Chapter 213: Inhuman (21) (1st update + 2nd update + 2900 thunder 3rd update) [VIP]
Xiao Tang's entire body was hidden in the mist, and a head suddenly popped out, as if it was floating in the air. Bai Jinshu stood up from the stool and pressed his throbbing eyelids: "You don't need to tell me, there is definitely something wrong here."
On the entire bus, all the passengers except the twelve of them fell asleep, and they seemed quite peaceful. Xiao Fei had just shaken them for a long time but failed to wake anyone up.
According to him, he felt a little carsick and didn't sleep very well on the way here. Naturally, he felt a little uncomfortable on the way back.
The bus in the town was shaking as it drove, which made Xiaofei's motion sickness even worse. Xiaofei was sleeping soundly, and suddenly he felt the bus stop.
Of course buses pick up and drop off passengers at stops, and Xiaofei didn't take it seriously at first.
But this time, it seemed to stay a little too long.
The bus was not very big to begin with, and there weren't many people riding the bus in the area it passed through, so even if it was going to pick up or drop off passengers, it wouldn't take that long.
Xiao Fei was half asleep and felt something was wrong, but his extremely rest-deprived body still allowed the thought to flash through his mind for a moment without alerting him at all.
"Xiao Fei? Xiao Fei! Wake up!" Just then, he felt his shoulders being patted several times, and Xiao Tang's voice came from beside him.
Xiao Fei quickly opened his eyes and saw Xiao Tang standing next to him. Huang Mao saw that he was awake and stopped patting him. He turned around and called the other newcomers behind him.
Xiao Fei was confused after being woken up. He subconsciously looked around and muttered, "Are we there yet?"
He hadn't finished speaking when he was startled by the sight.
No one knew where the vehicle was parked. The fog outside the window was so thick that one could not see one's hand in front of one's face. Except for him and the yellow-haired man who had just been woken up, everyone in the car had fallen into a deep sleep.
There was an eerie silence in the car. Xiao Fei's scalp went numb, his hands and feet became stiff, and he even forgot what he was going to do.
Some of them fell asleep as soon as they got on the bus because they didn't get enough rest last night, but the other passengers were not like that.
This bus was filled with elderly people from the surrounding villages and a few parents with children. Before the bus departed, the children were very excited and kept screaming. The elderly had poor hearing and were watching videos at a very loud volume. There were only twelve of them on the bus and they could not stand it. How could they sleep in such an environment?
But now, the kids who were so noisy before have quietly fallen asleep on their parents' laps, and the old man who was watching short videos is also unconscious against the window. Huangmao tried to shake the door a few times, but no one responded except them.
The triggerers in the car were woken up one after another, and Xiaofei quickly woke up Ersi who was sleeping in the seat next to him.
During this time, Xiao Tang, who woke up first, had somehow run to the driver's seat and studied for a long time, then opened the back seat door by himself and went down into the fog for a turn.
"Er Si?" Xiao Tang waved, "It's not that wrong, you'll know when you come down and take a look!"
Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows, turned around to look at the other teammates in the car, and followed Xiao Tang's instructions to get out of the car.
"Hey, be careful, that's a staircase!" Xiao Tang stood by the door and pointed, "When I went down just now, I didn't see there was a staircase in the fog, and I almost fell to my death!"
There is indeed a step.
That's strange.
Bai Jinshu bent down to study it for a while, then reached out and touched the edge: "Is the visibility of this fog so low?"
How high can the steps on a bus be? The highest is no more than twenty centimeters. At this height, the fog pouring into the bus is enough to cover the steps on the next level.
The visibility is so low that you can't even see your wrists when you stretch your arms out, which is a bit too outrageous.
"No..." Before Xiao Tang could speak, Bai Jinshu knew what she wanted to say, "I see you know clearly."
If the visibility of the fog is so low, in order to see another person's face clearly in the fog, the two people must stand very close to each other, almost close to each other.
But there was at least a few dozen centimeters between him and Xiao Tang. One of them was standing on the last step of the bus, and the other was standing next to the bus. Based on the visibility, he should not be able to see Xiao Tang's face clearly.
But now Xiao Tang's expression is still clear, just a little hazy, far from being invisible.
"Did you see it?" Xiao Tang stretched out his hand and motioned him to get out of the car door by touching the edge. "The visibility of objects in this fog is very low, but the visibility of living things is relatively high."
"But it's not very high," she stroked her chin, "According to my test of this car just now, the visibility between people is about five or six steps."
The stride of an adult is approximately between 60-80 cm, which means that the visibility distance is about four meters.
It’s not that high.
