Chapter 359: Inhuman (167) [VIP]

Upon hearing that it was one of his own, Bai Jinshu breathed a sigh of relief.

Before he could fully relax, Huai Jiamu added with a gasp, "But there are many more people besides them."

A lot of people?

Could it be that Guan Hongyan and the others also brought a bunch of people out of the subway like me?

Huai Jiamu could not feel anything more detailed, but soon, he did not need to feel anything. At the end of the tunnel, the faint voices began to become clearer and clearer. The newcomers they were leading began to get anxious. Many of them hesitated to move forward, while the brave ones formed small teams and sneaked in twos and threes.

Bai Jinshu mixed in the crowd, walked forward a short distance, turned the last corner, and finally saw the situation at the end of the passage.

The place was crowded with quite a lot of people now, probably at least fifty or sixty of them, all gathered together, arguing fiercely.

Seeing that there were people in front of them, the expressions on the faces of the newlyweds behind them were obviously much more relaxed. One brave one went up to ask a few questions and quickly ran back.

"The previous ones said that they also came out of the fog, but they didn't trigger the ghost story, but we did!"

When he said this, he unconsciously showed a little smugness on his face: "There is a well ahead. They suspect that this well is related to the ghost story, and they are trying to get down to it."

"Why don't we give it a try?" Someone thought for a moment and suggested, "Maybe this thing is related to our strange story... Now the team leader is not here, and we don't know what this strange story is about. Why don't we go and take a look?"

There are more than a hundred people here, and they certainly can't hide the fact that they triggered the strange story. Instead of waiting for the other side to find out, it's better to admit it openly. After all, there are hundreds of people here, and everyone was triggered inexplicably. No one knows what happened, and no one can get any information from them.

After those who had gone to explore the route in advance returned, there was a brief disagreement among the crowd. Then a small number of people decided to leave and continue exploring along the previous road, while most of them decided to move forward together.

It was inconvenient for the dozens of people gathered near the well to go down, so they tried to enlarge the well mouth, hoping to use this method to get into the deep well.

After the hundreds of people from Bai Jinshuo arrived, they quickly started to help them dig with nimble hands and feet.

The well was freezing cold, and there was blood all over the cracks between the bricks and the surrounding land. The soil was moist, making it very easy to dig.

The crowd was busy, and Bai Jinshu also saw Guan Hongyan and Xiao Tang in the crowd.

"What's going on?" Bai Jinshu looked ahead and asked Guan Hongyan in a low voice.

"Let's not talk about this for now. You guys have also come out of the fog? It's good that you have come out," Guan Hongyan looked around and whispered, "You have also seen the nameless fog, right? I suspect that this fog was created by a fake person who acted first and asked for permission later. He was forced into a corner. The impact of the earthquake is much greater than we imagined."

"Hmm..." Bai Jinshu nodded, "I doubt it too."

"Don't doubt it, this thing is definitely it," Xiao Tang was a little slower than Guan Hongyan. He didn't even bother to check if there were any outsiders around when he came over. He immediately spoke quickly, "Let me tell you the current situation. Sister Yan and I are together. I don't know where the remaining Brother Xu and Zhou Zhou are. Yuan Shanming, Brother Yun Guang, me, Nian Yu, and Lu Changfeng have all been recognized as team leaders and teleported to a new space. All team leaders are there, and there are subway staff to maintain order."

The "I" that Xiao Tang was referring to was obviously Huangmao. Thanks to this special existence in the team, the two sides were able to keep in touch even though they had no means of communication.

Huangmao and Yun Guang are together, so Guan Hongyan and the others' actions are most likely instigated by Yun Guang.

What Xiao Tang conveyed was obviously what Yun Guang wanted to convey.

"Only a few of the team leaders have realized that something is wrong, but they were killed by the staff before they could make a fuss. After this act of killing a chicken to scare the monkey, no one dares to say anything now. They just sit there and wait obediently," Xiao Tang said quickly. "Now these team leaders don't know that the newcomers are still in the fog. Yuan Shanming said that he appeared directly in this space. Brother Yun Guang and the four of us were in the fog when we woke up. When we found that you two were gone, we immediately took out the terminals of the team leaders that the two of them had killed before from our bags, so the four of us were also teleported in."

It seemed that it was probably because the four of them were in constant physical contact, so it was inconvenient for them to teleport away directly.

Xiao Tang conveyed Yun Guang's news to them here, and naturally he would also convey the situation here to Yun Guang. Now it is very likely that Yun Guang is the only leader who knows what is happening in the outside world.

