Chapter 245: Inhuman (53) (1st update + 2nd update + 0.5 update) [VIP]
"I once completed a special strange story. After it was finished, an entry was added to my buff - Shadow's Peering."
"Shadow's Peering..."
Everyone present read this phrase in their minds.
"Sister Dita..." Although the new members of Dita's team didn't know who Huai Jiamu was, they could tell from the attitudes of others, including the team leader Yuan Shanming, that he was definitely a big shot. "What's going on in the City of Violence?"
What do you mean the real residents here are shadows?
Why is the shadow here not a shadow?
And most importantly, this shadow seems to be heading towards Ersi. What was that "shadow spying" that Ersi once caused?
"This matter..." Dita scratched her head in embarrassment, "This matter is beyond my understanding."
The confusion on her face was no less than that of her teammates: "My understanding of the City of Violence is that it is the only city made up entirely of humans. When I was in the Novice Village, my captain said the same thing, and the captain's captain said the same thing..."
The situation in the violent capital is almost spread by word of mouth.
The Novice Village is a large space on the map, and each captain only specializes in one or two areas that they are good at. She is not a veteran captain and has only been leading the team for a few months. She chose the City of Violence because she spent fifteen days in the City of Violence when she was in the Novice Village.
The information transmission here is very old and traditional, where each team leader goes through trial and error, summarizes the experience, and then passes it on to the next person or teaches it to his own team members.
Players from the Violent City even communicate more than teams from other regions.
The settlement system here ensures that no matter what the teams do during the day, they must return to the same roof at night. Although everyone is busy with their own business, they will share new information.
Even in such circumstances, over the years, no one has said: The shadow here is not a shadow.
Generation after generation, leaders and team members of the City of Violence believed that they lived in a city composed entirely of humans, and no one noticed that the actual owners of this city were not humans.
"Wait a minute..." Xiao Tang stopped the team members who were about to ask Huai Jiamu questions, and looked at Bai Jinshu blankly, "When was this triggered?"
How come she doesn't know?
Bai Jin said: "Bumping into someone."
"Ah?" Xiao Tang didn't react for a moment. "Who scammed you? Why didn't you tell us..."
She remembered it too.
"Er Ge, are you talking about that time... the time with Xiao Fei?" Huang Mao hurriedly pulled Xiao Tang a few times, "The town we entered when Xiao Fei did that!"
Qiaotoudong Town.
Qiaotoudong Town is actually not called Qiaotoudong Town. Its name changes depending on where it arrives. It is a special existence in the Novice Village.
"That shadow is..." Xiao Tang frowned slightly.
Shadows are those unknown things inside the houses.
If they had ever had a feud with these shadows that had now escaped, the only answer was that she had once persecuted those "shadows" one by one in that town with a lantern in hand.
This is obviously a private matter among the members of Yuan Shanming's team, but it seems to involve the deepest secret hidden in the entire city of violence.
All of a sudden, everyone involuntarily perked up and looked over.
Huangmao took on the role of explanation, telling everyone what happened that night, while Bai Jinshu slowly recalled everything that happened as he told the story.
If they had ever provoked these things before, the only intersection was that Xiao Tang had beaten them up before.
But the strange thing is that Xiao Tang turned the town upside down without encountering any obstacles, and from what happened just now, Huai Jiamu's implication was obviously that the abnormal behavior of these citizens was caused by "shadow". If this thing was so powerful, why was he pinned to the ground and beaten by Xiao Tang in the first place?
"Unless..." Xiao Tang's eyes turned around, and an answer was almost ready to come out, "Unless the power of this thing was compressed at that time, or it was subject to some kind of restriction."
This limitation is self-explanatory.
The only special attack against that thing at the time was the lantern hanging on their door.
Doesn't a shadow only appear when there is a light source? When there is no light source, the shadow disappears.
"Brother Yuan!" Huang Mao suddenly remembered, "On the first day we entered the City of the Dead, you said that the easiest way to distinguish between humans and the dead is..."
Just see if they have any shadows.
Now, the shadow is most likely some kind of ghost.
"Oh, now that you mention it, I remember it!" Yuan Shanming suddenly thought of something and raised his voice, "I have spent a long time in the City of the Dead. In fact, the idea that the way to distinguish between humans and dead spirits is to look at their shadows has also been wrong once."
"What?" Everyone looked over immediately.
