Chapter 332: Inhuman (140) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]
Bai Jinshu glanced at Guan Hongyan sharply: "Why do you think that thing broke free? Have you been to customs again?"
Not really.
Yuan Shanming's behavior just now didn't seem like Guan Hongyan had re-entered the customs, and the Nightmare Heart was not in their hands, so it was impossible for Guan Hongyan to fail in entering the ghost story again.
Although the dragon in the subway is strange, generally speaking, an earthquake occurred in the location. In the Novice Village, shouldn’t the first possibility be that a certain team triggered a large-scale S-level ghost story?
Why does it remind me of the dragon in the subway station?
"No, I didn't go to the customs this time," Guan Hongyan waved her hand, looked around, and put something in Bai Jinshu's hand, and said quickly, "I doubt this thing."
Bai Jinshu raised his hand and took a look at what Guan Hongyan stuffed into his hand. It was a very strange bead.
He originally thought that this thing was similar to a pearl, with a lustrous pearly white color all over. However, when he turned his finger, he found that there was a dark black dot on the back of the white bead, right in the middle of his palm.
In an instant, it turned from a pearl into an eyeball.
If you were a timid person, you would probably throw the thing in your hand away.
Bai Jinshu twisted it and confirmed that the "eyeball" was hard. Then he looked at Guan Hongyan and asked, "What is this?"
"The bead that Brother Yuan mentioned," Guan Hongyan motioned him to put it away, "is the bead you will get after completing [Mirage]."
"Is that thing?" Bai Jinshu glanced behind him. The two of them were talking while running and had already fallen to the back of the crowd.
The heat wave belatedly attacked everything. In open areas such as mountains, forests and grasslands, it was extremely easy for the fire to spread freely and form a circle on its own, trapping people in the middle.
Leaving the fire point before the fire circle forms is the first thing to pay attention to when accidentally causing a forest fire.
Even if this area is divided into upwind and downwind directions, the direction of the fire spread is uncontrollable. At this time, the farther you run towards the upwind direction, the better.
The team leaders in the No Man's Land were indeed experienced, as could be seen from the fact that they decisively gave up on extinguishing the fire and hastily packed up all the luggage with their team members and escaped immediately.
However, these more than a hundred people were not running in one direction, but were scattered in different directions.
Those who camped near the subway station were new team members who had just entered the no-man's land. Their numbers had not yet been reduced, and each team consisted of ten neat people.
The team leaders ran in front, and the team members behind followed. Yuan Shanming seemed to be really unfamiliar with the uninhabited area. As he ran, he found that everyone had dispersed. He could only follow the team closest to him in a daze, calling out to the team members behind him to hurry up.
Bai Jinshu closed his palms, looked at Guan Hongyan, and quickly asked before they approached the main force: "Where did you get it? Why didn't you tell me?"
How could he remember not having seen this thing? As soon as they came out of the [Mirage], they fell into the sea, then swam ashore and entered that strange building. They never saw this pillar from beginning to end. Could it be that Guan Hongyan and Xiao Tang got it when they were on the sea?
Then why didn't either of them mention it once?
"It wasn't me," Guan Hongyan blinked awkwardly, obviously forgetting to mention this to him, "Nianyu took it."
Reading words?
"Didn't she come out from the normal exit?" Guan Hongyan blinked. "According to what she said, when she came out, there was no one around except her. The bead was on a white platform not far away. After she took it, Brother Yuan took it. Later, other people came out one after another."
"Then why didn't I hear her mention it..." Bai Jinshu frowned slightly.
"That's because we haven't come out yet. The island behind us disappeared, so Brother Yuan and Nian Yu have been waiting for us in that area of the sea. After we came up, they told us about the strange buildings they saw and showed Brother Yuan the signs," Guan Hongyan said as she ran, still having the energy to spread her hands. "I forgot about that and didn't tell you."
Later, when Guan Hongyan and Jin Ling were changing clothes in the same room, Nian Yu remembered this matter. The two of them studied it but couldn't figure out anything. Jin Ling's fighting ability was average, so they simply gave the bead to Guan Hongyan for safekeeping.
