Chapter 82

Although the relevant files had been provided, the Minister still tried to briefly explain the so-called "incident" to the two people.

According to her, the source of the incident had already shown its beginnings before the evolution of ghost stories.

"You should have all taken the relevant training courses, right?" Lying on the office chair with her hands crossed, she sighed with some nostalgia, "Before the evolution of ghost stories - that time was much safer than now."

At that time, ordinary people were still shrouded in the protection of "order", and were clearly separated from the so-called "world of ghost stories"; the only ones who could enter the world of ghost stories were the very few unlucky people who were born with deficiencies and could not enjoy the protection of order, that is, the so-called "psychics". At

that time, psychic physiques were also rare, one in a hundred. On the basis of psychic, those who can develop their own unique abilities are rare.

"... That, Minister? Excuse me for interrupting." Fang Xueqing pondered for a moment and realized something was wrong. She raised her hand cautiously, "Didn't it say that before the evolution of the monster, there was not even a rule book..."

If that's the case, where did the "special ability" come from?

Upon hearing this, the Minister only glanced at her indifferently.

Then he shook his head.

"I don't know." She said truthfully and sat up. Facing Fang Xueqing's surprised look, she nodded more firmly, "I'm not lying, I really don't know."

Because at that time, she was just an ordinary unlucky person with psychic physique. As a clerk in the special group at that time, although she also dealt with matters related to ghost stories, she was in a completely different world compared to her colleagues who were already proficient in entering and exiting ghost stories and dealing with corresponding crises.

She didn't know how they acquired those strange abilities, but she only knew that compared to herself, they should be "more profound people."

If ordinary psychics have crossed the boundary between order and disorder, like walking on a beach wet by sea water; then those who have gained more abilities may have half of their bodies submerged in the sea water.

They look like the same kind of people, but the world they actually see is essentially different.

Among these very few gifted people, a considerable number of them, for personal reasons, did not want to be officially identified, and were even unwilling to reveal too much real information. Even now, no accurate personal records have been left.

As far as she knows, even if these "civilians" are included, there were only a handful of psychics with special abilities at that time.

"At that time, special abilities in the world were limited to the inside of ghost stories and could not pose a threat to reality or ordinary people, so management was relatively lax." Noticing the surprise of the two people opposite, the minister added, "And the highest person in charge at that time still had files."

It's just that for some reason, these files have not been completely preserved. This is also something she has always regretted.

At that time, it was this minority of the minority who undertook most of the work related to ghost stories. They were mainly responsible for observing and sorting out ghost story phenomena in various places, as well as rescuing psychics who had mistakenly entered into ghost stories. However, since there were very few psychics themselves, similar incidents were not common, and they mainly focused on observing ghost stories.

It was precisely because of their careful observation that some people had keenly discovered certain changes two years before the ghost stories began to change.

For example, the scale of ghost stories was expanding, the number of dead people entering ghost stories was increasing, and even some dead people would gain certain special abilities after death that were enough to affect the rules of ghost stories...

Among the observers at the time, some people soon pointed out that these were signs worthy of vigilance, and began to think about how to curb this disturbing trend.

Directly shut down the ghost stories? This is a topic they have been studying, but it is obviously not realistic. Directly eliminate the dead? But even now that human capabilities have developed explosively, there are still very few means to directly eliminate the dead and even monsters, not to mention at that time.

So soon someone came up with a new idea:

this idea believes that the root power of ghost stories comes from the dead who enter the ghost stories. The dead can provide nutrients for the ghost stories, and the more they provide, the stronger the ghost stories will be; then conversely, if they can use other methods to place the dead who should have entered the ghost stories, wouldn’t that be equivalent to curbing the growth of the ghost stories from the root?

Of course, not everyone agrees with this idea. But the person with special abilities still feels it is necessary to try.

The person with the ability was not an official staff, but she had certain connections and strong financial resources. So after proposing this idea for some time, she really started the relevant experiment herself.

And finally, the experiment appeared in the files of the unit at that time in the form of an accident.

They codenamed it "Ghost Building".

"Ghost Building..." Fang Xueqing repeated the word subconsciously and frowned again, "You are talking about, could it be the basket bridge..."

Before she finished speaking, Ling Guang, who was flipping through the files next to her, had found the answer. He quietly pulled her and pointed out the relevant content to her.

