The room, with only two people left, fell into dead silence.
Yu Fengqing was silent for a long time before he spoke: "My good fortune is to rob others, what about you?"
Gu Zhisang said calmly, "If you're asking why my personality has changed so drastically and why I suddenly have metaphysical abilities, it's because I'm not the person in this body."
There is nothing to hide.
People in the metaphysical world and at the headquarters should all have this suspicion. There must be people who think she is possessing someone else's body, but no one dares to question her and they all pretend not to know.
"These abilities are what I have always possessed, not acquired through plunder."
Yu Fengqing suddenly raised his head and stared at her, then gritted his teeth and said:
"So now you are the protagonist who punishes evil and promotes good, and you have to destroy me, the villain who harms society."
Gu Zhisang denied this statement and shrugged slightly:
"Obviously, you are not a villain yet. At best, you are just a pathetic cannon fodder who doesn't even know the truth and passively helps the evildoers."
"you!"
Yu Fengqing's angry words were blocked in his throat by the gaze that suddenly approached him.
Gu Zhisang took a closer look and could see a hint of condensed black in Yu Fengqing's trembling pupils, like a pair of dead little black holes, filled with the smell of decay, mildew and darkness.
This is a trace of the invasion of the 'Black Mist'.
And it must be the entity.
It's a pity that it has left now, with only a few remnants left.
Gu Zhisang said: "I guess you have had a system that told you that you are the protagonist of the world and you were born to shine in the spotlight.
But it’s gone now.”
Yu Fengqing was filled with astonishment.
Although she didn't admit it, her face said 'How did you know?'
"You should have heard of Guan Qihong." Gu Zhisang said, "The reason he was arrested was also because he plundered and absorbed the luck of his fans, and he did it knowingly."
"While he was handcuffed and sitting in the interrogation room, he was still shouting that he was the protagonist of the world, saying that a system had fallen from the sky and told him that he could get endless good luck from his fans and netizens and reach the pinnacle of his life."
"But there are not so many protagonists in the world."
There was something hidden in her words, but Yu Fengqing didn't understand it. However, the system in her mind, which had been frozen and silent, felt madly guilty.
Feeling the subtle fluctuations in his sea of consciousness, Gu Zhisang remained expressionless.
Of course Yu Fengqing had heard of Guan Qihong. The news about him being caught during a live broadcast and changing his expression on the spot had made a lot of news, and she had paid some attention to it.
But she never expected that such a lowly person would also have a system.
And every word the system said was basically the same as what she heard.
Doesn't this mean that she is no different from Guan Qihong? !
The existence of the second system completely shattered Yu Fengqing's last bit of fantasy.
Her mood fell to the bottom again, and after a long time she was finally willing to speak, recounting in bits and pieces everything that had happened since the system first appeared more than a year ago.
Through her narration, Gu Zhisang suddenly discovered that the "novel" where Yu Fengqing was located was actually the same as the "novel" world where he himself - or to be more precise, the original owner of this body, "Gu Zhisang", was located.
The plots completely overlap.
The other person is a winner in life.
'Gu Zhisang' is the control group of miserable female supporting characters.
If 'Gu Zhisang' had not disappeared, her life would have been like in 'Yu Fengqing's' dream, she would have become a pathetic person hated by everyone and finally died in despair.
Yan Chenghui was killed by Xuanmen early on because of his Yin Sha losing control.
Yan Xuguihui was forced to inherit the group. After experiencing a series of setbacks and difficulties, he gave up his dream of becoming a racing driver and ran the family business.
As for Yu Fengqing, she still has good luck. She will never realize where her luck comes from, and with this good luck, she has achieved success in both career and love.
It was my arrival that rewrote everything that happened afterwards.
Both worlds are real.
The former belongs to 'Gu Zhisang' and is the life she would have experienced if she had not entered this body.
The latter belongs to oneself.
Gu Zhisang, who had roughly figured out all the causes and effects, felt that the last misty veil in front of her eyes was slowly being lifted. All the information and clues were connected together, and she felt clearer than ever before.
