Chapter 33
Yu Tu finally understood why Gu Hongying always brushed it off by saying he was lost whenever he asked him what happened in the mist.
Because it's really embarrassing to knock yourself out!
Yu Tu looked at the Q version of Gu Hongying with mosquito coil circles in his eyes in the comic, and tried to hold it in, but still laughed out loud in an unkind way.
When the barrier between the inner and outer worlds is broken and comics are fully circulated in both worlds, Gu Hongying's dark history will be known to everyone, right?
Yu Tu was laughing and suddenly froze————
Aren't he and Gu Hongying just like the pot calling the kettle black?
Just because Buyehou didn't suffer from social death doesn't mean Yu Tu didn't suffer from it! This comic is still being serialized, and the sprouts on his head may also be drawn in...
The smile slowly disappears.JPG
Yu Tu then looked back, and after Gu Hongying passed away, the rustling sounds behind him, which he had been careless enough to ignore, also stopped.
A tree root poked out of the darkness, illuminated by the weak light from the protective suit.
The tree roots wrapped around Gu Hongying's body, shaking it up and down, left and right, like shaking a Coke bottle. Gu Hongying hung his head without any reaction.
The tree roots wrapped him up and hung him in the air. Then more tree roots emerged from the darkness. They seemed to be playing a relay game, and one by one they picked up the unconscious Gu Hongying and carried him to the outermost part of the locust tree forest.
When the last root put the person down, it was still a little reluctant to let go. It was eager to roll the person up and pass him around again, but was severely pulled back by the root next to it, and then it disappeared into the darkness.
[I'm sorry, but I really want to laugh! Hahahahaha————]
[I knocked myself out and made everyone around me laugh so hard that they will have to rely on hearing aids from now on!]
[These tree roots are so cute, like some flexible tentacles~ hehehe~ slurp~]
[Human XP is free, but you should still wear some pants!]
The tree roots placed Gu Hongying at the outermost edge. He was unconscious, so the beam of light on his protective suit went straight up and disappeared into the darkness.
The comic's perspective moves from the point where the light lands and then returns to its source, cutting into the scene of the special group outside Huailin Town.
"Team Meng! The fluctuations of the fog are suddenly very active!" Inside the special team's car, three buttons lined up side by side suddenly emitted a bright light. The silver-white lines on the pitch-black screen suddenly rose to a terrifying peak. Qin Fei's voice was dry, "It has... exceeded the peak!"
———This kind of active fluctuation often represents some bad meaning, such as... a sign that the B-level mission is about to wake up.
With their abilities, they can handle D-level missions, and they are not completely powerless even when facing C-level missions, but if they are faced with a B-level mission, the greatest probability is that they will be completely wiped out.
Lu Yayin could no longer draw the talisman. She had been releasing talisman birds into the mist ever since Gu Hongying went deep into the mist. Except for the one that was used to send the crude map to Gu Hongying at the beginning, all the talisman birds returned the same way.
"Team Meng." Lu Yayin poked her head out of the window, the car lights shining into the swirling night fog, "What should we do?"
"A Fei, pack all the data and information we have observed here and give it to Group 5. Tell them not to come." Meng Ziqiu looked at the violently swirling fog, "and submit a report to the Alien Bureau that the suspected B-level mission has officially started."
"After you finish this, you and Yayin leave," he said, "I will stay here."
The launch of each B-level mission is basically equivalent to a disaster. The more data observed in the early stages of the disaster, the greater the possibility of resolving it in advance.
Meng Ziqiu was already prepared to never go back. He wasn't even sure that Qin Fei and Lu Yayin could escape safely before the B-level mission was about to start.
"Boss, you can pack the data for five sets of backup, but I won't leave." Qin Fei kept moving his hands, "Don't rush to scold me for not considering the overall situation."
He said, "Boss, you may not remember it right away, but one of the eight B-level missions that happened before was a domain-type mission."
