Chapter 342: Inhuman (150) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]
Of course, speculation is just speculation, and the facts still need to be supported by solid evidence.
Guan Hongyan quietly went upstairs to catch up on her sleep. Among the remaining people, Feng Shuang and Yin Ge were a little worried when they heard that they were planning to look for the bodies of the children who were taken away last night. They took the initiative to offer to help them dig up the bodies, but were directly rejected by Bai Jinshu.
"It's not good to have too many people running at once," Bai Jinshu motioned for them to look around, "We are all three or four years old, not very tall, and won't stand out if we run. But if you run with us, you'll stand out a bit too much."
"That's right," Brother Yin thought for a moment, still a little worried, "Where are you going to go?"
This shelter, which was converted from a church, had only one main entrance, the door inside the church hall through which they entered. Not only was there a loud noise when it was pushed open, but the light that shone through from outside was almost telling the whole world that someone had slipped out.
"Of course we'll climb down from the second floor," Xiao Tang glanced around and said quickly, "Brother Yin, let's not talk about this for now. When the prayer starts, all these people will sit down and it will be difficult for us to run away. Let's go first while there are still people moving around!"
"Ah... ah okay," Brother Yin was stunned for a moment, "Then you guys be careful."
The windows on the second floor can be opened, and of course you can climb down. Although it is a bit high, it should not be too dangerous for these newcomers whose strength is so strong that they are even compressed to three or four years old.
After Xiao Tang finished saying that, he quickly crouched down and went upstairs before the crowd sat down. Bai Jinshu mouthed "You stay here" to Huai Jiamu and followed him upstairs.
Xu Zichen was the last one to nod, and then he disappeared into the crowd in a few flashes.
The reason they didn't let the two of them come together was certainly not because they were afraid of being too conspicuous as Bai Jin said. Wouldn't it be conspicuous for Guan Hongyan to go there to catch up on sleep at this time? They had no intention of joining in the daytime games of pretending to be stupid, so they would be conspicuous if they could.
The reason for not allowing these two people to come is of course that they uploaded their terminal data to the programmer last night, and then opened up some developer permissions to assist the administrator in repairing their live broadcast terminal.
With these two people around who could connect to the live broadcast at any time, wouldn't it be dangerous for those who were planning to do something small?
Xiao Tang was the fastest runner in front. When Bai Jinshu and Xu Zichen arrived, she had already opened the window on the second floor and half of her body was leaning out: "I'll go first!"
Before the two of them could say anything, the girl jumped down.
A few seconds later, Xiao Tang's complaints came from under the window: "Hiss... it hurts, it hurts, it's going to fall apart! Damn, it doesn't look that high..."
"Don't you see how tall you are now..." Bai Jinshu was speechless for a moment, then he climbed up the wall next to him, leaned his head down and asked, "Are you okay?"
Don't sprain your ankle.
"No..." Xiao Tang puffed his lips, stood up on one foot and jumped, "My foot was numb when I jumped down."
Fortunately, only my feet were numb.
The windows on the second floor of the church are originally higher than those of normal residential buildings. Basically, they are opened below the ceiling for the purpose of lighting. In addition, the floor height of this building is also higher than that of normal residential buildings. If you jump down from the window, you have to be at least four or five meters above the ground.
For the former Xiao Tang, this height would have been enough for him to just jump down and then roll forward to relieve the force. But for the current Xiao Tang, who is less than one meter tall, jumping down from here without any protective measures would only cause his feet to become numb. He can be said to be very lucky.
Xu Zichen poked Bai Jinshu's shoulder and said, "What's wrong with this girl?"
So reckless?
Bai Jin said: "...It's harder to kill."
Xu Zichen was shocked.
Bai Jinshu had no intention of challenging the heights with the body of a three or four-year-old child. He half-crouched on the window sill, observed several footholds and climbing points, and then flipped down from above little by little.
Xu Zichen seemed to be much more agile than him. He jumped to the middle in a few steps, then flipped backwards and landed steadily on the ground.
"Hey," Xiao Tang blinked and poked Xu Zichen, "Dude, how did you do that?"
"How did you do that?" Xu Zichen dusted off the dust on the ground, puzzled.
"That one, that one!" Xiao Tang gestured at Xu Zichen's backflip, "I wanted to do that just now! But when I was flipping, I found that my hands, feet and waist were not strong enough at this age. I couldn't exert any power in the air. If I forced myself to complete this action, I would definitely fall headfirst. So I reluctantly changed the way I landed, which numbed my feet."
"I can't do it, how did you do it?" She looked curious.
Xu Zichen twitched his lips: "What do you mean you can't do it? How did I do it..."
Isn’t this girl too confident?
Isn't the subtext of this statement assuming that you must be the best?
