Non-Human Seeking Re-employment

The game feels a bit unplayable.

But there is no way, the new mode that I created, I can only play with tears in my eyes.

[You hold back your fear and observe carefully, and you find that the faces on the ceiling are delicate and look like women, their lips open and close, as if they are talking about something]

[Please pass a listening test]

Shen Dongqing cooperated: "Pass."

[Listening failed. 】

【Those voices turned into meaningless groans in your ears, you can only feel their pain...】

The game paused, [What are you doing? 】

Shen Dongqing moved a small stool and stood on it.

This grocery room was under the stairs, and it wasn't too high. Standing up like this, Shen Dongqing almost touched the ceiling.

When he heard the problem of the game, he said rightly: "I can't hear it because it's too far away. I can hear it when I get closer!"

【…】

Shen Dongqing waited for a while, then came to her senses, and said, "Pass a listening check."

[Listening check succeeded]

【You heard them say...】

Shen Dongqing interrupted the game: "Stop blah, I can listen to it myself."

Perhaps because of passing the listening test, Shen Dongqing heard the face on the ceiling exhale softly, and all the unexplained sounds gathered into two words.

"Girl—girl—"

Shen Dongqing: "Girl?"

After he understood, he jumped off the stool.

The detective quickly asked, "What did you see?"

Shen Dongqing pointed to the top.

The detective looked up, but saw nothing but the ceiling with chandeliers hanging from it.

Shen Dongqing: "They said the word 'girl'."

The detective subconsciously thought of the Girl's Temple on the mountainside. He turned around and said, "I found the register from 18 years ago. Su Xiaoying did live here."

Su Xiaoying is the target of his mission.

The detective said: "In the registration book, Su Xiaoying lives in the attic, I think I can go and see."

The doctor hesitated: "The game informed me to report to the village infirmary."

The photographer said: "I have also been notified. The game said that I am very curious about the Girl Temple and want to take close-up photos there."

It sounds like a very deadly act.

But there is no way, according to the script and character design, as a new generation of young people who have grown up in a modern society, they will not think of ghosts and ghosts whenever they encounter things.

This death, you have to do it or have to do it.

At the same time, Shen Dongqing and Zhou Wenyan also heard the sound of the game.

[Because of the kind reminder from the old man, you choose to spend the night in the hotel, and when you wake up the next day, the rain has stopped, and you want to get down to business and visit your seriously ill grandma]

【You left the ancient town when you were very young and never came back. Your memory of grandma is very vague. You only remember that there is a cherry blossom tree next to your hometown】

Shen Dongqing: "Sakura tree?"

But don't the cherry blossoms bloom in spring?

What is the difference between finding a cherry blossom tree in autumn and fishing in a swimming pool?

The doctor went out with a small medicine box on his back. Before leaving, he said: "The hotel proprietress must know. You can persuade her to let her take you to the cherry blossom tree."

The doctor probably thought that the village infirmary was unlikely to be in danger, so he walked briskly.

In contrast to her is the photographer, who looks like she is going to visit her own grave.

Shen Dongqing tilted her head: "Persuasion?"

The aunt was sitting at the counter watching a TV series, waving a fan and knocking on melon seeds, laughing so hard that she couldn't even see her eyes.

While she was fascinated by watching, a figure stood in front of her, blocking the TV series on the wall.

The aunt waved her hand: "Go, go, go far away."

Shen Dongqing leaned on the counter and said in a good voice, "Auntie, I have a question, are there any cherry blossom trees around here?"

The aunt was very uncooperative: "No, I don't know."

Shen Dongqing thought for a while, and according to what the doctor said, she asked to pass a persuasion dice.

【...big failure】

【Auntie is determined and has not been persuaded】

Shen Dongqing changed her method of persuasion.

physical persuasion.

However, this method is mostly used for non-human NPCs. The aunt in front of her is obviously human. Shen Dongqing has the good character of respecting the old and caring for the young, so of course she won't do it directly.

