

[The dog is getting sicker] - Her eyes stayed on this sentence for a particularly long time, and after a long while, she moved away and turned her attention to other places in the room.

Because the note mentioned "a bucket that can talk at regular intervals", Xu Ming deliberately observed the newspaper bucket in the display cabinet, but unfortunately the thing didn't seem to be planning to speak for the time being; in addition, she also looked for the timekeeping device in the room, and finally succeeded in finding a small table clock on the shelf, hidden under the doll, not very conspicuous.

Other than that, there were no more clues for the time being. Xu Ming's eyes quickly fell on the exit of the room -

unlike the previous room, this room only had two doors. The door they entered was located in the lower right corner, and the other door was located in the upper left corner. Both doors were blue and looked almost identical.

"...So there is a hole in this door."

Xu Ming carefully approached the door on the left and studied it carefully for a while before discovering that there was a movable panel on the door. The shape is hidden and not easy to find. If you open it, you will see a small rectangular hole, just big enough for people to see outside.

She immediately told Lu Yueling about this discovery. The latter happened to be standing near the right door. Upon hearing this, he immediately went over to study it and found the same movable board on that door.

"I have one here too! It's square!" Lu Yueling reported her discovery to Xu Ming while casually putting one eye up.

"Be careful." The moment he leaned forward, Xu Ming's words just happened to float over from the other side of the room, "According to the usual routine, when you look through the hole, you will most likely see..." "

Another eye?" Lu Yueling, who was leaning towards the door, replied casually, then paused, and then looked at Xu Ming speechlessly, "This routine is very old..."

Xu Ming: "Just tell me if you are afraid of what you are going to encounter."

Lu Yueling: "..."

Most likely I will be afraid.

After clarifying my self-awareness again, Lu Yueling exhaled lightly. Staring at the square hole in front of her for a while, she thought about it and put her eyes closer again -

"Strange Tales Demolition and Relocation Office Employee Code" mentioned that in strange stories, anything that is related to "peeping" is most likely to be meaningful. Many times, through special media, some hidden clues can be seen.

Of course, Xu Ming, an idiot, cannot see such clues. Therefore, at this time, he can only try his best by himself.

Fortunately, this place is not so fond of routines, and there are no eyes looking inward on the other side of the hole, which makes Lu Yueling feel relieved.

Through the doorway, all they can see is the corridor they came from and the blue door on the other side of the corridor.

That is the door they passed through before.

Lu Yueling was still worried that an eye would suddenly pop out of the doorway, and she scanned the corridor outside the door as quickly as possible. After confirming that she had not missed any information, she hurriedly retracted her gaze - but before she left the door, a strange sound instantly attracted her attention. The

muffled "bang bang" sound seemed to be the sound of something falling over. It sounded like it was coming from behind the door at the end of the corridor.

... Lu Yueling instinctively shrank back. Thinking of the mutant roots trapped on the 100th floor, she hesitated for a moment, but still went back to the door. Through the narrow doorway, she could clearly see the doorknob on the opposite door turning. It seemed like someone was trying to open the door, but couldn't open it. Across the corridor and two doors, she could faintly hear a woman's scream.

Just as she held her breath and prepared to call Xu Ming over, the door opposite suddenly opened again -

with a loud "bang", the blue door panel bounced heavily to the side. A group of strange shadows jumped out of the door, like a crawling monster, and rushed over along the corridor!

This change happened so quickly that Lu Yueling didn't react for a while, and until the other party almost came to her, she finally saw clearly that it was not actually a monster...

It was a woman, a woman in a black dress. Her long black hair was spread out like a living thing, half of it was waving in the air, and the other half was like a long insect leg, crawling densely on the ground.

The woman's body was dragged on the ground - she was dragged out by her hair.

While Lu Yueling was stunned, the woman was dragged by her hair and hit the door in front of her.

There was a loud bang, and even the door handle shook. Lu Yueling took a step back as if she had just woken up from a dream, and she uttered a "huh" belatedly. Xu Ming, who was at the other end of the room, immediately turned his head and asked, "What's wrong?"

"There's something outside the door..." Lu Yueling spoke subconsciously, and recalled the scene she had just seen. Her scalp suddenly tingled, "Such a loud noise, you didn't hear it?"

