The muscular man accidentally saw the bookstore hidden in the corner of the open square.
He rushed out of the apartment building in anger and panic, and was at a loss. He didn't understand how he exposed himself at all, which made him angry.
He didn't suddenly react until he walked out of the apartment building and crossed a street to the commercial district. He just left. Wouldn't he not confess
But he didn't want to go back again... How could it be possible to stay in a room and not go out!
The muscular man thought proudly, maybe he could solve this nightmare alone!
He may not have realized that as he used the item card called "Devil's Mask" more frequently, his temperament became more extreme and arrogant, and all the emotional ups and downs became weird and intense.
And in this nightmare, when he abandoned his habit all the time and chose the first round of nightmare to steal the item card of Sister Jiang under the influence of greed, it seemed to be the moment when the quantity changed to the qualitative change. .
And he still didn't realize it.
He went to the commercial district excitedly. He thought that he was the first mission person to explore the business district, so he was very interested, and completely put aside the resentment that was questioned by everyone just now.
Because he was too lazy to walk a few steps, he chose to take the escalator downstairs a few steps away from the gate of one of the buildings in the business district.
After arriving at the open-air square on the basement floor, he casually glanced and saw Xu Beijin... and Ringo in the bookstore.
The muscular man stunned immediately, his eyes flashed, and his dull brain rarely turned.
He recognized Xu Beijin and Ringo, but he didn't know the relationship between them. The fact that Ringo collects drinks for the sake of a resident of a narrow building only circulates in a small area.
At this moment, the muscular man remembered the shame and pain of being kicked out of the bookstore by Xu Bei.
That actually hadn't been remembered by him for a long time. That period of dingy escape experience had already become a scar that he didn't want to uncover after he became a card dealer.
And now, he remembered it again.
At the same time, I remembered the greed and thirst for Xu Bei's nightmare.
The rumors in the Zhailou once confirmed that Xu Beijin's nightmare concealed the secret of leaving the Zhailou. No one knows why there are such rumors, and no one knows whether this is true or not.
But the muscular man believed it. He was convinced, and at this moment, when he saw Xu Beijin again, he was even more impressed.
He meant... Look at this bookstore owner! This man sitting behind the counter of the bookstore, his eyes deep and pale, as if the sky was falling down and he was calm, maybe even he was the one who collapsed the sky, looking handsome and evil... He looked nothing ordinary. NPC.
Just this appearance made countless missionaries rush to his nightmare.
The muscular man was one of them, and because of this emotion, he dubiously suspected that Ringo also appeared next to Xu Beijin because of this.
Many taskers don't understand why Ringo always looks lazy in nightmares. They only thought that it was because these nightmares seemed too simple in Ringo's eyes, and only needed hands to pass the level, so Ringo would be so lazy.
They don't believe that Ringo is not interested in nightmares, just like the muscular man at this time, who should impose his emotions and desires on others.
He is interested in Xu Beijin's nightmare, so of course Ringo will also be interested in it!
People don't doubt things they believe in, especially those stubborn guys like muscle men.
So, at that moment, without knowing where the courage and face came from, he rushed into the bookstore and said in a tone of "I knew it": "Big brother, you are also interested in his nightmares. ?"
The tone was like Xu Beijin's nightmare was his merchandise and what was in his bag.
Xu Beijin and Ringo looked at him in surprise at the same time.
Before the muscular man came in, Xu Beijin and Ringo sat there separately without talking, and the bookstore was calm and comfortable. The tasker is escaping, but the two of them are exceptionally weird.
Since borrowing a book from Xu Beijin not long ago, Ringo has become interested in books inexplicably. It happened that Xu Beijin was always the bookstore owner in a nightmare, so he pulled a book from the shelf for him to read.
So Ringo took the book and sat in front of the bookstore, reading quietly.
This scene really made Xu Beijin feel that for the first time, this guy couldn't say that he wasted his baby face. If it calms down...
Then the muscular man broke the silence.
The disturbed Ringo slowly raised his head, his eyes slowly showing evil spirits. He looked at the muscular man blankly, opened his mouth and said, "I don't usually hit people."
The muscular man was at a loss.
Ringo said again: "Also, I am not interested in his nightmares."
After finishing speaking, he snapped the book closed, stood up, picked up the back collar of the muscular man with one hand, dragged the muscular man out of the bookstore, and then threw the muscular man into the fountain in the open air square.
The muscular man is probably flying in the air, ten meters.
Xu Bei could see the corners of his mouth twitching.
He didn't know how many times he had strengthened a belief in his heart that he would never fight with Ringo. Even if it can be resurrected in the nightmare, or after the nightmare restarts, the state will return to its original state... He didn't want to let himself suffer in vain.
