Chapter 278: Inhuman (86) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]
Xiao Tang couldn't help but run forward several steps.
The fork in the road finally appeared in front of us. At the fork, the main road that was originally well-organized with various groups passing back and forth had now become chaotic.
Many people were running towards the subway in a hurry. Some of them suddenly stopped while running and yelled in anger. There were a few people with relatively calm expressions, who concealed their unsociable expressions, pretended to be anxious, and hurried towards the subway.
Suddenly, there were some shouting and cursing coming from the front.
One of the leaders suddenly rushed forward and punched another leader in front of him.
"Are you sick? You suddenly come up and hit people! Do I know you?" The team leader who was beaten was puzzled.
"Did you instigate your team members to kill people? I've seen you before! It was your team members who always killed people in the ghost stories!"
"What does their murder have to do with me!" The leader who was beaten did not show any weakness, "How can an ordinary person who was a law-abiding citizen before his death kill people in the Novice Village just because of a few words? Don't be so funny!"
"Everyone knows that the subway can only be activated after enough people have died! Just now, when everyone was looking at the terminal, only you didn't. Your team members must not be dead! It was you who instigated it!"
"Are you crazy? What's the point of me asking him to massacre them?" The team leader fought him fiercely. "Even if I said something, there are so many people here, so many shifts, could it be that they were all killed by my team members?"
Unfortunately, the one who did it couldn't hear any of this.
The two team leaders started punching each other and then ended up wrestling on the ground.
Under normal circumstances, if two team leaders started fighting over something like this, other team leaders passing by would at least try to stop the fight or just watch the fun from the side.
But now the two men were fighting fiercely, and the other team leaders nearby just glanced at them, then hurriedly bypassed where they were fighting and ran forward.
"Stop pushing! Can't you see with such a big space next to you?" Two people accidentally bumped into each other while running.
"Have you taken a bullet?"
"Damn it, if I knew who it was..." someone cursed in a low voice.
"Stop cursing and leave!" His friend next to him pulled him and the two of them ran forward.
"There's only one left... only one person..." Someone was holding his terminal and walking forward in a daze, muttering, "Don't die... survive..."
"Hiss...it seems something really happened..." Guan Hongyan frowned and turned around.
Everyone saw what these team leaders looked like when they entered the subway station before. Now all of them have become like this, which can only be related to the team members under their command.
A large number of team members who were participating in the subway ghost story died.
"All that blood came from the dead members of the ghost story?" Xiao Tang frowned and shook the blood off his arm. "Isn't it just a cut of a chain?"
"The situation is a bit serious..." Bai Jinshu observed the outside, "Now most of the team leaders' team members should have been injured or killed. Once the news spreads, people should soon know that this is not a team member killing people in there, but an accident in the subway."
"We have to get out of here quickly!" Guan Hongyan reacted immediately, "The things in the well are related to the operation of the subway. When the people in charge of the subway react, they will definitely send someone to deal with it."
It would be troublesome if we collide head-on.
"How...are we going to get out?" The yellow-haired man had a trace of fear on his face. "We are covered in blood..."
"It's easy to deal with a bloody body," Xiao Tang said with a sigh. "Now those team leaders outside are all crazy. They can do anything at this time. Fighting in the street, swearing, and dying if all the team members die. It's not surprising that we are covered in blood."
That's true.
Within a few minutes, the main road outside became even more chaotic.
It seemed that more people realized that something had happened in the subway and left their queues to run towards the subway.
More and more conflicts broke out among the crowd, and more and more tour leaders returned from customs, filling up this not-so-wide road to begin with.
The sound of cursing could be heard in the crowd, and there was a sense of impending explosion in the air. Everyone looked unhappy.
From time to time, the sound of fighting could be heard, and someone would shout to stop the fight: "Stop it! Someone is dying! Even if you have a grudge, you can't fight like this!"
It seems that someone is taking advantage of this chaos to seek revenge...
Everyone looked at each other, and Bai Jinshu let out a long sigh: "Let's go."
Let’s go out first.
The main road was in chaos. Five people covered in blood appeared where the wall should have been, but they did not attract anyone's attention.
