Chapter 251: Inhuman (59) (1st update + 2nd update + 0.5 update) [VIP]

The icon did not completely brighten, but had a faint gray tint.

It should be a sign that it is not fully triggered.

In the live broadcast room, the audience seemed to have no need for sleep, and the barrage of comments was still very lively.

[I said the anchor would not trigger failure. ]

[The anchor was almost leaving the trigger zone just now. ]

[I haven’t left yet…]

[The anchor has "Welcome" on his body, so he is safe. 】

[Even though I said that, there have been so many failures before, who knows if something will go wrong here. ]

At around six in the morning, the audience on the barrage chatted casually. After noticing that Bai Jinshu had not moved his eyes away after checking the icon and was still staring at them, everyone became excited:

【Good morning, anchor. 】

【Good morning, good morning, good morning, anchor! 】

[Did you know that you are the only one who has successfully triggered the event? ]

[Anchor, you are the first one to wake up among your group. ]

[From other live broadcast rooms, the anchor is the first one to wake up here. 】

[Many newcomers in other live broadcast rooms have already failed in the second stage. 】

[The newcomers’ broadcast rooms are even more lively than the broadcaster’s…]

[Please don't talk about other people here, okay? I come here to watch the anchor, who wants to listen to you talking about other people's life and death. ]

[The second stage of Nightmare is all about ability. If others are eliminated, it’s because they don’t have the ability. If you want to go to other live broadcast rooms, go ahead.]

"Good morning," Bai Jinshu rubbed his brows lightly in the morning light, "Okay, stop arguing."

His current condition is somewhat abnormal.

Of course, no normal person would flip directly off an overpass just to use the momentary feeling of weightlessness when the body is suspended in the air to wake up from the hallucination.

From the perspective of high efficiency, this choice cannot be considered abnormal. It can only be said that it jumped over the firewall of the self-interest personality against his own interests. At that moment, his own judgment on how to escape overwhelmed his subconscious on how to preserve himself.

This is not the emotionally stable Cen Bingqi.

This is the personality that appeared at the last moment of [Revenge].

A...very casual, very anti-stereotype personality.

Killer personality.

Just now, this personality briefly "escaped from prison".

The bullet screen was filled with dense words, making people's brains ache. Bai Jinshu looked around and couldn't tell where he was in B City. He could only press his eyebrows and look at the bullet screen again: "What's the situation now? Am I the only one who has completed the second stage?"

At first glance, the experience just now seemed fine, but in fact, there was something wrong everywhere.

This is an illusion constructed by his subconscious mind. All the triggerers who triggered the S-level weird story [Nightmare] should have been pulled into the illusion triggered in the second stage. In addition to his own consciousness, this illusion should also be composed of the consciousness of other triggerers.

This illusion is constructed by the collective consciousness of everyone, and then develops according to his cognition. The ultimate goal is to make the people who enter here voluntarily leave the triggering range of the ghost story, causing the second stage trigger to fail.

Those anchors who failed in other live broadcast rooms mentioned in the barrage should be the newcomers who did not see through the illusion and walked out of the triggering area ignorantly in the illusion.

As an illusion, one that has no independent consciousness and can only develop based on the cognition of the triggerer, the weirdness in it is not without trace.

The first thing that went wrong was when Yuan Shanming disappeared.

As the captain, and the captain who placed his hopes of leaving here on two team members, Yuan Shanming would not abandon everyone and run away no matter what happened.

The only explanation was that in his own subconscious mind, Yuan Shanming had never participated in any previous exploration of strange stories, so when constructing this illusion, his brain actively excluded Yuan Shanming as the trigger.

The second thing that was wrong appeared after he was awakened by Huangmao.

Huangmao woke him up in the room and told him that the people in the room had disappeared when he woke up, and an hour and a half had passed since the triggering event. His first reaction at this time was that something might have happened to the team left outside.

Then he walked out of the corridor and found that the team that stayed behind had indeed encountered an accident.

The third abnormality occurred after they deduced that the seven people were killed by the ghost story.

The ghost killed these seven people, but did not attack the city guard downstairs. At this time, his first reaction was that the ghost was still in this hotel.

Then, the shadow formed by blood in the room moved.

The fourth thing that went wrong occurred when they escaped and broke through the door.

The security door was locked, and in his impression, Guan Hongyan, who was the first in line, tried to break the door first. However, in his perception, Guan Hongyan was not strong enough to open the locked iron door, so his first reaction was that it was normal for Guan Hongyan, as a normal person without any buff, to be not as strong as Xiao Tang, who might have a weird trump card.

