Chapter 225: Scavenger (21) Wax Oil Barrier
Someone called the police immediately, and there was a police station nearby.
"Brother, you are looking up at the stars." He Lun stood beside Gao Mengtang. At this moment, Gao Mengtang was looking up at the sea with bright eyes, lost in thought.
"It's not the starry sky," Gao Mengtang pointed in a direction, "Is there a red cloud over there?"
He Lun and the others looked for a long time but saw nothing. After Gao Mengtang's eyes recovered miraculously, not only did he have excellent vision, he could also see things that other people couldn't see.
In his eyes, there was a light pink object hanging in the sky, and he couldn't tell what it was.
Fifteen minutes later, the police arrived at the scene. Yin Mingwu was among them. When he saw Wei Wei, he smiled and stretched out his arm to clap with him: "Old Wei, we meet again."
Wei Wei looked at him as if he were a lunatic.
"What are you doing? We are friends for life." Yin Mingwu didn't know that the one who was willing to die with him was Gao Mengtang next to him. He grabbed Wei Wei's arm and forced him to clap his hands.
"Didn't you join some undersea special forces?" Wei Wei asked slowly, "Are things on the shore also your responsibility?"
Yin Mingwu: "The bodies washed up from the seabed are my responsibility."
After joining the special forces team, Yin Mingwu's status was obviously improved a lot. He stood aside and directed other police officers to set up cordons, isolate the scene, and disperse the crowd.
At the same time, the body of Chen Yuan's roommate is found, the school investigates a series of fires in the monitoring room, and the police enter the campus.
In just a few hours, everyone on campus was silent.
While no one was paying attention, the farmer and the ghoul held the miracle doctor wrapped in black cloth and trotted along: "Old Yin, look at the miracle doctor, the miracle doctor!"
Suddenly, his arms felt lighter, and a black cloth fell on his arm. The farmer was stunned for a moment, then he touched his empty arm and asked, "Where's the miracle doctor?"
"【120 Miracle Doctor】 has died, and there are 11 players left." The system's prompt sounded.
The smile on Yin Mingwu's face gradually froze. The five Heiou stood quietly on the beach. Their slightly hunched bodies looked like black sea stacks standing on the coast.
"What's going on?" Yin Mingwu asked through gritted teeth, "Tell me."
Wo Lanbei looked at them and shook his head, "It's pitiful, but I'm happy."
After staying at the coast for a while and having nothing to do, Gao Mengtang and others just returned to the dormitory when they received a call from Lei Gong.
"I heard the news that the body of a person who had undergone cesarean section was washed up on the coast of Ximing Medical College?" Lei Gong asked.
Gao Mengtang: “Yeah.”
Lei Gong: "Do you still have the talisman I gave you? Did you put the evidence next to Chen Yuan?"
Gao Mengtang lied: "I have it with me. The evidence has been put away."
"Got it," Lei Gong continued after a pause on the other end of the phone, "I will report it to my adoptive father immediately and ask him to send someone to investigate. I will also go to Ximing Medical College. You don't leave yet."
That night, Heiou and the others mourned for the miracle doctor and did not come back. Only Yuefan members were in the dormitory. When Gao Mengtang was about to go to bed, Tu Cheng knocked on his bed and called him to the corridor.
"Gao Mengtang, can you take me to see the black marketeer?" Tu Cheng asked, "I want to trade with him."
"Eh?" Gao Mengtang asked in confusion, "What transaction?"
Tu Cheng just said: "Take me with you. Is it dangerous? I want to trade with him."
"It's not that dangerous, but the deal has a price." Gao Mengtang took out the corpse oil candle from the bubble, "Let's go, I'll go with you."
They lit the candles, and just like the last time, they felt dizzy after the candles burned down, and they fell to the ground before they had walked far. When they got up, they had arrived at the ghost ship.
The boat was still empty, but the food on the table was steaming. The cable automatically coiled into a circle without anyone operating it.
Only by holding up the candle and looking through the flames could one see the wax figures moving around. Gao Mengtang brought Tu Cheng to the restaurant.
The black businessman sat at the dining table with his back to them, making a wish for the birthday cake. He didn't turn his head, but he could sense them: "You are here again, it's not over yet..."
"Well, it's not me this time," Gao Mengtang pushed Tu Cheng forward, "it's my friend, he wants to trade with you."
Hearing this, the black businessman turned around, looked at Gao Mengtang, then looked at Tu Cheng, and asked slowly: "Boy, what do you want to buy?"