"...No. What noise?" Xu Ming was confused for a moment, then frowned, walked quickly to the door where Lu Yueling was, looked out through the doorway, and frowned even tighter.

"I didn't see anything." She looked away thoughtfully, "What did you see just now?"

"A woman, her hair crawling on the ground." Lu Yueling described it hastily. For some reason, she felt a little upset. She looked up and met Xu Ming's thoughtful eyes, and was even more horrified. "Don't tell me that you think there are any clues in that scene. I don't want to watch it again."

As a witness to the horrifying scene just now, she was 100% sure that the picture was meaningless except for being scary.

"...You can't be too sure." Xu Ming was still a little unwilling to give up, but seeing that Lu Yueling looked scared, he didn't force it anymore. He patted her shoulder soothingly, and then gave her a pen and paper, asking her to sit aside and recall quietly, and write down whatever she thought of.

Lu Yueling fiddled with the pink-shell ballpoint pen Xu Ming gave her, still looking a little unhappy. She wanted to find a place to sit down nearby, but when she looked at the door so close, she couldn't help feeling a little scared. After a little hesitation, she lifted her skirt and sat on the other side of the room as if nothing had happened, trying to keep as much distance from the right

door as possible. Upon seeing this, Xu Ming could only sigh secretly, and immediately put his focus on searching the room again. It happened that she had already searched the shelves near the left door, so she focused on searching the area on the right side of the room, and from time to time she glanced at the closed right door, not knowing what she was expecting.

Lu Yueling sat quietly against the wall, and after a while, her mood gradually calmed down. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She finally picked up the pen and slowly wrote down what she had just seen. Halfway through, her eyes were suddenly attracted by something rolling under the opposite shelf. She put down her paper and pen and leaned over to take a look. She couldn't help but exclaimed "Huh".

"Hey!" She called Xu Ming while picking up the things she found, "I picked up the pen you dropped!"

She was holding a pink-shelled ballpoint pen in her hand, which was obviously the kind that Xu Ming carried with him.

"?" Xu Ming, who was searching on the shelf, paused and looked at her strangely. Because of the angle, she didn't see Lu Yueling's hand holding the thing, but she still gave the answer without hesitation, "Are you sure? I haven't used the pen since I came in."

"......?"

Lu Yueling listened with a pause in her expression. She looked at her hands again and took a deep breath silently.

The pink-shelled ballpoint pen that she had just held in her hand suddenly disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"..." The mood that had finally calmed down began to feel cold again. Lu Yueling brushed her hair as if nothing had happened, and silently decided to write this matter into her own records later.

She turned around to pick up the paper and pen that had been placed on the ground, and someone poked her shoulder suddenly. She thought it was Xu Mingguan who was in a bad mood and leaned over again. She responded casually, and when she turned around, she was stunned on the spot.

There was no one behind her.

The one who poked her shoulder lightly just now was not someone else, but a strand of hair - a strand of hair from her own head.

"..." A strange premonition suddenly crawled up her spine like a spider, and Lu Yueling's expression gradually stiffened. Not daring to make any big movements, she subconsciously took a step back, trying to control the hair while slowly opening her mouth, wanting to call Xu Ming again.

However, as soon as her mouth opened, another strand of hair suddenly burst out and was stuffed into her mouth; almost at the same time, a sharp pain came from her wrist. Lu Yueling struggled and lowered her eyes, only to see that the hair bracelet on her wrist was tightened like crazy, and a few strands of hair were shaking desperately as if they had consciousness, which reminded people of a snake spitting out its tongue.

...What's going on?

My hair...my roots, what happened?

Intense confusion mixed with unprecedented fear swept over her. Her eyes, which were already filled with astonishment, widened in fear after she noticed a few strands of hair quietly entangled around the nearby door handle.

Without thinking carefully, she hurriedly threw down the paper and pen in her hand, and kicked over the shelf next to her. With a series of chaotic "bang bang" sounds, Xu Ming finally noticed the situation on her side, and his face changed instantly.

"Lu Yueling!" She called out instinctively, and stood up to come over. However, just as she moved, a strand of hair quietly entangled her ankle. Before she could react, her whole body was pulled hard and fell heavily to the ground!

