Chapter 357: Inhuman (165) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]
There may be new changes in the Novice Village.
In order to verify what Lao Guan said, Yun Guang went out to try it. Sure enough, after leaving the church, the live broadcast signal was still blank.
Brother Yin, as the old leader in the no-man's land, lost all his memories of this period of time after being fed medicine by Zhou Ju and thrown out by Lao Guan.
In order to play the whole play, everyone except Yun Guang and Lu Changfeng simply went out together, and cooperated with the false memories created for him by Lao Guan, and acted out a scene in which all eight newcomers in the team died. As the team leader, Brother Yin made a deal with his colleagues in the ghost story, exchanging his only two remaining team members for the special materials in the hands of the other party, and directly left the Novice Village.
The [blood] in Hang Yiqing's hand can be exchanged for quite a lot of points in the Novice Village. In addition, the team members were indeed dead and only Shi Yuan and Zhou Zhou were left. Brother Yin did not doubt it too much. He just felt that he was too unlucky in this exploration. He met a colleague who was willing to use special materials in exchange for team members. This saved his life during this period.
After all, his team has never explored any advanced ghost stories, and with only the two remaining team members, he definitely cannot afford the life-extending points this time.
After losing his memories of that period, Brother Yin naturally also lost the memory of Yuan Shanming confessing that he was a team leader from another area. He knew that Shi Yuan had good qualifications, so he naturally thought that Yuan Shanming was a local team leader in the No Man's Land. Several weaklings in the team died in the previous route, and he happened to meet himself with only two team members left. Seeing that the team members had good qualifications, he planned to strengthen the team to challenge some high-level ghost stories.
Both parties gained from this deal. After confirming that the team members' information was successfully transferred, Brother Yin left happily with the small bottle of blood.
From the time he was thrown out until a group of people finished their show and watched him leave, the live broadcast room was never connected.
"I remember Brother Yin said before," Bai Jin said thoughtfully after returning to the strange story, "He said that the No Man's Land is too large, so there will be no signal from time to time."
Could it be that their live broadcast room is not connected simply because there happened to be no signal in the uninhabited area during this period of time?
"No," Yun Guang answered directly, "The lack of signal in the no-man's land is not really the lack of signal. In fact, every time the team leader here loses signal, it is because he has mistakenly entered the strange talk area of Hang Yiqing and Lao Guan."
It’s just that because these two strange stories are not within the scope of their information database and their specific movement cycles and trajectories have not been explored, it is mistakenly believed that some areas in the no-man’s land will have no signal from time to time.
Since Brother Yin was thrown out of the church by Lao Guan, what he meant by no signal was that there was no signal after he left the range of his ghost story.
The live broadcast signal connecting the pseudo-human space and the novice village was indeed cut off.
Next, Yuan Shanming’s news also verified everyone’s speculation.
Yuan Shanming asked his team leader friend on the terminal and got the same news: [The live broadcast signal was cut off one after another after the earthquake. The investment bank said that it was because of a sudden geological disaster in the Novice Village, which caused a large number of signal towers and optical cables to break, so the live broadcast was temporarily affected. ]
Most of Yuan Shanming's friends are in the City of the Dead, but there are also special beings like Shi Pang who were previously in N Port and later went to other areas. After asking around, everyone quickly concluded that unlike the sudden earthquake in the entire Novice Village, the live broadcast signal actually disappeared intermittently in one area after another.
Yuan Shanming used the excuse that the team of newcomers he led was not well-qualified and urgently needed live streaming to accumulate points. He mobilized all his team leader friends to help ask where else there were signals and roughly arranged the order in which the live streaming signals would disappear.
"The first to disappear was T Land," Yuan Shanming recorded based on his friends' narration, "The second to disappear after T Land should be L Valley or E Tower..."
"Mark it like this," Hang Yiqing sat next to him, frowning and drawing for a long time, then threw over a rough hand-drawn map. "This is roughly how the areas in the Novice Village are distributed."
