MTL - What’s Wrong With Seeking Death?-Chapter 123

Xu Tuoran remembered that the domain master had said when they first met that he had tried his best to let her "come early".

Jiang Lin also mentioned that she "woke up" earlier than he expected - that is to say, she should indeed come. But timing went wrong.

And the reason why she wears it in her current body is because the original "Xu Tuoran" died. The cause of death was being cheated by the domain owner of Dahuaihua Middle School during online dating. The domain owner of Dahuaihua said that someone deliberately gave it the account to contact the original owner...

With such piles of piles, it's hard not to make a pretty bad guess.

Someone caused the death of the original owner in advance, so that Xu Tuoran could come into this body earlier. Xu Tuoran had been unable to determine who that person—or, that existence—was. But now, she has a rough guess in her mind.

But when it came to the "guide", she knew very few clues. Less and less messy. She suspected that the wooden figure was referring to the "book-wearing system", that is, the one that ran away in a hurry not long after she arrived. But this raises even more questions—

What kind of thing is it? What is the "book" that I wear. Does she still have the information left to her by the other party in her mind? Are these all just pretense?

There is also a strange reward that was inadvertently triggered during the period when she forgot to die. What kind of plot fragments, vicious female supporting lines... It's a mess, and it's too far away.

Xu Tuoran had accumulated a lot of question marks in his mind. To her regret, the wooden man gave a very brief answer to the question of "guide identity".

"It should exist. It should guide you and complete the ceremony." The wooden man said slowly, "Why did it disappear? I don't understand."

Xu Tuoran: "..."

"When I woke up in this body, there was a thing called 'system' talking to me." After thinking for a while, she finally decided to tell the whole story—as for the "rule of the book wearer", let it go to hell.

If the system is not happy, come over and challenge her one-on-one.

Strange to say. In the past, when she wanted to mention these things, there would always be a strange feeling in her heart, like some kind of power, beeping in the depths of her soul, trying to hinder it.

However, at this moment, she spoke very easily and smoothly, without any burden.

"It said that I came to a book..." Xu Tuoran settled down and continued, "A story with a protagonist and a supporting role. I am one of them..."

She wanted to ask the wooden man if he knew anything about it. Hearing the words, the other party let out a soft "ah".

"The book." He said softly, "That's what it told you."

He paused, and gave a positive reply: "Image."

Xu Tuoran: "..." No, no one asked you this.

"Then what kind of ghost system, is it the 'guide' you mentioned?" Xu Tuoran said, "This world...is it really a book?"

"If a world, it can be regarded as a book or a story. Then you can call it that." The wooden man was silent for a moment, and said in a deep voice, "As for the system. I don't understand."

"Those things are too far away from me. I don't understand."

Xu Turan: ...

Similarly, the wooden man has no concept of the term "death value". However, after listening to Xu Tuoran's understanding of the word and the efforts he had made to achieve death value, he let out a slow and long "ah".

"I don't know. What does this word mean." It looked at Xu Tuoran, and said slowly, "But I don't think it should be what you think."

Xu Tuoran: "...?"

"But it's rising." Xu Tuoran was puzzled, "It's rising very well."

...so, I don't understand.

The huge head of the wooden man pressed down. I don't know if it's Xu Tuoran's illusion, but it seems a little melancholy.

She paused, and said tentatively: "So, my body is also related to you, right?"

"...This is a sin." After two seconds of silence, the wooden man said softly, "It is my sin."

"I thought she would have an accident in Jinxiangshu. But she didn't. She went to a safe place. Time is getting tighter and I can't help it."

The wooden man stumbled as he spoke, Xu Turan listened, but straightened up involuntarily.

Meaning, the original owner wasn't even supposed to go to the Golden Fragrant Tree?

She was supposed to transfer to another school, but her fate was stirred up and she went to Jinxiangshu College. But she was lucky, she did not enter the school controlled by Dahuaihua, but went to a fake school protected by humans...

"It's there, the shelter of the capable person. I can't interfere too much." The wooden man's voice lowered, "I can only wait. Wait until she leaves there."

After she escaped the protection of the capable person, he tried to contact Dahuaihua, who was also active on the Internet, and handed over the managed account to it. Dahuaihua seized the opportunity and coaxed the original owner to sacrifice in the name of her first love, which completely led to the original owner's death.

And Xu Tuoran was also able to wake up in this body.

"...Why, it must be the big pagoda tree flower?" She raised her eyes and frowned unconsciously, "Or, why must it be an abomination?"

