I open a restaurant in Mysterious Recovery

Chapter 307: Employee Advantages, Entering Kobe District

"The medicine that suppresses the resurrection of evil spirits is effective on me. Doesn't this just prove that the so-called schizophrenia is actually the resurrection of evil spirits?"

Liu Qingqing's expression became uglier as she spoke. "You said that when I was schizophrenic, I had self-awareness, and was able to talk and move. Apparently, that ghost also had self-awareness, or in other words, it was a remnant soul. The former controller of these ghosts used some kind of supernatural power to seal part of their consciousness inside these ghosts, so that they can replace me when the time is right."

"The first time I had this urge, it was the ghost cheongsam. At that time, I followed Tong Qian's advice and returned home to ask the person in charge of the headquarters to help me suppress it. As a result, several people came, including you, but it didn't work. If Brother Yuan hadn't come in the end, I might have been killed by this ghost cheongsam."

"The pair of high heels on my feet found their way to the store on their own. They can ignore the ghost zone and invade directly, but I have no memory of wearing them. Apparently, I was already influenced by that remnant soul at that time, which is why I walked out of the Peace Hotel. Otherwise, they would have been blocked by the gate and could not have come in at all."

"Then it was Dachuan City. I have no memory of going to Dachuan City at all. When I woke up, I was already in Mingyue Community in Dachuan City, in that haunted room!"

"This time, that feeling came back. I can't escape it. The residual soul in my body will come out at the right time and control my actions. I can't tell Brother Yuan either. In his eyes, this will only make the symptoms of schizophrenia worse. He will make me take more medicine, which is useless at all."

"I need your help. It would be best if you could bring along the ghost messenger, the starving ghost, the knocking ghost that Brother Yuan brought back this time, and Li Qingzhi..."

Liu Qingqing became more and more excited as she spoke, and in the end she even looked a little crazy.

The water was surging, and the originally calm lake seemed to be at high tide, creating waves that crashed onto the shore.

A lot of water also fell on Liu Qingqing.

The moment the water touched her skin, Liu Qingqing was startled, and finally calmed down, but her face became even uglier. "You can see that I can no longer control my emotions. Sometimes I wonder if everything I say and do now is my will or the thoughts of the remnant soul in my body."

He Yin'er shook her head. "I know you're anxious, but what you said is simply impossible, isn't it?"

They also brought along scary ghosts like the ghost messenger, the starving ghost, the door-knocking ghost, and Li Qingzhi, but they didn't listen to their commands at all.

The only one who can truly command them is Lin Yuan.

In other words, Liu Qingqing's idea can only be realized through Lin Yuan, and she obviously has no way to explain her situation to Lin Yuan.

Otherwise it's just as she said.

Lin Yuan would never agree to her taking so many employees to an unknown place, and would only ask Zhang Bohua to prescribe a few more medicines for her.

There is even a possibility...

Seeing Liu Qingqing's lost expression, He Yin'er still chose to speak out, "If the store manager thinks your condition is too serious, do you think he will send you to the hospital, or even a mental hospital?"

"How could..."

Liu Qingqing subconsciously wanted to deny it, but based on past experience, it seemed that this was indeed something that was very likely to happen.

No, not very likely, but definitely.

According to the worldview of ordinary people, if an employee in one's own store develops severe schizophrenia, even if one is very concerned, the more concerned one is, the more likely one is to call for medical help.

So is the mental hospital in the eyes of the "store manager" really a real mental hospital? Is it some kind of horrible and unknown supernatural place?

Even if it is a real mental hospital, what good will it do her if she goes there?

For a moment, Liu Qingqing was completely deflated, and her expression was visibly depressed. "Then what should I do? Should I wait for that damned remnant soul to replace me?"

"You should think about it carefully and find a suitable excuse to convince the store manager to go with you. Don't forget, our greatest reliance now is not our colleagues in the store, but the store manager," He Yiner reminded.

Liu Qingqing smiled bitterly and said, "It's not that easy to come up with a suitable excuse. In fact, I have already thought about it a few days ago. I was ready to speak several times, but I was warned every time."

Obviously, she had tried several times and prepared several excuses, but none of them passed the judgment of the real store manager.

He Yiner was also helpless.

The Peace Hotel is really great. You don’t have to worry about evil spirits reviving here. It seems to be just like the name of the hotel, very peaceful and you don’t have to worry about your life safety.

