"One, two, three..." When the last number was about to be counted, the little girl's eyes lingered between Sur and the cleaner, full of suggestion.
Sur nodded and calmly swung his fist, saving face for both of them. At first glance, the action did not seem too exaggerated.
However, the cleaner, because he was scared of being killed before, couldn't help but turn his face away at the last second before the fist fell, which attracted the dissatisfied gaze of the little girl.
The cleaner didn't care about that and pretended to be hit and opened his mouth: "Ah... Bah..."
This "Pah" was her last bit of dignity and stubbornness!
The next second, the foreign object that was spit out of his mouth rolled to Suer's feet.
Sur didn't bend down to pick it up immediately, but took a closer look to make sure he was not mistaken. This was a bloody baby tooth.
I couldn't help but frowned: "Are you sure it's a prop?"
The little girl curled her lips: "You are so ungrateful."
Soul picked up the baby tooth, the blood streaks on it unpleasant. He turned and took it to the sink to clean it, but the blood stain on the outside wouldn't wash away no matter how hard he tried. This actually made him feel relieved. If there had been nothing unusual, he would have worried that the little girl had just picked something up to trick him.
Having obtained what he wanted, he began to ask for information: "How did you die?"
The cleaner didn't speak.
Su Er: "Do you know Si Qinmingjiao?"
The cleaner remained silent.
Just as Su Er was about to forcefully interrogate her, the little girl's expression suddenly grew serious. "Some things you have to find the answers to on your own."
Sur actually listened to the advice and did not attack the cleaner immediately.
The little girl squinted at him and added, "You can play with the game, but you can't hit it in the face." Finally, she added suggestively, "Occasionally, there are dungeons that increase the difficulty from medium to high."
The last sentence completely extinguished Soul's thoughts of exploring sex.
As the cleaner gradually recovered, he quickly asked, "What information can you tell me?"
Cleaner: "Stay away from me first."
Sur took two steps back.
The cleaner was silent for a moment: "Si Qinmingjiao is a child with great potential."
Unable to find out the meaning behind this sentence for the time being, and unable to ask any more valuable questions, Sur finally chose to turn around and leave. At the same time, a sigh of relief was heard from behind him.
After spending most of the morning, as soon as I returned to the dormitory, I heard some noise in the corridor. Many students were coming back together after class.
Sur opened the door and looked outside, sensing a strange sense of incongruity.
Ignoring the nature of the reform camp, this place is just like a normal school. But if you convert it, there are only five places to go out every year. It would be wrong not to fight for it.
Only one player, Zhang Yi, returned. The two exchanged glances, and Zhang Yi walked over, his voice low, "They all went to the archives."
Apparently, Su Er and Ji Heng were not the only ones who had their sights set on that place.
"Why don't you go?"
Zhang Yi shook his head: "There are too many people, too much publicity."
There were a few players who wanted to take advantage of the situation, but the rest had the capital to save their lives, and he himself was not one of them.
Sur nodded in agreement: "Better safe than sorry."
Zhang Yi looked like he had found a soulmate: "I think you're pretty steady."
It was the first time someone said this to him, and Su Er was quite flattered.
Zhang Yi: "It's better to stay in the dormitory and live a miserable life than to rush to the archives."
Su Er scratched his head: "To be honest, I have been sitting in the bathroom this morning thinking about life."
The two sides hit it off immediately.
Zhang Yi suggested: "Why don't we team up to find clues?"
Su Er glanced up and down, looking at him scrutinizingly, and nodded after a while: "Okay."
Zhang Yi didn't have much good intentions. He proposed to team up mainly because the other party and Ji Heng were in the same organization, and maybe they could get a ride. Moreover, Su Er's achievements were unprecedented, and maybe if he was lucky, he could gain something by following him.
Zhang Yi gave him enough face on the small matter and first asked Su Er for his opinion: "Where to go first?"
Sur: "A place where corpses are disposed of."
Zhang Yi was surprised.
Soul: "There was a body carried out when we came that night, and I want to find it."
"..." Making sure he wasn't joking, Zhang Yi's smile was a little forced. This seemed a little different from the stability he was pursuing.
·
There were quite a lot of people on the road at this time. As soon as I walked downstairs to the dormitory building, I saw a bus taking the students who were selected today to do internships.
Zhang Yi secretly prayed that he would not be chosen, as it would take too much time to go out.
"How about we change places?" He glanced at Su Er from the corner of his eye: "Who knows where the body is?"
