Chapter 289: Inhuman (97) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]
"What's wrong!" Yuan Shanming pushed open the door a step late and was the last one to arrive in the room.
He was still in his pajamas and looked like he had just rolled out of bed, with his hair all messy.
"This man suddenly attacked me and Nianyu." Guan Hongyan frowned and picked up the man on the ground.
He had no strength left and did not resist when Guan Hongyan lifted him up. His neck tilted limply to the other side, revealing a hideous wound.
The wound was still bleeding, which looked quite scary.
Fortunately, everyone present had seen the world before. Except for Bai Jinshu who stepped back a little in disgust to prevent the blood from splattering on himself, the others subconsciously took a few steps forward.
"This is Xiao He," Xiao Tang repeated what he had just said, "a member of Shi Pang's team."
Yuan Shanming finally came to his senses.
"The people from Shi Pang's team came to kill you?" He looked at Guan Hongyan and dragged a stool over from the side. "Speak clearly."
Guan Hongyan didn't know Xiao He, so her first reaction when someone attacked her was to hit her in the vital parts. As a result, her neck was slashed. Xiao He was already losing consciousness and was about to die.
If Lu Changfeng was there, maybe he could have been saved, but it is now impossible to get any information from Xiao He.
We can only hope that Guan Hongyan, who was the first to discover Xiao He, will be there.
"I disliked the musty smell of the cups and mattress on the bed, so I didn't sleep on the bed. Nianyu and I decided to spend the night on the sofa," Guan Hongyan put the dead Xiao He on the ground, found a place to sit next to the bed, and said, "In the middle of the night, I suddenly felt someone enter the room. At first, I thought it was Xiao Tang or Brother Yuan, so I planned to say hello."
"As a result..." She paused, "The person who entered the room went straight to the bed, and then I heard a sound of breaking air. He seemed to be holding a knife or a dagger and stabbed the bed directly."
After confirming that it was an attack, Guan Hongyan directly drew out the knife he was carrying in the dark, swung it from behind, and shouted to call other teammates.
It was these two voices that woke everyone up.
"If you hadn't been sleeping on the sofa, you would have been stabbed to death," Xiao Tang muttered as he stood up from the ground and clapped his hands, "I saw it, it was really Xiao He."
Among the members of Shi Pang's team, Xiao He is not the most memorable one. She has the best relationship with the twin sisters. But no matter what, they are teammates who have spent several days in the ghost story, so her faces can still be recognized.
"Is this the person from Shi Pang's team you mentioned?" Guan Hongyan frowned, squatted down and looked at Xiao He's body, "Why did he suddenly attack us? Could Shi Pang really be the one who pretended to be the Gu King in N Port?"
"Yuan Shanming asked Mr. Sun from the teahouse to tell us to come to N Port to find him if we encounter anything strange. Is he actually trying to lure all of us to N Port to kill us?" Bai Jinshu squatted down and made eye contact with Guan Hongyan, and continued to speculate, "Anyway, there are so many strange things in the Novice Village. With this message, no matter what we encounter, we will subconsciously classify it as a 'strange thing' before looking for the cause ourselves, and then come here directly to Shi Pang to ask questions."
"It's possible!" Xiao Tang walked around the corpse. "Then they failed to start the ghost story after deceiving everyone, but they couldn't find new life to start it again, so they started to trick other unsuspecting teams into entering N Port to kill them?"
"Tsk," Xiao Tang stopped talking and kicked Xiao He's wrist with his toes, "I can't believe they are such people."
"How dare they do that?" The yellow-haired man beside him exclaimed, "It's not like they haven't teamed up with us before. I don't know if you, Xiao Tang, and Er Ge..."
His strange gaze swept over Huai Jiamu, and he really couldn't figure out who gave them the courage to confront this big weirdo.
"Strange," Yuan Shanming also frowned, squatted down and looked at Xiao He's face, "Even if Shi Pang really killed someone and pretended to be the Gu King, he shouldn't be so ignorant, right?"