Then, Xiao Tang appeared and kicked the door open.

If one follows along from here, as long as one is perceptive enough, one can discover that in this long illusion, the progression of each plot is inevitably accompanied by his inference of the current situation.

It was as if his words came true. Whatever he thought of, something would happen next.

He realized that Shadow was chasing them to kick them out of the hotel, so Shadow turned on the light inside the fire escape below.

He thought that going down further would be a dead end, unless there was an extra floor, the stairs would soon reach the bottom. Then Guan Hongyan suddenly discovered a mezzanine.

He thought that in such a dark environment, it was impossible to confirm the identities of the people around him, which would easily make people doubt whether the teammates around him were still teammates, so an outsider who was not a teammate immediately appeared.

From the beginning to the end, the development of the hallucination follows his cognition.

As a [Trigger Phase 2] whose goal is to lure all triggerers out of the trigger area, [Nightmare]'s approach is very clever.

Its biggest problem is that it does not have the ability to construct a complete scene and story, and must rely on the triggerer's cognition to proceed, so it uses a very clever way to make up for this shortcoming.

It creates an extremely dangerous environment.

When there are monsters chasing you and you could die at any time, no one will have the energy to think about whether the development of events conforms to the rules or whether it is illogical. Events develop according to their own speculations, and there is a chance of life at every node where they are about to die. The escapees will only feel that they are blessed by luck, and will not think about whether such a development is too coincidental.

But again, [Nightmare] does not have the ability to construct an illusion, it can only proceed according to the speculation of the triggerer.

Therefore, the monster chasing behind is actually generated by the subconscious of the triggerer.

He subconsciously believed that the S triggered in the City of Violence would be related to the shadow, and that shadow became the monster chasing him.

As for shadows and monsters, he had only a very superficial understanding, so all the weaknesses of the shadows came from his speculations based on what he saw and heard in Qiaotoudong Town.

However, in an extremely stressful environment, people are actually unable to discover this.

Even for Bai Jinshu, before everything was settled, he just felt that this escape was unexpectedly "smooth" and he was unexpectedly "escaped from a desperate situation".

What really confirmed that something was wrong was when he switched his personality and climbed down from the elevator shaft...

After he landed, he did a little test.

In a normal elevator shaft, it is impossible for so many "coincidences" to exist so that everyone can have a foothold and handholds to use when coming down.

So at this moment, he tentatively used the suggestion that "he could see" to deceive the illusion.

He "thought" there should be a place to stay there, so a place to stay appeared there.

At the same time, he was sure that the Dita in the illusion was not Dita.

In other words, the Dita here does not have the ability to "make her wishes come true" and manipulate the environment like him.

She was just an illusion made up of the subconscious of the real Dita.

He was in the midst of an all-too-real hallucination.

But when he gave up speculation and left the hallucination with no reasoning to refer to for designing the next plot, the real purpose of the hallucination gradually became apparent - it repeatedly exaggerated the extremely dangerous atmosphere here, trying to make him take the initiative to leave the triggering range of the S-level ghost story.

Whether it's Dita who will be trapped in the dark layer forever if he can't leave here, or the team member who has a stabbed foot and has to go to another city for treatment, these are all catalyzing the development of the situation step by step in his subconscious, telling him that now they have no choice but to leave here.

In other people's hallucinations, there must be other reasons why they have to leave here.

In these hallucinations, what urged them to leave were the monsters chasing them, the seriously injured team members around them, or like Dita, they had reasons to leave.

Once they take a step out of City B in the illusion, the second stage of the nightmare will fail in the real world.

A two-stage trigger scam that couldn’t be more clever.

In a place like the City of Violence where fists are everything, who would have thought that the triggering process of S-level ghost stories is actually a false illusion that has nothing to do with martial arts value?

[I came back from another live broadcast room. After the anchor woke up, several people also woke up one after another. ]

【Brother Yuan wakes up.】

[Dita, the leader, also woke up. ]

[Six people from Dita's team have been eliminated. I thought she would be eliminated too.]

[Six? That's so many. Show me the way.]

[The daylily is cold now. ]

【Xiao Tang also woke up.】

[Come to think of it, the yellow-haired guy who was with the anchor was not eliminated. ]

The barrage of comments passing by in front of his eyes suddenly brought Bai Jinshu back to his senses which were drifting further and further away.