Facing the look Meng Ziqiu gave him, he sighed:
"Special Domain Type..."
In the comic, next to Qin Fei's head, a small box contains a domain-specific annotation:
[Domain type: After the ordinary domain type is triggered, fixed requirements and rules are formed within a certain range, which can be cracked by means of means; after the special domain type is triggered, the creatures within a certain range are not allowed to leave. Once they leave, the domain will expand and the carrier will die. 】
"This time may be worse than last time..." Lu Yayin leaned half of her body out of the car window and murmured, "The fog is starting to spread..."
The comic followed her gaze upwards. Above their heads, the night mist rose, obscuring the stars and the moon.
[I always have a bad feeling...]
[Yingying is still unconscious now. Will she wake up and run into a B-rank mission?]
[Tutu is still in the old building. What's going on in this town? Urgent! Urgent! ———]
After the comic described the situation of the special unit, the storyboard cut into the thick night fog, in which two or three onomatopeia words floated faintly—
"Yeah" "Wow" "Yeah"
Entering the old building through the thick fog, I could see several black balls jumping around on the ground, looking a little uneasy. The ghost bride who had been sitting there holding the rune before was now tied up like a mummy in the corner.
In the dim light, the comic emphasizes her eyes, a terrifyingly deep, dark red.
Even though the ghost bride looked terrifying before, there was still some humanity left in her red eyes. But now, looking at these eyes that were carefully depicted in the comics, there is only a kind of chilling madness left.
[Hiss… This painting gives me goosebumps…]
[Help! I can accept the style of the painting being funny and serious at times, why is it turning to horror now?!]
[Could this be the first seven mentioned in the comics when they were retrieving data?]
[Depending on Bunny's luck, it's hard to say...]
After focusing on the pair of eyes, the comic turns to a strange tower-shaped load-bearing column. The tower-shaped column has a total of eighteen floors. There are pitch-black holes in the gaps between each floor. Black mist is surging, and tiny black claws are sticking out of the holes, making the style of the painting even more gloomy.
There was a rustling sound behind the tower-shaped load-bearing column. The comic's perspective cut over to see Yu Tu, who was furiously tearing apart paper and stabbing people. Yu Tu had a stern face and looked particularly ferocious.
"I don't care if you're hungry, tired, uncomfortable, or need to go to the bathroom, don't make any noise now! Otherwise you will all die!"
[The bunny with a stern face saying harsh words is so cute = w =, come over here and give me a pinch~]
[Tutu, don't worry about them. Go pay attention to the girl with abnormally red eyes! I'm so scared!]
In the comic, after Yu Tu finished speaking, the people tied to the pillars struggled even more violently, as if they had not heard anything at all. A very small shot was inserted next to this picture, and the ghost bride in the corner slowly stood up. She walked forward, and the ropes on her body broke apart little by little. She was moving forward to the back of the tower-shaped load-bearing pillar.
On this side, the ghost bride with red eyes was getting closer and closer silently, while on the other side, several people tied to the pillars were struggling desperately.
When the ghost bride was getting closer and closer, Yu Tu picked up the "pizza board" standing beside him and knocked all of them unconscious like a paper-stampede. Then he turned out from behind the tower-shaped column and almost collided head-on with the ghost bride who was walking over.
In the comic, the frightened boy's eyes widened. He first looked at the ghost bride, and then looked at the small black pearls that had gathered at her feet and were trying to pull her.
[Oh shit! It was so close!]
[The black guys are so cute!!]
[They work so hard, I'm crying!]
Before the comic readers could be moved for long, they saw Yu Tu picked up the "pizza board" that had knocked someone unconscious before, slapped the ghost bride on the face, and then quickly pushed her back to the corner where she was tied up like a mummy before.
[……? ]
[Bunny, what are you doing? (screaming)
How can you take a photo of a girl's face? And use such force!]
