128 Villa Wall Rules Strange Talk (4) “Is it a coincidence?……

Underground basement, facing the room conducting the initial inspection, the group of participants had nothing to do, so they started chatting against the wall.

The soundproofing of the walls is not very good. Although the conversation in the room cannot be heard by the entire basement, it can still be heard from about 4 to 6 rooms away.

Hoai Tac was not in a good mood, Ngo Giang Dao started asking which room that "Miss Ninh" was staying in.

He was actually not the owner of this place, originally living in a village some distance away from here in the city. Later, the village was demolished and relocated, he got a huge sum of money from the demolition and relocation, and became addicted to gambling.

The saying goes, "Gamble ten times and lose nine times," but gamblers all believe that they can turn things around next time. The money he spent on the move was quickly paid back, leaving him with a huge debt.

At first, his parents were still helping him pay off his debt, but he couldn't get it back.

More than a year later, one day, his parents, in a situation where he completely didn't understand what was going on, used all means to kick him out of the house.

In one night, Ngo Giang Dao became penniless, still inseparable from his companions, only left with a snowball-like debt, and an addiction to gambling that he could not get rid of.

Wu Jiang therefore targeted the nearby luxury residential area, stole several things, and was very lucky not to be caught.

Later, in the villa area of ​​the wall garden, he unexpectedly discovered a villa that had been abandoned for a long time, even the second floor's damaged windows had not been repaired.

He boldly went in, at first he just carefully slept on the ground there overnight, but then he discovered that there was really no one managing this place, so his courage grew, he found a few similar clothes from the wardrobe, and wandered around the neighborhood as if nothing had happened, using all kinds of tactful methods to ask the servant for directions.

He therefore quickly heard that this place had been without a person for seven or eight years. The owner of the house seemed to have gone abroad, not knowing whether he had settled in this foreign country or had encountered some kind of accident, but in any case, he had not returned, and the real estate agency could not contact them. Because of the delay in paying the real estate fees, the house had lost its water supply and electricity.

This news gave Wu Jiang a bold idea - he first stole a few valuables from the house, captured the second store and sold them for cash, then used them to make up for the real estate fees and restore the hydroelectric power plant. Then he pretended to be the owner's cousin and wanted to stay here. He brazenly and boldly changed the lock of the house and had the key to the apartment in his hand.

This excuse is full of loopholes, but he found the real estate certificate from the TV counter. The real estate certificate is in hand, and he took the initiative to pay the real estate fee. No matter the real estate or other business owners, they did not doubt his identity. He just like that, from a gambler in debt, he became a middle-class property owner in the B City villa area.

After three months, he tried every way to sell his valuables in the house to pay off his debts. He planned to wait until the good things he sold for cash were almost there, then find a way to mortgage this apartment. Although the regular mortgage lending process was strict, those illegal loan sharks would always give money when they saw the real estate securities.

Just at this moment, he entered the strange chat.

Because a few days ago, I vaguely heard that the relevant department wanted to send people to carry out a mission to the strange lake, and this type of department-specific identity fakes made up the majority. The gambler from the [Chaos Immortal] Wu Jiang's original plan was to use them as targets to kill and rob the props after entering the strange lake.

If he can catch good quality props, after he leaves the strange pool, he can sell the props for tens or hundreds of millions of dollars.

But when he asked those seemingly experienced people whether they were from that department, they denied it.

... Although this kind of denial is not necessarily true, but if it is true, he might not get any results if he kills someone.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Ngo Giang Dao decided to only target that "Miss Ninh". Because that Miss Ninh had previously tested the rules and had clearly displayed the props on her body, killing her would definitely yield some gains.

Wu Jiang Dao thus borrowed the time when everyone was chatting, cleverly found out which room that "Miss Ning" was in. After that, as long as "Miss Ning" wanted to go out, he would make the same request. After leaving the underground basement, it should not be difficult to act at any time.

