Chapter 64

At the same time,

on the road not far from Chengnan No. 1 Middle School,

students who had just finished school walked forward in groups, laughing and joking. Tian Yiliang held up the hem of his skirt and walked forward against the crowd. He pinned his short sword behind his belt, like a beautiful little decoration.

No one paid attention to this man full of incongruity. Even if someone occasionally noticed him, they would just nod at him and call him "Guo Shuyi". Every time Tian Yiliang heard it, he would nod in response nonchalantly, but his eyes would always wander among the passing students, as if he was looking for something.

——[If you see a girl wandering alone on the street, ignore her.]

He repeated one of the death rules of this world in his heart and began to look for her more actively in the crowd. After searching for a while, he didn't see the person he was looking for, but another figure suddenly blocked his way.

He looked up and, as expected, met Lando's serious eyes.

"...Has your colleague contacted you?" He raised his eyebrows slightly and guessed the situation without much effort. "It seems that her collection progress is faster than I thought."

Lando ignored him and just recited what Xu Ming had asked him to say before without hesitation:

"Your method doesn't work. Killing Guo Shuyi's clone will only lead to the original's rage, and everything will only get worse."

Tian Yiliang: "..."

Very good, it seems that his colleague should not be with him at this time.

This made Tian Yiliang breathe a sigh of relief.

"Your colleague asked you to say that? She is quite smart." Tian Yiliang stroked his stubble and exhaled softly, "It's a pity that this reason can't convince me."

Lando: "..."

"She is already thinking of a way." After a pause, Lando spoke again, this time purely for his own benefit, "You can wait."

"I can't wait any longer." Tian Yiliang shrugged, "I can't waste any more time."

Lando: "My colleague is very good, she can definitely solve this problem..."

"It's solved this time, but what about next time?" Tian Yiliang said, "The legend has already been formed. Can she tear down this place completely, or take all the dead people away from this legend?"

"They are already tied to this place. As long as the ghost stories exist, they will always be tied here. And as long as they are tied here, they will never find peace.

" "Didn't you say before that there were dead employees in your company? Now I can tell you that our company has had some as well. We tried our best to bring out those companions who died in the ghost stories, thinking that even if they were in the form of dead people, at least they were still there, at least their consciousness was still continuing. But do you know what the result was?" "

Either you witness with your own eyes that the other person is hollowed out by time bit by bit, and finally becomes a thin empty shell, with no memory of anything and nothing left; or you watch the other person become increasingly painful and irritable due to the erosion of death, and eventually go crazy.

Only those dead people who hold roots can maintain their self for a long time, and can even help other dead people maintain their self. However, it was such a companion who almost led to the destruction of the team during another ghost story investigation. The reason given was that he could not forget his own death, and was even more jealous of the lives of others.

"...I'm not sure if your unit has faced similar problems. "

Tian Yiliang took a deep breath and stretched out his hand to press down the sunglasses on his head: "I can only say, don't underestimate the pain that sinks into the hearts of the dead, and don't underestimate their minds twisted by pain. It will turn a good person into a monster you never dreamed of."

Lando: "..."

"I'm sorry." After a pause, he said softly, "I made you think of these."

"It's okay." Tian Yiliang just shrugged again, "I just hope these cases can make us understand each other better. "

By the way, I'll give you another piece of advice..."

Tian Yiliang said, and he suddenly dodged to the side, twisting his body while dodging, and stretched out one hand at the same time, just enough to protect the dagger on his belt.

And almost at the moment he moved, a little panda pounced from behind him like lightning and narrowly passed by his side.

With a "pop", the little panda landed lightly on the ground, and then lowered its ears under Landor's reproachful gaze. On the other side, Tian Yiliang carefully checked the dagger behind him and couldn't help but sneered.

"The advice is, when you are not familiar with someone, don't let others know what cards you have."

Putting the dagger away again, he raised his eyes and looked over: "It's indeed a good idea to think of using pets to steal. It's a pity that thinking is not your strong point.