Bai Jinshu poked his head out to take a look and found that the map layout of the Novice Village seemed very irregular, with a large number of blank areas without any human settlements.
These areas are collectively referred to as no-man's land by the team leaders, but in fact, the no-man's land only occupies a very small blank area in Hang Yiqing's markings, and most of the remaining blank areas have no names.
"There are many empty areas without human settlements," Hang Yiqing noticed the point he was concerned about and explained briefly, "but only the uninhabited area I marked has undead spirits. There are no undead spirits in other places. It's just pure wilderness."
"So that's how it is." Bai Jinshu nodded, and his eyes began to move along the tip of Yuan Shanming's pen.
It doesn't make much sense when you just say these names, but when they are marked in this order on the map, you can see it at once.
"The signal radiated from the Novice Village to the surrounding areas and disappeared," Guan Hongyan put her hand on Yuan Shanming's shoulder and pointed with a frown, "The first one to disappear was the T Plateau in the center of the entire Novice Village, the second was the L Valley P Island, and the third was the E Tower here..."
Following this order, the signals in the entire Novice Village gradually disappeared within a day and a half. The last places to lose the signal were P Island and N Port, which were at the very edge, right at the north and south ends of the Novice Village.
"If the order in which the signals are lost is related to the distance between the pseudo-human space and the novice village," Yun Guang thought, "does that mean that the way these two spaces are stitched together is not simply by splicing the edges of the two spaces together, but by stitching both ends of the novice village together with the pseudo-human space?"
"You mean..." Bai Jinshu raised his head and gestured, "two hemispheres?"
He understood, but many of the others had confused looks on their faces.
"Look at the terrain of the entire Novice Village," Yun Guang saw that most people didn't understand, so he pointed at the map and gestured, "T is the highest point of the entire Novice Village, a plateau, and then down is L Valley and E Tower, both are mountainous, but one is on the top of the mountain and the other is in the valley. Then go down, pass these settlements, and you will reach the plain B City and S City, then go down again, and finally all the way to the seaside, which is P Island and N Port where we came from. The terrain goes from high to low. If you connect the ground planes of each area, it will probably be an upward semicircle."
Everyone nodded. Guan Hongyan patted Yuan Shanming on the shoulder and said, "So what you and Cen Bingqi mean is that the signal starts to disappear from the middle and then reaches both ends of the Novice Village. The Novice Village is an arched semicircle, and the interfered signal must have been cut off from the farthest end. So the geographical location between the pseudo-human space and the Novice Village is like a concave semicircle?"
These two spaces, one above and one below, form a sphere. The two areas bordering the pseudo-human space are P Island and N Port.
"Yes," Yun Guang nodded, "That's it."
"So if there is a rupture, there will be problems around these two areas," Yun Guang pointed at the map thoughtfully, "Should we go and take a look?"
Although we are newcomers and don’t have the team leaders’ terminals to communicate, we do have Huangmao.
Xiao Tang and Huang Mao will go to different places, and they can communicate through her.
"But I have a question," Bai Jinshu tapped his finger on the table and looked at Huangmao, "The distance between the southernmost and northernmost ends of the Novice Village is quite far. Can you control it remotely?"
"No problem," Xiao Tang nodded and muttered, "Not to mention one space, I can handle cross-spaces. If it weren't for the lack of materials, I could even do multi-threaded operations..."
"That's fine," Guan Hongyan nodded, "Then we'll split into two groups, one to P Island and one to N Port."
"Changfeng and I will go to P Island," Yun Guang offered, "If the two of us show up in N Port again, it's very likely to cause unnecessary commotion."
"Then Brother Yuan will go to Port N with us," Guan Hongyan decided. "Xu Zichen will go with me, and then Xiao Tang and Huang Mao will separate. Where Huang Mao goes, Xiao Tang will go?"
