Chapter 256: Inhuman (64) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]
"Master Zhan..." Dita was silent for a few seconds, "He should be awake, right?"
It’s hard to imagine what that Q.Qnienie delicious big plate of chicken would taste like.
But the thick walls inside the security door could not block the crisp sound of retching coming from inside the door.
There was a chaotic noise coming from inside the door. It sounded like Master Zhan was struggling to get off the bed. He then ran to the bathroom and retched a few times. He then poured a glass of water in the kitchen and began to rinse his mouth frantically.
Master Zhan: “Pooh, pooh, pooh.”
"Maybe he's awake..." Xiao Tang looked at the security door guiltily, "Why don't we knock on the door and ask?"
After bursting the nightmare illusion, was Master Zhan the only one who woke up?
If they follow this efficiency, everyone in the city will be in a fantasy world. Do they have to try it one by one?
"Can I knock?" Yuan Shanming's eyes wandered. "What do you think the possibility is that Master Zhan will think that everything that happened in the dream was a nightmare and had nothing to do with us."
"Basically zero," Bai Jinshu slowly stood up from the ground, speaking sincerely, "Based on the experience of the second round of triggering, Master Zhan probably remembers it."
Everyone present gasped.
"Then I won't knock anymore," Xiao Tang was the fastest to back off. She quickly rushed to the back of the crowd and pushed Dita's shoulder. "Sister Tazi, come here. Didn't you appear in the nightmare? And you and Master Zhan are acquaintances."
In Master Zhan's illusion, there were only three people who appeared: Ersi, her, and Huangmao.
For their personal safety, it is better not to appear in front of Master Zhan.
"Let me do it?" Dita rubbed her hands nervously, "Then I'll try..."
She reached out her hand tremblingly toward the door.
At this moment, a sound of a door opening came from behind: "Who are you?"
Everyone was stunned and turned around in unison.
Behind him, the security door opposite Master Zhan was pushed open by a hand, and a familiar face appeared in the dream.
The man looked around at the fully armed newcomers at the door, his eyes lingered on the axes in Guan Hongyan and the fitness guy's hands for a few seconds, and asked in a vigilant tone: "Are you looking for Brother Zhan for something?"
"You are..." Xiao Tang was stunned for a few seconds, "The host of the Chef King Competition?!"
Isn’t this person the host of the show in Nightmare!
But in the show, she had big, delicate waves on her head and wore a dress commonly seen in the capital of violence, which was completely different from the current look behind the door, with curling irons and pajamas on.
But the face was still the same face, and everyone quickly recognized that this was the citizen who had appeared in the nightmare.
It seems that with the end of the nightmare, the citizens who appeared in the nightmare have also woken up.
"Ahem..." The girl behind the door was stunned for a second, with a hint of embarrassment on her face, "You... have seen that show."
"I only hosted it once a few years ago, and never did it again..." She twitched her lips.
"Wait a minute, this show really exists? Isn't this just Master Zhan's fantasy?" Yuan Shanming's eyes suddenly widened.
"Fantasy?" The host was stunned. "A chef competition? No? This was a competition held in B city a few years ago, but everyone got into a fight halfway through the recording, so they gave up before the recording was finished."
The embarrassment and awkwardness on the host's face could not be faked. For a moment, both sides were stunned.
"Who is it?" The noise in the hallway was too loud. Master Zhan's door was opened a crack, and his hoarse voice came from inside, "Xiao Fan, why are you making so much noise so early in the morning when you're not going to work... Damn it! How come it's already ten o'clock!"
The door was pushed open suddenly, and Master Zhan saw a group of people standing in the corridor.
"Dita?" He saw Dita standing in the front at first sight, "What are you doing here?"
“These people are…” He glanced over with a strange look.
Huangmao squatted down weakly, trying to physically escape from Master Zhan's sight.
As Master Zhan glanced at him, his eyes suddenly became sharp: "It's you! You..."
"Who... are you?" The sharpness on his face didn't last for a few seconds before he suddenly became confused. "Hey - who are you? Why can't I remember it all of a sudden?"
Master Zhan's eyes moved around Bai Jinshu several times: "Why do I feel that you look so familiar... Are you a new resident here?"