"Don't you think about it? The little animal you always carry with you is not here. How can I not pay attention?"

He said, shaking his head with regret. It's obvious that it's not easy for Landor to come up with such an idea, but it hasn't been put to use yet. Then he took two steps back, his figure suddenly faded, and the whole person disappeared into the air.

- Minimum presence. The skill in his rule book. In layman's terms, it's invisibility.

A very monotonous, but very practical ability, especially when combined with his "cheater" distortion characteristics, it can be said to be like adding wings to a tiger, and the cost required is moderate, and it won't be like others who lose their hands and feet easily.

But there are limitations in using it - the first is that the skill has a long pre-swing and post-swing, and it takes a long time to start or end it; the second is that during the stealth period, you cannot interact with the existence in the monster talk, and can only observe and listen secretly.

This is why he never activated this skill when he was looking for a place to scam here before, but now...

I can't take care of anything else for the time being. I'll try to slip away first.

Tian Yiliang made up his mind, stepped back again, and turned around quietly. He planned to take advantage of the stealth to lure Landor away first; but just as he made a move, he heard a sudden commotion behind him, turned his head in surprise, and faced a huge black shadow that kept expanding.

...It was Landor's little pet.

It began to change again.

The body was like an inflated balloon, but the interior was completely filled with swirling black shadows. The outline continued to expand outwards, and in a blink of an eye it reached the height of a building. It

had grown larger than when Tian Yiliang first saw it.

However, compared to its huge size, what was more concerning was its eyes - deep, gloomy yellow eyes that took up almost half of its face. Even for such a body, it seemed too big.

The completely solidified dog head panted and lowered, and Landor was standing on the dog head. The frightened students screamed and ran away, and some even started to call the police, but he completely ignored them and just lowered his head to concentrate on finding Tian Yiliang.

...What does this guy want to do?

Tian Yiliang was confused. Could he think that it would be easier to find people if he became bigger and stood taller? Or did he simply want the big dog to step on him blindly, and if he stepped on him, he would win?

It was not to block the road. Although the dog was big, there was only one, and it couldn't be blocked.

He couldn't figure it out, so he just ignored it. Tian Yiliang pursed his lips, turned around and walked quickly in another direction. He hadn't walked a few steps when he heard a roar from the front again -

he looked up in surprise, and then he found that a large black shadow had appeared at the other end of the road.

Or rather, a big dog had also appeared.

Also wrapped in a black shadow, with an abnormally huge body, it was now guarding the other end of the road. A pair of big eyes turned around vigilantly, and the eyeballs were even bigger than the previous one.

Not only that -

more howls and howls rang out one after another, and several black shadow dogs walked out of the shadows on both sides of the street. They were of different sizes, but with similar ferocity and scary big yellow eyes.

Tian Yiliang: "..."

Well, things became a little awkward this time.

Unable to confirm whether these things can smell him directly, he can only suppress his breathing as much as possible and try to find a gap to leave. At this moment, he heard Lando, who was squatting on the dog head, speak again, his voice was still small:

"I don't know if you can hear me, but I want to say, thank you for your advice. Also, I didn't want to use my brain."

After all, he is just a thug.

Oh yes... and more.

After the voice fell, Lando suddenly remembered something, and he straightened up suddenly, his face was serious again. He even cleared his throat.

Then he heard him speak in a clear voice: "I am your father."

Tian Yiliang: "..."

Tian Yiliang: "Ah?"

*

At the same time. On the other side.

Xu Ming struggled to control the pen and barely completed the modification of the first set of rules. The moment he put down the pen, he found that his forehead was covered with sweat.

She closed her eyes, as if she was feeling something, and after a moment, she let out a long breath. Lu Yueling, who was watching, carefully leaned her head out, and even lowered her voice a little: "How is it? Is it effective?"

Xu Ming: "..."

She turned her head to look at Lu Yueling, and shook her head gently: "I don't know."

