Chapter 355: Inhuman (163) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]

Yuan Shanming now feels that he can accept whatever happens next.

After two people followed Hang Yiqing in, the originally quiet corner of the garden suddenly became noisy.

The man called Yun Guang hadn't even finished his first sentence when he was surrounded by Hong Conghua and Shi Yuan, who called out his name loudly with excited tones as if they had seen a savior. The three recognized him at first sight.

This newcomer who was brought in personally by Hang Yiqing seemed to be one of the troublemakers who brought down the foundation.

Yuan Shanming stood there, watching numbly the three of them happily recognizing each other as relatives.

Didn't they just agree to work together to ruin the investment? He completely understood it and he was on a pirate ship.

He is always so complacent that these newcomers are all monsters!

Aren’t they all monsters? Monsters that want to bring down his old boss.

And even if he got on the pirate ship, he would be the weakest one on it. Yuan Shanming looked around at the children who were either three or four years old or five or six years old. He felt extremely heartbroken and secretly swore that he would never be surprised by these monsters again.

Ordinary people also need dignity, okay!

"Hongyan?" Yun Guang looked at Guan Hongyan, then at Xu Zichen, with a bit of surprise in his tone, "Zichen? Did you come here on your own? Were you two assigned to the same team?"

"Ah? No, I met Xu Zichen when we came to the No Man's Land. I was in the City of Violence before, and I happened to meet Cen Bingqi from the City of the Dead in a joint instance," Guan Hongyan explained quickly, pointing to the people in front and introducing them, "That's Cen Bingqi, the one behind is Huai Jiamu, this is Jin Ling from Qiruita, and the two in the distance are Huangmao and Xiao Tang, they are the same person, Xiao Tang is a shadow puppet controlled by Huangmao, and Huangmao is a woman dressed as a man."

"This is Zhou Zhou," Xu Zichen also interrupted, "I met a good candidate, I will consider recruiting him into the organization later."

"Who is this person..." Yun Guang looked at Yuan Shanming inquiringly, "Is he from another organization or is he a potential stock that you are optimistic about?"

"Ah... this is our team leader," Guan Hongyan scratched his head, "He is nothing, just the team leader of the investment bank, and he came in with us."

Nothing.

Yuan Shanming felt like he was stabbed in the heart.

It’s bad enough that you guys said he was nothing, but you guys didn’t even tell him his real name!

"Team leader?" A skinny boy who looked about ten years old popped his head out. "Are you going to kill him, Brother Yun Guang?"

Yuan Shanming:!!!

"Killed? You killed the team leader?" Guan Hongyan was a little surprised.

She thought that the killing of the leader by the Gu King of N Port was a rumor, but she didn't expect it to be true?

"Kill them," the boy called Changfen said sincerely, "Yun Guang's team leader and my team leader were both killed. These two people knew about it. Brother Yun Guang said that they had been helping the tyrants for many years. They deserved to die."

"That's true." Xu Zichen continued, and the few people quickly reached a consensus.

Yuan Shanming: ???

No, wait, that’s also what?

That’s none of his business!

Yuan Shanming wanted to argue, but before he could open his mouth, he accidentally met the eyes of the man named Yun Guang.

When the other facial features of human children are not yet fully developed, their eyes will appear exceptionally large. When Yun Guang's gaze swept over, for a moment, Yuan Shanming felt a hair on his back tremble because of this pair of eyes.

On the face of the three-year-old boy, which has not yet fully grown, these eyes alone occupy a huge area. The moment the pitch-black pupils swept over, he seemed to be looking into the eyes of some emotionless inorganic machine.

Fortunately, this feeling only lasted for a moment. The next second, he heard Ersi's voice coming to his rescue: "This is Yuan Shanming, the leader of the City of the Dead. He is not a bad person and has never done anything to help the tyrants. There is no need to kill him."

