Tang Ning's breathing stagnated as he met Bai Yingxue's smile. A chilling fear crept up his back. His heart was a little flustered and his chest felt weak. However, other than Zhou Kang, no other player around him could understand his fear. Even Zhou Kang was skeptical.
Tang Ning was not sure of his own judgment. He remembered that in the last instance, under the influence of the poisonous insect, he kept doubting Zeng Shuang. The ring was still affected by the poisonous insect. Maybe the strange smile he saw in the car just now was just his illusion.
What to do in this situation
Tang Ning thought about it, then he held the cracked porcelain doll in his arms and looked towards Bai Yingxue warily.
The smile on Bai Yingxue's face gradually disappeared. She looked at Tang Ning with some confusion, as if she didn't understand why Tang Ning was suddenly looking at her so warily.
Seeing this look made Tang Ning doubt whether she was worrying too much.
"Is everyone ready?" Jiang Mianmian stood outside the team. She briefly greeted all the players before saying, "I'm here to introduce my family to everyone."
"My stepfather, he's not home."
When Tang Ning heard what Jiang Mianmian said, he no longer cared about Bai Yingxue. He frowned in confusion.
What do you mean by not at home? Does Jiang Mianmian's stepfather like to play hide-and-seek? Or can he become invisible
"But he is everywhere." When Jiang Mianmian said this, her voice became softer, as if she was doubting something. "Maybe he is waiting for us somewhere nearby, or he has hired someone to follow us."
After hearing what Jiang Mianmian said, Tang Ning looked around. It was a very ordinary neighborhood with no pedestrians on the roadside. He raised his head to look at the windows of the houses. Most of the windows were closed.
Tangning remembered Jiang Mianmian's floor number. He counted the floors and his eyes stopped in front of the window. The black figure looked at Tangning through the window.
My heart suddenly tightened.
Tangning blinked and suddenly realized that it seemed to be hanging clothes.
"Can't Bai Wuliang's ability find your stepfather?" Lin Yun asked.
Yes, isn’t Bai Wuliang’s ability just perfect for this purpose
Tangning looked at Bai Wuliang, but Bai Wuliang did not take out his monocle. He raised his head towards the room where Jiang Mianmian was, "I've been here for a long time."
Bai Wuliang stared at the room and narrowed his eyes. "Many times."
"But I arrived in a normal room and her stepfather was not in the room."
Bai Wuliang saw nothing
Tang Ning was a little surprised, because in his eyes Jiang Mianmian didn't seem like the kind of person who would do things without a purpose. But if Bai Wuliang wasn't there either, then what was the situation at Jiang Mianmian's home
Jiang Mianmian's tone was firm, "That's because your ability has no effect on my family."
Bai Wuliang did not argue with Jiang Mianmian, and the players present had different expressions.
Tangning fell into deep thought.
If every player has a disease, then what is Jiang Mianmian's disease? Can her words be trusted? What is the specific crisis in her family
Jiang Mianmian led the players towards her home. There was an elevator in the community. Although it was a bit crowded with seven people standing in the elevator, it was not overloaded.
When the elevator door opened, the players set off according to the arrangement made by Jiang Mianmian. Jiang Mianmian walked in front, followed by Bai Yingxue, and Tang Ning followed behind Bai Yingxue.
Tang Ning had followed Bai Yingxue before when she was at Lu Yuhua's house. They were playing the Four Corners game together. At that time, Tang Ning deliberately kept a distance of about half a meter from Bai Yingxue and stared at her back.
At first, Bai Yingxue carried a doll on her back, but now it's empty, which always makes people feel like something is missing.
No one followed Tang Ning because Jiang Mianmian had instructed the second group of players to keep a distance from the first group.
Jiang Mianmian walked to the door of her house. She asked Bai Yingxue to come over first, and then she stood in front of the door and said, "Dad, I brought some friends home to visit. They are all female friends."
No one responded to her.
Jiang Mianmian waved to Tangning to come over. Tangning carefully walked to Jiang Mianmian's side and stood at the door. The surveillance camera above the door flashed twice, as if a suspicious gaze was shining on Tangning through the camera.
