Chapter 362: Inhuman (170) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]

"Um..." The gym brother lowered his voice embarrassedly, "Sister Dita is worried about me."

"Not too much..." Yuan Shanming said halfway when he suddenly reacted.

Oh yes, the team members who died in the City of the Dead will become members of the City Guard. Guan Hongyan had already left with him at that time and the files were in his hands, so there was nothing he could do. As for the remaining team members, Dita originally thought that they just did not trigger the final stage of the ghost story and did not expect that they would die. The initial plan was just to classify them as acquaintances.

But after seeing the tragic situation in the hotel, Dita's attitude towards the only surviving team member would definitely not be as relaxed as before she returned to the hotel.

She came to the Novice Village to investigate things, and now that she had a clue she had to leave. In order to alleviate some of her inner guilt, she would definitely choose to let the only team member stay in the City of Violence. In this way, it would not matter even if he died, at most he would just become a city guard.

"When Sister Tazi left, she didn't expect that the Novice Village would become... like this." The fitness guy scratched his head and said cautiously, "I just want to ask, this situation has nothing to do with you, right?"

Yuan Shanming's face froze: "...No, really not."

It was not a conscience statement to say this. He emphasized "really not" before the other party asked any further questions, which made him look guilty. If someone else was asking the questions, they might have seen through his guilty conscience.

But the person opposite him was a simple-minded fitness guy, so when Yuan Shanming said it was okay, he believed him and patted his chest in relief: "You said you were going to look for Qiao Bie, I thought this new village-wide strange talk was caused by you..."

"A strange story in the new village?" Xiao Tang repeated in surprise.

"Yes, the Novice Village," the fitness guy pointed to the top of his head, "In this situation, our team leader said that it is very likely that someone has triggered a large-scale strange story, involving the entire Novice Village, isn't it?"

Everyone looked at each other and saw the same message in each other's eyes.

This is how most people view this accident.

They knew that the real reason why the situation had developed to this point was with the fake person, so they naturally did not think of it as a ghost story. However, in the eyes of the team leader and newcomers who did not know what the fake person was, many people probably speculated that someone had triggered a large-scale ghost story that swept the entire novice village, causing everyone to be involved.

After all, there are precedents in the Novice Village, and large-scale ghost stories have occurred before.

"Brother Yuan..." Xiao Tang took a deep breath and nudged Yuan Shanming with his elbow, "The previous large-scale ghost stories in the Novice Village..."

Could it be related to the pseudo-human space? !

If the investment bank can survive this incident, will this backstabbing by the pseudo-human space also become part of a large-scale weird talk among the "major historical events in the Novice Village" mentioned by a bunch of team leaders?

"I... I don't know either," Yuan Shanming swallowed slowly, doubting the information he knew for the first time, "I wasn't there when there were several large-scale ghost stories in the Novice Village before."

He only heard about it from his team leader at the time and later from his colleagues. These things that happened in the novice village were passed on by word of mouth. Most team leaders heard it from their predecessors and then passed it on to themselves. Few people had actually seen it.

But Xiao Tang's guess was shocking.

The widespread ghost stories in the Novice Village are fake, the meaning of the Novice Village’s existence is fake, and even most of the newcomers here may be fake, so what else is real?

Yuan Shanming shuddered silently, feeling that even if the investment bank did not collapse, he might be assassinated because he knew too much.

"Well," he quickly interrupted everyone and said to the fitness guy, "We came to find Qiao Bie because we think that after the city guards are dispatched at night, the City of Violence is the safest place for the new village. That's all."

This reason is quite logical.

If this is a large-scale ghost story triggered by someone, then when night comes and the city guards of the City of Violence are dispatched, it will be the safest place in the entire Novice Village.

The fitness guy was convinced by their logic, and suddenly felt that the City Guard would be able to solve the problems in the City of Violence at night, and the worry on his face faded a lot.

While he was talking about asking the team leader, everyone in Yuan Shanming's team quickly gathered together.

"You suspect that the previous large-scale ghost stories that were widely spread in the Novice Village were actually done by fake people in the Novice Village..." Bai Jinshu touched his chin, "It's possible."

But now they lack the means to verify it.

"What did Yun Guang say?" He looked at Xiao Tang first.

