Chapter 473 Above the Posa (8) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]
Among the seven members of the exploration team, besides the four of them who did not sleep, there was also Di Xue Ni who worked as a waitress in a hot pot restaurant. After seeing this message, Di Xue Ni quickly asked in the group.
Di Xueni: [Who kidnapped you? ]
Di Xueni: [@Chang William, where are you? ]
Di Xueni: [Are you in the pharmacy? Where is the pharmacy? ]
Di Xueni: [Is the person who kidnapped you a human? ]
…
The next dozen or so messages were all from Di Xueni, but Chang William never replied to her again.
This afternoon, Bai Jinshu and his friends got the address of the pharmacy from the restaurant owner, and everyone scattered, looking for restaurants and pharmacies, so much so that when Chang William got into trouble tonight, Di Xueni, the only one awake and closest to him, didn't even know where the pharmacy was.
Chang William only sent three messages in the group, and then there was no more movement. It was dark outside the window at night, and Di Xueni did not dare to go out alone, but tagged everyone in the group.
Di Xueni: [@Jiang Jie@Tang Ling@Skao@Bo Jiren@Qiu Zihan, are you there? Something happened to Chang William! ]
Shortly after this message was sent, the two team members who came out to chase the frightened girl saw it.
Bai Jinshu continued to scroll down the message, and Tang Lingxian replied: [I saw it.]
Jiang Jie: [@Chang William, are you okay? Please reply! ]
William Chang did not respond.
Next, everyone stood at the intersection, opened the panel and had a few words with Di Xueni. The content was roughly that Jiang Jie gave Di Xueni the location of the pharmacy, but Tang Ling did not agree with Di Xueni going out alone at this time.
After all, Chang William is still a young man in his prime, Di Xueni doesn't have any special fixed attributes, and there is no mall here to exchange props. She ran to the pharmacy alone in the middle of the night, not to save people, but to deliver food.
Fortunately, Di Xueni also had a clear understanding of her own abilities, but Chang William, as a teammate, asked for help in the group, and it was certainly not a good idea to directly say that he could not go. Tang Ling gave her a way out, and Di Xueni walked down smoothly, following Tang Ling's words and promised that she would wait for them in the store before going together.
The only one who hasn't replied to everyone is Bo Jiren. He has to get up at around five o'clock tomorrow morning, but he has fallen asleep at this time. The watch vibrated so many times but did not wake him up. It seems that his sleep quality is good.
After a few words of conversation, Tang Ling put down his watch and looked in the direction of Bai Jinshu: "What should we do? Should we go back now?"
Chang William was kidnapped, and there was no follow-up after three sentences were sent, which made people inevitably worry whether something had happened.
"Where's that girl?" Bai Jinshu didn't answer her question, but looked around. "Did she disappear? Or did she lose track of her?"
"We lost her," Zhao Yinglai said, "I don't know why she ran so fast. We were following her closely, but then our watches vibrated and we saw that Chang William had been kidnapped. When we looked up again, she was gone."
"Why do you say it disappeared?" Tang Ling looked at Bai Jinshu strangely.
He mentioned the girl twice and said it was normal to lose her, but why did he ask about her disappearance?
"Sister, you don't know!" Qiu Zihan opened her mouth and started talking nonstop, "As soon as you guys chased me out, I was standing in front of the elevator with Brother Faye. The elevator door was about to close, and Brother Faye reached out to press the button, but he was a step too slow, and the door opened again after it closed. Guess what happened!"
"What's going on?" Tang Ling was obviously used to his current state. "You are here now, so the woman must be gone. Did she disappear after the door was opened?"
Qiu Zihan nodded wildly: "I was so scared that I wanted to turn around and run away."
"Then why didn't you run?" Bai Jinshu turned his head and looked at him.
He remembered that apart from the tearful words "Fuck!", Qiu Zihan was actually quite calm. He did not take any extreme actions nor did he kneel on the spot. Instead, he followed him to check the elevator and confirmed that there was no secret door that could allow immediate exit before they walked out of the building together.