Room 11 Ren Ningning didn't know that she had been targeted. After checking the items in the room, she and Ye Xi, who was in the corner of the room, had a discussion. The two of them touched each other and discovered that there was something in both rooms that wasn't considered "daily necessities"—a fluffy rabbit on Ye Xi's side, and a crystal ball on Ren Ningning's side.

That crystal ball was a limited edition item from City B, with a small lantern mascot inside. In a flash, the spherical particles scattered like heavy snow.

Ren Ningning carefully observed it for half a day, judging from the various craftsmanship details that it should be the original, the retail price recommended by the government at that time should be more than one hundred yuan.

Although it was not expensive, compared to Ren Ning Ning's cheap clothes and makeup in the room, it was already very luxurious.

"This is very strange..." Ren Ningning leaned against the wall closest to Ye Xi's room, holding the elegant crystal ball in her hand, inexplicably giving off goosebumps.

"Very strange." Diep Tich accepted the offer, "There is another problem, I just realized it, it is also a bit strange."

Ren Ning Ning asked: "What?"

Diep Tich asked again: "Do you understand architectural documents?"

Ren Ning Ning was confused: "What do you mean?"

"That's right." Diep Tich raised his hand and used his knuckles to knock on the wall twice, the wall made a hollow "Knock knock" sound.

Diep Tich said: "I think, this kind of wall has very poor sound insulation, is it because the solidity level is also limited?"

Ren Ningning hesitated and said: "I don't quite understand… But it seems like it is. I didn't come into contact with this kind of problem in the police force, but my own house… It seems like the extra heavy wall is clearly more soundproof, while other walls are only used to separate spaces but are not extra heavy, so the soundproofing effect is much worse."

After saying that, she asked Diep Tich again: "Why are you asking this?"

"Look at this wall, the soundproofing is so bad that even if we lean in to each other and talk, we can hear it directly without raising our voices." Ye Xi's gaze focused on the simple white wall in front of him, "If we really 'mutate', the difference between a zombie and a normal human's physical appearance isn't too big. But if it's a werewolf, a monster with obviously stronger strength, can this wall withstand it?"

Ren Ning Ning was stunned: "You mean, we won't mutate?"

Ye Xi: "No, what I mean is that it probably won't mutate, and it might turn into that kind of zombie-like creature——which is dangerous and contagious, but not capable of carrying out a powerful attack. The 'beast' can basically be eliminated, so there's no need to use that kind of thought to bother yourself."

Ren Ningning suddenly came to her senses and let out a sigh of relief: "... That's great!"

The biggest problem with this dungeon right now is that everything is very vague. If we can tease out useless guesses and clues, we can get a little closer to the final correct answer.

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3rd floor, Xiao Leng searched the computer for fake names of the participants in this strange discussion. The good news was that he had guessed correctly. Except for the doctor himself, everyone here had a PDF version of their medical records.

The bad news is, each part of the calendar page number is between 200 and 500 pages, not only is it a huge amount of reading when put together, but it also takes a long time to read it all.

No matter how weird the discussion is, it can't really make the audience read that much content.

Xiao Leng pondered for a while, then chose this 14-page document to stamp. The printer was placed on the side of the desktop, and the place where the paper was sprayed had a blocker. The stamped interface would automatically stack neatly, without the need for anyone to stare at it.

Tieu Lanh therefore directly left the 3rd floor, going first to the 1st floor.

He had used the first floor kitchen before, the living room and dining room cabinets were also simply checked last night, there were no suspicious items inside, only the storage room in the corner had never been used.

He opened the storage door, inside were neatly arranged many shelves. On the shelves were various daily necessities, as well as rice and noodles, which could be used as long-term cooking ingredients. At first glance, the owner of this place seemed to be a crazy person who bought and sold things. But considering that there were 14 people in the basement who consumed daily necessities, the amount of these things that were sold and sold didn't seem to be very large.

Just looking at the items on the shelf, Tieu Lanh walked towards the inner wall.