He chose to persuade.

Shen Dongqing clenched her small fist.

The aunt looked indifferent, she didn't take Shen Dongqing's "persuasion" seriously at all.

Then Shen Dongqing punched down lightly, with a "bang", a deep hole appeared on the solid wooden cabinet.

The aunt was so frightened that she almost fell off her chair: "What are you going to do?"

Shen Dongqing smiled kindly: "Don't be nervous, we are good people, we just want to ask a question."

Auntie glanced cautiously at the counter.

This counter is very strong, and it has been used for more than ten years. I didn't expect this gentle young man to punch it straight through. If it hit someone...

The aunt swallowed: "I, I, I seem to remember."

【...You convinced the NPC】

The aunt said: "Just at the foot of the mountain, there is a family planted a cherry tree next to it. You can see it as soon as you pass by."

Shen Dongqing withdrew her hand and said with a smile, "Thank you!"

The aunt held her beating heart and watched the two people go out. Before she could catch her breath, she saw the gentle young man come back again.

The aunt hurriedly swore to the sky: "I don't know anything anymore!"

Shen Dongqing glanced at her suspiciously, grabbed a handful of melon seeds, and went out again.

Aunt: ...

What kind of guest is this!

Going out along the bluestone path, the buildings on both sides gradually decrease, and when you come to the path leading to the girl's temple, there are already weeds all around.

From a distance, there is only one adobe house in the wilderness.

No wonder the aunt said, as long as you pass by, you can see it.

Shen Dongqing and Zhou Wenyan approached the adobe house. From the outside, they could see a tree planted in the yard. The branches were bare. It was unknown if it was a cherry blossom tree.

Probably due to the simplicity of her status, the gates of the courtyard were all open, and Shen Dongqing was still a little disappointed.

The two walked in.

It was too quiet inside, there was no sound at all, as if no one lived at all, and even the red couplets pasted on the door panel had faded to gray and white.

creak-

Shen Dongqing pushed open a wooden door, and a gust of wind swept over, carrying a rotten breath.

This adobe house was built in an unknown age, and it didn't even have electricity, so it could only be illuminated by the light leaking from the roof.

It was dark inside, and a pale face could be seen faintly, but because it was too dark, it was impossible to see what it was.

Zhou Wenyan has almost figured out the game mode of this new mode: "Pass a detection check."

Maybe it was bad luck, both of them failed the test.

The game has a taste of gloating: [In the dark, you didn't find anything, you just thought it was dizzy]

Shen Dongqing silently raised her head without saying a word.

The game has long been used to the coquettish operations of these two thorny players, and it is a bit strange to see this, so it is rare to ask: [... What are you thinking? 】

Shen Dongqing: "I was wondering if it would be very difficult to remove the ceiling."

【…】

Shen Dongqing smiled mischievously: "I'm just kidding."

As soon as the words fell, he rushed up with a stride, reached out and grabbed the place where the pale face flashed, picked up the things there, and walked out.

【? ? ? 】

Shen Dongqing's thoughts were simple and rough, since the room was too dark, wouldn't it be possible to see the things after taking them out?

After walking out of the adobe house, Shen Dongqing looked down.

It is a photo frame with a photo inlaid in it, and the shooting place is in this small courtyard.The girl with braids is smiling brightly at the camera, with the cherry blossom trees in full bloom behind her.

Zhou Wenyan followed, looked at the girl in the photo, and said, "This should be Ah Ying." The girl who wrote to them.

"Cough cough cough..."

A cough came from behind.

The two turned their heads at the same time.

At some point, a short and skinny old lady stood at the door, holding the door with one hand, coughing out of breath.

"You, you..." The old lady's eyes fell on Zhou Wenyan, and her originally lax eyes suddenly became sharper, "What are you doing back?"

Zhou Wenyan walked over with the photo frame and called out, "Grandma."