The crowd just subconsciously stayed away from these leaders who looked like they had just had a fight.
Bai Jinshu relied on his tall stature to glance behind him.
Behind them, in the direction of the customs, more and more team leaders realized that something was wrong and ran towards the subway with stern faces.
Human heads are stacked on top of each other. From this angle, it seems that there are densely packed people behind them.
At their position, there was still room for the team leaders to engage in physical conflict, but further back, the densely packed team leaders had already blocked the passage.
It is probably impossible to go back to find Yuan Shanming against the crowd.
Now I can only follow the crowd.
In just a short while, the crowd had pushed them forward a long distance.
Xiao Tang was probably afraid that Huangmao would be attacked for no reason by some angry leader outside, so he and Guan Hongyan sandwiched him in the middle, and the three of them walked forward in a row.
The crowd behind me was so crowded that I couldn't move forward.
I was walking forward and I could hardly move anymore.
"Stop pushing! Stop pushing!" Someone in the distance shouted, "It's no use pushing any more. There's nothing we can do if we don't move forward!"
"You think we want to squeeze in, but the people behind us are just moving forward!"
An irritable male voice sounded: "What are you shouting? Move forward!"
"What the hell are you walking for? Didn't you hear that we can't move forward?!"
"You're not worried since no one in your team died, right?" More people got involved in the argument.
"Bullshit, why would I come here if no one in my team died?"
"What are you arguing about? Fly over here if you dare!"
"This shouldn't be the case..." Xiao Tang whispered, "Why can't I move?"
The first people who ran towards the subway platform were the ones they saw when they came out.
They may not be the ones who respond the fastest, but they are definitely the last in the queue at customs.
There has to be an order and a process for the deaths, and after the first group of people who discovered something was wrong ran away, the remaining team leaders who stayed in line only then realized that something seemed to be wrong through the continuous curses that were ringing around them.
But by this time it was too late. The people in front who had reacted had already blocked the road, and the people behind could only suppress their anxiety and panic and squeeze along.
There is a subway station ahead. If the entire team does not move now, it only means that the person walking in front has not gotten on the subway at all.
"The subway won't stop running, right?" Guan Hongyan guessed with a frown.
"It's normal to stop the train..." Xiao Tang looked around absentmindedly, "Such a big thing has happened. What if more people die on the subway..."
She feels a little guilty now.
Originally, everyone couldn't find any other clues to explore and were about to turn back, but she suddenly remembered that Ersi had a kitchen knife, so she asked him to try chopping it.
Who knew that this one cut would cause such a big incident...
They are now stuck in the middle of a road that is neither up nor down. If they move a little further forward, they will be able to see the subway platform.
As the team gradually stopped moving, many team leaders speculated that something had happened in the subway.
The team, which was already extremely irritable, became even more irritable.
Everyone was crowded together, there was no room for fighting, and all they could do was vent their anger with words.
For a moment, Xiao Tang couldn't stand the noise here. He tilted his head slightly and covered his ears: "Damn...where do these people get so many curse words from?"
The insults are from all over the world, all the swear words in the country are here.
Even if you cover your ears, you can't block out the voices of the leaders around you from reaching your ears.
I don’t know if these team leaders were venting their anger or if they were venting their panic by using increasingly louder and fouler curse words.
As they cursed, someone whispered, "What do you think? Could it be... that there was an accident on the subway?"
"What do you mean?" his friend asked.
"If it wasn't an accident on the subway, then what the hell happened?" Someone got angry and immediately shouted back, "So many people died! How could there be only one train?"
"What do you mean it's not an accident in the subway?" This time, everyone around heard it.
"You know something!"
"explain!"
"Have you heard anything?!"
The crowd suddenly became excited again.
"That's it..." The man paused for a long time, unable to back down, "I'm the leader of Port N."
He probably had just been whispering his guess with his friend, but after all this back and forth, he was forced to speak out his guess.
"We had a Gu King in N Port before. He was bloodthirsty and killed everyone he saw, even his own team leader. He forced all the teams in the area to flee. At that time, we speculated that... after he couldn't find anyone to kill in N Port... he would go to other areas."
