Chapter 329: Inhuman (137) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]

From the outside, the building is just a vague black square outline. Only when you get closer do you realize that it is extremely tall.

Observing with the naked eye, the ceiling is probably at least thirty to forty meters from the ground.

The building is so tall and has no end in sight. It doesn't look like it was built by humans, but rather for giants. Standing at the door of the building, one instantly feels insignificant.

"Is this the island?" Huang Mao muttered, shuddering, "Are we in the wrong place?"

Bai Jinshu was also a little skeptical.

According to Yuan Shanming, a mirage is an island that suddenly appears on the sea. It will suddenly appear when it is triggered and suddenly disappear after the trigger ends.

A huge monster suddenly appeared on the sea surface. Even if the sea water would be temporarily displaced, when the waves surged back, some buildings on the island would definitely be submerged by the sea water.

This building doesn't look like it has been soaked in sea water.

Bai Jinshu took a quick look at the bottom of the building and did not find any water stains.

Could they have gone to the wrong island?

Hong Conghua and Huangmao next to them had already walked forward. It was windy at the door, so it would at least be much warmer if they walked a little inside.

Bai Jinshu was lying on Huai Jiamu's back, and it seemed that he was not surprised. Could it be that this man deliberately pointed in this direction to lead them here?

Bai Jinshu stared at the back of his head suspiciously, and had to admit that he really didn't have the ability to tell what a person was thinking by looking at the back of his head. He had to regretfully look away and began to observe his surroundings.

After entering the building, one can intuitively feel that the entire space is both empty and crowded.

What's empty here is that except for the "tablets" on both sides of the wall, there is nothing else in the rest of the place. It's all blank. Looking forward along the corridor, you can't see the end, but the view is not blocked.

This at least means that there is a very long straight corridor ahead.

What is crowded is the densely packed rectangular "tablets" arranged in order on the wall. These "tablets" are placed in small grids one after another, from the bottom of the wall to the top, neatly arranged on both sides of the road. Walking in it, there is a strange sense of oppression.

There were no lights inside the building, and the road ahead was illuminated by the different colors of light flashing in these rectangles. The meaning of these colors was unknown, but it was obvious that they did not form any graphics or information. Standing at Bai Jinshu's position, he could only see the endless walls flashing red, green and gray lights.

It's so crowded that it could drive people with trypophobia crazy.

Xiao Tang was forced to shiver and shook off the goose bumps on his body: "Damn, what is this... So disgusting."

She rubbed the goose bumps on her body and walked in to take a look, suppressing her nausea: "Let me see what this is."

Bai Jinshu was also a little curious about the things.

"This thing... can't it really be a memorial tablet? Have we strayed into a public cemetery? I'm sorry for disturbing you. If you feel that I have disturbed you, just go find the one who showed you the way," Xiao Tang stared at it for a few seconds, muttered a lot, and then waved at Bai Jinshu, "Er Si? Do you want to take a look at this thing?"

“Let me see…” Huai Jiamu took him closer.

When it was far away, one could only vaguely see that this thing was a vertical rectangular sign. When he got closer, Bai Jinshu discovered that the material of this thing seemed to be a transparent quartz stone. There was nothing on the quartz stone, only a name engraved on it.

It’s still written vertically.

It is the name that shines.

The rectangular quartz stone sign in front of him had a name with three characters on it and was emitting a bright red light.

Guan Hongyan was not wrong in using the word "tablet".

This thing really looks like a tablet, a long one with a name on it. If it had some small words like "husband of xxx", "brother of xxx", or "son of xxx" added on, it would probably be more authentic and give off a smell of the underworld.

Xiao Tang looked at several of them in a row and even touched them a few times tentatively, only to find that this thing was not fixed there, but could be swung back and forth.

She pushed the cards back and forth, tentatively selecting a green crystal card and trying to take it down.

"Hey——" Bai Jinshu turned around and saw Xiao Tang trying to commit suicide. "Don't touch it until you figure out what it is!"

"Who touched it? Xiao Tang!" Guan Hongyan was also shocked when she turned around: "Don't move! Be careful, you might get hurt by something on it!"

"Why didn't you say it a second earlier?" Xiao Tang's hand had already grabbed the crystal card. He turned his head and blinked innocently, "I've already touched it and you two are talking about this. Aren't you cursing me..."

