Chapter 34

From Xu Ming’s perspective, except for the buzzing TV, everything in the room was the same as before.

But even so, she could still feel that something had changed.

A faint fragrance, a strange, depressing atmosphere, and when looking at the white wall, she could see faint colors, like the dazzling spots of light produced by looking directly at the sun - she thought at first that this was a psychological effect caused by the whale man and Qiu Yufei's excessive words, but she soon realized that it was not the case.

She could indeed feel that there was something extra in the room. Just like in Hongqiang, when she ran away with someone else's printer, she could not see the Domain Master chasing her, but she could feel the strong burning sensation approaching.

... From another perspective, this proves at least two things.

First, her speculation was correct. In this strange story, Butterfly is the Domain Master; second, as the whale fat man said, the other party is probably crazy now.

After all, taking Hongqiang as an example, the only time she could feel the existence of the Domain Master was when the other party was following her in a rage; inferring from this, Butterfly's mental state at this moment is probably not very stable.

Without thinking carefully, Xu Ming took Qiu Yufei's work card and hurried forward to hang it on her.

Qiu Yufei was still in a trance, staring at the snow-screen TV with great interest, mumbling from time to time. Xu Ming put on the work badge effortlessly, and then snapped his fingers in her ear.

"In the strange demolition and relocation office, employees should maintain basic etiquette towards leaders." She said, "When the leader speaks, employees should pause their work, look at the leader, and listen carefully."

As soon as she finished speaking, she felt her shoulder begin to hurt - this familiar feeling, it's you, periarthritis of the shoulder.

Qiu Yufei still didn't pay any attention to her, just stared at the TV. A momentum of rectifying the workplace completely ignored the leader.

Instead, a creaking sound came from the closet. Gu Yunshu, who was curled up inside, poked her head out and looked over with blinking eyes.

Then, the moment her eyes swept across the room, her eyes widened slightly.

"..." Seeing the astonishment in her eyes, Xu Ming quickly raised his hand and made a gesture to her to keep quiet. Recalling the other party's previous experience of being bewitched by butterfly wings, he raised his hand to cover his eyes, signaling her not to look around.

Gu Yunshu nodded in understanding, and slowly shrank back into the closet. Xu Ming turned his gaze back to Qiu Yufei, but felt a little helpless for a moment - the "Paper Robe Authority" had been successfully activated, but it obviously had no effect. In desperation, she could only use a more low-level method, trying to cover the other person's eyes and pinching Qiu Yufei's face.

However, even though her cheeks were pinched red, Qiu Yufei's expression and posture did not change at all. Even when Xu Ming covered her eyes with his palms, she could not even feel the trembling of her eyelashes - she did not even blink, her eyes seemed to be nailed to the front, whether it was the TV or the palm in front of her, it was the same to her.

"You can't do this." Seeing Xu Ming's frown getting tighter and tighter, the whale man finally couldn't help but speak in her head, "You intervened too late, and now those words have been engraved in her mind. Unless you can erase those impressions, it will be useless no matter how hard you try."

"What impressions, are the butterflies really beautiful?" Xu Ming couldn't help but pursed his lips, "So where are the words..."

"On TV, it's been playing non-stop, like mental pollution." The whale man said.

"?" Xu Ming turned his head and glanced at the snow screen, his mouth corners pursed tighter, paused, and then asked again, "What exactly is it?"

"Huh?" The whale man didn't understand for a moment.

"I said the words on TV, what are they exactly?" Xu Ming turned over and got out of bed, and began to search in his bag again, "Tell me everything, don't make a single mistake."

"What else could it be...it's just one sentence over and over again." The fat man was confused to begin with, and became even more confused when she asked, "'The butterflies here are so beautiful.'"

"Really?" Xu Ming buried his head, not knowing what he had turned over, and suddenly said, "Take another close look?"

The fat man: "? I'm looking at it..."

Xu Ming: "I said read it to me.

" The fat man: "...

" The fat man: "The butterflies here are so beautiful.

" Xu Ming: "Now? Read it to me."

The fat man: "...The butterflies here are so beautiful..."

"..." Xu Ming stopped talking. After a two-second pause, she asked again: "What about now? Read it to me again."

Blubber Man: "......!!!"

No, is there something wrong? ?

Blubber Man fell into a brief silence.

If it weren't for the fact that he was communicating with Xu Ming through the rule book at this moment, he would really suspect that he might have accidentally fallen into some kind of terrible hallucination - and the person he was talking to at the moment was not Xu Ming at all, but a terrible monster who kept tempting him to repeat weird words and sentences in order to fill his brain with butterflies.

"Hey, are you still there?" While he was thinking, Xu Ming's urging voice rang again, "Are the words on the TV still there? What do they say? Read it to me."

"..." She really didn't want to take the opportunity to kill me, did she?

The fat man thought for two seconds with real emotion, and finally turned his attention to the TV again, and responded casually:

"Of course the words are there, isn't it the same sentence. The Bichon Frise here is so beautiful... huh?"

Wait, what Bichon Frise?

The fat man was stunned, leaned on the edge of the bag, and looked at it carefully with wide eyes.

He was sure he was not seeing it wrong. The TV screen still showed that mentally polluted picture, and the same sentence was scrolling over and over again.

It's just that the content played has all become "The Bichon Frise here is so beautiful."

"..." As if realizing something, the fat man turned his head again and finally noticed the two pieces of paper in Xu Ming's hand.

It then realized what it was - when Xu Ming was studying the newly unlocked "double substitution", he had torn out two pages of reading records that had nothing to do with strange stories from the rule book. One page was its, and the other was Xu Ming's own.

