Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 405 Attacker

(Something happened suddenly at home, and I have to go to the hospital. Today I will update first and revise later, because I don’t know when I will be back tomorrow, so I won’t say when I will be able to revise today... After it comes out tomorrow, I will send red envelopes in the group to make up for the money for the follow-up reading. This will be the case every time I update first and revise later. This month has been really unlucky...)
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Chapter 1 Rebirth

"My fellow bar friends, is there anything I should be aware of when I'm reborn for the first time?"

Inside the rental house, Ji Ran typed this line on the computer.

The quartz clock on the wall showed that it was five o'clock in the afternoon, which was the peak time for the activities of stupid netizens. Ji Ran felt that he would get the answer soon.

As he expected, enthusiastic netizens quickly responded to him:

"It's so real at first glance, the poster is playing online cosplay."

"I don't know what to say, so I'll give you +3 experience."

Well, it still tastes familiar...

The corners of Ji Ran's mouth twitched a little. Seeing that the discussion on this floor was gradually going off track, he simply turned off the computer and fell onto the old single bed behind the computer desk.

"Online cosplay... I wish it were real."

Ji Ran sighed helplessly, picked up the calendar on the bedside table and took a look. It was 2017.

He failed in the postgraduate entrance examination that year and chose to work after graduation. Then he spent five years living as a social animal working from nine to five and occasionally from five to nine. His salary was neither high nor low, and he barely made ends meet by working as a part-time online writer.

"...Until today, I traveled back again?"

Ji Ran muttered to himself, stretched out his hand and rubbed his face vigorously. It still felt so real, just like when he suddenly woke up two hours ago.

Some people’s first thing after rebirth is to make up for their regrets, some people are ready to set a small goal first, but Ji Ran is different. The first thing he did after rebirth is to open the computer and post some water.

After finishing this application, Ji Ran felt that he had lost all of a sudden his motivation and he lay on the bed not knowing what to do for a while.

The timing of his rebirth was quite subtle. Even if it was earlier, before his postgraduate entrance examination, Ji Ran would not be so idle.

Now, he has failed the exam. According to his previous life trajectory, the final outcome for an engineering student like him is just a matter of which factory he works for. There is no point in trying harder.

After hesitating for a while, Ji Ran took out his mobile phone from his pocket and called his former roommate Xiao Liu.

Xiao Liu and Ji Ran originally rented a house together to prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination, but they both failed. However, Xiao Liu was even more miserable, as he broke up with his girlfriend yesterday. Now he is probably sober and is rushing to catch the train back home.

The ringing lasted for a long time before the person on the other end picked up the phone.

"…Are you feeling better?" Ji Ran asked tentatively.

"Oh, it's okay." Xiao Liu's voice was muffled, and he sniffed hard. "I'm at the train station now. I have to go home first anyway."

"..."

Ji Ran didn't know what to say for a moment, and the two of them remained silent on the phone for almost half a minute, until a loud whistle sounded from Xiao Liu's side.

"The train has arrived at the station. Old Wu, do you have anything else to say? I'll send you the information about the factory I'm going to. I heard the salary is pretty good."

"Okay, that's fine, have a nice trip."

After saying this mechanically, Ji Ran opened his mouth again, as if he wanted to say something else, but in the end he said nothing.

——What right does he have to worry about others now?
After hanging up the phone, Ji Ran walked into the living room feeling a little upset.

This house was originally shared by him and Xiao Liu. It was a standard two-bedroom, one-living room apartment located on the edge of their third-tier city, with an annual rent of 3,000 yuan.

His rent was due in a month, but there was nothing else for him to do if he stayed here any longer. Before his rebirth, he should have handed over the property to the landlord after Xiao Liu left, and then went straight to find a job in the factory.

So, should we do this again this time?
Ji Ran was a little undecided.

As he was hesitating, there was a knock on the door. Ji Ran responded and hurried over to open the door.

Standing outside the old-fashioned security door was the wealthy landlord, his plaid shirt slightly bulging with his beer belly. Ji Ran subconsciously took a half step back.

"I sent you a message this morning, why didn't you reply?"

The landlord naturally didn't care about Ji Ran's thoughts at the moment, and walked into the house carelessly. Ji Ran had to step back repeatedly before he let him pass through the narrow hallway.

"I drank a little too much with Xiao Liu yesterday, and slept all morning."

Ji Ran didn't hold back when speaking. The landlord was actually a nice guy, but he was middle-aged and out of shape, so he looked a little fierce.