"...Ah?" Lu Yueling was startled when she heard it, and then she saw Xu Ming frowned: "But when I finished writing, I seemed to hear a sound vaguely."

Lu Yueling: "? What sound?"

"It's hard to describe." Xu Ming thought for a while and shook his head, "It's a bit like pinching instant noodles."

The sound of something breaking.

"Hmm? So is it effective or not..." Lu Yueling frowned slightly and glanced at Xu Ming's right hand again, "If it doesn't work, then your hand is injured in vain?"

She was just beside and could see it clearly. When Xu Ming wrote those words, the wound on his right hand was obviously much more serious. The wound that had already healed was torn again, and it was torn even wider than before. The blood was splattering, and she felt dizzy just looking at it.

While speaking, she brought a towel to Xu Ming. Xu Ming took it and pressed it on his hand. Maybe it was because of the bleeding, but his whole face looked a little pale.

"It's okay. I've been mentally prepared." She said softly, and after a pause, she touched the second rule paper,

"and in my imagination, only bleeding is considered a better situation...

"? So the bad situation is..." Lu Yueling blinked and asked subconsciously. Before she finished speaking, she seemed to notice something and slowly raised her head, looking upwards. After a moment, she turned her gaze to the window.

Xu Ming looked at her expression calmly and pursed his lips helplessly: "What you see now should be it."

"..." Lu Yueling was startled by her words, but her eyes were still fixed on the window, unable to respond for a while.

Outside the window, it was suddenly covered with red light - in the red light, there was a distorted shadow, lying quietly on the window, turning its head and looking inside.

From Xu Ming's perspective, of course he couldn't see these. But from Lu Yueling's expression, it was not difficult to guess what happened.

Sure enough... She took a deep breath again, trying to keep her somewhat drowsy brain awake.

Sure enough, even if you pretend to be the domain master, the core rules cannot be changed casually. Thinking about it carefully, the whale fat man did mention before that even the domain master himself would have to pay a heavy price if he wanted to modify the rules; and if others acted without authorization, they would attract the attention of the domain master, and might even be hunted down.

Of course, this domain The current domain master is Guo Shuyi, and Xu Ming doesn't think she has any need to hunt him down. But that has to be based on Guo Shuyi being sober. And it is known that Guo Shuyi has not been able to change the core rules until now. Maybe these rules still follow the design of the first domain master, which is tough and has some self-defense mechanisms.

But Xu Ming was still a little lucky before, thinking that if the changes were not made to this world, The core rules, maybe they won't trigger monsters like before. But now it seems...

okay, it seems that I'm still too optimistic.

Xu Ming pressed the wound harder, exhaled heavily again, and began to reach out and rummage through the pile of rules. Lu Yueling's gaze finally moved away from the window, and began to look around, her eyes constantly scanning the door and the walls on both sides, and finally she couldn't help but speak: "Hey, what should we do next?"

Xu Ming quickly found the rule paper he wanted, picked up the pen and started to write on it, trying to maintain a calm tone: "Well, I'll change the rules of this world first, and see if it can produce some direct effects. You go outside and drag it for a while. I know this is a bit stressful for you, but since there is only one, maybe..."

"One? "Unexpectedly, Lu Yueling looked over in surprise, "Who told you there was only one?"

...?

Under Xu Ming's surprised gaze, her eyes quickly swept around again - outside the window, there was a twisted figure lying on the ground, and under the door, there was clearly a pair of dirty women's shoes. The door panel was being knocked loudly at this moment, and the walls on both sides were also being knocked. There seemed to be something hidden in the ceiling, and a clear crawling sound was coming out.

Not only that, there were a lot of other noises in the corridor outside. Footsteps, crying, knocking...all kinds of sounds mixed together, stirring the chill in the air, and just listening to them made her scalp tingle.

Lu Yueling herself was not one of those with sensitive senses. Even so, she could clearly sense that there were definitely a lot of "things" moving around in this B&B right now - and they were not just "a lot" like A Jiao's filler.

