304 Homecoming Train (VIII)

◎Zhu Ning is about to be drowned by the water ghost◎

Why is there a little girl?

There were many corpses on the train, which could be roughly divided into three categories: refugees from the old world, water ghosts wearing clothes from various dynasties, and people inside the wall wearing protective clothing.

A little girl holding an urn suddenly appeared in front of them. If they were ordinary humans, they would be able to see her walking towards them.

I haven't heard of such a young girl among the investigators outside the wall, let alone the bounty hunters. Could she also be a ghost?

Li Xiugang remained calm, but his men were visibly more panicked. Words kept flashing on their screens: "Who is this? A water ghost?"

Why are you holding the urn?

Li Xiugang confirmed with his own eyes that it was not a fake, but what they were looking for.

Li Xiugang calmed down and saw two words appear on the screen: Shut up.

They have modified the helmets, and the biggest disadvantage is that anyone can see the information on the screen. Don't reveal too much before you know whether they are enemies or friends.

The other teammates immediately cleared the screen and looked at the little girl eagerly. There weren't many obstacles, only a bleeding shoe blocking her. Someone in their team could control the girl with their mind, so it wasn't difficult.

Li Xiugang did not give the order. Treasures that seemed to be obtainable without paying a high price were often traps.

But he was a little hesitant. The thing he had been looking for was right in front of him. Was he just going to stare at it like this?

Everyone was very worried. This evil kid had disappeared with the urn in his arms, and they didn't even know where to look for him.

What if Li Xiugang's inference is wrong? What if it wasn't a person who took the urn, but a pollutant?

Pollutants have evolved and are using bait to kill people. This has happened before.

The next stop is coming, so there is not much time to hesitate.

Li Xiugang, who was standing at the front, raised a hand. The other teammates were stunned when they saw it. Li Xiugang's gesture meant that the original plan should remain unchanged. Once they arrived at the station, the relevant personnel would get off the bus and notify others immediately.

The teammates were a little dissatisfied. Li Xiugang was too conservative. It was because of his excessive caution that they spent some time verifying the rules passed down by their predecessors one by one after getting on the car before letting someone take the urn away first.

But Li Xiugang quickly made a second gesture, meaning to let the two scout dogs lead the way, and he would not feel sorry if these people died.

When the bait appeared, they knew it was a trap and had to fall into it. Li Xiugang made a series of gestures that only their internal staff could understand.

Li Xiugang didn't know what the fisherman wanted, but the meaning of his gesture was that teammates who had not exposed their special abilities should cover each other up.

They are old hands and know a very simple truth: they cannot fully expose their special abilities. If the person on the other side is a human, they will find ways to crack the person's special abilities after knowing their specific abilities.

They were standing closer together, so even if there was a long-range attack, no one would know who started it.

The two scout dogs raised their legs like puppets, knowing that they were going to die in front of the ghost child.

There was a water stain in front, and the water stain was getting bigger and bigger. The cloth shoes inside actually floated up, like a small boat spinning inside.

The first scout dog to go out was named Meng Sheng. He stared at the bloody cloth shoes. He knew rationally that he shouldn't look at them, but he couldn't help it. He didn't even bother to look at the ghost kid opposite.

Suddenly, the blood-stained cloth shoes stopped spinning, and the invisible cold feeling weakened for no reason. Meng Sheng was stunned for a moment, thinking that it must be the mind controller in the team who took action.

Meng Sheng instinctively wanted to run forward, and so did his companions, but the chain around his neck moved and tightened even more.

Li Xiugang looked at them expressionlessly, meaning that they should continue walking.

They already knew that Blood Cloth Shoes was a water ghost, so they wouldn't waste any more time exploring the way.

Meng Sheng's legs and feet were completely out of control, and he took stiff steps forward.

whee--

Suddenly, the naughty kid in the corridor laughed, and the laughter was so loud that it made Meng Sheng's scalp tingle. His whole body resisted moving forward.

