Treacherous Collector

Chapter 42 What is Top Prediction?

The happy time is always short. After parting ways with Chef Su, the three of Lu You had just returned to the convenience store when they heard the annoying broadcast again.

"The first phase of the task is completed, the foothold is unblocked, and the shopping mall is unblocked. You can explore freely, and you can also enter other footholds to obtain supplies."

This time, the voice was no longer the greasy baritone of the boss of the mall, but a cold female voice without warmth, as if extremely so.

"Look, look, look! The small characters on the back of the chessboard have changed!"

Just now, after Hanyang explained to Lu Hao the rules of the task of "Ask a ghost to ask the way", he kept playing with the chessboard, and unexpectedly saw some tricks.

"After completing the current task, the chessboard will be flipped, and the victory condition will be changed to——"

The following words are not displayed, probably because I don't want them to know now.

"Han Yang, where are the candles?"

Han Yang took out two candles and a lighter from his clothes pocket, Xie Changming took it and lit it, and said:

"Let's start now, do you have any questions?"

"I don't think it's some physical work, Xiao Lu, can you do it?" Han Yang expressed concern, and then went out to close the elevator switch.

"It's okay, by the way, Brother Hanyang, is your real name Hanyang?"

"My name is Wu." Han Yang swallowed half of what he just said, and changed his words: "My name is Xiao Xuan."

"Oh." Lu Hao replied twice, and asked again: "You won't lie to me like Brother Lu, will you?"

"will not."

Lu You, who was playing with the computer, sneezed. He was so absorbed that he probably didn't hear what Lu Hao said just now.

On Lu You's computer screen is a notepad, and he is typing and typing.

The content in the notepad is some of his reasoning about this mall.

There are certain rules and supporting monitoring systems in the market. Under normal circumstances, if you don't go beyond the rules, you won't die.

Most of the ghosts in the shopping mall have entities, they come and go irregularly, and some even appear as NPCs.

Trauma caused by ghosts will cause corpse poison, so try not to be traumatized.

On the way back, Lu Hao described the details of the mission in detail, which contained a lot of information.

It is not difficult to guess from the process that the owner of the car wash shop belongs to some kind of weird existence, which is different from the basilisks and ghouls encountered before.

During the task, the boss defined the rules for Lu Hao, but also induced Lu Hao to violate the rules in many ways.

It can be deduced from this that weird existences cannot kill people as simply and brutally as monsters, they are restricted within certain rules.

When fleeing, the boss hammered the ground, but did not make a sound, but the kitchen knife in his hand actually caused damage to Lu Hao.

This may prove that they can temporarily affect the real world with the help of certain items, but more often than not, they exist in virtual form.

After typing the last word, Lu You closed the notebook, walked to the fresh-keeping cabinet, took a bottle of Moufu brand chocolate milk, took a sip, and burped contentedly.

"Okay, I also smashed the emergency lights of the fire exit at the back, so we can start."

Xie Changming extinguished his cigarette, and after Xiao Xuan came in, he closed the front door of the convenience store and signaled everyone to follow him.

"I will stand first, Xiao Xuan, you will stand second, and the rest of you will stand on your own."

"I am blind, and I stand last."

Li Diaoxi quickly shrank to the back of the line.

Lu Hao stood in the third place, behind him was Lu You, who was touching his chin, as if he was in deep thought.

Speaking of what exactly is this task mechanism, there is not even a reward and punishment system, how to count as completed and not completed is really confusing.

"Are you ready? Then I'm going out."

"By the way, remember your rank. This is your serial number. Since it is mentioned in the rules, it will probably be used later."

Xie Changming was the first to bear the brunt, and went out with a candle in his hand. Within ten seconds, there were three knocks on the door, and Xiao Xuan, who was at No. [-], opened the door for him.

Xie Changming returned to the end of the line, Xiao Xuan went out, and his speed was also very fast.

It was a little slow to get to Lu Hao, and it took more than a minute to knock on the door and come back.

It was Lu You's turn to go out, and it was pitch black outside, with only two candles burning faintly not far away, emitting a faint light.

Lu You walked quickly, bent down and picked up the one closest to him, placed a grid farther away, and then turned back immediately.

He came back and knocked on the door, and the blind man opened it and let him in.

The subsequent steps are tedious, nothing more than picking up the previous candle and stepping over the next candle to move forward.

After waving it around the corner of the corridor, Lu You picked up the candle and looked for the candlestick.

The candlesticks were exhausted, and what caught his eye was the Temple of the City God that he had seen before.

Lu You stretched out his hand to take a picture, and there were indeed two candlesticks on the shrine. He put the candles on, and then returned.

Every time Li Diaoxi went out, he could return within the normal time, and after so many trips, the order of the candles was not out of order, which made people doubt the authenticity of his blindness.

This time he came back in 3 minutes. For such a long distance, Lu You had to fumble for about 4 minutes. No one knew why a blind man walked so fast.

He held four wooden tablets and a note in his arms. The lights in the convenience store were not forced to be turned off by the rules, and everyone started to read them.

The note said: Please start going out in the order of 12 34 51 24. One person is responsible for inserting the wooden tablet on the shrine, and the other person is responsible for softly asking, "Chenghuang Chenghuang, please show me the next way."

The inscriptions on the wooden stele are vague, but it can be vaguely seen that these four pieces are respectively written with "Yin", "Yang", "Jiao" and "He".

The serial number finally came in handy. According to the order on the note, the ones who went out were: Xie Changming, Xiao Xuan, Lu Hao, Luyou, Li Diao, Xie Changming, Xiao Xuan, Luyou.

It didn't take long, Xie Changming and Xiao Xuan ran back, knocked on the door three times and rushed in immediately.

The two were out of breath, as if they were being chased by something.

"Damn it, there is a female ghost sitting next to the shrine. After you ask the way, she will get up and chase you, and she will scream. It's scary."

Lu You recalled that when he used to play the escape room, the NPC inside seemed to be so scary-after you finished the task, he would jump out from some corner and drive you back.

With a grin, it was his turn to go out with Lu Hao.

It was still pitch black outside the door. Walking around the corner, I found that there seemed to be a lamp in the base of the shrine, and there was a strong light emitting from it.

"Well"

Lu Hao took a step back in fright, and Lu You hurriedly motioned him to keep silent.

In the bright light, a woman with disheveled hair and livid skin was facing the wall and thinking about her past.

She banged her head against the wall one after another, but there was no sound.

"It's a ghost."

Lu You whispered to Lu Hao, and then told Lu Hao to make a quick decision with gestures.

Lu Hao put down the wooden tablet, stepped back tacitly, Lu You clasped his hands together, and said:
"Chenghuang, Chenghuang, please show me the next path."

As soon as the word "Lu" was finished, the woman turned her head suddenly, and leaped towards Lu You with a tiger leap.

Lu You had expected it a long time ago, so he dodged, pulled Lu Hao up and ran towards the convenience store.

The female ghost roared and chased after her, and the two ran cursing in front.

"Brother Lu, awesome."

Lu Hao gave Lu You a thumbs up.

"Pinch Ma Ma Tei, this is called top-level prediction!"

(End of this chapter)