MTLNOVEL Chapter 23: 27
After Xiao Leng pushed the hot potato to Yang Ge, he returned to the 17th courtyard. The 17th courtyard's main buildings were all one-story buildings. Only on the northernmost side was a new two-story building. The first floor contained a cheap and delicious restaurant, and the second floor was a coffee shop and a cake shop. The expenses were also directly related to the 17th courtyard.
He went to the second floor to buy a bag of ice cream. When he was downstairs, the group leader kept spamming him with messages. He was so mad that he shouted that he had found gold and that he had to keep the person. He even sent a part of the surveillance video from dormitory 703.
Xiao Leng didn't know the inside story, so he sat down on the stairs and watched. The video only showed the part after Yang Ge entered the door, and it only lasted a few minutes, but after watching it, he understood what the team leader was thinking.
At the same time, Duong Ca brought Diep Tich into the 17th courtyard, asking where Tieu Lanh was currently, Tieu Lanh directly replied: Dining hall.
After a few minutes of traveling, Ye Xi and Yang Ge had some cold but friendly exchanges. Yang Ge returned the personal items she had kept in her sealed bag to her. Ye Xi felt uncomfortable with this kind of interview that completely disrespected her wishes.
Duong Ca simply explained a bit, omitting the conflict between the two captains, only saying that there were some mistakes in the order.
Diep Tich did not express any opinion on this. Compared to this, she wanted to know more clearly if Tieu Lanh did not want to arrange an interview for her, then why did he make her come to 17th place.
Duong Ca just said: "I will take you to see Captain Tieu now, you can ask her yourself."
Diep Tich looked at Duong Ca, the impression of this exquisite red-lipped, black high-heeled boot-clad beauty was still possible, so he temporarily chose to believe her words.
Very quickly, the two people entered the main hall.
Going up the stairs to the second floor, right opposite the main gate, Diep Tich saw a tall man sitting on the steps, his black windbreaker unbuttoned, casually hanging down his sides.
He had long arms and legs, and looked good no matter how he sat. The sunlight from behind the stairs shone on him, coating his pale skin with a layer of faint gold, giving it an almost dreamlike aesthetic.
If he wasn't eating the ice cream in his hand mouthful by mouthful, Ye Xi would probably suspect that this was a unit that made a very sophisticated fake person and put him here to work as a welfare worker.
Duong Ca quickened his steps and walked quickly up the stairs: "Coming! This is Miss Co."
"Hello." Tieu Lanh slightly narrowed his eyes, his gaze locked on Co Trieu, watching her stand up and walk down the stairs.
"... Hello." Ye Xi momentarily did not understand why Yang Ge stopped in front of this person. After hesitating for a moment, he still stated his intention clearly, "I came to find Xiao Leng, he said..."
Tieu Lanh tilted his head: "I am Tieu Lanh."
"?" Ye Xi said in his heart, "I believe you, damn it," and without losing tact, he said, "Sorry, I've seen Xiao Leng in the Rule Realm, I know what he looks like."
"Oh ——" Xiao Leng dragged out his voice, leisurely and leisurely asking, "What does he look like?"
"He..." Diep Tich wanted to describe, but the next second, her scalp suddenly went numb.
Because she had met Xiao Leng in the Rule Realm, she had always thought that she remembered what he looked like, and she should indeed remember. But now that she had specifically recalled his appearance, she actually had no impression at all.
She tried to recall all the images she had seen directly from his eyes, but those images seemed to have been altered. Her vision was suppressed and blurred, and she couldn't see his face.
Suddenly encountering this kind of situation, no one could help but be scared. Diep Tich's face turned pale, a cold chill and thin sweat seeped out from her back.
Standing in front of Xiao Leng, he reached into the hem of his windbreaker and opened the money bag: "Police certificate, identity card, passport… There are also academic certificates, driver's license, and social insurance cards in the office. Do you want to see them?"
"..." Ye Xi was still shocked and had not yet recovered from being beaten. He casually glanced at the police officer's photo and name, shook his head and said, "No need..."
"Okay." Tieu Lanh fluently put away a stack of certificates and strode out.
Diệp Tịch still had a blank expression in his mind, and instinctively chased after him to ask: "We've clearly met before, why would I..."
"The Rules of the Realm are like this, there is no way to reason with 'him'." Xiao Leng said, "However, if I have to analyze it, I feel that 'he' is trying to ensure fairness."
Diep Tich was confused: "Fairness?"
