Chapter 287: Inhuman (95) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]

The two people standing outside the glass seemed to attract more fish.

Several fish with unusually long and slender fins swam quickly from behind and hit the glass with a "bang".

Xiao Tang's heart skipped a beat.

"What are they doing? Are these fish trying to eat us?" She subconsciously took a defensive step back and almost tripped over the dead fish on the ground. She quickly held onto the wall to steady herself. "Damn, they're wet?"

The wall is wet.

"This place has been flooded with seawater before, and the water level should be very high," Bai Jinshu turned her head to look at the place where Xiao Tang was holding on. Her hand pressed on the billboard next to her and she happened to touch the advertising sticker that was soaked by water.

"The observation deck of the Raging Harbor subway station..." He read the title next to the advertisement column word for word.

“Looking at the picture above, the fish are all normal.” After Xiao Tang stood firm, he also looked over.

The background picture of the publicity column was probably taken in front of this window. In the picture, the fish swimming in the sea are all in normal form, and none of them have red eyes.

"That means the changes in these fish are related to what happened here before." Bai Jinshu looked into the depths of the water with an inquiring look.

The deeper the water, the darker it is. When the subway was built, the visibility of the light for this screen was only about ten meters. The deeper the water, the darker it is.

Although it is dark blue, from here, you can't see what it is, but there is something red faintly appearing in the dark blue.

There were more and more red things, flashing and moving on the water.

"Those..." Xiao Tang glanced at the still scarlet eyes of the two fish floating near the window, and a bad guess suddenly arose in his mind, "Are they all fish eyes?"

Why did these fish become like that?

Deep in the water, there were more and more red eyes dotted like stars. Suddenly, there were two "bang" sounds above my head, and two more fish hit the glass.

The knocked-out fish rolled down a few times, its scarlet eyes flickering as it floated in front of the two men.

"I feel...it doesn't seem good." Xiao Tang spoke slowly.

She doesn't need to feel it.

The two fish that rushed towards them seemed to have fired a signal gun. After a few seconds, the red light in the deep sea flashed and rushed towards them in an overwhelming manner.

"Fuck it, run!"

Xiao Tang turned around and ran.

She said she was running, but in reality she couldn't move very fast.

The dead fish on the ground were piled up to the point where they submerged half of her calf. There were rotten and non-rotten fish, cold and sticky scales, sharp and melted bones. A quarter of Xiao Tang's leg was stuck in it. Even if she wanted to run, she couldn't run very fast.

Behind the large glass window behind her, a red light instantly reached the glass from a distance.

From top to bottom, densely packed fish all crashed into the glass like moths to a flame, and the "bang, bang, bang" sound was crackling like rain.

Even Huangmao, who was standing far away, heard it.

"Sister Xiao Tang—" he shouted, raising his voice, "Are you okay?"

"It's okay for now..." Xiao Tang gritted his teeth, enduring the pungent stench, pulled down the guide sign next to him, turned it around in his hand, "But if the glass breaks, it will be a big deal."

There are so many fish with scarlet eyes behind the glass, I must eat them all alive.

Not to mention the sea water.

If seawater flows back into the subway station, the salty and fishy water will soak with the rotten fish on the ground...

It would be better to die than to stand in such water.

"Ersi!" Xiao Tang shouted, "Stop looking! Or let's go quickly! As long as we stand here, these fish will jump up like crazy!"

It was okay when only a few fish hit the glass just now, but now fish are overwhelming and hitting the glass. Even though he knew that the glass chosen to be made into this deep-sea viewing window must be very hard, Xiao Tang couldn't help feeling a little uneasy.

"Here they come." Bai Jinshu took a few steps back. Instead of turning around, he looked up at the wall of fish, and asked thoughtfully, "How did they know we were here?"

It was obvious that these fish were coming for them.

The first few at the beginning were just testing the waters, and now these are the main force.

They stood at the door like targets or baits, and the fish rushed towards the glass without caring about their lives.

