The old man chuckled.
With his laughter, the whole hot spring hotel seemed to laugh, the sound came out from every hot spring pool, and the whole hot spring pool was boiling.
The ghosts that were not alarmed immediately stopped what they were doing. Their faces turned into expressions of fear, as if they saw their own death approaching. However, they were already dead, and that might be the last expression left on their faces before they died.
Their faces began to melt, their skin that had been eaten and reshaped could no longer hold on, blood and flesh flowed onto their intact clothes, melting into a monster.
Not only in the hot spring hotel, but also in other places in Dongshan Town, people's skin began to melt.
In a farmhouse not far from the Dongshan Hot Spring Hotel, the proprietress was asking them what they wanted to eat in the evening and whether they wanted chicken soup. She even caught a big rooster to show the Special Security Bureau.
A few college students nearby were also having fun and playing cards. When they heard what I said, they smiled and said they wanted to drink some chicken soup too.
Suddenly, the proprietress who had been smiling enthusiastically just now froze in her eyes. Then, as if she had seen something extremely terrifying, her eyes bulged out and her mouth opened wide.
Several people from the Special Security Bureau immediately noticed something was wrong, and the Yuan family reacted even faster. They were originally practicing physical skills, and had been keeping an eye on the proprietress, so they pinned her down with one move.
"What are you doing--" the students tried to ask, but their voices quickly died away.
Because each of them saw that the proprietress was melting. Her previously warm and cheerful face quickly disappeared and flowed to the ground like asphalt. Then she roared again and suddenly looked up. The melted skin was immediately torn apart, and the bloody inside appeared in front of everyone.
There was an immediate scream from the student group. Some people dropped the cards in their hands and ran away. Some were so scared that their legs went limp and they didn't know what to do. A sober student pulled him up, and several people dragged him downstairs.
After the proprietress turned into a monster, she seemed to have enormous strength. She roared strange syllables and seemed to want to express something, but her throat seemed to have melted and it was impossible to hear what she meant. She struggled to get up, but was held down by others who rushed up.
“What, what is this?”
The people from the Special Security Bureau looked at this scene in surprise, they had never seen such a monster before, not to mention that the proprietress did not have a trace of sinister aura from beginning to end, they did not expect this sudden change at all.
They looked at each other in confusion. No one knew what this was. They had never seen it before, nor heard of it before.
Not just a farm stay.
A lot of people have come to Dongshan Town Police Station recently. They are all from other places and they say they are from a special department.
The young policemen knew that this was not their concern. What they should be concerned about was that some little brats had arranged to fight in front of Dongshan Middle School tomorrow. They would have to drive a car and park there for two hours after school to avoid any fights among middle school students.
So even though a big thing happened in Dongshan Town, their work remained the same as before. Apart from the additional task of organizing the files of Dongshan Hot Spring personnel and conducting visits, there was not much impact. Moreover, the work was now completely handed over to the newly established case-handling team, which had even less to do with them.
Today is also a peaceful day at Dongshan Town Police Station.
The young policeman who had just returned from outside even waved to his boss with a smile: "A chain milk tea shop has opened in our town. Boss, why don't you treat us to milk tea?"
Their boss has stayed in Dongshan Town for a long time. Regardless of his abilities, he is very familiar with Dongshan Town inside and out, especially Dongshan Hot Spring Hotel. After all, it is one of the main sources of tourism income for Dongshan Town, and their boss is even more familiar with it.
When the Dongshan Hot Spring Hotel was being investigated some time ago, it was their boss who conducted the communication, which made the investigation of the case go extremely smoothly - although nothing was found, he felt that this was not his boss's fault.
The Dongshan Hot Spring Hotel is too weird. The boss has provided them with so many clues, but they still can't investigate further. Maybe aliens really came and took them away.
"Which brand?" Their boss's voice was so loud that the whole office could hear it. "My little Bao also likes to drink this--"
Their boss's voice suddenly stopped. The young policeman who had just entered the room was putting something away. Without looking up, he asked in confusion, "What do you like to drink?"
In response, he was greeted by his colleagues' terrified shouts, the sudden opening of the door of the special department, and a crowd of people rushing out.
The young policeman did not react. He thought he might be dreaming. When he woke up, he could still ask the boss to treat them to milk tea.
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Inside the monitoring room of Dongshan Hot Spring Hotel.
Jiang Haotian pressed Enter and pressed Send with a big laugh.
It was a line of words: [Don't worry, I will let Deep Unfathomable die here, so that he will never come to trouble you again.]
The person he was talking to was called "Cifu" online. He responded very quickly, almost in the next second, with a smiling emoji and two words: "Thank you."