"Gu King?"
"Where is the Gu King now?"
There was a small commotion among the crowd.
"That...that guy," someone shouted, "That's impossible! To enter the subway, the tour guide needs to register. How can he get on the train without registration?"
This sentence temporarily calmed the agitated team leaders, but soon, someone whispered even more quietly: "That's the Gu King..."
"What if he just killed the staff at the N Port subway station?"
At this moment, there were sounds of people gasping for breath one after another from the crowd.
"Don't, don't talk nonsense," someone panicked, "He can't get out after entering the subway!"
Now someone whispered, "Who said he figured it out...Wouldn't it be better for him to stay in there for fifteen days?"
The subway is the transportation hub of the Novice Village. So many people pass by here every day, enough for him to kill to his heart's content.
The small crowd suddenly became as silent as death.
The team leaders in the distance were still cursing all kinds of dirty words, which made the silence here even more deadening.
Guan Hongyan pulled Bai Jinshu's sleeve slightly and shook her head slightly at him.
The Gu King of N Port is most likely Xu Zichen. It is impossible for Xu Zichen to kill people simply to vent his anger. Not to mention the fact that the subway accident was caused by them. Even if it was really done by Xu Zichen this time, it could only be that Xu Zichen discovered the dragon locked in the well in the subway and had the same idea as them.
【N港】She lip-synced.
This time they accidentally cut the chain on the dragon's feet, causing a subway accident, which indirectly led to the deaths of a large number of team members.
Could it be that Xu Zichen’s so-called “King of Gu going crazy and killing people” in Port N was also something he discovered?
After all, rumors become more and more outrageous as they spread.
It seems that we need to put the trip to Port N on the agenda as soon as possible. What did Xu Zichen discover that caused such an outrageous rumor to spread?
Bai Jinshu nodded slightly, indicating that she understood the meaning.
The audience in the live broadcast room also knew that they seemed to have caused a big disaster. At the beginning, there were a few people who gloated and said that they would go to other live broadcast rooms to spread the news that the subway suspension was caused by them. Later, no one knew what happened, and those accounts that had been jumping all of a sudden disappeared.
Now the screen is full of comments advising Bai Jinshu. Some comments say that they should just pretend to be the leader and get out first, some comments say that something is wrong in the subway and how can they get out? Let's wait. Some comments say that they have to throw away the kitchen knife and nightmare heart, otherwise something bad will happen.
The team leaders around were surprisingly quiet. Everyone was either looking at their own terminals with frowns, or looking in front of them with serious expressions. For a moment, no one spoke.
It actually made the few newcomers who were also watching the barrage of comments not look out of place at all.
After an unknown amount of time, the team leader in front began to become agitated.
“Then how do you guys solve this problem?” someone shouted. “Are we going to have to pay for the collapse of subway space?”
"That means the people who are still inside won't die, right?"
"Can we still leave now? How?"
"Don't you know how valuable a newbie's time is? If I had known there would be an accident on the subway today, I would have walked on the ground. I'm already here now!"
"It's this late at night! What am I going to do after you let me out?"
"Compensation? That's more like it."
"It seems that some staff have arrived!"
"The staff handling the subway are here!"
The news spread quickly and quickly throughout the corridor.
The team finally started moving.
Bai Jinshu and his group, who were stuck at the edge of the entrance, finally took a few steps forward and saw the subway platform.
The subway was still parked on the platform, but the difference from before was that when looking through the open subway door, the situation inside the subway was flashing every moment.
Sometimes the carriage is empty, but more often there are many people lying on the subway chairs.
"The space of the subway collapsed." Guan Hongyan whispered.
When she came out before, although many team leaders entered and exited from the same door as them, when she looked back she could only see the empty carriage belonging to their team.
And now, the images in each car are flickering like this, and the countless superimposed spaces are no longer stagnant only in the section that belongs to the observer.
In front of the platform, there was a person standing, wearing a light blue POIO shirt with a small logo printed on the front: [City Subway].
It turned out to be a subway staff.
"Look at his hand...!" Xiao Tang pulled Bai Jinshu.
