Infinite spooky game

Chapter 368 Plan
Everywhere you look, the world is filled with ghosts.

If people get involved for a long time, they will become fang-toothed and have green faces.

——《Volume 5: People and Ghosts》

In May, Jiangcheng seems to have entered the rainy season again. These days, it has been drizzling from morning to night.

The gray-purple cloudy sky weaved an ominous canopy over the city. Pedestrians as tiny as ants were hurrying under the towering high-rise buildings. Colorful umbrellas bloomed like mushrooms on the sewage, and their colors were bleached by the rain as if they were on the verge of rotting.

In an apartment in the Jinjiang neighborhood, cold and damp air seeped through the windows into the walls and ceiling, condensing into large patches of water stains on the floor in the corners. The aging structure soaked in water made a rustling sound, as if rose branches were growing in the dark.

The young man in the red suit was lying on his back on the bed, staring at a stain on the ceiling with his eyes wide open, until the phone on the bedside table rang with the tone of "Sunday is Gloomy". He reluctantly sat up, picked up the phone and pressed the answer button.

Jin Yusheng's anxious voice came from the phone: "Lao Qi, have you seen Ning Xu? There is an official organization called the Investigation Bureau here. They said Ning Xu is missing and the investigation led to me."

"No." The young man paused and asked, "From what you said, she disappeared on the way to find me?"

"That's not the case." Jin Yusheng's tone slowed down. "According to them, he went out for a walk and never came back."

"I see..." The young man laughed, "Jin Yusheng, tell me the truth, what is your relationship with Ning Xu? Why did you come to you as soon as she disappeared?"

Jin Yusheng was shocked: "Oh, Lao Qi, are you suffering from paranoia again? What is the relationship between her and me? It's just the relationship between a suspect and a policeman.

"I guess it's just that she has been investigating me recently, so their first reaction after she disappeared was to come find me."

The young man said "Oh" and asked with a smile: "Then what does her disappearance have to do with me? Why did you think of asking me?"

Jin Yusheng sighed: "You are my only friend. If something serious happens, I will definitely come to you for advice first."

He changed the subject: "By the way, Lao Qi, have you been in Jiangcheng recently? I heard from the grapevine that Jiangcheng has been surrounded, and the military and police from all sides have come in to arrest people. Do you think they are here to arrest you?"

"Maybe, who knows?" The young man frowned slightly, pretending to be worried, "I was planning to go back to my hometown, but now it seems that I can't go. Maybe I will have to rely on you to help me arrange a hidden place to hide in the future."

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a while, and Jin Yusheng asked: "Are you really still in Jiangcheng? I received a call from Jincheng a few days ago. It was your voice, and you also asked about my relationship with Ning Xu..."

"You've encountered a scam call." The young man interrupted indifferently, "It seems that because you are close to Ning Xu, the scammers have tacitly accepted that they can use her name to defraud you of your money.

"Once she finishes her investigation on you, you may be able to continue pursuing her. That's cause for celebration."

"So you really have been in Jiangcheng all this time?"

"Yeah, didn't you tell me that my horoscope is incompatible with places outside of Jiangcheng?" The young man smiled, a light and cold smile, "Do you need me to send you my location and start a video call?"

"No need, no need. Haha, I was just kidding." Jin Yusheng's voice became relaxed and he changed the subject abruptly. "The box of oranges you gave me last time tasted good. Where did you buy them? I ate them all and wanted to buy some more."

"I'll just send you another box." The young man said softly, hung up the phone, and skillfully placed an order for a box of oranges online, filling in Jin Yusheng's address on the delivery note.

"Who is he?" A cold voice came from the side. The young man in black clothes was sitting on the desk, lowering his golden eyes to look at him.

The young man in black had a pale complexion and sharp eyes. He was Chang Xu, who was supposed to be dead. To be more precise, it was Li who descended in the body of Chang Xu. On April 4, after feeding the dog with egg-filled pancakes, the young man thought that he had not eaten breakfast yet, so he staggered back to Qiu Lihua's breakfast stall. He did not expect to meet Li who was also buying breakfast there.

The embarrassing thing was that Li didn't bring any money and didn't think of paying. So the young man just paid the bill and took Li back after wandering around in reality for a week.

"Who is he?" Li asked again.

"You don't know him. He's not a god. He's just a human friend." The young man answered casually and clicked on the latest level of Happy Candy Crush and started playing.

Li sat quietly for a while, then suddenly reached out and snatched the phone from the young man's hand, saying coldly: "I am currently trapped in this body and cannot go back. It was you who did this, right?"

The young man pretended to grab the phone several times but failed to get it back. He could only say weakly: "It is a natural rule of this world. On the one hand, it will reject the existence of invasion, and on the other hand, it is not so easy to completely separate the soul and the body.

"It's a little mechanism I discovered when I threw the fragments into this world twenty-two years ago. It's quite interesting, isn't it?"

Li raised his hand and grabbed the young man's throat, staring into his scarlet eyes: "Why did you do this?"

"I didn't do anything. I just took advantage of the situation to help you with the preliminary preparations, making it easier for you to come into reality." The young man's cheeks turned slightly red due to difficulty breathing, but his tone of voice was not affected.

He spread his hands innocently and said, "It was you who made the decision to 'take a look at reality', wasn't it you?"

"Why did you do this?" Li repeated.

The young man gradually stopped joking and spoke in a serious tone: "The ancestor god 'or' has a place on the stage before the end of the world. Every generation of gods needs a mother goddess who symbolizes the apocalypse. She is the remnant of the previous generation of gods and the beginning of the second generation of gods. She has survived an entire generation of gods and still has a breath left - can you understand?"

Li loosened his grip a little and raised his eyebrows to signal the young man to continue.

The young man pried open his fingers one by one and continued, "The rules do not allow you and me to inherit the authority of the Sea God, but you have scattered the authority, which is enough to prove that you and I are not the candidates for the 'Apocalypse of the Third Generation of Gods'.

"The name of 'Or' has returned to the world, and the intention of the rules has become very clear; if you and I who once shared in His food do not want to be devoured by Him, we should have made preparations early."

Li asked: "What should we do?"

"This is why I let you stay in this world." The young man lowered his voice, like a patient elder, teaching important knowledge to the ignorant younger generation, "I have formulated a plan to fight against the rules and the ancestral gods. It is not guaranteed to succeed, but it is better than waiting to die here.

"This plan requires you to hide in the world and do something for me. You always said that I excluded you from everything I did. I invited you to join this round of the game, so why are you unwilling now?"

He stood up, leaned over and whispered something in Li's ear.

After hearing this, Li's expression changed slightly: "Why?"

The young man sighed: "Li, this is why I didn't like to discuss things with you before. You had too many questions -

"This time, you don't need to know the cause and effect, you just need to strictly implement it."

(End of this chapter)