Resurrection of all mankind

Chapter 272 One more person
"Isn't this nonsense?"

Bing Changwen said unhappily: "After completing the main mission of the current reincarnation world, we will only be given 1000 points each."

"And the side quest that just appeared can earn all of us 5000 points."

"Calculated this way, the difficulty of this side quest is at least five times that of the main quest."

"and."

Bing Changwen emphasized: "In our team before, there were reincarnations with more qualifications and experience than me."

"Then he told me that the easier it seemed to complete a side quest, the more difficult it would be."

"Do you understand this sentence?"

"The easier it is to complete, the more difficult it is?" The man in the suit repeated this sentence, and then said, "Then is the side quest we just triggered easy or difficult to complete?"

"Humph"

In the hall, Bing Changwen sneered and was about to respond to the question of the man in the suit.

However, the only girl in the new team rushed to answer: "That side quest is of course easy to complete."

"After all, the mission did not place any requirements or restrictions on us."

"It just lets us go through the plot of 'The Secret of Maple Grove Hotel'. As long as we can survive in the end, the mission will be completed."

"Doesn't this look like an easy task?"

Seeing that the girl's analysis was very logical, Bing Changwen instinctively looked at her carefully.

He asked the girl, "What's your name?"

The girl smiled sweetly and said, "My name is Peng Shuyue. I'm still in college, majoring in ammunition engineering and explosive technology."

"Ammunition Engineering??"

Maybe it’s because the girl’s major is quite special.

After hearing her answer, Bing Changwen couldn't help but look at the girl again.

He followed the girl's words and said, "Peng Shuyue, right?"

"Just like you said, the side quest that the Lord God just issued to us did not make any requirements on us at all."

"This mission doesn't ask us to explore a certain place, nor does it ask us to kill a certain evil spirit, or any other strange thing."

“So this is a relatively easy task to accomplish.”

"But precisely because it's too easy, this side quest is actually more dangerous than those quests with specific requirements."

When he said this, Bing Changwen gave Xie Shen another fierce look.

He reproached, “So, Xie Shen, you really want to kill us all this time.”

"You do have some talent, and you are smart."

"But you are still just a newcomer in this reincarnation world after all."

"No matter how capable you are, you can't do this, right?"

"Hey." Seeing that Bing Changwen just kept complaining and didn't fight with him again, Xie Shen smiled at him and said, "Sorry, this was purely an accident. I won't do it next time."

Bing Changwen glanced at the tile on the wall of the hall that was pressed down by Xie Shen.

"Ugh"

He sighed and said helplessly: "Forget it."

"I guess you just triggered the mechanism accidentally."

"Since it was accidental, I won't pursue it any further."

"The most urgent task right now is to find a way to overcome this difficulty first."

As he spoke, Bing Changwen suddenly took out several black convenience bags from the backpack behind him.

He distributed the convenience bags to everyone and said, "I believe that everyone has watched some horror movies to some extent, and everyone knows one thing - that is, in horror movies, evil spirits will always first target people who are alone."

"So, to prevent you from being left alone, from now on, no one should leave this hall."

"We will eat, drink, defecate and urinate in this hall."

"The convenience bags I just gave you are for you to use when you go to the toilet."

At this point, Bing Changwen finally said, "I have finished what I want to say. Do you have anything else to ask?"

"that."

In the new team.

The only girl, Peng Shuyue, asked cautiously, "When I go to the toilet, do I also use a convenience bag in the hall?"

"What else?" Bing Changwen sneered at the new girl and said, "Actually, if you really want to find a place where no one is around to solve it, I won't force you. The question is, do you dare?"

"I"

Peng Shuyue naturally didn't have the courage to do that.

At this moment, he lowered his head helplessly and said softly: "Then I'll just listen to you!"

...

Under Bing Changwen's instructions, Xie Shen and others stayed in the hall obediently, and no one dared to leave the main group alone.

Everything was so peaceful and smooth that before we knew it, it was already 5:30 in the evening.

It was only less than half an hour until 6 o'clock in the evening.

According to any prompts given on the watch: all reincarnations must go to the hotel restaurant for dinner after 6 o'clock every night.

Considering this, the man in the suit took the initiative to ask for C Changwen's opinion: "Should we follow the instructions on the mission and go directly to the restaurant for dinner after 6 o'clock?"

"You must go." Bing Changwen said seriously, "Remember this."

"All the mission instructions written on the watch are equivalent to the Lord God providing us with help in disguise."

"If you don't want to die too soon, you must remember to obey."

