Chapter 217: Inhuman (25) (1st update + 2nd update + 0.5 update) [VIP]
"calm."
Bai Jinshu glanced around, took a few steps back calmly, and walked out of the crowd carefully before speaking again: "What about the three brothers? What's going on?"
"I... I'll take you to meet them, Erge," Xiao Fei's face was full of fear. He walked a few steps ahead and couldn't help but look back, "Erge, you say..."
Xiao Fei paused for a moment, and his tone became much weaker: "Brother Er, do you think...is this the same Xiao He we saw on the mountain?"
He saw Xiao He when he and Bai Jinshu were going down the mountain. Now the three brothers of Shi Pang's team who also went to the mountain also saw Xiao He.
But Xiao He has never been to that mountain.
"Xiao He, Xiao He," Shi Xiuzhu's voice came from the side, "What's wrong, Xiao Fei? Why did you ask me to bring Xiao He here?"
"Xiao He was with us just now, right?" Xiao Fei pointed at Xiao He, and then pointed at himself.
"Really?" Shi Xiuzhu was puzzled. "Weren't we the ones walking behind? Just now, Xiao He's mother, who was of that status, asked him to go home to get something. I was afraid that the house would burn down and trap him inside, so I found a few people to go with him..."
She looked really confused, not knowing what Xiao Fei meant.
"Do you remember what Erge and I said to Xiao He when we saw him in the ancestral hall this morning? I said that we met Xiao He on the mountain, but he ran away when he saw us," Xiao Fei swallowed hard, "and now... the three brothers who went up the mountain have also seen it."
And every time I met Xiao He, there were always no less than two people present.
With so many people watching, there is no possibility of misjudgment or hallucination.
There is definitely a "Little He" appearing on the mountain.
"What?" Xiao He was confused. "What do you mean, what mountain... what ancestral hall?"
Xiao Fei was a little anxious, and took a few steps forward to grab his wrist: "Xiao He, you really haven't been to that mountain?!"
"No?" Xiao He was very confused. He shook his hand several times but failed to shake it off. He could only say in a bad tone, "You two are talking about some mountain, but I don't know which mountain you are going to. There are mountains all around this village. Who knows which one it is?"
Xiao Fei: "Are you sure? You never left this mountain village! Erge and I saw you on the mountain!"
"Are you sick?" Xiao He frowned and fiercely shook off Xiao Fei's hand. "Master Xiuzhu said that I went home to get something. You believe Ersi next to you who doesn't believe us, right?"
"The people who saw you on the mountain this time were three people from your team! If you don't believe me, call them over!" Xiao Fei raised his voice.
He spoke so loudly that many villagers around looked over.
"Calm down," Bai Jinshu suddenly said, "Why are you two so angry for no reason?"
His words were like a bucket of ice water, pouring down on them, causing the two people, both of whom had angry expressions on their faces, to freeze in place.
Xiao Fei stayed there for several seconds: "I... was really angry for no reason just now."
He clearly heard that the three brothers also saw Xiao He on the mountain, and the first emotion that came to his mind was fear, and the fear that the Xiao He next to him might not be Xiao He. With such fear, he went to find Ersi, wanting to find the Xiao He who scared him with his company and ask him clearly.
But for some reason, the moment after he talked with Xiao He, he felt a nameless anger erupting in his heart.
Why does Xiao He act like he knows nothing? Twice in a row, two groups of people saw him on the mountain. If he doesn't give everyone an explanation today, there must be something wrong with him!
Now that he calmed down and thought about it, why would he lose his temper with Xiao He...
He clearly called Er Si to give himself courage. According to his personality and courage, he was just being brave if he didn't hide behind Er Si when he saw Xiao He!
Xiao He also stayed where he was: "Hiss..."
His shoulders trembled: "You...you saw another me on the mountain?"
At this time, his voice was already trembling a little.
He was not very courageous, and he didn't know what secrets were hidden here. He must have been scared when he suddenly heard this information.
But the strange thing was that, for some reason, when he heard Xiao Fei's doubts, he just felt angry.
Why did he question him? Xiao Fei and the others were not in the same team as him. The four people in his team were led by Yuan Shanming. They were always on guard against each other. Now in this copy, they suddenly pointed their spearheads at him. Did they want to attack him?
