Chapter 277: Inhuman (85) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]
"What is that?" Guan Hongyan couldn't fake the confusion on her face.
"Haven't you heard of it?" Bai Jinshu looked up at her and said, "It's just a legend. There are many versions. The common features are that they all contain elements such as a well, an endless chain, a dragon under the well, and strange noises and smells coming from the well."
"Has anyone seen it?" Guan Hongyan was a little surprised.
"Of course not, otherwise how could it be an urban legend?" Xiao Tang twitched his lips. "Anyway, I haven't seen it, but my grandmother said that she had seen that well when she was a child, and she couldn't draw water either. But there was a circle of chain fixed to the edge of the well. It is said that the chain can never be pulled out, and if you keep pulling it out, there will be more water. When it is pulled to a certain length, black water will appear and there will be a dragon's roar."
Huang Mao said, "Where is your home, Sister Tang?"
"My home is in Pingjing, the capital," Xiao Tang blinked, "We have a lot of such messy rumors, such as the Dragon Locking Well, Xishuangbanna Human Meat Buns, Jiujiaoshan Amusement Park..."
"Okay, okay, stop talking," Guan Hongyan quickly changed the subject, "Then where is the Dragon Locking Well in your place?"
Since Xiao Tang’s grandmother had seen it when she was a child, it was most likely near Xiao Tang’s home or hometown.
"It's right outside my house," Xiao Tang shrugged, "but it's gone now. I heard it from my mom. She said that when the mall outside my house was built a few years ago, the construction team filled in a well. The locals said it was the Dragon Locking Well, but it's gone now. The rumors that have been passed down are from the older generation. These kinds of things get more and more outrageous the more they are spread. Some people even said that they saw a dragon in it with their own eyes. We all treated it as a story when we were young."
"It feels like they are not the same thing..." Bai Jinshu looked at the video thoughtfully, then looked at the environment they were in. "The hypothesis you mentioned is not a rumor. The well is directly connected to the area below, but the well here is actually connected to a pillar."
The locked object was not very clear, but whether it was a dragon or not, it was wrapped around the pillar.
Although it sounds like the legend of the Dragon Locking Well contains the elements of a well, a chain, and a dragon, their existence modes are completely different.
"It seems to be different from our place, but our place is not much better..." The yellow-haired man tried hard to look out through the gap, but still could not see anything clearly.
The location of their pillar is a bit too far away, and you can't see anything from here.
If Xiao Tang's cell phone hadn't been sacrificed, they wouldn't even know what the situation was here.
"It's different, so I'm just guessing!" Xiao Tang patted his head for a long time and finally dug out some information from the depths of his memory, "Oh, right! There is also a matching legend!"
"What?" Guan Hongyan tilted her head, "Maybe we can find some connection?"
Xiao Tang thought for a moment and said, "Connection... maybe there is really no connection. It's just that the dragon was about to cause a flood to flood Pingjing City, and then a very powerful person sealed him inside, and said that he could come out when the bridge became old. As a result, others turned around and named this place New Bridge. How wicked."
Guan Hongyan twitched her lips: "That has nothing to do with it..."
"That's right, what are you talking about..." Xiao Tang muttered a few words and pulled Guan Hongyan's arm, "But Sister Hua, come and play with me after we get out! I'll take you to play at our place! Everyone has to give me some face!"
Guan Hongyan said perfunctorily: "Okay, I'll come play with you later."
Xiao Tang and she were probably not from the same world. She had never heard of any of the places she mentioned, so saying she wanted to go there for fun was just a perfunctory gesture.
"Er Si... Er Si!" She shook Cen Bingqi a few times, "What's wrong? What did you think of?"
Just now he had been maintaining this thoughtful look without moving. Had he thought of any clue?
"Hmm? Nothing." Bai Jinshu shook his head. "You guys continue."
He did think of something, but it had nothing to do with this place.
He was thinking of Xiao Tang.
Unfortunately, although he had never heard of the stories Xiao Tang told, the place names she mentioned were more familiar than the last.
Xiao Tang lives in the capital, and he also lives in the capital.
Could this girl be from the same world as him?