"Fish have eyes!" Xiao Tang was completely confused by his question, "If they see it, they will come."

"No..." Bai Jinshu touched his chin, "When we were standing here just now, there were clearly only two or three fish in front of the window. The eyes of these red-eyed fish only appeared in the deep water after we stayed there for a while."

"So what?" Xiao Tang used a stick to make a space for himself and looked cautiously at the scarlet eyes that covered the water. "You mean there are other reasons why these fish come to us?"

"I don't know." Bai Jinshu answered sincerely and walked towards Xiao Tang. "But now we can be sure that these fish are definitely not normal. They are different from the ones we bought from the vendors. They seem to have an abnormal desire for humans."

Xiao Tang used a stick to clear a path, walked to the next corner with difficulty, and hid his body behind the wall.

With the disappearance of the two humans, the fish that kept hitting the glass gradually disappeared, and the viewing window returned to calm.

Xiao Tang breathed a sigh of relief: "Huh... I was really afraid that these fish would break the glass."

It looked like every fish was rushing towards them with all their might. If it weren't for the glass between them, she doubted that the two of them would have been eaten alive by the fish.

Bai Jinshu reached out and took out a fish from the bag in Xiao Tang's hand.

"These fish have normal eyes..." The fish struggled violently in his hand for a few times, splashing water all over his nose and body. "Forget it, let's wait for Brother Yuan to come."

The situation in Port N is too strange. As the team leader, Yuan Shanming should know more.

"It's time now. Brother Yuan and the others should be here soon," Xiao Tang muttered after checking the time, "Let's go up first. I'm going to die if I stay here."

She seemed extremely disgusted by the smell and hurried towards the exit.

In order to avoid attracting a bunch of fish to hit the glass, Xiao Tang deliberately avoided the large viewing window and made a big circle before reaching the stairs where they came down.

Bai Jinshu followed behind and flipped through the live broadcast comments.

The comments in his live broadcast room did not tend to explain the current situation, and it was not known whether a lot of viewers were forced to pop out when he entered that strange space before, so there were not many active viewers at this time.

【Why did the anchor go to Port N? 】

[The host seems to be looking for Shi Pang.]

【Who is Shi Pang? 】

[He is a leader of N Port. Go to his live broadcast room and don’t talk about other people here. ]

"Shi Pang's live broadcast room..." Bai Jinshu swiped his finger across the screen, "Can you see Shi Pang's live broadcast room now? Where is he?"

Shi Pang is also the team leader. If he is also in N Port, then there should be only two teams divided into this area now, so it should be easy for the audience to find them.

If you want to find him, it would be faster to ask the audience than to rush around like a headless fly.

As soon as Bai Jinshu asked this question, several comments popped up in the live broadcast room as if they had been prepared:

【Can’t see.】

[It was dark inside Shi Pang’s live studio.]

[Shi Pang may have died. You should go back, you won't find him.]

"Dead?" Bai Jinshu frowned, "What about his teammates? Dead too?"

【possible. 】

[Anchor, you guys should go back as soon as possible. ]

[I can't find anyone in Port N. You are the only newcomers doing live broadcast here. ]

【Go back, go back, go back. 】

【Can’t find it, can’t find it, can’t find it. 】

【Port N is not safe now. 】

【If you stay here, you might die.】

"What are you looking at?" Before he knew it, Bai Jinshu had walked to the stairs of the subway station. Xiao Tang saw him staring at the screen and asked curiously.

"Hmm..." Bai Jinshu glanced at the comments that were repeating short sentences again, "The audience in the live broadcast room said that Shi Pang might be dead, and he couldn't be found in N Port."

"Dead?" Xiao Tang curled his lips, "I don't believe it."

"Shi Pang's team can't die here," she said firmly, "I advise you not to trust the comments too much. Last time in the subway station, and even earlier, these comments have been encouraging me to do some very suicidal things."

"You did it?" Bai Jinshu turned his head.