"He was just scared," Tang Ling bluntly said, "He was scared and that's it. He would do whatever others told him to do and follow whatever they told him to do."
Bai Jinshu: ...
No wonder he saw the calm girl disappear, and after entering the elevator to check what happened, he ordered Qiu Zihan to be so swift and agile, opening the skylight when he was asked to, and blocking the door when he was asked to.
Bai Jinshu originally thought that this kid had finally overcome his inner fear, but now it seems that he did not overcome the fear, but a living person just disappeared in front of him, and disappeared in the middle of the night, which scared him to death.
"…You should scare him more often in the future," Bai Jinshu was silent for a while, "He is much more likable when he is scared silly than usual."
He is neither talkative nor timid. He just does what he is told and never asks even a single extra question. What a useful tool.
Qiu Zihan: “Woo…”
He saw that his sister Tang Ling had returned to her cowardly and trembling look.
There were several lines on the bullet screen:
[Zi Han, I still like the way you climb up the elevator and open the skylight. ]
[Zi Han, I still like the way you climb up the elevator. ]
[Zi Han, I still like the way you hold up the flashlight and shine it upwards.]
…
"We have checked the elevator. There is no secret door inside that can be used to leave instantly. There is no way anyone can hide in the elevator shaft, at least on the first floor," Bai Jinshu took the initiative to explain his clues. "The calm girl who came down from the upper floor with the panicked girl who escaped must be a ghost."
His tone was too straightforward. After he finished speaking, Tang Ling and Zhao Ying took a long time to react before they said, "That's it?"
"That's all," Bai Jinshu raised his eyes, "What else do you want to see?"
"Ghost, ghost," Tang Ling emphasized twice, "You ran into a ghost in the middle of the night."
Are you so calm?
"They've all left anyway," Bai Jinshu replied calmly, "and they didn't do anything to us."
What's more, he felt that the ghost team had no ill intentions. She was just standing in the elevator from beginning to end and didn't even pay any attention to them.
"In that case...is the girl who ran away a ghost? Can she see the ghost in front of her?" Zhao Yinglai subconsciously looked towards the building.
"I think... that girl looks more like she saw a ghost when she sees us," Qiu Zihan grabbed Tang Ling's arm and curled up into a ball. "Chang William is still kidnapped. Is it really okay for us to chat here?"
"Oh, yes, Chang William was kidnapped," Zhao Yinglai slapped his forehead, "I almost forgot about this, let's go back quickly."
[Have you really forgotten? ]
【Forget about the selection. 】
[It's okay, Daxianer. We understand you. If Chang William was kidnapped, we wouldn't want to rescue him.]
【Speaking of which, no one went to see what happened to Chang William? 】
【I'll go take a look.】
[? If you don’t save my Tamagotchi, what will happen if it dies? ]
[Cold dish, raising electronic pets will destroy the foundation's exploration environment, and dying in an unknown space is humanitarian destruction. I will set up a longevity tablet for the ghost who took the dog head from Chang William's neck. ]
【Count me in. 】
【I want one too.】
For some unknown reason, a string of attacks started to appear on the barrage.
In the unknown space, the exploration team members returning to the pharmacy did not have a smooth journey.
"What is that?" Everyone hid behind the wall. Zhao Yinglai poked his head out and looked at something spinning around on the street in front of him. "Is it also a ghost?"
They were originally heading back to the pharmacy along the original route, but just as they were about to step onto the street, Zhao Yinglai's sixth sense suddenly took effect. He stopped everyone and cautiously leaned forward.
There was a blurry shadow crawling on the street in front of me. It looked like an animal, but only after a closer look could I see it was a person.
"It looks like a human." Tang Ling looked at the thing.
After experiencing the girl suddenly disappearing in the elevator, they are now very accepting of people crawling on the street.
It is normal for ghosts to appear at night. They can be found in the elevators of buildings and may also be found on the streets.
Moreover, the figure was actually very far away from them. Although it was crawling on the ground, it was at least several hundred meters away from them. Even Qiu Zihan, who was the most timid, did not tremble with fear, but objectively commented: "It crawls so slowly."
