Chapter 341: Inhuman (149) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]

“Live streaming is fine.”

Huai Jiamu was silent for a few seconds, and said sparingly: "It's the thing that caused the live broadcast to go wrong that has a problem."

"I feel..." There was a rare hint of uncertainty in his tone, "I feel like a very powerful ghost story is suppressing your live broadcast, preventing it from broadcasting the content here."

Bai Jinshu's expression became even more surprised.

He looked up and exchanged glances with Xu Zichen, and saw a lot of surprise in the other's eyes.

A more powerful weird story is suppressing the live broadcast signal?

"No..." Xu Zichen was stunned for several seconds before he looked at Bai Jinshu and said, "What does this person in your team do?"

Of course he knew that this was Huai Jiamu, a fixed member of their organization with very special attributes. The question was what had he become this time?

"Confidential, confidential!" Xiao Tang was startled when he heard the question and immediately closed the reply interface to prevent himself from clicking due to hand shaking. "Why are you from another team always asking about our secrets? This is our team's trump card. Why don't you just listen to it?"

The news that this big guy is a weirdo among the newcomers cannot be spread out casually, otherwise it is obvious that their team will become the target of public criticism.

But Xiao Tang didn't say it, but Bai Jinshu did.

While she was lowering her head to close the reply, Bai Jinshu mouthed something to Xu Zichen: [Weird story].

Xu Zichen: ...Is this okay?

It is worthy of being a special fixed attribute dissolved in the copy.

Bai Jinshu blinked, and Xu Zichen understood and spread his hands when Xiao Tang raised his head and looked at him vigilantly, indicating that he had absolutely no intention of prying for information.

But to be honest, even if Huai Jiamu didn't stop, he and Xu Zichen would not let Xiao Tang upload it.

Whether there is live broadcast or not still has a great impact on them. If the live broadcast is fixed, the most they can do is get clues on how to solve this strange story from the audience's comments. If they stay here for a few days, they may get this clue.

But if it cannot be repaired, then the benefits will be huge. The biggest benefit is that it will be much easier for people from the foundation to communicate.

For example, the conversation between Xu Zichen and Guan Hongyan today, without the live camera focusing on them all the time, many clues were communicated much more clearly, and there was no need to play those riddles that could not convey accurate information and could only express the general meaning.

Guan Hongyan found time during the day to tell Xu Zichen in detail about the matter of Yun Guang and Lu Changfeng. However, Xu Zichen, who had been in the uninhabited area, had no idea about Yun Guang's actions. He could only say that they might have discovered something and thought it would be more convenient to do things in the identity of the Gu King.

As for what convenience the Gu King has...

Xu Zichen twitched his lips: "That's much more convenient, just... Generally speaking, the Gu Kings who enter the Novice Village are not mentally normal. Whatever they do during this period is normal. Maybe Yun Guang wants to do something but doesn't want to appear too abrupt, so he just uses the Gu King to cover it up."

Moreover, one of the advantages of this method is that it can make all the newcomers to the foundation notice him. After all, they have been here for so many days, and except for the "N Port Gu King" who has been confirmed to be Yun Guang, they have not heard of any other Gu Kings.

This only proves that the investment bank's Gu farm has indeed been abandoned. The first Gu farm was destroyed by Xu Zichen, and the second Gu farm accidentally became their [0106] base and fell into the hands of the foundation.

In the short term, they did not have the suitable space to build a third Gu field.

The previous incident did indeed directly hit the investment bank's main artery.

On this basis, the investment bank's manpower and senior team members should have dropped drastically. Yun Guang appeared under the identity of "Gu King", and the investment bank, whose member qualifications have dropped drastically, is too late to welcome him, and should not be able to find out anything wrong in a short time.

By the time they realized something was wrong, they had already been away from the Novice Village for many years.

"Hey, hey——" Xiao Tang called out to Xu Zichen several times, "What are you thinking about?"

"Hmm?" Xu Zichen suddenly came back to his senses. "I wonder what that strange story is about. Do you know what's going on?"

"Me? How would I know?" Xiao Tang pointed at him, then at himself, "I'm pointing at you to tell me. After all, you are the local team in the No Man's Land. Has your team leader ever heard of this kind of bug?"

Brother Yin and Zhou Ju are the local leaders of the No Man's Land, and they must be more familiar with the situation here than them.

"Brother Yin... Brother Yin probably doesn't know," Xu Zichen thought for a moment, "If he knew, why would he be so surprised yesterday?"

When the garbled code was discovered last night, it didn't look like anyone present knew about it in advance.