She looked at Yu Fengqing and said, "There should be two more people from the headquarters coming later. You are a dangerous person now. You should stay at the headquarters until all the unrest is over."
As for those pleasant words, such as "As long as you behave well, everything will be fine" and "In fact, the headquarters can understand you", Gu Zhisang did not say them.
Regardless of whether it was intentional or not, the tragedy caused by Yu Fengqing and the consequences of millions of citizens being robbed of their luck cannot be erased, and she must take responsibility for it.
It would be good if things could turn around, but if the situation is serious and there is no way out, and her good luck really cannot be recovered, she may face life imprisonment.
Before leaving the interrogation room, Yu Fengqing suddenly called out to her, "Gu Zhisang!"
She turned her head.
"Can I give back their luck to them?" Yu Fengqing clenched his fists tightly and said, "I don't want it."
Gu Zhisang did not say anything, because she knew that most of the lost luck and vitality had been swallowed up by the "black fog", and Yu Fengqing could not afford to pay it back even if he wanted to.
Outside the door, Zheng Ruyu was leaning against the wall writing documents.
Seeing her come out, "Are you done talking?"
"We also listened to the conversation just now. How should I put it? Her conscience has not been completely lost, but it's too late."
Zheng Ruyu's tone was a little depressed.
Now she also realized that it was not that they were too slow, but that the "Black Mist" went to great lengths to ensure that anyone who had any connection with the headquarters would not have seen or received the push of the blog post before today.
She asked around and found the same answer everywhere.
Now that the "Black Fog" has achieved its goal, it has relaxed its cover-up, allowing the people around them to see a little bit of information.
After the news of Koi stealing fortune was brought back to the headquarters, it was only revealed to core personnel.
Everyone knows what the lives of millions of people mean.
Just when things were starting to improve and there was a glimmer of hope, the situation got worse again, completely wiping out all the efforts made in the previous period, and even made it worse.
This directly caused some members to lose their minds.
Gu Zhisang glanced at her and said only one sentence:
"It's not too late."
As long as it hasn't reached the final moment, there is still a chance for a comeback.
She didn't comfort Zheng Ruyu too much, and said:
"Just like I thought, Yu Fengqing was also one of the targets of the 'black fog', and he was successfully eroded."
"Although 'Black Mist' has escaped in advance, a very deep mark still remains in her body. This is an opportunity. We should not leave her in the department, but take her out."
"What's the meaning?"
Zheng Ruyu was puzzled.
Gu Zhisang explained: "If my guess is correct, Yu Fengqing's body will have a special sensitivity to the 'black fog'. If we let her travel around, there should be unexpected surprises."
For example, those clones that were hidden too deeply, under important Feng Shui points, would be impossible to find even if they just searched aimlessly, which wasted time and energy.
However, Yu Fengqing's body had been corroded by the 'black fog' for a long time, so she was the most suitable 'detector'.
Zheng Ruyu's eyes lit up: "Is it feasible? Will she be willing to help us?"
Gu Zhisang pulled the corner of his lip and said, "At the moment, it seems that she will be willing. It depends on how the headquarters talks with her. If it doesn't work to persuade her with reason or emotion, we can only use tough measures."
"Okay, leave it to me." Zheng Ruyu said.
"Right." Thinking of the key point again, Gu Zhisang said, "Let Taoist Chang Qin and Taoist Xi Kui personally guard her. They are very experienced and can move quickly to shorten the time wasted on the journey. They can also prevent the 'black fog' from causing trouble and kidnapping people."
"The key point is not to let Xukong and the people from Ganqing Sect come into contact with Yu Fengqing."
Gu Zhisang's eyes were cold and gloomy: "I don't trust them."
…
Returning to the apartment prepared for him at the headquarters, Gu Zhisang took off his shoulder bag and coat.
She stepped barefoot on the soft carpet, and her dark sweater made her exposed wrists look as white as jade.
