Soling Internet Cafe

Chu Lingya followed Xie Rujian obediently, watching him hang up the hexagonal palace lantern at the entrance of Saoling Internet Cafe again.

The night was getting dark, and the noisy voices of the summer night market came from the entrance of the alley in the distance. No one would have thought that in such a small alley, there would be a unique prison in a place hidden in the city.

"On the seventh day of every month, the ghost messengers will regularly come to hand over the ghost criminals. Some will be taken to the underworld to be reincarnated or punished, and some will be brought to us for temporary supervision. After the investigation is clear, we will take further action." Xie Ru Jian said, Chu Lingya followed him to the door, but was stopped.

"You don't need to come out specially, last time I took you a shortcut." Xie Rujian said.

Following Xie Rujian, Chu Lingya returned to the courtyard, everything seemed to have not changed much, and everything seemed to be different.

Chu Lingya blinked, feeling the surroundings fluctuate, as if there is a mirage in front of you, but the mirage overlaps with the real scene, so when the mirage trembles, you can see the reality underneath Scenes.

Xie Rujian glanced at him: "Can you see the way?"

Chu Lingya: "Huh?"

Xie Rujian said, "Look carefully."

Chu Lingya listened to his words, looked intently, and soon found that there seemed to be a gap between the two, not wide, about ten centimeters, like a narrow single-plank bridge.The bridge is silver, like a beam of light, reflected on the ground with twists and turns.

Chu Lingya tried to step on the light, and heard a soft "wow" sound in her ears, like the water surface was disturbed, or the sound of leaves being blown by the wind.He glanced at Xie Rujian, seeing that the latter did not respond, he walked forward along the beam of light, and Xie Rujian also followed behind him.

Chu Lingya followed the beam of light, or rather the path of light, bypassing the shadow wall and passing through the courtyard.The light path is not always straight, it has bends, although some bends seem meaningless to Chu Lingya at first glance, but when he walks over, he will find that it seems to be a gap between two irregular walls , must and can only go in this way; the light path does not always lead to a place without obstacles, but Chu Lingya trusts Xie Rujian very much, even if he sees that he is about to hit a wall, he will still walk over without hesitation. Then, he passed through the barrier and entered a new space.

The surrounding scenery was obviously still the scene during the day, but this time they went through the walls and eaves, and after going around inside the computer room before going out, Chu Lingya found himself parked in an empty square.

Hey, shouldn't this be the backyard?

Chu Lingya looked forward, not far away was a big house made of pure wood with a black roof.The big house is located on three floors of steps. It is not as luxurious as the royal palace that Chu Lingya visited, but it has another kind of indescribable majesty. It is shaped like an eye, an eye that rewards good and punishes evil in the world. .

Xie Rujian walked up and nodded: "Your eyes are really precious." He said, "Come up."

Chu Lingya quickly followed Xie Rujian up the three steps.

The surrounding area is very quiet, and the time here is about a constant night. The sky is covered with dark clouds that seem to remain unchanged for tens of thousands of years. A silver crescent moon can be seen in the middle of the dark clouds. It is very thin, but it cannot be ignored.

The cold wind blows, making people sober, and the sound of "clinking" comes from nowhere, converging into a sea of ​​metal impacts.Chu Lingya looked around, the world seemed endless, and seemed to be only within a square inch. He could see mountains, rivers, lakes, seas, sky and wilderness. illusion.

"Don't look too much, be careful not to lose your mind." Xie Rujian said.He pushed open the door of the big room, and Chu Lingya saw an elevator in the middle of the room.A very old-fashioned kind, with a gray-green shell and nothing around it.

"What was that sound just now?" Chu Lingya asked curiously.He obviously didn't see Ling Duo or the cable bridge, so where did the sound just now come from.

"Shackles." Xie Rujian obviously knew his question well, and answered briefly, "Remember the 24 Hells in the Six Heavens Palace in Luofeng Mountain that I told you about last time?"

"Remember." Chu Lingya went to make up lessons later.He originally read some Taoist books, but his master said that his fate was not destined for Taoism, so he was not forced to read them, but just casually flipped through them as extracurricular books.

"The names of Prison 24 are very complicated. After many reforms, I won't tell you about the twists and turns in the process." The elevator door opened, the two walked in, the elevator door closed again, and began to descend.

"You just need to remember that we have six prisons where different ghosts are held. If we want to correspond to the modern prison system, it can be regarded as temporary detention waiting to be investigated and taken away. The crimes are relatively minor. Those who were taken away, whose crimes were at a moderate level and there is no place to be detained here for execution, those who committed serious crimes and have not yet quarreled about how to judge those who are invisible to the eye, are thrown at our place until the quarrel is over, and there is no lack of information about whether they are guilty or not. In conclusion, lock them up first, and Liu Yue'e and the others fall into this category."