"The teams in No Man's Land are very unique," he added. "The team leaders who encounter this problem will only treat it as a special message and will not announce it to everyone."

"Tsk..." Xiao Tang didn't get the answer he wanted, so he could only curl his lips in disdain, "You guys don't have any spirit of cooperation here. At least we in the City of the Dead will keep each other informed of any news, and we will work together on any special ghost stories."

Yuan Shanming is not good at fighting, but he is very good at socializing. Shi Pang's team even takes them to do special weird stories like "A Thousand Miles a Day", without any signs of hiding anything, which is in stark contrast to them.

But thinking of the so-called secrets that these two people were hiding...

Xiao Tang curled his lips and refused to continue.

Xu Zichen shrugged. After all, Xiao Tang was attacking the no-man's land, not the newcomers like them. "It's not a question of cooperation or not. Is it possible that this bug is part of this place?"

"The reply said that this bug has been reported many times, all in no-man's land, and the technical department has not been able to reproduce it yet," Bai Jinshu continued, "Are you trying to say that you think that every time people encounter this kind of live broadcast garbled bug, they are people who have strayed into this strange story, which is why they attribute this situation to part of the strange story information and don't spread it?"

"Bingo," Xu Zichen snapped his fingers. "Didn't your people say that the live broadcast signal was suppressed by a very powerful strange story and that the content here was not allowed to be broadcast? If the bug is part of this place, then this would explain why the two leaders of the No Man's Land didn't know about this place, because this bug would only appear in this strange story."

"So this strange story is very powerful?" Xiao Tang immediately grasped the key point, "Boss, Boss?"

She waved at Huai Jiamu and said, "Can you feel the level of this weird story? We are not accidentally running into an S-level weird story, are we?"

As soon as she said this, everyone's eyes changed.

Yes, a powerful ghost story that can dominate the live broadcast must be an S, right?

This S ghost story is so unpicky?

Although everyone said that this place might have triggered some unknown conditions because they were too close, everyone knew the truth in their hearts.

Rather than saying that they "triggered" this weird story, it would be more accurate to say that this weird story actively "devoured" them.

This situation was very similar to what Yuan Shanming had told them on the first day they entered the Novice Village. Some low-level monsters would deliberately harass newcomers near the subway station and forcibly occupy one of their monster talk spots.

The devouring behavior of this ghost story was also like a hit-and-run, and because it happened too suddenly and they couldn't find the ghost story itself after entering, they couldn't even use force to force the other party to let them out.

It's understandable that low-level ghost stories try to cheat, but who knows how many people want to challenge S-level ghost stories. The pre-triggering programs are incredibly complicated. How could they fall to the point of cheating newcomers to take over the other party's ghost story position?

"Not really." Under the expectant eyes, Huai Jiamu shook his head slightly, "This strange story... is very strange."

It's strange that these three words came out of his mouth, and it was even stranger.

"This suppresses the live broadcast and does not allow it to broadcast the atmosphere of the scene in the ghost story. It should be an S-level ghost story," he thought for a moment, "but the ghost story itself may not be."

"There is no pressure from S-rank ghost stories," he added.

"Ah?" Xiao Tang frowned. "Boss, what you mean is that this strange story may be A.B.C. level, but for some reason, there is an S-level strange story that suppresses its live broadcast and does not allow live broadcasts to broadcast it?"

"It's not necessarily a gang?" Xu Zichen guessed, "Maybe there is competition among these ghost stories, and this S-level ghost story is suppressing it?"

"Then why doesn't it just kill the ghost story?" Xiao Tang frowned. "A small ghost story has no power to fight back against a big ghost story."

The existence of ghost stories is very special.

Before that night in the City of the Dead, everyone thought that ghost stories were just some copy incarnations that stayed in fixed locations and waited for new people to enter.

But after that night in the City of the Dead, she keenly realized that there seemed to be some small societies among the ghost undead. They were not just simple copies of incarnations. They were no different from humans and not only did they have strong malice towards humans.

They have no comradeship towards their own kind.

If this low-level ghost story had offended that S, it would only take a few minutes for S to strangle it to death. Why would it go to such trouble to deliberately interfere with the live broadcast?

"The only explanation is that these two ghost stories have a good relationship," Bai Jinshu tapped his finger on the table, "So why can't we broadcast live here?"

Could it be that this strange story is hiding some secret that cannot be known to the audience of the investment bank?

Everyone looked at each other and shrugged.

Who can know this?

"Let's go to sleep," Xiao Tang leaned back and rolled into the quilt, "It's twelve o'clock, it's time for the next round of vigil to get up."

The next round is Yuan Shanming, Guan Hongyan, and Jin Ling.

