Chapter 283: Inhuman (91) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]

The waiters in the teahouse were all familiar with Yuan Shanming. As Yuan Shanming and the waiters went to the back to wash and change clothes, the remaining Bai Jinshu, Huai Jiamu and Huang Mao were also led by the waiters to the newly cleaned room.

The waiters in the teahouse were all young men, but many of the Pipa girls who sang Pingtan had strange bodies. At this time in the morning, the Pipa girls had not come to the teahouse yet. Boss Sun asked a waiter to find a Pipa girl of similar figure to lend clothes to Xiao Tang and Guan Hongyan.

By the time everyone had finished washing up, the groups outside who were preparing to leave the teahouse to do other ghost stories had almost all left.

The lobby has been restored to its previous appearance. The round tables prepared for tea drinkers are now occupied by newcomers from the investment bank. Just like when they first came to the teahouse, these newcomers are now urgently reviewing the stories of the storyteller in the teahouse's ghost stories and checking each other's recitation.

For a moment, the atmosphere in the teahouse lobby was comparable to that of an early morning self-study classroom on the eve of the college entrance examination.

Everyone they left here also sat in a circle in the lobby.

Xiao Fei probably saw them just now, but there were too many people in the lobby at that time, and everyone went to take a shower before he could squeeze through. Now when he saw Yuan Shanming coming out, he immediately stood up from the table and walked towards everyone.

Yuan Shanming and his companions had been walking in the sewer all night. Now they were suddenly out of the high-pressure and tense environment of last night. Their bodies could not hold on any longer, so they changed their clothes and quickly prepared to go back to sleep.

"Brother Yuan," he said, his face still looked rosy, and it seemed that the two days he was left here in the ghost story had at least not been bad, "I heard that you guys went out and spent the night outside last night?"

"Ah... yes, I'll tell you later," Yuan Shanming said, sleepy and seeing stars, "I'm going to take a few hours' sleep first, and I'll tell you slowly when I come out. Are you guys okay staying here these few days?"

He remembered that they had only been out for more than half a day, and when they came back, two people were found dead in the teahouse ghost story.

We have been away from here for more than two days this time. Could someone die again?

"It's okay! Everyone is fine!" Xiao Fei pointed into the distance. Seeing that Yuan Shanming was so sleepy that he was shaking, he hurriedly asked with concern, "Brother Yuan, how about I help you back to your room?"

"No need - yawn, I'll just go back and take a nap," Yuan Shanming looked in the direction he pointed and counted the number of people. It was indeed not missing, so he couldn't help but yawn because he was so sleepy. "You guys take your time to review, we'll come down at noon."

Bai Jinshu looked up and saw that the teammates who were left behind were indeed sitting in the lobby, including Nian Yu.

He gently patted Guan Hongyan's shoulder, indicating that the mute girl she mentioned was inside. Guan Hongyan understood and said, "...Uh, didn't they say that everyone else in your team was dead?"

Yuan Shanming yawned halfway and stopped awkwardly.

hiss……

So many things happened on this return trip that he almost forgot about it. When they went to the City of Violence to hear about the ghost story, they used the excuse that all the team members except them were dead.

"This is a bit complicated," Bai Jinshu gestured to Yuan Shanming, asking him to handle it, and pulled Guan Hongyan out of the crowd, "I'll explain it to you slowly..."

After receiving the signal from Ersi to explain, Yuan Shanming breathed a sigh of relief and quickly went to the room to rest.

In the early morning, the lobby of the teahouse was full of people reviewing the content of Blame Her. Bai Jinshu and Guan Hongyan had a tacit understanding that the so-called explanation was just a pretense in front of the barrage of comments in the live broadcast room. Bai Jinshu gave a general explanation, and Guan Hongyan pretended to believe it, and the matter was over.

After finishing the explanation, Guan Hongyan used the excuse of getting to know these teammates to test Nian Yu. Bai Jinshu didn't have enough energy, so he yawned several times and went to the room to sleep.

*

By the time Bai Jinshu woke up, several hours had passed.

