What is it?
With this horrifying realization, the bus, which I thought had nothing to do with me, went from being a mess to a matter of life and death.
I have a penny on me, and I don't know what's wrong with it. We have been talking for so long, but what happened to that broken car? I am confused, and my life is over!
This hidden anxiety and embarrassment suddenly became difficult to express because of the good things done by his brother Zhang Tianyi.
I was sweating profusely, and the tall, thin, white-faced man who had been explaining it to me didn't understand what was going on either. He asked:
"The consultant isn't injured. You must have drunk too much cat urine."
Brother Lei was stunned, and pointed at the thick protective suit on me: "You smell like blood, aren't you injured?"
I suddenly came to my senses and remembered that everyone present didn't know what happened in the car. At most, they witnessed the scene of covering me when I left the bus. Lei Zige's question was a misunderstanding, and it reminded me by accident.
Thinking of the chaotic scene at that time, my sanity returned.
At that time, Xu You and Zhang Tianyi clearly worked together to save me. I don't know where this protective suit with a strong smell of blood came from.
But, strangely, didn’t my brother tell me not to reveal my relationship with him?
Doesn’t Xu You know either?
I slowly looked at Xu You, the old fox who had experienced many battles. I couldn't believe it and thought to myself, "No way!" Then I felt an indescribable shame and embarrassment.
Sure enough, the guy muttered:
"If you ask me, Brother Zhang doesn't look like he's here to do anything bad. He even helped us save our consultant, and he didn't make any demands on the team leader. We in the Zhang family should at least have some sense of propriety and honor."
When I heard the words "propriety, righteousness, integrity and chi", I broke out in a sweat and wanted to find a place to hide.
Xu You had also fallen into misfortune. He was a little unhappy when he heard this. He frowned and said, "Let's put things in perspective. He will naturally repay this favor."
He snorted coldly and said with a half-smile, "You call everyone brother whenever you see them. Our consultant's call of brother is not precious enough. He saved my life when he called me brother. Didn't I call him brother when I asked him where he was going just now? What has he suffered?"
"..." I resisted the urge to lower my head to look at my feet, thinking that he is my brother. This cheap second uncle, master and elder brother, your sourness from the elders is useless unless you can kick him out of my household registration.
He also made up his mind not to let the secret slip, lest the reputation of Xu You, a cunning veteran who was always good at deceiving people and deceiving ghosts, be ruined.
I was so anxious that my soles were burning with anger, but I couldn't move the bus. I gritted my teeth and thought to myself, "I'll just die," and changed the subject first.
"You are talking about Brother Zhang..." I didn't need to hide my curiosity, "Which 'Zhang' is not from your family?"
Xu You's face looked a little dark, and he was about to give me a slap if he moved his finger.
That fellow was also a wonderful person, and he seemed to be somewhat yearning as he said, "Besides, most people were fine that day, wasn't it because Brother Zhang wanted to eat barbecue in the middle of the night and forced us to send someone to cheer him on and act as the atmosphere group?"
A tourist picture of a barbecue stall sent to me by Zhang Tianyi was immediately recalled in my memory, and even the dark green windbreaker Zhang Tianyi was wearing was clearly visible.
That guy still has the nerve to say that he has been on the run for more than half a month, looking like a pitiful little white lotus who has been bullied and hurt.
I put my fist in front of my lips and then realized that even the physical evidence was already in place. I was speechless for a moment.
According to him, everyone was feeling upset and frustrated that day because the base station had been hijacked and the town was closed due to a snowstorm.
As a result, there were a few clanging sounds of broken gongs from somewhere, and the damn Zhang Tianyi appeared in front of this group of muscular men who claimed to be bandits.
The guy was startled at the time and slid the phone deep into his sleeve.
Zhang Tian looked at him and smiled: "Candy Crush?"
The guy was a little confused. He shook his head and said dryly, "Tetris." His nerves tensed up, fearing that it would be confiscated again.
"No internet cafe?" Zhang Tianyi seemed to be quite easy to talk to. He only asked this question and trusted him directly. He really didn't touch his phone. He just smiled and forcibly dragged away a group of strong men with unyielding faces to make barbecue for him.
Brother Lei Zi was such a tough guy that he jumped out and cursed a few times. Zhang Tianyi seemed very tolerant and looked at him and let him stay in the room.
When it comes to this, the guy can hardly suppress the Stockholm-like admiration on his face.
(Here, Xu You, who once risked his life alone in a crisis, covered in gasoline and sent down from the sky to save people, raised his head and gave the guy a strange look.)
I can understand that, young people are like that. This guy is obviously a homebody. What matters is not his life, but his cell phone, which contains his favorite anime and his electronic wives.
This kind of feeling is in no way comparable to a middle-aged leader saving your life. No matter how charismatic the leader is, it is useless.
But what he said did remind me.
Zhang Tianyi must have his own purpose in doing these things.
But the question is, why did he mislead other members of the Zhang family who were outside to rush to the town? No matter how good he was at fighting, he couldn't kill them all in one fell swoop, and why did he have to take the risk himself?
The otaku guy even tried to gain my support, saying that Brother Zhang must have some other hidden chess game, and he couldn't just be unhappy with all the members of the Zhang family.