He knows how to pretend to be the Gu King, but doesn’t he know who he can mess with and who he can’t?
I heard from Xiao Tang that when they were in the strange story called "Revenge", she and Er Si did not deliberately hide their strength.
Even if they don't know that the person next to them is a big weirdo, they should at least know the fighting power of these two people, right?
"So he's just picking on an easy target, isn't he?" Xiao Tang pouted. "Look how smart he is. He knows that if he doesn't attack me, he won't attack Ersi. So he comes to kill Sister Hua. Isn't it because he thinks Sister Hua is weak?"
What's more, sharing the room with her is the only special member of their team - a real disabled person.
This person seems to be a soft persimmon that can be easily exploited, no wonder Xiao He chose to attack Guan Hongyan first.
"Then most of the remaining people probably don't dare to come now," Yuan Shanming stood up and shrugged, "Go to sleep. I know Shi Pang. He's not a careful person, but he's definitely brave."
Otherwise, when he said at the beginning that they came to S City to avoid the Gu King, to get the [A Thousand Miles a Day] buff and risked their lives to go back and complete the S ghost story that was half triggered, Yuan Shanming would not believe it.
But no matter how brave they are, after facing the death of their teammates, they should realize that all the players Yuan Shanming brought here are not easy to deal with.
Now most of the remaining people don’t dare to come.
Xiao He's body had lost too much blood and had turned a bluish-white color unique to dead people.
The floor of the room was covered in blood, and there were bloody footprints left by Xiao Tang walking back and forth. He could no longer stay in this room.
Guan Hongyan and Nian Yu moved to Xiao Tang's room. For safety, Huangmao also squeezed into the room assigned to Bai Jinshu and Huai Jiamu to spend the remaining hours.
"Wait a minute, don't fall asleep yet," Yuan Shanming quickly stopped several team members who were about to go back to rest, "Deal with the body first."
It’s not that I feel uncomfortable with a dead person sleeping next door. It’s just that there are very few team leaders in an investment bank who would be afraid of or uncomfortable with these things.
The main problem is that it is very humid here, and the entire N Port is still in the process of triggering the second stage. If the corpses are left here, not to mention tens of thousands, they will rot into a ball like the fish outside as soon as they leave this room.
The air in N Port is humid. If the body really rots here, this apartment will no longer be habitable.
The smell of a corpse is much more offensive than the stench of a dead fish.
Xiao Tang shuddered and quickly pulled a sheet off the bed: "Go, go, go, carry it out!"
She and Huangmao each grabbed one corner of the sheet. Guan Hongyan squatted down and pushed Xiao He onto the sheet. Then the two of them carried the sheet downstairs one after the other.
Yuan Shanming was worried, so he followed the two men downstairs, intending to find a better place to dump the body.
In the apartment, only Guan Hongyan and Bai Jinshu were left standing there.
Taking advantage of the fact that there were no outsiders around, Jin Ling's insect moved several times. Guan Hongyan gave him a look, and Bai Jinshu suddenly understood what was going on.
There was no stabbing at the bed at all. When this person appeared, the golden bell insect discovered that there was a stranger in the room, and thus woke up both of them.
It was only because he had to explain to the other people how he found Xiao He that Guan Hongyan made up an excuse that this man intended to kill him.
It is still unknown what Xiao He is here for.
After all, you are not here for friendly exchange, otherwise what did you do during the day?
Guan Hongyan seemed to want to say something, but she heard hurried footsteps. The three people who had gone downstairs suddenly came up: "Let's go!"
"What's wrong?" Guan Hongyan was pulled forward by Xiao Tang with an inexplicable expression.
"That group of people poured gasoline under the apartment building!" The yellow-haired man gritted his teeth, "At least we saved them in that ghost story!"