"Yes, that's what I came here to tell you this time."

The landlord took off his leather shoes at the door and changed into the cotton slippers that Ji Ran had placed at the door. Only then did Ji Ran notice that there was a girl behind the landlord, carrying a large package and dragging a suitcase.

"Xiao Liu's rent is due, and I was planning to rent out his room. I didn't expect that this girl would call me not long after I put it up."

After the landlord finished speaking, he dragged another suitcase into Xiao Liu's room. Only then did Ji Ran have time to take a closer look at the girl in front of him.

The girl was about 1.6 meters tall. She wore a white sun-protection jacket and green suspenders on her upper body, pink denim shorts with a pair of light-colored canvas shoes on her lower body, and a pink baseball cap on her head.

She was wearing a knitted mask with a Gardevoir pattern on it, and her curved eyebrows were visible above the mask.

"Pollen allergy?" Ji Ran asked tentatively, "The trees along the road here are all willow trees, and the catkins in the summer are really annoying."

"Yeah." The girl nodded and coughed lightly twice.

"My name is Ji Ran, Ji for Four Seasons, and Ran for Then. What should I call you?"

"My name is Ye Tang, the same as in Haitang." The girl said softly, taking off her mask. It seemed that the lipstick was stuck to the mask, and she pursed her lips carefully.

"My classmate and I lived here before, and he just moved out yesterday. You can use all the furniture inside directly. If you think it takes up too much space, you can throw it over to my place."

Ji Ran suggested that since he only had one month's rent left, it was not certain whether to renew the contract, so he did not care too much. Most of the furniture was bought by Xiao Liu himself, and when he moved out, he left it to Ji Ran, saying that he could do with it as he pleased.

"Well, I have to tell you in advance," Ye Tang said timidly, seeming to feel a little guilty after Ji Ran finished speaking.

"I'm going to be live streaming tonight, so it might be quite noisy until 11:30. Is that okay with you?"

"Live broadcast?" Ji Ran glanced at Ye Tang subconsciously. "Of course you can. Where are you broadcasting? Moya, Moyu, or somewhere else?"

By 17, live streaming had developed quite well. Ye Tang was also quite good-looking. When she said she was a live streamer, Ji Ran was not surprised.

Ye Tang seemed even less confident, his voice as small as the hum of a mosquito.

"You may not have heard of me. I'm a virtual anchor. I recently made a virtual image and am ready to enter Ruizhan..."

Chapter 2: My roommate is a virtual anchor?

"Virtual anchor of Ruizhan? Is it VUP?"

Ji Ran felt an inexplicable excitement in his heart.

Ruizhan is different from MoYu and MoYa. It was not originally a software dedicated to live streaming. It started out focusing on the two-dimensional world, but later discovered that there was money to be made in the live streaming industry, so it began to transform in this direction.

The earliest VUP in China was Xiaoxi from the Virtual Research Society in 17. Although there were virtual anchors before that, most of them were announced by Zhongzhiren and were closer to real idols.

Ye Tang said that she is now preparing to work in this field. Judging from the development time, she can be regarded as the first emperor of the V circle. This gave Ji Ran a wonderful feeling of witnessing history.

"Yes, you actually understand all this?" Ye Tang nodded with some surprise, and seemed to have found that he didn't need to explain it to Ji Ran, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

"I know a little bit." Ji Ran was a little modest.

It's more than just understanding a little. Although the V circle was about to decline before Ji Ran was reborn, about 20 years ago, the suit people were the hot cakes in the eyes of many flexible employment people. Even if you are a Ruizhan user who doesn't want to know these, you can't resist Emperor Jin Yuan pushing his virtual anchors in your face every day.

"Thank goodness I don't really want to have to explain to people what my job is anymore."

Ye Tang made a face, "But don't worry, I'm a virtual anchor with a lot of power, and my equipment isn't that advanced, so I can't do motion capture for dancing, etc., so most of the time I'm just playing games, and at most I'll be a little noisy when there's a song to sing, so I hope you can bear with me then."

Virtual anchors are divided into community, enterprise and individual forces. The standards for the first two are relatively strict, and they can take care of each other. Individual anchors like Ye Tang have relatively free work, but lack resources and have to bear the consequences themselves if something goes wrong.

In his previous life, Ji Ran had almost never heard of Ye Tang, a powerful virtual anchor. Perhaps she was unable to make it out of the fierce competition at that time.

