Chapter 38

The replacement words Xu Ming used this time came from a reading record of unknown origin. The wording was very random and the sentences were very crazy. It looked like someone else's Weibo or Moments. The reason for this guess was very simple, because the record also included the other person's online name and the time of publication.

Of course, this was not the point.

The point was that the whole record had only one point.

"There are big cockroaches in my house! There are big cockroaches in my house! Help me, I saw a cockroach as big as a shoe horn at home."

As for who provided this record, Xu Ming could not be sure. After all, with the distribution of work badges in the later period, too many new records were received; but she guessed that it might be the taxi driver who brought them here, after all, the big cockroaches in City A are still very famous.

After Xu Ming finished this wave of revisions, she still felt uneasy. She took out her reading record to continue choosing words, and at the same time she took the time to talk to the whale man.

"Hey." She said consciously, "Do you think it's not enough for me to just revise it here? Isn't it too low-key?" "

Why don't I go to the hall again and revise it again in front of it, so as to make the hatred more stable..."

"..." In response to her, the whale man was strangely silent.

Another two seconds passed before it trembled and said, "Run."

Xu Ming: "..."

"Right now, run!" The next second, the whale man opened his voice, making Xu Ming's head buzz, "What kind of hatred is that - people are coming directly towards you!"

Xu Ming: "…………"

No, is the target so clear?

Xu Ming's eyebrows jumped, and without thinking, he turned around and climbed up the stairs. After a few steps, he felt something was wrong and looked down while running.

"Are you sure it's chasing me now?" Xu Ming was surprised, "Why don't I feel anything at all."

"Absolutely!" The whale man vowed, "I just saw a butterfly flying towards you with my own eyes!"

Xu Ming paused.

"No." She couldn't help but said, "Just one..."

"What's wrong with one?" The whale man continued to swear, "When you find a butterfly, it means that countless butterflies are already eyeing you covetously!"

"Don't you think about what you have done - changing people's rules is enough to make people hate you, and you still point at butterflies and call them cockroaches. Think about this politeness!"

Xu Ming: ...

So how is your statement better than mine?

Xu Ming closed his eyes restrainedly, and while he was talking, he had already gone up to the second floor. She pondered for a moment and decided to continue going up.

Anyway, no matter what, the purpose of attracting hatred has been achieved, and the next step is to get around it as much as possible -

while still thinking, there was a "pop" sound from above.

The next second, the whole corridor fell into darkness.

"… It's over." The whale man couldn't help but whimper, "It's going to get serious with you."

In fact, it didn't need to remind him - almost at the moment when the top light went out, Xu Ming already felt a strong sense of pressure approaching from behind.

...Okay, I admit that it might be a bit too much to change it directly into a cockroach.

Without thinking carefully, Xu Ming quickly quickened his pace and went up, struggling to take out his mobile phone while running. Because she didn't have the time to slowly look for a flashlight, she simply turned on the camera and used the flash to illuminate the road under her feet, while she spoke hurriedly in her mind:

"Speaking of which, I have an idea."

The fat man: "?"

"Doesn't it hate '7'?" Xu Ming said as he ran, "Then you say, if I directly change the door number of my room to 7--"

"If you have the time, you might as well take a few more steps forward and go directly to 8307!" The fat man couldn't help but say, "If hard changes can work, then Room 7 in the Rubik's Cube Building would have been full, okay!"

...That's right.

Xu Ming pondered for a moment, nodded in agreement, then turned around and flashed into the corridor, took out the room card and swiped the door of her room directly, quickly released the two Ajiao, hurriedly gave an order and quickly closed the door, and took advantage of the butterfly behind her not catching up, and continued to stumble forward.

The lights in the corridor had been turned off along with the corridor, but Xu Ming's night vision had not yet adjusted, and without the light of the mobile phone, she was almost blind.

Her own room was right next to the stairs and relatively easy to recognize, but the room ahead was really hard to see clearly. Hearing the pressure behind her getting closer and closer, Xu Ming didn't have the time to use a flashlight to identify it, so she could only walk and feel, counting as she went.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry!" The whale man cheered her up in his mind, "It hasn't caught up yet, you hold on tighter--"

"Yeah." Xu Ming responded casually, and he had already rushed to the door of 8307. But she saw that the door there had been opened a crack, she didn't hesitate, and pushed the door open directly-

the moment she closed the door with her backhand, there happened to be a loud collision outside the door.

Of course, Xu Ming didn't hear this sound-but she could feel that the sense of pressure that was chasing her closely finally disappeared temporarily.

The light in the room was on. With the help of the light, you can clearly see the two figures standing in the room-the two Ajiao who were released by Xu Ming not long ago.

As the saying goes, once is new, twice is familiar. They seem to be very skilled in dealing with things like climbing walls and climbing through windows.

Xu Ming thanked them, put the two people away, and then quickly walked to the window and reached out to lock the window.

——She remembered very clearly that Gu Yunshu once said that he had seen a lot of scales in 8307. This means that Butterfly still has a way to get into this room. For the sake of safety, it is better to close everything that can be closed first.

