Chapter 146

"...Wow."

Unlike Xu Ming, Kuai Le was more concerned about the number of names on the back of his ID card: "So many people."

"..." Xu Ming was already confused by the two names at this moment, and he didn't care to continue the conversation. He asked directly, "Do you remember who gave you this ID card?"

"Uh..." Kuai Le tilted her head and thought for a while, then shook her head vigorously, "Didn't I tell you, I saw this on my neck as soon as I woke up, and I didn't see anyone..."

"Then you are hiding on purpose." Xu Ming pursed his lips and looked in the direction she came from, "Then, where did you wake up before? Can you take me there again? Or you can point it to me, and I will find it myself..."

"There? That's not a good idea." Kuai Le frowned, "It's very close to the lighthouse, Just staying there makes people feel uncomfortable. I walked for a long time before following the moth to this place, and I don't want to go back." As

she said this, she looked back seriously. Xu Ming looked in the direction she was going, but his eyes were confused again.

"What lighthouse?" She asked curiously, "Where is the lighthouse?"

"......?!" As the voice fell, Kuai Le on the opposite side was also dumbfounded.

"That lighthouse over there! It's so big, it makes people uncomfortable just looking at it--" Kuai Le gestured as he spoke, and seeing that Xu Ming was still confused, he slowly put down his raised finger.

"You...can't see the lighthouse?" She was surprised, "Then what can you see?"

"A lot? But they are all weird things." Xu Ming also realized that something was wrong and his face became a little serious. She roughly described what she saw to Kuai Le, and Kuai Le looked even more surprised.

"What about these?" She pointed at Xu Ming's ear, "What about these moths? Can't you see them either?" "

?" Xu Ming looked in the direction of her finger, and saw only empty air, "What son?"

"It's a moth! Moth! A big moth!" Kuai Le got angry, "Don't pick on my accent!"

After getting angry, she continued to feel surprised: "Can't you really see? When I came here, I saw a lot of them around you, and they all looked very close to you... I thought these moths had something to do with you."

In fact, she was able to find her way here, to a certain extent, thanks to the moths leading the way - she was walking around after waking up, and suddenly saw a huge moth, flying and stopping in front of her, as if leading the way. She followed it all the way and found Xu Ming who had just woken up.

"It's really strange, how can I not see it?" Happy muttered in confusion, and walked forward, holding Xu Ming's cheek very familiarly, and staring into her eyes.

"......?" A question mark slowly appeared on Xu Ming's forehead. She was about to struggle uncomfortably, but she heard Happy suddenly exclaim "Ah".

"......" The struggle stopped, and Xu Ming spoke cautiously, "What's wrong?"

"Not sure, wait for me to take a closer look." Happy's face was covered with a rare solemnity. After observing for a while, she let go of Xu Ming and exhaled deeply.

"You are not strong." She announced the bad news to Xu Ming with a serious face, "If you look carefully at your pupil, you will find that there is a piece missing in the middle."

...What would that look like?

Xu Ming couldn't imagine, and just continued, "What does this mean?"

"Generally speaking, there are many possibilities. But the most common one... is that it represents a lost soul." Kuai Le tapped Xu Ming's chest seriously, "In the world behind the door, all observations depend on your spiritual perception of the outside world. The loss of soul means that the inspiration is weakened. In the real world, it is equivalent to the loss of the five senses..."

No wonder Xu Ming can see much less than her.

Xu Ming listened and frowned: "Is it still like this? Then what about my previous idiotic characteristics..."

"No, no, this is different from idiocy!" Kuai Le said immediately, "Idiocracy is a distorted characteristic, a defense mechanism that naturally forms after the soul gradually adapts to the environment of strange stories. The fact that you can play the role of idiocy proves that your soul is healthy and strong enough. The same is true for the use of the rule book. If the soul is already missing, it is difficult to use it properly."

...?

Xu Ming looked at her in surprise: "You know a lot about these."

Kuai Le seemed to be stunned for a moment, and then curled his lips and said unhappily: "...I often hear Xiaotian and the others muttering."

Xu Ming looked at her, and quickly retracted his gaze, with a bit of hesitation on his face.

According to Kuai Le, his soul should have been intact before entering this place. It was not until after entering that a part was missing, thus causing the loss of perception. In other words, this situation was most likely caused by the "it" behind the door...

But why did it do this? And when did it do it?

Xu Ming was silent for a while, and sighed again - the former question could not be determined for the time being, but the latter question could be said to be quite obvious.