It's a pity that the heartwarming scene of recognizing relatives didn't happen.

The old lady snatched the photo frame from Zhou Wenyan's hand at a speed that didn't meet her age, and said viciously: "Go! Go! Who told you to come back! Get out of here!"

After finishing speaking, the old lady staggered back to the room without taking another look.

In normal times, Zhou Wenyan would have persuaded the NPC (physically) and let it cooperate, but now here is an old human lady who is dying, and it is not easy to do it.

Seeing that the figure of the old lady was about to disappear into the darkness, Zhou Wenyan suddenly remembered the "A Ying" in the letter, and said: "A Ying wrote to me and asked me to come back."

Obviously, the old lady shivered, she stopped, her voice trembling: "We don't have this person here! You must have made a mistake, you made a mistake!"

The game asked intimately: [Do you need a psychology session? 】

Shen Dongqing was like looking at a fool: "Blind people know she's lying, okay?"

The game replied silently, but his heart had already collapsed.

It shouldn't have this kind of messy new rules!

The old lady kicked out both of them, and did not treat Zhou Wenyan specially because of his status. Before driving out, she stared at Zhou Wenyan with cloudy eyes, and her tone was distorted: "Get out of here quickly, this is not what you should place to stay!"

"Also, don't go to the girl's temple!"

boom--

The wooden door was closed tightly, and the old lady locked it inside to prevent them from going back.

Shen Dongqing looked at the dilapidated wooden door, and suggested, "Go to the girl's temple?"

In this game, it is impossible to pass the level without dying.

Not to mention, Girl Temple is the key clue.

The game took the opportunity to come out to find a sense of existence: [Although grandma warned you not to go to the girl's temple, the more you can't go to the place, the more curious you are. As a person who grew up in the new era, you don't believe in the theory of strange powers and chaotic gods, so go directly to girl temple]

The path leading to the Girl's Temple was narrow and steep. Shen Dongqing and Zhou Wenyan walked on it one after the other. About 10 minutes later, the Girl's Temple appeared in front of them.

It may have just rained last night, and the walls outside the girl's temple seemed to be covered with layers of blood, and a stench could be smelled from a distance.

After walking in, I found out that the girl temple is actually dilapidated, there are no pilgrims, and weeds grow wantonly in the yard, and there is only a small path in the middle for passing.

Going along the path is the main hall of the Girl Temple. The incense candles placed at the main entrance have been burned out, and the roof above has been leaking. What is enshrined there is not a sculpture of a god or Buddha, but a stone statue, which looks like a A girl, it seems to watch everyone who walks in.

Shen Dongqing stepped over the threshold and walked in.

The girl's temple seems to have been abandoned for a long time, and grass has grown in it. If the old man said "responsive to requests", it should be like a cloud.

But now there are no aborigines.

Shen Dongqing wandered around, but found no clues, but found a fainted photographer in the corner.

The photographer may have seen something terrible before she fainted, her face was full of horror, and her camera was still tightly squeezed in her hand.

Shen Dongqing knelt down and looked at her for a while, then took the camera away.He pressed it, and the screen lit up. The last photo he took was a stone statue in the girl's temple, which looked nothing special.

Seeing that Shen Dongqing had been lingering inside for a long time, Zhou Wenyan went to find her.

Shen Dongqing waved to him, stood up and handed the camera over: "She took this photo before she fainted."

Zhou Wenyan looked down at the screen, but he didn't see anything wrong.

At this time, the photographer woke up leisurely.

She groaned and saw two people standing in front of her, completely forgetting that there was another person lying on the ground, looking seriously at the camera.

The photographer's legs were a little weak, and he got up with difficulty, and the two of them didn't intend to help each other.

"you……"

Zhou Wenyan returned the camera and asked, "What did you see before you fainted?"

The photographer was in a trance, and his mind was obviously a lot slower: "I, I saw the cherry blossom tree..."

She doesn't remember the details anymore, she only remembers the cherry blossom tree that bloomed brilliantly.

