There are now more than twenty children in the orphanage.
The youngest is five years old and the oldest is ten. As for the older children, they may not be eligible to be sent to Qiming Orphanage.
Xu Shuo put the cold tea on the table and was looking through the children's documents in front of the bookshelf when suddenly, there was a gentle knock on the door.
It's very rhythmic and light. From this, you can tell that the person knocking on the door must be a polite and good boy.
Xu Shuo turned his head and looked at the office door, his eyes were dark as if black mist was overflowing, and there seemed to be a vortex spinning deep inside.
"Come in."
He looked away and said calmly.
After the words fell, the unlocked door was pushed open with a slight "click".
Standing at the door was a little boy of about ten years old with burnt-yellow eyes and short black chestnut hair.
He was wearing a formal suit with overalls, holding a red patent-leather-covered Bible in his arms. He stood upright, his posture and temperament were as elegant and calm as an angel, but his expression also showed extreme indifference from his bones.
"Yue Shu, what do you want from me?" Xu Shuo did not shy away from him. He still stood in front of the bookshelf and looked through the children's information.
"Mr. Director, another outsider came into the orphanage." The little boy said expressionlessly.
"Yes."
"Why did you let them in? They would take the child away."
"First of all, I will not let the children leave the orphanage."
After Xu Shuo read his information, he turned his head with a gentle smile and stared at the little boy with dark eyes: "Also, you have to know that I didn't let them in, Yueshu."
After hearing these words, Yueshu's burnt-yellow hole seemed to change for a moment, as sharp as some kind of wild beast, and the overly bright color of the hole seemed a bit scary.
It was as if he had received some signal, and his whole aura became strange.
"I see."
Yueshu turned around and walked out of the office.
Xu Shuo smiled slightly, looked at his back with an unclear meaning, took the file that recorded the "soa-09" information, patted it in his hand, and then stuffed it into the bookshelf.
"Come back and close the door."
"..." Appointment.
The little boy who had already walked coolly to the corridor paused. After a while, he turned around with a stiff face, raised his hand to hold the door handle, and closed the European-style brown painted door with withered flowers.
After closing the door, Yueshu standing at the door flashed his eyes and stared at the office door panel thoughtfully.
This person is indeed a little different from what Emily said.
I've actually been sane for so long.
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There is also a locked iron gate at the stairs of the orphanage building.
Judging from the structure of the fence gate, this gate should have been welded on later, so it looks out of place with the entire building.
After all, open stairwells should not have iron railings in the first place.
The police assistant took the key from the hook on his belt, found the key with the embossed number "09", opened the heavy padlock, removed the iron chain wrapped around the railing, and finally pushed the fence open with a clatter.
"Come in, follow me and don't run around."
After opening the door, the police auxiliary turned around and looked at them pitifully and said.
Half of his body was placed in the dark corridor, and half of his body was illuminated by the cold moonlight falling from the sky, making him look particularly strange.
There are four people left: "..."
Can this police auxiliary really survive until the finale?
Before entering the orphanage, he was a nice and cheerful middle-aged young man. After just opening two doors, the young man started to act strangely.
And it’s impossible for them to just follow each other all the way to the stalls without doing anything. What’s more, there seems to be rules against entering the stalls?
The female reporter couldn't help but open the manual and read the rules at the back.
"Qiming Shantang Visiting Manual"
8. Do not enter the Qiming Orphanage building unless necessary.
9. The first floor of Qiming Building is the cafeteria. The cafeteria is a place where children eat, take pictures, sit and rest, but do not eat any food here, no matter how clean and delicious it looks.
9. There are paintings left by children on the walls of the stairs. You can take pictures, but do not touch or destroy them.
10. There are only pigeons in the painting, and no other pictures. Pigeons are ordinary birds with white hair. Any other shape or color is not a pigeon. If the painting you see is not a pigeon, do not take pictures or touch it immediately.
Stay away from stairs.
11. The second floor of Qiming Building is the school hall. The school hall is where children attend classes. You can take pictures, but please do not linger in the classroom, do not speak loudly, and do not sit in the student seats.