At about the same time, the minister sitting on the chair spoke again, and the words he said almost overlapped with the words Fang Xueqing saw one by one -

"As a test, the person with the ability codenamed 'Listener' bought an abandoned, run-down building with his own money, and guided the souls of the dead he met, inviting them to live in it. But later, the situation gradually got out of control. Until finally, the whole building disappeared.

"All the people with abilities who entered and tried to control the situation disappeared along with it. Never came back. "

——And the place where the building was before it disappeared was the Basket Bridge in the east of the city.

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The other end.

After repeated attempts, Xu Ming finally resigned himself to his fate and gave up and put the metal box aside.

It couldn't be opened. It couldn't be opened at all. If it said it had to rely on fingerprints, it must be fingerprints, no matter how much you kowtow to it.

Xu Ming had no choice but to try to find some clues through other means. However, after searching the entire house, he found nothing.

Just like the whale man said before, the person who lived here did not leave any trace of himself.

"What should we do next?" The whale man carefully looked at Xu Ming's expression and tried to make a suggestion, "Why don't we go upstairs first?"

"The fourth floor, I remember you seemed to have been there? "Xu Ming rubbed his forehead and looked up at it,"What's the situation over there?"

The whale fat man made an "uh" sound and opened his mouth as if he wanted to answer, but after a pause, a look of confusion appeared on his face. After another moment, he hesitated and said, "I seem to, don't remember?"

He only had a rough impression and only remembered that there was something strange there.

Panpan, who was sitting next to him playing with her phone, looked up when she heard the voice:

"I've seen the fourth floor. It looked pretty dangerous."

"Seen it?" Xu Ming tilted his head slightly because of this wording - of course, he tilted his head to the good-looking side.

"You mean, you didn't go up there?"

"I didn't dare to go up there." Panpan said honestly, "The fourth floor is full of those white fluffy things, blocking it like a wall, and there are things moving inside, it looks scary."

When she went out this time, she originally planned to go upstairs to ask the floor manager to open the door. Her mother's condition was getting worse and worse, and she wanted to take her mother to see the outside while she was still a little conscious - but because of the strange scene on the fourth floor, she was scared and didn't dare to go up. After hesitating on the stairs for a long time, she finally turned around and walked back. As a result, when she passed the third floor, she was caught by the owner of 301 and was forced to hide in 302, where she has been hiding until now.

"..." Xu Ming listened, his expression became more serious.

White and fluffy - she smacked the word, and suddenly her mind flashed through the hyphae that almost covered the electric meter box outside the door.

In other words, those hyphae are likely to come from the fourth floor? If so, then it is hard to say which floor is more dangerous, the fourth floor or the third floor.

Also, Po Haitang once said that she had been to the fourth floor, but she couldn't remember any details; Panpan didn't go upstairs, but she could remember the situation on the fourth floor. Does that mean that those things on the fourth floor that look like hyphae may have some power against memory?

After turning his eyes a few times, Xu Ming finally made up his mind:

"Let's go to 301 first to confirm Qiu Yufei's condition and collect some intelligence. Then we'll make plans based on the situation."

"Ah, you still want to go in..." Panpan bit her lip and shrank back imperceptibly, "Then I can't help you much. I can't go out now, 301 will catch me if I go out."

"Speaking of this, I just wanted to ask." Xu Ming looked at her seriously, "Do the people in 301 have any feeling for you? Or is it staring at you in some special way?" Otherwise,

there is no way to explain Panpan's cautiousness. The door of 301 was obviously closed, but she didn't even dare to show her head.

As expected, Panpan pouted immediately.

"I'm not sure... but I think it's because of this." She said, rolling up her sleeves and showing her left arm to Xu Ming. On her thin forearm, there was a circle of blue-black finger marks.

"This was left when she grabbed me for the first time. After that, as soon as I walked out the door, the mark would become very painful, as if she was grabbing me again. Then she would open the door and rush towards me..." Panpan said this, and touched her arm with lingering fear, "There were two times when I thought I couldn't escape. It was particularly scary."

"Sorry." Xu Ming's heart moved, and he leaned towards her, "Mind if I take a closer look?"