This must be a ghost. A feeling of despair surged up in him. A normal person would at least want to avoid it when seeing such a situation, but he insisted on running headfirst into it.

He is going to die. As a scout, he knows that he is going to die, it’s just a matter of whether to die sooner or later. He thinks he is mentally prepared, but in fact he is not. His mind is blank.

His body was pulled over by the puppeteer's force, and he stepped on the place where the ghost child was standing, but he didn't touch anything.

Meng Sheng blinked. Empty, empty?

What was that? A hologram? Or a real ghost?

Meng Sheng swallowed his saliva and concentrated his attention. He actually heard a little breathing sound and a little warmth, as if an invisible person was breathing in front of him.

Is it a human?

Meng Sheng raised his eyes. Normally, a good dog would inform its owner of the information it has gathered, but he was not loyal at all, and his throat rolled.

When he looked up, the little girl appeared in front of him without warning. She was wearing a black helmet with a reflective surface. He was so scared that he shuddered.

Before he could react, his limbs moved again under the control of the puppeteer. He seemed to be blood-thirsty and only had eyes for the urn.

Meng Sheng just raised his hand, but suddenly he froze, and then he pinched his own neck. His face turned purple, and he fell to the ground and thrashed like a fish. The other scout dog did almost the same thing.

The little girl just took two steps back and looked down at him.

The scene was somewhat horrifying, as if harmed by an invisible ghost. The puppeteer tried to retract the puppet strings, but his strings were ineffective and he had long lost control of the two scouting dogs.

Could it really be a ghost? Several people looked at the ghost child with changed expressions. There really was a fourth creature in this car.

They had been acting according to the rules summarized by their predecessors along the way, but there was no information about the existence of ghost children.

It’s over, many people thought so, and this time they might not be able to get off the bus at all.

They quickly adjusted their mindset. They were all desperate criminals who were not afraid of losing their lives. In that case, why not give it a try and get the urn back? Some people were already thinking of taking action.

Li Xiugang remained motionless and lived outside the wall for many years. The more suspicious the situation was, the more he could not move. Staying still could maintain the status quo.

As soon as Li Xiu raised his hand to stop him, words appeared on the screen: Invisible Man.

Once teammates stop, they become invisible?

Li Xiugang was also confused by this scene at first. The little girl suddenly appeared in the corridor, and the two approaching pathfinder dogs suddenly fell to the ground as if controlled by an unknown force.

No matter how you look at it, it looks like he was knocked down by a ghost.

But it just looked too much like a ghost, as if it had been deliberately rehearsed.

He listened intently and heard the little girl making a sound as she retreated. This person had done his best to conceal the noise, perhaps through deliberate training or careful walking posture, but Li Xiugang still heard it.

Ghosts are silent.

It wasn't a ghost at all. They overthought it and thought it was a fourth kind of creature.

In fact, it was just as they had deduced before, that someone had stolen their things and was deliberately making things mysterious to lure people in.

Three more words appeared on Li Xiugang's screen: Puppetry.

There was also someone on the opposite side who was good at puppet manipulation, so the puppeteer's control was cut off. Looking closely at the two fallen pathfinder dogs, their chests were still slightly rising and falling.

It's not cruel enough. If you really want to make a show, you should kill these two people directly. That would be too much.

But Li Xiugang still didn’t understand what the purpose of performing such a play was.

It can be probably judged that someone is trying to lure him forward by using a transparent little girl. Li Xiugang grinned and said, "You want me to move forward, but I won't. You want me to take action, but I won't."

Li Xiugang stuck to his original plan and got off the bus when he arrived at his stop.

whee--

The little girl laughed twice again. Is she still acting? Is she addicted?

Li Xiu was just about to see how this play would play out when his pupils suddenly shrank. The little girl actually raised the urn above her head, and it looked like she was going to drop the urn.

Li Xiugang's decision was based on one premise: no matter who took the urn, it would not be destroyed and he would protect it with his life.

