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 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.
[Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa————]
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.
The more Yu Tu looked at this confusing thing in the comic, the more familiar it looked. It was not until the comic showed its full appearance that he realized—isn’t this Feng Cong who was locked in the coffin?
How on earth did he crawl out?
Yu Tu was shocked.
Gu Hongying hadn't mentioned it to him, so he thought Gu Hongying had just gotten lost in the fog!
In the comic, Gu Hongying's reaction after screaming was to look for weapons everywhere. Gu Hongying, who was extremely scared, pulled out the billboard, and the sharp iron corners of the billboard "slapped" and hit the unknown creature.
Because Gu Hongying was moving all the time, the light on his shoulder was also shaking. As long as the monster was illuminated, Gu Hongying would smash the billboard with greater force!
[It can be seen that Yingying is really scared...]
[There are long red stripes hanging from that face-like thing—everyone who holds it will be scared!]
[Also, the ropes tied around his body are weird and black, and it's obvious that he's not a good person!]
Yu Tu blinked guiltily.
The blurred face was caused by him hitting it with a stool, the long red strip should be the funeral couplet he stuffed into Feng Cong's mouth, and the black and weird rope was pulled out from the old building by him...
Anyway, Feng Cong is not a good guy, so let's just beat him up.
Gu Hongying may have turned his fear into strength, and his attacks became more and more ruthless until the group of strange unidentified creatures stopped moving, then he dropped the billboard with a clang.
"Too scary..." Gu Hongying muttered to himself while sweating, "Is this the Feng Shui treasure land for the BCDE task?"
He kicked the strange creature and confirmed that it really had no reaction. Then Gu Hongying dragged it to the side of a telephone pole. Then, using the light from the lamp, he tore down the banner that read "Today's Specials, Everything Only 9.9 Yuan" hanging at the entrance of the supermarket and tied the creature to the telephone pole.
"The old building is in the south." After taking out a crude map to confirm it, Gu Hongying continued to walk in the direction he had identified. This time he was on the right track and finally found the right way.
only……
The comic readers watched in silence as he walked past the old building without noticing anything, moving forward at an accelerated pace, getting further and further away from his destination.
[Oh my, is it possible that you have already passed your destination!]
[I looked at the place in the comic where the words [旧樓] were circled in red and written in large letters and was speechless...]
[My silence is deafening.]
Gu Hongying kept walking until he reached the end of the street and walked into a grove of locust trees. At this time, he finally realized that something was wrong.
"Well, I went too far." Gu Hongying looked at the tall locust trees under the lights and sighed, but soon he became optimistic again, "It's okay, I can just turn around!"
Then he turned around... and fell flat on his face.
Gu Hongying climbed up and roared angrily: "Who tied me up? Is there any reason for this?"
He got stuck in the middle of his rant because he realized belatedly that he hadn't met anyone since he entered Huailin Town. Since there was no one... who was bothering him?
Gu Hongying broke out in a cold sweat. He slowly lowered his head, and the light on his shoulder also moved down. What tripped him was the exposed root of a locust tree.
Gu Hongying heaved a sigh of relief. In the comic, the Q version of Gu Hongying was lying on the ground in a relaxed manner, as if he had survived a great disaster.
"It turned out to be the roots of the tree. People really can't scare themselves."
He smiled, and suddenly he began to think carefully. He turned back along the way he came. There was no mistake in these few steps. He had clearly not made any mistakes when he was walking forward...
In other words, the roots appeared suddenly!
It is said that locust wood can ward off evil and bring in wealth, but the locust tree is also a ghost among trees and has a strong yin energy, so it is easy for ghosts to possess people.
Gu Hongying's head froze and he turned to the side little by little. He couldn't see anything in the night mist, but he always felt as if many pairs of eyes were staring at him.
There are many "sha-sha-sha" hints in the comic's storyboards, as if there is something strange in the darkness.
Gu Hongying, Gu Hongying ran away!
The ray of light from the protective suit on his shoulders also swayed up and down, becoming the only bright color in the locust tree forest.
Behind Gu Hongying, a huge branch came over.
[Pah! ! ! !]
A huge onomatopoeia occupies the bottom of the page. When you turn the page, the perspective of the comic changes.
The first thing that appears in the comic is a red paper man with a flattened head. A piece of wood that looks like a slice of pizza with a glowing butterfly pattern on it is poking at the paper man's head.
The comic camera zooms out, revealing a messy space—
There was no candle on the wall but it was on fire. The strange flames circled the whole building. On the floor were broken plastic basins, a torn comb, water stains all over the floor, dirty towels, and detergent that was broken into two pieces and was slowly leaking out...