Fortunately, the camera in the live broadcast room is facing the other taskers, not on Xu Beijin's side. Otherwise, I don't know how the sand sculpture viewers would yell.
Ringo simply and rudely "handled" the muscular man, then returned to the bookstore and solemnly declared to Xu Beijin: "I am not interested in your nightmares, and I don't want to enter your nightmares. I just want to fight with you. Don't get me wrong."
Xu Bei couldn't help but laughed, "I know... wait," he suddenly reacted, "You... know?"
His words sounded a bit like a guessing, but Ringo understood what he meant.
Ringo nodded and said, "I know." He glanced at Xu Bei strangely, "I have been at the bottom of the narrow building for a long time, and I know that many people were interested in your nightmares at that time. But I didn't. "
Xu Bei couldn't help but startled.
He hadn't been particularly aware of this matter before. To him, that was actually a long, long time ago, and the taskers on the ground floor of the narrow building have almost changed.
But... now he realized with hindsight that, indeed, Ringo had actually appeared on the ground floor of the narrow building a long, long time ago.
It was just when Ringo's reputation became apparent that Xu Beijin's name had disappeared from the bottom of the narrow building.
This generation difference, coupled with Ringo's never showing any emotion to Xu Beijin's nightmare, made Xu Beijin habitually think that Ringo shouldn't know much about the events at the time.
Moreover, their acquaintance has been a long time after the taskers gathered around the bookstore.
In a nightmare. Probably... a year ago, or a few months ago. After staying in a narrow building for a long time, the concept of time will gradually fade.
Ringo, who was not very interested in the content of the nightmare, left the other taskers and walked alone in the nightmare. Then I met Xu Beijin, the bookstore owner who has been performing his duties in front of the group.
Then…
Then Ringo became interested in Xu Beijin somehow.
After that, when Xu Beijin was walking in the narrow building one time, he met Ringo again, and the topic of fighting was the same again.
Xu Bei was so annoyed that he even reduced the number of times he went out.
After that, it was nightmare, narrow building, nightmare... I met repeatedly, tirelessly asking and answering the same.
Thinking about it now, Xu Beijin couldn’t even figure out how Ringo could have such perseverance and persistence. Every time he met him, he could ask the same question, and even if Xu Beijin refused, He is still unwilling to give up.
This determination even made Xu Bei feel a little bit embarrassed.
However, due to some chance and coincidence, their relationship is now closer, so Xu Bei thought about it, maybe in the future, they may not have to talk about fighting when they meet... Maybe one day, Ringo can give up the idea of wanting to fight him.
But at least not yet.
Xu Beijin didn't know how to deal with this matter better. Ringo wasn't interested in his nightmares, which was good; but he wanted to fight him, which was not good.
He stroked his nose with some annoyance.
And Ringo watched his expression, somehow it was probably a blessing to the soul, and added: "But I want to fight with you, it's just my thoughts. If you really feel troubled, then I will say less in the future. . Don't be angry with me."
Xu Beijin... Xu Beijin really felt a trace of guilt.
Ringo gave him a drink to help him solve the nasty guy from the past, who was not interested in his nightmares... And the only thing he was interested in him, Xu Beijin couldn't do it.
Even, such an uncrowned king at the bottom of a narrow building, an object whom countless missionaries admired and worshipped, was really obedient like an apple in front of him.
This kind of retreat for advancement really made Xu Beijin such a good person who eats soft but not hard, and his heart is softened.
"Feel sorry… "
So it was obvious that Ringo had asked him, but Xu Bei couldn't bear to apologize instead.
Ringo tilted her head slightly in confusion, but said very honestly: "I don't think you have any regrets about me."
For a person like Ringo, what he wants to do is out of his own will.
Sometimes he may just do whatever he wants, such as just giving those taskers some trivial help. But he was stubborn and sincere about what he really identified.
Therefore, he really didn't know why Xu Beijin would say "Sorry".
He wants to please Xu Beijin... That's his business.
Xu Beijin really has a feeling of restlessness and flattery. He was accustomed to spending lonely days alone in a bookstore, so the little apple in front of him came together without knowing it, and made him feel a little at a loss.
Being stalked will also become a habit.
It can't be said that he is used to Ringo's existence now, sometimes he still finds this guy quite annoying. But I have to say that Lino's simplicity and frankness are what really moved Xu Bei.
In the narrow building, if Ringo hadn't possessed such a bug-level strength value, I am afraid that his character would have long been a nourishment for those cruel taskers.
