Chapter 285: Inhuman (93) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]
In the teahouse, the storyteller's voice was still echoing. Boss Sun took a sip of tea and said in a strange tone, "What's wrong? You have been acting weird since last night."
"Lao Sun, your..." Yuan Shanming ignored what he was saying and asked anxiously, "Where is your guy who saw us earlier?"
"I see your guys..." Boss Sun looked around the lobby and waved to a guy, "Come on, come on!"
"What's the matter, boss?" The waiter was holding a teapot in his hand.
"It was you who saw Yuan Shanming just now, right?" Boss Sun pointed at Yuan Shanming and the newcomers next to him.
"Boss Yuan..." The waiter scratched his head, "I don't think I've seen Boss Yuan, but I saw the guests behind Boss Yuan."
"Didn't you see me?" Yuan Shanming asked hurriedly.
"Maybe I didn't notice it," the waiter replied quickly, "Is there any problem, boss?"
"I have no problem, but they seem to have a lot of problems." Boss Sun pointed at the newcomers.
"What did they look like when you saw them specifically?" Everyone looked at each other, and Yuan Shanming pointed at the team members behind him and spoke.
"You walked into the lobby, walked around, and then left again..." the waiter recalled, "Did you lose something?"
"No," Yuan Shanming paused, "Then did we say anything?"
"I don't know about this," the guy said in embarrassment, "I have work to do and I didn't talk to you."
"No, I'm wondering what's going on with you guys?" Boss Sun, who had been listening for a long time, said inexplicably, "You've been acting weird since last night, and today you asked me what you guys said. Don't you know what you said?"
"Old Sun," Yuan Shanming grabbed his arm, "Has Shi Pang ever asked this question?"
"Shi Pang?" Boss Sun scratched his forehead, "Who is Shi Pang..."
"It's the one who asked you to bring a message to us!" Little Tang was impatient and finally couldn't help it, "Did Shi Pang ask you similar questions, that is, you said you saw them, but they acted very surprised or something like that."
"This... I don't remember," Boss Sun shrugged, "I'm not familiar with him."
"What happened to you? Weren't you the ones who came back earlier?" He finally understood why this group of people were behaving strangely. "Or did you lose your memory? Were you controlled?"
"It's not that complicated. It's just us..." Yuan Shanming wanted to say something but was interrupted by Bai Jinshu.
"It's okay, Boss Sun. Let's pack up and get ready to leave." He winked at everyone and walked to the front first.
When Shi Pang asked Boss Sun to ask some questions, he deliberately did not specify what had happened, but used the term "strange thing" instead.
Since Shi Pang didn't say anything, it means that this matter is not suitable to be mentioned to Boss Sun, or it will cause certain impact after mentioning it to Boss Sun.
If Yuan Shanming continued to ask, Boss Sun might be able to infer something from their descriptions.
After Bai Jinshu interrupted, Yuan Shanming suddenly realized that he was too anxious and almost told everyone what they had just encountered.
There was a hint of worry in Boss Sun's expression. He forced a smile, said a few perfunctory words in response to his concern, and then followed suit.
The newcomers have already started discussing the current situation.
"That guy said he saw us come back, turn around, and leave again. So it means that we couldn't see everyone just now, but everyone could see us?" Xiao Tang made the same judgment as Yuan Shanming.
"The strange thing Captain Shi was talking about is that we suddenly can't see all humans, but everyone can see us?" Huang Mao guessed, "Could it be the influence of the nightmare heart..."
"If Shi Pang encountered a similar situation, then it couldn't be the Nightmare Heart, because only we have this thing, but if not, then what did Shi Pang encounter?" Yuan Shanming let out a sigh of relief.
"Forget it," he rubbed his hair irritably, "Let's go to Port N to look for Shi Pang first. We'll know after we find him."
"Pack your things quickly and try to lose weight. There is a Gu King in N Port who kills people indiscriminately. Don't bring too many things, otherwise it will be troublesome to escape." He raised his head and regained his previous appearance as a reliable leader. He raised his head and instructed, "Xiao Hong and I will go to the subway later. You can use the Thousand Miles Teleport to N Port directly at the subway station. I will tell you the specific precautions for N Port on the way."
Everyone went back to their rooms to pack their backpacks.
Huangmao took out some odds and ends from his bag while struggling to decide how much to take with him.
Bai Jinshu sat down on the edge of the bed and felt Jinling's insect move slightly, drawing a big X on his arm.
There was only one icon, but Bai Jinshu immediately understood what she wanted to express.
What they just experienced could definitely not be what Yuan Shanming and Xiao Tang had guessed.
Jin Ling can control insects, and her insects have twice sent messages saying that there is no one in the entire territory.