Xiao Tang committed suicide countless times along the way, and it was really difficult for him to tell which ones were her own fault and which ones were instigated by the barrage.

It seems that she herself knew that it was courting death.

"I tried a few of them," Xiao Tang crossed his arms over his chest, his face indifferent, "some of them worked, and some were just for the sake of seeking death. I don't know what these people want to do? Do they want to see me having fun or do they want me to seek death and really die in there?"

"Don't you have them in your live studio?" she asked. "Huangmao's live studio has them. Before, his audience even instigated him not to stay with me, saying that I looked down on him and treated him as a little brother and a landmine fodder. I scolded him back. Everyone knows that I'm the one who steps on the landmine first. When have I ever let Huangmao take risks? It's funny."

No wonder Xiao Tang reacted so strongly when she saw the comment in the well last time that suggested she kill a team leader to see what happens.

It turns out there is a precedent.

"No," Bai Jinshu shook his head and added, "Very rarely."

There were also people making suggestions in his live broadcast room, but he ignored them most of the time. Besides, a large part of the audience in the room were constantly praising him or trying to attract his attention. Compared with these barrages, there were far fewer people making suggestions.

Xu Zichen once said that barrages are some strange things that are not human. Could it be that [Welcome] changed the attitude of his audience in the live broadcast room towards him, causing his live broadcast room to be different from most people's?

"Tsk," Xiao Tang also thought of this and rolled his eyes unhappily, "Anyway, don't believe these things too much. Maybe they said Shi Pang was dead just to sow discord between our two teams."

Xiao Tang's attitude was so certain that Bai Jinshu was a little confused as to where her confidence came from: "How do you know Shi Pang is not dead?"

"Um, the photo studio, have you forgotten?" Xiao Tang gestured, "Didn't we meet Captain Shi and his team members in the photo studio? We have the resurrection armor, how could we die here?"

yes.

Bai Jinshu narrowed his eyes slightly.

All of them who successfully completed the Xuxu Photo Studio left photos there for archiving. If they were attacked fatally enough, the paper stand-ins taken in the Xuxu Photo Studio would be directly consumed.

If it was the Gu King who killed people, Xu Zichen and Lu Changfeng would not know that they could be resurrected, and they would not have guarded the resurrection point.

Therefore, if Shi Pang's team really died, it only means that they encountered a continuous and sustained killing move, which did not stop after killing them, which led to the death of their real bodies after the death of their substitutes.

Or maybe what was said in the barrage was true. There was something in N Port that could continuously kill newcomers. This thing killed Shi Pang and his team twice. As long as they continued to stay there, they would also die.

Or maybe the comments are lying.

The barrage wanted them to leave quickly and did not want them to find Shi Pang and learn the truth about that strange space.

Just as Bai Jinshu was thinking about it, the sound of a door opening was heard from the subway platform in the distance, followed by Xiao Tang's surprised voice and Yuan Shanming's retching sounds.

"Brother Yuan, are you here?"

"What is this?!"

Yuan Shanming's voice sounded very shocked: "What is this?"

"What the hell," Guan Hongyan was shocked, "What did you do?"

The visual impact of the overwhelming dead fish was too great. As soon as the subway door opened, they rushed into the car, scaring two people who had just got off the subway station.

"We can't do this..." Xiao Tang complained silently, "It seems that seawater backflowed into Port N a few days ago and poured into the subway station. These are all fish that died at the bottom after the water receded."

"Ah?" Guan Hongyan asked the same question as Xiao Tang, "There was a tsunami in Port N?"

"Excuse me," Bai Jinshu pressed his temples unbearably, "Can we go upstairs and talk?"

I can't stand this smell no matter how long I stay here.

"I'm coming right here," Guan Hongyan lifted the hem of her skirt and stepped into the pile of dead fish while suppressing her nausea.

Fortunately, Xiao Tang had used a stick to clear a path.

