Chapter 32
Cold sweat kept coming out, and the little buds on Yu Tu's head unconsciously took a defensive stance.
The gaze staring at him seemed to have no ill intentions, just a little curiosity, but there was always an attitude as if he wanted to skin him alive at any time to see clearly.
"Yeah" "Wow"
Yu Tu seemed to hear the baby spirit's voice, but it was as if there was a layer of fog between them, as if there was something invisible around him that separated him from the others.
He was momentarily no longer aware of the sound of his heartbeat that was like a drum beating in his ears, and only his breathing became a little difficult.
"Tu Tu! Why are you sweating so much all of a sudden?" A warm hand grabbed Yu Tu's arm, "Tu Tu? Yu Tu!"
———It was Gu Hongying’s voice.
Yu Tu opened his mouth. Perhaps a moment or a long time had passed before the confusing feeling stopped. A hoarse voice that frightened even himself escaped from his throat: "Someone..."
The person who was staring at him must have left, otherwise he would still be unable to move.
His condition was so abnormal that the three members of the special team who were busy dealing with Lu Susu looked over and saw Yu Tu, who looked like he had just been pulled out of the water. His face was so pale without a trace of blood, and the small tender buds on his head were drooping, as if he was exhausted.
"Just now, someone was staring at me..." Yu Tu felt his eyes go dark and a little cold. Everything in front of him seemed to be far away and near, and it seemed to be covered by a layer of blurry gauze. "It's scary..."
His voice became weaker and weaker, and then he fell to the ground and fell into a coma.
*
When Yu Tu woke up from his coma, he found that he was back in the ward. There was a night light on the small table beside the bed, and the soft light filled the entire room.
He looked around and found that whether it was the door, the window, the bed, the lamp, or even above his head, they were all covered with various talismans painted with cinnabar. Yu Tu raised his wrist and found that even his wrist was covered with talismans.
The room was empty except for him. It was obvious that Lu Susu had not yet finished the transformation in public, and he suddenly fell into a coma. It was estimated that the others were too busy to sleep.
The cell phone was placed on the bedside table. Yu Tu picked it up and took a look. The time was 4:30 in the morning, but the sky outside the window was still dark.
He felt uncomfortable all over when he fell into a coma before, but now that he has woken up, all the uncomfortable feelings have disappeared, as if falling into a coma after leaving the police station late at night was just an illusion.
Yu Tu calmed down and felt the energy in his heart—it had indeed increased.
Since the beads merged into his body, he felt that he could control the appearance and disappearance of the vest, and he would no longer be automatically cut into the vest when he encountered danger, but activating the vest requires energy.
The recovery of energy is very slow. According to the speed before he fell into a coma, it would take at least half a month to complete the "charging" and allow him to summon the vest. But now - at most three days, he can switch to the identity of the Marquis of Nevernight.
I don't know whether this is a sudden disaster or a pleasant surprise.
Yu Tu sighed, he turned the pillow up and placed it behind him, then opened the comic website X on his mobile phone. This time the fifth chapter was updated. Yu Tu glanced at the number of pages and found that there were many more than the fourth chapter.
At the beginning of this episode, the car of the special group is shown. The modified car has a kind of cold and violent beauty unique to machinery, and on the driver's seat inside, there are densely packed and incomprehensible buttons from the right to the left of the car. In the comics, one-third of these buttons are flashing various lights. Qin Fei, who appeared in the previous episode, is debugging with a serious expression.
Meng Ziqiu was talking on the walkie-talkie. After arriving here, even the specially made communicator didn't work very well. The voice was intermittent and made an unpleasant rustling sound.
Lu Yayin sat in the back of the car with a frown on her face. In front of her was a small table with a discarded talisman on it. There were many discarded papers around her. Comics were written with bubbles to express her thoughts.
[Every stroke of the spell I draw is disturbed by energy... Could it be... that this is really a sign that the B-rank mission has been activated...]
These scenes are all in deep darkness, with only the light from the buttons on the car, the flashing light on the walkie-talkie, and the cinnabar dipped in the pen standing out brightly in the vast expanse of darkness.
