bookbashuk Chapter 228 This Old Man Blackmailed Me
Chapter 228 This Old Man Blackmailed Me
"why?"
Trist couldn't believe it. The system actually told him that the side quest had failed?
"Impossible! How could they possibly defeat me in such a short time?"
Trist wondered if there was something wrong with his system. He opened the system panel, found the appeal page, and submitted his question.
In less than a moment, the system responded.
[Ding dong! ]
[Player Drizzt's appeal failed. After system detection, the player you reported did not violate any rules or cheat. For the sake of fairness, the player's task progress will be made public.]
Trist was extremely dissatisfied and even suspected that the system had been bought by that old-fashioned and serious man.
Although he knew that was impossible, he just couldn't accept it.
[Ding dong! ]
Then a display screen popped up on the system, showing the progress completion table of the other player's side quest.
Drizzt's eyes widened, shocked beyond words by the record before him.
How did they do that?
In just 15 minutes, they had already completed the task! And they were still comforting the patient?
What exactly are they doing?
The task has been completed, but the numbers in the progress chart keep changing.
In the blink of an eye, the mission progress number went up by one digit, and Trist looked at the completion prompt at the end of the side quest and it turned into 1/18.
Looking up at the large group of patients surrounding Ling Rizhao, Trist now had to believe the data provided by the system.
He really lost.
He has already completed 90%!
Just a little bit more, just a little bit more.
Drizzt was extremely annoyed. He turned his head and stared at the child who was sitting silently opposite him, his eyes full of unwillingness and disgust.
Some order gradually returned to the cafeteria hall.
All the patients who had been comforted by Xiao Qianchuan sat around him calmly.
Some of the patients who had not been calmed down had been caught by security guards, force-fed drugs and escorted back to their rooms. Some were still running wildly in the cafeteria to avoid being chased, but the number of out-of-control patients had decreased a lot.
Wang Banxian's symptoms were not obvious, so he was not noticed by the security guards, nor was he given medicine by the nurses.
He just lowered his head and searched for something on the ground anxiously.
Xiao Qianchuan had just calmed down a patient with delusional disorder when he turned around and saw the old man who had told his fortune earlier coming over.
He quickly turned around and pretended not to see it, but the person behind him suddenly called him.
"Hey! Young man, have you seen my breastplate?"
"What heart to protect? What mirror to protect? I don't see it."
Xiao Qianchuan put his hands into his trouser pockets and looked as if nothing had happened.
"Oh no! What should I do? My breastplate. Wow... wow... my baby is gone."
As he said this, the old man actually started crying.
Xiao Qianchuan was at a loss for a moment.
He was prepared for the old man to throw a tantrum and argue with him unreasonably, but he didn't expect the other party to burst into tears without any warning.
The white-haired old man cried like a child, with tears and snot streaming down his face, and he looked extremely miserable.
Xiao Qianchuan was suddenly at a loss and could only calm the man down before bringing the nurse over.
"That's enough! That's enough! Don't cry. First tell me why you have to look for that broken mirror?"
Hearing this, the old man stopped crying suddenly, pushed the person in front of him away, and almost fell backwards.
Xiao Qianchuan hurriedly supported him and took the old man's scolding.
"What a broken mirror! What do you know? That's my treasure! My treasure. You have such a poor vision."
Just when he was about to take the mirror out of his pocket, Xiao Qianchuan stuffed the mirror back into his trouser pocket when he heard this, rolled his eyes silently, and said coldly.
"Then go and find your treasure slowly by yourself!"
Just as he turned around to leave, the old man started crying again, as if he had been badly bullied by Xiao Qianchuan.
Feeling more and more eyes around him, Xiao Qianchuan looked up at the sky. His eyes met the hanged ghost above his head, who immediately understood and floated down slowly.
The reason why Xiao Qianchuan was able to complete the side quest so quickly was that these ghosts really helped a lot.
The ghosts stay here the longest, watching these patients every day, and know their symptoms, causes and even gossip very well.
This made Xiao Qianchuan's mission more efficient. But this old man...
The hanged man looked around for a long time and then shook his head.
"I really don't know much about this old man Wang. I just know that he likes to tell people's fortunes."
The thin ghost at the side also nodded repeatedly, "That's right, he doesn't usually communicate with others except for fortune-telling. In all these years in the hospital, I've never seen anyone come to visit him."
"I don't know much about this old man. He looks normal. The doctors and nurses don't care much about him. There's not even a treatment plan. He just eats, takes medicine, and stays alive every day."
Hearing the fat guy slumped in his chair say this, Xiao Qianchuan suddenly became troubled.
The old man couldn't stop crying, and his voice was so loud and full of energy that it gave people a headache.
Xiao Qianchuan was deflated and decided not to waste his energy on this old man anymore.
"Here! I'll give it back to you."
Xiao Qianchuan took out the small round mirror and placed it in front of the old man. He thought the old man would be quiet for a while, but he didn't expect the other party to just stop and take a look, and then started crying and shouting again.
"This is not my breast protection mirror at all! You lied to me. This broken mirror is 5 cents at the entrance of the elementary school."
5 cents?
Xiao Qianchuan was angry.
This old man must be blackmailing him on purpose!
"How can it not be? Look at the color, and then look at the pattern on the back. This is your broken breastplate."
"Bullshit!" The old man also got angry with him.
"I wear that breastplate every day, how could I not recognize it? This is not mine."
Unable to argue with this unreasonable old man, Xiao Qianchuan wanted to leave, but the old man held his arm tightly.
"Wow... You promised to find a mirror for me, you can't leave. You can't go back on your word! Ugh..."
Xiao Qianchuan held his forehead with his hand, he really was being blamed.
The four ghosts shook their heads in unison, indicating that there was nothing they could do.
After arranging the patients to sit in their seats not far away, Ling Rizhao walked back.
He had heard the noise a long time ago and thought Xiao Qianchuan would handle it soon. But he didn't expect that after such a long time, the old man's crying became louder and louder.
"what happened?"
When Xiao Qianchuan saw that it was Officer Ling, he immediately reached out for help as if he had seen a savior.
"This old man is blackmailing me."
The tone he used was truly aggrieved, and even had a hint of coquettishness that he himself hadn't even noticed.
Ling Rizhao's heart moved slightly.
Seeing Wang Banxian hanging on Xiao Qianchuan's arm, he frowned.
But before Ling Rizhao could rescue Xiao Qianchuan, the other party looked up and saw that it was him, and knelt down with a plop.
Xiao Qianchuan was startled and thought the old man had fallen, so he quickly reached out to help him up.
But the stubborn old man just refused to kneel down no matter what. He knelt very straight.
As soon as his tears were wiped away, he hugged Ling Rizhao's calf and started crying.
"God, please make the decision for me!"