Chapter 482 Above the Posing (17) (1st update + 2nd update + 45.2w nutrient solution 3rd update) [VIP]
The atmosphere took a 80-degree turn because of Wen Qi's "true feelings" in the morning.
Xu Ke's conscience ached slightly, and he lost himself in Wen Qi's calls of "Brother Xu Ke" and "You are the best person I have ever met", completely ignoring, or not noticing at all, these things that were wrong.
To those who live in another world, what happened to Wen Qi is completely reasonable and may even be happening all the time.
One morning, it was not until after ten o'clock when the owner of the pharmacy came into the pharmacy with his hands behind his back that Wen Qi was "coaxed" by Xu Ke to stop crying. Instead, she sniffed bravely and asked softly, "Brother Xu Ke, what is the way you said to survive here?"
"Find a job," Xu Ke had completely turned to Wen Qi and no longer mentioned asking her to follow them back to the other world. He answered very clearly and decisively, "The police here will arrest people from the other world, so the first thing is to make sure they don't find out our identities, and then find a job here so that they don't find out that there's something wrong with your file."
"Files?" Wen Qi widened her eyes in surprise. "People like us who come from another world don't have files, right?"
"Yes," Xu Ke nodded and explained patiently, "But if we have daily jobs, it means we have established stable social relationships in this world, unlike the unemployed vagrants who have no social relationships and are obviously from outsiders. In this case, even though we don't have files, the police won't come to check on us for no reason, just like in our previous world, the police wouldn't go to the streets to check the household registration of waiters for no reason."
Fitting in with the world is the first step to avoiding being caught doing something wrong.
"Should I find a job?" Wen Qi sniffed, "I can do anything, as long as you don't let me go back..."
"Well... let me think about what's suitable for you," Xu Ke had already screened out the jobs that Wen Qi was suitable for in his mind, "I think there seem to be normal students in this world, why don't you continue to study here? I'll accompany you to the school in the afternoon to ask?"
Bai Jinshu raised his head and glanced at Xu Ke, who was already thinking about whether Wen Qi should continue to study here. He opened the medicine drawer in front of him and took out equal amounts of herbs according to the pharmacy's instructions.
It is not clear what Wen Qi wants to do in this world, but at the moment, her understanding of this place may not be as deep as that of the exploration team members.
The fear on Wen Qi’s face when she saw this group of people on the first night didn’t seem to be fake. She must have really thought of them as “ghosts”, otherwise it would be impossible to explain her sudden pale face.
She was quite courageous, otherwise she wouldn't have secretly changed her application to go to boarding school. It was normal to bump into the natives of this world when she came to another world, which made her face pale like that...
It could only be that she didn't have a normal understanding of this place, so she believed the description in the game.
Different supernatural games have different descriptions of the "other world". For example, the description mentioned in the elevator game is "you are the only human here", and the description of this world in the mirror mirror game is "everything here is the opposite of the real world", and the intersection game says "after arriving in another world, you must leave before the sun rises in that world"...
Now they are in another world. It is not difficult to see that the descriptions of "another world" in these games are all wrong. Except that there is a certain probability of reaching another world, other descriptions about this world have no reference value.
If you had known about this place earlier, you would definitely not be deceived by the content described in the psychic game, and you would not be like Wen Qi on the first night.
Wen Qi doesn't know enough about this place.
Bai Jinshu put the weighed herbs into a bowl and waited for them to be boiled, then looked at her thoughtfully.
Wen Qi's motivation for coming here seems very simple. Her parents are the boss of a large company and have a cooperative relationship with the government. The people who bully her in school are the second generation of rich and powerful people. As a poor student who has been oppressed since childhood, she has no capital to fight against these people. It is normal for her to want to take a gamble and leave that world and start a new life in another place.
But...is it really like that?
The watch vibrated twice.
Bai Jinshu raised his wrist and saw that the person who had disappeared for several hours and had not come to work finally had news.
Jiang Jie: [This is weird, my friends don’t recognize me anymore.]
