Chapter 128 "Waaaaah, I'm so pitiful, she's so mean!"
[Having committed numerous evils] After helping Pei Hening move her things to the two-story building, he quickly left.
He hasn't yet taken back the materials he bought on credit from the orange cat shop owner.
As Pei Hening was organizing the materials, a cheerful female voice rang out behind her: "I'm here to return the measuring tape."
After taking a closer look at the building materials piled up in the room, the woman asked, "Where did you get these materials? Would you mind telling me?"
Pei Hening looked up and saw a woman with an exotic look, who looked to be in her thirties.
Her features were delicate and well-defined, her skin was fair and radiant, and her blue eyes were as beautiful as Lake Baikal in summer. When she looked at people, there was an indescribable sense of inclusiveness.
"I got it on credit from the owner of the renovation shop."
Even if Pei Hening doesn't say it, other players will guess it anyway, so it's better to play along.
"Thank you. I've assembled a renovation team. You can contact me if you need any help."
Pei Hening was surprised that someone had formed a renovation team. Her eyes lit up, and she asked again, "Sister, aren't the people on the renovation team worried about not being able to complete the task?"
"It's okay. My renovation team members are all pretty poor. We'll just make up the 80% that was deducted from them. There's no death condition in this dungeon anyway."
There are indeed no death conditions in dungeons, but there is one rule that if a player dies inside a dungeon, the player dies.
That means there is still a risk of death.
It's just that this risk isn't brought about by NPCs.
"Okay, I'll contact you if I need anything."
That night, Pei Hening closed the doors and windows, set up a makeshift 'bed,' closed her eyes to rest, and planned out the arrangements for the next day.
As she was falling asleep, she vaguely heard noises outside the door.
There was a rustling sound. She opened her eyes and remembered what King Pear Blossom had said.
Could it be the rat people she mentioned?
Pei Hening tiptoed to the window and saw the source of the noise through it.
It was a huge black rat-man.
It used a wire to furtively pick the lock.
Pei Hening was a little curious about what it wanted to do, so she quietly set up a few traps in the room where the building materials were stored to prevent it from using a diversionary tactic. Only after doing all this did she go over and open the door for it.
The black-haired rat-man stood there dumbfounded, holding the wire evidence of the crime.
Is it really that simple?
Its lock-picking skills are simply amazing!
Pei Hening hid in the corner and watched its reaction.
The black-haired rat sneaked into the house, its bright green eyes filled with excitement.
After breaking into two empty rooms and finding nothing, the excitement in its eyes subsided, and it even cursed, "Pah, you poor wretch!"
Pei Hening:...
Insulting!
That's incredibly insulting!
When the black-haired rat-like man came into the room where she kept her renovation materials, Pei Hening's palms, which were holding a burlap sack, were sweating.
The moment the black-haired rat-man came over, she immediately put it into the sack.
She didn't attack the NPC, she just grabbed it, and didn't trigger any rule penalties.
She gripped the opening of the sack tightly and tied it with a rope.
The next second, the rat-man trapped in the gray sack struggled violently, even uttering its native language in anger: "Squeak squeak squeak!"
Pei Hening moved a little further away and asked, "What are you trying to do, sneaking into someone's house in the middle of the night?"
The rat-man paused, then said, "..."
What a bad omen, you rat!
Pei Hening slowly said, "You're not going to tell me? Fine then, I'll just have to go through the trouble of handing you over to the head of the household tomorrow."
After she finished speaking, she turned around and went back to sleep.
"etc."
Pei Hening turned around, looking puzzled: "Hmm?"
The black-haired rat-man spoke hesitantly, "I... I came to steal something. Could you please not tell the homeowner about this?"
Seeing that the other party was willing to talk, Pei Hening found a clean place to sit down.
His tone was quite troubled: "If you steal something and I don't catch you, won't I be the only one who has to bear the loss?"
The black-haired rat-man was trapped inside a sack, unable to see anyone outside, its round, black eyes filled with disbelief.
The renovation workers the municipal department sent this time weren't stupid after all!
"But I didn't manage to steal it."
Pei Hening: "But you did steal, even if you didn't succeed in stealing, you still stole."
"Thinking about it and taking actual action are completely different things."
The rat-man remained silent for a moment, then asked, "So what do you want to do?"
"I need someone to help me out."
The rat-man raised his voice, incredulous: "You want me, a noble black rat, to work for you?"
"No, I don't mean you have to work for me."
"I knew it..."
Before the black-haired rat-man could speak, Pei Hening interrupted him: "At most, it's considered illegal work. You still have to do the work, but you won't get paid."