"But I didn't expect that the people Hang Yiqing went to pick up were you and Lu Changfeng," he said hello, "I've heard that there is a Gu King in the Port of Raging Waves who is going crazy and killing people indiscriminately. Is it you?"

"Bingqi," Yun Guang looked up and nodded slightly, "Yes, it's me. It seems that the news has spread to District W, B City and S City?"

The voice returned to its previous gentle and calm tone.

Yuan Shanming shook his shoulders. He felt that this newcomer Yun Guang was even more terrifying than Bill Si... Now he should be called Cen Bingqi. He was even more terrifying than Cen Bingqi and the others.

"I don't know where it got passed on. I was the one who told Xu Zichen, and I was the one who told me Cen Bingqi. Cen Bingqi found out about it when he met the leader of the team that escaped from the Port of Raging Waves in the City of the Dead," Guan Hongyan didn't notice Yuan Shanming's expression, and explained quickly, "But when we went to look for you, there was no one in the Port of Raging Waves. The [Mirage] was left there halfway through being triggered. The residents of the port were neither human nor ghost, and the streets were full of dead fish..."

"You came to see us?" Lu Changfeng was surprised. "Sister Yan, when did you come?"

Guan Hongyan mentioned a date.

"At that time, Hang Yiqing had something important to contact us about. We had just left the Port of Raging Waves," Yun Guang said with regret, "so we just missed each other..."

【Fake people】It seems that this is what Yun Guang and his friends call those live broadcast viewers.

This word is a bit strange. Bai Jinshu touched his chin. If the information Yun Guang got was the same as theirs, then at best he could only confirm that these things were imitating the newcomers in the investment bank.

But the word "pseudo-human", which cannot be completely contrasted with clone, means that he knows more.

There's a good chance he knows more about these things than they do.

While Bai Jinshu was lost in thought, Guan Hongyan spoke eloquently and quickly told Yun Guang what they had encountered. He also pulled Xiao Tang to supplement. The two of them talked about the nightmare triggered by the City of Violence. Guan Hongyan's team leader Dita had to leave the Novice Village for something and entrusted her team member Guan Hongyan to Yuan Shanming.

"Let's not talk about this for now." Seeing that Guan Hongyan was about to tell Yun Guang about her experiences in the past few days, Bai Jinshu quickly interrupted the conversation between the two, "Yun Guang, are you cooperating with Hang Yiqing and Brother Guan? You came back this time to talk about the earthquake, right?"

When Hang Yiqing left before, he mentioned that these two people were going to investigate the earthquake. Now that they are back, it means that something really happened.

I’m afraid this earthquake is the same one they encountered when they first arrived in the uninhabited area a few days ago?

When this was mentioned, Guan Hongyan's excitement about meeting an acquaintance suddenly subsided a lot. Hang Yiqing could see that they knew each other and did not interrupt.

But they couldn't just leave Hang Yiqing and Lao Guan alone to communicate, right?

"Yes, you should tell Hang Yiqing about your investigation results, and then we can exchange information. We also have some ideas about this earthquake." Guan Hongyan urged.

"Okay," Yun Guang nodded. He was already used to Guan Hongyan's impetuous style. He raised his head and looked in the direction of Hang Yiqing. "Your guess about this earthquake is correct. There is indeed a problem."

Hang Yiqing nodded: "Can you find out which areas they are?"

"Not certain areas, but all areas," Yun Guang shook his head. "According to the investigation by Changfeng and I, the earthquake occurred not only in the No Man's Land, but also in the entire Novice Village at the same time. We initially speculated that there might be something wrong with the pseudo-human space."

"Maybe it's true. There has never been an earthquake in the Novice Village, right?" Lao Guan whispered, then turned to look at Hang Yiqing. After receiving the other party's affirmative nod, he continued, "Then this earthquake affected the entire Novice Village. Could it be that there is a problem with the pseudo-human space? Or did the other people who entered with you at the same time do something?"

