Chapter 98

What does this mean?

Landor frowned slightly and looked at Xu Ming inquiringly. The latter shook his head lightly, indicating that he was also very confused. After thinking for a while, he put away his phone and began to reply to Shi Mian.

Gu Ming: [Excuse me, what does "ever since the strange talk" mean? I don't quite understand. What I heard here is that the existence of [roots] and [alien roots] seems to be discovered and named by humans themselves. ]

[No. ] The news from Shi Mian came very quickly. [I just asked about it. Our director happened to pass by, so I asked her specifically. ]

[She said that the names of [roots] and [alien roots] exist naturally. And they were originally brought by the alien roots. They call themselves and other roots like this. Other technical terms, such as [abnormal characteristics] and [villain], also come from this. 】

Because humans heard the mutant roots use this title first, they learned it and continued to use it. In other words, this series of titles are actually "imported" - at least that's what the information obtained from her said.

"..." On the other side of the phone, Xu Ming looked at her reply, but was completely dumbfounded.

It doesn't match, it doesn't match at all.

Judging from Ms. Tian's diary, these titles were clearly used within their small team, and there were even disagreements, and they were never really determined; how come they became something agreed upon and naturally existed when it came to Shi Mian?

The point is, the real alien roots are also being used... But if you think about it carefully, when the whale fat man first met him and introduced himself, he did use the word "alien roots".

... So what is going on?

Xu Ming replied to Shi Mian's text message absentmindedly to express his gratitude. After putting down the phone, his mind was still in a trance.

After thinking about it, there seemed to be only two possible explanations for this matter.

First, when Auntie and the others were still unaware, some mysterious power had already quietly affected them. Those special terms, including the nicknames they used for each other, they thought they had figured out by themselves, but in fact, they had already existed.

The second possibility is that someone in Auntie's team entered the world of strange stories for some reason, and for some reason he started teaching in strange stories, and for some reason he even developed a large number of students all over the world...

The monsters who were "educated" by him spread the word from one to ten, and from ten to a hundred, and finally successfully brainwashed some mutant roots. One of the mutant roots happened to meet the people who were doing gardening, and enthusiastically carried out popular science work...

To put it simply, misleading young people, three people make a tiger, and spreading rumors.

... To be honest, it seems that the first possibility is more reasonable.

Xu Ming thought aimlessly, and couldn't help but raise his hand to rub his forehead. Noticing Landor standing by the bed, he suddenly seemed to think of something and sat up again.

"By the way, I remember the whale man said that you are also an alien root, right?" She asked Landor, "Do you have any impression? Where did you know this title?" "

..." Landor's expression suddenly became strange when he heard it.

I don't know if it was Xu Ming's illusion, his eyes seemed to linger on his face for a long time.

After another moment, Landor whispered: "I am actually different from other alien roots..." "

?" Xu Ming glanced at him and raised his ears as if nothing had happened.

"I used to be a dead person." Landor coughed and said quickly, "Many things were heard when I was a dead person, so I don't know much..."

... So that's it. Got it.

Xu Ming nodded in understanding and glanced at Landor's drooping eyelashes. For some reason, he suddenly remembered the illusion in the unit building.

That person also had an illusion of Landor. But that Landor was more awkward, better looking, and had a better voice.

Xu Ming always felt that it might not be just a simple illusion. But at the same time, he also knew that if it was really as he guessed, he would not be able to get anything out of Landor.

So he simply ignored it for the time being, exhaled lightly, leaned back on the head of the bed, drank the remaining water in the bowl with Landor's hand, wiped the corner of his mouth and said, "Forget it, it doesn't matter, I can ask other people. Don't we still have blubber...

"? Speaking of which, where is the blubber man? It's been so long, and he hasn't come back yet? ? "

*

Speaking of the blubber man, Xu Ming's heart was full of complicated feelings again.

After all, the fact that the imaginary kind girl was actually a piece of cheap mud was shocking enough. Not to mention that she just remembered now that the mud was yellow.

The good news is that since leaving the unit building, the memory of the blubber man has naturally returned. After communicating with Lando, she found that he was the same - and based on the recovery of memory, some things that had troubled her for a long time suddenly became easier to understand.

For example, what was the matter with the small paper towel bed found in the drawer when moving, and why did the other party give himself such a literary name "Po Haitang"...

Including the other party's ten minutes of meeting . The fact that Xu Ming was successfully driven out of the house by Xu Ling within a few days. Suddenly, it was not surprising at all.

Although until now, Xu Ming still did not know what the whale man said at that time.

Xu Ming had already talked to Qiu Yufei on the phone and knew that they needed to cooperate with An Xin Gardening and Dali Weeding to complete some records. Therefore, he was not too anxious and waited at home with peace of mind. Landor took advantage of this time to quickly make her a bowl of noodles, and covered the noodles with rich sauce. Even though Xu Ming was worried at the moment, he couldn't help but feel hungry.

And just when Xu Ming was slurping almost half a bowl of noodles, Gu Yunshu, who had been waiting outside the unit building, finally came back.

Bring Panpan and her mother.