All those who reported errors should have received the email. Bai Jinshu and Xu Zichen discussed it quietly and planned to process Huai Jiamu's words and try their best to prevent the rest of the people from uploading data and starting the live broadcast.

The next three people were easier to explain. Guan Hongyan and Jin Ling would naturally not start the live broadcast, and Yuan Shanming knew that Huai Jiamu was a ghost storyteller. All he had to do was repeat his words, process them a little, and tell him that after uploading the data, it would most likely be noticed by the S-level ghost storyteller who was controlling the live broadcast. Yuan Shanming would naturally not upload it.

The trouble comes from the remaining four people in Xu Zichen's team.

"Brother Yin, I can't do anything about it," Xu Zichen shook his head slightly, "He is a veteran leader. He usually leads the team in a strong style. He is not used to things being out of his control, and requires everyone to follow his schedule to complete the ghost talk. Now that the live broadcast is gone, if he sees this reply, he will definitely upload it."

What Huai Jiamu said was useful, but it would expose his identity. After weighing the two options, it would be better to let him start the live broadcast.

At worst, I can just avoid him in the future.

"Zhou Zhou's words are fine. I have persuaded him not to upload," he thought for a while, "and this guy is quite powerful. I have been on good terms with him for several days. He told me the cause of his death. I suspect that if he can enter the Foundation, he may generate a very buggy fixed attribute. I plan to pull him back and let him slowly climb up from the low-level space below. Even if his thinking ability cannot keep up with our exploration pace, other members can rescue him."

After all, there is not much in [0106] now, but there are many Gu Kings. With so many Gu Kings, they can always pick up a member and send him all the way into the assessment space.

Xu Zichen was not very familiar with the remaining two girls, Feng Shuang and You Yi. He said he could try, but there was no guarantee.

By this calculation, even if the live broadcast is repaired, only three people in the opposing team may start it. As long as we do some small actions to avoid these three people, there will be no problem.

After discussing the issues related to the live broadcast, Huangmao also consciously went to wake up the next few people. Bai Jinshu took out a pair of earplugs from under the pillow, plugged his ears and tried hard to put on pajamas.

The earplugs were made by Huangmao during the day. Although the effect is average, they can at least block out some of the more subtle sounds of artillery fire. As for those particularly loud sounds, forget it, as they will still wake up all the sleeping people from their dreams.

Bai Jinshu woke up seven or eight times in one night, and finally saw the east was getting brighter when he woke up for the last time.

Last night, in the intervals between his intermittent awakenings, something seemed to have happened in the room. A few times when he opened his eyes hazily, he could see that several beds were empty and someone was standing on the floor of the room saying something.

When they woke up in the morning, several people in the room had dark circles under their eyes and looked listless. On the contrary, Bai Jinshu, who had been woken up seven or eight times during the night, looked the most energetic.

While eating in the restaurant, Guan Hongyan came over like a wandering soul and sat on the right side of Bai Jinshu with a dull look in her eyes: "I almost didn't sleep all night."

Bai Jinshu looked her up and down and said, "I can see that."

It wasn't just the dark circles under his eyes, but also the spoon in Guan Hongyan's hand that had been emptied three times in a row.

There is a little more food on the table today. I guess things weren't peaceful last night.

"Did you catch up last night?" Bai Jinshu asked while eating.

"No," Guan Hongyan took several seconds to react before answering slowly, "They were too defensive. We tried to follow them, but found that it was basically impossible to catch up with them without them noticing us. The range of Jinling's bugs here is limited. In the end, we could only confirm that these people did leave the building with the sleeping children, and when they came back, only those few people were left. The people they took away disappeared."

"But we did get something out of it," she took a deep breath, "We found out that the people who left yesterday were not the same ones who left the night before."

It's easy to find out, just look at which beds are empty.

Bai Jinshu raised an eyebrow at the problem Guan Hongyan had discovered: "Do they take turns coming every night?"

"Yes," Guan Hongyan nodded and lowered her voice, "Jin Ling went to observe and saw the whole process of those people taking the sleeping child away."

Guan Hongyan, Yuan Shanming and Jin Ling are the second round of night watchmen. Jin Ling's insect can hide in the dark and observe every move outside, so it can naturally see everything that happens in the room without making any sound.

This process was similar to what the kid who came to surrender to them yesterday had described. With a few thunder-like sounds of gunfire, all the children in the room who had not taken sleeping pills woke up.

In the darkness, the children exchanged glances, tiptoed out of bed, and began to walk towards their other companions in the room.

