Chapter 237: Street Scavenger (33) I can’t talk about the Torii…
Gao Huan and Gao Yaxuan... are they brothers and sisters? ! ! They are also believers of the Half-Dead? ?
"I heard that people who don't believe in ancient gods can't marry close relatives. How come..." Bai Jie was kicked by He Lun halfway through his words.
Gao Mengtang read the line of words over and over again, as if expecting the document to be spelled wrong, or for magic to appear and change the word "brother and sister" written in black and white into "husband and wife".
He called them dad and mom for more than 20 years, how did they become brother and sister? ?
"You said they were acting like a loving couple, which seems to make sense." Wei Wei tapped his palm with his pipe. "Mr. Blind, have you ever seen your grandparents?"
Gao Mengtang shook his head: "Not just my grandparents, I have never seen my parents, um, any of their relatives. My parents told me that my relatives died before I was born."
There was silence in the dormitory for a long time. This incident was so unexpected that they wanted to comfort each other, but they couldn't find the angle to do so.
"I care more about them than whether they are siblings," Gao Mengtang thought for a few minutes and said slowly, "Why do they pretend to be a couple in front of me?"
Gao Huan and Gao Yaxuan were deeply trusted by Xiao Tien, who was the leader of Tanhualing. It was impossible for them to have never seen the 12th Sage King. They must also know that their "youngest son" was the 12th Sage King.
Bring the infant body of the Twelve Wise Kings to human society, let him go to school and take exams like ordinary people, and perform as a model couple in front of him... What is this, playing house?
Wei Wei said softly: "Your parents' identities are fake, but their love for you is real. Otherwise, they would not have tried their best to create a happy family for you in the long 20 years."
"Well, thank you." Gao Mengtang hummed twice, "I feel much better."
He Lun: "Learn this, this is the correct way to comfort people."
Bai Jie: "..."
There was a "sizzle" sound from the dormitory radio, and the door was knocked. Director Meng shouted through the intercom: "Flower boy? Come out quickly, the patient in room 311 is a little agitated, we are short of staff, go and calm him down."
Room 311 is Chen Yuan’s ward.
When they opened the door, everyone felt fooled. Chen Yuan's state was called "a little excited"?
He smashed all the furniture in the ward to pieces. The walls were covered with bloody scratches. Chen Yuan's nails were rotten, and blood was dripping from all ten fingers.
“Don’t come over here!!” Chen Yuan yelled as soon as he saw Gao Mengtang and the others, “Don’t try to kill me, I must keep my eyes open and see the day when Thunder God’s true nature is revealed!”
Gao Mengtang pressed the intercom in her ear: "Sister Xiaomeng, what happened to him?"
"After the Many-Faced Buddha lost control, he went crazy and insisted on running away." Director Meng said, "Give him a sedative."
Chen Yuan is an ordinary human being without any special powers. Players don’t even need to use any skills. He Lun and Bai Jie rushed forward to hold him down. Wei Wei flicked the syringe and walked towards him step by step.
"I'm not sick, let me out!" Chen Yuan struggled hard, but his strength was no match for the enhanced Black Tower game player, and he was pinned to the ground, "Get out! Get out!"
The needle pierced the back of his hand.
Chen Yuan's shout became even more piercing: "Hei Yankai, you are blind! You knew that the people from Tanhualing wanted to kill you, but you pretended not to know, you idiot!"
Wei Wei paused while pushing the potion, and looked back at Gao Mengtang. Gao Mengtang signaled him to stop, put on a gentle expression, and squatted beside Chen Yuan.
"What did you say? Everyone in Tanhualing wants to kill Hei Yankai?"
This was very different from what Gao Mengtang had learned. He had entered the Secret Realm of the Past many times and had sneaked into Tanhualing. He learned that the employees of Tanhualing were particularly friendly to Hei Yankai, teaching him to read and write, buying him toys, and even buying him a Lolita skirt out of mischief.
