Chapter 150 The Mad Evil God's Heir Doesn't Keep Idlers
First, judging from the list of approved projects by the supervisory bureau and the schedule of the agent's company, the only artists who are going to hold large-scale events recently are from the entertainment company that this idol belongs to.
The five fan meetings were held over five days, all in the same central venue.
To get to the center of this venue, you need to go through a subway station.
To confirm his suspicions, Zhou Fangdong pulled up the activity logs of Su Wan and Zhu Di from the list of special tenants he was watching.
The two girls took a ghost bus directly to the city center for their part-time job. The bus stop wasn't at the entrance of the venue. After getting off the bus, they walked through a subway station before successfully reaching the center of the venue.
Between the bus stop and the venue center, there is a busy intersection with heavy traffic. Because the red light time is very long, many citizens habitually enter the subway entrance, walk through the subway passage below, and then exit from the subway entrance on the opposite side of the street.
The problem lies in this subway station.
The medium that can transform a charmed debuff into a curse effect should be here.
Su Wan and Zhu Di passed by this subway station on their way to work at the venue. After working at the venue for a while, they returned to the subway station and somehow triggered the medium, causing the curse to erupt and nearly killing them.
According to the agent's schedule and work schedule, their company purchased advertising screens in this subway station during the fan meeting. After the fan meeting begins, they will also sell idol-related badges, posters, and other materials in the subway station.
In other words, any fan who is planning to attend a fan meeting will definitely come to this subway station.
Furthermore, this company has an even stranger practice—when idol A holds a fan meeting, the company advertises that it will sell A's merchandise. However, judging from the things the company has prepared, the subway station will not only sell idol A's merchandise tomorrow, but also merchandise of idol B, who has the most intense feud with A. When B holds a fan meeting, A and B will be sold together in the same way, and the same applies to the rest.
Then, when idol E, who had the least presence, held a fan meeting, the promotion said that materials for all members of the group would be distributed for free, but at the event, there were only individual materials for idol E and group materials for E, who was in the center position on E's fan site.
Regardless of whether there's a curse involved, the company's actions are simply creating chaos, causing already divided fan groups to fight each other offline.
Although the five members who held this fan meeting were a washed-up group and had already disbanded, their respective fan groups were engaged in fierce infighting. With the added boost of their allure and a surge in fan numbers, the fighting became even more intense.
Judging from Su Wan and Zhu Di's movements, the thing that triggered the charm debuff and made it the medium for the curse is most likely in this subway station.
In addition, triggering the curse will result in death... This incident was not caused by an evil god to absorb faith; it was simply a mass killing.
When Zhou Fangdong first discovered this incident, he thought the evil god wanted to absorb more believers and restore its power through the energy of faith.
But little did they expect that it only wanted to cause destruction in the city and create chaos in the world.
Zhou Fangdong checked the application records sent by the director of the Supervision Bureau. The director had sent over all the recent applications for large-scale gatherings, most of which were submitted by this entertainment company.
This company not only applied for a fan meeting for this girl group, but all of its artists were preparing to hold fan meetings and concerts, but the supervisory bureau only approved one fan meeting.
It seems they don't just want to spread the allure debuff through this five-member girl group, but rather they want all the artists in the company to help spread it.
If the supervisory bureau hadn't been short-staffed and intentionally controlled the frequency of large gatherings, it wouldn't have been just a simple fan meeting... This company's actions could very well have caused the entire Linjiang City to fall into chaos.
Zhou Fangdong let out a heavy sigh.
Stopping it now is useless and will only alert the cultists. If the source isn't found, even if the fan meeting is suspended and the subway station is closed, these cultists can find other bus and high-speed rail stations to trigger this alluring debuff.
It's unclear whether this charm debuff will spread further. If it does spread throughout the city and no way to remove it can be found, all the city's residents could die at any moment.
We need to find the source of this alluring negative state.
Zhou Fangdong manipulated the nightmare clone attached to the doll, handed the manager's phone to Miao Zheng, and then took the human skin hat from her.
Zhou Fangdong began examining the causal lines on this supernatural prop, trying to find the person who made it and the origin of the human skin.
However, after seeing the cause and effect clearly, Zhou Fangdong was stunned.
Wait a minute, this human skin hat... is it made from the skin of a Bone Society cult member??
...The evil god was even more insane than he had imagined; did it no longer even want its followers?
When Zhou Fangdong was repairing the collapsed area on the fifth floor, he learned from the system that external gods like the Bone Inheritance Society, who roam the void, take pleasure in destroying civilizations and absorbing pain. They like to seek out worlds with weak defenses or those undergoing transformation to devour.
