absurd deduction game.

Chapter 242 Nightmare (3) - Soul Crash
The company's cafeteria is very bright. Tables for four people are neatly arranged in the hall. On the other side, small shops specializing in different foods line up like a snack street. There are quite a few people queuing.

The woman following Yu Xing looked like an old fritter at first glance, and she was not wearing a badge as honestly as Guan Xin - Yu Xing didn't wear it herself.

So he didn't know the woman's name, so he could only try to avoid talking to her, so as not to reveal his secrets.

Fortunately, the woman knew "Fang Xing"'s personality, so she didn't have anything to say to annoy him.

When the two arrived at the cafeteria, there were not many vacant seats. The woman pointed to a seat in the middle and said, "Why don't you go buy food first, Brother Fang, and I'll reserve a seat for you."

Yu Xing didn't answer her, and felt the vibration of the phone in his pocket at this moment. He took out the phone with a normal face, and saw a WeChat message pop up on the unlocked page.

The other party's remarks are concise and clear, and their name is Zhou Xue.

"I see you, I'm on the right."

A second later, another one came.

"Why is Wu Shan here? I don't need an ordinary artist to listen to my discussion with you."

Even through the screen, Yu Xing could feel the dissatisfaction in Zhou Xue's tone.

Perhaps this dissatisfaction is not aimed at him, but at the tail behind him.

Zhou Xue is the main storyline. In terms of work, she and Fang Xing belong to the same level. More often than not, the priority of art is far lower than the plot, let alone the worldview structure.

Naturally, she didn't need to be careful when talking to Fang Xing.

Is this woman called Wu Shan... Yu Xing got the information he wanted without any effort, and he replied, "She came here by herself. I will solve it."

Putting away the phone, he glanced to the right, and found Zhou Xue alone in the corner.

In front of her was a bowl from the staff cafeteria, which seemed to be braised chicken and rice. Seeing Yu Xing glanced over, her tired face softened a little, and she nodded slightly.

The dissatisfaction was not aimed at him.

Yu Xing glanced at Wu Shan indiscriminately, and had a mental estimate of the conflict between the two.

And the reason why he can recognize Zhou Xue's face at a glance... is because Zhou Xue looks exactly the same as in the first stage. It seems that the young master's spiritual space is indeed related to her.

He just turned his head with his mobile phone and said, "As I said, I'm not free at noon today."

Then, under Wu Shan's dazed gaze, she walked towards Zhou Xue.

At this time, if she followed up again, she could only be said to be ignorant. Wu Shan could only hold back her anger, glanced at Zhou Xue who didn't even look at her, and went to buy food by herself in silence.

"Sorry for delaying your noon time."

Yu Xing sat down opposite Zhou Xue, and Zhou Xue just apologized.

It can be seen that the relationship between Zhou Xue and Fang Xing should be of the type that is neither salty nor dull, and does not communicate much in private, that is, Zhang Chun's colleague.

"It's okay, it's for work." Yu Xing said, observing Zhou Xue's face by the way.

Tired, haggard, even a little dejected, his young face should have been full of vigor, but at this moment he was obviously lacking energy, and his whole body was enveloped in an inexplicable strange atmosphere.

Speaking of it, this is very similar to the Zhou Xue he saw in the ghost alley, except that Zhou Xue at that time was avoiding supernatural events, not only had to cooperate with the paper figurines, but also held back the shopkeepers and prevented them from going to the streets Paper figurines deliver food.

But now?

Yu Xing instantly guessed that Zhou Xue seemed to have encountered something that would put her in danger.

The discussion on the appearance design of the ghost bride will be a good time to collect information later, but Yu Xing is not in a hurry at all. He smells the aroma of the food in front of Zhou Xue, and his stomach growls quietly.

"I'll go buy food first, let's talk while eating."

No matter what you do, you can't wrong yourself to be hungry. He just came to say hello first to show his courtesy.

Zhou Xue nodded, looking at the back of him getting up and leaving, she ate a piece of chicken mixed with white rice, the rich taste melted on the tip of her tongue, but it failed to dissolve the faint condensed anger between her brows.

Five minutes later, Yu Xing came back with a plate. He bought a bowl of rice covered with rice. He lowered his head and took a bite. After swallowing, he asked, "Is there any new requirement for the ghost bride's design?"

Zhou Xue's eyes staring at his face suddenly returned to her senses, she nodded and said softly: "Just yesterday, I had some new ideas."

She took out her phone and opened a picture in the photo album.

This is a brief concept draft. Zhou Xue is in the game industry, so she is not ignorant of character design. Although her drawing is very simple, compared with Yu Xing, it looks like a primary school student standing in front of a college student, but at least all the key points of the design are displayed. come out.