She is still not used to calling these two people together, so she simply uses Huangmao and Xiaotang to distinguish them.
"I want to go with Brother Cen!" Huang Mao raised his hand actively, "Brother Cen must be with the boss, I will definitely be safe with the two of them!"
"Then Xiao Tang and us," Guan Hongyan thought for a moment, "I, Xu Zichen, Brother Yuan, Xiao Tang, and Zhou Zhou will go to Port N. The five of you can bring Jin Ling with you. No one has been to Island P, and her bugs can help with exploration."
"Okay, is there anything else you want to add?" Yun Guang looked at everyone.
"There is one," Bai Jinshu said after thinking for a few seconds, "about the subway."
"Since the subway legend is the lifeblood of the Novice Village, and the legend itself is involuntarily created," he pointed at the map, "I think we can try to enter the subway again and see if we can communicate with the dragon?"
Since the occurrence of this strange story is suspected to be involuntary, and it also caused an earthquake in the new village and the disconnection of the live broadcast signal of the pseudo-human space, does it mean that this dragon is very likely to have the same hatred towards this copy factory and the investment bank itself as they do?
If we can win the other party over, it will definitely be a great help.
Everyone looked at each other and nodded in approval of the plan.
However, it is undoubtedly difficult to communicate with the other party after entering the customs. With the experience of the last time, we knew that what we would enter after going down the well is a pillar with a composite metal hollow carving on the outside, so we also made a lot of preparations.
Specifically, I brought some climbing ropes, a small electric saw and replacement saw blades for grinding windows out of metal pillars.
After all, there is no clue to the correct way to enter the underground space now. If you want to go in again, you can only saw the pillars.
After Yun Guang and Lu Changfeng killed several team leaders, they got several terminals from them. They relied on these terminals plus several special props given by Hang Yiqing to enter the customs.
This time the two sides had different destinations. Yuan Shanming took the Nightmare Heart, and Bai Jinshu and his team naturally got a few props given by Hang Yiqing.
"This thing was originally used to protect Changfeng," Yun Guang explained, "because I was worried that he would die after entering the Subway Ghost Story."
When the two of them went from Port N to Area W, they took advantage of the customs registration of other team leaders. As a result, Lu Changfeng almost got into trouble in the ghost story. After finding Hang Yiqing, Yun Guang made a prompt decision and asked him to help find special props that could prevent him from entering the [Subway] ghost story.
Time waits for no one. After confirming the situation on both sides, everyone quickly prepared to set off.
The tools they carried were disassembled into parts and put into everyone's backpacks. As the team leader, Yuan Shanming transferred everyone's team member information to his own name and assumed the responsibility of registering with the customs.
The impact of the earthquake on the uninhabited area, where there is only wilderness as far as the eye can see, does not seem to be very great, but the destructiveness to the buildings is obviously remarkable.
The subway station, which was relatively safe a few days ago, looked like a dangerous building when I entered it this time.
The escalators that go down have all stopped operating, and only the stairs are accessible. There are cracks on the walls on both sides every few steps, extending from the bottom of the wall to the ceiling. There are some scattered stones piled in the corners around the walls, and there is a thin layer of dust on the ground where few people walk. The whole subway station looks like it will collapse at any second.
"This is a dangerous building..." Xu Zichen couldn't help complaining as he walked, "I'm afraid it will collapse in the next second and bury all of us."
"Put it away!" Guan Hongyan glared at him, "Stop talking nonsense!"
This place looks shaky, who knows if it will collapse in the next second. If it weren't for the purpose of leaving the uninhabited area by subway, who would be willing to come in?
Apparently, other people thought so too.
As soon as Xu Zichen said this, many people looked over. He quickly said "Pooh, pooh, pooh" three times, and then the people around him looked away.
The last fire that broke out around the subway station did not have much impact on the operation and ecology of the subway station. When they arrived, there were still a bunch of new teams setting up tents around the subway station, as well as teams from all directions who were planning to leave.
