Chapter 350: Inhuman (158) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]
Yuan Shanming closed his eyes in despair.
It is unknown where Xiao Tang's obsession with Lao Guan's women's clothing came from, but everyone worked together to force Zhou Ju into a desperate situation and force her to reveal her cards. The tension and oppression created by the conversation disappeared after she opened her mouth.
In addition to the expressions of wanting to laugh but being too embarrassed to do so, many people's eyes wandered back and forth on Zhou Ju, with a hint of horror flashing in their eyes from time to time. It was probably because they began to associate Zhou Ju with the Lao Guan in the illusion, and they couldn't imagine how Zhou Ju would become Lao Guan.
Zhou Ju's face was originally red after being exposed, but after Xiao Tang said this, it turned bright red. His lips moved, as if he wanted to say something but didn't know where to start. He wanted to curse but didn't have enough confidence or position. For a moment, his whole face was blue and green, very colorful.
If she had not been forced into a desperate situation by everyone just a few seconds ago, Bai Jinshu believed that Zhou Ju would definitely curse at her.
The scene was in a very awkward situation for a while. Bai Jinshu saw Guan Hongyan take a deep breath and exchange a glance with Jin Ling. Finally, he could no longer bear it and slapped Xiao Tang on the head: "Can you be serious?"
"Hiss..." Xiao Tang covered his forehead exaggeratedly, saying aggrievedly, "What's wrong with that? My guess is well-founded!"
"Where is the reason and evidence..." Guan Hongyan was puzzled, "Where is the reason and evidence in Lao Guan's women's clothing?"
"That must be based on facts. She has a close relationship with this strange story!" Xiao Tang pointed at Zhou Ju, "Isn't that right?"
There were so many things wrong with Zhou Ju.
Without mentioning the wrong information at the beginning, just talking about today, she was not surprised that someone died, and she even seemed to know who was going to die; they dug up each other's past, and halfway through there was a new turn of events, and it was an ambulance that had never appeared here before; everyone was reluctant to get in the car, and Zhou Ju directly said that the bodies of everyone who entered here were not their original bodies.
No matter how you look at it, he knows a lot, and it seems like he is connected to the ghost stories and working with them.
"That's not Lao Guan in women's clothing... You really dare to think so," Bai Jinshu touched his forehead, "Okay, okay, let's ask, Zhou Ju, this isn't your first time entering this strange story, right?"
Zhou Ju's face flickered back and forth, and finally stopped at an expression of helplessness and disappointment. He relaxed all of a sudden: "Yes, it's not."
She admitted it so directly that everyone was confused.
Xu Zichen had a lot of inferences in his mind, but now they were all stuck in his throat and he couldn't say them out. He was choking and looked like he wanted to say something but couldn't.
"Hey, are you really the team leader?" Xiao Tang leaned his head out and asked.
"She really is," Yuan Shanming interrupted, "I added Zhou Ju as a friend last night, and she really is the team leader, and her name is her real name."
"So you really killed your teammates on purpose?" Xiao Tang looked confused. "Then then... you don't want to live?"
"Obviously not," Bai Jinshu leaned against the wall and crossed his arms, "Tell me, what is your relationship with Lao Guan?"
This posture should have been extremely oppressive, but he was not even as tall as Zhou Ju. In order not to miss the micro-expressions on her face when he spoke, he had to raise his head to speak, which made him feel a generation shorter than her.
Xu Zichen obviously also discovered this problem.
One of the elements of forcing a confession is to overwhelm others with your momentum first. With this posture, let alone overwhelm the other party, Zhou Ju could look down on most of them just by standing.
Fortunately, Zhou Ju did not want to compete with them at this time. Instead, he sighed helplessly and simply sat down cross-legged on the ground. He sighed helplessly and said, "I said I couldn't act, and I really messed it up."
"To be honest, I am the leader," she spread her hands, "but before I met you, I didn't know that this weirdo was called Lao Guan, a person. I thought he was a weirdo called the Church."
Bai Jinshu and Xu Zichen looked at each other. Xu Zichen closed his eyes and sighed, "Oh my god, Brother Yin is up to no good..."
As soon as he said this, several people present reacted.
