Chapter 176

According to previous test results, beings whose natures are affected by idiocy can maintain their changed natures for a long time even if they are out of Xu Ming's sight.

And after the change occurs, the more people agree with the change, the longer it will last - until Xu Ming completely leaves the current strange story.

In other words, although Gu Yunshu's appearance has been restored, the time it can last is still limited. At least during the time when Xu Ming is not in the strange story, she still needs to wear a mask. When Xu Ming

mentioned this to Gu Yunshu, he felt a little apologetic. Gu Yunshu didn't care. To her, being able to regain her face was a pleasant surprise. Besides, it wasn't a bad thing for her to have her face change intermittently. After all, this was how she looked when she was in junior high school. It was a little... not very dignified. Not to mention going out for investigation, even when she was working in the office, she felt that she lacked aura and couldn't discipline others effectively.

It was good for her to be able to relax and move around with other people freely, not having to pay attention to other people's gazes while eating, and being able to look at herself in the mirror calmly at some point.

Seeing that she was adapting well, Xu Ming was relieved. The only thing that concerned her was that for some reason, after Gu Yunshu appeared in front of everyone with a new look, the leave rate of other people suddenly soared to a new high.

...To be precise, it was after they knew that the photos she used came from Gu Yunshu's Penguin Space more than ten years

ago. Big Guo, Little Guo and other people who often stayed in the strange talk asked Xu Ming for leave to go home; Bonnie did not go back, but she specifically asked Xu Ming to borrow a laptop, hid in a place where no one could see, and operated it silently for a long time. When she returned it, she was careless and did not clean up the records, so when Xu Ming opened it, a campus network login interface that was out of date popped up on the screen.

The kind that can play stealing vegetables and grabbing parking spaces.

Xu Ming was stunned.

? What is this doing?

After quietly clearing the browsing history, Fang complained subtly. Lu Yueling and Whale Fat Man were sitting on the sofa next to them playing games. Hearing this, she casually said,

"They were too hasty to delete the black history. Otherwise, what else could they do?"

"..." Huh?

Xu Ming paused, and even slowed down the action of closing the computer. After a moment of silence, he said, "So Da Guo and Xiao Guo..."

"They should have gone home to find their accounts and delete the records." Lu Yueling pressed the handle frantically, and said calmly, "Sister Ming, I said, don't you post your own photos very often? You don't play social platforms very often?"

"She doesn't even post on Moments." Whale Fat Man next to him said, "Except for the daily work of the demolition office that can only be seen in the gardening company."

As he spoke, two scowls appeared on his potato-sized body, deeply twisted together, showing the fierceness of the battle.

"...I call this maintaining my image." Xu Mingren replied in an intolerable way, then frowned thoughtfully, finally connecting all the things together, and then said with a guilty conscience, "And I think that what Sister Yun did is not a black history..." It 's

obviously very beautiful. She also wanted to do that when she was in school, but the school didn't allow it.

"It's very beautiful." Lu Yueling said casually, "The problem is that not all photos of everyone's penguin space are so beautiful."

It was okay when I didn't notice it before, but now I suddenly realized that those things that I didn't deal with in time before I died will become one of the countless cyber ruins on the Internet, and maybe they will continue to exist in the world with human civilization, waiting to be dug out like an old corpse for research and visit one day...

It's really too scary. It was too scary even for the dead.

So they ran back home one by one, hoping to dismantle a part of it by themselves, at least to have peace of mind.

Xu Ming: “…”

To be honest, an account that was originally unmanaged suddenly showed up online and deleted its own status and albums. Wouldn’t this be more like a scary incident?

“Forget it, whatever you want.” Xu Ming sighed and put his laptop on the coffee table. On second thought, he felt a little strange, “By the way, don’t you have to go back?”

“I don’t have anything to delete.” Lu Yueling answered neatly, “All my photos are carefully selected and carefully edited. They will look good no matter when they are put in.”

Even in the group photo of everyone in their school days, she is the prettiest one!

When she went home before, she had specially looked at her posthumous photos, and they were also very beautiful!

Xu Ming: “…………”

Her expression was a little subtle again. Xu Ming looked at her with some complexity, and just opened his mouth to say something, but heard Lu Yueling speak again:

“And…”

Xu Ming looked over curiously, but the other party just stared at the flashing picture on the screen, and the handle was still clicking.