Yu Xing carelessly took her phone and looked at it carefully.

In the picture, the background is black, and a woman in red makeup—or a female ghost is floating low in the air, her feet in red cloth shoes drooping feebly.

The woman has a dignified figure, her upper body is straight, her hands are folded in front of her abdomen, her body is wrapped in a red robe, her hair is coiled up, and a red hijab is placed on her head, which is slightly blown by the wind from nowhere, making people feel I saw half of the female ghost's face.

His complexion was pale, his lips were bright red, slightly parted, and two lines of blood and tears flowed from the eye sockets covered by the hijab, and then fell from the lower jawbone to the ground, exploding a flower of blood.

He glanced at the details, raised his eyebrows and asked, "What's the difference between this and before? It's nothing more than a change in the style of the clothes. Is it necessary?"

Zhou Xue pursed her lips: "Yes, such clothes are worn by ghost brides."

Her answer is specious, but if you listen carefully, you can hear a vague persistence.

It's as if... She knows what the Ghost Bride is like.

Yu Xing handed the phone back, propped his chin and asked, "Is this the last revision? I'm going to start drawing this afternoon, and I'll be irritable if I make new requests at that time."

He didn't ignore Zhou Xue's slightly constricted pupils when he heard this.

"Why don't you design other characters first?" Sure enough, after a few seconds, she spoke in deliberation.

Yu Xing tentatively said, "Then shall I draw the ghost bridegroom first?"

"Eh... didn't the groom say that he would paint after the bride?" Zhou Xue seemed to have not expected that he would switch to the ghost groom as soon as he changed his target, and he hesitated to persuade him.

Yu Xing knew it all.

He ate his meal, and didn't answer whether he should stick to drawing the groom first, but raised his chin and pointed at Zhou Xue's cell phone: "Don't you think something is missing in your painting?"

There was a look of confusion in her eyes: "Well, of course, I always feel that there is still something missing...but I can't——I can't think of it."

There was a strange pause in the middle of a sentence, as if he had changed his rhetoric temporarily.

Yu Xing guessed that what she wanted to say was not that she couldn't think of it, but that she couldn't think of it.

This person may have been inextricably linked with Liu Xue, and based on the face that is [-]% similar to Liu Xue's photo in the mourning hall, this point is established.

He didn't want to play charades, which would only make him continue to be a colleague who met by chance, unable to effectively complete the protection task.

Recalling the few impressions he had of the ghost bride Liu Xue so far, Yu Xing said, "That ghost bride...would it be more atmospheric if the nails were painted red?"

Zhou Xue was stunned.

She stared at her mobile phone for a long time, showing a somewhat dazed expression.

The character of the ghost bride is very common in horror games. The nails are either red or black. It stands to reason that it should be easy to imagine, but Zhou Xue gave the ghost bride a pair of hands with pure nails in the painting.

She said: "I always feel that she shouldn't wear red nail polish...it doesn't feel right..."

Yu Xing narrowed his eyes slightly, thought for a while and changed his words: "Then instead of red nail polish, how about blood stains instead?"

Zhou Xue's eyes suddenly lit up.

Suddenly, a pair of white and slender hands with blood flowing in her mind suddenly appeared.

But something is still missing...

"Add another paper knife." The magnetic male voice woke her up from her memory, and she suddenly opened her eyes wide, staring closely at "Fang Xing" in front of her.

In the current design, she has not mentioned the bride's weapon.

She always felt that there was a layer of mist that prevented her from thinking, but when Yu Xing said the word paper knife, she actually thought, yes, the ghost bride should use this.

That's right, among those broken, elusive memories, the Ghost Bride used this!
Zhou Xue seemed very happy, but the death on her face became more intense, so much so that Yu Xing suspected that she might be so unlucky that she would be hit by a car and die as soon as she went out.

Is it part of the task to protect her from being killed by bad luck... Yu Xing complained in his heart.

Then, while Zhou Xue was staring at him, Yu Xing continued his efforts: "You look ugly, did something happen to you recently?"

"Ah...no." Zhou Xue withdrew her gaze, but this feeling of guilt just proved that she was lying.

"Looking at you, it looks like you can't sleep every day. How many days have you been up all night?" Yu Xing motioned her to look at her dark circles. Even though they were covered with makeup, they were still very obvious.

I'm afraid that after removing her makeup, her eyes can be compared to a panda's.

When it came to sleeping, Zhou Xue trembled involuntarily.

Obviously, her spirit is actually very bad, and she is not at all as nonchalant as she can show now.

Yu Xing pretended to get closer and squinted his eyes to look at her.

"What, what are you doing..." Even though Fang Xing had a weird personality and was difficult to get along with, he had never been so close before. Zhou Xue looked at him, a little at a loss.

