Chapter 226: Scavenger (22) Drawing Talismans and Curses
At nine o'clock in the evening, the encirclement shrank inward by more than 5 meters, and the speed of shrinkage was accelerating.
It is estimated that after 48 hours, the entire area will be covered by these unidentified substances.
Panic spread throughout the campus, and even Lei Gong was a little surprised and anxious, like a frightened monkey.
Gao Mengtang and the others were relatively calm. They tried every method they could think of, including burning with the fire from corpse oil candles, attacking with skills, using teleportation spells... all failed.
The number "4" in the sky was dazzlingly red, and Gao Mengtang had a hunch that the wax encirclement was probably related to this number.
Lei Gong's men drove several MPVs, and the players folded down the back seats and used them as beds. That night, several people squeezed into a car, and when they encountered danger, they drove away.
"I suspect this is related to the ghost ship." Gao Mengtang wrapped himself in a blanket. "There is a candle man on the ghost ship. The barrier this time is made of wax oil... Was it done by a black businessman? Why did he do this?"
Wolanbei was upset because he didn't say such a bad thing. He poked Wei Wei and said, "That black marketeer can make the scar on your face disappear. Go and trade with him and let your scar grow back."
"Hey! Wolanbei!" Gao Mengtang raised his voice, "Don't make excessive jokes!"
Wei Wei glanced at him calmly and said, "Will shutting your mouth suffocate you to death?"
"Hey, that's not possible," Wo Lanbei smiled slyly, "but having the will but not the ability can really suffocate me. Wei Wei, go quickly and be a real man."
"If you can't hold it to death, just shut up." Wei Wei said calmly. He opened the cigarette box, took out two cigarettes, opened the door and got out of the car.
When Wei Wei walked away, Gao Mengtang said angrily, "There is a limit to joking. You will make Wei Wei sad."
Bai Jie shrank his neck and said, "Wolanbei, you are a true warrior. Wei Wei can eat human flesh without changing his expression. Aren't you afraid that he will get in a bad mood and stab you through?"
Wo Lanbei laughed for a while, and his expression gradually became more serious: "When you met Wei Wei, he had already become a eunuch. When I met him, he was still a silly high school student."
"All of Wei Wei's family members are dead. I am the only one left around him who has known him for more than five years. Even if he kills Gao Mengtang, he can't kill me." Wo Lanbei raised his chin proudly.
After smoking two cigarettes, Wei Wei returned to the car. He really didn't look angry, and Gao Mengtang felt a little relieved.
That night, they huddled in the carriage, wrapped in blankets, and slept uneasily.
The carriage suddenly shook, Gao Mengtang opened his eyes dazedly, the mist was thick, and there was a cloud of turbid air in the carriage. Wei Wei was getting up from his seat.
"You woke up so early." Gao Mengtang muttered vaguely, "It's only four o'clock."
Wei Wei didn't answer. He was wearing a nightcap and his eye mask.
Gao Mengtang had just closed his eyes when he suddenly felt something was wrong: Wei Wei's posture did not look like he was sitting up, but rather like someone was pinching his shoulders and lifting him up.
"Avi?" Gao Mengtang's sleepiness instantly disappeared. "What's wrong with you?"
Still no response, Wei Wei floated out of the carriage in a strange posture, Gao Mengtang grabbed one of his arms. Only then did he realize that the inside and outside of the carriage were not fog, but a nearly transparent light yellow substance.
Gao Mengtang immediately thought of the wax man he saw on the ghost ship, except that the wax man he saw now was more transparent.
Outside the carriage, there was a man in black wearing a bird-beak mask, watching the scene quietly.
There was no time to think, as the black mud flowed out from between his fingers, condensing into countless spikes, stabbing at the man wearing the bird-beak mask.
The man didn't dodge at all. The spike flew out at lightning speed, then quickly slowed down and pierced the bird-beaked man. It was like a spent force and couldn't even penetrate his clothes.
Seeing this scene, Gao Mengtang felt a chill in his heart.
These black swamps are the corrupt supreme order. The wax people can resist their attacks.
Unexpectedly, the sharp beak of the mask trembled, and the head turned to look at Gao Mengtang. The two big black eyes on the mask looked at Gao Mengtang for a few seconds.
