Chapter 165 Reasons

"It happened." Jiang Cheng answered without hesitation.

An inexplicable smirk filled the fat man's face. He stretched his neck, licked his lips, squinted his eyes and asked knowingly: "What did you do?"

"She asked me about the newspaper before," Jiang Cheng replied: "She turned her face away from me after realizing that she was not worthy of me, and wanted to take the newspaper back."

The fat man was stunned for a moment, blinked after a long while, and asked in a low voice: "Then what?"

Jiang Cheng raised his eyes and looked at the fat man. He didn't speak at the first time, but his eyes had revealed a lot of information to the fat man.

The fat man rolled his throat and suddenly had a very bad premonition.

"I told her that you took the newspaper away," Jiang Cheng leaned back in his chair, looked up at Fatty after a few seconds, and continued, "Remember to make up the rest of the story, and don't let it slip if you meet her again next time."

"Doctor," Fatty's face trembled a few times, "Don't you think you should look for the reason why you are an orphan from yourself?"

The conversation between the two seemed to end very hastily and unpleasantly, which Jiang Cheng saw from Fatty's performance afterwards.

After breakfast, Jiang Cheng sat at his desk and started working. He took out the medical records of several patients who were returning for follow-up visits, and then called their relatives to ask about the patients' recovery.

But as soon as the phone was connected, there was either the sound of "ping-pong" repairing things from upstairs, or the sound of cutting melons and vegetables in the kitchen.

Those who knew knew that Fatty was cleaning fish, and those who didn't know thought he was dismembering bodies.

There was no way, Jiang Cheng had to invite people to come and talk.

The time was set in the afternoon.

Noon arrived soon, and Jiang Cheng was ready to take advantage of lunch time to behave better and try to reconcile with Fatty.

He was ready to praise Fatty's cooking skills.

But as soon as the dishes were served, Jiang Cheng turned off the fire.

Fatty divided each dish into two portions fairly.

For example, for the spicy chicken dish, the plate in front of Jiang Cheng was full of chili peppers, while the plate in front of Fatty was full of chicken.

The same was true for sweet and sour fish, the fish head belonged to him and the fish body belonged to Fatty.

After Jiang Cheng lowered his head and took a few mouthfuls of rice, he finally couldn't help but tentatively stretched his chopsticks to Fatty's plate. Unexpectedly, the next second Fatty silently picked up the meat in the plate, put it all in his bowl, and then lowered his head to mix it and eat it.

Jiang Cheng stared at the red rice in Fatty's bowl and couldn't help smacking his lips a few times.

"Fatty," Jiang Cheng asked in a very friendly manner, "I remember you used to be a kitchen helper at the Yellow Crane Tower Hotel. Your cooking skills are really good. If you can keep working there, maybe you will be the chef!"

"You remembered it wrong, doctor," the fat man said without raising his head, "I am a cleaner at the Yellow Crane Tower, mainly responsible for the bathroom."

After a while

"I'm done eating," the fat man stood up and said while cleaning up the plates and bowls: "I still have to wash the dishes, doctor, you can eat slowly."

The fat man took his own bowls and chopsticks and returned to the kitchen. A few seconds later, there was a "gurgling" sound of water and the crisp sound of bowls and chopsticks hitting each other.

Jiang Cheng lowered his head and looked at the half-sweet and sour fish that the fat man left on the plate.

After lunch, Jiang Cheng went upstairs to take a nap. After all, he had just come out of a nightmare yesterday, and the energy consumed could not be made up in one night.

Through three nightmare tasks, he gradually figured out some taboos, or rules.

First, behind each door is a completely different world, but that world is real in a sense, as if it is a fragment picked up from the distant history by the hand of God.

No matter what they do, they can't change the ending of the story. All they can change is the process.

That's all.

Second, nightmares are like an amplified selection mechanism with its own rewards and punishments.

Needless to say, the punishments are the ghosts inside.

And this so-called reward is what Jiang Cheng cares about most.

At present, he has known that if all teammates die, if the last person can successfully complete the task, he will get a blank piece of paper.

And it is said that this piece of paper can resist the harm of ghosts.

Of course it won't be permanent, it's just one time, and after using it, this blank piece of paper will disappear.

This is what Yu Wen, who was saved by him in the previous book, told him. It was precisely relying on the blank paper that she survived the attack of the ghost.

Thinking of this, Jiang Cheng couldn't help but narrow his eyes, and Chen Xiaomeng's figure appeared in his mind again.

In the abandoned building of the Qian family, Chen Xiaomeng was able to escape from the ghost's hands while being locked in the closet. This is probably not something that can be explained by luck.

She should have a piece of such paper in her hand.

But it was also used up by the ghost's attack.

This also explains why he only found the clue item group photo when searching his body later, but did not find the white paper that could save his life.

From the contact in the first mission, Chen Xiaomeng was completely familiar with killing teammates. If she hadn't appeared out of nowhere to save the situation, she would have succeeded again.

She is much stronger than Yu Wen, so she should have such things in her hand.

Jiang Cheng chose to go to the dungeon alone this time with the intention of getting a piece of this thing to see, but he didn't expect that this time he was beaten by a woman named Li Lu.

He was not arrogant enough to kill all his teammates, but he had a way to search for some good things from them.

Chen Xiaomeng was the best example.

It was a pity that he acted a step late, otherwise the white paper would be his.

Third, this was also a point that Jiang Cheng had not figured out yet, that is, the relationship between the newspaper and the white paper in the reward, but he could see that the newspaper had a lower priority than the white paper.

After all, the latter could save lives.

But if you have to say that the white paper is stronger than the newspaper, it is not entirely true, because the functions of the two are different.

The white paper is used to save lives, and the newspaper records some clues in the task.

For example, if you have to choose one of the two, if it is an ordinary person, then try to choose the clue newspaper to survive.

Because on the road of survival completely relying on reasoning, it is difficult for them to go far. Even if they have a chance to save their lives, they will still die after the chance is exhausted.

And the death will be more painful.

To make an inappropriate analogy, it is like a prisoner who is blindfolded and kneeling on the ground waiting to be shot, but the person behind him fired and found that it was a dud.

Then they can only change the bullet and shoot again.

But the result is the same, they will die anyway, and they will suffer a wave of shock before death. Thinking about it this way, it is better for them to have no white paper.

For high-level players like Li Lu and Chen Xiaomeng, the situation is very different.