Chapter 152

To be honest, Xu Ming felt something was wrong when they first met.

To be precise, it was when she found that there were many names on both sides of the ID card that Kuai Le gave her. Of

course, there was nothing wrong with the ID card itself, and there was no name on it. The problem was Kuai Le's attitude -

logically, when a person is awake and finds that there is something extra on his body, he will check it carefully, and Kuai Le had stuffed the ID card into his clothes, so it must have been touched. And because the names on the ID card were overlapped, if you touch it carefully, you will definitely feel obvious bulges. If

they felt something was wrong, they would most likely check further and find out the problem with the name on the work badge. But Kuai Le's performance at the time clearly showed that he had never noticed it until Xu Ming found it out.

...It was a bit strange.

But Xu Ming couldn't make any assertions based on this alone. After all, it was impossible to rule out the possibility that the other party was an alienated root with special thinking, or had cognitive problems like Landor... In order to avoid adding conflicts, she concealed this problem first.

In addition, he followed Kuai Le's guidance all the way and did not encounter any problems, so Xu Ming was relieved a little... until he met "Landor".

"Landor" came from Landor's soul fragment. And he could see the lighthouse.

Not only that, from his rough description, the spirits in this world, whether complete or not, can see the lighthouse and be affected by it.

When Happy learned that she couldn't see the lighthouse, she explained that "I couldn't see it because my soul was incomplete." This is obviously inconsistent with the facts.

In addition, when "Landor" mentioned the three words "climbing the lighthouse", she happened to be carrying Happy on her back - and she was sure that when she heard these three words, the other party's arms definitely tightened.

Not to mention that "Landor"'s description of the kind-hearted person was clearly limited to "having insect limbs", but Happy directly called her "Spider Woman" when she spoke...

Although this may be a momentary assumption, Xu Ming is more inclined to another possibility:

Happy lied to himself.

She said that she had not seen the "kind-hearted person" who gave her the work badge, but in fact, she had seen him. She just chose to hide it from herself.

Then the question came. Since the reason given by Happy was not valid, what was the real reason why she could not see the lighthouse? Why did Happy lie to her and hide the existence of the "kind-hearted person"?

Xu Ming didn't know. But she could be sure of two things -

first, "Landuo" did not have the ability and motivation to lie, and his words could be trusted. And he once told Xu Ming to "stay away from the lighthouse", which means that the lighthouse is indeed dangerous.

Second, when Happy and Landuo were trapped on the 100th floor together, they took the initiative to use their abilities to successfully block the person who called for the lighthouse hidden in the dark, so that they could not directly see the messages between the alienated roots.

...Is it possible that my current situation is similar to calling the lighthouse? Did Kuaile use some ability to block my ability to see the lighthouse?

But if this is the case, it involves two questions:

First, why did she help me, and why did she refuse to admit it after helping me?

Second, it is known that Kuaile's ability is "exchange", and she must rely on others to make wishes to achieve a certain effect, and she cannot make wishes to herself, but must rely on others...

and I have been sleeping since I entered this space. Who is the person who made a wish to her?

Combined with the conjecture that "Kuai Le might have concealed the fact that she had met a kind person" and the fact that "Auntie is in this world", an extremely bold and disturbing speculation almost naturally came to Xu Ming's mind -

"The person who gave you the work card is my aunt, right?"

She carried Kuai Le on her back and walked slowly along the quiet street. Even if she tried to restrain herself, her tone was inevitably trembling:

"She is the 'kind person' who gave everyone the work card, right?"

"She gave you the work card and made a wish to you so that I couldn't see the lighthouse, right?"

Xu Ming paused slightly and took a deep breath:

"She is...not very well now, right?"

"..."

Kuai Le did not answer her question immediately.

She just looked up subconsciously. After a moment of silence, she looked down at her left leg. After a moment, she pursed her lips and said softly with a sigh:

"...No one among us has ever entered the world behind the door as a human being."

Xu Ming: "..."

Eh?

Why are you talking about this suddenly? What is this "we"? And what does "as a human being" mean...

With her mind racing, Xu Ming suddenly seemed to realize something,

and her heart skipped a beat. Just as she was about to speak to confirm, Kuai Le continued:

"So we can't be sure whether your distortion characteristics will still work here. This is a blind spot for us.

"But no matter what, you are the only human being and her child, so we have to think of a way to protect you first. "

Kuai Le said slowly, his left leg hanging on Xu Ming's side shaking:

"If you are lucky and the Idiot's ability can take effect, that would be great. This means that after my ability disappears, you can also be free from the influence of the lighthouse for a considerable period of time; and to put it another way, even if the Idiot can't take effect, this shielding can buy enough time to send you to a relatively safe area.

"There are quite a few buildings here that can block the light of the lighthouse... In this way, even if the shielding effect is lost, you will have a relatively safe place to hide and protect yourself.

