Chapter 118 Chapter 118

The live broadcast was interrupted, but the curse priest did not leave immediately. He still stood in the original position, on the top of a half-collapsed building on the edge of the village.

The man held a long stick and scanned the surroundings.

There are four strange and bizarre faceless children in front of me, the paper figures I have only seen on live broadcasts, the straw boy who attacks the village as soon as he appears, and the mysterious man who stops such a terrible battle with just one sentence.

If you come into contact with any of them, you must be mentally prepared for death.

Facing guys like them, the weapon on her waist could not give her a sense of security.

Even so, Yu Miaoqing stepped forward. She even unhooked the pistol from her waist and handed it to her subordinates.

"You are..." The subordinates didn't understand what he meant, but they felt that Yu Miaoqing's behavior was very dangerous.

"It's an attitude." Yu Miaoqing said. She came here to have contact with the mysterious man. Disarming her weapons to show that she did not come with bad intentions was the most basic etiquette.

Of course, some other preparations also need to be made, but those preparations are not weapons, but one's own mobile phone. Yu Miaoqing turned on both the camera and the recorder, with the camera facing forward and placed on the chest.

Sensing Yu Miaoqing's approach, the monsters all turned their heads to look at her. The cold eyes of the paper man and the look of the straw boy as he looked at the ant made Yu Miaoqing feel a chill down her spine, but she did not stop, even though she began to feel weak in her heart and her calves showed signs of going weak.

She still had to move forward.

"Hello, can I talk to you, mysterious sir?" Yu Miaoqing passed by the paper man and the straw boy, and said to the curse priest with a smile, "I am Yu Miaoqing, the chief of the Heng City Strange Response Department. Please don't mind this name. We just want to protect ourselves from the terrible strangeness, and we don't intend to be enemies with all strangeness. As long as you... don't attack and hurt us first, I think we can get along well."

The curse priest didn't say anything, but just looked down at Yu Miaoqing with an indifferent look.

Yu Miaoqing swallowed her saliva, negotiating with strangers was not her strong point. It would have been better if Si Zai from the headquarters was there. Unfortunately, the live broadcast was interrupted. Yu Miaoqing did not dare to contact him rashly. She could only continue recording to preserve the information of the communication between the two parties.

Of course, the premise is that the other party is willing to communicate with you.

"Two more days." said the Curse Priest.

"Huh?" Yu Miaoqing was stunned.

"Be prepared, everything will begin in two days." The curse priest whispered, and after knocking his staff on the ground, he disappeared. Yu Miaoqing was startled, and then turned around to find that the straw boy had also disappeared, presumably taken away by the curse priest.

Yu Miaoqing widened her eyes. That’s it?

She plucked up the courage to step forward, risking being killed by the man, and he said this.

Two days... Come to think of it, the date Bai Yixin mentioned seems to be coming soon. During the live broadcast, the date Bai Yixin mentioned was very vague, and only an approximate time was given. The people above guessed that if what Bai Yixin said was true, it would be this week.

So that’s how it is. There are only two days left.

Isn't this terrible?

Yu Miaoqing shook her head in annoyance. She glanced at the paper man from the corner of her eye. There was no doubt that this guy was as dangerous as the straw boy, but it was rare to have a paper man in front of her...

Just as she was about to talk to him, the paper man didn't even look at Yu Miaoqing, and quickly jumped onto the roof. The paper man was as light as a swallow, and after jumping over several rooftops, he jumped down and disappeared.

Now all that was left was the Faceless Child, a pile of ruins and countless scarecrows.

"Ah..." Yu Miaoqing just felt a headache. She helplessly took out her mobile phone and turned off the camera. At the same time, she sent the short few minutes of footage she had just taken to Si Zai.

Although it may not be of much use.

"Go deeper into the village and look for other survivors." Yu Miaoqing turned and directed his subordinates, "And those scarecrows..."

"Minister Yu, behind!" someone shouted.

Yu Miaoqing immediately turned around and saw that the huge scarecrow dropped by Qin Xiaocao began to shake violently and disintegrate into several small scarecrows. Then some of the scarecrows restored their original appearance and turned back into humans.