The following two were quickly followed:
Bo Jiren: [Have you found your friend? ]
Qiu Zihan: [Brother Jiang Jie, your friend has lost his memory? ]
Tang Ling didn't say anything for a long time. Bai Jinshu glanced at the time. The waiters' work intensity was not as easy as theirs in the pharmacy. They probably went back to the restaurant in the morning. Zhao Yinglai was the only one waiting beside the Gu King.
However, it is also possible that Zhao Ying took the identities of the two into consideration, so he found a plausible excuse to send Tang Ling away before the meeting because he was going to work.
Bai Jinshu tapped on the panel: [Please explain clearly what is going on @Jiang Jie. ]
Zhao Yinglai replied quickly this time: [It’s hard to explain in a few words, I’ll talk about it when I get back. ]
Skao: [OK]
It took some time for Zhaoying to go back and forth. Bai Jinshu had just packed the last batch of medicinal materials for the morning when he saw the door of the pharmacy being pushed open again.
"Brother Faye," Zhao Yinglai waved at him, "Come out and let's talk about something."
After staying up all night, the shadow puppets did not have the dark circles under their eyes that only humans would have, and they looked abnormally energetic.
"Let me make it short. Now we can confirm two things," she avoided the pharmacy owner and called Bai Jinshu out to speak briefly, "First, the interference we felt the night before yesterday was related to Wen Qi. She came here from another world and caused unknown interference, making it impossible for the life card in my hand to locate the owner of the blood essence."
"Secondly," she frowned, "my friend doesn't recognize me at all. He seems to have integrated into this place and become one of the people here."
"He was assimilated..." Bai Jinshu hadn't finished his words when he was interrupted by Zhao Yinglai with certainty.
"no."
"It's definitely not as simple as assimilation," she said firmly, "My friend has become an ordinary person."
[Daxianer’s friend is also a Daxian? 】
[Ah? Did they transform from yellow-skinned people into humans? Then this unknown space is pretty good... Their ultimate goal is to transform into humans.]
[It’s different. Wong Tai Sin has magical powers, but what the immortal said was that his friend had become an ordinary person.]
[No more magic power? Or has he really turned into a human? 】
[I think he might have really turned into a human. Daxianer looks terrified.]
[Wow, cross-species, what kind of rules are these? ]
There was a lot of discussion on the barrage.
"Ordinary people?" Bai Jinshu didn't react for a moment.
"An ordinary person." Zhao Yinglai stared into his eyes and nodded firmly.
Bai Jishu frowned slightly, and he reacted.
What Zhao Ying came to mean was probably that her friend the Gu King had turned from the "Gu King" into an ordinary person.
This is where it gets a little tricky…
Not to mention the issue of how to turn the Gu King into an ordinary person, there has been no progress regarding the missing Gu King since the team came in. Bai Jinshu had originally prepared that they might need to search for many days, but he didn't expect that Zhao Yinglai alone would push the progress bar to 100% in one night.
Before they came in, they received information that only one member of a team survived, and the other members including the Gu King all died in this unknown space. But now they have been here for two days and two nights, and the information they received is that as long as their identities are not exposed, there will be no danger in this world.
As long as they are not caught by the police, it should be impossible for the Foundation's exploration team to be killed by monsters that appear on the streets at night or criminals that escape from crime in this world.
And even if their identities were exposed or they appeared in front of the police, there were examples like A-Lian and A-Yuan, who were also hiding from place to place, but weren't they fine?
Bai Jinshu didn't believe that the Foundation's exploration team could not defeat these two people.
"Don't you also feel that something is wrong?" Zhao Yinglai frowned, and without having time to observe his expression, he spoke like a machine gun, "If my friend has become an ordinary person, then will the team that came in last time be the same as him? What on earth did that team encounter here that caused them to die according to the Foundation's judgment, but lost all their memories in this unknown space and became ordinary people to survive..."
"I don't know." Bai Jinshu let out a breath.