"ah?"
Seeing that it seemed unable to accept this, Pei Hening added, "Either you pay a ransom of 10,000 copper coins, and I'll let you go."
It patted its flat money bag and gritted its teeth: "Damn it! It's just being an assistant, right? Easy peasy!"
"But how long do I have to work for you? I can't keep working for you illegally, can I?"
Pei Hening: "After renovating this house..."
The rats are devastated! This is a two-story building! It's so big, how long would it take the two of them to finish it?
Pei Hening offered a bad suggestion: "Don't you think the area is too big and difficult to manage?"
"Do you have a solution?"
"You must have a lot of brothers, sisters, and friends, right? Don't tell me you can't contact them."
The rat-man's worldview was shaken. What was this decorator thinking?
Let it betray its people?
Hei Xiaozheng isn't such a low-class rat-man!
"If we can get them to help, the renovation will be much faster. And once you've finished the task, I can't hold you back. Isn't that a good thing?"
Rats are not very smart, otherwise they wouldn't have been reduced to stealing things to make a living.
Hei Xiaozheng's mind began to shift; what the decorator said seemed to make a lot of sense.
"What you said makes a lot of sense, but who knows if you're really letting me go or not."
"What if you want me to trick them into coming here and beat them up?"
Pei Hening glanced at the time: "If you're not happy about it, then forget it. I'll have you work tomorrow morning."
"Hey! You're really leaving? Aren't you going to untie me?"
Pei Hening tiptoed back to her makeshift bed to rest.
An hour later, she heard the rat-man making a phone call in a low voice.
"Yes, come quick, I've been caught by a shady construction worker."
"You don't know, she's really awful, she even wanted me to work for her illegally!"
"Waaaaah, I'm so pitiful, she's so mean!"
Pei Hening heard the rat-man's phone call clearly, and a faint smile appeared on her lips.
Waaaaah, it's so pitiful, she's so mean!
Hahahahahaha.
She opened her eyes, tiptoed out, and set up a simple and inconspicuous warning device around the sack.
After making sure everything was in order, I hid in a corner.
——
A few minutes later, a rustling sound came from outside the door.
The rat-man's terrible door-picking skills... are truly embarrassing.
She waited for quite a while, but the rat-man still hadn't pried open the lock, and she was getting a little impatient.
The same old trick again!
Two sneaky rat-men walked in from outside.
A clear, foolish voice was lowered to a whisper: "It's so dark, can I turn on the light?"
"We're going to steal someone! Why are you turning on the lights if we're stealing someone?!"
Pei Hening listened silently to the conversation between the two, once again overturning her understanding of the rat-men. Why did these things seem so brainless?
"You're right. Let's steal Master Zheng out first."
Pei Hening, holding a burlap sack, quietly walked behind the two rat-men, seized the opportunity, first caught one of them, and neatly tied the sack shut.
"ah!"
"Idiot, what are you yelling for?" The rat-man, who hadn't yet been covered by the sack, turned his head and saw a woman holding a sack and putting it over his head!
The rat-man quickly dodged, but she was even faster than he expected!
"Ahhh! When did you get here?"
The villain dies from talking too much. Pei Hening finished putting on the last rat-man costume before saying, "When did I arrive? Shouldn't I be asking you that?"
She asked, "When did you arrive? What are you trying to do, sneaking into the house like this?"
Blackie was happily waiting for someone to rescue it.
The screams of the two rescuers made it realize that the current situation was far from what it had expected.
His heart sank.
That clear, foolish voice was the first to deny it: "We didn't come here to steal from Lord Xiaozheng."
"Oh, you're not here to steal from Master Xiaozheng? Okay then, I'll call the homeowner right now and have her come and handle it."
Hei Xiaozheng couldn't hold back any longer: "No!"
Hei Xiaozheng: "I called these two over to help, so don't hand us over to the landlord."
Blackie, the rat-man with the clear, foolish voice: "Lord Xiaozheng, that's not what you said at the beginning..."
Hei Xiaoman: "Shut up, you idiot."
Pei Hening watched helplessly as the rats started arguing.
She kindly reminded him, "Master Zheng, it's getting late, you should rest. Stop sneaking around doing anything."
"You'll be doing heavy work tomorrow, so make sure you're well-rested."
Hei Xiaozheng: "...Understood."
Pei Hening lay back down again, and Hei Xiaozheng seemed to have run out of ideas and stopped causing trouble.
She woke up promptly at six o'clock in the morning and heard a deafening snoring sound—it was the three rat-men snoring in their sleep.