Moreover, as the distance increased, although a vague human figure could still be seen, the facial features could no longer be seen clearly.
"Here," Xiao Tang generously took out a long stick from his back, "Use this to explore the way, as a guide stick, otherwise you will fall to death. I just used a cane to explore the way ahead, but I didn't dare to walk too far. I only found that the car seemed to be parked in the wilderness, and there was only grass after walking for several minutes."
"Crutch?" Bai Jinshu looked at the stick in his hand curiously, "Where did you get the crutch from?"
"I took it from the car," Xiao Tang said confidently, "It was from those old guys who watched short videos without headphones."
Bai Jinshu: ...
"You're not going to teach me about polite language again, are you? Even my mom has never disciplined me like this!" Xiao Tang looked at his face, horrified, "He's watching short videos without headphones, and I can't even ask Lao Deng to borrow his walking stick?"
Bai Jinshu: "...No, I think you are right to scold me."
He silently took the cane from Xiao Tang's hand and glanced at the few elderly people who were unconscious leaning against the window in the car: "What time is it now?"
Although visibility was low in the fog, the brightness was not low, so the sun should not have set yet. But the strange thing was that when I looked up at the sky, I could not see any particularly bright point source of light.
No sun?
"Not sure," Xiao Tang shrugged. "You can check your phone. The time on Huangmao's and mine has stopped at 4:17 pm."
Bai Jinshu took out his cell phone and looked at it. Sure enough, it was four seventeen.
"Huangmao and I think four seventeen should be the time we entered this strange place." Xiao Tang looked out and shrugged, "The good news is that time seems to have stopped. We won't be in the wild on the third day because we didn't have time to return to the village and the dark curtain. The bad news is... I don't know how to get out."
This place was too strange. There were only a dozen of them awake, and the driver and passengers in the car would not wake up no matter how they called them.
"I suspect that if we kill them in this fog, they won't know what happened," Xiao Tang said these terrifying words calmly. "I wanted to try it just now, but I decided to forget it. It's better to find out where they are first. Attacking the passengers won't help us find a way out."
As soon as she finished speaking, the two sisters who got out of the car, Master Xiuzhu, nodded and said, "It is indeed useless to kill the natives in the mist."
"How do you know it's useless?" Bai Jinshu weighed the crutch and turned to look at the people getting off the bus.
"Because of this fog..." Shi Xiulan's expression was very broken, "It might be coming towards us."
"What do you mean?" Xiao Tang stood up straight, "Isn't this part of the weird story?"
"Should..." Shi Xiulan hesitated for a moment, "No."
In the entire team, there are a total of eight newcomers led by Shi Pang.
"You know, we escaped from Port N because of an accident," Shi Xiuzhu explained, "Before coming here, we were preparing to trigger an S-level ghost story and get the buff. Then, when we were at Port N, we accidentally triggered a strange ghost story."
"This fog is called the Nameless Mist. It was brought about after we triggered that strange story."
Bai Jinshu suddenly looked up.
"Don't be nervous," Xiao He said quickly when he saw his tense expression, "You know Cthulhu, right? Not the Outer God, the Nameless Mist."
He smiled bitterly: "...If it really was that nameless fog, we wouldn't be alive now."
"The reason why this thing is called Nameless Mist is because it has no name," Shi Xiulan said. "After we accidentally touched on this strange story for some reason, this mist began to indiscriminately haunt our team. The audience on the barrage didn't know what it was. When we asked, none of them could explain it. They just said that this kind of fog has no name, so we called it Nameless Mist. In fact, we don't even know what this strange story is called."
Another weird thing that won't show up.
And it was touched by mistake.
So now this fog has nothing to do with [Revenge], but was brought in by the triggerers in these stone giant teams?
"Brother Yuan said... ghost stories have a range of effectiveness," Xiao Tang frowned, a little skeptical, "You said that this nameless fog was a ghost story you caused in Port N, so how could it be possible for this thing to follow the effective range of [Revenge]? Shouldn't it automatically become ineffective after entering?"
"That's what's strange..." Several people in Shi Pang's team looked at each other, and Xiao He came out and said, "The reason why we think this is a strange story we caused in Port N is because this kind of thing suddenly appeared three days after we entered the strange story."
"We didn't do anything, but one time when we were returning to our place of residence after completing a ghost story, we suddenly entered a fog, and the stone team that was originally walking with us disappeared," he said, gesturing to everyone, "It was also this kind of fog that could vaguely see people, but couldn't see things clearly."
This description sounds exactly like the properties of fog they just discovered.
Bai Jinshu and Xiao Tang looked at each other and then looked at Xiao He again.