"That's right." Xiao Leng patiently explained, "Right now, the Rule Realm has just appeared not long ago, unless it's intentional, otherwise everyone basically hasn't met any repeat participants inside, but as time passes, sooner or later they will meet people they've met before. Then let's do it another way——if the unlucky person recognizes another person as the lucky person they've met before, can they directly target him to hunt and kill? Is that fair?"
Diep Tich suddenly realized: "That makes sense."
"But if everyone can't remember, then there's no such problem. There are other ways to recognize acquaintances. If someone is not related, as long as they write a different fake name every time, it will be very difficult to be recognized."
This is also why the fake interviewer in the fake chat only needs to use the same name as before, regardless of whether it is real or fake, they will deduct - because as long as it is the same, the fake name is fake to the point of being meaningless.
After Xiao Leng finished speaking, he did not forget to introduce Yang Ge, who was just pushed to block the wall: "This is the Bai Cap you met at the mall's Rules and Strange Talk, his real name is Yang Ge, a poplar tree, known as a big brother."
Diep Tich: "..."
She had not realized it at all just now, this feeling was truly terrifying.
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After a few words of conversation, Xiao Leng brought Ye Xi to the work area. Yang Ge returned to his office first. Xiao Leng, like Zeng Dapeng, found an empty house to talk to Ye Xi.
This is a small conference room, inside there is no local conference table, but there are single-person sofas around four sides, each two in a group, in the middle is a small circular tea table.
Xiao Leng invited Ye Xi to sit down, and sat on the other side himself. He very generously placed the ice cream bag in his hand on the small coffee table: "Eat some." Then, in accordance with public affairs, he asked, "Is Gu Chao's real name?"
"Oh... No." Considering the other party's true attitude and identity, Ye Xi also took out his own identity and handed it over. Xiao Leng smiled at this action and nodded: "Alright, Miss Ye."
Pausing for a moment, he asked again: "I have a question. If Miss Diep doesn't want to answer, you can refuse."
Diep Tich nodded: "Ask."
Xiao Leng's body slightly tilted two inches towards Ye Xi, the meaning of his investigation went without saying: "Just now, I watched the video of you and Yang Ge talking, my question is - the reason why you doubted everything, is it really just that?"
Diep Tich's back unconsciously straightened.
Just now she deliberately hid the most important factor, but didn't expect that her flaw would be seen.
She asked again: "Are those not enough?"
"Not enough." Xiao Leng smiled harmlessly and kindly, "Miss Ye's analysis was correct, but those suspicious points were not so clear. So I think there must have been a bigger suspicious point at the beginning that made Miss Ye pay attention, and only then did she pay attention to those details."
He explained slowly, causing Diep Tich's heart to beat irregularly several times. In that instant, she even felt that he was constantly seeing flaws, and had already guessed the actual situation.
After all, he also has a special identity in the Rule Realm.
Seeing that she did not say anything, Tieu Lanh continued: "We are a regular department, Miss Diep, you don't need to worry when talking here."
Diep Tich took a deep breath: "I am a lucky person."
"Entering the Rule Realm, there was no way to choose props, so I felt something was wrong."
Tieu Lang's expression was completely unmoved. Diep Tich looked at his face and thought: He really had guessed it long ago.
Diep Tich pursed his lips: "Where is Mr. Tieu? Is he the lucky one, or the unlucky one?"
Tieu Lanh laughed, leaning back: "Neither."
"?" Diep Tich looked confused.
Obviously there are props, but he is not a lucky or unlucky person, then he cannot be a native person, right?!
Tieu Lang restrained his smile: "I am a chaos artist."
Diep Tich: "Ah?" Choking, he stared at him for three seconds, "What is a Chaos Master?"
Xiao Leng's voice was calm: "In the 72 hours of that sandstorm, gambling was considered lucky, and coming into contact with corpses was considered unlucky. Some people, by coincidence, encountered both."
Diep Tich suddenly realized: "I used to gamble and came into contact with corpses, so I'm a chaos artist?"
Xiao Leng nodded: "Chaos fakes have both lucky and unlucky attributes. They can obtain items through passing tests, or they can rob items by killing lucky and unlucky people. They can obtain points by killing ordinary people."
"What if the chaos master is killed?" Diep Tich asked.
Tieu Lang: "Short time, limited circumstances, not very clear at the moment."
"Oh." Diep Tich nodded in understanding, then asked, "Where are the locals?"
