Chapter 27
"She...is not in a good mental state, right? How pitiful."
Chu Zhongyuan touched his chin and shook his head with regret.
"Who can accept such a beautiful girl with tentacles all over her body? And how can she be in good spirits if she is related to the Ksitigarbha system..."
Qin Zhen, who was standing at the back, tried to find an excuse for the other party's sudden madness.
"Perhaps the original mystery of this ancient hot spring town was a warning to her?"
Gu Qingming pushed his glasses and analyzed randomly.
This convenience store is out of tune with the atmosphere of the entire puppet town. It should be a wandering mystery from outside, but for some reason she has to stay here for the head of the so-called puppet magic she mentioned. And judging from her performance, although she has powerful strength, she is still afraid of her existence in this town.
The only explanation is that that being is more powerful than her.
Otherwise, with her strength, killing a four-legged beast would be a piece of cake. Why would she need to make a deal with two novice psychics?
But... this mysterious man is quite easy to talk to.
Gu Qingming thought about the other party's very human behavior of playing badly after the showdown. Maybe there are some mysteries that can be communicated and even become a helper for CPA.
"Anyway, we are out of danger now, but the word count of the report to the CPA has increased...
Every time an unusual or mysterious incident occurs, the CPA specialist on site must report it in detail and upload it to the CPA's archives department to help build the CPA's mystery database.
We haven’t figured out why the town has become so strange yet. The puppet quadrupeds are also lurking in the night fog, and there’s also the mystery of this cheongsam girl who suddenly appeared... I don’t know how many words this report will have.
Gu Qingming turned the spear in his hand upright and stuck it into the ground. He held the bronze spear for a while and his face turned pale.
Just now, after the snake-shaped bronze piece turned into a bronze spear, it displayed a terrifying pressure, which was really too much for his body to bear.
"Keep moving forward. Bai Kelan can sense that there are still chaotic en factors in that location. They are still there."
Gu Qingming raised his eyebrows, trying to make himself look like nothing was wrong.
"OK."
Chu Zhongyuan didn't say much, he just took a step forward, threw the casual notebook into his backpack, then took the backpack from Gu Qingming's back and reached out to support him.
“Come, come, come!”
Seeing this, Qin Zhen hurriedly held Gu Qingming's other arm. The two boys almost lifted him up from where he was.
"Stop, stop, stop—not to the point of not to the point of—"
Gu Qingming was stuck in the middle, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
The journey to the place where the chaotic EN factor came from was unexpectedly smooth. Only a four-legged beast hiding behind a cement slab at the corner tried to launch a sneak attack, but was swung in half by Chu Zhongyuan and lost its head.
And when they turned around the raised cement slab, the scene in front of them was so urgent that they had no time to speak. They could only rush over to rescue. In the chaos, they didn't even notice that there should have been only two EN factors on the field, but between the white feathers and bronze characters, there were faint purple threads shuttling back and forth.
Three four-legged monsters with greedy eyes were surrounding five or six students. Those students fell to the ground and seemed to have lost consciousness. Judging from their faces, they were the research and study team of Lantai No. 1 Middle School.
Next to the fallen classmates, Ayi, Zheng Qiuji and Luo Dong, who were conscious, were trying hard to stop the four-legged monsters.
Not far away, with the help of the chalk mist, Gu Qingming could clearly feel that several four-legged monsters made of puppets were lurking around him, ready to pounce at any time.
Even though Luo Dong and Zheng Qiuji have superpowers, they are not combat-type. They both have some bruises on their bodies, but they are mostly ordinary skin injuries and no big deal.
Gu Qingming, holding the bronze spear which had turned into an ordinary weapon and no longer absorbed the EN factor, rushed forward to block the way.
Chu Zhongyuan was not much to be outdone. He swung his long loaf of bread, solidified the space around the bread, and then blew it at the monster's face.
Luo Dong shot one of the monsters with his gun. He turned around and was happy to see his companions coming to help him. However, he was so scared by the long loaf of bread in Chu Zhongyuan's hand that he thought he was still dreaming.
Only Zheng Qiuji clapped his hands: "Why didn't I think of it? As long as there is a sword in your heart, anything can be a weapon!"
He picked up a stone and made a sword gesture, then wanted to rush over to engage in close combat with the puppet quadruped, but was stopped by Luo Dong with a wooden face.
Luo Dong: ...Another teammate also went crazy. It turned out to be a dream.
With weapons in hand, Gu Qingming easily defeated the two puppet quadrupeds whose weaknesses were already known using the bronze spear.
The knowledge that his mother taught him when he was a child is still very clear in Gu Qingming's mind. There are three ways of attack with a bronze spear, namely pecking, hooking and pressing.
Pecking is to attack with the sharp tip of the spear like a bird pecking at food, hooking is to use the lower blade to cut, and thrusting is to use the upper blade to fight directly. All three combat methods are very convenient for performing an ex vivo surgery on the fragile head of the quadruped monster.
He rotated the spear, and the forward spear tip grabbed the neck of the puppet quadruped like a hook. He pulled hard, and the fragile joint broke in front of the metal blade and fell off.
On the other side, Chu Zhongyuan used his powerful mobility of teleportation and successfully knocked off the four-legged beast's head at the moment when the four-legged beast twisted into a knot in order to chase its prey.
The headless quadruped spurted out blood-red liquid from its severed end. Although Gu Qingming tried to dodge, a corner of his pajamas was still stained red.