Huangmao was left in an uninhabited area by everyone, along with Yun Guang and Long who might know a lot of information. The delay-free communication between Huangmao and Xiao Tang was much better than the communication props that Hang Yiqing had to work so hard to get.

"I don't know," Xiao Tang shook his head, "Brother Yun Guang and Hang Yiqing haven't come out yet, I'll ask them when they come out."

"Well, no rush," Bai Jinshu nodded, "Let's find Qiao Bie first."

Yuan Shanming had a sudden inspiration just now and used the city guard to cover up their sudden return, but he didn't think the city guard at night could handle the current situation.

It’s not that he doesn’t believe in the strength of the city guard. The main problem is that the city guard is also made up of new recruits who have died. Who knows... whether they will be replaced.

Yuan Shanming sighed helplessly: "Well, it's a good thing I met this brother."

He is not Xiao Tang, who can still call him "fitness brother" all the time. He doesn't even know how many years older he is than the fitness brother.

But if he called him by his name, he was afraid that he would accidentally say the person's real name, so he simply used pronouns like "brother" or "buddy".

When they came here, they only had a vague goal, which was to find Qiao Bietong and ask him to take them to the pseudo-human space. However, they had no idea how to find him. If they hadn't met this guy, they might still be surrounded by a group of pseudo-humans.

However, it can be seen from the fact that they hid in the pipeline tunnel that when faced with such an emergency, only a few teams were helpless, and most people found ways to deal with it.

"This is not going to be easy..." Xiao Tang muttered as he sat on the pipe, "There are too many monks and too little porridge. You saw those fake people up there just now. They saw us like flies..."

"Cough." Bai Jinshu coughed.

"...Well, they are like wolves seeing meat!" Xiao Tang changed his words smoothly, "All the newcomers are hiding, and these fake people who are planning to replace the newcomers will only become more crazy."

Once they see a new person, they pounce on him in groups.

"Besides, if things get this crazy, the relationships between the pseudo-humans will be very tense," Bai Jinshu ignored the girl's flattering expression and thought with his legs crossed. "Just like just now, if one of us was replaced by a pseudo-human, then in such a crazy situation, would the other pseudo-humans politely withdraw?"

Impossible.

They will just continue to swarm in and kill the fake people who have just obtained identities, and then repeat the cycle again until a group of people fight for an identity.

The final result is either that someone defeats everyone with his own strength, or that everyone dies and no one gets a status.

"If you look at it this way, maybe we can just find a fake person and he will agree to lead the way?" Yuan Shanming sighed.

After all, there is a difference between being a "companion" and being a "competitor". After the short-term riots are over and most teams have found a reliable shelter, the relationship between the pseudo-people will immediately become tense.

"It's still different," Xiao Tang shook his head and finally became serious. "If we agree to help them beat back their competitors, then we can still talk. But if we ask them to take us to the pseudo-human space and blow up their home, that's different."

Ordinary pseudo-humans and their companions are in a competitive relationship at best. They want to take a gamble on Qiao Bie, mainly because Qiao Bie, as a pseudo-human, has the memories of the child he replaced, and seems to regret what he did.

What they wanted to bet on was that Qiao Bie, as a pseudo-human, would actually have a little position on the side of humans.

That's enough.

If Yun Guang can convince Hang Yiqing to come forward, then this will be the final big move.

Bai Jinshu was discussing the matter of the fake people here, and went to ask his new team leader, the fitness brother who had returned.

"Brother Lin said that it's not a big problem. The underground pipelines in the City of Violence are very regular and we can go directly underneath," the fitness guy said, "but the question is where is Qiao Bie now?"

According to conventional logic, where else could the head of the Qiao family be if not in their big house? But Qiao Bie is a man who cannot follow conventional logic.

The last time they met this man was in that little pink building.

The pink building and the Qiao family's mansion are quite far apart, and they not only want to find Qiao Bie, but also want to meet Qiao Bie himself.

At least you have to get in front of him before you can convince him.

The sudden backstabbing of the Novice Village by the Pseudo-Human Space happened a few hours ago, shortly after Bai Jinshu and the others entered the subway.

The fake people can only replace the newcomers. As the natives, during the most chaotic hours ahead, even the dumbest people would not choose to leave at this time. In the eyes of the natives, the real golden time for transfer happens to be this time.

