Chapter 30

At the same time.

Inside 8201 on the second floor.

Fang Xueqing was pacing back and forth in the room, holding a pen in one hand and a black-covered notebook in the other. She would look up at the closed door from time to time, licking her lips nervously.

——Five minutes left.

Five minutes left before the time she and Ling Guang agreed on. If Ling Guang hadn't come back in five minutes, she would have to take some measures.

Fang Xueqing thought silently and looked at the notebook in her hand again. From the outside, it was just an ordinary black-covered hardcover copybook, but if you open it, you will find a line of ambiguous words on the title page.

——Rule Book No. 11.

The prime number indicates that this rule book was only melted with one root when it was born. In addition, Fang Xueqing's rule book has not been upgraded since its birth, and no other roots have been melted, which makes her book very simple in function... But even so, for her and Ling Guang, this is also a treasure tool that can be called a killer.

Originally, it was intended to be kept for use against the domain master, but now the situation is special, so I have to take it out first.

After all, the Ghost Story Dismantling Office - when dealing with such a mysterious organization with unclear stance and strange and weird, no matter how cautious it is, it is not too much.

Thinking of this, Fang Xueqing paused slightly, and the conversation with Ling Guang not long ago unconsciously flooded into her mind again -

"The monster talk demolition office... Well, I also think it's incredible. But you also saw that it does exist..."

"Now the focus is on their position. Regardless of the means of demolition, what is their purpose of demolition? If it is to protect human safety, why would they say something like 'demolish part and leave part'?" "

...Yes, I also think that we should talk directly. What the girl said at the time may not be taken seriously, and she may have been hypocritical in order to save her companions. I'm afraid she is serious..."

"Anyway, make contact and test the waters. If we really can't reach a consensus, we'll have to take some risks. Anyway, when it comes to kidnapping, you're pretty professional, right?"

"..."

To be honest, what do you mean I'm a professional at kidnapping?

Fang Xueqing couldn't help but complain in her heart, and subconsciously glanced at the closed door again. Time passed by, making her expression more solemn.

Go and communicate with the girl who claims to be a clerk in the Demolition and Relocation Office to confirm the nature of the Demolition and Relocation Office. If she's reliable, try to persuade her to revise the demolition plan and try to demolish the whole weird story at once - this is the purpose of Ling Guang's going out this time.

If the communication fails, then we can only adopt Plan B. Fang Xueqing issued a rule book to control those people in the Strange Talk Dismantling Office. They could be controlled as long as possible, but the first thing to do was to prevent her from having a meeting with the Domain Lord tomorrow.

The reason was very simple - first, to try to get more opportunities for good communication. After all, if you want to dismantle something, you might as well do it big! If you only dismantle the dodder, the strange talk will still remain here, and the Domain Lord will be the only one in power, which will be a bigger problem for humans;

secondly, they also heard what the girl said at that time.

If they don't provide reports in time, the organization behind them is likely to dismantle both the white chess and the butterfly.

This is the best result for Anxin Gardening. No matter whether it is reliable or not, you have to try your best.

I just don't know how the negotiations with Ling Guang are going now... Mainly because they are both field workers, young, and have not received much training in negotiations. In comparison, the person on the other side is a senior salesperson, who looks like a veteran and can chat and laugh with the domain master...

Fang Xueqing doesn't really want to destroy her own prestige. But forgive me for being frank, let alone other things, just based on the aura, the two of them have already been hung up and beaten.

This thought made Fang Xueqing purse her lips, and the alertness and worry in her heart became more and more intense - at this moment, there was a sudden light knock on the door.

Fang Xueqing's heart moved, and she rushed to the door. When she opened the door and took a look, she was a little dumbfounded.

There were only two people standing outside the door.

The one on the left is Ling Guang; the one on the right is the one who was talking to the Domain Master not long ago... What's that called? Senior Salesperson?

"Um..." Fang Xueqing blinked, not knowing whether to greet first. Noticing the girl's slightly drooping eyelids and obviously nervous expression, she was even more puzzled.

...So what's going on? The kidnapping was successful? ?

I haven't even made a move yet?

Fang Xueqing was even more puzzled, looking at Ling Guang outside the door in confusion. Unexpectedly, the latter also had a complicated expression. After a pause, he said, "The current situation is a little subtle..."

Fang Xueqing: "Hmm?"

"Anyway, I'm still digesting it." Ling Guang wiped his face and pointed at Xu Ming next to him, "Let her explain it to you herself."

Fang Xueqing: "Hmm?"

The puzzled eyes finally fell back on the girl. However, the girl who was so imposing not long ago now had no style at all. The moment she met his eyes, she even smiled at her.

