Chapter 182 Chaos Block No. 12 (39) The ghost is still there. …
In the void after closing his eyes, Gao Geng's face floated quietly.
"Gao Geng? Gao Geng?" Wei Wei called tentatively.
Gao Geng closed his eyes and did not react. Next to his mind, a piece of code written in Esperanto popped up, indicating that the authority of the Iron Lady was being transferred to Wei Wei.
Wei Wei: "Gao Geng!"
“…”
"I am your brother's friend." Wei Wei used his trump card, "Your brother, Gao Mengtang."
As expected, and also within reason, the main brain opened its eyes suddenly when it heard the three words "Gao Mengtang". Wei Wei heard several people around him screaming in fear. Immediately following, there was the crackling sound of explosions from the wires.
The main brain's pupil was just a small blue dot, which was fixed tightly on Wei Wei.
"Untie the wires!" An Ning shouted, "Quick, cut off the power to the intelligent computer!"
The back of her hand was pierced by the data cable, and she felt a burning pain. An Ning pulled out the cable, bringing out a string of blood beads, and she patted Wei Wei's face.
"How are you?"
Wei Wei opened his eyes and found that the back of his hand was burnt black by the electric shock. He shook his head slowly to show that he was fine: "What happened just now?"
"The main brain is faulty." An Ning checked the various interfaces. "The main brain rarely fails. It may go out of control for no apparent reason, but it will recover soon. Don't worry."
An Ning checked the power supply and circuit again. The intelligent computer, which was suspended by the data cable, emitted a faint blue light again. She connected the data cable to the back of the hands of Wei Wei and others for the second time.
This time, Wei Wei did not mention Gao Mengtang again. Strangely, Gao Geng did not react at all. He closed his eyes quietly. After the authority was transferred, Gao Geng's face flashed twice, made a slight explosion sound, and disappeared.
On the back of the left hand, a round moon orb pattern appears. Press this pattern and you can control the Iron Lady with your mind.
An Ning applied medicine to the back of Wei Wei's hand that was burnt by electricity, and the skin soon returned to normal.
"Does the main brain have memories?" Wei Wei asked.
An Ning: "Memory? It's a program, it has no memory. The memory should be quite large."
Wei Wei pondered for a moment: "The main brain actually has a human face."
The group left the warehouse where the intelligent brain was stored. An Ning and Wei Wei chatted for a while: "The main brain was a human before. Later, His Majesty took away the full moon orb from the thirteenth king, and fused the full moon orb with that human to create the main brain."
Wei Wei brushed the pattern on the back of his left hand.
The Moon Orb is in charge of the barrier. After the Black Tower game is officially launched, the entire world is shrouded in the game's barrier. The Moon Orb is the game's central processor and controller.
Owning a mastermind is equivalent to becoming the master of the Black Tower game.
What puzzled Wei was why he, the Emperor ten years later, was so different from his present self.
Wei Wei could understand the six-class citizen system established by His Majesty. He hated people with corrupt morals, so he particularly liked Gao Mengtang.
But why did he have to create a master brain? Why did he have to compete with the Wise King Thirteen? Why did he have to become the master of the world? No matter how you look at it, this doesn't seem like something he could do.
Outside the window, 12 iron ladies gathered together and blocked out the sunlight completely.
Their metallic dresses reflected the cold light, penetrating the glass windows and casting spots of light on the opposite wall.
"But I ate a melon," An Ning turned her head and smiled at Wei Wei.
Their offices were at the end of the corridor. Others left one after another, leaving only Wei Wei and An Ning in the corridor.
Wei Wei: "What melon?"
An Ning lowered her voice and said, "Before the Mastermind became the Main Brain, he had a lover. His lover died, and the Mastermind was devastated. In order not to waste his abilities, His Majesty made him the Main Brain."
Wei Wei: “…”
The lover you are talking about, could it be Gao Mengtang?
It's too narrow-minded, and that's not a feeling that can be described by love.
An Ning: "Go back and have a good rest. It's quite dangerous today. If the main brain fails for too long, Bloody Lady will lose control. I don't know what will happen."
She said it casually, but Wei Wei kept it in mind.
If the Bloody Lady loses control, doesn't that mean there's a chance to save her?