What's funny is that it was Ringo's character, not his power, that made Xu Beijin feel a burst of complicated and indistinguishable thoughts.
… Maybe it was just because, from Ringo’s body, he felt something that did not belong to the narrow building, but belonged to the earth... But what was even more paradoxical was that Ringo himself did not have any memory related to the earth.
Thinking about it, Xu Beijin couldn't help but smiled bitterly. He stretched out his hand and patted Ringo's shoulder without saying anything.
And Ringo looked at his shoulder troubledly, for a moment inexplicably... Really, he probably has a simpler mind, so he really didn't understand where the guy in front of him was thinking of.
Ringo whispered to Xu Beijin in his heart.
But he still held the milk tea Xu Beijin gave him contentedly, and sat obediently at the door of the bookstore to continue reading, just like a large housekeeping dog.
Guarding his master loyally.
Just like the act of throwing the muscular man out of the bookstore without mercy just now... although he may not have this self-knowledge himself.
And all this was clearly seen by the muscular man standing outside through the glass door of the bookstore.
He said angrily: "Damn! What a big guy... I want to get an NPC! Shameless!"
Yes, in his opinion, what could make Ringo be angry at him? What could make Ringo let him go in front of Xu Beijin
What can make Xu Bei be such a, at least in the eyes of the task force, a deep and moody narrow-building resident who has such a gentle attitude towards Ringo
There is no doubt that it is love.
In the eyes of muscular men, heroes can only bend their waists for beauties. Although the look of the bookstore owner cannot be said to be "beautiful", he must be handsome and handsome.
And as a card dealer who is accustomed to seeing the dark side of the narrow building, he also knows that it is commonplace for the tasker to have a relationship that exceeds the boundaries of friendship with the residents of the narrow building.
On the surface, the taskers dismissed the residents of the narrow buildings. The residents of the narrow buildings hate this group of nonsense outsiders, and the outsiders also hate this group of crazy residents of the narrow buildings. They both looked at each other and bored.
However, this is only on the surface.
There are so many people in the narrow building. The hormones that humans have nowhere to vent, in addition to rushing to their compatriots, of course, they can only find those inhabitants of narrow buildings who at least look like individuals.
The muscular man knows some taskers better, and can even behave like chaos and abandonment to the residents of narrow buildings.
They will even deliberately hook up with the residents of the narrow buildings in the nightmare, and then in the narrow buildings, ruthlessly abandon the emotional residents of the narrow buildings... Damn, it's sick!
Of course, there are also some taskers who crazily adore, pursue, and please the residents of the narrow buildings. The behavior of licking dogs from the earth to the narrow buildings is unswervingly life and death, and it is singular.
The reason for this is that in addition to being interested in the nightmares of the residents of these narrow buildings, it is also greedy for them.
A muscular man can't get used to this kind of behavior, at least he can't do it.
The main reason is... This is a fucking game! They are players, human beings, and human beings are actually moved by the NPCs in the game? ?
The muscular man couldn't understand the madness of his compatriots towards the paper man.
Of course, this does not affect his sales of some special-purpose item cards.
In short, it was precisely because he had seen this type of tasker before and had a deep understanding of it, so he was the first to...think about the relationship between Xu Beijin and Ringo.
Compared with the big news that Ringo had a sweetheart, his sweetheart was a man, not a big deal.
In addition, if Ringo and Xu Bei are really together, then would Ringo have no idea about the nightmare of this bookstore owner? After years of depression, those missionaries who were once crazy about Xu Beijin's nightmare, will they be crazy again now
After a moment of shock, the muscular man realized ecstatically that this damn is a very valuable information! Enough to exchange enough resources with some people on the ground floor of the narrow building! !
The muscular man is not willing to be a card dealer. The "Mask of the Devil" magnified the evil thoughts, ambitions, and greed in his heart, making him constantly replenishing his mind at this time. He will use this scene he saw to stir the situation at the bottom of the narrow building, and then walk to the pinnacle of life...
Stuck in a game
What does this mean for an ambitious person like a muscular man
What others see is a hopeless future, but what a muscular man sees is a deserted present.
Could it be that he couldn't build his own business in the narrow building and turn his hands over the clouds? Whether it is hiding in the dark, manipulating everything secretly, or ruling the entire narrow building on the bright surface... these seem to have become things close at hand!
The ambition in the eyes of the muscular man flickered. At this moment, he almost laughed out of the joy that his dream came true. The frustration that Ringo had thrown out of the bookstore just now had completely disappeared.
He backed quietly, and then ran. He wants to find a safe place to hide... This round of nightmares can be solved best; if it is not solved, the next round of nightmares, he will not leave his apartment.
