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Chapter 1674: Unexpected Harvest (A Cat with a Full Belly)

The crew quickly sent the staff member to the hospital. After the doctor's examination, he was just knocked unconscious and just needed to rest. He himself didn't remember what happened. According to the staff, he was just checking the equipment, and then he seemed to hear some sound, and then lost consciousness.

The doctor explained that he might have been hit on the head by something, and the crew also acknowledged this. Even if filming was allowed here, it was a place that had been in disrepair for a long time after all. Even if most of the structures were still intact, it could not be ruled out that something might fall, right?

After that, the group returned to the hotel to rest, and Duanmu Huai called Kurokawa Akane to his room.

"Did anything weird happen on set today?"

Hearing Duanmu Huai's question, Heichuan Akane tilted his head in confusion.

"Wow...it seems like nothing strange happened. What's wrong?"

"Today, while filming at the institute, I encountered a strange thing."

"Strange stuff? Ah, I heard that a staff member had an accident?"

"It was indeed an accident, but it was not an ordinary accident."

Duanmuhuai waved his hand.

"Something attacked him."

"Hey?"

"It looked weird, like some kind of ghost... a bunch of wriggling flesh, but no one else could see it except me. It looked like it was trying to eat the worker when he was alone, at least that's what it looked like when I found him."

"It's difficult, could it be an evil ghost?"

Hearing Duanmu Huai's words, Heichuan Akane's expression changed slightly. She still remembered the situation when she and Duanmu Huai accidentally entered that past era.

“Not quite the same…”

Duanmu Huai frowned slightly. Although evil ghosts are called ghosts, strictly speaking, they are actually similar to vampires or ghouls, and are physical creatures. But the thing he saw before was not like that. It was obviously something like a ghost.

I have never seen this thing before. Is this the update that GM mentioned?

What exactly was updated?

But at least it's better than the destruction of the wasteland apocalypse.

"In short, be careful."

As he spoke, Duanmu Huai reached out and took out two mobile phone pendants from his pocket.

"This is?"

"It's like a talisman. You and Kana each have one. If you are attacked by that thing, it can protect you."

"Thank you...but..."

Kurokawa Akane took the cell phone pendant handed to her by Duanmu Huai with a complicated expression. Well, it was no wonder that she had a strange expression, because these two cell phone pendants - to put it bluntly, were two skulls.

There are also hammer and gear marks.

This thing might be cool for high school boys, but for girls... and they have to use it on their phones, it's very...

"Are there no other shapes?"

"No."

Duanmu Huai silently shook his head. This was the symbol of the Tribunal. What could he do? Could he change it to Peppa Pig?

"Well... I'd like to think of a way to sew them into the doll?"

"it should be OK."

Duanmuhuai nodded.

"By the way, I have to go out for a while, please cover for me."

"Hey?"

"I'm going to go to the set and see if those guys are there."

Duanmu Huai picked up the guitar case beside him.

"no problem?"

"Don't worry, they are just some small fish. We can't let them interfere with the filming on the spot."

Speaking of this, Duanmu Huai's tone became slightly heavy.

"Once an accident happens, filming will stop, but the daily salaries for the staff are indispensable. Where do they think all this money comes from? These damn bastards! I also invested money, how can I allow such waste?"

"Well……………"

Hearing Duanmu Huai's complaint, Kurokawa Akane was speechless, but she had to admit that Duanmu Huai made sense. This is how the crew is. Once it is set up and running, it will burn money every day.

"Then...have a nice trip?"

"Oh, if anyone asks, just say I went to bed."

Duanmu Huai waved his hand, turned around and walked out of the balcony carrying his guitar case, then jumped down and disappeared into the night.

Although this is the 20th floor...but since it's Xiao Ai, it shouldn't matter.

Kurokawa Akane walked to the balcony and looked around, but could not see anything.

"At least you should say I'm going out..."

Looking at the dark night, Kurokawa Akane sighed silently. The shooting location at night seemed like a ghost town.

This is natural, after all, this place was originally a ruin, and the staff had gone back to rest. Only some large equipment that could not be taken away was left here, which looked particularly weird. Of course, if it was not the case, then this place would not have been chosen by Director Shimizu as a filming location.

There was indeed nothing unusual feeling at the gathering place of the survivors.

But the institute is different.

Duanmu Huai could feel that with the arrival of night, that strange aura was reappearing somewhere inside the institute.

