The streets of the town at night were sparsely populated, and almost no one went out to set up a late-night snack stall—at least not on the road Xiao Li passed by, which made him quite disappointed.
Only the street lights, the night wind, the falling leaves, and their shadows accompanied them.
Passing through a certain intersection where the street lights are the most lit, Xiao Li looked at the traffic light opposite, thinking about the night-snack stall downstairs when he used to live with his mother, and looked down at the shadow in front of him, and stared blankly for a while. .
The night wind blew into his eyes, and the moonlight fell.
But soon, before the red light on the opposite side turned green, Xiao Li was stunned for a moment, because his shadow moved without any movement of his own.
The pure black shadow was originally reflected in front of him to the right, but the shadow's hand stretched to the left, and the place where its arm stopped just hooked Xiao Li's hand.
From the junction of man and shadow, it looks like the shadow is holding Xiao Li's hand intimately.
Xiao Li: "..."
Although he didn't have the real feeling of being held, his shadow came so suddenly that he subconsciously pulled out his arm.
The shadow paused for a while, it knew that Xiao Li had noticed it, and the figure lengthened directly, turning into the shadow of an adult man, much taller than Xiao Li.
It moved again perseveringly, and directly reached out to wrap Xiao Li's shoulders.
Xiao Li took a step to the right with a relatively large movement, leaving the shadow's shrouded area.
The shadow did not follow Xiao Li step by step, it stayed where it was, as if a little lost.
Luo Dian used to be side by side with Xiao Li, she was concerned about Han Jin, the only remaining teammate, and waited absently for the traffic lights, so she didn't notice the shadows of the people around her, she saw Xiao Li away from her, and immediately thought of ghosts: "What happened? ?"
Xiao Li said calmly, "It's okay, the street lights over there are too dazzling."
Rodian: "… "
For some reason, she really looked up at the street lamp and took a step back silently.
Just then, the traffic light changed from red to green.
Xiao Li and Rodian continued to walk forward, his shadow was left in place, but soon, the shadow returned to his feet, but this time it was no longer in the shape of a man, but changed back to Xiao Li. Sync looks like.
He could probably guess who the shadow was, except for Xiao Huangben, probably no ghost would be so boring.
The teenager turned his wrist and suddenly broke the silence: "Rodian, what was the other secret you told when you asked for help?"
Rodian struggled for a while, should she tell Xiao Li now, according to her idea, she wants to wait until she can complete the task and survive, but looking at Xiao Li's way of treating Li Gui, it seems that customs clearance is a very simple matter...
The girl quickly made up her mind: "It's okay to tell you now, I believe you won't do anything to cross the river and demolish the bridge."
Xiao Li waited for her to continue.
Rodian said: "Moriarty, you should also see that I have a lot of props on my body. These props are the key to my life. They were brought out from a previous instance. It was a special instance and needed An invitation letter from a pirate can only go up, I exchanged it from the market for 10,000 task points, and the person who sold it to me does not know its value, the name of the island is 'Treasure Island'."
"There are ghosts guarding the treasure, but they will ask three questions to the islander. As long as you answer each question correctly, you can get a treasure from all the treasures on the island. When I went up, and Wang Huai, That is to say, the second person in the ranking is now together, he not only got three treasures, but also exploited the loopholes in the rules, which tripled the number of treasures that can be taken away, and I also benefited from it."
Xiao Li: "Wang Huai..."
"Yes, that's the only time I've queued him up. He's always been uncertain." Rodian looked at Xiao Li and continued, "This is another secret I said."
Xiao Li nodded neatly: "I see."
"Or I can give you some additional news." Rodian saw Xiao Li's potential, and she wanted to take the initiative to have a good relationship with him, so she took the initiative to say.
"what?"
Rodian: "The hottest news among the reincarnators at the moment is... Now the opening of the dungeon world is only regional."
"… area?"
"Yes, you're not curious, why are all the teammates from the same country in all the dungeons we queued to? That's because the dungeons are currently regionally closed. If you travel abroad now and are pulled into the dungeons abroad, you It will be the dungeon in that foreign region - this news was revealed by people in foreign countries on the forum. Recently, this phenomenon has become more and more frequent, so we are all discussing it. In the end, the global fusion dungeon will definitely be opened. Among these dungeons The ghosts will also be further upgraded."
Xiao Li thought about it for a while, and even looked forward to it: "Is that so."
Rodian glanced at him a few more times, but she really didn't see the panic on Xiao Li's face. She sighed in her heart: "The boss is the boss, no shock."
The girl continued: "In addition to this news, there are some newcomers who have been in the limelight recently. There is a recent forum named Sherlock who has mentioned a lot. It is said that his methods are cruel, just like the cold winter, to torture ghosts. He is happy, and he acts strangely. After encountering him, he will always make people want to roar. Even people on the leaderboard have been tricked by him, and even I am a little curious."