Their weight and aura were clearly similar.

In this situation, you tell me one? ?

"......?!" Now it was Xu Ming's turn to be shocked.

If the appearance of local monsters in this world was still within her expectations, then the current situation was really beyond her expectations.

Then she seemed to realize something, and her face changed suddenly.

- Damn it.

This time it's really damned.

She guessed that modifying the rules might attract monsters, but she didn't expect it to be this way - in this situation, it was obvious that monsters from other worlds had also come along!

How could they bring backup... Xu Ming couldn't help but curse in his heart, and quickly turned his attention back to the rules in front of him, modifying them faster. At this moment, he heard a click of the door lock, and the door with the chain was pushed inward, and a certain cold breath instantly poured into the room. Before

Xu Ming could sense more, Lu Yueling had already rushed up in one step, her black hair spread out like tentacles, and in a blink of an eye, she sealed the open door cracks layer by layer. Without even turning his head, Xu Ming ignored the dizziness in his brain and the pain in his right hand, and quickly followed the same method to modify the second set of rules. The moment the last word fell, he heard Lu Yueling exclaim "Huh" -

blinking in doubt, she carefully removed the hair that was blocking the door and looked out cautiously.

"It's gone." After confirming, she quickly closed the door, turned her head and looked at Xu Ming in surprise, "The monster outside suddenly disappeared."

"...This is good news." Xu Ming pursed his lips and whispered, "It means that this modification is indeed effective."

If she guessed correctly, the monster blocking the door just now should be the original monster of this B&B - and what she just modified was exactly the rules of this B&B.

"That's easy!" Lu Yueling also caught up with the rhythm now, and suddenly she became energetic, "Then I'll go out and hold it, you hurry up! Once everything is changed, it will be fine!"

"...Yeah." Xu Ming responded softly, and the next second, Lu Yueling crouched on the spot, and in the blink of an eye,

she turned into a ball of hair, and swam quickly along the wall to the ceiling, apparently intending to drive away the monster hiding here first. Xu Ming was left alone, but his face turned paler. Pressing her forehead uncomfortably, she lowered her eyes and quietly lifted her trouser leg - she saw that there was a wound on her calf, and the bright red blood was flowing down along the ankle.

...It's deadly.

The same sigh climbed into her heart again. Xu Ming took two deep breaths, and while trying hard to comfort himself that it didn't hurt, he picked up the pen again. The corners of his mouth twitched due to the lingering pain, and his fingers trembled uncontrollably.

At this moment, he heard a rustling sound. Lu Yueling swam down from the ceiling again, fell to the ground with her skirt lifted, and looked over awkwardly.

"I, I suddenly remembered that I forgot to tell you something." She muttered quickly, "Although I don't like superstition, and I don't like ghosts and gods, you are a good person, I like you very much."

"So, you are my 'friend'."

"I wish you good health, no illness, no disaster, and safety... Oh, that's probably it, I don't know how to do it specifically. Anyway, I wish you all the best, please don't die!

"I hope it works, that's it. "

After saying that, she turned into a pool of hair on the spot and disappeared in the blink

of an eye. Xu Ming was the only one left in the room again, and he blinked in confusion.

He doesn't like mysterious things... Does this child really know what he is talking about?

However, maybe it was the buff that came with the word "friend", but she actually felt a lot better. The stimulation brought by the pain seemed to be isolated, and her brain became much clearer.

... No wonder the red shoes rushed to be friends with her in the Butterfly Building. This buff is better than painkillers.

Xu Ming thought silently, and turned his gaze to the pile of rule papers in front of him again.

Then his eyes dimmed, and he quickly lowered his head and began to revise them one by one.

*

At the same time,

in the cinema,

a terrifying red light enveloped the entire space. Da Guo, who was hiding in the theater, carefully poked her head out and then slowly walked out.

Looking at the empty corridor, she frowned slightly.