The more Xiao Fei questioned, the angrier Xiao He became.
The more he looked at Xiao Fei and Er Si behind him, the more he felt that these two people were deliberately attacking him in the copy, just to snatch away the S-level ghost story that was half-triggered from their team, and they just wanted them to die!
Now think about it calmly...how is it possible?
Not to mention that there was no deep hatred between the two teams that required the other to die. Just thinking about that strange story, Yuan Shanming was the leader of S City. He was not familiar with the strange stories in N Port at all?
Besides, the person who triggers the ghost story needs to be loyal to the end. If they kill eight of them, the ghost story will have to start from the beginning. If they want to steal the ghost story, there is no need to kill them. Wouldn't it be more cost-effective to wait until they trigger it and then snatch it from you?
The two of them calmed down. Although Shi Xiuzhu didn't know what was going on, he roughly understood the current situation.
"It's the hottest time of the day right now," she wiped the sweat off her head and squinted at the sun above her head. "Is it because the weather is too hot that everyone's tempers are flaring up?"
She said it tactfully, but everyone understood what Shi Xiuzhu meant.
What she meant was that this place seemed a little abnormal. The hot weather also magnified the hot side of everyone's personality, causing Xiaofei and Xiaohe to quarrel for no apparent reason.
"Let's go find the three brothers first," Bai Jinshu said in a low voice, "You two just quarreled so loudly that you have attracted the attention of others."
Only then did the three of them notice the curious looks of the villagers around them.
When a curious person saw the two stop arguing, he came up with his hands behind his back and asked, "What happened between Xiaobo and Xiaohe? Why are they arguing?"
"There was a misunderstanding," the two men calmed down and immediately realized that they were affected by the weather, and said, "It has been resolved now."
"It's all right as long as it's resolved," the old man who came up to do the nosy thing stroked his beard, "It's normal for young men to be full of energy. We grew up together, so just don't fight."
When the four of them saw this situation, they quickly ran away.
According to Xiaofei, the three brothers who went up the mountain are now outside the valley.
The three of them walked out and soon saw the three brothers squatting under a big tree to enjoy the cool air. When they saw Bai Jinshu and Xiaofei, they first stood up and greeted them. Then they saw Xiao He behind them, and the one in the middle with a buzz cut immediately staggered.
"Xiao He..." He said cautiously, "Can I pinch your arm?"
Xiao He: “Ah?”
He was just confused when the three men reached out and pinched him. Then they looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief: "Really, really..."
"There might be something wrong with that one on the mountain."
"My legs are weak..."
The three brothers sat back down under the tree, their faces filled with lingering fear.
Xiao He also squatted down and asked hurriedly: "What happened? What did you see on the mountain?"
The three brothers started talking at once.
"The three of us went up the mountain to see the formation. As soon as we got there, we discovered that Ersi's idea was correct. Looking down from a high place, the one drawn by that gentleman was a straight line."
"Yes, and he seems to have a ruler in his heart. Looking from above, the line drawn with yellow cornmeal is very straight, so straight that it is abnormal. Every road is marked like this, and it is obvious that it is a formation."
The three of them knew the importance of the matter, so they first talked about the discoveries related to their main purpose of going up the mountain.
"Ersi, look," one of the three took out his phone and opened the photo album, "We took a photo of it. Look, the formation is very clear when it is outlined with the yellow line."
It is indeed clearer from the photos.
The lines drawn by Mr. Huang are much straighter than the village roads. In addition, the corn grits he used are very bright yellow. Even if you look down from the mountain, you can clearly see the line on each street.
Bai Jinshu asked it to send the picture to his mobile phone, and then marked the six points that the few people had previously determined.
This is even more obvious.
These six dots are obviously some kind of special shape. As long as we find the remaining two dots and connect them, we can tell what this thing is.
"Whose houses are those six houses we found earlier?" He closed the screen and looked at the three brothers. "Whose houses are those two houses that Xiao Tang missed with the bag in his hand?"
"One seems to belong to Sister Tang," Xiao Fei took the initiative to speak, "and the other one is mine."