The comics drew a pure black storyboard, in which there was only one sentence from the intercom—
[Huailin Town... White fog... Suspected B-rank mission... High risk...]
The atmosphere at the beginning was obviously well rendered, and comments from comic readers began to pop up one after another at this time.
[Why can Bai Wuyingying enter when even the official staff can't?]
[My heart is broken just by watching this, I am so worried! Go and save Yingying, no, Yingying, go and save Tutu!!]
[Is this the treatment of the male protagonist? Bai Wu, who is suspected to be related to the B-level mission, came in without hesitation.
Hand-made funny.JPG]
[A small Huailin Town, with missions ranging from E-level to B-level... What kind of Feng Shui treasure land is this!]
Yu Tu liked this comment.
He also wanted to know what the problem was in Huailin Town, since it was a small town with a relatively small permanent population.
The comic first showed the situation on the special group side, and then quickly switched to Gu Hongying.
Gu Hongying was wearing a special protective suit and was struggling to make his way through the thick white fog. The scene before him seemed to replicate the funny experience he had when he was taking the entrance test on the barren mountain.
Because visibility in the white fog was so low, Gu Hongying often bumped into something before realizing there was something on the road.
It hit trees, tricycles parked on the roadside, water tanks at people's front doors, billboards, telephone poles... It made loud noises all the way.
[If it weren’t for the protective suit, your whole body would be swollen…]
[Hahahahahaha what kind of alternative version of deducting merit is this?]
[Hmm, are you really not dizzy? (Worried)]
Accompanied by the comic readers who were either happy or worried, Gu Hongying finally found the door of Yu Tu's house.
The door was slammed: "Yu Tu! Open the door! I'm Gu Hongying!"
[I think this sentence structure is a little familiar, like "xx, open the door, I'm daddy!" Sorry, I'm so wicked, I laughed first!
Knocking the electronic wooden fish.GIF]
[Don’t mention that highly praised comment, I have a picture in my mind now hahahahahahaha]
[But he still came in to look for his friends even in such a dangerous situation. Our Yingying is indeed worthy of being the male protagonist of the comic. He is responsible!]
Gu Hongying knocked on the door for a while, but there was no response. Gu Hongying sighed, stood at the door for a while, and then squatted on the steps, like an abandoned golden retriever.
"If he's not at home, then where else can he go? Could it be the old building?" It was already late when they arrived. After Gu Hongying came in, the sky gradually darkened, and the thick white mist gradually turned into a dark color. In the darkness, people are almost like blind people who can't see anything.
"North is up, south is down, west is left, east is right." Gu Hongying turned on the light on his protective suit and took the crude map that Fu Niao had managed to get. After some judgment, he decisively chose a direction, "The old building is in the south!"
He walked confidently in the direction he judged, with a heroic and fearless posture. In the comic, this scene is particularly funny, because the comic deliberately used uppercase bold fonts and arrows to indicate "This is the correct direction", and then... the direction Gu Hongying walked deviated by at least 150 degrees.
Gu Hongying bumped into things as he walked, muttering to himself, "Something seems wrong..."
This should have been a point that the comic readers laughed at, but now, no comic reader could laugh, everyone was screaming—
[嘤嘤!!! Behind!! Look behind!!]
[Oh, oh, why are you so careless? Turn around!]
[Catch up! Catch up! Run! Run! Run! Run! Run! ! ]
Gu Hongying was unaware of the anxiety of these comments. He walked forward while doubting himself. In the dark night mist behind him, a vague outline appeared - it seemed to be a person's head, but underneath was a large bloated oval.
The outline grew larger and larger behind Gu Hongying, and gradually revealed its full appearance—a bloody thing that looked like a face with long red strips hanging from it. It was tied up with strange ropes, and red clothes could be seen between the gaps in the ropes. He was crawling crookedly on the ground, his movements were so strange and terrifying. In the comics, he even had a grudge that could be materialized.
[Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa————]
Before Gu Hongying saw it, the comic readers were already screaming in fear.
Amid the readers' screams, this weird and rather embarrassing thing hit Gu Hongying's ankle.
Gu Hongying felt something at his feet, but in the night mist, he was almost as blind as a blind man. Gu Hongying turned around without any precautions. The light from the protective suit on his shoulders illuminated his feet as well as the terrifying thing.