...gone.

The monster that was looking for her and chasing her just now suddenly disappeared. It was as if it had evaporated suddenly.

Having never encountered such a situation before, Da Guo began to wonder.

Not only that, the time seemed to be wrong. She had just looked at the time and it was still two o'clock in the afternoon, but when she looked at the clock again, she found that the time had jumped to four o'clock in the afternoon. In any case

, this was always a good thing. She quickly cheered up and turned to run to the bathroom.

When she opened the corresponding compartment door, the transmission point had indeed appeared. Da Guo stood up without hesitation, and the familiar feeling of dizziness instantly came over her. She instinctively closed her eyes until the dizziness completely subsided before she opened them again...

The moment she opened her eyes, she froze.

…Black.

Everything in front of her eyes was black.

No matter how many times she opened her eyes, she saw the same darkness. Narrow, cramped, suffocating—she subconsciously reached out her hand, but found that she could not stretch her limbs at all.

Her confused mind gradually became clear, and she finally realized that she was not standing at the moment, but was curled up in a strange posture, her body folded in pain, without strength, and it was difficult for her to even move.

…I'm trapped.

As if something suddenly flashed through his mind, Da Guo suddenly realized this.

This is a box, and I am in the box.

Save me… Save me! Anyone will do, come and save me!

There was music and laughter coming from outside, as well as various conversations. It sounded like there were people outside, many, many people…

Da Guo suddenly became excited and began to shake and thrash desperately. She tried to call for help, but her voice was as weak as her body. She could only shake her body harder and bang against the outer shell of the box, like a person being buried alive, banging against the coffin with all her might.

Finally, it seemed to notice the movement on her side. Soon, footsteps approached. She felt the box she was in being carefully moved and the zipper being carefully opened. The moment the box was opened, sunlight suddenly poured down, blinding her eyes.

"Oh my god... it's a person! How could there be a person in the box!"

"Oh my god, I thought it was a kitten..."

"Are you okay? Are you okay?"

"Where's the security? Call the security... Wait, should we call an ambulance?"

Chaotic voices exploded all around. Several passers-by who had opened the box came up carefully and asked about her condition. Da Guo just shook her head lightly, looking up at the clear sunlight above, wondering what she was thinking.

After a moment, she suddenly smiled. Two lines of tears fell down her face.

"...Thank you." She sat in the box that had trapped her for a long time, buried her head in her arms, and said in a low voice, not knowing who she was talking to, "Thank you."

The moment the voice fell, all the sounds suddenly stopped.

The scene around her began to dim and fade rapidly. She looked up again, only to find that the world she was in had changed again.

She was now in a rather exquisite room. It looked like a guest room in a B&B. She was standing by the wall of the room, which was covered with scary scratches.

She stared at the wall for a while, then slowly stepped back, opened the door and walked out. She walked a few steps along the corridor and soon came to another room.

She walked through the door and saw a familiar figure. Someone was sitting at a desk, curled up, trying to write something, his shoulders shaking slightly as he wrote, and he didn't seem to be feeling well.

That person had a lot of things tied to his body. Towels, bathrobes, torn sheets...all the usable fabrics were wrapped around her body, and all the fabrics were more or less stained with red.

There was already someone else in the room. There were two other girls. One was standing behind a chair, curiously looking at what Xu Ming had written, while the other was sitting quietly beside the bed. When she saw her come in, she raised her index finger at her and whispered "huh".

She nodded slightly, walked over quietly, and found a place to sit down. She heard all kinds of strange noises coming from around the room.

There were all kinds of strange noises, and outside the window, there were monsters looking inside through the glass. The person who was writing seemed to be unaware of anything - he could not sense those monsters, nor could he sense those people who were quietly staying in this room.

The door was suddenly pushed open. A strange black shadow came in, with octopus-like tentacles that kept expanding and contracting. There were no suction cups on the tentacles, only open little hands with withered and rotten flowers in the palms.