But there is a prerequisite, that is, it must be under the rules of the "store manager".

According to the simple description from the headquarters, the Peace Hotel is a large live game venue. They are all players entering this game, and the "store manager" is an NPC who helps them understand and become familiar with the rules of the game.

If you violate the rules, you will be disqualified from the game.

Losing the qualification to play the game does not mean that you will no longer be paid attention to by the Peace Hotel, but that your life account in this real world will be completely cancelled.

Liu Qingqing's situation is simple and complicated at the same time.

As long as she can find a suitable reason and make the "store manager" agree with her statement within the rules, everything can be solved.

But the difficulty lies in that Liu Qingqing simply can't find a suitable excuse to justify herself.

"Maybe you should seek help. If your own wisdom cannot solve the problem, you can seek the wisdom of the team." He Yiner said seriously.

A hint of disgust flashed across Liu Qingqing's eyes. "You want me to ask the headquarters for help? Or to bow to Tong Qian?"

"Neither. I am now the person in charge of Ohara City, and I have a group of elites serving me. If you need, you can find some time to go to Ohara City with me. It is still too dangerous for ordinary people. Their greatest advantage is their brains, and I cannot bring them here."

Liu Qingqing thought for a moment and said, "I'll think about it again."

"Okay, let me know when you've thought it over."

……

Kobe, once a bustling city, is also a city that never sleeps.

But now Kobe is as quiet as a ghost town. Today, the roar of cars broke the long-lost tranquility and awakened many people in the city.

"It seems that they really suffered a serious disaster, otherwise they wouldn't have relocated all the citizens. A first-tier city has become so deserted."

In the ghost taxi, Lin Yuan looked at the old building outside the window and expressed this emotion.

However, relocate all the citizens?
Guo Fan smiled bitterly in his heart. Only a "store manager" would have such an idea. According to the information he obtained, this city was shrouded in the ghost domain of the knocking ghost and no one could escape.

Even the ghost handlers from the island country who came to this city to deal with supernatural events were all lost in it.

In other words.

This city has fallen, and according to the supernatural power of the knocking ghost, almost all of the city's population of more than 1.5 million have become slaves of the starving ghost.

No need to guess.

After the Ghost Taxi entered Kobe and entered the ghost realm of the Knocking Ghost, Guo Fan felt countless prying eyes cast at him from the buildings on both sides.

He also saw many numb-faced figures standing at the windows.

They were old and young, male and female, some stood alone at the window, while others stood in groups of three or five.

These people had numb eyes, revealing endless dead silence and deep resentment.

Even though they were hundreds of meters apart, Guo Fan could still clearly feel that gaze, the kind that wanted to drag them down to hell with him even if they went to hell.

Horrible and weird.

Obviously, these are the ghost slaves of the Knocking Ghost. There are more than one million ghost slaves in the entire city!

Fortunately, perhaps because the killing pattern was not triggered, these ghost slaves did not jump out to attack them, which was considered a blessing.

Well, lucky for those ghost slaves.

"Wang!"

The starving ghost Lao Hua, who had been sitting quietly in the car, suddenly turned his head and looked in one direction. The sudden shout scared Guo Fan. He looked in the direction of Lao Hua's sight, but saw only a seven-story building with an empty roof.

"Old Flower, what are you yelling about? Have you found any trace of Old Black? If so, take us to find him."

Lin Yuan looked expectant.

Now he only knows that the knocking ghost Lao Hei is in Kobe City, but Kobe City is not small, and it is not so easy to find Lao Hei.

"It's too dangerous here. Otherwise, I really need to find a loud speaker to call Lao Hei out."

The starving ghost Lao Hua squatted on the back seat, his sight withdrawn. He was quite big, and his size, like a calf, squeezed the seat tightly.

The look he gave Lin Yuan at this moment was extremely wise, and he did not react to Lin Yuan's words at all. It was obvious that he did not know where Lao Hei was.

Lin Yuan sighed, "I knew it, but your eyes look a little strange. People who don't know you might think you are a fool. Put away that wise look, or I'm worried that you will destroy the house when you go back."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lao Hua lowered his head, hiding his wise eyes.

Lin Yuan looked out the window, frowning. "This entire city has been abandoned for a long time, which means the problem has been going on for a long time. It was suppressed by the island country, so it was not reported to the outside world. We shouldn't have let Lao Hei come here at that time, but there is no other way now. So, let's split up and find Lao Hei."