Bai Jinshu looked over and saw that the staff member's hands were not the green color Guan Hongyan said, but the texture of the skin was indeed...
He subconsciously stroked the phone in his pocket.
But the texture of that person's skin is indeed the same as the dragon's skin they photographed.
The subway must be related to what they saw in the mine.
The crowd was rushing forward. The staff was holding a loud speaker and loudly answering everyone's questions: "Dear leaders, please be patient! Because the city subway has experienced a spatial collapse during operation, more lives are needed to start the repair process, so the death rate of today's train has been greatly increased without notice. We are very sorry!"
"It cannot be started yet. I can only ensure that the team members who have not died yet will not die again. The subway space is still being repaired. It is estimated to take three hours to repair and resume operation in three hours."
"Yes, yes! As compensation, all team leaders who registered their IDs before the space collapsed and did not leave will be exempted from the points collection this month!"
As soon as these words came out, the leaders around them became excited.
“What a big deal!”
"Did the city subway kill the Gu King?"
"Awesome city subway!"
"Who told you that the Gu King was in there? People said that the space collapsed and needed life to start repairing it."
"Then my team members died in vain?"
"You don't have to give me any points this time. Just die if you want to."
“That’s also…”
"Look, I told you it's okay! You guys just said something so scary!"
The compensation procedure of the city subway can be described as a huge deal, directly exempting all the team leaders trapped today from their life-extending points this month.
All of a sudden, the team leaders who had been gloomy because of the death of their team members just now looked happy.
A team leader whose team members have all died does not need to die, and a team leader who still has team members alive does not need to pay any points.
All of a sudden, the team leaders who had been cursing at each other all of a sudden became friendly, polite smiles appeared on everyone's faces, and the words they used became much more humble.
The huge contrast between before and after made Xiao Tang twitch his lips: "This is really..."
Although she knew it was normal for these team leaders to be happy because they didn’t have to die and could even save points, she was not the team leader, she was a newcomer!
Anyone would feel a little uncomfortable if they accidentally walked into a group of team leaders and watched them scolding each other indignantly over the death of a team member one second, and then being overjoyed because they were exempted from this month's points the next second.
But Xiao Tang's unhappiness obviously did not affect the mood of these team leaders.
The city subway's compensation plan spread throughout the corridor, and the excited team leaders were instantly calmed down.
The staff said that it would be done in three hours, so everyone sat on the ground and prepared to queue up to enter after the subway was repaired.
Three hours was neither long nor short. Everyone was bored sitting there, so they started to kill time.
Some were gossiping, some were sleeping, and some were eating.
The corridor, which was full of tension just now, suddenly became lively and joyful.
Bai Jinshu said that two female leaders who looked very familiar were sitting cross-legged next to them. They took out two decks of playing cards from their bags and asked them if they wanted to play cards.
Huai Jiamu did not join in, saying he was just there to watch, so the six of them sat in a circle, chatting and playing cards.
The two female team leaders introduced themselves as coming from other areas, and asked about their situation. Guan Hongyan reported B City, and Bai Jinshu and the other three truthfully said S City.
What Yuan Shanming said was indeed correct. Team leaders who were not from the same area actually had no idea about other areas. The two team leaders seemed to be just curious. After asking, they said "oh" and said they were not familiar with them, and then chatted about some random gossip.
The gossips among the team leaders were about who had a mortal enemy with whom, who stole whose ghost story, who harmed whose teammates, who was bullied last time and got a powerful teammate this time and fought back. After a few rounds of playing cards, Bai Jin said that they didn't hear any useful information, but instead heard a lot of gossip and figured out a lot of unspoken rules between the team leaders.
For example, if Yuan Shanming planned to take them to rob S from other teams, this would lead to mortal enemies. The next time the opposing team leader meets him, anyone with a temper would rush up and beat him to death. No wonder Yuan Shanming only went to rob from other areas.
For example, last time when they went to find Guan Hongyan, dividing the S of other teams was a taboo. Fortunately, Dita was not there for the points, and he agreed to their request very readily.