If they had just entered a special state where they couldn't see others and others couldn't see them, then the message that the insects that were not in this special state would convey should be that the world is normal and other people in the world still exist.
But the information the bugs saw was the same as theirs, which could only mean that they had definitely entered a special space, a space where there was no one except them. There was no warning when they entered this space, and there was no warning when they left.
So……
Bai Jinshu narrowed his eyes and looked at the street outside the window.
So what did Boss Sun’s men see just now?
"Erge, I'm done!" The yellow-haired man's voice interrupted his thoughts.
"Hmm?" Bai Jinshu suddenly came back to his senses, "Let's go then."
If it weren't for Shi Pang's sudden instruction, they might not have been able to go to Port N so early.
On the streets of the City of the Dead, there are many more newcomers coming and going than expected.
Yuan Shanming walked in the front, explaining to the team members as he walked: "N Port... uh, there is nothing much to say about the Port of Raging Waves. I have said before that it is a relatively extreme area in the Novice Village. In N Port, there are only two extremes: low-end E-level ghost stories and the highest S-level ghost stories. This is because a large number of S-level ghost stories gather in N Port. These high-level ghost stories are too oppressive for other ghost stories. For them, N Port is not suitable for staying, which results in only some of the lowest-level ghost stories living here except for the highest-level ghost stories."
For S-level ghost stories, if ordinary ghost stories with medium ratings can barely catch their eye, then E-level ghost stories are like ants.
The territorial monsters may be annoyed by the monsters weaker than themselves living under their noses, but they will definitely not notice the ants at their feet.
Therefore, in N Port where many S-level ghost stories gather, only the weak E-level ghost stories that are at the bottom of the list can coexist with the S-level ghost stories.
"For you, low-level ghost stories don't matter," Yuan Shanming said casually, "They have been in Port N for a long time anyway, so they don't dare to mess with you."
Ghost stories are the most bullying and afraid of the strong. For people like Ersi, Xiao Tang and Xiao Hong, even low-level ghost stories dare not touch them, not to mention that they have a big ghost story here.
It would be better for them to avoid these E-level weird stories.
"For S-level ghost stories, there are very complicated triggering processes, so they are generally not triggered by mistake," Yuan Shanming stopped and sighed as he looked at the subway station where all the stairs had been destroyed and the newcomers could only go up and down using the ladders temporarily hung on the edge of the pit. "In addition to ghost stories, there are also a large number of residents living in N Port. These residents rely on going out to sea and fishing for a living. Because this area lacks enough newcomers and people engaged in other professions, N Port is less modernized than other areas."
The subway station was severely damaged by the ghosts last night. It can be said that except for the tracks beside the platform, everything else has become a ruin.
Several entrances and exits have now been equipped with two ladders, one up and one down, by the team leaders who got up in the morning. Now there are several long queues in front of these two ladders, and everyone is lining up and going up and down in an orderly manner.
"But these are not problems," Yuan Shanming said as he stood at the end of the line. "The main problem in Port N right now is that there is a Gu King who is killing people indiscriminately. The Gu King is said to be followed by a tall, thin and very sick man. The question of what a Gu King is is a bit complicated. Anyway, you can just understand it as some legacy issues of investment banks. Most Gu Kings are not in good mental condition. So when you get there, if you see someone with a description similar to this, or someone who looks mentally unstable, it's best not to get close. If you can't avoid it, then disguise yourself as an aboriginal and take a gamble that he won't kill innocent people."
"I see," Xiao Tang blinked beside him, "A mentally ill perverted murderer is taking revenge on society, right?"
"That's about right..." Yuan Shanming scratched his head. He probably didn't know how to explain the schedule and training of the Gu King to the team members, so he simply avoided the question. "It's just that among the newcomers in the investment bank, there is a chance that some of them are not in good spirits. These newcomers are very strong, and there is a small chance that they will become like this."
He lined up and approached the ladder, and finally put the nightmare heart in Bai Jinshu's hand, and finally instructed: "Wait for us at N Port subway station when you arrive."
"I'll try to solve it quickly," Guan Hongyan made a gesture of wiping her neck, "see you later."
Jin Ling stuffed a lot of bugs into the people who were not acting together, but she didn't know whether these bugs could still keep in touch after entering the ghost story. So in order to reunite as soon as possible, they needed to try their best to quickly eliminate their opponents in their own subway and leave the subway.
Watching Yuan Shanming and Guan Hongyan climbing down the ladder, Xiao Tang lay on Huangmao like a boneless person and waved his hand weakly: "Bye, see you later."
"Sister Xiao Tang, your chin feels so uncomfortable." The yellow-haired man said weakly.
