Chapter 68: Road Trip Tips
It turned out that when the customer service said "further investigation and communication", this was what it meant?
The room was silent for a moment.
Although they had known about the existence of counselors for a long time, they were still a little confused when faced with the "visit" unexpectedly——
They were completely unprepared!
And the email did not have any detailed information, such as who the counselor was, when they would come, what the specific process of the visit was...
Guo Guo covered her head and tried to escape: "Help, this is scarier than a sudden home visit from the teacher when I was a kid!"
Zheng Wanqing also had a bad look on her face: "It's even scarier than having my supervisor come to me and ask me to reselect the topic right after I posted the first draft of my thesis."
The most important thing is that they still know nothing about this "counselor". Is the other party malicious, well-intentioned, or neutral? As long as it has something to do with the Game, everyone always had a bad feeling.
Zhang You was worried: "I'll contact customer service this time and ask."
She opened the APP and was about to jump to the customer service interface when the screen suddenly reported an error:
[Service hours have expired and customer service has gotten off work. ]
...spicy chicken* game! If you don’t want to do it, don’t do it!
*a slang in Chinese net. The word 辣鸡, spicy chicken, is homophone to 垃圾 meaning rubbish
Tang Xinjue instead enlightened a few people: "Since it is something that cannot be changed, there is no need to worry too much. From this perspective, we are safe."
Roommates: "Really! Why?"
Tang Xinjue: "Because we are too weak."
Roommates: "……"
Looking at the three speechless and choked little faces, Tang Xinjue smiled: "Have you noticed? This game has distinct levels. Logically, the counselor's level should far exceed that of all the ghosts we encountered. Compared to those who have just entered the game, students can be said to be nothing more than a small drop in the tree. If the other party really makes an unfavorable move against us, we will not be able to resist."
"If the game wants to kill us so purely, why not tie all the students to trees and shoot them, and let the survivors return to reality."
Phew, Zhang You couldn't help laughing. Zheng Wanqing showed her two rows of white teeth, and the anxious atmosphere suddenly relaxed.
After making a joke, Tang Xinjue returned to seriousness: "But we have survived until now, haven't we?"
Soldiers will be blocked and water will be covered*. Even if you are in dire straits, you will at least have a glimmer of hope.
*Original text: 兵来将挡水来土掩. This is a Chinese idiom. The pinyin is bīng lái jiàng dǎng, shuǐ lái tǔ yǎn, which comes from "The Great War at Pitong" by Anonymous of the Yuan Dynasty. "When soldiers come, use generals to block it; when water comes, use soil to cover it." It has the meaning ‘there is always a solution to a problem’.
After saying this, everyone also thought about it. They should eat and drink, and then draw the lottery as usual.
"Cookies, water, water, cookies..."
Counting the endlessly repeated foods, Guo Guo's expression became as dry as a biscuit.
"A bottle of Coke is fine too!"
Before she finished speaking, a white light flashed in front of Tang Xinjue, and a large bottle of Coke appeared.
"Thank you, I forgive this world." Guo Guo was very easy to satisfy.
Due to the low number of valid points this time, a few didn’t roll the wheel. In addition to food, there are some useless daily necessities, such as ceramic mouthwash cups with chipped corners, flashlights without batteries, chopsticks that emit an unknown rancid smell, etc.
Zhang You put them into an unknown corner, and then simply cleaned the dormitory. After a while, the whole room looked brand new.
“No matter the time, never give up on cleaning and organizing supplies.”
Zhang You stretched out her hands: "All order in the world is the source of power!"
An imperceptible wind blew by, and a faint light flickered in Zhang You's hands.
Skill, recycling!
The next moment, a huge, cold white unknown object hit the ground with a bang.
Several people opened their eyes wide.
Especially Zhang, Guo and Zheng, they will not forget the psychological shadow at Grandma Mayas's house even after they turned into ashes, especially the icehouse filled with "soup base".
If they saw it correctly, the white object in front of them was clearly the fragment of the freezer used to hold the soup base in the freezing room. There were still a few drops of green liquid on the edges of the fragments.
Guo Guo was very shocked: "This thing can actually be recycled... ugh!"
The extremely unpleasant stench quickly filled the entire dormitory, and the four people retched and covered their mouths.
In the corridor outside the door, the heavy footsteps and scraping sounds that had been heard every day happened to come to the door, and the sounds stopped for the first time.
Footsteps: "Ugh."
At this moment, 606 is even certified by unknown monsters as stinky.
Zhang You, who had just finished cleaning and specially sprayed air freshener: "..."
At twelve o'clock in the morning, the freezer fragments were finally cleaned.
The green soup base liquid is sealed layer by layer and stored in the mirror space. The clean fragments of the freezer were placed next to the dorm door. It happened to be the broken corner of the freezer and could be used as a storage device to store the sewing kit that Tang Xinjue had received from Grandma Mayas.
The three people who watched Zhang You's cleaning process could only express their admiration. It was as if what they were watching was not cleaning, but a spellcasting.
After the spell was cast, Zhang You was exhausted: "I'll take a shower first."