In this instance, I saw Hei Yankai twice, and both times he was surrounded by people, like a star-studded figure. No matter how I looked at it, it didn't seem like they were going to kill Hei Yankai.
"I didn't understand at first why Lei Gong insisted on carrying out the [Hollow Man] plan and creating a person who looks exactly like Hei Yankai. What was he trying to do? Lei Gong went crazy, but Xiao Tien actually approved him to carry out this plan," Chen Yuan glared at Gao Mengtang fiercely and said through gritted teeth, "Now I finally figured it out."
Gao Mengtang: "What did you figure out?"
Chen Yuan didn't answer, but gritted her teeth and looked at Gao Mengtang as if she was looking at the enemy who brutally killed her parents. That look made Gao Mengtang feel cold in his heart. He finally understood what it meant to want to eat someone's flesh and blood alive...
"I'll destroy your face!!!" Chen Yuan roared, bursting out with amazing strength. His two arms were held down by He Lun and Bai Jie, and with a cracking sound, he actually broke his left arm!
This madness scared He Lun and Bai Jie, and they unconsciously loosened their hands. Chen Yuan took this opportunity to grab a piece of glass and stabbed it towards Gao Mengtang's face.
The broken glass magnified in front of his eyes, and the sharp corners scratched Gao Mengtang's eyelids——
"Be quiet, crazy man," He Luo's tentacles wrapped around Chen Yuan and pressed him back to the floor. Wei Wei smoked slowly, "We are all thinking animals. If we don't lose our temper, we can solve the problem."
The glass fragments scratched Gao Mengtang's eyelid, leaving a trace of blood. But if it was half a second later, Gao Mengtang's eye would have been blinded.
"What have you figured out?" Gao Mengtang asked, "Tell me, I don't want Hei Yankai to encounter any misfortune..."
Chen Yuan's broken arm hung limply. The adrenaline in his body was only enough to make him go crazy once. At this moment, his hormone level was low. His face turned pale with pain, but his roar was still angry: "Disfigure yourself, disfigure yourself! Completely disfigure yourself!"
"Speak more logically. Why do you want to disfigure yourself?" Wei Wei pressed the cigarette butt on Chen Yuan's arm. The stinging pain made Chen Yuan sober up a little, but his breath was still getting weaker and weaker:
"Many-Faced Buddha, that's her, my teacher," Chen Yuan raised his shaking right arm and pointed at the notebook on the table, "She was being hunted down and inoculated herself with the MD1010 virus, that must be the case."
The players listened attentively with bated breath. Chen Yuan's neck softened and his head drooped. Before he fainted, he said one more sentence: "It must be like this, Shredder. The most terrifying thing is face tracking..."
He completely passed out, leaving the four players staring at each other in bewilderment. He Luo healed his broken arm and cigarette scar and threw him on the bed.
Gao Mengtang opened the notebook and a photo fell out. It was a photo of two people, one of whom was Chen Yuan, and the other looked to be in his 40s, smiling calmly and kindly.
"Who is this person?" He Lun scratched his head.
Bai Jie: “I don’t know him.”
Wei Wei also shook his head.
Gao Mengtang suddenly said, "I know him."
It is not accurate to say “know”, it should be said that I have seen this face.
Before entering the [Scavenger] instance, Gao Mengtang went to the Xiao family's old house to attend a meeting. In those days, people had been killed one after another in the Xiao family's old house, so Xiao Tien arranged for the participants to stay in another house.
During the teleportation process, Bai Ke broke the teleportation channel and Gao Mengtang was sucked into the void. At the critical moment, Li Mo saved their lives and teleported them to Epiphyllum Ridge.
Afterwards, Gao Mengtang entered a sanatorium in Epiphyllum Ridge, where there was a narrow door and unstable time and space. He was always drawn into the secret realm of the past and read the memories of his previous life.
It was in his memories that Gao Mengtang had seen this woman. She was a staff member of the sanatorium and often taught Hei Yankai to read and write.
