PFC Chapter 28 I'm Looking for Yan Xun
Chapter 28 I'm Looking for Yan Xun
"What do you think are the differences between the two people?" Yan Xun took out two 504 papers from different periods and placed them in front of Li Wu.
Li Wu looked at the two people in the newspaper. One was a rich young man who said that the fake man would replace his existence, and the other was a famous director who would later become very successful. The rich young man was dissolute and extravagant. Besides the hickeys on his neck, the most conspicuous thing was the mole that Yan Xun mentioned.
The famous director's mole was on the other side of his neck.
"Was 504 replaced by a fake person?"
"So you're taking refuge in this Meimei Building?" Li Wu asked, looking at the newspaper.
"I don't know." Yan Xun looked at the two newspapers with him. "Even pseudo-humans need to eat." He pointed to himself. "We are pseudo-humans now."
"An unknown creature that replaced the original staff in the Meimei Building."
"Have you looked at the trash cans in apartment 1101?" Yan Xun asked.
Li Wu had just returned from security and hadn't noticed the trash can at home... He pondered Yan Xun's words for a moment, "There are no food wrappers in your trash can?"
"You think the original owner of 404 didn't need to eat."
"More or less." Yan Xun glanced at Li Wu.
If this person hadn't shared the information that Chi Yuan was a player, he wouldn't have revealed this information—when that mysterious thing appeared in the corridor before, the other party could have closed the door after arriving at room 504 and left him outside, but Li Wu didn't do that, so he decided that he could exchange some information with him.
"The clues are definitely not just in 504."
With so many rooms in the Meimei Building, it's impossible for them to find all the clues in just one room.
"The mission lasts for 7 days. In terms of both visual appeal and fun, it's definitely more interesting to have players search for clues in more rooms." Yan Xun pointed to room 504. "Right now, we can only explore rooms that are confirmed to be empty."
If there are people in the room... then these players will definitely be mistaken for "fake people" by the room owner and the security guards will be notified.
"So we need to find more fake people in this building," Yan Xun said to Li Wu. "Only when they are taken away as fake people will the rooms become empty, so that players can go in and explore."
He roughly understood the purpose of this copy.
Most of the clues appear equally in the rooms of the Meimei Building; the players' first task, finding the fake man, is both the task and a hint.
To obtain more clues related to Mission 2, players must find as many of the remaining fake people in the Mei Mei Building as possible, so that they can enter these rooms to search for clues.
After Yan Xun finished speaking, he put the newspaper back.
There were some old food wrappers in the trash can in room 504, which looked like supplies received recently.
……
Su Yumin sat in the living room.
There was a constant knocking on the door, and Shen Rui stood at the door holding a kitchen knife.
The voice outside the door was familiar; it belonged to one of the security guards from before.
"There are fake people in your room."
"Open the door."
However, both people in the room knew that at this time, the security guard would not suddenly appear at the door.
So Shen Rui gripped the kitchen knife tightly in his hand, while Su Yumin opened the book he had found on the bookshelf... and saw the diary hidden inside.
Perhaps fearing discovery, the diary was written in great secrecy, almost hidden inside the hollowed-out book.
July 2, 20xx
Shen Rui and I share this apartment building. The elderly people at the building management office are very kind, and the neighbors are also very nice.
July 3, 20xx
I saw the guy from 504 in the newspaper? But I remember meeting him in the elevator this morning; he had red hair then.
July 1, 20xx
...I saw Shen Rui, but he didn't greet me. When I got home, I found him there. He said he hadn't left the house all day, and maybe I was just seeing things.
July 13, 20xx
Shen Rui never eats fish, but today he said to me, "Let's go eat grilled fish"... This is strange.
Su Yumin glanced at the date on her phone and found that today was October 19th. Three months had passed since the last diary entry of "Su Yumin". After saying that she felt something was wrong with Shen Rui, Su Yumin never wrote in her diary again.
Once players enter this instance, they are merely playing these roles, not the players themselves.
Players' names will be automatically filled in these information. Unless you buy an item to cover your name like Su Yumin, all that will appear will be your real name.
So the owner of the other room in 508 sensed that something was wrong with his roommate.
The other person mentioned two similar people: once was the person who discovered the 504 error, and the other was his roommate who hadn't left the house but appeared in the outside world.
