What’s Wrong With Seeking Death?

Yang Buqi was called by Pu Han who sent a text message in the early morning. The other party didn't mention Xu Tuoran's specific situation here, but only said that she "encountered a little trouble" and needed him to deal with it.

… At that time, he was still thinking, since Pu Han said so, it should not be a big deal, and he can handle it.

It turns out, however, that he really can't.

This fairy pen is indeed going crazy right now. The problem is, its madness is reasonable—the rules given by those with the ability to order must be strictly followed. Once asked, you must answer, and you cannot deliberately give wrong answers, and you cannot prevaricate with ignorance when you have a way to find the answer...

As for Xu Tuoran's question, he asked it very trickily.

The maximum number of words that can be written in one night—in fact, Xu Tuoran shamelessly asked to be accurate to single digits.

Answering "innumerable" or giving an imaginary number is wrong, and you can't answer that you don't know. This pen is a science retarded...

What else can it do other than write hard numbers word by word?

What's worse is that the level of the ruler is quite high, which leads to a high priority for the operation of this layer of rules. Whether it is Yang Buqi or the tools he brought, there is no way to stop the operation of this set of rules...

"Then what should we do now?" Xu Tuoran sat on the floor, looking up at the red pen that had already written swear words on the ceiling, with a heavy tone.

To be honest, she didn't expect this sum to be so serious.

And so stupid.

If you really want to write hard numbers on the spot, then choose some simple words, what one, two, three, four, can't write faster than "you are sick"? Also saves space.

This made the whole room have to be repainted now. It's only 50 points to kill, what a loss.

"..." Yang Buqi was unexpectedly able to understand the idea of ​​this pen.

This may be the so-called, don’t steam the steamed buns to fight for breath...

"How about I go back again?" He was silent for a moment, then sighed, "I'll go back now and apply for a high-level sealing item, which should be able to restrain this guy."

"Forget it, it's almost five o'clock." Xu Tuoran glanced at his phone, "When you come back, it will be dawn."

In actual summer it dawns earlier. By this time, the sky had turned a little white.

Yang Buqi thought about it, so he simply sat down beside Xu Tuoran, and looked up at the pen to write dirty words with her. After waiting for about ten minutes, there were a few crisp birdsong outside the window, and the pen finally seemed discouraged, and fell from the ceiling. The red ink was thrown down along the track, and splashed on the white paper covering the floor. .

This situation made Yang Buqi inexplicably think of four words—

Rhododendron weeps blood.

...the mood is quite delicate.

On the other side, the fairy brush was slowly crawling towards Xu Tuoran—yes, it was crawling. It seems that it no longer has the strength to float and move, only a layer of thin fluffy things protrude from the bottom of the pen body, relying on them to support the pen body to move.

As it moved, ink was still dripping from the nib. Pulling out a long red streak on the paper is shocking.

Yang Buqi just watched it move to Xu Tuoran with difficulty, then swiped it upright, and wrote down a line of answers on the paper below.

【21825】

…too difficult.

Yang Buqi sighed in his heart.

After that, Xu Tuoran picked up the piece of paper, stared at it for a while, and then nodded slightly.

Then she said three sentences.

The first sentence is, yes, this hand speed is fast enough.

The second sentence is, but are you counting punctuation marks?

The third sentence is, I asked you to count words, but I didn't ask you to count punctuation marks.

Yang Buqi: …

Pen Fairy's Pen:…

In the next second, I saw that pen, which was like a dragon fighting to the death, suddenly raised upwards, dragging a long trace of ink and rushing upwards—

OK, then I'll write it again!

Don't stop me, I can still write! I can't believe it, can't I count it—

Yang Buqi: "..."

With sharp eyes and hands, he quickly grabbed the pen that was rushing towards the ceiling, and looked at Xu Tuoran helplessly: "I didn't say that, you are almost done."

"Let it write another round, do you still want this room?"

Be a human being—he almost said this sentence, then thought about it, persuaded a human being to be a human being for the sake of an abomination, there seemed to be something wrong with these words, and then he swallowed silently.

Xu Tuoran thought about it, and finally nodded, expressing his acceptance of the answer given by Bixian Zhipen. Only then did the pen stop, and fell from Yang Buqi's hand with a thud, and lay down on the ground without moving.

Out of caution, Yang Buqi still wrapped it in silver paper and added a simple seal. Immediately, he looked up and glanced at Xu Tuoran's room, and sighed deeply: "Your house probably needs to be repaired."