Bai Jinshu nodded thoughtfully.
It was probably the time when Xiao Tang came to see her. He and Xiao Tang were discussing Shi Pang's matter, while Guan Hongyan and Jin Ling were studying the bead. No wonder no one came to see them after Xiao Tang closed the door.
Yuan Shanming had no idea what the bead was used for. He only said that it could be exchanged for points after being taken out. Guan Hongyan naturally did not take it seriously at first. She just put it on her body and followed Yuan Shanming to the subway station.
After entering the subway, they entered the temporary map where the members of the subway station ghost story were located and fought each other as usual. Just when not enough lives were lost to start the subway, suddenly, the temporary map shook and an earthquake began.
"At first I thought it was a built-in mechanism of this map. Since no one was dead when the time was up, they just sent down a natural disaster to kill a few unlucky people and start the subway. Then I quickly found a safe place to stay," Guan Hongyan said as she took the beads back from Bai Jinshu. "I didn't expect the earthquake to become more and more severe. In the end, everyone who was still in the temporary map was kicked out."
"As soon as I opened my eyes, I was directly in the subway."
The next thing they knew was that all the team members who were taken out of the copy saw the subway platform and the team leader who came back in a hurry.
Yuan Shanming suddenly felt an earthquake when he was at the customs, and then all the windows were closed one by one. The staff of the Subway Ghost Story stopped processing and opened a green channel for all the team members who had not had time to enter their information, and let the team leader take them away directly.
"I just vaguely feel that this matter has something to do with me," Guan Hongyan lowered her voice, "Why is it so strange? Brother Yuan said that there have been no problems with the subway for such a long time, but we encountered problems twice."
Guan Hongyan took the subway three times in total. The first time she went into the customs and Suolongjing with everyone else, the second time she left safely, and the third time she encountered an earthquake.
There were only two things in common between the first and third incidents: one was that Yuan Shanming and Guan Hongyan were both involved, and the other was that they both carried rare materials produced by ghost stories.
If it was the former, then the same thing should have happened the second time. After such a comparative experiment, the only possible problem was that he was carrying materials produced by ghost stories.
In addition, the element of subway horror is that enough passengers need to be sacrificed to gather enough energy to launch it once, and the triggering of [Mirage] requires a certain amount of deaths. The triggering conditions of these two are too similar.
It’s no wonder that Guan Hongyan would think of issues related to this bead.
“But I’m confused now,” Guan Hongyan touched his chin. “According to Brother Yuan, each team that leaves [Mirage] will get one of these things. Although we don’t know the specific use, there must have been people who took it on the subway before us. How come nothing happened before? It couldn’t have happened the last time we went in…”
She didn't finish the rest of her words, but Bai Jinshu already understood.
The last time they went in, after entering the well, he accidentally cut off a chain with the Ogawa kitchen knife in his hand. That directly caused the death of a large number of members of the Subway Ghost Story team. At the same time, when they fled from here, everyone knew in their hearts that the dragon was definitely closely related to the subway.
However, due to limited vision, no one knew what was outside the pillar or what they had done. They could only vaguely sense that they had destroyed some important elements of this weird subway story.
Guan Hongyan suspected that, assuming they had accidentally unlocked the dragon's seal a little bit last time, then bringing this "eyeball" into the subway this time might have stimulated it and caused the earthquake.
And it was obvious that she was not the only one who carried this thing on the subway. Every team that participated in "Mirage" held an "eyeball" in their hands. It is very likely that because there were too many people carrying it, it caused its overreaction.
But Guan Hongyan didn't expect that the earthquake in the subway also occurred in the uninhabited area, resulting in the situation that everyone had to run away before the fire spread.
While the two were talking, the newcomers and team leaders who were originally gathered near the subway station had already dispersed, leaving only the team that Yuan Shanming was following in front of them still in sight.
Just when Guan Hongyan stayed behind and talked to Bai Jinshu, there seemed to be some accident ahead and the team suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong?" Bai Jinshu was the first to raise his head and look over.
The leader in front had stopped and looked warily at Yuan Shanming and the team members following him: "Why are you following us?"