"Then you guys," Bai Jinshu pointed forward with his chin, "were you also instructed by Yun Guang?"

Guan Hongyan didn’t know how long she had entered here earlier than them. It seemed that the well had been almost dug. Several people had reached the bottom of the well and began to explore along the wall they had demolished last time.

Guan Hongyan is with Xiao Tang, which means she is with Yun Guang. When Bai Jinshu asked her, she admitted it very readily.

"Yun Guang said that this situation is most likely because the fake people are anxious, and the fog outside is a sign of their anxiety. The staff at those subway stations might have been replaced by them. The purpose of directly releasing fog in the subway is to replace a large number of new people." Guan Hongyan was telling Bai Jin about their previous situation here, while Xiao Tang stood by without saying a word. It seemed that Huangmao was telling Yuan Shanming about their situation here.

"He asked us to quickly bring as many new people as we can find in a short period of time, find a random excuse to come here and release the dragon," Guan Hongyan gestured to Bai Jinshu to look at the well, "Yun Guang guessed that these fake people dared to release the fog here, and the dragon might be in danger."

This is probably the reason why Guan Hongyan brought a group of people here.

There was no time to find a good excuse at this moment. Bai Jinshu blinked and asked, "What did you say?"

He has Huai Jiamu here who can directly tell ghost stories. How did Guan Hongyan do it?

"Oh, about this," Guan Hongyan blinked, a trace of guilt flashing in her eyes, "Yun Guang said that these are all free labor. In order not to alert the enemy, our action plan has always prioritized secrecy. But now it will take us a long time to break through that pillar by ourselves. All these newcomers are free labor. Let's release the dragon first and muddy the water. Otherwise, these team leaders may be in big trouble later..."

Yun Guang was at the team leaders' place and couldn't see much of what was going on here, but based on the way the team leaders were controlled, he could tell that either the fog had only appeared here today, so the news hadn't been spread out in time, or the fog had appeared for a long time, but the team leaders who entered it had never come out again.

Otherwise, there is no other reason to explain why there is no news about the incident in the subway, which has the largest flow of people in the Novice Village and is almost everywhere in the Novice Village.

They directly detained the team leader and unscrupulously released fog in the subway. Yun Guang suspected that these fake people did not have the consent of the investment bank at all.

Either they had a falling out, or the fake people were planning to take advantage of the poor signal connection and act first and report later.

Each of these actions reveals an extremely subtle message.

"Brother Yun Guang said that he suspected that these fake people replaced the newcomers and entered the Novice Village because they were in a hurry to leave the fake human space," Xiao Tang finally delivered the news from both sides and took the time to interject a sentence into Guan Hongyan's story, "There may be some trouble in the fake human space, and they are in a hurry to become newcomers and enter the investment bank. At this time, the leader who was detained may be killed by them, so Brother Yun Guang asked us to release the dragon quickly."

Xiao Tang and Guan Hongyan originally pretended that they wanted to slip away early, but were caught by the other party on purpose. They "had to" say that there was a high-level ghost story in this place that their leader planned to lead them to secretly trigger.

As a result, before they could even pretend, their secretive appearance made people think that the two of them must have been here, and they were "forced" to reveal where they were going next.

Then it became like this——

The dozens of people they brought here might take a while to dismantle it, but with the hundreds of people brought by Bai Jinshu, there was no room to even stand, let alone dismantle it. It didn't take long for everyone to reach the bottom of the pillar.

The subsequent exploration did not even require the three people to guide the way. Many brave people who went down the well began to use electric saws to cut through the hollow carvings.

This place was completely demolished by Bai Jinshu and his team last time, and it had not been restored yet. The newcomers who went down now did not know that they were in a hollow pillar and thought they were underground. The hollow carving in front of them was a wall blocking them, so they immediately started to demolish it in full swing.

"Oh, right," Xiao Tang recalled what happened in the last night in the City of the Dead, "We tricked these people here by triggering a strange story. Brother Yun Guang asked if you could play a strange story again, so that these people would think that the current exploration process is part of triggering the strange story?"

Now there is a rift between the triggerers of "Shadow-like" brought by Bai Jinshu and his team and the tools here by Guan Hongyan and his team.

There's no problem with starting another weird story.

Huai Jiamu nodded, and soon, many ecstatic voices came from the well: "Triggered, triggered!"

"It shows that the first stage has been triggered!"

"There really is a mysterious story hidden underneath this!"

"So where is this?"

"Who cares? Saw it!"