If Qiao Bie was in the pink building, he should have moved back to the villa now. If he was in the villa, then he wouldn't have to move.

"Go to the Qiao family's villa," Bai Jinshu thought for a moment and said, "No matter where Qiao is, he will definitely go back to the villa."

Ordinary natives and these fake people would naturally not take action, or even if they did, they could not replace the other party's identity, but Qiao Bie was not an ordinary native. In the case of such a collective riot of fake people, his investment bank's novice village BUG was simply a target.

The Pink Building is not safe enough. If Qiao Bie was in the Pink Building when the riot broke out, he would definitely go back to the Qiao family villa where security was tighter, instead of staying there like an ordinary native.

After Bai Jinshu's analysis, everyone felt that it made sense.

The new leader of the fitness team is named Lin. He is a very tall man. I mean really tall. Bai Jinshu estimated that his height has exceeded two meters, which is far higher than the normal standard.

When Brother Lin led everyone to hide in the sewer, they specially chose a sewer tunnel with pipes. The overall environment was clean and tidy except for being dusty. Some special sections were connected to squares or business districts. Through the fence-like sewer opening above the head, you can see the situation outside.

That's how they saw someone entering this street just now and being chased by a fake person.

After listening to their request, Brother Lin did not ask any further questions. He just said that he could show them the way. As for taking them there, that was impossible. The team members in the pipeline were all his newcomers. Now if something happened in the novice village, it would not trigger ghost stories. Now the points of these team members were barely enough for him to survive, and he did not want to take any of the team members into danger.

Bai Jinshuo and his friends didn't want to let irrelevant people go with them in the first place, so they agreed immediately after hearing what Brother Lin said. Brother Lin gave them a compass and a rough direction, and also a rough map with some business districts and squares marked by him according to their influence.

The manhole covers in these places are not large round iron covers. You can see the situation above through the covers, which is very suitable for judging whether the target location is safe when you are in a hurry.

"Although many newcomers died in the City of Violence, most of the survivors must have found a place to hide," Brother Lin finally reminded, "I gave you a map. When you go out, don't say you went out through the pipe."

The reason why they hid here was the same as when Yuan Shanming took Guan Hongyan and others into the sewer in the City of the Dead. It was nothing more than creating an information gap.

This place is not hard to imagine or find, and there are limited exits. Once the news that someone is hiding here gets out, everyone inside will be wiped out.

Bai Jinshu had no intention of harming them, so he naturally nodded in agreement.

Brother Lin had no knowledge or talent for drawing, and the maps he drew were mostly stream-of-consciousness. We groped our way forward in the pipe for a long time before we understood what the many abstract marks and paths on his map meant.

The next step is to walk to the Qiao family’s old house.

It wasn't just Brother Lin and his team hiding in the sewers. They met several new people on the way. It was easier to deal with these unfamiliar people. They asked Yuan Shanming to tell them that their teammates were still alive on the other side of the city and the team leader insisted on going to pick them up.

Too many people died in the Violent City before, so the surviving team leaders are a little sensitive to the deaths of newcomers. When they heard the reason, they all expressed their understanding and told them to pay attention to safety and not bring people in.

Everyone agreed one by one and rushed towards the Qiao family.

[A Thousand Miles a Day] The landing place is around the subway station, which is the center of each area, the city center of the city of violence, and the Qiao family’s villa is in a villa complex on the edge of a residential area far away. The further you go along the way, the fewer people you meet.

When we were almost out of the city, we hadn't encountered the team hiding here for a long time.

Just as Xiao Tang breathed a sigh of relief and was about to say something, several gunshots were suddenly heard in the distance.

"Fuck... Shit!" Xiao Tang was startled. "The people down there in the pipe are fighting?"

This is totally screwed.

Along the way, there was a constant sound of fighting overhead. All the teams we met tried to be as low-key as possible, reduce their presence to the minimum, and try not to be discovered by those things above.

Although they knew that they were going to look for their teammates and there was a risk of being exposed, during this special period, even the team leader and team members who had opinions about them did not dare to conflict with them, and they all tried their best to remind them to be careful along the way in a friendly manner.

How come there are still idiots fighting here?!