The evil god of the Bone Society is more interested in humans, enjoying their faith and worship. Therefore, after its arrival, it will play around for a while before destroying the world and devouring its original power.
The current evil god has encountered problems due to its descent, becoming a physically weak and deformed being. In addition, much of its authority and power has been taken away, leaving it in a state of great vulnerability... As a result, it no longer wants believers or develops churches, and has begun to directly cause destruction.
This kind of reckless, mad dog-like behavior is unpredictable, extremely destructive, and very infuriating.
This human skin hat made by cultists is different from the traditional human skin hat of the Bone Society. It has no ability to transfer evil karma, nor does it have any protective ability. It simply increases the charm of the wearer.
The charm debuff appeared not only because of the human skin hat. Miao Zheng had just seen the idol and touched the human skin hat, but she did not have the 'charmed' negative status.
This supernatural item is merely a trigger; only when it is combined with something else will it cause negative effects on a person.
From a causal perspective, the human skin hat was made by the evil god through the manipulation of the higher-ups of the Bone Society. After the higher-ups finished making it, they were killed. The only thing we can see is that he stayed at this little idol's entertainment company.
So we still need to search that entertainment company. Although those cult members wouldn't be so stupid as to stay in the company, we should still be able to find some clues there.
Zhou Fangdong used the [Heavenly Eye] skill to control the consciousness of everyone present. Although the Nightmare Clone skill's effect was only 10%, it was still enough for ordinary people. None of the people present had a strong will, and he easily implanted his consciousness into them, making them act according to his commands.
He first had these people stay in the hotel and wait for him and Miao Zheng to return. Then he had Miao Zheng take him to the subway station to find Su Wan and Zhu Di... He wanted to see the current state of these two tenants, study how this negative state of being bewitched came about, and then investigate the company.
Zhu Di and Su Wan were still in the subway station, sitting on a bench with their wrists tied together by a red thread that was invisible to the average person.
They still feel lingering fear when they think about what just happened.
Although the fatal wounds on the two men had disappeared, the bloodstains remained. Their clothes were stained with large patches of blood, but fortunately, they were dark-colored work uniforms, so the bloodstains were not very noticeable and did not cause panic among passersby.
They took a part-time job today, thinking it would allow them to help the stage designer adjust the stage design and gain experience, but in reality it was just doing odd jobs.
Although they were constantly running errands and doing odd jobs, they didn't give up the job because the pay was very good.
Moreover, Zhu Di had a crush on the idol who was holding a fan meeting in the center of this venue when she was a freshman in college. Influenced by Zhu Di, Su Wan also became a fan of this girl group, except that she liked another idol in the group.
Later, because the girl group's fans fought so fiercely, with arguments raging in both the post comments section and the topic, the two gradually stopped being fans.
Just today, they happened to be working part-time at the venue where the girl group was going to hold a fan meeting.
And they don’t know if it’s just their imagination, but they feel like the idols in the group are becoming more and more charming… Maybe it’s because fame makes people more attractive.
After arriving at the venue, Zhu Di and Su Wan spent half a day cleaning and running errands before being assigned to help set up materials for the subway station.
When the two of them arrived at the subway station, the promotional materials had not yet been set up.
Staff members received a discount on these promotional materials, and since the support badges were really pretty, the two of them each bought a badge of an idol they used to like.
Later, while setting up the exhibits, the two of them felt a little dizzy, so they went to the subway station restroom to wash their faces and clear their heads.
As they approached the sink, they suddenly noticed large patches of purplish-red bloodstains on their skin in the mirror.
Then, without warning, their skin suddenly ruptured, and a large amount of blood gushed from the bruises on their bodies.
Fortunately, both girls had experienced many paranormal events, especially Su Wan, who had just recovered from the incident at Liwan Hospital. Upon seeing this strange phenomenon, she was not panicked at all and immediately took out the [Red Thread of Fate] that she always carried with her and used it with Zhu Di.
After the wounds and physical discomfort had all disappeared, the two girls began to feel lingering fear. They sat on the bench for a long time to recover until Miao Zheng arrived.
Zhou Fangdong manipulated his Nightmare clone to peek out from the camera equipment bag. After seeing Zhu Di and Su Wan's current state, he unconsciously frowned.
The fatal curse has been removed by the [Red Thread of Fate], but both of them still have heart-shaped charm debuffs above their heads. Zhu Di has a pink heart, and Su Wan has a blue heart...
Isn't this alluring negative status a curse?
Oh no, even the [Red Thread of Fate] can't be completely removed, so the [Low-Level Curse Removal Potion] in the system shop is even more useless.
