Chapter 22

It was already 20 minutes later when the front desk contacted Xu Ming again.

At that time, she and Qiu Yufei had just thrown the huge fish tail that crawled out of the bathroom out of the window - although in terms of division of labor, Qiu Yufei was the main contributor, and she was only responsible for providing moral support.

The reason for dealing with the fish first was also very simple, because the other two were more difficult to deal with. Not to mention the cat-faced woman hanging in the air conditioner, they couldn't get it down from such a high place, and the more troublesome thing was the monkey's paw that stretched out from the TV.

It just stretched out like that, clinging to the ground, not continuing to crawl out, nor retracting, like a potted plant, motionless. Only when someone approached would it suddenly move its sharp nails.

Qiu Yufei guessed from her limited experience of horror movies that this thing might have crawled out of the TV, just like the chastity - but she didn't expect Xu Ming to not react to it, and to turn off the TV without waiting for it to come out, causing it to get stuck there, unable to move forward or backward.

Xu Ming was originally thinking about smashing the TV to be done with, but at this moment he received a call from the front desk, and learned that the other party would soon arrange for a home visit. He finally breathed a sigh of relief, called Qiu Yufei, and prepared to go to her room first.

"...Are you really going to let those staff members into your room?" Qiu Yufei was still worried. "Since this is the strange story area...then most of the people working in the hotel are unreliable, right?"

"No matter whether they are reliable or not, at least they are still working as staff members. They should do what they should do." Xu Ming was very straightforward.

On the other hand, she was also very curious about what the staff members' so-called "on-site treatment" actually meant.

"Besides, you also need to take a good rest, right?" Xu Ming glanced at Qiu Yufei's sweaty clothes, "At least you need to change your clothes."

"..." Qiu Yufei wiped the sweaty bangs on her forehead and nodded with depression.

*

Generally speaking, the clean water in the strange story area can be used. However, out of caution, Qiu Yufei did not take a shower after returning to her room. She simply cleaned herself and changed into dry clothes.

... In her words, taking a shower in a haunted place and having strange things spray out of the shower head is too classic, and she doesn't want to experience it herself.

"I hope I can escape as soon as possible this time." Clipping her bangs to her head with a clip, she sighed again, "I want to take a shower."

"The problem is, we don't even know how we got in... We don't even know which ghost story this is."

Xu Ming pursed his lips, and his eyes involuntarily slid to the bag he carried with him again. Qiu Yufei followed her gaze and asked curiously, "Teacher Mingming? Did you remember something?"

"Not really." Xu Ming looked thoughtful, "I just think that if we want to figure out the situation, it may not be possible for the two of us alone."

Qiu Yufei: "?"

"I do have something here that can barely be called external aid... but you have to be mentally prepared first."

Xu Ming said, sighing lightly, and finally made up his mind. He slowly opened his bag to Qiu Yufei:

"Let me remind you first-what you are going to see next may scare you and make you feel incredible, but no matter what, I hope you can stay calm as much as possible."

Qiu Yufei: "..."

Seemingly shocked by Xu Ming's serious expression, her expression became serious, and she swallowed involuntarily, then held her breath and looked into Xu Ming's opened bag.

Immediately afterwards, she opened her eyes wide in astonishment, as if she had seen something unbelievable.

After a moment, she raised her hand to cover her mouth and uttered a low "wow".

...Wait.

"Wow"?

Xu Ming was stunned. Is this the reaction of being frightened by a monster?

On the other side, Qiu Yufei finally looked away, glanced at Xu Ming, and raised her eyebrows mysteriously.

"No wonder you need to get vaccinated, it's really... quite surprising." She whispered, clearly covering her mouth, but judging from the direction of the muscles at the corners of her mouth, it was clearly a smile, and the ending tone was a little uplifted, "I didn't expect that Teacher Mingming would like this..."

Xu Ming: ...? ?

? ?