Tang Ling: ...
Is this the focus?
One of the focus points can indeed be this.
Bai Jinshu touched his chin and said, "It is indeed crawling very slowly. If we are discovered now, we should be able to escape."
"Let's talk about something nice," Tang Ling laughed dryly, "Shall we get out of the way?"
They had come out in the middle of the night to look for clues, but now no clues have been found and Chang William has been kidnapped again, so it would be better not to get involved with the figures crawling around on the streets.
Everyone agreed to take a detour.
It's obvious that this thing is not a normal person. A normal person wouldn't crawl on the ground at night. Their goal now is to go back and rescue Chang William... Although Chang William's condition is worrying after being kidnapped for so long, it seems that at least he is not dead yet.
He didn't die for such a long time, which shows that his kidnappers didn't want to kill him.
Otherwise, it would be Chang William's mouth. Tang Ling asked herself, if she had the chance, she would definitely kill the other party.
Avoiding the strange figure crawling on the ground, everyone continued to walk towards the pharmacy, and the people who went to watch Chang William's camera in the barrage also came back.
[Who told me to go to William Chang? It was a work-related injury.]
【Yue, I'm so sick. 】
[What happened? What happened? Chang William was smashed to pieces? ]
[That's not the case. Although he's annoying, the bloody mess is a bit too much. ]
[I won't tell you, you'll know when you go up and take a look.]
While the barrage was playing charades, Bai Jinshu and the others bypassed the man crawling on the ground and continued to rush towards the pharmacy.
I don't know if it was because the nights here were like this, or if they turned on some strange switches after meeting the two girls in the elevator. Along the way, in addition to the strange shadow crawling on the ground, they encountered three or four waves of various ghosts in succession. In the end, they walked nearly twice the distance they had gone here before returning to the commercial area.
Fortunately, there were no people crawling around on the streets of the commercial district, no manhole covers emitting blood foam, and no strange creatures with long shadows.
Everyone successfully saw Di Xueni sitting in the waiting area of the hot pot restaurant waiting for them.
It was almost three in the morning and there seemed to be few customers in the hot pot restaurant. Di Xueni and several other waiters were standing in front of the waiting area chatting. They seemed to have no idea that there were a lot of strange things wandering around just outside the wall.
"Xue Ni," Tang Ling called out, "We are here."
Di Xueni looked up and saw them waving. They said something to their colleagues before running over: "What took you so long?"
"We encountered something on the way, which delayed us for some time," Zhao Yinglai lowered his voice, "Let's go first, have you talked to your colleagues?"
"It's settled." Di Xueni nodded.
It takes some time to get to the pharmacy from the commercial street, but fortunately they didn't encounter anything this time and arrived at the door of the pharmacy smoothly.
In a row of dark rooms on the street, only the lights in the pharmacy were on abruptly.
It was obvious that the glass of the pharmacy had been broken. The light shone through the broken window, casting a strangely shaped shadow on the ground.
"Is Chang William going to die?" Qiu Zihan swallowed.
"No," his sister interrupted him ruthlessly, "Chang William is still fine in the temporary group chat."
"What about this lamp and window?" Qiu Zihan looked at the other two people.
"We turned on the lights when we left, but the windows are fine." Zhao Yinglai answered proactively.
So Chang William is definitely not dead now, but the situation is not optimistic.
"Let me take a closer look." Tang Ling lowered his voice, moved closer to the door, and tried to see something through the crack.
After a few seconds, her expression suddenly changed from alert and cautious to angry. After another few seconds, Tang Ling stood up and kicked the door open.
"When I was in Europe in my early years, I met a minor noble. Her family had a fiefdom hundreds of years ago, but later it declined, leaving only a big castle and tens of millions of dollars in maintenance fees every year. We were invited to her house... Holy shit!" Chang William exclaimed from inside the door.
Outside the door, Di Xueni was also startled and subconsciously moved closer to her teammate Skao.
Scarao took a step back silently, pretending to be frightened and avoiding Di Xueni.
[Aoshen is a clean freak...]