Xu Zichen looked at Cen Bingqi silently.
Bai Jinshu nodded slightly.
Apart from other things, Xiao Tang is really strong in terms of natural strength. Although he looks skinny and weak without any muscles, if he really uses his strength, he might be able to knock down four or five big men.
Even he had to admit that in terms of strength alone without mentioning other skills, no one could compare to Xiao Tang.
After being compressed to the age of three or four, from Xiao Tang's perspective, her own strength was not enough to support her to do a backflip and land steadily. It was indeed magical that Xu Zichen could do it.
But obviously if Xiao Tang's strange power is a bug, then Xu Zichen is the biggest bug in this ghost story.
Bai Jinshu glanced at Xu Zichen silently.
Xiao Tang will probably be quite shocked by Xu Zichen today.
Of course, he brought Xu Zichen out to look for the corpse not only because Xu Zichen did not upload the terminal data. Otherwise, among the people who did not upload, wouldn't it be more convenient if he named Guan Hongyan, who was compressed to seven or eight years old, and Yuan Shanming, the oldest of all,?
The reason why he is called Xu Zichen is obviously because Xu Zichen is only four years old now.
As we all know, the King of Assassins became famous at the age of three, reached the top at the age of five, and retired at the age of seven.
In other words, Xu Zichen, who was suppressed to the age of four in this ghost story, is very likely the strongest fighting force in this ghost story, including the two adult nuns.
This was the peak of his career.
*
At lunchtime, the three people who had sneaked out in the morning came back the same way they had come. Their clothes were much dirtier than when they left in the morning. The hems of their pants were the dustiest, and it was obvious that they had dug something outside.
Guan Hongyan had just made up for the morning's sleep and came over yawning, "Did you find anything?"
"I've discovered that this guy is not a human being!" Xiao Tang was the first to complain, "Where does he get all that energy? He turned over 80% of the land. If he went to the countryside to farm, there would be no work for him."
"It's okay," Xu Zichen said with a refreshed look, "If the place here wasn't so small, I could continue digging."
Xiao Tang was dumbfounded, and he turned his aching shoulder joint with an incredible expression: "Damn it, I reported someone for cheating, but everyone else was suppressed to three or four years old, and you acted like nothing happened, why?"
She looked at Xu Zichen unhappily, then turned around and ran to Huangmao to seek confidence.
After a while, a confused voice came from the yellow-haired man, "Sister Tang, why are you arm wrestling with me?"
Xiao Tang: "I'm a little skeptical about life, so I came here to find some confidence."
After knocking the yellow-haired man down in a few seconds, Xiao Tang put his hands on his waist and said, "I said it's definitely not my fault. It's because he's not a human being."
"What's going on?" Guan Hongyan looked at him amused.
"Xiao Tang was provoked," Bai Jinshu shrugged, "She has never been better than Xu Zichen, and she is questioning her life."
"Who wants to compete with him?" Guan Hongyan curled her lips, glanced at Xu Zichen, and asked, "Hey, you guys haven't said anything yet. I saw you guys digging for something. Did you find anything?"
"Unfortunately, there is nothing." Bai Jinshu shook his head. "We have basically dug up everything here. Not to mention corpses, there is not even a bone in the soil. Those people who were taken away at night definitely cannot be buried in the soil."
Of course, one morning is not enough time for three three or four-year-old children to dig three feet deep. Moreover, if the body was really buried underground, it was buried by children of only seven or eight years old, so it is impossible for the body to be buried very deep.
The land that has been refilled after renovation is different from normal land. As long as you dig up the top layer and observe the condition of the soil underneath, you can tell whether the soil has been turned over and refilled recently.
If any piece is particularly soft, dig down to see if you can dig something out.
They spent the entire morning doing this work, and all the land within the shelter was verified in this way. The final result was that there was probably nothing underground here except tree roots and flower seeds.
This also means that the children who leave here every night do not dispose of the bodies by burying them.
As the saying goes, no clues are the best clues. Since it was not a landfill, the most likely way of dealing with it was to transport the children they killed to the outside world in some way, and it is very likely that the two nuns were involved in this method.
Xiao Tang, full of energy, asked someone to twist Xu Zichen's wrist. After winning, she started to mutter that Xu Zichen was a beast. Bai Jinshu handed her to Guan Hongyan and told everyone the clue.
Since the way the bodies were disposed of might be related to the two nuns, based on Zhou Ju and his team's previous experience, it was impossible to leave here normally. The only successful case was when a team member used someone else's identity and pretended to be someone else and left.
Soon everyone thought of whether they could pretend to be "dead people" who had been disposed of and be taken away through the same channels as corpse disposal.
"Can you get away by pretending to be dead?" Feng Shuang was very direct.