He looked at Shen Rui, who was standing at the door holding a kitchen knife, and asked, "Give me Yan Xun's contact information?"
Upon hearing the voice, Shen Rui was about to make a "shh" gesture when he realized that Su Yumin had already spoken—the other party hadn't deliberately lowered her voice at all, and the security guards outside the door could most likely hear it.
"Bang bang bang!" Upon hearing the sound, the security guard outside the door knocked again.
"Open the door."
"There are fake people inside."
Su Yumin put down his book and stood in front of the door, watching the loud knocking... The creature outside was clearly not so patient; after realizing they had no intention of opening the door—
Su Yumin took a few steps back, and the next second, the entire door was violently broken open.
A man in a security guard uniform appeared in front of the damaged door.
He looked much the same as he had in the morning, but his eyeballs were now covered in black. He looked at Su Yumin and Shen Rui inside the door and said, "I've found a fake."
"Damn it, you look more like a fake!" Shen Rui cursed as he backed away. He glanced at the kitchen knife in his hand, then at the door that the other party had broken open—he figured he probably couldn't win this fight.
"Give me Yan Xun's phone number." Su Yumin turned to look at Shen Rui.
"No way?? Are you out of your mind, bro???" Shen Rui felt like he was about to break down!
What kind of time is this? All they remember is asking for phone numbers?! He thinks there's more than one love-obsessed character in this instance!
In his haste to escape, he tossed his phone to Su Yumin, saying, "It's unlocked, check for yourself!"
After saying that, he retreated, trying to use the terrain to block the attack!
Su Yumin opened her phone and dialed Yan Xun's number, but this time... Yan Xun didn't answer immediately.
He listened to the busy tone on his phone and looked at Shen Rui, "You've been blocked?"
"I don't know if I've been blocked yet! But you're about to be blocked in your life!"
As Shen Rui ran, he complained. He saw the security guard standing at the door reach out and looked like he was about to grab Su Yumin, who was standing there making a phone call.
He couldn't bear to watch this scene, so he covered his eyes with one hand and ran into the room!
He believed that there was always a way out! Maybe he could survive by clinging to the balcony? Maybe those monsters outside were long gone.
Out of the corner of Shen Rui's eye... the security guard's face suddenly changed. His mouth began to widen infinitely, and his entire jaw seemed to be dislocated, as if he was about to grab Su Yumin, who was standing at the door, and shove him into his mouth.
Su Yumin continued making the phone call.
He listened to the dial tone on the phone while glancing back at it—
"Hey."
Yan Xun finally answered the phone on the other end.
The security guard's hand was only a few centimeters away from Su Yumin's arm.
Su Yumin's body did not move, but the security guard's body instantly turned into countless slices... Because the security guard was not human, there was not a single drop of blood in the room.
If it weren't for those slices, each less than 2 centimeters long, probably no one would know that there was a fake human here just seconds before.
“It’s me.” Su Yumin kicked away the pile of shards beside her feet with some impatience. “I found a clue in 908.”
"How about we exchange clues?"
After hearing what Yan Xun said on the other end of the phone, Su Yumin hung up and looked up at Shen Rui, who was hiding behind the sofa.
Here's your phone back.
He threw his phone on the sofa and left room 908 without looking back.
Shen Rui stared dumbfounded at the pile of security guard fragments and the damaged gate, then glared at the phone Su Yumin had thrown onto the sofa.
"Damn! I've run into a real lunatic!"
He glanced again at the completely destroyed and unusable door of 908, and finally gritted his teeth, grabbed a kitchen knife, and rushed out of the room.
……
After hanging up the phone, Yan Xun said to Li Wu, "Su Yumin is coming."
He noticed that after he said the name, Li Wu showed a clear expression of disapproval. "You know him?"
“I’m not familiar with him,” Li Wu said, then added after a moment’s thought, “He’s not very bright.” But he also told Su Yumin not to come, only to tell Yan Xun, “Be careful.”
"Yes, I can tell." Yan Xun nodded. "He does seem to have some mental issues."
While openly speaking ill of Su Yumin, Yan Xun walked to the door and turned back to Li Wu, saying, "I left something in the hallway. I'll be right back."
"Open the door for me in a bit."