When she tried to close the door, she saw something in the crack of the door... Although she could not recall the situation in detail, she was very sure that she saw a face at the time.

A face that belonged to her.

Then she fell into a coma. After waking up, she came here. Her soul was probably dug out in this process.

As for the specific methods of the other party, Xu Ming also quickly found out the answer from Kuai Le -

the fact proved that as an alien root, Kuai Le was quite knowledgeable. Xu Ming only roughly described to her the scene he saw before he fainted, and she immediately grasped the key point and asked Xu Ming if he had ever made a deal with the thing behind the door in the past. After getting a positive answer, she sighed in regret and couldn't help stamping her feet.

"No wonder." Her face turned ugly. "No, you said you... Oh!"

"Let me put it this way. To make an inaccurate analogy, you gave it memory, which is equivalent to giving it your DNA. With its ability, it can completely pinch another empty shell with this DNA. Because this empty shell can also be regarded as you in a sense. The moment you look at each other, it will naturally grab part of your soul... Understand? Little friend, understand?"

After speaking, he sighed again: "This method again. It really has no innovative spirit."

"?" Xu Ming raised his eyes, "What do you mean?"

"What I mean is, you are such a bad boy, you are such a worry! Tell me what you are doing, is this a big deal? Did your aunt raise you to let you jump into the fire pit? Really... If I were your aunt, I would give you a slap in the face."

Happy said bluntly, and then crossed his arms in worry: "The problem is what to do now...what to do..."

Xu Ming pursed his lips and looked at her. He felt that there seemed to be some strange feeling floating in his heart, but he couldn't tell for a moment, so he had to continue to focus on the current problem: "Will it be bad if a piece of soul is missing?"

"What else? Why do you think there are so many names on your work badge." Happy pursed his lips, "If the door is not closed, any spirit has the possibility of getting out. But once the essence of the soul is damaged, there is no hope at all."

He can only be trapped here, either eaten by other crazy spirits, or fall into madness in the day-to-day torture.

Xu Ming: "..." That seems to be quite bad.

"The key is that we don't know where the piece you're missing is now. If you can find it before it's eaten by other spirits, there shouldn't be a big problem." Happy said, and raised his wrist towards the air, apparently communicating with the moths that Xu Ming couldn't see. After that, he looked in another direction.

"These moths seem happy to help you find it. Before they find it, let's go as far away from the lighthouse as possible."

"Okay. Thank you, moths." Xu Ming responded casually, thought about it, and asked again, "By the way, is it possible for these moths to fly outside the door?"

"Of course not." Happy replied subconsciously, and his face changed immediately, "Why are you asking this?"

"It's nothing, I just suddenly thought of something." Xu Ming said softly, "It is known that in this door-opening event, I played the role of the key. It is also known that throwing the key into the door can also achieve the achievement of closing the door. It is also known that when I came in, I did not have time to close the door completely..."

The second conclusion was drawn based on the experience of the unit building. The building manager and another resident at the time forcibly dragged Xu Ling, who served as the key, into the door, thereby completely closing the "door" in the unit building.

Xu Ming could not be sure whether this conclusion was universal. But for the current situation, it is at least a reference.

And this raises a new question-assuming that the key is half inside the door and half outside, will the door still be closed?

If the answer is negative, Xu Ming feels that the location of his soul is already very obvious.

*

On the other side.

In the bloody room.

Everyone is very quiet, but the air is unexpectedly tense and anxious.

"Xu Ming" is sitting alone, his face pale, eyes closed to rest. "Teacher Jing" is still unconscious, facing "Xu Ming". Shadow Dog lies on one side, staring at the two of them meticulously, and his red tongue and two missing teeth can be seen between his breath.

The others huddled in a corner of the room, discussing something in a low voice, and from time to time looking at the two people sitting in the middle of the room, all with a solemn expression.

To be honest, Landor was mostly responsible for the tense atmosphere. Not long ago, he was the first to notice that Xu Ming had a bump on the back of his head. After he asked subconsciously, the atmosphere in the room suddenly became wrong.

Despite this, everyone was just suspicious and did not take any action. First, Xu Ming's reaction at the time was too calm. She did not feel guilty at all. The reason she gave was also quite convincing.

She could not see the back of her head, so how could she know where the bump was. And from beginning to end, Landor was the only one who insisted that she had a bump on her head. It was not certain which of the two of them had the real bump on her head.