Like what? What do I like? No, I'm showing you the blubber man inside. What are you looking at...

"But it's actually okay." Qiu Yufei waved her hands to herself, "People's hobbies are free... Just two..."

...? ? ? What? ? Xu

Ming's eyebrows jumped heavily, and he suddenly had a very bad premonition in his heart.

He turned the bag over suddenly, looked down, and immediately gasped.

...Sure enough.

I saw that what was in her bag at this moment was not a brown wax ball with long arms, long legs and long mouth.

...This damn blubber man, I don't know if he was idle and had nothing to do, but he actually turned out the small flip mirror she put in the bag, and now he was standing on the open makeup mirror, pinching his body in front of the mirror with great interest.

It was still the same body with black hair, white skin, and no clothes.

It was only about ten centimeters tall. Although the sparrow was small, it had all the necessary parts, and it could even have two more parts.

Xu Ming:...

Help, I can't keep this mirror.

"...Are you done with it?" Seeing that the other party was still immersed in his own world, Xu Ming closed his eyes again and again, and finally resisted the urge to use his fingers to pull the other party out.

The water in the ghost area would make her sick after using it, so she had to avoid washing her hands as much as possible.

The whale fat man in front of the mirror finally woke up from his dream and raised his head. Meeting Xu Ming's reproachful gaze, he smiled shyly, turned around, opened a pack of tissues, pulled out a piece of paper, and wrapped it around himself like a bath towel, then he leisurely climbed out of the pack.

"I'm sorry, I was busy pinching my face and didn't pay attention to what was going on outside..." It even carefully tidied up the tissue on its body, "By the way, what happened?"

"..." Xu Ming rubbed his forehead and finally couldn't help rolling his eyes.

Just as she was about to speak, Qiu Yufei asked curiously: "Pinch the face? What do you mean by pinching the face?"

Maybe it was because the whale fat man's current appearance was relatively flat and straight, she didn't seem to be very scared, but seemed quite interested.

"It's just the appearance adjustment." The whale man looked at her and answered very naturally, "The bones, muscles, facial features... are carefully carved like a sculptor to make it reach the most perfect state." As

it spoke, it lifted the hem of the tissue to show off and turned around in front of Qiu Yufei: "Look, this is the face and body I designed for this hotel trip. If you don't mind, I can show you a preview... How about it? These peacock-like facial features, don't they fit the atmosphere of the horror hotel?"

"Hmm..." Qiu Yufei was stunned, as if she didn't know how to answer. After a pause, she said, "Not bad? It looks good."

"Is that so?" The whale man touched his jawline in a self-indulgent manner, "Actually, I think there is still room for improvement, but I don't have any idea for the time being..."

As he spoke, he turned around again and began to look in the mirror with the reflection of the bed legs. Xu Ming, who was sitting in the other direction, stared at it unhappily. After a while, he seemed to notice something and his expression changed slightly.

"...The top of the skull." After a while, she suddenly muttered.

"Ah?" Qiu Yufei looked over in confusion, and the whale man also half turned his head: "What?" "

The top of the skull." Xu Ming's mouth twitched slightly, and his expression became more serious, "The top of the skull is low. The corners of the eyes need to be opened a little more."

"...???" Qiu Yufei had no idea what she was talking about, and her eyes became even more confused. But the whale man looked at the foot of the bed for a while, and then suddenly realized and shouted: "Yes, these are the two problems!"

"Correct them, it should look better... I can't believe that your fashion sense is so bad, but your American business is surprisingly good!"

The whale man said, and adjusted his head again with great interest. Xu Ming's face became even uglier.

"That's not what I said." She whispered, "You said it yourself."

"..."

Facing the other party's surprised eyes, Xu Ming took a deep breath.

"A few days ago, when I just told you that we were going to stay at the Spooky Hotel, you were free and asked to have your face shaped. The face that was shaped at that time was the face you have now."