Xiao Leng: "The natives are the residents of the strange rules of the world. Their mission is to confuse the participants, causing more people to die, or to be trapped in the Rule Realm. No matter if they are ordinary people, lucky people, unlucky people, or chaos people, if they kill a native, they will all fall into backlash and become a native themselves."
"The only correct way to deal with the natives is to cross over into their identities. After crossing over, the natives will immediately die an unnatural death. All participants here will gain points."
The rules became more and more complicated, and Diep Tich fell into deep thought.
At present, in the super talk, everyone only knows that the lucky ones, the unlucky ones, and the ordinary ones, all have people shouting "He" to increase the difficulty and uncertainty of the strange rules, but in reality, there are also the chaos people and the natives' two identities inside making a mess.
The former is a combination of a lucky person and an unlucky person, at first glance it seems to have a super strong external curse; the latter, although has no external curse, on the one hand it is full of malice towards the participants, on the other hand if it is mistakenly judged as a lucky person and an unlucky person becoming a target, it will also cause the participants to suffer backlash.
The originally dangerous rules and regulations will be further complicated by these special identities.
Thinking about the special identity and the "Easier to Enter the Rules of the Strange Pool" debuff, Ye · the lucky one · Tich couldn't help but shiver.
Xiao Leng saw her fall into silence, and very thoughtfully gave her some time to digest the news. When Ye Xi reacted, she realized that the place beside her had been quiet for a long time. She was stunned for a moment, and then asked the most important question: "Why did Mr. Xiao call me to the 17th?"
Possessing this or that information, if he is willing to tell her, he can say it directly at the shopping mall.
Tieu Lanh went straight to the point: "I think Miss Diep is very capable, I want to ask Miss Diep, are you interested in joining us?"
"Of course, I want to say it first." The corner of his mouth raised a little smile, leisurely and elegant, "The reason why I want to recruit people from the outside is because this job is extremely dangerous —— the rules of the strange talk form was suddenly put down on September 1st, and there are only 20 pages to date. This department was urgently established on September 3rd, and there was almost no preparation time. Although everyone has been working hard since the first day, it is still from zero to explore the rules of the strange talk, so mistakes and chaos are hard to avoid."
"In the beginning, our members were selected from the whole country from 120 elite police and special police officers, each group of 20 people, divided into 6 groups. Currently, of the original 120 people, there are less than 40 left."
"... Are the others all dead?" Diep Tich shivered without feeling cold.
Tieu Lanh lowered his eyes, not at all tactful as he confirmed her cruel thoughts: "That's right."
"Miss Ye, if you have read the Rules of the Realm super story, you should know that even for a newbie in a dungeon, the average survival rate is only 20%, and the survival rate is not that high. The 17 Great House missions, on one hand, are to protect the common people in the dungeon and increase the survival rate, on the other hand, they are to try to find out where all this came from and strive to restore life to normal as soon as possible."
——I have already lost so many people, and I still want to protect others?
This question flashed through Diep Tich's mind, but in the next moment she understood it herself.
Even if at the beginning 120 people sacrificed 70, the survival rate is also far higher than the super talk's summary number. And as time goes by, everyone will become more and more proficient in the way they play the Rule Realm, and if the team works together, the survival rate should be even more promising.
Xiao Leng looked straight at Ye Xi who was silent and thoughtful, and told her fairly: "All of this is not easy to do, so Miss Ye wants to understand, if you agree to join us, you will die at any time. It could be the next Rule Realm, or it could be the next one."
Too frank and sincere explanation, it sounds like not to recruit new people, but to persuade them to retreat.
Diep Tich's thin lips gently pursed: "Can I refuse?"
"We are a regular department, not a multi-level marketing group, of course you can refuse." Xiao Leng's lips curled into a gentle smile, "However, we want to add a confidentiality agreement, regarding everything in the 17th house, including the strange talk you just experienced, you cannot say anything."
Diep Tich nodded: "I refuse."
Tieu Lanh paused: "You refused without even asking about the treatment? Care to tell me the reason?"
"I don't like the way you guys do things." Ye Xi said bluntly without any scruples, "You guys inexplicably forced me into a fake strange chat for three days, without asking my wishes, and even less considering whether this might disrupt my normal plans." Seeing Xiao Leng open his mouth to explain, Ye Xi raised his voice and continued speaking, "Captain Xiao doesn't need to explain that this is a 'mistake', Vice Captain Yang has already told me just now. But what I want to say is——even if it is a mistake, doing this is still too much. I can understand the existence of this kind of mistake, but I don't accept it."