"Then just bear with it," Xiao Tang replied unceremoniously, "There is a perverted killer in Port N. If you are caught by him, you will have to wait for me to save you."
"Oh..." The yellow-haired man shut up in disappointment.
[Shall we leave now?] Jin Ling typed a few words on her phone and showed them to everyone.
She still maintains the appearance of a deaf-mute patient. It is not known whether she pretended well or in order to avoid being exposed, Jin Ling simply set this body to be deaf and unable to speak when forging her identity.
"Let's go!" Xiao Tang stood up straight, "Let's go explore the way first."
"N Port is so big," she muttered, "I don't think I'll run into a psychopathic murderer as soon as I land. That would be too unlucky."
When she said this, she probably didn't know that in this not-so-large team, except for the yellow-haired Yuan Shanming and her, the remaining four people were all targeting this "perverted murderer".
What did Xu Zichen, who was carrying rice noodle rolls, find in Port N?
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"Oh my god...what's that smell!"
The BUFF was activated, and Bai Jinshu had just teleported to Port N when he heard Xiao Tang retching a few times.
Along with the sound of dry retching, an extremely strong fishy smell suddenly rushed into the nose.
"Cough... cough cough," he couldn't help coughing several times, "Such a strong fishy smell..."
"What are these?" Huangmao's voice sounded as if he was startled. "On the ground..."
Bai Jinshu opened his eyes and looked around.
They are now on the streets of N Port.
N Port is an extremely classic port city. Yuan Shanming is right. It is visibly that the development here lags behind the City of Violence and the City of the Dead. Looking forward from the street, there are very few tall skyscrapers.
As far as the eye can see, the end of the road is the boundless ocean. There are many ships parked on the beach, including some huge ships. From this position, the crowded ships are docked on the shore, and many masts are even much taller than the buildings on the shore.
Unlike last time, this time they landed in the core of N Port, on the streets on the edge of the port.
The sea breeze brought a salty smell of sea water, but even more pungent than this smell was the strong stench that rushed into everyone's nasal cavity along with the wind.
This smell is also fishy, but compared to the fishy smell of the sea breeze, this smell is more aggressive, like the smell of some rotten fish.
In fact, some kind of fish was indeed bad.
Bai Jinshu's eyes fell on the street. He didn't know if it was because it was close to the ocean, or because it had just rained before they came, but the street was full of puddles of various sizes, and next to the puddles were countless rotten fish.
Some of the freshest ones were still staring up at the sky with lifeless eyes, while many had already rotted away, revealing their skeletons. The white skeletons were exposed from the rotten bodies, with a circle of flies resting on the dead fish's bodies surrounding the edges of the skeletons.
Xiao Tang raised his sleeves to cover his nose: "Where did all these dead fish come from?!"
The place where they landed was quite unfortunate, as they landed on a road full of dead fish.
"Sister Xiao Tang," Huang Mao pulled her, "there is a person under your feet..."
"Ew..." Xiao Tang jumped away as if he had been electrocuted, "How disgusting!"
The fish under her feet was rotten. As soon as Xiao Tang jumped away, a fly couldn't wait to land on it.
The whole street was filled with a dizzying stench. Seeing that Xiao Tang was about to burst out with a string of beautiful C language, Bai Jinshu quickly interrupted him and said, "Let's get out of here first!"
The smell here is too pungent.
Bai Jinshu felt that if he stayed here any longer, he would probably be so suffocated that he would unconsciously call on other personalities to take the blame.
That's too embarrassing.
He walked in front, twitching his lips, and took the lead in walking towards the end of the road.
I don’t know if he gradually got used to the smell, or if as the number of fish carcasses decreased, the stench that went straight to his soul had indeed faded a lot.
"Isn't there any cleaner here to take care of it?" Xiao Tang couldn't wait to ask before leaving the street completely, "There are dead fish all over the street, can anyone stand the smell?"
"The cleaners in Port N wouldn't dare to interfere, would they?" Bai Jinshu guessed, "Isn't it said that there's a Gu King here, so maybe ordinary citizens don't dare to go out?"
After all, what Shi Pang said before still sounded quite scary. There was a Gu King in N Port who killed anyone he saw. By analogy, if a psychopath holding an AK appeared in the city, most citizens would not go out.
"No," Xiao Tang pointed to the distance, "Isn't that a person?"
Following her finger, I saw a man with a crew cut and wearing a vest walking forward carrying a bag of fish at the edge of the street in the distance.
"How about trying to contact him?" Xiao Tang stood on tiptoe and looked at the man's face. "He looks very numb. He doesn't look like a perverted murderer, does he?"
It's hard to imagine a perverted murderer walking on the road of Raging Waves Port wearing a vest, with his trouser legs rolled up and holding a fish with a numb look on his face.
