Chapter 494 Above the Posa (29) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]
A grey shadow was floating in front. Bai Jinshu chased forward a few steps. He wanted to turn back and tell Zhao Ying something, but he found that Zhao Ying was not paying attention to his movements at all. She was just having fun acting by herself.
Xu Ke and his teammates didn't realize that Zhao Ying was acting at all. They actually thought that he sprained his ankle after falling, and were now standing and squatting to keep an eye on her condition.
The few steps he took forward had already put a short distance between him and the place where Zhao Yinglai fell. If he went back to inform Zhao Yinglai at this time, it is very likely that when he looked back again, he would no longer be able to find the shadow that looked like He Chuling.
At this moment, a puzzled voice sounded behind him: "Brother Faye? Did you see anything?"
Wen Qi?
Bai Jinshu turned his head and saw that apart from the fallen Zhao Yinglai and the two members of the Abnormal Investigation Bureau, only Wen Qi noticed his unusual behavior and followed him.
Bai Jinshu quickly weighed the current situation in his mind. If he was not mistaken, then there was a watch mark on He Chuling's wrist, which meant that he was most likely a member of the Foundation team, which also meant that he was a team that had entered here.
Only one person survived in the team. Even the Gu King was trapped in this unknown space. She appeared in the real world after the first exploration, and there is a greater probability that she is the only one who survived in the team.
Now, the only person who survived and left this unknown space has left behind a gray shadow that looks similar to her in the unknown space. In the real world, she fell into a coma for unknown reasons because of "losing her soul". No matter how you look at it, there is more information worth digging out.
If he had mistaken the person, it would not be a loss to chase after him. Most of the gray shadows around had blurred outlines, and it was impossible to see the facial features clearly or distinguish between men and women. If it weren't for the clear facial features of this shadow, Bai Jinshu would not have been able to spot it among the group of shadows at a glance.
This clear shadow is so special. Even if it is not He Chuling, a member of Team 1, there must be something wrong. At least by chasing it, we can find out what is going on.
Originally they came here to explore the shallows. Even if there was no shadow, Bai Jinshu would have tried to go in.
No matter how you look at it, you can't go wrong by chasing after it.
The only problem now was that according to his original plan, five people were supposed to go in to investigate together, but Zhao Yinglai lay down too early. When he saw Yingzi, who seemed to be a member of the real-world team he had met once, he subconsciously chased him a few steps forward, which led to them being separated from everyone else and now only having him and Wen Qi.
But two people are always better than one person chasing after him.
Several plans flashed through Bai Jinshu's mind quickly. In just a few seconds, the gray shadow with clear facial features that resembled He Chuling became a little farther away.
I have to catch up and take a look.
"Jiang Jie, I found a very special shadow," he shouted, raising his voice, "It might be a problem. I need to follow it and take a look."
Say this to Wen Qi and also to Zhao Ying.
"You go back and stay with those three." Bai Jinshu said this quickly and chased after them.
Wen Qi probably won't go back. She followed them out because she was worried that Bai Jinshu and the others would find a way to make the members of the Abnormal Investigation Bureau go back early, which would result in her not being able to make a substitute and having to be taken back with them.
She will definitely catch up.
Sure enough, the next second, Wen Qi caught up with him: "Brother Faye and I will go together! It's not safe for you to go alone!"
Bai Jinshu glanced at her, as if he had no time to say anything else and was about to catch up. Wen Qi saw this and quickly followed him: "Brother Faye, which special shadow are you talking about?"
Bai Jinshu pointed in the direction of the shadow and said, "Did you see it? That one."
As the two exchanged a few words, the gray shadow floated further away.
Wen Qi narrowed her eyes, not knowing whether she really saw it or not: "I saw it!"
Bai Jinshu had already caught up with him, so she lifted her skirt and ran after him.
Between the fallen Zhao Yinglai and Bai Jinshu who had a high probability of finding the problem, the live broadcast camera honestly chose Skao:
[Which shadow, which shadow I didn’t see. 】
[I didn’t either, Aoshen has sharp eyes. ]
[It should be a problem with the Foundation's camera. The camera position is fixed, but Aoshen is in an unknown world, so he must be able to see more clearly than us. ]
[Just now when Aoshen said that, the camera clearly turned over, but I still didn’t see it clearly. 】
【I also. 】
[Me too, how come Ao Shen can see it at a glance, but I can't. ]
[@房管, please change the camera position so we can find out which one Aoshen is talking about. ]
【@Housekeeper, please change the camera position. 】
【@Housekeeper, are you there? Are you there? Change the camera position. 】
The gray shadow and the gray shadow do look similar in the camera. Compared with the shadow that looks like He Chuling and the surrounding shadows, one is clearer and the other is blurry.