Secondly, it was because... they were exactly the same.

Neither Landor's shadow dog nor the lion cat could smell any problems from the "Xu Ming" in front of them. Her breath was exactly the same as in their memories.

However, they soon discovered something else wrong.

How should I put it? The "Xu Ming" in front of them seemed a little dazed?

When she just woke up, everyone thought she was still confused, so she didn't feel anything; but as time went by, it was obvious that her eyes were quite lifeless, even dull.

Her movements were also a little stiff, revealing incoherence everywhere. She spoke fluently, but that was only when she didn't have to think. If she was asked to recall something, she could give an answer quickly and speak very logically; but if she was asked some questions that she didn't have a ready-made answer and had to rethink before answering, her speech would slow down and she would slowly turn her head away, like an IE browser that was struggling to run.

...No, strictly speaking, she is more like an AI.

Or a backward AI that is not very intelligent and only knows how to call up existing databases.

Moreover, her condition is obviously not very good.

Pale, tired, and exhausted. She yawned and closed her eyes even though she just woke up not long ago.

I don’t know if she really fell asleep or was too lazy to pay attention to them, she didn’t pay any attention to the people in the corner. Even so, Landor and the others still closed their mouths very carefully, and instead communicated with the paper and pen that Landor carried with him.

[So what’s going on now? ] The lion cat squeezed its front paws into the shape of a human hand, grabbed the pen and wrote on the paper with difficulty, [Was it taken away? Or was it cursed? ]

[Can you talk about science! 】Landuo strongly condemned its superstition, [Anyway, I think it has something to do with the door? 】

[What's that? Being parasitized? It doesn't seem like it. 】The cat wrote with difficulty, and suddenly seemed to think of something, and the speed of writing suddenly increased, [Or, was she robbed? The thing behind the door might have taken away a part of her soul before she had time to close the door... just like you at that time! 】

Landuo: "..."

Although, I was not robbed. It was a serious transaction, I was happy, thank you.

Helplessly closing his eyes, Landuo picked up the pen and was about to write again, and suddenly seemed to think of something, his eyes paused slightly. And in the time it took to hesitate, the pen had already fallen into Lu Yueling's hand.

[I think you are all too pessimistic! ] Lu Yueling wrote confidently, [Why can't we consider this matter from an optimistic point of view? ]

[Maybe she just fell and became stupid? ? ]

Lando: "..."

Lando closed his eyes helplessly again.

He didn't expect that there would be a day when he would dislike others... But to be honest, can't we really kick out this person who doesn't understand the situation first?

[Stupid, how is it possible. ] Compared to Lando who only complained in his heart, the lion cat was obviously more impolite and wrote a reply directly.

After a moment of silence, he continued to write: [Compared to this, I am more concerned about another problem. ]

…? Landor got serious. What?

[You said, suppose Mingming is indeed in a state of missing soul now.] Mao Mao said very seriously, slowly, stroke by stroke, [And suppose, I let her sign my adoption letter of intent in this state.]

[Then when Mingming is complete, will this letter of intent still count? She won’t regret it.]

Landor: “…………”

You get out of here too! Get out with Lu Yueling! You scammer, adoption idiot!

Landor roared in his heart, and then looked at the two people on his left and right, and suddenly a wave of despair surged in his heart.

They had already carefully looked at it while "Xu Ming" was asleep. Although her clothes were the same as before, and she was carrying the same shoulder bag, the bag was empty and there was no rule book at all. In other words, it is even more impossible to contact other people.

There are so many talented people in the Demolition and Relocation Office, but these two are the ones trapped with him. What is going on?

Let’s not talk about Lu Yueling for now. She is just as good as him. Xu Ming even called them the Sleeping Dragon and Phoenix of the Demolition and Relocation Office with admiration. As for the cat, it is actually quite smart, otherwise it would not have the capital to survive until now. The problem is that as soon as it saw Xu Ming, it was obsessed with adoption. Its mind was full of “raise me, raise me, raise me, raise me, throw away the dog and raise me”. It is not reliable at all...

Well, how to say it.

The only arrangement and combination that he had to take on the role of intelligence was actually found by him.

Sad. So sad.

[Forget it.] There was another moment of silence, and Landor wrote resignedly. While writing, I raised my head slightly and saw "Xu Ming" yawning and rubbing his eyes, obviously about to wake up.

[I will go and touch her later. You two remember not to mix it up randomly. ]