Chapter 98 The Day of Doomsday (Part 1)
Qiao Yuan had not originally planned to mention Sheng Yegui's return to anyone else. After all, it involved herself. However, she did not expect Sheng Guiye to take the initiative to propose conditions.
Qiao Yuan: “Money.”
After all, her schedule is full now, and she still has to find time to enter the dungeon. She doesn't have the time to accept the resources Sheng Guiye gives her now, so it would be better for her to earn more money, and then after she completes the dungeon, she can join the crew with her own money and shoot whatever she wants.
Sheng Guiye nodded: "One hundred million."
Qiao Yuan: "Before or after tax? Check or transfer?"
Sheng Guiye: "...After tax, everything is fine."
Qiao Yuan said solemnly: "Transfer the money, this is my personal account."
"I will definitely avoid you from now on."
Both parties were very satisfied with the result.
Sheng Guiye was in a better mood because his previous business cooperation turned into a blind date and he almost had his Buddhist beads pulled off. Although Qiao Yuan was the first player he met after entering the dungeon, he didn't have a deep impression of him at first, until he accidentally released his second personality.
Because his body was occupied by the second personality and he lost control, he could only watch the other party pestering Qiao Yuan, asking her to take responsibility and wanting to return to the family. Fortunately, Qiao Yuan did not agree.
Just like the second personality hated him, he also hated it, but because they shared the same body, he had to clean up the mess of the second personality's behavior.
After coming out of the dungeon, he had been wanting to find Qiao Yuan to resolve the matter, but because he was busy, he had been putting it off until today. The hot searches this morning also sounded the alarm for him, reminding him that he could not put it off any longer.
The viewers in the live broadcast room could be directly handed over to the secretary to help keep their mouths shut, but Qiao Yuan was a special case, after all, the other party had really communicated with his second personality. Although according to current observations, Qiao Yuan did not take the second personality's words to heart, but for the sake of caution, he still wanted to directly cut off her thoughts. After all, her influence on the second personality was too great. If she really wanted to release the second personality and use it to do something, he would not be able to stop it when he lost control of his body. Therefore, Sheng Guiye did not want to get too close to Qiao Yuan.
Fortunately, Qiao Yuan is easy to satisfy.
After the deal was done, Sheng Guiye directly called the elite man in. It was obvious that the latter was the secretary he often mentioned.
At this time, the other party had put away the surprised look just now. After Sheng Guiye proposed to transfer the money, he did not have any questions. He just lowered his head and did it, and then said: "Ms. Qiao, the money will be in the account in a while."
Qiao Yuan made an "OK" gesture.
She originally wanted to remind Sheng Guiye to wear the Buddhist beads properly, but then she thought again, the Buddhist beads in front of her were not the cheap goods, so she didn't need to worry.
It took no more than ten minutes from entering the box to finalizing it.
When they got up to leave, Qiao Yuan and Sheng Guiye tacitly did not say "goodbye".
As he pushed the door open and left, Qiao Yuan's figure quickly disappeared from his sight, and he then withdrew his gaze coldly.
Finally solved another problem.
Qiao Yuan was in a very good mood until he returned to the box.
Because it was less than ten minutes, Song Yanchi didn't have any doubts at all. After Qiao Yuan came back, he continued to share things with Qiao Yuan with shining eyes.
The two stayed until eight o'clock in the evening before getting up and leaving. Qiao Yuan wanted to tell Sister Jiang to send a car to pick her up, but Song Yanchi stopped her.
The other party came by car, and the red Ferrari was parked in the parking lot like a ball of fire, as flamboyant as he was.
Remembering that Qiao Yuan went to bed at nine o'clock, Song Yanchi did not disturb him too much. After sending Qiao Yuan to his destination, he drove away.
Qiao Yuan didn't expect that she would have an unexpected gain from going out. When she got home, she received a text message reminding her of the transfer, which revealed the other party's impatience.
The appearance of Sheng Guiye was just a small episode for Qiao Yuan. As the day of entering the dungeon was approaching, Qiao Yuan was busy running announcements so that he could free up a few days for the dungeon.
Qiao Yuan spent a few days safely. She had to say that Sheng Guiye did a very good job in keeping secrets. She was worried that the waiter who witnessed her and Sheng Guiye entering the same box, as well as the middle-aged man and the girl might leak the matter. She didn't expect that until now, there had been no news at all on the Internet.
The last time he was on the hot search was because of rumors that he was about to be interviewed by a famous media person.
Although the famous media person didn't say it explicitly, everyone already understood the words "starting from scratch" and "building one's own business empire". When they heard that it was a live broadcast, everyone's expectations soared.
After all, Sheng Guiye didn't even have a Weibo account, and there was little information about him online, not to mention interviews. In the eyes of the public, he was very mysterious. I heard that this famous media person and he were both schoolmates and old friends for many years, so he was able to invite him.
The comments of this famous media person were all full of anticipation for the interview day to come soon.