"Your tone is not friendly..." Bai Jinshu said softly.
Yuan Shanming was already standing in front of them. He probably chose the same excuse as Xiao Tang had just said to him: "We are a new team in W District. We escaped from N Port. There was a Gu King killing people indiscriminately over there, and a S-style story that triggered a condition that required a lot of deaths was triggered. I could only run away from N Port with my team members."
The flow of information in the Novice Village is very slow. According to Bai Jinshu's observation, the team leaders here don't actually have any way of contacting each other. They don't exchange communication methods. The friend function in the investment bank's terminal can only be used for one-way communication here and cannot create groups or build information platforms.
This means that the spread of information is limited and it circulates almost only among acquaintances.
The habits of the team leaders in the Novice Village mean that most of their acquaintances are other team leaders in the same area, which further limits the spread of information. It is difficult for things happening in one area to be transmitted to another area.
Previously, the news that there was a Gu King in N Port caused a small commotion in the customs of the subway. There were team leaders from all regions present at the time. This news should have spread to the whole new village.
However, strange stories like [Mirage] which are not often triggered in N Port are not known to the outside world.
After Yuan Shanming made this excuse, the leader's alert expression in front of him obviously eased a little, but he still did not let down all his vigilance: "Are you the leader of Port N? Why did you choose this place if you have never been to Area W?"
Each area has its own characteristics, and Area W is obviously a famous "Don't come if you have no experience" area.
"This... I really didn't plan to come here, I was forced to do so," Yuan Shanming laughed bitterly, "You probably don't know, the earthquake just now is related to the subway. I'm afraid the subway never recovered after the last accident, and it happened again this time, so we were forced to stop here. I'm afraid that the team members will die in large numbers in the subway like last time, so I have to bring them out."
The subway is filled with tour leaders from all over the Novice Village, and news of the subway accident must spread the fastest among the tour leaders, so there is no need to lie about this.
The team leader looked at him, then clicked on his own live broadcast room a few times, as if asking about his friend's situation. After a few minutes, his expression became much friendlier.
"Is that so?" He put down his hand, looked at Yuan Shanming and the team members behind him, and said in a gentle tone, "Don't blame me for my bad attitude just now. In Area W, the default habit of all descendants is not to follow other teams. You don't know because you haven't been here. I don't blame you."
He waved to Yuan Shanming, motioning him to talk while walking.
The few newcomers behind him also looked curiously at the team members who escaped from Port N.
Bai Jinshu and the others followed behind and finally heard more detailed information about the No Man's Land from the local leader.
"W District is very big, but there are few lines here. Once you get out of the subway station, you won't see any people from other stations. The area is vast and sparsely populated, and the entry threshold is high," he said to Yuan Shanming as they walked. "I won't talk about the former, and the latter is the main reason why I was so wary of you before."
The no-man's land is too big, and ghost stories and the dead do not have fixed locations. If you want to lead a team here, you must be familiar with the places where these ghost stories will appear. The entry threshold is high because all the leaders here do not communicate with each other. Everyone has different routes in their hands. There are only so many parts that a ghost story will pass through, and it will be affected by various factors. If someone intercepts it, there will be one less.
The "ghost story timetable" in the hands of the W zone leader is their important resource, and each leader leads a different route.
There is no exchange of resources, and secretly following other teams is just trying to intercept the other party's strange talk. No wonder there seemed to be many teams just now, but when you turn around, everyone dispersed and went in different directions.
In the eyes of the strange leader, their following behind him might be a provocation.
Upon hearing this, Yuan Shanming nodded a little awkwardly. According to this statement, the strange team leader had already shown good temper by not fighting with them directly.
"Since you are unlucky to be here, I won't say much," the strange leader patted his shoulder, "but let me be clear, although you are unlucky, I can't tell you the route I know and let you follow me all the time. The most I can do is point you in a direction that is most likely not taken by anyone."
This is also to protect his own team members.
The leader opened his mouth by saying that he came from N Port. What kind of place is N Port? It is a gathering place for S ghost stories. Any leader who dares to jump there is either desperate and about to not be able to pay the life-extending points and is going to take a gamble, or his team members are of extremely high quality and he is also very confident.
