Chapter 343: Inhuman (151) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]
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Xu Zichen twitched his lips, looked around, and shouted like Cen Bingqi: "Xiao Tang, what does your being the bait have to do with Huang Mao? He can't be unable to protect himself..."
Although he was not very familiar with the opposing player called Huangmao, after all, this guy was compressed to three or four years old.
As the unlucky guys who were also compressed to three or four years old, except for this unknown yellow-haired guy, the rest, Cen Bingqi, Huai Jiamu, and Xiao Tang, are all masters with unfathomable strength.
You know, even Guan Hongyan was not three or four years old. After being compressed, she was five or six years old.
Huangmao was suppressed until he was three or four years old, so he should at least be better at fighting than Guan Hongyan, right?
Does this warrant such an emphasis on protecting him?
"Why do you care so much?" Xiao Tang curled his lips. "Anyway, this is all I ask. If possible, I'll go tonight. If not, we can just stay here forever."
"Er Si?" Xu Zichen looked at Cen Bingqi.
This girl is in your team. What’s the relationship between her and another member of your team?
Siblings? Brothers and sisters? Or some other emotional entanglement?
Bai Jinshu shrugged, he didn't know either.
However, Xiao Tang's performance was beyond his expectations. He originally thought that Xiao Tang and Huang Mao would keep pretending.
Xiao Tang said she was sure, but this was the first time she asked them this before committing suicide, which showed that she was not very sure.
These two people pretended to be unfamiliar with each other in the beginning, but later on they showed favoritism and protection intentionally or unintentionally. They must have a close relationship. However, when one of them was in danger of dying, the requirement left behind was to protect the safety of the other party. This is something that even teammates with the best relationship and the tightest clout could not do.
At least he wouldn't offer to protect Lu Changfeng before he might die.
If the situation really came to the point where he might die, all his actions would definitely be to increase his chances of survival. Not to mention Lu Changfeng, he would not have time to pay attention to anything that had nothing to do with him, no matter who it was.
This was based on the fact that he had never really died, nor had he really faced a death crisis. The members who were able to enter the investment bank all came in because they had a strong desire to survive when they were dying. Their persistence in life was definitely not something he could compare to. Being able to ask for protection of others at such a critical moment, the relationship between these two people might be closer than he thought.
Bai Jinshu's intuition told him that this was definitely not a relationship between companions, siblings, or lovers.
There is definitely something fishy going on between these two people, and the clues of something fishy have appeared countless times, but they have never noticed it.
It is very likely that he is only one step away from the truth about Xiao Tang and Huang Mao's true situation.
Just like their exploration of the ghost story was only one step away, the clue to the true situation of these two people was only one step away.
Bai Jinshu blinked and did not answer Xu Zichen's question. Instead, he looked up at Xiao Tang and said, "Okay."
"After you are taken away tonight, let Huangmao follow me," he raised his chin towards Huangmao, and then towards Huai Jiamu, "Are you assured about this?"
The implication is that Huangmao's safety is protected by both him and Huai Jiamu.
Xiao Tang might have some doubts about the strength of Ersi, who was also compressed to the age of three or four, but she would definitely not doubt the big ghost story.
Huai Jiamu only made a few moves, which were enough to make Xiao Tang realize that his strength was overwhelming.
"Okay," Xiao Tang agreed readily, as expected. "Then it's settled!"
"Hey wait a minute," Xu Zichen said urgently, "Although there is no problem on your side, there will be problems after you leave."
Facing the gazes of the two people, he groaned and said, "Xiao Tang has shown her face in front of these kids twice, and even pulled Huangmao out of the crowd. It's obvious that she is a sober person who has not taken sleeping pills. She has made her presence felt. After we send her away tonight, she will disappear the next day, which will definitely attract everyone's attention."
This is indeed a problem.
People die here every night, but Zhou Ju's team members had never noticed it before, probably because there were too many people in the shelter, and most of the children who were taken away had a very low sense of existence. They had become stupid because of the medicine, so they simply did not notice the reason why one or two people who had never communicated with them suddenly disappeared.
"But it can be explained," Bai Jinshu said after thinking for a moment, "A few nights ago, we knocked out all the children around ten years old, and drugged the nuns. Now some people in this shelter must know about it, and someone is drugging everyone specifically."
Sleeping pills are prepared for those dull children who are unaware of the nature of this place. Bai Jinshu suspects that the purpose is to let them be carried away unconsciously. In this case, any sober child who does not take sleeping pills will save some of the sleeping pills that he has not taken.
Although a lot of money had been used up before by drugging all the children aged ten years old, but after staying here for a long time, we can still get the money together by finding a few more people.
It’s just that now, apart from them, most people don’t know who drugged them.