Chen Yuan said that the Many-Faced Buddha was her. Gao Mengtang found it difficult to connect the disgusting Many-Faced Buddha with the person in front of him who had an outstanding temperament.
He Lun looked around Chen Yuan's ward and said, "Chen Yuan meant that the shredder can recognize faces and hunt people down over thousands of miles. And this sister was hunted down by the shredder. In order to completely disfigure herself, she inoculated herself with the Many-Faced Buddha virus. Did I understand correctly?"
"So, Lei Gong wanted to create a person who looks like Hei Yankai in order to record his face and let the Shredder hunt down Hei Yankai?" Bai Jie touched his chin, "Why not just let Hei Yankai record his face?"
He Lun: "Will you tell the people who are looking for you where you live?"
"No. But that's not quite right," Bai Jie continued, "Chen Yuan just said, 'Hei Yankai, you are blind! You knew that the people from Tanhualing wanted to kill you, but you pretended not to know'. Doesn't this mean that Hei Yankai knows the function of the shredder and the purpose of Lei Gong's clones, but he doesn't care. Why is that? Have you had enough of living?"
He Lun's hair was scratched into a bird's nest by himself: "Maybe, Hei Yankai doesn't really want to live, and doesn't care whether others want to kill him or not."
"Ahem," Gao Mengtang cleared his throat to make himself more visible, "I don't know what I used to think, but I really want to live now."
On the other side, He Luo settled Chen Yuan down, and his tentacles wrapped around a small purse, dangling it in front of Wei Wei's eyes.
Wei Wei: "Did you take it from Chen Yuan? No stealing, put it back."
"No, no, maybe there is an important clue." Bai Jie aroused his thieving instinct and snatched the purse. When he opened it, he found a roll of paper inside.
Just as I was about to read the contents of the note, Director Meng's voice came through the headset, urging: "Flower boy, have you injected the tranquilizer? Return to the dormitory as soon as possible. The Many-Faced Buddha has not been completely controlled. It is dangerous to stay outside the dormitory for a long time."
The four of them quickly returned to the dormitory. Bai Jie took away many of Chen Yuan's belongings. He Luo followed suit and stretched out his two tentacles to search for things everywhere. Wei Wei frowned and said seriously, "Mr. Blind, you should take care of him. He has corrupted He Luo."
"That's right," Gao Mengtang said, "He Luo, you are different from Bai Jie. You have 10 claws. When you steal things, don't just use 2 claws, use the other 8 as well."
Wei Wei: “…”
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"Tori-i?"
In the dormitory, Bai Jie unfolded the note in his purse. It was a piece of plain paper with a red Torii seal. On the plain paper, a blessing was written in tiny calligraphy. This was the amulet that Hei Yankai gave to Chen Yuan.
Gao Mengtang threw the purse into the bubble and continued to look through Chen Yuan's other things, which were all notes on chemistry, biology, and mathematics. He found no new clues.
There is also a group photo of Hei Yankai, Chen Yuan, and Lei Gong. The background is the Linyuan Haunted House, and behind the three people are hundreds of Thousand Torii gates lined up in a row.
In the photo, Hei Yankai was standing in the middle, his arms around Chen Yuan and Lei Gong's shoulders. The three of them were smiling, and they seemed to be on good terms.
Hei Yankai was handsome and elegant, with a graceful figure. His smile was like the moon shining through the clouds, which made people happy just by looking at him. Chen Yuan also had a handsome face and a good temperament. His smile was a little stiff, but it was obvious that he was very happy.
Only Lei Gong, I don’t know if it’s because of his ugly appearance and vulgar temperament, his smile doesn’t look good and it looks forced.
Chen Yuan wrote eight words on the back of the photo: I can’t talk about the Torii.
"What's wrong with the Torii?" Gao Mengtang muttered softly and threw the photo into the bubble again.
For the next few hours, there was nothing to do, so the players sorted out their ideas in the dormitory.