On both sides of the road, the two spent a lot of time to wade out from the overwhelming dead fish and finally arrived at the place where Bai Jinshu and the others were standing.

As they walked up, the few of them explained to Yuan Shanming what they had encountered so far, and also asked Guan Hongyan about the strange stories in the subway.

"Oh, that," Guan Hongyan waved her hand, "It's just a battle royale, with a shrinking circle and poisoning. When a certain number of people die, you can pass the level directly. It's not interesting."

"However, due to the incident on the subway last night, there are very few teams using the subway today. I guess most of those who dare to move are confident in their abilities, so it will be very difficult to fight in the battle royale," Guan Hongyan said casually, "I guess Brother Yuan didn't even have to wait in line at the customs before he finished the formalities."

Yuan Shanming shrugged, "Actually there are still some people. Xiao Hong was unlucky and didn't run into the suicide squad. Yesterday, the news that all team leaders were exempted from paying points for this month spread. Many team leaders who didn't have the confidence to pay all the points for this month brought their players here to die and try their luck. We hope nothing happens to the subway. These people are probably hoping that another subway accident will happen so that another batch of team leaders will be exempted from points."

The weak team led by this group of people can be said to be here to die. If Guan Hongyan could meet such a team, they could get out of the subway much faster.

"Then forget it..." Xiao Tang patted his chest with lingering fear, "If you had come a few dozen minutes earlier, you would have been able to see those red-eye fish crashing into the glass. It was just the two of us that got hit like that. I don't even dare to imagine what would have happened if there were four people outside the glass."

Two people...

Bai Jinshu twitched his lips. This girl is really good at calculating. She directly excluded Huai Jiamu, this weirdo, from the category of human beings.

After listening to what they saw, Yuan Shanming said something extra: "This viewing window is not actually opened directly into the sea. A large pit like an aquarium was dug next to the subway, and a small opening was made to bring in seawater. The gate is opened regularly to change the water. The fish inside are actually some ornamental fish that were selected and released when it was built. If the gate is not opened, it will not be connected to the ocean."

"Ornamental fish?" Bai Jinshu recalled the fish he had seen, "I feel like most of them are just ordinary marine fish."

"I think a lot of them don't have much ornamental value..." Xiao Tang also said, "They look similar to those rotten fish underground."

"It is possible that when the water level rose, seawater flowed over the gate that changes the water in the aquarium's viewing window, allowing other sea fish to swim in." Yuan Shanming guessed.

Yuan Shanming had some guesses about the situation in Port N, but they were not accurate.

"There are too many ghost stories in N Port. I haven't led a team here for a long time. Who knows, some new S-level ghost stories may have appeared during my absence." He looked around at the deserted streets thoughtfully. "I also stayed in N Port for a while in the early years, but the ghost stories here are too dangerous, and most teams haven't actually opened up the S level, so I gradually moved to S City."

"As for Port N... there aren't many stories that can cause sea level rise, but there is one that can cause mass fish deaths and red eyes as the water level rises." He squatted down and used a branch to move the rotten fish lying on the ground. "It's called [Mirage], and it's an automatic, continuous S-level story."

"The fish died very quickly and rotted within ten minutes because the [Mirage] has entered the second stage of activation. All the vitality in the entire area has been drained away and given to this S-monster. The citizens with numb expressions you saw are because their vitality has been drained away once."

"The second stage is triggered..." Bai Jinshu frowned, "So this strange story has not been successfully triggered yet?"

Is this the second stage now?

Is this the S-level ghost story that Shi Pang and his friends were halfway through triggering, and were willing to spend all their money to continue triggering it?

"No," Yuan Shanming shook his head calmly, "The [Mirage] has been triggered once. The ground is full of seawater and dead fish are entering the streets. This is the sign that it has been triggered. After failing, it has entered the second stage again."

"Brother Yuan, you said it's automatic?" Xiao Tang caught the key point in Yuan Shanming's words, "What do you mean by automatic?"

