The crazy and insane laughter sounded particularly creepy in the space blocked by the mirror.
Su Er looked at Ji Heng and mouthed: He is crazy.
Ji Heng nodded slightly.
Su Er, who considered himself a normal person, could not understand this behavior and asked, "What good does it do you to bring us together by all means?"
The loyal tomb-keeper wiped away the tears from his eyes, a strange smile appearing on his sorrowful face. "My original intention was to let you two fall in love passionately, and then kill you, leaving him in agony, killing two players with one stone."
"Wait," Su Er was stunned and pointed at himself: "Why kill me?"
Loyal Tomb Guardian: "Low combat power, easy to attack."
"…"
Su Er looked at Ji Heng from the corner of his eye: "Please control the upward curve of your mouth."
Ji Heng turned his head away, recalling that Suer was often the first to be attacked when encountering ghosts. It would have been fine if it happened once or twice, but it was always him, like a moving target.
To sum it up it's kind of funny.
The loyal tomb-keeper suddenly stood up straight, his face devoid of a smile. "These mirrors are truly disgusting."
Each side clearly reflects the scene of him laughing and crying, making him look extremely funny.
After saying this, the loyal tomb-guardian glanced at Su Er and said, "Go and break the third side on the left."
Su Er did as he was told, but he was careful. Except for the moment of hitting, he immediately stepped back after touching the mirror.
A beam of dazzling light suddenly pierced in, and the moment of seeing the light again made people feel slightly dazed.
Suer's heart tightened instantly. The third floor was a light-proof side, so why was it so bright?
Before he could think carefully, he was suddenly pulled from behind. Su Er lost his balance and staggered and fell, and was supported by Ji Heng.
The blurry feeling that suddenly came into contact with the light subsided. After a while, I looked up again and found that the broken mirror was actually a window. If I had stepped on empty air, I would probably have fallen down the building.
The loyal servant who guarded the tomb smiled and said, "I'm telling you the exit out of kindness."
Sur's face darkened, and he walked over again to make sure that he didn't hit any passersby, and breathed a sigh of relief.
The commotion here quickly attracted the waiter.
Su Er glanced at Ji Heng.
"It's okay." Ji Heng shook his head, indicating that there was no need to worry too much.
Since the other party chose to take action here, they would not leave any hidden dangers such as surveillance, and they should even have made a series of arrangements in advance.
Just as he expected, the waiter seemed to have received instructions long ago and quietly cleaned up the broken glass on the ground without asking why.
Su Er breathed a sigh of relief and looked up to see Mr. Pu Liu at the stairs. There was some blood on his sleeves, but his injuries were not serious.
With just a glance, Mr. Pu Liu knew that he was the only one being targeted.
"Are you okay?" The loyal servant walked over with a concerned look on his face. Looking at the blood on his sleeve, his eyes reddened. "Who did this?"
Those who didn't know this might mistakenly think that he was worried about his colleagues. However, everyone present knew the loyal tomb keeper's character very well, and naturally knew that the red eyes were due to joy.
Mr. Pu Liu's eyes were icy: "I don't care if you enter the dungeon, just stay out of the way."
Seeing him turn around and leave, the loyal tomb-guarding servant said with a smile, "You don't use the players, and you work alone. Should I call you stupid or confident?"
There is no room for two tigers in one mountain. After witnessing the competition between the hosts, Su Er finally understood the feelings of outsiders who were watching the show.
"Can the players be trusted?"
After saying this, Mr. Pu Liu ignored everyone and went downstairs.
The loyal servant guarding the tomb frowned and disappeared soon.
Su Er's expression shifted slightly. "From what he said, he might be suspecting there might be a spy among the players?"
Ji Heng handed him a wet wipe without saying a word and asked him to wipe off the glass shards on his clothes.
Carefully wiping off the fine glass powder, Su Er recalled the scene during the audition: "People are selected by the game. It's impossible for players to know the situation inside the dungeon before entering."
Ji Heng didn't allow him to speculate any further, and said meaningfully, "The further you go, the harder it will be to accumulate points."
Suer had always focused on achievement points and rarely paid attention to accumulated points. When he checked, he found that he only had a few hundred points.
After seven dungeons, and even after being judged as an outstanding performer, I only managed to accumulate this much. Reaching 10,000 points was a pipe dream. As for the 24 achievement points, collecting them was even more difficult than the points themselves. Leaving the game using any of them was incredibly difficult.
"This instance was once out of the game's control for a moment," Ji Heng said as they went downstairs. "Perhaps someone is going to make a desperate move and use this to make a fuss."
"No wonder everyone is not very enthusiastic."
We should unite as a group after learning from past mistakes, but now we basically stick together in groups of three or two, not only guarding against outsiders, but also our own people.
Many onlookers stood outside Changfu Building, criticizing the poor quality of the glass, saying it would be a disaster if it hit someone. The hotel manager personally led a team to clean up the broken glass and repeatedly promised that it would not happen again.
Suer searched on his mobile phone and found that Wan Baolin was the largest shareholder of Changfulou. He then considered whether it would be possible to find clues about the person behind the scenes if he started to investigate from there.
He quickly dismissed this idea. Since they dared to choose this place as the place for the dinner, they must have ensured that no useful information could be obtained from it.
Seeing that Su Er was a little undecided, Ji Heng took the initiative and said, "Go back to the dormitory first."
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During lunch break, the dormitory building is very quiet.
