【Popular Science Post】

Death Hearse

[Introduction: This is a hearse full of ghosts who died unnatural deaths. It is an urban legend of buses that have been abandoned due to various tragic accidents in the long river of history. D-level ghosts randomly refresh at bus stops in major cities and force living people to get on the bus.

Route: At 15:24 on April 2, 20XX, it was randomly refreshed in Tonghua City after three months. It started from the Tonghua City Police Station bus stop, passed Xinlingmei Plastic Surgery Hospital - Sihe Reservoir - Hills Hotel - Happiness Amusement Park - Baby Tower - Zheng Mansion...

Survival method 1: Refuse to get on the bus.

Survival method 2: Bring your own money before boarding the bus, and politely refuse the "passengers" on the bus to pay for your ticket, especially red notes. When the passengers mark you and take you off the bus, immediately snatch and destroy the passengers' belongings, the more the better, they will be angry and leave you on the bus.

The ghost bus will stop at every station. When it arrives at a new station and new passengers get on the bus, please immediately...】

This post is very long and Xie Yu did not read it all.

But he thought the post was very interesting, and the way of survival provided was full of weirdness and nonsense.

So he took a special look at the poster who posted the message.

The portrait is a Gothic candlestick burning in a dim room, burning silently, with the flames twisted wildly.

The ID is also very simple, called "Prophet".

prophet?

Be foresighted, jump out of time, and see the future in advance?

Xie Yu had heard a lot of urban rumors about midnight hearses before. There were even many people on the Internet who swore that they had seen a terrifying bus traveling on a rainy night.

Xie Yu flipped through the comments and found that many visitors' IDs had replied:

【Oh my god, this post is quite interesting! 】

[Shit! I was suddenly redirected to this forum. I am reading this stuff late at night. I am afraid to go to the toilet now!]

[Snatching the ghost's belongings, is this method a bit hardcore? 】

[I laughed. What is the Night Watch forum? It's just a bunch of people with late-stage chuunibyou YY saving the world, right?]

[I’ve given up on studying. Next time I see a ghost bus, I’ll try getting on it (doge face)]

It can be seen that many of the tourist IDs entered this webpage accidentally.

As expected, most netizens did not believe it. Xie Yu also found it a bit funny and deleted the post.

He casually scrolled down two pages, and his eyes were suddenly fixed on a post, and his breath stopped.

"Midnight Butcher, April 1, 20XX 08:00 - April 2, 20XX 08:00, Contribution Points: 1000 Fire Value..."

This post has been given a red stamp of "Completed".

The posting time shown was 8 o'clock in the evening on the day before the Battle Royale, and the poster was still the "Prophet" with the Gothic candlestick avatar.

This post showed as locked, but for some reason, Xie Yu was still able to click in and see the full post.

【Recruitment Post】

[Midnight Butcher, first came to China from 08:00 on April 1, 20XX to 08:00 on April 2, 20XX

Location: Tonghua City, Tonghua University, Fourth Canteen

Introduction: A C-level ghost born in the United States. It is a strange non-spiritual body. The more piglets it assimilates, the stronger it becomes.

Piglets: Ghost servants created by the Midnight Butcher from human flesh.

Contribution points: 1000 salary points

Suggestion: Find and attack the heart of the Midnight Butcher among his many organs.

Attack the piglet's toe that is significantly shorter than the other toes.

Below, an account with the ID [dhsjdujdskaa] and a string of garbled characters replied concisely with a “1”.

Xie Yu stared at the other person's profile picture, which was a close-up of an arm.

The tattoo on his arm is bizarre and absurd, with one side showing compassion with lowered eyebrows, and the other side showing a sinister and ferocious smile.

It’s really Ji Qing!

She is also a member of this organization!

Xie Yu didn’t know what her mood was at the moment. She felt inexplicably happy, yet also a little unreal.

Several IDs responded to her in a familiar tone.

[Gargoyle: You merged with Janus so quickly? You're taking on C-rank missions independently now?]

【dhsjdujdskaa: None of your business. 】

[Gargoyle: You're spitting all over my face. If I defeat the Midnight Butcher, I'll be on the global leaderboard, right? ]

【Old demon: Remember to connect to the microphone, I will play the Heart Purification Mantra for you. 】

[Gargoyle: You are the first member to take on the mission after the organization's directive was changed. Don't blame me for looking down on you if you are not on the list.]

Gargoyle?

In medieval European legends, are there monster sculptures that come to life in the dead of night and use their bodies to fight against demons and protect humans?

Jie Yudian opened Ji Qing’s profile picture, and there was nothing in the information.

He was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked in a low voice: "What will be the end of the person who planted the ghost?"

Then, he stared at the small square with red font in the lower right corner of the desktop.

The blood-red font in the dialog box rippled slightly, and a blood-red word slowly emerged:

【die!】

[Coexisting with ghosts, madness, distortion, struggle, despair, irrationality... eternal damnation! ]

"Is there any way to change the fate of the ghost?"

[Kill ghosts, solve strange stories, as long as you have enough points, you can make yourself powerful enough. 】

As this sentence appeared, Xie Yu's computer interface jumped uncontrollably into the redemption mall interface.

There are a wide variety of items in the mall, and the points are ranked from high to low.

There are 500 points of fire value to activate supernatural powers, 1000 points of fire value to buy a small bottle of ghost inhibitor, 10,000 points of fire value to buy future technology prosthesis, even 100,000 points of fire value to regenerate severed limbs, and 1 million points of fire value to achieve the miracle of immortality in the true sense!!!

Seeing this, Xie Yu was so excited that his breathing became rapid.

If he had enough points, would he be able to regenerate his broken limbs and truly stand up again?

These props, which are terrifying and incredible enough, all come from this mysterious organization that seems to possess miracles...

In this world... is there really someone who is above time? Is this a human or a god?

Xie Yu swallowed and asked, "Who are you?"

The blood-red font on the computer paused for a few seconds, and then typed out a line of answers that both frightened and excited him:

prophet.