In the comic, Gu Hongying was stunned at first, and then the edges of the huge dialogue box were so sharp that it almost pierced the entire page of the comic:
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh mommy, there is a ghost, ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!”
Seeing Gu Hongying so frightened that he wished he could disappear on the spot, the comic readers were not afraid anymore.
[Eh~ I’m so timid~]
[What are you afraid of? Just go ahead~]
[I was so scared that I started to vomit my soul hahaha~]
Yu Tu: “…”
He recalled the first time he saw the ghost groom stealing his window from outside. His reaction at that time seemed to be no better than Gu Hongying's. After all, it was their first time seeing a ghost.
虞荼看漫畫裏這個掉san的東西，越看越眼熟，等漫畫畫出它的全貌後才反應過來———這不是他關在棺材裏的馮聰嗎！
他到底是怎麽爬出來的啊！
虞荼震驚。
顧鴻影沒和他提過，他還以為顧鴻影只是在霧氣裏迷了趟路呢！
漫畫裏，顧鴻影慘叫過後的反應就是到處找武器，害怕到極點的顧鴻影倒拔廣告牌，廣告牌鐵質的尖角的“啪叽”一下就糊到了這個不明生物的身上。
因為顧鴻影一直在動，所以肩膀上的燈光也晃來晃去，只要那個怪物被照亮一下，顧鴻影拿廣告牌砸的力氣就會更大一分！
[能看出來，嘤嘤是真的很怕……]
[那長得像臉的東西上垂着長長的紅色條狀物———擱誰誰都怕啊！]
[還有他身上捆着的是詭異繩子都發黑了，一看就不是什麽好東西！]
虞荼心虛地眨了下眼睛。
面目模糊是被他用凳子砸的，那個長長的紅色條狀物應該是他塞馮聰嘴裏的挽聯，發黑的詭異繩子是他讓嬰靈們從舊樓裏薅的……
反正馮聰也不是什麽好鬼，就湊合着揍一揍吧。
顧鴻影可能是化恐懼為力量，下手一下比一下狠，直到這團詭異的不明生物不動了，他才哐當一下丢下廣告牌。
“太可怕了……”顧鴻影一邊流汗一邊自言自語，“這就是BCDE任務連連看的風水寶地嗎？”
他踢了踢那團詭異不明生物，确認他是真的沒有反應後，顧鴻影将他拖到了電線杆邊，然後借着燈光，扯下了超市門口挂着的“今日特價活動，通通只要九塊九”的橫幅，将不明生物捆在了電線杆上。
“舊樓在南邊。”掏出簡陋地圖确認了一下後，顧鴻影繼續往他認定的方向走，這次負負得正，終于找對了路。
只是……
漫畫讀者們沉默地看着他視而不見地越過舊樓，一個勁兒地往前，離他的目的地越來越遠。
[嘤嘤啊，有沒有可能——你已經路過你的目的地了！]
[我看着漫畫上用紅色圈圈出來寫着大大【舊樓】兩個字的位置無語凝噎……]
[我的沉默，震耳欲聾。]
顧鴻影一直走一直走，走到這條街的盡頭，直到走入一片槐林中。這個時候，他終于後知後覺的意識到了不對勁。
“唔，走過頭了。”顧鴻影看着在燈光下高聳的槐林，長長地嘆了口氣，但很快他又樂觀起來，“沒事，我掉頭就行了！”
然後他轉身……結結實實摔了個大馬趴。
顧鴻影爬起來後憤怒地咆哮：“誰絆我啊！有沒有素———”
他的咆哮才說到一半便卡殼，因為他後知後覺地意識到從進了槐林鎮開始，他就沒有遇上一個人，既然沒有人……到底是誰在絆他？
顧鴻影身後起了一身冷汗，他慢慢地低下頭，肩上的燈光也随之下移，絆倒他的，是一節槐樹裸露的樹根。
顧鴻影舒了口氣，漫畫裏，顧鴻影的Q版小人放松地躺在地上，像是度過了一次大劫難。
“原來是樹根啊，人果然不能自己吓自己。”
他露出一個笑，笑着笑着便忽然細思極恐，他沿着來時的路轉身返回，這幾步之間根本不會有誤差，他前行的時候明明沒有……
也就是說，樹根是突然出現的！
傳言中槐木辟邪招財，但槐樹也是木中之鬼，陰氣濃重，所以易招鬼魂附身。
顧鴻影的頭僵住了，他一點點轉向旁邊，夜霧中其實什麽也看不見，但他總覺得好像有許多雙眼睛在盯着他。