Panpan shrank reflexively, but still let her hold her forearm for observation. Xu Ming tilted his head to think for a while, and suddenly looked at the whale man beside him: "Can you copy this?"

"Ah?" The whale man was stunned for a moment, and then he looked over and touched his chin.

"The shape can be copied, but the force attached to it is not good, I can't pinch it out."

"That's a bit troublesome..." Xu Ming pursed his lips, and Panpan rolled his eyes curiously: "Pinch? What do you mean by 'pinch'?"

"Here." The whale man directly stretched out his hand and smeared it on his face, and suddenly turned his head to look at her, which scared Panpan and made a loud scream.

——On that face, the originally clear facial features had become a mess with his movements, like an organ palette.

Seeing that the prank was successful, the whale man laughed again and stretched out his hand to scratch his face a few more times. Soon, under Panpan's stunned gaze, another face quickly took shape - a face exactly like her own.

"...Oh." Panpan touched her cheek unconsciously, and suddenly realized, "So you have been talking to me with someone else's face...ah, I understand!"

She clapped her hands suddenly: "So now, you are going to pretend to be me and trick the person on the other side to open the door?"

"Not only open the door, but also lead the person in the door away for a while." Xu Ming couldn't help but sigh, "The problem is how to lead the other party away..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard a "pop".

A severed arm was handed to them openly.

"Here." Panpan held the left arm that had just been broken off in her right hand, so calm, "Why don't you just try this."

The whale man who was still laughing foolishly just now: "..."

...? ! !

"Well... are you sure?" Not only the whale man. Xu Ming was also a little dumbfounded. She deliberately took a look at the cross-section of Panpan's severed limb. There was no blood, but the flesh, nerves and bones could be clearly seen. It was still a little shocking.

"It's okay." Panpan looked nonchalant, "Like you said, if we can trap the opponent, then I can go home. So the early investment... well, the effort is necessary." "But

let me make it clear first, I'm not sure if an arm alone is useful. If it's useless, you can't blame me. And you must remember to return it to me."

If she goes back with missing arms and legs, her mother will definitely be sad.

"...Okay." Xu Ming was silent for a moment, and took the severed arm with respect. The whale man finally slowed down at this moment, and leaned over with Panpan's face, and said, "Teacher Shanming, what should we do next?"

"You install this first, and I will arrange it." Xu Ming's thoughts raced, and soon he had an idea that had taken shape, "But before that, I have to confirm another thing."

The whale man: "......?"

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What Xu Ming wanted to confirm was actually very simple.

——She only needed to figure out one thing. That is, whether she could create two simulated scenes at once.

The reason why she had this idea was because she remembered that the description in "Dream Simulation" was that she could simulate "the scene she was in", and not only could she enter herself, but she could also designate other people to enter. In any case, only one person could enter at a time.

But it does not stipulate that there can only be one simulated scene at a time.

From another perspective, how should "the scene you are in" be defined? If you are at the boundary between two rooms, with one foot on the left and one foot on the right, can you be considered to be in both rooms at the same time?

If so, does that mean that you can simulate two adjacent scenes at the same time?

Based on such a bold guess, Xu Ming quickly made an attempt. The result was also optimistic - she could indeed simulate two scenes at once by exploiting this loophole.

Then the next thing would be much simpler:

first, she would leave Room 302, use the loophole in the rules to simulate two scenes of the third-floor stairs and the third-floor platform in one breath, and hide directly in the simulated platform, and then let the blubber man pretending to be Panpan go out, remember to bring Panpan's left arm sponsored by friendship...

If nothing unexpected happens, the owner of Room 301, the legendary "little girl", will come out directly to catch people.

If nothing unexpected happens, the blubber man will run directly to the stairs next to him according to the plan.

If nothing unexpected happens, she can activate her skills again at this time to transfer the blubber man to the simulated stairs.

If nothing unexpected happens, this will cause the enemy to lose their target. Next, the little girl in Room 301 may take two actions: either continue to search where she is, or turn around and return to Room 301.

What he has to do is to sneak into Room 301 while she is away from the entrance, and create a simulated scene of the living room of Room 301 again for a new round of hiding.

Next, if nothing unexpected happens, the whale man can use the simulated stairs to return to the third-floor platform again. And before the little girl finds out, quickly hide back in Room 302, and then quickly return the borrowed arm to...