Judging from the current situation, I'm afraid it's the latter.
After running such a long distance, his ten newcomers were all out of breath, but the six team members following behind the leader looked calm and not out of breath at all. What's more, he had just noticed that the last two members of the team, a man and a woman, had been communicating alone while running.
Being able to maintain continuous communication while running shows that his lung capacity and physical fitness are definitely abnormal and far superior to those of normal people.
He was afraid that his newcomers would be used as shields by letting these people get involved in the ghost story along with his team members.
Yuan Shanming understood what he meant very well.
He had just randomly chosen someone to follow, thinking that since the other party was a local leader, the place they were going to must be safe, which would be better than running around on his own. He hadn't expected that Zone W had such a tradition.
"Okay," Yuan Shanming nodded, and didn't argue. "This is my first time here, so I don't know what the situation is. I met a friend in the No Man's Land before. He just finished leading a team and is not in the Novice Village these days. He gave me a general direction. Brother, please just point me in the right direction."
This so-called "friend who leads the team in the no-man's land" is probably Shi Pang, and the direction was also given by Shi Pang.
Although it is not known what this S ghost story that Shi Pang is referring to is, it is obvious that Yuan Shanming talked to him about something before deciding to take everyone with him. This is definitely related to the "secret" that the two of them are unwilling to tell everyone.
When the strange team leader they followed heard Yuan Shanming's words, his expression became much more relieved. Since the other party had a friend who was the team leader in zone W to lead the way, it meant that they had other routes and naturally would not come to steal his ghost story.
He readily pointed the way according to the direction given by Yuan Shanming, and told Yuan Shanming that they could walk together for a distance before parting ways.
Perhaps he felt that this group of unlucky newcomers who were forced here were not able to survive the night with the simple equipment they brought with them, so he was kind enough to give them some equipment.
Although it’s not much, if you use it sparingly it can last for two or three days. This is the best we can do.
The group walked forward for a distance, and then Yuan Shanming led everyone in another direction according to the direction he had pointed out before.
When the next team was no longer visible, Yuan Shanming sighed and said, "The things we have are only enough to keep us here for two or three days. If we can't find that seasonal weirdo within these days, we'll be in trouble."
Shi Pang obviously didn't know the exact location of this strange thing. He only gave a vague direction and said that according to what he knew, he would be able to encounter it by walking in this direction.
The landforms in Zone W look similar to those of the African savannah, with endless plains and sparse vegetation, as well as various wild animals that occasionally appear among them. It really looks like a wilderness survival adventure.
The road that no one had walked on was overgrown with weeds, and there were often various dirt puddles or animal feces on the ground. Everyone went in scattered at the beginning, but gradually they took turns to lead the way, and the rest followed in a line behind him.
When it was Bai Jinshu's turn, it was already getting dark. The cries of wild beasts in the distance could be heard all around. Yuan Shanming took out a high-power fishing light from a store in Port N from his backpack and gave it to the yellow-haired man in the middle of the team. He also took a big torch from Xiao Tang.
According to the strange leader, there are many kinds of wild beasts in Area W, and ordinary flashlights cannot deter them. Only torches that emit heat and warm light after being lit can scare away most wild beasts.
Bai Jinshu walked in front holding a torch, and the yellow-haired man in the middle held a high-power flashlight to illuminate the way ahead.
After walking a short distance, Bai Jinshu, who was walking in front, suddenly exclaimed.
"What's wrong?" Yuan Shanming asked quickly.
"There seems to be someone ahead..." Bai Jinshu frowned and raised the torch a little higher, "I seemed to see a figure flash by just now."
"Is there anyone?" Yuan Shanming's first reaction was to take the flashlight from the yellow-haired man and asked worriedly, "Will we run into another team?"
According to the strange leader, it is no good to meet other teams in zone W. If you meet a team going in the same direction, then the two teams have the same destination and will inevitably fight. If you meet a team going in the opposite direction, it only means that the strange story of the direction you are going to is likely to have been taken by the other party.
This situation is the worst.