Their ultimate mission is to find a way to kill Lei Gong. Lei Gong has the blood of the dead, and this is a level 1 difficulty instance. If they go head-to-head with Lei Gong, they will definitely have no chance of winning.
In addition to Lei Gong, there is another troublesome character: the man with a bird-beak mask.
In addition, Gao Mengtang has an unfinished branch quest: helping Lei Gong get a spot to enter Tanhualing.
Finally, there is the Shredder, which players have yet to see in person.
"There is still one more question," Wei Wei said, "Why did the Many-Faced Buddha lose control?"
She was a patient in the highest level of care, and the medical staff at the mental health center paid special attention to her. The loss of control of the Many-Faced Buddha did not seem to be an accident.
Heron: "Of course it was the Beak-Masked Man who released the Many-Faced Buddha. He created chaos in this way in order to separate Lin Li from us and take away Lin Li's soul."
Wei Wei leaned against the table, supporting his forehead, thinking: "It makes sense, but I always feel something is wrong."
Three pairs of eyes looked at him, waiting for him to think of an answer.
"It wasn't this birdman who released the Many-Faced Buddha," Wei Wei raised his eyes suddenly, his gaze sparkling, "or rather, it wasn't him who 'directly' released the Many-Faced Buddha."
Bai Jie: "Why do you say that?"
Wei Wei: "The stench of decay in Tu Cheng's ward."
The Many-Faced Buddha went out of control 12 hours ago, and 14 hours ago, worried that Tu Cheng's condition would worsen and he might do something to hurt the players, Wei Wei went to Tu Cheng's ward and let He Luo's tentacles drill into Tu Cheng's brain. In this way, He Luo could empathize with Tu Cheng and monitor him.
"When I went to Tu Cheng's ward, there was no odor in the room," Wei Wei said. "The stench in the room appeared around the time when the Many-Faced Buddha lost control."
He Lun noted down these time points and listened carefully: "This is not contradictory."
"Contradiction," Wei Wei pointed in the direction of the ward with his pipe, "Do you remember that the birdman controlled the students of the medical school and attacked Tu Cheng, which caused Tu Cheng to be infected with the virus."
"Oh, I think I understand." He Lun said confusedly. Judging from his expression, he didn't understand at all.
Gao Mengtang reminded: "The birdman's soul-guiding lamp can only absorb the souls of dying people."
He Lun frowned, thought for a while, and suddenly realized: "Your guess is that the birdman's original target was Tu Cheng. Tu Cheng was infected with the virus and had to stay in the ward, which was not the same room as us, which made it easier for him to attack. But for some unknown reason, he found that Tu Cheng's soul was no longer useful, so he changed his target and attacked Lin Li?"
"That's right!" Gao Mengtang gave him a thumbs up.
"But I still don't understand what's the contradiction here," He Lun frowned again, "Doesn't this further prove that the birdman wants to collect souls, so he released the Many-Faced Buddha."
Wei Wei: "The key lies in time. According to our reasoning, the birdman first discovered that Tu Cheng's soul was unusable, and then prepared to release the Many-Faced Buddha to create chaos. If so, why was there a foul smell in Tu Cheng's ward? After he tampered with the device that imprisoned the Many-Faced Buddha, he should have immediately prepared to attack Lin Li. Why did he return to Tu Cheng's ward? This doesn't make sense."
"I really understand it now!" Bai Jie said excitedly, "It was not the birdman who released the Many-Faced Buddha directly, but a second person who helped him release the Many-Faced Buddha. For some unknown reason, this second person released the Many-Faced Buddha and then went to Tu Cheng's ward. Is that right?"
Gao Mengtang and Wei Wei smiled and nodded in unison.
The question is who is the person who helps Bird-Beak Mask release the Many-Faced Buddha.
"I have guessed who this person is." Wei Wei threw a marble, and with a bang, the marble exploded, forming a shielding magnetic field.
"Who is who?" He Lun and Bai Jie asked in unison.
Wei Wei: "Director Meng."
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