Maybe it has already been sent to the crematorium for destruction.
Su Er: "Use a trick."
Before Zhang Yi could ask what the plan was, he walked to the opposite side and stood in the sun, nodding and smiling at passersby from time to time. Soon, someone actually came over and spoke to him.
"Are you feeling better?"
Suer had some impression of this person; they were in the same class.
After a brief exchange, Suhr began to ask questions: "The day before yesterday, the cleaner asked me to take a specimen."
The girl showed a sympathetic yet somewhat jealous look: "Then you must have received an A rating."
Soul shook his head.
Jealousy instantly turned into pity, and the girl comforted him, "Don't think too much."
Su Er pursed his lips and said, "By the way, only the heads of those who escaped will be made into specimens. Where will the bodies be placed?"
The girl looked at him with some doubt.
Su Er said in a sad tone: "It would be great if they could be sent home. I hope their families can see them off for the last time."
The girl was stunned for a moment, then lowered her head. After a long while, she said, "You're the kindest person I've ever met. It's a pity you ended up here." She sighed and smiled helplessly, "How could they possibly send us home? They were buried directly in the woods behind the playground."
Not long ago, he used a crying doll to deal with the cleaning lady. Sur's eyes were already red, and now he was being more artificial, looking completely sad.
Zhang Yi stood in an inconspicuous corner and watched. He originally thought that the beauty trap was shameless enough, but he didn't expect that something even more disgusting was yet to come.
When Su Er came back, his expression changed immediately: "Wait a moment, I'll go to the top floor to get two shovels."
Ten minutes later, Zhang Yi came to the grove with him in a daze. Perhaps because this place was regarded as the default place for dumping corpses, students usually avoided it, which saved them a lot of trouble.
The afternoon sun was blazing, but the grove was filled with a chilling atmosphere. The refreshing coolness that should have been invigorating the heart was wiped out by a strange smell.
Zhang Yi was a little confused: "Such a large piece of land..."
Su Er interrupted him: "Find freshly turned soil."
Now that they were here, they had to get down to work. From time to time, black beetles would emerge from the ground, but thinking of the headless corpses they might have to face soon, the two of them didn't feel much for these underground bugs.
Going further, there was a patch of soil with a clearly different color, and there were many stones scattered around. Suer and Zhang Yi looked at each other and began to dig silently.
The shovel had barely been swung before it struck something soft. One could imagine how painstakingly and labor-intensively the burial took, perhaps without even digging a complete hole.
The two of them worked together to pull the body out. The neck was empty and the head was completely chopped off. Several earthworms were swimming around in the blood-stained mud.
Zhang Yi turned his head away and stopped looking at the scene.
Su Er showed no sign of stopping. He pointed to several places nearby and said firmly, "Continue."
Although he was reluctant, Zhang Yi still picked up the shovel and cooperated. When another body was dug out, his expression suddenly changed. He saw the badge on the headless body at a glance.
He suddenly looked up at Su Er: "How could this happen?"
"I don't know, let's dig first." Looking around, there were several pieces of land that showed signs of having been turned over recently.
They worked faster together, their arms gradually starting to ache. In the end, they dug out nine bodies, eight of which were wearing player badges.
Zhang Yi felt uneasy. Eight players were definitely enough people to complete a dungeon at once, which meant that a team might have been wiped out before them.
A cold wind blew by and he couldn't help shivering.
"Su..."
"Shh!" Su Er pointed at the corpse and winked: "It seems there is someone here."
Zhang Yi understood and quickly took off the badges on the bodies one by one. He might get some results if he investigated these people later.
"Who's there!"
"Run!" Sur threw the shovel behind him and ran quickly into the depths of the woods.
Zhang Yi ran against the wind, his teeth bared, his heart filled with boundless regret: "Fuck!"
If I had known this, I might as well have gone to the archives. This isn't playing it safe, it's clearly about going all out!
The person chasing after him was a security guard. He was tall and strong, probably because he often dealt with cases of students escaping. He was running very fast and was swinging an electric baton in his hand.
The two men didn't dare run outside. If they were seen outside the playground being chased by security, they would be unable to defend themselves and would ultimately be destroyed. Su Er took a breath and said, "Find a way to fight back. If we make too much noise and attract another security guard, we'll be dead."
Zhang Yi gasped for breath: "You go and draw the fire, maybe I can find a way to kill him!"