【Aoshen disdains everyone equally.】
[It makes me laugh so hard, it reminds me of the scene where Qiu Zihan leaned towards him and he leaned back.]
Bai Jinshu's action of taking a step back was not abrupt because Qiu Zihan's reaction was even greater.
Tang Ling's kick scared not only Chang William in the room, but also the three people outside the room.
Qiu Zihan was so scared that he jumped on the spot and took several steps back. Zhao Yinglai also stumbled and quickly grabbed Qiu Zihan and steady himself. It was estimated that his real body was in a daze.
The four people outside the door made a move, and Tang Ling's tone was not very good.
"Chang William," she stood at the door with her arms folded, "We rushed back because you were kidnapped, and you're here picking up girls in the middle of the night?!"
In the warm yellow light of the pharmacy, Chang William sat on a stool with an uncertain look of fear on his face. There were two people sitting in front of him, one was a girl with long wavy light purple hair, and the other was a boy with a tinfoil perm.
The two men also looked at Tang Ling, their faces full of surprise and vigilance.
Just a few seconds before Tang Ling kicked open the door, Chang William was still telling the two people with a smile on his face about how he was invited by a nobleman to visit his castle located in a remote forest when he was in Europe.
Not to mention Tang Ling, anyone here would be speechless.
They gave up chasing the frightened girl who came out of the elevator in the middle of the night and came back here to rescue Chang William, only to see him here pretending to be cool and telling stories to others in the middle of the night?
Anyone would be angry.
However, compared to the angry Tang Ling, Chang William was also very confident: "You came back specially to save me? What time is it? It's been an hour and a half. If I was really kidnapped, I would have died here long ago!"
"Do you think we were just wasting time on the road?" Tang Ling was furious. "Do you know how many things we encountered along the way and what clues we gave up in order to come back to save you?"
They could have caught the frightened girl, questioned her, and then returned safely.
What about those things wandering around the streets? What if they are noticed by accident?
"Did you encounter something?" Unexpectedly, as soon as she finished speaking, the boy sitting on the bed jumped up and said, "Did you see what it was?"
"Should you introduce yourself before asking me a question?" Tang Ling looked over unhappily.
"Alright, alright," Zhao Yinglai stepped forward and stood between the group to smooth things over. "What on earth is going on?"
"Brother William," Bai Jinshu walked out at the right time and curled his lips, "Are these two the ones you said kidnapped you when you delivered the message?"
It is said that beauties under the lights and moonlight are ten times more beautiful than in the daytime.
As soon as Bai Jinshu walked out, he attracted the attention of the two strangers. When he spoke again, Zhao Yinglai heard the girl among the two strangers take a small breath and said in a surprised tone: "A man?"
She thought someone with such long hair would be a girl.
Bai Jinshu smiled and nodded to her: "Hello."
"...Hello," his friendly attitude made the girl who blurted out "male" a little embarrassed. She had to force a smile and smiled back. She also pulled her companion who was on edge beside her and whispered, "Okay, Yuan."
The boy was pulled by her a few times, and his expression gradually changed from reluctant to a bit awkward.
"This is a misunderstanding," the girl jumped off the bed and shook Tang Ling's hand, "I'm sorry, sister. We are not bad people and we don't mean any harm."
She spoke with a southern accent, and her voice was deliberately drawn out. She acted coquettishly and shook Tang Ling's hand while talking. Even if Tang Ling was angry, he couldn't keep a straight face.
The other party's attitude was so nice, it was really not good for her to have a sullen face.
But the sour look didn't disappear, it just became more specifically directed.
She glared at William Chang: "What's going on? Why didn't you tell us that you were okay? What do we do with this glass?"
The owner will come back.
"Ahem," the other person on the bed coughed awkwardly, "Sorry."
"This was...we broke it," he turned his eyes away uncomfortably, "we thought there was no one in the store."
Both of them showed varying degrees of embarrassment on their faces. Since Chang William was fine, the remaining three people outside the door also walked in. At the same time, the two strangers began to explain the current situation.