The paper can be picked up and burned directly, and the table floor is easy to clean. The handwriting on the walls and ceiling is difficult to read. The easiest way is to paint the wall again to cover up the dense handwriting.

"Then repaint it. Just change the color of the room." Xu Tuoran stood up and picked up a few pieces of paper beside him, "This time I have no experience. Wait until next time, I will arrange the wallpaper in the room first, and wait for the next time." Once it's written, just tear it up..."

...do you want another time?

Yang Buqi behind him looked at her in shock, his heart was full of turmoil.

The finishing process is huge. Coupled with Yang Buqi's special visit, Xu Tuoran felt that he had to show something, so he asked him to stay for breakfast.

However, his existence is not convenient for the adoptive brother to notice. Xu Tuoran went downstairs first and brought up the things he left in the living room.

After completing the transfer, he remembered that Yang Buqi had rang the doorbell yesterday, fearing that there would be some records left, so he went to the front door to study for a while. When I came back again, I saw my adoptive brother walking down the stairs.

"You got up earlier and earlier." The adoptive brother glanced at her, "What were you doing just now?"

"Never mind your business." Xu Tuoran said something very fitting, and then heard his adoptive brother ask, saying that he seemed to have heard something last night.

"You don't care about my affairs." Xu Tuoran glanced at his adoptive brother's expression while talking, seeing that he just frowned impatiently, and didn't say anything, so he knew that he was perfunctory, and immediately went upstairs as if nothing had happened.

Based on her experience, this overbearing adoptive brother probably will leave the house soon. When the time comes, I will take Yang Buqi away, as long as he doesn't want to check the monitoring on a whim, he should not be exposed.

But then I thought about it... let me show you. It's not a big deal either. It's amazing to round it up when it's time.

Xu Tuoran made up his mind and quickened his pace. As soon as he went up to the second floor, he saw Yang Buqi standing in the corridor in a daze, he couldn't help being startled, and hurried over to drag him in.

"What are you doing? You're not afraid of my brother going upstairs." She whispered. Yang Buqi apologized, paused, and said, "I wanted to move your chair out just now, but I saw your doorknob... Who drew the rune on your doorknob?"

"The one on the doorknob? Myself." Xu Tuoran took it for granted. She painted a lot the night before, and wiped off a lot the next day, so she only kept the one on the doorknob. "That doesn't mean it has some defensive functions... Of course I'm not sure if the one I drew would work..."

Yang Buqi: "...it works."

Xu Tuoran: "Huh?"

"I just read it, and it works." Yang Buqi tried his best to control his expression, "Feifei taught you?"

"No, I drew it from the book myself." Xu Tuoran was puzzled, "Didn't you give me a rookie's rule at that time, I saw that there were such runes in it. I drew it according to the book when I came back...Is there any problem? "

"It's not that there is a problem..." Yang Buqi rubbed his forehead, still feeling unbelievable.

He could tell that Xu Tuoran was telling the truth.

And he didn't know whether he should tell Xu Tuoran that the runes in that code were all illustrations—the main purpose was just to teach newcomers how to identify them. Get a general idea of ​​what it does.

To really learn how to use this kind of thing, one must not only be able to draw, but also learn how to pour power into it and trigger it. And these are the contents that will be gradually explained in depth at the later stage of the training.

...In other words, Xu Turan learned the method of infusing power without a teacher, and directly drew a usable rune when he only saw the example picture.

Yang Buqi was full of emotions in his heart, and couldn't help opening his mouth for a while.

"Are you sure you are human?" He couldn't help asking.

Xu Tuoran: ...? ? ?

Xu Tuoran was completely baffled.

What did she do, why was she suddenly inhuman?

Another two hours passed.

After Xu Turan finished his breakfast, he took Yang Buqi's car directly to the Tzu Chi Institute.

They have tidied up the room as best they can, except for the handwriting on the walls and ceiling, everything else has been tidied up. Yang Buqi promised that in the next period of time, he would come over and help paint the walls together—this kind of thing is too troublesome to do alone. It is not suitable to hire outsiders. The densely packed red cursing bodies all over the wall, others will only think it is a supernatural event when they see it.

...Although in essence, there is nothing wrong with supernatural events.

Fortunately, the original owner himself was at odds with his adoptive brother, so he usually locked the door when he went out, so he didn't have to worry about him suddenly entering the house.

"You'd better sleep in another room." He also told Xu Tuoran specifically, "Although that pen has been messed up by you now, it is still an abomination in essence, and its level is higher than yours... The writing it leaves is also harmful to people. Influenced. Try to keep your distance until it is fully resolved."