Suolongjing is in Nanxinqiao. If Xiao Tang's home is near Nanxinqiao, then it is only a few subway stops away from the house of his unfortunate agent Lao Wu.
The world he lives in is an extremely materialistic world. Before this, Bai Jinshu always thought that Xiao Tang probably came from some special worldview. But in this case, could it be that she is really just an ordinary person with a peculiar way of thinking and who is extremely good at fighting?
"Having come this far, what else can we continue?" Guan Hongyan touched his chin and leaned in to watch the video a few more times. "The space outside seems to be quite large. Is there another way to go down?"
"It's possible, it's possible," Xiao Tang looked at the houses around him that were almost completely demolished, and said weakly, "but it's definitely not here."
They were now certain that they were in the center of a hollow column, but they could not get out, and they could not see the whole thing. This house definitely had no way leading to the outside.
"How about going back first?" she suggested without hope.
It's so cold here, she suspects everyone will catch a cold the next day if they stay any longer.
"Wait a minute," Bai Jinshu suddenly looked up, "Do you smell it?"
"The smell of blood?" Guan Hongyan sniffed it, "It's much stronger..."
"There! There's blood dripping from there!" The yellow-haired man pointed at a hole on the top of his head, "Above!"
Everyone looked up and followed the direction of his finger.
At the place where the yellow-haired man pointed, a string of blood beads dripped from the gap the size of two finger joints.
This seems to be just the beginning.
Next, it was as if someone was pouring blood from top to bottom outside the pillar. Soon, the blood beads spread to the hollow space below. The smell of blood in the air gradually became stronger. As the smell of blood grew stronger, a strange sound reached everyone's ears.
Like "rustling".
"What's that sound?" Xiao Tang craned his neck and looked around, "Where is it coming from?"
"It sounds like... a group of insects crawling over..." Before Guan Hongyan could finish her words, Xiao Tang hugged her.
“Ahhh don’t scare me!” The girl’s face twisted all of a sudden, her voice trembling a little, and she looked really scared. “I have trypophobia!”
"It shouldn't be a bug..." Bai Jinshu listened attentively for a few seconds, "This sound is most likely the thing outside circling the pillar moving."
"The dragon is moving?" Xiao Tang raised his head tremblingly, refusing to get off Guan Hongyan. "Don't fool me, I really have intensive phobia. If there are bugs here, I will go back now! I'll wait for you up there!"
"Why am I asking you..." Bai Jinshu was speechless. He pointed outside and said, "Don't forget, we are now inside a central metal pillar."
The dragon's scales rubbed and scraped against the reliefs on the pillars outside, making a series of sounds. This sound was then transmitted through the metal, and the sharp parts were worn away in the process. When it reached them, it became a low-frequency "rustling" sound, sounding like some insects crawling.
"Oh... that's fine!" Xiao Tang touched his nose awkwardly, let go of Guan Hongyan, and ran to the front of the gap. "Did something happen outside? Otherwise, why would the dragon move?"
"Because the blood is dripping?" Guan Hongyan and Bai Jinshu looked at each other, and also found a hollow gap and squinted their eyes to look.
"Ersi, where's your phone?" Xiao Tang looked at it for a few seconds and then turned to look at Bai Jinshu, "Let me use it. I want to see what's going on outside."
Her cell phone had just been thrown away, and Bai Jinshu readily handed his cell phone to her.
After Xiao Tang took it, he turned on the camera, stuck his phone out of the gap and took pictures for more than ten seconds, then put it back in to play the video.
"No," she frowned, "This location is too remote, I can't take any pictures!"
Going out from this position, you can only see that the white object that was blocking your view above the gap is gone. Apart from that, you can vaguely see an unfocused red background in the photo, which should be the pillar stained with blood.
Apart from that, nothing can be seen.
Although nothing was captured, at least the white thing was gone, proving that the sound just now was indeed the dragon moving.
Xiao Tang tried a few more times, trying to take more pictures, but the angle was limited. When the camera occasionally focused, he could only make out that the patterns on the pillars were actually some water-like lines.
These lines seem to describe some turbulent water surface, and many complex and twisted lines repeatedly emphasize the turbulence of the water.