"Of course, you have to figure out what happens next. I didn't expect that you would actually be stripped of a piece of your soul and thrown out. This is really embarrassing..."

Kuai Le seemed to sigh, and then seemed to think of something interesting. He patted Xu Ming's shoulder hard, and without waiting for her to speak again, he continued to talk:

"Oh, by the way, it just so happens that we are talking about 'idiot'... I'll tell you a secret while I'm free now."

Kuai Le said, and suddenly smiled, leaning close to Xu Ming's ear:

"The reason why idiots are called idiots is because the first person among us who has the characteristics of an idiot happened to have the last name Bai."

Xu Ming: "......?"

? ! !

"Of course, it's not just that reason." Happy tilted his head, "In fact, the more important thing is that she is more of an idiot... In the words of you young people, it should be called, electric wave system?"

"At that time, Werewolf was very popular. I don't know who it was... Oh yes, it seems to be your aunt. One time when we were playing the game, she suddenly said that the identity of the idiot and Lili's ability are quite compatible, so we started to call her that..."

"By the way, your aunt is very bad at Werewolf, did you know? But she is very good at mahjong. I don't like playing with her because I always lose."

"Oh, don't you know who Lili is? It's the one with the surname Bai that I mentioned, Bai Li, has your aunt told you about her?"

Xu Ming: "..." That's not the case.

In fact, she had almost no impression of the name "Bai Li", but she had seen the name "Li Li" - the first time she saw it was in the notes left by Tian Jiangming in the apartment building, and later she found her aunt's notes, which did mention this name...

While she was still thinking, her shoulders suddenly sank. Happy leaned his head against her shoulder and continued slowly,

"As for the villain... it's more realistic. You know Tian Yiliang, right? Sister Tian is his sister, a very hard-core person. She would beat up any monster she saw. One time, Old Yang couldn't help it and complained that you were no different from a villain who would rush into someone's house and beat them up. This title gradually became popular... But Sister Tian is not like Lili. She has never been very accepting of this title. She likes to call herself... what was it? Yes, a brave warrior. But no one cares about her."

"And... oh, I remember now. The pickpocket's full name is Lu Sui, and Sister Tian's name is Tian Jiangming. Your aunt's favorite group activity is playing mahjong, the Sichuan Guangdong Japanese City. But she is actually quite playful. As long as it's interesting, she will try any board game or online game. Really, she is so grown up, but she is not stable at all..."

"Where is she unstable?" Xu Ming replied subconsciously, but his brain was still working fast -

it was a pity that it couldn't move very fast. His head was filled with question marks and exclamation marks. To put it bluntly, he was... a little confused.

On the one hand, he was bombarded by the amount of information from Kuai Le, and on the other hand, it was because... it was too sudden.

Whether it was the beginning or the turn, everything came too abruptly, which made people at a loss as to what to do.

No... wait.

With a slight movement of his eyes, Xu Ming suddenly reacted.

She was not talking without reason... She was answering her own words.

- At that time, in the room designated as a safe zone, in order to confirm the identity of "Teacher Mirror", he had asked her a series of questions.

At that time, Kuai Le should have been in a state of being parasitized by the Light Man... Was it because of the empathy between the Light Man that he also heard these questions?

What did he ask at that time?

Why is an idiot called an idiot, why is a villain called a villain, the name of the "pickpocket" and Ms. Tian, ​​Auntie's favorite group activity, and...

the source of the idea of ​​the rule book, and the reason for its existence.

"--If I remember correctly, the idea of ​​the rule book should have come from pickpockets." As if responding to her guess, Kuai Le spoke again in a low voice after a brief pause.

"Pickpocket is actually Xiao Lu's nickname. He always likes to play thieves when playing online games, so we are used to calling him that. He is relatively young, and in addition to playing mahjong with your aunt, he also plays Japanese role-playing games, which are that kind of, um, Japanese Western fantasy. I don't know if you have ever come across them..."

"Maybe influenced by that, he has always felt that it would be great if the Root's abilities could be condensed into a magic book. It would be very cool to use it...

" "Among us, except for him, no one else has mentioned anything like this. In fact, everyone else prefers a more practical form, such as mobile phone apps... So I think the implementation of the rule book should have something to do with him. But I'm not really sure about this."

...Implementation?

Xu Ming's heart moved again when he caught this subtle word. And what does this speculation mean?

He was about to ask in detail, but heard Kuaile exhaled a long breath again -

the breath fell on Xu Ming's shoulder, and there was no warmth of a living person at all.

"Anything else you want to ask?" Xu Ming heard her speak again, her voice so low that it sounded like she was mumbling to herself, "Let me make it clear first, I don't understand the lighthouse and I can't answer. But you can ask anything else. While there is still time..."

...?

Xu Ming tilted his head slightly, his eyes moved for a moment, and he lowered his eyelids thoughtfully.

"...Then who are you?"

She spoke softly, without stopping: "You are also their friend, right? Are you also an official? Anxin Gardening?"