"Are they all awake?" On the screen, the killer personality raised his eyebrows slightly and touched his chin thoughtfully, "It seems that the pass rate of the second stage this time is not bad..."

Six people were eliminated from Dita's team, leaving only four people except Guan Hongyan.

On their side, Huangmao unexpectedly was not eliminated in the second stage, and together with Huai Jiamu, whose current condition is unknown, there are still five people. So, in this way, there are exactly ten people who survived and successfully passed the triggering of the second stage.

In terms of the number of people, this number is not a disadvantage for entering the official S-level ghost story.

After the second stage is triggered, it should be the official ghost story segment. With ten people, even if it is a round-robin battle, they can fight for a while.

【But the anchor was the first to wake up. 】

【They are not as good as the anchors. 】

[The anchor is still the most powerful one among this group of people. ]

[Nightmares are constructed by the subconscious mind. These people can wake up because the anchor woke up.]

[After the anchor woke up, the anchor in their nightmares no longer looked like an anchor, so they woke up naturally.]

[If it weren’t for the anchor, at least three more people would have been eliminated in the second stage. ]

【The anchor is really amazing. 】

The barrage of comments expressed their loyalty one after another.

"Okay, stop brushing," the killer personality showed no appreciation for these unidentified courtesy, "Can you guys go to other live broadcast rooms? Help me notify all the people who have completed the second stage trigger to gather at the hotel."

【Okay, I'll go right away.】

[The anchor actually asked me to help him do something...]

[This anchor talked a lot with everyone today. ]

[I like this anchor! This anchor is interactive! Can this anchor come out more often? ]

"It depends on my mood." He glanced at the comments on the screen, "Why don't you go?"

【Let’s go now! 】

【This anchor should appear more often in the future! 】

[I have already notified other live broadcast rooms. ]

[It would be nice if the other anchors could talk more like this one. ]

"Say more?" On the screen, the killer personality was very interested and had no intention of giving up his seat. Instead, he casually asked as he walked, "What do you mean by the other anchors?"

The barrage took up the conversation very actively:

[The other anchors are just other anchors! ]

[The anchor who often appears in the anchor room is the permanent anchor. The one who appears during a fight is the fierce anchor. The one who attacked the park with the Qin army in Monopoly last time is the powerful anchor. The one who coerced and bribed the beggar is the smiling tiger anchor.]

[Host, are you a new host who loves to interact with everyone? I wish other hosts could interact as actively as you! ]

[The regular anchors often don't watch the live broadcast room. No one dares to say anything to the fierce anchor. The smiling tiger anchor always feels a little scary. You are the best anchor. ]

[From now on, we will call you the interactive anchor. You should come out more often! ]

[Host, please tell us more about yourself! What color do you like, what do you like to eat, and do you have any hobbies! ]

"Hobbies?" The killer personality on the screen tilted his head and thought for a moment, "My hobby is chatting with people."

"It's quite interesting," he laughed for no apparent reason, "to see how different people react when they see me, and to see how other people react after I repeat these reactions."

As a "killer", among all the stereotypes of killers, he seems to talk a little too much.

But no one cares about him now, right? Bai Jinshu looked at the barrage in a good mood and put on a very pleasant smile.

Those viewers who watch him regularly can indeed see the subtle differences between these personalities.

But it seems that the host's personality switch is not strange to them.

Or in other words, they didn't seem to realize that these were different personalities. In the minds of these viewers, there was no concept of "split personality."

It's interesting. They want to find out about him so much, but they don't have enough relevant knowledge to understand what a streamer is and what these viewers want to do...

【Host, we also like to chat! 】

[But the other anchors don’t like to pay attention to us. ]

[Host, can you tell me about other hosts? ]

"The others..." The killer personality looked around and determined where the hotel was, then casually said as he walked, "The resident anchor you mentioned doesn't have any special hobbies. If I have to say anything, he likes to pretend to be a good person and likes to make everyone think he is gentle and polite. In fact, he is a black-and-white villain who loves to win people's hearts."

As for Cen Bingqi, he is a large-scale PUA tool created to calm the mood of all personalities. His original intention of creation was to make everyone like him. He is very good at pretending to be a good person hypocritically.

"The more aggressive one... has a bad temper and gets angry easily. He thinks he can convince everyone with force and loves fighting the most. His mental age is at most thirteen or fourteen years old," the killer said sarcastically, "He's no different from the annoying kid who plays with cats and dogs at the gates of elementary and junior high schools."

