Chapter 150

Landor's method is actually quite simple and crude.

Although his own state has been consumed a lot because of the strange story, the characteristics of the shadow dog's split are still retained.

The next arrangement is very logical:

because one clock must be left in the current room, there are now two clocks that can be moved at will. Let the two little shadow dogs carry the clocks into different rooms respectively, and they can get new clocks in the room. Then the shadow dog will produce a new split, carrying the new clock to different time points...

To put it bluntly, it is a very old-fashioned carpet search.

And in theory, the splitting of the shadow dog is unlimited - the strength of the shadow dog depends on Landor's mental state, and Landor's energy determines the upper limit of the shadow dog's splitting. In other words, as long as the state is right, the whimpering dog will be endless.

"But the problem is, your current mental state is definitely not good, right?" Lu Yueling questioned cautiously, "And that little puppy doesn't seem to be of much help..."

Although she has never seen the puppies split from the shadow dog, she has heard Gu Yunshu describe it. Such a small one can only crawl a little bit, let alone move the hands of the clock, it is even a problem whether it can hold the clock steady, how can it be used?

"It doesn't have to be a dog." Lando said, "I can simulate any mammal. If I simulate a mouse, it will be much easier to move. If that doesn't work, I have a more labor-saving backup plan..."

Lu Yueling: "?"

"Although it's not a mammal, I can barely simulate a snake..." Lando seemed to have made up his mind, "I should be able to simulate the mutated giant bugs in the movies." "

..." The mutated giant bugs in the movies? Lu Yueling was not sure which movie he was talking about, but after a little brainstorming, she still felt numb.

The lion cat's eyes lit up when he heard it, and he seemed very interested.

In any case, this seems to be the fastest way at the moment - Lando did not delay any longer, and after a brief explanation, he took action and asked Lu Yueling to borrow some hair. Half a minute later, two mice the size of kittens each dragged a clock and left the room one after another.

Half a minute later, four mice set out from different rooms, each running to different times.

Not long after, the number of mice gradually increased to sixteen and thirty-two. Later, due to physical reasons, Landor had to replace the mice with more labor-saving "mutated giant insects"; feeling that her hair was tied to the insect's legs, Lu Yueling's face turned gray.

Not long after, a distant sensation came from another time point. Landor heaved a sigh of relief, stood up with a pale face, picked up the clock recovered from the other clones, and walked quickly to the door.

Because he was worried about the situation outside the safe zone, he was the only one who left the room. Lando set the clock and walked out according to the information given by the clone. He walked through the long corridor, but stopped when he was about to push the door.

Next to him was the clone that sent back the information. Because he was afraid of alarming "Xu Ming" hiding in the room, the clone did not go in directly after finding the right room. Instead, he used his sense of smell to determine the situation inside the door, and then immediately sent back a message to call Lando.

Out of the same concern, Lando did not push the door open directly. He quickly left a note for others on the spot, hesitated for a moment, and then raised his hand and knocked lightly on the door.

The sound of people moving around in the room was immediately heard, and it sounded a bit panicked. Lando closed his eyes and took a breath. He raised his hand to hold the wall beside him and said in a deep voice: "Please don't be nervous, I just want to talk to you.

" "I won't go in, I'll just stand outside. Please at least give me a chance to talk. Of course, if you still want to run, that's fine... but I will still find a way to find you, I'm serious."

"..." The movement in the house stopped for a moment. After a moment, "Xu Ming"'s slightly hesitant voice sounded:

"Impossible. Your body can't hold on."

"It's enough to fight you to the death." Lando simply sat down against the wall, "The worst case scenario is that you will be killed."

"Anyway, if I can't catch you and figure out the situation, Mingming can only be locked behind the door... For me, it's just right to be killed. "

It's a suicide for love, what's wrong with that? He's very experienced at it. "

"..." "Xu Ming" in the room fell silent again.

After a while, she whispered, "What do you want to talk about?" Hearing

the looseness in the other party's language, Landor immediately struggled to sit up and tried to lean towards the door.

He listened carefully for a moment on the door panel and became more certain of his judgment.

"You didn't summon the door again." He said firmly, "which means your purpose is not to open the door."