"No," Guan Hongyan refused directly, "We tried it the past two nights, but they were very alert and we couldn't follow them. We couldn't find a chance to observe them."
"And we don't know exactly how they deal with the bodies," Bai Jinshu frowned and added, "I'd rather not do anything tonight and observe how they do it. Do they kill the people first or transport them alive? Do they deal with it themselves or do they have someone special to pick them up? It's too dangerous to just go in rashly."
Jinling's age was compressed, and the distance she could control the insects to move forward became shorter. She had no way of putting the insects in the other person's clothes and following them out to observe.
The insect that she secretly handed to Xu Zichen yesterday was the one she used in her experiment. This morning, as soon as Xu Zichen and his friends left the building, the little beetle that had been under her control turned into an ordinary insect and flew away through Xu Zichen's sleeve when he was not paying attention.
Her control range is only within the building. Even if she stands at the edge of the building tonight, the bugs will become ineffective once those people move away.
"What should we do?" Brother Yin thought for a moment, "Can't we pretend to be the dead being carried out, and pretend to be the ones carrying people out, and just catch a random unlucky guy?"
"Okay," Guan Hongyan spread her hands, "but I won't participate. I can't bear to send a child to death with my own hands."
This is indeed a problem.
Everyone looked at each other, and no one dared to say that they would participate.
There aren't many people who really feel uncomfortable about it, but after Guan Hongyan said that, most people would not dare to show their support in front of others due to face and public morality.
After a long silence, Bai Jinshu made the final decision: "Since we don't know anything, it's not safe to rush in. Why don't we try to disrupt their rhythm tonight?"
"For example, if the two nuns were drugged and the two people who handled the bodies hadn't shown up, then all the procedures in this chain would have gone wrong tonight."
"I think this is okay," Xiao Tang continued, "If they rely on the nuns to deal with the bodies, then tonight will definitely be a mess."
The children who were given sleeping pills will definitely not wake up. It depends on their plan whether to observe the subsequent developments or replace them directly.
They did it right away. Considering that the two nuns were adults, the person who sneaked into the kitchen before dinner time put a whole tablet of medicine in them.
When night fell and the sound of gunfire outside the window gradually became louder, Jinling's insects also took up position in front of each room.
"I asked around today," Xu Zichen whispered to Bai Jin, "I think only Brother Yin, Feng Shuang, and You Yi uploaded data last night. The live broadcast signal was not restored during the day. I asked them to take a look before going to bed at night, and they were still disconnected. But when the signal comes back at night, it may not be the case."
After all, poor signal during the day may be a signal problem in the uninhabited area, but when the signal comes in at night, garbled characters in the live broadcast room are the bug reported by everyone.
"If we are woken tonight, let's not talk about anything too obvious."
What Xu Zichen meant by this was that the live broadcast would most likely return to normal on the terminals of these three people tonight. If they successfully replaced each other's identities, they'd better be careful in what they say and do so as not to reveal their identities.
Bai Jinshu nodded, indicating that he understood.
Based on the experience of the previous two nights, the live broadcast signal will return to normal at around 11 o'clock, and then large snow screen fault bars and garbled characters will appear after the live broadcast room is connected.
In order to prevent anything from being broadcast live, everyone on the first night watch said nothing. Bai Jinshu just closed his eyes and listened to the continuous gunfire outside the window.
Nothing unexpected happened until the shift change, and the live broadcast room was connected as usual at around eleven o'clock, but they were still seeing garbled characters.
Bai Jinshu and Guan Hongyan exchanged glances. Xu Zichen probably told her about the special circumstances tonight in the morning. After waking up, she didn't say anything, but just made an obscure gesture to indicate to Bai Jinshu to pay attention tonight. She and Jin Ling were already ready for tonight.
A child of three or four years old couldn't resist being sleepy, and Bai Jinshu quickly buried himself in the quilt after changing shifts.
He was woken up several times during the night, and people kept coming in and out. Bai Jinshu forced himself to wake up several times with his sleepy eyes open. Guan Hongyan saw this and whispered to him, "There's a problem. Go to sleep first. You may not be able to leave tonight."
Bai Jinshu looked up and saw that Jin Ling was not there, Yuan Shanming was not there, and Brother Yin from the other team was not there either.
His brain was so sleepy that it couldn't work. He looked at the watch with the last bit of energy left. It was half past five and dawn was almost dawn.
The next morning, as the sun rose, Bai Jinshu opened his eyes first.
The room was quiet and most people were sleeping. Only Guan Hongyan, Yin Ge, and Jin Ling's beds were empty.
It was breakfast time when the three of them came back late and sat down at the last minute.
Since they arrived late, there was only room at the very end when they got there. They were a long way away from Bai Jinshu and the others. Bai Jinshu could only watch them drowsily. He nearly fell into his bowl several times and finished the meal with great difficulty.