"This way!" Yuan Shanming's tone was much faster. "Thanks to the yellow-haired dog's nose, Xiao Tang and I didn't feel anything wrong when we went downstairs just now. As a result, he said that he smelled a pungent smell, not like rotten meat but more like gasoline. The three of us pretended not to smell the gasoline smell covered by the fishy smell, and came up after dealing with the body!"
"Damn it," Guan Hongyan sighed briefly, "Are you planning to burn all of us to death here?"
"Who knows?" Yuan Shanming cursed, "This way."
He led to the emergency exit on the other side of the apartment building, which was different from the corridor they had just gone down.
"Is it true that Shi Pang's team wants to kill us?" Bai Jinshu felt a little strange. "Then what about the space we entered before?"
If they hadn't encountered that strange space, they wouldn't have come here to look for Shi Pang.
Now it is said that Shi Pang’s message was just intended to lure them over, so what about that space?
"Who knows?" Xiao Tang cursed. "The worst possible outcome is that Shi Pang tricked us into coming here to trigger the second stage, and the strange things we encountered had nothing to do with him. We made a wasted trip and almost died here... Shit!"
There was a crackling sound of burning wood downstairs. Xiao Tang looked down subconsciously and took a small step back: "It's over, it's really lit."
Human beings' fear of fire is ingrained in their bones.
"Let's go. We have to go down!" Bai Jinshu squinted his eyes and took a quick look. "If we run up, we will be finished when the fire comes down!"
"No...I..." Before Xiao Tang could finish his words, Guan Hongyan pulled him down and ran.
"Leave quickly while the fire is still small!" The fire had not had time to spread. The buildings and furniture on the first floor of the ground were soaked in water and could not catch fire for a while. Only gasoline and some flammable materials that could be ignited even if wet were burning on the ground.
There was only a circle of gasoline spilled on the first floor. The flames could not ignite the surrounding soaked furniture, and the wet ground did not catch fire for the time being.
Bai Jinshu estimated that it would not be difficult to escape from here. The problem was actually whether the people outside the sea of fire would make any unexpected interference when crossing that small section of the sea of fire.
The flame burned very high with the help of gasoline. On the other side of the flame, there were some vague shadows that looked roughly human. When they saw them coming out, these shadows did not hide, but stood outside the fire, apparently intending to give everyone a fatal blow when they ran out.
"I know where the fire extinguishers are," Yuan Shanming shouted, waved to the yellow-haired man, and ran towards the depths of the corridor that had not yet burned. "Let's go! Follow me!"
Bai Jinshu also ran over.
Xiao Tang, who was usually very brave when faced with such a situation, suddenly changed her attitude at this moment. She struggled hard in Guan Hongyan's hand: "No! I really can't do it! You guys just go first and leave me here alone! I can't touch fire!"
"If you stay here and the fire starts, you'll die," Guan Hongyan frowned. "The fire isn't that big right now. Even the buildings next to it can't catch fire. Look, Huangmao and the others have already gone to get the fire extinguisher."
"Here," Yuan Shanming quickly kicked open a door and whispered to the people behind him, "Run to the edge of the fire later and throw these things directly outside."
"What is this?" Bai Jinshu looked over.
"Alcohol," Yuan Shanming whispered, "The alcohol stored here is from other team leaders. It's all medical supplies, with a concentration of at least 75%."
"No matter whether those people outside are Shi Pang's team or not, it's dangerous for us to run out," he said quickly in a low voice, "The Xiao He who died earlier was the one they sent to scout the way. We killed him and gave the people outside a signal, so they chose to burn down the entire apartment building and kill us."
Yuan Shanming ran in, took a small bottle of alcohol, opened it and smelled it, then closed the lid and spoke quickly: "If it wasn't the last minute, they wouldn't have chosen to burn down the apartment building. Once the apartment building is burned, the other team leaders they tricked here will quickly discover the problem, and then they won't be able to trick anyone into killing."
"You suspect... that we are the only one missing from the second stage?" Bai Jinshu also learned to open a can of alcohol. A pungent smell came, and it seemed that there was indeed alcohol in it.