But this has nothing to do with Qiao Yuan.
Because she is about to enter the copy.
After agreeing with Song Yanchi on the time to enter the dungeon through the forum, Qiao Yuan lay on the bed, listening to the cold mechanical sound of the system:
[Extracting a copy...]
[The copy is loading...]
Qiao Yuan opened his eyes and found that there was no one around him, and there was no sign of Song Yanchi.
She was still wearing the clothes she wore before entering the dungeon, but there was no cell phone in her pocket.
However, Qiao Yuan was not worried. After all, she and Song Yanchi entered as a team, and the other party might have been teleported to another place.
She asked the system in her heart what the mission was. There was a crackling sound from the system, but no response.
Qiao Yuan could see that the system could only show its positivity in the incident of the Black Rose.
While waiting for the system's answer, Qiao Yuan began to observe his surroundings.
She was standing in the middle of a block.
This is obviously a wealthy area. Every house is a small villa with a garden. Lush trees surround the stone-paved paths, and not far away there are pavilions surrounded by flowing water.
In the evening, the breeze is gentle and the leaves rustle, like a melodious tune.
However, Qiao Yuan soon discovered something unusual——
It's so quiet here.
Now should be the time when everyone is going home or walking the dog, but there is no one on the road except her, not even a single NPC.
There wasn't even any human or animal sound.
Just when Qiao Yuan felt strange, the cold mechanical voice of the system rang in his ears: [ Have you ever thought about who has been with you since birth]
[Who is always by your side and knows you best?]
Qiao Yuan thought this was a question and was thinking about the correct answer when he heard the system say: [It is a shadow]
Qiao Yuan: “…”
Excuse me, it turns out that this is not an interaction, but just a self-questioning and answering exercise.
System: [It is an accessory you were born with, but you always ignore it]
[But it doesn't matter. In this world, it is no longer your vassal.]
[It can leave you, or it can replace you and become you]
When he heard the system mention the shadow, Qiao Yuan had a bad premonition in his heart, and subconsciously looked at his own shadow——
This follower she had never really observed before.
After all, after entering the copy, Qiao Yuan's attention was on the surrounding environment, and she only glanced at the shadow with the corner of her eye to make sure there was nothing unusual.
The evening light shines through the leaves onto Qiao Yuan, casting a shadowy figure on the ground.
It was pitch black, and I couldn't see his facial features, but he had the same body shape as her.
That was her shadow.
However, the figure who should have made the same action as Qiao Yuan, suddenly raised his hands slowly in front of Qiao Yuan's gaze, and then turned his head to look around, as if he was confirming something.
For the first time, Qiao Yuan saw a look of confusion on her own shadow, but she was also full of doubt and shock. She didn't expect that her shadow would actually move.
But this emotion did not last long, as the shadow had already put down his hand. Although the other party had no facial features, Qiao Yuan still felt a gaze falling on her. It must be the shadow, and the other party seemed to be looking at her.
One person and one image are looking at each other.
Then he suddenly raised his foot and ran in another direction.
This incident happened so suddenly that Qiao Yuan was stunned for a moment before thinking about whether to follow.
Although her shadow ran away, it was just a shadow. According to the system, this shadow seemed to be quite dangerous. Leaving her might not be a bad thing...
But soon the system's mechanical voice helped her make a decision:
[Copy: World No. 1]
[Type: Multiplayer Instance]
[Task: Please find your shadow within one month and turn it back into a normal shadow]
[You can leave the dungeon if the mission is successful, and you will die if the mission time is exceeded]
[This instance is special. Players are likely to be replaced by shadows. Therefore, some restrictions are lifted to allow players to kill other people who have been replaced by shadows. Players who kill the most can get an additional reward of being exempted from one instance of the instance.]
[The shadow that replaces the player has no player identity and is not subject to this restriction]
【Good luck to the players】
Qiao Yuan didn't have time to complain about why the last sentence of the system sounded so familiar. Nothing good happened the last time he heard it. He also didn't have time to ask the system about the doubts in his heart.
After hearing that the mission was to catch her own shadow, she had already raised her foot and chased in the direction where her shadow left, still trying to play the emotional card: "Come back soon, I can't live without you..."
"The world outside is too dangerous, let me protect you!"
"Can we sit down and chat? This is a rare opportunity..."
The shadow didn't look back, but ran faster.
Qiao Yuan knew that she was not slow when she started running, but Shadow was obviously better than her, and he didn't have to look at the road while running like she did, so he ran very fast.
The black figure would occasionally hide in the shadows, and soon left Qiao Yuan far behind.
This made Qiao Yuan even more anxious. Sweat was already dripping down her forehead, but she had no time to wipe it off as her eyes were still fixed on the shadow in front of her.
Before, the shadow always followed her, but she never expected that one day she would be the one chasing the shadow.
Qiao Yuan finally stopped in front of a villa, which was where the shadow she had just seen last disappeared.