"And today is already the third day," Zhao Yinglai calculated, his brows furrowed even more, "Apart from the police, there are no other dangerous factors in this world. It is impossible for a team to die. How did they die so badly that only one person survived?
[Above Posa] Is there anything else they don’t know?
"That only means there is some murderous intention here that we don't know about..." Bai Jinshu lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, "Take me to see your friend."
Maybe we can find other clues from him.
*
The existence of the Gu King seems to reveal more hidden rules within [Above Posuo], and is definitely one of the most important clues at present.
Unfortunately, Zhao Yinglai couldn't work continuously. After she told Bai Jin about the current situation and briefly talked about her findings last night in the group, she couldn't hold back and had to go back to sleep.
She and Tang Ling crossed half of the city last night to reach the direction indicated by the destiny card, and then stayed there all night. Now, she finally couldn't bear it anymore, and said, "I don't need to eat, let me make up for two hours of sleep and then we'll set off," and fell asleep on the table.
Of course, the one who needed sleep was not "Jiang Jie", but Zhao Yinglai.
While Zhaoying was catching up on his sleep, Bai Jinshu asked in the temporary group chat if anyone wanted to go together in the afternoon, but unfortunately it seemed that only the two of them had time.
The pharmacy trio cannot all be seen, Chang William must be left behind. Tang Ling stayed up all night yesterday and now looks as listless as Zhao Yinglai. In the afternoon, he did not have the energy to cross half the city to observe "Jiang Jie's immortal friend who has become an ordinary person."
Di Xueni, Qiu Zihan and Bo Jiren were tied up in their work and couldn't leave.
In this case, it is estimated that only the two of them can go to find the Gu King. That's good. If there is anything special about the Gu King, there is no need to explain it to the teammates.
Zhao Yinglai took a short two-hour nap and was immediately revived with full health. He and Bai Jinshu walked towards the place where the Gu King was.
When passing by that commercial street, Bai Jinshu happened to meet Huai Jiamu, who had also been missing for the whole morning, and Xu Ke who was following behind him.
This group of Abnormal Investigation Bureau members who had just found jobs on the commercial street yesterday, for some reason all gathered together at the busy lunch time and were walking in the opposite direction of them.
"Xu Ke," Bai Jinshu called to the deputy captain, "What are you doing?"
Xu Ke scratched his head in embarrassment, not knowing whether he should say it or not, so he had to look at his captain.
"Xiao Guo found a job delivering takeout food. He just said he found two people who looked like fugitives," Huai Jiamu said briefly as always. "These two people are more difficult to deal with, so we plan to go and confirm them."
Two fugitives?
"Could it be A Lian or A Yuan?" Zhao Yinglai blinked and looked at Bai Jinshu.
Bai Jinshu's eyes suddenly became playful: "Then you must bring the person back alive."
He was looking forward to seeing A-Lian and A-Yuan's expressions when they saw him getting to know this group of "policemen".
No one has ever been able to get away with it after tricking Skao. He didn't have time to look for these two people, but he didn't expect them to show up at his doorstep out of nowhere.
"No, we can't bring someone back dead. We are not equipped with guns..." Xu Ke twitched his mouth, "Skao, you can just say this to us, but don't tell others and ruin our reputation."
It's as if their Bureau of Abnormal Investigations is enforcing the law violently and carrying out executions in private.
"Do you have a grudge against them?" Huai Jiamu was much more direct.
"They tricked me," the long-haired young man turned away his gaze and crossed his arms across his chest, saying frankly, "I have such a bad temper, I will definitely retaliate."
Skao's revenge... Huai Jiamu sighed.
He rubbed his temples slightly: "Don't do it yourself..."
"Of course," Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows, "When have you ever seen me fight?"
Bai Jinshu is a law-abiding citizen, and Scarao has never killed anyone with his own hands in the script.
In any case, he has never taken action.
Huai Jiamu looked doubtful about the truth behind his words.
