After dealing with the chef, Zhong Yi threw the empty oil barrel aside, picked up a long-nosed lighter in one hand and went back into the restaurant.
There was someone else in the restaurant. When he entered the restaurant just now, it was that person who helped him point out the location of the oil and lighter.
She was a young girl, who looked to be in her twenties, wearing the uniform of Dongshan Hot Spring Hotel. She was shivering as she hid behind the cupboard. When she saw Zhong Yi coming in, although she was trembling all over and her legs were so weak that she couldn't stand steadily, she still gritted her teeth and came out to point out the location of the thing to him.
At least Zhong Yi still looks like a normal person.
"Can you walk?" Zhong Yi walked over and tried to help her up.
The girl nodded, and slowly stood up with the help of the cupboard. Halfway through her standing, her legs still looked a little unstable, but she took two deep breaths, and without asking Zhong Yi to help her, she struggled to take the first step.
"There are, there are others, can you save them?" The girl looked at Zhong Yi pleadingly, "If you think I'm a nuisance, you can leave me alone. Can you, can you save them? Not all of them have turned into monsters."
Zhong Yi looked at the girl in silence, he knew what the girl meant, just like the girl, not all the staff of Dongshan Hot Spring Hotel were melting, only a part of them, and for the other normal people, this was a disaster.
Someone needs to rescue them.
Zhong Yi nodded. Even if the girl didn't say anything, he would go to save them.
"I'll take you there!" The girl immediately ran hard. When she reached the door, she saw a pool of ashes at the door. Her expression became a little sad, but she did not stop and took Zhong Yi to the next place.
"Stop!" Zhong Yi suddenly heard a voice. He turned his head in confusion but didn't see anyone.
"It's right in front," the girl panted, pointing to the location for Zhong Yi, "They are hiding in the staff locker room!"
Zhong Yi rushed in immediately, but within a second, he retreated.
The ground was covered in slime, something was wrong here.
"Let's go!" He suddenly pushed the girl, and a bunch of half-melted human figures rushed out of the locker room.
At this moment, a hand suddenly stretched out from the room next to them, pulled the two of them in, and quickly closed the door.
Zhong Yi turned his head and saw a room full of shivering old men and women. They were the employees here who had not mutated.
The leading uncle moved his lips. He was about to say something when suddenly the whole ground began to shake. There was an urgent and heavy knock on the door from outside, as if someone was pounding on the door with a hammer. And it wasn't just one hammer, but more than twenty or even hundreds of hammers.
"This is wrong. We have to leave." Zhong Yi lowered his head and saw pink liquid seeping in from the crack in the door. Under such strong impact, the lock of the door had begun to deform, and the door frame was shaking so much that it was about to fall out of the wall. Soon, the door would be forced open.
Several elderly people supported each other and managed to stand firm amid the shaking of the ground. One of them said, "We can go through the window."
This window was blocked by the anti-theft window, but they have tools. At the beginning, in order to deal with the mutated human body, an old man in good health took a chainsaw to protect them and ran to this room to hide. Now the old man also took the initiative to take out the chainsaw to cut the anti-theft window.
The old man worked very quickly, and soon he had sawed out a hole big enough for people to get out. He called out to everyone, "You can go now!"
The girl and Zhong Yi helped the old men and women in the house run out. When they reached the last two, the door frame finally couldn't bear the pressure and collapsed to the ground.
"Complain!" the girl shouted while trembling, but this sentence suddenly lost its effect, and those deformed human bodies immediately rushed over.
"You go first."
Zhong Yi lowered his head and picked up the electric saw that the old man had dropped aside.
——
Ji Xingchen also felt the ground shaking. At the same time, the security guard leading the way in front stopped.
In the darkness, the security guard's expression twisted for a moment. He gasped twice and suddenly turned to look at Ji Xingchen: "Doesn't he care about you?"
Ji Xingchen looked at him.
The security guy rushed towards Ji Xingchen: "He really doesn't care about you, you are useless! You are a waste!"
Ji Xingchen was thrown to the ground, and only then did he calmly say, "Did you say the pool was deep?"
“Yes, hahahaha, you’re also someone he abandoned!” The security guard suddenly let go of his hand and laughed, “You’re also someone he abandoned!”
Ji Xingchen did not struggle. He supported himself against the wall and climbed up from the ground. He straightened his collar which was messed up by the security guard. “Actually, in this plan, I am indeed the one who was abandoned. This is the plan I made to find where your real body is hiding.”
The security guard's eyes suddenly widened.
"If you catch me, you will think you have the capital, so you will show up to find Chi Shen." Ji Xingchen continued, "So I was abandoned from the beginning."
"Your plan?!" The security guy... or rather, part of Jiang Haotian's consciousness just thought of something at this moment, and asked, "Then you and him, are not a couple?!"
"No." Ji Xingchen shook his head.
"You lied to me, you and Chi Shen lied to me!" He yelled, as if he wanted to say something, but Ji Xingchen suddenly interrupted him.
"But I miss him now."
Ji Xingchen glanced in the direction where the vibration came from, and without paying any attention to the other person, he slowly walked forward.
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The black Mo Dao turned lightly, carrying flowing black ghost energy through the air. In the monitoring room, the elderly Jiang Haotian jumped suddenly and avoided the light swing of the Mo Dao.
“I didn’t expect you could even calculate feelings.” After Jiang Haotian jumped away, he hung on the wall like a spider, looking at him with resentment, “Is there anything else you won’t calculate? Do you know what he’s going through now? Such a good-looking person is now crying and begging me not to kill him, hahahaha!!!”
Chi Shen looked at him with a strange look, as if saying: Speak more, I love to listen.