After a while, Fang continued:

“And, it seems that people tend to think that they are not good-looking, right? They think that they are not good here and there, so they can’t wait to delete them all, for fear of being laughed at…

“But those things that we care about so much, maybe in the eyes of some people, they are just ordinary Internet garbage. Even if they see it, they will just swipe past it without stopping for a second.

"Or maybe, in the eyes of some people, it doesn't matter whether the photos are good-looking or not. What matters is that they are still there.

"Because to them, this may be one of the few traces we left behind...ah."

Before he finished speaking, a harsh sound suddenly rang out from the TV. Lu Yueling stared at the large failure interface on the screen and said "tsk" unwillingly.

Then he muttered "boring, no more fun", and stood up angrily. Without waiting for Xu Ming to react, he passed through the wall and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Only Xu Ming and the whale fat man were left there. One sat on the sofa, dancing with the controller in his arms excitedly; the other looked quietly in the direction where Lu Yueling left, and after a moment, he sighed softly.

"Why sigh, I think she said it very well. "The fat man looked at her and said, "Don't mention it, that kid is much more sensible than when he first arrived."

After that, he pushed the handle that Lu Yueling dropped towards Xu Ming: "Give it a try?"

"Give it a try." Xu Ming said unceremoniously, stood up and raised his chin towards the fat man, "Let's go and work overtime."

"?!" The fat man looked up in surprise, "Overtime? What shift?"

"Repair shift." Xu Ming simply picked it up from the sofa, "I greeted you yesterday. Don't say you forgot."

The fat man: "..."

Huh???

"So you really forgot." Xu Ming sighed helplessly.

"No, no, wait a minute... ah, I remember, it was those Ajiao - but didn't I brush all day yesterday? Hey! Hey!"

"That's why you said it was overtime..." Xu Ming muttered, quickening his pace.

Soon, he gradually walked away amid the wailing of the whale fat man.

The so-called "repair" naturally refers to facial repair.

This is the second wave of trends that has emerged recently besides the "leave wave" - ​​and it is also the one that makes Xu Ming most helpless.

The cause of the incident is also very simple. On the day when she helped Gu Yunshu restore his face, she happened to be seen by a few Ajiao.

Coincidentally, perhaps because they wear their work badges every day, the self-awareness of these Ajiaos has become relatively clear. Xu Ming is not sure to what extent, but it is definitely enough for them to understand the fact that "Director Xu helped Sister Yun find her face" and the cognition that "Oh, yeah, it seems that I don't have a face either."

Knowing that "I don't have it", I will naturally "want it". And once I "want it", I will naturally take action. The Ajiaos' thinking is currently relatively straight-line, without so many twists and turns. The only way to express "want" is to follow Xu Ming every day, from strange stories to reality, from morning to night, from the bedside to the bathroom.

I have to say, when you look up after washing your face and suddenly find several burnt figures behind you through the mirror, the feeling is really beyond description. It is

even more exciting when you open your eyes in the morning and find a row of burnt figures beside the bed staring at you eagerly.

A few relatively smart ones know to be more considerate. Knowing that humans may not be able to adapt if they see them as soon as they open their eyes, they cleverly avoid appearing in front of the camera and hide under the bed, behind the door, on the ceiling, in the cabinet...

So, considerate, but not completely considerate.

Sometimes, if you accidentally catch a glimpse of it with your peripheral vision, the excitement is doubled.

Of course, if Xu Ming really wants to suppress it by force, he is not without a way. The rule book can be used to lock people in, and Gu Yunshu and Guo Shuyi can also help with management. If you really feel annoyed, you can just peel off the work badge and throw it outside. Anyway, the demolition office is no longer short of people.

But...how to say it.

The feeling of being stared at by a charred corpse is actually terrible, but as long as you think that the origin of this gaze is just a small wish, Xu Ming feels that this matter does not seem to be so bad.

Besides, they have really helped and contributed in various ghost stories in the past. They have been running around silently all the time, and now it is rare to show what they want. It would be too unreasonable to deal with it like this.

So Xu Ming made a detailed plan, and finally put the repair work for A Jiao on the agenda.

Fang Xueqing happened to be unable to come over for the time being due to a broken bone. Xu Ming's cooperation with her was forced to be postponed for two weeks, so he thought of using this time to help the Ajiao solve the problem of finding faces.