"Do you understand?"

"Understood." All the newcomers present, including the man in a suit, nodded in unison.

Only Xie Shen maintained a calm expression throughout the entire process.

Such an unsociable behavior made Bing Changwen couldn't help but look at him and said, "I'm just curious."

"It's been almost 12 hours and I haven't seen you go to the bathroom."

"You really can hold it in."

"Heh," facing Bing Changwen's complaints, Xie Shen just smiled and said nothing.

——As a cultivator in the fusion stage, he can completely control his current body through his spiritual consciousness, allowing it to go without food or water or excrete for several days.

in the hall.

Seeing that Xie Shen didn't say anything, Bing Changwen stopped pestering him.

He counted the number of people present and said, "Xia Qin and I, as well as Xie Shen and the other newcomers, we have eight people in total."

"Make no mistake about this."

As he said that, he waved his hand and said, "It's less than a minute until 6 o'clock. Let's go to the restaurant directly."

"When we leave later, Xie Shen and I will walk side by side at the back, while Xia Qin and Peng Shuyue will walk side by side at the front."

"The rest of you will walk in the middle of the team."

"It should be all right, right?"

——Editor Bing’s article is quite thoughtful in considering these details.

In order to prevent the person walking at the end of the team from being suddenly abducted by some unclean things while marching, he deliberately arranged himself to be at the end of the team to provide support, and also asked Xie Shen, who seemed to have good skills, to go with him.

He is a wise man.

Perhaps it was because Bing Changwen's arrangement had worked, or perhaps it was because there was no danger at all on the road from the hotel lobby to the restaurant.

In short, nothing unusual happened during the entire team's march.

When the group arrived at the restaurant, the time displayed on the watch was exactly 6 o'clock. At this moment, all the lights in the restaurant lit up at the same time.

The bright lights immediately dispelled the inexplicable fear in everyone's hearts.

与谢深同走在队伍最后方的丙长文，扫了眼现场所有人道：“1、2、36、7、8”

"Okay, no more, no less, exactly 8 people."

"No one is left behind or missing at the moment, everything is normal." "Then Xia Qin and I will share some of the food and water we brought with us."

"Just eat whatever you have."

After saying this, he pretended to open the backpack behind him.

But Xie Shen suddenly frowned and said, "Wait a minute."

"You just said there are 8 of us in total, right?"

"But why do I remember that there are only seven people in our team?"

"What's the situation with that sudden extra person?"

"Ah? 7 people?" After hearing what Xie Shen said, Bing Changwen was stunned at first.

Then he said with a thoughtful look on his face.

“It seems to be true.”

"Now that you mention it, I remember it too."

"There were indeed only seven people in our team before."

"but now"

As he spoke, Bing Changwen quickly glanced at everyone in the restaurant.

He named the names, "First, Xia Qin and I, then Xie Shen, Peng Shuyue, Feng Jie, Xiang Shu, Huang Ruzhi, Cao Junda. A total of exactly eight."

"Eh?" After tapping everyone, he was puzzled and asked, "What's going on?"

"Why is there suddenly one more person in our team?"

"And no one, including me, even realized this!"

"Could it be that our memories have been tampered with by some force?"

——In fact, it was not just Bing Changwen and the others. Xie Shen, whose original body had reached the fusion stage, was also extremely curious about the extra person.

Without him.

It was because Xie Shen, who was a cultivator in the fusion stage, was also unable to see the weirdness in it.

He also couldn't tell which of the other seven people at the scene was the 'person' who suddenly appeared and shouldn't exist.

In the hotel restaurant.

After learning that there was a "person" suddenly appearing in the team, everyone, including the two senior members Bing Changwen and Xia Qin, showed strange expressions in tacit understanding.

The man in a suit, Feng Jie, couldn't figure it out: "I remember that there were seven of us before."

"But the problem is, I actually know everyone in the team."

"It was as if everyone was already on the team from the beginning, as if there were eight of us in total."

"But then our number contradicts the previous seven people."

"What's going on?"

"Is it possible?" said Peng Shuyue, the only girl among the newcomers, "The reason why there is one more person in our team is because we just triggered a side quest?"

"is it possible"

She continued.

"If we want to survive this side quest safely, we must find the person who suddenly appeared."

It's different from everyone sitting around the dining table, talking at once.

Xie Shen, who was in a relaxed state the whole time, suddenly noticed a large plate of shredded potatoes with green peppers handed out from the kitchen.