Jiang Haotian was completely stunned, even the wild laughter on his face froze. He reacted after a moment and said viciously: "He is also your abandoned child?! He is also your abandoned child?! He is also your abandoned child?!"
He looked like a madman, with withered hands sticking out of his body. His expression was distorted, and even his voice became distorted: "I will kill you here to avenge your lover. It was you who abandoned him—"
Chi Shen calmly waved his sword and cut off the withered hand that was stretched out to him. His expression did not change at all, and he was still calm and composed: "Then I really want to thank you on behalf of Ji Xingchen."
This sentence stimulated Jiang Haotian even more. After one of his hands was cut off, more withered hands grew out of his body. He yelled, "Why can you still show this expression? Why can you still be so calm? Do you think I'm the same as those rubbish in hell? Here - this entire Dongshan Town is my body. All the flesh and blood can become my supplies. Those rubbish in the dungeon can only eat two players at most. How can they compare with me!"
More withered hands reached out to Chi Shen. Wherever the withered hands went, mold grew on the walls, and the chairs and tables quickly rotted and broke. This was the power that Jiang Haotian brought back from that death game—the power of aging.
In the face of this spider-web-like attack from his dry hands, Chi Shen suddenly sighed.
"You have completely degenerated into a demon."
He drew a circle with the Mo Dao in his hand, and the withered hands half a meter around him were broken one after another as if they were run over by a meat grinder. Then Chi Shen raised the Mo Dao in his hand and stabbed it straight into the ground.
The black ghost energy surged out like a tide, the ground collapsed instantly, the ghost energy wandered between the earth and rocks, and quickly gathered into a huge strange knife, which penetrated the entire monitoring room and cut into the entire ground.
“Why don’t you run away when you see me, but stay here…” Chi Shen waved his right hand, and the black ghost energy and the strange sword all gathered in his hand, and returned to Chi Shen’s body like flowing water, “Because your core is here.”
Withered hands almost covered the entire monitoring room and fell down one after another. Jiang Haotian's entire human-shaped body fell from the wall with a bang, turned into a pile of skeletons, and then turned into black ghost energy and disappeared.
And in such a ruined building, a withered hand quickly crawled towards a computer and pressed the Enter key on the keyboard very quickly. That was the last bit of consciousness left in Jiang Haotian. Even if he died, he seemed to want to send something out.
Chi Shen walked over, raised his foot and stepped on the hand. Soon, the hand turned into black ghost energy and disappeared.
Chi Shen looked at the computer screen. The person who was chatting with Jiang Haotian was named "Ci Fu". All previous chat records were cleared, and the sentence he did not send was: Chi Shen is the key.
Soon, the wall of the monitoring room that he had chopped down collapsed, and the rubble buried everything. Chi Shen walked out slowly and headed towards the gate of Dongshan Hot Spring.
There was a person standing at the door, or rather a ghost. He had regained his translucent appearance as a ghost. He lowered his head to wipe his glasses and watched Chi Shen approach. Ji Xingchen put his glasses back on and looked at him: "Go back."
Chi Shen nodded: "Let's go back."
The cave that Ji Xingchen had walked through before returned to its original state. It was just a corridor. Ji Xingchen had been led around in circles, so he had the illusion that he could not get out. At this time, the female ghost in red stood in the middle of the corridor, gesturing with her hands blankly: "I, save Ji Xingchen, Ji Xingchen..."
She turned her head and looked around: "Ji Xingchen?"
Looking at the empty corridor and the ghostly aura that had just disappeared, she didn't notice that her body was gone at all. She fell to the ground and burst into tears: "Ji Xingchen, don't die!"
In the outdoor hot spring area, a circle of red candles surrounded Zhong Jingzhu and two male college students. The red candles burned with a strange green light. The mutated humanoids turned into ashes when they touched the green light. After a huge ground earthquake, the melted humanoids suddenly became quiet, stopped moving like wooden sculptures, and quickly turned into a pile of dry bones.
Several people looked at each other, and Gui Lian found that his body was also disappearing. He quickly stuck to Zhong Jingzhu and said quickly: "It's solved, it's solved, you can go now!"
In the small room outside the staff locker room, Zhong Yi was exhausted. He instinctively waved the chainsaw in his hand, but was eventually pinned to the ground by several melted human bodies. Before he lost consciousness, he saw a pair of red embroidered shoes stopped in front of him.
He stretched out his hand as far as he could and a cold hand grasped it.
On the top of a mountain outside Dongshan Hot Spring Hotel, a man was tidying up his tent. The land had also been cleared, and it looked like someone had been camping here for a few days. He looked very ordinary, and maybe it was too cold, so he zipped up his coat to the top to cover his neck.
"Look what I caught?" Another man wearing tactical boots walked quickly up the mountain.
Wei Zhuo looked at the man. He was holding a little girl in his hand. It was not accurate to call it a little girl because the girl's body was translucent. It was a ghost.
"I originally wanted to go around the hot spring to see how Jiang Haotian was doing, but I didn't expect to get a surprise. Isn't this the little ghost girl following Chi Shen? I saw her sneaking around the hot spring, as if she wanted to go in but didn't." Another person said with a smile, "Do you think it would be useful to use her to threaten Chi Shen?"
Wei Zhuo didn't even look at the little girl and shook his head: "It's useless."
"But don't they have a very good relationship? It seems Chi Shen is her father?" another person said in confusion.
"Who do you say is my dad?" The little girl suddenly struggled, "He is not my dad, I hate him!"
Only then did Wei Zhuo take a look at the little girl.
"I know what you want to do. You want Chi Shen to die." The little girl's oversized eyes revealed some hatred of an evil ghost. "I want him to die too. I can help you. I - I know his weakness. He is not a living person. He is... a ghost."
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