When the storyteller starts telling stories at 2 o'clock every afternoon in the teahouse, all new people who have triggered the strange stories will be pulled into the story. He is not worried about oversleeping, because in order to prevent them from entering into the storyteller's story, Yuan Shanming will definitely wake them up before 2:30.

There were sporadic voices coming from the lobby downstairs. The newlyweds were still testing each other on how to recite the ghost stories from the afternoon. It seemed that it was still early.

Bai Jinshu turned over from the bed and only then did he feel that his right arm, which had been chopping with a kitchen knife all night yesterday, was sore and numb. He shook his arm, moved his shoulders and neck, then pushed open the door and walked out.

In the lobby downstairs, the newlyweds gathered together as before to check each other's story recitation. The only special table was probably the one where Xiaofei was sitting.

The few team members left here by Yuan Shanming have already been involved in several ghost stories. Compared with the newcomers who have just entered the teahouse or have been exposed to these stories for a short time, they are obviously much more at ease.

Specifically, when everyone was reviewing, only the newcomers at this table had time to chat.

Guan Hongyan and Xiao Tang were wearing cheongsams worn by Pingtan and Pipa girls, while the yellow-haired girl next to them was wearing a long gown that the owner of the teahouse, Mr. Sun, had found for them. At first glance, it seemed that these three people had almost blended into the atmosphere of the teahouse, in sharp contrast to the newlyweds around them who were wearing modern clothes.

Guan Hongyan was sitting next to Nian Yu and seemed to have become familiar with everyone. She was drinking tea and listening to what Xiao Fei was saying. Bai Jinshu walked in and heard that Xiao Fei was actually talking about how he had accidentally gotten involved in a strange story about [Smash the Porcelain] and how he and Xiao Tang had gone to rescue him.

"Hey, Ersi, are you awake?" Seeing him approaching, Guan Hongyan turned around and waved, "Brother Yuan said he went to the kitchen to urge them. After we have lunch here at noon today, we can go to Area W. The rest of you should stay in the teahouse."

As she spoke, she grabbed Bai Jinshu's wrist in a very suggestive manner and pulled him to sit on the stool next to them.

Through Guan Hongyan's palm, she pressed something moving on Bai Jinshu's wrist.

With the help of the table, Bai Jinshu sat down naturally, took the thing off with his backhand, put it in his palm and took a look at it.

It was a bug about the size of a finger knuckle.

Now that it was held in his hand, it lay obediently motionless, looking as if it were fake.

Guan Hongyan probably wouldn't just stuff a bug toy into his hand, this thing is probably real.

Thinking of what Li Zi had told him before, that Nian Yu seemed to have controlled the "secret" of the bugs in the middle of the night, Bai Jinshu looked up at Nian Yu who was still sitting aside and looking at his phone obediently, and clasped his palms together without changing his expression, saying in a normal tone: "If we go to area W, Xiao Fei, will you still stay here?"

"Brother Er..." Xiao Fei scratched his head, looking a little embarrassed, "I'd better stay here."

"I've been thinking about it carefully in the teahouse these past few days, and I've decided to stay here based on the advice of the comments," he said seriously, "I'm not good at fighting, and I'll be a drag if I follow you guys, Erge, and I'm likely to lose my life in some difficult ghost stories."

"Ah?" Xiao Tang took a sip of tea beside him, "Not really, right? Actually, you didn't hold us back that much."

Xiao Fei is a man with good sense. He doesn't seek death in ghost stories. Unless there is any critical situation, it doesn't matter whether he is with us or not.

"It's different, Sister Xiao Tang," Xiao Fei said seriously, "In the past few days, in the storyteller's weird stories, I have also accumulated a group of big brothers who are interested in my live broadcast content. Under their guidance, I think I should still develop in the weird stories within the scope of my own ability."

Li Zi and Xiao Tao beside them nodded: "Er Ge, the places you guys go to are all S-level ghost stories. We may not be able to survive in these ghost stories."

The longer I interact with Ersi and Xiao Tang in the team, the more I have to admit that there are indeed differences between people.

They didn't have the luck of Huangmao, who had such a good relationship with Xiaotang, so that Xiaotang would be the first to protect Huangmao when he encountered a crisis. If they followed them to the S-level ghost story, they would probably be close to death.