"It's okay, I just feel that your complexion is a bit like that of a relative who had a crush on me before." Yu Xing started to talk nonsense, and after he finished talking, he seemed to be an afterthought, "Oh, is it not good for me to talk like this, like As if cursing you."

According to his guess, if Zhou Xue really had something to do, she would definitely be interested in the relatives he mentioned.

Sure enough, she paused: "No, no one, who doesn't know that you are outspoken...but what do you mean hitting your soul?"

"Well, it sounds a bit superstitious, and I don't know if you believe it or not." Yu Xing pretended to recall, "I heard from my aunt that that relative always felt that he could share another person's memory, but he remembered Unclear, later he discovered that this memory... came from a dead person."

Zhou Xue swallowed her saliva: "And then?"

"And then? That dead man wanted to kill him, and he almost died. One morning, he was foaming at the mouth and passed out on the ground. He was sent to the hospital, still talking about ghosts. At that time, the people around him opened his clothes and looked at him. Look, see a black handprint on the chest."

Zhou Xue: "...Is this so scary?"

Yu Xing snorted softly: "Later, my aunt finally invited a reliable alchemist. The alchemist said that he had hit his soul and performed a ritual, and then he got better. I just saw the photo of that relative at that time, and I will tell you Today's state is a bit similar. The main reason is that we are doing 'nightmare', facing all kinds of ghosts and monsters every day, I just remembered, no offense intended."

[Rely on a piece of plausible nonsense]
[what?Is it nonsense, I actually believed it]
[Obviously, he doesn't know exactly what happened to Zhou Xue, but this passage definitely fits Zhou Xue's attitude towards ghost bride paintings, so it's easy to catch]
[Man, I feel so blessed to have been through this]
[Hahaha, typical cliché to gain trust]
[I think Zhou Xue has already believed it]
Zhou Xue did look at Yu Xing differently. At first, she just asked someone to change the image of the ghost bride, but now she felt nervous. She asked cautiously: "Then do you believe it, that relative hits the soul?" No matter how it sounds, it doesn't conform to materialism..."

"Ha, if I don't believe it, why would I like to draw ghostly original paintings so much." Yu Xing picked up a ready-made excuse, and seemed not at all embarrassed by his belief in ghosts.

Then, he pretended to notice Zhou Xue's trembling hands just now, and took another bite of his meal: "No way, are you really busy? Do you want me to ask someone to look at it for you?"

Zhou Xue seemed a little hesitant.

Yu Xing didn't urge him either, he thought to himself.

Zhou Xue's attitude towards what happened to her seems a bit strange.

She was obviously worried and afraid. If it were someone else, once they heard that someone understood and believed this kind of nonsense, and there was a way to solve it, they would have given up their vigilance and told him.

But Zhou Xue was different. While she was afraid, she seemed to have a little expectation and waiting.

She seemed to be waiting for something to arrive.

But Yu Xing's proposal was still very attractive to Zhou Xue, her eyelashes trembled: "Then..."

Just when he thought he had succeeded, Zhou Xue's peripheral vision fell on the painting of the ghost bride.

She unexpectedly stopped the second half of the sentence, and instead gritted her teeth and said, "No, you misunderstood, I'm fine."

Yu Xing: "..." Tsk.

It seems that in order to protect Zhou Xue today, some extraordinary measures have to be taken.

Besides, it was easy to arouse suspicion, Yu Xing shut his mouth, finished his meal while listening to the song, said hello to Zhou Xue, and left.

Both his bloody nail proposal and the paper cutter proposal were approved, and he returned to his workstation and fell asleep on his stomach.

If there is no accident, it is impossible for him to sleep tonight, and he can only hope that the short safety of the day on the first day will allow him to supplement his sleep.

Then, the whole afternoon of working time was spent painting. During the period, Yu Xing hacked the company's internal network while others were not paying attention, and pulled out Zhou Xue's resume and information to read it.

After get off work, Yu Xing packed up his things and went to the parking lot.

Along the way, he walked close to the dead corners. With the help of vehicles and people, he did not leave a discernible figure in the surveillance. If the surveillance captured him, he could only see a blurred figure wrapped in blue fog—— ——He took out the Sheqing Dreamland, and let the invisible mist cover the whole body, affecting the electromagnetism.

A few minutes later, he stood behind a white car, holding his laptop and fiddling for a while, successfully hacking into the car system.

This is Zhou Xue's car.

He climbed into the trunk.

　【small theater】

　　Yu Xing: On the importance of learning one more hacking technique.

　　Zhu Yan: If I were here, I would be able to fix it for you in 30 seconds, and even the monitoring can hack it for you, rubbish luck.

　　Yu Xing: ?
　　
　
(End of this chapter)