Guo Fan stepped on the brakes and quickly suggested, "Boss, you said it's dangerous here. Isn't it inappropriate to divide our forces when we have so few people?"

Lin Yuan said in a deep voice: "The danger nearby has not been revealed. Now is our chance. We must find Lao Hei as quickly as possible and then leave. If we delay any further, it will be the biggest trouble. It is decided. You and Lao Fan will be in one group, and I will be in one group with Lao Hua. The car... is left to you. You must search the entire city as quickly as possible, starting from a far place, and then search back all the way to join us. Do you understand?"

Looking at Lin Yuan's serious expression, Guo Fan knew there was no point in persuading him.

Fortunately, we have Lao Fan here, a terrifying and unbridled ghost messenger who can suppress thirty-eight or nine places, almost reaching forty!

Being with the ghost catcher, we are not opponents but teammates, and I feel very safe.

The only thing we need to worry about is the other ghosts in this city besides the knocking ghost, just like the female monkey that is now being held in the hands of the ghost catcher.

This is a scary female ghost!

There are such terrifying ghosts in Osaka, which has not yet been completely occupied. How many ghosts are there in Kobe?

How terrifying would they be?
"Lao Hua, get off the bus."

Lin Yuan did what he said and opened the car door and got out.

Lao Hua responded and pushed open the door to get out. Fortunately, although the ghost taxi looked old and about to fall apart at any time, Lao Hua's violent push did not break the door. "Brother Fan, I'm relying on you from now on. We can't separate!"

Guo Fan immediately began to curry favor with the ghost messenger. In this regard, he was absolutely professional and had gained a lot of experience from the "store manager".

If someone else were to come, he would definitely be able to hold the thighs very tightly.

But unfortunately, the ghost is not a human being, and it cannot understand Guo Fan’s words. It just follows the changes made by the "store manager" to its killing rules.

In other words, verbal commands are used to replace its killing rules and direct its actions.

Guo Fan didn't mind. He was very clear about his situation. He said this just to put his mind at ease. Anyway, in the next process, he would never leave the ghost catcher.

At the same time, inside a building.

The missionary was not reading a book, but holding a mobile phone, and the location where Lin Yuan got off the bus was shown on the phone.

"That dog is so perceptive that it can sense my presence from a kilometer away. Does it share the same range as this white fog ghost domain? It's a very scary ghost, and that security guard puts me under even more pressure. If I can collect them all..."

The missionary's fingers unconsciously rubbed the cover of the old book. "The leader gives people a very strange feeling. He looks like an ordinary person, but these two ghosts are all centered around him. Is it because of his identity, or is he just pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger? Forget it, this man has the dog to protect him, so let's go find the driver first. He is the weakest."

After closing his phone, the missionary took a step forward and disappeared like a bubble.

When it appeared again, it was already hundreds of meters away, just level with the speeding ghost taxi. The next step, it appeared hundreds of meters away again.

In a process similar to teleportation, he steadily opened the old book in his hand and kept flipping through it.

can be seen.

Most of the pages in the book have strange shapes, either people or animals, or some twisted objects.

There are also some blank pages.

There are also pages with missionary images.

When he turned to a certain page, he stopped and saw a picture of a broken arm on the page. The arm was skinny, as if there were only bones and skin, and there were scarlet lines on the skin, as if blood vessels were bulging.

Hiss!

The missionary tore off the page and threw it away.

The page flew up in the wind, and decayed rapidly as it flew, as if it had gone through countless years.

When the page completely decayed, the scarlet arm drawn on the paper actually appeared in reality.

A cold and strange breath, accompanied by a strong stench of corpse, emanated from the scarlet arm. Obviously, this was a ghost!

The arms fell from mid-air, but they were also recovering synchronously.

Pfft!
The arm fell to the ground. Although it was at a very high position, it did not bounce up at all, and it twisted and distorted at this moment.

The next moment, the arm used its five fingers as feet and wandered around in place, leaving five blood spots with every step.

There were bloody lines on its skin, like blood vessels, and they began to bleed.

Blood continued to flow, staining the nearby ground red. Many marks also appeared, including footprints, car marks, and a variety of other things, which were very chaotic.

But these traces were not triggered and did not seem to belong to its medium.