A very shy smile.

Fang Xueqing: "..."

Hmm? ? ?

*

So, another five minutes later.

It was still room 8201.

Handing a bottle of mineral water to the girl sitting on the sofa, Fang Xueqing paused for a while and finally sorted out what she had just heard.

"That is to say, you are indeed an employee of the demolition office, but you are just an intern... You are here only because you accidentally ran into a dead person while traveling?"

"... Yeah." Xu Ming took the mineral water, squeezed it and drank a sip carefully, and soon put it down again, "I have a companion named Qiu Yufei. She should have had contact with you before... I came in with her." "

Qiu Yufei?" Fang Xueqing was stunned when she heard it, and then she couldn't help but say "Oh my God" in her heart.

Of course she remembered this name. One of the survivors of Hongqiang Ghost Story was discovered to have the ability to beat spirits, and the organization paid special attention to him, and even wanted to recruit him. But in the end, the matter was dropped because he claimed to have joined another unit.

The organization he claimed to have joined was the Ghost Story Demolition Office.

... When she first knew about this, she mocked the colleague in charge of this matter for a long time.

"...Oh my god." Unable to help repeating it in her heart, Fang Xueqing silently apologized to the colleague, stared at Xu Ming for a while, and suddenly realized.

"I remember, Gu Ming!" She straightened up suddenly, "You are also one of the survivors of Hongqiang!"

Not only that, she had seen her before - the organization had used the rule book to extract a short video of the survivors' escape from Hongqiang Ghost Stories. Only two people appeared in this video, in addition to Qiu Yufei, it was Gu Ming.

It's just that the image in the video was blurry, and she didn't look at the other person's face carefully in the corridor, and the other person called himself "Xu Ming" at that time... This caused her to not match it up at once.

"Well... yes." Xu Ming paused, seemed a little hesitant, and finally chose to admit it. Then she raised the corner of her lip in embarrassment: "I'm sorry, I didn't tell you the truth about my experience in Hongqiang before."

"???" Ling Guang, who was sitting next to him, was a little confused. He didn't follow up on Hongqiang's strange talk at the time, which resulted in him being unable to follow up now; Fang Xueqing seemed to realize something and leaned forward.

"What do you mean?" she asked Xu Ming.

"...Actually, before the Hongqiang Ghost Story, I had already worked part-time in the Ghost Story Demolition Office." Xu Ming lowered his eyelids again, "We were able to escape at that time because of this relationship...But because of the confidentiality agreement, I couldn't tell anyone about the unit's affairs, so I didn't tell the people who came to visit from your company."

Ling Guang: "...But you are telling them now." "

During this special period, there is no other way." Xu Ming pursed his lips.

"...No, wait a minute." Fang Xueqing was still trying to sort out the timeline.

"That is to say, you actually joined the Ghost Story Demolition Office early on, and because of this, you escaped from Hongqiang. Later, Qiu Yufei also joined. After that, the two of you went out for a trip and unfortunately walked into this place by mistake. You tried to send a distress signal to the unit, and your other non-human colleague, Sister Yun, came in to find you, but failed to rescue you. Then you have been trapped here until today, when Sister Yun was caught by the hotel staff. In order to protect her, you pretended to be an investigator sent by your unit..."

"Yes." Xu Ming nodded again without hesitation, "Yes, that's it."

Fang Xueqing: "..."

"Oh, no wonder." Recalling the video from Hongqiang Ghost Story again, she finally came to her senses. She

felt strange when she first watched the video. Obviously Qiu Yufei is the one with special abilities, but the one who is calmer is Gu Ming who is standing quietly beside her.

In this way, everything matches up!

"I knew it." Fang Xueqing crossed her arms and couldn't help but admire her excellent insight.

"..." Xu Ming on the other side listened silently, but he was sweating for the nth time.

It was a close call - she couldn't help but close her eyes.

Although she had considered this situation before, she still instinctively panicked when she was recognized by Fang Xueqing. Fortunately, she had thought about this possibility before, and she had specially thought about how to make it work on the way here...

Although she didn't understand why Fang Xueqing suddenly showed a look of sudden enlightenment, and she didn't know what she understood... But from the looks of it, this wave should be dealt with.

Xu Ming thought silently, and finally breathed a sigh of relief. The next second, he heard Ling Guang speak again hesitantly:

"Sorry, I don't mean to question your words, but there are some problems that I still care about..."

He raised his eyes to look at Xu Ming, hesitated for a moment, and spoke carefully: "After all, based on the scene we saw in the corridor before, I really find it hard to believe that you are just an intern."