Soul gave him a meaningful look.
Zhang Yi handed over something: "I have a tool that can instantly heal any injury, as long as it's not too serious." Because running made it difficult for him to speak fluently, he said: "If you don't believe me... you can try it first."
Su Er bit his tongue without hesitation, opened the bottle, and just lightly touched the liquid inside. The wound healed immediately, and he immediately agreed: "It's as you say."
Seeing him nod in agreement, Zhang Yi breathed a sigh of relief. He had no intention of risking his life with the security guard. He made up his mind that if Sur went to attract firepower, he would immediately seize the opportunity to escape.
However, Suer's next words immediately shattered his fantasy -
"If I get caught, I'll reveal your identity to the security guards. We'll bury you together in the woods so you can have some company."
"!!!"
After threatening, Soul moved with a swift and decisive move, turning without hesitation and running towards the security. The whirring sound of an electric baton piercing the air echoed overhead, but he was quite agile, ducking and dodging, stabilizing his lower body before delivering a powerful kick.
The disadvantage of his low strength was now fully exposed; the kick caused no damage at all. The security guard was human, so the method of absorbing Yin Qi wouldn't work, and the stun gun could only be used at close range. Now, the other party swung a stick at him, easily forcing him several meters away.
After all, Su Er had no experience in martial arts. After dodging seven or eight times, he was hit hard on the arm by a stick and lost consciousness immediately.
I use electric shocks on ghosts all day long, but I never thought that I would be hit by an electric baton sometimes.
"I have a companion, his name is..." Suer couldn't even stand steadily, feeling dizzy, but he still shouted loudly despite the pain.
Zhang Yi had no choice but to turn back, cursing and swearing as he took a shortcut around the security guard, picked up the shovel, and while Sul was grabbing the security guard with one of his still movable arms, he hit the other's head steadily and accurately.
The security guard staggered twice and fell to the ground.
Zhang Yi was also a ruthless man, and he hit him twice more.
Soul sat on the ground, covering his arm, and raised his eyebrows at the scene.
Zhang Yi sneered, "He clearly wanted to kill us just now. Besides, many students have died at the hands of security guards, perhaps among them were the previous batch of players."
"Have you seen enough of the show?" Suer's eyes actually passed through him and looked at something farther.
Zhang Yi turned around and didn't see anyone. He patted his chest and complained, "I told you to stop scaring me, okay?"
Sur pointed upwards and saw a little girl sitting on the treetop holding a lantern. Her body seemed to be weightless and the trunk did not even bend.
After being stunned for two seconds, Zhang Yi quickly took a step back: "Oh my god!"
The little girl jumped down from the tree and looked at Zhang Yi disappointedly: "Who asked you to cooperate with him?"
Otherwise, Suer would have died long ago. It's a pity that she was still full of expectations.
Su Er ignored the sarcasm and prepared to take what Zhang Yi had just given him, which was only half a bottle of liquid. He brought it to his mouth but didn't pour it in. Suddenly, he asked, "What is the maximum degree of injury it can heal?"
"I'm not sure." Zhang Yi thought for a moment, "But I used half a bottle in a dungeon, and my severed leg healed."
Seeing Su Er's hesitation, Zhang Yi disagreed: "No matter how good the things are, life is more important."
No matter how serious the injury is in the dungeon, as long as the player can get out alive, they can recover as before, but Sur's current condition obviously cannot keep him going.
Su Er lowered his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking. After a while, he looked at the little girl and asked, "Do you know Gou Baopu?"
The little girl looked at him warily: "Why are you asking about that dishonest businessman?"
Su Er smiled and asked again: "Is it possible to leave the dungeon for a short period of time?"
This time the little girl didn't even look at him.
Su Er sighed: "I was overthinking it. Even a host as powerful as the Divine Calculator couldn't do anything..."
The naughty kid couldn't stand the provocation and complained: "He's not as good as me in this aspect!"
Soul looked skeptical.
The little girl was further enraged and angrily threw her lantern down, creating a crater in the ground. "Hosts can't leave the dungeon at will, but the game has the 'Minor Host Protection Act,' which allows young hosts one chance to leave."
After hearing the information he wanted, Sur looked at her with even gentler eyes, and the little girl felt her scalp tingling.
Su Er bewitched him, "Help me do some business with Gou Bao Pu. I can help you improve your reputation in the hosting industry."
"Impossible." The little girl refused without even thinking.