"Yeah." Xu Tuoran responded seriously.

Remember, before Yang Buqi comes here, try to make the room look like no one is sleeping.

"..." Yang Buqi didn't know if she had heard the words, so he paused for a few seconds before changing the subject, "Did you buy that pen from Old Man Jiang's shop?"

"Old man Jiang?" Xu Tuoran raised his eyes, "It should be. The name of that shop does have the word Jiang."

"That's it." Yang Buqi said, "That store...they act rather strangely. Buying their things is at your own risk, and the risk is relatively high."

"I feel fine." Xu Tuoran said honestly, "But I'm a little curious, where do their products come from?"

"They are considered an independent organization, and they will organize their own people to catch the abominations. They will also collect them from other people." Yang Buqi explained, "Some abominations will be sold to ordinary people in the name of second-hand goods, collectibles, etc. Turning around in their hands. They will specially collect these, restrain and suppress them, and sell them to those who need them."

"As for the arrest, it is aimed at some middle and low-level people... They are very smart, and they will never fight with high-level guys. But because they are very good at using abominations, it is said that there are quite a lot of high-level people in their organization."

Yang Buqi was very responsible for popularizing science, his tone was indifferent, and he couldn't tell his emotional bias towards Old Man Jiang's Taobao shop. Xu Turan could feel that he didn't agree with this store very much.

It's hard for her to say that she is the VIP of that store now, so she changed the topic casually, and talked about her miserable pen fairy brush, expressing her confusion by taking advantage of the situation.

"I thought that pen was very powerful." Xu Tuoran said, "As a result, I don't know many things..."

"Normal." Yang Buqi said, "Even omniscients have their own biases. For example, there is a 'historian' in our academy who can only 'read' knowledge about history. Will not work."

"Oh..." Xu Tuoran lowered his eyes thoughtfully, "Also, I remember this tendency, can it be blocked by high-ranking people with the same tendency?"

"It's not just high-level ones with the same tendency. High-level ones with other tendencies can also cause a certain degree of interference to omniscience or foresight. In addition, it depends on skills." Yang Buqi did his due diligence, "If it happens to be a targeted skill, low-level Or at the same level, it can also have an impact."

...which is true.

Xu Tuoran thought of his own "complicated and confusing", and his heart moved slightly, as if he had caught something.

While speaking, the car had already driven to the high speed and was about to enter the tunnel. For a moment under the darkness, Xu Tuoran spoke again:

"By the way, there is another question that I want to consult with you."

Yang Buqi: "What?"

"About upgrading." Xu Tuoran tilted his head, "Is it difficult to go from firefly to candle? How long did it take you?"

"Look at the individual, my life tendency has risen the fastest, for about a month..."

Yang Buqi recalled. Xu Tuoran was startled: "So long?"

"It's fast. I predicted that it took half a year to upgrade for the first time. It's about this time for other people." Yang Buqi couldn't laugh or cry, "As for the difficulty...it's hard to say whether it is difficult or not. In fact, I was very impressed with the scene at that time I don’t have much memory anymore. I just remember that I’m trying to move forward, move forward…”

The car drove out of the tunnel, and a large expanse of clear sunlight shone down. Yang Buqi squinted his eyes and exhaled.

"And then I touched a beam of light—everything, it's done."

Xu Turan: ...

Gan.

She thought of the white spot of light swaying in the middle of the path, and when she thought that she would have to walk in the dream for half a year, she suddenly felt an urge to curse.

But no matter what, Yang Buqi's words gave Xu Tuoran a lot of confidence.

She thought she would be able to rise to the candle level overnight, but she woke up halfway, which was actually quite frustrating. Hearing Yang Buqi say that it took him a month, he instantly felt that his progress was okay.

Xu Tuoran's desire to win and lose is sometimes reflected in some weird places, but in this respect, she is quite salty. Just confirming that you're not the worst batch is enough.

In the next few nights, I don't know if it was because the line was unobstructed. She can log into Chaos Path every night without any problems. Knowing that everyone is not progressing fast, Xu Tuoran has become a lot more enlightened. He no longer rushes on the road like he was on the first night, but goes there every night to check in and walk for a while. easy.

Buddha-nature is like playing mobile games every day to clear your daily life-and walking around every night, you can gain death points ranging from one hundred to two hundred, which is not a loss anyway.