"Probably. I can't remember." This time Kuai Le answered quickly, "I remember, my last name is Huang."

"But I can't remember the specific name."

She said this lightly, as if it was not an important matter: "But I remember my characteristics..."

"Yellow fish head? You should have come into contact with it, right? It's the name I gave it. "

Yellow croaker brain - one of the abnormal characteristics of human beings. It can anchor someone's state or memory in ghost stories. No matter how the environment changes, the anchored memory will be engraved in the heart and will never change.

Happy said this, and laughed softly again, as if he remembered something funny:

"It's strange, I am the one with the worst forgetfulness among all people, but I have such a characteristic... For some reason, everyone treats me as a recorder.

"They left one by one, disappeared one by one, leaving me alone outside, no one could find me, and I had to be responsible for recording everything... But in the end, I forgot everything."

Xu Ming: "..."

She was not surprised by this. The traces of existence left by Aunt and her group of people are too shallow, so shallow that it is almost impossible to capture them - if Xu Ming, as a relative, had not happened to have access to Aunt's notebook, I'm afraid she would still not understand many things now.

If there was someone responsible for organizing and recording everything, at least the official side should have more detailed information, at least more people should remember the names of some people.

Thinking of this, Xu Ming's heart was suddenly filled with mixed feelings.

Perhaps she was infected by Happy's words, and she was a little choked up about the questions she was going to ask. After a moment of silence, she chose to pat Happy's back comfortingly: "It's good that you remember it again, right? At least you remember a lot now."

"What's the use?" Happy muttered, and buried his head in Xu Ming's shoulder again, "I just remembered it at this juncture... It's useless."

"I can only tell you."

...

What does this mean?

Xu Ming pursed his lips, and didn't rush to speak, just tried to sort it out in his mind again. After a while, he heard her whisper: "So, why did you forget it?

"Is it because you became an alien root?"

"Maybe. It may also be because I died. It may also be that I also touched the things behind the door..." Happy continued to mutter, "I don't remember this part."

"But many things, indeed, I only remembered them after coming here. Oh, so embarrassing."

She sighed again, her voice lower than Xu Ming's: "It seems like I'm useless. It's so embarrassing. "

Her emotions, like her words, came out of nowhere. Xu Ming didn't know how the situation turned out like this, and subconsciously comforted her again. After pondering over what Kuai Le had just said, a wave of subtlety rose in her chest again. How

should I put it... She originally thought that if she wanted to get words out of Kuai Le's mouth, she would have to confront him for a long time.

She had made a lot of mental preparations for this, and now she still had several draft plans in her mind. Who would have thought that she only exerted a little pressure, and the other party blurted out everything as if leaving a will. If she had known earlier, she might as well ask directly, maybe it would be faster...

Wait.

...Suicide note?

Xu Ming paused again, and the few words he had just heard not long ago suddenly flashed through his mind

[Before my ability disappears...]

[While there is still time...]

[It's useless to think of it at this critical moment... I can only tell you...]

Xu Ming: "..."

Why do you have to emphasize the time limit? And according to Kuai Le, she can get out by herself, so how can it be useless...

As if realizing something, Xu Ming's face changed slightly, and he slowly lowered his head.

On his left side, he saw Kuai Le's dangling left leg. It was covered tightly by the heavy golden skirt.

Only because of the posture, a small part of the ankle was exposed - and that part of the ankle was already covered with vicious vines.

…!

His heart skipped a beat again, and Xu Ming hurriedly called out to Kuai Le again. But it took a long while for the latter to say "hmm" in a low voice, with his face still resting on Xu Ming's shoulder, as if he had no strength at all.

Xu Ming thought to himself that something was not good, and quickly looked around. Without saying a word, he carried the person on his back and went into the building next door. He carefully put Kuai Le down, and then he noticed that the other person's face had become very pale, and there were strange black lines. The road starts from the temple and spreads outward like a spider web.

Xu Ming's face became uglier and uglier, and he bent down to check the situation further. The moment he didn't want to squat down, there was a buzzing sound in his ears, and it seemed that a light flashed in front of his eyes, which made him unsteady and fell forward

. Xu Ming subconsciously supported himself with his hands. When he raised his head again, his expression became more solemn.

What she saw had changed.

It was as if a layer of film was torn off her vision, and what she saw and felt suddenly became much brighter.

...But at this moment, this is obviously not a good sign.

With a bad premonition in his heart, Xu Ming carefully moved to the door of the building, poked his head out and looked, and his breathing immediately stagnated.

At the end of his vision, there stood a lighthouse with a blurry outline.

*

At the same time, in another room far away -

in a safe area with a closed door, two trembling fingers tried hard to push the pointer through the last grid.

Under Landor's anxious gaze, "Xu Ming" tensed his face, slowly raised his head, and looked at the door in front of him that was gradually changing. He

took a breath nervously.