Void Jigsaw Puzzle

Chapter 231 The Voice Next Door

When Guo Ling saw these words and felt the strange gazes of the man and woman, he immediately forgot that he was in a virtual form and subconsciously rushed into the small room behind the marble table.

After entering, he found that there was nothing in the hut!

In an instant, he thought of a possibility, but it was too late.

Without any warning or awareness, he had completely switched from his virtual form to his physical form. When he realized this, he was shocked. It felt like he was jumping rope naked in his own home, and suddenly the whole house disappeared, with a group of people staring blankly outside!

Guo Ling shuddered and quickly looked down, only to find that his clothes were still on. He breathed a sigh of relief.

But before he could finish his breath, he felt his feet go empty. The floor suddenly opened up in all directions and instantly turned into a big pit. He fell into it without a doubt.

Guo Ling subconsciously closed his eyes and felt as if he was falling into a bottomless pit. When he got used to the rhythm and opened his eyes again, he still hadn't reached the bottom.

Moreover, he felt his descent slow down somewhat, as if he were being slowly lifted by an invisible buoyancy, counteracting the free fall effect brought on by gravity. He glanced around hurriedly, but could see nothing clearly.

Then he felt himself falling onto a soft cushion, sinking into it and bouncing back up.

Regardless, he landed safely.

He looked up again, but could no longer see any light. The floor of the small room had obviously closed again.

He was already in complete darkness, not knowing where he was or how long he had been falling.

He had initially been trying to roughly calculate the time of his fall, and then use the acceleration of gravity to calculate the height, but he didn't expect that his fall was offset by buoyancy. He then realized that he was not in Wuming City and knew nothing about the acceleration of gravity here.

However, he still kept his eyes wide open to deal with any situation that might occur at any time.

However, in the darkness, his hearing became extraordinarily sensitive, and he vaguely heard someone talking next door.

Guo Ling groped his way over on the cushion and reached the wall. He first probed the wall with both hands and found that it was very smooth and there seemed to be no mechanism. So, he curiously leaned over and put his ear to the wall.

Sure enough, I could hear the conversation next door more clearly.

"Mayor Tan Ping, it's been so long, and you still haven't figured it out?" The voice seemed to come from a man with a hoarse voice. His throat seemed to be stuck with something, and he was not deliberately lowering his voice.

"Hmph! Don't even think about it!" The person who answered seemed to be this person named Tan Ping.

Judging from the voice, she is a woman.

"Come, let's look at this from a different angle. Back when you were the governor of Fengyao City, you already disliked me. Later, I finally managed to get that old pervert Tan Guan to transfer you to Houkun City to be the mayor. That was considered a good thing for you, wasn't it? It's simply repaying kindness with evil! What kind of place is Fengyao City? It's just an entertainment city with a total population of only 10,000. And what about Houkun City? It's the power center of our entire Tan Clan! You've made such a big career advancement, and it's fine if you're not grateful to me, but you're using your inflated power to continue suppressing me. I've tried to communicate with you in a nice way, but you're unresponsive. Now I can only lock you up here. I don't even understand why you're targeting me so much. Back then, it was because of that pretty boy named Zhang Chuyu, and what about now?"

When Guo Ling heard the three words "Zhang Chuyu", he was stunned and immediately focused more.

"Bah!" Tan Ping responded, "Do you think everyone is like you, Tan Jia? Like Chief Tan Guan? I just can't stand your behavior of putting yourself above the law! If everyone is like you, what rules will remain in Houkun City, our core planet P1, and even within the territory of our entire Andromeda Galaxy? What future can we have?"

Obviously, even though she was very angry, Tan Ping still called the "old pervert" mentioned by the man named Tan Jia as "Chief Tan Guan".

Guo Ling felt that he had a preliminary understanding of the relationship between Tan Ping and Tan Jia, and even heard the names of Zhang Chuyu and the leader of the Tan tribe.

He suddenly felt that his fate was not in vain.

"Hahahaha..." Tan Jia from next door laughed, but the sound was extremely unpleasant, as if he was sawing wood with a dull saw.

In the "Reunion" game, Guo Ling and Zhong Chenmu and other members of the puzzle team sawed a lot of wood when they were building the base defense line in Ma'anshan and Chenghuang Temple areas northwest of Wuming City, but they had never made such an unpleasant sound.

"Mayor Tan Ping, you are a woman, and single, and you don't have any needs in that area. Do you think I would believe you? You said you are not doing it for a gigolo? But for the law? Hahahaha, you are dying of laughter. Anyway, considering that we have known each other for so many years, Tan Guan also asked me not to be too cruel to you, so I don't want your life. Moreover, I have found a new gigolo for you, and he is locked up next to you. I will ask you one last time, are you worthy of cooperating with my work? If you don't, I will take you there immediately, and you will be a pair of mandarin ducks in the dark with him. I will give you food and water regularly, as well as contraceptives, to ensure that you can enjoy the joy of family life without any worries..."

"Get out of here! There's no way you'd let me go along with you! You'd better kill me! Don't be like Tan Guan and pretend to give me a way out!" Tan Ping shouted harshly, not letting Tan Jia finish his words.

"Look, you're excited again, aren't you? Did I hit the nail on the head? I'm also very busy, so I won't argue with you any further. I'll let you get what you want right away, hahahaha..."

After another burst of unpleasant laughter, the door of the next room slammed shut.

Guo Ling quickly left the wall and returned to the place where he had fallen.

His heart was beating wildly.

"Gioco? I'm already forty, can I still be called a gigolo?"

Of course, he immediately realized that now was not the time to dwell on this matter, because according to the man named Tan Jia, he would bring Tan Ping to him immediately.

It sounds like Tan Jia is not a good guy. He seems to have done a lot of bad things in Fengyao City and Houkun City. Tan Ping, as the manager of these two cities, has brought him a lot of trouble. So, Tan Jia somehow got the Tan Guan clan leader to endorse him and watch him appease him as he brought Tan Ping to this underground prison for lynching.

However, this lynching actually meant that she was imprisoned with a man...

By now, Guo Ling had a rough idea of ​​why he was in this situation. Clearly, he had been trapped in a hallucination ever since he entered the walls of the "Great Yuanbao." He wasn't sure when this hallucination began, but it likely began when the convoy left and he rushed into the Yuanbao main building. The layout of the hall, especially the small room, the marble table, and the couple, must have been a figment of his imagination.

It's not hard to guess who created all these illusions. It must be someone from the Hydrogen and Helium tribes. According to Zhang Chuyu, they are currently discussing large-scale trials of stimulants and sedatives with the Carbon tribe's leaders. Only they have the capability.

But who are they, and why are they doing this? Why have they trapped themselves in this place?

Guo Ling still had some questions that needed to be answered, but he had no time to think about it anymore because he heard footsteps getting closer and closer outside the door.