The audience on the barrage began to urge the room manager to change the camera position, and in the unknown space, Bai Jinshu also encountered a little trouble
The water on the shallows was not deep, only about five or six centimeters, just enough to cover the instep and would not hinder their movements. But water was not the most important thing. On this shallow beach, what actually hindered their movements were the underwater sand and stones.
The underwater area of this shallow beach looks like a combination of a sandy beach and a rocky beach. Various strange-shaped stones are scattered on the shallow beach, and under the stones is soft sand. The stones at the bottom are embedded in the sand. Once someone steps on them, the stones will sway left and right or fall down, which makes it actually very difficult to run in this area.
In the part with more sand, in addition to the need to be careful of stones that are ambushed in the beach and may trip people who are not paying attention from time to time, the texture of this beach is also extremely soft, and you will sink a little with every step.
From time to time, you will come across some puddles that are hidden in the shape of flat ground. When you step into them, the water level is up to your ankles.
In areas with many rocks, every step you take may cause the stones embedded in the sand to shake back and forth. If you are not careful, you may step on some stones that are not easily placed and will slide down at the slightest touch, putting you at risk of falling at any time.
These stones are big and small, and the edges are not rounded. If you are not careful, you will definitely scratch yourself if you fall.
In such a shallow area, it is impossible to run and you may get hurt at any time.
They couldn't run fast enough, and they couldn't catch up with him either. Before long, the shadow with clear facial features disappeared from their sight.
As the shadow disappeared, Bai Jinshu also slowly stopped.
Skao was not good at sports. If the person here was Zhao Yinglai who never gets tired, or Qiu Zihan who has a very developed athletic ability, he might be able to chase him for a distance. But as long as there is a difference between the speed of human running and the speed of the gray shadow, no matter how fast the person chasing can run, they will definitely lose him.
He chased this shadow for so long, and thanks to Skao's luck, he didn't fall and sprain his ankle or step into a puddle. However, the uneven road would affect the running speed, and this place is not suitable for fast running at all.
The grey shadows around them are completely different.
Compared to people like them who might fall down if they walked normally, Shadow's movements seemed too smooth and natural.
It doesn't seem like it's "walking" or "running" like them, but more like it's "floating".
But this is not surprising. The gray shadows in this shallow beach are most likely souls, and souls move by floating.
But Bai Jinshu was very confused as to where these gray shadows were.
The experiment that Zhaoying conducted yesterday proved that the relative distance between these things and them is farther than it appears to the naked eye. If you throw a stone at a gray shadow very close to you, no matter how far you throw the stone, it will only fall in front of the shadow.
This shows that these shadows are actually very far away from them.
But they just observed at the edge of the shallows yesterday and then returned to the pharmacy, and did not go deep into the water at all. However, Zhao Yinglai was immediately discovered to be a "paper man" that could be possessed. After returning to the pharmacy, "another person" appeared on his body.
So logically speaking, these shadows must be moving very quickly.
But in the chase just now, the gray shadow in front didn't move that fast, otherwise Bai Jinshu would have lost it by now.
How do these shadows appear far and near, slow and fast?
"Master Fa...Brother Fa," Wen Qi followed breathlessly, "Where are we...where are we now?"
The one who had been chasing the shadow was Bai Jinshu, and Wen Qi just followed behind him and ran with him. The two of them chased the strange gray shadow into the depths of the shallows, not paying attention to the distance at all.
Bai Jinshu looked around and looked in the direction they were running from.
Now they could no longer see the figures of Zhao Yinglai and Xu Ke. Apart from him and Wen Qi, there was only endless white mist and grey shadows that seemed far away from them but were actually very close.
They don't know where they have run to now.
They initially ran towards the deep shallows, but after running for such a long time, the water level did not rise and was still shallow enough to cover their ankles.
This shallow beach is much larger than imagined, and exceeds the beach depth of a normal river.
No wonder Fang Sha guessed that this was the sea.
"How long have we been running?" Bai Jinshu looked down at his trouser legs. After running in the water for a long time, water had splashed all over his calves, and the area below the knees was basically wet.
The wet trouser legs stuck to the skin, and coupled with the endless fog around and the vague grey shadows, it created an atmosphere similar to that of a horror movie.
At least that's what the comments say.
[Hiss, it feels like Silent Hill. ]
[If a third person appears at this time (Youyou)]
[A third monster should emerge from the fog, right? ]
[Then a third monster appeared at this time, and put a hand on Wen Qi's shoulder...]
[Why not on the shoulders of the Ao Shen? ]
[Because the fixed attribute of Aoshen is Koi, monsters won't attack him. ]
[The monster stretched out his long nails and took out three rice noodle rolls from the river, and asked Aoshen, "Which one did you lose, the gold rice noodle roll, the silver rice noodle roll, or the copper rice noodle roll?"]