After returning to the office, while preparing materials for the afternoon meeting, Wei Wei wondered why he would become the Emperor ten years later.
Wei Wei doesn't think he is a particularly ambitious person. He just wants to make money, buy a big house, save some money, live a comfortable life, and retire.
Isn't the purpose of making money to retire as early as possible?
Being the ruler of a world surrounded by wolves is nothing compared to the joy of leisurely sightseeing. Wei Wei often felt bored with everything about the Black Tower game, but there was no way to quit.
"Director Meng, your lunch." Song Chenwu threw the lunch box in front of Wei Wei.
Wei Wei became even more annoyed with the Black Tower game.
*
In the old mansion, Gao Mengtang and others were planning to attack An Ning.
An Ning believed in half-death and ate vegetarian food all day on Sunday. They already knew the restaurant that provided vegetarian food for An Ning. The next step was to poison her.
Wei Wei sent a few messages.
: The Court of Justice plans to wipe out the Axe Chopping People and storm the old mansion. Grandma Hua has passed away, and you are the leader of the Axe Chopping People, so you must be careful.
: In addition, Song Chenwu joined the Court of Inquiry. I learned this morning that the mastermind is Gao Geng.
Gao Mengtang was holding the phone, stunned.
:What's the meaning?
Wei Wei described what happened after he connected to the intelligent brain.
Gao Mengtang: OK, I understand. Have you found a way to save the Bloody Lady?
: First, you need to make the Bloody Lady out of control. To make the Bloody Lady out of control, you need to make the main brain malfunction. You may need to sneak into the Judgment Hall.
Gao Mengtang: We plan to poison An Ning’s food.
In the office, Wei Wei was eating lunch slowly. When he received the message, he raised his eyes and saw Song Chenwu in his office, picking up a piece of steak and putting it into his mouth.
Noticing Wei Wei's gaze, Song Chenwu raised an eyebrow and cursed with his face: Why are you looking at me?
Wei Wei: Please bring me some poison.
:good.
Today is Saturday, it's time to poison An Ning.
That night, Gao Mengtang took Wei Xiangchen and quietly went to a vegetarian restaurant.
The restaurant is located in the commercial center of District 13. Not far away, there was an explosion and the Qinglan Restaurant was razed to the ground. The surrounding buildings were also abandoned. When the night wind blew, it was infinitely desolate.
When passing the blockade area, Gao Mengtang felt the air was a little cold, and he had palpitations and cold sweats.
"Stay away from me, it's so cold." Gao Mengtang wrapped his cloak tightly.
This cloak was issued by the Court of Justice, and there was a translation badge sewn on the chest. Wei Wei didn't need it, so he gave it to Gao Mengtang.
When worn, it is easy to be mistaken for an employee of the Court of Inquisition, making it easier to sneak around.
"It's not my fault that you feel cold. There are many dead souls there. I can feel their resentment, which is very deep and heavy." Wei Xiangchen pointed to the blockade area after the explosion.
The flashlight's cone of light swept back and forth. People in the uniforms of the Court of Justice were patrolling outside the blockade area. Gao Mengtang was passing by the blockade area.
Is there a lot of resentment in the explosion area because the people there were killed in the explosion for no reason? Gao Mengtang wondered.
As if he knew what Gao Mengtang was thinking, Wei Xiangchen whispered, "People who die in accidents usually don't feel resentful, because they die before they even come to their senses, so they don't have time to feel resentful."
Resentment arises from years of pent-up dissatisfaction, long-term torment, extreme mental pain, and slow death, and is most likely to linger.
Gao Mengtang quietly slipped away along the outer edge of the blockade area. He had already walked a long way, but he still felt palpitations and his whole body was cold.
"It's a bit strange." Gao Mengtang whispered, "Didn't the patrol officers notice anything unusual? Why didn't they try to deal with these dead souls?"
The night patrol employee had a calm expression, as if he was completely unaware of the existence of the dead souls.
"Captain Gao, those dead souls," Wei Xiangchen hesitated, "are haunting you."
"Pestering me?" Gao Mengtang was surprised.
Wei Xiangchen: "Yes, his hands are still touching you."
Gao Mengtang: "...Why?"