"Do you need to send you bath towels and shampoo?"
"This is my treasured luxury brand shower gel!"
"You can wash as much as you like, the bathroom is yours alone today!"
The three of them were extremely flattering.
Zhang You: "...There's no need for any of this. If you can, please pray that I don't dream about the NPC's icehouse when I go to sleep for a while. I'm really - blargh."
Forget it, it’s all said and done.
After struggling like this until one o'clock in the morning, with the news broadcast by the Noseless Ghost on the TV, the few of them got into bed and gradually fell asleep.
"Today, Grandma Mayas, a resident who lives on the highway outside the University City, petitioned overnight to apply to the education center for a senior citizen subsidy. After learning that the education center did not have an elderly services department, Grandma Mayas stood outside the center and cursed three times. Hours later, she reported the crime instead, claiming that her home had been robbed and her sewing kit had been stolen. Then she learned that the education center did not have a police department..."
The noseless ghost sighed empathetically: "Well, the university town is really an indifferent place. I thought the same thing when I wanted to have nose plastic surgery many times, but found that there was no plastic surgery hospital here at all."
A ding-ding warning sound sounded, urging the noseless ghost not to go off topic.
The noseless ghost stuck out his meter-long tongue and continued to read: "Recently, in order to welcome the first weekend competition day in the university town, the three universities are intensively searching for courses that can help students adapt to the competition in advance. At the same time, the Third-Rate University refused to cooperate with First-Rate and Second-Rate University on the grounds that [you have no freshmen]. After the conflict escalated, the newly repaired gate of Third-Rate University was destroyed again..."
The voice of the noseless ghost suddenly paused. It raised its head and looked out of the screen with its frightened eyes, as if it sensed something very terrifying.
Following the heavy footsteps patrolling back and forth in the corridor, the noseless ghost began to tremble, and the corners of his mouth moved but he could not pronounce words. It was so frightened that both of its eyes squeezed out of their sockets and fell into their hands. Finally, the whole ghost simply burrowed under the table and gave up and continued to play.
Zila——
The TV screen goes black.
*
Tang Xinjue heard someone calling her.
She struggled to get up and found herself lying at the bottom of a damp, dark cave.
Looking around, there was no exit to the cave, only a small circular gap at the top, and thin light shines in from inside, illuminating the extremely dark and deep cave.
Observing the cave wall carefully, Tang Xinjue found that the cave was similar to the shape of a triangular flask. The further down, the larger the space. The top was only a small opening, but the bottom was so wide that the edge could not be seen and could not be estimated. Measure the area.
The call sounded faintly in the distance, sometimes stronger and sometimes weaker. Not only could you not hear who it was, you couldn't even tell whether it was a man or a woman. Tang Xinjue tentatively walked forward, and finally saw the source of the sound deeper in the cave.
It turned out that this voice did not belong to any one person.
It was the calling of a group of people.
The group seemed to include men and women, tall and short. Half of their figures stood in the light, and half of them were submerged in the darkness. Their specific clothing and appearance could not be seen clearly.
Some of them were waving, some were shrinking, some were motionless, and some were shaking.
Tang Xinjue was convinced that she did not know these people.
But why do they call her?
Tang Xinjue couldn't hear their voices clearly, but she could feel that they were indeed calling her.
Where is this? Who are they?
Tang Xinjue unconsciously walked forward, as if when she took a step closer, she would be able to see everything clearly...
But as soon as she lifted his legs, a sharp pain shot up from her chest. Tang Xinjue spit out a mouthful of blood and covered her head.
The pain appeared in her brain again, and the ringing in her ears was like thunder, giving her a splitting headache.
Something's wrong!
Tang Xinjue retracted her legs and stepped back, but a force pulled her forward, contrary to her own wishes.
At the critical moment, she immediately concentrated her energy and tried to take back control of her body. Finally, she barely resisted the control of that force and stayed in place.
The mental energy was consumed at an unimaginable speed, and it was exhausted not long after. A huge feeling of exhaustion came over, and Tang Xinjue could only grit her teeth and persevere.
Her intuition told her that she could never be controlled and could never move forward!
"Stab-"
An untimely scratching sound came from the top of the hole, which made Tang Xinjue excited, and she looked up following the familiar voice.
"Boom, boom!"
This time it was heavy footsteps.
The voice became more familiar, and Tang Xinjue tried hard to find its identity in her mind, trying to catch something——
She remembered.
The strange noise came from an unknown creature patrolling the corridor day and night outside the dormitory door.
And she should have been in the dormitory, not in this cave. This was not reality, but... a dream.
The moment she thought clearly, she suddenly opened her eyes and her consciousness returned to reality!
She was no longer in bed, but climbed down at some point and walked to the balcony window.
Outside the balcony window, a huge red eyeball that filled the front window was looking at her coldly.
There was no kindness in its eyes.
Her thoughts suddenly turned, and Tang Xinjue was about to speak, but the voice of Eyeball pierced her mind one step faster:
"Dark creature, how did you get into the dormitory of human students?"
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