But time was really tight, and if he arrived a step later he might have missed the fugitive. He hesitated for a few seconds and decided to wait until he came back to talk.
Huai Jiamu led the team away. Xu Ke followed him for a few steps. Suddenly, he seemed to remember something and ran back to Bai Jin and said, "Oh, oh, Skao, can I ask you for a favor? I promised Wen Qi that I would accompany her to school this afternoon, but it happened suddenly and I didn't have time to go back and tell her."
"Can you help me... well, tell me that I have to catch some bad guys," Xu Ke scratched his head, "If we could catch those two fugitives earlier, I would have taken her with me when I came back!"
Bai Jinshu looked at him inexplicably for a few seconds: "Wen Qi is fifteen years old, you can go ask yourself."
She is fifteen years old, not five. Does Xu Ke think it's necessary?
"I just feel bad... She's really pitiful," Xu Ke muttered a few words, "I won't be the kind of bad person who deceives children. It's not good to let people's expectations go unfulfilled."
Bai Jinshu: ...He felt that Wen Qi might not expect someone to accompany her to school.
However, the Wen Qi in Xu Ke's eyes and the Wen Qi in his eyes were obviously similar only in name. The Abnormal Investigation Bureau team had already walked away, and Xu Ke had no time to say more. He could only hurriedly leave a sentence, "Please, we will go back after the investigation, and Wen Qi will be left here alone. I promised her to go to school with her but I didn't go. She must be so sad. Just help me convey a message to thank you in advance!" and followed them.
"Brother Faye?" Zhao Yinglai looked at Xu Ke's back as he ran away, "Is the Wen Qi in his eyes the same Wen Qi in our eyes?"
That girl doesn't look like she would be sad about such a thing, right?
Bai Jinshu smiled wryly: "Probably not."
[Fake good guy: Skao. Real good guy: Xu Ke.]
【Xu Ke is a really good person. 】
[If Wen Qi could have met Xu Ke earlier in another world, maybe her life wouldn't have been so miserable. ]
[I think if it was in another world, Xu Ke might not dare to contact her. Didn't they say that Wen Qi's life was so miserable on purpose because of her parents? I guess they would also retaliate against those who were kind to her.]
[That's true. I hope that the people I meet here in the future are all good people.]
[Speaking of this, I want to ask, how much hatred and resentment must her beastly parents have to do this? ]
[Well, now that we are in another world, it can be considered as a relief. 】
Many words expressing sympathy for Wen Qi appeared on the screen. On the screen, Bai Jinshu opened a temporary group chat: [@Chang William, tell Wen Qi that Xu Ke has gone to arrest A Lian and A Yuan, and tell her not to wait. ]
A few minutes later.
Chang William: [Ah? But Wen Qi went out alone. ]
Bai Jinshu put down his watch and looked at the sky in silence: ...He just knew it.
"...Xu Ke is worried about Wen Qi, but it's better to worry about A Lian and A Yuan who are about to fall into your hands." Zhao Yinglai closed the panel and silently put his palms together to pray for the two unlucky guys, "Let's go quickly."
*
The unlucky guy who has always been called that by their Gu King, is actually named Fu Yiran, and is located at the other end of the city.
Last night, Zhao Yinglai, who followed the navigation on the horoscope card to find Fu Yiran's location, took nearly five hours to finally reach the bottom of the Gu King Building. The good news is that it is daytime now and public transportation is open, so Bai Jinshu doesn't have to repeat Zhao Yinglai's route on foot.
The bad news is that even this is nearly an hour away.
The two entered the subway, changed several lines, and finally arrived at their destination.
"When I found him yesterday, he was living in an apartment building that looked like a hotel," Zhao Yinglai gestured as he walked. "It was very tall, and each room had only one window. They were all lined up neatly. It was pitch black at night, and it was really scary."
"It was around eight in the morning, and people in the building started to go to work. I asked Tang Ling to go back and squat downstairs. It took more than half an hour before I saw him come out. I went up to him and called his name, but he acted like he didn't know me."