Rumor has it that a dead person was buried under the cherry blossom tree, which is why it blooms so beautifully.

The photographer struggled to recall, only sweating all over his body, but he couldn't think of anything else.

Shen Dongqing didn't find any clues in the girl's temple, and she was a little hungry after wandering outside for a long time, so she suggested going back to the hotel first.

Zhou Wenyan had no objection, the photographer was eager to leave this place as soon as possible, so he nodded desperately.

The three of them walked towards the outside of the girl's temple. When they crossed the threshold, the sound of the game sounded: [You found nothing in the girl's temple and planned to leave, but before you left, you looked back subconsciously. The stone statue of the girl is looking at you Smile】

[You seem to be confused, you want to make a wish to the stone statue of the girl, 'Anyway, the old man said that everything you ask for' you think so]

[Please make a will test]

[Shen Dongqing succeeded in the test]

[Zhou Wenyan succeeded in the test]

[The photographer's will check...failed! 】

The photographer withdrew the leg he had taken, as if being pulled by an invisible thread, and walked back to the stone statue of the girl. Her eyes were dull, and she murmured: "Make a wish...every request..."

Her legs softened, and she knelt down in front of the girl's stone statue, her forehead hit the ground heavily, making a toothache-sounding sound. .After maintaining this movement for a while, she slowly straightened her upper body and opened her mouth: "..."

Before the photographer had time to say the wish, someone was faster than her.

Shen Dongqing came to the stone statue first, clasped his hands together with a "snap", bent slightly, and said, "Is there anything you ask for? Please let the stupid game close down as soon as possible."

Stone statue: ...

game:……

No personal attacks, okay?

After such an interruption, the photographer returned to normal, and she fell to the ground: "What, what's wrong?"

Shen Dongqing: "The stupid game made you wish on this thing."

Photographer: "Make a wish?"

Zhou Wenyan stared at the unchanged stone statue of the girl, and said, "Probably someone must make a wish to enter the next plot, otherwise it will be stuck here."

The photographer is that lucky one.

She trembled: "I, what did I promise?"

Shen Dongqing: "I promise, I will do whatever I ask, this can't be wasted."

Someone has to make a wish.

The photographer threw a failed dice, and she was supposed to make a wish, but Shen Dongqing was the first to break away from the state of being controlled by the game.

Hearing that she didn't make the wish, the photographer got better, and she asked again, "What did you make?"

Zhou Wenyan also clasped his hands together: "The idiot game will close down as soon as possible."

Photographer: ? ? ?

She seemed to understand a little bit, got up from the ground, facing the stone statue of the girl, and raised her voice unexpectedly: "Please let the idiot game close down as soon as possible!"

game:……

Personal attacks are still coming in groups, right?

The three made their wishes one by one and walked out of the girl temple.

The so-called going up the mountain is easy and going down the mountain is difficult. It took twice as long as going up the mountain before walking back to the adobe house.

The photographer's physical strength is not good enough, so he leaned against a tree to rest for a while.

It happened that a gust of wind blew, and a pink petal floated over.

The photographer caught it and took a look: "Sakura?"

How could there be cherry blossoms in this season?

Looking in the direction of the wind, the originally bare cherry tree branches are covered with pink and white cherry blossoms, which are more brilliant than in spring.When the wind blows, pieces of cherry blossom petals fall like rain.

bang-

The two wooden doors swayed and were completely blown open by the wind, allowing people outside to see the whole picture of the cherry blossom tree.

The photographer's reaction was to pick up the camera and take a picture of the out-of-season cherry blossoms. After taking the photo, his face was pale and he looked like he was about to vomit.

Shen Dongqing leaned over and took a look. In the photo taken by the photographer, there was a thin figure hanging on the cherry blossom tree.

It was the old lady I met before. She was hung on the branch of the cherry tree, with her feet on the ground and her head lowered, shaking in the wind with the petals of the cherry blossoms.