Wei Wei suddenly fell to the ground and the man in black turned and left.
Everything ended without any warning. The yellowish translucent substance in the air disappeared and the wax man left silently.
"How are you? Are you feeling unwell?" Gao Mengtang hurriedly helped Wei Wei into the carriage.
"No problem." Wei Wei took off his blindfold, his eyes were blank, "I seem to have had a dream."
Gao Mengtang also suspected that this was a dream. Why did those wax men attack Wei Wei? Who was the bird-beak mask? Why did they turn around and leave?
This noise also woke up Wolanbei and Baijie. It was four o'clock in the morning, the sky was dark and the air was slightly cool. The people in the carriage looked at each other in confusion.
"By the way, let me take a look with the candle." Gao Mengtang lit the corpse oil candle and held it next to the car window.
His guess was correct. Those translucent substances were indeed wax men. Through the firelight, he could see the wax men wearing bird-beak masks and walking towards another car.
"That's the car of the ghoul and the farmer." Bai Jie lowered his voice, "What are they doing?"
Gao Mengtang was about to say "Let's go help them", but then he thought, if the ghouls and the farmers saw him in danger, would they help? Of course not, they would just watch from the other side.
Thinking of this, the light of the Holy Father that had just lit up quickly dimmed. Gao Mengtang also hid in the car to watch the fun.
"Mr. Blind Man, you didn't jump over to lend a helping hand immediately." Wei Wei looked at Gao Mengtang in surprise.
"Well, let's take a look at the situation first." Gao Mengtang said vaguely.
Just as they had experienced, the wax man dragged the ghoul out and threw it at the feet of the bird-beak mask.
The sharp beak dropped, and the masked figure looked down at the man for a moment before stepping on the ghoul's throat.
The zombie didn't struggle at all. In the quiet morning, there was a crisp "crack" sound of broken cervical vertebrae.
System: "[077 Ghoul] has died. Remaining players: 10."
The bodies were left there, and the wax figures wearing bird-beak masks left the vehicles. Their footsteps were like ghosts, without a single sound. A dark green glowing shadow floated in the void. A group of people melted into the green light mist and disappeared completely.
Inside the car, Gao Mengtang and others were in a daze for a few seconds before they realized what had happened.
Why kill ghouls?
No, the bird-beak mask was not targeting the ghouls at all. He wanted to kill Wei Wei at first. His purpose seemed to be to kill only one person. He didn't care who was killed.
"Is that man a butcher?" Wei Wei frowned.
In most cases, NPCs will not kill people randomly in dungeons. Only the butcher will kill players when he sees them.
But it's not like the Butcher, who hates every player equally. He just caught Wei Wei, but didn't kill him, and instead attacked the ghoul. This doesn't fit the Butcher's characteristic of "killing players on sight".
Everyone couldn't sleep anymore, and sat in the carriage for more than an hour. When dawn came, the ghoul's body turned into wax, exactly the same as the wax man on the ghost ship.
When the farmer woke up, he found the ghoul dead and cried over her body. People who didn't know the truth were terrified.
"How did she die! How did she die!" the farmer roared. "Why, why did she die!"
Gao Mengtang didn't say anything. If he told her the truth, he couldn't explain why he "watched the ghouls being killed but didn't help".
There was another dead body on campus. Panic continued to spread, and most students hid in their dormitories and dared not go out.
The police came to take a look, and Yin Mingwu saw the waxen remains of the ghoul, standing there without saying a word, like a severely weathered statue.
The body turned into wax. In this case, it is not accurate to say "death". This is "alienation". The resurrection coin is useless. After resurrection, she is still a monster.
Wei Wei was standing outside alone smoking. Yin Mingwu saw him and walked towards him.
"Lao Wei, what time did you wake up this morning?" Yin Mingwu asked.
"Seven o'clock." Wei Wei lied calmly, "When I got up, the ghoul had already met with misfortune."
"Is that so?" Yin Mingwu looked in the direction of the corpse, "Didn't you encounter anything strange last night?"
The highest level of lying is to mix the truth with lies. Wei Wei thought for a moment and nodded, "I had a strange dream last night. I was dragged out of the carriage by some invisible 'people', and then... I can't remember what happened next."