Yuan Shanming is now worried about the direction they are going, as the ghost story has already been completed by the other party.
"It doesn't look like another team." Fortunately, Bai Jinshu dispelled his worries with the next sentence, "I only saw two people just now, and they hid after a flash. They don't look like a team."
Even if it is a team, if only the leader and one team member are left in the end, they will most likely not be able to complete the S ghost story.
It’s more accurate to say that the team was massacred by S Ghost Story.
"Do you want to go over and take a look?" Bai Jinshu turned around to seek advice.
"Let's take a look," Xiao Tang waved his hands, rubbing his hands, "There are only two of them anyway, they can't beat us in a fight. If we really meet that S monster, we can ask about the situation in advance. Besides, if we travel in the W area at night without a torch, who knows what these two people are thinking, whether they are planning to sneak attack the passing team."
Guan Hongyan nodded, obviously agreeing with this statement.
Huangmao and Jinling also nodded.
Most people agreed. Yuan Shanming also agreed after thinking for a few minutes. The flashlight was passed to Bai Jinshu and pointed in the direction of the figure he had just seen.
The figure was obviously hiding from them, and there was no one at the place just now.
Unfortunately, this flashlight is a fishing light used by fishermen in the port. It is bright in nature. In order not to attract too much attention from wild animals, Huangmao had been turning it on at a low speed. Bai Jinshu moved his finger and turned it directly to the highest speed.
The built-in fan of the flashlight suddenly started to spin, and the large open space in front suddenly became as bright as day. Two figures hiding behind the tree suddenly appeared under the light and turned and ran.
Xiao Tang was ready to go. As soon as the light came on, he rushed over. Before the two men could run far, he grabbed one of them and said, "Don't run!"
The girl she held down was a long-haired girl. Xiao Tang didn't use heavy hands on the girl. As soon as she was held down, she started to struggle violently, shouting incoherently: "What do you want to do! Who are you! What do you want to do!"
"No, sister?" Xiao Tang was confused by her intense reaction. "What can I do to you? Shouldn't I be the one asking you this? What were you two doing sneaking around behind the tree just now?"
The girl continued to struggle as if she couldn't hear anything: "Let me go! Let me go!"
"Hey, you still don't listen when I talk to you nicely?" Xiao Tang laughed, "Then I'm not very nice to talk to you..."
"Xiao Tang," Bai Jinshu suddenly said, "behind!"
"I know—" Xiao Tang said in a long tone, twisted back suddenly, caught a thick-looking wooden stick with his free hand, and hit the attacker's leg with his backhand, knocking him back and sitting on the ground. "I haven't had time to catch you yet, and you come here on your own?"
Both of them were knocked down by her. The girl with long hair stared at Xiao Tang with hatred, obviously thinking she was a bad person.
Xiao Tang was also happy to be the bad guy. He held the attacker's stick in his hand, shaking it back and forth, and said nonchalantly: "Which one of you is the leader?"
"What leader?" the girl answered viciously, "I don't know."
"Hey, hey, hey, there's no point in playing dumb..." Xiao Tang drew out her tone and was about to say something when she heard Yuan Shanming suddenly stop her.
"Xiao Tang!" Yuan Shanming's eyes stayed on the live broadcast room for a moment, and he said, "These two people are definitely not the team leaders."
"Ah?" Xiao Tang scratched his head. "Is that a team member? So fierce? This is a weird story. Is the team leader dead?"
"We are nothing!" The boy who attacked her from behind summoned up the courage to shout, "We are just passing by! You are the ones who came up and beat us up for no reason!"
"Do you think I believe it..." Xiao Tang was speechless.
"Really not," At this moment, Bai Jinshu said thoughtfully, "They don't have a live broadcast room."
Just now, his audience volunteered to go to the other side to see what was going on over there. As a result, after searching for a long time, they actually couldn't find the other side's live broadcast room.
If there is no live broadcast room, it only means that you are neither a newcomer nor a team leader.
Then the two of them...
"Are they both indigenous people?" Xiao Tang asked in disbelief.
Are they the indigenous people of the Novice Village?
"How is that possible?!"
"Isn't this a no-man's land?!"
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