【Why is it rice noodle rolls? 】
[Because it's obvious that this team is lacking in healing. ]
【Then Aoshen looked at the three rice noodle rolls and asked the monster: Can't I throw a person? 】
[That’s enough.]
Under the happy comments, Wen Qi glanced at the time: "It will be 2:40 in the afternoon."
They got off the car at around two o'clock, and excluding the time spent walking around the shallows, the two of them had been running along that exceptionally clear gray shadow for at least ten minutes.
Bai Jinshu lowered his head and touched his chin slightly. This shallow beach was indeed abnormal.
In the real world, the water on a river beach or beach gets deeper as you go deeper from where there is water.
It is basically impossible for the water depth to remain the same after running for more than ten minutes like in this river beach.
For this situation to occur, either the body of water connected to the shallows has reached an unimaginable order of magnitude, or... the direction they were actually running in was not the deep part of the shallows.
Bai Jinshu looked around and opened the temporary group chat. His watch had been vibrating while he was running just now. Sure enough, Zhao Yinglai had sent a bunch of messages:
Jiang Jie: [@Skao, where are you going, Brother Faye? ]
Jiang Jie: [I rolled around in the puddle and before I could get up, you disappeared in the blink of an eye.]
Jiang Jie: [No, who are you chasing after? ]
Jiang Jie: [Have you seen Cai Hong and Fang Sha? ]
Perhaps because these two key words were touched upon, other people in the group also came up.
Tang Ling: [What happened to Cai Hong and Fang Sha? We are investigating.]
Jiang Jie: [Cai Hong and Fang Sha were fine, but Brother Faye suddenly said he saw a strange shadow, and then he ran out and disappeared, leaving me, a weak and vulnerable team member, in the shallows... I won't be attacked again, right? ]
Qiu Zihan: [Brother Daxian, use magic to beat them! ]
Jiang Jie: […Then let Xu Ke and his team arrest me?]
Qiu Zihan: [No, brother, just change back to your original form. You are a national first-class protected animal! ]
Jiang Jie: [Thank you, but I am in the eighth grade.]
Bai Jinshu: ...What does this have to do with anything?
This kid Zhao Yinglai was not worried about where he went at all. As he asked questions in the group, the topic turned to what level of national protected animals the weasel was. He completely forgot that Skao had chased him out more than ten minutes ago, and also forgot the fact that he was not Wong Tai Sin but a shadow puppet.
Still in the second grade... He saw that Zhao Yinglai and Qiu Zihan were singing the same tune and were even more stupid.
Bai Jinshu held his forehead and typed: [Failed to catch up. ]
Skao: [I saw someone familiar.]
Chang William: [Acquaintance? Kao, who did you see?]
He was quite relaxed. Among the eight members of the exploration team, except Huai Jiamu who was lying injured, Bai Jinshu and Zhao Yinglai were at the shallows, Tang Ling and the other two were looking for Fang Sha and Cai Hong, and Di Xueni was also working at the hot pot restaurant. He was the only one on vacation.
Bai Jinshu silently suppressed his dissatisfaction and put it on his agenda to find something for Chang William to do, then he replied: [I saw a gray shadow, very much like the Foundation team member I met before,]
He was not wrong. He Chuling was indeed a member of the foundation team, and if he was talking to him... they must be acquaintances.
Everyone in the circle knows each other, and even those who have never met have heard of each other, so it is not considered lying.
When other people heard this, it was naturally translated into: Skao saw other team members he knew.
The team members in the foundation all know some friends who are also members of the team, so this is not surprising. When he said this, no one raised any questions.
Only Zhao Yinglai asked with understanding: [Brother Faye, are you sure he is someone you know? Are they from the same team?]
The Foundation has only sent two teams in. If the other party is also an exploration team member, there is a chance that they are from the same team. However, what she meant was not "acquaintances", but "your people".
What she meant was whether Bai Jinshu saw the Gu King Fu Yiran.
Skao: [He's someone I know, but I lost him. ]
The implication is everyone except Fu Yiran.
Skao: [I'll send you a location address. Please check how far this location is from your current location and take a screenshot.]
Skao: [Location Address]
After a while, Zhaoying sent back the picture, along with a sentence: [Brother Faye, did you run so far? But why did you run along the edge? ]
Bai Jinshu's eyes moved and he clicked on the screen.
In the screenshots taken by Zhaoying, they were not in the deep shallows at all, but were relatively located to her left.
In other words... he thought he was walking towards the depths, but in fact he was walking towards the left.
Bai Jinshu put down his watch and looked at Wen Qi who was sitting on a rock next to him: "Let's go a little further in and try."
Wen Qi stood up from the stone and nodded: "Okay."