Jiang Haotian's smile looked particularly distorted on that abnormally old face.
Of course he knew how deep the pond was. He knew how deep the pond was very well.
After all, it was the dear captain they chose who led him, protected him, and taught him...and helped him through all the levels.
He still remembered how terrified he was when he first entered that space full of ghosts. He didn't know anything, but the man asked him to follow him and he would protect him, so he went.
Later he found out that this was not the case and that man did not value his teammates.
He only protected useful people; all the useless people were dead.
So he began to work hard and wanted to become stronger, not to stay with that person, but to survive. Soon, he became a half-human, half-ghost. But at that time, what did Chi Shen... Shen Buzhi say?
He said: "It looks like it can be used now."
Jiang Haotian had a miserable smile, so in his eyes, they were not considered as human beings at all, but just props to pass the level!
He still remembered that Chi Shen pushed many people out, and many people were deceived by him. They were all afraid of Chi Shen, but had to follow him.
At the beginning, there were only a few people in the team. Later, they met more and more people. He could not remember how many people he met, but in the end, the number of people left was even less than at the beginning.
There are only six people.
Chi Shen told them that they were his teammates and they would definitely be able to get out.
He once believed it.
Until Ye Buzui - because in that death game, names also have special meanings and can be easily used by ghosts, so they all chose to take some messy names, such as Ye Buzui, Chi Shen is called Deep and Unrecognizable, and he is called Qingtianxia.
He also just now knew the unrecognizable name. In order to prevent teammates from betraying each other, they didn't even know each other's real name.
And Ye Buzui is the person whom Chi Shen trusts the most among them.
He still remembered what Ye Buzui had told them, that no matter what means they used, they had to make themselves stronger, and then follow Chi Shen, so that they could get out of that place, return to the real world, and start a new life.
But in the end, Ye Buzui did not come out.
He still remembered the moment he entered the customs gate and the last look back. In the blurry white light that was about to engulf his body, he saw Chi Shen walking past Ye Buzui, and Ye Buzui's head suddenly slid down.
It was Chi Shen who killed Ye Buzui!
Although he had long had doubts about following Chi Shen, it was at that time that he confirmed that they were really Chi Shen's tools to pass the level.
Even after clearing the level, only Chi Shen still has the appearance of a normal person. He is still so handsome and young. He can appear in the sun and even his smile is so perfect.
He could even have a lover.
How could a person like him have all these, while he could only hide in this dark hot spring hotel and couldn't even go home to see his parents.
He looked at Chi Shen's face on the surveillance screen. In fact, he didn't need the surveillance camera to see the entire hotel. He had already transformed this place. Every corner of the hotel was like his body, but in this place, he felt more satisfied with the control.
He couldn't confront Chi Shen head-on, he thought, as he had no chance of winning. To defeat Chi Shen, he had to find something to hold him back first, such as the few living people who asked Chi Shen for help, or Chi Shen's missing lover.
"Who will you choose first?" Jiang Haotian muttered to himself while sitting in front of the computer, his eyes showing excitement and anticipation.
"I told you so."
Chi Shen's voice suddenly sounded behind him.
The excited expression on Jiang Haotian's face suddenly froze. He immediately looked at the screen with Chi Shen's face and found that it was empty. Chi Shen had disappeared.
"As long as you don't disturb me, you can do whatever you want."
Jiang Haotian did not turn his head. He felt as if his neck was rusted and had lost the ability to turn. He heard his own voice stiffly saying, "I didn't bother you. I was just in my hotel! Hong Kong City is thousands of miles away from here. It's not that I want to bother you!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the expression on his face turned into anger, as if he was angry at why he said such a thing, but this way of explanation had almost become his instinct.
"No, that's not right." Jiang Haotian stretched out his hand to push the wrinkles on his face. "We left that place and kept our distance. It was you who came to find me this time, so don't blame me for not recognizing you as the captain."
Having said that, Jiang Haotian's tone became smoother. He felt that his neck could move again. He turned his head with a sneer: "How about it, this world is familiar, this is my world!"
In the monitoring room, under the dim light cast by the gray-white screen, Chi Shen sat leisurely in another chair. He did not look like he was here to catch ghosts, but more like he was here to rest.
Looking at Chi Shen's still young face, Jiang Haotian's expression became even more distorted, and the mixed hatred almost overflowed from his eyes. In order to vent his emotions, he sneered a few times.
Chi Shen looked at him with a smiling expression: "I didn't expect you to achieve this."
