All eyes fell on Sheng Ming.

Undoubtedly, without the consent of Sheng Ming, the leader of the "Yu" team, it is impossible for this handsome young man with a foggy tree on his head to enter the Twilight Palace.

Sheng Ming said indifferently: "I have something to do."

Only then did Ning Qiubai regain his senses and touched his face—his make-up technique removed?

Du Zigui saw his doubts, and kindly explained: "The basic rules of the Twilight Palace will break all concealment and camouflage."

He cited an example that Ning Qiubai could understand, "That nurse in your family exposed it like this before."

Ning Qiubai remembered that Sheng Ming had mentioned before that Yang Buwei had tried to infiltrate "Yu" as a traitor, maybe it was a woman's dress, but he was found out.

Du Zigui glanced at Sheng Ming, saw Sheng Ming standing there motionless, sighed slightly, turned his head to Ning Qiubai and said: "Let me introduce, this is our teammate—you have met the boss and Liu Er, the rest Zhang Muke, Sha Bailing, Li Yuan, Gui Fei."

He introduced the names of four teammates who had never met to Ning Qiubai one by one, and all the people whose names were called greeted Ning Qiubai curiously and politely.

Regardless of their closeness, they all heard Sheng Ming and Du Zigui mention Director Ning.

Ning Qiubai chewed on the names of these four people secretly, and compared them with Du Zigui and Liu Huamei, and found that everyone's names had a pattern...they were all the names of some kind of bird.

Sheng Ming has obsessive-compulsive disorder even picking out his teammates... Ning Qiubai couldn't help but look at the profile of 15-year-old Sheng Ming.

Couldn't the fundamental reason why Yang Buwei failed to become Sheng Ming's teammate was because his name wasn't a bird?

Sheng Ming leaned against the pillar and closed his eyes indifferently without speaking.

Ning Qiubai asked softly, "What happened to him?"

Du Zigui also whispered: "I don't know, it's like this after getting bigger."

"Are you hurt?"

"No, probably because I'm in a bad mood without the Blood Moon Essence."

Ning Qiubai asked curiously: "Didn't it mean that you will have another copy?"

Liu Huamei interjected: "That copy has disappeared."

Ning Qiubai looked at her in surprise: "Disappeared?"

Liu Huamei nodded affirmatively: "The dungeon cannot be found in the system, even using 'hacking'."

Ning Qiubai thought he had found the reason why Sheng Ming was in a bad state.

At this time, the middle-aged man named Gui Fei said suddenly: "The boss is in this state at the age of 15."

Du Zigui was taken aback: "Really, boss has been in Unreal Games for three years?"

Gui Fei nodded and did not speak again.

Ning Qiubai looked around and asked again: "Then, the matter of calling me over..."

Sheng Ming glanced at Du Zigui.

Du Zigui sighed deeply, and straightened his expression: "Boss has repeatedly instructed us to urgently collect information on the 'Book of Choice' and 'Three-in-One Wraith', hoping to help you.

"Let's talk about the 'Book of Choice' first. We found the identity of the Book of Choice in the player state. It's called Teacher Shushu, its occupation is 'Prophet', and it is also the former strongest prophet."

After saying this, Du Zigui pointed to himself triumphantly, "Of course, I am the strongest prophet right now."

Ning Qiubai opened his eyes wide.

That Book of Choice turned out to be the strongest prophet before?

"The last time Teacher Shushu appeared was in the S-level dungeon called 'Jiazang Wanjuanshu', and then disappeared without a trace, and the ranking also disappeared from the standings. It is presumed that he died in the dungeon. Now Look, it should be that a certain NPC was taken away in that copy, and it became the current posture."

Ning Qiubai frowned and said, "But, if Shi Shushu is so powerful, why does it only have so many functions after it becomes the Book of Choice?"

The boy Sheng Ming suddenly opened his eyes, and interrupted abruptly: "She is sealed."

Du Zigui nodded: "The boss guessed that Shi Shushu's ability and memory were sealed by external force during the process of seizing the house."