Master Zhan actually couldn't remember the contents of his nightmare.
Everyone looked at each other, and Dita quickly stepped forward to smooth things over: "Ersi is... a newcomer who just arrived at the City of Violence yesterday. Boss Zhan, you forgot that we just had dinner at your restaurant yesterday."
"Ah? Really?" Master Zhan looked at Dita strangely, then at Bai Jinshu, "Then why do I want to do it so badly when I see his face?"
Of course that’s because he directly won first place in Nightmare!
"And the yellow-haired guy behind..." His tone was confused, "Looks like he wants to do something too."
Yellow-haired:!
"I didn't do anything!" He was trying to cover up his mistake.
"Boss Zhan... Boss Zhan, let's not talk about this anymore." Dita said with an awkward smile.
"Let's not talk about this..." Boss Zhan's face was still blank. "Why are you here? What's the axe in your hand for? And what happened today?"
He looked at the empty corridor downstairs in surprise, then looked at his watch: "It's already past ten o'clock, why is no one going out?"
At this time of day, citizens of the City of Violence should have left their homes.
"Xiao Fan?" He asked in a strange tone, "Shouldn't you be at work at this time?"
The girl across from him frowned strangely: "It's time to go to work, but I just checked the work group and no one was talking in it."
Even the most obtuse person should have noticed something was wrong by now.
As the two of them interacted, a trace of solemnity appeared on the faces of Boss Zhan and the host Xiao Fan.
"Could it be that something went wrong with the city guard last night?" Boss Zhan didn't care about the new people who appeared in the corridor inexplicably. He looked at Xiao Fan with a serious expression and said, "Go and have a look."
"I'll go check around!" Xiao Fan went back to his room, put on a coat, and knocked on the door next to him. "Sister Xin! Sister Xin!"
"What's wrong?" A middle-aged man's voice came from inside the room, "Knocking on my door so early in the morning...Xiao Fan, what are you and Lao Zhan doing?"
The door was pushed open a crack, and a yawning man appeared: "What's wrong?"
"Isn't this person the photographer?" Guan Hongyan lowered her voice.
Isn’t this middle-aged man who pushed open the door the photographer they met in their nightmare?
"What photographer?" The yawning man glanced at her and said, "I'm just an amateur photographer. I don't know about private work."
"Brother Liu, did your alarm clock ring this morning?" Xiao Fan asked hurriedly.
"Ah? Alarm clock?" The man exclaimed, looking down at the time, "Fuck, why is it past ten o'clock!"
"You guys got up late too..." Xiao Fan's face showed some worry, "Did something go wrong with the city guard last night? Did some ghosts get into the city?"
It will be too late if we don't clarify it.
"Well, Xiao Fan, Xiao Fan!" Dita said quickly, "It's not that exaggerated. We are here because of this. It has nothing to do with the city guards last night."
As soon as she said this, everyone's attention was focused on her.
"Well... Boss Zhan knows that I'm the leader of the City of Violence..." Dita said weakly.
"I know," Boss Zhan said with an inexplicable expression, "You have been leading the team here for three or four months. I recognize you team leaders."
Under the gaze of the residents behind the two doors on the left and right, Dita touched her head guiltily: "It's like this, we have now triggered the S-level ghost story nightmare in the City of Violence. Everyone in the city has fallen into a deep sleep, and everyone who has fallen asleep has entered a nightmare."
"In your nightmare just now, it seemed to be the recording site of the Chef Contest a few years ago. We destroyed the illusion and you woke up."
In the City of Violence, the relationship between the natives and the newcomers is very harmonious. There is no sharp conflict of interest between the two. Most of the captains stationed in the City of Violence are no different from the natives, and most of the citizens are on good terms with each other.
Under such circumstances, Dita felt somewhat guilty that she, a team leader who had only been here for three or four months, had dragged in the entire city's residents in order to trigger an S-level ghost story.
As soon as she said this, she was prepared to be questioned by several angry citizens.
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, several people's expressions suddenly relaxed.
"Oh... I thought there was something wrong with the city guard, but it turned out to be an S-level ghost story." Boss Zhan waved his hand, a trace of nostalgia on his face. "The Chef Championship happened a long time ago. If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten that I had participated in this thing."