Xiao Li: "...Really?"
He was a little suspicious if there was another person with the same name as him - where was his cruelty? ! Wasn't he always very friendly
Rodian is good at communication, and wanted to exchange some intelligence information with Xiao Li, but there was a surprise call from afar - "Captain!"
Rodian looked up immediately and saw Han Jin running towards her, and ran two steps forward: "A Jin!"
Compared to the excitement of the two of them, Ye Zeqing stepped over at a steady pace, and looked at Xiao Li as a greeting.
The four of them stood together, Han Jin quickly told Xiao Li everything that happened on their side, and finally gave his own conclusion: "I think that girlfriend is hiding it, but I'm not sure if it is Really problematic."
Ye Zeqing had been letting Han Jin finish, but suddenly interjected at this time: "There is one more thing, when I was standing at the door asking her, I once wanted to let the kid in to search her house, but it didn't work, there is a kind of Power kept my little devil in front of her house."
Han Jin turned his head dumbfounded: "Why didn't you tell me?!"
Ye Zeqing said indifferently: "What's the use of telling you, you are not Moriarty."
Han Jin: "…"
Ye Zeqing then said to Xiao Li, "Would you like to ask her?"
Xiao Li rejected his proposal: "No need, you find a kid downstairs with her, she will go out at the latest tomorrow, at the earliest today, you can see the truth she is hiding by watching where she goes."
"Ah?" Ye Zeqing was stunned, "Why?"
Xiao Li: "When a person who wants to hide the truth is suddenly exposed by a stranger who is investigating the matter, the first thing she will do is to check whether the original clues have been completely destroyed. You asked her about Chen Meiyou's leg injury. , is already a hint that we have her clues, she will be very impatient after confirming that you are not downstairs, and most likely rush to destroy the clues overnight."
Ye Zeqing muttered, "Now...?"
He recited a formula silently, the little ghost tattoo on his arm flowed from his fingers, and swam in the direction of Chen Meiyou's best friend's house following Ye Zeqing's intention.
"Okay, it will follow that person and give me feedback, then we will wait?" Ye Zeqing asked.
Xiao Li said "En?" "Isn't the next thing going to be sleep?"
Ye Zeqing: "..."
Xiao Li is not in a hurry, but Rodian and the two don't think so. They have received the fourth ghost call, the countdown on their arms has become less and less, and there is only a thin line away from death, and now they are just tracing When it comes to the truth behind it—maybe it’s not necessarily the truth, and they are still confused about lifting the curse, how can they sleep
Han Jin said urgently: "But, Moriarty, we don't have time, why don't we..."
He said that he was stuck in the end, and Han Jin had no direction to pursue, but it was about life, and he was anxious.
"It'll be alright, you can wait for the news from Yan Luo. According to her reaction when you questioned her, she is not someone who can endure, and there should be a response soon." Xiao Li said briefly.
Han Jin had no choice but to cast his anxious eyes on Ye Zeqing.
—
They went back to the house Rodian rented.
Xiao Li didn't sleep right away. Although he was indeed a little sleepy, he took out a small yellow book from his arms and wrote again: "Shadow?"
Thinking about it carefully, since the hospital copy Xiao Huang originally saw his emergency department, it seems that the frequency of harassing him has decreased a lot, but at the same time, Xiao Huangben almost no longer appears in human form - a cat for a while, a moment for a cat Shadow again, is this embarrassing
Xiao Li supported his chin in thought.
Xiao Huangben's response was quick, it didn't hide anything about Xiao Li's question, and quickly showed: [The shadow is very good, it is one of the creatures closest to you.]
Xiao Li: "...I think you're pretty close to me too, right in my pocket."
Xiao Huangben: [This is different.]
[The pockets are separated by a layer. I don't like that feeling. I want to be close to you without hindrance. Even clothes can't be an obstacle between us. We are one, like a pair of lovers.]
[Shadow has hands that can hold you, hug you, and kiss you.]
Xiao Li looked at this jargon, and suddenly remembered that in the dance room of the academy, something strange came from his hair. At that time, he thought he had touched something. Now that he thinks about it, it is most likely the shadow of Xiao Huangben.
He recalled here, Xiao Huangben had already begun to wander in his own fantasy: [Actually, being a cat is also very good, if you can lie in your arms, you will take the initiative to hold me, and I can also lick you, but there will always be inconvenient place.]
[The shadow can follow you to the ends of the earth, but it can only approach you when you don't know it, and it can't be as open and upright as a cat.]
[I'm looking for a way to do both.]
Xiao Li asked the question deep in his soul: "...Why did you exclude being a human from all options?"
—Xiao Huangben, can’t you be a person? !