Although She’s Only a Level 1 Noob, She’s Still Incredibly Powerful - Chapter 20 Part 2

The door to the duty room was closed, but they could hear the sound of the television coming from inside.

The small glass window on the door reflected the image of the television screen.

The old man in the duty room was sitting on a chair with his back facing the door, watching intently.

Suddenly, the old man in the duty room seemed to have heard their voices and turned his head to look at them.

Bai Qiuye gestured at him through the glass window, indicating for him to open the door.

The old man in the duty room opened his mouth, but with the door separating them, his voice sounded muffled.

The old man in the duty room opened the door and asked: “Aren’t you guys patrolling?
What are you doing here, trying to slack off?”

Li Gushu said: “Sir, we want to borrow your kettle to cook a bowl of porridge.”

The old man in the duty room heard this and immediately waved his hand: “Go away, this old man uses the kettle to boil water, and you guys want to use it to cook porridge, dream on.”

Li Gushu said: “I promise that after using it, I’ll wash it clean for you.”

The old man in the duty room still looked impatient: “Hurry up and get to work, don’t delay this old man from watching TV.”

Li Gushu was silent for two seconds, as if she was considering the possibility of snatching it.

She suddenly heard Bai Qiuye speak: “Uncle, your relationship with Liu Xiangquan should be pretty good, right?”

The old man was stunned: “Why are you suddenly talking about Liu Xiangquan, what does it have to do with him?”

Bai Qiuye: “I’m just a bit emotional, Liu Xiangquan still came back to find you after he died. When he was alive, you must have helped him a lot.”

When the old man heard this, his body trembled: “What are you talking about, what do you mean he came back …”

“Look!” Bai Qiuye pointed at the chair behind him, “He’s right there, he’s been watching TV with you!”

The old man on duty rushed out of the room. “Stop talking! Stop making things up!”

“How can this be called making things up, I’m just telling the truth.” Bai Qiuye said as she observed the old man’s clothes, “On the day he died, was he wearing the watchman’s uniform? Before he went out on patrol, was he watching TV? Was he sitting in the chair you were sitting in? ”

“Yes! Yes! ” The old man was already crying in pain, he held his forehead with both hands and said: “His death has nothing to do with me, he was drunk himself, I only persuaded him to drink a little.”

Li Gushu was stunned as she listened on the side, she suddenly saw Bai Qiuye give him a look.

Li Gushu immediately understood, she skipped into the guard’s room and used the old man’s kettle to cook glutinous rice porridge.

Bai Qiuye was still asking: “How did he fall into the water that day, tell me in detail.”

The old man said: “It was Ah Long, Ah Long told me to persuade him to drink more, it really has nothing to do with me.”

Bai Qiuye asked: “What did Ah Long do?”

The old man said: “I don’t know, it was all Ah Long’s doing, I don’t know anything!”

“If that’s the case, what are you afraid of?” Bai Qiuye said, “If you don’t do anything wrong during the day, you won’t be afraid of ghosts knocking at your door in the middle of the night.
You knew he would die if he drank, but you still chose to be his accomplice, that’s why you’re so scared.”

“This …”

“Maybe he thinks you’re the one who killed him, that’s why he’s pestering you.” Bai Qiuye’s face showed a gloomy smile, “Do you want to be Ah Long’s scapegoat?”

The old man said painfully, “I’ll talk, I’ll talk. In fact, Ah Long met a Taoist Master outside who said he could help him make money.”

“But the master said that Ah Long’s life is too cheap, the normal Five Ghosts Fortune Method won’t work on him.” He said, “So he needs ghosts that die unnatural deaths or have Yin fate.”

“So, Ah Long took advantage of his position and turned the beautiful apartment into an altar.” The old man on duty gazed into the void as he spoke, as if he was explaining to Liu Xiangquan, who did not exist.

Hei Chunhua asked, “Did Ah Long kill all these people in the apartment?”

“How is that possible? How could he kill so many people with that bamboo body of his?” The old man said, “Even if he could, he wouldn’t dare to. He doesn’t have the guts.”

“Where did the twenty or so ghosts from that day come from?”

“Do you think Ah Long is the only one in this building with a guilty conscience?” The old man on duty said, “The reason why he chose the beautiful apartment is because there are all kinds of resentment gathered here.”

The old man on duty said, clasped his hands together, and bowed to the surroundings: “Liu Xiangquan, I really didn’t kill you, don’t blame me.”

He walked into the duty room, found three incense sticks, and incessantly bowed to the void: “Don’t kill me, don’t kill me, I will burn incense for you every new year.”

Bai Qiuye saw that she had asked enough questions, so she did not ask him anymore.

In the novice copy, she had dealt with NPCs with all kinds of personalities, so she quickly found the old man on duty’s weakness.

At the same time, she had a faint sense of the NPC’s bottom line.

It was like a muscle memory formed after doing the same thing too many times.

Hei Chunhua said coldly: “You’re so convincing, I thought you saw it with your own eyes.”

Bai Qiuye said: “All is fair in war, to trick him, we have to make him tell the truth.”

“There are about twenty ghosts in this building, and now they are all trapped by the Eight Trigrams Formation in the patio.” Bai Qiuye said: “According to Guagua, souls and spirits are two different things. Next, we may only encounter corpses with spirits left. ”

She paused: “But, I’m a little worried about one thing, that master, can he hold on …”

Hei Chunhua said with certainty: “Don’t worry.”