Shen Dongqing looked up, but she didn't see the old lady on the cherry tree outside the screen, she lowered her head and looked at the camera.

Just for a moment, the old lady on the screen raised her head, the wrinkles and age spots on her face could not be seen at all, her eyes were sinister, her lips were twisted and opened, as if she was saying something.

[You seem to have noticed something, please pass an inspiration check]

Ding--

The invisible dice fell.

[Inspiration check... big success! 】

Shen Dongqing raised her head again, and the cherry blossoms on the cherry tree trembled, forming distorted human faces. When they moved, the petals on their faces fell down. They were saying:

"Girl, girl, go out at sixteen and marry at eighteen like a flower, girl, good girl, she is a good girl—"

At first they sang country songs, but then the voices twisted and almost turned into vicious curses.

The game couldn't wait to announce: [You heard the song sung by the cherry blossom trees, and felt a chill rising up, please make a sanity check——]

Shen Dongqing nodded, expressing her agreement: "It's a pretty ugly song."

The game roared: [Aren't you afraid! ! ! 】

The exclamation point almost turned into a body and poked on Shen Dongqing's body.

Shen Dongqing thought for a while, and seriously suggested: "It's not to be afraid, it's just that the singing is too ugly. I hope there will be singing sessions in the future, and I hope you can train the staff."

【Okay... ok...】

The game is once again thankful that it is just a string of data. If it is a real entity, wouldn't it be pissed off and then come back to life?

Shen Dongqing discussed with You You: "Why don't you give me a sanity check, I feel very uncomfortable listening to this song."

This group of ghosts sang the same as the Spiritual Song, not so much singing as calling for souls.

Shen Dongqing said that if she uttered such a voice at night, she wouldn't be able to scare two or three timid people into unconsciousness.

【……no. 】

This Shen Dongqing was so calm, she didn't show any fear at all. According to the rules, the game couldn't force the dice to be thrown, so she had to give up reluctantly.

After the words fell, Shen Dongqing's eyes blurred, and the cherry blossom tree had returned to normal, and the cherry blossoms all over the branches had disappeared, leaving only the bare branches and the old lady hanging on the branches.

After they left, the old lady couldn't think about it for some reason, and hanged herself from the cherry blossom tree at the door.

The game jumped out without giving up: [Because of facing the death of the NPC, everyone present made a sanity check, 1/1d6]

[The photographer fails the test, and the sanity value is reduced by 4; Zhou Wenyan fails the check, and the sanity value is reduced by 1; Shen Dongqing fails the check, and the sanity value is reduced by 2]

The photographer had been deducted 1 point of sanity before, and now, a total of 5 sanity points were deducted. Her lips were pale, her head was dizzy, and she couldn't even think.

Shen Dongqing and Zhou Wenyan didn't feel anything because they buckled too little.

Shen Dongqing rubbed her chin, and suddenly realized something: "We didn't see the dice, how do we know how much we cast?"

The game was silent for a moment: [Please do not question the fairness of the game]

Shen Dongqing: "I'm not questioning fairness or unfairness, but I just think you're too stupid."

The game who was personally attacked again almost vomited blood from anger.

[...The game cannot control the final result of the dice roll, the game has always been fair and just]

Shen Dongqing blinked innocently: "I never realized you were such an idiot before."

In the past, when I went into the game dungeon, the game stopped after the broadcast, and I was invisible all the way.

It's all right now, after coming in, it's still beeping constantly, it's simply annoying, and I have to come out to bounce from time to time.

Shen Dongqing discussed with it: "Can you not come out in the future?"

Game: 【...no way】

Shen Dongqing turned her head and said to Zhou Wenyan, "It said no."

Zhou Wenyan rubbed Shen Dongqing's head: "Just ignore it."

Shen Dongqing said "Oh", "I know, it's an idiot anyway."

Game tearfully swears.

One day it will kill these two people! ! !