Chapter 158
When seeing Zhuo Si's message, A Yan couldn't help but frowned the first moment.
Where has this guy gone to commit suicide again?
What's going on today? Why are there so many things happening to me?
Ah Yan couldn't help but hold his forehead, but looking at the message sent by Zhuo Si now, it was obvious that he had made another "big mistake".
She expressed deep doubts about this "mistake" sent by Zhuo Si.
I felt like I had quickly replied, "Where are you? Send me your location."
【Zhuo Si】: I don’t know if you can come in. It’s a bit hard to explain and the location can’t be sent out.
Seeing his unclear words, Ah Yan wanted to kick this troublemaker from a distance.
Soon, Zhuo Si sent more messages.
Ayan and Juejue looked at the content he posted, their brows becoming more and more tense. This guy still has time to send messages and signals, which proves that the situation is not too tense.
However, Zhuo Si mentioned that the ghosts he saw so far were different from normal ghosts.
【Zhuo Si】: The ghosts in this place! All of them are missing arms and legs. I wonder if it’s because their bodies are disabled and they can’t be reincarnated. Don’t you care?
【卓思】：There are so many without any facial features, such as eyes, noses, ears, or mouths! Oh my god, I have to keep running!
After sending this message, Zhuosi disappeared from the conversation box. Fortunately, he had already sent the address.
"No facial features, missing arms and legs, isn't that right?" Ayan and Juejue looked at each other.
Zhuo Si was vague about how he got to this place. He only provided the address but said he was not sure whether others could come in.
From the words of this riddle teller, Ah Yan guessed that it was probably the effect of Zhuo Si's "strange news intern" halo, and the content involved could not be expressed in words.
If Zhuo Si hadn't mentioned it, Ah Yan would have almost forgotten that this day was the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, the Ghost Festival.
He chose this day specifically to commit suicide. Ah Yan just wants to say one thing, if you don’t meet a ghost, who will?
Ding Ling cannot be contacted for the time being, but since it involves ghosts, A Yan and Jue Jue are not professionals, so they still have to use some help.
"I think, if we want to contact the special case team now, we have to find Sister A-li." A Yan thought for a while.
Ah Li, Cheng Li, was a non-staff member of the special case team who helped senior sister He Xing fulfill her wish that time.
He is also the owner of the haunted house entrepreneurship incubation base where they pulled Zhuo Si out of the coffin.
"Otherwise, should I call you Brother Ueno?" Zhu Jue thought for a while and said.
It was a coincidence that most of the roommates in the two dormitories were not at home. When it came to handling this matter, the two thought about it and felt that only Ding Ling and Yuan Ye could be involved.
Xiao Lingdang is the ghost king, and Yuanye can... turn into a female ghost.
But Dingling went to Guangzhou and hasn't come back yet, and Yuanye is not in school either.
It would take time for the special case team to transfer personnel, and Zhuo Si was asking for death in the first place. Ah Yan and Jue Jue just hoped that he would take care of himself and try his best to protect his life before the main force arrived.
...
Zhuo Si is indeed trying hard to protect his life.
How on earth did he accidentally end up in this place full of disabled ghosts where he didn't even know where he was? He had to start from the beginning.
Since he successfully investigated and survived his first internship at Xuejia Lane, Zhuo Si thought about it day and night within the seven days that followed, and finally signed the letter of formal employment with determination.
Yes, now Zhuo Zuo Si is no longer a strange news intern, but a "stingy news investigator".
Zhuosi has always liked thrilling and exciting things since he was a child, and he longs for alternative experiences.
Although the experience in Xuejia Lane frightened him to death, Zhuo Si felt that it also greatly strengthened his courage.
I've even been in a coffin and nearly suffocated to death. I was on the verge of life and death. Having gone through such experiences, what else is there to be afraid of?
He was unwilling to give up the "opportunity" he had finally obtained.
After becoming a formal "news investigator", as a novice investigator, Zhuo Si gained a skill to become a regular employee.
He opened his Yin-Yang eyes.
Zhuo Si knew that this was a real step towards becoming inhuman.
With Yin-Yang eyes, one can see things that ordinary people cannot see.
After all, sometimes what you can't see is scarier than what you can see.
After becoming a "strange news investigator", Zhuo Si conducted three "strange news investigations" in Bincheng and other nearby cities. After experiencing the initial chaos, he gradually got the hang of it and became bolder.
Especially after completing each truth investigation, the higher the rating, the higher the reward you will get, which will also be helpful for the next mission.
In addition to the Yin-Yang Eyes, Zhuo Si also acquired props and the skills to use talismans, and is still learning the hand-rubbing thunder method.
Each investigation of anecdotes usually takes no more than a week, so in the remaining time, he continued to run the store while finding unconventional ways to learn.
Once you are really in danger, it really is true that having many skills is always helpful.