Pei Hening found an aluminum basin and banged it hard.
"Knock knock knock—"
The three burlap sacks, which had been rising and falling gently with the snoring, convulsed violently the moment she knocked on the basin to wake it up.
woke up.
"Oh, you're awake?"
Hei Xiaozheng's voice was weak: "What are you doing! You scared me to death!"
"Time to get you out of bed and get to work!"
Hei Xiaoque: "Master Xiaozheng, should we do some work for her here?"
"Let's run away as soon as she opens the bag. It's shameful to work illegally for a construction worker."
Pei Hening: "Plotting in front of me?"
Hei Xiaoque: "...Can you pretend you didn't hear me?"
Hei Xiaozheng had this idea all along, but he didn't expect that this idiot would expose it.
It almost fainted from anger.
"Hey, you're not only stupid, but can't you at least shut your mouth?"
Pei Hening: "Perhaps, you can't escape~"
She wouldn't let these three laborers leave before the renovation was finished.
Pei Hening locked the doors and windows, and first opened the sack containing Hei Xiaozheng.
Hei Xiaozheng tried to escape in a flash, but ended up running into the sack she had prepared earlier.
"Oh, what do you mean, Lord Zheng?"
"Abandoning your people and running away is so irresponsible!"
"They risked their lives to save you, and now that you're safe, they want to run away. They're really wicked."
Pei Hening recalled what she had overheard last night and said again, "Waaah, they're so pitiful, you're so mean!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the room fell silent.
Hei Xiaozheng: "..."
Its paws were itchy, and it wanted to dig a hole.
Hei Xiaoque broke the silence, angrily saying, "Even if Master Xiaozheng runs away, it will find rescuers to save me and Hei Xiaoman!"
Pei Hening tied the bag back up, grabbed Hei Xiaozheng, and threw him into an empty room, locking the doors and windows.
After she finished doing all this, she returned and opened the sack containing the two rat-men.
Blackie popped out first, looked around but didn't see Master Xiaozheng...
"Where is Lord Xiaozheng?"
"He's locked up."
Before Hei Xiaoque could speak, Hei Xiaoman, who had suddenly appeared, covered his mouth.
Hei Xiaoman asked, "What do you want from us to let us go?"
"I thought your Lord Zheng had already made it clear to you that I need your help with the renovation."
Hei Xiaoman hesitated; if word got out, the three of them would probably lose face.
Do you really want us to work for you illegally?
Pei Hening understood its meaning: "Redemption fee, 10,000 copper coins per person."
Hei Xiaoque broke free from his restraints, his eyes wide: "How could you be so greedy!"
Pei Hening looked at it and said quietly, "Your 20,000."
Hei Xiaoque looked completely dejected; no wonder Xiao Zheng called her a heartless decorator.
It said only one sentence, and the ransom doubled.
Isn't that unethical?
"Alright, get to work now."
Hei Xiaoman followed Pei Hening with a dejected Hei Xiaoque in tow.
"Don't be discouraged. Home renovation isn't as difficult as you think. I already found some tutorials for you last night. Just follow the instructions."
Pei Hening only had so many renovation materials on credit, and she couldn't let these three rat-men waste them.
"You two stand there, I'll demonstrate for you first."
Following the tutorial he found online, Pei Hening began to mix the cement.
After demonstrating once, her arms felt sore.
Renovating definitely requires a lot of effort!
"Come over and give it a try."
Pei Hening pointed to one of the rat-men, which was Hei Xiaoque.
Seeing that they were learning quite well, she breathed a sigh of relief.
Right now, all sorts of posts are popping up on the renovation forum.
[Happy Mimi Home · Xiao Mo]: I have assembled a renovation team. Friends who need it can contact me.
[Happy Mimi's Home - Little Monster]: The things I bought yesterday, despite being so stingy, were stolen! Damn it, who stole them? Step forward, I promise I won't hit you.
[Happy Mimi Home · Xiaoshuai]: Has anyone started renovating yet? Have you drawn up any design plans? Could you share them?
[Happy Mimi Home · Little Fatty]: Has anyone ever asked a renovation shop owner for credit? How did you manage to convince him? That chubby guy chased me out with a broom when he heard I wanted to buy on credit.
[Happy Mimi's Home - Xiaozuo]: Does anyone have any extra soundproofing panels? Sell them to me!
[Happy Mimi Home · Xiaobai]: No, you actually renovated? I just bought two cat beds... I think they'll like them.
[Happy Mimi's Home - Little Orange]: Holy crap, look what I found! [Image] [Image] [Image]