Zhou Ju didn't know what the relationship between Lao Guan was, but they were definitely not close friends. Maybe they were just ordinary acquaintances or partners. Lao Guan never told her his real name, and she didn't know much about Lao Guan's experience in Purple Street before he came to the No Man's Land and became a ghost story.
All the problems started because two of Brother Yin's team members died last night. He suspected that there was something wrong with this place, so in order to unite more forces and have more people think about it, he told Zhou Ju about this matter with everyone's tacit consent.
It is very likely that Zhou Ju did not expect that they would know so much, and he was not sure whether these words were true or false, and how many details this group of people knew, so he urgently contacted Lao Guan for verification, and got a possible affirmative answer. In addition, her acting skills were indeed not good, and everyone saw that she was related to the ghost story. There was no choice but to send everyone away as soon as possible.
It is unknown whether Bai Jinshu's guess about drugging is true or not, but the ambulance this time shows that Zhou Ju is really anxious and is eager to send them away, fearing that they will discover his true purpose or identity if they continue to analyze the situation.
Although everyone may be analyzed after being sent out, by then no one will be involved in the ghost story. Even if it is analyzed again, it can only be reviewed through previous clues. There is no point in reviewing a leader who may no longer have any contact with everyone in the future. It is better to regroup and devote oneself to the next ghost story.
That's why she was in a hurry to get everyone gone.
After being slapped in the face by Guan Hongyan, Xiao Tang became much more obedient. Now he was standing nearby, muttering something. After receiving several signaling and urging looks from Bai Jinshu, he reluctantly moved forward and hugged Zhou Ju's arm.
"Sister, just tell me," Xiao Tang said in a long tone, "If you don't tell us, we will analyze it ourselves. If we analyze it and find out something you don't want us to know, we don't want that either."
Zhou Ju didn't expect that this girl would come so close to him, playing both the good guy and the bad guy. Before he could finish half of his nice words, they all turned into threats. Everyone was stunned for a moment.
Bai Jinshu was also amused by her art of language.
He originally wanted Xiao Tang to go up and force Zhou Ju again, but he didn't expect her to go and threaten him directly.
Zhou Ju obviously didn't buy it. Since she had been exposed to this extent, she decided to throw in the towel: "It's useless to threaten me. You are all in the ghost story now. If I want you to die, it's just a matter of a word."
Zhou Zhou took a breath as if he had a toothache.
"Don't worry," Xiao Tang was not threatened. "Sister, I see you don't want us to die. If you wanted us to die, you would have plenty of opportunities to do it. You didn't do it and even sent an ambulance. You just want us to get out alive. You don't plan to kill us."
As the saying goes, when judging a person, don’t look at what she says, look at what she does.
All the dead people who appeared now, except those who died before they came, all died after they arrived due to various non-human factors. If these were all colluded by Zhou Ju and Lao Guan, then she did have countless opportunities to kill them. The suddenly exploding colored windows and the bed boards that could be pierced through if one fell into them while sleeping, even Xu Zichen in his prime period was not sure that he could escape unscathed without any warning.
But she really didn't harm them from beginning to end.
Zhou Ju scratched his head, obviously hit by Xiao Tang.
She really wasn't the type to just casually kill everyone for something like this.
"And we are not being unreasonable," Xiao Tang saw that she was a little shaken, and immediately added, "Feng Shuang and You Yi who died before were both my dearest relatives and friends!"
She widened her eyes, swallowed the three words "It costs extra money" that were about to come out of her throat, raised her hand and emphasized: "People died in there, you have to let me know how they died, right?"
"Aren't you in the same team as them..." Zhou Ju was grabbed by her arm and twitched his lips, "Where are the loved ones and relatives?"
"We knew each other before we died," Xiao Tang started to speak, "We were classmates in elementary school, junior high school and high school. We lost contact together because we didn't get into college. We only recognized each other after we came in! Don't disbelieve me, Feng Shuang had three boyfriends in high school. I know that You Yi doesn't eat onions, ginger and garlic and likes sweet tofu pudding. I know them both well!"
Zhou Ju: …
The people are dead, so of course you can arrange it however you like.
Everyone knew that what Xiao Tang said was false, but she wanted to trick Zhou Ju into telling her the truth. As Xu Zichen said in a dishonest tone, "Yes, the three of them know each other," the people around her all testified for her.
