Chapter 162 Chapter 162
Because Qingtong is the only one who has the "awakening" ability to see through strange things, he is the one who is mainly responsible for checking the passengers' belongings. Huang Tianzhen and Su Sanan are both his assistants.
"Those common daily necessities, such as tissues and skin care products, are unlikely to be ghosts, so just screen them. Most of what we're looking for are old items, so be careful about bracelets and rings that may have been left by our ancestors." Qing Tong whispered to the two, "Start screening from both sides. If you encounter any suspicious ghosts, ask the passengers to put the items on the table and I'll check them one by one. And..."
He quietly put two knives into their hands and said, "Give them to Baxiong'an and Qixing."
Both of them were from the military and were quite skilled.
He also condensed three thinner utility knives and asked Su Sanan and Huang Tianzhen to take one each, and kept one for himself. He was not proficient in this ability yet, so in order to ensure the quantity, he could only make each knife smaller. Fortunately, there was no need for too large weapons in the narrow compartment.
How can you fight against monsters without anti-monster weapons? You have to prepare them in advance.
"Let the passengers who have checked their luggage and are fine leave this carriage one by one," Qingtong said to the train conductor. "If there are passengers carrying suspected strange objects, they can also leave first if they are willing to leave them here."
The train conductor also knew that the matter was of great importance. He nodded and said, "I know."
After all the instructions were given, the passengers' luggage inspection began.
The passengers were very cooperative. Besides, no one would carry too much luggage when traveling by train these days. It was not the holiday season, so no one would go home with large bags to visit relatives. Therefore, the luggage was checked very quickly.
It took only ten minutes to check one-third of the bags. The girls' bags were basically filled with cosmetics, while those who were going on a long journey would bring a few changes of clothes and daily necessities for each month. Some of the girls were on their menstrual period in particular, so their bags were half opened. Huang Tianzhen happened to be checking her personal belongings, and he blushed a little when he saw a few sanitary napkins.
The girl didn't think much of it and even complained to the conductor that these were not sold on the train. She just got her period today and it was a bit sudden. Luckily she had a few pieces left from last month and hadn't taken them out, otherwise she would have been stuck today.
As for jewelry, it is easier to identify. Nowadays, girls prefer some cute little accessories, such as rabbit-shaped earrings, four-leaf clover necklaces, and pink beaded bracelets. You can tell at a glance that these things are small online shopping commodities. Regardless of the price, the history of them is definitely no more than five years.
There was a girl wearing a jade bracelet. After being questioned, she happily left it on the table. According to the girl, the jade bracelet only cost more than 100 yuan when bought online. Compared with her life, it was not worth her heart's pain even if the bracelet was lost.
The luggage that boys bring is simpler. Those who travel far only need to bring a change of clothes. Those who only take one or two stops may not even bring anything else except their cell phones and wallets.
You can leave the train without carrying any luggage that looks like a weird thing. Passengers have long been frightened by the word "weird" and have hurriedly packed up their belongings and turned away.
Qingtong looked at the bracelet and found it was not a strange thing. When the girl was about to leave the car, he stopped her and asked her to put it back on.
Almost half of the people in the carriage have left.
The passengers who had not been checked yet became a little anxious. They also wanted to leave early. Some of them were so anxious that they directly opened their bags to show the conductor, hoping that he would let them out earlier after looking at them.
"Please take your time, one by one," the train conductor soothed.
As soon as he finished speaking, the carriage suddenly shook, as if the wheels of the carriage had hit a big rock. The carriage tilted to the side and almost derailed. Fortunately, it quickly bounced back.
Something unexpected happened, and the passengers in Car 7 all cried out, and the timid ones almost collapsed: "Let us get out of here quickly!"
"Yes! I put my luggage here. You guys take your time to check it. I want to go out!"
"The stuff is here, let us pass!"
"I've taken off my earrings and put them in my bag. I'm only taking my cell phone with me. Can we go first?"
“I just took my phone!”
Qingtong shouted, "Let the passengers who put down their luggage leave first. Please remember the items you left behind. If you can get them back later, come and get them yourself!"
Qingtong shouted to let them go, and Baxiong'an and Qixing, who were blocking the entrance on both sides, made way. The crowd immediately squeezed to both sides. Fortunately, they were cautious and did not let the group of people leave in the chaos. Instead, they checked one by one to make sure that they had nothing except their cell phones before letting them go.
Qingtong stood in the aisle, watching people leave their luggage where it was and squeeze past him to leave.
A woman with long hair, a tall and thin man, a middle-aged man with a big belly, a short middle school student...
"Host, catch the boy in the red jacket!" The salvation system spoke in Qingtong's mind.
Hearing the system prompt, Qingtong reflexively reached out and grabbed the wrist of the boy in the red jacket.
The young man stopped walking. He didn't even turn around. He just froze where he was.
After catching the man, Qingtong quietly asked the system: "Did he hide something?"
The Savior System: "No, host, this is a monster! This system was negligent. This is a human skin monster. It is covered in human skin. If it hadn't just brushed past the host, this system might not have been able to tell it apart immediately. It was not born from a monster."
Qingtong: ! !
Human skin...weird?