"Besides," Xiao Tang puffed his lips and added in a low voice under Guan Hongyan's glare, "I am very cautious. I spent a long time choosing when I first got it. This is the safest one after all the selections."

Bai Jinshu twitched his lips: "What did you choose? A name that looks auspicious?"

"Fuck," Xiao Tang stood up in awe, "Er Si, are you the worm in my stomach? How did you know that I chose a lucky name! And the name I chose is not only auspicious, it's also green!"

Bai Jinshu: ...

This had nothing to do with the worms in his stomach. It was simply because he now completely understood the girl's train of thought.

If she spent a long time choosing here, it was definitely not based on the safest area summarized based on the surrounding environment, architectural style and other factors, but rather on choosing the most auspicious name.

Guan Hongyan obviously didn't understand Xiao Tang's train of thought: "What's wrong with green?"

"You can stop at a red light and go at a green light, haven't you learned that?" Xiao Tang said confidently, "Green is obviously better than red!"

"Not necessarily," Bai Jin said faintly, "the stock market is red but not green."

Xiao Tang: “Uh…”

That's true.

Now I don’t know whether to hold or put down the green tablet in my hand.

"Or I'll take the gray one..." Xiao Tang looked weakly at the other sign next to him.

"That's it," Bai Jinshu said mercifully after seeing her face change color more brilliantly than the tablet. "You've already touched it, it's too late to change now. If the poison on each color is different, at least you will only be poisoned by the green one."

"Well..." Xiao Tang looked even more guilty, "I actually touched them all just now?"

Bai Jinshu: ...

Guan Hongyan: ...

"Then you are very lucky." Guan Hongyan was silent for a moment.

"That's right," Xiao Tang raised his eyebrows guiltily, "Everyone says I'm hard to kill!"

While proudly saying that she was hard to kill, she carefully waved her free hand towards the yellow-haired man, "Yellow-haired, tear some clothes for me to use as a cushion."

Although now it seems that this is not necessary.

After all, she had already touched it.

Huangmao tore off a piece of cloth from his coat, and Xiao Tang carefully put it under his hand and finally took down the tablet.

Seeing that Xiao Tang was safe and sound, everyone gathered around.

What Xiao Tang took down was a crystal plate that was about the height of her waist. On it were three big green characters: [Zhu Jili].

Bai Jinshu: ...

"It's really auspicious in the literal sense..." He twitched his lips, feeling that his understanding of Xiao Tang was still too conservative.

"Just tell me if it's an auspicious name!" Xiao Tang waved his hand, "Auspicious or not!"

Huang Mao was very enthusiastic and cheered beside him: "It's so auspicious!"

Guan Hongyan: "...Okay."

It's indeed auspicious.

Huai Jiamu said slowly beside him: "If it was really auspicious, it wouldn't appear here."

"Ah?" Xiao Tang's hands trembled and he looked at the big ghost story, "Do you know where this place is?"

What this person said implied that this place was unlucky?

"I don't know." Huai Jiamu glanced at the name in her hand, "Didn't you guess that this was a cemetery?"

"Then are we considered to be stepping on someone's grave now..." Before Xiao Tang could finish his words, Guan Hongyan hit him on the back of the head.

"Xiao Tang, please stop talking!"

"Oh..." Xiao Tang curled his lips and raised the [Zhu Jili] in his hand, "Then what exactly is this?"

"I don't know," Bai Jinshu observed for a moment, "What do you think these names sound like besides cemeteries?"

"Hmm..." Guan Hongyan thought for a moment, "Buddhist temple?"

"Buddhist temple?" Xiao Tang turned his head in surprise.

"That is... have you ever been to a temple or something like that?" Guan Hongyan thought for a moment and gestured. "Aren't there all kinds of Buddha statues on both sides of the main hall of the more famous temples? Just like the walls are full of them now, and the name of the worshiper is written on a sign below the statue. The money is paid quarterly or annually, and then the incense is received in the main hall for a long time. If the fee is not renewed, it will be removed..."

She explained it in great detail, and Bai Jinshu immediately understood what she meant.

"Sister Hua, do you think this place is the temple of the Raging Waves Harbor?" The yellow-haired man scratched his head.

