Under Little Apple's murderous eyes, Lian Qiao expressed his thoughts simply and clearly.
The NPCs will lock their door at night, indicating that they know that ghosts come out to kill people at night. This also illustrates another point from their side – that the ghosts will also cause damage to NPCs, otherwise they won't need to hide at all.
The characteristic of hungry ghosts is that, after killing people, they will definitely eat first and leave when they are full instead of continuing to kill. Probably they want to save some for tomorrow.
This model can be understood as: the number of kills each hungry ghost can kill is limited.
"That is to say, NPCs can be used to fill the killing indicators of hungry ghosts?!" Little Apple finally realized and couldn't help clapping her hands in wonder, "Wonderful!"
"Wonderful, my ass." Lian Qiao glared at her, "Did you forget?"
"This is the orphanage where RenDong grew up. Not to mention the principal, those children have been his playmates since he was a child! You want to let him watch these people die?"
"Oh yeah…"
Little Apple stuck out her tongue and turned to look at Xu RenDong, "But NPCs are just NPCs, not real people, why pity them?"
"That's easy for you to say." Lian Qiao turned cold. "Then how do I know if you are an NPC? Why should I sacrifice other NPCs to save you?"
Little Apple: "…Is there such a lively, cute and lifelike NPC like me?!"
When they started fighting, RenDong interrupted: "Okay, stop arguing. The life of an NPC is not as important as a living person. I can do it, let it be."
Little Apple said gratefully: "Xu RenDong, you are such a good person!"
Lian Qiao looked at Little Apple and then RenDong. A strange expression gradually appeared on his face.
The principal cleaned the small western-style building by herself and it was very difficult to clean, so she called Lian Qiao and the others to help. It's unknown what those corpses on the ground look like in the eyes of the principal. Anyway, Lian Qiao sees her carrying out bags of black garbage bags soaked in blood without changing her face, so he thinks the principal is quite scary.
Several people worked all morning and finally cleaned up the murder scene.
The children were playing in the yard and, when they had had enough, they were called back by the principal to help make lunch. After lunch, the principal took the children to do handicrafts, also in order to sell money to support the orphanage.
RenDong was too young and fell asleep after lunch, so Lian Qiao carried him upstairs again.
Little Apple wanted to follow them but Lian Qiao refused.
"Don't leave me alone outside!" Little Apple blocked the door, using her body to prevent him from closing it. She wailed, "I'm the only teammate left, seriously injured, weak and helpless, and a girl. Can you take care of me, huh? Please!"
Lian Qiao pushed the door hard without mercy: "It's a pity that I am a ruthless baby-carrying machine. And I'm still gay, don't act like a baby to me, it's useless. "
Little Apple: "…" Fuck you fucking gay.
The two were at a stalemate at the door. Little Apple refuses to quit, it seems that she has made up her mind to stay here. Lian Qiao was annoyed to death by her and took out the crowbar in a snap.
Little Apple was taken aback: "Fuck! I just want to stay with you? There's no need to kill people!"
Lian Qiao said: "Stop talking nonsense. Aren't you afraid of being alone? I'm giving you a weapon to protect yourself. Now get out!"
"Wow, the Holy Sword of Physics!" Little Apple's eyes lit up. As expected of being a senior gamer, she is very knowledgeable.
Little RenDong on the side was already about to fall asleep with his eyelids fighting, but when he caught a glimpse of Lian Qiao about to lend the crowbar to Little Apple, he suddenly regained his energy.
Little Apple happily was about to take the crowbar but RenDong said anxiously: "Don't give it to her!"
Little Apple and Lian Qiao were taken aback. Lian Qiao asked in surprise: "Why?"
RenDong opened his mouth but stopped talking.
Lian Qiao thought he was distressed about losing a weapon, so he comforted him: "Don't worry, I still have a lot of weapons here. See, this one is not bad."
RenDong frowned slightly, as if thinking about something quickly. After a while, he bit his lip and said, "She's a girl, it's inappropriate if you give her a weapon and throw her outside…"
Little Apple was instantly grateful: "Yes! I don't think it's appropriate either !"
Lian Qiao was not very happy: "Then what do you want to do, really let her sleep with us?"
He also suddenly became angry and said very capriciously, "I don't want it!"
RenDong raised his fleshy little hand, hooked it around the neck, lowered his head and took off a wooden sign. He gave it to Little Apple.
"Give you this talisman."
Little Apple: "!!!" You really have hidden treasures!
Lian Qiao: "???!!!" You gave her the life-saving treasure so easily! explain! What on earth is your relationship with her!!
…
Little Apple took the amulet and left happily. Lian Qiao's face darkened, he closed the door with his backhand and locked it with a click.
"Why did you give her the amulet? What will you do after giving it to her?!"
RenDong smiled wryly: "That amulet is useless."
Lian Qiao was puzzled: "How do you know it's useless?"
RenDong turned his head and looked out the window, looking far away: "…I just know."
The meaning was: I don't intend to explain.
Lian Qiao always felt that there was something wrong with RenDong recently and wanted to ask RenDong to find out more, but he didn't know where to start. He suddenly felt extremely aggrieved, so he picked up the little RenDong and put him on his lap.