Even though Xiao Tang's presence is very high, everyone except her is spending most of their time trying to blend in and pretend to be stupid. Everyone usually tries to reduce communication in front of outsiders. In addition, most people's attention is attracted to Xiao Tang and Huangmao intentionally or unintentionally, so they further ignore the rest of the people.
"Xiao Tang has been very jumpy these past few days, and even provoked other people's sensitive nerves in public several times," Bai Jin said, referring to the several times when she pretended to sigh and poured her portion of rice porridge to Huang Mao, filling his bowl with rice porridge. "It wouldn't be surprising if someone didn't like her at this time and deliberately put drugs in her bowl to kill her."
After all, just like everyone in the investment industry is obsessed with their own cause of death and their desire to survive, these children in the shelter seem to be obsessed with not having enough food to eat every day.
After staying here for several days, Bai Jinshu and the others could vaguely figure out the reason why the daytime became like this. Part of it was that the children who took the medicine would gradually become dull, and part of it was that they really were not full.
Too intense activities, whether physical or mental, will consume unnecessary energy, so the best way to save energy and resist hunger is to sit still and stare blankly during the day.
As long as you stay here for more than three days, you don't need to pretend to be in this state at all. As long as you don't want to collapse from hunger, the best way is to try to be dazed during the day to save energy, and kill others at night to increase your appetite.
Under such circumstances, Xiao Tang repeatedly and deliberately gave Huangmao extra food and shared his share with him. Not to mention others, even Bai Jinshu couldn't help rolling his eyes a few times.
Xiao Tang's mental attack simply doesn't distinguish between friend and foe.
"That... that's fine too," Xu Zichen twitched his lips, "Then we'll discuss who will go tonight later."
Xiao Tang is indeed a master at stirring up hatred.
The final result of the discussion was quite satisfactory.
Since Brother Yin and two other teammates uploaded the data, when discussing tonight's plans, Xu Zichen and Bai Jinshu worked together to find a reason to exclude these three people, and then included Xu Zichen's man - Zhou Zhou.
As Guan Hongyan and Jin Ling go out every night to observe other people's movements, one of the two must go. Since it is inconvenient to communicate with Jin Ling, Guan Hongyan was naturally chosen.
Yuan Shanming was originally going to go with them, but because Huangmao wanted to stay, after everyone's consideration, Yuan Shanming was allowed to stay as well.
It's not just the need to protect Huangmao, but mainly because he is too old. According to Guan Hongyan's observations over the past few days, children in the shelter generally kill each other of the same age group. That is to say, those aged six or seven take away those aged six or seven, and those aged three or four take away those aged three or four. There are very few cases of crossing the line, with younger children taking away older children, or older children taking away younger children.
So with Xiao Tang as the bait, Xu Zichen, Bai Jinshu, and Huai Jiamu must go.
They did not tell Zhou Ju's team about their plan to take the risk, mainly because Bai Jinshu and Guan Hongyan both felt that Zhou Ju was hiding something from them and was not trustworthy.
After deciding on the people for the evening, the few people who were going out in the evening did not go downstairs after dinner and spent the whole afternoon catching up on sleep.
After all, no one can predict what will happen tomorrow night, and it would be too unfair if you missed something because of sleepiness.
Unlike the chaotic night, the afternoon in this ghost story was peaceful. There was no noise outside the window, and no sound in the church hall downstairs. When Bai Jinshu woke up, only a corner of the sunset was left outside the window.
The remaining few people in the room happened to be those who were planning to go out tonight. Bai Jinshu glanced around and saw that Huangmao was also among those who were catching up on their sleep.
"Why is he here too?" Xu Zichen yawned and was startled by the yellow-haired man sitting on the bed next to him.
"If I go out tonight, Huangmao will definitely not be able to sleep," Xiao Tang said confidently, "Why not ask him to come up and catch up on some sleep?"
It's not impossible, but if these two people don't show up together in the afternoon, it will probably cause even greater hatred.
Bai Jinshu yawned and looked down: "Is it time for dinner?"
"We're here, we're here," Guan Hongyan had made up for the morning's sleep and slept for the whole afternoon, now she was refreshed, "Let's go, let's eat, and get ready for tonight."
We'll have to wait tonight to find out what's going on in this shelter.
Dinner was the same rice porridge as before. Bai Jinshu moved the rice in the bowl and saw that it was visibly less. He then looked at the children who were obviously not dull and knew that there was a new person this afternoon.
With the arrival of new people, more people will be killed at night. I'm afraid tonight will not be very peaceful.
After dinner, everyone returned to the room and reconfirmed the evening's plans.