Bai Qiuye turned her head and looked at Hei Chunhua’s side profile.

It was still the same stiff outline, as well as the plastic texture of the nose.

But Hei Chunhua’s steady answer just now made Bai Qiuye suddenly feel that she could ignore the discomfort on the surface.

Hei Chunhua was quite reliable!

Hei Chunhua tilted her head and added: “Definitely can’t hold on.”

Bai Qiuye: “… Let’s discuss something, next time, can you not take such a long breath?”

At this time, Li Gushu walked out with a half-cooked glutinous rice hanging from the corner of her mouth.

Just as she walked to the two of them, she immediately turned around and held the wall with her hand, vomiting non-stop.

She had vomited all the glutinous rice that she had just drunk.

The glutinous rice had turned black, like a ball of fermented sludge.

Bai Qiuye was terrified when she saw this, Li Gushu had not been directly scratched by the zombie, she had only rubbed against the furniture that had been stained with the zombie’s liquid, and she had to suffer such painful torture.

If she was directly scratched or bitten by the zombie, wouldn’t she die on the spot?

Bai Qiuye’s mind suddenly flashed with the tragic scene of her body being poisoned.

These scenes were repeated over and over again, finally stopping at the scene where she turned into a jumping zombie and had her head pierced by Li Gushu or Hei Chunhua.

Bai Qiuye made up her mind, when patrolling later, no matter if it was a zombie or a corpse, she definitely could not get within five metres of the zombie.

Although she was level 26 above her head, she was still level 1.

She definitely could not become arrogant because of this, she had to face danger with all her strength.

No matter what, she had to hold on until the six hour cooldown of the newbie protection mechanism was over.

After Li Gushu finished vomiting, she weakly raised her head: “The corpse poison should have been cured, hurry up and patrol.”

The time now was 11:40pm.

They returned to the patio, only to see that the master was still focused on chanting.

But the rope that was tied down from the second floor was visibly shaking.
The talismans on the side were slapping against each other.

Some of the ghosts surrounding the Eight Trigrams formation started to leave the group, trying to break through the Eight Trigrams and get to the centre of the formation.

“He can’t hold on much longer.”

“Let’s go.”

The three of them did not stop, retreating to the stairs next to Building 1 Block A.

They had already finished patrolling the first floor, Bai Qiuye searched for a long time, and found a registration form with a plastic pad at the corner of the stairs.

The registration form still had the names of the previous night watchmen, Liu Xiangquan was one of them.

Bai Qiuye had a feeling that Ah Long’s purpose in recruiting them was not just to fill the vacancy.

Otherwise, why would he let them into the room that everyone avoided?

The three of them went up to the second floor, all the doors were tightly locked.

The talismans that were burned to ashes when Bai Qiuye passed by before were replaced with new ones.

Block A and Block B were made up of four connected buildings, there was a metal door between each building as a partition.

These metal doors had been open since the start of the copy.

During the previous task, Bai Qiuye could still faintly hear the sound of knocking coming from the other building.

But now, it seemed like there were only the three of them on the entire floor.

Bai Qiuye asked: “Have the others already gone upstairs?”

“Because of my matter, we were delayed on the first floor for too long.” Li Gushu said, “I’m sorry.”

“It’s fine.” Bai Qiuye waved her hand, “You’re the main fighting force, you definitely can’t fall.”

Li Gushu did not take her words seriously, thinking that Bai Qiuye was just comforting her.

“Qiuye, thank you.” Li Gushu said, “If it wasn’t for your glutinous rice, I would probably have already walked to the patio.”

Bai Qiuye felt awkward when a proper person like Li Gushu suddenly changed her words.

Bai Qiuye said: “It’s nothing, you don’t have to keep mentioning it.”

Li Gushu looked at her gratefully.

Bai Qiuye added: “Just remember it in your heart.”

The main thing was to remember to save her when she was in danger.

Li Gushu: “…”

Give her back her feelings of gratitude.

As they spoke, they had already reached the middle of the corridor.

There was a balcony here, and it just so happened that they could see the patio.

Bai Qiuye inadvertently glanced at the patio and was shocked.

She didn’t feel it when she was on the first floor, but from the second floor, this Eight Trigrams formation looked like it could swallow the sky and cover the sun.

With the jar in the centre, an invisible force caused the patio’s scenery to distort.

The figures of the ghosts that were circling around the Eight Trigrams formation were blurry.

It was like a photo that had been taken with a special method, forming blurry lines.

The ropes that came down from the second floor looked like chains that were tied directly to the ghosts’ bodies.

The ghosts were like cattle, expressionlessly pushing the jar in the centre.

However, the jar seemed to be very heavy, and it was rotating at a very slow speed.

These ropes were covered in dark talismans, and they were stretched, looking like they could break at any moment.

“Is this what they mean by ‘money can make ghosts push millstones’?” Bai Qiuye muttered.

“Don’t look.” Li Gushu said, “Be careful not to be discovered by that master.”

Bai Qiuye retracted her head and said cautiously: “Don’t worry, from that angle just now, he definitely couldn’t see me.”

When they patrolled to the last household, the task notification updated.