Ning Qiubai pondered silently: In this case, the system sent the book of choice to him in the hope that he could unlock the seal of the teacher's book?

"In addition, it is the character of Shi Shushu himself." Du Zigui continued, "Shi Shushu's reputation among the player community is not bad, and it is said that he has already accumulated enough points to get rid of the illusory game and realize his wish, and he is just waiting to start the game. She was about to leave after completing the task in 'The Family Collection of Thousands of Books'. To be honest, I was surprised to learn that she chose to seize the NPC in the end."

Ning Qiubai remembered his previous question: "Why do players want to take over the NPC? What are the benefits of being an NPC?"

"The simplest benefit is eternal life." Du Zigui shrugged, "Smart NPCs will never die, even if they have the idea of ​​seeking death, Unreal Games does not agree. But as a price, after becoming an NPC, they will never die." Can only stay in a copy of the unreal game. Some players who have nothing to do in the real world have made this choice in the past."

Ning Qiubai was thoughtful.

Du Zigui glanced at Ning Qiubai: "To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that you can freely enter the real world, I would think that you are also a player who has taken over the NPC."

Ning Qiubai subconsciously touched the Misty Wood above his head, and had to admit that what Du Zigui said made sense.

Sheng Ming suddenly interjected again, this time not to Ning Qiubai, but to Du Zigui: "Don't talk nonsense."

"Okay, okay, you are the uncle." Du Zigui rolled his eyes, "Shi Shushu is not the kind of player with a bad personality, except that it is strange to suddenly win the house and become a book of choices, it should not be difficult to get along with, as long as you Get used to her bad taste, don't worry about her harming you."

Ning Qiubai nodded, and asked again: "What kind of bad taste?"

Du Zigui pondered for a moment: "I'm not too sure. It is said that before Shi Shushu became a player, what kind of big hand in the fandom was he? After becoming an NPC, the moral bottom line and restraint of human beings will be weakened, and he becomes the teacher of the Book of Choice." Books may express some personal hobbies that were suppressed in my heart when I was a human being."

Ning Qiubai made a note of this.

"Then there's the three-in-one resentful soul." Du Zigui's expression turned serious, "This resentful soul is quite dangerous, if possible, it's best to get rid of it from your dungeon.

"'Kingdom of Shadows' used to be an S-level dungeon. It is said that no one has ever been able to complete all the quests, until a big player with a profession of 'Devourer' led a team to challenge, but unfortunately died there. Things got better."

"Someone completed the task?"

Du Zigui spread his hands: "No, that copy is destroyed."

Ning Qiubai: "...?"

"The 'Devourer' can swallow all the energy and even matter around it, but it has a limit of endurance when used by players. The 'Devourer' doesn't know what happened. After death, the ability is inherited by a resentful soul, swallowing it bit by bit. The entire Kingdom of Shadows was lost. After that, the system was upgraded and updated, and the ability of the NPC was also capped; at the same time, the 'Devourer' profession was deleted, and the players of this profession were transferred to other professions."

Ning Qiubai remembered the system introduction of the trio of resentful souls: "So that resentful soul in my family is the culprit who devoured the Kingdom of Shadows?"

"We don't know. It may be the culprit, or it may be the leftover residue after being swallowed. After all, the resentful soul that swallowed the entire Kingdom of Shadows has probably been disposed of by the system long ago." Du Zigui adjusted his glasses , "But even if it is the residue, affected by the negative emotions of the Kingdom of Shadow's destruction, that resentful soul is still very dangerous. Even if it has the instinct to swallow, even you can swallow it."

Ning Qiubai nodded, looked at Du Zigui and Sheng Ming: "Thank you for your information, I will think about it carefully."

The boy Sheng Ming glanced at him, but didn't speak.

Ning Qiubai looked at him habitually, but didn't speak.

The two suddenly became cold.

The other members of "Yu" treated their injuries, and the others left them far away to communicate, and politely did not look this way.

Du Zigui couldn't stand this weird atmosphere, he cleared his throat and was about to speak when Liu Huamei grabbed his collar and dragged him away: "Liu'er, can you be gentle? Believe it or not, I'll take a picture of it for your fans to see." The house collapsed?"