In the turbulent water, there are whirlpools from time to time, and the centers of these whirlpools are the hollowed-out areas in the reliefs.
The blood flowed down from top to bottom along the lines of the water, dripping into the occasional hollow places in the form of lines and seeping into the hollow carvings.
If Xiao Tang had not demolished all the brick walls here, the blood drops would have seeped into the blue bricks, then seeped all the way upwards, and finally reached the place where they first discovered the bloodstains - the edge of the well.
"There's blood again..." Guan Hongyan whispered, "Another person has died."
If the bloodstains here are related to the fuel used to start the subway, then it can only mean that another newcomer in the subway died just now.
"How many people have to die in the subway before it can be activated?" Bai Jinshu frowned and looked towards the live broadcast room.
Since they arrived here, there have been three bleeding incidents, plus the previous one, at least four people have died during this period.
According to Yuan Shanming and the barrage, people's names are the fuel that starts the subway. So how much of this fuel is needed?
The comments were very positive:
【It’s different every time.】
【The death toll is not fixed.】
[Sometimes three or four are enough, sometimes more than fifty.]
[It may be a lot or it may be a little.]
"There is no fixed number..." Bai Jinshu touched his chin, "Then is there a fixed grouping rule? For example, what kind of newcomers will be assigned to the same class?"
【have no idea. 】
【I haven’t heard of it.】
[Maybe it's based on how to enter the subway car. ]
[It's better to say that it's the order to enter the subway. ]
[That should be the order in which you enter the list when entering the subway. ]
【I heard that they are arranged in order of the team leaders’ numbers. 】
It seems that the barrage is not clear either...
"Why are you asking this?" Xiao Tang looked at him curiously.
"I want to know what will happen after enough people die," Bai Jinshu walked around the room thoughtfully, "If this is a pillar, then what is the purpose of building this well and this room?"
"To suppress it?" Before anyone could say this was nonsense, Xiao Tang added hastily, "I'm serious. I'm not kidding. Could it be that because of the intention of the Dragon Locking Well, only the well can 'lock' the dragon?"
"What about this room?" asked Huangmao.
"To get in?" Xiao Tang scratched his head. "It's just like a nail! The well is like a stone that presses down the dragons, and this room is the nail that is driven in. If it is connected to the pillar, it can be nailed to the pillar."
It actually connected.
She blinked: "Why aren't you talking? Is there anything wrong with what I said?"
"No problem..." Guan Hongyan couldn't help but pat her on the head, "I didn't expect you, Xiao Tang, to be so smart."
She thought this girl just had high fighting power.
"What do you mean by actually being quite smart?" Xiao Tang complained unhappily, "I've always been quite smart... Don't knock on my smart head!"
"What should we do now?" She covered her head and looked at Bai Jinshu, "We can't do anything if we stay here."
Even if this is a pillar that locks a dragon, they are a group of people inside the pillar and can't do anything.
"I was wondering..." Bai Jinshu seemed to be thinking, "What would happen if we let these dragons out?"
"Let it... out?" Xiao Tang paused, "Uh...how are you going to let it out?"
"I don't know," Bai Jinshu shrugged calmly, "I'm just thinking about it."
He and Guan Hongyan looked at each other and saw the glimmer of trouble in each other's eyes.
You know, [Non-Human] is, after all, a dragon suppressed in the god-level space of the investment bank. No matter how you look at it, it must be a god-level dragon, right?
If this dragon is released... I don't know if it can destroy the opponent's space.
You know, the meaning of [非人哉] is not only the god-level space, but more importantly, it is the first space that every novice who enters the investment industry will enter.
Although he didn't know all the considerations for using this place as a novice village, Bai Jinshu guessed that it was probably because [Non-Human] was a space where all kinds of strange stories would constantly emerge. Before the novices officially entered the rule exploration, exploring strange stories in such a space was actually a space exploration rehearsal exercise given to them by the investment bank.
Previously in [Romantic Contagion], when Xu Zichen said that the selection criterion of the other party's space was an extremely strong desire to survive, everyone's first reaction was that this selection criterion would definitely select a large number of low-level cannon fodder who were not suitable for exploration and would die soon as they entered the space.