Chu Lingya listened and took notes, and paused when she heard this: "Detention, crimes of light to medium severity, and whether there are objections to conviction, there are only five, and there is one prison?"

Xie Rujian pressed the switch: "It's here."

The elevator door opened, and Chu Lingya was greeted by the magnificent hexagonal hall he had seen before.

"Usually, Lao Xie and Xiao Bai are in charge of our area, that is, Changle City. Sometimes ghosts from other places come over for business. No matter where they come from, there will be procedures for handing over official documents. , This is a set of working equipment." Xie Rujian seemed to deliberately avoid the question Chu Lingya asked just now, he opened the counter flap, walked in, and took out the box, bell, and account book that read the ghost dominoes inside. etc.

"All the prison keys are here," Xie Rujian reached out and knocked on the hexagonal prism on the back. The wooden board lit up and opened at the same time, revealing the animal head with the key in its mouth.That is Bi An, one of the nine sons of the Dragon.

"Sao Ling has a total of 120 cells, with 20 keys on each side. According to the priority, different keys correspond to different prisons and different levels of cells in the prison. I will give you a study material later, you can read it, but only It can be used as a reference. What kind of prisoner is suitable for which cell, often depends on our judgment."

"By what standard do we judge?"

Xie Rujian raised his eyes to look at Chu Lingya: "Lethal rate."

Chu Lingya: "..."

"The more dangerous ghosts, the higher the security of the cell, even if the crimes they committed may not be serious at first glance. You have the eyes of truth, and you have a little advantage over others. Even if you have no experience, you can feel it. Which ghosts are dangerous, and which ones are okay." Xie Rujian pushed the account book over, "There must be a record for the arrest of ghost prisoners, and the charging standard is fixed..."

"Are we still charging?" Chu Lingya picked up the account book in surprise and looked through it. Every page was neatly written in lower letters, recording the items of withdrawal, which should be written by Xie Rujian.

Xie Rujian glanced at him: "No charge, let's drink the northwest wind?"

"Ah, no, I mean..." Chu Lingya choked suddenly, not knowing how to explain it.He thought that Xie Rujian did this because he got a job in the underworld with a fixed salary, but he didn't expect that there would be a fee.Speaking of it this way, Xie Rujian did look like he was short of money.

Why is he so short of money?

"Periodic handover of ghosts and criminals, the underworld will settle accounts on a monthly basis, and the date of entry is also the seventh day of each month. Therefore, on the seventh day of the month, both parties default to do an inventory, count the number of people, and settle the accounts. The ghosts brought over on the same day. The head count will also be calculated from the next day, and there will be some temporary withdrawals and deposits during the rest of the time, and the settlement will start on the same day."

Chu Lingya raised his hand, Xie Rujian: "Say."

Chu Lingya: "What kind of currency does the underworld usually give when paying their bills?"

Xie Rujian: "...RMB."

Chu Lingya heaved a sigh of relief, thinking that luckily it wasn't Mingbi, otherwise the cash monster would be scary.

Xie Rujian said: "Like Tan Hongmei's situation last time, it is a special case, so Xiaobai personally advances the money. Of course, after the final confirmation of Tan Hongmei's situation, the public may reimburse him. This has nothing to do with us. In addition, I I will accept some bounty missions from the underworld, which has nothing to do with you, but when I go out to do missions, people are usually not in the store, so you must be able to take care of yourself."

Chu Lingya thought for a while: "Brother Rujian, do you mean that there are occasional dangers in Sao Ling?"

Xie Rujian was a little surprised by Chu Lingya's sensitivity. He seemed to be very good at grasping the key points: "Of course. Since he is a prisoner, he is dangerous. If a prisoner escapes carelessly, the jailer will naturally be in trouble."

"But you have guarded here for a long time alone, you are very powerful." Chu Lingya said naturally.

Xie Rujian: "..." He really has nothing to do with Chu Lingya's character, which is a two-level reversal between cleverness, sophistication and innocence.

"You still let me do this with you now, brother Rujian, do you think I have the potential to cultivate?"

Xie Rujian: I'm not, I don't.

Chu Lingya asked again: "Brother Rujian, besides handing over heads to the ghost guards, what else do we usually do? Patrolling the Six Prisons, delivering food to prisoners serving sentences, cleaning, etc.?"

Xie Rujian shook his head: "You don't need to do that deliberately, usually you just need to make sure they don't die or commit crimes."

Chu Lingya was stunned for a moment, and was about to ask a question when she suddenly felt something, and cast her eyes on the counter in front of Xie Rujian. In the computer room of Saoling Internet Cafe, there seems to be something wrong in a certain corner.

"Go up and have a look." Xie Rujian said.