"Got it," Yin Mingwu also lit a cigarette and smoked half of it in one breath, "You, you should be careful of Gao Mengtang, he is a person..." At this point, Yin Mingwu shook his head, "He is not a good person."
Hearing this, Wei Wei laughed.
Gao Mengtang is a recognized good man, while Yin Mingwu is notorious and hated by everyone. He actually commented on Gao Mengtang?
"Why are you sneering?" Yin Mingwu glared. "Don't disbelieve me. Gao Mengtang is very smart. He can only deceive a stubborn person like you."
Wei Wei was too lazy to pay attention.
The police carried the corpse of the ghoul back. As soon as they left, Gao Mengtang ran out of the car, holding a corpse oil candle in his hand: "Awei, look up at the sky!"
The firelight illuminated the sky, and on the sea, the vague number "4" had turned into "3" at some point.
"Counter." Gao Mengtang raised his chin towards the ghoul's stretcher. "I guess those things are going to kill five people in total, the miracle doctor and the ghoul. Now they are still short of three people."
Wo Lanbei counted on his fingers: "It's over. There are only three people left in Heiou, Yin Mingwu, a farmer, and Wei Xiangchen who has died and cannot die again. In the best case scenario, one person on our side will die."
"Ah——!" A scream suddenly sounded behind them, startling them. Looking back, they found that the scream came from Lin Li.
She placed a tennis ball-sized crystal ball against her glasses and stared at Wei Wei, her voice trembling: "Wei Wei... No, Nine Thousand Year Old, I have seen your end!"
Wei Wei held his pipe in one hand, frowned slightly, and looked at her with wide eyes.
"Nine thousand years old, your death has begun!" Lin Li almost screamed.
The shouting attracted the attention of everyone around, and dozens of pairs of eyes stared at Wei Wei. Wei Wei took a long puff of cigarette, turned to Gao Mengtang and said, "Some money should be spent. Take her to see a psychiatrist."
*
Lin Li was crazy the whole morning, saying "The Nine Thousand Year Old Man is dying" one moment, and then saying to Gao Mengtang "Prophet, the person you trust is betraying you" the next.
The encirclement had shrunk to the university gate, but they were still at a loss.
The canteen staff went on strike. At noon, they went to the supermarket to grab a few buckets of instant noodles and squatted on the roadside to eat them. Gao Mengtang couldn't eat these greasy things, while Wei Wei thought that this way of eating was not elegant and would rather go hungry.
"Are you up to something?" Lei Gong squatted beside the curb and roared at Chen Yuan fiercely, "No matter what you did, I advise you to stop it now. No matter how much your foster father dotes on you, he can't tolerate you making trouble like this."
Chen Yuan was also squatting on the side of the road eating instant noodles. Without even looking up, he said, "Thunder God, don't forget, I'm just an ordinary human. My parents are all human, my grandparents are also human, and my great-grandfather is also human. But you, you are not an ordinary person."
"What do you mean!" Lei Gong smashed the bowl of instant noodles to the ground, and the splashing noodle soup got on Gao Mengtang's trouser legs. He took two steps back and watched the two men pointing at each other and cursing at each other.
Chen Yuan's tone seemed confused. "Isn't it clear what I mean? Your sixth-generation ancestor was a human and a dead-born. You are stronger than me in every way except that you are a little ugly. If there must be someone secretly making trouble, that person should be you."
Hearing this, the players opened their eyes wide and exchanged glances quietly.
I thought Lei Gong was just an ugly man with a genetic curse, but I didn't expect that he had the blood of Death.
The Deadborn looks like a monster with a grotesque appearance. He is so ugly that it is shocking, which is consistent with genetics.
"Awoo, Lei Gong actually has the blood of the dead," Pegana wagged his dog's tail, hiding the dozen eyes on his back with his fur, "Then he looks like a human, thanks to the unremitting efforts of human ancestors of all generations."
Lei Gong's eyes were bloodshot, and he stared at Chen Yuan fiercely, saying word by word: "Don't mention this matter."
"You always throw dirty water on me, I'm just defending myself." Chen Yuan said calmly, "Did you kill the man who cut open his caesarean section? Why are you blaming me? Where did the wax barrier come from? I have no idea."