Perhaps it was also because of the adjustment of her mentality that the weird call that chased her until she was sweating profusely on the first night never appeared again. At most, it was some ravings floating in his ears, and to Xu Tuoran, it was still within the acceptable range.

On the other hand, other things seem to be gradually falling into place. In the following week, Xu Tuoran's life was as regular as a retired grandma:

Log in to "Path of Chaos" every night to check in and clear your daily life, and collect a wave of death points. Get up in the morning and check the activities of the supernatural objects to confirm your own status. Downstairs at seven o'clock. At this time, the adoptive brother is usually drinking coffee and leaving after drinking.

After breakfast, check the house again; play with a wave of pens, and get death points ranging from 20 to 30. Go to the charity institute for training courses, and when you come back, if you meet Feifei, you can stay with her for an extra half an hour.

I usually come back in the afternoon, and my adoptive brother is not at home. Yang Buqi would come over to help paint the walls when he was free. Xu Tuoran asked insincerely, but he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with the house. Because she was afraid of implicating him, she usually saw off the guests before nightfall.

At night, check another wave of houses. When she had time, she would look through the information on the sudden death of a young girl that her assistant had found for her—this was collected by someone she had entrusted to investigate the death of the original owner. But this information is too complicated, and she still hasn't figured it out yet.

She also asked Bi Xianzhi about this matter. This trash, holding back for a long time without writing an answer, simply said "Then I will die".

At nine o'clock in the evening, decorate the room and arrange the supernatural items. Go to bed on time to punch in.

Wake up to another healthy, lively, sunny day.

—and it turns out that surprises often come when you least expect them.

Sometimes there will be one or two.

It all happened on Friday night, that is, the seventh day after Xu Tuoran received the pen of Bixian - she entered the server as usual on this day, and just walked a few steps along the path when she heard a prompt from her brain sound.

[Congratulations, you have gained 100 death points. 】

[Congratulations, you currently hold more than 4,500 death points. Unlock bonus features - [Skill Points] upgrades. 】

Counting before, this is already the second upgrade of her "skill plus points", Xu Tueran read the instructions roughly, and found that this upgrade can be said to be quite practical—

In the original version of "Skill Points", when washing points, only the allocated points can be recovered and redistributed. The upgraded "skill points" can be used to extract a certain number of points from the remaining death points when washing points, and then redistribute them together with the original points.

It is equivalent to giving a second chance to add points.

What surprised Xu Tuoran even more was the journey afterwards.

As before, she still had the idea of ​​"I'll leave if I feel uncomfortable", and hurried on her way. As a result, I was walking around, and suddenly found that the light was very close to me.

—To be precise, it is close at hand.

Xu Tuoran was startled, and only then realized that the crowd beside him had, at some point, become much smaller. They surrounded themselves, walking forward as usual, obviously the light was right in front of them, but they didn't seem to be able to see it. Just move forward, surge forward.

There are still raving whispers lingering in my ears. The moment Xu Tuoran focused on the light ball, it became even louder and harsher. Xu Tuoran frowned, and finally stretched out his hand tentatively, touching the light that was close at hand.

The small light cluster exploded at that moment, like a white lightning, illuminating the darkness in front of Xu Tueran. In the fleeting light, Xu Tuoran clearly saw that not far in front of him stood an iron gate covered with thorns. Behind the iron gate, there was something silently staring at him——

Xu Tuoran suddenly opened his eyes.

The sound of ding ding ding ding sounded in my mind. Another large form naturally emerged, with dense handwriting, which could not be ignored.

[Congratulations, you have obtained 300 death points. 】

[Congratulations, you have successfully completed an orientation upgrade. 】

[Current Quality: Crazy Rabbit]

[Current Level: Chaos: Candle / Beast: Firefly. 】

That's... done?

Xu was stunned.

What about a good month?

As soon as the tendency is upgraded, the corresponding special skills will naturally also be upgraded. Xu Turan didn't care about thinking about the problem for a month, he sat up slowly, and quickly studied the new upgraded stunts, and soon, something seemed to light up in his eyes.

She has a total of two skills in chaotic tendencies. They are "unfortunate rabbit legs" and "confusing". At this moment, they have all been promoted to the "candle" level.

The upgrade effect of "Unfortunate Rabbit Leg" is relatively straightforward. That is, the skill trigger method has expanded from a single "front kick" to various leg methods. Simply put, it is enough to be able to kick the legs.

