Chapter 296: Inhuman (104) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]

This is a bizarre development.

Bai Jinshu twitched his lips, looked at the chair next to him where another person had been sitting a few minutes ago, and looked at the bunch of pictures that Huangmao had sent him not long ago. He couldn't believe that in such a materialistic world, there would be comic characters who came to the real world to urge the author to update because the author had stopped updating.

He pinched himself first to make sure he was not dreaming, then he slowly looked at the group chat.

No one responded in the group for a while. Everyone seemed to be having a fierce ideological struggle in their minds, wondering if Hong Conghua was having hallucinations.

Conghua: [No, please say something. I'm getting nervous when you're so quiet.]

Huangmao: [Uh ah... Although I really want to believe you, it's really hard to believe. ]

Xiaoying: [Sister Conghua, are you okay? ]

Xiaoying: [Where are you? How about I go find you? ]

She looked extremely worried.

Xiaoying: [If you are not feeling well, don’t force yourself to record. ]

The reading is more direct: [Do you have a history of mental illness? ]

Conghua: [… Damn, I’m really not crazy. ]

A few seconds later, Hong Conghua sent a voice message: "I know this is weird, I also think it's weird, but it's true, damn it's true!"

She sounded broken.

"If it doesn't work, why don't you come over here!" Hong Conghua said in despair, "I'll send you the location."

Scallion: [Location]

Bai Jinshu looked at his phone, then raised his head to look at the "coser" in the distance who was also hurriedly leaving surrounded by a group of fans, and still followed the location given by Hong Conghua to find the place.

The doll that Hong Conghua chose was in the shape of a shark. It was on the road near the aquarium, not far from him.

Bai Jinshu followed the navigation all the way and soon arrived at Hong Conghua's location.

The location he found was a small shop in an amusement park. There were two girls in short skirts choosing ice cream. He turned around holding the dinosaur headgear on his head, but he didn't see any trace of the shark doll.

It was not until the two girls left with the ice cream that Bai Jinshu received a private message.

Scallion: [Look to the right.]

Bai Jinshu turned around as he was told.

There is a small house on the right.

Is she hiding in there now?

Bai Jinshu took a few steps closer and looked inside.

This house should have been the operating room of the amusement facilities before, but as the amusement facilities that were originally placed here were moved away, the operating room became useless. Now there is nothing but a dusty operating table and some garbage piled up inside.

There was a thick layer of dust on the ground, and it didn't look like anyone had just entered.

Scallion: [Above! Above! ]

Bai Jinshu looked up.

A shark's fin stretched out from the small balcony on top of the operating room.

Hong Conghua's voice rang out: "Hurry, hurry, come up, come up."

"Just now a lot of fans were chasing them. They have no choice but to hide here, otherwise they will be surrounded." As she spoke, she directed Bai Jinshu to go around the back of the house and then go up to the second floor via the stairs at the back.

Compared to the first floor which has become a storage room, the second floor looks much tidier. Although it is also piled with miscellaneous items, at least they are neatly stacked. I don’t know who has moved a few gaps away, and the height is just right, so that a person can barely fit in.

Xiaoying was sitting inside. She had taken off all her doll clothes and placed them on the ground beside her. She waved at Bai Jinshu.

On a small bench in the room, there was a person sitting upright with an unusually straight posture.

"What's going on?" Bai Jinshu took off the dinosaur mask on his head, let out a long breath, looked around, and fixed his sight on this person, "Who is this?"

"My comic character!" Hong Conghua gestured, "You've read my comics, right? You can tell at a glance!"

"No... I haven't seen it," Bai Jinshu silently threw the headgear aside, "Isn't this really a show effect? ​​Director Qiao asked you to cooperate with him to play a prank on us?"

"Really? There are no cameras here!" Hong Conghua pointed around and hugged his head in despair, "Please believe me!"

Xiaoying nodded and chimed in, "Well... I just tried it, and there's no trace of makeup on this person's face, and his hair is all his own. If the production team didn't specifically find an actor who looks exactly like Conghua's character, then it's probably real."

