Chapter 65: Road Trip Tips
There was a knock on the door, which made the withered old arm hesitate for a moment. Instead of continuing into the storage room, she turned to the living room.
The old lady rolled its eyes hesitantly, but in the end she was taken over by its greed to gather the fourth candidate, and turned around and walked out.
Anyway, those three female students couldn't escape, so it wouldn't be too late to catch the four of them together and make soup base.
Inside the warehouse. Zhang You and the other three looked at each other with solemn and complicated expressions.
They couldn't hear the sound outside the door, and they only knew that the worst possibility was that Xinjue also failed.
Once the worst happened, the only way to survive was what they just learned... No matter if it was too late or not, they had no choice but to try it out.
Now or never!
Zhang You gritted her teeth: "Now! Let's do it!"
*
Tang Xinjue opened the car door.
The car jumped off the cliff, but did not fall. Instead, it drove for a while in the heavy fog. When the fog cleared, this strange and new road appeared in front of her.
A red house stands alone on the roadside, with the identity of the owner marked on the house number: Grandma Mayas.
Their final mission goal was here.
Picking up the gift box containing the "specialties", Tang Xinjue knocked on the door without hesitation.
Within a few seconds, the red-painted wooden door creaked open, and an old head stuck out.
This was an old lady who was about seventy or eighty years old. Her short and stooped body was wrapped in a red sweater and a green apron. What was extremely asymmetrical with the withered body was the old lady's bloated and droopy face.
At this moment, an uncomfortable smile appeared on this face, and most of her body could not wait to reach out: "Dear child, have you brought the specialties I want?"
Was this "Grandma Mayas"?
Her eyes swept over the other party very quickly, and Tang Xinjue noticed that the old lady was holding a black cloth bag in her other hand, and she could faintly see the needle inside.
Before she could answer, the old lady laughed and said, "Don't worry, I have always been very tolerant of stupid children. Even if you only mess up things, you can still spend the night in my house."
As she said that, she grabbed Tang Xinjue's arm with her thin palms!
The moment the danger struck, Tang Xinjue had already stepped back, avoiding physical contact with the other party, and said in a clear voice: "There's no need to spend the night."
Her mission was just to deliver the specialties.
Grandma Mayas grabbed an empty hand: "..."
The old lady opened her eyes wide in disbelief, and her eyelids bulged high: "You can still move?"
Her first reaction was that the student was wearing a powerful prop. Just as she was about to show her fierce look, she saw Tang Xinjue holding out a purple gift box with a bow.
The old lady's movements froze again.
"You, you actually succeeded?!"
This student actually managed to walk out of that highway and really delivered the specialties here?
Seeing "Grandma Mayas's" reaction, Tang Xinjue understood everything.
The obstacles on the circular road were simply traps set by this NPC!
The other party thought that she had no specialties in hand, but she invited her in without any surprise... This could only mean the same thing, and the old lady had done it skillfully many times.
Where did her roommates who disappeared from the road go? The answer had come to light.
The moment she saw the purple gift box, Grandma Mayas's eyes seemed to be sucked and unable to move. She subconsciously stretched out her hand to take it, but she missed it.
Tang Xinjue moved the gift box behind her back and asked, knowingly: "Are you Grandma Mayas?"
The old lady's swollen face was twitching, as if she wanted to grab her directly, but she was forced to stop in place due to some unknown threat, and replied in a low voice: "Yes, I am Grandma Mayas... Dear child, hurry up and give me the specialty. I've been waiting for it all day!"
Tang Xinjue had no intention of moving. Faced with the urging, she just smiled: "Of course I understand that this specialty is [highly important] to Grandma Mayas, so I have to confirm it carefully. It would be bad if it is delivered by mistake."
"It's really ridiculous..." Grandma Mayas said angrily: "I'm standing here, how else can I prove it?"
It was so angry that its eyeballs became more and more bulging, as if they were about to pop out of its eyelids.
"Empty words without evidence," Tang Xinjue shook her head: "Do you have an ID card?"
Grandma Mayas: "..."
What was an ID card? Could it be fed to ghosts?
"It seems not," Tang Xinjue smiled: "In this case, I can't give you the specialties easily. Unless..."