It seems that Yun Guang told him some information about the purpose and scale of their entry here. Lao Guan knew that Yun Guang had companions, but he didn't expect that they and Yun Guang were companions.

"A pseudo-human space?" Xiao Tang interrupted, "What is this?"

"We'll talk about this later," Hang Yiqing pondered for a few minutes, raised his head and looked in the direction of Guan Hongyan, "You said before that you also have ideas about earthquakes, can you tell me yours first?"

These people are companions of Yun Guang, so they came here to destroy the investment bank. Their speculation will be very meaningful for reference.

"We have entered the subway once before," Bai Jinshu took the initiative to speak, "After completing the Nightmare Stories in the City of Violence, the Stories dropped a rare item that has the effect of breaking through the maze. Carrying that rare item into the subway caused all of us to see through the maze of the subway. After entering, we did not enter the Stories, but followed the leader into the customs..."

He, Guan Hongyan and Xiao Tang talked one after another about the first time they entered the subway, how they accidentally entered a very cold deep well, and then found blood and a locked dragon in the well, and finally accidentally cut off a chain, which triggered a chain reaction of [Subway] ghost stories, the death of a large number of newcomers in the ghost stories, and the suspension of the new village subway until repairs were completed in the evening.

"So it was Sister Yan and the others last time..." Lu Changfeng said weakly, "Brother Yun Guang and I were also there that time. If I had known that you were there too, we would have been able to reunite at that time."

"You are here too?" Guan Hongyan was surprised.

"The two of us were also trapped in the customs," Yun Guang added, "At that time, the news that there was a Gu King in N Port had not spread far, and few people came to look for us. I saw that there were team leaders around, so I asked Lu Changfeng to spread the news that there was a Gu King in N Port and let the people from the foundation follow the news to find us. I didn't expect that you were there at the time."

Bai Jinshu vaguely remembered that someone in the customs office had speculated that the Gu King was killing people, causing panic. The person was not far from them, in the small area where they were staying.

Unexpectedly, the two groups had passed each other once so many days ago.

Including the time on the subway and the time at the Raging Waves Harbor, they missed each other twice by accident. If they hadn't met Xu Zichen this time, which reminded Hang Yiqing of the Gu King, whom they had met once decades ago, they might have missed each other for the third time.

"What a coincidence! Is the Novice Village so small?" Guan Hongyan also thought it was a coincidence. She muttered and continued, "Regarding the earthquake, our idea is that we have cut off its chains before, so I brought in rare materials dropped from the dungeon. The familiar aura and the rare materials overlapped, which aroused the dragon's vigilance and attention."

"By the way, do you know what that dragon is? What have you been doing these days? Our experiences these days are what I told you before. After we left the Port of Raging Waves and returned to the City of the Dead, we encountered a strange situation where everyone in the world disappeared. Then, because Shi Pang left a message, we went to Port N." She briefly mentioned the previous content. "Then, as you know, we came out of the [Mirage], and Brother Yuan was educated by Shi Pang about the existence of the replica factory here. Then, we followed his vague instructions to come to the No Man's Land to find a strange story..."

They didn't feel it when they were experiencing it, but now that they recounted it, many of the things they had experienced before could not be fully explained even though they knew that there was a huge replica factory in the Novice Village.

Fortunately, Yun Guang is really reliable.

"Except for the dragon, I know almost everything else." He looked at Hang Yiqing and waved to everyone, "Well, let me explain the current situation to you in detail, and then tell you about my current progress and plans, and then we can discuss the next plan together?"

"Okay, let's go, go, go." Guan Hongyan responded positively.

This form is so familiar. Generally speaking, after entering the unknown space, Yun Guang is the one who is responsible for coordinating information, analyzing intelligence, and organizing ideas.

Now that she finally saw Yun Guang, the process of reasoning finally returned to the rhythm she was most familiar with.