"According to our observation, the order in which the children in each room go out is fixed, but the time is not fixed. Instead, they use the sound of gunfire outside the window as a signal," Guan Hongyan emphasized again, "They did not take sleeping pills like us. Every time the sound of gunfire outside the window was too loud, it would wake up all those who did not take the pills. After the gunfire sounded, those who were ready to take action would get out of bed, and then pick out the unlucky person who took sleeping pills in the room and take him out."
"During this process, the order of each room is fixed," she added, "which means that the sound of gunfire every night will randomly wake everyone up, and then they will leave in batches according to the number of times they are woken up."
After the previous few nights, everyone knew the power of artillery fire at night. No matter how soundly they slept, the dead would fall out of their beds as soon as the artillery fire sounded outside.
In the absence of an alarm clock, this is indeed enough as a sign to wake everyone up.
"According to our observation, the fifth, seventh, and ninth times were the ones that no one triggered." Guan Hongyan marked the time. "I suspect the fifth time was when the person awake in our room originally took action. The seventh and ninth times were too close to dawn. Sometimes the noise at night is a little quieter, so it may not be heard."
"So we sneaked in after everyone was woken up for the fifth time, which was between 3 and 5 a.m.," Guan Hongyan concluded. "That's roughly the situation. Any other questions?"
Everyone shook their heads.
As night fell, the few people who had made up for their sleep in the afternoon naturally couldn't fall asleep.
Xu Zichen and Brother Yin asked a few questions seemingly unintentionally. When everyone put on their earplugs and it was not yet 11:30 when the signal was connected, they ran over to Bai Jinshu and Guan Hongyan and whispered, "Their live broadcasts have not been working well today and last night. I think it may be very difficult to repair."
The problem with the live broadcast room has existed for a long time and has not been fixed yet. This can only mean that either the programmer’s skills are not good enough, or the big weird story that Huai Jiamu mentioned is still suppressing the live broadcast.
Whichever it is, it's good for them.
The sound of artillery fire continued intermittently throughout the night. When the teammate who had fallen asleep was awakened by the sound of artillery fire for the fifth time, Guan Hongyan made a gesture to everyone, and everyone quietly went downstairs. Following her instructions, they learned how those people carried Xiao Tang out of the room.
I don’t know if it’s because she’s shrunk in height or for some other reason, but when Bai Jinshu lifted this person up, she felt exceptionally light.
It is an absolutely morbid and abnormal lightness.
Under normal circumstances, it would be impossible to hit Xiao Tang, who has such extraordinary strength and size, with such lightness.
This is already the thinnest thing possible. If you only look at his weight and not his body shape, you would never imagine that Xiao Tang has enough muscles and strength to fight three people at once.
Obviously, he was not the only one who thought that Xiao Tang was too light. As soon as Xu Zichen lifted him up, he shouted in shock: "Fuck, you are so light?"
"What? Do you have any problem with my good figure?" Xiao Tang opened his eyes a little and rolled his eyes, "Is it difficult to lift it gently?"
"It's easy to lift..." Xu Zichen muttered with a twitch of his mouth, "But your lightness is abnormal?"
People with high muscle density are very heavy, and strength and muscle are most likely linked, so it is obviously abnormal that Xiao Tang is very strong but very light.
But now is not the time to talk about this.
Everyone who was awake was aroused by the fifth loud bang. In the dead of night, there was only the sound of gunfire, and their voices were too easy for others to hear.
Guan Hongyan made a "hush" gesture, and everyone quickly walked downstairs.
After going downstairs, I found that the church door that was closed during the day was pushed open a crack, just enough for three people to pass through side by side. It was obviously left for people to carry people out in the middle of the night.
The moonlight filtered in through the cracks in the door and the stained windows of the church. Surprisingly, it wasn't eerie at all, but rather seemed sacred due to the blessing of the scene.
The group went out through the crack in the door. The ground outside was empty and there was nothing. Zhou Zhou tried to climb out and run outside. After a few minutes, he was teleported back to the door as usual.
This situation was unexpected, yet expected.
Xiao Tang jumped down from the middle nimbly and searched around with everyone else.
The moonlight was very bright and the open space in the shelter was not very large, so it only took me more than ten minutes to walk around. There was indeed nothing there.
"Strange..." Xu Zichen touched his chin, "They left the door open for us, which means something must have happened at night, but there's nothing outside..."
If they left the sleeping child outside, then Zhou Zhou had tried it just now. Nothing happened after he went out. He ran into the thick fog and nothing happened. He was teleported back directly.
"Could it be some unscientific method?" Guan Hongyan was puzzled. "Every night I do see them taking people out and coming back empty-handed. There must be some way for them to get rid of those people."
But what is the method that can leave no traces, require no assistance, and even not spend too much effort?
Everyone looked at each other and saw confusion in each other's eyes.
I was prepared to counter the opponent's moves, but who knew that no one would make a move.
Xiao Tang searched over and over again three or four times, and finally had to admit that there was nothing here.