"And..." She thought for a moment, "Just now it said that the villains there also came here. The two murders that happened here last night were most likely the work of the villains."

Bai Jinshu looked like he was listening to some Arabian Nights fairy tale, but out of courtesy he did not interrupt the two people's narration.

"No," Hong Conghua walked around the room a few times, "I know you must think this is a variety show effect. I also thought it was a variety show effect at first. After all, we are recording a variety show, right!"

She sat down on the table next to her and said, "But he said that the two murders were related to the villain! If it was really a prank by the production team, Director Qiao still has some basic sensitivity to public opinion. There's no way he would use last night's murder as a gimmick, right?"

"That's right..." Bai Jinshu frowned, and finally looked carefully at the person sitting in the middle, "He..."

"If you haven't read the comics, just call me Xiaobai," the character who traveled through the dimensional wall took the initiative.

"Then Xiaobai," Bai Jinshu paused, "Are you sure those two murders are related to your villain?"

"I'm sure." Xiaobai nodded.

Bai Jinshu seemed to be thinking about something.

If this person was really a prankster sent by the program team, the two murders last night were reported on various social media platforms, and the police also issued a notice. It is impossible to be fake. If everyone does not want to end everyone's career here, including his own, then there is no way to joke about this matter.

After thinking about it in circles, there is only one most likely outcome, that is, is this person really some comic character of Hong Conghua?

"You believe it, right?" Hong Conghua clapped his hands. "No one would joke about a murder case, right?"

"Indeed." Bai Jinshu nodded sincerely.

"So what are these people asking for?" He blinked. "You said they came here because you haven't updated for three months, and the two murders were caused by the villains coming to this world, so as long as you update, they can leave, right?"

Xiaoying touched her chin and said, "Yes, Conghua, please update quickly. After that, we can record the show properly!"

The man sitting on the stool also looked over with burning eyes.

Under these three pairs of eyes, Hong Conghua was rarely able to speak: "Uh..."

She scratched her head in pain: "It's not that I don't want to update..."

"I haven't updated for three whole months, just because I can't draw anymore..." She looked painful.

"You've read my comics, right?" She gestured, "It's that... that new chapter, I can't write any more."

The comic that Hong Conghua is currently serializing is a passionate comic set in a very traditional superpower worldview. Because it is so popular, even though Bai Jinshu has not read it much, he has learned a little about it.

The content is nothing more than some characters who suddenly awaken various abilities, and use various abilities to fight against the villains. Then the villains become more and more powerful, the protagonists become more and more powerful, and the supporting characters who join the protagonist group become more and more powerful.

However, just like the common problem of all comics with upgrade flow, as the protagonist becomes more and more powerful, the villain also needs to be gradually upgraded, and as the combat power increases, it will become more and more uncontrollable.

According to normal logic, as long as the story ends quickly before the battle power becomes uncontrollable, and the protagonist defeats the final boss and the world returns to peace, that will be fine.

But the problem is that this comic is too popular.

Once it is completed, not to mention that the huge amount of income that comes in every month will be lost, even if Hong Conghua wants to finish it, everyone from the editor to the company to the fans and all the people in the production chain are unwilling to let her finish it.

So after solving a boss, a new and more powerful boss will immediately appear in order to create a new crisis.

During the serialization of several years, Hong Conghua's villains have changed from a bank robber to a street gang leader, then to the CEO of a pharmaceutical group that conducted illegal experiments, and then to a mysterious organization that intended to subvert the world and control the earth hundreds of years ago. Before she came to record the show, the villains had even evolved into aliens.

At the end of the last episode three months ago, the protagonists, who thought they had solved the biggest problem, suddenly fell into a relaxed daily life. But at this moment, aliens who had set their eyes on the Earth suddenly decided to invade it.

In the first step of the invasion of the earth, the first protagonist to encounter the aliens suffered a fatal blow, bleeding profusely, and his life hanging by a thread.

