Chapter 57 Old Lu

"Hmm?"

Qi Xia was stunned. He didn't expect that Ringo's starting point was this.

"Are you overthinking?" Qi Xia shook his head and said, "I hold Xiao An every day and wait for her to fall asleep, and then sit next to the desk."

"Oh..." Ringo nodded as if he was relieved, "Wouldn't it be very hard for you to do this?"

"I..." Qi Xia wanted to say something, but was a little speechless for a while, "Ringo, you may not understand my industry. If I relax my vigilance at a certain moment, what is waiting for me is likely to be a bottomless abyss."

"Is that so?" Ringo agreed with a vague understanding, and then muttered to himself, "Actually, I'm really curious about you. You look like a very smart person, but you make a living by cheating people..."

Hearing this, Qi Xia lowered his head silently.

"I don't want to either." He said, "But this is the only thing I can do."

The long night of the second day was longer than the first day.

The dark night hung in the air, like a friend who had not seen each other for a long time and was reluctant to leave.

Although Qi Xia and Ringo slept for a while, they still felt sore all over at dawn.

Doctor Zhao and Xiao Ran seemed to have not slept all night. They kept staring at the door and Qi Xia. At this time, both of them looked a little haggard and had dark circles under their eyes.

They were not only afraid that the "bugs" outside the door would rush in, but also afraid that Qi Xia would raise a black giant sword to murder them at dawn.

Fortunately, neither of these two things happened until dawn.

"Let's go." Qi Xia stretched and said to Ringo, "It's time to start today's journey."

A day passed, and Qi Xia's income was zero.

The original target of collecting 360 "Tao" every day has also become collecting 400 every day.

According to yesterday's situation, the rewards of many games will increase as the difficulty increases. If you want to achieve your goal quickly, you must play several extremely dangerous games today.

Without saying goodbye to Xiao Ran and Doctor Zhao, the two stood up, picked up the aluminum pot and went out.

There was no trace of "bugs" outside the door. I wonder where those astonishing monsters hide during the day?

Are they all in nearby buildings?

The air was still turbid, but Qi Xia had gradually gotten used to the stench of decay.

He took Ringo out and passed the restaurant opposite, then walked to the right.

The buildings here were different from the place where Qi Xia encountered "human rats". Most of them were shops.

The two walked along the street to the end and found no signs of human activity.

Now standing at the T-junction, Qi Xia looked to both sides.

If they had come here, did they go to the left or the right?

Qi Xia asked herself that she didn't know Lawyer Zhang and Officer Li very well, and couldn't infer their decision.

At this moment, Ringo found something in the corner of the wall near the right.

"Qi Xia, look." She pointed to a corner of the wall, where there were some whitish marks.

After hearing this, Qi Xia leaned over and found two crooked symbols that looked like the numbers "5" and "2" as well as the letters "S" and "Z".

"Could this be what they left behind?" Ringo looked at the two symbols and asked with some confusion.

"It's probably." Qi Xia nodded, "Z" could represent Lawyer Zhang."

"What about "S"?" Ringo asked again, "If it's Officer Li, shouldn't it be "L"?"

"I don't understand it either..." After saying that, he paused and asked, "Ringo, do you still remember Officer Li's real name?"

"Real name...?" Ringo lowered her head and thought for a while, and suddenly thought of something, "Ah, he once said in the first game that his name is "Li Shangwu"!"

After saying that, she looked at the symbol that looked like both "S" and "5".

"Could this really be left by them?" Ringo said, "But how did they know we were coming?"

Qi Xia was also a little confused. If they really left some information for them, the content should be more clear. Now I think the only possibility is that they seemed to be afraid of getting lost, so they left this kind of symbol that only they could understand.

"Anyway, there must be someone in this direction. Let's go and take a look first."

The two determined the direction and set off again.

Walking forward along the dilapidated street, Qi Xia heard a noisy noise in a building in less than 20 minutes.

"Damn it! This time doesn't count! Come again!" A man yelled, "Come again if you have the guts!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he was pushed out of the door by a huge force and fell heavily to the ground.

"Ouch... my mother..." The man rubbed his butt and cursed, "You wait for me..."

Qi Xia glanced at him and his face sank.

The person who was pushed out of the door was none other than the short and fat middle-aged man he had seen before, Lao Lu.

The city Qi Xia was in seemed to be quite large, and it was such a coincidence that he could meet the same person for two consecutive days.

Lao Lu also noticed Qi Xia: "Hey? You kid...?"

He seemed to remember something after saying that, so he shook his head, stood up, and was about to leave with a look of annoyance.

"Wait a minute..." Qi Xia stopped him, "Have you seen anyone else here?"

After hearing this, Lao Lu turned around and glanced at Qi Xia with contempt: "Hey? Isn't this Lord Yama? I haven't used up the life I bought from you, and you're here to collect money again?"

After hearing this, Qi Xia shook his head helplessly and said: "I don't want to argue with you about the previous matter. I am looking for my companion now. If you can help, I will find a way to repay you."

"Repay?" Lao Lu rolled his eyes, and then walked over with a fake smile on his face, "Okay, since you said so, then you do me a favor. As long as you satisfy me, I just saw you I’ll tell you right away where those two people are.”

"Two people...? Okay, what do you want from me?" Qi Xia asked coldly.

He stretched out his hand and pointed to the room in front of him, which was a Go club.

"Help me go in and win the bet against that pig." Lao Lu said with a smile, "I will make him lose even his pants."

"Pig?" Qi Xia turned around and saw that there was indeed a dirty pig-headed man sitting in the Go club.

There were black and white chess pieces in front of him, and two empty bowls beside them.

Qi Xia touched her nose, then turned around and asked Lao Lu: "Lao Lu, it's okay to let me help you, but you have to answer me first. Did you really see anyone else just now?"

Old Lu paused and said, "I've seen it before."

Qi Xia took another step forward, got closer to the fat man, and asked again: "Let me ask you again, have you seen anyone else?"

Lao Lu was a little scared. He kept staring at Qi Xia's eyes: "I have really seen it..."

"Two people?"

"yes."

"One boy, one girl?"

"yes……"

"What characteristics?"

"Ah?" Lao Lu quickly recalled after hearing this, "The men are serious, but the women don't like to talk much..."

Lao Lu kept retreating, looking like he was still frightened by Qi Xia.

He knew that this man once pushed Zhang Shan to the ground and beat him, and he was very difficult to mess with.

Qi Xia also discovered through several consecutive questionings that the other party did not seem to be lying, so he said: "Okay, I agree."

The corners of Lin Ju's mouth raised slightly and he whispered: "Qi Xia, do you still understand psychology?"