Xiao Leng nodded, suddenly stood up, and bowed his head to Ye Xi: "Wait a moment." After speaking, he quickly walked out the door. Ye Xi thought he had something urgent to do and didn't mind, but outside the door quickly became noisy.
"Xiao Leng! You motherfucker!" The man in the porch angrily scolded, "Are you crazy! Let go of me!"
Diep Tich was surprised and turned his head to look around. The door of the room was broken open with a bang. A 30-year-old man with a bald head was pushed open behind him.
"You motherfucker ——" Han Yuan stood firm and wanted to leave, but when he raised his eyes, a fierce fist came flying towards his face.
"Fuck..." Eyes full of stars, Han Yuan fell backwards. Just a few steps away there was a sofa, and he happened to stumble onto the sofa.
The two blood vessels in his nose were like two red threads quickly stretching out. Han Yuan wiped the blood away and stared at Xiao Leng, unable to contain his anger.
Xiao Leng calmly tidied up his sleeves: "Why did you get beaten up, you know it in your heart, if you have the ability then go and report it, the higher ups will punish me, because of your personal grudges you dragged innocent people into the water, the higher ups will definitely like to hear it. When we leave 17th, the two of us will have no scruples, find a place to practice alone?"
Han Yuan gritted his teeth: "You..."
"Even if you don't leave, don't act rashly." Xiao Leng raised his eyelids, "You mess with me, I won't argue with you. And those who don't care about me..." The corner of his mouth twitched, "Do you believe that I will prove my crime, and really be considered a villain?"
His last sentence was filled with boring internet harshness, it sounded really improper.
But Han Yuan shivered.
Because he clearly saw a cold and vicious look flash across Xiao Leng's eyes, Han Yuan was no stranger to this kind of gaze, the last time he saw him, his younger brother Han Chi and Xiao Leng were all at the border of Yi Province, Xiao Leng sent this cold head to hide in the jungle and be a vicious drug dealer.
Han Yuan gritted his teeth, still trying to resist on the surface, but in his heart he had already lost the battle: "Alright..." His voice was hoarse, Xiao Leng responded with a soft laugh: "Get lost."
Han Yuan paused, sat up from the sofa and walked out.
The two people met briefly, Tieu Lanh did not make any movements, until he heard the door close, he once again looked towards Diep Tich.
Diep Tich was still sitting on the sofa alone, his slender body stretched straight, staring straight at Han Vien's position just now.
Obviously, she was shocked.
Tieu Lanh apologized and smiled, walked over and sat back in his previous position, not mentioning his shocking actions just now, and had no intention of claiming credit.
Just sincerely expressed: "Really sorry, actually our normal work process is also seen by Miss Ye like this. Because of the peculiarity of the rules, the candidates will definitely not know exactly when the interview will start, but all clearly confirm their intention to join. Miss Ye's matter, is that we did not handle personal grudges well."
His demeanor was leisurely and elegant, as if what just happened was Diep Tich's illusion.
"...Hang." Diep Tich felt her breathing was a bit stuck. Realizing that Tieu Lanh was talking to her, she tried her best to clear her mind.
—— The idea is not difficult to understand, if she understands correctly, it is that Xiao Leng and that person just now have a personal grudge, it is that person who caused the "interview mistake" in order to suffocate Xiao Leng, and trapped her.
So, what Tieu Lang did just now was to show her... Why?
Specializing in bringing people to this room, at first glance it seems right.
That punch was so real!
Diep Tich recalled Han Vien's two nosebleeds, feeling so happy that he wanted to slap his thigh and laugh.
She couldn't say this kind of handling method was correct, but it was really exciting.
She took a deep breath, controlling the urge to slap her thigh: "... This is how you guys usually handle conflicts?"
"No." Xiao Leng calmly admitted, "It is my personal method, but it only offends people at their bottom line."
Book, he is still very handsome like that.
Compared to the upright people, she always prefers this kind of upright but slightly evil people.
But want to consider as superior still count, let her work for such person, to get more money.
—— Diep Tich cursed in his heart, but his face was calm as he nodded towards Tieu Leng, timidly saying: "Thank you Captain Tieu for helping me calm down, there is nothing else to say, I should prepare to go back."
Tieu Lang neither fast nor slow: "Regarding the treatment issue, Miss Diep should still listen a bit."
Diep Tich refused and said: "No, I just found a job..."