For this Ghost Festival anecdote investigation mission, Zhuo Si also made a lot of preparations and came with great determination.
【News Investigator: Zhuo Si】
【Location of this strange story: Maluwan】
【Please arrive at Ma Lo Wan on time at midnight on the Ghost Festival, investigate the truth of the strange news within seven days and stay alive.】
[The rewards for this rumor investigation are generous, please make your decision carefully. 】
This time, in the letter that Zhuo Si received, the words "generous rewards" and "careful decision" lingered in front of his eyes for a long time.
There were no such words in the last two news investigations. Although there was a small crisis, it was finally resolved safely.
But this time it was obviously more dangerous, especially during the Ghost Festival. As the old saying goes, the bigger the waves, the more expensive the fish. Zhuo Si gritted his teeth and decided to "go for it"!
Zhuo Si had heard of Malu Bay, the place where the strange news happened.
This place is just as its name suggests, close to the bay, with a series of steep bends. Although it cannot be compared with the world's famous supernatural death highway, it is also a place where accidents frequently occur.
Due to frequent accidents and some "bending" motorcyclists who love to commit suicide, the roads in the Maluwan area have been blocked and entry is prohibited.
It’s just that during the Qingming Festival and the Spring Festival every year, the families of the victims would come to the nearby area to pay their respects.
The car accidents here are very serious. Cars that flip over and catch fire send people flying, either dead or injured. Losing an arm or a leg is considered a minor injury.
Although the Maluwan section of the road has been completely blocked, people who come to explore the area or pass by are said to hear cries and screams for help. Others say they can hear the sounds of cars braking violently and crashing.
It is said that there were some bungalows not far away where local residents lived and sold things on the roadside.
In recent years, as the road sections were blocked, the original residents have moved away one after another, and no one remains here.
When searching for news related to Malu Wan, Zhuo Si saw a message left by a netizen who claimed to be a "Malu Wan local resident" several years ago.
"My family used to live in Maluwan, which is actually quite far from the bend where the accident happened. But at night, we could often hear crying, shouting, and car crashes. At that time, Maluwan had been blocked off and no car could get in. Later, the residents in our area asked someone to take a look. They said that some of the ghosts of the people who had been in the accident stayed here, especially those whose bodies were not fully buried. If they didn't enter the underworld, they would linger in the place where they died."
"I still remember the adults performing the rituals. Children were not allowed to get close. They sprinkled something in circles and built a small temple to worship the deceased. Anyway, the government took the land away not long after, and we moved away."
After checking the relevant information, Zhuo Si had some idea about the situation in Maluwan and felt that the problem should not be serious.
He guessed that this time he was investigating an unusual incident, most likely because the deceased had died in a car accident and had some injustice done. And at this special time of the Ghost Festival, perhaps he would see the past repeat itself and find out something.
But when Zhuo Si arrived at the scene in person, the development of the situation was beyond his expectations.
He literally saw the past repeating itself, seeing the ghosts of those who had died in the car accident.
As the only living person here, Zhuo Si was unsurprisingly chased by the mutilated ghosts. Being chased by a large group of ghosts, Zhuo Si ran away in panic, with his head in his hands, and behind him was a huge army of ghosts with missing arms and legs.
He ran and ran, and he felt like he was running on the road, but he didn't know when the ghosts behind him disappeared.
Zhuosi saw another group of ghosts in a place he didn't even know about.
A ghost that is equally disabled, but different from the one in the car accident.
After all, car accident injuries are terrible, but they will not precisely gouge out eyes, mouths, noses, and limbs and facial features, and they will not simply disappear as if they were dug out.
After seeing these ghosts, Zhuo Sicai looked around and realized that he was no longer in Maluwan, there was no road under his feet, and he could not see any houses.
He seemed to have traveled to a special area and saw a group of lifeless ghosts.
These ghosts ignored Zhuosi's arrival, but Zhuosi thought they looked even more terrifying.
The only thing missing from a face is the mouth, making it unable to speak.
His eyes were empty, as if they had been wiped out directly.
Where the nose should be, it was completely flat, as if the organ had never been there.
If the car accidents that Zhuo Si encountered in Maluwan were still scary, then the ones he encountered now were a bit weird.
Zhuo Si realized that the danger of this investigation might never be in Maluwan, but in the place he entered from Maluwan at this special time.
This unknown place is haunted by strange ghosts.
While his phone still had signal to send messages, Zhuo Si urgently contacted the big shot he could think of to save his life.
He felt at ease because his cell phone still had signal, proving that even though he didn't know where he was, at least it wasn't some mountain village in the forest.
Zhuo Si did not dare to act rashly and kept trying to use navigation to locate himself.
Suddenly, a crisp sound was heard in front of him.
"Brother, are you new here?"
A little boy with hollow eyes appeared in front of him, holding a little girl without a mouth. Zhuo Si instinctively ran away!