This was completely his preconceived notion. The things in the urn were priceless and worth the death of tens of thousands of people. Li Xiugang gritted his teeth. He was indeed a madman.

Lin Xiaofeng held the urn. She listened to Zhu Ning's instructions to act like a ghost and agreed without hesitation. Zhu Ning was a little worried about her.

Lin Xiaofeng wondered if he would mess up the performance, but the script was very simple, just to scare people and then smash the jar.

Lin Xiaofeng also asked, is it really a smash?

They were not allowed to talk in other carriages, so they communicated by typing using the sub-brains. After one sub-brain finished typing, several people would come back and forth to supplement it.

Zhu Ning replied: It really sucks.

Zhu Ning didn't care at all. Whether the treasure in the urn could destroy the world or save the world had nothing to do with her.

She said that she had only one goal, to kill Prometheus, and she would not deviate for even a second.

In nature, hunting requires keeping an eye on the target. Now Zhu Ning's goal is clear, which is to kill the mind controller on the opposite side and take it for himself.

Zhu Ning used to swallow pollutants, but this is the first time he plans to swallow a living person. Aren’t people with special abilities pollutants that keep them sane?

Lin Xiaofeng pretended to be a ghost and observed carefully just now. The bloody shoe was controlled. As expected of a member of the Resurrection Society, he couldn't lock on to the target at all.

Qi Xueliu said that they, the controllers, can only see their own threads and cannot see those of others.

Lin Xiaofeng's plan to pretend to be a ghost was soon discovered. He only caught two insignificant chess pieces while fishing. Lin Xiaofeng seemed to be a professional opera singer. When the time was right as written in the script, he would smash the jar.

She had been holding her breath ever since she knew that they were members of the Recovery Society. Thinking of Bao Ruiming, she almost developed a crazy desire for revenge.

Bao Ruiming probably never imagined that not only would his plan fail to be carried out, but Zhu Ning would also insist on destroying the very things they wanted for the Revival Society. If Zhu Ning couldn't survive, no one else could.

Lin Xiaofeng only knew his own plot and didn't know where Zhu Ning and the other two were. He was too immersed in the play and smashed down hard at this moment.

Just as Zhu Ning expected, when Lin Xiaofeng was about to smash it, Li Xiugang finally couldn't sit still anymore.

Three people in their team took a step forward. Zhu Ning asked Qi Xueliu, and they learned that mind control has a range, which is generally not too far, otherwise this ability would be too incredible.

Qi Xueliu is most accurate within six meters. Beyond this distance, she will subconsciously shorten the distance between her and the target, the closer the better.

This is the instinct of all mind controllers, so Lin Xiaofeng appeared in the middle of the carriage corridor, neither far nor near, which was also the distance estimated by Qi Xueliu.

The urn did not fall to the ground, but was instead held firmly in place by an invisible force.

appeared.

It’s just that the predators coordinated with each other very skillfully, and three of them moved at the same time. I don’t know if someone was impatient or deliberately covering it up.

Now the scope is narrowed down to one of three.

After Lin Xiaofeng finished her performance, she disappeared in front of everyone. Transparency will always be her best life-saving talisman.

Li Xiugang had no time to deal with a little girl. Things happened quickly enough. He smashed the urn, the little girl disappeared, and the urn was held in mid-air.

The mind controller in their team was called Huang Sha. After he held it up, he retracted his hand and the urn was pulled back. The target appeared so easily that it seemed particularly unreal.

The process of retrieving the urn by mind control was obviously very fast, but at this moment it seemed to be stretched for a century. Li Xiugang's first reaction after getting the urn was that it was fake.

But at this moment, Li Xiugang's ears moved and he heard the sound of footsteps. He couldn't see the specific person, but he could only feel someone moving in the air.

Is she a little girl? No, judging by the noise, she's an adult.

The man also appeared suddenly, wearing protective clothing but no helmet, revealing a very embarrassed face and messy hair, like a wolf that had broken out.