After finishing the meal, Guan Hongyan immediately found them and said, "I will finish talking to you in one breath and then go to sleep. Don't interrupt me or ask questions. If you have any questions, wait until I wake up from my afternoon nap."
"Jinling and I went out the whole night last night. Just like the night before, people kept taking sleeping children out last night. We observed them for the first half of the night, but they didn't seem to notice anything. The children they took out were gone when they came back."
"She's still missing?" Xu Zichen couldn't help but interrupt, "Have you guys confirmed that the nun is awake?"
"Don't interrupt," Guan Hongyan rubbed his forehead and answered, "The nun was asleep. Jin Ling went to see them. The two of them didn't wake up all night."
"When it was almost dawn, all the people were finally carried out. We suspected that they were not killing people, but were only responsible for transporting people outside the building, and then waiting for all the people to be transported away together, so we didn't notice that the nun was not there tonight," Guan Hongyan rubbed her temples. "So when it was dawn in the morning, I took Brother Yin and Jin Ling out again, but the strange thing was that there was nothing outside the building, no corpses, no children tied together, no signs of escape, and those children who were taken out seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, or were dealt with."
"So weird..." Bai Jinshu couldn't help but whispered.
Guan Hongyan looked extremely sleepy and spoke quickly, "This is roughly the situation. We searched everywhere this morning, and you won't find any clues even if you look outside. I personally suspect that the problem lies with the children who carried the body out. You can take your time to figure out the rest. Call me for lunch."
The two of them watched her quickly go upstairs to catch up on some sleep and looked at each other.
That's strange.
This means that everything that happened last night definitely had nothing to do with the two nuns, or the corpse did not need to be handled by the two of them.
Originally, they thought that the process of dealing with corpses would require the participation of adults to some extent, but the process continued even after the two nuns were knocked unconscious. This either meant that it had nothing to do with them, but that these children who were playing dumb had their own efficient way of dealing with corpses that would not leave any traces.
This guess is a bit too far-fetched.
Otherwise, it can only mean that these two people have built a very perfect processing process in this shelter, which can run completely even when they are not there.
This possibility is higher.
But this means that the death every night is the result of their tacit approval or even encouragement, which is inconsistent with Xu Zichen's guess.
In this case, the standard for leaving here and whether the so-called organization actually exists are questionable.
"What do you mean?" Xu Zichen frowned, "Why don't we try to blend in tonight?"
At this point, there is no other way.
If you want to know what happened at night, blending in is the most convenient way.
If they were still in normal physical condition and of normal age, they would have mentioned this option as the first one a long time ago. However, the previous experience of Zhou Ju's team was there. Even though their team members did not take sleeping pills and could not be woken up, they still disappeared mysteriously at night.
Could it be that the children here have some non-materialistic means that they have not yet discovered?
Bai Jinshu sighed, "I really have to mess around now."
The bizarre bug in the live broadcast, what Huai Jiamu said, and the strange mechanism in this ghost story made him inclined not to take risks, but now all the indirect methods are useless. Unless he enters it personally, there is really no way.
Not everyone is willing to take the risk, but the danger lies in the fact that the person chosen by them to become the bait will most likely be in danger, so I'm afraid no one is willing to do it.
"I can go... I'm sure nothing will happen. At my age, most adults who haven't received special training can be killed by me," Xu Zichen thought thoughtfully, "but there is a problem. I can't guarantee that I will bring back the news, nor can I guarantee that I can come back."
After all, if he was treated as one of the victims every night, he would most likely not be able to come back after leaving here.
If this is the way to leave here, then he will go straight to an uninhabited area after he goes out. The team members left inside can neither be sure that this method will work nor be sure whether he is dead or alive.
And after losing one of the strongest fighters, the danger level of staying here will increase dramatically.
From this perspective, blending in would result in the loss of a team member, without gaining any information at all.
"Hey?" Xiao Tang popped up from nowhere, "I have an idea."
Xu Zichen was startled: "Oh my god, when did you come?"
"Just now," Xiao Tang blinked, raised his chin towards Xu Zichen, and said to Bai Jinshu, "I have a candidate who is more reliable than this guy."
Is there anyone more reliable than him?
Xu Zichen raised his eyebrows in disbelief: "Who?"
Xiao Tang: "Me."
Xu Zichen: “Ah?”
Wasn't this girl hit hard by him yesterday, and now her confidence is back?
"No, if I'm sent out, I'm sure I can come back." Xiao Tang raised his eyebrows, imitating him. "But I have a trade-off."
"What?" Bai Jinshu seemed to have guessed it.
Sure enough, Xiao Tang glanced and stared into Xu Zichen's eyes: "When I'm not around, you must protect Huangmao."
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