"She will die because of the abomination. This is her trajectory." The wooden man said, "I can't change much about this trajectory."

It was already the limit of what he could do to advance her planned ending.

"...Okay." Xu Tuoran lowered his eyes, "I always feel sorry for her..."

She thought for a while, and said again: "The pen of the pen fairy is also arranged by you, right?"

As soon as these words came out, the wooden man on the opposite side was dumbfounded.

He turned his head and said in a daze, "What, a pen?"

Xu Tuoran opened the backpack directly in front of him, and took out the pen from the silver box. The latter was obviously terrified by the strong aura of the wooden man, and as soon as he took it out, he immediately exploded with flagella and hugged the edge of the silver box tightly, as if hugging his own coffin.

Xu Tuoran used all his strength to tear it off, and held it up to the wooden figure: "Here, just this stupid pen."

Seeing the front, the wooden man finally remembered: "Ah, it."

After two seconds of silence, he asked sincerely, "Why did you bring it?"

Pen Fairy's Pen:…

Xu Turan: ...

"Maybe it's because...it's easy to use?" She said uncertainly, "I thought it was a long-term prop."

"..." the wooden man said, "ah."

Bixianzhipen wanted to vomit bubbles on the spot, what a weird tone. However, looking at the mountain-like shadow in front of him, he still retreated silently. At the same time, the wooden man spoke again: "I have seen a small piece of the future. My ability tells me that it will be useful."

In other words, the pen of the pen fairy was indeed arranged by him at the beginning.

"It's really useful." Xu Tuoran smiled, "You saved me. Thank you."

Blockhead:"…"

His huge head slowly turned half a circle, and his eyes, as if carved with a knife, stared blankly at Xu Tuoran, as if she had said something unbelievable.

After a while, I heard it say: "No need."

"But I'm surprised."

Xu Tuoran: "? What are you surprised?"

"I knew it would be useful. But I thought you would get it later." The wooden man paused, "You went to Star Park early. It's strange."

The Xingxing Park villa area is exactly where Xu Tuoran first encountered Haunted House No. 71.

Is it strange? I think it's pretty smooth.

Xu Turan understood a little bit. The wooden man in front of him did foresee the future well, but what he foresaw seemed incomplete. Even a little different from reality.

What the wooden man said next also proved her idea—

"In the clips I saw, it was indeed useful." He paused every word, "But I thought you would unseal it and let it go and kill each other with other abominations."

Xu Turan was amused: "Really? Do you really think it can defeat Haunted House No. 71?"

"It can't be beaten." The wooden man said honestly, "so it will be eaten."

But because of its hui-level power, Haunted House No. 71 will also be seriously injured. It will eagerly absorb the power of the Pen of Omniscience to recover. Xu Tuoran and others can take this opportunity to escape from the villa and get rid of the pursuit of Haunted House No. 71. Afterwards, the nearby Charity Institute will respond to this and send special personnel to seal it...

In other words, in his script, the pen of the pen fairy is a one-time prop.

Pen Fairy's Pen:…

Is there something wrong with you?

Xu Turan was stunned after listening.

She didn't know whether she should tell the other party, in the end, Haunted House No. 71 was indeed sealed. However, it was not the special personnel from the Tzu Chi Institute who came to seal it later, but a few of their trapped friends who packed it up after messing around...

"That is to say, you just know that this thing is useful. But you don't know how it will be useful." She nodded thoughtfully, and put the Pen Fairy's pen back into her backpack. "This makes me feel a little puzzling."

"What I foresee is only fragments." The wooden man said earnestly, "When you look for the answer with a question in mind, you may be able to find fragments of the answer in the future you see."

It is precisely because he foresees the dead end that Haunted House No. 71 will lead to, that he finds the answer to the broken end of the Pen of the Pen Fairy. But when the variable of Immortal Pen is introduced into the future, what he can foresee are only inaccurate fragments.

Xu Turan's movement of zipping up the zipper suddenly stopped. After thinking for a while, he suddenly raised his eyes: "What about me?"

"Am I the answer to one of your questions too?"

The wooden man fell silent again, and after a long time, he turned his head slowly:

"You are the answer to everything."

Xu Turan: ...

Okay, this setting is a bit over the top.

She slammed the zipper of her backpack fully closed, exhaled lightly, and after a while, Fang raised her head again.

The problems accumulated in my mind have almost been dug out. Xu Tuoran quickly sorted out his thoughts, and soon led the topic to another direction:

"As I said earlier, there is an iron nematode that has been controlled by the grandparents of Jiang's family." She said seriously, "but their situation seems to be unstable. I don't know how long it can be controlled. I can let them enter this place too." Domain?"