Hang Yiqing and Lao Guan knew that what they needed most now was a systematic and comprehensive exchange of information, not to mention that Yun Guang knew much more information than them, the newcomers who had just figured out the existence of the pseudo-people a few minutes ago. In addition to exchanging information, they needed Yun Guang's additional information, so they considerately left a space for communication for them.

"Where should I start?" Yun Guang thought for a moment and looked at Guan Hongyan.

"What are the nameless fog and the strange space?" Guan Hongyan asked straightforwardly.

"It's a bit complicated to explain this clearly..." Yun Guang sighed slightly, "I'll tell you from the beginning."

"You probably know now that the audience behind the live broadcast screen in this space, that is, the 'strange things' that Zichen greeted everyone before coming in, are actually some fake people who are constantly observing the anchor's movements and trying to replace him?"

Everyone nodded.

Whether it is a "pseudo-human" or a "clone", it refers to the same thing.

"Then I will continue," Yun Guang continued, "Because Zichen emphasized the audience in these live broadcast rooms, I paid close attention to these audiences as soon as I came in, and I found something wrong."

"Then I accidentally speculated about the existence of pseudo-humans because of some fights among team leaders in Port N. Many team leaders in the Novice Village allowed their newcomers to be replaced by pseudo-humans. Because the pseudo-humans' qualifications were much better than these newcomers, their survival rate of completing ghost stories was higher, so most team leaders turned a blind eye. In the teams led by these team leaders, many newcomers could no longer be called human beings. In fact, they were fake newcomers who were replaced by pseudo-humans."

"At this time, I happened to meet the fake people of the rice noodle rolls. After recognizing that the other party was a fake person and killing him, the two of us would be reunited successfully. So we discussed and decided to pretend to be the Gu King in the Port of Raging Waves. While attacking these fake people, we also spread the news that the Gu King was in Port N to attract teammates from the foundation to come and join us."

He summarized his experience in a few words, and then continued, "Hang Yiqing was an accident. While pretending to be the Gu King, I accidentally got a message from the tour group leader, which is that when carrying a large number of fake human team members to an uninhabited area during special seasons, it is very likely that the group will be wiped out."

From this, he speculated that there were people in the No Man's Land, or there were ghost stories that knew about the existence of fake people in the Novice Village, and they were taking action against these things.

So Yun Guang took Lu Changfeng straight to the no-man's land and successfully met Hang Yiqing.

"Changfeng and I only know that he is a legendary monster in the No Man's Land who has been slaughtering pseudo-humans, but I don't know why he has a problem with pseudo-humans. At first, our idea was to establish a cooperative relationship with this monster. We would work with the foundation to completely expose the news of pseudo-humans, and they could use the foundation to achieve their own goals," Yun Guang tapped the table with his finger, "but then... after verifying that we did have this ability, Hang Yiqing told us two shocking news."

——"In fact, the pseudo-humans do not belong to this space. They come from another space, and these two spaces are forcibly connected together."

"And the other news is," he said solemnly, "the Novice Village is a living space."

"What do you mean?" Guan Hongyan frowned, "Like [Night City]?"

"A bit like that." Yun Guang naturally knew that the legendary high-end space "Night City" was finally destroyed by Guan Hongyan, and he also knew its weird rules. He thought for a moment and said, "Hang Yiqing said that he found that this space is actually an extremely huge weird story. They are all dust living in the pain of this huge weird story. No one knows who the owner of the weird story is, and no one knows whether he is alleviating his pain by struggling in the weird story, but what is certain is that this space was forcibly transformed by the investment bank."

Investing in space sewing is a traditional skill. The two previous Gu fields were made up of thousands of spaces sewn together.

The pseudo-humans came from another space, but now appeared in the space of the Novice Village, which means that their own space is definitely not enough to be called a "Novice Village". So when the investment bank obtained the pseudo-human space and thought of copying employees and mass-producing employees, it began to look for a space that could accommodate a large number of newcomers.