"Count it yourself, how many people have you killed? How many times have you caused trouble for your godfather?" Lei Gong reacted strongly, "Your college roommate, the one named Xie Wuling, was also killed by you! His parents called the police! Your godfather is worried about you again!"
Chen Yuan said calmly: "How many people I killed has nothing to do with these two things. Besides, I didn't kill them, they wanted to die."
Lei Gong glared at him angrily for several seconds, said "lunatic", and left angrily.
Looking at Lei Gong's reaction, Gao Mengtang felt that he was a little abnormal.
For ordinary people, having "monster" blood seems to be something to be ashamed of.
But for people like Lei Gong, shouldn't it be something to be proud of? They spend their entire lives studying the other world, and the dead born are still the strongest creatures in the other world.
Lei Gong's sixth generation ancestor had a deceased person. When Chen Yuan mentioned this, Lei Gong seemed to have suffered a huge humiliation and was about to explode with anger.
Chen Yuan ignored Lei Gong's anger and got up and left.
"Where are you doing!" Lei Gong shouted angrily.
"Doing experiments." Chen Yuan said, "I can't go out anyway, so I can't just sit here and worry all the time."
After the crowd dispersed, Gao Mengtang gathered his teammates and whispered, "Our main mission is to kill Lei Gong. He is the dead born, and it must be difficult to kill him. We must not let the wax barrier disrupt our rhythm. Let's collect some intelligence first."
"Divide into two groups and follow them." Wei Wei suggested, "First find out the cause and effect."
He Lun volunteered: "I will follow Lei Gong!"
"Then I'll follow Chen Yuan," Gao Mengtang pondered for a moment, "and Yin Mingwu. We need someone to keep an eye on Yin Mingwu. Wei Wei, are you willing to go?"
Wei Wei nodded.
"Be nicer to him," Gao Mengtang patted Wei Wei's shoulder, "I think Yin Mingwu is a good person, don't be too prejudiced against him."
"Mr. Blind, you are really..." Wei Wei smiled helplessly, "Yin Mingwu is very well-equipped. Once in danger, he will immediately push his 'best friend' to avoid disaster."
After assigning the tasks, Wei Wei took out a few disguise pills and distributed them to them. He Lun squatted for half an hour, and then found an employee who had a close relationship with Lei Gong, and wiped his neck cleanly.
During the fight, the man struggled so hard that a cloth bag fell out. When they opened it, they found some yellow paper, cinnabar, embroidery needles and a straw voodoo doll.
What a mess. He Lun put the cloth bag in his arms, disguised himself as Lei Gong, and followed Lei Gong.
"Chen Yuan, you bastard," Lei Gong kept cursing, "He's just a little taller and more handsome, but he dared to mock me."
An experimenter said: "Thunder God, you have the blood of death, which is something to be proud of. Why do you..."
"Don't mention this!" Lei Gong raised his voice, "Are you a fool or deaf?"
The experimenter fell silent.
He Lun followed behind, trying to reduce his presence.
"Where is Li Tianshi?" Lei Gong stretched his neck to look around, "Tianshi, please come here."
The people in front all turned their heads and looked at He Lun.
Heron: ...Me?
Am I Master Li?
It seems to be true. No wonder this person carries yellow paper and cinnabar with him.
He hurried to the front, and Lei Gong took his arm affectionately, led him to an empty dormitory, locked the door, and blocked the door with tables and chairs.
Then, Lei Gong lowered his voice and said mysteriously: "Tianshi, you also saw how Chen Yuan humiliated me. I still need your help."
He Lun's head was a little straight: "What help?"
When he saw Lei Gong frowning with a look of doubt on his face, He Lun realized that he might have said the wrong thing.
"We have done these things so many times, why are you still asking?" Lei Gong said, "Curse him with a spell."
He Lun calmed down and came up with a plan. He pretended to cough and said, "The situation is tense and we are in danger. I am not very clear-headed. Besides, the feng shui here is not good. The two mountains in the east and west form a situation where rats hide food. The Pojun flies overhead, which is a fatal position. The back of the dragon is underfoot, which is also a very bad situation..."
Fortunately, he read a lot of novels and didn't understand Feng Shui, but he could use some ambiguous words to scare people.