Almost without thinking, the wooden man gave an affirmative answer. Xu Tuoran secretly breathed a sigh of relief, pondered for a while, and said again: "They sacrificed their bodies to control the iron nematode... If they are allowed to come over, can there be a way to strip the iron nematode?"

This time the wooden man did not respond immediately. Xu Tuoran waited patiently, until he could hear his own heartbeat in his ears, then he heard the wooden man whisper, "I'm sorry."

...not a surprising answer.

Xu Tuoran's heart sank heavily because of this.

"This... okay." She clasped her hands together, "Anyway, I will contact them first after I go out. Maybe I will find a way later..."

"They deserve to be thanked." The wooden man whispered.

As if his heart had been hit hard, Xu Tuoran suddenly raised his eyes. Looking at the mountain-like huge and deformed existence in front of her, she opened her mouth slightly, and suddenly felt a little uncomfortable again.

That kind of indescribable discomfort.

"...Thank you." She was silent for a while, then said seriously to the wooden man, patted her clothes and stood up, "I think it's time for me to leave. Goodbye."

The wooden man looked at her blankly, but didn't respond for a while. The whipping of the mechanical arm on the body continued, and the gurgling red liquid slid down the body like thin waterfalls.

After a while, looking at the back of Xu Tuoran who turned and left, it seemed to finally come back to its senses, and said softly "ah".

Before officially leaving, Xu Tuoran went to Yang Buqi and Su Mai to say goodbye.

Yang Buqi fumbled all over his body, but it was a pity that he lost almost all the things he brought with him when he ran away, and in the end he only took out two tender twigs and handed them to Xu Tuoran.

"Keep it with water. If you don't have enough medicine in the future, you can rely on this to save your life." He instructed earnestly, pressing back the little pink flower that was desperately crawling out of the pocket while speaking. Xu Turan smiled, thanked him, and took out the little pink flower, and put it on his bag.

"Does this one have to be kept in water?" She asked curiously, "Does it eat abominable things?"

Yang Buqi: …

No, growing flowers is not such a way of raising flowers.

However, Yang Buqi has actually given birth to just such one, and he has no experience himself. After thinking about it, he was not sure: "Feel free to raise it. If it doesn't get eaten, it shouldn't be a big problem."

After a pause for a few seconds, he added: "If... if it is closer to you, its vitality will be stronger."

? Yeah? What is the mechanism?

Xu Turan didn't quite understand, but seeing how lively Little Fenhua was climbing up her clothes, she quickly put the question aside, happily picked up Little Fenhua, and put it on her shoulder.

As for Sumai. Although he had entrusted other people to take care of his family after he went out, when Xu Tuoran came to say goodbye, he still couldn't help asking: "If you see Su Sui'er..."

"If I see Su Sui'er, remember to tell her that you are fine. You are just on a long-term secret mission, and you will go home when it is over. Ask her to take care of herself, work hard, and eat well. Don't talk to those who don't So-and-so men come and go..."

Xu Turan recited a string fluently, and breathed out: "You have said it three times, is there any more?"

Su Mai smiled embarrassedly, and added after thinking about it: "Eat more vegetables."

Xu Turan: ...

She patiently repeated Su Mai's entrustment, and seeing the latter nodding gratefully, Fang turned and left. The **** bear who was leading the way was already waiting by the side. When he saw Xu Tuoran approaching, he immediately went up to him, holding a huge long box in his hand. Xu Tuoran adjusted the shoulder **** his body, and followed behind.

Although she didn't accept the special pickled abominations warmly provided by the domain master, before leaving, she went over cheekily and asked the domain master for something—

She took two stone spears with her.

There are a lot of things left by previous entrants in the office, or things that the big white bear picked up from outside. In order to make it easier for her to carry, the domain owner also specially asked Bai Xiong to dig out a 50% new guitar with a box from the inside, took the instrument away, and left a box for Xu Turan to carry.

The long piano box was carried all the way by the leading black bear, and it was not handed over to Xu Tuoran until it was near the exit. Xu Turan thanked him for taking it, and turned his head to look forward, only to see that the camphor forest, which should have been endless, suddenly revealed its boundary at this moment. Outside the dense trees, there is a forked path. The path is empty, and there are signboards for Greenland Park on the side.

Looking back, the **** bear leading the way was waving at him. Xu Turan smiled, raised his hand and waved, and stepped out a few steps. The moment he walked out of the forest, the noisy voices immediately filled the eardrums. The originally empty path in the garden was filled with figures in a blink of an eye. Xu Turan looked back with a sense of feeling, and saw only a small camphor forest behind him, and there were no more figures in the sparse trees.