The entire room was filled with cabinets, only this wall had three wooden cabinets with open doors, through the door panels you couldn't see what was inside.

He opened the first cabinet, inside the left half of the side was filled with many plush toys, different in size and shape. The other half of the side was handmade in all kinds of shapes, and there was also a kind of crystal ball decoration.

The second drawer contained some clothes, towels, and washcloths. Most of them were women's jewelry, and the quality wasn't very good. There were also a few items of fairly good quality, hung on a coat rack on the right side of the crossbar, and the labels weren't even removed.

He opened the third cabinet again, the first thing he saw was a lot of makeup and skin care products placed on the left, but without exception they were all fake, and the packaging was clearly low-quality. The square box below didn't seem to be makeup, so he squatted down to take a look, and as a result he saw inside were a lot of... unopened ladies' underwear.

The third cabinet on the right side has a drawer. The drawer opens, and inside are colorful jewelry. There are necklaces, earrings, rings, and hairpins. At first glance, they look like the hundreds of items in the shop that are considered to be the finest items. They are not considered expensive, but they are still beautiful.

In addition to this, this half-rib also contains cigarettes, lighters, jigsaw puzzles, a musical instrument set, a beautifully packaged small candy box, and a full layer of... gift wrapping paper and ribbons.

Like this, is this rule referring to the so-called "Offering"?

Xiao Leng instinctively thought that Ye Xi would be somewhat biased towards one type, but the next second he felt that these cheap things should not be given to him.

... So we have to do "Experiment", still take Truong Lap Binh as the one.

Xiao Leng gently moved the corner of his mouth, and moved his steps to the second wardrobe in front. He looked at the clothes hanging on the right side of the crossbar. He took down a light blue men's shirt from the women's jewelry section, then randomly picked out a gift wrapping paper and ribbon. They took it to the living room and placed it on the clean sofa. He carried out the packing without any carelessness, and at the same time began to wonder what to make for lunch.

14 people, a lot of food, limited time... Make two simple stir-fries, one stir-fried and one simmered, then cook some rice, that should be enough.

An hour later, the tomato and egg stir-fry, the chicken and sauce were put into the pot, and together they were sent to the basement with the rice. At this time, Xiao Leng opened the small window according to Ye Xi's words. He quickly discovered that Ye Xi was right, the window was just big enough for a basket to pass through. So that when he brought food in the future, he wouldn't need to unlock it again, because the small window was not big enough for an adult to enter and exit, and there was no security lock on it.

After bringing in each portion of lunch, Xiao Leng originally wanted to return to Zhang Liping's window to "give a gift", but several attendees wanted to go to the restroom, including Ye Xi and Zhang Liping.

Tieu Lanh simply took everyone out first, and while everyone was lining up to go to the restroom, he gave the things to Truong Lap Binh.

"Ah?!" Zhang Liping, who was queuing at the toilet door, looked confused.

Tieu Lang said few words but meant much: "Gift."

"Oh..." Zhang Liping's reaction was a bit beyond Xiao Leng's expectations. He briefly froze for a moment, then immediately smiled, his smile extremely sincere and warm, looking extremely happy, "Thank you!"

Underground basement group rule number 7: You are a polite person, if he gives you a gift, you should feel happy. Seeing you happy, he will also be very happy.

Zhang Liping's performance obviously perfectly conformed to this rule, but looking closely, it seemed like he was acting too realistically.

Zhang Liping's ranking behind Yang Ge was given goosebumps by this scene: "Damn, can you not be so happy? That scene just now was so terrifying!"

"..." Zhang Liping suddenly twitched, Xiao Leng's eyes condensed, carrying a kind of searching and researching look as he evaluated him: "What were you thinking about just now?"

"Ah?" Zhang Liping stiffened.

Yang Ge's words of ridicule only made him feel foolish for a moment, but Xiao Leng's serious question made him notice his emotions just now —— he just now, seemed really happy...