This place has nothing in common with a temple.

"Not really," Guan Hongyan touched his chin, "I just think that these names are likely to have been put in by someone who paid money, or paid some price?"

"After all, these things only have three colors," she gestured, "and these three colors are definitely not the type of toxins. They probably represent the current situation of the owner of this name. After all, red and green are relative, and gray is too specific."

This is a very easy to understand line of reasoning.

Red and green are originally a pair of complementary colors. They are often used in simple icons to indicate two completely identical states. For example, traffic lights indicate red for stop and green for go, and the stock market indicates red for rise and green for fall. The two colors represent completely opposite meanings.

Gray has no meaning most of the time. As a gray system that is not a color but a black and white tone, when it is introduced into colorful color expressions, most of the time it represents dead things, such as posthumous portraits.

When these three colors are put together, it is easy to think that they may represent the three states of the owner of this name.

"Which three?" Xiao Tang thought for a moment, "Safety, danger and death?"

This is the first thing everyone thinks of.

"Then this thing can't be called a tablet, right?" Xiao Tang muttered, "This thing looks a lot like the life tablets in the immortal novels? When a disciple dies, the life tablet breaks into pieces. When a person dies here, the tablet turns gray?"

So this huge cemetery is actually a huge vital signs detection point?

"I'm not sure," Bai Jinshu shook his head, "but we can go in a little further and see if there's anything else inside."

"That's right," Xiao Tang looked at the [Zhu Jili] in his hand, put it back and bowed a few more times before waving his hand, "Bye bye Jili!"

"Are you very familiar with him..." Guan Hongyan complained silently as she passed by.

"Oh, I am just very familiar with him!" Xiao Tang sighed and went up to hold Guan Hongyan's hand, "Sister Hong! You are so mean..."

"If I were mean, I would shake your hand off right now." Guan Hongyan looked at her silently.

Xiao Tang raised his arm and shouted, "No problem! Sister Hong, you are kind and nice! Let me stick to you! Let me stick to you!"

Guan Hongyan was squeezed by her and walked crookedly. She said speechlessly, "Stop squeezing me, stop squeezing me. Walk properly! Why are you so cold?"

Everyone had been in the building for a while, and although their clothes were still wet, their body temperatures had returned to normal. Only Xiao Tang was the only one who was still icy cold for some reason.

"I have a cold body!" Xiao Tang said nonchalantly, "I am just like this. My body temperature is very low all year round."

Bai Jinshu was carried on Huai Jiamu's back and walked in front. He actually felt a little sleepy while lying there. If the two girls behind him hadn't been making a fuss, he would have probably fallen into a deep sleep.

Perhaps it was because his nap was too obvious that Huai Jiamu noticed his drowsiness and whispered, "If you're sleepy, why don't you take a nap first? Anyway, it looks like you're still a long way to the finish line."

Looking ahead from here, there is still an endless corridor.

"Forget it," Bai Jinshu shook his head, trying to wake himself up, "I'm not going to sleep anymore."

He didn't know where everyone was now. Even if he believed that Huai Jiamu would not let him fall into a deep sleep, it didn't seem appropriate for him to rest alone while other teammates were working hard to analyze the situation.

In order to refresh himself, he simply focused his attention on the signs next to him and scanned them one by one.

Suddenly, his gaze paused.

"Stop." He suddenly patted Huai Jiamu's shoulder.

Huai Jiamu stopped as he was told: "What's wrong?"

"There..." Bai Jinshu was about to say the rest of the sentence, but he stopped talking as if he realized something and changed the subject abruptly, "There is a very special name there."

"What's the name? It's so special?" Xiao Tang came over curiously.

"There is a..." Bai Jinshu's eyes searched quickly around the name that caught his attention, but he couldn't find anything special, so he just made up a story, "There is a salmon dream."

"Ah?" Xiao Tang's expression twisted for a moment, "What the hell?"

Bai Jin said: "Zhang's dream of salmon."

Xiao Tang twitched his lips: "Fuck, it's better to call me Zhang Jili."

"You're going to be at odds with Jili today, right?" Guan Hongyan said speechlessly, "Why do I feel like these two names are pretty similar?"

