A Midnight Escape Story for Farmers

"Ah? What do you think?"

Fang Shiqing was banging on the wall, and couldn't hear what the other party was saying clearly amidst the noise, so he stopped in a daze and looked back.

Unexpectedly, these gems are not difficult to disassemble, and a complete piece can be removed with a single strike of the pickaxe—maybe it was originally intended for players to strike.In just 2 minutes, he got down a dozen yuan, and the speed is getting faster and faster; it seems that it only takes more than ten minutes to get everything done.

Xiao Fengdi pursed his lips and said nothing.The contours of his face were already deep, but now his expression was tense, and under the effect of the dim light, he suddenly looked extraordinarily cold and hard, and he had the feeling of a few days ago when he was severely sleep-deprived.

Fang Shiqing shrank his neck reflexively, and was a little dazed for a moment, wondering if the sentence he didn't hear clearly just now was very important?

Xiao Fengdi suddenly walked towards him, raised his hand abruptly, and pressed his fingers on his neck.He immediately jumped back with a groan, and hit the wall behind him directly—although the flowing liquid wall had already dried up, the moment his back touched the wall, he still stood on his head with hairs on his back, and Hastily hid to the side in embarrassment.

"You, what are you doing?" He tremblingly covered his neck.

The neck was originally a vital part of the human body, and he had just been choked by the armor and swung around. He still had a dull pain until now, and he didn't like being touched casually.

Xiao Fengdi slowly put down his hands, lowered his eyes, and was silent for a moment.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you. The pinch mark on your neck hasn't faded yet, does it still hurt now?"

"Ah,... still, okay."

Fang Shiqing was stunned again, a little confused which one he sang again.I thought the boss was angry just now, but he suddenly expressed concern for him. Could it be that he was not angry just now, but arguing?

It's not right, Xiao Fengdi is not arrogant, and his attitude in speaking and doing things has always been very straightforward.

"It's okay, I haven't lost my health, but, uh. After all, I was almost killed just now, and now I still have some psychological shadows, so..."

He whispered, "When someone touches me, I always feel that something is going to strangle me."

"It won't happen, don't worry." Xiao Fengdi paused, "Sure enough, when you were almost killed just now, you were—somewhat afraid." Otherwise, there wouldn't be any psychological shadow left.

Only then did Fang Shiqing dully realize what the other party was asking just now.Combined with the situation just now, he couldn't help thinking in his heart, the other party probably thought he was avoiding the question, so he deliberately softened his tone and asked the question from a different angle.

Considering that they have had the experience of breaking up on bad terms before, it is really possible.

In fact, there is nothing bad to say.He smiled and picked up the pickaxe again.

"Boss, no one is not afraid of death at all, but the degree of fear can be high or low. Let's use an analogy, for example - if this gemstone in my hand is accidentally broken, then I will definitely feel distressed It's just that the distress can be divided into degrees. This gemstone is a natural large diamond and a man-made glass bead. Can it be the same?"

"If I accidentally ruin a big diamond, I may feel distressed for a week, but if I ruin a glass bead, it will only hurt for half a minute."

His metaphor was a mess, but what kind of person Xiao Fengdi was, he immediately understood what kind of person he was, and his brows furrowed tightly.

"What a mess," his tone suddenly turned cold. "Gems are a commodity, and each has its own price, but human life is equal. How can you determine whether it is high or low?"

"--can."

Fang Shiqing continued to knock on the wall, and put all the removed gems into the inventory.

"Some people's lives are worthless at a glance."

The dim space was filled with monotonous knocking sounds, and neither of them spoke after that.

*

After sweeping away the entire wall, Fang Shiqing followed Xiao Fengdi and walked towards the stairwell again.

After the "gem theory" just now, the atmosphere between the two has become very strange, and they haven't even made eye contact with each other for so long.

He couldn't help feeling a little regretful, wondering if he said something too...shocking?

After all, this set of logic is too inconsistent with universal values, and the proper three views are not correct.Does the boss think that he is a psychopath, so he doesn't want to talk to him anymore?

I have to say, this feels... quite awkward.

The distance was not long. Seeing that the stairs were getting closer and closer, Fang Shiqing had to make up his mind and reached out to pull the corner of the person in front of him.

"That... big brother, actually I..."

"--Um?"

At this time, Xiao Fengdi suddenly stopped, and without looking back, he gestured "quiet" to him, and at the same time turned the flashlight to the side, "Listen."

Fang Shiqing was taken aback for a moment, realizing that his attitude was very serious, and immediately put aside the uncomfortable feeling in his heart before, and focused on hearing.

From here, he could vaguely hear the voices from the stairwell, but it was impossible to hear the conversation clearly with his hearing.Even so, he still realized something was wrong after a while.

——There were actually two different male voices talking over there.

The players staying in the stairwell should be two women and one man. Where did the two male voices come from?

Among these two voices, one seemed to be Zhao Jun, but the other made him feel very strange, and it wasn't Gu Jinhong, He Xiangwu and the others who had been separated before.

And besides a few of them, who could appear here and talk to the players?

A tingling hypothesis immediately came to mind, and his back trembled unconsciously.

Xiao Fengdi turned around and grabbed his arm. Looking at the other person's expression, he immediately knew that the two had the same thoughts.

"Anyway, let's go and see the situation first." Xiao Fengdi didn't let go, just pulled him over there, "Don't be afraid, it's fine."