Wei Xiangchen made a very convincing guess: "Maybe you are not only liked by humans, but also by ghosts?"
Gao Mengtang actually thought it made sense.
Wherever he went, the ghosts followed him, but Gao Mengtang could not see the ghosts directly. In Wei Xiangchen's eyes, Gao Mengtang seemed to be entangled in a silver-gray ball of wool, with a fluffy glow all over his body.
A man and a group of ghosts came to a vegetarian restaurant on the first floor of a commercial street. The door was locked, but Wei Xiangchen could pass through the wall.
He transformed into a ghost, floated in, and opened the lock.
The dishes have been prepared. The restaurant owner pays great attention to An Ning's food and has set aside a special area to store the vegetables that An Ning wants to eat.
It also makes it easier for Gao Mengtang to poison.
"Li Xing'er." Gao Mengtang called in a low voice.
[Poisonous Hand of Xinglin] Li Xing'er, the butcher who was saved by Gao Mengtang in the [Cave of Sorrow] copy. She can heal people and kill people, and is proficient in all kinds of poisons.
Gao Mengtang chose a poison called [Dark Clouds Blocking the Moon].
Poison effect description: Dark clouds cover the moon, rendering the secret of the moon completely ineffective, and then gradually recover its effectiveness.
The player's ID card is made of the soul of the moon creature. To make the secret of the moon ineffective, the player's ID card will gradually turn into a useless poker card, with reduced physical strength and weakened skills until he becomes an ordinary person.
The poison is not lethal, but its other properties are outstanding: slow release, stable, and no special smell. Under normal circumstances, the ID card will be scrapped after 3 days. Considering An Ning's superior strength, her ID card should be killed by the poison in about 6 days, and she will be back to her original state in about 10 days.
Wei Wei and others can find an opportunity to take action after An Ning loses the function of his identity card.
【Dark Clouds Covering the Moon】 is a liquid. Gao Mengtang put on gloves and a mask, not exposing an inch of skin. He took a small spray bottle and sprayed some on each prepared dish.
It looks pretty good after spraying. The green vegetable leaves are hung with water droplets, which make them look juicy and fresher.
*
On the way back, the resentful spirits were still haunting him. Gao Mengtang was panicking and sweating, and kept urging Wei Xiangchen to fly faster. Wei Xiangchen was a group of cold spirits, and it was almost sparking before he shook them off.
"Aren't you too popular?" Wei Xiangchen said.
Gao Mengtang frowned and said nothing. He was indeed popular, but being closely entangled by the dead souls was a bit strange, and it didn't seem like it could be explained by the three words "popular".
Back at the old mansion, although the vengeful spirit had been shaken off, Gao Mengtang was still haunted by the feeling that it was following him like a shadow, like a maggot on his heel. He simply washed up and lay down in bed humming.
In the middle of the night, Gao Mengtang opened his eyes in a daze. The moonlight was very bright, shining on the light gray curtains, and the shadows outside were swaying.
Strip-shaped, long and thin shadows, accompanied by the rustling sound of wind blowing through leaves.
Gao Mengtang lifted the quilt and sat up, then quietly walked to the curtain and lifted a corner.
My breathing suddenly stopped. Outside the window, there were vines all over the place!
He immediately went to look for the 04 blocker, which was clearly placed in the refrigerator. When he opened the small refrigerator in the room, he found it was filled with miscellaneous items: draft paper filled with words from the Other World, an Esperanto textbook, and a dictionary.
Why were there all these in the refrigerator? Gao Mengtang didn't have time to think about it, and threw out everything in the refrigerator. The refrigerator was emptied, but there was not a single bottle of 04 blocker to be found.
The vines outside the window were denser, blocking all the moonlight. Gao Mengtang threw down the refrigerator and knocked on Tu Cheng's door next door.
"Wake up! Wake up!" Gao Mengtang banged on the door.
The shouting was particularly loud, but Tu Cheng did not respond at all. Not only Tu Cheng, but also the people in other rooms were dead silent, and the bedroom was as quiet as a tomb.
Gao Mengtang was even more surprised. What was going on?
He immediately went downstairs to the cold storage to find blocker No. 04. He turned on the light in the living room and was so scared that he almost screamed.