The only difference was that the shape at that time was bigger, as tall as an adult, and it was wearing clothes, and there were no extra parts...

Of course, this is not the point; the point is that the blubber man at that time was already struggling with how to make his face more perfect. The final conclusion was to raise the top of the skull and continue to open the corners of the eyes. And on this basis, a new shape was updated.

In other words, the blubber man is now repeating what it did a few days ago - it didn't even realize that its current shape had been improved a few days ago.

"Hey." Xu Ming couldn't help but waved his hand in front of it, "Are you okay? Do you know where we are and what day it is today?"

"..." The fat man was stunned when he heard this.

——Just when Xu Ming thought it was going to say something, he saw it blinked and turned to the opposite foot of the bed, "Don't bother me, I'm busy."

Xu Ming: "...What are you busy with?"

"I'm thinking about how beautiful a face I should pinch for myself." The fat man said seriously, "This kind of hotel must have beautiful scenery, and silly human NPCs... It's the most fun to interact with them. Remember to take pictures for me when the time comes."

"? Strange, have I pinched this face before? It looks pretty good, very peacock-like, good, good."

"..."

Xu Ming fell silent.

Qiu Yufei at the side was still a little confused about the situation. Seeing that she looked strange, she did not dare to speak for a while.

After a while, Xu Ming suddenly reached out and pinched the whale man who was opening his eyes. He took out a pair of unused stockings from his bag, asked Qiu Yufei to take them off, and stuffed the whale man in.

"Sorry, I made a fool of myself." Xu Ming said with a cold face, "Although I don't quite understand the reason... But this guy seems to be useless."

At least at this moment, he can't be counted on.

Qiu Yufei nodded in confusion, and after thinking about it, she couldn't help asking again: "Then why do we put it in the socks?"

"Make the best use of it." Xu Ming said coldly, and stuffed the packed whale man back into the bag.

This was not a good start -

external aid was unreliable, and they could only figure it out on their own.

"It's the same as before, we can only try to collect information first." Xu Ming sighed, "There's still too little intelligence now."

It was the same sentence, we had to collect intelligence.

Not only collect text information, but also try to check for dead people - they must have come in because of a dead person. And since they can get in here, it means that the dead person must have a corresponding strange story in his head.

If they could know the content of the corresponding strange story, they would have more control over the current situation.

And neither of these two directions can be accomplished by just staying in the room.

It happened to be almost eight o'clock, and it was almost time for the restaurant to open, so Xu Ming said he would go downstairs to see if he could meet other tenants.

Qiu Yufei had no objection. In order to increase the chance of encountering someone, the two of them took the stairs when they went downstairs and walked around the third and second floors - but unfortunately, they didn't meet anyone.

Until they reached the door of the restaurant, they finally saw a figure.

A man, with hurried steps, angry and frivolous, with a head of yellow hair. For some reason, he looked a little familiar, but before Xu Ming and the others could recall any relevant information, they saw him sneak into the toilet not far away without looking back.

Just... he looked very anxious.

"What's going on?" Qiu Yufei blinked blankly, "Did you have an upset stomach?"

Xu Ming also shook his head blankly. At this moment, a soft voice suddenly came from the side:

"Well, he must have been disgusted."

"?"

The two turned their heads and saw a girl walking slowly towards them from the direction of the restaurant. She was wearing a Gothic-style lolita skirt. She was the one they had seen when they first checked in.

Xu Ming smiled politely, took Qiu Yufei a few steps away from the toilet, and asked curiously: "Excuse me, what do you mean by disgusting..."

The girl in the lolita skirt looked around and made sure that there were no staff around, then whispered: "There is a dead rat in the self-service drink bucket in the restaurant."

"Huh." Qiu Yufei took a breath subconsciously, "What's going on? Is it true?"

"Really. I saw it with my own eyes." The girl nodded immediately. "Isn't there a small terrace outside the restaurant where you can sit and rest? I was there just now and heard the man ask the staff if he could get a drink first, and the staff agreed."