漫畫的分鏡裏出現了許多“沙———沙———”的提示，好像黑暗中有什麽詭異的東西。
顧鴻影、顧鴻影撒腿就跑！
他肩膀上防護服射出來的一線光也跟着上下晃蕩，成了這槐林中唯一的亮色。
顧鴻影的背後，一條巨大的樹枝抽過來———
【啪！！！！】
巨大的拟聲詞占據了這一頁的最下端，翻過這一頁，漫畫的視角切了。
先出現在漫畫裏的、是一個腦袋被拍扁的紅色紙紮人，一塊長得像分塊披薩、帶着如同發光蝴蝶花紋似的木板正戳在紙紮人的腦袋上。
漫畫鏡頭拉遠，露出了一片狼藉的空間———
牆上沒有蠟燭卻點着火，詭異的火光繞了樓內一圈，地上是碎裂的塑料盆、死無全屍的梳子、滿地的水漬、髒兮兮的毛巾，還有斷成兩截，正在緩緩外流的洗潔精……
[媽呀，這是發生了什麽？]
[仿佛經歷了一場世界大戰……]
[這就是嘤嘤路過卻視而不見的舊樓內部嗎？]
在漫畫讀者們的震驚中，漫畫的視角移到了角落，角落有一小團聚在一起的黑霧，像是一顆顆分布在地上的Q彈黑珍珠。這些黑珍珠聚在角落裏，有細細的黑色小爪子從珍珠裏伸出來，然後漫畫在它們旁邊貼出了對話框——
【呀】【嗷】【嗚哇】
除了角落的一小團以外，其他的都零零散散分布在地上，漫畫的視角跟随黑色小珍珠移動，然後……一抹紅猝不及防映入人的眼簾。
漫畫用細致的筆觸刻畫出了一個詭異的新娘：青白的面龐、血紅的眼睛、淩亂的發絲，發黑的指甲、怪異的紅嫁衣，懷裏抱着一塊好像刻着符文的板子———這本該是一個很吓人的場景。
但……可怕的新娘頭上頂着黑色的團團，有的團團挂不住了流到了肩膀上，裙擺的位置，細細的黑爪子抓着拽着自制的“流蘇”，正在那裏玩滑滑梯。
[第一眼吓一跳，為什麽第二眼有點搞笑？]
[黑漆漆的玩意兒是啥？怪、怪可愛的？]
[感覺新娘和小黑珍珠們……好像都在看什麽東西？]
漫畫回應了讀者們的疑惑，順着鬼新娘的視線，畫出了她在看着的另一幅畫面。
然後……漫畫讀者們沉默了。
[我好像、大概、貌似、眼睛出了毛病……]
[我也……]
[剛剛出現的拿着披薩板的那雙手，居然是兔兔的？！]
[我可能還沒睡醒……不行，我緩一緩再來看……]
之前毫無戒心給顧鴻影開門并邀請他們進來吃飯，還能被三青裝死的小把戲吓到的虞荼，面無表情地拿“披薩板”做武器，啪啪啪将還在掙紮的紅色紙紮人砸了個粉碎。
[此處應有表情包———
兔兔震怒.JPG 兔兔發飙.JPG ]
[哈哈哈哈哈哈這前後反差也太強烈了吧！]
[突然覺得我們嘤嘤的表現不行啊，看看我們兔兔，面對着這樣詭異的紙紮人下手毫不猶豫，給鬼新娘都驚呆了！]
虞荼：“……”
他看着漫畫上的自己說出那句“打人是不對的，寶寶們不要學”時，角落的、地上散着的、安佳佳身上挂着的黑團團們集體發出呆萌的“呀”。
那場景詭異之中很有點搞笑，所以漫畫讀者們毫無顧忌地笑出了聲———
[（咳咳）（清嗓子）(理不直氣也壯)
打人是不對的，寶寶們不要學。
(低頭）（看地面）（丢板子）（踢開一地碎渣）]
[哈哈哈哈哈笑死我了前有嘤嘤千裏救友，後有荼荼一怒碎渣！]
漫畫在給讀者們清楚地放出虞荼的臉後，又将視角轉向了舊樓內部的另一端———地上昏迷着三男兩女，被虞荼指揮着那些長得詭異但行為卻分外可愛的黑團團們用從房梁上拽下來的麻繩綁了。
[雖然這五個人之前從未出現過，但一看就是炮灰！]
[懂了，嘤嘤和兔兔是好朋友，四舍五入就是主角團小夥伴，主角團對面一般都是壞人，實錘了，五個壞蛋！]
人捆好後，漫畫讀者們看到兔兔轉過身來，問那個長相一看就很可怖的鬼新娘：“馮聰怎麽辦？就是棺材裏躺你旁邊那個。”
“靈堂、紅、綢……契約———”那個臉色青白，形容有些可怖的鬼新娘一字一句緩慢道，“燒、掉。”
後面的場景便沒有再詳細畫出，只是用了幾個畫面，一筆帶過。
有虞荼哄着鬼新娘和他一起離開舊樓的；有鬼新娘将棺材裏的東西提出來扔掉的；有虞荼拿打火機燒紅綢和婚書的，有虞荼拆挽聯做扇子加速的，有虞荼動手把那個面目模糊的新郎捆成粽子重新塞回棺材裏的……在靈堂一系列騷操作後，虞荼和鬼新娘再次回到了舊樓，随着舊樓裏燭火的搖曳，漫畫裏的光線也逐漸沉下去，複歸一片黑暗。
[欲言又止，止又欲言……我好像知道嘤嘤之前遇到的是什麽了……]
[搞了半天是垃圾從棺材裏爬出來了，不過那個血紅的長條竟然是挽聯這個操作是真騷到我了哈哈哈哈哈！]
[終于知道為什麽舊樓裏這幾段漫畫每一頁的光線都那麽昏暗，好像是刻意做舊了一樣了！原來是嘤嘤他們進來前發生的事啊……]
[Hurry, hurry, hurry! Did Yingying finally get out of that forest? I want to see what happened to the old building!]
