Chapter 2 The wage earner at the Horror Bar (Leader’s 10,000-word update 1/2)
What happened in the middle of the night did not affect Yu Xing's sleep quality. As he said, although his emotions were really painful in the past, he is no longer the mentally weak chicken he used to be.
After comforting Qu Nianqing for a few words, he let Qu Nianqing go back to her room, and then fell back to sleep.
It wasn't until dawn the next day that his WeChat call suddenly rang. He sat up with satisfaction and answered the call.
Alas... Autumn always jumps between cold and warm, and today is a warm day.
Comfortable.
Yu Xing glanced out the window, but the next moment, the voice coming from the phone call made the temperature drop by a whole level.
"Zhao Mou said that you are very strong now, so he asked me to urge you to lead me through the main line before you reach the differentiation level." The cold characteristics of Zhao Yijiu became more and more obvious after experiencing several deduction games. Yu Xing
I suspect that this is not only due to his temperament, but may also be related to his own ability.
"Well...I didn't forget." Yu Xing got out of bed, feeling a little guilty at Zhao Mou's urging.
At that time, he promised to take Zhao Yijiu to a higher level, but until now, he has only had one Alice Hell with Zhao Yijiu, and he was still one of the people automatically selected by the system.
It's really not very responsible.
After being promoted to the differentiated level, you cannot perform deductions with junior, intermediate and senior levels. Zhao Mou probably thought that after watching his live broadcast last night - he saw Zhao Mou's name in the reward settlement on the big screen at that time -
If this continues, it will be impossible to bring Zhao Yijiu with him, so I came here to urge him.
Thinking of this, he suddenly remembered that he had added more than 4,000 points last night: "Wait for me, I forgot to look at the panel..."
Yu Xing called up the persona, and the other data did not change much. In the identity column, the data was upgraded from [Intermediate Deducer (2228/3000)] to [Advanced Deducer (4152/5000)]. It can be said that he is a newcomer.
The game at least gave him a big springboard in terms of points, allowing him to be just one step away from the differentiation level.
Really, if he doesn't take Zhao Yijiao with him, he really won't be able to take him with him...
Breaking a promise is not a good habit, especially since Zhao Mou has helped him so much, he can't do anything.
Now that he was in good spirits, Yu Xing took the initiative to ask: "I can join you in the confrontational main line deduction. When do you plan to start?"
"..." Zhao Yijiu seemed to be silent for a moment, wondering what he was thinking. After a few seconds, he replied, "I'll wait for you to have breakfast."
Oh haha.
It's okay if he doesn't mention it, but he starts to feel hungry when he mentions Yu Xing.
But how did Zhao Yijiu know that he hadn't had breakfast?
I took my phone away and saw, emmmmm, it's only eight o'clock.
Zhao Yijiu said: "I just woke up as soon as I heard the sound."
As always, he said few words, but after Yu Xing's questions, Zhao Yjiu still revealed some information.
For example, Zhao Mou originally asked him to make a video call to Yu Xing. He said that after watching Yu Xing's live broadcast for a few days, he found that Yu Xing likes to stay in bed, and it would be better to wake him up by making a video call.
But in order to prevent Zhao Yijiu from seeing something he shouldn't have seen - Yu Xing didn't know what Zhao Yijiu was referring to. He always felt that Zhao Yijiu regarded him as an irregular person who would call him some kind of special person when he stayed in a hotel.
People who serve.
For another example, Zhao Mou realized that Yu Xing was following up on an unknown case recently, and the key has not been found yet. When he officially intervenes, Yu Xing will be much busier than now... so he should bring as many people as possible.
After Yu Xing met the "Prophet", he became even more curious about Zhao Mou's ability to predict predictions. Zhao Mou was obviously much stronger in this aspect. For him, he had always been curious about this ability.
After all, he didn't.
Yu Xing agreed to enter the game with Zhao Yijiao after breakfast. He didn't think this frequency was too fast. In fact, he had watched the real world for so many years... The deduction world was just a different world to him.
.
It's much more interesting to go in and have some fun than to stay in the unchanging reality.
After changing his clothes, Yu Xing sensed the ghost energy in Ling Heng's body and found that this person was still the same as the previous few days, with a vague breath and no intention of going out.