The living room was filled with corpses! Bai Jie, Zhang Qiyan, Tu Cheng, Gao Geng... They lay on their backs with their eyes wide open. The dense vines were like a basin of loaches scattered on the ground, crawling into their bodies and twisting around.
Gao Mengtang gripped the stair handrail tightly, and the color instantly drained from his face.
No, no…
When Xin Teng and he came towards him, he immediately turned around and ran upstairs. This staircase seemed to have no end, and he ran until he was exhausted, but he was still on the first floor.
wrong.
This is a dream.
Gao Mengtang stood where he was, allowing the Tongxin vine to pierce his body.
“Hmm!”
In reality, Gao Mengtang suddenly opened his eyes. Cold sweat oozed from his whole body. The duvet was sticky to his body. He wanted to get up, but he was sleep paralyzed. His skin was numb all over and he couldn't move at all.
"Haha, I passed. I passed."
“I passed the exam.”
"Look, I passed the exam."
The eerie and shrill laughter echoed in Gao Mengtang's ears, as if a ghost was lying next to him and laughing shrilly.
The light outside the window flickered, Gao Mengtang closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and waited for the strange noises to disappear. His pajamas were soaked with cold sweat and stuck to his shoulders. Gao Mengtang exhaled and sat up.
Nightmares. Sleep paralysis.
And there are those few sentences "I passed the exam".
Perhaps, it had something to do with the ghosts that had been haunting him tonight, chasing him, entering the old mansion, and giving him nightmares.
Gao Mengtang got up, poured a glass of ice water, and sat on the bed in a daze.
The moonlight shines through the curtains, and everything remains the same.
"Why are the ghosts haunting me..." Gao Mengtang muttered softly and put the finished ice water on the chest of drawers.
His movements suddenly stopped and he stared at the armchair next to the chest of drawers.
A cloak from the Court of Justice was draped over the chair. Gao Mengtang held up the left front of the cloak, where a badge of the translation post was sewn.
In the nightmare, there were Esperanto textbooks, draft papers and exercises in the refrigerator...
The ghost was not haunting Gao Mengtang, but this cloak. When Gao Mengtang passed the blockade area last night, he was wearing this cloak!
When I touched the cloak, my palms felt abnormally cool, as if I had touched a ball of cold air.
Wei Xiangchen said that the formation of ghosts requires the accumulation of resentment over time. So, the resentment of these ghosts is related to the translation post in the Court of Judgment?
Who is it? Gao Mengtang frowned in confusion. Moreover, the voice of the female ghost he just heard seemed a little familiar. He had heard it somewhere before.
: Avi, are you there? Please help me check if there are any employees who died mysteriously after being admitted as interpreters in the Court of Justice.
After a pause, Gao Mengtang added: He should have been parasitized by the Tong Xin vine. Please, please, I have a hunch that this is very important for us to pass the level [Please]
The time was 3:30 in the morning.
The top of the chat box showed "The other party is typing..." but no message came in. Gao Mengtang guessed that Wei Wei was about to go to bed, but suddenly received his task. He wanted to rest, but was too embarrassed to refuse.
Sure enough, half a minute later, Wei Wei sent a message saying "OK".
: Thank you for your hard work [hug]
Wei Wei: Not hard
Hard life.
He got up from the bed again and used his authority to retrieve the internal recruitment list.
Half an hour later, Wei Wei sent a folder.
: Three months ago, a girl was admitted to the translation post in the Court of Justice. On the day she was scheduled to be admitted, she was parasitized by the Tongxin vine. The next day, all seven members of her family died.
The folder contained the application information of a girl named Dai Ying, who had a pretty appearance.
"Dai Ying, Dai Ying..." Gao Mengtang repeated her name, his eyes suddenly lit up, "The owner of Qinglan Restaurant, Dai Yinyin?"
No wonder he felt the ghost girl’s voice sounded familiar. The ghost girl’s voice was 70% similar to Dai Yinyin’s.
"Is that you, Dai Yinyin?"
Gao Mengtang touched the cloak of the translation post, and a gust of cold wind blew over him, making him sneeze. After he came to his senses, the chilly feeling of being haunted completely disappeared.
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