"It's back..." Yu Miaoqing whispered in shock, and then she came to her senses and immediately shouted, "Quick! Find the other scarecrows, and those that were injured in the battle..."

"Ah——" a scream rang out.

Yu Miaoqing quickly ran towards the source of the sound and saw a man lying on the ground, covering his arm with his hands. There was a long wound on his arm and blood was flowing out.

Judging from the clothes, this looks like a scarecrow whose arm was chopped off in battle. When a scarecrow turns back into a human, the arm is not completely severed, but only a wound is left? Will the injuries sustained when becoming a scarecrow be reduced after returning to an adult?

Wait, there seems to be a scarecrow with its head and waist cut off.

Sure enough, after this thought flashed through my mind, someone shouted, "There's a person with a cut neck here, first aid is needed."

Now is not the time to think about weird things, saving lives is the most important thing. Fortunately, when Yu Miaoqing came over, she had already thought of the possibility of needing emergency treatment, and she led a licensed medical team to provide on-site treatment.

Yu Miaoqing was so busy dealing with the situation that she didn't even notice that the Faceless Boy had disappeared as well.

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Qingtong's home.

The Curse Priest did not stop acting and just sat on the sofa.

In front of the man, the Scarecrow Boy and the Faceless Child were kneeling, and the paper man next to them was about to open the refrigerator to get some fruit.

The cursed priest hit him hard on the head with his staff.

If it were an ordinary person, this kind of force would make him or her dizzy, but when it was applied to a paper man, it didn't hurt or itch.

"I'm really angry," said the Curse Priest.

The paper man took an apple and sat on the chair opposite the curse priest: "Didn't I apologize?"

"I can't say much about you during this weird live broadcast." The Curse Priest frowned slightly, "But I really want to hit you hard with this scepter now."

"Or you could just cancel the role altogether," said the Curse Priest.

The sly smile on the paper man's face immediately disappeared. He stood up, moved a chair to the corner of the room, then sat down facing the wall and ate an apple.

There is a little sincerity, but not much reflection.

"Faceless Child... forget it, I won't say anything to you. Go back to Heng City by yourself. If something like this happens again, you must contact me." The Curse Priest said in a low voice, "If you continue to cause trouble... don't come out if there is nothing else."

The Faceless Boy immediately shook his head, then nodded, stood up and was teleported to the yard of Heng City’s Weird Response Department, the Faceless Boy’s home.

As for the Straw Boy, the Curse Priest opened the system interface and cancelled the role-playing.

The next second after the cancellation, all the memories merged into the original body's mind. Qingtong, wearing the vest of the Curse Priest, recalled everything the Straw Boy had done with a gloomy face. He raised his hand and threw the long staff out.

The front end of the long staff stabbed the paper man hard, causing minor injuries. If there was a health bar, it would show a prompt that the health was reduced by 10%.

Calm down, this is all yourself.

But at the same time, because of the influence of the vest's own personality, it cannot be completely considered as oneself.

This is also why Qingtong, who was originally a good person, became an evil person when he put on the scarecrow vest with only a tiny soul.

After canceling the role-playing, he clicked on it again. This time the soul was separated from the main body and was not as small as before, so the expression of the Scarecrow Boy after it came out was more normal.

At least it's not like before, when his eyes were filled with indifference and even disgust towards everyone else except himself.

"From now on, you will stay in Wangshui City." said the curse priest.

Qin Xiaocao nodded, glanced at the curse priest, and saw that he no longer looked angry and looked a lot more relieved.

Because of the redistribution of souls and sharing of memories, Qin Xiaocao regarded himself as the previous Qin Xiaocao, just an upgraded version with several points of rationality. He was very clear how dissatisfied his previous behavior made the original body.

"System, how did the Internet evaluate this live broadcast?"

The Savior System has been keeping an eye on the network messages and has sneaked into places that can be invaded by various countries, including their conference rooms. Upon hearing the host's inquiry, it immediately informed the host of the summary.

"Report to the host. After the information screening and statistics of this system, most of the Western Continent countries, led by the United States, believe that the three vests of Curse Priest, Straw Boy and Faceless Child come from the same organization. Curse Priest is the boss of Straw Boy and Faceless Child, and Paper Man is also related to this organization. It also includes Bai Yixin who knows Paper Man, and Kailet who knows Bai Yixin. Even Utor who appeared in Silver Country is under suspicion."