That is to say, Mr. Huang’s current positioning does not include Xiao Tang, Huang Mao and Xiao Fei.
It's more subtle.
Bai Jinshu lowered his eyes, not letting the other five people see the look in his eyes.
It seemed that Xiao Tang really did it on purpose. There were only four members in their team who entered this space. Huangmao and she were assigned to the same family and got the identities of siblings. After their own house caught fire, they rested at Xiaofei's house.
With this arrangement, the two houses that Mr. Huang skipped are exactly where the four of them live.
This can no longer be called a coincidence. When the triggerers who were walking in front were taking turns, Xiao Fei originally wanted to give the bag to Xiao Tang, but Xiao Tang took the initiative to refuse, so he gave the bag to someone else.
I didn't think this action was strange before. After all, everyone wanted to observe this gentleman more, so the task of carrying the bag was given to the indigenous people. It was a common understanding that the later these triggerers were in line, the better.
But now that I think about it, could it be that Xiao Tang had already calculated this order so that he could appear at the end and let Mr. Huang skip the two houses where Yuan Shanming's team members lived?
After all, he had experienced this girl's IQ, and when she was not taking action, it was indeed much higher than others.
Now Bai Jinshu was only curious about one question, that is, everyone was affected by the identity he had entered, and even he became extremely weak because of Xiaochuan's weakness. How could Xiao Tang be sure that when he lifted the bag at the end, he would be able to ignore its mechanism of forced weight gain and position change and carry him to the end?
Is it that Xiao Tang has a special identity, or is it that Xiao Tang is also gambling. If he wins, he can create an information gap, and if he loses, the most he can do is to continue according to this plot development?
While Bai Jinshu was thinking, the people in front of him had already started discussing the "two Little Hes".
Speaking of this topic, the three brothers and Xiao Fei became visibly excited.
"Before the three of us took this photo, we saw you standing by the road," the man with the buzz cut said, "the boss next to you called you a few times but you didn't respond. When we walked up to you, you saw us. The boss asked you why you were there, and you said you came to urge us to go back because someone was calling us from below."
The boss said, "When I heard you were here to urge us to go back, I thought there was something urgent going on down there, so I hurried up to urge them. They had originally wanted to wait until the gentleman finished painting at the grain field before leaving, but when they heard me urging them, they quickly took a photo and prepared to go down the mountain."
This is how this photo came about.
"As the three of us were taking a photo, you disappeared the moment we turned around," they said. "When the boss saw you were gone, he got anxious and thought something urgent had happened down there and you had to rush back without informing us. So the three of us hurried down the mountain, but after searching for a while, we didn't see anything urgent. We did run into Xiao Fei..."
What follows is what Xiao Fei said.
He met three brothers who were coming down from the mountain. The three brothers said that Xiao He had just come up the mountain to urge them to go back, saying that someone was calling them from down below, but they couldn't find Xiao He.
As soon as Xiao Fei heard the two key words "mountain" and "Xiao He", he felt a tingling sensation on his back. He immediately thought of Xiao He, whom he and Er Si met when they were going down the mountain. His scalp went numb for an instant and he hurriedly asked the three brothers to wait outside while he went to call someone and also call Xiao He.
The three brothers didn't understand and wanted to ask, but Xiao Fei said, "Xiao He never went up the mountain from the beginning to the end, and we didn't send anyone up to call you." The three of them were stunned.
After both sides finished talking, Xiao He's face turned pale.
"Is your identity special, or are you doing something unnecessary?" Shi Xiuzhu couldn't help but ask.
"No...either no or I didn't notice it." Xiao He broke out in a cold sweat as the sun was blazing above him. "I didn't do anything. I don't know why you met me on the mountain..."
"Don't be afraid," Xiao Fei calmed down at this point. "Since you've been spotted on that mountain twice, follow us closely for the next few days. Don't act alone. Then we can find a time to go up the mountain together and see what that thing is."
Xiao He nodded.
There was no other way now. He had never been on the mountain from beginning to end, but he was seen on the mountain by two different groups of people. If he had not been with everyone on the previous two times, he would have had no way to defend himself.
Xiao Fei habitually opened the live broadcast room and wanted to ask the big brothers if they remembered what happened, but found that most of the audience ignored his question, and the sporadic barrage sandwiched between other topics also said [I don’t know].
