Learn one small skill every day

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Were all the door knockers in the 40s this rich?

Bai Miao feigned indifference and asked, "And what about you?"

"I can break free from the door and escape my current situation."

Bai Miao still didn't fully believe White: "If it's a win-win situation, why didn't you explain it to me clearly from the beginning instead of forcing me to commit suicide?"

"Your entry was unexpected. I can't trust you. You should just die so as not to affect my progress, so I hope you die soon."

"But now, cooperating with you is the best option for me."

Bai Miao nodded, after all, if he continued like this, he would indeed turn the whole town upside down.

Working for free.

"In this unfinished instance, you can indeed clear the game by destroying the entire town and killing everyone, but another way to clear it is to smash the mirror in front of you, that is, to kill yourself, or rather, to kill the creator of this instance, me. But in this way, you will not be able to obtain the Aleph-level glove that I gave you, because I have not yet completed this instance."

White actually posted the walkthrough directly.

"This is my sincerity. I hope you can help me complete this dungeon, and I also hope you will join the fight against the gate. This is the main reason why I want to make this deal with you."

"You have the potential to find the door's weakness before it bares its fangs, and close it forever, or lock it and keep the key in your own hands instead of letting it open whenever it wants."

Bai Miao did not agree immediately: "That's a bit far off for me. You know I'm just starting out here and don't know anything. And you're not willing to reveal too much information right now."

"It's not that I'm unwilling, it's that I can't."

"Alright, then all I need to do to complete the dungeon for you is collect Hatred?"

"Yes."

"But how can I be sure that once you've gathered all the necessary information, I can actually complete the game from the generated full copy? I can't completely trust you about that."

White wholeheartedly agreed: "I understand your concerns, but even if you had to start from scratch to complete the entire dungeon, would you consider it a very difficult thing?"

"I was almost convinced by you, but all of this is based on the premise that you will actually generate a complete copy after collecting hatred."

Bai Miao continued, "White, do you know about the Sunrise dungeon?"

"If you can answer this, I'll believe you're the one who will knock on the door in the future."

Although White did not understand what Bai Miao meant, he had indeed heard of this copy.

"The 'Towards the Sun' dungeon... the condition for passing it is to join one of the Nine Suns, each of which is a top-tier company... the time required to complete this dungeon is calculated in years, so many successful players who knock on the door will loudly proclaim how difficult this dungeon is... according to my statistics over the past year, the completion rate of 'Towards the Sun' is less than 0.3%."

It looks quite decent.

The information about the Zero Hour Lock is pretty much what White said.

"Abyss Street? Have you heard of it?"

Unexpectedly, White's writing at this moment became unusually emotional.

"We know! We know! Abyss Street is a single-player instance, and it only appeared once. Only the person who clears Abyss Street is qualified to participate in subsequent instances! His rise to power is legendary in the entire world of Doorkeepers! You've already heard about him by now?!"

Damn, how come I didn't know I was so awesome?

Chapter Sixty: Blood Mist Spreads, Corpses Litter the Field

White used the masculine pronoun "he" rather than the feminine pronoun "she," so Bai Miao can be certain that he was referring to himself, not Hu Muyao.

In other words, the changes I made did indeed affect subsequent changes.

"So Pale Noise was famous from the very beginning? He's my idol. When you go back this time, could you ask him for an autograph and give it to me in the future? I'm in the UK. Once the global knocker network is connected, we can add each other as friends."

"Pale Noise is his code name, and he's one of the three legendary door knockers with gossip to tell you about."

Unbelievable, the gossip has backfired on them.

What gossip could I possibly have? I was already 30 years old in the 40s, surely I wouldn't still be single?

"Stop chasing celebrities. Since you know so much about the future, tell me what major events will happen so I can know in advance."

"I really can't tell you. The only thing I can vaguely tell you is that one day those powerful beings inside the door will come out of the door and enter the real world. So what you need to do is close the door properly."

"What about the Eight Trigrams? What exactly does the Eight Trigrams contain?"

White countered, "Why are you interested in gossip from that era?"

"I'm curious."

White hesitated for a moment, then said, "I've only heard the general idea, but the relationship between these three is very complicated and has been entangled for many years. If you ask me, Pale and Noisy should act like a real man and take them all down."

"..."

"Why do not you speak?"