...and so on.

Carefully hiding in the simulated living room of Room 301, Xu Ming looked at the little girl who returned to the house again and fell into a brief silence.

From her perspective, she could clearly see that the other party was holding an arm with dark blue fingerprints in his hand.

Well, it seems a bit unexpected.

Sorry Panpan. I will try my best to bring this arm back to you.

Xu Ming thought silently, and couldn't help but sigh inwardly - this is why she planned to let the blubber man act as bait from the beginning. After all, the risk of this matter is still quite high. In

case the enemy's speed is too fast and he can't escape back in time, the blubber man, as the one who was "driven out of the house", still has some room to fight; if Panpan herself was caught, who knows what the result would be.

In any case, at least overall, the plan was successful - at least she did get in.

Thinking of this, Xu Ming subconsciously glanced around again, and then pursed her lips alertly.

She was at the entrance of the simulated living room of 301. Next to her was the owner of 301... or perhaps her legendary "sister". She was wearing

a simple white gauze dress, two ponytails, and a chubby face. She didn't look special. But she was still holding the torn off arm in her hand, which made her look a little weird.

The broken arm was scary, but she held it in her arms as if she was holding a beloved doll, and carried it to the sofa nearby. After thinking for a while, he took out two tissues from the paper towel box on the coffee table in the living room, covered the broken arm like a small quilt, and played with the curled fingers on the broken arm, looking very pleased.

... Very good. It seems that at least there is no need to worry that the other party will directly chew Panpan's arm as if it were a lotus root.

Xu Ming secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then carefully explored the simulated living room -

Room 301 is different from Room 302, with more rooms and a larger area. But because the power switch was pulled, there was no light either, relying only on the white mycelium decorated in the vase to provide a little fluorescence that was better than nothing.

Xu Ming moved cautiously in the simulated living room, but couldn't find Qiu Yufei for a while. Just when he wanted to go to other rooms, he saw the little girl in the living room suddenly move. In a blink of an eye, she had moved from the sofa to the bedroom door.

"Sister!" She heard the little girl say in a coquettish tone, "I'm not very happy. Can you tell me another story?"

"Okay." A familiar voice followed from the bedroom, and Xu Ming's heart moved, "Lingling, do you still want to hear the previous story?"

"Yeah!" The little girl responded sweetly and quickly walked into the bedroom.

The bedroom door slammed shut, instantly blocking Xu Ming's view. She couldn't help but turn around twice on the spot, and after a little hesitation, she still put her ear close to it, trying to listen to the situation inside.

——She was sure that the voice just now was Qiu Yufei's. Although she couldn't see the other person for the time being, the voice was also a reflection of the mental state, which could help her determine Yufei's current state to some extent...

Xu Ming made up his mind and put his ear closer

. Immediately afterwards, he heard the familiar voice again, reciting the words one by one, and the voice was like a machine, without any ups and downs——

"'Han Tianyang, I heard it that day.' Under the cold light, Yang Duoduo's even colder voice rang out, and Han Tianyang's heart skipped a beat.

"'What did you hear? ' He asked subconsciously, and for some reason, his chest suddenly felt heavy, as if he would fall into the abyss in the next second.

"'Hear what? What else do you want me to hear? Hear you tell your cronies that I'm just a toy that you can summon and dismiss at will, or hear you tell your childhood sweetheart that I'm just a substitute, a shadow that you can use to comfort yourself?

"'Han Tianyang, yes, I like you. I have liked you for ten whole years. But this is not a reason for you to cheat on me. It shouldn't be. ' "

'... Duoduo, listen to me, things are not what you think...'

"'Enough. I've heard enough. I don't want to hear it anymore. '

"Yang Duoduo said, taking a deep breath. In the ten years of passionate love for Han Tianyang, she never thought that one day she would say the next words; however, the moment the words came out, an unprecedented sense of relief surged up, like a thick blood scab that was suddenly torn off.

"'End it, Han Tianyang. ' She said softly, facing Han Tianyang's incredulous gaze. She had been a prisoner for a full ten years. At this moment, she finally made up her mind to declare herself innocent and released, 'just like us, never started. '"

Xu Ming: "..."

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No - why can I meet you here, Yang Duoduo!