"To shut up!"

Ning Qiubai and Sheng Ming looked at each other speechlessly.

After a long silence, he was still not used to Sheng Ming's indifferent appearance, as if he had returned to the first time they met.He asked cautiously: "There is nothing else, so I'll go back?"

Sheng Ming nodded: "Go."

At any rate, they are roommates who live together now, Ning Qiubai thought about it, and then asked, "When are you going back?"

Sheng Ming shook his head: "We have to wait, you go back first."

As Sheng Ming's words fell, Ning Qiubai had another flower in front of his eyes, and he had already returned to the studio.

He suddenly came to his senses, and quickly touched his face—fortunately, after returning to reality, he was still in a state of makeup.

Seeing no one was paying attention, Ning Qiubai entered Sheng Ming's room to rest.

It was the first time he entered Sheng Ming's room, and when he opened the door, he thought he had forgotten to turn on the light—most of the furniture and decorations in Sheng Ming's room were in black, which made the whole room extremely dark, making it difficult for people who are very sensitive to light. Ning Qiubai felt extremely sleepy as soon as he entered the door.

"Is this some non-mainstream interest?" Ning Qiubai muttered in his heart, barely restraining himself from falling on the bed.

He wanted to take a bath at first, but he didn't know if Yang Buwei's makeup could pass through the water, so let's pretend that he couldn't, and prayed in his heart that Sheng Ming didn't have a cleanliness habit and wouldn't blame him.

But Sheng Ming had already urinated on his bed, so it was nothing!

Thinking of this, Ning Qiubai suddenly felt at ease, and buried his face in the pillow trying to sleep.

After a while, he suddenly raised his head, a little embarrassed: "No, the smell of Sheng Ming is too strong."

It's not a smell that can be smelled by the nose, but another kind of supernatural breath that can be felt through intuition, or Qiwumu. It is deep and reveals a bit of domineering, which can instantly remind Ning Qiubai of Sheng Ming—— —It’s not the juvenile version, but the tall and handsome boy in the adult version.

Burying his face in the pillow to sleep, it was like lying in Sheng Ming's arms...

Bah, when will I get rid of the problem of blind associations!Ning Qiubai persuaded himself, changed to a supine position, and slowly closed his eyes.

……

After sleeping in Sheng's house for a day, Xiang Tongyan went to the company early the next day, and Ning Qiubai took the opportunity to "send director Ning back to the set to make up shots" as an excuse and slipped away with his resentful soul.

Back home, he belatedly felt mentally exhausted.

Although he didn't stay up late last night, he was surrounded by Sheng Ming's unique aura and didn't have an eye mask, which made him sleep very lightly and woke up several times a night.Now he is eager to catch up on a good sleep in the bed he is familiar with.

It's great that Sheng Ming hasn't come back yet, the bed is his alone!

Ning Qiubai rolled on his quilt and yawned in peace - when he woke up, he would make the final track for "Fantasy Dragon", and set a similar track for the book of choice. Group's escape room... so much work!

……

After sleeping for an unknown amount of time, Ning Qiubai suddenly felt very hot in his sleep, as if there was a stove behind him, making his hot forehead sweat.

Is the air conditioner broken?Ning Qiubai turned his head in a daze, took off the blindfold, and happened to meet a young and immature face.

He was stunned for three seconds, his drowsiness receded like a tide, he stared blankly at the person in front of him for a while, then carefully sat up.

Sheng Ming was lying on his side, with his arms wrapped tightly around his waist, breathing evenly, apparently in a deep sleep.

Ning Qiubai took his arm off, got off the bed carefully, and patted his face.

When did Sheng Ming come back?Why did you lie on his bed when you came back?Does he not have his own bed?

Oh, it seems there really isn't.

But don't put your arms around his waist either!Ning Qiubai would not have slept with Xia Zhou on mats when he was a child!Or are straight men now able to sleep with their arms around each other?