[Don't bully girls! ! ! ]
Yu Tu: “…”
He held the phone in his hand, thinking unconvincedly—
If he hadn't slapped the purification rune on An Jiajia's face at that time, he would have died long ago!
As Yu Tu pushed An Jiajia back into the corner and prepared for a new round of defensive measures, some scenes with faded colors began to appear in the comics, making it clear at a glance that they were memories.
There was Yu Tu who screamed and picked up a stool to smash the ghost groom outside the window; there was Yu Tu who went crazy after being warmly embraced by the paper-made man when she first stepped into the old building; there was Yu Tu who bought a lot of toys and carried them into the old building; there was Yu Tu who was awakened by the paper-made man possessed by the black balls knocking on the window in the middle of the night and had to go out to save the ghost bride; there was also Yu Tu who used a spoon to clean the rice bran stuffed in the mouth of the ghost bride bit by bit...
The images of Yu Tu occupy a large part of these memories, but there are also some other images in it——
For example, how the black groups who manipulated the paper-made people tried hard to climb up to the second-floor window; how their healthy and happy crawling brought people spiritual shock; the paper-made people chasing competition inside the old building; one person and one ghost cat squatted at the door, and after stumbling and chatting, the black groups used their hair ends to slide down the slide, and used the ghost bride's clothes to make tassels...
[Hahahaha, sob sob, I can't help but cry and laugh while reading this comic——]
[No wonder Tutu was so angry at first, and looked very familiar with the ghost bride... ah no, An Jiajia...]
[They are all cute babies! Sticky! Sticky for all!]
[Who taught you to use detergent to remove makeup from girls? You are a straight man destined to be alone!]
[The baby ghosts are so cute! For the first time, I feel that the ghosts in comics are not scary at all! I even want the same peripheral products!]
After the comic scene of the flashback was quickly played, the readers finally roughly understood the cause and effect of their acquaintance, but before they could finish laughing, the situation in the comic on the next page took a sharp turn for the worse.
First, the boundary between memory and reality was covered by a bubble, which contained the onomatopoeia of shattering.
Then... the background tone of the comic suddenly turned extremely dark, the eyes of the ghost bride became more and more terrifying and indifferent, she stood up, broken runes fell from her body, her coiled black hair spread out automatically without wind, and the spiritual page that flew out of Yu Tu's pocket became the only light in this picture.
"An Jiajia! Don't be affected by the seventh day!"
"There are less than three hours left. We can't waste our time!"
[Don't lose control, don't lose control, don't lose control! ! ! ]
The comic readers screamed, but they could not stop the situation from developing. An Jiajia ignored everything and walked towards the tower-shaped load-bearing column. Seeing that the situation was about to be irreversible, Yu Tu tied her eyes with a white cloth at the last moment, making the increasingly solemn atmosphere suddenly a little more relaxed.
But before everyone could be happy for a few seconds, and before the comic readers had even had time to write a new comment, one of the scumbags woke up in a daze. His sharp cry echoed throughout the old building and also caught An Jiajia's attention.
Everything that followed was quite chaotic, with screaming bubbles, fluttering red wedding dresses, silver-white spirit pages, distorted human faces, and black fog all over the sky... Chaos and fear almost became the representative words of this page.
In this chaos, Yu Tu suddenly leaned in front of a person, and An Jiajia, who had lost her mind, stabbed him directly in the heart! The comic did not draw this cruel scene. In the last picture, there were drops of blood under An Jiajia's pale arm.
[Ah ...
[I hope Yingying’s first friend won’t die like this! Don’t be so cruel!]
[What kind of knife did the old thief Tian Yan give me? Take the knife back! ! ]
No matter how the comic readers screamed or worried, the comic still firmly changed its perspective, and this time the perspective shifted to Gu Hongying again.
Gu Hongying rubbed his forehead, grinned, and sat up from the ground, muttering, "Why does my forehead hurt so much?"