Zhou Ju's eyelids twitched, and he struggled for a few minutes before finally giving up and saying, "It's not that I don't want to tell you. You just need to know that I have no intention of harming you. Since you know that this ambulance is the way out, just follow it. You are still new here, and it's no good for you to ask so many questions."
"Why are you doing this again..." Xiao Tang wailed, hugging the other person like a spoiled child, "No, Sister Zhou Ju, I'm a curious person. If you don't tell me, I'll be so curious that I'll die. Even after I get out, I won't let it go. Just tell me, what's going on!"
Compared with the previous sentence of "dearest friends and relatives", I think this sentence is much more sincere and heartfelt.
She was genuinely curious.
Everyone here, except for those outsiders who are not from the Foundation, the top members of the Foundation, are extremely curious.
Not to mention that they were still in the novice village of the investment bank. Zhou Ju's words "I don't know if it's for your own good" made everyone suddenly realize what Yuan Shanming and Shi Pang had been hiding from everyone before.
For a moment, several people's eyes became thoughtful.
Guan Hongyan nodded slightly, and Bai Jinshu said directly: "Sister Zhou Ju, you and Lao Guan are in a cooperative relationship, right? Did you tell him directly that you want to send us away from here?"
Seeing their attitude soften, Zhou Ju quickly nodded and said, "Yes, you can get in the ambulance and leave. Really, I won't harm you. I have a good relationship with your team member Yuan. If I deliberately harm other team members, it will be difficult for me to survive here in the future."
"So after we get out, will it be considered completed or unfinished..." Bai Jinshu nodded and continued to ask, "After all, we have wasted a lot of time here, and the B-level rating of this ghost story is also very good. If it is not considered completed, then the cost of our time is also a cost."
"Well..." Zhou Ju paused for a few seconds, "The time when you go out and when you come in won't be much different."
"So that means it's over?" Guan Hongyan asked.
"It doesn't count," Zhou Ju shook his head. Seeing that they were about to leave, he kindly added, "The church said... ah, that is, Lao Guan said that this place cannot be known to others, so I'm sorry that it won't count towards your rating after you leave, but it won't take up your time. You can continue along the route as planned."
"Brother Yuan is the leader from the Port of Raging Waves," Xu Zichen interrupted, "He doesn't know the route. Brother Yin is the local leader of the No Man's Land, but now he..."
Brother Yin hasn't woken up yet.
"Oh, that," Zhou Ju waved his hand, "It's okay, he will wake up after you take him out, but he won't have any memory of being there after waking up."
"So you did plan to drug us before?" Huangmao interrupted.
What she meant was that those who took the drug would fall into a coma, and would not remember anything after leaving. Combined with what was said before that this place could not be known by others, so there was no chasing wave inside, and there was no ghost story rating after leaving, it is easy to infer that the original purpose of the drug was actually to make them forget everything that happened inside after taking it.
"What the hell is this? It's like a mirage." Xiao Tang muttered.
"Uh..." Zhou Ju paused a little awkwardly, and added, "This is also for your own good. It's really for your own good. Otherwise, I would have kicked you out a long time ago."
She really wasn't very good at lying, nor was she very good at acting.
With everyone forcing her, she had no choice but to stop saying this.
"If you want to leave, hurry up," Zhou Ju pointed downstairs, "Brother Yin will be fine after you get out."
Yuan Shanming seemed to have noticed something and urged: "Let's go, let's go, Lao Guan and Zhou Ju really don't have bad intentions."
"Can I help you carry Brother Yin down?" Zhou Ju blinked and went straight upstairs.
"Hey, wait a minute," Bai Jinshu suddenly spoke up and asked again, "Sister Zhou Ju, are you and Lao Guan in a cooperative relationship?"
"Yes," Zhou Ju nodded, and urged desperately, "Are you worried? If it really doesn't work, I can go out with you guys, right?"
"That's not the case," Bai Jinshu touched his chin, "I'm just curious. If you and Lao Guan are partners, then we inferred that you wanted to drug me, and it was Lao Guan who told you? Did you change the plan because we had already prepared defenses, and hurriedly come up with a Plan B to leave with the ambulance?"
"Uh... yes," Zhou Ju was anxious to send them away and answered every question, "I didn't expect you would guess that I wanted to drug you."
"Then Lao Guan will be able to see everything that happens in the ghost story." Xiao Tang interrupted.