"That's it," the photographer behind the door curled his lips speechlessly, "The Chef Championship is so old news. I was wondering why I felt like I was dreaming about taking photos for people."
"Ah...you are the photographer in there." Dita replied dryly.
"Everyone will enter a nightmare after your S ghost story is triggered. That means most of them won't wake up before you finish it?" the photographer asked thoughtfully.
"Yes." Dita said guiltily.
"Does that mean I don't have to go to work today?" Xiao Fan's eyes lit up. "Then I'll go back to sleep!"
She slammed the door shut.
"That's just how the girl is," the photographer waved his hand, "I thought it was no big deal, if nothing happened I'll just go back to sleep."
He also closed the door.
"What are you still doing here?" Master Zhan took over and urged, "Hurry up and do the ghost story. What are you doing in front of my house? If you don't finish the ghost story, what will happen to my restaurant's business in the future?"
He urged as he closed the door, leaving everyone in the corridor looking at each other in bewilderment.
As expected of the city of violence, faced with an S-rank ghost story that could very likely lead to total annihilation, the residents’ reaction was not even as tense as if something had gone wrong with the city guards at night.
"I roughly know what's going on..." Yuan Shanming thought, "The logic of generating this nightmare seems to be to select the most impressive scene from the citizens who participated in the first stage of the triggering to generate the nightmare."
From the sporadic descriptions of the chef competition given by these three people, we can roughly piece together that the City of Violence did hold such a competition. However, because the contestants or the local customs were too fierce, the competition was discontinued halfway through, which became a regret in the heart of the contestant, Chef Zhan.
So after the nightmare was triggered, the regret in Master Zhan's heart made him reconstruct the scene of the Chef Championship a few years ago, and the other citizens around him who did not participate in the first stage became NPCs in this illusion.
As long as Master Zhan realizes that this place is fake, the illusion will no longer continue, and all the citizens captured by his environment will wake up.
The extremely unpalatable big plate chicken was an anomaly that didn't fit in with the surroundings, so he woke up.
As the three residents on this floor woke up, a lot of noises began to be heard intermittently in the building.
The residents of the building woke up.
"The status in the live broadcast room has also been updated," Huang Mao exclaimed, "Now the description of my live broadcast room is [Nightmare] in progress."
"So there is no problem with our direction..." Yuan Shanming touched his chin thoughtfully, "This strange story doesn't seem to be too difficult at the moment? So let's continue now?"
Obviously, Master Zhan's illusion only includes the people around him. In order to complete this strange story, he must burst more illusions and liberate more people.
The dead silent and violent city finally had some rare life as this small group of residents woke up.
There were several quarreling noises coming from the door behind the corridor, and it seemed that someone was quarreling because of being late.
"This is the first time I feel that the sound of quarrels is so reassuring..." Guan Hongyan sighed softly, "It's much better than the empty feeling before."
At least it's a little popular.
A group of people walked into the community.
It was already past ten in the morning, and more than three hours had passed since they woke up.
"Who do you choose next?" Bai Jinshu looked around and looked at Dita. "The official duration of the nightmare is also limited. After entering the nightmare, without food or water, people can only survive for three days at most. You are familiar with this place, so you decide."
"I know them, but I'm only familiar with the people. How would I know where they live..." Dita touched the tip of her nose, "How about picking a random building?"
Anyway, it doesn't matter whose nightmare you enter, you have to go through it all in the end, so the order doesn't matter.
"That's right." Everyone quickly accepted her statement.
"We'll wake up whoever the little rooster points to next," Xiao Tang pointed his hand between several buildings and finally stopped on a pink building, "It's you!"
"Walk!"
Everyone walked towards the building in a mighty manner.
The pink building is another area.
Dita doesn't often come to the indigenous settlements. After thinking for a while, she said, "I remember other team leaders told me that the floor colors of the residential areas in the violent capital seem to have different meanings. For example, the green building we just walked out of means that the residents living in this area are relatively peaceful."
Yuan Shanming also mentioned this information.
The residents in the City of Violence are divided into residential areas. The peace-loving residents of the City of Violence generally will not take the initiative to provoke conflicts and are relatively good-tempered.