As soon as the window was locked, the sound of the whale fat man collapsing was heard from the bag, followed by a weak sigh:

"Thank God... I finally got rid of him."

The implication is that there is indeed nothing suspicious in the room at the moment. This made Xu Ming feel more at ease.

According to the hotel staff, this room with a number 7 is barely a safe zone in the Cube Building. Hiding here is better than hiding somewhere else.

The most reliable result is to stay here for 20 minutes until the key Fang Xueqing gave me takes effect. Then find a chance to rush out and use her skills to get directly to the door. This matter will be truly over.

"..." Xu Ming listened to the whale man's mumbling, but withdrew his hand thoughtfully.

"Actually, when I was looking for the door just now, I was also thinking about this." She was silent for a moment, and said softly, "Then I had a somewhat extreme idea."

Whale Man: "?"

"It's through anyway." Xu Ming said, "Why don't I just go through the room where it stores its roots?"

Anyway, what Fang Xueqing said at the time was that after twenty minutes, the sixth door she touched would lead to where she wanted to go; she didn't say that she could only go to a place she knew.

"..." Upon hearing this, the whale man fell silent.

After a while, Fang heard it speak sincerely: "I think you are too conservative."

? !

Xu Ming was a little surprised, and it was obvious that she didn't expect the other party to give such an evaluation at all - she thought the whale man would directly scold her for asking for death.

However, before she could open her mouth in relief, she heard the whale man speak again: "Your method is more than a little extreme."

Extreme, okay!

It was fine if you just led the sheep before, but now that they don't put it in front of you, you still have to find someone to lead... What's wrong with you, are you addicted to stealing other people's company seals!

Xu Ming: "..." As expected. She knew it.

"Don't be impatient, it's just an idea." She looked around the room vigilantly, and said in her mind, "But since we're here..."

"It's not a matter of coming or not, you should be thankful that you can leave!" The blubber man said unhappily, and climbed up Xu Ming's handbag with his hands and feet, and looked around on the edge of the bag, "Oh my god, this place has become so clean."

Xu Ming: "?"

"You and others came here in the first round." The blubber man recalled, "There were still a lot of things left by the previous tenants."

Unlike now, it is so clean that it seems as if no one has ever been in. At first glance, it can't recognize it.

Although its memory of the previous round is also quite vague.

"Oh, I remember. It's the room where Brother Tang lived, right?" Xu Ming also remembered this, and subconsciously scanned every corner with his eyes, as if he was still hoping to find something.

Seeing this, the whale man leaned on the edge of her bag and shook his head.

"Don't waste your time. Didn't you ask Gu Yunshu to take a look before? She said that there was nothing left--"

Before the words fell, Xu Ming's eyes suddenly paused.

Then she heard her "Huh", and walked quickly to the closet at the door.

——The closet was basically empty, with only two bathrobes for guests to return. In a corner of the closet, there was a very small safe for people to store valuables.

It was this safe that caught Xu Ming's attention.

After bending down and staring at the safe for a while, she tentatively reached out her hand.

"What?" The whale man was startled by her action, "Do you think there is something in it?"

"Yeah." Xu Ming responded casually, found the default password from the top of the safe, and entered it, "The state of this box is not right."

There is also a similar safe in her room. When Xu Ming checked in, she noticed that the default state of the box is open.

However, this safe is closed. In other words-

"Sure enough." After successfully opening the box with the default password, Xu Ming looked at the small bag hidden inside and slightly sank his mouth.

"Someone has moved this box."

The whale man: "..."

It felt subtly slapped in the face and fell silent again. However, after a short silence, she couldn't help but stick her head out again:

"So what's in it? It can't be something that Tang Menglong really left behind, right?"

"Not sure." Xu Ming said, carrying the small bag to the bed, carefully examining the outer packaging, her expression becoming more subtle.

The bag used to hold the things was an insulated bag with the name of a porridge chain printed on the outside. It looked like something left over from a takeaway meal, and was very sloppy. She forcefully opened the seal of the bag, looked down at the things inside, and was even more confused.

"Something I've never seen before." She muttered, and took the thing out. It was a translucent egg-shaped object, not very heavy, probably less than a pound, with a faint fluorescent glow from the inside, and the light would be even brighter when held in the hand.

Not sure if it was Xu Ming's illusion, but there seemed to be something beating inside the egg-shaped object, which made her alert. Out of caution, she put the thing down immediately. Just when she was about to ask the blubber man what he thought, she lowered her head and saw the blubber man lying on the edge of the bag, staring at the thing.

His face was dull and shocked.

Half of its body had even stuck out, and it looked like it would fall off at any time.

Xu Ming: "..."

She instinctively took another step back with a bad premonition in her heart. Just after retreating, she heard the slow voice of the whale man in her mind: "Kid, tell me honestly, before you entered this door, were you thinking about finding the root?"

"......?"

Xu Ming was stunned for a moment, and hesitantly said: "I did think about it, but..."

"Then we may be finished." The whale man interrupted her, "The room we are in now may not be 8307."