He shook his head, like a golden retriever that accidentally fell into the water and was shaking off the water: "Huh?! Where is this?!"
As he twisted and turned, the light on his shoulder moved with him, illuminating the surrounding scenery: "Outside the locust tree forest?!"
Gu Hongying finally realized that Meng Ziqiu had intervened in Yu Tu's task list before, and the C-level task in the task list was called... Huailin.
He took a deep breath and said, "Is it possible that I have triggered a C-rank mission?"
"No!" Gu Hongying said, then he refuted himself, "If the C-level mission was triggered, I would probably be dead now!"
With an optimistic attitude of "Hey, I saved my life", Gu Hongying got up from the ground, patted the dust off his body, then took out a simple map and tried to identify the direction.
The comic readers who were still shocked by the scene just now were sending out comments frantically———
[Boohoo! Go save the rabbit! Go quickly!!!]
[Hurry up and go find someone to save the rabbit!]
[Oh oh, the direction is wrong———the direction is wrong again ahhhhh!]
Gu Hongying could not see those heartbreaking comments, so he was optimistic again... and went in the wrong direction.
The comic readers could only helplessly watch him go in the wrong direction and disappear back into the mist.
[Tutu's luck, Yingying's sense of direction... What kind of a pair of dragons and phoenixes are they?]
After Gu Hongying walked back into the night mist, the special team suddenly discovered that the mist in front of them had disappeared.
"Boss, the fog has disappeared!" Qin Fei glanced at the silver-white peak on the screen that suddenly dropped below the danger line, and quickly opened the car door, "Should we go find Hongying?"
Before letting Gu Hongying try to enter the mist, they didn't think he could actually get in. In addition to worrying about the B-level mission that might be activated, the three of them were also worried about his safety.
Meng Ziqiu did not answer. His eyes fell on a black palm-sized rectangular instrument in his hand. There was a red dot on the instrument that was flashing wildly. In the comic, this red dot was painted extremely dazzling, giving people a sense of uneasiness that made people's hearts beat fast.
The comic gave a close-up of the instrument—a flashing red dot, green numbers turning orange and then red, followed by an extremely sharp alarm.
"What on earth did the Spiritual Power Fluctuation Detector detect?" Lu Yayin covered her ears with deep fear in her eyes, "Help! I've never heard it scream so loudly!"
Meng Ziqiu's brows furrowed more and more tightly. After a moment of silence, he seemed to have made up his mind: not to look for Hongying, but to go to the place where the spiritual power fluctuations were detected.
After he finished speaking, the three of them returned to the car. Qin Fei stepped on the accelerator, and the armed vehicle with a violent aesthetic was driven directly out of the afterimage of drifting! From the corner of the comic's vision, Qin Fei's hands were bulging with veins, revealing a kind of silent tension.
The comic perspective follows them. The three people have different expressions. The scenery outside the window becomes blurred blocks of color, intertwined with the lines representing speed, as if it is their tangled mood.
"squeak---"
The sharp brake sounds were heard, and the violent and beautiful armored vehicle stopped. Three men got out of the car fully armed, but they were stunned by the scene in front of them.
The old building at the E-rank mission location was covered with dense green vines. Standing at the door and looking inside, it seemed as if one had entered a deep and dense forest. The vibrant green formed a sharp contrast with the quiet night outside the door.
[Ah... I have a strong feeling in my heart...]
[Don’t say it out loud! It won’t work if you say it out loud!]
[Ah ...
As soon as the familiar green vines appeared, the comic readers suddenly became excited. When Meng Ziqiu and others stepped into the old building and Qin Fei asked "Who is there", the number of comments exploded to a peak.
[I know, I know! It must be my strong and beautiful wife!!]
[Ahhhhhhhhh, wife, look at me!!!
(Holding a rose in mouth) (Looking at each other affectionately) (Piercing lips with rose thorns) (Determined not to leave)]
The comic did not disappoint the audience. On the next page, the figure that the comic readers had been longing for appeared.