Finally, it broke into the room, and the little hand seemed to be excited instantly, and then rushed towards the man in front of the table. Unexpectedly, before it got close, it was grabbed by someone, and then thrown out through the crack of the door.

"Huh."

Da Guo stood at the door, facing the monster outside the door, and raised an index finger seriously.

Then he gently closed the door and sat quietly behind Xu Ming.

*

At this moment.

Xu Ming knew nothing about what happened in the room.

She just buried her head, modifying the rules in front of her as quickly as possible, her face was pale, but her eyes were red because of the bloodshot.

Her movements were not very smooth, because her body was like a dumpling with patches randomly stuck on it. Every time she modified a core rule, there would be another wound on her body. She would handle it carefully at the beginning to prevent the blood from flowing too violently. She skipped the bandaging process later, tore off all the sheets and towels, and tied up wherever there was bleeding. Anyway, she just had to press it down first.

As the modification progressed, the crackling sound rang in her ears again and again, making her feel as if she was surrounded by dry crisp bread. She tried her best to speed up the process, but it was not an easy task - maybe it was because of the number of wounds, even with the buff of Lu Yueling's friend, the pain still reached her nerves, as densely as ants crawling on her body, and even her head began to feel dizzy and dull again.

The tip of the pen in the air shook again and again, and the words became crooked when she wrote later.

But it was time to stop.

So Xu Ming wrapped the small sheet tightly around himself, held his breath, and continued to write one stroke at a time.

He did not notice that the movements of the monsters outside were getting lighter and lighter, and he did not realize that more and more figures appeared behind him. There was no sound of the walls of the B&B collapsing, no sight of the delicate ceiling above breaking, and no bones falling down one by one.

A girl tiptoed forward and put her hands on Xu Ming's head to block the falling bones for her.

Xu Ming saw nothing. She just lowered her head and wrote another stroke.

Until the last sentence "Please save her" came to an end.

Finally, all the rules at hand were revised.

Xu Ming let out a long breath, and the fatigue that had been forcibly suppressed finally hit back fiercely.

She swayed twice on the spot, and heard Lu Yueling's anxious footsteps and inquiries coming from outside. She responded out loud, not realizing that the voice was so low that only she could hear it; after a brief pause, she seemed to think of something, picked up the pen again, found a blank paper, and slowly wrote again, stroke by stroke.

[If you see a girl running for help at the station, please save her.]

... Too tired. Really too tired. She was so tired that when she wrote the word "run", she just hated that there were too many strokes for the two words, and even wanted to use pinyin to make up for it.

In fact, she was not sure if she had finished writing the sentence.

Because at the end, her head was nodding uncontrollably. In a daze, she felt as if someone supported her head, but the feeling was not very real; she stammered, and finally closed her eyes uncontrollably.

When she opened her eyes again, she could hear the loud sound of rain and the roar of the engine.

Xu Ming blinked blankly, raised her head and looked around, only to find that she was sitting on a bus.

She couldn't remember why she was here, nor did she know where she was going, her mind was blank. She only knew that the bus was parked at the station, people kept getting on and off the bus, and the umbrellas in their hands opened like flowers. The

sound of rain was hypnotic. Xu Ming felt sleepy again. Seeing the bus door slowly closing, she leaned back in her seat with her arms folded, ready to have a good sleep with the sound of rain.

Suddenly, she seemed to notice something and looked back.

He took another look.

Then he heard her say "Oh!" and hurriedly spoke, sitting up:

"Master, wait! Wait a minute!

"There are people in the back! It seems that some people haven't got on the bus yet--"

The master in front said "Oh!" and stopped the bus again. Xu Ming took the opportunity to look back again, and finally saw the blurry figure clearly-it

looked like a girl, running wildly in the rain, waving desperately in the direction of the bus, looking very anxious and hurried.

Xu Ming didn't remember seeing her. But she had an inexplicable feeling:

the moment the bus stopped, the girl seemed to laugh softly.