He seemed to be lost in memories, his eyes became a little distant: "This is the rule we found together. If it is a powerful ghost, it can build a world by itself."
Jiang Haotian smiled and said, "Yes, this is the world I built. I am different from those monsters. They materialize their inner thoughts and construct a cage world, imprisoning everyone who enters. Only by finding the secrets in their hearts and finding the key to open the cage can we get out."
His voice became more and more confident: "But I don't have the key here. I transformed the real world and made the entire Dongshan Town my world. This place is real and under my control, so there is no key here!"
Chi Shen looked at his excited and confident expression and laughed.
Jiang Haotian was right.
They used to be teammates, and this information was also shared in order to pass the level.
In the later stage of the death game, when there were only six of them left, they finally figured out the rules of this damn place, which was why Chi Shen was able to ensure that they passed the level without any casualties.
At that time, they encountered a ghost they had seen in history books. They originally thought that this ghost was just a copy created based on the life of this ghost, but after exploring, they found that this world was the will of the ghost.
That was a rare instance in the death game where the copy owner took the initiative to send them away. It was a gentle place.
In other copies, the copy owners wished that all the invaders would die, or they regarded them as toys and wanted to play with them for a while longer. Of course, the way they played was extremely cruel.
Only that copy, after discovering that they were real living people, asked them a question.
He still remembers the man's expectant yet fearful expression. He asked, "Is your life okay now? Is there still war? Can you... can we all have enough food?"
Chi Shen smiled and replied: "We live in a peaceful country. There is no war and everyone can have enough food to eat."
The man had tears in his eyes and asked them many more questions. The others were either confused or afraid, but Chi Shen patiently answered them one by one. Then they smiled and opened the door for them to leave that world, saying, "I'm sorry to have made you suffer with me. I have always lived in the time of death, and this place is just a reproduction of what I suffered when I died, but you don't have to be sad for me. I am satisfied to hear about your current life."
They walked out of the door and looked back. The torture instruments in the room disappeared one by one, and the man's distorted and terrifying figure gradually returned to normal, and finally turned into the appearance in the textbook, waving goodbye to them.
At this time, Zhang Yao, who was more sentimental among them, suddenly said, "I heard that after a ghost dies, they will stay in the pain they felt when they died. Perhaps the world we are in is what they cared about most when they were alive, or it is the world they built together when they were in the most pain before they died."
Chi Shen said: "It is better to call it their inner world."
At that time, Ye Buzui was the first to agree: "That's a good idea! Then we will have a new way to pass the level in the future. We don't have to look for keys or kill the BOSS. We just need to find a way to make the BOSS let us out!"
When Chi Shen mentioned it, Jiang Haotian also thought of that copy. He still remembered what he wanted to say at that time, but his eloquence has never been as good as Ye Buzui's, and his agreement seemed to be belated. At that time, he racked his brains to flatter Chi Shen, but only got a sluggish expression in return.
Afterwards, their progress through the levels really became much smoother. Before, they were all thinking about how to survive, how to solve puzzles and get props to defeat the BOSS during the chase, but after that, they focused more on taking advantage of the BOSS's inner weaknesses to pass the levels.
However, this method of taking advantage of the BOSS's inner weakness was somewhat different from what Jiang Haotian had imagined. He initially thought that it would be the same as the last time he cleared the level, by influencing the BOSS, but Chi Shen was not like that.
He still remembered that in the second copy after he understood the nature of the copy, Chi Shen directly put the chainsaw on the BOSS's neck, raised his eyebrows and asked him: "Open the door, or not?"
Thinking of this, Jiang Haotian felt cold sweat on his back. He tried to make his tone sound less frightened and said, "As long as I don't let you out, you can't get out even if I die!"
Chi Shen nodded: "It seems so."
He had noticed just now that Jiang Haotian's abilities seemed to have a range of strengths and weaknesses. The Hot Spring Hotel was where his abilities were the strongest. It was he who locked the door of the Hot Spring Hotel. It was not a simple lock, but a direct blockade of the world.
So he was not in a hurry to help Zhong Yi, and he also felt that young people should gain some experience, so he came here directly.
As soon as Chi Shen finished speaking, he raised his hand, black air swirled in his hand like a dragon or snake, and a three-meter-long Mo Dao suddenly appeared in his hand. This narrow place could not accommodate such a long weapon at all. Those places touched by the Mo Dao quickly turned into ashes.
Seeing Mo Dao, Jiang Haotian finally panicked: "You dare to do it, don't forget that there is still someone in my hand! You can be cold and selfish and don't care about the people you brought in, but you don't care about your lover?"
In answer to him, there was the cold slash of a knife.
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