Most people wear helmets to protect themselves from pollution, but Li Xiu knew this person didn't use one when he saw her face. He almost saw a ghost.

Zhu Ning.

Who doesn't recognize this face? They have watched Zhu Ning's video over and over again countless times. The so-called true god is also the legendary demon.

As soon as Zhu Ning appeared, Li Xiugang guessed what Zhu Ning was going to do. Her biggest characteristic is devouring. She can devour pollutants and people with special abilities.

Coming for the yellow sand?

Li Xiugang immediately deduced the cause and effect. Zhu Ning was originally trapped in the car. Even if she had the devouring ability, the Homecoming might be a dead end for her. But they came to pick up the goods by chance, which gave Zhu Ning a chance to survive.

Li Xiugang turned around in a hurry and wanted to open his mouth to give a hint, but then he remembered that no one on the Homecoming could speak except for the dining car.

This limits their communication.

Li Xiu regretted it as soon as he turned around. He subconsciously sent a message to Huang Sha, and the helmet showed: Huang Sha, go.

But this almost exposed Huangsha's position. As soon as Li Xiu gave the order, the others would definitely react. Huangsha took a step back, and his two teammates forgot to cover him and instead stretched out their hands to block him.

Originally it was a choice between three options, but now there is a standard answer.

Zhu Ning showed his face just to measure the exact location. Li Xiugang saw Zhu Ning's face. Being so smart, he would definitely guess the real target. What Zhu Ning wanted was mind control. Since he couldn't speak, he turned around and showed Huang Sha his screen. People's subconscious reactions will not lie.

Even if Li Xiugang could control his reaction, the other teammates couldn't.

Zhu Ning is cruel enough.

They reacted promptly and their target was the urn, which they had already obtained. Now they only needed to consider how to exit.

Huangsha immediately released his control over the bloody shoes at the connection between the carriages, hoping that the water ghost would temporarily resist.

Unexpectedly, the bloody shoe was quickly suppressed by another force. Huang Sha's nerves were shocked, and he knew that someone was coming to travel with him. Qi Xueliu used her mind to clear the way for Zhu Ning.

She had just thought that Zhu Ning was going to kill her, but she didn't expect that Zhu Ning wanted Qi Xueliu to help her.

Qi Xueliu had no objection, as long as he didn't eat her. She stood behind Lin Xiaofeng from beginning to end, with one hand on Lin Xiaofeng's shoulder to keep her transparent, quietly waiting for the opportunity.

After becoming invisible, Lin Xiaofeng turned to protect Qi Xueliu.

Qi Xueliu had suppressed the Blood Shoes once, so it was not difficult for her. Zhu Ning stepped over the water stain and went straight to the mind controller among the plunderers.

But Zhu Ning did not make contact immediately, she was only two inches away from the yellow sand.

Li Xiugang quickly retreated while holding the urn and raised his hand.

Zhu Ning only felt a sudden pressure. The plunderer leader was no pushover. His special ability was actually pressure.

Zhu Ning tried it and found that since everyone's abilities on the Homecoming were reduced, the pressure on Li Xiugang was extremely terrifying.

As if it was driven by high voltage, the windows on three sides of the train burst one after another, and glass shards burst out like bullets.

What is more terrifying than glass shards is water. It was raining outside, and after the glass window was broken, a water ghost crawled in. It seemed to have been waiting for a long time, watching the two groups fighting like a show, and finally found an opportunity to eat.

Li Xiugang just wanted to get the things and didn't care about the life or death of others, including their own.

But they have a blood feud with Zhu Ning, just like Zhu Ning doesn't care about the urn, it's broken, so be it. Li Xiugang will not want Zhu Ning to have an easy time. Killing the biggest enemy of the Revival Society, his death is worth it.

Li Xiugang retreated quickly and the rain didn't get on him at all.

Qi Xueliu's face was pale. She had just controlled the blood shoes and could not help at all. There were too many water ghosts and she could only watch Zhu Ning being drowned by them.

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