Xu Ming: "..."

Sure enough. I knew it.

"Well, if you mean the special effects that suddenly opened and were black, then it was actually my other colleagues pretending." She thought for a moment and tried to say, "They came with Sister Yun, not living people..."

"-Oh!" Fang Xueqing heard this and nodded again with sudden realization.

She finally remembered why Gu Yunshu's clothes looked familiar to her - when they were circling along the highway, she had seen a female ghost on the roadside. She was wearing a similar cleaning uniform.

And there were indeed large black shadows surrounding the female ghost...

They met again!

"Stop talking, I'm still talking." Ling Guang looked at her helplessly, turned his head and looked at Xu Ming again, "I'm sorry, but I don't just mean this."

Although the special effects at that moment were indeed very scary, and the sense of oppression was full.

But this was not what he cared about the most.

"You were very calm and at ease at that time." Ling Guang thought for a moment, and said slowly, "Even if the person standing in front of you is the domain lord of this weird legend."

"I don't think this is a quality that an intern should have." Facing Xu Ming's uneasy gaze, Ling Guang finally gave his own conclusion, "You don't look like a newcomer. Who are you?"

Xu Ming: "..."

She slowly raised her eyes and met Ling Guang's inquiring gaze. After a moment of silence, she finally let out a breath as if giving up.

The next second, she saw her directly open her bag, took out a card, and handed it over.

"..." Ling Guang didn't understand, took it and saw that it was an ID card.

The ID card had Xu Ming's photo and real name. It was written as "Gu Ming".

"Did you see it? I told you, that's my name." Xu Ming sighed again and sat up straight with helplessness, "As for Zhen Ding, I also said that I was just imitating the official employees in the unit."

"Xu Ming is the name of my direct superior, who is also the director of the Demolition and Relocation Office. I usually work under her, and some of the accents came naturally. I can only say that I am grateful to the leader for setting a good example.

"As for the attitude towards the domain lord you mentioned..."

Xu Ming curled his lips, as if he felt that this question was a bit redundant.

"Actually, it's nothing great... It's been trained during the new employee training, and the domain lords here don't look ugly, so it's okay." Ling Guang heard her say this.

...This made his eyes even more subtle.

"Wait a minute. "Ling Guang sat up straight involuntarily," You guys, new recruits training...how can you train face to face with the domain master?"

Xu Ming: "..."

Actually, I didn't say that, but if you think so, then I have nothing to say except "ah, right, right, right".

"It's not just the Domain Lords, the interactions with other beings are also within the scope of training... but the Domain Lords are indeed the focus of the training."

Xu Ming raised the corner of his lips, still with that somewhat uneasy expression, but his words were very sophisticated, even with a sense of matter-of-factness:

"After all, most of the business of our demolition office has to be negotiated directly with the Domain Lords. If you show timidity during the negotiation process, it will not only be a loss of composure, but will also have a great impact on the outcome of the negotiation. So how to stay calm in front of the Domain Lords, as well as some related communication skills, have always been the top priority of our training..."

When Xu Ming said this, he smiled again shyly: "Actually, I'm still too young. Our Director Xu is more professional in this regard."

Ling Guang: "..."

Young?

He recalled the scene when he and Fang Xueqing first met the Domain Lord and were so scared that they didn't even dare to stick their heads out. For a moment, he didn't know how to evaluate Xu Ming's self-evaluation.

...We are far behind.

Ling Guang couldn't help but think.

In the starting line of new employee training, they are indeed far behind.

Come to think of it, the interns are of this quality...

Who is Director Xu?

Ling Guang couldn't help but murmur in his heart - on the other hand, Xu Ming observed the expressions of others and finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Ling Guang didn't raise any more questions.

Seeing that the time was almost right, she didn't delay any longer and quickly started the next step.

"That." She spoke again carefully, "Excuse me, is there anything else you want to confirm with me?"

"If not for now, can you listen to my request? Please, I really need help now."

"..."

Ling Guang and Fang Xueqing looked at each other. The latter hesitated for a moment and finally nodded: "You go first, if we can help, we will do our best."

"That's great!" Xu Ming spoke gratefully, showing an undisguised expression of relief, "Actually, things are very simple."

"Since you watched what happened in the corridor at that time, you should also know that the domain master asked me to have a meeting tomorrow, right?"

Fang Xueqing: "..."

I know it, but what we heard was that you made the appointment yourself... She thought silently, her face expressionless: "Well, then what?"

"I think this interview may give us a chance to escape. Even if not, I may be able to take this opportunity to get more clues." Xu Ming said slowly, "But the premise of all this is that I can handle this interview and prevent the domain master from realizing that I am a fake."