As for Cen Bingqi, he was a guy whose combat power was maxed out when he was created. Maybe his combat power was too high, and people were afraid that he would cause a big mess after having the corresponding IQ or EQ, so he had a very simple beauty of strength.

"Well... the great anchor you guys mentioned is an old man who has been abandoned by the times," he waved his hand, not caring at all. "His hobbies are probably playing with walnuts and raising birds in his room. A young and beautiful person like me doesn't have the time to care about what an old man is thinking. You can ask him in person next time."

The ruler of the retired version has little presence in the personality and does not appear often.

"And that guy, the Smiling Tiger anchor you mentioned," the killer personality shrugged, "He... is a person who likes to talk about maximizing profits all the time. He is as rigid as the disciple of an old man after he abdicated. What he likes most is to preach, preach, preach, preach..."

He rolled his eyes impatiently: "Anyway, I'm too lazy to listen to him. If we hadn't reached a consensus in the end, I would have nothing to say to this kind of person. I would have to find a reason to escape, otherwise he would teach me a lesson again this time..."

"Yeah, we're here," he stopped complaining. He looked back at the direction he was coming from, and then looked at the hotel building above his head. "I didn't expect it wasn't that far."

The triggering area of ​​this S-level ghost story is not far away. No wonder the border of the City of Violence, which was originally out of reach, was reached so quickly in that illusion.

It turns out that there are only so many roads in the real world.

"Thank you for chatting with me," the killer personality waved his hand in a friendly manner, "Next time I tell you gossip about other anchors, don't tell them I'm talking bad about them behind their backs when I'm not around!"

【Good interactive anchor! 】

[See you next time, interactive anchor! ]

[Interactive host, let’s chat together next time! ]

[Interactive Anchor This is a secret between us, we will keep it well! ]

"Okay, don't let it slip and don't let anyone else know that I've been here." The killer personality blinked and stepped into the hotel.

"Er Si?"

In the hotel lobby, Dita was already sitting on the sofa. When she saw him come in, she quickly stood up: "I saw in the comments that you woke up first. I didn't expect this trigger has a second stage..."

"It's okay." She vaguely felt Ersi suddenly smile, then returned to his usual self, and shook his head lightly, "The clues you got are incomplete, so it's normal that you don't know there is a second stage to trigger. The biggest problem now is who has passed the second stage and successfully triggered the S ghost story."

"Oh, right," Dita immediately threw away the strange thoughts in her mind, "After the second stage, it should be a formal ghost story. I just met Brother Yuan and Xiao Tang. The three of them should have passed the second stage trigger. I will stay in the lobby and wait for the others to come back."

"Hmm... my comments here say that Xiao Tang and Huang Mao have both successfully triggered it," Bai Jinshu lowered his head and thought for a while, "The members who have successfully passed the second stage should all return to the hotel to gather. I am mainly worried about the team members who did not trigger the second stage..."

These people have walked out of the B City area, but it is very likely that they are still in the illusion and have not woken up. It is still unknown whether they will go further and further...

As soon as he finished speaking, the elevator dinged and the yellow-haired figure appeared in it: "Sister Tazi...Ah'erge! You're back too!"

He hurried over, his tone a little hurried: "Up there! Something seems to be wrong up there!"

"What's the problem?" Dita stood up suddenly.

"We can't push the door open... No, it's just that we can't seem to get in. That's not right. I don't understand..." Huang Mao explained for a long time and finally said in frustration, "You will know when you come up!"

Huangmao's words were vague, Dita and Bai Jinshu looked at each other, and Dita had to leave in the hall while Bai Jinshu went back upstairs.

The elevator arrived at the residential floor, and as soon as the door opened, we saw the faces of Xiao Tang and Yuan Shanming.

"Someone's here?" Xiao Tang glanced inside the elevator and his eyes lit up. "Ersi, come and try it!"

"Try what?" Bai Jinshu followed her forward a few steps in confusion and stopped in front of a room.

"Push it." Xiao Tang said.

Bai Jinshu frowned and reached out to push it.

His hand did not touch the door.

To be precise, at the moment when he was about to touch the door, something extremely smoothly separated him from the door.

"If you can't push it open, then there must be something wrong with us..." Xiao Tang frowned and told everything that had happened before like pouring beans out of a bamboo tube.