"…Tell me, is this possible?"
I thought about it, and a very bizarre idea popped up in my mind, "He called everyone back for no other purpose. I mean, getting everyone here is not an action, but his purpose itself."
Lei Zige's eyes widened: "Why?"
Yes, why do I have such a leap idea? What is supporting me in this idea subconsciously?
"My basis is...youth."
I spoke slowly, collecting and piecing together the vague flashes of inspiration bit by bit.
"Nian Ziqing is a very divided person. On the one hand, he is very calculating, but on the other hand, he loses control of his emotions from time to time and seems to be very impatient."
But even so, Nian Ziqing was captured by Gao Rui himself as the assistant of the travel company.
It was the broker who escorted him all the way here, and Yan Mo also examined and observed him during the journey.
There were also those members of the Zhang family who had lost information and almost reached an agreement with Nian Ziqing to recruit and protect them.
How could so many elites, including me, be deceived by such a person until his own distortion was exposed? This whole thing was a bit weird and unreasonable.
It turns out that I had no way to explain it.
But now it's possible.
Because I just figured out why those guys were called away by the voice in the fog.
This theory and logic can be applied to young people.
Why do I and so many of us naturally believe him?
——Because I believe in myself.
Nian Ziqing can put driver Lao Zhao on his body just like putting on clothes, and of course he can also put some things that originally belonged to us in his body.
The huge absurdity and fear made me hold my breath for a moment.
The phenomenon of fog and insect eggs is not an isolated case.
This horrific transformation occurs essentially because of the Rat Migration Tale's definition of "human" for worshippers.
In other words, if a deeply polluted individual also carries with him this kind of pollution like the pus of a "human" and leaves here early -
Then he has the opportunity to spread this pollution to the outside world silently.
Or perhaps the contamination had not spread, but his temporary safety was because he had been contaminated by another object brought out of the underground palace.
Yes, banyan tree.
Everything on the bus has confirmed the restraint and interference between the two types of pollution: the banyan tree and the fog.
Before, this balance had always been maintained, so he could remain leisurely; he even managed to survive after taking out the banyan tree and brought the banyan tree back to the valley, triggering a confrontation between the banyan tree and the comb jellyfish and a series of tragedies.
A person who found out that he could "stay alive" no matter what, that he would not die if parasitized by a banyan tree, and who had witnessed the miracles created by the goddess, would be so arrogant and conceited that he regarded himself as a god and sacrificed the lives of tourists at will, which really needs no further explanation.
However, because of our intrusion, the closed loop created by the Goddess was broken.
The stream of time dried up, the comb jellies retreated, and the banyan tree's power, which was always extremely strong at the end of the past, also disappeared like foam with a snap.
At this time, although Nian Ziqing was still alive due to the pollution caused by the migrating rats, he was unable to stop the banyan tree from dying quickly and deforming itself.
For so many years, as part of the fog, how many people are "alive" in the fog? How huge are those chaotic and never-dissipating consciousnesses?
The so-called human life and definition are not something a young person can bear.
So Nian Ziqing became anxious.
After he was approached, he no longer had the confidence to remain calm.
But he has another trump card, which is to bring everyone on the road together.
With the help of the flashing images of the past and future he saw from the Divine Concubine, Nian Ziqing must have reached out to many people with the gimmick of "prophecy".
During this process, he wanted to collect some of the other party's dandruff... It was difficult for a young man with the last dying banyan tree body still living in his brain, but it was still possible.
In other words, many members of the Zhang family who were scattered outside had unknowingly fallen into the trap and become carriers of the fog.
It is precisely because of this that all the Zhang family members, including me, who met Nian Ziqing in the store and had always sat in the same row with him during the journey, could all become invisible bombs.
If we want to prevent the fog from spreading outside and harming ordinary people, when things may get out of control at any time and there is no way to confirm each one one by one, the fastest way is to gather all suspicious people in the town.
"...Master's wife." I was shocked. "Yan Mo only accompanied us for a short distance, so there was no possibility of physical contact along the way. Gao Rui had comb jellyfish on her body, so it was difficult for Rong Shu to touch her. But after escorting Nian Ziqing for so long, Master's wife is very likely to have been infected!"
"—she is here."
Xu You sighed.
His usually solemn expression showed some hesitation. "It was because she came in that I realized you were with that young man and needed rescue. But she had never been underground before. After she came in, she ignored the danger and tried to find us quickly to explain the situation. She was almost exhausted. She is now in the backstage lounge of the bar."
"It's just... that Zhang Tianyi."
Xu You paused, his expression was colder than ever before: "Even if he did what you said this time to stop the fog, don't believe him."
My heart skipped a beat and I asked Xu You what this meant.
"Because he would get hurt. He even took our equipment and broke into the Rat Migration Palace sealed off by the snowy mountains. He was seriously injured and nearly died."
Xu You’s words shocked me.
"In front of the moving rat, even those ghost things like fog and insect eggs can be considered as human beings, and they can achieve absolute immortality."
"What is 'human' here?"
"——Disciple, what is Zhang Tianyi, who is so fragile that he could die?"
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