"Nothing, I think we should talk about serious matters. Did the smiley face at the end of every sentence you said just now have any special meaning?"

Bai Miao decided to take this opportunity to ask all the questions that were bothering him.

White is very cooperative, which is a good thing.

This also shows that he really wanted to deal with the door.

"This symbol indicates that you are on friendly forces. If you encounter someone you don't know when you met them, you can exchange greetings with a :-). If the other party responds in the same way, it means that you all share the common goal of dealing with the door. If you had responded to me with a :-) from the beginning, it might not have been so complicated."

Bai Miao exclaimed in confusion, "Then can't we just give a smile to any stranger we meet?"

"If you're not an ally, you might be considered a suspect. Think back to what you were thinking when you first saw me send you a :-) emoji. And the most crucial point is that if someone genuinely approves of the group, they can't send a :-) emoji; it will be converted to :-]."

"Okay... I basically understand your logic. But there's one last question: Is everything in Hardman Town a fabrication you created?"

“Yes, it’s all fake, but everything in Hardman Town was once real… The memories you saw are my real experiences. I need to relive them and intensify this hatred. My own hatred for the town will also be taken into account. Once I’ve collected enough hatred, I’ll create a new copy. My father is the supervisor. His role is to urge me to keep collecting hatred. If I stop collecting, he will start creating hatred in me, which means he will keep attacking me. But you were lucky to avoid it.”

"Easy, I'll speed up the process for you."

……

Back in town, Bai Miao looked at White's father, who had merged with Lucia: "I can't collect hatred tonight, but I'll start collecting it in large quantities tomorrow."

Seeing that the latter had no reaction, Bai Miao jumped off the roof and returned to his room under the cover of night.

The next day, Bai Miao went to school as usual.

But the news of Lucia's disappearance from her own room still made the news.

This is more alarming than the killing of other students.

The discussion could be heard throughout the classroom; some people thought that the murderer had taken a liking to Lucia's beauty and kidnapped her.

During the lunch break, Bai Miao went to the principal's office.

Upon seeing Bai Miao, the obese principal forced a smile and said, "Mr. White, is there anything I can help you with?"

"Have."

Bai Miao took a pistol out of his backpack and pressed it against the principal's head.

"Call all the teachers and students into the auditorium and say that you have an emergency to announce."

"No! Mr. White...you can't do this!"

The principal trembled all over; he seemed to already know what Bai Miao was planning to do.

"Hmm... Well then, I won't force you. Just say the letters AZ once, and then bark like a dog a few times."

Although the principal didn't understand what it meant, was barking like a dog an insult to himself?

He didn't know, but with a gun pressed against his forehead, he did it anyway.

"Wang! Wang Wang!"

After the principal finished speaking, Bai Miao imitated the principal's voice and called out a few times.

"Cough cough... So that's what that sound is..."

"You...you are...?!"

"boom!"

After learning the principal's voice, Bai Miao went to the broadcasting room.

"Boom!"

After executing one of the staff members, Bai Miao turned on the school's public address system and cleared his throat.

"Everyone, please proceed to the auditorium immediately. For your safety, I have a very important announcement to make, for all faculty and students! Anyone who fails to arrive within ten minutes will be severely punished!"

No one questioned the principal's instruction.

He was already portrayed as a tyrant at school.

As all the teachers and students sat down in the auditorium with unease, they did not see the principal on the front stage.

But they could only obediently sit in their seats.

Bai Miao walked in openly from the front, locked the front door in front of everyone, added a thick iron chain, and did the same thing to the back door in full view of everyone.

Bai Miao's behavior caused them great unease, and they all questioned him about what he was doing.

However, Bai Miao ignored him and simply smiled at the person who questioned him.

Bai Miao slowly walked to the podium and asked, "If you were killed by someone, would you hate that person?"

"What the hell are you talking about?! Where's the principal? Why are the front and back doors locked?"

"Very good, stay angry, stay hateful."

Bai Miao took out two smoke grenades and threw them into the crowd.

"My God! White has gone mad!"

"Beat him to death!"

"Beat him up! Make him hand over the keys!"

The smoke made everyone's noses and eyes water, and they rushed onto the stage in a frenzy, trying to attack White.

Then they saw White pull out a sword that was bigger than a man from somewhere.

Wherever the blade touched, blood splattered.