Chapter 68

"So... the 'rent' you mentioned is really for the rule book?"

A few minutes later, in the bedroom. Xu Ming looked at the girl sitting in front of him, digesting everything as quickly as possible: "You...are you moving the weird talk into the rule book?"

It has to be said that it was really explosive.

Xu Ming thought silently, and couldn't help but raised her hand to brush her hair.

To be honest, she had thought about similar situations before. After all, it was hard not to care about Guo Shuyi's "rent". There was something like a keyhole in her rule book - but that was just a guess after all, and it was a guess beyond imagination.

If that was the case, how to deal with it was really a problem for Xu Ming. After all , she had no experience and didn't know what kind of impact this would have, or what kind of impact it would have on the people in the ghost story. Would she have to consider other things when she used the rule book in the future?

It was incomprehensible and hard to imagine. It gave her a headache when she thought about it.

"No, no, no." Fortunately, Guo Shuyi quickly gave a negative answer, "I didn't move the ghost story in..."

"...Oh." That's good.

Xu Ming breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that everything was still within his understanding.

"I just moved the entrance here." Guo Shuyi followed.

Xu Ming: "..."

Very good, something incomprehensible appeared again.

"Entrance?" This time, it was Lu Yueling who was sitting in the window who spoke. She had noticed Guo Shuyi the moment he appeared, and had been sitting nearby watching. Now she finally couldn't help but ask out of curiosity, "What do you mean? Does it mean that I can go to your world through the magic notebook in the future?"

"In theory, you can." Guo Shuyi glanced at her, then quickly lowered his eyes, still sitting in that upright and tense posture, "But not now."

"Now, because it's not very stable inside...so the passage is temporarily closed."

Closed? Xu Ming raised his eyebrows slightly: "Then you now..."

"I divided myself into two parts. The part that comes out now is the lighter part." Guo Shuyi explained while gesturing with his hands, "It's like a cup of suspended liquid, which is divided into two layers after sedimentation. At this moment, I am the layer with less density on the top."

The entrance and exit of the strange story has been sealed by her. But this closure is not airtight. In her current "lighter" state, she can easily come out from it.

But there are restrictions. First of all, in this state, she basically has no power, including her own roots, which are completely unusable. The weight of the soul is extremely light, and it is estimated that it is only slightly heavier than the soul that is only an empty shell.

Secondly, because part of herself remains in the story, she cannot stay outside for too long, nor can she be too far away from the story. If something happens to the part that remains, she will be forcibly pulled back into the story, and can only separate again after the overall situation stabilizes.

... In this way, she is actually just another form of "Sleepwalker".

Xu Ming listened to Guo Shuyi's narration, pursed his lips thoughtfully, and then asked curiously: "What about the others? That is... those girls who were in the ghost stories before?"

Big Guo, Little Guo, Bonnie... Xu Ming's heart was slightly suspended: "Can they also come out and participate in activities in this form?"

"Not for the time being." Guo Shuyi shook his head again, with some regretful look, "I can't make them as stable as me for the time being."

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

Seeing the confusion in her and Lu Yueling's eyes, Guo Shuyi further explained: "For example, if I am now a suspended liquid. Just let it stand, it can produce stable stratification.

"Then the others are lotions. I can let them stratify, but this kind of stratification is unstable. In this state, they can't pass through the entrance and exit of the ghost story. "

Guo Shuyi said, looking over seriously: "Do you understand what I mean?"

Xu Ming: "..."

After a moment of silence, she nodded slowly.

Although the concept of suspension lotion had almost been forgotten, Xu Ming probably understood the meaning of these words. After a pause, she asked with concern:

"Then are they... okay now?"

In response to her, Guo Shuyi nodded slightly and vigorously.

"Yeah." She said softly, "Thanks to you, the shackles of the nightmare have been lifted. "

Those nightmares that once trapped all the souls in place, unable to move, and even drove them crazy, have gradually loosened and shattered as the corresponding rules twisted and changed. Only the binding relationship between those souls and the ghost story itself remains, and Guo Shuyi needs to figure out how to break it.

She is not a person who is good at expressing herself, so she didn't know how to tell Xu Ming that those souls were grateful to her; she remembered that before she came out, she heard other people talking about it, saying that the moment they woke up from the nightmare was like being bathed in a gentle magic.

After a moment of hesitation, Guo Shuyi simply lowered her eyes again and whispered: "I redid the scenes in the ghost story and repaired the cinema and amusement park... After all, these two are entertainment facilities, and they can arrange their own time in them. Next, I plan to repair the two schools, but because they are simulations, the teachers inside will not teach content beyond my knowledge, so the main focus is still on the students' life experience..."

In short, she is still making maps to entertain those souls who can already move freely in the ghost stories.