"There are many different kinds of undead in the City of the Dead, but there are far fewer humans. After hearing this, most newcomers will subconsciously place too much unnecessary trust in the humans in the city," he said, frowning as he observed the people on the ground. "At first, the team leaders didn't take this situation seriously, until one day, some undead disguised as humans appeared. They took advantage of the newcomers' trust in their kind, tricked them into coming to them, and then waited for an opportunity to start a strange story."
"I've heard of this before," Dita said, hugging her chest. "This kind of legend is everywhere in the Novice Village. My former leader also said it. Isn't the purpose of this legend to make the newcomers wary of everything and emphasize that only the leader can be trusted?"
"No," Yuan Shanming shook his head. "At first I thought it was a story made up by a colleague to scare the team members. Until one day, a team member with great potential in City S was cheated by a dead spirit and the last strange story quota was stolen, which made it impossible for the team leader to pay off the points. In anger, the team leader went to the home of the dead spirit who triggered the strange story to settle the score, but found that there were no humans there at all."
"Have they moved away?" Guan Hongyan interrupted.
"You don't know much. There are too few pure humans in S City. Most of them are familiar with the captain who often stays in S City, and they have their own fixed activity areas. That captain was just a few points away from paying off his loan, but his team members were deceived and triggered an E-level ghost story. Soon, an experienced captain went to help confirm it. As a result, several captains looked around and told him that there were no humans there at all. The one who deceived his team members must be a dead spirit."
But the problem is that it is too easy to distinguish between the undead and humans. You can tell whether there is a shadow or not by turning on the light. Not to mention that the night in the City of the Undead is extremely dangerous and almost no one walks at night. So during the day, there is no need to worry about not being able to distinguish shadows due to the lack of light source in the pitch black.
"At that time, the matter was left unresolved, because everyone with a little experience in S City knew that the undead had no shadows. In the end, it could only be attributed to the team member being too careless or misjudging," Yuan Shanming shook his head. "In fact, if this matter is investigated further, there will be results. After all, S City is a popular place, and the captain who has been there for a long time is familiar with all the big and small ghost stories in the city. If some kind of undead who is good at disguising as humans appeared, it would be very troublesome. But the problem was that the team leader died because he could not pay off the points, and his team member only triggered a small ghost story with a rating of E. No one was willing to continue to investigate such a trivial matter for him, so the matter was left unresolved."
But now it seems that anyone who can be called a potential team member in the City of the Dead, even if he is not like Ersi Xiaotang, is at least a young man. Regardless of his fighting skills, his brain must work quickly when it is time to work. So it is possible that he was hit by an E-level ghost story without knowing it, and he didn't even find a chance to let the ghost story withdraw the trigger by itself.
To be able to achieve this extent only shows that the unlucky person who triggered the E-level ghost story found no room for redemption after the triggering.
There is nothing else that can make the undead who cannot have shadows appear with shadows except the "shadow" they are encountering now.
"In other words, 'Shadow' disguised as 'Shadow' happened a long time ago in S City..." Xiao Tang seemed to be thinking about something.
"So these things just now..." Dita was a little overwhelmed, "Actually, they rushed over to take revenge because you beat them before?"
"No." Before everyone's faces had time to show fear, Huai Jiamu said calmly, "The reason why these things came up has already been explained."
"Did you just mention... Shadow's spying?" Guan Hongyan raised her head.
Spying.
Regarding Ersi's spying.
An equation instantly appeared in everyone's mind.
Immediately, everyone's mind was filled with doubts about what this thing was.
Bai Jinshu frowned and tried to push the point: "You mean these things are actually some ghosts that are no different from shadows, but they are not shadows. Because shadows only appear in places with light, when night falls, these shadows that would disappear at night will gather together to form a settlement. In order to ensure that they do not disappear at night, they will light up weak light sources in the settlement to ensure their own existence?"
This makes the connection, and at least it can explain why they would hang a lantern that was powerful enough to kill themselves at the door.
"That means..." Xiao Tang looked at the citizens who had lost their shadows, "In fact, there was more than one Qiaotoudong Town in the entire Novice Village at the same time period."
Anyway, the flow of information between areas in the Novice Village is extremely slow, or even nonexistent. Two areas that are far apart may not be able to communicate with each other at all.
Newcomers here only stay for fifteen days, and team leaders prefer to lead teams in areas they are more familiar with. This special mechanism will compile a sophisticated information cocoon for all those who enter here. Only those who leave their own area and go to other areas can break out of this cocoon.
But just like Shi Pang's team, reaching one area from another requires great risks, and there are only a few teams that can do this, which provides the greatest cover for the emergence of Qiaotoudong Town.