Tang Ning felt a little uncomfortable. Although the nature of his job required him to be frequently exposed to cameras, this feeling was not quite right...
"Take off your mask." A male voice sounded.
Jiang Mianmian's stepfather was communicating with Tangning through the camera.
Tangning looked towards Jiang Mianmian, and when she found that she did not try to stop him, she reached out and gently pulled down her mask.
That stunning face brightened up the dim corridor.
After a while, the male voice slowly said, "Come on."
The door opened, and Tangning and Bai Yingxue walked into the nicely decorated room. The room was air-conditioned, and perhaps because Tangning's skin was too sensitive, the cold air from the air conditioner was like an invisible hand slowly caressing Tangning's arms.
Good frowned.
Tangning stretched out his hands to cover his arms. He looked around the house. It was a simple and elegant home with all the furniture on display. The furniture was in gray, white and black tones. The most striking color was the brown recliner. The living room alone could not hide a living person, but Tangning always felt like someone was secretly observing him.
Jiang Mianmian was still standing outside the door. She asked Lin Yun to come over. Lin Yun, who was 8.7 meters tall, was almost as tall as 9 meters after wearing three-centimeter high heels. Standing next to Jiang Mianmian, she was several heads taller than Jiang Mianmian.
"He is a man." The male voice in the camera said in a cold tone.
Lin Yun hooked her curly hair with her fingers, blinked her false eyelashes, and said to the camera in a pinched voice: "Uncle, I am a woman~"
The male voice ignored him.
Lin Yun changed his expression to a serious one. He said seriously: "I am actually transgender, but I have a female soul in my heart."
The male voice still ignored him.
Lin Yun didn't say anything else. He looked at the blue figure with some worry.
"She" stood very straight, with her slender neck lowered and her snow-white hands covering her frail arms. She seemed unable to bear even the slight chill in the living room, making people want to take off their coats and put them on "her".
Bai Wuliang walked to the door with a ladylike pace. He pretended not to notice the camera and shouted to Bai Yingxue in the living room in a fake royal voice: "Xiaoxue, why are you walking so fast? Don't you wait for me—"
The door slammed shut.
Bai Wuliang almost hit his nose on the door.
After discovering that Lin Yun and Bai Wuliang had failed, Lu Yuhua and Zhou Kang appeared as the third batch, but their performances were even worse than Lin Yun and Bai Wuliang.
"Mianmian, why are you bringing so many men with you?" The man's voice sounded very considerate of Jiang Mianmian. He sighed, "You are still young now, you should focus on your studies, and consider relationships between men and women later."
Jiang Mianmian said calmly: "We are just ordinary friends."
"Do you believe that there are pure opposite-sex friends in this world?" the man asked.
Lin Yun placed her hand on Jiang Mianmian's waist in a charming manner, posing an intimate posture with Jiang Mianmian: "Uncle, Mianmian and I have this kind of pure relationship."
"Hold your hands!" The man's voice in the camera sounded a little angry, but the next moment, he smiled.
Because Bai Wuliang hit Lin Yun's hand.
If Lin Yun is 9 meters tall when wearing high heels, then Bai Wuliang's net height is 9.3 meters. His puff-sleeved women's clothing makes his figure look even more muscular.
Even Lin Yun's women's clothing looked more delicate in front of Bai Wuliang.
"You, his feelings towards you are not pure." the male voice commented.
This "he" obviously refers to "Bai Wuliang".
Jiang Mianmian said calmly, "He is a mysophobe."
Bai Wuliang didn't say anything. Lin Yun said to Jiang Mianmian, "Tangning is a bit cold in the living room. Do you want to go?"
Lin Yun is not at the moment. He is very worried about Tang Ning, but if he wants to know what is going on inside, he can ask Jiang Mianmian to check it out.
Jiang Mianmian readily admitted her mistake to the person in the camera, "You are right."
The man said with satisfaction: "You are still young and don't understand a lot of things. Daddy does this for your own good."
The door opened automatically. Jiang Mianmian got up and walked away calmly, facing Tang Ning and Bai Yingxue.