"In other words, you ran away purely because you didn't want to open the door and then go back to Mingming...but why? Do you want to be independent? Or, do you have any unfulfilled wishes..."

Landor spoke faster as he got to the latter part. His body leaned forward slightly because of anxiety: "If you have any, you can tell me. I will do my best to help you accomplish it no matter what it is. I swear..."

The person in the room seemed to sigh.

"No need." She was silent for a while, but still responded to Landor's question, "I said that the emotions contained in this soul of mine are far from making me want to survive. Correspondingly, I don't have any wishes. "

She still spoke slowly, and Landor became more and more restless and anxious, wanting to cling to the wall; when she finished speaking, he paused again.

No... desire?

No desire. This answer was obviously beyond Landor's expectations. He pursed his lips and tried to calm himself: "Then may I ask, what is the reason for your escape..." "

..." In response to him, there was only another long silence from the people in the room.

* On

the other side.

The small dormitory was silent. Only the small cheers of "I'm so happy, so happy", accompanied by the fluttering of moths, circled over Xu Ming's head.

After a while, Xu Ming spoke as if to confirm: "So, what you mean is that what you traded at that time was most of your voice, a small piece of soul... and that restriction. "

—— Taking the time point when the Landor transaction takes effect as the dividing line, as long as it happens before this time point, as long as it is related to Xu Ming and Landor himself, then he must abide by the relevant rules and cannot disclose any relevant information to other people who are not aware of it.

Whether it is direct notification or any hint, it is within the scope of restrictions. In addition, entrusting other people who are aware of the situation to inform is also not allowed.

"..." She was answered by a brilliant smile from the other side, as if to say "You are awesome"; Xu Ming forced a smile back, but his mood became a little complicated.

- Because the "Landuo" in front of him spoke very slowly and his thinking was a little slow, it took Xu Ming a long time to figure out the whole deal from him.

"Landuo" said that this was all he paid, but Xu Ming suspected that he must have something hidden, or there was some unknown information, otherwise the existence of the other "Landuo" could not be explained; and Landuo did not appear in front of her again until after she graduated, so the blank period in between was also worthy of attention...

but the content of the transaction was similar to Xu Ming's previous speculation.

- After obtaining the rule book, he encountered a door opening incident in a ghost story and managed to close the door. As the price of closing, her own rule book was eroded by the thing behind the door, and she also became weaker and weaker. In order to have a chance of survival, she tried to take the initiative to trade with the thing behind the door, exchanging her relevant memories for the cessation of erosion.

...But her deal failed. It is true that she has forgotten all the memories about ghost stories during college, but the erosion of the rule book is still continuing, gradually moving towards the worst result.

It is for this reason that Landor also chose to trade. This guy was smart for once, found the key to the problem, and used the above price to exchange for a reset of the No. 9 rule book.

Therefore, the rule book came alive, Xu Ming also came alive, and the mutated root corpse that she had forcibly bound to the rule book also came alive...buy one, get two free.

As for the consequences of violating the rules, the "Landor" in front of him did not mention it, but the happiness next to him made a good supplement.

There is no such thing as violation or not violation of this kind of transaction-based restriction. It is just not allowed and cannot be done, that's all.

In general, it is similar to Xu Ming's previous speculation, but...how to say it.

One's own speculation is one thing, and knowing the truth from other people's mouths is another thing.

Xu Ming's mood was very complicated for a while, and he opened and closed his eyes several times. After a long time, he whispered thank you.

In response to her, the other party's more brilliant smile. Xu Ming exhaled, and felt a little strange: "But the price of this transaction, why does it feel a little strange..."

She could understand that Landor was asked to keep his mouth shut and not tell Xu Ming about the past, because from her own failure case, the existence behind the door did hope to cover up its own existence to a certain extent; the soul can be regarded as a universal currency, but the voice...

Landor's original voice was very nice, but it shouldn't be taken away specifically, right? What kind of fairy tale collection mode is this? He is not an underwater wizard who can suck the voice of a mermaid...

Kuai Le thought about it for a while, but reacted.