The weather today is good, it won't rain, and the murderer who likes to cut throats will most likely not show up. At least there is no need for Yu Xing to go out temporarily to stop the murder.
He went upstairs and called Qu Xianqing, who was used to getting up early, to have breakfast in the hotel restaurant, and then told her about the Zhao family.
Qu Xianqing swallowed a mouthful of steaming porridge and thought about it: "...No wonder, during your live broadcast, Zhao Mou from the Zhao family spoke for you."
"Speak for me?"
"It doesn't count, anyway, I think he's pretty good. Ah, you told me before that someone wanted to investigate me, and it was also the Zhao family." Qu Nianqing remembered that when he was conducting deductions some time ago, there were always people who seemed to be making secret inquiries.
She, but she remembered Yu Xing's instructions and didn't do anything.
Otherwise, those little moves would have been enough for her to kill ten people.
"Next time I meet someone from the Zhao family, I'll give in."
Yu Xing covered his face. Qu Xianqing's evaluation of whether a person is good or not seems to depend on how that person treats him.
Although he was still very touched and knew that Qu Xianqing just said it casually and would not be confused by this condition, it also showed that her interpersonal relationship was really simple. She had no friends and was too lonely.
Yu Xing also tried to pull Qu Xianqing out of the protective shell she built before, but before she could succeed, Qu Xianqing moved away. When he came back, the situation had only increased and had become finalized.
Forget it, everyone's choices are different. He really hopes that both Qu Nianqing and Zhu Yan can live a good life in this world and be happy every day, but there are many ways to be happy.
I wish Yan can go to school and work like a normal person, and even develop a relationship with the criminal investigation detachment, and become a completely positive character in the future.
And Qu Xianqing... She likes to hide in the darkness, abandon many emotions, and be feared by others. She likes this feeling, which is also happiness.
Yu Xing: I raised him by myself, what else can I do, just pamper him.
A little after nine o'clock, Yu Xing returned to the room, contacted Zhao Yijiao again, then summoned the persona, and chose the last main task.
【Do you want to start the main mission?】
"open."
[The system has detected that you and the player "Lengjiu" intend to form a team. Do you want to enter the game together? 】
"yes."
This is what Qu Nianqing taught him. Although there is no team formation system, the system can distinguish the intention to form a team. When two or more people choose to start the game at the same time, this intention will take effect.
[The game information for this deduction is listed below]
It’s still the familiar small translucent red letters.
[Medium-sized deduction: Horror Bar]
[Type: Confrontational deduction game]
[Analysis: In a confrontational deduction game, players will always be in a competitive relationship, and their rankings will be changed by gaining and losing points. At the end of the deduction, the lowest ranking players will be eliminated, and the highest ranking players will be rewarded]
[This deduction game is an eight-player game]
[This deduction game does not occupy real time]
…
After Yu Xing read the deduction prompts, the sound of noisy conversation and music could be heard in his ears.
The sound of conversation grew from small to loud, as if being pulled in from a far away place. The colors in front of his eyes blurred, distorted and changed. After a while, he felt himself standing up, and then the scene around him changed completely.
The loud music made him frown, and the lights in front of his eyes flickered, almost making him blind.
This is a bar.
The bar was large and luxuriously decorated. He was standing in the lobby, and men and women were shaking their bodies on the dance floor in the center, looking like crazy.
The DJ is a long-haired woman with heavy makeup. She wears a row of earrings on her ears. She wears a sexy and sassy black leather jacket. She plays rhythm with her hands and claps her hands from time to time to lead the crowd below to interact.
"It's so noisy." Yu Xing muttered dissatisfiedly, and his voice was drowned in the cheers of the people.
But amidst the excitement and noise, a cold atmosphere filled the entire hall, as cold as a small ice cellar.
This is a bit exaggerated, so let’s settle for the next best thing, it’s as cold as a cemetery.
Yu Xing touched the goose bumps under his long sleeves: "..."
Because of his special constitution, he felt uncomfortable again.
Fortunately, there is no source of curse here. He is just a little cold and the ghost energy in his body is not restless.