As for "complicated and confusing", it is an expanded scope of influence. Originally, she could only affect the inhuman beings below the lamp and below the lamp, but after upgrading, she expanded to "below the low-level".

…Wait a moment.

Xu Tueran looked at his upgraded stunt description, and then remembered the skills he had just upgraded, and suddenly a bold idea came to his mind.

After a few seconds of silence, she tentatively opened the "Skill Points" operation interface, and extracted 500 points from the existing death points.

Then, all these 500 points were added to the direction of "Stunt Upgrade" in "Skill Adding Points". And all the additions are "confusing".

Even Xu Tuoran couldn't help but feel distressed for throwing in 500 points at once. And the result after spending a lot of money made her a little dumbfounded.

The good news is that her "Confused" has gained an additional upgrade through adding points. It went directly to the "Lamp" level, but it still can only affect "non-human existences up to and below".

However, compared to "Candle", the "Lamp" level of confusion has added an active effect - when "Complexity" is activated, Xu Tuoran can choose one of the targets covered by the special effect, and actively apply a shield/obsession/ Blank effect, the control time is 0.75 seconds, and it will bear certain side effects after use.

This is definitely a good upgrade. But it wasn't what Xu Tuoran wanted.

… She struggled for a while between continuing to krypton gold and stopping it. She gritted her teeth and simply activated the "clean point" function, and extracted another thousand points from the remaining death points.

She also paid an extra 100 points for activating the "clean points" function. It means that she spent a total of 1,600 points for this attempt.

Jiadian's hand trembled slightly. Xu Tuoran was heartbroken, and added all the thousand points proposed for the second time into the "confusing" stunt upgrade.

The thousand dollars spent directly ushered in another additional upgrade for "Puffing and Misty"-it was directly sent to the "Torch" level. The upgrade effect is that it can affect Hui and the non-human beings below Hui, and the application time of the active effect has been increased to 1.5 seconds.

After Xu Tuoran finished adding points, he held his breath and began to wait nervously.

However, after waiting for ten minutes - nothing happened.

Could it be... I guessed wrong?

Xu vainly froze for a moment.

She originally thought that if the thing that caused the system to freeze really existed, and if it was enough to avoid Pu Han, it must be at Hui level or above.

Then I use the upgraded bewildering and confusing to test, there should be a considerable probability that it will show its flaws.

…and now, there is nothing.

It can't be that guy is higher than Hui class, right? Xu Tuoran was stunned, if this was the case, then she would rather believe that the thing didn't exist, because the system was stuck.

After all, no amount of points can really afford to blow up, and Krypton can’t move. She didn't have the energy to do the test anymore. I love it.

The more Xu Turan thought about it, the more he felt sorry for the large amount of points he had given out, but even after adding up, he couldn't get it back. She guessed that she could only wait to find Yang Buqi, and see if there was any task for her to rub off on. Play some role to some extent, at least listen to it.

Xu Tuoran made up his mind, sighed again, tidied up briefly, and went downstairs.

She came down a little early today. When he arrived at the dining room, the boss' adoptive brother hadn't entered the routine coffee drinking session, and was sitting there dignifiedly cutting butter.

I don't know if it's because of the one thousand six hundred points just now, but Xu Tuoran felt a little uncomfortable, and didn't have the heart to deal with him. After washing up casually, he went straight to the refrigerator to get milk and bread, and was ready to go back to the room Eat breakfast.

Just as she finished washing, her adoptive brother's coffee was ready. When Xu Tuoran passed the dining table again, he saw the adoptive brother put the coffee on the table and touched it to the right with one hand.

Xu Tueran glanced at it casually, and suddenly stopped in his footsteps.

...According to the past situation, the adoptive brother at this time should want to take sugar cubes.

However, the fact is that the small plate with sugar cubes is clearly placed on the left hand side of the adoptive brother.

Such an obvious thing, but he kept touching to the right as if he didn't notice it at all.

Xu Tuoran watched helplessly as his fingers touched the edge of the butter plate, then decisively grabbed a large piece of butter, and put it into the coffee cup in front of him with a bang.

The butter was already somewhat melted, but when it was put into the hot coffee, it turned into a sticky ball. The adoptive brother had a layer of shiny butter on his hands, but he didn't seem to feel it. He lowered his head and mixed it with a small spoon twice as usual, and took a sip with his head down.

After drinking, he seemed to notice Xu Tuoran's gaze that had not moved for a long time, looked up and asked strangely, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Xu Tuoran: "..."

It's nothing, I don't think I've seen it before, it's quite rare.

real.