——Because the kitchen was too dark, Xie Shen could not see the situation clearly with his naked eyes. In addition, there was some special power in the kitchen that blocked Xie Shen's consciousness, so he could not tell whether the person who just handed over the shredded potatoes was a human or a ghost.

However, one thing is certain: the stir-fried potato shreds with green peppers that was just handed to him was just an ordinary home-cooked dish. Not to mention, Xie Shen, who had the cultivation level of a fusion stage, did not notice anything unusual about the dish of potato shreds.

So he walked over and brought the plate of shredded potatoes to the dining table, and started to taste it with the chopsticks on the table.

"What are you doing??"

This bold move scared the veteran Bing Changwen.

He reached out and snatched the plate of shredded potatoes and green peppers in front of Xie Shen, and angrily said, "Didn't I just give you all the food? Why do you still want to eat the food in this restaurant? You are really not afraid of death!"

"Hey"

Relying on the blessing of the spiritual consciousness of a cultivator in the fusion stage, Xie Shen, in front of Bing Changwen, picked up a large chopstick of shredded potatoes at an extremely tricky angle and put it into his mouth.

While chewing, he smiled and replied, "Look, I'm fine after eating these shredded potatoes, right?"

"This shows that there is nothing wrong with the shredded potatoes."

"Just eat it with confidence."

Is it really okay?

Bing Changwen looked at Xie Shen suspiciously for a long time, and then suddenly said, "You are so sure that you dare to eat the potato shreds directly, which means that you definitely have some method to tell that there is nothing wrong with the potato shreds."

"How did you do it?" Bing Changwen asked Xie Shen.

Xie Shen smiled and replied truthfully: "If I said that I just used my mental power to check this plate of shredded potatoes and only ate it after confirming that there was no problem, would you believe it?"

The two were talking.

In the pitch-black kitchen where it was impossible to see what was going on inside, a plate of red-skinned roast duck was suddenly pushed out from the small window.

The man in the suit seems to be greedy.

At this moment, he had not eaten for the whole day and had only managed to survive on compressed biscuits. He could not help but ask.

"Xie Shen, can I eat the roast duck on the plate?"

"No." Xie Shen's answer was concise and clear: "I can feel that the roast duck has been contaminated by a spiritual force that I can't recognize. If I eat it rashly, it will probably be bad."

After hearing this, Bing Changwen could no longer sit still.

He immediately stood up, looked at Xie Shen and said, "You are indeed not an ordinary person!"

"How do you tell whether these foods have problems or not?"

"And the mechanism you found on the wall of the hotel lobby today."

"It's not a coincidence that you were able to discover that mechanism, right?"

Facing these people who had become his teammates, Xie Shen had no intention of hiding his shortcomings.

So he admitted it directly and generously.

"Yes, I am indeed not an ordinary person."

"In the real world, I am a monk."

"Or you could say I'm a cultivator."

Perhaps there really are practitioners on the planet where the senior Bing Changwen is, or perhaps he has heard rumors about practitioners.

At this moment, he nodded and said with a look of understanding: "No wonder you are so good at fighting, and you are the first one to wake up among all the newcomers."

Under Xie Shen's spiritual sense, the team members could easily distinguish which dishes handed out from the kitchen were edible and which were not. So after selecting the edible dishes, everyone had a delicious meal.

Considering that the kitchen in the restaurant was always pitch black and it was impossible to see what was going on inside, it was very weird.

Therefore, after having a good meal and a few drinks, all the team members returned to the hotel lobby which was relatively more familiar to them.

In this way, time soon came to 12 o'clock in the evening.

Without any warning, all the chandeliers and wall lamps in the hotel lobby went out at the same time.

at the same time.

The lights in the seven bedrooms connected to the hotel lobby lit up at the same time.

Seeing this, Feng Jie, the talkative man in a suit, immediately said thoughtfully, "Looking at this, the hotel should want us to go into the bedroom to rest. Should I be right?"

"If we refuse, if we insist on staying in this dark hall, then by midnight, I'm afraid something bad will happen, right?"

"Yeah." Bing Changwen nodded and said, "According to the nature of the reincarnation world, if we don't follow the rules here and don't go into the lighted bedrooms to rest, but force ourselves to stay in the hall, then maybe we will really encounter some unclean things in the middle of the night."

"Since you are going to the bedroom to rest..."

The man in a suit glanced at everyone present and said, "Then here comes the problem: there are a total of 8 people in our team, but the hotel has only 7 bedrooms prepared for us."

“How should it be distributed?”

(End of this chapter)