Ning Qiubai's eyes glanced at Sheng Ming's 15-year-old face, and a sense of guilt surged in his heart: Sheng Ming is still a child, what are you thinking about?

He chased away the redundant thoughts in his mind, stretched his legs, covered Sheng Ming with an air-conditioned quilt, and turned to go to the study.

He needs work to calm himself down.

……

This calmness lasted until lunch time.

Ning Qiubai stroked his "gurgling" stomach, and comforted Qiwumu dangling above his head: "I'll order takeaway right away, please bear with me."

Walking out of the study, Sheng Ming sat on the sofa, quietly playing with his mobile phone, only glanced at Ning Qiubai when he came out.

Ning Qiubai felt that such Sheng Ming was both familiar and unfamiliar, and asked tentatively, "Are you hungry? Order takeaway?"

Sheng Ming nodded.

"What to eat?"

"It's all right."

Ning Qiubai asked a few more questions, and found that the 15-year-old version of Sheng Ming said very little.

Ning Qiubai, who was used to the adult Sheng Ming and the young Sheng Ming, couldn't help but have a strong curiosity: What made Sheng Ming become this character at the age of 15?Is there any family upheaval?

He branched out four branches from the top of his head to drink milk, bit the beef by himself and watched Sheng Ming eat.

Sheng Ming raised his head by chance, and met Ning Qiubai's eyes that were too late to retreat.

Sheng Ming: "..."

He put down his chopsticks and pointed out calmly, "The milk dripped on the clothes."

Ning Qiubai hurriedly took the napkin, patted the branch that shook the milk on his clothes, "It's all your fault!"

The branches retracted aggrievedly.

Taking this opportunity, Sheng Ming finished eating the rest and stood up: "Call me when you are ready."

Ning Qiubai was taken aback: "What?"

"Set up a copy of the escape room." Sheng Ming's voice was still flat, "I promised to help you."

Ning Qiubai came back to his senses: "Oh, then wait."

He looked at the meat left on the plate, closed his eyes, suddenly seven or eight branches of the mist tree above his head stretched out, covering all the meat, after a few seconds, the branches retracted, and there was no bone in the plate remain.

Ning Qiubai burped: "Let's go."

Sheng Ming's eyes fell on Ning Qiubai, he thought for a while, and said: "This will easily cause Qiwumu to lose control. Next time it is inconvenient to eat, I can provide some of my blood."

Ning Qiubai still remembered the deliciousness of Sheng Ming's blood from Qiwumu, and when Sheng Ming brought it up, he asked, "What should I exchange with you?"

"No need." Seemingly seeing the surprise in Ning Qiubai's eyes, Sheng Ming added, "It's good for you."

Ning Qiubai looked at Sheng Ming in confusion.

This confusion reached its peak when Sheng Ming taught him how to set up the dungeon, without mentioning any compensation.

Ning Qiubai couldn't help it, and tried again: "What should I give you?"

Sheng Ming looked at Ning Qiubai with a very confused tone: "No payment is required."

"what?"

"I'll do whatever you need."

Children, you can't talk nonsense, if you are overheard by capitalists, you will be finished!Ning Qiu slandered, dully realizing that something was wrong with Sheng Ming in this state.

It had been four hours since he woke up and saw Sheng Ming, and during these four hours, Sheng Ming hadn't picked his leaves once!

Is this reasonable?

Ning Qiubai made up his mind: "Didn't you always trade with me before?"

Sheng Ming pondered for a moment, then spoke again, and said in a very deep tone: "I was young and ignorant before, forget about it."

Ning Qiubai: "..."

There is absolutely something wrong with this kid.

……

But although there might be something wrong with Sheng Ming's head, his skills are as good as ever.

After stuffing the book of choice into the newly made escape dungeon and letting the players in, Ning Qiubai saw that the satisfaction of the book of choice rose gradually, and he became the NPC with the most points earned every day under his command.

Of course, in order to arrange this huge escape game maze, Ning Qiubai also spent a lot of points to expand the occupied area, set up relevant rules, purchase other expenses, and even opened up part of the power to modify the rules of the escape maze to the Book of Choices.