"Yun Guang didn't say what to do if the dragon comes out?" After the strange story came out, more people rushed to the deep well. Bai Jinshu and the others could no longer squeeze in. The four of them could only stand on the ground and continue to talk in a low voice.

There are quite a few people like them. The number of people who can go down into the deep well is limited. Except for a small number of people who are squeezing in, most people are still on the ground.

"Yun Guang said we should take it one step at a time. Everyone who enters the subway may be on the replacement list of pseudo-people. The muddier the water, the greater the possibility of our escape. After all, none of the team leaders have passed customs yet. Even if we return to the subway, we cannot reach our destination. We are all trapped here," Guan Hongyan shrugged. "And to be honest, who knows if this dragon is friendly to us? They have been tied up here for so many years, and their mental state is probably not normal. Maybe the first group of people who go down are just delivering food."

As soon as she finished speaking, there was a burst of noise from the well, like a crow's mouth.

The noise started out as "Go, go, go! Run, run, run!"

"Why are you running?"

"Isn't that a ghost story ahead? Is there a limit on the number of people?!"

"Don't push, don't push! Come one by one!"

"In front?" Xiao Tang frowned, "Isn't the ground below in the air?"

Where did the weird talk above come from?

"Did something happen?" Bai Jinshu straightened up and looked over.

There were now more people around the well where a big hole had been dug. Everyone thought that the people below had discovered traces of the strange story, and they all hurried over. The road was so wide, and they knew very well that the space below was even smaller. The place below was already full and there was no room left, but the people at the back were still squeezing forward, and the scene was extremely chaotic for a while.

The crowd was bustling and chaotic, with people shouting all kinds of things. Some said, "Stop pushing," some said, "Let me see a weird story," and some even cursed at the people around them for squeezing them so hard that they couldn't move. The sounds coming from the well were gradually drowned out by the chaotic voices and could not be heard at all.

"There seems to be a problem..." Guan Hongyan took a deep breath and took a few steps back.

There are newcomers like the fanatics who squeeze in at the wellhead, and there are also those like them who retreat cautiously when they realize there is a problem.

For a moment, the scene was dramatically divided into two sides.

There were newcomers who were trying to squeeze in to the wellhead, and newcomers who stood up cautiously and slowly backed away, shouting "Come back if you have any problems."

Soon, this dramatic scene was pushed to its climax with an inaudible scream.

"Someone's dead! Someone's dead!" There seemed to be a very small voice shouting.

The voice was too small and was soon drowned out by the chaotic shouting.

As more and more people squeezed down the well, finally, there was a much louder voice: "Stop pushing! Someone's dead! Can't you hear me? Someone's dead! Someone is dead! Run out!"

These words were like a thunderclap out of nowhere, instantly freezing the noisy crowd and the cautious newcomers. After a few seconds of silence, the scene suddenly became extremely chaotic.

The first people to get excited were the newcomers outside who had not squeezed down the well. They just ran in the direction they came from.

Then came those who had squeezed into the well but had not had the chance to get down, and they immediately turned around and ran.

But what followed was not so easy to leave.

Although the well had been dug by everyone, the pit dug purely by manpower was a funnel-shaped pit with many rest platforms. Since it was a downward hole, it was easier to go down than to go up. If the people below wanted to leave, the people above had to go first, and if the people above wanted to go up, the people above had to leave first.

After the people on the top floor ran away, it took quite a while for the people on the second floor to climb up to the cave entrance. As a result, the cave became a mess and no one could leave.

"Oh no, that dragon doesn't really want to kill us! The subway sucks lives! Why is it sucking lives here?!" Xiao Tang cursed in a low voice and quickly followed to pull people up.

Although they wanted to find a tool, they didn't intend to find someone to take the blame!

There were people following them from above, pulling people up one by one, but for the people underground, this little help was just a drop in the bucket.

Those who couldn't leave began to curse and shout, and it seemed that fewer and fewer people were shouting, and it was not known if it was Bai Jinshu's illusion.

In other words, those tiny voices are becoming less and less.

Finally, someone in the middle shouted, "The person below me suddenly died! He suddenly--"

The voice stopped abruptly.

In the horrible silence that lasted for a few seconds, everyone suddenly realized that the person who was shouting suddenly died in the middle of his shouting.

The author has something to say:

Ahhhh, I sorted out the outline today and I feel like I won’t be able to finish writing it on New Year’s Day. There are still three plot points (holding head)

But the foundation will definitely come out on New Year's Day. If they say the foundation will come out on New Year's Day, then it will come out on New Year's Day (close your eyes)

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