She clearly saw Bai Jinshu standing there, staring at his watch for more than ten minutes, and then suddenly decided to go inside, but she didn't ask anything.
Bai Jinshu had no intention of explaining. He and Wen Qi walked a distance further inside, then opened the watch again and started the positioning.
This time their positioning was a little further to the left than their previous position.
Bai Jinshu touched his chin and said, "The direction we are heading in is inconsistent with the actual direction of movement."
This could explain to him why he lost He Chuling, because He Chuling's shadow was floating deeper, but he was running to the left while chasing her, so naturally he could not catch up.
For this to happen, there must be something strange about the river.
Could it be that the living soul cannot enter the depths of the Forgotten River?
Skao: [There's something wrong with this water. I can't go deep into it. I can only walk on the shallows.]
Jiang Jie: [Then let's go find you, Brother Faye? Xu Ke and the other two are getting really anxious when they see Wen Qi is missing.]
It’s just that one was anxious because Wen Qi was missing, and the other was anxious because he wouldn’t be able to report back.
The members of the Abnormal Investigation Bureau did not seem to be united. There were probably not many who were truly worried about the captain getting hurt. After the captain was out of danger, Xiao Guo's backstabbing resulted in his inability to return to another world, which was bound to cause dissatisfaction among most of the remaining people.
However, due to the opponent's captain's status, they would not show this dissatisfaction, but would just suppress it in their hearts.
Zhao Yinglai touched his chin, put down his combat watch and began to look around.
The grey shadows around them were separated from them by a layer of fog, so not only were they not very clear, but the shadows themselves were also blurry. To her, all the shadows looked the same. How did Scarao recognize that they were acquaintances?
"Tsk," she squinted her eyes and muttered, "Is this luck?"
We were all here together, so how come he was the only one who saw the key clue?
Bai Jinshu was also looking around.
After discovering that these living souls could not enter the deep water area, he immediately guessed where these gray shadows were actually located.
They should be floating on the water, but for some unknown reason, these shadows that were originally floating in the deep water area were projected onto the shallows. In addition, the living souls could not enter the deep water river channel and could only walk on the river beach, but they thought they were walking towards the depths, so a phenomenon like a "mirage" was formed -
It seems to be so close, but I can never touch it.
There is a difference between blurry and clear between He Chuling's shadow and these shadows. Once you discover this, you can find through careful observation that although these gray shadows look similar, there are actually subtle differences between them.
For example, some shadows have softer edges, some are more solid, some are darker gray, and some are lighter gray.
In terms of correlation, the lighter the shadow, the more illusory the edges, while the darker the shadow, the more solid it is.
For example, the shadow of He Chuling is darker in color, and the edges are clearer, and the shape of the facial features can be vaguely revealed.
The water of the Forgotten River will devour souls. Such a difference makes it easy for him to think that those shadows with lighter colors and more illusory edges must have entered here earlier and been devoured more severely. The clearer and more solid the shadows are, the shorter the time they have been here and the less affected they are.
He Chuling himself has left this world and returned to the real world, but it is said that he was "frightened out of his wits" and has not woken up since he entered this unknown space.
Does that mean that the grey shadow resembling He Chuling wandering here is her “scared away” soul?
The reason why so many gray shadows floating here are blurry is because they are all equally incomplete "souls".
What about the complete souls in the Forgotten River? Why are there only these blurred, incomplete souls on the surface of the water?
They were now unable to enter the deep water because they were affected by some unknown factor and thought they were heading towards the depths, but were actually moving towards the side.
What if he opened the map and followed the instructions step by step towards the deeper water?
What will happen? Will we hit a wall? Or will we pay a heavy price?
In other words, He Chuling’s “soul” was scared away in this way.
Bai Jinshu rubbed his chin thoughtfully and decided to try it himself.
If it was any other identity card, he wouldn't dare to do such a stupid thing, but this was Skao, especially an 80% Skao...
Absolute luck, plus a little curiosity on the part of Scario himself, was enough to push him to give this death a try.
Skao is not afraid of death, he is only afraid of boredom.
It was obvious that the river now piqued his interest.
"Wen Qi," he turned around and looked at Wen Qi, "walk a few steps behind me. If you find any problem with me, pull me back."
"Okay... okay," Wen Qi was stunned for a moment, "Brother Fa Ye, be careful."
No matter how stupid she was, she should have realized by now that finding a way to leave here was just nonsense from Skao and the others, and their real goal this afternoon was to explore this shallow beach.
Wen Qi cautiously took a few steps back, then nodded to Bai Jinshu: "If there is any problem, I will definitely bring you back, Brother Faye."
Bai Jinshu glanced at her with a half-smile.
Of course Wen Qi had to pull her back, otherwise how would she know how to be a substitute.
He turned on his watch and took a step in the direction he knew from the map.
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