He indeed has a good temper. When he heard that they had triggered an S-level ghost story that involved the entire city, the host Xiao Fan's first reaction was to say that he didn't have to go to work today.
"What area is the pink one in?" Xiao Tang asked curiously as he went upstairs.
Dita scratched her head: "I don't remember."
"Since green represents a peaceful zone and means a better temper, then pink must also have a very good temper, right?" The yellow-haired man thought for a moment and interrupted.
"This door is fine," Dita, who was walking in front, stopped and said, "This one doesn't have an air wall."
"I'm ready," she found a comfortable position and lay down peacefully, "I'll go in first and scout the way for you."
The fitness guy stretched his neck consciously and said, "Thank you for your help."
Bai Jinshu stretched out his hand and knocked down two people.
"I need to find a more comfortable position. My neck hurt after getting up in that position last time." Xiao Tang muttered to himself and directed the yellow-haired man to take off his coat and make a bed for him.
Yuan Shanming originally wanted to settle Huangmao first and then let Ersi give him a blow, but Xiao Tang kept picking and choosing the mat Huangmao had laid out. Sometimes he felt that this place was not suitable, and sometimes he felt that getting up like that would make his waist sore. Finally, he had no choice but to shrug and let Bai Jinshu take him in first: "I'll go in and take a look too, and try to make it quick and clear to understand the situation in the illusion."
After struggling for a long time, Xiao Tang finally said he was ready. He pestered Guan Hongyan and knocked her unconscious on the floor.
Taking advantage of the few minutes when the girl was acting weird, Bai Jinshu took a look at the live broadcast room.
The other teams in the City of Violence still haven't woken up yet, and in the entire City of Violence, only their team's live broadcast room is still operating normally.
Moreover, the live broadcast room could not see the situation in the nightmare.
Bai Jinshu glanced thoughtfully at Guan Hongyan, who had just knocked Xiao Tang unconscious not far away.
Nightmare seems to be the only place that can currently escape the live broadcast of the investment bank's live broadcast room. Some information that is inconvenient to say in front of the camera can be communicated directly with Guan Hongyan next.
For example, there must be some kind of secret hidden in this team, the newcomer Xiao Tang, Lu Changfeng who is far away in Port N and Xu Zichen who is suspected to be with him, as well as the whereabouts of other Foundation team members in the Novice Village...
This is a rare opportunity, and the two of them must complete the exchange of intelligence during this nightmare.
As the plan in his mind gradually became more complete, his awareness became more profound.
He also entered the nightmare.
A very unpleasant smell spread.
Damp, dark, musty smell.
The surrounding environment was shockingly quiet, with only intermittent ticking sounds coming from it. The sound was too subtle to be heard unless one paid full attention.
"Ersi, Ersi!" This is Guan Hongyan's voice.
Guan Hongyan pushed him a few times: "Wake up quickly, something is not right here!"
The musty smell in his nose suddenly became bitter, as if it had wrapped him in a thick cocoon, making him unable to move for a moment.
"Ersi?" Xiao Tang's voice came, "What happened to him?"
"He can't wake up..." Guan Hongyan's voice was rarely anxious, "What's going on? I've been calling him for a long time. Has this happened to you before?"
"No..." Xiao Tang said in a puzzled tone, "Sister Tazi, Sister Tazi!"
"Ersi! Ersi!" Guan Hongyan shook him hard a few times.
Bai Jinshu felt as if her body was out of control. As she swayed, she opened her eyes wide and asked in a strange voice, "Who are you?"
"Were they sent by the neighbor next door?" He patted the place Guan Hongyan touched impatiently, and his tone sounded very unfamiliar. "It's not like your family's name is written on Zijie, so of course whoever is stronger will get it."
"It's bad," Dita's voice came, "He has been assimilated, just like the guy who entered the last nightmare just now, hurry up and read in his ear!"
Bai Jinshu vaguely remembered that they said at that time that the fitness guy thought he was a staff member on the set and scared them to death.
At that time, he thought that the fitness guy was assimilated because he had the weakest will, but now it seems that is not the case?
He knew very clearly who he was, but his body was out of control.