The two guests did not change their shoes and stood at the door waiting for Jiang Mianmian's arrival. At this moment, two minutes had passed, which meant that Tang Ning and Bai Yingxue only needed to stay here for another eight minutes to finish their visit to Jiang Mianmian's home.
When they were in Jiang Mianmian's room, the door was closed again.
"Change the guest's shoes." A man's voice suddenly came from the living room.
Tang Ning heard the sound and found the camera on the wall with the light on.
Why are there surveillance cameras installed in the living room
Jiang Mianmian took out three pairs of slippers from the shoe cabinet. Tangning was wearing clothes that made it difficult to squat, so he simply stepped on the shoelaces and used the tip of his shoe to step on his heel. He deftly took off his canvas shoes and put on slippers.
When Tang Ning changed her shoes, her slender white legs were faintly visible from the crotch of her cheongsam.
Tang Ning was once again met with a cold, slimy gaze.
Tang Ning subconsciously stopped her movements and stood straight, with the fork of her cheongsam closed like a closed curtain to block out the prying eyes from the outside world.
Who is in him
Tang Ning turned around and met Bai Yingxue's eyes.
Was it Bai Yingxue who was with him just now
"Pour water for the guests." The male voice sounded again.
Tang Ning moved towards Jiang Mianmian. He and Jiang Mianmian were very close. Tang Ning could even feel Jiang Mianmian taking a breath, and his chest rose and fell slightly.
Then Jiang Mianmian walked towards the living room with an expressionless face. She picked up the cup of water on the table and filled it with hot water.
Tang Ning and Bai Yingxue also followed Jiang Mianmian to the living room. He walked around the living room for a few times. The spy was constantly entangled with him and he couldn't get rid of it no matter how hard he tried. Tang Ning put on the mask again, but he felt that the thin cloth did not have any shielding effect. The thing hiding in the dark could even treat the mask as air and enjoy admiring his appearance.
With her mother's cheongsam, Tang Ning could feel safe and covered.
Tangning did not sit down rashly, but stood beside the sofa somewhat awkwardly.
"Don't stand, sit down." The male voice said through the surveillance.
Tangning frowned in discomfort. Jiang Mianmian placed two glasses of water on the coffee table and said, "Sit down."
After Jiang Mianmian finished speaking, Tang Ning walked towards the sofa. Because he was wearing a cheongsam and had to disguise his gender, Tang Ning's steps were particularly slow. He walked to the sofa, afraid that he would accidentally wrinkle his mother's cheongsam when he sat down, so he reached out his hand and stroked it from the back of his waist down before slowly sitting down.
The sofa should have been soft, but Tangning felt as if he was sitting on something with a strange texture.
He reached out his hand and touched, but felt nothing.
Tang Ning frowned and changed her seat. The slit of her cheongsam widened as she sat, revealing her calf skin as white as mutton-fat jade.
The strange touch and the shadow-like spying appeared again. Tang Ning raised his eyes to look at Bai Yingxue, and found that Bai Yingxue was holding a cup of water with her head down, without him.
Tang Ning looked at the camera at the top again. Although the camera was turned in his direction, the angle was wrong. The feeling of his calves being stared at and even licked came from the perspective at the bottom.
Like there's something under the sofa
But why did it feel like I was sitting on something? Something long and thin? Tangning reached out and touched it, and found it was soft again.
And perhaps because it noticed that he was testing him, when Tang Ning sat down again, the strange touch disappeared, as if it had hidden itself.
Where can you hide? Why should you hide
Tang Ning leaned down slightly and found that the bottom of the sofa was very low and could not hide anything. He pinched the fork of his clothes with his fingers uncomfortably. Even if it was closed, his ankles, arms, neck and face that were not covered by the cheongsam were exposed.
Very uncomfortable. This kind of person feels like a spy.
Tang Ning's face was full of emotion. Jiang Mianmian turned towards Tang Ning. She had dark circles under her eyes, but her eyes were unexpectedly bright and a little excited, as if saying "You've been affected too."