"It's not the gunshots from inside our place," Bai Jinshu listened quietly for a few seconds, "It's from the ground."

The road they were passing through now happened to have a pipeline in a tunnel or underground parking lot. The gunshots outside the pipeline were transmitted back here through echoes, and they sounded the same as if they were heard inside the pipeline tunnel.

"On the ground...that's okay." Xiao Tang breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as there aren't any fools here who start a fight and drag everyone into it, it'll be fine.

You know, even though their fighting power is not low, it doesn't mean they can cross the entire city of violence from the ground.

These pseudo-people on the ground now are completely different from the opponents you encounter in normal fights. Normal opponents have weaknesses and vital points, they will feel pain, bleed, and be afraid, but these pseudo-people have none of these things at all.

They had already discovered when these people swarmed over just now that unless they twisted their necks or broke their arms and legs, making them unable to move, they would swarm over again and try fanatically to seize their identities.

Who can beat this?

During the dozen seconds that several people stood there and muttered to themselves, the gunshots coming from afar became more and more frequent.

"This fight is too intense," Yuan Shanming said casually, "The citizens of the City of Violence really have a strong martial spirit...?"

He suddenly realized something and raised his head: "Wait a moment."

"Can normal citizens of the City of Violence carry guns?" He subconsciously looked at Huai Jiamu and asked. In his mind, this big man knew a lot about the City of Violence.

"It shouldn't be possible," Bai Jinshu thought for a moment and said, "If we could carry guns, what we saw here before would be gunfights, not simple group fights."

The capital of violence is accustomed to solving problems with violence, and fights happen all the time. If ordinary citizens could really carry guns, they would have been unable to hold back long ago.

Even if shooting is illegal, there are bound to be people who would choose to shoot in a fit of rage.

They have been here for two or three days and have not seen any gunfights or heard of any incidents related to shootings, so citizens should not be allowed to carry guns.

Under this premise, even if someone secretly did it, they should only have one or two, not to mention that not everyone here should have one.

Therefore, the frequent gunfire on the ground could not possibly be coming from ordinary citizens.

"The sound is as loud as that of a small mobile unit..." Xiao Tang also muttered softly.

The three of them looked at each other and said in unison: "Qiao Bie!"

The only one who could possess such a reserve of weapons in the City of Violence and had to move at this time was Qiao Bie.

Now everyone got excited and headed towards the direction where the gunshots came from.

The gunshots came from the front of the pipe, but when everyone got closer they found that the gunshots were still in front, but the pipe had turned a corner and went to the other side.

"What should I do?" Yuan Shanming walked forward for a while and came back helplessly, "It's getting farther and farther if I walk in that direction."

"We can only go up." Bai Jinshu looked back at where they came from. The manhole covers in this section were all round iron covers, so the situation on the ground could not be seen. But fortunately, after walking for so long, he did not hear any sound of people running or vehicles passing by overhead, so this area on the ground should be very safe.

However, out of caution, Xiao Tang still took the lead to take a look.

This seemed to be a warehouse or something like that. There were a lot of boxes as tall as a person covered with rainproof cloth piled on the ground. Xiao Tang went over and opened them to take a look. The things in the boxes seemed to be some small store ornaments, neatly placed one by one with foam boards.

"Hey?" She suddenly had a genius idea, "How about we use this?"

After going up to the ground, the gunfire in the distance became more frequent, and it sounded as if the battle was becoming more stalemate.

Those who have been entangled by pseudo-people naturally know how difficult these things are to deal with. Once they are discovered by them, these pseudo-people will proliferate and there will be more and more of them the more they are beaten.

Originally, I thought that the reason why they fought more and more before was because they only had fists and feet and fought too slowly, but now it seems that even if they used guns to clear the enemy, which was more than ten times more efficient than them, they could not break out of the encirclement of the pseudo-people.

Even with guns they couldn't rush out, the four of them going up were not going to be defeated. Although Xiao Tang had some guesses about the strength of the big man next to him, he still felt uneasy.

After all, they knew nothing about the pseudo-human space. What if the other party was hiding some cards that they didn't know about?

It’s safer to pretend.

Everyone looked at each other and quickly agreed to Xiao Tang's suggestion. They each chose a box that was similar to their height, cut a few holes on the side of the box, put it on, and started moving forward.