Xu Turan felt a little bit of reluctance and sadness in his heart, but he quickly picked up his mood, took out his mobile phone, and walked towards the exit along the signs in the park.

According to the domain owner, there is actually more than one entrance and exit in that domain. In addition to the part that overlaps with the Greenland Park, interested people can also enter through other entrances and exits. It's just that other entrances and exits are generally only "open" to abominations, and because the venue is not suitable, the Great Pyrenees will not be sent out to "solicit customers".

As far as the abomination is concerned, that domain is not so much a "camphor forest" as a "nepenthes". The unique breath and the power full of temptation will lure the abominations into the forest, and a large number of exhibits in the bug museum are derived from this.

Because other ability users entered earlier, they can choose the entrance and exit when they leave. Xu Tuoran had no choice but to leave through the Greenland Park. Back in reality, the phone synchronized with the real time, and only then did she realize that she had been in there for two days.

In this way, apart from the short "nightfall" in the camphor forest, there is really no sense of time passing... She thought it was not a day.

The vegetation in the park was shrouded in twilight, and three or two street lights around had been turned on in advance. Feeling hungry belatedly, Xu Turan looked around, bought a piece of bread at the canteen, carried the piano case on his shoulder, gnawed on the bread, and swiped the screen to send a message to Jiang Siyu.

I didn't want to send out the message, and suddenly a few familiar figures walked up to me. Xu Turan took a quick glance, his heart skipped a beat, he turned around quickly, holding the bread to cover his face, he quickly turned sideways, and walked into the small bamboo forest next to him.

Almost at the moment she got into the bamboo forest, those people also came over.

"Have you heard? There is a new order from above, saying that there is no need to search for the domain here. Then can we go back today..." Shu Xiaopei was in the middle of speaking, noticing that his companion's expression was wrong, he stretched out his hand and patted She said, "Zhu Tang? What are you thinking?"

"...Ah? What?" Zhu Tang was caught off guard, and suddenly withdrew his gaze from the bamboo forest, and then said after a pause, "Oh, it should be. But it may be arranged until tomorrow..."

As she spoke, her eyes still involuntarily drifted towards the direction of the bamboo forest again. The other two looked at her puzzledly, and said strangely: "What? Is there anything over there? It can't be the legendary great white bear!"

They have been observing here for two days, and they have already managed to extract the existence of the mysterious big white bear from the staff. But so far, they have never seen each other.

Zhu Tang blinked slowly, and finally looked back, raised his hand to scratch his cheek, on his wrist was a brand new cartoon bracelet.

"No...it's nothing. It's just that I saw something just now." She smiled uncertainly, and her tone eased, "It seems to be an acquaintance..."

the other end.

Xu Tuoran walked through the bamboo forest at the fastest speed, and only when he was sure that he was out of sight of Zhu Tang and the others, he slowed down and exhaled.

It's not that I don't want to meet them. It's just that she was absent from the comic show because of hallucinations, and the excuse she made was that there was something urgent at home. Afterwards, she was raised in Jiang Siyu's domain for a week, and Zhu Tang and the others often greeted her, and her excuses changed again and again...

If I remember correctly, the excuse I gave last time was that I was going on a business trip with my adoptive brother, and the place was thousands of miles away.

Xu Tuoran knew that this was not good, and he was always apologetic to Zhu Tang and the others. She didn't want them to get involved in her troubles, but she also didn't want to be caught lying in the situation.

Although it's a bit hypocritical to say so, she really likes playing with Zhu Tang and the others.

Xu Tuoran was worried about the side effect, so he didn't take out his phone again until he walked out of the Greenland Park. Jiang Siyu didn't give any reply, Xu Tuoran raised his eyebrows, opened Taobao again, and poked the customer service, hoping to remind his little boss to read the news.

The customer service replied quickly, but the content made Xu Tuoran stop suddenly:

[Boss, sorry. Our boss is not in the unit. 】

...?

【why? ] Xu Tuoran quickly replied, 【Isn't today a holiday? 】

Jiang Siyu usually goes to the human employees during the holidays, and sometimes goes directly after school. This is what she said to Xu Tuoran.

[We don't know either. The little boss didn't come two days ago. 】After sending this sentence, the customer service stopped. The "typing" on the chat interface was on for a while, and then she continued to say, [There are no bubbles in the work group. Emails and DingTalk do not respond. An employee tried to contact her family, and her family only said that she was sick and resting...]