He walked over from a little further away, the leaves on the wall swayed gently, and the green vines wrapped around him affectionately, paving a path forward for him.
Meng Ziqiu, who appeared to be quite reliable and steady in the comics, asked with a respectful attitude of a junior:
"My name is Meng Ziqiu, may I ask your name?"
[Wu Hu! I finally know my wife's name!]
This person who had appeared several times in the comics before and made readers very curious spoke—
"You can call me the Lord of Nevernight."
This should be an unfamiliar name, because there was a moment of confusion on Meng Ziqiu's face, and then a green vine wrapped around the sleeping ghost bride in the corner and brought her to him.
“It just happened to happen.”
Meng Ziqiu looked at the peaceful ghost bride and asked, "If I want to visit the senior, where should I go?"
The young man with black hair and phoenix eyes seemed to have a faint smile on his face, and his figure began to fade, but Meng Ziqiu and the others noticed nothing.
"If we are destined to be together, we will meet."
After saying this, the disembodied figure seemed to look back. Then, the green vines covering the entire building suddenly disappeared, and in the light spots where the green vines disappeared, a scene appeared—
On the narrow staircase on the second floor, Yu Tu, who looked a little shaggy with a lot of spider webs on his head, was sitting and weaving straw. At his feet were a grasshopper, two dragonflies and three butterflies. His thin claws stretched out from the darkness and hooked them away.
Overlapping with Yu Tu was an illusory picture. The man who had appeared before and called himself "Marquis of Nevernight" was wearing a black robe and had a calm and composed expression. He took off the monocle that seemed to be tied to his face as soon as he appeared, and looked into the darkness behind him—
"Take it and play with it."
"Don't worry, we have them all."
Two conversations, two completely different people, as if separated by time and space, yet showing the same tenderness and kindness.
[Aaaaaah, I knew my wife saving Rabbit wasn't a coincidence, there must be some connection between them!]
[Compared to the shy bunny, my wife is more charming!]
[Is it because Tutu did something similar to what he did in the past that his wife treats him differently? ! ]
As readers speculate, this short scene ends. The comic then turns to Gu Hongying, who is sweating and panting as he runs towards the old building after the mist clears.
The comic book has a line of explanation next to him:
[It's over, but Yingying is still on her way. ]
[Hahahaha, you actually used the nickname we gave you to yell at me, Tianyan, how shameful of you!!!]
…
After these tight plots, only the last few pages of the comics are left. These pages briefly explain the cleanup of the special team, such as finding the growth points of the green vines in the old building; sending the seriously injured Yu Tu to the hospital; throwing the five scumbags into prison to await sentencing; and dealing with the unknown creatures tied to the telephone poles according to the procedures...
On the last page of the comic, Special Team 5 arrived again with a special instrument. According to the instrument's test results, the spiritual energy fluctuations of the B-level mission [Barren Mountain] and the C-level mission [Sophora japonica] are stable, and it seems that they will not be triggered in a short time. Although the reason could not be found out, it is a big happy event that makes everyone happy.
The penultimate picture of the comic also gave Gu Hongying a small corner, and everyone finally found out why Gu Hongying could enter the mist—
He is too weak.
The white mist that accompanies the B-rank mission [Desolate Mountain] repels all creatures with spiritual energy, but does not repel people whose spiritual energy fluctuations are so weak that they are almost non-existent.
Gu Hongying, who had just activated his spiritual power attribute, said: "..."
Thank you, I understand.
The last picture of the comic is a large fold-out page spanning two pages. Whether it is Meng Ziqiu's special team seven or the special team five that came later, everyone is standing at the entrance of the town and looking up at the sky.
The sun rises from the east, gradually dispelling the darkness in the sky, and colorful rays of light spread little by little from the horizon.
——Everyone sees tomorrow.
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