The man and woman who broke into the pharmacy were named A Yuan and A Lian. Their accents sounded like those from the south, with a very obvious Wu dialect. They were a couple and chose to break the window of the pharmacy because they thought there was no one there at night.
"We have been observing for two days," A-Lian said in a low voice with her head down, "There was no one here a few nights ago, so we chose to break in here tonight in the hope of finding something to eat."
I didn't expect that the pharmacy, which was empty a few nights ago, suddenly had one more person on guard today.
The identities of these two people were revealed after this sentence.
"Did you get here by mistake?" Qiu Zihan poked his head out.
"Didn't you guys do the same?" Yuan asked back, raising his guard again, "Brother William said you guys got here by mistake as well."
"Of course," Bai Jinshu said softly, "If we hadn't walked in here by mistake, you should be at the police station now, instead of explaining to us why you smashed the glass."
"I said...I said I thought there was no one here," Yuan felt guilty again after hearing this. "We've been here for four or five days and have nothing to eat. That's why we wanted to break the glass."
"Brother William is a good man, please don't scold him," he added hastily, "We originally thought that Brother William was from this world and wanted to control him, but after the misunderstanding was resolved, he didn't blame us and even found food for us..."
Is Chang William so kind?
Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows and looked at Chang William, and saw Chang William making a gesture of wiping his neck towards him.
It seems that there is a lot of artistic processing in what Yuan said.
At first, they probably mistook Chang William for an aboriginal and really intended to kill him. In desperation, Chang William sent a message for help in the temporary group chat.
Later, somehow, perhaps because they gave Chang William a chance to speak, Chang William seized this opportunity to turn the tables and activated the fixed attributes. The two men believed his words and believed that Chang William was also a person who had mistakenly entered here like them.
These two men had the ability to kill Chang William, so naturally Chang William didn't dare to do anything after gaining their trust. He simply used his strengths to start chatting and told the two men stories about his "past" that he wasn't sure whether true or not. This was how he managed to hold out until his teammates who had armed forces arrived.
From this perspective, Chang William is not stupid, and his life is not easy either.
It was estimated that the one and a half hours he spent waiting for them to arrive was one of the few times in his life when he felt anxious and restless, just to show off.
The reason the two men smashed the glass was that they had nothing to eat. Seeing that there was no one in the pharmacy at night, they smashed the place to find something to eat. Unexpectedly, they ran into Chang William, who had just started working during the day and did not follow Bai Jinshu and the others to look for people tonight. That's how they bumped into each other.
Talking about the original plan to kill Chang William, Yuan felt a little embarrassed when he lied and often showed a guilty look, but Lian acted coquettishly to Tang Ling and Di Xueni, two of the same sex, the whole time, calling them sisters all the time, and she didn't look like she was planning to smash the window and kill their friends a few hours ago.
Bai Jinshu narrowed his eyes. This pair of stray intruders who claimed to be a couple, seemed to be led by A-Lian and A-Yuan was under her command.
However, Di Xueni was not sure whether she noticed it or not, but Tang Ling was indeed very sober. Although she did not see Chang William's gesture, she instinctively felt that A Lian was not like what she appeared to be, and she became alert in her heart.
The three girls chatted sweetly for a long time, half-seriously and half-fakely. Finally, Tang Ling seized the opportunity to ask, "By the way, A-Lian, we have only been here for one day, and you have been here for four or five days. Do you know where this place is?"
"Sister, don't you know?" A-Lian blinked, "This is another world."
"Another world?" Bai Jinshu interrupted.
"Yes, haven't you heard of some legends?" A Lian's voice was soft and gentle. In this lonely night, people felt a sense of fear that came from nowhere. "For example, a person takes the elevator according to certain rules, and the moment he gets out of the elevator, he can reach another world; at midnight, light a candle in front of a mirror, close your eyes and recite the name of a certain lady, and when you open your eyes and stretch out your hand, you can pass through the mirror; or stand upside down in front of an empty crossroads and light a stick of incense, and when you turn over and stand up, you will be on the other side of the world..."
"This place is another world that you will likely enter if you do these things."
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