Next, she stayed here for more than three months.

If it weren't for this incident, she might have continued to break up.

According to Xiaobai, the plot was interrupted here three months later and the protagonist was bleeding profusely, so all the remaining protagonists had to come here to urge Hong Conghua to continue drawing.

The six guests who received the message sat together in a circle in this small room, with the comic character who came across the world to urge for updates sitting in the middle.

After confirming that it was not a prank by the program team, everyone had a look of disbelief on their faces.

It was bizarre enough to encounter a murder case while recording a variety show, and now I have encountered a two-dimensional character coming to reality. I dare not imagine what will happen next.

Under everyone's gaze, Hong Conghua sat on the table, chin propped up, scratching his head: "What should I do now? I really can't make up any more stories."

"Think about it, the map first expanded from the city to the province, then to the whole country, and finally to the world. Now aliens come and expand it to the whole universe. What will happen when the whole universe is gone?" She gave an example, "It can't be expanded any further, right?"

"You can go to a parallel world." Huang Mao said enthusiastically, "When you are undecided, use quantum mechanics. If your imagination is not enough, use a parallel universe."

"After the protagonist dominates this universe, he can go to other parallel worlds!" He waved his hand, "In another parallel world, the combat power of any passerby is the same as that of the protagonist group, and then your protagonist can continue to rob banks!"

Hong Conghua: "...Thank you, I will be drowned by fans' spit."

"Oh, you still have fans," Huangmao scratched his head, "What should we do then?"

"Restart?" Xiaoying seemed to be thinking about it. "Anyway, according to Xiaobai, your protagonist has been bleeding too much for three months and is almost dead. So why not just let the protagonist die and start over again."

"Thank you too," Hong Conghua said weakly, "Yellow-haired's suggestion will only make me drown in spit, and your trick will directly make fans come to my house and chop people."

Nian Yu used AI to read a passage without any emotion: "Let the protagonist go offline first, and let the supporting characters face the crisis."

"No," Xiaobai was the one who rejected the question faster than Hong Conghua this time. "You don't understand. If the latest update doesn't explain the character's content, then that character will remain in the state of its last appearance until the next time it appears."

In other words, if Hong Conghua never explains what happened to the protagonist, the protagonist will always be in a state of bleeding profusely and dying.

"That won't work. It's too inhumane." The yellow-haired man objected.

"Why don't we just muddle through it first," Bai Jinshu raised his head and tapped his knuckles on the table. "Anyway... Xiaobai is here only because your protagonist is dying, and it's painful to be in this critically ill state. So why don't you bring the protagonist back to life in the latest episode and get rid of this state? At worst, you can continue to delay the update after he's alive."

"Hiss...that's right." Hong Conghua jumped down suddenly.

"Ersi! You're a genius!" She grabbed Bai Jinshu's hand and waved, "Then I'll have to go back and finish my manuscript!"

"Hey, hey, wait a minute!" Xiaoying grabbed her and said, "We're still recording a variety show!"

"Oh, yes..." Hong Conghua paused, "Then..."

"How about this," Bai Jinshu thought for a moment, "After you finish recording today, you can say that you got inspiration and are rushing to finish the manuscript. We will cover for you."

Everyone nodded, and this method was approved.

Although the world suddenly became mysterious during the recording of the program, fortunately the solution is very simple, and the truth of the two murders last night is also revealed, which makes it not so unacceptable.

It's the truth that sounds more like a group of people making up a story.

"But you must not spread this matter," the yellow-haired man muttered, "otherwise if it gets out of hand, the competition committee will think I took drugs in a month, and I will have to take a urine test before every game from now on."

"Don't worry," Nian Yu responded, which was rare. "If this gets out, no matter how it is spread, my career will be ruined."

"I won't tell you," Hong Conghua closed his eyes, "because if I delay the update until the character comes to urge me to update, I will be laughed at for three years even if I tell it as a joke."

Xiaoyingyue shook her head.

Herbisk: "I'm too lazy to talk about this."