"Then..." Bai Jinshu and Guan Hongyan spoke at the same time. He raised his hand to signal Guan Hongyan to speak, "So you have cooperated with Lao Guan, and now you have reached an agreement with him to send us away. You didn't stop him from killing your team members before, so you brought those people here on purpose, and Lao Guan is helping you kill people?"
Zhou Ju looked a little embarrassed: "Don't ask any more questions, just go."
"Laoguan is helping you kill people, and you are letting Laoguan kill your team members on purpose, but you don't plan to kill us. Even though we have pushed you to this point, you still urge us to leave instead of letting Laoguan kill us," Bai Jinshu said quickly, "Can I speculate that the people you killed are actually different from us? The people killed by you and Laoguan are actually selectable, and these people are different from us."
Zhou Ju realized that his answer would only encourage these people to question him, so he simply stopped talking.
Her silence did not stop Bai Jinshu from continuing.
Following the last sentence, he slowly exhaled: "Zhou Ju, are there any problems with the people you killed?"
He had some suspicions.
After looking at You Yi's body, Xu Zichen said that her body was abnormal, but since she was already dead at that time and was a member of another team, it was understandable that she had some secrets, and there was no point in pursuing it further, so no one thought about it further.
But now it seems that Zhou Ju was a little too hasty in dealing with the body, and he did not tell anyone the burial location, as if he was afraid that they would find something wrong. If Xu Zichen had not followed him, he would not have discovered that there was anything wrong with You Yi's body.
This attitude seems to reveal some information.
Combined with the fact that Brother Yin took sleeping pills but didn't wake up, it is possible that You Yi and Feng Shuang's deaths were not because they turned on the live broadcast and uploaded the data, but because they were originally the chosen dead.
Those who were not selected, such as Brother Yin, although they uploaded the data, they were not killed. Instead, they were given sleeping pills by the ghost story, Zhou Ju, who was the agent of Lao Guan's will.
The dead were chosen, but these chosen dead did not appear in their team, so is it possible that there was something wrong with these dead people?
Bai Jinshu's words were much more lethal than any of his previous ones. Zhou Ju was stunned for a moment, and suddenly his expression froze.
"Don't ask anymore," she said, her face suddenly turning cold, "I'll let you go now."
"Church! Church!" she cried, recklessly. "Send them away from... Uh-huh."
"Damn, cover her mouth!" Xiao Tang reacted quickly. Before she could finish her words, Guan Hongyan flew forward and pressed Zhou Ju to the ground, covering her mouth.
The two men were of similar height and age. Guan Hongyan was very strong, and her additional fighting skills over Zhou Ju allowed her to overcome the slight difference in age and physical strength, pinning her firmly to the floor.
Xiao Tang followed suit the next second and quickly grabbed Zhou Ju's arm.
"Damn it, you just cheat when you can't beat me," she kept saying as she locked the door, "We figured all this out based on our own abilities, why are you so anxious? Just kill a few people, why are you so excited? Can we go out and report you?"
"Right, Yuan..." Xiao Tang turned around and found that Brother Yuan had also been controlled.
Just in the few seconds of chaos, Zhou Zhou's whip directly locked Yuan Shanming's movements, Xu Zichen and Bai Jinshu directly controlled him, and Huai Jiamu stood in front of him, staring at him calmly, eliminating all possibility of Yuan Shanming's struggle.
However, compared to Zhou Ju who had his mouth covered, Yuan Shanming was obviously treated much better, as no one covered his mouth.
"What do you mean?" Yuan Shanming frowned.
"I'm sorry, Brother Yuan," Bai Jin said calmly, "It seems that you also want to hide the things that Zhou Ju wants to hide from us, so in order to prevent you from helping Zhou Ju to send us out, we can only resort to this last resort."
It's really a changing world.
A few hours ago, they were racking their brains to get away from this weird story, but a few hours later, everyone started trying their best to stay.
Both team leaders were pinned to the spot. Zhou Ju struggled for a long time before giving up, sticking his neck out as if he would never give in.
Xiao Tang talked a lot but she didn't respond.
He had played the emotional card before and pretended to leave, and he had already gotten enough out of her. Now she realized that he was just trying to trick her, so she just kept silent.