[Oh my god, what happened?]
[It feels like a world war...]
[Is this the interior of the old building that Yingying passed by but ignored?]
Amid the shock of the comic readers, the comic's perspective shifted to a corner, where there was a small mass of black mist, like a bunch of Q-bullet black pearls scattered on the ground. These black pearls gathered in the corner, with tiny black claws sticking out from the pearls, and then the comic posted a dialogue box next to them:
【Yeah】【Ah】【Wow】
Except for a small cluster in the corner, the others are scattered on the ground. The comic's perspective follows the movement of the small black pearls, and then... a touch of red suddenly appears in people's eyes.
The comic depicts a strange bride with delicate strokes: pale face, blood-red eyes, messy hair, blackened nails, a strange red wedding dress, and a board in her arms that seems to be engraved with runes - this should be a very scary scene.
But... the horrible bride had black spots on her head, some of which could not hold on and flowed down to her shoulders. At the hem of her skirt, tiny black claws were grabbing and pulling at the homemade "tassels", playing on the slide.
[I was shocked at first glance, but why is it a little funny at second glance?]
[What is that black thing? Weird, cute?]
[It feels like the bride and the little black pearls are looking at something?]
The comic responded to the readers' doubts and followed the ghost bride's line of sight to draw another picture that she was looking at.
And then...the comic readers fell silent.
[I seem to, probably, seemingly, have problems with my eyes...]
[I also……]
[The hands holding the pizza board that just appeared are actually Bunny's?!]
[I may not be awake yet... No, I'll wait a while before looking again...]
Yu Tu, who had opened the door for Gu Hongying without any suspicion and invited them in for dinner, and was frightened by Sanqing's trick of pretending to be dead, took the "pizza board" as a weapon with an expressionless face and smashed the struggling red paper man to pieces.
[There should be an emoticon here——
Rabbit is furious.JPG Rabbit is furious.JPG ]
[Hahahahahaha the contrast between before and after is too strong!]
[Suddenly I feel that our performance is not good enough. Look at our Bunny, who did not hesitate to attack such a weird paper man, and even the ghost bride was stunned!]
Yu Tu: “…”
When he looked at himself in the comic and said, "It's wrong to hit people, kids don't learn that," the black balls in the corners, scattered on the ground, and hanging on An Jiajia's body all let out a collective, cute "Ah."
The scene was bizarre yet somewhat funny, so the comic readers laughed out loud without restraint—
[(cough cough)(clearing throat)(unjustified but still strong)
It is wrong to hit people, babies should not learn this.
(Looks down) (Looks at the ground) (Throws the board) (Kicks away the debris)]
[Hahahahaha, I am dying of laughter! First there is Yingying Qianli saving her friend, and then there is Tutu getting angry and smashing everything!]
After showing readers Yu Tu's face clearly, the comic turns the perspective to the other end of the old building—three men and two women were lying unconscious on the ground, and were tied up by hemp ropes pulled from the beams under the command of Yu Tu, who directed those weird-looking but extremely cute black groups.
[Although these five people have never appeared before, they are obviously cannon fodder!]
[I understand. Yingying and Tutu are good friends. If you round it up, they are the companions of the protagonist group. The opponents of the protagonist group are usually villains. Come on, there are five villains!]
After the people were tied up, the comic readers saw Tutu turn around and ask the scary-looking ghost bride: "What about Feng Cong? The one lying next to you in the coffin."
"The funeral hall, red silk...contract—" the ghost bride with a pale face and a somewhat scary appearance said slowly, word by word, "Burn it."
The subsequent scenes were not drawn in detail, but were only briefly mentioned in a few frames.
There was a scene where Yu Tu coaxed the ghost bride to leave the old building with him; there was a scene where the ghost bride took out the things in the coffin and threw them away; there was a scene where Yu Tu used a lighter to burn red silk and the marriage certificate; there was a scene where Yu Tu took apart the funeral couplets and made a fan to speed up the process; there was a scene where Yu Tu tied up the blurry-faced groom like a dumpling and stuffed it back into the coffin... After a series of bizarre operations in the mourning hall, Yu Tu and the ghost bride returned to the old building again. As the candles in the old building flickered, the light in the comic gradually sank, and darkness returned.
[I want to say something but I stop, I stop and I want to say something again... I seem to know what Yingying encountered before...]
[After all this time, it was the garbage that crawled out of the coffin. However, that blood-red strip turned out to be a funeral couplet. This operation really made me angry, hahahahaha! ]
[I finally understand why the lighting on each page of these comics in the old building is so dim, as if they were deliberately made to look old! It turns out that this is what happened before Yingying and the others came in...]
[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.
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