"......?" Xu Ming's heart jumped suddenly, and his brows tightened, "What do you mean?"

"This is the root." The whale man's hard voice came, and while speaking, his eyes also turned over, with an undisguised look of despair, "This is the root of the ghost story."

"It must be that the kid surnamed Fang made a mistake when using the rules, causing the skill to take effect prematurely, and when you opened the door, you were thinking about stealing someone's official seal--"

So the moment the door opened, they came directly to the room where the butterfly roots were stored!

This must be the case, otherwise all this cannot be explained!

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

"No, wait a minute!" She was really tricked by the whale man, and she was stunned for a moment before she reacted, and waved her hands quickly, "How is it possible? You saw it when you came in, the two Ajiao who opened the door were in the room! If we entered the wrong room, how could they be here!"

Whale Man: "..."

That's true.

"That's even weirder." After a moment of silence, it couldn't help but ask, "Why did the butterfly root appear in 8307?"

"Who knows." Xu Ming picked up the egg-shaped object and looked at it carefully, then put it back into the insulated bag containing the takeaway. "I've eaten this takeaway before. It's a chain store that opened in the past two years."

It doesn't feel like the taste of the domain master. Not to mention that the history of this strange area is definitely longer than that of this takeaway.

"Maybe Tang Menglong stole it?" She tried to guess.

"Impossible." The whale man didn't think twice, "He doesn't have that ability."

The roots are usually well hidden by the domain master, and there must be deadly traps around them. Not everyone can be as blind as Xu Ming.

"That's really strange..." Xu Ming murmured, not knowing what he thought of, and suddenly frowned again.

On the other side, the whale man said "eh" again.

"I still think you entered the wrong room." It looked around and lowered its voice mysteriously, "Do you remember what the guy surnamed Fang said to you? After the skill takes effect, the sixth door you encounter will allow you to pass through. And when you touched it just now, you happened to knock on the door all the way!"

Counting from 8012, this is exactly the sixth door!

"As for the two Ajiao, maybe they just followed the instructions in the rule book." Although it was a bit far-fetched, the whale man felt that it was possible. "Anyway, they can't talk, no matter what you say, they will just nod. Maybe when you first asked them to climb through the window and open the door, they didn't understand at all and just followed you stupidly."

"...Look at what you said, how can they be that stupid..." Xu Ming listened to it seriously and became a little suspicious. After thinking about it, he said, "You said it yourself, the root is very difficult to get. If this is really the butterfly's territory, why would there be only one safe to hold it?"

He still used the default password.

"More importantly, if this is really the butterfly's territory, then how could it be locked outside?" Xu Ming said with certainty, "It should have found a way to rush in a long time ago..."

Before he finished speaking, there was another click.

The power switch tripped instantly, and the whole room was suddenly shrouded in darkness.

Xu Ming, who hadn't even finished a sentence: "..."

After a brief silence, she took out her mobile phone again. For the sake of convenience, she used the camera flash for lighting this time.

Holding the phone, she scanned around, and of course, she saw nothing. Xu Ming's lips twitched slightly, and she retracted her gaze, deciding to stay put. Her eyes unconsciously glanced at the screen of the phone, but suddenly froze.

Because of the angle, her phone was facing the window at the moment. From her perspective, it was empty outside the window, but when her eyes turned to the screen of her mobile phone, she could clearly see something moving outside the window.

A huge, blurry outline. It was almost lying on the window. Xu Ming guessed that it might be a butterfly, but the image in her eyes was so incomplete and blurry that the outline looked more like a person -

a person with puffy hair hanging outside the window.

Even so, Xu Ming still saw it. There were some very small things that were seeping in along the edge of the window, like a wriggling tiny foot, rustling towards the half-moon lock on the window.

Xu Ming: "..."

Xu Ming fell silent. Xu Ming calmly put the phone in his pocket.

The next moment, she almost jumped up from the spot, picked up all the things without thinking, turned around and rushed out!

Almost at the same time, the almost crazy voice of the blubber man rang in his mind: "Stupid kid!!"

"I know!" Xu Ming said without turning his head, "Running again!"

Blubber man: "..." "

Who told you this!" Its voice sounded even crazier, "I asked you to run if you want to, why are you holding on to someone else's roots and running!"

Is she really addicted to stealing official seals?

Xu Ming: "..."

"You don't understand, meeting is fate--"

She spoke incoherently, and before she finished speaking, she had already rushed out the door.

Almost at the moment when she slipped out of the door, she clearly felt something pressing towards her from behind. The strong wind pressure made it almost impossible for her to breathe.

Xu Ming's footsteps paused involuntarily, and then she turned around quickly, stretched out her right hand and pulled back.

With a "bang", she scored twice. The door of room 8307 was closed again, followed by a strong collision.

Yes, 8307 - Xu Ming checked it before leaving. On the door panel that was slightly shaken by the collision, the number was particularly clear.

With his brows tightened, Xu Ming stepped back slightly, covered his right arm with some difficulty, turned around and ran.

This time, he ran in the direction of the elevator.