"Unless what?"
"Unless there's a witness."
Tang Xinjue suppressed her smile: "If Grandma Mayas can ask my roommates to come out to help confirm, I will be happy to believe it."
The old lady slowly retracted its hand and no longer maintained its hypocritical smile.
It realized that the student in front of it had actually passed the highway checkpoint and had mastered the truth about the instance. Saying the request in a positive tone made her original plan of pretending to be stupid and deceiving all come to nothing, so she simply sneered:
"Don't forget what your mission is. If you don't hand it over to me immediately, you will never leave here. Poor child, you will starve to death on this road and be corroded into a pile of bones by the night fog!"
The girl was neither humble nor arrogant: "I will leave here - with my roommates."
She refused to eat soft or hard.*
*ruǎn yìng bù chī, refuse to eat soft or hard, refers to a very tough attitude when negotiating with another party or handling problems, and no method can make them change their attitude.
"Okay, okay." The old lady seemed to compromise, turning its withered body sideways to make a gap for her to pass: "Your friends are inside. If you really want to see your friends, go in and call them."
Tang Xinjue looked at this coy old ghost with cold eyes. Every word it said was untrustworthy.
"If Grandma Mayas really wants to get the specialty products in my hands, you will send all my roommates out, one person per specialty."
Under the gradually darkening night, the girl's voice was soft, but there was no room to retort.
The examinee left the road with a narrow escape from death in an almost unsolvable dilemma. Compared with the people who were automatically teleported here due to failure, her difference was this extra thing called a specialty.
The so-called "high importance" of this specialty to the dungeon boss was the restriction imposed on ghosts by the rules.
——A condition that could definitely enable candidates to successfully pass the test as long as nothing unexpected happens.
Grandma Mayas's face gradually became distorted and its yellowed teeth creaked, as if it was going to pounce on Tang Xinjue and drag her into the house in the next second. But it never moved.
Tang Xinjue's guess was correct.
Once the candidate knocked on the door with a special product, the rules and restrictions were immediately reversed. She could move freely, and the one who got restricted was the ghost.
Even if Grandma Mayas wanted to tear this human girl alive, it couldn't really do it. It could only seduce the other person to come in and try to use the rules in the house to control her.
Tang Xinjue seemed to nail her to the spot, and her voice became colder and colder: "Grandma Mayas, I have worked hard according to the rules. Are you refusing to sign for it?"
"..."
The old lady's expression changed uncertainly, but it finally took a deep breath and squeezed out the answer through its teeth:
"Okay, you wait here and I'll return them to you.
"But your friends are just as cunning as you. I don't know where they are hiding now. I'm going to find them one by one first..."
Tang Xinjue shook the gift box in her hand casually, "The four of us spent a whole day delivering the specialties. You shouldn't retaliate and hurt them, right?"
Mayas looked like its blood pressure was about to rise, and it said bitterly: "Don't worry, cunning new students, their vitality is more tenacious than the rats in the rice barn."
It was already an old and cunning ghost, it knew what was important and what was not important, and would not be easily angered to the point of losing its mind. Therefore, even if the hard-planned gains came to naught, it would endure the humiliation and bear the burden to fulfill the rules and requirements.
"By the way," it suddenly remembered something and squeezed out a sinister smile, "Dear child, thank you for sending such an important thing. In return, I will give you a very exquisite gift so you will always remember this wonderful road trip..."
Before it could finish its words, a loud bang exploded from the side of the house!!
A person and a ghost turned their heads at the same time, and saw that the wooden wall on the right side of the red house had been knocked open with a gap the size of half a person, and a fist shaped like an iron pot disappeared in the gap.
Zheng Wanqing shouted: "I smashed it open! Hit it quickly!"
"One two three!"
The next moment, Zhang You and Guo Guo each carried a corner of the freezer and broke through the wall.
Grandma Mayas: "..."
Tang Xinjue: "..."
Wood chips were flying, and Zhang You and the others immediately got up and looked around, then looked at the door from a distance.
Four people and a ghost, with big eyes and small eyes*, looked at each other.
*大眼瞪小眼; big eyes stares at small eyes: staring blankly, expressing surprise and suddenness at a situation with no solution
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