Tang Ning hurriedly walked towards their table. Jiang Mianmian, who had been looking listless, suddenly raised her head and looked at Tang Ning with surprisingly bright eyes.
Not only Jiang Mianmian, everyone looked at Tang Ning a few more times, with a hint of surprise in their eyes.
Tangning pinched the part of her nose where the mask was placed and sat down uncomfortably.
Jiang Mianmian looked at him tenderly and caringly, her voice sounding as if it could squeeze water out of her. "Tangning, can you please pull down your mask and show your whole face?"
Tang Ning: “”
After all, they were teammates. Tang Ning stretched out his hand and pulled it down, and his face was completely exposed in the air.
There was suddenly no sound in the cafe. There were people whispering just before, but now even the aroma of coffee seemed to have stopped.
After a while, Jiang Mianmian said sincerely, "You look really good in cheongsam." Although she was talking about the cheongsam, she was looking at Tangning's face the whole time. Or maybe she was looking at it all, but her eyes were too busy to take care of it.
Lin Yun nodded.
Tang Ning: “”
Thanks, I just wanted to make a copy.
"Why didn't you bring the pearl necklace I gave you?" Jiang Mianmian continued to whisper.
Bai Wuliang coughed, but Jiang Mianmian ignored him and said, "Did you forget to wear it? Do you want me to help—"
"It's time to go." Bai Wuliang dragged Jiang Mianmian away reluctantly. Jiang Mianmian turned back and kept looking at Tang Ning. Tang Ning silently pulled her mask back on before Jiang Mianmian was dragged away by Bai Wuliang.
"Do you want me to help you put on the necklace?" Lin Yun asked.
Tangning handed the pearl necklace to Lin Yun.
Lin Yun leaned in a little closer to him when she was helping him put on the necklace. He whispered to Tangning, "It is said that Jiang Mianmian doesn't like men."
Tangning: “?”
Lin Yun said something and then stopped talking. He pulled Tang Ning into the car. Tang Ning was strangled by her cheongsam and felt like she was dying. They did not ride in the same car as Jiang Mianmian. Everyone basically followed the same car arrangement as on the first day when they went to Lu Yuhua's house. However, because Zeng Yishuang died, Bai Yingxue got into Lin Yun and Tang Ning's car.
Tangning had many questions that she wanted to ask Bai Yingxue. Now that they were in the same car, Tangning immediately asked, "What happened in the orphanage yesterday? How are you? What's in the confinement room?"
He asked a lot of questions, and Bai Yingxue answered calmly, "I was injured yesterday, so I spent some time recuperating."
"The monster in the detention room has come out." She looked at Tangning who was full of anticipation, "I don't know what is in the detention room."
"Although the dungeon world is connected to the present world, it is not the same as the present world. When I was a child, I stayed in an orphanage. We were all very afraid of being put in the solitary room. I believe you can see that my family members are not normal. In addition, everyone was very young at that time. I don't know which child started to spread the rumor that there was a monster in the solitary room—" Bai Yingxue blinked, "I remember it. It was a boy named Xiaohua. He was very crazy."
"It's like playing a story chain. Every child in the detention room will add fuel to the fire and make the monsters all kinds of strange and bizarre." Bai Yingxue stretched out her hand as if she wanted to touch something, but there was nothing on her body, no dolls. Bai Yingxue moved her fingers, folded her hands together, and looked out the window. "But the card game..."
"It released the imaginary monster."
It's just a simple sentence, but it contains infinite malice in the game.
Tang Ning was stunned for a moment. Was the monster in the detention room just the fantasy of a group of children
"Then how did Xiaohua describe the monster?" Lin Yun asked.
"He said the monster is very powerful and can do anything in the world. It is a monster that belongs to children. Adults are too afraid of it and always have to follow rules with it." Bai Yingxue's description is full of a child's wild imagination. She looked at the clouds that kept changing in the sky, "It has great power, but it must abide by the rules."
"What rules?" Lin Yun asked.
"I don't know." Bai Yingxue stretched out her fingers, as if to touch the wires. Her fingers kept moving up and down. From her side, it seemed as if she was playing the wires as strings. "Maybe it's the rules of the adult world. Although the monster is very powerful, if it breaks the rules, it will be put in the confinement room."
Tangning's mind suddenly flashed back to the scene of Su Anyun. From the first time Su Anyun went to Lu Yuhua's house, he politely knocked on the door, to when Lu's father said, "There should be a punishment for losing the game, don't you think so?" He nodded. In the cat-changing dungeon, Su Anyun said, "Games should follow rules."
Others had vaguely guessed before that Su Anyun had something to do with the guy in the confinement room.
Now that Bai Yingxue's words were finished, Tang Ning felt a little excited.
"Then do you know the connection between the porcelain doll and the monster in the confinement room?" Tang Ning took out the porcelain doll that belonged to Su Anyun. Bai Yingxue turned her head while looking at the scenery outside the window. Her eyes fell on the porcelain doll in Tang Ning's hand.
Bai Yingxue was silent for a few seconds before she said, "I don't know either."
Tangning took back the porcelain doll with a bit of disappointment. He suddenly remembered that he hadn't told Bai Yingxue about his experience at the orphanage yesterday. "By the way, Bai Yingxue, the security guard is dead."
He started with the death of the NPC.
Bai Yingxue hummed.
"You know that the security guard is a good man? He probably wanted to warn me at first," Tangning said simply, but she saw Bai Yingxue's overly cold eyes.
Tang Ning was stunned for a moment.
Bai Yingxue said calmly: "I told you that none of my family members are good people, unlike any of them."