Because the Ajiao's memories before their death were basically incomplete, unlike Gu Yunshu who remembered his own name, even Teacher Jing could hardly peek into their past - which meant that it would be extremely difficult to directly find photos of them before their death. Unless Teacher Jing

came over specifically to observe them face to face. However, there were thirty Ajiao in their unit alone. Based on the principle of balancing the water, plus Niu Tou Ma Mian and Xiao Shan, there were a total of thirty-three people. Even Teacher Jing had to come back several times to observe them all, and there might be mistakes.

The most important thing is that such frequent outings will definitely attract the attention of Anxin Gardening, and it will also be a loss to Teacher Jing herself.

Xu Ming didn't want to trouble Teacher Jing too much, so after thinking for a long time, he simply went to discuss with A Jiao and the others. If they just wanted to have a decent appearance, then she would be responsible for designing portraits for them. If they liked the portraits, she would use "idiocy" according to the portraits to achieve the purpose of facial repair.

But there is another problem with this - there is a natural difference between paper people and three-dimensional people. Moreover, Xu Ming learned painting halfway through, and he is not good at portraits, and is far from lifelike.

It seems that the brain configuration is too demanding to imagine a real body based on a painting full of two-dimensional flavor.

This is why Xu Ming specifically brought along the blubber man.

"So... it should be about right?"

Inside Guo Shuyi's strange story, next to Gu Yunshu's office. Xu Ming was holding a piece of paper in her hand, comparing it with the blubber man in front of her. After a moment of scrutiny, she pulled the blubber man's shoulder and turned it around, facing the anxious A Jiao in front of her.

"Confirm again, you chose drawing No. 021, right? This is the model built based on the poster." As she spoke, she motioned to the blubber man to turn around a few more times and show his appearance as comprehensively as possible. "Are you satisfied with this... Is it okay?"

After getting an affirmative answer, Xu Ming decisively picked up his mobile phone, took a photo of the blubber man in front of him, and saved it carefully.

After saving, he waved his hand at A Jiao in front of him: "Okay, you go back first. I will help you to repair it formally when I come in next time... the next one. Um, which picture did you choose?"

The new A Jiao silently made a number. Xu Ming reached out and rummaged on the desk for a while, and soon found a hand-drawn portrait, and then handed it to the whale man: "Come on, model it." "

..." The whale man rolled his eyes silently and rubbed his face vigorously as he said. He didn't stop until his face was almost exactly like the portrait, and then he stopped tiredly, letting Xu Ming examine it and pick and choose. When

the changes were almost done, A Jiao would make the final review. After A Jiao's review, he would take a photo for the record. After repeating this several times, the whale man felt that his face was almost melted. Looking at the remaining portraits on the table, he felt suffocated.

"There are still many..." He collapsed and looked up. For the first time in his life, he hated his unique and unparalleled talent. "No, do you have to go through so much trouble?" Wouldn't it be

easier to just go online and find a bunch of real photos for them to choose from than to model them one by one? ?

"No." Xu Ming did not hesitate. While talking, he took the time to sort out the photos in his mobile phone. "That is infringing on other people's portrait rights."

Ghost stories are not beyond the law. You still have to pay attention to what you should pay attention to.

"..." The whale man was stunned. Turning his head to look at the remaining stack of papers on the table, he felt dizzy again, "But there are so many portraits... Do you have to remember them one by one next time you come in?"

"What else." Xu Ming answered without hesitation, "Print them all out later and try to remember them."

At most it will take a little longer... But in a monster story, there is no shortage of that little time.

Just treat it as a daily task when logging into the game.

Whale Blubber: "..."

No, do you want to hear what you are saying?

It looked at Xu Ming in despair, and then looked at the Ajiao who were gathered together not far away, each holding a portrait. After a long pause, it finally let out a sigh of resignation.

"Forget it, forget it, I surrender to you." It muttered, "Okay, okay, go on. Play tricks on me! You can do anything, turn me into the shape you want!"

Xu Ming: "..."

It has to be said that at this moment, she really wanted to throw this guy out.

Fortunately, with the help of the whale blubber man, the image customization work of the Ajiao was not delayed for too long. It only took Xu Ming three days to successfully replace the new skins of 23 Ajiao.

...It's just like she said herself, it would be a bit strenuous every time she entered the ghost story. Because he needed to take out the printed photos one by one to memorize them, and he had to compare them with people, going back and forth, it took a lot of time.

Xiaoshan was also retouched, and now it looks like a Dragonite with a head. It is still big and fat, but at least it will not cause claustrophobia anymore. Panpan, who had never dared to talk to it, finally dared to give it some snacks.