"He poured a glass, but halfway through it he suddenly started swearing, smashed the glass and ran out. I was a little curious, so I walked in to take a look, and found that there was a dead rat floating in the bucket."

The girl said, and gestured with her hands in a serious manner, which made Qiu Yufei feel creepy again.

Xu Ming seemed to realize something and hurriedly took out his mobile phone to check the time.

"It's five minutes past eight." She frowned. "Strange, it's the normal operating hours."

"So what? I don't plan to eat here anyway." The lolita girl shook her head. "By the way, are you two going to eat too? Be careful."

"...Thank you for the reminder. I'm not hungry anymore." Xu Ming looked in the direction of the restaurant with a thoughtful look on his face. "Come to think of it, I haven't asked your name yet?"

"Oh. Just call me Bo He." The lolita girl smiled generously. "My friend and I live on the second floor. We can play together when we are free."

"Friends?" Qiu Yufei was curious. "Do you live together?"

Bo He: "No, there are three of us. They both live in a double room and I live in a single room.

"Because you can't add people to the double room, I was left out."

"Are you scared? "Xu Ming probed, "It feels like there are quite a lot of 'special effects' in this room."

"Are there? I haven't encountered them in my room." Bo He frowned, "Maybe the room my friend picked for me is good. I was originally going to live in another room, and she helped me change it."

"Is that so..." Xu Ming's eyes turned slightly, and he gave Qiu Yufei a wink imperceptibly.

The latter understood, and immediately looked very interested, jumping forward two steps: "Can I ask how you changed it? I want to change it too. There is a scary statue in my room, and it makes me creepy just looking at it..."

"Uh..." Bo He was stunned, "But that was done by my friend, I'm not very clear..."

"It doesn't matter, just chat casually - hey, isn't it inconvenient to talk while standing here? "Before she could react, Qiu Yufei came forward and took her arm enthusiastically, "Where is the small terrace you mentioned before? Why don't we find a place to sit down and chat slowly... By the way, I wanted to ask before, I seem to have seen this skirt of yours, is it from Aili? I feel that your color is so fairy, especially with your eye makeup..."

"Oh, really, thank you... I was actually lazy today, and I put on my eye shadow randomly..."

"Wow, then you have a very skillful hand, I really like the sequins at the end of your eyes..."

"Thank you, this is very cheap, I'll recommend you later. I think your eyes are also suitable for this... Well, the terrace is too dark now, why don't we go to the restaurant. It should be free to sit there..."

As they were talking, the two girls had already linked their arms and walked back towards the restaurant.

Xu Ming followed quietly behind them and silently gave Qiu Yufei a thumbs up.

As expected, such social occasions should be left to the social bull.

*

Another twenty minutes later.

In the corner of the restaurant.

Thanks to Qiu Yufei, the two of them have almost figured out the financial situation of the girl across the street.

A sophomore student and part-time makeup artist, she likes to check in with friends. This time she also came with a friend - the strange thing is, if you really ask her where she knew about this hotel, she can't tell you. After thinking hard for a long time, she can only say that she saw it on the Internet, and she doesn't know any related ghost stories, but she only knows that this place provides a very special and scary experience.

There are two friends who came with her, sharing a king-size bed room. They are both sleeping now, so she is the only one out shopping.

"I wanted to try the buffet here at noon, but my friend said he had a headache and pestered me not to come down, so I didn't eat anything at noon. We said we would come to eat in the evening, but this happened again..."

After chatting about this and that, they returned to the topic of the dead mouse in the drink bucket. Bohe shook his head with a look of disgust: "No wonder there are so few people eating here."

It was indeed the case - it was clearly time for the restaurant to open, but there were not many people eating here. There were only a few people here and there.