After Yuan Shanming registered his information again and entered the platform, more and more talented people gathered around him.
The subway station is still operating as usual.
The two teams separated, Huangmao followed Bai Jinshu, while Xiao Tang went to another carriage with Guan Hongyan.
Everyone had discussed it before coming. Yun Guang took the terminal of other team leaders and pretended to be the team leader, while the others closed their eyes and pretended to sleep. After the subway staff came to check the post, they left quietly as before.
The location of Suolongjing is at the fork in the road leading to the customs. Guan Hongyan and his colleagues carry electric saws and other replacement saw blades in their bags, and they carry various climbing ropes and flares.
In order to prevent the subway staff from noticing anything wrong, these things were put into mountaineering bags. Team leader Yuan Shanming and Yun Guang, who pretended to be the team leader, each carried one. Only half of each bag was filled with equipment, and the rest was filled with food, tents and the like.
After all, they came from a no-man's land, so it made sense for them to carry some food and tents.
The door closed and the carriage started. Bai Jinshu closed his eyes in preparation. Suddenly he heard Huangmao mutter, "I feel a little uneasy."
"Hey, Er... No, Cen Bingqi," he called out, "something happened to the dragon in the subway. The subway station has become a dangerous building. Do you think there will be any problems with the customs?"
Bai Jinshu opened his eyes and looked at the yellow-haired man: "Logically speaking, that shouldn't happen, otherwise the news would have spread among the team leaders a long time ago, but..."
But it's always better to be safe than sorry. Logically speaking, the dragon caused an earthquake, so the subway train should have collapsed long ago. Why is it still running?
Could it be that because a body cannot function without a blood system, even if the dragon caused an earthquake, this strange story could not be stopped?
"It's a bit wrong," Yun Guang interrupted. "I remember you said that the subway is only driven by the life of the passengers. If the subway cannot be separated from life and the Novice Village cannot be separated from blood vessels, does that mean that the Novice Village cannot be separated from life?"
"Hiss..." Lu Changfeng shook his shoulders, "Then Brother Yun Guang, are we still going?"
"Go ahead," Bai Jinshu glanced at the darkness outside the subway window and frowned slightly, "No matter what the customs say, the more important the subway is to the Novice Village, the more help the locked dragon will be to us."
It’s not like no one among them had thought that the subway might undergo changes after the earthquake, but as a being that could affect the entire Novice Village, it was more important to be able to communicate with the dragon.
"Let's not go through just in case," Huang Mao's worry was not without reason. Bai Jinshu looked at everyone around him who had found comfortable positions, either lying or sitting, and suggested, "Why don't we get closer?"
"Huangmao," Huangmao is the real body, Xiao Tang is the shadow puppet, protecting the real body is always more important than protecting the real body, "you, Changfen and Jinling should sit closer, or you can sit next to me to prevent any accidents later."
"Then I'll sit over there." The good thing about Lu Changfeng is that he never asks too many questions, and he just does whatever others tell him to do.
As soon as Bai Jinshu finished speaking, he moved quickly to sit with the two men and solemnly pulled Yun Guang to his side.
It seemed that he actually wanted to pull Huai Jiamu at first, but when he was about to take action, his desire to survive suddenly overwhelmed him. He turned his fingers and grabbed Yun Guang's backpack.
Bai Jinshu originally wanted to pull Huangmao back, but after Lu Changfeng sat over, Nian Yu was to Huangmao's right, so calling her out at this time seemed a bit strange and discriminatory.
Before he could do anything, Huai Jiamu grabbed his wrist.
Bai Jinshu turned his head and looked over. Huai Jiamu blinked calmly: "The yellow-haired man is Xiao Tang."
Bai Jinshu:?
"Of course I know that Huangmao is..." He was halfway through his words when he suddenly understood what Huai Jiamu meant.