"Brother Er!" The yellow-haired man said in a hurried tone, "Brother Er, wake up! Your name is Er Si, you are not from here, you are a newcomer in the investment bank, this is the novice village of the investment bank, we came from the City of the Dead to the City of Violence! This is the S-level ghost story [Nightmare], we are completing the ghost story!"
The strange thing was that as the yellow-haired man spoke, the strange cocoon-like force that imprisoned him gradually weakened. Bai Jinshu tried to break free several times and actually broke free in one go.
The smell at the tip of my nose suddenly exploded, and it was a hundred times worse than the smell in the cocoon.
"Er Ge, this is Yuan Shanming, Brother Yuan is our team leader, this is Tang Tang, Sister Tang is our teammate, and I am..." The yellow-haired man was still saying those words with all his might.
"No need," Bai Jinshu waved his hand and interrupted him, "I'm sober now."
The group of people surrounding him breathed a sigh of relief.
"You scared us to death just now," Xiao Tang said a lot like a machine gun, "You pointed at Sister Hua and said she was sent by the neighbor. It's fine that the gym buddy got tricked before, but how come you got tricked too?"
Bai Jin said: "It's not a hit."
He frowned slightly: "I was conscious just now, and I remember who you are, but I can't control what I say. It's like I'm in a cocoon."
This nightmare seems to deliberately select those who enter it for assimilation.
What if Huang Mao didn't say that? What would have happened if he had stayed in the cocoon?
Bai Jinshu was about to continue speaking, as if he was thinking about something, but at this moment, a loud sound of glass breaking interrupted his thoughts.
"Beat her! Beat her to death!" Several shouts were heard from the street not far away.
There followed a sound of punches, kicks and struggles: "Hold him down! Hold him down!"
"I'll show you what the last name is here!"
"You still dare to come here to get information, don't you?"
"Wait a minute! Be careful not to kill him! He must be able to keep a breath of air before he can go back!"
"Hit first and talk later!"
The sudden outbreak of fighting disrupted everyone's thoughts.
Anyone in the nightmare could be the one who created the nightmare. Everyone looked at each other and didn't have time to worry about whether they were in a cocoon or not. They quickly ran in the direction where the sound came from.
The sound came from a dark alley. The closer you get to that place, the stronger the smell of blood becomes.
Yuan Shanming, who was walking in front, took a breath of cold air.
Everything in the alley was suddenly presented to everyone.
In the alley, a group of people who looked like thugs surrounded a man and started punching and kicking him. Some of them were holding glass bottles and various long sticks. The man who was surrounded let out intermittent cries of pain, but still could not stop the actions of these people.
The triggerers at the door all paused for a second to breathe.
This... who among these people is the creator of the nightmare?
"Here..." Dita observed for a moment and frowned, "This is Purple Street in the City of Violence."
"What is Purple Street?" Bai Jinshu turned his head.
"You can think of it as a gathering place for hooligans in the City of Violence," Guan Hongyan briefly explained. "Some hooligans who have no place to live cannot live in the gathering areas of the City of Violence, so they look for places to live in the city. However, the city is not safe, so they gather here in Purple Street. Over time, this place has become synonymous with hooligans."
"Normally this place is full of hooligans, it's a mess, and no one cares," Dita frowned. "But if the one who created the nightmare is a Purple Street person, then he can't possibly live in a pink building, right?"
They clearly entered the nightmare in the settlement, and those people could not possibly live in the settlement.
"That man is about to be beaten to death," Yuan Shanming took a breath, "How about we speak up first and give it a try?"
"Then I'll go." Guan Hongyan couldn't bear to watch it anymore.
Just as she rolled up her sleeves, prepared for a fight, and wanted to try to start a conversation with these thugs about entering the nightmare, a very childish voice suddenly came from behind the crowd.
"Brother and sister, can you please move aside? You are blocking me."
"Oh my god! What is that?" Xiao Tang jumped up.
As she moved, the group of people turned around and saw a boy who looked only three or four years old standing in the alley behind them.
For a moment, everyone was stunned.
"Can you see us?" Guan Hongyan couldn't help but ask.
"No," she paused for a second or two, "Where did this kid come from in Purple Street, the capital of violence?"
Where did this child come from?
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