In fact, Xu Ming felt that most of them were not even human... because she had only heard about the so-called "customers" in the conversation between Qiu Yufei and Bohe, but from her perspective, the restaurant was always empty. The

self-service drink bucket was right opposite the door. Even if a living person came in occasionally, After finding a dead rat inside, the staff will also leave quickly. The amazing thing is that the staff seem to be completely unaware of the existence of the rat. After so long, no one has come to deal with the matter. Even if they get complaints from customers, they just lower their heads indifferently and pretend to have heard it.

It's just like AI...

Xu Ming thought silently, and Mint on the opposite side suddenly seemed to think of something, took out her mobile phone and checked the time.

"Oh, it's so late, I have to go back quickly." She said, and stood up hurriedly, "My friend and I have an appointment to watch a movie together in the evening... Sorry, let's talk when we have time!"

"Wait a minute!" Seeing that she was about to leave, Xu Ming hurriedly stopped her, his brain turning quickly, "Actually, we have something else to ask you..."

"? "Mint blinked and sat back at the table in a good temper, "What?"

"..." Sorry, I don't have time to make up an answer.

Xu Ming fell silent for a moment, but Qiu Yufei next to him seemed to think of something and suddenly leaned forward: "Actually, we want to ask you again, do you know anything about other guests in this hotel?"

"...Ah?" Mint was obviously stunned, and Qiu Yufei lowered her voice immediately, looking mysterious: "It's like this, actually the two of us came here because of the lottery. I won the online lottery, and the prize is a free trial ticket here.

"However, there are actually requirements for redeeming this prize. The hotel has assigned us a secret mission. If we can complete it during our stay, the bill will be waived. If not, we will have to pay the original price."

Qiu Yufei said this and sighed seriously, "You also know that the room rate here is not cheap. So if possible, we still want to try our best to get a free bill."

"Oh..." Bohe nodded slowly, suddenly realizing, "That mission is related to the current guests living here?"

"Oh, yes, yes, yes!" Qiu Yufei nodded immediately, and Xu Ming supplemented: "Among the current guests, at least one is fake, not a legitimate guest. Our mission is to find them out."

Dead people are not official tenants, so she couldn't be considered lying.

"I see, I see." Bo He nodded slightly, then lightly lifted his chin, with a thoughtful look on his face, "Tenants... Actually, I don't know much, but there are indeed a few I remember.

"As for the second floor, the ones I know are me, my two friends, and two men. One is very thin and looks like a college student, and the other is older with dyed blond hair... Oh, yes, the one who just rushed into the bathroom. He lives next door to me, 8206. To be honest, I think he looks a lot like the person you are looking for."

"?" Xu Ming leaned forward slightly, "Why do you say that?"

"I was in the lobby when he checked in. He came in at the same time as you, and neither of them had any luggage with him. "

Mint said seriously: "Who goes out to play without luggage?"

... In fact, there are some.

For example, those people who were brought in without any clue.

Of course, there is no guarantee that they are alive.

Xu Ming thought silently, exchanged glances with Qiu Yufei imperceptibly, and continued to ask: "Well, thank you. We have stopped this person. Have you seen other tenants?"

"Others...there are no more on the second floor." Mint rolled her eyes, "As for the third floor, I haven't been there, I only know you two..."

"Oh no, there are two more people!"

She seemed to have thought of something, and clapped her hands suddenly: "Very, very strange people!"

"Strange?" Xu Ming put his hands on the table, "How do you say it?"

"One is the one I met at noon. He is very thin and handsome, but for some reason, he gives people a sickly feeling." Mint whispered. "

I had just returned from dinner, and he and I were in the same elevator. I went to the second floor and he went to the third floor. In the elevator, I kept hearing him mumbling, saying something like 'What should I do, what should I do, it's too late'... Anyway, that's what he said."

"I got off the elevator first, but just as I got out, I suddenly heard him calling me - and I had never spoken to him before, but he actually called my name!