12. If you violate the above three rules, please go to any classroom immediately and use the chalk on the desk to write your name on the blackboard. You will get a new job here.
13. There is a black and white dice in the corner of the stairs leading to the third floor of Qiming Building. Do not take pictures, do not touch, do not approach, do not look at it, and please keep a distance of three meters to avoid it.
14. The third floor of Qiming Building is the dormitory. The dormitory is where the nurses and children live. You can take pictures, but do not enter any room.
15. Do not use open flames or any tools that can exceed 400 degrees Celsius on the third floor of Qiming Building.
16. The archives room where Qiming Orphanage information is stored is on the third floor of Qiming Building. Do not enter the archives room unless necessary.
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In fact, overall, Qiming Orphanage is quite safe.
As long as you behave properly and don't do anything prohibited in the manual, you can leave the orphanage through the back door of the orphanage safely after visiting this place.
But the problem is, side missions will force them to break the rules!
The female reporter looked at the boxes of "no" on the brochure and felt her scalp numb, as if she had seen a future that was hitting walls at every turn.
Sure enough, just after they stepped onto the stairs, the system's side tasks were issued again.
[Side mission three: Painting on the wall.]
As soon as the mission came out, everyone following the police auxiliary stopped and turned to look at the wall next to the stairs.
The walls were a little burnt black and yellow, as if they had been roasted by extremely high temperatures. Only the white wall plaster underneath and the white bird-shaped pattern stained by stains could be seen faintly.
The strange thing is that even though the wall is dirty, they can still tell that the bird is white.
"Do pigeons look like this?"
Suddenly, the female social worker sounded confused.
After the words fell, the other three people looked at her fiercely and made defensive gestures.
When the female social worker saw this, she was stunned and said quickly: "Oh no, I've just never seen a pigeon, so I was a little curious about what creatures like 'pigeons' look like."
"Have you never seen a pigeon?!" The male social worker looked at her in confusion.
"There are so many animals in the world, and it's impossible for people to know them all," the female social worker said innocently.
"Then there's always a chance you'll see the picture, right?"
"Having said that, I have never seen what it looks like!"
"..."
The police auxiliary who had already reached the middle of the corridor stopped to talk when he saw them, and said expressionlessly: "Pigeons look just like ordinary birds, there is nothing strange about them."
After finishing speaking, the police auxiliary did not call them again and continued walking up.
The four of them looked at each other because they were stuck in multiple choice questions again.
After pondering for a while, the female reporter asked thoughtfully: "What do the pigeons you see look like?"
"It looks like an owl, very cute, and has two cat ears." The female social worker looked at the painting on the wall and nodded seriously.
"..."
"..."
"..."
Suddenly, the other three fell silent.
The female reporter looked at the social worker: "Why don't you two stay this time?"
The male social worker frowned upon hearing this and looked a little reluctant, but the teammates he was grouped with had obviously fallen into some kind of illusion, and their group was indeed the most suitable to stay.
He gritted his teeth and said: "It would be too inefficient to leave a group of two people at once, because your group will most likely be tripped next time, so why not leave her alone this time!"
Hearing this, the female social worker blinked: "Eh? What are you talking about? Why should I stay?"
"Because pigeons are white." The female reporter looked at her meaningfully.
"What I saw was also white."
"Pigeons look similar to turtle doves."
"What is a turtle dove?"
"...A pigeon looks similar to a sparrow. In short, it doesn't look like an owl, and it doesn't have two cat ears."
The female reporter complained.
By the way, what on earth is a white owl with cat ears?!
After listening, the female social worker suddenly understood, and then smiled and said: "Okay, it doesn't matter, then you three can continue to move up, I will stay to do this thing."
The side tasks after triggering are done, firstly, for generous rewards, and secondly, to end the game.
Because if the tasks pile up and are not completed, the "game over halfway through the tasks" mechanism will not be triggered in the end unless all the people doing the tasks are dead.
Moreover, if they complete too many side tasks, they can also directly skip the main task and enter the countdown to the end of the game. However, failure of the main task will be judged as a game failure.