"Yes," Yuan Shanming whispered, "I suspect Xiao He came here to count the number of people. After counting, they found that if they killed us, they could start the ghost story again, so they chose to burn the apartment building."
He glanced at the yellow-haired man and said, "If that's the case, these guys will definitely not let us go. We will pretend to run away, and when they are about to attack, we will open the lid of the alcohol and throw it at them."
It is hard to imagine what it would be like for flammable materials to pass through a sea of fire.
"You know the incendiary bottles, right? These are simple incendiary bottles. We'll light as many as we can when the time comes. We'll get out while they're in chaos," Yuan Shanming walked around the room, found a lot of alcohol bottles, and stuffed them into the arms of the team members behind him, "I'll count to one, two, three..."
The alcohol bottle with the lid unscrewed flew through the sea of fire and hit a figure at the door.
The alcohol, mixed with flames, hit him directly, creating a spark that shot up into the sky.
The effect is unexpectedly good.
The figures at the door were caught off guard by the bottles thrown from inside. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yuan Shanming walked directly out of the sea of fire and knocked the figures who were about to attack him to the ground with a stick.
Bai Jinshu came out of the sea of fire and skillfully threw his burning coat to the side, just covering the head of an attacker who looked short.
The □□ that fell to the ground, along with the attacker whose clothes were on fire, turned into a fireball that was difficult to approach. The people who attacked them seemed to have some problems with their brains. When faced with this situation, their first reaction was not to run away, but to continue attacking him with flames all over their bodies.
These people are strange, they don't attack Yuan Shanming.
Yuan Shanming narrowed his eyes and hit several people before he felt something was wrong: "What's going on?"
"Let's deal with it first," Guan Hongyan gritted her teeth, "Ersi, are these people from the Shi Pang team you mentioned?"
"I can't see clearly," Bai Jinshu replied in a raised voice, "his face is completely covered by fire, how can anyone see clearly!"
"Where is Xiao Tang?" Yuan Shanming looked around but could not see any trace of Xiao Tang.
"She hasn't come out yet?" Guan Hongyan looked around and subconsciously wanted to go back to find her.
Just then, the sound of surging waves was heard.
She subconsciously looked in the direction where the sound came from.
In the distance, at the edge of the ocean, nothing can be seen in the dim night. One can only vaguely see that the sea surface seems to be a little closer and waves are rising.
"Stop fighting!" Yuan Shanming looked up, not knowing what he saw, and shouted quickly, "Let's go! Find a house to go into!"
"Xiao Tang! Go to the second floor!" He turned around and shouted to Xiao Tang, then ran towards another house not far away.
No one knew what was happening, but subconsciously followed Yuan Shanming's arrangements. Bai Jinshu followed behind Yuan Shanming and felt the sound of the waves getting closer and closer to him. When he stepped over the last step, he even felt as if the water had submerged his ankles.
Not an illusion.
"Huh..." Guan Hongyan panted, looking at the layer of astonishment that was instantly submerged, "What happened?"
"[Mirage] has been triggered," Yuan Shanming took a deep breath, "I just had enough vitality."
"Ah?" Huang Mao exclaimed, "But we didn't kill that many people?"
How could those who attacked them die so quickly? Even if they were on fire, they couldn't be considered dead, right?
"Maybe...someone else died somewhere other than where we are." Yuan Shanming looked out the window and tapped the window frame subconsciously. "Shi Pang may not have lied to us."
Although it was Xiao He who attacked them, no one could be sure that Shi Pang was the leader who pretended to be the Gu King before meeting Shi Pang in person.
What's more, the best way to survive in N Port which has triggered the second stage is to run. There is no one in N Port during the day, but a bunch of people suddenly appear at night, and some people die in places they don't know. Maybe there is really no one in N Port during the day, and these people come back at night.
As expected of a coastal city, the water in N Port is indeed deep.