Huangmao is Xiao Tang disguised as a man, so she is essentially a female team member, so Huai Jiamu is blaming him for wanting to stand up and hold her.
Bai Jinshu: "...Okay, let's go together."
One of his hands had been held by Huai Jiamu, and Changfen was sitting between the two of them. He couldn't use his other hand to pull Yun Guang, who was pretending to be the team leader, right?
The train slowly slowed down, and everyone except Yun Guang, who pretended to be the team leader, quickly closed their eyes and prepared to pretend to sleep.
Bai Jinshu also closed his eyes.
According to their experience, the next thing that should happen is for the staff to come in and inspect, and then everyone should leave.
According to Huai Jiamu, any newcomers other than the team leader who appear in the subway will be killed on the spot, and the biggest crisis they will face next is how to enter the well again without being noticed.
I hope that the customs will not strengthen the identity verification of tour leaders because of the last incident.
The subway slowly stopped and the doors opened, but there was no sound of footsteps.
The staff hasn't arrived yet?
Bai Jinshu didn't dare to open his eyes. He could only guess secretly in his heart and pretend to be asleep and wait.
But this time there seemed to be something wrong. The door was open for a long time, but there was still no sound. Not only was there no voice of the conductor, but it seemed that the surroundings suddenly became quiet.
Bai Jinshu vaguely sensed something was wrong. He shook his wrist slightly and felt the other hand holding his wrist gently pinching it twice. Only then did he slowly relax a little and began to count down silently in his heart.
He didn't know how much time had passed. Bai Jinshu counted to 120 seconds. There was still silence all around him. He slightly controlled his eyelids to lift up a little bit and glanced around.
He took a deep breath inwardly.
hiss……
What came into view was not the subway car as imagined, nor the pitch-black platform.
When he opened his eyes, he saw a thick fog.
Nameless fog.
He sat up suddenly in his seat and felt the force on his wrist suddenly increase a little.
"Huai Jiamu?" He turned around.
"I'm here." Huai Jiamu nodded, and a familiar face appeared in the thick fog.
They were still in the subway car, but there were only two of them.
Looking around, Yun Guang and the other three had disappeared.
"We..." He paused, swallowed the rest of the words "We won't be discovered by the fake people" in his mouth, and quickly organized the words in his mind, "Where are we now?"
There will be fake people replacing the newcomers in the nameless fog. Before confirming that the person holding his hand is Huai Jiamu, even if they are targeted by the fake people when they enter the fog, they must not leak any information.
Huai Jiamu was confused: "Maybe it's in the subway?"
The surrounding environment still looked like a carriage, but it was covered with thick fog.
"What's my name?" He held Huai Jiamu's hand with his backhand and stared into his eyes.
"Bai..." Huai Jiamu didn't understand.
"Alright, stop talking." Bai Jinshu interrupted him as soon as he said his last name, and pulled him out of the subway by the hand. "It seems that the two of us were not separated, but the others were separated when they entered the fog."
The previous two times I saw this fog, it pulled people in while they were sleeping. How come it was pulled in this time even though I wasn’t sleeping?
The Nameless Mist is not a strange story, nor does it ignore the characteristics of a strange story. It only represents a temporary connection between the pseudo-human space and the novice village.
They were discovered, so the fake people on the other end used this method to get rid of these undercover agents who were causing trouble in the Novice Village?
Or...
"Is there really a problem with the subway customs?" Bai Jinshu pulled Huai Jiamu forward a short distance and felt that there were not many people around, only endless emptiness and silence.
The subway was running normally, and all of them closed their eyes before slowing down. And according to Yuan Shanming, the subway car is a superposition state of countless times, so if fog appears in one car, it will appear in countless cars. The fog entered the car after everyone closed their eyes, so besides them being discovered by the fake people, there is another possibility.
The fog came in from the platform.
Does this mean that the customs at the subway station is now a pseudo-human space that is disconnected from the Novice Village, the last remaining passage?
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