"You also came out of that illusion, right?" She turned her head. "Everyone in that illusion was fake. I thought you were all replaced, so I had a fight with them. Then I woke up inexplicably and appeared on the street. On the way back, I met Brother Yuan, and then I realized that this was the trigger of the second stage of this strange story."

"Hey, that's not the point!" She pointed to the door next to her. "The point is that after Brother Yuan and I came up here, we were worried about the other newcomers who didn't trigger the game successfully, so we wanted to come up and take a look, but we found that we couldn't push the door open."

"Can't be pushed open like this?" Bai Jinshu pointed to the door in front of him.

"Yes, I feel like my hand is isolated from the door by something," Xiao Tang kicked the carpet, "and did you find a problem?"

"What?"

"It's already seven o'clock," Yuan Shanming pointed to his watch, then pointed to the sky outside, "There's not a single pedestrian walking on the road."

Outside the window, half of the sun has appeared on the city skyline not far away, but the city, which belongs to the guards at night and the citizens during the day, has not woken up.

The streets were still empty, without a single pedestrian.

At the time when the newcomers should get up, wash and get ready to go out, the door belonging to that team was still closed.

The elevator made a sound and Dita appeared here with several other people.

"Everyone should be here," she glanced at everyone in the corridor, "Those standing here are the team members who have triggered the second stage."

Dita's troops were nearly wiped out.

Apart from herself, in the team of ten, only Guan Hongyan and a fitness man were left who passed the second stage trigger.

On Yuan Shanming's side, Huangmao miraculously saw through the illusion. Xiao Tang used his martial arts to defeat Nightmare, causing him to lose the ability to construct and leave the illusion. Yuan Shanming, with his rich experience in leading a team, saw at a glance that this was an illusion.

Only seven people have successfully triggered this strange story.

"Did we enter a bigger illusion after leaving that illusion?" Guan Hongyan frowned.

After trying every door in the corridor, everyone finally realized that they couldn't push open any of them. Everyone could only move in this corridor and the elevator.

Not only could they not open the door, it seemed as if their range of movement was restricted. Apart from this corridor, they could not enter the banquet hall downstairs. After the elevator stopped on the fifth floor, it was as if a transparent wall had been installed in front of the opened door, blocking everyone from entering.

Xiao Tang tried several times with punches and kicks, but finally gave up and took the elevator back upstairs.

"Do we need to break a bigger illusion?" Dita looked at Yuan Shanming.

"It shouldn't be..." Yuan Shanming frowned slightly, "It has already been triggered through the second stage, and now it's time to enter the formal stage, unless your strange story has some hidden protection period or window period or something like that..."

"But if this thing exists... there must be some clues." He thought thoughtfully.

"Look again?" Xiao Tang raised his hand tentatively, "How about we go through the entire hotel first!"

"If our range of activities is restricted, then we can search down layer by layer. Who knows, we can find clues in a place that is not restricted?" She thought for a moment, "Or we can fight our way through! If we can't bear this illusion anymore, it will break by itself."

"No need to leave."

Just then, the sound of a door opening was heard, and an extremely familiar face appeared behind the guest room door that no one had opened.

Huaijiamu.

He was not dragged into the hallucination.

He actually walked out of the room directly.

"You..." Dita paused, "You didn't leave the hotel in your hallucination?"

Everyone was a trigger, except Huai Jiamu who came out directly from the room.

It was even a room that everyone had tried and failed to open before.

She could not find any other explanation except that he did not move a step in the hallucination and never left the room. This member of Yuan Shanming's team often gave her the feeling that he was not a member of the team, which made Dita feel a little scared for no reason.

"Don't doubt it, this is the real world, the capital of violence," Huai Jiamu ignored her question and said calmly, "After the exploration team successfully triggers the S-level ghost story [Nightmare], the ghost stories will cover the entire city."

"The entire city, including the natives and all explorers who entered, has fallen into a deep sleep."

"They won't wake up until the weird story is finished."

"And now," he turned sideways, revealing three bodies lying on the beds in the room, "you are also sleeping."

Seeing his body in the room but unable to enter, Huangmao spoke cautiously: "What if... we fail to complete the ghost story, or no one triggers the second stage of the ghost story?"

The next second, everyone saw a very subtle expression on Huai Jiamu's face.

"Oh," he said, "the city of violence will become a city of death."

The author has something to say:

The first 20 + random 20 (vomiting soul), all the surrounding items for the lottery have been ordered, wait for me to issue the lottery tomorrow (rubbing hands)