And, it seems... they are fighting?

When Duanmu Huai arrived at the basement, he soon heard noises coming from it, including collisions and shouting.

"Why is this happening? I heard it was a Level 2 cursed spirit, but it turns out it's only a quasi-Level 1 cursed spirit!"

The one who shouted was a girl who looked about 16 or 17 years old. She had long blue hair, a distinctive face, and strange side bangs. She was holding a Japanese sword. Opposite this girl stood a mutant spider monster whose body was as big as a bus. At this moment, this spider monster was waving its claws to attack the blue-haired girl, who looked a little embarrassed. It was obvious that her current situation was quite bad.

That is……………

Duanmu Huai narrowed his eyes and carefully looked at the giant spider fighting the girl. This thing looked very much like the strange creatures he had seen in the other world. In other words, this thing would not only appear in the other world, but also in reality? Sure enough, just as he imagined, the subspace began to erode the real world?

"Hey!"

The girl swung her knife again to block a spider's leg that was stabbing towards her, but she herself was pushed back by the reaction force and then hit the spider web behind her.

"Oops!"

The girl also realized that the situation was not good and tried to break free, but her body was firmly stuck in the spider web and there was no way to get rid of it. At the same time, the huge spider monster rushed in front of the girl, opened its bloody mouth... and then was directly split in half from the middle.

"Hey?"

The girl widened her eyes in surprise, looking at the spider being split in half and gradually disappearing in front of her. For a moment she didn't know what was happening.

Then, she saw a figure coming from behind the spider.

"Hello, young lady."

Duanmu Huai stared at the pale girl in front of him and gave a ferocious smile.

"That was a close call just now. As a thank you for saving my life, do you mind if I ask you something?"

"Hey, what do you want to ask?"

"First tell me, who are you and what are you doing here?"

Duanmu Huai held the knife in his hand, pressed it against the neck of the motionless girl, and then slowly slid it down.

"Also, what was that thing you were fighting with?"

"I, I said......"

Facing Duanmu Huai's question, the girl looked pale but still tried her best to stay calm and nodded vigorously. Then, she quickly explained to Duanmu Huai.

According to the girl, her name is Sanlunxia, ​​and she is a sorcerer who specializes in removing cursed spirits, which are the mutated giant spiders that Duanmu Huai saw before. According to Sanlunxia, ​​cursed spirits are supernatural beings generated by the power of negative emotions from humans, but where these curses and cursed spirits come from has never been known.

However, cursed spirits will attack humans and kill them, and the sorcerer is a professional who protects humans and eliminates cursed spirits.

A supernatural being born from human negative emotions...

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai's face darkened slightly.

"for example?"

"Big, mostly fear, jealousy, anger, in short, all kinds of emotions. Some cursed spirits come from humans' fear of certain things, and some cursed spirits were originally human souls, but because they were bound by the thoughts of the living, they turned into dangerous cursed spirits..."

"Oh, I've heard of this."

Duanmu Huai remembered that there was indeed a legend that the vengeful spirits were forced to stay because they could not ascend to heaven due to the longing of the living.

However... Cursed spirits... Monsters born from human negative emotions... The other world... Strange stories created by the condensation of human emotions... Professor Ueno once encountered a life form from another world that communicated with humans through fear...

Very good, now everything is connected. If Duanmu Huai guessed correctly, the other world they went to before should be the place where those monsters were bred. Well, but this is really annoying, a subspace monster generated by human negative emotions - ah, Duanmu Huai's Inquisitor PTSD is about to break out again.

After all, this setting sounds like a pure warp creature. Forget it, whether it is a cursed spirit or a warp creature, it is still the same thing in the end, just kill it when you see it.

"Thanks for your cooperation."

Duanmu Huai sheathed his sword and nodded at the girl.

"If there is nothing else, then I will take my leave."

"Oh, please, please wait a moment!"

Seeing Duanmu Huai turning around to leave, the girl hurriedly called him.

"That, that..."

"Ok?"

"Excuse me, are you Miss Duanmu Ai?"

"Yeah, I was right..."

Duanmu Huai stared at the blue-haired girl, who lowered her head and hesitated for a moment, embarrassed. Then she took out a notebook from her arms and handed it to Duanmu Huai with both hands.

"I'm a fan of yours, can you give me an autograph? If possible, we can also take a photo together......!"

“………………Of course.”