"Then Zhu Jili sounds better. Zhu Jili's parents must have named him with the intention of hoping that he would have a good life. What do Zhang Salmon Zhimeng's parents want? Do they want to eat salmon?" Xiao Tang criticized mercilessly, "Then why not call him Zhang Salmon? Why add Zhimeng!"

"Let me find where this Salmon brother is..." After Xiao Tang finished his criticism, he looked up and began to look for him with great interest.

Guan Hongyan was not curious at first, but the name Zhang Salmon Dream was too weird, just like what Cen Bingqi had said casually. She really wanted to know what kind of person had such an explosive name, so she raised her head and started looking in front of her.

At this moment, a very familiar name suddenly flashed in her eyes.

Guan Hongyan subconsciously widened her eyes and looked straight at Cen Bingqi.

Then she realized that Cen Bingqi had been looking at her. Seeing her face full of shock and questions in his eyes, he nodded slightly at her.

Guan Hongyan silently took a deep breath in her heart.

She forgot all about the salmon dream.

Just now, an extremely familiar name flashed among the names on the wall.

——[Xu Zichen].

Xu Zichen's name is on it.

Guan Hongyan secretly took several deep breaths in her heart, feeling her thoughts running wild, with a bunch of guesses overflowing from her mind.

Why is Xu Zichen's name here?

He didn't come in under a fake name?

No, Xu Zichen is different from them. He has been here once. At that time, he was the King of Gu raised in the Gu Farm by an investment bank. This name might have been left behind at that time.

But why is it grey...

This shouldn’t be the case… If gray represents death, how could Xu Zichen die?

Xiao Tang continued to search with great interest nearby. Guan Hongyan's mind was suddenly filled with a lot of thoughts. Fortunately, she had good facial expressions and did not show any worry or horror.

Xu Zichen should not die. He has experience and is also the Gu King. He even killed people indiscriminately in the Port of Raging Waves not long ago. No matter how you look at it, it is impossible for him to die at this time.

Could it be that... because Xu Zichen left the investment bank, he was pronounced dead?

Or maybe gray actually has other meanings, and it doesn't mean that the owner of the name is dead.

Or there is a more likely guess, that is, the name Xu Zichen is not very special, maybe it is a homonym?

Guan Hongyan knew that Cen Bingqi's thoughts at this moment were definitely no less than hers. The two of them had ulterior motives, and Xiao Tang was really looking for Zhang Salmon's Dream.

After searching for two or three times, she looked at Bai Jinshu with dissatisfaction: "No, where is this person? Are you kidding me?"

"Your eyesight is too poor," Bai Jin said mercilessly, "It's very high up. If you can't see, go back and get a pair of glasses."

"Let's go." He said to Huai Jiamu.

"Damn it! Blatant slander! My vision is 5.0!" Xiao Tang was thrown behind by two people and shouted in dissatisfaction, "Are you kidding me?"

"Okay, I saw it too," Guan Hongyan pulled Xiao Tang, suppressed the shock in her heart, and made up an excuse, "That name is too high up. There must be more bizarre ones behind it, such as Zhang the Dream of Hairtail, Zhang the Dream of Shark, and Zhang the Dream of Whale. Don't worry about Zhang the Dream of Salmon."

Little Tang was dragged away unwillingly. He kept mumbling to himself for a long time and began to look around carefully in displeasure: "Where did all these Zhang fish come from? The most common name I saw from the Zhang family along the way was Zhang Wei!"

This shows that the Zhang family's naming is really too extreme. They are either uncreative or too creative.

Everybody walked forward, and under the guise of "finding another Zhang Xyu's dream", Bai Jinshu and Guan Hongyan began to look at the names on both sides openly along the way.

This look really made them realize something.

"Hey, isn't that Brother Yuan?" Xiao Tang suddenly pointed at a name tag and shouted, "Look, it's Yuan Shanming!"

Everyone looked up and it was indeed Yuan Shanming.

Only the name is now in red.

"Brother Yuan is in danger?" Huang Mao said subconsciously, "He won't be killed by Shi Pang and the others, right? That shouldn't be the case? Isn't the [Mirage] activated? They shouldn't need to kill anyone, right?"

That's not clear.

"Or did the Gu King kill him?" Xiao Tang guessed, "Oh my god, no, Brother Yuan is a good person."