After the book of choice expressed its gratitude to Ning Qiubai, it also proposed: "The threshold for me to participate in this dungeon is two acquaintances, isn't it too much?"

Ning Qiu's white eyelids twitched: "Why do you make this request?"

His eyes swept across the rules of a room, and his eyes showed astonishment.

The Book of Choice said righteously and sternly: "I set up a 'room where you have to go to bed to get out' for the purpose of observing human actions!"

Ning Qiubai: "...No way!"

The book of choices took a step back: "What about third base?"

"No way!" Ning Qiubai expressed his position without hesitation, "We are a serious dungeon, we can't make such messy rules."

The book of choice was aggrieved and silent for a long while, and finally said reluctantly: "Then I hang up this slogan and go out. The actual escape rules have nothing to do with going to bed. It's okay to just mislead the players!"

Ning Qiubai was very puzzled: "Why does it have to be like this? If the players are a couple with enmity, wouldn't it be very bad for them?"

"I'm an NPC, I'm happy if the players are unhappy! And it's better to have hatred!" The Book of Choice blinked his golden eyes excitedly, "Besides, you only need to pay a little bit of shame to earn points, No need to be injured or die, I have never encountered such a good copy when I was a player!"

Ning Qiubai fell silent.

After a while, he sighed and declared his bottom line to the Book of Choice: "You can play with the players' shame, but don't go too far. You are not allowed to force players to hurt each other—forcing a relationship is also considered hurt."

"No problem!" The Book of Choice agreed, "You really don't understand CP aesthetics... You want doi because you're good at it, not because you're good at it. If I'm obedient, you can give your man a torch I burned."

Ning Qiubai twitched the corners of his mouth, selectively ignoring the phrase "your man".

……

After solving the book of choices, Ning Qiubai put his mind back on Sheng Ming.

Sheng Ming was sitting opposite him, as quiet as a Buddha statue, only when Ning Qiubai cast his gaze over, would Sheng Ming raise his head and ask "Is there anything I can do?"

Ning Qiubai tentatively asked: "What about your house? Do you need my help?"

"Let Yang Buwei put on makeup for me, and I'll take a video with my family." Sheng Ming said calmly, "The shoulder width of my 15-year-old me is not much different from my own, and I can be fooled by makeup."

Ning Qiubai nodded, and suddenly realized: "So you still want to stay with me?"

Sheng Ming nodded, and thought for a while: "If it's not convenient for you, I can go out and live alone. If you have anything to do, contact me."

Ning Qiubai: "...It's okay, you can continue to live."

This state is really worrying.

This made Ning Qiubai feel more difficult to deal with than the wayward young version of Sheng Ming before.

He had to bite the bullet and contact Du Zigui.

After listening to Ning Qiubai's words, Du Zigui said in a strange tone: "Brother, aren't you showing your love to me?"

Ning Qiubai gritted his teeth and said, "No! Don't you think there's something wrong with your boss?"

"Yesterday the boss didn't become Lei Feng, he just sent us around." Du Zigui surrendered after being questioned by Ning Qiubai, "Why don't you ask Gui Fei, the 15-year-old boss is only seen by Gui Fei. "

Ning Qiubai thought of that middle-aged man: "How to contact him?"

Du Zigui didn't know what he was thinking. After a while, he suddenly smiled "hehe": "I predicted that you opened a new dungeon? You set a mission in that dungeon, and I'll let Gui Fei go over there."

Ning Qiubai recalled the sexual fetish of the book of choice, and said dryly: "That dungeon requires two people to form a team, which is inappropriate."

Instead, Du Zigui became interested: "According to my prediction, it's an escape room type, right? It even requires two people to form a team... Hey, then you open one, and I'll take Liu'er there to play."

"...Okay, then how do you contact Gui Fei?"

Du Zigui finally let go: "I'll give you his phone number."

Ning Qiubai almost didn't come up in one breath: So it's over if you don't give it up sooner!

He turned his head to look at the book of choices: "Du Zigui and Liu Huamei will join your game soon, so play tricks on Du Zigui!"

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