"It seems that the big brothers don't know either..." Xiao Fei scratched his head, "Why don't you go back and pay more attention to the live broadcast room, maybe your audience can find something."
Xiao He glanced at his live broadcast room with worry: "...Okay."
The ghost story they entered was too unpopular, and most of the audience had no idea what the plot was. Occasionally, there were a few who remembered a little, but the information they provided was vague, so they could only rely on themselves.
Fortunately, today is the third day we have been here, and in two days, this strange story will be over.
Just when I thought of this, I heard the sound of running footsteps in the distance: "Ersi? I've been looking for you for a long time but can't find you. Why are you all here?"
It’s Xiao Tang.
Xiao Tang's appearance here means that she no longer needs to follow Mr. Huang carrying the bag of corn grits, which also means that Mr. Huang has finished drawing the formation.
"Sister Xiao Tang," Xiao Fei jumped up from the ground, "Do you want to talk to us about something?"
"I'm not looking for you. The ritual will start soon. Mr. Huang said we have to go over there," Xiao Tang put his hands on his hips. "He asked all the villagers of the same age to go over there. He said we should first ask the young people to do the small part to test whether this method can work. If it can, the ritual will officially start tomorrow. He asked the village chief and others to get ready."
"So we are just a test subject," Xiao He twitched his lips, "Has everyone else gone?"
"We've passed by, and the natives are all here," Xiao Tang pointed back, "The only ones missing are the seven of you. I just spent a long time looking for you in the threshing ground, and I didn't know you were outside."
No one dared to delay and quickly followed him in.
In the threshing ground, the formation drawn by Mr. Huang was extremely conspicuous. The others were already waiting in it. The remaining villagers were crowded outside the fence. When they saw them coming, they quickly made way for them.
Bai Jinshu and the others walked in it and found it extremely strange.
"We were a group of people standing inside, and they were looking at us through the fence like we were animals..." Xiao Fei complained in a low voice, "It's weird, it's creepy."
The look in the villagers' eyes when they looked at them was filled with a long-buried desire and hope, so heavy that it made people feel creepy when they looked at each other, as if the people standing in the threshing ground were not part of the village, but some special animals.
The crowd was stacked up in layers, everyone looked up, everyone looked towards the center, everyone's eyes followed their every move. Under such a gaze, everyone felt at a loss, and had no idea how to react in the next second.
Huang Mao was standing alone in the crowd. When he saw Xiao Tang leading the remaining seven people over, he quickly ran over and said, "Sister Xiao Tang, you're finally here!"
The weather was extremely hot, and everyone in the threshing ground was sweating. Without Mr. Huang's permission, no one dared to take a fan or anything, so they had to fan themselves with their hands. Now that everyone was present, the ritual could finally begin, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
In front of the threshing ground, Mr. Huang had placed several plates, filled with fruits and grains like tributes, many of which they had bought in the town yesterday. In the middle was a Buddha statue with three incense sticks lit in front of it.
Further back, there were several pieces of red cloth that had already been cut.
"Put this on yourself later." As soon as Mr. Huang opened his mouth, several frustrated gasps were heard from the crowd.
The weather is already hot enough and everyone hates to wear clothes. Now we have to add a cloak, which will make it even hotter.
"Don't sigh!" A middle-aged man's voice immediately appeared outside the fence, "Just do whatever the master says!"
This sentence was like turning on a switch. The villagers who were gathered outside like watching animals started talking at once: "Listen to the master!"
"If the master says to put it on, put it on. Don't take it off!"
"Mr. Huang is willing to help us, don't make him angry and leave!"
Before Mr. Huang could say anything, the people at the door started shouting.
The natives obediently walked over and covered themselves with red cloth. The triggerers looked at each other and had no choice but to follow them in.
"You will line up in a row later," Mr. Huang said after seeing that they were all covered with red cloth. "Follow my steps and don't make any mistakes. Xiaochuan will be in the front."
Bai Jinshu was arranged to sit in the front row. The red fabric was the satin fabric bought at the foot of the mountain. It was not breathable and made him feel stuffy when he put it on. It was not very comfortable.