RenDong was caught off guard and lifted from the ground by him. He let out a low cry of surprise.
Lian Qiao stared at him and asked, "What's the matter with you?"
RenDong subconsciously avoided his eyes, but smiled back and asked, "What's wrong?"
"There's something wrong with you." Lian Qiao tapped his little head lightly, "You… um… look very unhappy these days."
The corners of RenDong's mouth twitched and he subconsciously made a wry smile. Lian Qiao poked the corner of his mouth and said, "That's it. You've been showing this expression recently and it makes me feel very uncomfortable. What are you thinking? Can't you tell me?"
RenDong lowered his head, his eyes suddenly wet. With a blink of an eye, he looked as though he was about to cry.
"Hey?" Lian Qiao was stunned. How could he have known RenDong would cry at the drop of a hat, so he hurriedly wiped his tears, "What's wrong with you? I didn't say anything to you, why are you crying? What the hell is going on? Huh?"
"I can't say…" RenDong raised his face, more tears rolled down from his eyes, making his whole little face sparkle. As soon as he opened his mouth, his voice was choked up, "I really want…I really want to tell you everything…but I can't…I can't say it…"
Seeing him crying, Lian Qiao felt his heart was about to break. He quickly took him into her arms, patted him on the back lightly as if comforting and said softly: "It's okay, it's okay. It's fine if you can't say it. I won't ask you any more."
Unexpectedly, his gentle words had the opposite effect. After hearing what he said, Little RenDong cried even harder.
"Don't cry, don't cry…" Lian Qiao hugged him, feeling the heat in his arms and his clothes were wet from crying. Almost his whole heart was squeezed tightly by him and the water came out. It was sore, swollen and was terribly uncomfortable. But Lian Qiao didn't know how to comfort him.
At this moment, Lian Qiao only felt that he was stupid to death, like a stupid parrot that just learned to speak human language, so he could only repeat dumbly: "Don't cry, RenDong, don't cry. You cry so much that I have to cry too… …"
The more he comforted, the more RenDong couldn't stop crying. Lian Qiao was at a loss and didn't know what else to do except hug him.
He didn't know that such a small body could cry so many tears. It seemed that the pressure that had accumulated on RenDong's soul for a long time finally broke through the embankment and surged out all of a sudden.
Lian Qiao felt the hot wetness on his chest and thought sadly: What is it that made him cry like this?
What happened to him that I don't know?
The feeling of powerlessness overwhelmed Lian Qiao like a tide, his chest was tight and the more he thought about it, the more sad he became.
Lian Qiao flattened his mouth, tapped it and even shed tears.
"…!" He didn't expect that he would actually cry, so he hurriedly wiped it off with his hands.
The little RenDong in his arms sensed the abnormality and raised his head to look at him blankly. That little face was flushed from crying and looked extremely pitiful.
"You, why are you crying too…" Little RenDong sobbed and raised his hand to wipe his tears.
"I don't know!" Lian Qiao felt very embarrassed,but when RenDong's soft little hands touched the corners of his eyes, he suddenly felt even more wronged and his tears couldn't be stopped. He could only whimper and say, "I've been taken down the wrong path by you!"
"…" RenDong froze for a moment, looked down at the body of himself as a three-year-old child, and suddenly burst out laughing.
"You're still laughing! Are you embarrassed!" Lian Qiao suddenly became angry, pinched his chubby cheeks and said angrily, "You think you are really a child! Xu RenDong, you are 28 years old! You can only cry on the bed, do you know that!"
RenDong: "…" Do you regard me as an adult or a child? Why do you pinch my face when you treat me like an adult now but when you 'drive' with me, you treat me like a child? !
The tears were still wet on the faces of the two, and they were relatively speechless at this moment. They both felt that the other was funny and couldn't help but raise the corners of their mouths together.
Seeing that he was in a better mood, Lian Qiao hesitated and finally asked: "Are you really willing to use the principal and children to fill up the death toll?"
"They are just NPCs after all."
"But they are like relatives to you." Lian Qiao pouted, "And Little Apple just met us by chance. Besides you…"
Lian Qiao originally wanted to say that you have already killed all the other teammates, do you still care about an extra Little Apple dying? But he suddenly realized that he couldn't say this, so he immediately stopped his words and asked again: "You just cried because you lied to her that the amulet is useful? Why do you care about her so much?"
RenDong: "Because she is a good girl. "
"Huh?" Lian Qiao asked suspiciously, "What's so good about her?"
"…" RenDong showed a complicated expression of "how can I answer you if you ask me like this".
The more Lian Qiao thought about it, the more something was wrong and he vaguely felt that the top of his head was green. But with the painful experience of being jealous in "Three People Make A Tiger", Lian Qiao decided not to be jealous for now and wait and see before talking.
So he changed the subject and said: "Since you want to save Little Apple but you are reluctant to sacrifice the principal and the children, I have a way to get the best of both worlds."
RenDong's eyes lit up instantly: "Which way?!"
Lian Qiao: "Finish them off."
RenDong: "???"
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The author has something to say:
Lian Qiao: How do you comfort a crying partner? Of course I cried with him.