Chapter 352: Inhuman (160) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]
"Ah...ah?" Guan Hongyan was the first to look at Huangmao blankly.
What is going on?
The fact that it was Hang Yiqing instead of Lao Guan who appeared here was enough to make them feel confused, and Hang Yiqing's subsequent words pushed everyone into the abyss of confusion.
Is there something wrong with yellow hair?
Xu Zichen and Zhou Zhou, who had no idea what was going on, walked a few steps forward cautiously, while Guan Hongyan began to search her memory for information about Huangmao.
No matter how you look at it, isn't this guy just an ordinary person?
Guan Hongyan's eyes were full of questions, and Yuan Shanming's expression clearly showed that he hadn't reacted.
He opened his mouth slightly and uttered the same word as Guan Hongyan after a long while: "Ah?"
They both looked at the yellow-haired guy. The yellow-haired guy said, “Ah?”
What are you saying again?
Hang Yiqing said that there is something wrong with you. What’s wrong with you?
Yuan Shanming's expression seemed to have "leniency to those who confess, severity to those who resist" written all over his face, while Huangmao's expression was still confused, as if he had no idea why he was singled out and asked "how dare you come to him?"
Apart from what they saw in the nightmare illusion, this was their first time facing Hang Yiqing, the big ghost. I don't know if all the incarnations of S ghost have the same characteristics. Hang Yiqing is the same as the ghost who followed Ersi. At first glance, they are the type that are inconspicuous and even no different from ordinary indigenous people.
Compared to those undead ghosts who often show off their strength and force in the City of the Dead, these real bosses are more low-key and more like human beings.
But that doesn’t mean what they say isn’t important.
A word that comes out of S's mouth is more important than what those E-level, D-level, and C-level ghost stories say all day long.
If Hang Yiqing said there is something wrong with Huangmao, then there must be something wrong with him.
When did Huangmao become abnormal? Yuan Shanming frowned cautiously and pulled Xiao Tang to take a few steps back.
As Yuan Shanming was about to make a move, Hang Yiqing said, "I suggest you don't move."
"Uh... okay, okay." Yuan Shanming got scared for a second and stood still immediately. His outstretched hand just stayed awkwardly in the air.
Seeing that Yuan Shanming did not move, Guan Hongyan, who had originally wanted to find Cen Bingqi to ask him if he had noticed anything wrong with Huangmao, was a little hesitant to act rashly. He could only watch Yuan Shanming frantically wink at the other party.
【Er Si, please save me! 】
Although Hang Yiqing didn't seem to be the kind of person who would kill people randomly according to his nightmare memories, after so many years, who knows what he has become and whether he will kill them again.
After all, there is still pressure from S-level ghost stories, not to mention that they have been compressed into children. Even if they want to fight, they can't withstand a single move from the other side.
Ersi, who was being thought of by the two men, seemed to have entered loading mode at this critical moment. No matter how Yuan Shanming signaled him, he did not pay any attention here. Instead, he stood behind the crowd with his unknown weirdo, one with his head down and frowned in thought, while the other crossed his arms and acted as if it had nothing to do with him.
Yuan Shanming closed his eyes in despair.
What is going on? The unreliable Huangmao is acting strange, and the reliable Ersi is keeping silent.
"I'll give you some time," Hang Yiqing said, stopping the two of them. He leaned back on the rattan chair, and his tone sounded relaxed, but it made people feel uncomfortable. "Have you not made up your mind yet?"
"But it doesn't matter." Under Yuan Shanming's crazy eyes, he stretched his muscles a little and stood up directly from the chair. "No matter what, I can't let you leave here today."
The height difference does bring some extra sense of oppression.
If they were still adults, Hang Yiqing would have stood up at will. But now everyone was the height of a child. Hang Yiqing could still see his face at eye level when he sat on a chair, but now that he stood up, everyone had to look up at him.
Bai Jinshu didn't raise his head, so Yuan Shanming had to give up the idea of signaling him to save her. Looking at Xiao Tang who was standing motionless next to the yellow-haired boy, Yuan Shanming closed his eyes and made up his mind, intending to pull her over directly.
Although Xiao Tang and Huang Mao have a good relationship, Huang Mao is now in trouble because he was kissed by S. Xiao Tang cannot defeat S alone. He can lose Huang Mao but cannot lose Xiao Tang.
Yuan Shanming stretched his hand forward and hit an air wall hard.
"I told you not to move." Hang Yiqing glanced at him lightly, and his tone could not tell whether he was happy or angry.
A wall of air fell between Yuan Shanming and Xiao Tang.