But this did not prevent him from seeing at a glance that the people on the dance floor... were not alive.
Good guy, a whole bar of ghosts.
Anyone else might have started to feel weak after reaching this conclusion, but he was leisurely and contented, and even observed the expressions of these ghosts with great interest.
Immersed in the carnival of music and dance, the ghosts showed very human emotions, otherwise they would be indistinguishable from living people due to the gloomy and gloomy aura emanating from their bodies.
Yu Xing took a look and saw that he was now wearing the clothes he wore in the hotel. His other belongings were gone, but there was an extra mobile phone.
His hand vibrated in his jeans, and Yu Xing reached out to block the ball of light shining from above, took out the unfamiliar phone, and unlocked it with his fingerprint.
The phone shows 23:40.
A WeChat group message popped up, and the person noted as the foreman was in the group Aite:
-Foreman: Are you all here? Come to the dressing room to change quickly, the evening shift is about to start.
"Night shift?" Yu Xing raised his eyebrows. This time he was a bartender?
However, the appearance and clothes have not changed, which means that at least the character is free and there will be no restrictions on the role.
He tried to reply with a received message.
-01:Received.
Immediately afterwards, other people's receipts quickly followed.
-02:Received.
-03:Received.
-04:Received.
…
-08:Received.
There are a total of eight people in the group except the foreman, which corresponds to the deducers. The numbers of the replies are very neat. Yu Xing suspects that this number was temporarily compiled based on the order of the replies.
Sure enough, the prompt came the next moment.
[Since you were the first to reply, your number in this deduction is 01.]
[Deduction tip: Go to the locker room to gather and listen to the foreman’s instructions]
The system also gave the task at this time, and then, a bloody arrow appeared in Yu Xing's sight, and no one on the dance floor seemed to be able to see it.
Yu Xing followed the arrow.
Away from the noisy dance floor, other places are much quieter in comparison. The exquisite blade-shaped bar is very expensive at first glance. The bartenders inside are exquisitely dressed and have tight-fitting uniforms, but their faces...are painted with heavy makeup.
It's not a good-looking one, but the painting style is weird, the foundation is horribly white and bloodless, the lips are bright red, and there's a smoky effect around the eyes.
The chairs next to him were full. The faces of these customers were normal and they were dressed in different styles, but they didn't seem to think there was anything wrong with the bartender at all.
Very weird.
Yu Xing rarely came to places like bars and didn't know much about it. He even began to wonder if this was some kind of strange aesthetic fashion.
"Handsome man, are you alone?" After walking a few steps, a woman in a red dress from a booth in the corner approached him with a drink. The woman in the red dress gave him a wink, and her meaning was self-evident.
"Sorry, we're not alone." Yu Xing nodded politely towards her, telling her with his distant and serious movements that he was not the one she could seduce.
The woman in the red dress curled her lips, said nothing, gave him an ambiguous look and then went back.
Yu Xing stared at her back, and an idea came to his mind: This is a fierce ghost in red.
The red-clothed ghost is a very scary ghost in Chinese ghost legends. It is full of resentment and very aggressive. Most of them commit suicide.
But in this bar, the ghost in red doesn't seem to have that aggressive desire.
With this in mind, Yu Xing continued to follow the bloody arrow in his eyes.
The path leading to the locker room was very single. After a while, he saw a few people who were also walking this way, wearing more normal clothes.
Several people looked at each other and understood each other tacitly.
The extrapolators are probably the most inappropriately dressed people here.
After thinking about it, he waited for a while, and sure enough he saw a sullen Zhao Yijiu.
Yu Xing wanted to laugh a little when he saw him. Zhao Yijiu's cold temperament blended in perfectly here. Throwing him into a pile of ghosts, others would definitely not be able to pick out the living person.
Zhao Yijiu also wore a pair of glasses on the bridge of his nose. He was inexplicably quieter, which dissipated the sharpness between his eyebrows.
When he looked over, Zhao Yijiu looked back as if he was feeling something, and then walked towards him faster.
Yu Xing joked: "Is it okay? Have you ever been to a bar?"
"Been here." Zhao Yijiu, who valued every word like gold, replied coldly.