The crowd quickly formed a line, with Mr. Huang walking in front, explaining as he walked: "This formation has a life gate and a death gate. You can't go in the wrong way, or you'll be in big trouble. I'll only lead you through it once, and when you come out of the formation and re-enter it, you must follow this method. Remember it."
These words seemed to be addressed to him.
Bai Jinshu perked up a little, focused, and followed the path he led to the center of the formation.
In the live broadcast room next to it, there seemed to be a lot more viewers who knew about [Revenge].
[I heard that someone triggered revenge, so I came to take a look. 】
[You heard about this too late. It's already the third day.]
[The third day is just right, the key point has just appeared. ]
【Just arrived, who is Xiaochuan? 】
【The host is Ogawa. 】
【Who got You Gaohan? 】
[No one picked You Gaohan this time. ]
You Gaohan… ?
Bai Jinshu followed Mr. Huang and repeated the name.
Never heard of this name.
Although there is a girl named "Xiao Han" in the village, her full name only has two characters, and her surname is not You, so it should not be this one.
Judging from the audience's comments, this identity is also a key role. Why did no one get it this time?
The audience in the barrage are also discussing this issue:
[How is it possible? Revenge is against the nature, someone will definitely become You Gaohan. ]
[You Gaohan must have an identity. How can there be Xiaochuan without You Gaohan? ]
[And isn't he standing next to me right now? ]
Bai Jinshu subconsciously looked up and saw Huai Jiamu standing beside the altar.
Wait a moment……
Could this You Gaohan be the identity that Huai Jiamu got this time?
Soon, the comments confirmed his guess:
[It’s not like no one got it. The identity of You Gaohan was taken away by a ghost story this time. The host made a mistake in the teahouse before and brought out a big ghost story that ignored the ghost story’s effective range. Now this big ghost story is You Gaohan. ]
[Can this strange story still be solved? ]
[It's hard to say. This big ghost story doesn't look like it will cooperate.]
There were many viewers who were familiar with the process on the barrage. Bai Jinshu wanted to ask directly, but because he was currently performing a ritual, he had to suppress his doubts and watch the barrage while paying attention to Mr. Huang's movements.
The previous barrage said that [Revenge] is a confrontational book. If [Xiaochuan] is present, it is impossible not to have [You Gaohan].
Bai Jinshu thought about it in his mind and realized that his identity and Huai Jiamu's should be opposite.
If their previous speculation is true, Xiaochuan is the important mission of Zhoufu Village and the key to the ritual, then the identity that You Gaohan is opposing should be a person from Touzhou Village, and he is very likely to exist to sabotage the ritual.
Under normal circumstances, after the triggerers enter here, one unlucky guy will become Xiaochuan, and the other unlucky guy will become You Gaohan. The unlucky guy who becomes Xiaochuan should get the sacrifice script, while the unlucky guy who becomes You Gaohan will have his core interests go against those of all other team members.
In this situation, the audience asked if the ghost story could still be told if Huai Jiamu did not cooperate. This shows that although their identities are opposing on the surface, they can still achieve a win-win situation if they are properly matched. It all depends on whether the player who becomes [You Gaohan] is willing to cooperate.
In a situation where cooperation is possible for both sides, if you want to let You Gaohan confront all his teammates alone, then after You Gaohan wins, the reward that player can get will definitely be huge, otherwise he will not give up cooperation and choose confrontation.
And once You Gaohan chooses to fight back, Xiaochuan will be the first to bear the brunt.
Fortunately, Huai Jiamu would not be the first to harm him this time.
Bai Jinshu quickly filtered all the information and was able to piece together the situation in this copy.
Ogawa's identity is definitely not simple. His life or his birth is closely related to the situation in Funafuke Village. The identities of other team members are all descendants of special families. Although they are not more important than Ogawa, they must have become an important part of Funafuke Village's initiatives.
The identity that Huai Jiamu obtained was probably for revenge. Mr. Huang and he were in the same camp. The goal of the two should be to disrupt Zhoufu Village. According to the big brother in Xiaofei's live broadcast room, things will become extremely bloody in the end.
Now we don’t know in which link the wrong information conveyed by Xiao Tang will play an important role.
