Chapter 52 Yang Yan: How come you turned into ghosts after not seeing you for one night?
"Everyone, be quiet. This hot spring is the origin of our Great Evil Soup Residence. It has the powerful power to keep you young and prolong your life. It is the favorite hot spring of the big shots. There must be no problems. You guys, hurry up! The big shots are coming soon!"
Kisaragi Maru stood on the rockery next to the huge outdoor hot spring pool and shook the gun in his hand threateningly. He pulled the trigger towards the sky, and a sound like fireworks bursting through the sky. Bai Ye looked up and saw that the other party was holding a long □□.
The light of soul particles flashed on the gun. It was obvious that the bullets were made of human soul particles, which were listed as contraband by the Sun Law Enforcement Bureau. Only demon apostles and demons dared to use soul particle guns. The bullets condensed from the human soul could directly shatter the human soul.
A soul bullet for a soul, this can almost be called the most vicious weapon in the entire surface world, Kisaragi Maru, a bathhouse manager, actually possesses it...
Bai Ye lowered his eyes. It seemed that the power of the demon apostles had already taken root in this small town, and the influence of their expansion was more serious than they had imagined.
"Is this job...serious?"
Youyu looked a little desperate. All the soup workers had been driven into the strange hot spring by Kisaragi Maru who was holding the soul gun. Youyu imitated the actions of other old soup workers with numb faces and put on the rubber gloves in the pocket of the haori. After hesitating for a moment, he tentatively immersed his hands in the blood-red spring water and dragged a solid skeleton hard, trying to pull it up from the bottom of the pool.
This hot spring pool was deeper than Bai Ye and You Yu had imagined. As soon as You Yu stepped in, he sank into the pool. His feet felt empty and he almost suffocated. When he stood up, he found that the water in the pool was slowly and gradually rising. In just a few minutes, it had risen from a thin layer to almost waist-high.
"Whether you are serious or not, you are already standing here. You should find some clues first."
Bai Ye lowered his voice and responded to You Yu through the headset. He and You Yu deliberately stood at the two ends of the hot spring pool to ensure that they could collect clues and information more widely.
"All right."
You Yu stared helplessly at the human skeleton half floating in the pool, then stretched out his hand: "Brother, I'm sorry for offending you."
Unfortunately, Kisaragi Maru attached more importance to the most precious hot spring in Dai'eyuyu than they had imagined. The middle-aged man stared at everyone working in the hot spring, fearing that someone would not work seriously or do something secretly.
Bai Ye and You Yu cleaned up for a long time until the last skeleton was fished out, but they did not find any other obvious abnormalities in the hot spring water. A swirling vortex rose in the entire spring water, and the hot spring water visibly changed from its previous thick and sticky texture to a clear and transparent blood red.
"Youyu! Be careful!"
Bai Ye saw the spring water rushing towards every worker standing in the hot spring pool like a wave, and hurriedly shouted that the detective was more perceptive than Bai Ye and had already realized the restless impulse under the spring water. He caught up with Bai Ye from the diagonal line, pulled Bai Ye up and ran forward.
You Yu was very fast. He pulled Bai Ye and rolled onto the shore together before the spring water rushed over. The irregular stones on the edge of the spring pool hurt people. You Yu let out a gasp and stood up awkwardly holding up his beret. He saw that several soup workers who were at the back with very stiff limbs had been submerged in the boiling spring water, leaving only one stiff hand raised in the air, standing stubbornly on the slowly calming water surface.
Bai Ye looked down and through the light of the ancient kerosene lamp, he could see that the depth of the spring had reached a very terrifying level.
If I were to go down now, my entire body would probably be submerged.
"this--"
There was a young man named Tang Gong, who was wearing a new feather webbing and a headset and looked like a devil player. He impulsively wanted to rush over to save people, but was stopped by You Yu with a serious expression.
"It's too late."
The demon player paused where he was, and taking a closer look, he discovered that the limbs of the submerged Tang workers that had emerged from the water had become emaciated and shrunk to only a thin layer of skin, and their flesh and blood had completely disappeared at some point.
One of them had a headset on his ear and was also a demon player participating in this game, but it was obvious that before falling into the hot spring, he had been turned into a skeleton with only skin and bones by an unknown force.
Someone ate the flesh and blood of these people.
The vortex in the center of the spring seemed to have lost some kind of cohesive force, and as it rippled, it pushed the corpses of the old soup workers to the edge of the spring. The demon players exclaimed and took a step back - they saw that the flesh on the corpses that had been soaked in the spring water had dissolved. The so-called "eternal youth" spring water was like a terrible chemical solution with high corrosiveness like sulfur. In just a few seconds, it dissolved the bones into this state.
"I just changed my target after I found out that the source of the spring water could not be found. Those old soup workers... are not human either. They are puppets that have had their flesh and blood sucked out, just like the puppets that appeared in Solomon College before!"
"Oh, you are lucky. You guys, go and clear away these unlucky skeletons!"
Kisaragi Maru cursed and pointed his gun at the two unlucky guys around him, then drove away all the soup workers here like they were flies.
"This uncle is indeed a guy who is in cahoots with the devil's apostle... This is not a bathhouse at all, but hell..."
You Yu was pushed into the evil bathhouse by Bai Ye while cursing, and passed through the winding corridors and returned to the hall at the beginning.
"Those soup workers were once humans... What kind of experiments are they doing here-!"