Xiao He organized his words: "It was the first time for us to accidentally enter this kind of fog. We didn't have much experience. After we found that Team Shi had disappeared, we didn't realize that this was a ghost town. We waited there for more than half an hour. After half an hour, there was no change. We had no choice but to try to walk out. Everyone walked their own way. As we walked, we walked out of the range of the fog and found ourselves on another street.
Shi Pang was standing on the street. After seeing them come out, he said that they had just entered an area of strange talk.
Everyone then realized that the fog was a ghost story.
However, Shi Pang said that he didn't know what it was, and it might be some kind of weird story that was in the process of forming. So in order to prevent it from spreading, it would be best not to mention it to the outside world and increase its popularity, so as to delay its formation.
If Bai Jinshu and the others had not been implicated this time, Xiao He and the others would not have revealed any information about this strange story.
"So all we have to do is walk out?" Xiao Tang carried his cane on his back. "Isn't that easy?"
Xiao He shook his head: "No, we later found out that this fog...had entangled us."
The second time the fog appeared was when they were triggering the ghost story. Everyone was still performing the ceremony when they were suddenly wrapped in fog. By the time they came out, they had missed the best time.
"And that time... we found something even more terrifying." Shi Xiulan's voice was dry.
"Visibility was very low in the fog, and everyone was far apart in order to trigger. I clearly remember that I walked out with Xiuzhu, but Xiuzhu said that she was with Xiaohe," she said in a strange voice, "Xiaohe remembered that she left with Xiuzhu, but Lili... one of the two team members who died, Lili said that she came out with Xiaohe."
After leaving the fog, everyone said that they came out with another person, but the strange thing was that the person who came out with them in their memory insisted that they came out with someone else.
Everyone compared their memories of the people who walked out together with each other and discovered that each person appeared twice.
"So when the fog appeared for the third time, we held hands and walked out of the fog..." Xiao He paused, "But when we reviewed the situation at the end, we found that even though we were holding hands, the people we were holding on the left and right sides of each person's memory were still misplaced, and the misplacement was one person apart."
The fog was so thick that the distance between them was greater than the distance of a person's outstretched arms, and his facial features became blurred.
The teammate who was one position away from everyone's memory didn't exist at all.
This fog seems to modify people's cognition.
"We asked Captain Shi about this situation," Shi Xiulan pressed her solar plexus, "Captain Shi said that this might be because the strange story was not fully formed before we accidentally triggered it, resulting in the strange story not being fully developed and not having the meaning of 'complete', so it keeps appearing multiple times."
And because it has not been fully formed, the ghost story itself may not be clear about what type it belongs to.
As a result, even though their cognition was tampered with and they mistook the person they left hand in hand with, it seemed that they did not suffer any substantial losses.
"But you still haven't explained why it became a ghost story?" Huangmao was a little puzzled.
"That explains it. It's because it's not fully formed..." Shi Xiulan said helplessly, "Captain Shi said that it's possible that this thing is in a state of being a ghost story, but not about ghost stories. As a result, it actually hasn't had time to have a complete ending, so it will never end. We are always in a triggered state. It's only because it malfunctions from time to time that we can get out of the fog. And when it doesn't malfunction, as an incomplete ghost story, it won't be defined as a ghost story by other ghost stories, so it avoids the influence of the effective range and invades other ghost stories."
It sounds complicated.
"Then tell me what to do," Xiao Tang shook his hair, "What should we do now? Just walk out? After you walk out, you will appear on another street. Then after we walk out, won't we leave the car?"
She pointed to the side exaggeratedly: "This Wuming fog is too bad at choosing the right time, isn't it? If we get off the bus now, it will be too late to wait for the next one. If we walk back, the sun will have set. It's really a dilemma!"
"Uh..." Xiao He was also stuck for a moment, "We were just discussing this issue."
Yes, I can’t walk back, but if I don’t walk back, how can I get out of this fog?
"I'm sorry to drag you into this..." He lowered his head awkwardly, "How about we split into groups? Our team has never tried to divide into groups before. The four of you shouldn't be considered to have triggered this weird story. As long as the eight of us get out, the four of you can take the bus back, and the eight of us can slowly head back to the village."
"No," Bai Jinshu quickly denied him before he finished speaking, "You also said that this nameless fog will distort other people's cognition. Regardless of whether the four of us left with you, the risk of those who stay in the nameless fog is higher than those who walk out of the nameless fog."
The yellow-haired man nodded in agreement. "Yes, yes. Leave the four of us here. If you go out and someone distorts your perception and thinks you are going with us, and the gentleman who comes to the village to perform a ritual thinks we are monsters, then we four won't be able to explain ourselves."