He clearly knew that everyone was talking about strange things, clearly knew that Xiao Leng's operations were just "daily work", trying to find clues. But the moment he heard that there was a gift, it was as if he had really received some unexpected joy, his excitement was revealed.

This is weird.

The experienced gossiper Zhang Liping immediately realized that this might be a clue, so he directly told Xiao Leng: "I don't know why, just now I was… especially happy."

Tieu Lanh: "What is the reason?"

"I don't know ah..." Zhang Liping was speechless, his eyes fell on the "gift" in his hand, he scratched his head in confusion, "I don't even know what's inside, but I'm really happy."

Tieu Lanh nodded as if thinking about something, not wanting to interact further, he turned around and quickly went about other things.

Yang Ge ranked behind Ye Xi, who was recalling the velvet rabbit in his room. [reminding the atmosphere]aimed at the velvet rabbit, giving out three distinct words, which were "Love", "Praise", and "Worth showing off". As for "Worth showing off", it seemed to have a certain meaning in line with Zhang Liping's reaction to receiving the gift just now, or rather, it was logically advancing.

——Only gifts that make people happy and show their joy on their faces can be considered worth showing off. If the person who receives the gift himself doesn't feel happy because of the gift, then most likely won't take this gift to show off to others.

Very quickly, it was Zhang Liping's turn to enter the bathroom. Five minutes later, he came out, his original black T-shirt had been changed into a new light blue shirt.

"You..." Yang Ge's mouth corners trembled, Zhang Liping explained with a complicated expression: "Just now I casually destroyed the gift inside, then in a flash… I wanted to directly change my clothes to look, so I changed directly, how could I find any clues?"

After speaking, he asked Duong Ca and Diep Tich: "Do you think anything of me when you look at me like this?"

Duong Ca pouted: "Can't remember anything, but quite beautiful."

Diep Tich could only say: "Very suitable."

"Right?" Zhang Liping couldn't help but get excited, because he clearly realized something was wrong. He laughed while making a face of horror, "... This is fucking terrifying!"

He scratched his head, no longer continuing this topic with them, jogged all the way to the living room, and gathered with the other attendees who had finished going to the bathroom.

This was Xiao Leng's request, because the rules clearly mentioned that he needed to "properly arrange" the participants who left the underground basement. The current situation of the strange talk was not clear, so everyone could only be careful. Therefore, he made careful arrangements for the people who left the underground basement, and asked everyone to line up and go to the bathroom in the living room. They were not allowed to move around at will. If they had any other needs, they had to tell him.

Thus the process at dusk that day repeated once again. Waited until the next morning, the time of everyone in the strange chat "Daily Experience" had already exceeded 24 hours, the 17 members at breakfast when all tacitly proposed to go out to the toilet and take a bath, Xiao Leng then went with the flow and brought everyone to the second floor bedroom bathroom, Xiao Leng waited for the two non-17 members to finish going to the toilet and return to the basement after returning to the second floor, brought the teammates to the third floor study room to start a new round of discussion.

This discussion group temporarily put down the speculation about "mutation", because the situation is still unclear, randomly based on a certain type of speculation to proceed to a further speculation, is like looking at people with prejudice, very likely to cause misunderstanding.

The newly discovered clue that most caught everyone's attention was the "gift" issue. Zhang Liping's reaction when he received the shirt was clearly unusual. In addition, more than half of the people in his small room had seen very similar "gift" items, such as Ye Xi's velvet rabbit and Ren Ningning's crystal ball.

These things seem to hide something from the past, but they can't analyze it now.

Next is the big guy "Dream Scene". The past two days, everyone had some strange dreams. Ye Xi dreamed for two consecutive nights that he was running like crazy on the road, running away panting and not daring to stop, as if he was avoiding something. Zhang Liping, for two consecutive nights, "□□" had a terrifying scream every night.