"Wait a minute," Bai Jinshu interrupted, "Call him by his name? Fu Yiran didn't change his name, right?"
"Yes," Zhao Yinglai nodded, "but we grew up together, and now he has become an ordinary person. He doesn't even remember me, or anything about himself. He only remembers his name."
Bai Jinshu nodded: "You continue."
"He acted like he didn't know me. I wasn't sure if he really didn't remember or was just acting, so I had to follow him the whole time," Zhao Yinglai said quickly, "but he didn't notice anyone following him from beginning to end. This wasn't normal, so I tried him again when we got to the company, and he really didn't remember anything."
"Company... Does that mean he has a certificate now?" Bai Jinshu thought for a few seconds, "If it were an outsider like us, we would not have a file."
This was the inspiration Xu Ke had given him when he was comforting Wen Qi before.
If they entered through abnormal channels, they most likely do not have formal identity information and cannot work in places where identity information is required. Therefore, having or not having an ID may be the difference between someone who enters by mistake and someone who enters normally.
Zhaoying said that the Gu King was turned into an ordinary person and joined a normal company. So what happened that led to an outsider who entered through abnormal channels to have a regular identity?
"Tsk," Zhao Yinglai said with a click of the tongue, "This is troublesome."
She originally thought that the fact that the life plate did not break after the person died was Fu Yiran's way of saving his life. After all, he was the successor of Taoism, so it was normal for him to have some life-saving methods that were not passed on to others.
Who would have thought that when they came in, they would find that the foundation's exploration team members could actually turn into indigenous people.
"That's the one," she walked to the office door with Bai Jinshu, pretending to be a passerby, lowered her head and said quickly, "It's the fifth one from the front to the back by the window. Do you see it?"
Bai Jin said: "No watch."
"Yes," Zhao Yinglai took a deep breath, "Brother Faye, how do you feel? Is it easy to make money?"
"It's hard to say..." Bai Jinshu pondered, "Without the watch, he lost his special abilities and became an ordinary person. In addition, it is very likely that he has been registered in this world. Even if there is the life card as evidence, the Foundation may not necessarily determine that he is a member of the team."
"What should we do then?" Zhao Yinglai frowned.
"Either we find out why he lost his memory and restore his memory, or we can only take him away by force to see if the fate card works," Bai Jinshu pondered. "What was Fu Yiran's reaction when you saw him this morning? Was there any sign that he remembered?"
"No," Zhao Yinglai shook his head decisively, "He acted very strangely."
"Then let's not waste our time here," Bai Jinshu made a prompt decision, "Let's start from other places and see if we can find out what happened before he joined the company."
A team entered here just over a month ago. Even if Fu Yiran lost his memory and became a native, it only happened in the past month. Maybe he could find something unusual from other people's descriptions of him.
They did it right away. The two of them asked around, from the neighbors to the security guard downstairs of the company, but in the end, none of the information they got was useful.
"Basically, everyone is saying that he came here a month ago, but no one mentioned how he came here or what he did after he arrived," Zhao Yinglai sighed on the return subway. "I was sleep deprived to begin with, and after asking so many questions, I'm overwhelmed."
Bai Jinshu sat on the subway seat, looking inquiringly: "What is the difference between Team 1 and us..."
If there was any difference between the two teams, it would only be that they saw the car accident as soon as they came in and learned in advance that they needed to hide their identities, and the car accident happened because they went in the wrong direction after signing in.
But A Lian and A Yuan also had their identities exposed, so why didn’t they become like Fu Yiran?
Or is it a matter of time?
The longer you stay after your identity is exposed, the more you will be assimilated?
If you can't figure it out, just stop thinking about it. Bai Jinshu pinched the bridge of his nose. Huai Jiamu and the others were going to capture A Lian and A Yuan anyway. They wanted to experiment whether this was the reason. They just needed to see whether these two people whose identities were exposed would be assimilated like the Gu King Fu Yiran and lose their past memories.