After falling into the sofa, her eyes were slightly blank, and she spoke to the empty living room:
"I've been waiting for you to confess for a long time. Now, you still don't have anything to say?"
After a long silence, Gu Zhisang felt as if his nerves were gently pulled by an invisible little hand, as if to please him.
It doesn't hurt, but it feels a little numb.
Although the other party did not speak, at least he did not pretend to be dead, which showed his submissive and guilty attitude.
Gu Zhisang opened his eyes and said in a cold tone: "Don't try that."
"I really thought you were a useless little loser who knew nothing and could do nothing. It turns out you were just playing dumb and hiding the truth from me."
“The system is really good.”
Gu Zhisang was really annoyed, his emotions fluctuated so obviously that it was rare to see such a change, even a little weird, which made the system feel weak and scared, and it couldn't help but whimper and say:
"Sangsang, don't say that. I really didn't know anything before!"
"So now you know everything?"
The system's voice suddenly stopped, and then it quietly pretended to be dead.
Gu Zhisang sneered: "Even if you don't tell me, I can guess that this is a big chess game. But the person playing chess from beginning to end is not me. I am just the king chess piece representing the white side on the chessboard.
There is only me, a lone chess piece."
"And 'Black Mist' is the chess master on the other side. It has an endless number of chess pieces, both large and small, under its hands. It can lay long-term plans against me, or it can use them at will and then discard them."
"Do you think the chess master on the white side thinks too highly of me?"
The system was in a dilemma, and could only stammer and say:
"I, I don't know either. I don't understand these things..."
"You don't know, or you can't tell?"
Gu Zhisang's question followed closely, and his sharp and cold tone frightened the nervous system, and it blurted out in a daze:
"I can't tell you!"
Gu Zhisang: ...
This stupid thing.
After a long silence, Gu Zhisang let out a long sigh, and the low pressure in the room slowly faded away.
Never mind, she could see that this system was really stupid and couldn't fool her for that long.
The frustration it felt before when it was off track with the plot and had no idea what to do must have been real.
And then he suddenly went from being talkative to being silent, and then suddenly fell asleep. It must be that he knew something, but couldn't tell himself;
Afraid that he could not hide the truth, he simply shut down the computer and went offline.
Although the system didn't know why, it could sense the subtle changes in Gu Zhisang's emotions, sobbing:
"Sangsang, I was wrong. Please forgive me. I am just a weak and helpless part-time worker system QAQ"
Gu Zhisang said with a sullen face: "Don't think this matter will be over so easily. I will deal with you after I have dealt with these messes."
system:!!
"Do we have a future?! I heard it!"
*
Gu Zhisang used Yu Fengqing's proposal and quickly got the approval of the headquarters.
Although some people hated this person who made the situation worse, they thought that using a puppet controlled by the "Black Mist" would be too uncertain, and they were afraid that she would deliberately cause trouble;
But Commander Bai and Taoist Chang Qin both thought it was feasible.
As it turns out, this decision was correct.
Yu Fengqing does have a special sensitivity to the power of the 'black fog'.
When the car carrying her passed through an ordinary piece of land, her heart suddenly trembled and she stopped the car.
Later, Taoist Chang Qin really dug up a clone of the Thousand-Faced God under this land.
With this pedestrian 'detector' that can sense the black fog, the stagnant search progress has been rapidly accelerated.
On the other hand, the national prevention and control department’s supervision area is also running 24 hours a day. Detecting negative energy and paying attention to the changes in red dots in various places have become the most important prevention and control projects at present.
Originally there were only 6 monitoring devices responsible for this project, but now the number has increased to nearly 30.
Those divided areas were further refined and enlarged, and the trend of changes and increases in red dots in various places became more obvious.
Paying attention to these changes and being ready to respond to the call to save lives at any time has become almost everything in the lives of all police officers and masters.
They now each have a small device, also produced by Yan's, which they carry with them.
The distribution and changes of red dots within ten kilometers can be seen on the screen. Once someone calls the police or there is a case to be handled, a "beep" reminder sound will be issued.