Ren Ning Ning recalled the sadness she felt in her dream... It was an indescribable sadness that made her entire heart fall uncontrollably, making her miserable to the point of being unable to control herself.

What Wang Xinran mentioned was "fear". She said that she seemed to be really afraid of something. In her dream, she had been staring at the locked window. This kind of state was really like the main character in a zombie drama hiding in her room, worrying about the zombie attack outside the door.

In short, except for Xiao Leng, the eight 17th team members all told each other about their dreams from the past two nights. Everyone's dreams were different, but they had one thing in common: They were all nightmares.

"This ability explains that everyone has had bad experiences, very deep psychological shadows, this kind of experience." Ye Xi recalled each person's dream scene, and carefully concluded, "If we only consider these dream scenes, we cannot completely rule out the possibility of 'mutation'. But combined with the soundproofing problem of the walls, I think that it is not a werewolf or something with strong attack power, the possibility of a zombie is quite high."

They were in a nightmare of emotions, barely able to deal with this kind of situation. Especially her and Wang Xinran, one was running, one was hiding, all were classic zombie scenes.

Yang Ge continued, "Then it is possible that our bodies mutated later, so we were raised in this underground basement. The opening rules mention 'the world is full of danger'——if we have the power to kill ordinary people, then ordinary people will kill us, the world is indeed very dangerous for us."

"But what's with the gifts?" Zhang Liping was still confused about the issue of gifts, and decided to speculate, "Could it be that those gifts have some connection to our original lives, so they make us exceptionally happy, even wanting to show them off?"

"This possibility cannot be ruled out." Duong Ca comfortably expressed his agreement.

Ye Xi did not speak. Her mood was a bit bad, because right now it seemed like everyone had new discoveries, but in reality there was no new development. The gifts and the dream scene all seemed to have hidden meanings, but the specific hidden meanings had not been revealed at all. If it weren't for the small detail of "Expelling werewolves and other powerful attacking monsters through the wall", they would have been completely on the spot.

Tieu Lanh still maintained the same silence, walked to the computer desk, picked up the stack of stamped medical records, and divided them into groups.

Everyone got two fake medical records. Xiao Leng took out some paper and pens to distribute, then explained the mission: "Quickly summarize what illness each fake medical record mentions, let's find some similarities."

Next, don't forget to emphasize: "There's no need to deliberately look for 'infectious' random diseases, the strange talk we're facing isn't necessarily a mutant topic."

Zhang Liping leaned against the wall, his eyes staring at the ceiling, feeling like he was overlooking something. Thinking about it without any results, he shook his head, turning his attention to the sick calendar in his hand.

Although the medical records in their hands were several hundred pages long, it was not difficult to look up because the medical records contained a large number of examination results, each section taking up at least the entire interface, requiring careful reading of the text, at most just looking at one diagnosis result was enough.

Diep Tich just happened to be holding the "Li Hua" medical record in her hand, which was also her own copy.

She quickly looked it over and found that this medical history was very complete, recording her past illnesses over the past ten years, including an allergic measles, two acute gastritis, one bacterial pneumonia, and a period of moderate depression. During the depression, she also had insomnia, and there was also a foreign injury that required treatment, requiring seven acupuncture treatments.

... So at first glance, this "her" is much more miserable than her in reality, all kinds of medical examination process accumulated to be very complete.

She recorded each of these symptoms on paper, originally wanting to focus on bacterial pneumonia and acupuncture, because these two types, one directly meant "infection", the other seemed very likely to "cause infection", and were relatively strongly related to their conjectures about "mutation".

But thinking about what Tieu Lanh had just reminded her, her hand stopped.

When she started to make the second part of the medical record, Wang Xinran leaned over, looked at her notes, and made an "Eh" sound.

"What's wrong?" Ye Xi turned her head to look at her. She stretched out her right hand and wrote down a line of self-inflicted cuts on Ye Xi's face. She then showed her own records to her, and lightly tapped her finger on the first symptom: "Is it a coincidence?":,,.

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