"Hey." She asked Xu Ming, "Do you like his voice?" "

?" Xu Ming looked at her in surprise, as if he was curious about her question, "Are you talking about his original voice? Of course I like it." As

soon as these words came out, the moth on his head fluttered even more happily, and "Landuo"'s innocent happiness was danced into a duet, almost filling every corner of the room; he glanced at the moth happily without hiding his disgust, and said, "Does he know that you like it very much? I'm talking about the real one."

"..." Xu Ming tilted her head and thought about it, not quite sure, "Should... know?"

She didn't remember the past, but she knew that she was the kind of person who liked to exaggerate everything, so Landuo probably knew about it as well.

"That's right." Happy's face darkened, "Then put yourself in his shoes."

"You are a love-brained person. You make a deal with the villain for the person you like. After the deal is done, the villain survives but has completely forgotten you. You cannot tell him about your past, even if he falls in love with someone else in front of you. And the thing that attracted him the most about you is no longer there..."

Happy looked over seriously, "If it were you, how would you feel?" "

..." Xu Ming was confused for a moment, and then followed closely. It seemed that he understood something, and his face gradually changed.

She asked herself that she was not the kind of person who relied heavily on other people's emotions, but in that situation...

If she thought about it on the bright side, she might be able to let it go, but if she looked at it on the bad side, it would not be surprising that unwillingness, grievance, pain... any kind of darkness would arise.

As if seeing through her thoughts, Kuai Le pursed her lips and added: "Remember I said that most people can only withstand one transaction?

"The reason for saying that is that most people who complete the transaction, their body and mind, or reason, cannot continue intact to the next transaction..."

And for some people, perhaps nothing is more devastating than painful and hopeless emotions.

"..." Kuai Le said it so confidently that Xu Ming was a little dazed. After a pause, she realized a very important point: "Wait, but Lando's performance is usually quite normal, right?" "He

doesn't look positive, but at least he is physically and mentally healthy... at least healthier than Po Haitang.

"Then there are only three possibilities. "Kuai Le crossed her arms thoughtfully, "First, either he has been collapsing silently, but you just didn't notice; second, his ideological realm is too high, and this kind of pain of love can't actually bother him at all; third..."

She raised her head slightly and looked at the tightly drawn green curtain beside her. Xu Ming looked over and frowned.

Third, in order to calm his pain, he made another deal. And the one hiding in the curtain is the price he paid for the second deal...

This is completely reasonable.

When he asked "Landor" in front of him about this, he shook his head without hesitation.

"Second deal? No." He defended himself seriously, "I know Mingming doesn't like it, so just do it once. There won't be a second time. "

He said it so confidently that Xu Ming was a little unconvinced: "The one on the bed..."

"Oh, that wasn't a trade." "Landuo" continued seriously, "I gave it to you on my own initiative."

Xu Ming: "..." His nature has become even worse!

"Are you sick?" Kuai Le was so excited that he almost fell off the chair, "You actually sacrificed your soul to the existence behind the door for nothing... Child, listen to my advice, throw the dog away when you go back!"

It's not clean!

"? "Landuo" by the window tilted his head in confusion.

"What soul?" He asked curiously, "He's not a soul."

"He's just emotion. I let 'it' help me get rid of the emotions."

"......?" "Xu Ming paused again, exchanged a puzzled look with Kuai Le, and asked curiously, "So, why do you let 'it' take away your emotions?"

"For safety." "Landor" spoke slowly and methodically.

"After I confirmed the terms of the transaction, I asked the cat. But it said that this was not a good idea... it would be dangerous.

" "I didn't want to be a danger to Mingming, so I thought of a way.

"I listed all the emotions that might cause trouble, and when the transaction was made, I took them away..."

Reluctance, grievance, anger, jealousy, reserve, arrogance, possessiveness... all the thorny and sharp ones, no matter how many, were taken away.

Just like removing the thorns from a rose and peeling the fruit, only the most calm and soft self was left for Xu Ming, willing to wait at any time and willing to accept anything.

"There won't be any problem then." "Landor" said with certainty, "There will be absolutely no problem."

At least he - and all Landor, believed so.

Only Xu Ming was left standing there in a daze, unable to speak for a long time.