The two took the elevator up again, and this time when the door was opened, it was the backyard. The computer room that Sao Ling had closed was lit up with fluorescent lights, and there was a "rustling" sound.

Xie Rujian nodded to Chu Lingya, Chu Lingya opened the door and walked in first, Xie Rujian disappeared and followed behind him.In the dark computer room, rows of computers were hidden in the darkness and remained silent. Only two connected computers in one corner lit up somehow, and the sound of "rustling" came from there.

Chu Lingya walked over and found that the two computers were turned on, with welcome icons flashing on the screen, a black cat with golden eyes looked at Chu Lingya in the dark, walked away silently, and a line of subtitles appeared Come out: "Welcome to the adventure world of the charming detective Bai Jingjing, the software will be installed next, please choose..."

Chu Lingya clicked "Yes" on the two computers respectively, and the screens on both sides changed. He saw a long tunnel with a small person walking in it, and the progress bar was displayed in the corner.

"Explore this tunnel and get ready for a new world."

Chu Lingya felt a cold body approaching from behind, and Xie Rujian's breath came over, and he began to press the mouse button with confidence.Because there was only one person operating it, one computer was supposed to start up, but the other unmanned computer also started up after a slight pause.

The villain walks in the dark tunnel, the sound of ticking water, lonely footsteps, the sound of mice eating, and the sound of bats fluttering away after being disturbed come from time to time, and the rest of the time is quiet.

No, it actually has sound.Chu Lingya listened carefully, and found that it was a monotonous sound, like electronic white noise, but there seemed to be some strange changes in the middle, like someone talking, and he was trying to hear it clearly. A cool hand covered his ears.

"Don't listen." Xie Rujian's voice came.

Chu Lingya nodded, and began to focus on manipulating the villain forward.

The desolate tunnel seems to be endless. Some parts of this abandoned tunnel have collapsed, exposing the moss and silt underneath. Some rusty iron horses are thrown on the side of the road. The villain only has a flashlight in his hand, so the visible range Quite limited, and the perspective of the game has gradually transitioned from a third-party perspective to No.1, which makes it more immersive.Not to mention other people, even Chu Lingya almost forgot that this is not the game itself, but just an installation progress bar.

Fortunately, although the tunnel was desolate and depressing and there were occasional shocks, nothing terrible happened. After a while, Chu Lingya saw a faint light appearing in front of him.He glanced at the progress bar under the screen: 95%.

Is this game a bit slow?

Chu Lingya controlled the villain to move forward, and finally the progress bar climbed to 98%. At this moment, the progress suddenly got stuck.He poked his head and glanced at the next door, and the two computers were unexpectedly stuck at the same time. The little man on the screen repeated the movement of walking, but it seemed that there was an invisible wall blocking his way, and the light spot Obviously not far away.

what happened?air wall?Go astray?

Chu Lingya was wondering, and suddenly found something appeared in the darkness in front of him.

It's that spot of light!The villain is clearly no longer moving forward, but the spot of light is approaching quickly and gradually expanding.If we use an analogy, it is like a hole is suddenly burned out on a piece of black paper, and the light leaks out of the hole and expands rapidly.Chu Lingya soon discovered that it was not a hole, but a crumpled piece of paper?

Wait, it's not trash!

The ball of white lala gradually stretched as it rolled and flew over, the creases were still there, and the area expanded, with suspected human facial features appearing on it.This is... a piece of human skin! ! !

This pale human leather face quickly approached the game operator and occupied the entire screen. Now what Chu Lingya saw in front of his eyes was a fully unfolded, swollen and deformed dead face, because it was tightly attached to the screen, The facial features are squeezed and flattened, which looks a little distorted.

Chu Lingya suspected that this guy originally imitated his face.

Think about it, in the dead of night, playing horror games alone in a dark room, after a long journey through a dark tunnel, after you have had enough of all kinds of rats, bats and insects, you think you finally see the light, and the result Only to find that a dead face was quickly pasted, and it looks exactly like you. How would this person feel?

Chu Lingya said unhappily: "There is no hatred or grievance, why do you uglify me so much?"

The face in the computer seemed to twitch when he heard the words, and then he began to drill out. The fat on the cheeks came out first, because it lost its elasticity after death, hanging loosely, then the nose, and then a pair of tightly closed eyes. closed eyes.Chu Lingya backed away in disgust, and saw that guy open his eyes, showing a malicious smile: "You..."

The threatening words stopped abruptly, and the eyes of the guy who got out of the computer quickly changed to panic, he screamed "Ghost" and then quickly got back into the screen.

Chu Lingya: "???"

Xie Rujian: "..."

The two turned their heads, and found that Liu Yue'e led the pair of twin little ghosts to watch the fun together at some point, and the three hideous ghost faces were full of evil intentions.