"Then why are the sea levels rising?" Bai Jinshu looked down at his feet.
The sea water had spread to the middle of the second floor, and everyone had to go up one floor.
As the sea level rose, some fish also swam along the sea to this new territory. It is estimated that as the sea level dropped, more fish would be forced to be stranded on the streets, becoming the rotten fish that they saw when they entered here.
With the end of the second stage trigger, the fish returned to their normal appearance without the red eyes.
When they first entered here, they speculated why the sea water would rise to this extent, but every speculation was denied. Now that the strange story has been triggered, why did these sea water appear here?
"Mirage," Yuan Shanming waved his hand. "You know the original meaning of this word, it refers to buildings that appear in the distance due to the refraction and reflection of some light. This strange story is similar, that is, when enough vitality is absorbed, a building will appear on the sea."
He pointed into the distance: "That one."
Following his finger, Bai Jinshu and Guan Hongyan looked over.
In the distance on the seashore, there actually appeared an island that looked like a city.
"The sudden appearance of such a large object in the sea will inevitably cause the sea level to rise wildly in a short period of time, just like this," Yuan Shanming pointed around, "Wait until it stabilizes, and then we can start the strange story."
"Brother Yuan, Brother Yuan?" Xiao Tang's voice came from downstairs.
She got a rubber boat floating on the water and paddled directly over to the side.
"Here." The yellow-haired man waved his hand, and Xiao Tang climbed in from the second-floor window along the water surface. As she walked, she complained that everyone was moving too fast and a flood broke out before she could get out.
"What happened?" she asked as she walked.
"The strange story has been triggered," Yuan Shanming's eyes wandered thoughtfully over the distant buildings, and he answered absentmindedly, "Well... we can try this strange story. The water surface has stabilized now, and we can row over. If there are other living people in the area, they should come to try it. If Shi Pang is really here, I can just wait for him outside."
"However," Yuan Shanming retracted his gaze, "Do you know why I didn't tell you what was going on inside the [Mirage]?"
"Why?" Huangmao was very supportive.
"I don't remember," Yuan Shanming spread his hands, "Everyone who entered this strange story didn't remember what happened after they came out."
He pointed to the building in the distance: "And I advise you not to try to resist."
"The team leader has special pardons for some strange stories. You should know this. If you didn't know, you know it now," Yuan Shanming thought for a moment, "About ten... thirteen or fourteen years ago, a friend of mine was very curious about what was inside the [Mirage], but due to public order and morality, he never tried it."
"Coincidentally, there was one time when the two of us were leading a team in Port N, and there was another team trying to trigger Area S, which is the [Port of Raging Waves] where I told you many people would die. Because of the existence of this team, after [Mirage] was triggered, its second stage was completed at an unprecedented speed."
"He went in once when he was a rookie, but forgot what was inside. So he was curious and wanted to go in again, so he dragged me along," he shrugged. "In the end, I guessed that he died because he tried to resist the amnesia caused by the [Mirage]. After all, I've never heard of anyone dying in this strange story, and I don't quite remember how he died."
"So if you guys go in later, I'll ask you for a favor," Yuan Shanming paused, got off the boat, stood on the newly appeared island, and looked in the direction of Huai Jiamu, "If you can still remember after you come out, can you tell me what's inside?"
*
Bai Jinshu suddenly opened his eyes.
In front of me is a familiar ceiling——
His bedroom.
He sat on the bed and subconsciously touched to the right.
The cell phone was placed on the bedside table, flashing today's schedule.
Old Wu said that he had been arranged to star in a variety show and the production crew would come this morning, so he asked him to get ready and not get up late.
Bai Jinshu got off the bed, unplugged the charger from his phone, opened the bathroom door and prepared to take a shower because he smelled terrible.
strangeness.
He paused and sniffed.
There is no smell at all. Isn’t this the smell of his shower gel?
Why did he vaguely feel that he had an unpleasant fishy and rotten smell?
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