Ling Guang frowned: "So...?"

Fang Xueqing couldn't help but exclaimed "Huh".

"Don't you understand yet? So she needs intelligence! Enough intelligence to justify her identity!" She said, and looked at Xu Ming again, "What part are you missing now?"

"Butterfly." Xu Ming thought without hesitation, and then looked embarrassed, "I know very little about this. I only know that it is a force that is opposed to the Domain Lord, but I don't know anything else..."

"It just so happens that you two are also in this strange talk, so I wanted to ask if you can provide some help in this regard."

"..."

As soon as these words came out, Fang Xueqing and Ling Guang frowned at the same time.

Then Fang Xueqing "hissed" and opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something; but before she could speak, Ling Guang raised his hand to stop her.

"Sorry, please wait a moment." Ling Guang seemed to realize something, and looked at Xu Ming with a bit of inquiry, "That's a bit strange."

"We are the first round of check-in, and we have no direct contact with you before-

"In that case, why do you know we are here?"

Xu Ming: "..."

Damn.

Her heart skipped a beat, and she realized that she had really forgotten about it before.

But she reacted quickly, and while she stopped the whale people from laughing in her head and took a deep breath, she slowly said: "Strictly speaking, I didn't know you were here. At least I didn't know until Mr. Ling Guang officially came to my door. "

"But I know that people from Anxin Gardening have been here before, and they will definitely come here again. "

…" After exchanging glances with Fang Xueqing again, Ling Guang leaned forward slightly, "What do you mean?"

"There are two reasons." Xu Ming said, "First, I have some information I collected in the first round, one of which is oral data from someone else. That person mentioned in person that she had seen someone holding a business card with a leaf pattern. The only person I can think of who is related to both the "strange story" and the "leaves" elements is you. "

"Second... I actually heard about this strange story before I accidentally came here. From the mouth of our Director Xu. "

Xu Ming said as calmly as possible, as if this incident really happened: "She was chatting with someone at the time, and happened to mention the Butterfly Building, and casually said -

"'As for the Butterfly Building, hasn't Anxin Horticulture been researching it? From last year to this year, there has been no progress, which is a pity. At the latest, they should send another group of people in April or May.'"

When Xu Ming said this, he looked at the other two again, with a sincere and innocent face: "I happened to hear it at the time, and I had this impression. So after entering this strange talk, I have been keeping an eye out for your people, trying to see if I can curry your favor."

"..."

She said this lightly, but the two people listening opposite changed their expressions again.

The reason is very simple - Director Xu was right about everything.

Anxin Gardening has indeed been paying attention to this strange story since last year. From August last year to March this year, more than one group of field workers were sent out, but no one survived.

Because the assessed risk level was too high, the organization discussed several times whether to send people to explore. Finally, it was decided to let Tang Menglong and his team come to explore again, and the time happened to be at the end of April.

The problem is that these things should be kept confidential. Even within their company, only people related to the mission can understand these... Why did Director Xu reveal all of this in a casual chat?

... What is the origin of this strange story demolition office?

Ling Guang and the others looked solemn again, and Xu Ming secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this.

Fortunately. Fortunately, fortunately.

She thought with some relief, fortunately Qiu Yufei had taken photos of the relevant file contents during the last round of research on Tang Menglong's computer; and fortunately she had made a note of the relevant time when she sorted out the intelligence.

It has come to this point, and the Demolition Office has to raise its profile. The higher it is, the more stable she is. In this case, don't miss any opportunity to pretend.

"Well... that's about it." Xu Ming coughed, and turned his gaze to the two of them as if nothing had happened, "Do you have anything else to ask?" "

... One more question." After a brief silence, it was Fang Xueqing who spoke first.

She looked at Xu Ming seriously: "You just said that the intelligence you collected in the last round was about our other colleagues. Can you please tell us what it is specifically?"

"..." Xu Ming's mind raced, and after a little hesitation, he told the truth, "It's a request."

"At that time, we asked a tenant who was in the second round. She said that she saw your colleague in the elevator. He kept telling her to remember that fragment and said that if she met you, she must convey it -

"Don't leave... don't let it flow."

When she said the last sentence, she wanted to say "Don't leave any sugar" according to her guess, but she was afraid that she guessed wrong, so she changed it back to what Bo He said, "Don't let it flow" - but after the words fell, the two people present were stunned again.

"...Don't leave any sugar? "After a while, Fang Xueqing spoke in doubt, "Strange, why is it 'don't leave any sugar'?"

"This is different from what I said before!"