I've actually been here before... Yu Xing thought that someone with an iceberg personality like Zhao Yijiu wouldn't come to a place like this.
I can't say the next few teasing words.
Zhao Yijiu paused for a second and added: "I was dragged here by Zhao Mou, a long time ago."
Yu Xing: "Oh~"
The dressing room seems to be at the back of the bar, and the door is quite hidden. There are not many customers coming to this place, and it is probably the most deserted place in the entire bar.
The door to the locker room was closed. The two of them pushed the door open and entered. Before they could take in the surroundings, they were stopped by a young man wearing a shirt and vest.
The young man's skin was pale, and his brows were full of impatience. After seeing their faces, he seemed to suppress his impatience, and tried to calm down his tone and said: "01, 04, no matter how hard you go, you are the only ones left. Hurry up and change."
Take the clothes."
In addition to them, six other deducers have arrived, and they all seem to have just changed their clothes, two men and four women. The men are wearing trousers and suit shirts and vests, very slim. The women are wearing the same upper body as the men, and the lower body is black.
Short skirt and black stockings.
A brave male performer smiled and said: "Foreman, you were much more cruel to me just now."
The young foreman glared at him: "Can you do the same? I can tell at a glance that they can sell a lot of expensive drinks. What about you?"
Some of the other deducers laughed out loud, while others were speechless.
Yu Xing listened and knew one thing - the ghost guests here also value their appearance.
He took the opportunity to look around. There were two changing rooms with curtains in this dressing room. Most of the space was arranged like a lounge. There was a row of chairs and a makeup mirror against the wall.
"Your clothes are put in the changing room. There are numbers on them. Change them quickly. I have a lot of rules to tell you." The foreman pointed behind the curtain, Yu Xing nodded, and said goodbye to the expressionless Zhao Yijiu.
Entered a changing room.
There is a pile of clothes in the changing room with a piece of paper written "01" on it.
Yu Xing changed into his shirt, vest and trousers, put on the black leather shoes placed next to his clothes, and looked twice in the mirror in front of him. He had to admit that the foreman's judgment that he could sell a lot of drinks was correct.
Shortly after he came out, Zhao Yijiu also opened the curtain without taking off his glasses.
The two of them stood in a row, imitating other deducers. To Yu Xing's left was a man about twenty-five years old, 1.75 meters tall, with a sad expression, and seemed to have no energy.
The man who made the lively statement was in his early twenties, exuding the vitality of a young man and possessing a rather iron-headed temperament.
Further to the left are four girls, some old and some young. The most mature one looks like she is in her thirties, and she looks like a royal lady.
"Very good, there are still six minutes left. Let me tell you some things to note." The foreman took a few steps on the ground with his hands behind his back. "First of all, I want to make a statement. Although you are temporary workers, you still have to work hard. You can't finish it."
In terms of performance..."
"Ahem, otherwise the original waiters in the bar were kidnapped by the ghost exorcists when they went out to play in a group, and I wouldn't have hired a bunch of living people like you!" The foreman seemed a little angry when he mentioned this, and even looked at him.
Their eyes were not very friendly.
"What? What does it mean to be captured by a demon exorcist, and what do we mean as a group of living people?" A girl with a ponytail who looked inexperienced asked nervously.
The guests looked too much like living people. Except for Yu Xing, who had a special physique, no one noticed that they were ghosts. At best, they just felt that the bar was very cold.
"Don't you understand? You are the only eight people alive in the whole bar. You are just temporary workers that I hired to cover the whole day's shift when I really had no choice!"
The foreman looked threatening: "So, don't show off your skills and let the guests know that you are human. I will be punished. I think you don't want to be recognized and then tortured by a group of excited ghosts, right?"
"What kind of behavior will make you recognized?" a woman in her thirties asked.
"You're pretty smart. Let me tell you, don't laugh or cry while you're working. Our ghost waiters here won't cry or laugh. Once a customer sees these two expressions... Congratulations,
You are already dead."
He couldn't cry or laugh... Yu Xing was glad that he didn't smile when he rejected the woman in red, otherwise he would have been disappointed if he met her again as a waiter.
The foreman waved his hand: "Okay, you can follow tradition and work in pairs to complete the next work."