As they chatted, the short-haired leader on the left said unhappily, "No, I said you two teamed up to cheat?"
She was talking about Xiao Tang and Huang Mao.
They were clearly playing poker, but the yellow-haired man played it like a mahjong player feeding cards to the player above him. He fed cards to Xiao Tang for three or four rounds in a row, as if he could see what cards Xiao Tang had in his hand. He was simply taking flattery to the extreme.
"No way," the yellow-haired man shrank his neck, "This is my sister, I give her some leniency when I play cards."
"There is no father-son relationship in the card game, don't you understand?" The leader on the right waved his hand, "Go away, I won't play with you anymore."
The yellow-haired guy moved back and quit the game in disappointment.
Just as everyone was about to start the race, the team leaders in front stood up one after another.
"Oh," Guan Hongyan checked the time, "It's three hours, let's get going."
The team leaders around also packed up.
The two female leaders collected the cards, the team slowly moved forward a little, and everyone returned to the platform.
The subway had returned to normal by then. The tour leaders in front lined up one by one and then disappeared into the carriage. With the compensation from the subway company, the expressions on all the tour leaders' faces were extremely relaxed.
Bai Jinshu and the others followed the crowd into the subway car. As soon as Xiao Tang came in, he let out a breath as if he had no bones, and slumped down on the chair without any image at all.
"Finally I can leave..." Guan Hongyan couldn't help but sigh, "What the hell is this..."
The dragon in the subway, the newcomer who died after inexplicably cutting off the chain, the collapse of space, and everything falling down made her feel like she was returning home after a long time.
It's been a long time since I felt so confused.
Several people lay in the carriage to rest for a long time, watching the team leaders outside disappear at the door one by one. Finally, Yuan Shanming appeared in the team.
Unlike the relaxed expressions on the faces of the other team leaders, he had a frown on his face, making him unexpectedly conspicuous in the crowd.
As the team gradually moved forward, Yuan Shanming stepped into the carriage of his team with a serious face.
"Brother Yuan, Brother Yuan!" Xiao Tang rushed forward and took the initiative. "Brother Yuan, we have been waiting for you for a long time. Brother Yuan, we have been looking for you for a long time. If the subway hadn't stopped running, we wouldn't know where to find you."
"...Xiao Tang?" Yuan Shanming paused and finally saw clearly that everyone in the carriage was there, not a single one missing.
The expression on his face instantly turned furious: "Where have you been! I've been looking for you! I went to the new team leader's departure area and searched for a long time but couldn't find you! If I hadn't shown here that you were not dead, I would have thought you were discovered in an accident!"
Fortunately, although the people here were covered in blood, their arms and legs were intact and they were not injured. Most of the blood was probably from someone else.
"How did you get so much blood?" He asked questions like a machine gun. "Are you okay when the subway space was unstable just now? If you are okay, can you ask the audience in the live broadcast room to come over and say something to me?"
"The blood... the blood belongs to someone else. We accidentally got involved in a fight between other team leaders," Xiao Tang laughed. "We just had a conflict on the way to the departure area. We hid for a while to avoid being recognized. When the subway accident happened, we followed the crowd to watch the excitement and were blocked in front."
She subconsciously thought that it would be better not to tell Yuan Shanming about Long's matter, especially since the subway failure was most likely caused by them.
"Don't be angry... Let's go home now," Xiao Tang changed the subject, "I'm so sleepy, can we go back to the teahouse to rest? I want to sleep with Sister Hua."
"Teahouse?" Yuan Shanming took a deep breath and calmed down a little. "I can't go to the teahouse tonight."
"Why can't we go?" The yellow-haired man blinked in confusion.
"What you should ask is why tonight." Yuan Shanming turned his head and looked at him.
Huangmao took a deep breath after realizing it belatedly.
I thought that everything would be over once I came out of the well and left the danger-ridden subway station.
But everyone overlooked one thing in the building that never sees the sun.
They had been there too long.
It's already evening.
And what they are about to face is the night of the City of the Dead.
The author has something to say:
I don't know why last night's chapter ended with 300 words, I've already made up for it, woo woo woo, if you haven't read it, you can take a look
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