Xiao Leng: "Temporary salary 20,000, 5 risks 1 gold according to the highest standard of the entire quota, each time the Rule of Law Realm passes through the base, depending on the difficulty and completion of different situations, 50,000 to 100,000 allowance is issued, if unfortunately sacrificed, the family will enjoy 3,000,000 consolation money."
Diep Tich: "...?"
"???"
She thought "More money" was not so excessive!
Xiao Leng observed her changing expression, his smile became even more kind and harmless, slowly adding: "Let me exaggerate a bit, such a huge salary, is essentially because the mortality rate is too high —— please consider all the factors, I absolutely do not have the intention of using money to entice Miss Ye to risk her life."
The so-called ten major high-risk industries have an estimated annual mortality rate of up to 5%. Among them, a portion of the dead have at least remains that can be used to mourn and commemorate their loved ones.
And exploring the Rule Realm wants to continuously multiply this maximum number tenfold, at the same time "Death in the Rule Realm" also means a hundred percent of the bones are gone.
To put it bluntly, joining the 17th is really about exchanging life for money.
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During the small conference room, the news of "A high-ranking player appearing in this mock interview" spread quickly in the 17th floor.
Counting to Yang Ge taking Ye Xi away to imitate the strange talk, Ye Xi tiredly added 138 points. 17 everyone who heard this point were very shocked, "Team Xiao beat Team Han" matter became this matter catalyst, originally just discussing this point people should know Xiao Leng was talking with Ye Xi in the small conference room, as long as there was no urgent matter above their heads they all came here, a bunch of people stood outside the door of the room and eavesdropped.
After hearing Ye Xi say that she was a lucky loser, team leader Zhang Zhao suppressed his voice and exclaimed in surprise: "Damn! Her special identity also has an additional 50 points added on, so she is actually a 188th contestant!"
In the full 100 points test, he got 188, "He" saw that it was too much.
The five team captain Cao Di focused his attention on the conditions Xiao Leng had stated. He struggled a bit in his heart and asked the deputy team leader beside him in a low voice: "You said that if I sell the inner city room, use my own money to use the money from the room sale as a bonus, and immediately make a payment after a year of service, can I pull her to the five teams?"
Deputy Captain: "..."
Captain, wake up! Your child needs to use the school district room!!!
As the third team's vice-captain, Yang Ge was already nervous to the point of going crazy. She felt that she had already accepted that she would not be able to hear Ye Xi's refusal to join the attack. Therefore, after hearing the murmurs of surprise and exclamation and plotting from the side, she boldly slapped them one by one, while at the same time sticking her ear to the door jamb without moving away for a moment: "Don't be silly! I can't hear you!"
The others cooperated and quieted down, everyone was full of curiosity, and together continued to listen to the wall's footsteps.
Then I heard Diep Tich ask: "Excuse me, do you have a position?"
Everybody: "?"
Thao, you are a fucking talent.
Tieu Lang was also clearly stunned for a moment, then truthfully reported: "No. According to national regulations, if you want to be recruited, you can come and take the test yourself."
"Oh... So if I agree to 17, I will actually be considered a cover?" Ye Xi calmly analyzed his work attributes.
Xiao Leng's expression distorted slightly because of the "outer cover", but very quickly returned to normal.
He nodded: "Consider it going."
"What a pity, I can't, I have my own job." Diep Tich sighed, his face full of regret.
Outside the door of the tycoon: "?"
Wait a minute, we'll chat.
This kind of high-risk to completely not common people but can directly access the underground profession, pulling people to join is not enough because of this.
But the reason this lady refused was because she was not worried about danger at all, but just felt that her work was impossible to handle???
Isn't work for making money??? They give money so you still have to do it???
Diep Tich then wondered about the practical problem.
She thought, the strange rule of the conversation form dropped without any sign, how it would end was also unclear.
Like this, if ten or twenty years later the island ends, it would still be fine. If she had always been at 17, and was really lucky enough to live until then, she would have definitely cleared countless Rule Realms, and accumulated a huge amount of money.
But what if it ends after a year or two?
So on one hand, the money she saved might not be enough to let her live the rest of her life in City B, a top-notch big city in the world, with food and clothing and a carefree lifestyle. On the other hand, she also had absolutely no experience working in the news industry.
Will it be difficult to find a job then?
Diep Tich felt that this was a natural question to ask. After waiting for a response for a long time, she noticed Tieu Lanh's flawless and handsome face that looked like it had been petrified. :,,.
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