"There are definitely very few spaces that qualify as a novice village. Although this so-called novice village is mainly used to cover up the ultimate goal of replicating employees, since it is a cover, people have to have something to do when they come in, and they have to be able to maximize their own characteristics in the process of doing this," Bai Jinshu analyzed in a low voice, "So we definitely can't just find a space for people to come in and just stand there."

An ordinary small space is definitely not enough to complete this mission, so in the end, they finally locked onto this world that can continuously produce ghosts, and the ghosts need others to repeat the pain in order to survive, and gave these ghosts and undead a new name - ghost stories.

"Yes, there are too few such spaces. It is a blessing to be able to find one or two, and we cannot expect it to get along harmoniously with the pseudo-human space," Yun Guang affirmed. "So in the end, the space of the Novice Village was stitched together with the pseudo-human space in a very forced way. It is for this reason that there is a layer between the two spaces. The pseudo-human cannot appear directly in the Novice Village space and observe the newcomers' every move up close. It is for this reason that the live broadcast room appears."

The live broadcast room within the investment industry is inherently different from the foundation's model. To put it in simple terms, the foundation is like opening a pre-sale investment store in advance. Investors pay a deposit and participate in the product production process as audiences. After the product is completed, they make losses or profits based on the quality.

Investment banks are more like traditional buying and selling. The initial funds come from the merchant’s own capital, and then after production is completed, the products are put on the shelves, waiting for customers to buy.

Of these two methods, the foundation is definitely better, as it effectively reduces the losses of the merchants themselves and passes the profits and losses of the business on to the audience. But the problem is that the foundation is the only one in the market, with 100% penetration and market share of live streaming among potential investors, and investment banks have no way of getting involved.

Under this premise, the fact that he has live broadcasts in the Novice Village and never broadcasts again after leaving the Novice Village is itself an extremely subtle clue and signal.

There must be something fishy about this live broadcast.

"The fog you mentioned, and the sudden disappearance of everyone around you, are all the process of the pseudo-human space and the Novice Village space being temporarily connected," Yun Guang said. "The fog can connect the two spaces, allowing the pseudo-human to come to the Novice Village space through this thing, waiting for an opportunity to replace the anchor or quietly leave. As for the space where everyone disappeared, you were temporarily transferred to a duplicate space, and the pseudo-human entered this world instead of you to carry out the final actual combat exercise."

"Generally speaking, this kind of situation is a sign that they are about to start trying to replace us," Yun Guang looked at everyone, "So I guess the Shi Pang you mentioned didn't know about the existence of the fake people at first, but after his team went through all this, he found out something, and heard from other team leaders that there is a strange story in the no-man's land that specializes in killing fake people, and then he suggested that you come here."

He may have mistakenly thought that there was a fake person in Yuan Shanming's team. After discussing with Yuan Shanming, Yuan Shanming decided to come here to eliminate the fake people in his team.

"So Brother Yuan thought that one of us was killed by a fake person, and he wanted to avenge us, so he brought us to the No Man's Land?" Xiao Tang blinked and patted Yuan Shanming on the shoulder. "You are a very nice person."

"But I have a small question," she continued blinking, "Brother Yuan, who among us do you think is so bad that he would be replaced by a fake person?"

Yuan Shanming burst into a violent cough: "Cough cough cough..."

No one here will be replaced by a fake person!

Er Si... Oh, no, there is no need to explain much about Cen Bingqi and the big ghost story. The super-powered girl Xiao Tang and the yellow-haired girl are actually the same person. Guan Hongyan is the strongest fighter in Dita's team, and Nian Yu is also a traitor pretending to be dumb. The proportion of friendly business undercovers in his team is as high as 100%!

Under Xiao Tang's expectant gaze, Yuan Shanming closed his eyes in pain.

"I, I'm the worst," he said humiliatingly, "If I wasn't the team leader, I would have been replaced by a fake person long ago."

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