He wants to leave this nightmare alive, and then, waiting to realize his ambition!
Xu Beijin saw him leaving, but he still saw his whereabouts from the right interface of the live broadcast system.
He sighed again that the live broadcast system did provide him with considerable convenience.
Xu Bei could guess as much as possible about the idea of a muscular man—of course, he did not expect that the muscular man thought that Ringo was in a relationship with him.
Xu Beijin just thought that the muscular man would feel that Ringo knew what his nightmare was, or at least knew some relevant clues.
And a slick person like a muscular man will inevitably use this news to do something, no matter if he tries it himself, or like before, instigates the rest of the taskers to chase and intercept.
But those are things that can only be done in the narrow building after leaving this nightmare.
So Xu Bei made a logical guess about the mental activity of the muscular man. He must have wanted to find a place to hide, and use the labor of other taskers to free himself from this nightmare.
This round of nightmares is not good, but if there is another round of nightmares, then the muscle man will definitely shrink in his apartment and never leave.
And until now, muscular men don’t know that in this nightmare, the problem is the household appliances, not the general facilities in the apartment building...
Xu Beijin sat behind the counter of the bookstore, propped his chin, thinking, the corners of his mouth opened with a smile.
… Well, he admitted that he was gloating. But anyway, because of the tragic fate that the muscular man is about to face, he feels happy.
There is nothing bad to admit, is it
With a slight smile, Xu Beijin looked at the live broadcast room again. The series of events triggered by the arrival of the muscular man just now kept him from paying attention to the live broadcast room for a long time.
And now, in the live broadcast screen, the taskers seem to have discovered something.
They found □□ in a drawer in the property office... To be precise, it should be the record of the common passwords of all the password locks in this apartment building.
The drawer was naturally locked, but Shen Yunju found a hammer from the security room, then knocked the drawer open, and found the paper record.
None of them knows whether the real estate office will have such a thing, I am afraid this is just a prop set deliberately by the master in order to let them pass the nightmare.
In any case, Sister Jiang was also greatly relieved. Of course she still wants to get those two item cards back, that's so important!
In addition to the stack of documents containing the public password, after a careful search of the property office, they also found some other documents.
These include the maintenance records of the facilities in the apartment building, a large number of complaint letters from residents (all dated earlier than the one in the security room), and a court summons a few days ago.
It seems that Rocco Property is not ignoring complaints from residents, but in all inspection records, the final result is "no problems with inspections."
And that court summons, pressed at the bottom of a large pile of useless documents, seemed to have been ignored by the property. But it was certain information in this court summons that instantly touched the thin man's nerves and made him scream.
The rest of the taskers also surrounded him.
The thin man quickly repeated the message in the summons: "About a week ago, a resident died in the elevator because of a sudden fall of the elevator for no reason, and a heart attack!
"Therefore, the residents jointly sued Loko Property, believing that the property company is not responsible for overhauling the facilities in the apartment, and demanded compensation from the property company."
Sister Jiang thoughtfully said: "However, the maintenance records of the property company show that everything is normal."
The thin man swallowed, and said nervously, "It's not really... The furniture is refined, right?"
… He really didn’t want to face the possibility of the toilet becoming refined!
The little girl said coldly: "Now, we don't know anything except that these things are going crazy somehow."
The thin man smiled bitterly, and he said, "Come slowly."
They checked the property office last time and found nothing missing.
Later, Sister Jiang said: "Then... I'll go to that guy's apartment to find my prop card."
The thin man nodded: "You go." He hesitated for a moment, "Or else..."
His idea is that now that they have confirmed that there is indeed a danger in the apartment building, it is better to act together.
However, he did not explicitly put forward this idea. After all, Sister Jiang was looking for the prop card. What if they were too active and enthusiastic, and Sister Jiang misunderstood that they were interested in her prop card
Sister Jiang understood the meaning of being thin, and shook her head: "You are busy with you. My sister and I will go together."
Shuangmei Jiang squeezed her sister's sleeves subconsciously.
For the first time in her life, she had the urge to resist her sister. She thought, her sister didn't even know... She didn't even know how weird the situation would become.
For a moment, she even had a slight resentment towards Sister Jiang's decision to pull herself up.
Although she quickly acquiesced to this decision docilely, but in her heart, she still felt a wave of fear and cringe because she was going to return to the apartment.
Soon, the thin man, the little girl, and Shen Yun gathered three people, left the apartment building, and decided to look for clues outside the apartment building. The two sisters Jiang went to the apartment of Muscle Man on the fourth floor.
They didn't dare to take the elevator, so they chose to take the stairs.
The footsteps of the two echoed in the silent stairwell.