Of course, she also knows that these are just false comfort. Just like RPG or house, it can only make other people happy for a short time. If she wants to really solve the problem, she still has to wait until she has completely digested the roots of the ghost stories and has the ability to untie them.

Before that, she can only make their dreams better and more beautiful as much as possible.

Xu Ming: "..."

"Oh, so." She exhaled softly, "Don't put too much pressure on yourself. You are already very good."

"But I always feel that there are still many things I don't understand. "Guo Shuyi whispered, "I don't know who to ask for advice."

"That's true..." Xu Ming couldn't help but pursed her lips.

She really couldn't help much in this matter - she herself only had a vague understanding of roots. Gu Yunshu might have understood it before, but now he is also confused. Lu Yueling's condition is most similar to Guo Shuyi, but she doesn't know as much as Xu Ming.

If that person is still here, maybe he can help popularize science and give advice, but he is not here at the moment...

Speaking of which, where did it go?

Xu Ming frowned unconsciously, and felt something flashing through his mind, but he couldn't grasp it. At this moment, Lando poked his head over and asked Gu Yunshu if he wanted to stay for dinner. Noticing Xu Ming's expression, he immediately changed the subject and looked at him with concern.

Xu Ming shook his head to indicate that it was okay. After thinking about it, he turned to Lando and asked him if there was any way to tame the root as soon as possible; Lando was stunned when he heard this, and paused for a few seconds before he said uncertainly:

"Beat it up?"

Xu Ming:...

What am I expecting?

"I'm serious." Lando frowned, "Old roots are more or less active. If it's a strong root, the fastest way is to find its weakness and teach it a lesson."

"One force can defeat ten skills, right?" Xu Ming couldn't help but said, and looked at Guo Shuyi apologetically. Guo Shuyi didn't care, she waved her hand lightly, looked at the time, and stood up politely to say goodbye.

She came out this time to meet Xu Ming and tell her about the current situation in the strange talk. Since the goal has been achieved, there is no need to stay.

"Oh, by the way, there is one more thing." She paused slightly, and her face suddenly became a little hurried, "Well, I once saw a small sign on Shiyu and Bingbing..." "

?" Xu Ming was stunned. Who are those two again.

"Yes, the one who used to be with you guys..." Guo Shuyi looked even more embarrassed, "Shiyu's name tag says Zhang San, Bingbing's name tag says Qiu Haitang..."

"Oh." Xu Ming finally understood - she must be talking about Big Guo and Little Guo.

In the ghost story, she had issued work badges to Big Guo and Little Guo. Big Guo's name tag did say Zhang San, so it matched.

"That badge is a temporary work badge of our Demolition and Relocation Office." Xu Ming explained patiently, "What's wrong?"

"..." Guo Shuyi paused and looked away uncomfortably, "Nothing. I just heard them say that, um, can be used to write messages, so, um..."

"Oh, she just wants a work badge." Lu Yueling next to her finally couldn't stand it anymore, "You can give it to her."

After that, she turned to Guo Shuyi, picked up her own and shook it: "But are you sure? This thing is quite big and very troublesome. And it doesn't look good."

"...That's because you have an assembly line work badge! The customized one is not ugly at all!" Xu Ming spoke unbearably, hurriedly saved the reputation of the Demolition and Relocation Office, then exhaled, and turned to Guo Shuyi again.

"If you want a tool for external communication, this badge may not be very suitable." Xu Ming said seriously, "It can only be used to initiate communication from my side, and you cannot take the initiative to contact me."

"Are you sure you still want it?"

"..." Guo Shuyi's lips twitched slightly, and she glanced at Xu Ming quickly. After thinking for a moment, she nodded gently. Since

she has expressed her opinion, Xu Ming naturally has no need to shirk responsibility. He quickly picked up a pen and carefully drew a customized badge for Guo Shuyi, and handed the badge out while Lu Yueling complained, "Why is hers so beautiful?"

Guo Shuyi took it carefully, thanked him sincerely, and immediately said goodbye again. Xu Ming originally wanted to keep her for a while, but Guo Shuyi shook her head seriously.

"My family taught us not to stay in other people's homes until dinner time." She said seriously, and her figure quickly disappeared in the room.

Xu Ming couldn't stop her, and could only shake his head helplessly. Turning around and seeing Lu Yueling standing there in a daze, he couldn't help but pat her again.

"What's wrong? Are you still angry about your work badge?" Xu Ming said, "Your one is actually pretty good. If you really want to change it, I'll draw another one for you."

"..." Lu Yueling didn't respond for a while, but just stared at the direction where Guo Shuyi disappeared. After a few seconds, she shook her head and her voice dropped, "Forget it, no need. Mine is pretty good."

After that, she nestled back in the window. With her hands on her knees, she silently looked at the sunset outside the window, her back slightly hunched, and inexplicably revealed a bit of dejection.