[Boss, do you know anything about the little boss? This kind of thing has never happened before, which is a bit worrying. 】

Xu Tuoran: "..."

More than just "a little bit".

Thinking of the warning given by Jiang Siyu's grandfather before he set off, Xu Furan's worries almost rushed to his head.

[Where was the last time she contacted you? when? ] While continuing to confirm Jiang Siyu's situation, she opened the map, searched for the nearest hotel, and booked a room. Then he rushed into the nearby supermarket, bought a bunch of things, and hurried towards the hotel.

While on the way, Jiang Siyu had a general understanding of the situation there. The last time she bubbled up in the work group was the night when Xu Tuoran left. She seemed to have a premonition that she would be absent from work the next day, and made various arrangements in advance in the group—after that, she was silent.

Among these arrangements, there is one item - if Xu Tuoran finds her through the Taobao store or the forum, and she happens to be out of contact, then the reception staff should immediately inform Xu Tuoran of all the situation.

[Okay, I probably understand. ] Xu Tuoran followed behind the hotel attendant who led the way, frowning and tapping on his mobile phone, 【You continue to work with peace of mind. Leave the rest to me. 】

Send it out, just as the hotel waiter stopped. Xu Tuoran nodded absently at him, took the bag from the other party's hand, and swiped his card to open the door.

"By the way." Before entering the door, she turned her head suddenly, "I don't like to be disturbed. So no matter what happens, don't knock on my door."

After speaking, he didn't care about the other party's reaction, and quickly flashed into the room.

The door was slammed shut. Without delay, Xu Tuoran immediately put down what he was using, opened the shopping bag in the supermarket, took out a large tablecloth from inside, turned it over and spread it on the floor, took out a marker pen, and painted on it.

What she drew was the rune that Jiang Siyu had told her about. Specific runes, together with specific rituals, can form an entrance to her domain. And Xu Tueran has the "highest authority for tourists"—that is, as long as Xu Tueran can open the entrance and exit, she can enter directly without Jiang Siyu's consent.

The entry ceremony that Jiang Siyu set up was also quite strange. After Xu Tuoran finished drawing the runes, he took out a math workbook and made two pages. Waited a moment after doing it, but nothing happened.

... I don't know whether I did the question wrong or where I went wrong.

Xu Tuoran is very confident in his ability to memorize runes. Anyway, the runes drawn are definitely not wrong. She corrected the answer to the math problem without confidence, and confirmed that she did not make a mistake. She could only suspect that there was a problem with her own process and rethink it.

She took out a new tablecloth and redrawn the runes with the brush of the pen fairy, but it was still useless. When asked about the pen of the pen fairy, it was also ignorant.

[You take a Chen-level matter and ask a Hui-level pen. Who are you looking down on? 】It spat bubbles into the air very speechlessly, with deep resentment revealed in its words.

Xu Turan: ...

"If I had known earlier, I might as well have let you die in love with Haunted House No. 71." She muttered angrily, took out her mobile phone to call Pu Han, and while waiting for the connection, she took out a pack of nursing pads from the bag in the nearby supermarket— If you are unlucky and develop to the point where you need to use blood to draw runes, at least it will be easier to clean up if you draw them on this.

After waiting for a while, the call was not connected. Xu Tuoran had no choice but to close his eyes, hung up the phone, waited for a while, and saw a message from Pu Han's WeChat account

[I'm calling him! Do your work first, it should be almost done when you finish [heart]]

Busy... finished?

A question mark floated in Xu Tuoran's mind for a moment, and at this moment, there was a knock on the door outside the room.

...?

Xu Tuoran raised his eyes vigilantly, thought for a moment, folded the tablecloth on the floor and kicked it to the side before going to open the door.

During the whole process, she didn't make a sound. The people outside the door did not rush, they only knocked rhythmically a few times and then stopped. Xu Tuoran stood by the door, felt the situation outside the door carefully, and confirmed that there was no reaction to the premonition of crisis, then put the vase in his hand back on the table, and put the little pink flower that crawled out of the bag on it. Only then did he open the door.

Standing outside the door was an acquaintance.

"Hello." Principal Shangguan stood outside the door, folded his hands, and straightened his back. "I'm sorry, I went to settle some personal matters before, and I just came to you now."

"Uh, it's okay, I just arrived not long ago..." Xu Tuoran said subconsciously with a blank face, and suddenly seemed to understand something, and turned to look at the door next to him.

I saw the house number on it, which was exactly what Principal Shangguan said before, 1703.