Everyone looked at each other. Xu Zichen originally suggested that they could wait here until the next team came to observe how they acted. However, before he could finish his words, Guan Hongyan rejected his suggestion.
"No," Guan Hongyan shook her head, "We have observed that when each team leaves, they will check other rooms to see if there are any empty beds. This means that if we don't go back, the next team won't leave."
"Hiss..." This time, even Bai Jinshu was at a loss for ideas, "This is getting difficult..."
There was definitely something wrong with the night in the shelter, but even though they were standing in front of the answer now, they couldn't see any sign of a problem.
"What do you mean?" Zhou Zhou tried again, but was teleported back to the door again. He had no choice but to turn back. "Shall we go back?"
"No, I'll look around again," Xiao Tang was unwilling to give up. I just didn't believe it. How on earth did these people do it at night... Damn it!"
Before she could finish her words, a loud crash was heard in the distance.
The feeling of hearing this sound inside a building and hearing it in an open space is obviously different.
Xiao Tang's ears hurt from the noise and he immediately forgot what he was going to say next.
He looked up and saw that everyone around him was covering their ears, with similar expressions.
"What's going on outside? Demolition?" After the aftermath of the noise passed, Xiao Tang grinned, "What are they doing?"
"This noise is too loud. It will definitely wake up the next group of people," Guan Hongyan frowned. "If we can't get back before the next loud noise, we'll be discovered."
If you go out for too long, problems will definitely be discovered.
"Why don't we go back first..." Guan Hongyan was a little unsure at this time, "If we leave for too long, we might be noticed."
Xiao Tang and Huang Mao alone are enough to stand out.
"Wait a minute," Huai Jiamu suddenly said at this moment, "Did you hear any voices?"
"Where did I say that..."
Xiao Tang was halfway through his words when Xu Zichen suddenly interrupted him: "Shh, there is indeed."
His hearing was better than that of ordinary people. He had not noticed it before, but after Huai Jiamu said this, he did hear a faint human voice among the various chaotic fighting sounds.
"There's someone in the fog outside!" Without waiting for others to figure out, Xu Zichen rushed towards the door, climbed over the iron fence, and ran into the thick fog.
The rest of the people looked at each other, then quickly climbed over the fence and ran into the fog.
Huai Jiamu was right. The closer they got to the thicker fog, the more distinct the voices became. In the end, even Zhou Zhou, who had average hearing, frowned and said, "It really is there."
"I heard this sound twice when I entered the thick fog just now," he suddenly added, "but I thought it was your voice at that time."
If Huai Jiamu and Xu Zichen hadn't suddenly said that someone was talking, he would definitely not have realized that the voice actually came from the fog.
As we ran towards the direction where the sound came from, our eyes suddenly blurred.
"I'm back," Xiao Tang was the first to speak, his tone was inexplicable, "Is that voice outside the transmission line?"
They were walking towards the direction where the sound came from, but they were teleported back before they got there?
"Try again," Bai Jinshu paused for a few seconds and then spoke immediately, "If we can hear their voices, they can definitely hear ours. Maybe this sound is the opportunity to leave here!"
There was no time to think about anything else now, and everyone continued to walk towards the thick fog.
As the vague voice became clearer, everyone started shouting:
"Can you hear me——"
"Can you hear us——"
"Is there anyone—is there anyone—"
"Help--"
The voice of a child before voice change is particularly sharp and more penetrating than the low-frequency voice of an adult.
After shouting for a long time, they still didn't hear the voice respond. They couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and made all kinds of guesses: "Could it be that he can't hear it?"
"Is this voice human? Is it trying to lure us over here?"
"What can this lure you into? There's fog blocking the way. Once you cross the boundary, you'll be teleported back."
"Wait..." Bai Jinshu suddenly looked at Xu Zichen who said this, "Is there fog blocking it?"
"This fog," he frowned and looked into the depths of the fog, "it prevents us from leaving here, and people outside the fog can't hear us talking, but people inside the fog can hear the voices of people outside."
"Yeah." Xu Zichen nodded.
"We always thought it was the fog that was blocking us," Bai Jinshu thought thoughtfully, "but now we can hear their voices, but they can't hear us. We can hear the artillery fire outside, but outsiders can't hear our shouts."
“So is there a possibility…” His voice trailed off, “that it’s not us who are blocked by the fog?”
"Who is that?" Zhou Zhou was confused.
"It's them," Bai Jinshu blurted out, "The people outside are the ones who are blocked."
"Our existence, the existence of this shelter, the sounds in this building, and everything here," Guan Hongyan suddenly understood what he meant, "are all non-existent in their eyes."
"They are the ones who are blocked. No, we are too. We can't get out of here, and they can't come in from the outside!"
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