While he was thinking, Mr. Huang's voice came quickly: "Everyone, kneel down!"
Everyone subconsciously plopped down and knelt in front of the Buddha statue.
"Don't move, I'll go get the chicken." Mr. Huang put his hands behind his back and left the formation.
As soon as Mr. Huang left, Xiao Tang's gnashing voice came from behind, "Fuck their ancestors! My mother never asked me to kneel..."
Xiao Fei whispered to the live broadcast room: "Good afternoon, big brothers. Good luck to the anchor. Who is this You Gaohan? Can anyone tell me? Big brothers, please follow and like. The anchor will show you the strange story [Revenge]."
Shi Xiuzhu: "Xiao Tang, is that big monster you are talking about You Gaohan? The comments said that the important figures in [Revenge] can't be empty-handed, You Gaohan must be one of the triggers."
It seems that everyone was watching the barrage just now, and many people have discovered the abnormality of the identity of [You Gaohan].
Xiao Tang ignored Shi Xiuzhu who was questioning her. She sounded very angry and was still upset about kneeling: "Who the hell is he to make me kneel? I didn't even have to kneel when my mom gave me red envelopes during the Chinese New Year!"
"Little Sister Tang, just kneel before the Buddha," the yellow-haired man consoled her, "Isn't there a Buddha statue in front of you?"
There were a few indigenous people among them, but fortunately they were at the back of the crowd, so they couldn't hear clearly what they said in a low voice.
"What a bullshit Buddha statue, look at that thing yourself." Xiao Tang said through his teeth.
Everyone looked up.
When they looked up, what caught everyone's eyes was a headless Buddha statue.
In other words, it cannot be said that there is no head, but rather that its head has begun to melt, just like a candle melting. The head of the statue has also melted, and something like wax has flowed down from both sides, leaving only the facial features in the middle of the deformed head.
"This Buddha statue..." Shi Xiulan's voice lost confidence, "I remember when I bought it, they said it was made of ceramic, right?"
How do ceramics melt?
And although its head melted, the strange feeling it brought to everyone did not disappear. The moment everyone looked up, they felt as if their eyes were touching something else's sight. Although the Buddha statue had its eyes closed, its sight seemed to be everywhere.
Xiao Tang shook the red satin on his body, and his voice was much calmer this time: "Er Si, did you see when that thing melted?"
She was standing at the back, and only Ersi was standing at the front.
"No," Bai Jinshu replied, "I was watching the live broadcast just now, I didn't notice it."
A comment popped up in the live broadcast room: [Host, don’t worry about the Buddha statue. It’s not important. Instead of worrying about it, you should be more careful about the red cloth on your back.]
Bai Jinshu frowned slightly: "What's wrong with the red cloth?"
"What red cloth?" Xiao Tang was confused for a moment, but soon realized that he was talking to the live broadcast room.
The comments continued: [Don’t you think that wearing red cloth, walking in a line according to a special pattern into the formation, looks like a burning fire dragon walking into the formation? ]
He didn’t know if it was an illusion, but for a moment, Bai Jinshu felt the red cloth in his hand suddenly became hot.
In contrast, the Buddha statue melted faster.
"Hiss..." Xiao Tang's voice came, "It's so hot!"
"Oh my god," Xiao Fei seemed to fall to the side, "Why is this cloth so hot all of a sudden!"
"My neck hurts!" Xiao He's voice, "Can someone help me get this cloth off!"
Bai Jinshu remembered that Xiao He seemed to have tied the cloth directly around his neck to save trouble.
"No... Whoosh - it's so hot!" Shi Xiulan's voice was mixed with the sound of air blowing on her fingertips and cries of pain, "I can't untie this thing at all! You tied it so tightly?!"
Xiao He's cries of pain became louder and louder. The red cloth seemed to have burned his neck. "No! I clearly tied a knot that would come loose easily if I pulled it!"
"Boom——" sound.
The statue on the table melted to the bottom, and the head on the top, which had not yet completely melted, fell onto the table.
Bai Jinshu looked up and his eyes met its head.
The body of the statue had turned into liquid, and its head slammed heavily onto the table, leaving only a pair of smiling facial features with closed eyes, looking peacefully and strangely on a melted, tumor-like head.
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