Because many cases have to be kept secret from family members, many police officers’ families do not know why their spouses or parents leave home before dawn and come back after dark.
I can't relax even after returning home. I put a small machine with red and blue lights on the bedside. Sometimes I would be awakened by the "beeping" sound when I was sleeping, and I would hurriedly put on my clothes and go out.
Although the salary and benefits have increased several times, I have been so busy that I have lost weight and rarely go home.
Under this high-intensity supervision and organizational action, although the invasion and spread of the "black fog" has never stopped, it has not caused a large-scale collapse.
The death toll is decreasing and everything seems to be moving in the right direction.
——
Fengdu Ghost Town
A famous county town located around a bustling city.
Legends from ancient times to the present have added a unique color to this city. During every festival, the government always holds gatherings and celebrations with traditional colors.
About half a year ago, a legend spread in Fengdu City:
There was a village that was really haunted by ghosts, and all the people in the village were eaten by ghosts.
The road leading to that village has been blocked to this day, and the villagers in that village have disappeared without a trace.
Although no one had ever seen a ghost eating a person and the authorities had given some explanations, the incident still spread like wildfire in Fengdu and was talked about by people in the city with great relish.
After a few months, the people of Fengdu gradually forgot about this incident and returned to their normal lives.
County towns are not as prosperous as prefecture-level cities, have fewer job opportunities and lower wages, so young people basically go out to work and earn money, going to first-, second- and third-tier cities to make a living.
Generally, the population of a county town is only 200,000 to 500,000, and the population of a larger county town will not exceed one million.
The vast majority of them are middle-aged and elderly people over 45 years old who are self-sufficient by farming at home, as well as left-behind children.
There are very few young and middle-aged people.
These county towns only become lively during the Spring Festival every year when young people return home in groups of three or five to celebrate the New Year with their families.
There aren’t many people, which results in average infrastructure in the county;
Two street lamps were working and two were broken, and the road was alternating between light and dark. No one reacted strongly to the incident and demanded that the street be repaired.
Fortunately, middle-aged and elderly people go to bed early. Usually, as soon as it gets dark and the market closes, ordinary people who have no entertainment venues to go to go home to rest.
After 11 o'clock in the evening, there are very few visible lights in the low self-built houses and bungalows.
From nightfall to 1 or 2 in the morning, everything is completely silent.
The whole county was asleep.
Amid the dull breathing sounds, the screens of the mobile phones that some middle-aged and elderly people placed at the bedside to charge lit up.
The bright light overflowed from the cracked screen, illuminating a small area around it.
Most of them don't have newer phones.
The bulky books that have been used for several years and are now stuck, the old mobile phones that my sons and daughters have discarded... As long as I can still make calls and occasionally video chat with my children who are working outside, there is no need to waste money on buying new ones, even if they are a little laggy.
Coupled with the patriotic sentiments of the older generation, almost everyone uses mobile phones produced by the Yan Group, and very few use those made abroad.
In more remote villages and towns, the elderly people aged 70 or 80 don’t even know how to use smart phones and instead use PHS.
During the day, the children who were away from home also called the people who stayed at home and repeatedly emphasized:
'Don't click on any links on the Internet. There are scammers everywhere. Don't trust strangers!'
The parents listened impatiently: "I know, you just need to take care of yourselves outside, we are safe at home!"
'It's much safer than you think!'
At night, the sleeping residents of the county town were unaware that a thick, invisible black fog was covering the sky above the surrounding cities like a gushing poison.
Not even a ray of moonlight could penetrate, and the silent city was swallowed up by the rolling fog, making it pitch dark.
Suddenly, there was a slight movement under the quiet bed.
But all this did not attract the attention of the people who were sleeping soundly.
The charred black fog invaded the room and filled every corner of the town, but their mobile phones seemed to be unable to detect it and there was no response at all.
The screens of the monitoring equipment in the police stations in the town and the county, and those police officers who had returned home, were still on, flickering dimly.
You can vaguely see under the fog that the red dot above has not changed at all.
There is no increase in any place!