The other passengers were still anxious to leave. Only the sharp-minded Su Sanan noticed Qingtong's actions. Huang Tianzhen was still stupidly checking the luggage one by one.
Su Sanan was about to walk towards Qingtong, but Qingtong winked at him and looked at the passengers who were leaving. Su Sanan immediately understood what was going on, walked over to Qixing and said, "Hurry up."
Qi Xing glanced at Qing Tong and noticed the boy he caught. He had not paid attention to the short boy at first, but now that he was caught by Qing Tong, Qi Xing looked at the boy carefully.
The boy in the red jacket had very pale skin, to an unhealthy degree, which reminded him of the paper man he saw in the weird live broadcast, only slightly paler than the paper man. The boy's bangs were a bit long, covering his eyebrows and casting a shadow over his eyes. The boy always lowered his head, making it difficult to see his expression.
More importantly, no matter if they were young or middle-aged, they would react in some way, panic or unhappiness, if they were caught suddenly when leaving. But the boy in the red jacket had no reaction at all, and he didn't even want to ask why he was caught.
Weird, this word popped up in Qixing's mind.
He stepped aside to let the passengers leave quickly, and at the same time he moved slowly towards the center of the carriage. If there weren't so many passengers squeezing out, he would have moved even faster.
On the other side, Baxiong'an, who also received the prompt, moved sideways, and the passengers left as quickly as flowing water.
Seeing that the passengers in front of him were walking farther and farther away and he was the only one left here, the boy in the red jacket finally showed an expression on his face. He turned his head and stared at Qingtong with wide eyes.
Glancing at the passengers who had not yet left, Qingtong said, "You still need to check your belongings."
Obviously, although this monster is not as smart as the funerary figurines, it still has some intelligence. It realized that it was exposed and stopped pretending. It opened its huge mouth and a long, thin tongue with barbs stabbed towards Qingtong's head.
Qi Xing and Ba Xiong'an, who had been paying attention to this side, quickened their pace upon seeing this, and immediately left the aisle and squeezed into the middle of the carriage.
Baxiong'an was far away because all the passengers had not left yet and were blocked in the aisle. In his haste to get there, he flipped over the tables and chairs.
Some passengers noticed Qi Xing and Baxiong'an's actions, turned their heads curiously and looked behind them, and saw the boy in the red jacket with a huge open mouth and a half-meter-long tongue. He shouted "Fuck" and pushed forward.
"Everyone, watch your feet and don't push!" The train conductor struggled to maintain order on the scene.
There was already a fight in the middle of the carriage.
In order to avoid the attack of the tongue, Qingtong took two steps back and bent down, but his feet were entangled by something and he fell to the ground. When he fell to the ground, he saw that the two legs of the boy in the red jacket were entangled around his ankles like a hemp rope.
A pair of pale hands grabbed Qingtong's neck and pinched it hard, and the tongue swung out and tried to stab Qingtong's head again.
With a flash of cold light, the blood-red tongue was cut in half by a knife. The one who did it was Qi Xing who rushed over.
The next second, the strange boy's hair was strangled by Bahiongan who was stepping on the seat. The man who grabbed the boy showed no mercy and cut the boy's throat with the knife in his hand.
The strength in the red jacket's hands began to loosen, and Qi Xing took advantage of this moment to drag Qing Tong out, picked him up and handed him to Su Sanan.
"Fuck, what happened?" Huang Tianzhen exclaimed.
Everything happened so fast. Huang Tianzhen was still checking the gifts stupidly. With his back to Qingtong, he did not notice the boy Qingtong was holding. It was not until he saw Ba Xiong'an leaving the guarded passage that he turned around and saw this scene. Before he could figure out how to help, everything was over?
Qingtong's throat was sore from being pinched and he could hardly speak. Su Sanan patted his back, but saw Qingtong pointing at the boy in the red jacket who was lying on the ground.
The boy in the red jacket slumped down, and something came out of his body. It was very round and thick, like a huge, long worm, and its body alone was more than one meter long.
However, the insect was covered with long and thin tentacles all over its body, like flying threads, and had a round mouth at the front of its body with half of a long and thin tongue sticking out.
Just then all the passengers left and the conductor also went out, but he didn't go far. He just looked at this side from a distance.
"Human-skin monster, this thing will attack humans, eat everything inside the skin, and then move around in human skin." Su Sanan recognized this thing, "Slitting the throat is only useful for humans, and you still have to find weaknesses to deal with monsters. It will be easy once the real body of the human-skin monster comes out. This thing is afraid of fire, water, and... being skinned! There is a round bulge on the human-skin monster, start skinning it from there!"
Huang Tianzhen: "Fuck. Do you know this thing?"
Su Sanan: "Just read the illustrations after the weird live broadcast and memorize them all."
Huang Tianzhen: "I didn't try so hard in the college entrance examination back then, tsk."
Qingtong's voice finally recovered a little, and he said in a hoarse voice: "Surround it, this is not a monster born in the ahem, don't let it run away..."
"Brother Qingtong, you better stop talking." Huang Tianzhen took a deep breath and said, "Leave it to us, don't worry."
Baxiong'an and Qixing said nothing. They stared at the Human Skin Monster closely, not daring to look away for even a moment. They moved slowly, and the five of them formed a circle, surrounding the Human Skin Monster in the middle.