Tang Ning was stunned for a moment. He felt that Jiang Mianmian's eyes seemed a little abnormal.
Jiang Mianmian had always been calm and lazy. Occasionally, when Tang Ning changed into women's clothes or had white hair, she would get excited, but this excitement was within her control.
Tang Ning found it difficult to describe his feeling. He felt that Jiang Mianmian should be able to manage her emotions most of the time, but at this moment, Jiang Mianmian was like a calm pot of hot oil, which would stir up waves even if a drop of water fell.
Teammates who are too emotional are not suitable for forming a team in A-level dungeons.
Tang Ning looked at his other teammate, Bai Yingxue, who was looking around the room with a cup of water in her hand. She seemed to notice Tang Ning's gaze and suddenly turned her head towards him.
There was extreme indifference in those eyes.
Tang Ning's heart was beating wildly as he sat between the two men. He placed his hands on his knees, trying to calm himself down.
Porcelain dolls, mobile phones.
Tang Ning held the porcelain doll in her hand and her cell phone in her hand. There was a signal on the phone, so she quickly typed to get in touch with Lin Yun and the others. However, when she tried to send the message, she found that it could not be sent.
"Why are you three just sitting there? Chat or watch TV." The male voice began to point fingers again.
"Dad, my friend doesn't like being monitored." Jiang Mianmian took a deep breath and asked, "Can you turn off the surveillance first
Tangning looked towards the surveillance camera.
"Okay." The man seemed easy to talk to, and the light on the surveillance camera disappeared.
But the sticky and unpleasant peeping did not disappear
Tang Ning felt uneasy. Rather than asking Bai Yingxue, he preferred to ask Jiang Mianmian. Tang Ning turned towards Jiang Mianmian and saw that Jiang Mianmian was typing on her phone, apparently sending a message to everyone.
Tang Ning picked up his phone again. Although his phone had full signal, he could not receive any messages.
What's going on
Tang Ning moved closer to Jiang Mianmian and found that Jiang Mianmian had indeed sent the message.
"Just connect to the wifi," Jiang Mianmian said to Tangning.
Every time he encountered ghosts, the signal was bad, so much so that Tang Ning forgot that he could connect to Wi-Fi in this world. After he asked Jiang Mianmian for the password, he was able to connect to the Internet.
Jiang Mianmian directly sent a message to the group chat outside: "Tangning and I are both being spied on in the room. Bai Yingxue, what about you?"
Bai Yingxue: “No.”
Jiang Mianmian and Tang Ning both turned to Bai Yingxue, who was sitting on the sofa with a calm expression, as if she didn't think there was anything wrong with not being spied on.
Tang Ning looked away, but his brows were furrowed even more.
Bai Yingxue was not affected? Why? Was there something wrong between him and Jiang Mianmian, or was there something wrong with Bai Yingxue? Tangning looked at Bai Yingxue anxiously, but she remained calm.
After sending the message in the group, Tang Ning did not wait for messages from other players outside the door. Normally, everyone should have spoken in the group.
Jiang Mianmian: "Everyone, let's brainstorm."
No one responded to her.
Tang Ning kept counting in his mind and waited for about ten seconds, but still no one responded.
Could it be that the person outside the door didn't receive the message? Or was he trapped in an illusion
Tangning looked at his phone which was connected to Wi-Fi and had a full signal. A vague feeling of uneasiness and fear spread from the bottom of his heart. He clicked to turn off the Wi-Fi and called the chat group again. This time, he was unable to send a message.
Bai Yingxue stood up from the sofa, walked to the socket, squatted down to check, and checked various places in the living room, including under the sofa, trash can, potted plants, etc.
"What are you doing?" Jiang Mianmian asked.
"I'm looking for a pinhole camera installed in the socket or in some other corner." Bai Yingxue said calmly.
"Nothing. I've searched the house thoroughly over the past two days and found no other surveillance." Jiang Mianmian denied it directly.
"Have you searched every place in this house?" Bai Yingxue walked to the window and drew the curtains to block any possible prying eyes from the building.
"There are still places I haven't looked for yet." Jiang Mianmian said.