Gao Mengtang pricked up his ears. He was very curious about what Tu Cheng wanted to buy.
I only heard Tu Cheng say word by word, very seriously: "The opportunity to enter university."
Gao Mengtang rubbed his ears.
The black businessman seemed to have never heard of such a strange request. He hesitated for a few seconds and said, "You want a degree certificate and a diploma? That's easy to get. You don't need to find me."
"No," Tu Cheng said, "I want to go to university, study for four years, and get my diploma. As for how to get into university, maybe the college entrance examination, I don't know much about it. I have been a pirate since I was 10 years old, so I don't know much about things on land."
"I understand." The black businessman said, "You want to live a normal life for four years like a normal student."
Tu Cheng nodded heavily: "Yes, that's what I mean. Can you help me realize my wish? I heard that college life is very good, I hope I can go to college."
Black businessman: “Of course.”
Tu Cheng: "What's the price?"
The black businessman turned his head and looked at the birthday cake. "The background of life is blank. Your beautiful fantasy of a certain lifestyle is just the paint you mixed. You can use this paint to paint the picture of your current life."
"Please explain it clearly. I am not well-educated." Tu Cheng scratched his head. "What is the price?"
"Don't glorify any road," the black businessman's voice was hollow and long, "You belong to the ocean. I think you should return to the ocean with tears in your eyes."
Black businessman: "So, I won't charge you for this transaction. Because you get nothing."
When these two sentences were spoken, Tu Cheng became a little stronger and his face became younger. His pale skin had some color.
"You are now a freshman in the Department of Radiology at Zhongzhou University, and you are on leave due to illness. After you leave the copy, go back to school." The black businessman threw over a student card with Tu Cheng's name on it and a photo of Tu Cheng attached to it.
Tu Cheng was extremely surprised: "That's it, so simple?"
"Well, before classes resume, remember to catch up on the basics of compulsory education." The black businessman patiently reminded him, and then repeated, "But you will definitely regret it. Life is like a cave, surrounded by stone walls on all four sides. Every time you touch it, the stone wall will retreat an inch."
"A discerning person would go in one direction, open a tunnel, and go out from the other side of the mountain," he stared at Gao Mengtang and said meaningfully, "A foolish and blind person would turn around and leave the cave."
Gao Mengtang felt that the black businessman was hinting at something, as if he was calling him stupid.
"Right, the twelfth wise king." The black merchant smiled lightly.
Hearing this name, Gao Mengtang opened his eyes wide.
"I hope I can see you again, Wise King Twelve." The black merchant turned his back to them and continued to make a wish towards the cake. "The Spear of Azathoth is still in my hand. He is ready to blind your eyes at any time."
Gao Mengtang: "Eh? Asa, what kind of spear?"
"You used this spear to blind your eyes." The black merchant made a gesture of blowing out a candle, and the whole ghost ship began to shake violently. "From then on, you went from [clear-sighted] to [blind]. You no longer have to see the destined end. You are free, right?"
"What's the ending? Are you Lin Li's master?" Gao Mengtang was a little anxious. "Speak more clearly, please!"
The black merchant raised his chin and made a wish, his eyelids were glued together by the dissolved wax: "That dream is the end of your destiny."
After a severe dizziness, Gao Mengtang and Tu Cheng returned to the dormitory corridor, but the zombies had not returned yet.
Tu Cheng showed off his student card and recounted their experience on the ghost ship. Gao Mengtang was not very excited, so after Tu Cheng finished, he asked a question:
"I'm curious about the true identity of the black businessman."
He can remove the wounds left by the dead, and can easily change reality to make Tu Cheng a medical student. He also knows the wise king and the other world very well.
The black businessman is definitely not an ordinary human being. He must be from the other world and have a special identity.
What Gao Mengtang cares about more is - dreams, the destined end.
What dream was that? Gao Mengtang rubbed his temples with a headache, and casually placed the still burning corpse oil candle on the small table by the window.
Across the table, Wei Wei was flipping through a thick book called The Secret of the Moon. While taking notes, he glanced at the candle. Then, he paused and asked, "What's that on the sea?"
The windows of the dormitory building face the sea. Through the candlelight of the corpse oil candle, one can clearly see a bright red Arabic number floating on the sea: 4
"Well, I said there was something on the sea." Gao Mengtang's mind temporarily withdrew from "Fated End". "I saw a pink thing on the sea a long time ago."
The number 4 glowed red in the quiet night and did not change for a long time.
Don't think about it anymore, go to sleep first. I have to see the Thunder God tomorrow.