【Hehe, I thought you had forgotten about Gui Yuchong!】The system shouted loudly in Yan Xun's head.
“If you really care about Gui Yuchong this much, why don’t you marry him?” Yan Xun retorted. “I don’t think his girlfriend cares about him as much as you do.”
The system found Yan Xun utterly unreasonable! How could it, the system, possibly marry Gui Yuchong!
"Hehe, I see that's how it's written in novels." Yan Xun responded to the system in his mind, "The protagonist falls in love with the system, it turns out the system is the big boss, and in the end they have a happy ending."
He opened the door to room 504 while talking to the system in his head.
The corridor was now pitch black again. Yan Xun took a few steps forward... and the motion sensor finally reacted. He turned around to ask Li Wu to close the door, but found Li Wu standing at the door shaking his head at him, "I'll wait for you."
Clearly, Li Wu felt that closing and reopening the door was too slow, and it would be difficult to rescue Yan Xun if he were in real danger.
"I think this guy is pretty decent," Yan Xun said to the system in his mind.
In the original work, this character is portrayed as taciturn but reliable, and his presence gives people a sense of security, which contributes to his consistently high popularity.
But the problem is, now that the main character is gone, how can we buy stocks?!
Yan Xun muttered to himself, "They actually want me, a cannon fodder sycophant, to clean up their corpses! Where is justice?!"
……
When the motion sensor light came on for the fourth time, Yan Xun finally saw Gui Yuchong lying on the ground.
That thing seemed to have no interest in dead people. Gui Yuchong, who looked like a young man, lay quietly on the floor of the corridor.
When Yan Xun walked over, he took a closer look. The other person had their eyes closed and their expression was calm, as if they had passed away before they even had a chance to suffer.
He squatted down, bent over to look at Gui Yuchong, and then reached out and poked the other's cheek.
Cold and stiff.
The moment you touch his skin, fear will rise from the depths of your heart—this is your body's message telling you that this thing is not a living person.
Yan Xun put the dead Gui Yuchong back into his backpack space.
He glanced back down the corridor, but this time the strange, unseen creature did not appear.
He knew this wasn't the time for him to observe, so after finding Gui Yuchong, Yan Xun quickly ran towards room 504. Fortunately, Li Wu was waiting there and immediately pulled him back when he saw him running over.
"All the lights in the hallway just went out," Li Wu said suddenly after closing the door.
"All of them?" Yan Xun didn't quite understand what he meant. He pointed to himself, "Didn't you see me?" He clearly remembered that the motion sensor light had turned on four times.
"No."
“The corridor was pitch black. After you left the door, none of the lights came on,” Li Wu said.
He watched as Yan Xun took a few steps before plunging into deep darkness... as if something had swallowed him up. There was no sound in the corridor, neither footsteps nor any other sound.
He kept track of the time, but the corridor remained pitch black.
It was as if, in that instant, Yan Xun had entered another dimension.
Li Wu couldn't wait indefinitely, so he decided to wait another 3 minutes. If Yan Xun still hadn't appeared, he would have to close the door.
Fortunately, Yan Xun appeared in front of him at the last moment of the three minutes—he was panting and looked like he had run all the way—but the corridor was very quiet and he did not hear any running sounds.
When Yan Xun left, Li Wu made a small mark on him.
He was certain that it was Yan Xun himself who had returned.
……
Su Yumin and Shen Rui saw Gui Yuchong holding a kitchen knife in the stairwell.
He looked visibly frightened and seemed afraid to leave the emergency exit.
"You weren't with Yan Xun?" Shen Rui asked immediately after seeing him.
Gui Yuchong seemed startled by their sudden appearance, but breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing them.
"...He went to look for clues and hasn't come back."
He looked at the two people in room 908. "Are you also looking for clues?"
"I'm going to find Yan Xun." Su Yumin glanced at him.
Gui Yuchong, holding a kitchen knife, tilted his head and looked at Su Yumin, "How did you know where Yan Xun was?"
"I wanted to find him, but I couldn't..."
“He just called Yan Xun,” Shen Rui said, pointing at Su Yumin. He glanced at the signs in the emergency exit and breathed a sigh of relief when he realized they were on the 5th floor. “It’s okay, Yan Xun is in room 504.”
"We're also planning to look for him."