To be more precise, it was an air wall that separated Huangmao Xiao Tang from everyone else.
Hang Yiqing didn't seem to intend to get any answers from them. After getting up from the chair, he walked straight towards the yellow-haired man.
Huangmao's face was now filled with confusion, and even Yuan Shanming was a little confused.
The way he behaved, it looked like he had no idea why he was killed by Hang Yiqing.
"What's going on?" Guan Hongyan took the opportunity and quickly ran to Bai Jinshu's side, her lips moving slightly: [Didn't you say before that Huangmao Xiaotang might be one of ours? Does Hang Yiqing mean to kill us? ]
Does Hang Yiqing mean that he was going to kill those colleagues who came in to cause trouble on behalf of the investment company, and Huangmao accidentally exposed his identity?
He didn't say this out loud, he just lip-synced it to prevent Hang Yiqing from noticing them.
Xu Zichen wanted to come over, but was stopped by Guan Hongyan's look. If Hang Yiqing's goal was to kill the people from the foundation, then Xu Ziouchen would be exposed. In this situation, the less people exposed, the better.
After all, to fight against an S-level ghost... the only one who can match him here is Huai Jiamu.
"No." Bai Jinshu suddenly spoke.
"What is not?" Guan Hongyan was at a loss.
"What you just said was not that he wanted to kill us," Bai Jinshu raised his head and looked in the direction of the yellow-haired man, "Hey, Xiao Tang and Huang Mao may not be what you think. But since you asked Xiao Tang this, I roughly know what's going on here."
"Isn't he asking about Huangmao?" Zhou Zhou said weakly.
From the beginning to the end, this man wanted to kill Huangmao. What does it have to do with Xiao Tang?
Isn’t Xiao Tang the yellow-haired friend who was framed together with the bad luck?
"Hmm? Oh, I believe you." Hang Yiqing looked over here, his eyes flashed across Huai Jiamu, and he looked at the yellow-haired man for a few more times, "Isn't that so? No wonder it looks a little strange."
"No," Bai Jinshu shook his head. The two of them were playing a guessing game and said the same thing. "But your words helped me put the last piece of the puzzle together."
Neither of the two people in the conversation paid any attention to Zhou Zhou who spoke.
Hang Yiqing raised his eyes, and his tone finally changed a little: "You know?"
Bai Jinshu nodded: "I understand."
"What the hell are you two doing with your charades?" Guan Hongyan blurted out, "The Riddler, get out of Gotham...get out of my weird stories."
"Ahem...what do you mean?" She changed the subject quickly and awkwardly, nudging Bai Jinshu several times with her elbow. "Is the Riddler interesting to you?"
"It's not the Riddler," Bai Jinshu touched his chin, looked at Hang Yiqing, and asked, "Is it possible to say it here?"
"This is fine." Hang Yiqing sat back down without knowing when, and raised his hand towards him, "You can do whatever you want."
"Hurry up, tell us what's going on!" Guan Hongyan didn't understand what the two people were saying, but she understood that Cen Bingqi had been thinking about it all the way and it was very likely that he had figured it out.
"Where do you want me to start?" Bai Jinshu turned his head.
"Um... Huangmao?" Guan Hongyan was still a little concerned about why Hang Yiqing wanted to kill Huangmao.
Although I am usually very brave, as an undercover agent of the foundation, I am still a little scared when I encounter the weird stories of the investment bank here.
Yuan Shanming also urged him to talk about Xiao Tang first.
"Let me think about where to start," Bai Jinshu touched his chin and looked at Hang Yiqing again, "You can rest assured that Xiao Tang is not what you are guarding against."
The person being asked was Huangmao, but he also mentioned Xiao Tang.
Guan Hongyan vaguely sensed something was wrong from this title.
And then, Bai Jinshu's next sentence confirmed that everything was wrong.
"Xiao Tang and Huang Mao are the same person. Or to put it another way," Bai Jinshu's eyes swept across the two of them, "she should be a puppet controlled by Huang Mao."
"Oh, that makes sense," Hang Yiqing nodded and leaned back, "No wonder it looks like one person."
Except for Hang Yiqing whose tone remained calm, Bai Jinshu's words were like thunder from a clear sky, causing everyone else present to show expressions of disbelief.
"Isn't it...her...Xiao Tang and Huang Mao?" Yuan Shanming spoke first.
"Huangmao, how dare you sneak a girl into a group of girls?" Guan Hongyan remembered how Xiao Tang had been calling him "sister" these days, and she couldn't bear to look at Huangmao.