The two got off the elevator before the evening rush hour and walked slowly back from the subway station.
Zhao Yinglai was stroking the life card all the way, his expression constantly fluctuating between doubt and contemplation, and he was obviously thinking in a complicated way. Bai Jinshu said nothing all the way, and carefully reviewed everything that had happened since they entered here.
As the evening rush hour approaches, the restaurants on the commercial street light up their door signs one by one. Even before customers arrive, the street is already bustling with colorful neon lights.
And at this moment, suddenly, a few familiar figures running by caught Bai Jinshu's attention.
"Fuck," Zhao Yinglai blurted out, "Isn't that the captain? Why is he being carried on his back?"
Isn't that their eighth member?
Why are you being carried on someone’s back?
Bai Jinshu's eyes turned cold, and he quickly stepped forward and stood in front of the team member who was carrying Huai Jiamu: "What's going on?"
"Who am I going to? Si...Sikao?" Xu Ke, who was standing next to him, was startled and lowered his voice, "Get out of the way quickly before people around see it! The captain is seriously injured! We don't have a medical kit, we have to find a hospital quickly."
"Send him to the pharmacy. There is a doctor there!" Bai Jinshu stepped to the left to make way for the man carrying Huai Jiamu, and reached out to stop Xu Ke. "You stay and explain clearly."
He stared straight at Xu Ke.
"Xiao Guo has betrayed us!" Xu Ke was sweating all over. He had no time to get angry after being stopped. He quickly lowered his voice and said anxiously, "There is no murderer at all. He just wants to divert us and destroy the way we came so that we can't get out! The captain found out that there was something wrong with him and went back alone to stop him, but he stabbed him several times and seriously injured him! Skao, do you have a doctor among your friends?"
"Skao, Skao?!" He waited for a few seconds, but got no answer, so he looked up blankly.
The next second, Xu Ke, who was running and sweating profusely, paused.
Having been dealing with non-materialistic and dangerous items for many years, he suddenly felt a deep fear that made him want to take a step back.
This fear has nothing to do with his own courage, but is simply the fear that comes from the sixth sense instinct. Human ancestors have passed down this instinct to perceive danger from generation to generation since primitive times, and human genes have been continued because of this.
As a member of the Abnormal Management Bureau's action team, this feeling of fear was no stranger to him, and it had even saved him from danger several times.
But this was the first time that his radar sensed that the source of this fear came from his own kind.
Xu Ke suppressed his instinct to retreat and bravely looked up.
Under the dark red sign lights of the commercial street, Scario looked at him slowly from top to bottom as if he was examining something, which made him shudder from head to toe.
In contrast to this creepy glance, his voice was as soft as if he had seen a ghost: "Why didn't you follow?"
"I, we didn't react," Xu Ke stuttered, "and there really were two people who looked like murderers. We thought they were the fugitives Xiao Guo mentioned, so we chased them. We didn't notice that Xiao Guo was not at the scene. As a result, the captain realized something was wrong but didn't have time to call us, so he left first..."
As he spoke, his voice became lower and lower, and finally turned into a breath.
After all, they also have responsibilities. If they hadn't been led away so easily, the captain wouldn't have...
After a while, Xu Ke said anxiously: "I hope the captain is okay..."
"Of course he will be fine," the long-haired young man said as he left, this time in a softer voice, "but after he is fine, someone else will be in trouble."
Xu Ke realized it later and looked at Jiang Jie who had not left behind Scarao.
Jiang Jie's face was filled with shock.
"Oh my god," Xu Ke saw him lip-syncing towards him, "Someone is going to die."
The author has something to say:
Something happened to Jiamuge, and the Aoshen is about to awaken (.)
[Above Posa] will also transition to the second stage, heading towards a path that no one has ever imagined...
The first 20 + random 20, I was almost done writing when my computer crashed, it was really terrible T△T, luckily the typing software I used was able to recover the manuscript, otherwise I would have had to fight with the computer tonight!
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