Even in the capital, hundreds of miles away, in the headquarters of the national prevention and control department, nothing wrong was found.
As the black mist continued to roll, it covered the faces of the people on the beds, and continued to squeeze and flow into their bodies through their seven orifices.
The people, who felt the intense pain, finally responded.
They struggled in their sleep and opened their mouths to call for help, but no sound came out. They could only twist their faces and stare wide in extreme pain.
Invisible claws covered their mouths and cut the soft and fragile throat bones.
As their lives gradually slipped away, the eyes of these innocent people who died in their sleep gradually became unfocused, and finally they became completely motionless.
One after another, terrified souls floated out from the corpses of those who died tragically, carrying with them the fear before death, the despair of suffocation and the pain of twisted bones.
They tried to escape through the window, but were dragged into the dark abyss by the black fog and disappeared.
The fog rolled in and out like a sated beast.
As countless souls floated out and had nowhere to escape and were all swallowed up, the black fog covering the city was growing rapidly, and a terrifying sense of oppression was about to emerge.
A loud 'boom' pierced the sky, but only revealed a thick black fog. The city was covered underneath and disappeared.
Lightning and rolling clouds were gathering rapidly, but the extremely rampant black fog did not stop reaping lives and devouring souls at all, as if it was declaring war on the thunderclouds in the sky.
A long silver-purple lightning suddenly fell, flashed for a few moments in the mist, and then slowly disappeared.
At the same time, countless warlocks sensed this devastating aura.
Whether people were resting or meditating, they all felt their hearts tremble, as if they could sense the thunder in the distance from a thousand miles away.
Then, an uncontrollable sense of panic began to grow.
The core personnel settled in the capital rushed out of their homes and came to the headquarters.
Taoist Chang Qin and Xi Kui were in the lead, Taoist Xukong also came. The three pillars of Xuanmen who had always been calm and composed were now filled with astonishment and shock.
"Did you sense it? Just now!"
"Of course... This is the first time I've had this feeling. Something big must have happened!"
More and more warlocks gathered, all feeling uneasy and restless because of the growing sense of foreboding in their hearts.
"What the hell is going on? What happened?"
"It's over! It's all over..."
“…”
Panic and negative emotions were rising, and it was at this time that Gu Zhisang showed up.
Xi Kui could not hide his emotions: "Fellow Daoist Gu, have you figured out what happened?"
Gu Zhisang was carrying a pitted peach wood sword, his eyes were sharp, and he looked straight towards the southeast in the dark night:
"Southeast, Mao Ding position, Li Gua Gate, there is something fishy."
"It's the ghost city Fengdu."
As she spoke, she squatted on one knee, with her right palm touching the ground. A faint vortex of air blew from her palm to the surroundings, and then a slowly rising pitch-black door broke through the dense ghostly aura and stood on the ground.
Everyone was shocked. It was really the ghost gate before them that overturned their imagination.
The heavy lacquered door was wide open, and one could vaguely see carved ghosts and gods hidden in the ghostly aura, some looking like dragons soaring and tigers, some with chins of swallows and whiskers, looking majestic and lifelike.
It seemed as if in the next second he would rush out of the sealed door with thousands of troops and countless little ghosts.
One sorcerer couldn't help but reach out his hand, and actually felt the cold touch of the door, and said in astonishment:
"Is this ghost gate a physical entity?!"
That is to say, ordinary people can see it too!
Gu Zhisang didn't have time to answer. He took out his cell phone and called Zheng Ruyu who hadn't arrived yet:
"Something happened in Fengdu. I left a door for you in the lobby of the headquarters, leading directly to my position."
After that, she hung up the phone and walked towards the ghost gate: "Follow me in."
After all the sorcerers had entered the ghost gate and were covered by the ghost energy, the gate did not disappear, but stood in place, quietly waiting for the next person to enter...
The author has something to say:
Fengdu is not that serious! There will be a twist in the next chapter. If I say too much, it will be a spoiler, so I will try to write early and write more tomorrow...
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