After Cen Bingqi's words were spoken, neither of them refuted them. Hang Yiqing even said "oh" and returned to his seat, so it was probably true.
If Xiao Tang is a puppet, then Huang Mao is...
Although it is indeed unexpected to create a puppet of the opposite gender, but...
Guan Hongyan's mouth twitched and she felt her fist harden.
"Yellow-haired is actually a girl, right?" Bai Jinshu pinched his chin and dropped the second thunderbolt, "I guessed."
"Xiao Tang said this in Lu Yun's nightmare before," Bai Jinshu shrugged his shoulders and defended the yellow-haired girl under the incredulous gazes of the crowd, "She said that she has a lot of experience in dressing up as a man, and that this matter requires one to be open and aboveboard. No one would suspect her if she shaved her head, had a male haircut, and dyed her hair color."
Everyone's eyes slowly shifted to the yellow-haired face.
A male haircut.
Dye it.
I don’t know if it was a psychological effect, but at this moment, they could see some soft feminine features in Huangmao’s face, which looked like a boy’s.
"How...how is it possible?" Yuan Shanming opened his mouth, unable to accept the news that the two team members were actually the same person, "Xiao Tang was controlled by you..."
"Shadow puppets." Huangmao and Xiao Tang added together.
These completely consistent words once again confirmed what Bai Jinshu said.
"No...ah?" Yuan Shanming's CPU burned out. "Really?"
"Really, but I don't know how Ersi saw that," the yellow-haired guy scratched his head. He usually looked a little silly, and I don't know if it was the psychological effect, but he actually revealed a little bit of Xiao Tang's shadow. It was obviously the same voice, but the tone sounded a lot smarter. "But I do know why Hang Yiqing wanted to kill me, it turns out it's like this..."
He seemed to have understood all of a sudden the secret of this so-called investment industry, which was even bigger than the gambling house.
In just a few tens of seconds, another person knew about it.
"What?" Guan Hongyan, who didn't know, looked like she wanted to punch them both, gritting her teeth, "I hate you Riddlers, how did you figure it out?"
She had never missed Yun Guang so much, who always answered her questions without leaving any suspense.
"Let's start with Xiao Tang," Bai Jinshu said, "Don't you want to know how I figured it out?"
"Well... it's a long story," he sorted out his thoughts, "In fact, Xiao Tang has never concealed it from the beginning to the end. It's just that most people would not connect these things with the two people, nor would they guess that two people who seemed to have never met before would have such a close relationship."
"I initially suspected it because after entering here this time, Huangmao, who was Xiao Tang's pendant and had never shown any martial arts skills to the outside world, was suddenly compressed to three or four years old."
Bai Jinshu pointed at Huangmao and Xiao Tang and said, "It's impossible for a strange story to suppress the age for no reason, so Huangmao was classified as a three or four-year-old with the highest combat power, which is enough to prove that he is hiding his strength. From here, I began to doubt the relationship between you two. After reviewing the past, I found many things wrong."
As a pair of teammates who just met each other in the novice village of the investment bank, Xiao Tang seems to be a little too nice to Huangmao, which has exceeded the normal range of being nice to a younger brother.
Bai Jinshu asked himself, at least he would not carry Lu Changfeng on his back in a critical moment, let Lu Changfeng rest on his shoulders when he was sleepy, and guarantee Lu Changfeng's overall safety when he was about to go to a dangerous area.
He is Lu Changfeng's big leg but not Lu Changfeng's father, so why does he have so many responsibilities to take care of him? He and Lu Changfeng were just partners at the beginning. He needed the other party's treatment, and the other party urgently needed a big leg to lead him.
Huangmao's position in the team has always been similar to that of Lu Changfeng who approached him at the beginning. Rice noodle rolls can be used for treatment. Huangmao has no outstanding points. How can he get Xiao Tang's protection?
From this, he began to doubt everything that had happened before the review, suspecting that the two men knew each other from the beginning, Huangmao was hiding his strength, and Xiao Tang was helping him cover it up.
But soon, he discovered something was wrong again.
"At that time, we wanted to send someone out at night to pretend to be dead to test the situation here. Xu Zichen said that he was sure to get out alive but he was not sure to pass on the information. Xiao Tang said that she was a better candidate and she could bring back the news, but she had only one condition, which was to protect Huangmao."
The message revealed in these words is too obvious. Xiao Tang has a channel to contact Huangmao privately. As long as Huangmao is not dead, she can pass this message back no matter where she goes.