"Well... that's fine." Xiao Tang shrugged. He originally wanted to say that this S-level ghost story was actually nothing, but after thinking about it, although nothing happened in the nightmare, after the nightmare, in the Dragon Locking Well in the subway, these people probably couldn't even go down the well, let alone explore it, so he decided to forget it.

"It's fine for the five of you to stay in the teahouse," she said, leaning on the table like a boneless person. "Anyway, the chance of triggering ghost stories in S City has increased now, so it's not a loss for you to stay here."

"Four," Guan Hongyan said at the right time, "I didn't tell you just now that Nianyu and I were acquaintances before I died."

"Nianyu?" Yuan Shanming came over from behind and looked at Guan Hongyan with a strange expression, "You know her."

"Yes, I didn't expect to meet her here," Guan Hongyan said calmly, "She is the child of my parents' colleague. She is born with hearing impairment and she doesn't have many friends because she is an introvert. I have known her since childhood and went to elementary school, middle school and high school together. I promised her parents that I would take care of her."

"We met here today. I want to take her to Area W. Is that okay?"

"Uh... you should think about it again," Yuan Shanming said with an embarrassed look on his face, "but Nianyu herself is hard of hearing and not very good at fighting. If you take her with you..."

It may become a burden.

"I'll take charge." Guan Hongyan nodded, looking serious.

At this time, Nianyu, who had been quietly beside them, seemed to see from the phone that was converting voice to text in real time that they were discussing their own problems. He nodded and typed a line of words on the phone: [I won’t bother you. ]

She and Guan Hongyan were sitting very close to each other now. Nian Yu was leaning close to Guan Hongyan, and a lot of pure trust appeared on her face which was always expressionless.

It seems that the two people do know each other.

Since Guan Hongyan said that she would be responsible for it, Yuan Shanming couldn't say anything else.

In any case, the team members are actually free, and if the team leaders want to interfere with the decisions of the team members, they can only persuade them or forcibly stop them.

In order to get higher points, he had almost given up on the newcomers he had left in the teahouse and only took Ersi and Xiao Tang out with him.

Since Xiao Tang can be fully responsible for Huangmao's safety, it is understandable that Guan Hongyan, as a team member with comparable strength to her, wants to take Nianyu with her.

"Okay... then..." Yuan Shanming looked a little reluctant, "Then you should pay more attention to her safety. In a critical moment, everyone may not be able to spare the energy to take care of her."

Guan Hongyan nodded, turned around and made a few gestures towards Nian Yu. The girl who had always had a blank expression on her face finally smiled faintly.

Bai Jinshu, who watched the whole process...

He didn't know what the gestures Guan Hongyan made meant, but it was definitely not sign language.

The acting skills of these two people are not inferior at all.

While Guan Hongyan was explaining to Yuan Shanming, the unusually well-behaved insect in his hand suddenly moved.

Bai Jinshu thought it was a bug that was about to fly away, so he opened his palm to take a look. However, after he opened his palm, the bug did not fly away, but crawled around in his palm according to some pattern.

After the insect crawled several times, he suddenly reacted.

This insect was not crawling in the palm of his hand following some pattern, it was writing.

It slowly pieced together two words, stroke by stroke: [Golden Bell].

Nian Yu turned out to be the member of the Chita team that Guan Hongyan mentioned, and his fixed attribute was the ability to control insects.

The black insect repeated these two words three times on his hand, then calmed down again and lay motionless in the palm of his hand.

It seems a bit awkward to carry in your hand.

Bai Jinshu poked the bug lightly a few times and put it into the sleeve of his clothes. He felt it turn around obediently and then lay quietly on the artery of his wrist without moving.

He looked up and saw Nian Yu typing on her mobile phone, then showing it to Yuan Shanming.

This is also a master of multi-threaded operations.

If the bug wasn't in his hands now, who would believe that such a weak and mute girl was actually a member of a killer organization of the Foundation.

As the people who would leave the teahouse in the afternoon were determined, it was time for lunch.

As the waiters in the teahouse walked around the lobby carrying some simple meals, the newlyweds, who had been reviewing the storyteller's stories all morning, suddenly relaxed.