The so-called "double substitution" is simply to grab reading records within a certain range, and then Xu Ming operates to extract keywords from them and replace them with certain words and phrases in the current strange story area.

This "certain range" is also very strict. The captured objects are limited to all those that are bound to the rule book, and there are a lot of restrictions. This is why the captured content at that time was so funny - the records it captured were articles related to beauty, and Xu Ming's record was simply a short video title:

[Shockingly hilarious, ten stupid moments of Bichon Frise]

...

Well, at least it finally figured out how the Bichon Frise came about.

"So this is the replacement method." The whale man was amazed, "You can replace it even if you can't see it?"

"Yes, but you must determine what the target text is." Xu Ming responded in his mind.

Although the rule book will give very complex skill descriptions, many things still need to be experienced after actual practice. Just like before, she also spent a lot of effort to finally figure out how to use this "double replacement".

The good news is that it does not need to be operated manually like printing work badges, nor does it need voice control like "paper robe authority". Just take the required reading records in your hand and go through the process in your mind. It is relatively more convenient to operate.

The only more troublesome thing is that this change seems to be delayed. You need to wait for a while before the "replacement" will take effect...

Xu Ming thought silently, and soon turned his gaze to Qiu Yufei. Sure enough, the other party's state has changed subtly-her eyelids began to blink unconsciously, her eyes no longer had the previous focus, and even her eyebrows were slightly wrinkled, as if she was trapped in a nightmare, but she was struggling instinctively.

Xu Ming did not miss this opportunity, he raised his hand and gave a clean and crisp slap.

With a snap. This time Qiu Yufei finally reacted.

She subconsciously let out an "owl", and her whole body bounced as if she had just woken up from a dream. She covered her cheek and looked over with a puzzled expression. In an instant, her eyes were filled with fear again -

"Oh my God." She murmured uncontrollably, her eyes slowly swept the air behind Xu Ming, and her body stiffened instantly, "What's going on?"

Xu Ming had no regard for the butterfly, but this did not prevent her from conveying the butterfly's unstable spirit to others:

"That butterfly is here to cause trouble."

Qiu Yufei: "Huh?"

"You can understand it as it was too lazy to wait for us to line up slowly, so it brought a big pot to pick us up." Xu Ming continued.

Qiu Yufei: “…Ah?”

Xu Ming did not explain further. At this time, it was most important to try to move to a safe place first. But before moving, she did not forget to read her rule book again, and she turned directly to the last page.

——【The breeze was gentle, the petals were falling, and the cherry blossom trees beside the school road witnessed their youthful but sincere vows. At this time, Yang Duoduo did not know that the beautiful corners of the white-clothed boy’s lips would become the only beauty she would have in the next ten years...】

“…”

After quickly scanning the new page of reading records added to the rule book, Xu Ming closed the book expressionlessly, turned his head to look at Qiu Yufei who was still terrified, and looked at the work badge hanging around her neck, and sighed in a complicated way.

"Read less novels if you have nothing to do." Director Xu, who got another page of waste paper, said in a voice of regret, "Can you read something useful!"

Qiu Yufei: "..."

Ah? ? ?

"No, when did I read a novel? I just read for a while on the high-speed train on the way here..." Qiu Yufei was inexplicably despised, and forgot to be afraid for a moment. Before she could react, Xu Ming put a pair of sunglasses on her face again.

"I'll explain it to you later, go down first." Xu Ming said, knocking on the door of the closet again, calling Gu Yunshu out, and giving her a pair of sunglasses - she and Qiu Yufei each took a pair when they went out, and now he didn't need it, so he gave it to her.

After finishing the job, he led the person to the door, and by the way, he called the whale fat man in his mind again, asking about the current situation in the room.

"Are there any other words in other places?" she confirmed with the whale man, "Can you help me check if all the 'butterflies' have been replaced?"

"No." The whale man responded quickly, "There are also many sentences related to 'butterflies' engraved on the walls and the ceiling. The only one that has been changed seems to be 'The butterflies here are so beautiful.'"

Xu Ming: "...Tsk."

"Come on, don't be unhappy. This kind of change is actually safer now." The whale man pondered for a moment, but his tone was a little fearful, "This kind of small-scale modification is not so easy to detect. If all the 'butterflies' are changed at once, do you believe that the butterflies will rush to chop you with a knife in the next second?"

Xu Ming: "..." Is it that necessary?

"Why not? Do you think this kind of sentence is just randomly placed? This is all part of its rules, and a means of hunting... Your change is equivalent to breaking a strand of the spider web that has been woven, do you understand?"

That's why it said that fortunately it was not a large-scale modification - only breaking one strand will not have a big impact on the entire spider web, and the other party will not feel it for a while. If all the "butterflies" were changed in one breath, the entire spider web would probably collapse in half, and people would definitely fight you to the death.

Of course, with Xu Ming's current ability, it is estimated that it will not go to this extent. But the whale man thought it would be better to give her a preventive shot first.

After thinking for a while, it added: "Even if there is no such layer, your modification is irritating enough. They call themselves butterflies, but you just changed 'butterfly' to puppy. It's so offensive. If it were you, wouldn't you be angry..."

"Offensive?" Xu Ming, who was opening the door chain, was stunned when he heard it, "But this is the result of my careful choice of words."

Whale fat man:?

"I originally wanted to change it to 'The butterflies here are really stupid'." Xu Ming said honestly.

Whale fat man: ...

That's true, Bichon Frise should be more polite.