She took the initiative to expose this in front of Bai Jinshu and the others, most likely because Huangmao had also been compressed to three or four years old this time, and his strength could no longer be hidden. Seeing that his teammates had discovered something was wrong, Xiao Tang, who knew how smart Bai Jinshu was, immediately chose to self-destruct, implying that he and Huangmao had a close relationship, that both of them were extremely powerful, and that they had contact information, to prevent Bai Jinshu from thinking further.
According to the normal process, when it comes to the stage of self-destruction, the people who get the news will definitely not continue to investigate further.
It happened that the person who got the news was Bai Jinshu.
He didn't think much of the news at the time, but when he thought about it afterwards, another very similar memory immediately appeared in his mind.
Inside the mirage.
The one who got on the plane was "Xiaoying", and the one who lost his trace to protect everyone was "Huangmao". Huangmao obviously did not get on the plane, but in the end he still appeared in the strange sea with everyone.
This memory, which no one should have remembered, instantly made him realize that something was wrong.
Why in the outside world, it is "Huangmao" who is protected and it is "Xiao Tang" who goes out for adventure, while in the mirage, it is "Xiaoying" who is protected and it is "Huangmao" who goes out for adventure.
Could it be that the identities of these two people were exchanged in the mirage?
Then why only these two people were swapped and not the others?
Moreover, in both cases, the party who went out to take risks risked their lives, but they were surprisingly confident.
So will it be...
"So I suspect that Xiao Tang and Huang Mao's lives are connected."
Once you think of this, and then continue to search for the trace, you will find that although he is a stranger, Xiao Tang will rescue him every time Huangmao is in danger, Xiao Tang will carry him on his back when Huangmao has no strength, and even when Huangmao is hungry or cold, Xiao Tang will lend a hand.
These previously seemed like acts of care from the strong to their weak subordinates, but once the clues of the connection between the two lives were attached, they suddenly made sense.
But there are still problems.
Putting aside the reason why Huangmao hides his strength, Xiao Tang's care for Huangmao has obviously exceeded the normal range. Many times, she seems to prefer to get hurt herself to make Huangmao live comfortably.
"This doesn't fit my concept of a life connected together. Although Xiao Tang seems to be superior to Huang Mao most of the time, she obviously does something else," Bai Jinshu shrugged. "And looking back, Huang Mao's performance was a bit too obvious. From the beginning, he labeled himself as a street thug, Ghost Fire Huang Mao, who is desperately looking for a big leg."
As the saying goes, when judging a person, don't look at what he says, but look at what he does.
In the way these two people get along, Huangmao is actually the beneficiary, while Xiao Tang is often the one who goes out to step on landmines and seek death. If their lives are connected, shouldn't the behavior that maximizes benefits be for both parties to demonstrate their impressive strength and then take turns to step on landmines?
Xiao Tang has always been the one who stepped on the landmine. Doesn't she have any other objections?
Even brothers settle accounts clearly. Apart from the fact that the relationship between the two people is so good that it doesn't matter if one person keeps giving while the other keeps enjoying, there is another possibility and the final decisive clue.
In [Xu Xu Photo Studio], where the soul would be extracted from the □□ after the photo was taken, no one had seen Xiao Tang from beginning to end.
She has no soul at all.
"I wasn't sure at first," Bai Jinshu spread his hands, "but I said, Hang Yiqing's words matched my two puzzle pieces. He suspected that Xiao Tang and Huang Mao were the same as the thing he was guarding against. My two guesses proved each other, and I have no doubts anymore."
The final steps of both conjectures were answered and the answers appeared at the same time.
"What's the other guess?" Xu Zichen turned his head.
In other words, what exactly is Hang Yiqing guarding against?
Bai Jinshu looked up at the other person. Hang Yiqing was leaning on a rattan chair, raising his hand in his direction and making a gesture of invitation.
Even though he knew that he was completely different in terms of politeness to himself and to others, the equal attitude he felt from an S-level ghost story came from another S-level ghost story Huai Jiamu around him. Bai Jinshu also vaguely felt a little bit of the disharmony that Zijie Qiao had felt at the beginning.
It's really too discordant.
How could such a person live in the Purple Street and the slums back then?
Bai Jinshu took a deep breath and said, "What did I say?"
Hang Yiqing nodded.
"What you are on guard against," Bai Jinshu exhaled slowly, "are some people who will replace me, right?"
Hang Yiqing's expression was very calm. Bai Jinshu didn't care about his silence and continued to pour down: "The existence of this thing is not a secret. At least in the Novice Village, it is actually a tacit fact known to some people. After all, many investment bank leaders who have stayed in the Novice Village for a long time will gradually discover that the ultimate goal of some strange stories is to copy the newcomers who enter. The strange stories themselves are promoted as harmless, but the people who come out of them may be the original or the copy."