Fortunately, Lei Gong didn't understand either and was stunned by his words.
"Master, what do you think we should do?" Lei Gong asked with gritted teeth, "I must vent my anger."
He Lun solemnly took out the yellow paper and cinnabar, wet his fingers, touched the cinnabar, and scribbled a few strokes on the yellow paper: "How about this, tell me what the conflict is between you and Chen Yuan. The more detailed the better."
"We first met ten years ago," Lei Gong believed it and told the story, "Chen Yuan, that damn kid, must thank me for being alive today."
Chen Yuan suffers from high-functioning autism and became an orphan at the age of 2. Because he has all the limbs, he has been adopted by many parents, but they would send him back within half a year because he has serious violent tendencies.
In this way, Chen Yuan was sent back more than 10 times until she was 8 years old and still stayed in the orphanage.
Tanhualing is conducting a lot of human experiments and needs experimental subjects. Therefore, they are frequent visitors to orphanages and homeless shelters. Hei Yan is kind-hearted and always follows them, fearing that they will take human lives lightly.
So, Hei Yankai met Chen Yuan and adopted him.
"I was my adoptive father's driver when we picked up Chen Yuan from the orphanage. After we completed the paperwork, we drove back." Lei Gong said, "I was driving in the front when I heard a series of clanging sounds in the back seat."
"Then, bang!" Lei Gong made an explosion gesture and smiled. Soon, his expression became ferocious again. "Chen Yuan took a pistol from the trunk and shot my adoptive father in the face."
He Lun's hand trembled as he was scribbling the talisman. Hei Yankai was Gao Mengtang's previous life. He Lun couldn't help but worry about him.
His attention was completely focused on the talisman paper and he didn't notice Lei Gong's distorted expression.
The recoil of the pistol was still a bit too strong for an 8-year-old child, and the shot missed and pierced Hei Yankai's left shoulder. The others got out of the car immediately and held Chen Yuan down.
Hei Yan was the treasure of the entire Tanhualing. When the other Tanhualing employees saw him injured, they were so angry that they wanted to twist Chen Yuan's head off immediately.
Lei Gong: "I was so kindhearted that I took Chen Yuan in. I took care of him until he was 12 years old. That damn brat..."
"Let's get to the point," He Lun was in no mood to listen to his troubles as a father, "Let's focus on the conflict between you two."
At the age of 12, Chen Yuan’s autism was almost cured by the technology in Tanhualing. She became like a normal person and started attending boarding school.
"After Chen Yuan went to school, the [Dark Cloud] that I built gradually developed." Lei Gong continued.
[Dark Cloud] is a subsidiary of Tanhualing, focusing on the theme of the other world and mainly studying the dead born.
Two years ago, Lei Gong applied to join the Tanhualing, and Chen Yuan had been obstructing him. Hei Yankai had asked Chen Yuan countless times why he opposed Lei Gong joining the Tanhualing, and every time Chen Yuan responded like a madman, yelling "No" without giving a specific reason.
"I saved his life, but he 'repaid' me like this," Lei Gong said, "I must curse this ungrateful man."
During the conversation, He Lun had already drawn the talisman, pasted it on the voodoo doll, randomly pierced it with two needles, and then said, "It's done."
"that's all?"
"Yeah." He Lun said. He thought to himself, Lei Gong is really weird. He has the blood of the other world in his body, but he actually believes in human witchcraft. If he tells others about it, he will definitely be laughed at.
Before leaving, He Lun suddenly thought of a detail. His eyes turned and he said, "In order to make the curse more effective, I have to chant another spell."
"What spell are you chanting?" Lei Gong asked hurriedly.
He Lun stroked his chin and thought for a long time in a serious manner: "It depends on the situation. I still need to know some more details. Chen Yuan is going to release a video at his coming-of-age ceremony. Do you know what the content of the video is?"
The device containing the video was soaked in water by Gao Mengtang and was completely destroyed. They still don't know what the content of the video is.
Lei Gong's expression suddenly changed, and his small triangular eyes revealed the rude murderous intent of a beast: "I don't know. Li Tianshi, the curse is over, you should leave quickly."
He Lun immediately ran away.
But it was obvious that Lei Gong knew the contents of the video.
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