The sound of the gunfight seemed to be far away. After walking out of the warehouse, they found that the warehouse they were in was on higher ground, while the place where the gunfight took place was on lower ground.

Looking from this height, you can have a clear view of what is happening in the distance.

Many people wearing professional equipment gathered around the three vehicles. All three vehicles looked like modified off-road vehicles, and the front and rear two even had machine guns mounted on them.

"Wow," Xiao Tang exclaimed, "Qiao Bie really knows his kind very well. He can spin the Equality Spear 3,600 times in one breath!"

Even if a normal person knew that civil unrest was going on outside, he would not send someone with a machine gun to pick him up.

The machine gun has not been used yet, but it is already very intimidating just by being set there.

After all, no one knows whether the car is full of ammunition.

"There are many more fake people surrounding us than those who surrounded us in the beginning..." Yuan Shanming was also shocked, "I think Qiao Bie can leave without us."

He had obviously made sufficient preparations.

"Not necessarily," Bai Jinshu shook his head slightly, "Although the machine gun is useful, the noise is so loud... I'm afraid all the pseudo-people within a ten-mile radius will be attracted here."

Although this thing is good for cleaning up, the ammunition is limited, but the fake people are unlimited. If they keep coming up one after another, sooner or later all the ammunition will be used up.

And Bai Jinshu's guess was indeed correct.

As the battle situation around them became increasingly stalemate, machine guns were finally put into use.

At the beginning, the machine gun did tear a hole in the encirclement of the dummies, but then more dummies filled in.

"Let's go." Bai Jinshu covered himself with a rainproof cloth and walked down first.

And in a place where no one noticed, four tattered and dirty wooden boxes slowly appeared in the encirclement of the pseudo-people.

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"Oh my god..." Xiao Tang cursed inwardly as he dodged, "If we get discovered, we'll really be dead."

They are now carrying this broken box and moving little by little among the pseudo-people. The pseudo-people who come one after another squeeze them in the middle, and they move forward uncontrollably with the crowd.

The fake people dragged in more things than just the wooden boxes the four of them were carrying, so their presence wasn't out of place.

but……

Xiao Tang suddenly lowered his head to avoid the bullet flying over his head and cursed inwardly.

These other damn things of Qiao were hitting the fake person on the head, why were they hitting her with a broken wooden box!

A few meters ahead, Cen Bingqi's box moved gracefully and was not hit at all, but her and Yuan Shanming's rainproof cloths were almost pierced by stray bullets.

Damn...her real body is indeed in the no-man's land. It doesn't matter if Xiao Tang dies, but Huai Jiamu, you should at least take care of us two!

Aren’t we your teammates?

After all, she is a shadow puppet. I can’t imagine how Yuan Shanming feels.

Sure enough, good mood comes from comparison. When Xiao Tang thought that there was a poor guy behind him who didn't have a real shadow puppet and was almost shot, he felt much better and continued to squeeze forward with full energy.

The closer you get to the front, the more stray bullets there are around you, but fortunately, the fewer pseudo-people die around you.

Xiao Tang quietly observed the surroundings through the small gap, adjusted the direction of advance, and soon approached Qiao Bie in the car.

Cen Bingqi, who was at the front, had already squeezed to the vicinity of the convoy. The ground around the convoy was covered with corpses of various pseudo-people. As a box, he had already reached his limit by walking here.

Going further, something is wrong.

The next step was to find an opportunity to involve Qiao Bie. Just at this moment, a small group of fake people broke through the defense line while the bullets were being replaced, and rushed straight towards the second car in the middle.

The next second, the car door was opened, and a man in a suit holding a pistol, with a cold expression, stretched out his hand and shot down these fake people.

And the next second, when everyone was busy blocking the blockade, a tattered wooden box rolled over, and a hand stretched out from it, suddenly pulling the man in the suit in.

"Don't move," a smiling voice came from inside the box, "Qiao Bie, I know you are a fake person."

"If you make any noise now, do you think your companions who want to replace you will tear you to pieces?"

The author has something to say:

I found that I was not protected when I was being myself, but neither was Yuan Shanming: I got another bite.

Brother Jiamu, who saw his wife dragging someone directly into the box: o.0?

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