Bai Yingxue did say this, but Tangning had previously thought that Bai Yingxue was confused and had misunderstood the adults in the orphanage. Now that Bai Yingxue knew about it, she still had a cold reaction. Did it mean that the adults in the orphanage had done something wrong, or was Bai Yingxue really seriously ill
Tang Ning realized that he didn't know what disease Bai Yingxue had.
Can I ask directly
Tangning considered her words carefully before asking, "Bai Yingxue, you said that the children in the orphanage are not normal. Do you have any disease as well?"
Tang Ning regretted asking this question. He really couldn't speak in certain situations, let alone ask such an offensive question.
But Bai Yingxue remained calm. She looked at Tangning calmly and indifferently, "Am I sick?"
Lin Yun, who was driving, frowned.
"What's wrong with me?" Bai Yingxue said calmly: "It's not that all the children in the orphanage are sick. There are also healthy children in the world. It's just that the children who appear in the copy are abnormal."
"And I happen to be one of the few normal people in the world."
Bai Yingxue said she was not sick.
After she said that, Tangning felt a little scared of her for no reason.
The car was still moving at a high speed. Tang Ning and Lin Yun were sitting in the front of the car, while Bai Yingxue was sitting alone in the back seat. No one spoke in the car for a while, only the whistling sound of the wind. Tang Ning held his breath and looked at Bai Yingxue through the mirror in the car.
That small section of the mirror can only reflect part of the facial features.
Tang Ning saw the grinning mouth.
His heart seemed to skip a beat, and Tang Ning didn't even dare to blink. He stared at the mirror and saw that the mouth in the mirror had returned to its calm and closed state. It seemed that the brilliance just now was just an illusion.
The car driven by Lin Yun jolted a bit, and Tang Ning's sight swayed. A pair of eyes staring straight at him appeared in the small mirror!
Bai Yingxue is looking at him!
Tangning hurriedly looked away, his heart beating rapidly again. He didn't know if it was an illusion or something else. What happened during the whole day when Bai Yingxue lost contact? Was Bai Yingxue sick? Why couldn't Bai Yingxue's doll work
Lin Yunyi, who was standing next to him, asked ignorantly, "Have you ever been in solitary confinement? Have you ever participated in the monster story chain activity?"
Bai Yingxue responded softly in the quiet row: "No."
Tangning felt a little breathless. Perhaps it was because the carriage was too stuffy, or because the cheongsam was too tight. Even though he was sitting across from her, he could still feel Bai Yingxue's gaze crawling up his spine like an icy snake, wrapping around him, and sticking her head near his ear, saying in a serpentine voice, "I'm a good boy. Why am I in solitary confinement?"
The Adam's apple hidden under the pearl necklace rolled slightly.
"We're here." Lin Yun was cheered up. They didn't arrive very fast. The car of Jiang Mianmian and Bai Wuliang in front had already stopped at the destination, and Zhou Kang and Lu Yuhua in the back also stopped their cars.
Everyone got out of the car together.
Jiang Mianmian's home is on a certain floor of a residential building. She glanced at the players and said, "Zhou Kang and Lu Yuhua's female costumes are not good enough. They might be stopped by my stepfather."
She looked at Bai Wuliang, and Bai Wuliang nodded at her gracefully.
Jiang Mianmian's eyes remained calm. "Bai Wuliang is a little better, but he is too tall. To prevent my stepfather from noticing that there is a cross-dressing man and raising his guard, I think Bai Yingxue should go first, followed by Tangning, then Lin Yun and Bai Wuliang." She looked at Lu Yuhua and Zhou Kang, "You two can go in any order you like."
Lu Yuhua, who should have been very concerned about the guest activity, had no special reaction at all when she found out that her cross-dressing might fail, and she even fought back.
Zhou Kang, who was standing next to him, lowered his head and played with his mobile phone. The two of them looked like a bad duo.
But didn’t Zhou Kang just come out of his decadent state
Just as Tangning was at a loss, he received a message on his phone. He looked down and saw that it was from Zhou Kang: "Be careful of Bai Yingxue. I suspect Lu Yuhua's current condition is similar to hers!!!"
Tangning immediately raised his head and looked around. Bai Yingxue was still some distance away from him. Tangning quickly typed, "Why do you say that?"
Zhou Kang: "I just asked Lu Yuhua. He ran into Bai Yingxue yesterday afternoon after shopping for clothes alone. He said that he and Bai Yingxue went to the orphanage together."
What
Tang Ning's throat tightened. Lu Yuhua was still one visitor away from being able to play. He had always been in a state of urgency among the players. He had even wanted to exchange porcelain dolls with Tang Ning to be a guest.
Going to a dangerous orphanage might seem a bit outrageous for other players, but if you think about it carefully, it seems that Lu Yuhua can do it, because Tang Ning has shared information about the orphanage with everyone before, and there is already a safe house. The biggest difficulty is how to avoid the monsters on the road.
If Bai Yingxue told Lu Yuhua that she had a way, then Lu Yuhua would most likely prefer to visit the orphanage. After all, no one had any idea where to go today, Jiang Mianmian's house, and Tang Ning had successfully visited the orphanage before.
In addition, Lu Yuhua's system was average compared to other players in the game, and there was no need for him to tell everyone since he was a loner.
"Did Lu Yuhua tell us what he experienced in the orphanage?" Tangning asked.
Zhou Kang replied: "No, I just have doubts."
"Okay, let's go." Jiang Mianmian said to the players, "Follow the order I just said. Tangning, you and Bai Yingxue stay closer."
Tang Ning quickly turned on his phone and looked up at Bai Yingxue. Bai Yingxue stared at him for a moment, then her lips widened to reveal a bright smile.
"Come to my house," she said.