The young man with a stern look was holding an exquisitely made bronze snake spear, his black hair was disheveled, his face was pale, and he was wearing a loose white hot spring hotel pajamas. The hem of his clothes fluttered in the night wind and was stained with blood. The scene looked weird no matter how you looked at it.
But Chu Zhongyuan happily gave a thumbs up: "So handsome, classmate Xiao Ming."
It can be said to have a unique taste.
Luo Dong, Zheng Qiuji and Ayi all shuddered. At that moment, for some reason, they all felt a terrible murderous aura from their companions holding spears.
That is a terrifying temperament that only a killer with countless blood on his hands can possess.
But that feeling only passed for a moment. After Chu Zhongyuan smiled and joked, Gu Qingming rolled his eyes and looked at him speechlessly. The boy's expression instantly became lively, and the bloody murderous aura disappeared like a dream.
Gu Qingming is still the companion who is taciturn but gentle and firm.
Gu Qingming turned to look at Luo Dong and Zheng Qiuji. Just as he was about to ask about their condition, his attention was drawn to the purple thread in Ayi's hand that had not yet completely dissipated.
"...Don't tell me that Ayi is also a superpower?"
Gu Qingming almost couldn't hold up his character.
Luo Dong: "Ahem, there's nothing I can do. You have to know it even if you don't want to know."
Luo Dong seemed to have a strange switch turned on. He supported his forehead with one hand and pretended to be cool with the other hand, posing as if to say: Look at someone's brilliant appearance.
"Let me introduce you again, this is Qiannan Gu Master, Ayi, who has inherited the same supernatural powers as Zheng Qiuji!"
The means that humans have to fight against mystery are not limited to superpowers and mysterious technology driven by mysterious factors. The so-called special arts inheritance such as witchcraft and Taoism is also one of the main forces to fight against mystery, and there are also special attacks against ghosts and monsters.
When these inheritors of supernatural powers are classified, they will be classified into the inheritance world where Zheng Qiuji is located.
Miao Gu is one of the most famous inherited strange arts, so famous that it is inevitably borrowed in various novels and movies.
Gu Qingming felt that if he were a character in a comic book, he would now be a shadow made up of silent gray lines.
"No, young master, how much money did she give you..."
Gu Qingming covered his eyes, feeling that he had just seen something unclean.
Ayi stood behind Luo Dong, poked his head out and stuck out his tongue at Gu Qingming.
"Hehe, it's because of military training that I'm isolated from all information. If I knew that the incident at Lantai No. 1 Middle School was solved by Teacher Cao and you guys, I would have recognized you guys a long time ago."
What Ayi said was indeed true. All the sophomores and juniors of Lantai No. 1 Middle School were keeping a close eye on the news because of the students who misbehaved during the fortune-changing ceremony. Ayi was exhausted from the military training during that time and had no energy to find out why the new head teacher of a class in the second year of high school turned out to be Cao Sheng, a famous and powerful psychic from CPA. As a result, he missed the opportunity to meet the two of them.
I also missed the best time to confess.
If they hadn't happened to be in Heshu Town this time and encountered such a strange situation, they would probably have had little chance to know each other's true identity in the future.
"I understand. I understand."
Zheng Qiuji recalled his inhuman appearance during military training and nodded repeatedly.
He and Ayi were the only two underage specialists in Lantai City CPA before. They had heard of each other's names and quickly chimed in.
The terrifying low howling sounds could still be heard in the surrounding night wind. After seeing Gu Qingming and Chu Zhongyuan easily eliminate the three four-legged beasts that were the vanguard, the four-legged beasts that were watching from afar seemed to scatter and move away into the invisible night fog and broken ruins.
Ayi and four other people carried several unconscious classmates on their backs and found a relatively secluded room in the ruins to house the unconscious classmates. Zheng Qiuji placed a word spirit with concealment function at the door to ensure the slightest safety.
Gu Qingming noticed that this room was the one that Zheng Qiuji stayed in the hotel.
The room of more than ten square meters was instantly filled up by these ten people. Fortunately, the rooms provided by Luo's father's business partner were all king-size bed rooms, and the five unconscious classmates were lying all over the bed and carpet, so they could be accommodated.
"The surrounding environment is very different from that during the day, and we didn't hear any sound of buildings breaking before we woke up. I'm afraid this is not the Heshu Town that originally existed in the real world."
Zheng Qiuji made judgments based on the many mysterious events he had participated in and his knowledge of occultism, and came to a conclusion about their current location.
"I guess we are probably drawn into the secret realm where the Heshu Town is located."
Zheng Qiuji had a serious expression. Although the room had been torn away from the building and thrown to the ground, strangely, the desk lamp here could still be turned on.
The dim light reflected on everyone's face, making everyone look extremely solemn.
A secret realm is an independent space that is attached to the real world but does not exist in the real world. It is usually formed due to a powerful mysterious obsession or other messy reasons. It has the characteristics of the real world but can be very illogical.
The current situation of the hot spring town also confirms this.
"Ordinary people who are caught in this are basically unconscious. Only those with special abilities can stay awake in this strange environment. This is also consistent with the state of other dimensions in the real world."
Ayi added a sentence, but Gu Qingming and Chu Zhongyuan both realized that something was wrong.
"If people without special powers cannot maintain consciousness in the secret realm... then what's going on with Qin Zhen?"
Chu Zhongyuan spoke seriously, which was rare. He pointed behind himself and Gu Qingming, but found that the young man wearing thick glasses and holding the five-three was nowhere to be seen.
"What Qin Zhen?"
Luo Dong frowned and looked up at Chu Zhongyuan.
"Weren't there only two of you when you came?"
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