Suddenly, many curious glances came from all around.

Apparently, the news that Yuan Shanming and his companions had returned alive from the City of the Dead last night had spread throughout the teahouse.

The newcomers stayed here to do ghost stories, and the team leaders also gathered at a table not far from theirs.

Compared to the newcomers, the team leaders are much more well-informed.

"Something seemed to have happened in the City of the Dead last night," said several team leaders who had just returned from outside. "Many teams that went out this morning saw blood all around the subway station."

"It's all blood?" A leader whispered, "It can't be those..."

He glanced towards Bai Jinshu and the others.

"It seems not," the team leaders whispered, "It is said that there were several hundred newcomers and team leaders outside last night."

There was a small commotion at the leader's table.

"It is said that there was a problem with the subway. All the people coming to S City arrived at midnight. A total of two to three hundred people died last night, and many tour leaders are gone..."

"When we went to the area around the subway station, we saw not only blood but also a lot of body parts. The platform was completely smashed to pieces, and many walls were broken open..." The leader who went out in the morning was shocked. "The entire subway station was in such a mess that it was unbearable to look at. In addition to the load-bearing walls and columns, many of the ruins were filled with body parts..."

Everyone at the round table looked at each other.

"The people who stayed in the subway station yesterday..." Xiao Tang spoke first.

"They should all be dead." Yuan Shanming frowned.

According to what these team leaders said, after they left, the ghosts at the other entrances and exits almost turned the entire subway station upside down in search of the twenty or so of them.

Those team leaders and newcomers who did not run out with them but instead ran into the subway station were in great danger and were undoubtedly dead.

"Those body parts..." Guan Hongyan seemed to be hesitant to speak.

"A small number of bodies in the subway station are probably the bodies of people who fought desperately and were taken apart to fill in the gaps," Yuan Shanming whispered, "most of the bodies outside were broken off by the ghosts after being caught."

"Have you ever kept a cat?" He gave a very vivid analogy, "After a cat catches its prey, it usually plays with it. Humans are too fragile for ghost stories. A little play will break their arms and legs."

"Uh... I suddenly feel like I'm not that hungry anymore." The yellow-haired guy twitched his lips, and the chicken leg on the table in front of him suddenly didn't smell as good anymore.

"Don't think too much," Yuan Shanming said calmly, "Even if those body parts were theirs, that was their choice. They didn't leave when they first left, and they didn't flee to a place where there was a way to survive when they escaped."

Everyone had a chance to run at the beginning, or at least a chance to hide in the elevator shaft.

Even if you didn't follow them in the first step, you could still survive if you ran to the subway exit where they left.

It is unclear what happened to the more than 100 people who were tied up at the subway exit where they came out, but they eventually managed to get out of the subway station successfully.

"Aren't you hungry?" Xiao Tang was even more heartless, his chopsticks had already reached for the plate, "If you're not hungry, then I'll eat this chicken drumstick."

Huang Mao's face twisted: "Hungry...hungry."

He ate with a grim expression while listening to the news of the deaths of the newcomers at the table next to him.

Several team leaders at the next table chatted for a while about what happened last night, but quickly changed the subject.

S City is so big, there are probably thousands of teams led by team leaders and newcomers. After the bonus is triggered, the number is estimated to be over ten thousand. Among tens of thousands of teams, the death of a few hundred people is really not enough.

If the subway station wasn't a transportation hub that every team had to pass through, and if the damage here wasn't exaggerated, no one would have noticed the deaths of these hundreds of people.

Xiao Fei and his friends planned to stay here, so they symbolically reviewed the story content after finishing their meal.

In order to avoid being dragged in together later, after finishing their meal, Yuan Shanming took Bai Jinshu and a few others to temporarily leave the teahouse, intending to go back and pack up and prepare to leave after everyone had entered the ghost story.

"We have to take the subway to go to Area W. Xiao Hong doesn't have the buff of being able to travel a thousand miles a day, so we can only walk this way," Yuan Shanming said to Bai Jinshu and the others as he walked along the river with some worry, "But it's too dangerous to let you enter the subway with the Nightmare Heart, especially now that there's an additional telepathy. She can't speak or hear, so the chances of being recognized increase dramatically."