As if to respond to readers' expectations, a beam of warm orange light suddenly appeared in the black frame.
———It’s the light on Gu Hongying’s protective suit.
“Hoo—Hoo—”
Gu Hongying was panting heavily. He had been running in the locust tree forest for a long time, but couldn't find the way out. He had clearly walked in a straight line when he came in, but no matter how he ran, he was still in the locust tree forest.
After running for a while in the heavy protective suit, Gu Hongying's exposed skin was covered in sweat, and he felt his legs getting heavier and heavier.
The comic uses square boxes to mark out his psychological activities:
[Is my vision disturbed? Otherwise, I'll just close my eyes and walk away. If I can't get out, I won't really stay here. What is this called? Is this called dying before accomplishing the mission? Help me, no!!!]
[There are no punctuation marks, and the familiar dizzy feeling arrives late!]
[Boo, boo, boo! My mind is dizzy from all the mental activity!]
After catching his breath, Gu Hongying simply closed his eyes and began to truly follow his heart, that is, to go in whichever direction he felt was right.
After stumbling and bumping into trees several times, Gu Hongying bumped headfirst into a door. After a loud "bang", Gu Hongying... fainted.
[? ? ? ? ]
[Oh oh, why are you so useless! ! ! ]
Amid the readers’ exclamations, the comic gave a close-up of the door—
The rustic wooden door had a vine-like circular carving in the middle. The moment Gu Hongying bumped into it, a silver light flashed for a split second and then returned to silence.
Yu Tu looked at the familiar pattern in the comic and couldn't help but widen his eyes. Wasn't that the door of his teahouse located in the locust tree forest!
Judging from the fact that it became closely connected with the teahouse after merging with the bead, the silver light should be a branch of the defense magic circle on the door, and its function is... rebound.