This is too low standard.
"Let's ask," Bai Jinshu narrowed his eyes and identified the man on the other side, confirming that he was probably just an ordinary fisherman. "We don't know the way, let's ask how to get to the subway station."
"Oh, yes, the subway station," Xiao Tang patted his forehead and waved his hands energetically, "The friend in front! Let's ask for directions later!"
The fisherman carrying a bag of fish did not stop and continued walking forward as if he did not hear anything.
"What's going on? Didn't you hear it?" Xiao Tang scratched his head in confusion, "I'll go over and ask."
She carefully jumped over a fish that looked like it had just died and ran towards the fisherman: "Excuse me - I want to ask for directions!"
The bag of fish carried on the shoulders of the fishermen emitted a fishy smell very similar to that of dead fish. Fortunately, it was only the fishy smell on them; the fish were still jumping around in the bag and had not yet died.
Xiao Tang groaned, probably because she felt that covering her nose or retching while asking for directions was not a good idea. She endured the unpleasant smell and stood in front of the fisherman: "Excuse me, how do I get to the subway station?"
The fisherman looked up at her, walked around Xiao Tang without saying a word, and continued walking forward.
Xiao Tang:?
She watched the man walk past her and continued walking forward with a numb face.
"You can't be the one who didn't hear me...ignoring me?" Xiao Tang muttered, and took a few more steps forward, stopping in front of the fisherman again, "Hello? Can I ask for directions?"
This time the fisherman didn't even raise his head. He just lowered his head and walked around again.
"What's going on?" Xiao Tang was really confused this time, "Why is he ignoring me?"
"Let me try?" Bai Jinshu took a few steps forward tentatively and pulled the fisherman's hand, "Hello, let's ask for directions."
The fisherman stopped, looked at him, pulled his hand away, and walked forward without saying a word.
"No way..." Xiao Tang crossed his arms and said in a long tone, "Brother Yuan didn't tell us that the natives of Port N were all dumb before he came here!"
"Uh... that's not what I meant." She was halfway through her complaint when she remembered Nian Yu, a team member who really couldn't speak, and had to explain awkwardly, "It's just an analogy, just an analogy."
"Little Sister Tang," Huang Mao pulled her sleeve, "Nian Yu is not here either."
Nianyu acted separately from them.
"Oh, that's right..." Xiao Tang touched his nose awkwardly, putting aside the guilt of making up a story about a hearing-impaired person in front of him, "What should we do now? This person is totally ignoring us."
"Let's follow him forward and see?" Bai Jinshu thought for a while, "He looks like he just came back from the sea, right? With so many fish, he must be back to his residence, right? Then we can ask other people?"
"Perhaps Shi Pang and his men live there too," he added, "Since the Gu King didn't kill these natives, it means he only kills the newcomers. In order to avoid being hunted down by the Gu King, Shi Pang and his men might disguise themselves as natives and live here."
"That makes sense!" Xiao Tang clenched his left fist and knocked on the palm of his right hand, "Then let's go!"
She seemed to recover quickly. The anxiety and irritability she had felt in that strange space not long ago quickly faded away, and she became her usual heartless self again.
At her instigation, Huangmao harassed the fisherman countless times along the way. Xiao Tang took great pleasure in blocking his way back and forth, and finally forced the poor fisherman into a dead end and stopped where he was.
"No way, big brother," she twitched her lips, "What's the point of you saying give way? You can't really not know how to talk, right?"
This would make her feel very guilty.
The bag of fish in the fisherman's bag gave off a stronger fishy smell than before.
"Move aside." Finally, he looked at Xiao Tang in front of him, his voice numb.
"Isn't this what I mean..." Xiao Tang muttered a few words and actually made way.
"Cough... cough, cough, vomit..." A fisherman walked past her with a bag of fish. Suddenly, the stench suddenly increased and Xiao Tang retched. "What's going on?"
Hadn't they already walked out of the street full of dead fish?
Why is the fishy smell so strong all of a sudden?
"His bag." Bai Jinshu suddenly spoke.
"Bag?" Xiao Tang looked up curiously, his eyes falling on the fishing net bag behind the fisherman.
In the bag, a corner of a rotten fish tail was falling out of the fishing net, emitting a familiar, disgusting stench.
"Rotten?" Xiao Tang covered his nose and exclaimed, "Impossible! When I went to ask for directions just now, these fish were still alive!"
At that time, these fish were still alive and kicking.
Although fish will die if they leave the water, death is death, how can it be possible...
"How is it possible to go from being alive and kicking to being rotten in just ten minutes?"
The author has something to say:
The smell of rotting fish is really overwhelming (close your eyes)
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