Bring a bunch of big and small rural yellow dogs.

The only one who didn't bring Po Haitang.

"Qiu Yufei asked me to tell you that her phone is out of battery. She will follow Fang Xueqing to find a place to charge and eat. She will contact you later."

Gu Yunshu carefully relayed Qiu Yufei's words, and then glanced at Panpan and her daughter next to him - now both of them have put on their work badges from the Strange Talk Demolition Office, and are standing at the entrance looking around, as if looking for someone.

Noticing Xu Ming's raised face, Panpan was obviously stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized: "So that's it, the mud man is pretending to be you!"

- The mud man refers to the whale man. When she first met the whale man in the unit building, the other party used Xu Ming's face, but after his ability was exposed in the later period, he began to let go of himself and used all kinds of strange faces.

Seeing Panpan recognized his face, Xu Ming simply did not deny it, just nodded lightly: "Well, because of some things at that time, I asked it to run a trip for me... Let me introduce myself, Xu Ming. This is my house, you can rest here until you find the place you want to go."

After that, he nodded slightly to Mataigor, indicating that he should take them to find a place to stay first - Lu Yueling and Niu Bugeng were not in the house at this time, Gu Yunshu had something else to ask, and Landor was outside cleaning up his puppies.

It happened that Mataigor came to see her for something before, and stayed in the house without leaving. This matter could only be entrusted to it.

Mr. Horse-Faced was very sensible. He nodded without hesitation, turned around and was about to lead the people away, but Panpan spoke again with a hesitant tone: "Well, wait, please wait a moment!"

She pursed her lips slightly and gestured on her face tentatively: "I want to ask, there is a sister who looks... just, this half of the face is particularly beautiful, where is she now?

" "Because of her, my mother and I can get out. I want to thank her again in person."

Xu Ming: "..."

"She...she is a special employee of our unit." Xu Ming was silent for a moment, scratched his face nonchalantly, "She doesn't live here, and is rather elusive...If I see her, I will convey your thanks to her."

"Ah... okay. "Panpan responded softly, but her face still showed disappointment that she could not hide. Mataigor was very smart. Seeing this, he hurried forward and relied on his special and even cartoon-like image to easily divert Panpan's attention. After a while, he led her and her mother out of the door and slowly walked away.

For a while, only Xu Ming and Gu Yunshu were left in the room. Xu Ming stirred the remaining noodles with chopsticks and glanced at Gu Yunshu: "Are you laughing?"

Gu Yunshu: "..."

"No. "She answered quickly.

However, the pair of eyes exposed outside the mask were clearly crooked.

Xu Ming looked at her helplessly, but decided not to expose her. Maybe it was because there were more people at home and more social activities, but it seemed that even someone as introverted as Gu Yunshu had become more lively.

Xu Ming lowered his head to mix noodles and casually asked about the situation when he came back. Gu Yunshu said that he did not encounter any problems - because he had been hiding and watching outside the building. She is very clear about the situation. When the time was right, he got out as if nothing had happened and asked the people to leave in the name of the demolition office. Everything went smoothly.

The only awkward thing was that when they left, Ling Guang noticed a bunch of puppies following her. He seemed to really like these things, and he even asked with interest if he could hold one - only to be yelled at by all the dogs with the same hatred.

That scene can be said to be quite spectacular.

"...Oh yes, and about Mr. Haitang." Gu Yunshu said this, suddenly remembered, and added, "I originally wanted to ask it to come back with me. But it said it finally came out, and wanted to calm down alone first. It will come back later, so we don't have to worry. "

Xu Ming: ...

alone and quiet... I hope it is really alone when it is quiet. Her current residence is very remote, and it is really inconvenient to rush to the police station in the city to pick her up...

? Wait a minute.

As if something suddenly crossed his mind, Xu Ming paused while slurping his noodles, and then raised his head suddenly: "Wait, you said it will come back by itself later?"

"Yeah." Gu Yunshu nodded, "Because it didn't want to be in the sun, it also took an umbrella from Anxin Gardening."

Xu Ming: "..."

"No, no, no, this is not the point." Xu Ming put down his chopsticks without saying anything, and after thinking about it, he still asked with a faint hope, "When you left, did you tell it that we had moved?"

"... ? "In response to her, Gu Yunshu gave her a blank look.

"No." She said lightly, "I saw it said it very confidently, I thought you had told it."

After all, they had been in the building together for so long.

Xu Ming: "…………"

What the hell, I just remembered how to write its name now.

"In other words, you didn't tell it either?" Gu Yunshu tilted his head and blinked calmly, "How embarrassing. Then where should it go back home? "

"..."

Xu Ming didn't say anything.

She just looked down at the half-full of noodles left in the bowl.

Suddenly, she felt that it didn't smell good.

* On

the other side -

in Xu Ming's old apartment.

After knocking on the door for a long time, no one opened it. The whale man had no choice but to break in by himself: "..."

Looking at the empty house in front of him that was full of strange traces, he fell into silence for a long time.

After a long silence, he didn't know how many times he said "ah" with true feelings.