"...That's true," Xiao He twitched his lips in embarrassment, "But... we have to get out, otherwise time will just stop like this..."
They still have a strange story to finish.
"How about we split into two groups, half of us carry the things and the other half run back to the village?" Xiao Tang tilted his head and began to give bad ideas, "Or maybe we just don't even bother going. I don't think the village can continue the ritual without the materials. They have to wait until tomorrow for us! Why rush!"
Before she could finish her words, she saw Ersi next to her turn around, throw the crutch to her, and get back on the bus.
"Hey? Hey Ersi!" Xiao Tang called out a few times, "What are you doing?"
Er Si returned to the bus again and said calmly, "Are you all fools?"
"Ah?" Before anyone else could object, Xiao Tang exploded, "I'm not fighting right now. I'm smart!"
"Oh," Ersi seemed to roll his eyes, looked at the barrage, and shouted to his teammates outside the door, "Two people come up and lift me up. I don't have the strength."
"Who to carry?" Xiaofei and Huangmao were both very enthusiastic.
"Driver," Er Si said in a long tone, "Why do you have such a big car parked here? Are you looking at it?"
"Since we can just leave the fog, why not drive out?"
After he said this, the nine people outside the car door were speechless.
"Holy crap!" After a long while, Xiao Tang ran onto the bus and shouted, "Er Si, you are a genius!"
Bai Jinshu: ...
He took a deep breath and said, "Even if the eight of them have encountered this fog several times and have formed a fixed mindset, are you three stupid?"
Huangmao and Xiaofei didn't dare to say a word. They quietly moved the driver, who was sleeping peacefully on the driver's seat, down and placed him in the back seat.
Several team members outside the car door also quickly got on the car. Xiao Tang didn't feel stupid at all. He sat back in his seat and planned to continue sleeping.
"Who opened the door?" At this moment, Bai Jinshu asked.
"I drove it," Xiao Tang opened his eyes, "What's the matter?"
"Which button is it for closing the door?" Bai Jinshu rubbed his temples and let out a long sigh, "Come and close the door."
Xiao Tang: "...I thought you were so smart, but you can't even close the door."
She mumbled to herself as she walked to the driver's seat. Under Bai Jinshu's calm gaze, she slowly shut up and made a zipper-zipping gesture: "Here, it's closed."
She took a few steps back and suddenly turned her head with concern: "Hey, can you drive?"
Bai Jinshu: "How about anyone from among you come?"
"No, no, no!" Xiao Tang took several steps back. "I didn't even pass the second test. I can't drive!"
Everyone behind waved their hands.
Xiao He scratched his head: "I can, but I have an automatic transmission driver's license, and the bus is a manual transmission, I can't drive."
"And the bus seems to require an A3 driver's license, which no one here has."
Everyone nodded.
"Your car is not automatic, is it?" Xiao Tang leaned on the railing next to him and said sincerely, "Well... Ersi, if it really doesn't work, let's just walk back."
She was a little scared.
"I can." Bai Jinshu's answer was much briefer this time.
"Really...really good at that, brother," Xiao Tang said in a cowardly manner, "Don't get into a car accident, right? Huang Mao has a Ptsd, he died in a car accident, don't scare the child."
She said not to scare Huangmao, but looking at the expression on her face, she seemed to be more worried about getting into a car accident than Huangmao dying in the accident.
"Brother, what's your skill? If it doesn't work, let's just walk... Hey!" Before Xiao Tang could finish her words, the car started and threw her back several steps. "Damn it, Ersi, at least say something!"
Such a strong feeling of pushing on my back.
Everyone leaned back suddenly.
This time, it wasn’t just Xiao Tang who was scared.
"Oh, I'm used to the launch," Bai Jin said calmly, but the expression in the rearview mirror was mocking no matter how he looked at it. "I have a certificate, Super level."
"Ah?" Xiao Tang's voice was extremely penetrating. "What is that? Aren't driver's licenses only rated ABCDEFMNP?"
She opened her mouth and uttered a string of English: "What is super level?!"
As soon as these words came out, Xiao Tang swore that she saw Ersi smile.
Er Si quickly changed gears and smiled sincerely and mockingly, "F1 driver's racing license."
Xiao Tang:!!!
Everyone:! ! !
"F*ck...￥%%^ You're driving a racing car! You're racing a bus!" The girl cursed in the car, "Slow down! Slow down! I'm scared to death!!!"
*
Cen Bingqi had a blast racing.
Bai Jinshu said that this personality definitely emerged the moment he sat in the driver's seat.
As a racing driver, he has raced in formula cars, sports cars, and last time in an unknown space, he also raced in a Wuling Hongguang, but this is his first time racing in a bus.