"Where?"
"It's my stepfather's room. There are surveillance cameras installed in his room." Jiang Mianmian said.
Stepfather's room
Then they will alarm each other.
Tang Ning stood up and stared at the sofa he had just sat on with a frown on his face. It was a leather sofa. If it wasn't his illusion, then there must be something hidden in the sofa.
Just now, Bai Yingxue even lay on the ground to check the bottom of the sofa, but she didn't find anything under it.
But what if there's something hiding under the sofa
Tang Ning reached out his hand and pressed the sofa leather with his scallion-thin fingers. It was all soft. The cheongsam was too tight around his waist, and it was uncomfortable for Tang Ning to bend down and touch the sofa. He simply lifted up the cheongsam, knelt on the ground, and carefully felt the sofa up and down.
The floor was very hard and Tangning's knees began to hurt after kneeling for a while. His movements attracted the attention of the other two players. Jiang Mianmian asked in confusion, "Tangning, what are you doing?"
When Jiang Mianmian and Bai Yingxue were talking to each other, Tang Ning remained silent because his voice impersonation was not very good. Tang Ning was afraid that if his true gender was exposed in this room, something bad would happen.
Now that Jiang Mianmian had asked, Tangning picked up her phone and typed, "I was sitting on this sofa just now, and I felt like I was sitting on something strange. It was very narrow and long. I could still feel it when I changed my position, but when I tried to find it, it disappeared again."
After hearing Tang Ning's description, Jiang Mianmian and Bai Yingxue moved the sofa against the wall out.
"Turn around?" Bai Yingxue suggested.
The three players worked together to flip the heavy sofa over. When they reached the bottom of the sofa, all three of them opened their eyes wide—
I saw densely packed holes on the bottom of the sofa!
Some tiny down filling was sticking out of the hole, and some down fell to the ground. At first glance, other people might think it was garbage from somewhere and would not be able to associate it with the sofa at first.
"Tangning, you just said that you were sitting on a long and thin thing. Can you compare its size?" Jiang Mianmian said to Tangning as if she had thought of something.
Tang Ning placed his index finger in the middle of his thumb, forming an "o" shape, indicating that it was about this size.
He wasn't sure about the length.
"Is it like touching a snake through the sofa leather?" Jiang Mianmian asked.
Tang Ning was originally unable to accurately describe his feelings, but when Jiang Mianmian made this analogy, he immediately nodded.
"I went into his bedroom yesterday and knocked on the door. He let me out in less than ten seconds. He likes to keep snakes, but I didn't find any snakes in the glass box yesterday." Jiang Mianmian looked at the bottom of the sofa that was full of holes. She boldly guessed, "Is it possible that the snake got inside the sofa?"
Tang Ning stared at the holes at the bottom of the sofa. Thinking of the snake drilling in and out of the sofa where he was sitting, every pore of Tang Ning's body felt cold.
So there was a thin layer of sofa leather between him and the snake just now
No, there is also a cheongsam.
Was it because of the cheongsam that the snake didn't attack him
A snake crawling into the sofa may sound a bit outrageous, but in the card world, everything is possible. After hearing Jiang Mianmian's guess, Bai Yingxue directly asked: "Do you want to cut it off with a knife?"
This is an act of destroying furniture. It would definitely seem abnormal for Jiang Mianmian to destroy furniture like this.
Tang Ning was a little nervous. In the card world, the words and actions of the players had to be consistent with their original characters. This was the reason why Tang Ning had not used the Mermaid Princess card. The Mermaid Princess card required the player to remain silent all day. If it was just the days of not speaking, it could be explained by the silence of the throat. However, if he did not speak to his mother, it would arouse her suspicion. Who knows what would happen then. Therefore, Tang Ning decided to use this card when things got more dangerous later.
If Jiang Mianmian destroys the furniture at will, will there be any serious consequences
Under Tangning's nervous gaze, Jiang Mianmian shook her head.
Before Tang Ning could breathe a sigh of relief, he heard Jiang Mianmian say, "The kitchen knife is too slow. I have a chainsaw in my room."