"How about this," he thought for a moment, "You keep the Nightmare Heart safe until this afternoon, and then Xiao Hong and I will go to the subway, and you will wait for us near the subway station."

"Brother Yuan," Huang Mao asked with concern, "Are there any taboos in Area W that we need to pay attention to? For example, when can we not go out, etc...."

"No," Yuan Shanming said sincerely, "and if there is, I don't know."

"But the No Man's Land should be full of people now," he twitched his lips, "With the buff, there will be more and more teams going there. If there are really any taboos known to everyone, you can go to the subway station and stay there for a while. The new team leader will tell the newcomers."

This is a solution.

"And as for Zone W..." Yuan Shanming frowned in confusion, "Now that the triggering probability has increased, and we've wasted so much time in the City of Violence, there's a high probability that the team in Monopoly has already triggered Zone S. If we go there, it's likely that we'll have made a wasted trip."

Fortunately, they were going to Area W, not only for the S ghost story, but also to find that "Hang Yiqing".

Everyone walked around the teahouse. Yuan Shanming saw that the time was almost up and all the newcomers in the teahouse should have entered the ghost story, so he led everyone into the teahouse.

As the newlyweds left, the teahouse, which had been noisy all morning, suddenly became quiet.

Originally, the noisy voices in the lobby could be heard from a long distance away, but now that everyone was almost at the door, the surrounding environment was still unusually quiet.

"Where are Boss Sun's tea customers?" Xiao Tang looked towards the door curiously.

She remembered that before they first entered the ghost story, the room was full of drinkers who came to listen to the storytelling?

"There haven't been any tea customers these days," Yuan Shanming replied absentmindedly, still thinking about the situation in Area W. "There are too many new people here these days, there are no tea seats, and the old customers don't come much."

"That's too much of a loss, isn't it?" Xiao Tang said, "Boss Sun hasn't had any revenue these days... Isn't it like the storyteller is telling stories on stage with no one listening below?"

As she spoke, she pushed open the door of the teahouse.

Everyone was stunned by this push.

"Ah?" Huang Mao asked in confusion, "Where's the storyteller?"

It was already time for the ghost story to be triggered, but the entire teahouse was now empty, not to mention the newcomers in the lobby, even the waiters who were moving around in it, the storytellers who were supposed to be on the stage, and the storytelling girls who were sitting on the second floor holding pipa, were all gone.

There was no one in the entire teahouse.

"Did we take the wrong path?" Guan Hongyan looked up in surprise.

"Impossible," Yuan Shanming frowned, "This space was generated based on the strange story of the teahouse. There is only one teahouse here."

"What's going on?" Xiao Tang took a few steps forward and called out tentatively, "Is there anyone there? Is there anyone there? Boss Sun?"

No one answered her.

There was no sound in the teahouse. There were only the messy stools in the lobby, the unrefilled tea, and the half-eaten snacks, silently watching the intruders who suddenly opened the door.

"Where are the people?" Xiao Tang shouted several times, "Could it be that some emergency has caused them all to be evacuated? Gas leak? Bomb crisis? This shouldn't have happened hundreds of years ago, right?"

What's more, if it was the case as she said, the furnishings in the lobby could be a little more messy.

But looking back now, although the lobby looks messy, most of the stools next to the tables have not been pushed away.

If the person sitting on the chair suddenly left and ran away, the stool should be at least a body length away from the table. However, the distance between the stool and the table now only allows one person to sit down but not stand up.

This shows that the person on the stool has no intention or behavior to leave voluntarily.

They disappeared suddenly.

in other words.

"Everyone in the teahouse...suddenly disappeared," Bai Jinshu frowned and whispered, "without any warning, they suddenly disappeared."

In the empty teahouse, the group of people looked at each other in confusion.

A sentence suddenly appeared in everyone's mind.

"Shi Pang said that if he doesn't come back tonight, he will give you a message, saying that if you encounter any strange things, then go to Port N to find them."

Strange thing...

Xiao Tang suddenly turned his head: "Is this a strange thing?"

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