Gao Mengtang climbed onto the bed and listened to the snoring of Helun, Baijie and Wolanbei. Tu Cheng took a copy of "500 Ancient Poems that Middle School Students Must Memorize" and asked Wei Wei for advice. Wei Wei was particularly patient with this eager-to-learn student.
Before he knew it, Gao Mengtang fell asleep.
He had a dream.
It was pitch black, without a ray of light, and he kept going up and down the stairs, pushing open a heavy metal door, tripping over the steps from time to time, or stepping on empty air and falling down the stairs.
Such monotonous content was repeated hundreds and thousands of times.
Gao Mengtang suddenly woke up. He had had this dream once before. Last night, after he entered the ghost ship for the first time.
The so-called "destined end" by the black marketeers refers to this dream. Trapped in an unknown space, climbing stairs?
He sat on the bed in a daze while everyone else fell asleep. After a long time, he lay down with his clothes on. As soon as he closed his eyes, he began to have that dream again: going up the stairs, down the stairs, up the stairs again, up the stairs, and opening the door… and continued to go down the stairs, down the stairs, and opening the door…
When Gao Mengtang woke up the next day, she was absent-minded. Her hair was messy and she was in no mood to comb it. She just tied it into a low ponytail. When she was going down the stairs, she missed a step and fell down.
He Lun quickly helped him up: "Brother, what's wrong with you?"
Gao Mengtang looked at He Lun for a few seconds, and it was as if he saw He Lun for the first time.
"elder brother?"
"I'm fine." Gao Mengtang said vaguely.
But the situation was serious. The dream that was sealed deep inside seemed to seep out from every groove in the cerebral cortex. For the next two hours, Gao Mengtang couldn't help but think of that nightmare.
Lei Gong and his people soon realized that they had disguised themselves as the Zhongzhou Investigation Team and came to supervise the "Coastal Corpse Case". The scavengers no longer had to pretend to be cleaners and became members of the Zhongzhou Investigation Team.
It was around 9 o'clock in the morning. Chen Yuan had just come out of the dormitory building and was about to go to the laboratory. When he saw Lei Gong, he looked extremely disgusted: "Stupid monkey, what are you doing here?"
"The bodies of the people who had their caesarean sections dissected have been found," Lei Gong said. "They were washed up on the shore of Ximing Medical College."
"It's none of my business," Chen Yuan regained his deadpan expression, "You used sweet words to trick that idiot, and the caesarean section patient has been handed over to you for control."
Lei Gong was stunned for a few seconds, his expression twisted for a moment, as if he was about to laugh, and then veins popped out on his forehead: "Who are you calling an idiot?!"
"The Black Banquet begins. Who else could it be?" Chen Yuan's voice was low but clear.
The people who were listening all looked at each other sideways. There was no one else in Tanhualing, including its branch organizations, who would dare to curse Heiyankai like that.
All the students were cleared away. The people around were nominally from the Zhongzhou Investigation Team, but in fact they were from Tanhualing. They admired Hei Yankai very much, and when they heard what Chen Yuan said, they were ready to take action immediately.
Lei Gong stopped them and shook his head at Chen Yuan: "Foster father really raised you in vain. It's not appropriate for you to quarrel with me today. You are a suspect and need to be investigated."
After that, the Zhongzhou investigation team broke into Chen Yuan's dormitory, turned it upside down, and took out the tablet and USB flash drive.
The USB drive was connected to the computer, and there was a surveillance video in the folder. Chen Yuan sneaked into the Wuyun base and stole the control terminal.
"Is there anything you want to explain?" Lei Gong asked.
Chen Yuan still looked calm and said, "It's not mine."
Lei Gong: "Then why are you in your dormitory?"
"You don't know why?" Chen Yuan stared at him, "You want to frame me."
"Stop slandering me here!" Lei Gong was immediately furious.
The surveillance on campus had been handled, and no one could prove that Chen Yuan was at school at the time, so the blame fell on Chen Yuan.
System: "Decomposition task 3 has been completed. Task rewards are being distributed. Please check your mailbox."
"It was detected that [000 Blind] made the greatest contribution to this task. The blind will receive a more generous reward."
Wei Wei, He Lun and others received the item [Level 2 Weapon Chest]
Gao Mengtang checked his mailbox and was stunned when he saw the reward: Resurrection Coin!
He actually got a resurrection coin!
Gao Mengtang quickly hid the resurrection coin. On the other side, Lei Gong wanted to handcuff Chen Yuan and put him in the car.