Bai Jinshu and Guan Hongyan looked at each other and saw the same message in each other's eyes.

It is impossible that the Gu King killed him. Yuan Shanming did nothing. Xu Zichen would not kill people indiscriminately.

So what does this red mean?

Is it really in danger?

The two frowned slightly.

"Hey, the one next to Brother Yuan," Xiao Tang pointed, "isn't that the leader who died that he was talking about?"

Everyone looked up and saw a gray sign next to Yuan Shanming's name.

"Why don't we take that down..." Xiao Tang muttered, "Didn't Brother Yuan ask us to find out the cause of his friend's death? Now I don't remember anything, but taking a gray life plate back will be considered a task. I'll go up and get it."

Xiao Tang was as nimble as a monkey and jumped up in no time.

Guan Hongyan coughed lightly and said, "It doesn't have to be the gray one."

She now suspects that there may be something wrong with everyone's definition of the meaning of the three colors red, green and gray. Xu Zichen is gray, but he is not dead. Could it be that gray does not represent death?

Yuan Shanming is red, but he should not be in danger, and red may not represent danger.

"Ah? What should I do?" Xiao Tang had already climbed up, so he had to turn back and ask, "Should I take it or not?"

"Take it," Bai Jinshu said, "Take away Brother Yuan's life card and the four cards around him. Then let him see who his friend is."

The signs around Yuan Shanming were of all colors. Xiao Tang said, "Oh," and jumped down from above holding five crystal signs. "Alright, we're done!"

Everyone continued to move forward holding the five crystal plates.

With the previous experience of Yuan Shanming and Xu Zichen, Bai Jinshu now began to suspect that more familiar people would appear here next, so he and Guan Hongyan checked more carefully.

But they didn’t know whether the names of the familiar people were all in the invisible place, or there were really no familiar people here, but they didn’t see anything for a long time.

As we walked further and further along the corridor, we were almost at the edge, and it turned out that it also had an end.

At the end of the corridor was something that looked like a water mirror. Bai Jinshu suspected that he could leave here directly after going out of it.

But what is going on in this place?

Why did Huai Jiamu ask them to come here? It couldn't be that he really wanted them to take away Yuan Shanming's sign, right?

Under this kind of doubt, everyone is getting closer and closer to the end.

Just then, Hong Conghua gently pulled his sleeve.

Bai Jinshu turned his head and found that her face looked a little strange, and she was staring in one direction without moving.

Bai Jinshu turned his head and looked over, and soon found a third familiar name among the bunch of names: [Chu Shaomai].

The name is green, this is Lu Changfeng.

Has Lu Changfeng been here too?

[Do you want to find a reason to take her away?] Bai Jinshu glanced at Guan Hongyan.

He felt that leaving the sign here would probably not be a good thing.

[No...] Guan Hongyan's eyes were very stiff, [Look at the side.]

What happened next to you?

Bai Jinshu looked towards Lu Changfeng's side.

On his left is a name that is obviously a girl’s, and on his right is a grey name [Wu Zhai].

What's wrong with this name?

Bai Jinshu looked at Guan Hongyan strangely.

At this time, Guan Hongyan's face was finding it difficult to remain calm.

"I'll hold the crystal card for you. He's tired enough carrying you. I'll help you." She suddenly walked forward and, using the gesture of receiving a life card, quickly drew a name on the back of Bai Jinshu's hand.

This time, Bai Jinshu was also stunned.

The name of Guan Hongyan's painting is [Yun Guang].

[Wu Zhai] Is it Yun Guang’s pseudonym?

He looked at Guan Hongyan.

Guan Hongyan nodded imperceptibly.

The name Wu Zhai is not special, and there may be people with the same name as him, but since it appears together with Chu Shaomai, who is confirmed to be Lu Changfeng, it must be Yun Guang without a doubt.

But……

But this...

Bai Jinshu's eyes also moved slightly.

Could it be that the Gu King who has been killing people indiscriminately in Port N is Yun Guang?

The author has something to say:

I heard that the most common name in China is Zhang Wei. In 2007, when a survey was conducted, there were more than 290,000 people with the name Zhang Wei in the country.

I finished half an hour earlier than twelve o'clock today. I'm giving myself a thumbs up. Also, the word count of this chapter is very auspicious 6666 (applause from the seal)

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