Bai Ye stopped the detective who was extremely indignant due to his strong sense of justice with one hand, and pointed to the parade team that had returned to the hall: "Hush, their parade team has returned, don't attract the attention of those things first."
Bai Ye held You Yu down. They were in the corridor on the side of the hall. Standing in the hall was the Tang Wei team who had just gone to the town to greet guests. Everyone wore a scary monster mask and carried a blood-red sedan behind them. Inside the curtain of the sedan, a blood-red flesh figure was shaking the curtain.
The last two monster masks in the team were Tengu and Demon Messenger Youyu stopped and felt that the figure of the Demon Messenger mask standing at the end of the team looked familiar.
"Lily of the Valley?"
Youyu and Baiye hid in the blind spot of Kisaragi's sight and secretly asked into the earphone in a low voice.
There was a slight sound of wind coming from the other side. You Yu looked up and saw the wind chimes hanging on the wooden beams were ringing. It was indeed lily of the valley.
"The person in front of Miss Suzuran... is Izayoi, right?"
Bai Ye glanced at the team that Linglan was in, and the figure with the Tengu mask standing in the front looked quite familiar. As a Phantom Thief Wonder and Bai Ye, he had reason to be deeply impressed by the □□ members who appeared beside him.
"Uh, guys, maybe we need to get together."
Before Kisaragi Maru announced the disbandment of the masked soup workers, Bai Ye quietly lowered his voice and spoke into the headset.
"Unify the information we got tonight."
You Yu also added quietly.
Lily of the Valley moved her fingers hanging by her side, and quietly reached out to lift a corner of her huge mask, revealing half of her chin.
"At the shrine."
You Yu can read lips and instantly understood what Ling Lan meant: "Let's find a chance to unify the information at the shrine tomorrow."
Bai Ye looked at Kisaragi Maru, who was already showing an impatient look as he drove Tang Gong back to the dormitory, and nodded.
"The miracle that is about to happen is not something you lowly soup workers can watch. Go back to your rat nest."
Ruzuki Maru clapped his hands, and at Ruzuki Maru's urging, the soup workers returned to their wooden beds, which were less than two meters tall per person, in an orderly manner. The snow outside had stopped at some point, and the moon, washed by the snow, was so clear that it looked like a silver crystal, shining on the ground.
"white night."
Bai Ye stopped entering the dormitory. He looked at You Yu standing at the end of the corridor and asked, "What's wrong?"
“This game is wrong.”
You Yu pointed to the dark blue velvet sky. After the snow stopped, the night sky showed a translucent and distorted light.
"I mean, when we meet again."
Bai Ye glanced around and saw that there were no other demon players around, so he quickly walked to You Yu and leaned against the railing on the platform with him.
"You mean...DM system?"
You Yu nodded: "I believe you must have figured it out. The DM system said before the game started that the reunion would be a grand event, but then changed its words and said that no one would die during the reunion. But now it seems... at least the player who fell into the hot spring will never come back."
You Yu called up his own player panel. His gaze remained solemnly fixed on the icon of the Holy Grail of Thorns. The health line on it had obviously increased significantly in just a dozen hours.
"We have all been deceived. The fundamental purpose of DM is not to fulfill wishes, but to give the Demon Apostles new opportunities. This is a joint hunt between DM and Demon Apostles. The so-called neutral system is no longer neutral, and its position has begun to deviate."
The detective's keenness made Bai Ye feel a chill down his spine. This was indeed reflected in the game plot script provided by t173. In the end, all the demon players needed to unite to face the boss, which was the DM system. However, You Yu had already guessed it.
Even though the other person was his idol, Bai Ye still felt a little scared.
"Bai Ye, I remember... as long as we collect all the ten tokens, we can end the game right?"
The brown-haired boy suddenly turned around, his eyes shining like gold under the light of the snow.
"Yes."
Bai Ye nodded.
"Then we have to work harder..."
You Yu regained his lazy temperament and began to plan proactively for the first time: "After all, including the Sun Law Enforcement Bureau and the few ancient Ten Rings that are currently missing, there are still five that are missing."
Regardless of the purpose, he had to admit that Wonder, that guy, did discover clues to the truth before him on this road.
Bai Ye was alert, but You Yu didn't have the hint from t173: "How can you be sure that the Ten Rings token hidden in the surface world mentioned by the DM is the legendary Ancient Ten Rings?"
The ring-shaped mark on the Night Heart gem, one of the Ten Ancient Rings, flashed through You Yu's mind. He patted Bai Ye's shoulder with a smile and said, "I just think that DM won't be that diligent."
Bai Ye: ...quite convincing.
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Huangquan Town, Tang Hongshan Shrine.
The next morning, deep in the Tanghong Mountain, climbing up the mountain along the mountain road at the edge of the town, an ancient shrine located in a forest of dead branches and maple leaves stood quietly among the white snow.
"call--"
In a guest room outside the shrine's torii, Yangyan walked out of the thatched hut and stretched.
Yang Yan moved his shoulders. He slept comfortably last night and got up early this morning, feeling refreshed.
"you--?!"
The brown-haired boy looked up in shock, and saw Bai Ye and You Yu, who had been waiting outside in the snow for who knows how long, with dark circles under their eyes.
"You slept well."
Bai Ye patted Yang Yan's shoulder with a smile, like an evil ghost sticking his head out of a blood-red hot spring.
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