Cen Bingqi appeared in an instant, jumping out without any hesitation, starting the nightmare of everyone in the car.
Under his driving, even people who don't get carsick get carsick.
The poor driver even slipped off his seat and hit his forehead on the railing, with a "bang" sound, which was obviously a good sign.
Xiao Fei leaned against the window, not caring whether the fog would come in through the window, and vomited all over the place.
"Er Ge! Er Ge!" He held the paper Huang Mao handed to him in one hand and grabbed the window sill with the other hand, shouting sincerely, "Chickens! Chickens and sheep! They are all in the trunk! If they are damaged, the ritual will be in trouble!"
"It doesn't matter," Talge's voice sounded, "All living things except us will not react in this nameless fog."
That's true.
There was another extremely clear "dong" sound, and Xiao Tang frowned as if he felt the same pain: "Hiss... It hurts..."
The driver hit the railing a second time.
"How pitiful..." She said with genuine sympathy, and then hugged the pole in her hand tightly, "Amitabha, if anything happens, you can go find Ersi. Every grievance has its perpetrator, and the other eleven people in this car are innocent..."
Before she finished her words, she suddenly let out a louder cry: "Wait! Ersi!!!"
Xiao Tang's voice suddenly became louder: "There is someone on the road ahead!!"
Visibility in the fog was very low and it was too late by the time we saw it.
"It's going to hit!" Xiao Tang's heart was in his throat.
At this moment, the car drifted and narrowly brushed the edge of the man, and the driver hit his forehead for the third time.
"Huh..." Xiao Tang let out a long breath, "I'm so scared... How could there be someone in this fog?"
She held the railing tightly, determined not to let go until Ersi came down.
At this moment, Xiao Fei, who was vomiting all over the place, turned his head from the window and said, "Xiao He."
"Hmm?" Xiao He was confused. "What's wrong? Do you want some paper? I don't have any."
"No..." Xiao Fei was silent for a moment, "I just... seemed to see the person passing by the window... was your face."
The car suddenly became quiet.
"Is it because you have been vomiting outside that the nameless fog has affected your thinking?" Before Xiao He could say anything, Shi Xiuzhu frowned and said, "According to our experiments, this is what happens if you stay in the fog for a long time."
Otherwise it cannot explain where the extra players came from in the previous times.
"No way," Xiao Tang frowned in front, "But if it's an illusion, Ersi and I both saw that person, but we didn't see his face. Can't only the triggerer appear in the fog?"
Everyone was silent for a while.
Shi Xiulan whispered: "But... everyone has been in the nameless fog just now."
"...That's right," Xiao Tang muttered quietly, "Why didn't you tell me earlier that the fog would cause hallucinations? I wouldn't have gone down there."
She said this.
No one else woke up when she went downstairs.
But looking at it this way, there is a big problem. As a driver, if Ersi's cognition is affected by the fog, there is a high possibility of a car accident at this speed.
No one dared to take the risk and immediately wanted him to stop.
Before he could finish his words, Xiao Tang's voice got louder: "There's another person in front!"
"I saw it," Ersi's voice was very calm this time. "This is from a ghost story. Since we want to verify whether it is an illusion or something else, we might as well do an experiment."
Xiao Fei: "...Why, experiment?"
With a "bang", the bus's fender hit something and half of the glass shattered.
Ersi was prepared in advance and avoided the flying debris.
This sound was like a heavy hammer hitting everyone's heart. Everyone was startled, and Xiao Tang even jumped up directly: "Fuck!"
The yellow-haired man hugged the back of the seat in front of him and said, "I bumped into someone! It's not an illusion! It's real!"
His voice became louder and louder with each sentence.
What shocked everyone even more than his voice was that the fog suddenly dissipated.
"We're out..." Xiao He murmured.
Cen Bingqi did a beautiful drift to the side of the road, pulled the handbrake, opened the door and jumped out of the car.
No one cared about anything else and jumped down one after another.
Behind the vehicle was an empty country road.
There were no casualties and no dead animals.
Empty.
"One, two, three..." Shi Xiuzhu counted the number of people in a low voice, his voice becoming softer and softer, "Twelve people, all together."
So, what is it that they bump into in this fog where only the triggerer is awake?
It was a hot afternoon, but everyone suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.
This thing that appeared out of the fog and could invade any strange story at any time...could it be an illusion?
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Today, wb@月渡寒塘不糖 posted the character design of the next Necromancer. If you are interested, you can take a look. By the way, I am collecting new vest names~
The first 20 + random 20, tomorrow, tomorrow the new mouse with sugar will arrive and I will definitely not be late... (eyes move)
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