No one knows how many Qiaotoudong towns appeared in the same period of time.
These ghosts disguised as shadows can control the actions of humans without them knowing anything, just like the citizens who just surged in like a tide.
It becomes understandable why they chose the capital of violence.
The City of Violence is indeed the most suitable place for them in the entire Novice Village.
There are no other ghosts or undead here, and nothing non-materialistic is happening. They can naturally take root here by simply disguising themselves as the shadows of the citizens here.
Whenever anything outrageous happens, the teams and citizens here will attribute these things to the eccentricity of this city because of the city's unusually xenophobic attitude towards ghosts and undead.
Besides, in a city known for violence, isn't it normal for a few strange things to happen?
The city of violence has developed to this extent, with outrageous customs and a weird environment in the city, and citizens who are easily provoked to fight everywhere. Is this a spontaneous phenomenon among the humans living here, or is it driven by "shadow"?
This city, which seems to be populated by only humans, actually has the ubiquitous "shadow" beneath every human being, every building rising from the ground, every plant, and every grain of sand.
"Hiss..." The yellow-haired man shuddered, "Won't we be noticed as soon as we enter here?!"
Shadows were everywhere. As they walked on the deserted streets, they wondered if there were something other than "humans" lying on the ground, staring at them in a shadowy manner.
"Then... those body parts..." Xiao Tang pulled the corners of his mouth reluctantly, "No one dismembered the body, and there is nothing else in the City of the Dead. The dismembered body can only be the shadow, right?"
With these things "spying" on Bai Jinshu, entering here is equivalent to entering the base camp of "Shadow".
The "shadows" have no entity. They use the shadows of buildings and plants to follow them all the way, manipulating the host to use sharp weapons to cut out parts of the corpses that can be found everywhere in the city, and then piece them together, using these entities to get close to him.
No one cares about the shadow under the feet of the object. The "shadow" is hidden in the shadow and controls the host of the shadow. No one will doubt that these strange movements do not actually come from the heart of the person making the movements, but from the shadow under his feet.
There are only humans in the City of Violence, which is the biggest lie in the entire Novice Village.
The humans living here don't even know that they are not the owners of this city. In certain special circumstances, they can't even control their own actions...
Just like just now.
The whole garden was filled with a terrifying silence. Even Dita, who didn't have a clear understanding of ghosts, came to her senses at this time.
The City of Violence is actually the only city in the Novice Village where ghosts are everywhere.
These things lurk in the sun, appearing openly in everyone's sight, everywhere and nowhere to hide.
The most disturbing thing about this matter is that the shadow is everywhere.
"Then..." A girl in Dita's team swallowed nervously, "Will those disappeared shadows come back?"
Just as they were talking about "shadow", the people on the ground and the surrounding buildings were still like a failed 3D animation, with nothing under their feet.
"Yes," Huai Jiamu lowered his eyes, "The shadows in the City of the Dead no longer exist. These things left temporarily only because I am here."
He stood up and glanced at everyone inexplicably: "Let's leave here first."
Dita's team members looked at each other in bewilderment. Guan Hongyan got a look from Dita and whispered to Xiao Tang: "Hey, who is this guy? Your team member? So arrogant?"
Xiao Tang: "Uh... a big boss, a big boss."
Are you kidding me? How is she going to tell the people from other teams that this is actually a moving weird story?
This won't scare a bunch of people to death...
Guan Hongyan shrugged and told Dita that she was helpless and could not get any information from her. It was enough for her to just know that this person was very powerful.
Cen Bingqi was walking behind her. She didn't want to act too familiar with him, but she also felt a little strange in her heart.
Didn't everyone who entered here create their own identities? What identity did Huai Jiamu create that could directly suppress the ghosts in the Novice Village?
Just like setting up an identity card, the miracle of concealing the identity that the foundation can provide can only make the values fluctuate within a relatively normal range. It is impossible for her to become the world's number one killer or the world's number one assassin after setting her identity to something outrageous like the world's number one killer or the world's number one assassin.
Are you kidding? She is not Xu Zichen. It is impossible for a supermodel ID card that is beyond her ability to appear.
Just like a person who doesn't know how to shoot a gun can't really learn it just by setting himself up to do so, all the foundation can provide is an identity disguise that can deceive peers.
And under this disguised identity, they are actually the explorers themselves.
That's strange.
Just like Cen Bingqi and her, she believed that most people would choose to change their face and then exert their greatest strength while concealing their own characteristics as much as possible. Although she has not seen Cen Bingqi take action now, she must have found some way to explain his sudden personality switch.