However, the existence of the Novice Village is like a training ground. By spending 15 days here, the newcomers' abilities can be greatly improved.
After all, the area exploration degree, plot exploration degree, and camp value in the exploration rules of the ghost story seem to be focusing on key points for newcomers to practice.
Compared to foundations that send newcomers directly into low-level spaces to explore right away, investment banks are more like marking key points for them in advance and doing exercises to ensure that they can adapt to the rhythm and key points of rule exploration as quickly as possible and cultivate their abilities in this area through countless actual combat.
Newcomers always need to grow, and it is better to master certain tricks before officially entering the space than to slowly explore them after entering.
If they can get rid of [Non-Humans], they will have to destroy the simulation training ground where they train new recruits.
A space as suitable as [Fei Ren Zai] is rare. If you blow up one, you won’t be able to find a second one in a short time.
Without this novice village, the death rate of investment bank team members will go up to another level.
Guan Hongyan and Bai Jinshu were in tacit agreement, but Xiao Tang didn't notice their little tricks. She dug at the gap for a long time, hooked her fingers in the gap and pushed a few times, actually trying to climb up.
"What are you doing?" Guan Hongyan turned around and was frightened by the girl.
"I'll climb up and take a look!" Xiao Tang lost his grip and fell down.
Fortunately, she was quite skilled and even after falling from mid-air, she was able to flexibly turn over and absorb the force.
In order to relieve the force, she rolled on the ground, and now her hands and knees were all covered in sticky blood.
"Disgusting..." Xiao Tang got up and frowned, saying in disgust, "How disgusting."
"Why are you climbing up there?" Guan Hongyan was puzzled.
"I saw something extra up there," Xiao Tang rubbed the blood off his hands, and when he realized that it couldn't be washed off, he puffed his lips and replied, "It seemed like the dragon's claw was right there, so I wanted to go up and take a look."
"Dragon's claw?" Guan Hongyan looked back and asked, "Where is it?"
"That." Xiao Tang pointed to a place above his head.
Everyone looked in the direction she pointed and saw that at the end of Xiao Tang's fingertips, there was indeed something like a claw caught in the gap, flashing white light.
The white claws almost blend into the bright white background outside, and it seems that they are not noticeable at first glance.
Xiao Tang is really sharp-eyed.
"It really is a dragon's claw," Huang Mao squinted his eyes and looked at it, "It should have just moved to that position."
It was a very high gap, which looked to be as big as two or three fists, and the tip of the white claw was just hooked on the edge of the gap.
"Sister Tang, what are you going to do up there?" The yellow-haired boy looked innocent.
"Of course I want to see the dragon," Xiao Tang said confidently, and even asked, "Don't you want to see it?"
Huang Mao thought for a few seconds and said sincerely: "I want to see it."
"That's it," Xiao Tang shook his hair, "I'm just curious. I've never seen a dragon before."
"What is that?" Guan Hongyan came closer and lowered her voice, "Why is there a silver-white thing next to the claw?"
Bai Jinshu raised his head and observed it carefully: "It seems to be... an iron ring?"
A large iron ring directly encircled the entire claw, and it looked to be at least half the thickness of a normal person's waist. It was a level that even if Cen Bingqi was called out, he would not be able to solve it with his bare hands.
Guan Hongyan also realized that it was an iron ring.
"It's so thick..." She frowned. "If it's really used to lock dragons, there might be some kind of spell on it."
It can't be opened by brute force alone, right?
Although the two were very interested in liberating these dragons and letting them destroy the entire space, they couldn't just do it without any preparation.
Looks like I have to find out more about this weird subway story after I get out...
However, even the barrage is not clear, so it is probably difficult to get any clues about the dragons in this well.
"What are you two whispering about?" Xiao Tang poked his head out.
"I want to try to get the chain open," Bai Jinshu shrugged calmly, "but I don't have the tools right now."
"Tools?" Xiao Tang was stunned for a moment, "Don't you have that knife? A kitchen knife?"
She gestured.
She knew that Ersi brought out a kitchen knife from [Revenge]. She didn't know what it was used for, but it was a knife after all, right?
It can be used as long as it is a knife.