"That is to say, after the first stage of this strange story, even if no one triggers it, it will automatically proceed from the second stage to the completed triggering," Yuan Shanming stood up and threw the wooden stick in his hand aside. "[Mirage] requires a lot of vitality to build. After completing the first stage, it will enter the second stage. Even if the triggering team does nothing in the second stage, it will automatically start after absorbing enough vitality. It's just a matter of time."

"And if the person who triggered it the first time fails in the end, the ghost story will re-enter the second stage and automatically trigger again after extracting enough life force."

"That is to say..." Bai Jinshu took over the conversation, "In this case, the person who triggered it the first time failed, so it automatically returned to the second stage and appeared again after absorbing enough vitality."

"Yeah." Yuan Shanming nodded.

Could it be that Shi Pang died in here as the comments said?

Bai Jinshu's eyes flashed. Although the barrage had never deceived or instigated him, after seeing the examples of Xiao Tang and Huang Mao, he still subconsciously doubted what they said.

"If we fail, we will return to the second stage. What if no one succeeds?" Guan Hongyan asked.

"After draining the entire N Port, it will spread to areas outside of N Port," Yuan Shanming stood up and spoke casually, "But usually the teams in N Port have dealt with it before it spreads, because this ghost story will not die if it is not completed. It is a rare S-level in N Port where it will not die if it is not completed."

"But..." Yuan Shanming's expression became intriguing. "This strange story is actually forbidden to trigger among the leaders of Port N. Whoever triggers this strange story will become the public enemy of the crowd in the first stage and will be hunted down by all teams except them."

"Why?" Xiao Tang asked subconsciously, and only after asking did he feel that he had asked a stupid question.

Of course, it’s because of the second phase of this weird story.

"Phase 2... just the life force of these fish and the citizens that have been drained, even if all the teams in the area are added, it is actually not enough, right?" Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows, "Or even if it is enough, it will take a long time, at least longer than fifteen days."

"Yes," Yuan Shanming said, "but just like the subway, as long as the vitality is sufficient, it can be triggered directly."

so……

"So after the first stage is completed, in the second stage, the team that triggered the [Mirage] will definitely use their lives to fill the gap in the second stage." Xiao Tang paused, "Isn't that the antisocial psychopath you mentioned, Brother Yuan?"

"That killer in Port N, it turns out he did this to trigger the [Mirage]!" She suddenly realized, "Then this is too lame, right? After killing so many people, he still failed?"

"Who knows..." Yuan Shanming's tone became intriguing. "The Gu Kings are all crazy. They have no reason. How could they know how to trigger the first stage? I don't think his leader will tell him the specific triggering method. Who can guarantee that the Gu King will not kill himself when he goes crazy?"

"Then..." The yellow-haired man spoke in a long tone, feeling as if he had touched upon a corner of the complicated situation in Port N.

Bai Jinshu and Guan Hongyan looked at each other. Xu Zichen had been to the Novice Village and was once the Gu King. He might really know how to trigger the first stage of [Mirage]. But the strange thing was that Xu Zichen didn't seem like someone who would kill people just to get an S-level ghost story.

If he wants to get a high score, there are plenty of ghost stories in N Port, so he doesn't need to kill people to enter this S-level level where he won't die even if he fails.

The trigger of this strange story probably has nothing to do with him.

Even if there is a relationship, he would not kill someone just for this.

There is no need to doubt Xu Zichen's character.

Although Yuan Shanming didn't know the true identity of the Gu King, at this moment, his train of thought matched that of the two people who knew the truth.

"This strange story has nothing to do with Gu King," Yuan Shanming's expression was also very intriguing, "Someone saw Gu King go crazy, and used Gu King's hand and identity to hide in the dark and trigger the [Mirage]."

"Or in other words, who knows whether this Gu King exists or not?" He stood up.

"There should be no more Gu Kings in the investment bank," Yuan Shanming raised his head, "someone is pretending to be the Gu King in Port N."

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