"I was startled and turned to look at him. I saw that he was sweating profusely and his face was frighteningly pale. When he saw me turning around, he threw a business card at me and started yelling:

"He told me to remember this clip and the anchor point. And what he said next -

"'If you see someone with a leaf pattern on them, be sure to tell them not to show it. Never show it.'

"After that, the elevator door closed. I never saw him again."

Bohe said, and nodded self-affirmingly.

Opposite Xu Ming, on the other hand, had a solemn expression on his face.

"Someone with a leaf pattern..." She murmured, and suddenly sat forward, "What about the business card he gave you? Does it also have a leaf pattern?"

"Oh, that's right!" Bohe looked at her in surprise, "How did you know?"

"...I, I guessed." Xu Ming's eyes turned slightly, "So you don't know where he lives? Then what about the business card? Can you show it to me?" "Of course

you can!" Bohe said happily, "Wait a minute, I remember I put it in my small bag... Huh? "

She opened the bag and rummaged around for a while, but frowned: "Strange, how come it's gone? I clearly remember putting it away..."

Xu Ming: "..."

"It's okay. I just asked casually." She hurriedly said, "Then, the company name on the business card, do you still have..." "

I don't remember this." Bo He frowned, "but I remember his own name. It's Tang Menglong."

Because it has the same name as her favorite ice cream brand, she has a particularly deep impression of it.

"Oh, okay... thank you." Xu Ming nodded thoughtfully, "Then may I ask, who is the other strange person?"

"That one, he is relatively normal." Bo He recalled seriously, "He was also a man. The first time I saw him was on the first floor, after you two went upstairs. ”

“He looked so scary at the time, all red, and screaming like a ghost... I thought he was an NPC.

“But later, when I walked up the stairs, I met him again. I was a little scared, so I let him go first. When he passed by, I saw that he had a room card in his hand, and he was going to the third floor.”

“Room card?” Qiu Yufei interrupted, “Then is it possible that he is a staff member going upstairs to work?”

“...hiss.” Bo He was stunned by her question, “I haven’t thought about this direction. But when I think about it carefully, it seems that your statement makes more sense.”

“Anyway, remember it. A man covered in blood and living on the third floor... do you know the house number?”

Xu Ming nodded: “We can pay attention and take a look then.”

“Well, good luck to you guys.” Bo He smiled, “It’s getting late, I’ll go back first, I wish you all good luck on your mission!”

"Yeah, thank you--" Qiu Yufei and Xu Ming waved to her and watched the little girl walk out of the restaurant--but less than half a minute after she left, she came running back in her leather shoes.

"By the way, I just thought of a way for you!" She said to the two of them excitedly, "If you want to check the tenants, you can actually look at the check-in register at the front desk!"

"Registration register?" Xu Ming asked subconsciously, and then he remembered--indeed, when they checked in, the front desk asked them to sign a booklet, and the booklet also had the room number.

But can this thing be shown to anyone casually?

Xu Ming remembered that when he signed, the columns of other people were blocked, and the booklets were quickly taken away as soon as he signed.

"It can be shown to others, but there may be conditions. I have seen it before." Bo He said seriously, "When I was registering, I didn't know where my friends lived, so I asked directly. The front desk took a screenshot of their information column and showed it to me. They were quite easy to talk to."

"Oh..." Xu Ming nodded thoughtfully, and suddenly realized something was wrong.

"Wait a minute, why don't you know where your friends live?"

"Because they came in earlier than me." Bohe said this, seeming a little helpless, "Those two heartless people left me alone on the bus. I haven't even woken up yet, and they have already disappeared. When I entered the hall, they had already checked in and went upstairs, without even waiting for me."

She was furious that he didn't reply to her messages. It was only after one of them coaxed her that she calmed down.

Xu Ming, who was listening at the side, frowned again.

"Sorry." She interrupted Bohe, "That is to say, on the way to the hotel, you were actually sleeping..."

"Yes." Bohe nodded without hesitation.