This is the only difference between the main line and the branch line.
And assuming that all six of them have their own main tasks, there are already nine tasks accumulated so far.
But until now, the six of them have only completed a side mission of entering the orphanage.
[Main mission: Receive a special report from Qiming Orphanage.]
This is the main task of social workers.
The female social worker looked at her teammates and waved her hand: "You go up with them. I will catch up with you after I finish the things here."
After finishing speaking, she raised her hand directly and pressed it on the painting on the wall.
The next moment, her figure disappeared in front of the three people.
Go very decisively.
The female reporter glanced at the gloomy male social worker, shrugged without saying anything, and quickly followed the police assistant who had already reached the corridor on the second floor.
The assistant police officer stood against the wall of the corridor, staring at the stairs leading to the third floor, seemingly thinking about something.
This European-style Qiming Building has only one staircase, located in the center of the building. The staircase is one foot wide, with a total of 26 steps between each floor.
"What's wrong?"
As the female reporter walked up the corridor, she asked the auxiliary police officer who was standing in the corridor in a daze.
"Move over." The police assistant suddenly glanced at her.
"..."
After the words fell, the female reporter's expression changed rapidly. She did not follow the other person's words and subconsciously stepped aside, but immediately stopped in her tracks and did not move again.
After a while, she seemed to remember something and moved up the stairs against the left wall.
The photographer and male social worker who were also stunned behind him followed suit until the three of them were standing in the corridor on the second floor.
The second floor is not their target.
And in the center of the stairs leading to the third floor, lying quietly on the dark green floor, was a two-centimeter-sized black and white dice.
The dice are six-sided, just like the most common dice on the market.
But when the three of them saw this, they were all stunned for a moment.
The female reporter even immediately opened the "Qiming Shantang Visiting Manual" and looked at Rule 13.
"13. There is a black and white dice in the corner of the stairs leading to the third floor of Qiming Building. Do not take pictures, do not touch, do not approach, do not look at it, and please keep a distance of three meters to avoid it."
Where are the promised dice in the corner of the stairs?!
Why is it in the middle?!
In the middle, this dice just covers the entire distance leading to the stairs to the third floor, leaving no space for them to pass!
Unless they fly directly against the ceiling.
"It was in this position before?" the female reporter asked with difficulty.
"No." The police assistant shook his head slowly.
"Then what's going on with your manual?"
"The rules recorded in the manual are correct. I have brought others in to visit this place before, and there were no problems." The police assistant glanced at the remaining three people and said expressionlessly: "Except for the fact that you guys are a lot of trouble this time.
.”
"..."
It seems that I have been rejected.
The photographer looked up and down the height and width of the stairs, and then asked: "Is there no other way here?"
The police assistant shook his head: "Qiming Building only has this stairway, there are no extra paths or side doors."
As a result, the female reporter and photographer looked at the male social worker next to them and signaled with their eyes.
I think I said it not long ago.
Are you next?
The male social worker was silent: "..."
He really didn't want to waste time on these side tasks. He just wanted to hurry to the archives room on the third floor and look for opportunities to complete the main tasks.
After all, judging from the content of his main mission, the answer is probably there.
[Main mission: Receive a special report from Qiming Orphanage.]
No matter how you look at it, the archives will be the place where this kind of information is stored.
As for the disadvantage of stacking side tasks, they can also do side tasks after completing the main tasks. There is no need to sacrifice the good and the last.
But now it seems that it is indeed unavoidable.
The two people next to him were not in the same group as him. Although the photographer was taciturn, his performance seemed to follow the wishes of the female reporter.
He is single now and has no advantage.
In the dim building, the male social worker sighed after being silent for a while.
"Okay, let me do it this time."
At the end of the conversation, he cautiously walked towards the dice. After approaching a distance of three meters, he disappeared like a female social worker.
The police assistant looked at this scene indifferently, his expression not changing at all.
The other two people were slightly surprised when they saw this.
Because now a new problem has come.
That black and white dice has not disappeared!
The female reporter whispered to the photographer: "He seems to have walked too fast, and the things haven't been refreshed yet."