Her back and the back of her head hit the ground, and Xu Ming screamed in pain. Before she could get up from the ground, she heard another "click" sound -

the tightly closed left door suddenly opened, and the solid door panel was knocked out with a loud "bang"; the next moment, she saw the hair above Lu Yueling cascading, and it was like a living thing, dragging Lu Yueling out like that!

"Xiao Liu!" Ignoring his aching head, Xu Ming hurriedly limped out. Seeing those hair dragging Lu Yueling across the entire corridor and slamming heavily against another door at the end of the corridor, he took advantage of the other party's brief pause, hurriedly took out the rule book, and opened it to Lu Yueling.

"Come back!" Xu Ming was afraid that it would not work, so he used almost all his strength to say just one sentence, "Lu Yueling! As the binder, I order you to come back as soon as possible!"

Fortunately, the rule book can still be used. With a muffled groan, Lu Yueling and her crazy hair were instantly retracted into the space marked out by the rule book.

The narrow corridor finally returned to silence. Xu Ming sat down on the ground as if exhausted, and felt a headache that made her want to vomit. She paused for a while, and for safety reasons, she added a lock to Lu Yueling's "room" to prevent the out-of-control hair from taking her out again. Then she stood up dizzy and turned around, leaned against the wall to catch her breath for a while, and looked up and forward.

In front of her was the door that Lu Yueling had bumped into just now. It was the same blue door, but the movable panel on the door was open, revealing a small square hole.

"..." Xu Ming stared at the hole for a while, and somehow, he suddenly had a terrible idea.

Then he saw her holding the wall and stumbling towards the door. He pushed the door open and looked inside, and his face turned pale.

The room was brightly lit and exquisitely decorated, with various glass display cabinets neatly arranged. Under a doll, there was an inconspicuous clock.

Looking forward, he saw another blue door in the upper left corner of the room. On the ground not far from the door, a pink-shelled ballpoint pen was rolling under the shelf due to inertia, and a crumpled paper with familiar handwriting was spread on the ground.

With a slight movement in his throat, Xu Ming hurried forward to pick up the paper. As expected, the paper was his, the handwriting was Lu Yueling's, but the content was familiar -

the sound of falling and screaming heard through the door, the woman in a black dress dragged by her hair, and the blue door that was slammed hard at the end.

... All matched.

So what did Lu Yueling see before? Where is he now?

Why did the root that clearly belonged to Lu Yueling suddenly go crazy? ?

Xu Ming closed his eyes tightly, and his already aching head was now hot. Inexplicably, she suddenly remembered the note she had seen before.

[It's getting more and more chaotic]

​​What exactly does that chaos... refer to?

She slowly raised her eyes and looked around again. A bad guess suddenly emerged from her chest.

At this moment, she heard a shrill ringing sound, and the clock that was pressed under the doll issued a sharp time signal. Xu Ming was startled by the sound and almost jumped up. He had just slowed down when he heard a few more strange noises -

the newspaper barrel in the display cabinet suddenly trembled slightly.

As it trembled, it struggled to turn the tongue attached to the barrel wall. As the tongue moved faster and faster, the sound it made became smoother, until finally, it became a stiff yet clearly identifiable sound like an AI -

[Once upon a time there was a moon, and the moon wanted to go to the earth. With nowhere to go, it could only cast its light.

[The first thing that was illuminated was a doll, who loved her sister and mother the most. However, her mother didn't want her and threw her to the bully.

[The doll tried hard to grow, but ultimately couldn't get over the bully's wall. The doll waited every day, but when her mother came, she lost her home.

[The second thing that was illuminated was an eye, which kept blinking like a star. It grew on a big tree, and every leaf was as bright as an eyeball.

[The eye waited for a long, long time, and finally the tree became hollow. But just as it had planted its roots in the heart of the tree, it was cruelly driven out of the house.

[Who will be illuminated next? The moon does not care. The light it casts blooms on the earth, like beautiful prayers echoing from afar; when one piece goes out, there is always another one that lights up.

[It only looks forward to the last light, like a painted dragon looking forward to its eyes. There is a secret that only the moon knows, and now I will

tell you quietly: [When the last light also lights up, its grace will flow all over the earth like a stream. When the last light also lights up, its voice will echo across the sky like a flying bird. When the last light also lights up, it will touch you.

[It will gently stroke your face, like stroking a weak, trembling sheep.

[It will gently caress your face, like caressing a weak, dead sheep. ]