Under Miao Zheng's questioning, Zhu Di and Su Wan recounted their experiences over the past half-day.
Based on the description of the Charm debuff effect, Zhou Fangdong suspected that the negative status appeared on Zhu Di and Su Wan because they bought badges.
—After being charmed by the human skin hat, you need to spend money on a specific person to trigger the charm debuff. Then, touching a specific medium will detonate this debuff, turning it into an instant death curse.
The curse was broken down into three steps, and before the curse erupted, there were almost no supernatural power fluctuations, making it difficult to detect.
...This thing the evil god created is disgusting.
We now know the conditions under which the debuff appears, but the trigger for it is still unclear.
Zhou Fangdong didn't want to risk his tenants' experiment, so he was about to tell Zhu Di and Su Wan to go back to the apartment when he suddenly noticed that the two girls had developed a lot of red spots on their exposed skin.
At the same time, a system notification sound also rang out:
[Warning! The curse on the two tenants in Room 206 has been detonated, and they are about to die... [Red Thread of Fate] takes effect, and the curse disappears.]
Zhou Fangdong: ? ? ?
What were those two just doing? Weren't they just sitting here talking to Miao Zheng?
As he spoke… Zhou Fangdong realized something, and used the system notification pop-up to calculate the time. He discovered that exactly half an hour had passed since the last time the curse broke out between the two of them.
—Does this mean that if people with different colored debuffs talk to each other or stay together for more than half an hour, the curse will be triggered?
No, there should be other conditions.
When Miao Zheng got off the ghost bus, Zhou Fangdong saw many ordinary people with different colored debuffs above their heads coming out of the subway entrance. Among these people, there must have been people who had been on the same subway for more than half an hour.
If being together for half an hour can trigger a curse, then ordinary people in the same carriage would certainly die.
We must go to that entertainment company as soon as possible to find other clues.
Judging from the situation of Su Wan and Zhu Di, the negative status evolved into a curse too quickly. After being detonated, there was very little time to save them. Once it turned into a curse, they were immediately on the verge of death, without even a life countdown.
He no longer has any supernatural items like the [Red Thread of Fate] that can remove both curses and physical damage.
Although the system shop has put [Curse Removal Potion] on sale, and hospitals can also make it, this potion is low-level, and it's unknown whether it will be effective against this kind of deadly curse.
Zhou Fangdong instructed Su Wan and Zhu Di to return to their apartment and not separate them. Then he had Miao Zheng take him back to the hotel and manipulate the agent to drive them back to the entertainment company.
On his way to the company, Zhou Fangdong continued to look through the agent's phone.
Then he found more work schedules of the artists under their company on this phone.
—A singer was performing in front of a shopping mall, handing out 30% off coupons next to the stage. If you went into the mall and bought something she endorsed, you could get one free.
—A celebrity on a variety show held a free tasting event outside a restaurant, promoting it by claiming that the celebrity cooked the food himself. If you brought friends along, you would get a discount, and the more people you brought, the bigger the discount would be.
—A famous actor was handing out free eggs and discount coupons in front of a large chain of fresh food supermarkets. When people used the discount coupons to buy things at the supermarket, they would get three free items, no matter what they bought.
—A new game has released a useful item in collaboration with a certain actor, which can be obtained by recharging 1 yuan in the game.
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There are many more similar activities, catering to all ages and genders. No matter what you're interested in, you're sure to find one that suits you.
By the time Zhou Fangdong finished flipping through the pages, he was completely exhausted and didn't know what expression to make.
During the two days he was gone, the evil god was really busy, actually arranging for his subordinates to do so many things.
Currently, Zhou Fangdong has only discovered one charm debuff. In fact, similar debuffs are estimated to have spread throughout the entire Linjiang City.
It's like when you see a cockroach in your house, it means there's no more room in the dark.
Different types of debuffs require different triggers. Even if he resolves the fan meeting issue, there are still commercial performances, free tasting events, and game recharge events waiting for him... Damn evil god.
...Linjiang City is in danger; his reputation and tenant base are about to disappear.
The crazed evil god is disgusting; even without his power, he still possesses such destructive power.
What should he do? The fan meeting starts tomorrow, and he only has one day. Even if he can create hundreds of Nightmare clones, he still can't possibly check all 20 million citizens of Linjiang City.
Just as Zhou Fangdong was anxiously pounding on the wall in his apartment, the black prayer beads wrapped around his left wrist suddenly flickered.
Zhou Fangdong snapped out of his daze and looked at the prayer beads on his wrist.
The system's cold, electronic voice simultaneously sounded:
[A specific event has been detected, triggering the hidden function of the landlord's exclusive item [Sandalwood Rosary]]
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