"No," Bai Jinshu shook his head gently, "I need public opinion management more than you do."

Everyone looked at each other and became more determined not to let this matter spread.

"It's bad," Hong Conghua complained quietly while putting on the puppet headgear, "Now we are all in the same boat."

I originally thought it was just a recording of a show, but they were actually tied together on a boat.

This group of temporary roommates who have only known each other for two days now really have to keep a secret together.

"The 1,000-word essay that fans want to see is probably a long way off," Bai Jinshu touched his chin and said to Hong Conghua, "You go first?"

In order to avoid being caught by fans, it is best not to leave together when gathering here.

"Then I'll go down." Hong Conghua returned to the shark doll costume and staggered down to the ground.

As she left, everyone in the remaining rooms returned to their respective mission locations one after another.

A new user was added to the small group which originally had only six people. Hong Conghua said that this was Xiaobai's WeChat account, and it would be more convenient for them to communicate after adding the user.

Xiaobai took the initiative to say that he would now look for other members of the protagonist group to join them in searching for the villain who had committed two murders last night.

Huang Mao asked curiously in the group: [Hey, do you know who the villain is? ]

"This is another very painful problem," Hong Conghua sent a voice note, his voice painful, "The comic has been serialized for too long, there are too many villains, and now no one knows who is here together."

"It's probably not an alien anyway," she was sure.

[If we were aliens, we would all be doomed now...] The thought was sent silently.

In the group chat, the idle yellow-haired guy was chatting enthusiastically with the little white guy, while Bai Jinshu walked towards the direction of the roller coaster.

At this moment, the radio overhead beeped twice and began to broadcast a missing person notice: [Two tourists with the online names Black Violent Bear and Red Heart Diamond King, please go to the tourist center after hearing the broadcast. Your friends are waiting for you here.]

It sounds like two tourists who had made an appointment with their netizens to come here got lost. Friends who don’t know them in real life and don’t know their real names can only find them through their online names.

It is common for children to get lost in amusement parks, but it is rare for adults to get lost.

Soon, the missing person notice sounded for the second time.

[Two tourists with the online names Black Violent Bear and Red Heart Diamond King, please go to the visitor center at the south corner of the amusement park after hearing the announcement. Your friends are waiting for you here, and your mobile phones are also here.]

No wonder the phone was lost.

Bai Jinshu blinked and walked towards the roller coaster.

The dinosaur roller coaster is located in the very center of the entire amusement park. Many tourists are coming and going, and a long queue has formed. Perhaps the fans who originally came for the guests have given up looking for it and started to play the rides instead.

The staff had just completed a batch of sales and were watching the roller coaster carrying tourists away from the platform. Before they had time to drop off the tourists and enter the preparation area, they saw several people in security uniforms walking over.

"Stop for a moment," said the leader, who should be the captain of the park's security team, "The dinosaur roller coaster is temporarily under maintenance."

"Maintenance?" The staff in the control room subconsciously looked at the security guard, and after receiving his gaze, he quickly changed his expression, "Oh, oh, yeah, it's time for maintenance!"

"Excuse me, tourists," he took out a small loudspeaker from the house next door and said to everyone, "The roller coaster is due for maintenance every afternoon, so the ride is temporarily closed."

"How long will it take?"

"Can't we wait here?"

"We've already queued this far. If you don't let us play, then all the time we've queued for over half an hour will be in vain!"

There were waves of dissatisfaction among the crowd.

"This... Brother Cao?" The staff member whispered to the leading security guard, "What should we do?"

"All the tourists who are already in line will be given a free pass," the security captain said as if he had been prepared. "After the roller coaster is inspected, tourists with free passes can use the numbers on the pass to skip the line and play. Free passes are valid throughout the park and can also be used for other rides."

The discontent in the crowd gradually died down.

After the security guards following behind him distributed tickets one by one, the tourists who were queuing also left one after another along with the tourists who had finished the roller coaster.