As for Niu Bugeng, who was also missing his face, after hearing about this, he just calmly praised it twice, and then plunged back into his work, as if this matter had nothing to do with him.

Xu Ming tentatively asked him if he had similar needs, and he just raised his hands calmly, saying that he hoped to replace his deformed forelimbs, because typing was not very convenient and he couldn't take notes by hand.

The same thing happened to Mataigor, who only asked to change his hands. But after changing his hands, he went to Guo Shuyi's ghost story and found himself a nice wooden guitar.

Xu Ming later saw it playing and singing by itself in a fountain square in the ghost story, with pedestrians coming and going. Some stayed for it, while others ignored it. Most of them were NPCs created by Guo Shuyi using his abilities - but Xu Ming felt that Mataigor might not care about this.

As for the remaining seven Ajiao, they were ultimately unable to change into new skins, but the reason was surprisingly consistent:

they thought about it for a long time and felt that it seemed meaningless to customize a face like this.

Compared to a good-looking face, they wanted to know what they looked like in the past.

Communicating with Ajiao was not easy, but fortunately Xu Ming finally understood what they meant. So after thinking for a moment, she made up her mind decisively, returned to reality, and called Shi Mian directly.

Today was a working day, and Shi Mian answered the phone very quickly. She thought Xu Ming was calling to ask about Fang Xueqing, and she was a little nervous when she spoke. When she learned that it was not the case, she was immediately relieved.

"That's good." Even through the phone, Xu Ming could hear the relief in her tone, "Sister Xueqing is still resting... I'm really sorry to delay your progress again."

"It's okay, it's okay." Xu Ming said immediately, "She was also trying to save people, I understand."

The reason why Fang Xueqing was injured this time was very simple, that is, someone in Anxin Gardening went into the ghost story investigation and did not come out smoothly - in this case, there are generally two emergency plans. One is to immediately wear the work badge specially provided by the Demolition and Relocation Office, and use the work badge to ask for help from the Demolition and Relocation Office, and wait for someone to come to "force the demolition"; the other is to use the key provided by Fang Xueqing and go out directly.

In most cases, the trapped people will choose the former. But this time, the trapped people are estimated to be cognitively affected, forget the side effects of the key, and directly take it out and use it...

So Fang Xueqing, who was resting at home, paid the price on the spot and broke her bones.

After Xu Ming knew about this, he also provided assistance as much as possible, and specially went to find the cat in the eye hospital and let it go to Anxin Gardening as the "Chief Partner of the Demolition and Relocation Office" to provide treatment for Fang Xueqing.

But treatment also requires a price. The healing of the fracture meant that Fang Xueqing had to pay an equal amount of physical effort to compensate, which was why Fang Xueqing had to rest at home for another two weeks.

"Come to think of it, Sister Xueqing was quite grateful to the demolition office." Shi Mian said in a low voice, with a hint of laughter in her voice, "She said that the cat was amazing, not only did it cure the fracture this time, but it also cured the sequelae of previous injuries."

Such a comprehensive treatment only required her to lie down for another two weeks. Fang Xueqing felt that it was a good deal just thinking about it.

"Really? That's good." Xu Ming's eyes turned slightly, and the topic changed immediately, "Speaking of which, Teacher Shi Mian - do you still remember the 'IOU' that your company used to exchange roots a few months ago?"

"..." Shi Mian's smiling voice suddenly paused.

...It's over.

She realized belatedly that I seemed to be too happy too early.

Speaking of this day...has it finally come?

Thinking of the IOU that forced the top management of the unit to hold two consecutive meetings and added a lot of restrictions, and also angered the demolition and relocation office, which typed the word "demolition" as a warning, Shi Mian's heart sank and her throat tightened.

Before she could speak again, she heard Xu Ming continue: "It's like this, we now want to activate this IOU, and hope that Anxin Gardening can cooperate...

"I just don't know, when is Teacher Jing available?"

Shi Mian was stunned: "Teacher Jing?"

"Yes, that's your company's consultant, the peeping Teacher Jingjing." Xu Ming repeated seriously, "We have some things here, and we hope she can help check it. It's quite large, and it may take some time."

"This... I'm sorry, I can't agree directly." Shi Mian blinked blankly, but still replied skillfully, "This kind of thing has to be agreed by Teacher Jing herself, I can ask her for you."

"But do you mind revealing it? The reason why you need Teacher Jing."

"Oh, I was just about to say this." Xu Ming said directly, "I don't know if you know, Teacher Shi Mian... There are many employees in our unit who were directly recruited as dead people..."