"Cleaning knife..." Guan Hongyan twitched her lips, "No way?"
The chain was so thick that she suspected it would take a long time to grind it with an angle grinder, and if she chopped it with a kitchen knife, it would break and the blade would curl...
"Try it." Bai Jinshu thought about it and took out the wrapped Xiaochuan kitchen knife.
This thing is abnormal. It can cut people through the air without any contact. Maybe it can also cut chains through the air?
It would be a waste if he didn't try it anyway, so Bai Jinshu thought about it and waved it tentatively.
With a "swish" sound, the yellow-haired guy, the only one who was not affected, was startled.
"What's wrong? What's wrong!" He looked over nervously.
The three people next to him didn't pay any attention to him at all. Instead, their eyes were fixed in one direction.
Is that... smoking?
Huangmao looked over blankly.
Outside the tiny gap, a burst of white smoke came out of the iron ring wrapped around the dragon's claw.
"Look, I told you there was a spell protecting you... This must have triggered some magic circle," Guan Hongyan curled her lips, "This trick won't work..."
Guan Hongyan's description sounded very high-level, saying that some magic array was triggered, but in fact it was more like putting a scalding iron brand into ice water, and the smell was faintly burnt.
"Forget it, let's go." Xiao Tang looked at it for a long time and had to admit that even if they knew what this place was for, they couldn't do anything. Instead, it would only add to the confusion. So she had to give up. "We have been here for so long. Brother Yuan will go crazy if he can't see us!"
It seems I can only find another chance to take the subway again next time...
Bai Jinshu turned around with a bit of regret, wanting to ask Huai Jiamu and the others whether they should go up right now.
At this moment, there was a sound of a chain breaking.
"Fuck," Xiao Tang screamed, "It's broken!"
Everyone turned around.
The iron ring that had been emitting white smoke suddenly broke at this moment.
"Damn, your kitchen knife is so awesome..." She was halfway through her exclamation when she suddenly changed her tone, "Wait wait wait! What's going on!!"
The ground suddenly shook a few times, and then a strong smell of blood suddenly rose up.
Within a few seconds, the gap where blood was dripping slowly just now suddenly became like someone poured a large basin of blood on it from above. In an instant, the blood flow outside the pillar formed a water curtain.
"Shit," Guan Hongyan was also shocked, "It's over, I hope I'm not in big trouble!"
Cut off a chain and a bunch of people died in the subway?!
"Ah? Ah???" The yellow-haired man was still confused. "What's going on? What should we do?"
"Go first!" Bai Jinshu made the final decision, "Get out quickly!"
Is this dragon so lethal?
He was just trying it out.
There was no time to say anything else. Several people hurried towards the well. Xiao Tang took the lead and climbed up hastily without caring about the disgusting feeling of blood on his hands.
Just as they were climbing out, they could hear the obvious sound of flowing water coming from the pillars behind them.
"It's over, it's over," Xiao Tang muttered, "Er Si, I'm deceiving myself now that you didn't actually cut the chain, but cut the dragon's aorta. Do you think this is credible?"
"I don't think so..." Huang Mao collapsed, "I said don't go down!"
"We might be in trouble if we go out like this," Bai Jinshu climbed out of the well and looked around at everyone's appearance. He felt that their blood-covered murderous style might be a bigger problem than the sudden appearance of four living people.
"What should we do? We should stay at the entrance of the cave and observe for a while?" Guan Hongyan took a deep breath. "We can't just walk out like this, but we can't not go out either!"
Yuan Shanming is still outside, they can't stay here forever.
"Let's go and see..." A group of people ran out.
As we ran, the light of another main road at the fork in the cave became increasingly clear.
What was even more obvious than the light was the noisy sound coming from outside.
Some people were fighting, some seemed to be cursing, some were shouting hysterically, and there were sounds of running and scolding.
subway……
Did something really happen?
The author has something to say:
Oh shit oh shit oh shit! I forgot to paste the last paragraph yesterday, and I just realized it now. Ahhhhhhhhhhh, all the comments in this chapter will receive red envelopes!
How could this be? I clearly copied the entire text with one click, but there were 300 words missing. What a ghost story…
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