Xu Ming looked at her back, as if he was thinking of something, and the corners of his lips moved slightly. At this moment, Lando, who had returned to the kitchen, poked his head out again, intending to ask something. Seeing this,

Xu Ming quickly made a "huh" gesture to him. After thinking for a while, he took the initiative to walk over again. "What's the matter?" she asked Lando.

"Nothing, I just want to ask if I want some soup in the evening..." Landuo subconsciously glanced towards the window again, "What's wrong with her?"

"I don't know. Maybe she misses home." Xu Ming whispered, "Forget about the soup, I can't eat these two days... By the way, let me ask you something."

She picked up the puppy on the ground and looked at Landuo: "You said before that Tian Yiliang hopes we can contact him again, right."

"Yeah." Landuo nodded, "But if you don't want to..."

After all, Xu Ming had agreed to contact Tian Yiliang before, on the one hand because they had an appointment long ago, and on the other hand because Xu Ming himself wanted to know the follow-up of Guo Shuyi's weird rumor - but now that the situation of the weird rumor has been confirmed, there seems to be no need to get information anymore.

"It's not that I don't want to. Rather, it's because there's no need to ask any more questions and there's a greater need to keep in touch." Xu Ming's face showed some thought, and then he gently touched Landor with his elbow, "Hey, let me ask you again. Didn't you say before that you can find the mutant root by smell?"

She lifted the dog in her arms up: "What if we find someone? Can we find someone?"

Landor:...

?

*

Xu Ming's reason for asking this question is very simple.

Now that Guo Shuyi has moved the door of ghost stories to them. No matter from what standpoint, it is necessary for the Demolition Office to inform Dali Chucao. From the perspective of the overall situation, it can prevent Dali Chucao from continuing to waste energy and manpower on this matter, and the other party, a public welfare organization, can also focus more on other ghost stories; from a personal point of view, it can also be regarded as putting an end to Tian Yiliang's worries.

From a fraud perspective... No, from a long-term perspective, it is also an opportunity to enhance the reputation of the Demolition Office.

The problem is, how to contact?

First of all, exclude the option of private contact. Nowadays, mobile phone numbers are all real-name registered. If Dali Chucao has some background and is so powerful that he can directly check the owner of the number, his identity as a mid-level salesperson who "hackers" will be directly invalidated; similarly, buying mobile phone numbers is not reliable.

Xu Ming himself is a good citizen by nature, and there is no way for him to get a disposable number. Using a virtual operator seems to be insincere, and it inexplicably gives people the feeling that it is a fraudulent company...

So Xu Ming thought about it. In the end, he decided to use the simplest method.

Let Landor - or more precisely, Landor's dog, go directly to find him. Use reasonable arguments and agree on another way to communicate.

"Okay... I think it's okay."

Landor nodded instinctively after hearing her idea, but there was some hesitation on his face: "But after I find him, what should I say to him?"

"It doesn't matter what I say." Xu Ming said, hooking his neck seriously, "What's important is the momentum."

"Understand?"

Landor: "......?"

*

In a blink of an eye, two days later. It was

almost twelve o'clock in an office building.

It was obviously late at night, but a faint light came from an office at the end of the corridor. Tian Yiliang stopped in front of the door, raised his wrist to check the time, hesitated for a moment, and finally raised his head and knocked on the door.

An excited female voice came from inside the door, motioning for someone to come in. Tian Yiliang took a few deep breaths under control, but when he pushed the door open, he almost choked on his breath.

The small single office was in a mess. Snack bags, comic books, game equipment, beautiful clothes, and other messy things were scattered everywhere. Tian Yiliang was not sure if he saw it wrong, but he seemed to see a very delicate little toy on the sofa...

There was a disco ball spinning above his head, and the colorful lights were dazzling. Noisy music kept coming out of the Bluetooth speakers, which gave people a headache. Behind the desk, a girl was shaking her head to the rhythm, staring at the screen intently, holding a game controller in her hand.

"Le...Le...Happy! Princess Happy!" Tian Yiliang tried to call out several times but failed, and finally had to yell. The girl who was concentrating on watching the screen raised her head, smiled, and stood up.

"It's unbelievable. You actually came back alive." The girl said, and came out from behind the table. She was wearing a classical long skirt that was out of tune with the surrounding equipment. The skirt was covered with golden foil.

She raised her eyes, revealing a beautiful face. Although she was smiling, there was no emotion in her beautiful eyes, like two absolutely beautiful but lifeless gems.

"I thought you would risk your life to destroy that weird story." She said sarcastically, sitting down on the sofa and snapping her fingers, and the noisy music stopped instantly. "Why, do you regret it? Give up halfway? Run away at the last minute?"