Xu Ming had compiled the relevant performance after the idiot was upgraded into a PDF two days ago, and provided it to Anxin Gardening in the form of exclusive intelligence. On this basis, she roughly described the current situation and needs of the demolition office to the other party.

"...So, we hope to cooperate with Teacher Jing to obtain the information of those dead people before their death." Xu Ming said, and paused, "Excuse me, can your company accept this form?"

"Should, it should be possible..." Shi Mian said this, but her tone sounded a little hesitant. Xu Ming frowned: "Is there any difficulty?"

"No, no, it's not. "Shi Mian said quickly, "but, um... does your leader agree with this?"

"Of course they do." Xu Ming thought her question was strange, "They arranged for me to do this."

...Are you sure?

Shi Mian subconsciously asked back in her heart, and resisted the urge to continue questioning, but her expression became more and more subtle.

Using the promise of a regular unit and a group of capable people to exchange for the information of a bunch of dead people, the purpose is only to help these dead people become better-looking and more decent.

This is very strange no matter how you think about it, right?

... Or is it that in the eyes of the demolition office, Anxin Gardening is only worth this much?

Shi Mian thought uncertainly, and kept nodding at the phone. Soon, he and Xu Ming discussed a series of details - and then, he heard Xu Ming let out a long breath.

"I hope Teacher Jing can agree." Shi Mian heard the girl on the other end say, "I... and my leader, we all care about this matter."

"It's a very important task."

Shi Mian: "..."

Important?

A strange and gentle word.

She frowned again, and before she could say anything else, Xu Ming had already said goodbye and hung up the phone quickly. Shi

Mian was the only one left, staring at the phone in a daze. A colleague happened to pass by and couldn't help but pat her on the shoulder, thinking that she was feeling unwell. Shi Mian just shook her head lightly, and after a few seconds, she pursed her lips thoughtfully.

"Do you still remember the IOU from the Demolition and Relocation Office?" she asked the person next to her.

The colleague said without hesitation: "Yes, it's the one that almost caused us to be demolished.

" "What's wrong?"

"..." Shi Mian thought for a moment and shook her head slowly.

"Nothing, I just suddenly felt that..."

"Perhaps we still don't know enough about the Demolition and Relocation Office."

At the same time.

Inside the villa.

Xu Ming hung up the phone and breathed a sigh of relief. The potato-like whale man next to her glanced at her and tilted his head in confusion.

"I don't understand - there are only seven A-Jiao left. Even if we let the Scopes come to investigate, it will probably be clear in two attempts at most.

"Why do you have to go through an extra step and ask Anxin Gardening for help?"

"In order to be legitimate." Xu Ming paused for a moment, "Put yourself in Anxin Gardening's shoes. If they find out that their consultant is secretly communicating with outside companies, they will be worried no matter what. Not to mention that we just did a 'demolition' on someone else's building before..."

Moreover, it is very likely that their unit will have ghosts with lost faces like Gu Yunshu and A Jiao in the future. It might be troublesome for Teacher Jing again. Now let's make things clear with Anxin Gardening to avoid trouble in the future.

"Okay..." The whale man nodded as if he understood, and then Xu Ming picked up the phone again.

"You want to call again? Who are you looking for?"

"Weeding vigorously." Xu Ming answered while waiting for the call to be connected.

The whale man was surprised: "What does this have to do with weeding vigorously? ? "

It's understandable that they want to go to Anxin Gardening, after all, Peeping Mirror is a consultant for someone else's unit - but why go to Dali Weed Control?

They still have to get a lot of their information from Anxin Gardening and the Demolition Office.

Xu Ming looked at it with amusement, then shook his head.

"I know they have no advantage in intelligence..." While the call was not connected, she whispered to the whale man, "But there is a photo of someone. It might be faster to ask them for it. "

Shi Mian used to see the Demolition Office: a gangster boss

Shi Mian now sees the Demolition Office: a gangster boss who holds an umbrella for kittens on rainy days

The forecast failed, this chapter will be released in the next chapter!

Then the Tianyu Eye Hospital chapter, it is highly likely that there will be no ORZ. My body is really a bit overwhelmed. I have been anxious and insomniac recently. My dry eye syndrome has recurred in the past two days. It's very uncomfortable. I plan to finish the idiot chapter and directly connect to the reunion chapter, and then the whole article will end.

I'm really sorry [kneel]