Yuan Shanming also remained silent. He seemed a little angry, frowning but not speaking. But he did not struggle. I don't know if it was because he put Huai Jiamu directly in front of the other party to intimidate him with force.
Bai Jinshu's brain was working rapidly, trying to pry out some useful information from the performance of these two leaders who remained silent.
Most of them are members of the Foundation, except Zhou Zhou who is definitely not one of them and Xiao Tang and Huangmao whose stance is unclear. But everyone probably understood what he meant the moment Yuan Shanming was tied up by them.
This secret is very important and may be a depth bomb that is no less serious than the "Gu Chang".
If this secret were known, it would probably cause damage to the investment bank that would be no less severe than the one at the Gu market.
But the question everyone faces now is, will this secret really have this effect?
Something that the leader of a novice village knows?
Guan Hongyan would exchange glances with Xu Zichen, and they both saw hesitation and entanglement in each other's eyes.
Now that both team leaders are under their control, should we confront them directly here?
There are still several days before leaving the Novice Village, and the presence of the team leader is crucial. Is it necessary to know this secret, which may be related to the investment company's bigger secret than the Gu market, at the cost of breaking up with each other?
Just when everyone understood the situation tacitly, their brains were working rapidly, and they were exchanging glances waiting for someone to make the decision, suddenly, the space around them shook.
"It's over," Guan Hongyan reacted quickly, "Is Lao Guan here?"
They are still in each other's ghost story now. If Lao Guan is determined not to let them know, he is the ghost story itself, and it is he who decides who can leave and who cannot.
The reason why it was an ambulance before was because Zhou Ju thought they hadn't noticed anything and wanted to send everyone out as inconspicuously as possible.
Now that everything has been laid out on the table and needs to be examined, there is no need to continue to covertly discuss it.
Everyone instantly became nervous, while Zhou Ju on the ground floor breathed a sigh of relief.
"Hurry up, he's going to send us out!" Xu Zichen was also a little anxious, "What exactly is your secret?"
This feeling of having the final push delayed can drive everyone to death, and now they are the ones who are forced into a desperate situation.
It has come to this. Even if they haven't fallen out, their relationship with Yuan Shanming can no longer be the same as before. They must find out what the secret is today. Otherwise, if they go live after they get out, their identities will be in jeopardy.
The space around them was shaking, and the children downstairs were already feeling a little unreal.
Bai Jinshu looked at Huai Jiamu, and Huai Jiamu nodded slightly.
Can be paused.
Bai Jinshu felt a little relieved. Being able to pause time meant that he still had a chance to think. But now it was clear that the two team leaders would not say anything. Even if they paused time, they probably would not say anything, otherwise it would reveal one of their cards.
Abilities that are too closely related to the Foundation's "evil god" should not be shown to the public.
Think about it, there must be some clues that have been missed before, and there must be some entry points.
Since the two team leaders refused to say a word, what about Lao Guan?
Lao Guan also knew this secret, so why didn’t he tell them?
Yuan Shanming had repeatedly said that it would be bad if they knew what he and Shi Pang had said, Zhou Ju also said the same thing. Combined with what Bai Jinshu and Guan Hongyan had guessed before, this secret is likely to be more secret than the news that there is a Gu farm in the investment bank and there are countless Gu breeders in the Gu farm cultivating the Gu King. They would let go of anything but this new insider.
Not to mention that the secret mentioned by Yuan Shanming and Shi Pang is very likely related to the space where everyone disappeared inexplicably.
This inexplicably disappeared space was the clue left by the Shi Pang team that once encountered the nameless fog.
The nameless fog also appeared in the Purple Street fantasy of Nightmare, and in Lao Guan's ghost story, the outside world that could not escape was also filled with fog.
Fog, fog, fog everywhere.
"I understand." The world gradually became illusory. Just when everyone was about to fall out and Huai Jiamu's time pause was about to be released, Bai Jin suddenly shouted, "Lao Guan, are the people you killed related to the children in Zi Street?"
The surroundings shook violently.
Just as he finished speaking, this increasingly unreal world suddenly stabilized.
Lao Guan gave up and expelled them.
He is right.
Bai Jinshu secretly took a deep breath in his heart. He seemed to have some clue about the biggest secret of this investment bank.
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After three days, I finally resumed my double update.
The first 20 + random 20, I will post this book once I finish it, I owe a lot orz
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