So how did Huai Jiamu manage to produce a super model card?
Guan Hongyan returned to the settlement in front with confusion all the way.
But what Huai Jiamu said was not wrong.
Less than ten minutes after they left the yard, the person who had been leaning against the window and paying attention to the situation in the yard turned around and shouted loudly: "Their shadows are back!"
These words made everyone's heart rise.
No one can get rid of the shadow under his feet. It is impossible for people to live in a place without shadows unless they never see any light source. And when the shadow under their feet can attack them at any time, no one can help but be vigilant.
"These things don't dare to get close to here," Huai Jiamu narrowed his eyes when everyone was in a mess, "They won't attach themselves to you."
Despite his judgment, everyone present still did not dare to let their guard down.
Everyone seemed to be suddenly possessed by some evil spirit. They all stared at the shadows under their feet and subconsciously controlled their limbs to make some strange movements, intending to find the places where the shadows did not match their own body movements.
The result is naturally no.
The shadows beneath their feet remained as normal as usual.
With the return of the "shadow", the people lying on the ground gradually regained consciousness. Everyone looked at each other, with confusion on their faces.
As citizens woke up and asked questions in twos and threes, all those who fell to the ground discovered the current situation.
It seems that everyone who came to participate in this martial arts competition to win a bride has been defeated by a very powerful citizen!
Yes, according to their memory, when everyone rushed over, they suddenly felt a pain and lost consciousness, and then fell to the ground when they woke up.
Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. Citizens who had not yet arrived at the competition anxiously asked about the current situation on the APP. The first group of people who took out their phones replied blankly: [It seems that everyone was defeated by a very powerful boss. ]
[I can't seem to remember what happened before. I might have a concussion. I need to go to the hospital.]
[The same thing happened to me, buddy in front of me. I felt like I lost consciousness all of a sudden.]
[The person who was participating in the martial arts competition is no longer here. Maybe he left after defeating us? ]
[So cool? ]
These few brief replies immediately brought attention to those who had not yet arrived at the scene.
The rumor was apparently spread by word of mouth. The citizens at the scene who were busy trying to figure out what was going on didn't know that by the time they put down their phones to confirm with each other, the outrageous rumor had spread.
As the sun gradually set, the teams scattered outside returned to their respective gathering places.
"Dita, what did you mean by that question you asked me during the day?" Several captains came over to confirm, "Did your team members encounter a collection of corpses?"
"Wait a minute!" Dita stretched out her hand nervously, "You three, each stretch out your hand and raise it in front of you and make a gesture."
The three captains made a gesture for unknown reason, and corresponding outlines appeared on the shadows on the wall.
"Okay, it's normal," Dita breathed a sigh of relief, "It wasn't me, it was a new team that came in today. But the problem has been solved, I have nothing else to ask."
She no longer needed to ask how those body parts appeared. The answer was obvious: those things were all pieced together by shadows.
Shadows have no entities, and they must use entities to manipulate entities to do what they want.
After all, the City of Violence still has the gimmick of being a "city made up of pure humans". If too many humans are manipulated, problems will always be discovered. However, it is simply impossible to manipulate the landscape trees on the roadside or the buildings with foundations several meters deep.
So the corpses that are everywhere in the city become the best carriers.
After a human dies, some parts of the body will always undergo changes that are different from those of a living person. If used as a whole, rumors will soon spread that some kind of ghost has entered the City of the Dead. Therefore, these things take advantage of the violent nature of the citizens in the City of the Dead and choose to dismember and then reassemble the body.
"It's alright, that's all," several captains leaned against the door and gossiped, "Hey, did you hear that a fighting god appeared this afternoon, the king of B City."
Dita: “Ah?”
"What fighting gods?" she asked at a loss.
"You don't know," the captains grumbled, "When we came back, we bet that it was your team that did it, so it turns out it wasn't you."
"What's going on?" Dita scratched her head in confusion. "Where did you watch this?"
Several captains: "Did you fight? Didn't you check the status this afternoon? The news has been pushed to the whole city."
Dita subconsciously knew that these captains were probably talking about the martial arts competition for marriage, but this competition clearly revealed that the City of Violence was not the only area composed of all human beings. This was the biggest lie of the Novice Village. What the hell was this King of B City?
Several captains have already walked away one after another: "Hey, who's cooking tonight?"
"Lao Tan's team, right? The guy in his team made delicious chicken nuggets with potatoes. Where is he?"