"..."

He was a little speechless. Is the boss coaxing him like a child?And from where can it be seen that he is afraid, he is not afraid at all, he is just surprised, worried, and a little overwhelmed.

But now there is no time for hesitation and discussion.If it was really the possibility they guessed, then the three people in the stairwell were undoubtedly exposed to unknown dangers.

Although he was mentally prepared, Fang Shiqing's heart was still a little cold when he really reached the stairs.

In addition to the three players left behind, there is a fourth person here - a "person" who can speak and move, just like a normal human being.

This man looks to be in his 40s, with an ordinary appearance, a tanned face, and a solid build; he is wearing a construction worker's clothes, with some mud splashed on his trousers, his helmet is held in his arms, and a pair of rough hands are rubbing it from time to time The smooth surface of the helmet seems a bit cramped.

No matter how you look at it, you are a simple working people.

It fits perfectly with the description in the warning written in English.

"Shiqing, Brother Xiao," seeing them come back, the three players stood up, You Qingyu was obviously relieved, "You guys are here, did you find anything?"

——The work on the second floor should have ended, this time Fang Shiqing did not hesitate, stepped into the stairwell directly, and greeted everyone.

"Who is this?"

"Oh... this one just came in from the outside. He said that he was a victim who was pulled in by this building just like us."

You Qingyu emphasized a few of the words, and his eyes flickered slightly, secretly expressing their doubts.

If it is a real passerby, it is indeed possible to be deceived in this kind of place.But they are not passers-by, but players participating in the game. They have a natural guard against the NPCs that appear in this dungeon for no reason.

Even if they hadn't discovered the key information behind the boards, they couldn't have welcomed the construction worker into the team, after all, the composition was too far apart.

"Hello," the workers rubbed their hands together and stretched out towards them, acting humble and polite, "My surname is Liu, and you can call me Lao Liu. Sigh, I didn't expect to meet other living people ,That's great."

Xiao Fengdi stopped the opponent's hand very naturally, and asked lightly: "Really, that's really a coincidence. How did you get here?"

"Well, I don't know," the worker surnamed Liu showed distress, "I was still working, and it suddenly became dark."

Xiao Fengdi asked a few more questions, but the worker didn't talk too much, he only answered each question, and finally spelled out his origin.

According to the worker himself, the project he participated in was staying up all night to catch up.He was busy with work when suddenly the searchlight went out and the surroundings fell into darkness.

At first he thought it was someone who had turned off the lights, but he yelled a few times but no one answered.

Fortunately, he was not on the scaffolding at the time, otherwise he might not be able to get off.Wandering around, he found that everyone had disappeared, and the exit of the construction site was also gone. He had to enter the building, but he didn't expect to be chased by strange monsters...

He spoke sincerely, if he hadn't read the reminder in advance, Fang Shiqing might have believed it.

"Is the building you were working in now the building?" Zhao Jun asked.

The worker shook his head again and again: "No, no, it looks similar, but definitely not."

"Well...the place we came from, there is a building very similar to this one." Zhao Jun glanced at Zeng Xin, asking with eyes.

Zeng Xin shook her head slightly, meaning that this worker did not work on the construction site she had paid attention to.

--What should we do now?

Fang Shiqing's mind was spinning rapidly.First of all, of course, the true identity of this "construction worker" must be communicated to the companions, but after that?How can they deal with this guy who is described as a "ghost"? Can they unilaterally not take him to play?

He couldn't help stretching out his hand to grab Xiao Fengdi's arm again, wanting to ask him what he thought.

The latter immediately held him back, and gently squeezed his palm, but—the meaning was completely unclear, and he didn't know whether it was to reassure him, or to urge him to find a way quickly.

...No matter, let's take a step and see.

Seeing that the conversation over there came to an end, he cleared his throat and asked, "Well, I have a question... Has anyone here passed the fourth or sixth level?"

*

"..."

After a moment of silence.

"What are you talking about all of a sudden?" You Qingyu burst out laughing, "I just took the sixth grade test last year, and my score is not high, only [-]."

"..."

I had long thought that she was probably a top student, but I didn't expect that she really was.

"If you have anything to say, you can just say it," Zhao Jun replied a little unhappily. "Anyway, we all have college diplomas, and we have passed the fourth level."

"Oh... Actually, it's nothing, just, um, we found a diary written in English and thought it might be of some use."

Fang Shiqing started talking nonsense, "I read it casually, and it felt like it was a love letter written in English, maybe it was written by the underground person. But my English is not good, and I was afraid that I might read something wrong, so I copied a copy and brought it back. Ask everyone for help."

He jumped up the steps in a few steps, deliberately went up to the corner platform, opened his account and spread it on the ground.This position was higher than the others, and all three of them had to turn their backs to the construction workers at the bottom of the steps, so that even if they couldn't control their expressions later, they wouldn't be seen.

The construction worker watched from a distance, showing a trace of inquiry.

Xiao Fengdi coughed and said, "Oh, I'm ashamed to say that I dropped out of school to work before graduating from junior high school, and I can't even recognize the English alphabet. At this time, I don't want to embarrass myself."

This is of course pure nonsense.But his acting skills are natural enough, the construction worker believed it, and hurriedly said: "You are so young, you can learn if you want. I am at this age, so I really can't learn foreign languages."

Xiao Fengdi stared at his expression and nodded calmly.