After closing the door, Suer spoke, holding a piece of paper in his hand, trying to summarize: "Someone in Wanbaolin awakened the ability of foresight and preemptively killed the players and hosts who wanted to seize the treasure. However, that person didn't expect that after that, we, the uninvited guests, would arrive."
Judging from Sanhua's performance alone, those vampires were also involved in the killing plan.
But why would the vampire family want to get involved in this mess for no reason?
Ji Heng gave a little hint: "Vampires essentially rely on winning over various forces to become powerful. Wanbaolin is the number one auction house in the country, with countless rare treasures. It is easy to win people over to do things."
Su Er suddenly realized: "So they are most likely just playing the role of killers, accepting bribes to do the job?"
Ji Heng nodded.
After a brief exchange, Suer searched and entered Wanbaolin's official website.
The benefits of the information age are sometimes obvious. He quickly wrote down a series of names including the chairman, searched for keywords in forums and other places, and even read through the gossip carefully.
"The chairman is in his fifties, and there are rumors of his romantic affairs everywhere. Six months ago, an extramarital affair indirectly caused the company's stock price to plummet."
Suer shook his head. It was unlikely that someone who completely disregarded the company's reputation was the mastermind behind this.
There weren't many reports about the other senior executives on the Internet. Thinking that Wan Baolin was a family business, he tried to search for information about their children.
Chairman Wan Baolin has three sons and two daughters. His two daughters are still young, and the second son is the most outstanding. The media has published hundreds of reports on who will become the future heir between him and his eldest son.
During this time, Su Er discovered a particularly interesting piece of information: "The youngest daughter is actually from the same batch of students as us, her name is Lin Qian."
The two parties were in different classes, and Lin Qian was registered under the name of another training teacher.
Children of wealthy families inevitably attract a bit more attention. Lin Qian is beautiful, with hundreds of thousands of followers on social media, making her daily life easy to track. From netizens' comments, it's known that she has awakened to the identity of a puppeteer, able to manipulate puppets from a distance.
"Awesome ability." Suer opened Wan Baolin's app to see if there was anything available recently that could deal with the Puppeteer.
Seeing that he was determined to spend all his money to get through the game, Ji Heng asked, "How much endorsement fee is left?"
"Less than two million."
A new artist can't earn much money shooting commercials, which shows how many small commercials Su Er has taken on recently. What's amazing is that his frequent use of his face has caused netizens to go from being disgusted to writing jokes about him, and he has actually accumulated a small number of fans by relying on his popularity.
You can earn a few thousand dollars by posting an advertisement occasionally.
"And you?"
Ji Heng: "Less than two thousand."
"…"
In the afternoon, Su Er was thinking about how to contact Lin Qian. They were in different training classes, so it would not be appropriate to approach her rashly.
While he was thinking hard, Ji Heng tidied up the dormitory and said, "At your age, don't you all like to be heroes and save the damsels in distress?"
Soul shook his head: "I don't lie to people's feelings."
Ji Heng raised his eyebrows.
Su Er said calmly: "It doesn't count if you trick ghosts."
After that, he made an appointment with the classmate who had accompanied him on a day trip to the police station a few days ago, under the pretext of discussing study, but in fact, he was just asking for news and having a nice meal with him.
When I came back in the evening, I was holding a rice noodle roll in my hand: "I brought this for you."
Ji Heng took a look at it and added minced meat, which could be considered a "luxurious" midnight snack.
He hadn't had a single day of rest, and Suer went to bed early at night.
I had just fallen asleep when I was woken up by a strange noise.
With his previous experience, he had no choice but to sit up and calmly lifted a corner of the quilt. He was not surprised at all to meet a pair of dead fish eyes through the gap.
Ji Heng turned sideways and asked, "Is it that ghost again?"
Su Er nodded. He still had to live in the dormitory for another month, so he couldn't afford to rub the other person's bed every day. So, for the first time, he tried to pay attention to the ghost: "Tell me your purpose."
Murder or arson?
"...Want to completely destroy this game?" The ghost, who had been playing pranks for a long time, spoke in a hoarse voice, like dropping a bombshell: "Cooperate, I can help you."
"Destroy?" Sur frowned.
The ghost laughed twice: "Get rid of its control and live freely..."
"I'm always loyal to the game!"
The ghost's pair of dead fish eyes revealed an incredible look.
Ji Heng opposite was watching the performance quietly.
Soul: "Many people hate games, resent being forced into the experience. But why are we drawn into games? Perhaps the players are already mortal, or perhaps it's due to some powerful desire, or even... we are already dead, and the game gives us a second life."
"The game is fun, but it doesn't take killing for fun. Otherwise, the players would have been dead long ago."
"I believe in the game, I am loyal to the game, and I will protect the game with my fragile hands! Today, I will personally deal with you, the evildoer who has evil intentions towards the game!"
His face showed intense emotions, but his heart was as calm as a cold pond.
Su Er looked at the imp under the bed with disdain. His last report on the loyal gravekeeper had yielded results soon, proving that nothing said or done in the dungeon could be hidden from the game. And this kind of underhanded behavior, eager to make it known to the world, wasn't just courting death?
To put it another way, even if he wanted to overturn the game, he would never express it verbally.
After expressing his opinion, he did not forget to wink at Ji Heng, indicating that he should also praise the game.
As the saying goes, lick the dog, lick the dog, and in the end you will get everything.