Su Er automatically filtered out her words and released his hand covering his arm: "There is an old woman in Gou Bao Pu's territory, she lives in the attic. You can peel off the skin on my hand and go find her..."
Zhang Yi was already doubting his life after hearing this, when the little girl jumped up and asked, "Skinning?"
There are players who actually asked to be skinned!
Su Er nodded, confirming she had heard correctly. He painstakingly took out the doll prop and said, "I'll ask my mother-in-law if she's willing to help me fix the doll. If not, forget it. Just consider the skin as my filial piety to her."
Shocked by this cruelty, the little girl rolled her eyes and asked, "What good will this do me?"
Soul: "I'm also quite 'notorious' in the game. When you go back, don't tell me the reason. Just spread the news that you skinned me. Doesn't that make you look powerful?"
The little girl looked down at her toes, feeling a little shameful... Who doesn't have vanity?
Su Er continued to softly build a blueprint for her: "Think about how many hosts have suffered losses at my hands. In comparison, you will become famous overnight."
The little girl's voice was so low that it was almost inaudible: "Will we be discovered?"
"How is that possible?" Su Er sat up slightly, as if he didn't understand why she had such a hidden worry: "This is all behind-the-scenes manipulation!"
A brief silence passed, and the little girl clenched her hand around the lantern: "Done!"
Su Er: "To be on the safe side, I want the cleaner to do the skinning. She often does taxidermy and has experience."
"…"
In the grove, the sound of wind and panting mixed together.
Big beads of sweat slid down Su Er's forehead. Even though his arm had no feeling, he could still feel some pain. During this time, Su Er did not dare to blink at all, staring at the cleaner, preventing her from taking the opportunity to retaliate.
The cleaner did have this idea, but he was being watched too closely and couldn't put it into practice. He was also scared after being killed before, and he always felt an unconscious fear when facing Su Er.
By the time the skin on his hands was completely peeled off, Sur's patience had reached its limit. He drank the medicine in one gulp, and his hands instantly became smooth as before.
If it weren't for the clothes soaked with sweat, it would seem as if everything before was an illusion.
"Sorry for the trouble." Soul smiled weakly at the host.
The little girl looked at him deeply and left with her treated skin.
·
In a magnificent ancient castle.
Gou Bao Pu wore his usual kind smile and said, "It's not worth it to waste so much Yin energy to force myself to wake up just to seek justice."
Opposite him was a half-skeleton, shrouded in deathly aura. Its voice was hoarse: "I have plenty of Yin Qi."
"I won't return the things," Gou Baopu spread his hands. "Your ghost marriage with Su Er is recognized by the rules of the game, and he has a marriage contract. I'm just a businessman, earning a living..."
Before he finished speaking, he narrowed his eyes in displeasure: "Why do kids like to run around in other people's homes these days?"
Gou Baopu turned the beads in his hand, and the space around him instantly distorted, and the wall at the door was directly shattered by the impact.
As the center of the attack, the little girl exhaled a breath of foul air, and the light of the lantern became stronger. Then she successfully walked out of the space, secretly saying that it was a close call.
"I'm here to see an old woman," she said.
Gou Baopu hated naughty children the most. He was concerned about the protection law and did not dare to act rashly. He said coldly, "The old man has a bad temper."
Little girl: "It was Su'er who came to her to do business."
Knowing that Suer had been to the welfare center before, the little girl directly named him.
Gou Baopu hadn't shown anything yet, but the skeleton became murderous upon hearing the name.
Gou Baopu was amused and changed his attitude: "He's just a player, what kind of deal can he make?"
The little girl refused to answer.
Rubbing the beads on his wrist with his fingertips, Gou Baopu promised, "Tell me, I won't tell anyone." He paused and added, "And your breaking in today will be wiped out as well."
The last sentence was quite attractive. The little girl hesitated for a moment and said, "You must never tell anyone."
She also wants to show off outside.
Gou Baopu nodded and pretended to swear.
"I heard that back at the welfare center, the old woman really liked the skin on Soul's hands," the little girl explained. "Now that he's injured and has a healing item, they thought it would be a waste to just use it, so they just peeled the skin off."
"…"
Each word is easy to understand, but why do they sound a bit scary when put together?
Gou Baopu's usually smiling face showed a hint of complexity. After a long moment, he looked at the Ghost King opposite him and said, "You deserved to be sold out."
When he gets ruthless, he even sells himself out. Is there anything that Suer can't do?