"As for the East Continent, there are several different opinions. For example, China's ideas are not much different from the United States. The difference is that the United States believes that the "weird organization has descended to rule the world with a probability of more than 80%. China still marks the purpose of the "weird organization" as unknown. Countries like Japan and South Korea believe that the "weird organization" is related to the Chinese top leaders. Because China has the longest history and the most mysterious myths and legends, there is a saying that the weird are actually the spirits in China's past myths, and the human-shaped weird that can communicate are the "immortals" and "monsters" that have appeared in myths. Didn't China once have a book about gods and ghosts helping emperors conquer the world? They believe that this is not fantasy, but historical fact."

The Curse Priest's expression was indescribable: "The book you are talking about, could it be... the Investiture of the Gods?"

Savior System: "There is also Journey to the West."

Curse Priest: ...

Ah, indeed, it does look alike.

Do the immortals and monsters in the story who are neither human nor possess magical powers look like Bai Yixin or Utor?

And aren’t those low-level weirdnesses that cannot be communicated very similar to the horror legends circulating everywhere?

"So, thousands of years ago, this land once had high-level and low-level weirdness, which were incorporated into myths and legends?" The Curse Priest pondered for a moment, "...Why do I suddenly feel that this hypothesis makes sense?"

Savior System: "Host, calm down. At least the weird things that are about to happen have nothing to do with the immortals and monsters in the Investiture of the Gods. It's just that the guys from other places are throwing dirty water and attributing the weird things to a certain country. In fact, this is a natural disaster that happened all over the world and has nothing to do with any country."

The curse priest immediately came to his senses: "Is that so? I understand. What about the other theories?"

"The rest of the opinions are more minority. They are not judgments made by the top leaders of the country, but information guessed by ordinary people. In addition to the 'weird organization' theory, many people believe that the weird are actually a big family. All high-level weird are 'born' by a big boss-level weird. They are brothers and sisters. The Curse Priest is one of the parents with a higher status and is more powerful, while the Straw Boy and the Faceless Child are both younger brothers and sisters."

"Hmm?" This idea is quite novel.

"The majority of netizens who agree with this statement are from Yana Country."

"The country of Yana... is the country in the myth where Gaia, the mother earth, gave birth to all the gods. I understand." The curse priest nodded. Their mythological system was that one god gave birth to a pantheon, so it was not surprising to have such a guess.

"Also, they are trying to figure out whether you are someone like Gaia or Uranus."

The curse priest, who had some knowledge of the mythology of that country, changed his expression, and the paper man in the corner burst out laughing.

"The majority of people think it's a 'weird organization' or a 'weird family', with a few saying it's a 'split theory', 'the law of the jungle theory', 'weird class theory', etc. There are many different speculations about the relationship between the Curse Priest and the Straw Boy. But the first two theories alone account for 90% of all the people who discuss it. The weird organization theory accounts for 70% of them."

The Curse Priest waved his hand to stop the Salvation System from counting. "Let's just say it's a weird organization. I guessed someone would make that guess when I used this vest to stop the two of them from fighting in a weird live broadcast."

Originally, he only intended to let the vests know each other as a high-level monster. After all, when the real monster comes, one vest may not be able to handle it and need another vest to save the situation. The setting of knowing each other will be much more convenient.

As a result, now, they have deviated from their course due to the trouble caused by the paper man and the straw boy.

Fortunately, they are not far off the mark and can still be saved. The only thing is to change the setting to 'they come from the same organization but the relationships between them are not very harmonious, the members are not so harmonious, and their goals are different, but they can still be reluctantly obedient with an authoritative boss'.

This setting is quite long.

But netizens are really bold in their imagination, they even came up with the "family" hypothesis. How do these aliases of his look like a family?

There is no hierarchy among weirdos, but the law of the jungle does exist. In addition, the fission hypothesis holds that all high-level weirdos are split from individual beings and then transformed into different appearances. Can he tell the truth about this person?

However, this hypothesis has the fewest supporters, and even the person who proposed it was just saying it as a joke. As expected, the truth is more easily in the hands of a few people.

All these aliases are derived from him alone.