Yuan Shanming's non-refutation proved that his second inference was also normal.
Although this fact was a bit unexpected, compared to the fact that Xiao Tang was just a yellow-haired boy, Guan Hongyan actually found it surprisingly acceptable.
This was not the first time they had faced those clones. Not to mention the newcomer who killed himself in the nameless fog in the nightmare, just mentioning what Jin Ling had said to her in private, when they first entered the nameless fog and explored the strange story with Shi Pang's team, there was something wrong with a member of Shi Pang's team.
The clues given by the Nameless Mist are too obvious. If you follow this line of thought, it is easy to imagine that there are some such special strange stories in the Novice Village.
"But that's not the point," Bai Jinshu seemed to know what she was thinking and quickly replied, "Because this thing is actually not scary. What's scary is the meaning behind it."
"The more people know what it represents, the less likely they are to tell others about it," he paused, "right, Brother Yuan?"
Yuan Shanming's expression looked a little strange.
"Here..." He was halfway through his words when Hang Yiqing's calm voice rang out.
"I told you, I can do it here."
Yuan Shanming closed his mouth in confusion.
"Guess how a newcomer here is copied?" He looked at Xu Zichen and raised his eyebrows. "Is this so-called copy really a characteristic acquired by entering some special weird story?"
“Have you ever wondered what kind of people are watching the live broadcast?”
"It's... those things that replaced us?" Guan Hongyan answered quickly, "So that's why the live broadcast was blocked here?"
Hang Yiqing pressed his palm against his solar plexus with one hand, without making any comment.
He seemed uninterested in the conversation.
But it doesn't matter, he will be interested soon.
Bai Jin recounted the final key that he figured out at the last moment.
"Have you ever wondered why the investment bank forces all newcomers to enter the Novice Village?"
"Because this is the true meaning of the investment bank's novice village. It has never existed to provide training for newcomers. What Brother Yuan and the others know is indeed a secret that is even more secretive than the Gu Farm and cannot be told to others."
All those who enter the Novice Village will be arranged to watch a live broadcast. The audience behind the live broadcast will study their every move at all times, waiting for the opportunity to become them.
Anyone who enters here will be copied.
And this is the real reason why newcomers must enter the Novice Village, because they have to copy all employees.
Those strange things in the live broadcast are just to learn how to replace them. If they succeed, the anchor will die. These people are far more qualified than "ordinary people who burst out with a great desire to survive at the moment of death and don't want to die". They can replace their identities and live to become excellent members of the investment bank.
If they fail, these things will be killed, and the fact that the host can kill them in return shows that they have unlimited potential as newcomers and will not become cannon fodder in the dungeon in the future.
Investment banks never lose money.
Not to mention that who says these things must be replaced openly, they can use this identity quietly in the dark to become a formal member of the investment bank. Anyway, all this is allowed by the investment bank, isn't it?
Compared with foundations, which screen people for entry and give fixed attributes after clicking, investment banks only recruit those who don't want to die even though they are on the verge of death. The conversion rate of team members is too low, and the success rate is only one in a million.
But what if all the newcomers were thrown into this special space, where people who were several times stronger than them would copy them and replace the weaker ones, thus bypassing the restriction of "must be on the verge of death" and becoming employees of the investment bank.
This is big news.
If this news gets out, it will be the end of the investment bank.
"Have you discovered a piece of news that is more deadly than the news of the inter-dimensional Gu field?" Bai Jinshu's eyes flickered. "Investment banks are illegally duplicating their employees and mass-producing clones."
Without the Gu Farm, the ceiling of the investment bank would be cut off, and removing the Novice Village that produces clones would...
“Shake the roots of investment banks.”
Hang Yiqing's expression finally changed slightly, revealing an unexpected expression.
The author has something to say:
There are actually a lot of loopholes in the previous part about Xiao Tang and Huang Mao. If you read it again with the answers, you will probably find that Xiao Tang really didn't hide anything. She just took advantage of the fact that most people wouldn't expect it, so she would occasionally say the truth.
At the beginning of the plot, in the first chapter of Non-Humans, the ghost fire yellow-haired man was crying and shouting for his girlfriend, and he was actually looking for his puppet. Yuan Shanming said that he would wait until all the team members were present before leaving, but in fact he did not wait until all the team members were present. One of his team members was missing, and this person was replaced by Xiao Tang.
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