Bai Jinshu, who was standing at the door, suddenly saw a large number of tourists leaving the roller coaster. He frowned and walked towards the amusement facilities.

On the roller coaster platform, several staff members were confused: "What's going on, Brother Cao? Why are you suddenly inspecting it?"

"What's wrong? Is there a leader inspecting?" someone speculated.

"No," the security captain frowned and waved to the people behind him. The security guards immediately stepped forward and began to carefully check every bumper of the roller coaster. The security captain looked around and made sure there were no tourists. Then he whispered, "Just now, there was almost an accident at the bungee jumping machine."

"Something almost happened? What happened?" Several staff members were shocked.

"The cable pulling the bungee jumping machine seat up there is broken, with only the last steel cable left," the security captain lowered his voice, "Based on the degree of breakage, it will be fine when going up, but when coming down, I guess due to the acceleration of gravity, it will snap."

Several staff members broke out in cold sweats instantly.

"Are you okay?" someone asked hurriedly.

"It's okay. The break point was behind the chair. No one saw it at first. Fortunately, a tourist had sharp eyes and called the staff at the last second before the instrument was activated. This prevented the tragedy from happening," the security captain continued. "Now all the exciting rides in the entire amusement park need to be re-checked."

"The entire amusement park?" Bai Jin asked, "Why check the entire amusement park?"

The security captain looked back at him, probably thinking that he was a staff member in a doll costume, so he replied: "Have you all received the message in the group? This matter cannot be posted online."

Bai Jinshu narrowed his eyes, feeling that he might say something important, and quickly turned off the camera outside the costume.

Through a dinosaur mask, the voice of the security captain came: "After the jumping machine stopped, we thought that the staff responsible for the pre-operation inspection did not check it properly when they came to work this morning. But guess what happened when the maintenance workers came..."

"The cable was cut by someone," the security captain lowered his voice. "Someone was deliberately destroying the amusement facilities! The leaders were so scared that they quickly stopped all the exciting projects for inspection. The security office has already checked the surveillance to arrest the person. We called the police before coming here, but we didn't dare to send the police directly here to avoid causing panic. After all, the criminal police... are still at the resort hotel. If the incident gets out of hand, it will be on the hot search again."

He whispered, "After the inspection, if there are no problems, remember to pay attention to every tourist who comes to ride the roller coaster. Don't let them get close to the control room or the front and rear traction of the roller coaster."

"I know, I know."

"Even if we get closer, a few seconds won't be enough to cut it," several staff members agreed.

Could this steel cable be made by some villain who came to the real world?

Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows inside the hood, but before he could continue asking, his cell phone vibrated rapidly. Someone was calling him.

Bai Jinshu raised his phone and saw that it was Xiaoying.

"Hello?" He pulled back one hand and answered the phone.

"Ersi!" Xiaoying's voice was urgent. "Where are you?"

"Me?" Bai Jinshu paused, "I'm here on the roller coaster."

"Did you leave just now?" she asked hurriedly.

"Leaving what? Around the roller coaster? No," Bai Jinshu quickly denied, "Are there any rides that have been stopped over there?"

"No... My problem is more serious!" Xiaoying paused, gritted her teeth, and confirmed again, "You really didn't leave just now, right?"

"No, the surveillance camera at the entrance of the roller coaster and here can prove that I have never left." Bai Jinshu should have figured out the problem even if he was slow. "What happened?"

"I'm at the visitor center," Xiaoying seemed to say something like "No," "There's surveillance to prove it," "You guys adjust the dinosaur roller coaster," etc. to the people around her before continuing to answer, "The facility where I'm doing the mission is a bungee jumping machine."

"Someone cut the cable on the bungee jumping machine. I followed the security guard to the visitor center to check the surveillance to see who cut it."

"Who is it?" Bai Jinshu suddenly felt something was wrong.

"You," Xiaoying paused, "I can't see your face clearly in the surveillance camera, but judging by your clothes, it's you."

The author has something to say:

Ahhh it’s too late, I must come earlier tomorrow!

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