"Not really." Tian Yiliang looked at her unhappily, but still tried his best to maintain respect in his tone. "It was the weird story that changed halfway through, resulting in the plan not being successfully implemented..."

"Changed?" The girl looked up. "What?"

"Another organization, the Weird Story Demolition Office, was also in that weird story at the time." Tian Yiliang said, "They seemed to have found some way to successfully shake the foundation of that weird story. I was sent out directly because of this, and when I wanted to go in again, I couldn't get in."

"...shake the foundation?" The girl in the golden skirt blinked thoughtfully after hearing this. After a moment, she suddenly burst into laughter, which made Tian Yiliang puzzled: "What's wrong? You...what are you thinking about now?"

"Thinking about you solemnly preparing to die as a hero, but being spit out like a fruit core!" The girl laughed so hard that she fell backwards, but there was still no emotion in her gem-like eyes, "Hahahaha, that scene must be very funny."

"Oh, yes, there is one more." After laughing for a while, she suddenly straightened her face and gently raised a finger towards Tian Yiliang, "Remind you of one more thing."

"If you are not sincere, don't use honorifics. It sounds disgusting."

"..."

Her nails are also golden. The golden glittering, tied in front of her lips, looks indescribably beautiful.

Tian Yiliang just felt his scalp tingling.

An inexplicable fear instinctively went up his spine, making him almost stiff.

He almost forgot - because this guy always looked careless and crazy, so he always forgot.

The girl in front of him, or rather, this existence, has never been someone he can communicate with on an equal footing. Not to mention treating him with contempt.

On the other side, as if noticing his stiffness, the girl put down her fingers, curved her lips and smiled again, turned around and leaned gracefully on the back of the sofa.

"So, you came to me to return something?"

She said naively, her eyes swept over the dagger in Tian Yiliang's hand. The gems embedded in the hilt of the sword sparkled, and not a single one was missing.

"...... Yeah." Tian Yiliang finally found his voice and handed over the dagger with both hands, "This, I don't need it for the time being, so..."

"Give it back if you don't need it. Your kindness to me is really unreliable." The girl sneered and said, "If you really want to express your gratitude and respect for me, it's better to commit suicide on the spot."

Tian Yiliang: "......"

How can people respond to this.

"Tsk." Seeing that he was silent, the girl didn't say anything. She stretched out her hand and took the dagger from Tian Yiliang's hand, slightly curling the corners of her mouth, still looking elegant, "Okay, I'll take back the dagger and the oath is void. But let me say this in advance, if you need to be a hero next time, I may not be willing to accept you again-unless you kneel down and eat * in front of me."

"......" Tian Yiliang was silent again.

At this moment, he suddenly hoped that the Ghost Story Removal Office could be more powerful - it would be best if they could tell him one day in the future that they had solved the ghost story directly, so that he would not have to worry about it anymore...

otherwise, based on his understanding of the existence on the other side, she was probably not joking.

"Okay." The girl sitting on the sofa checked the retracted dagger and said casually, "Thank you for sending the things back - get out of here."

Tian Yiliang closed his eyes, but in the end he didn't say anything more. He nodded to the other party and turned to walk out.

Almost at the moment he stepped out of the door, the rhythm of death heavy metal sounded again. It was not until he hurriedly closed the door that he was finally completely separated from the noisy music. Tian Yiliang frowned, took a step back carefully, turned around and walked away along the corridor.

His normal working time is actually six o'clock. He waited until midnight tonight in order to find that girl to return something. Back in his office, Tian Yiliang looked at the time again, thought about it, and sat down in front of the computer, intending to seize the time and finish today's work.

As a field specialist, his job is actually very simple. Just investigate and explore the strange stories according to the requirements of the organization. In addition, they also have a special data department that will regularly collect and organize strange story intelligence on the Internet and send it to them. If you see a strange story that you are concerned about, you can also take the initiative to apply for an investigation from above.

At this moment, in his mailbox lies a set of organized data from the data section. Tian Yiliang nodded, quickly browsing the content on the screen, while taking out a bag of meat jerky from the drawer as a midnight snack and chewing it casually.

[Tianyu Eye Hospital... The information first appeared two years ago... You can only enter from 4 pm to 4 am. After entering, you can get anything you want, but you must exchange it with your eyes...]

In a blink of an eye, he finished scanning another strange information. Tian Yiliang raised his eyebrows slightly, subconsciously raised his hand and opened his mouth, and took a bite, but suddenly bit into nothing.

The sound of the upper and lower teeth hitting each other was piercing. Tian Yiliang was startled, and then he came back to his senses, staring blankly at his hand that had been empty without knowing when. The next second, there was another crackling sound, and the computer screen in front of him suddenly went black -

the next second, the entire office was plunged into darkness.

What was even more tense was that in this sudden darkness, Tian Yiliang clearly heard

the wheezing sound of a wild animal coming from behind him .