"Lao Tan? Lao Tan?" someone called out, "Where are your team members? It's your turn to cook tonight."
Dita quickly turned on her phone.
"What on earth can I rely on?" She opened the software while muttering to herself, "It can't really be our..."
Before she finished speaking, she saw something.
In fact, the push notifications in the APP did not attract her attention.
What caught her attention was the fanatical pictures and text below.
The top one: [Knocked out at least 10,000 challengers in 7 minutes and 28 seconds, the new fighting god of the city of violence! ]
Dita: "? What the hell?"
Scroll down and the second one is: [City of violence! Your king is back! ]
Dita: “Huh?”
The third one is even more of a headline-grabbing one: [Beware of the trap of big guys using martial arts competitions to recruit brides! I’ll tell you from a first-person perspective what happened to me when I participated in a martial arts competition for a blind date!!!]
She couldn't help but click on the picture and text and turned the page.
The second picture has bigger and brighter red words than the first one: [I didn’t see anything! I was defeated! ]
Dita: ???
Under this picture and text, angry citizens cursed the poster thousands of times: [Why did you post this when you didn’t even see anything? ]
【If you haven’t seen anything, don’t post it! 】
[Is there anyone who went to the scene to take pictures? I'm really curious! Does the person who is participating in the martial arts competition look like that?]
[You guys were knocked unconscious the moment you entered the room, and you still have the nerve to post? You are such a disgrace! ]
【Bullshit, you don’t know how awesome the king of B City is if you haven’t been there. At that time, a bunch of people rushed forward, and the people behind didn’t know what was happening in front. They just heard people being knocked unconscious, and then they also fainted. 】
Exit this picture and text, the more popular one below is:
[You haven't seen anything, how do you know that the person who knocked me out must be the one who participated in the martial arts competition...]
Click on the post: I am different, I have seen hehe, he is as handsome in person as in the photo hehe.
Comment below: [Those without photos will be treated as daydreams. ]
[People with diabetes should stay away a little bit, don’t let them have a taste of sweetness! ]
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[Shocked! The big guys are competing for a bride just to get the fastest group battle record in the city of violence! ]
[If you don’t know the full story, you won’t comment. If you know the full story, I’ll just lie down on the stage! ]
[The cunning fighter used a martial arts competition to lure us into giving him our heads.]
[From seeking defeat alone to fighting in martial arts competitions to win a bride, becoming a big boss means having loneliness! ]
From the pictures and texts on the scene, it can be inferred that everyone is talking about this afternoon, when a certain fighter who was said to be very good-looking used the gimmick of a martial arts competition to trick a bunch of people into fighting, and then beat all of them down.
Based on this speculation...it is actually right to use the gimmick of a martial arts competition to trick people into fighting...but in fact...
In fact, it was obvious that these people fainted because they were all controlled by their own shadows at that time and they all lost consciousness. The very powerful member of Ersi's team scared away the shadows, and they lost the thing that controlled them, so these people naturally fainted.
It's not like he was knocked unconscious at all!
How can these people be so imaginative! How is it possible that someone could knock out more than 10,000 people in just over seven minutes! They are not Superman, how could they have done so much?
In the hours after they left the garden, Dita had many guesses about how the citizens who left would explain this strange mass fainting, but she never thought that they would think they were knocked out! She never thought about it at all, and even drafted a bunch of excuses in her mind on how to explain this mass fainting phenomenon to other captains.
But it's normal to think about it...
There are no supernatural events in the city of violence. No one would think about ghosts and gods. Everyone's thinking is very direct. If I fainted, then I was knocked unconscious by someone.
I participated in a martial arts competition to win a bride, and there was a big guy here who knocked himself out.
But ten thousand people in more than seven minutes... this is too exaggerated. They can't even hit a single one within a second. Don't they think there is something wrong?
Dita stood up from the stool with a complicated expression, holding her cell phone and preparing to look for Ersi and Yuan Shanming.
The moment she stood up, several captains who were looking for the cooking team members also pushed open the door of Bai Jinshu's room.
In the room, everyone in Yuan Shanming's team was discussing in low voices about the City of Violence.
The door was suddenly pushed open and everyone looked at each other.
The man who opened the door spoke skillfully: "Hey, did you see the person who cooks tonight..." Is he there?
His words got stuck in the middle of his mouth and he looked at the people in the room in amazement.
That person: ???
"Holy shit," he said, "The king who came back from the city of violence?!"
Bai Jinshu: ???
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