The other children who were also woken up without taking sleeping pills would quietly open their eyes at this time and silently look at these children. Seeing their eyes signaling wakefulness, the children who had climbed out of bed would tacitly avoid them and walk towards others.

The whole process was silent and extremely tacit. Several children who climbed down from the bed walked around the room and soon locked their eyes on a child who had taken sleeping pills and was in a deep sleep without opening his eyes.

Several people looked at each other, and together they lifted him off the bed, then placed him on what looked like a simple stretcher, and carried him towards the door.

After they carried away the unlucky guy who was chosen, the remaining children who had opened their eyes visibly breathed a sigh of relief, closed their eyes and continued to sleep.

If they can even sleep at all.

According to what Jin Ling saw, in the same room, the person who got up today and took his companion away was not the one whose beds were empty yesterday, and the person lying on the empty bed yesterday was also one of the children who opened his eyes today.

In other words, these people took turns taking people out every night, which was not what Xu Zichen had guessed at the beginning.

And it is understandable that they only take children who have taken sleeping pills out.

Those who are awake must be aware that someone will die every night, otherwise they would not give up their comfortable sleep and choose not to take sleeping pills and be woken up. If they are chosen, these children who don't want to die will definitely struggle hard, not to mention whether they will wake up others. Once one awake person is killed today, all the other awake people in the room will be in trouble.

So in order to make the whole process silent, the best way is to kill those people who have taken sleeping pills and know nothing about the night, and then establish a tacit understanding with other awake people to take turns every night.

From this perspective, the child who surrendered yesterday did not tell the truth. What she said was indeed correct information and she did not lie to them, but she cleverly extricated herself from this.

No wonder Xu Zichen made the wrong judgment.

However, although there was a slight error in the judgment, there was generally no problem.

This place must be carrying out some kind of hidden selection, and what these kids do here every night must be watched by some hidden eyes.

"So now it is certain that every night someone will take people who have taken sleeping pills out and kill them, right?" Bai Jinshu knocked on the edge of the bowl and asked in a low voice.

"Yes," Guan Hongyan nodded, "We stayed there all night last night and found that eight people were taken out. None of them came back. I guess most of them were dealt with outside."

Bai Jinshu: "How long was the time between going out and coming back?"

Guan Hongyan: "Less than half an hour."

"So fast? Interesting." Bai Jinshu glanced around.

When eating, the children's sluggish behavior will be slightly less severe, making it easier to tell who is truly stupid and who is pretending than when they are still.

The older kids around ten years old didn't show up last night. In the eight rounds, the ones who took action were those around seven or eight years old.

"Children of seven or eight years old can't even take half an hour to deal with a corpse even if given an adult's time. How do they do it?" Bai Jinshu raised his eyes.

Even if a certain number of people die every night, the process of dealing with the bodies has become an assembly line, and half an hour is not enough to clean up all the traces.

The area of ​​this shelter is not very large, and there is basically no other space except for the small garden. Half an hour is not enough to disassemble the bodies into pieces. Even if the people are buried in the garden, burying eight people every night?

This is too exaggerated.

Not to mention whether the bodies from the previous night have had time to decompose, just looking at the number, within half a month, the area under that small garden will become a pile of corpses.

——It can’t be buried at all.

"You and Jin Ling should catch up on your sleep first," Bai Jinshu stood up from his seat and raised his chin towards Xu Zichen and Xiao Tang, signaling them to follow him later, "Let's go and see if we can find any traces of the body."

He is now very curious about where the people who die every night go.

War is the best shield. During the war, the streets were full of corpses, and it was not surprising that there were seven or eight children among them.

But this shelter is obviously in a place far away from the war. Although there are various explosions and collapse sounds outside the window every night, those sounds are still far away from here. This area of ​​the shelter is a safe area even during a war.

It is certainly not easy to dump the body in the safe zone, but if it is dumped somewhere farther away, the shelter is surrounded by high spiked fences. It is easy to climb over them, but it is impossible to climb over them with a sleeping child without waking him up.

They couldn't even leave here, let alone throw the bodies somewhere farther away.

How was the body dealt with?

This strange story doesn't seem to have any supernatural elements. It can't be that the person just disappeared or was teleported away by someone.

As he thought about it, he walked out of the restaurant and his eyes inadvertently met with the two nuns who were about to go out to pray.

Wait a moment.

He seemed to be a little misled by Xu Zichen's speculation.

Who says nuns are necessarily the ones who watch these things with a cold eye?

Some things are difficult for children to do, but are much easier for adults.

Is it possible that those children were only responsible for taking the sleeping children out, and the ones who actually dealt with them without leaving any trace were the two nuns here?

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