"No problem." Ji Ran agreed readily, "But I only have one month left on my lease, and I can't say whether I will renew it by then, so I'll just take it one step at a time." -
Just as Ye Tang was about to say something, the landlord came out of Xiao Liu's original room and shouted at Ye Tang and Ji Ran, "I put your things in there. You two can discuss the rest between yourselves."

"Okay, thank you!"

Ye Tang blinked and thanked the landlord.

"Hey, hey, hey, there's nothing to be polite about." The landlord waved his hand generously, turned to Ji Ran and said, "You have one month's rent left. If you want to renew the lease, you'd better let me know in the next two days so that I can find the next tenant."

"Okay, go ahead and get busy."

Ji Ran nodded, and walked the landlord to the door. Then he found a pair of relatively small slippers in the shoe cabinet and threw them at Ye Tang's feet, who was a little afraid to walk into the carpeted room because he was still wearing sneakers.

"Just make do with what you have for now." Ji Ran said as he stood next to Ye Tang, "We were two guys living together before, and this pair of slippers belonged to Xiao Liu's ex-girlfriend."

"Ex-girlfriend?"

Ye Tang raised his beautiful eyebrows and said, "He suddenly checked out these two days... It sounds like there's a story behind it."

"It's nothing to say." Ji Ran said lightly, "Yesterday, when the two of us who had passed the postgraduate entrance examination were having a barbecue together, he suddenly received a call from his girlfriend."

"Then what?" Ye Tang asked curiously.

"His girlfriend was playing truth or dare in the bar and called to complain that he had been staying in his room all the time and had not gone out with her on weekends and evenings for half a year. Then she said that during this period, she found a senior from her club."

"This is too much. Even if it's a dare, it shouldn't be so offensive..."

Ye Tang commented, "But, just because of this, they broke up?"

Ji Ran glanced at Ye Tang with a strange expression.

"Who told you she chose Dare?"

"...Talent."

Ye Tang was a little overwhelmed, but she still tried to keep a serious expression. She took off her canvas shoes and changed into the slightly larger pair of stuffed bear slippers.

"Okay, give me the shoes and I'll put them on the shoe rack."

Ji Ran said to Ye Tang habitually, and subconsciously stretched out his hand.

Ye Tang was stunned, his expression a little unnatural, he coughed twice and said: "Thank you, but I'll do it myself."

After she said that, Ji Ran realized that his mind was confused because he worked in the factory in his previous life. After all, there was a clear difference in the concept of personal belongings between the factory girl who had experienced the pressure of life and Ye Tang who seemed to have just graduated.

"This is the room you're in. You must have seen the photo of it on the website before."

Feeling a little embarrassed, Ji Ran had to make excuses to cover it up. He stood up and took Ye Tang to visit her room.

"These rows of iron shelves were installed by Xiao Liu himself. They can be used as bookshelves or storage racks... They are a bit ugly, but they are still practical."

"I didn't touch his closet... and those drawers. You can take out the things yourself when the time comes. If you don't want them, just throw them to me. He wanted to leave these things to me, but as you can see, I don't have that much space here."

"...We will share the water and electricity bills. As for the gas, it depends on whether you want to use it. I can pay for it for a while."

"This is a toilet and bathroom... Xiao Liu and I are both boys, so we installed two shower heads side by side. As for you and me, you can stagger them when the time comes."

This is just a house with two bedrooms, a living room and a bathroom. Even if every room is introduced, it won't take long. After a few minutes, Ji Ran explained the whole matter of sharing the house from beginning to end.

During this period, Ye Tang followed him obediently, saying "hmm" every time Ji Ran said something, and occasionally asked a few questions about network cables and microwave ovens, appearing to be particularly obedient.

Ji Ran took out his cell phone and checked the time. It was only six o'clock in the afternoon. For Ji Ran, who was used to a reversed day and night schedule, it was not yet time for dinner.

"If there's anything else, I'll be right across from you." Ji Ran told Ye Tang before returning to his room, "After all, you might have something that's inconvenient for me to see... I'll be downstairs for dinner at 8 p.m. If you want to go with me, just wait for me in the living room."

Ye Tang nodded and walked into his bedroom wearing a pair of slippers that were one size larger. He looked a bit like Psyduck.

"I didn't expect that the roommate I missed before my rebirth was actually a virtual anchor?"

When Ye Tang closed the door, Ji Ran stood there for a while and couldn't help laughing.

This looks much more interesting than going into the factory...

(End of this chapter)