"Decomposition mission 4 has been released."
[Decomposition Mission 4: Return to the Dark Cloud Base]
The car left the campus, but the players were already disheartened.
They didn't know what would happen next, and it was impossible for them to leave the campus and return to the Dark Cloud Base easily.
There were four cars in total, the first two cars led the way, Lei Gong and Chen Yuan sat in the middle car, and all the scavengers squeezed in the last car.
Without any warning, the two cars in front suddenly braked and Lei Gong's car rear-ended them.
"What are you doing?" Lei Gong opened the car window and shouted to the front, "Why are you braking?"
The driver got out to check the situation and was confused: "I don't know, we didn't step on the brakes, the car stopped by itself."
Lei Gong didn't believe it, so he pushed the driver away and drove the car himself. He stepped on the accelerator and the car moved forward another 2 meters, then got stuck and couldn't move anymore.
When driving backward, the wheels can still turn at first, but the speed becomes slower and slower. Soon, the wheels can no longer turn.
Something stopped them.
Lei Gong waved his hand at someone and said, "No. 19, go and take a look ahead."
No. 19 walked forward, and his movements became slower and slower, just like the car. The man reacted, turned around quickly, ran back, and lunged out with all his strength.
His upper body was free to move, but his legs and waist were completely frozen, maintaining the posture of lunging forward. He waved his arms and shouted, "Pull me out!"
Five or six people grabbed No. 19's arms and pulled him out, but the man's body did not move at all. Even though his arms were dislocated, he still couldn't get out.
Gao Mengtang pulled his teammates back a few steps.
Others couldn't see it, they just thought everything was normal ahead and there were no obstacles.
But in Gao Mengtang's eyes, a semicircular wall covered the entire campus. The wall was milky white and sticky. The lower body of the man was fixed by this sticky liquid and could not move.
"The material of the barrier looks like melted wax." Gao Mengtang whispered, thinking of the wax man on the ghost ship. "It seems to be related to the ghost ship and the black marketeers."
He glanced at the bright red number "4" on the sea.
What does this number mean?
*
The road was blocked, and a group of people returned to the campus. One hour later, the school was closed. Two hours later, the people of Tanhualing tried every possible way to leave, including diving to the bottom of the sea, but they found that the isolation barrier was a hollow sphere.
I tried to contact the Epiphyllum Ridge headquarters, but there was no cell phone signal, so I could only contact people who were in the encirclement.
If there is no leak, there is no escape even with wings.
Most students didn't know what had happened and were talking about the sudden closure of the school, the corpse drowning on the coast, and the death of Chen Yuan's roommate.
Three hours later, more and more students who refused to listen tried to leave the campus. Without exception, they were wrapped in the barrier and could not move.
The campus ghost story turned into a real horror incident. The whole university was shrouded in a depressing mood, and even the cafeteria was filled with an uneasy silence.
"How are we going to get out?" In the cafeteria, Bai Jie poked at his salad with a fork in annoyance.
A student came over and suddenly stuffed a flyer into Bai Jie's hand. Bai Jie unfolded it and saw the words "Look at the faint light and the vast lake" written on it.
This is the prayer of the believers of the ancient gods.
"Nervous." Bai Jie crumpled up the flyer and threw it into the ball of toilet paper on the table.
The person handing out the flyers was wearing the uniform of a volunteer from the Folk Medical College. When he saw Bai Jie's actions, he turned his head stiffly and said, "The ancient god has already come, and you still haven't learned your lesson?"
Bai Jie threw the chicken leg in his bowl to Pegana who was disguised as Da Huang, and said lazily: "Tell the old god, don't steal our chicken legs."
Pegana: "Woof!"
The man stared at Bai Jie for a few seconds: "You have been cursed."
"They actually know about the ancient gods. They are quite far-sighted." After the man walked away, Gao Mengtang said, "Are they from a wizard family?"
Shirakai: "They are probably some 'low-class' little believers. People from big families would be ashamed to go to a normal university."
After a whole day of investigation, they still couldn't find a way to leave. At night, they discovered a more terrifying fact: the encirclement of the barrier was shrinking.
Originally, No. 19's upper body was exposed, and his lower body was "frozen". But at night, when they went to deliver food, they found that No. 19's upper body could not move, and only his forehead and back of the head were exposed.
The wax sealed his mouth, he couldn't shout, his eyes were red and tears kept flowing.
The lunch box fell to the ground with a bang. Lei Gong felt a chill all over his body: "It's over, we are not going to be trapped here to death."
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