Xu Ming: "...So from the time you woke up on the bus to the time you entered the hotel, you actually didn't see your friends at all. Did you meet in the room?"

"Yeah." Bohe continued to nod, as if she didn't think there was anything wrong with it at all, "They got off before me."

Xu Ming: "..."

She frowned unconsciously, and just as she was about to say something else, the half-hour chime in the hall suddenly rang. Bohe saw this, and quickly waved her hand again, and ran away without looking back.

...Xu Ming and Qiu Yufei were left sitting there, looking at each other.

After a while, Fang heard Qiu Yufei whisper:

"Um, Teacher Mingming, the two friends she mentioned... are they really her friends?"

"I don't know." Xu Ming slapped his forehead, feeling like his head was about to burn.

He really didn't know. Although Bohe's description was very strange, logically speaking, it was not ruled out that Bohe's perspective was the truth. She did have two friends with her, but they just came in before her.

In fact, to put it ruthlessly, they were not even sure whether Bohe's words were reliable. After all, the strange talk area would affect people's cognition, and they couldn't be sure that the other party was alive...

For example, during the noon period, her own statement had obvious contradictions. One moment she said, "I was pestered by my friends and missed the buffet," and the next moment she said, "I encountered something strange when I went upstairs after dinner." But there is only one restaurant here, and it is closed after the time. Where did she eat?

"It's the same sentence again. We can only try to collect intelligence before making a judgment." Xu Ming sighed, "But I think we can pay attention to the two men who live on the third floor she mentioned, and the registration book. This is indeed an idea."

Especially the one named "Tang Menglong".

Knowing the leaf pattern, he is probably also a gardening person. No matter what, he is an insider and must know the situation here better than them.

It would be great if I could find out his situation.

Qiu Yufei nodded after pondering for a moment, but then they heard the sound of a cart being pushed. The two of them looked out and saw staff members pushing carts over and clearing away the used tables one by one.

The two of them left without staying any longer. They walked along the corridor outside the restaurant and soon returned to the showroom on the first floor.

Outside the showroom was the lobby. Qiu Yufei poked her head out to take a look, but soon retracted her gaze.

"How about we just go and rob it." She gave Xu Ming a serious plan, "You go back and call the front desk, and then I'll take the things and run away when they're not paying attention?"

Xu Ming looked at her in shock, "How dare you rob someone else's things on their territory!"

Qiu Yufei: "..." If I remember correctly, you also moved things in Hongqiang last time, right?

"How can it be the same? I was running for my life at that time. It doesn't mean I agree with this behavior." Xu Ming said sternly, and looked outside, and saw two staff members coming out from behind the counter one by one and walking into the back room.

The front desk, which was originally guarded by three people, was suddenly left with only one person.

Xu Ming: “…”

“How about we just go and rob her.” She turned her head and looked at Qiu Yufei firmly, “Opportunity is rare and will never come again.”

Qiu Yufei:…

“So what are you going to do now?” She leaned her head out again and looked outside, “You rush back to make a call? And then I go up and try to get close to her?”

“Going back and forth takes too much time, and she may not answer.” Xu Ming pondered for a moment, but his eyes lit up, “But getting close to her… maybe this can really work.”

Qiu Yufei: “?”

“Do you still have that work badge with you?” But Xu Ming changed the subject, “The one you brought out from Hongqiang?”

“Well… I did bring it with me.” Qiu Yufei took out the work badge from her pocket, still with a puzzled look on her face, “Then what?”

“Then, put on the badge and get ready to get close to her.” Xu Ming said, adjusted his breathing, and took out two things from his bag again.

It was a pen and the book of rule number nine.

"Let me say this in advance." Slowly flipping through the book of rules in his hand, Xu Ming's tone gradually became serious, "Yu Fei, what you are about to encounter may scare you and make you feel incredible."

"But no matter what, I hope you can stay as calm as possible -

"This is very important."