The next moment, all the blood began to condense, and finally formed a bloody vehicle track, which was exactly the path the ghost taxi had taken.

blah blah blah!

blah blah blah!

The scarlet arm stepped on the blood-stained tire tracks and chased after them at the same speed, as if some unknown law had been triggered.

……

"Laohua, you've been with Laohei for a while, so you can't remember its smell? Can't you take me to find it?"

Lin Yuan walked to the entrance of a nearby small building.

no way.

There are suspected wild beasts and even monsters in this city. If you walk in the middle of the road, you will probably be spotted.

Lin Yuan didn't want to become the feces excreted by a group of wild beasts, so he could only try some simple methods to find it.

If it really doesn't work, then you can only call for help.

"Wang!"

Lao Hua called out softly, and when Lin Yuan didn't move, it squatted on the ground, with its head level with Lin Yuan's waist. The wild dog's head revealed determination and... confusion.

"I should have let you go with Xiao Guo. Although Lao Fan is also very dull, he is at least smarter." Lin Yuan said depressedly, "Let's go and take a look inside the building. It will be easy to deal with if there are any traces left by Lao Hei."

The man and the dog walked into the small building next door.

This is a two-story building, a typical island-style accommodation. The door is not closed, which is why Lin Yuan chose to go in and investigate.

The doors of many other houses and buildings were closed.

The door here is open, which shows that this place is special. Maybe we can really find some clues about Lao Hei.

However, after entering the room, the light suddenly dimmed.

Only blurry corridors could be seen on both sides, vision was greatly obstructed, and the surroundings felt very gloomy and cold, which seemed a little abnormal.

“Are ordinary people’s homes on the island so abnormal?”

Lin Yuan was not used to such an environment. After all, even in the white fog that lingered all year round, he could at least see several meters away.

He fumbled on the wall next to him and soon found a switch button.

He was delighted and pressed the button quickly, but there was no change. He pressed it several more times, but there was still no response.

"It seems that the power has been cut off because the electricity bill has not been paid for a long time, but it is also possible that the power line has been damaged by those wild beasts and monsters. Fortunately, I am prepared."

Lin Yuan sighed and took out a white candle from his arms.

This was something that Cao Yang and Li Jun brought to the store to trade after they became police officers. It is very effective. It can provide lighting and attract wild beasts or monsters.

Before, Lin Yuan didn’t think how precious this kind of white candle was. When cleaning the Caesar Hotel, he asked the ghost catcher and Li Qingzhi to take one or two each, and consumed quite a few.

Now Lin Yuan only has two in his hand, and one less would be needed if he used one.

"After I go back, I'll ask Lao Cao and the others to trade some for me. In many cases, candles are much more useful than electric lights."

As Lin Yuan spoke, he took out the Black Star from his arms, then aimed at the wick of the white ghost candle and pulled the trigger.

Snapped!
With a slight sound, a warm flame came out from the muzzle of the gun and ignited the white ghost candle.

Obviously, this thing looks like a gun, but it is actually an ordinary lighter. It is not very useful except for looking cool.

The white candle was lit, but the light it shone was a deeper darkness, darker and thicker than an ordinary night.

But soon, under Lin Yuan's gaze, the dark light began to change, turning into a normal candle color, illuminating the corridor.

"I just walked for a while, why are you still walking around in circles?"

Lin Yuan noticed something was wrong, and his heart skipped a beat. "Could it be that I really encountered a monster? Lao Hua, you have to protect me!"

"Wang!"

Lao Hua let out a cry and rushed directly in front of Lin Yuan with his strong body. If there was any danger, he would definitely crash into him first.

Lin Yuan was touched, "Old Hua, there are still people behind you."

The four dogs were walking very steadily, but when they heard this, they suddenly staggered and almost fell to the ground.

old flower:"……"

"Haha! Just kidding, just kidding!"

Lin Yuan smiled awkwardly, then took out another Black Star, and at the same time took out a few thumb-sized anesthetic bullets and pressed them into the magazine one by one.

click!
With a slight sound, Lin Yuan held the Black Star in his hand and said solemnly, "Let's go and see what the hell is in here!"

"Wang!"

This time, the man and the dog did not wander in the corridor, but began to explore inside.

I came to the door of the first sliding door, which should be the living room of the house. There were dried bloodstains on the sliding door. The bloodstains showed traces of a handprint, which should have been left by someone, and the direction of the handprint was outward, which meant that at some point before, a person with blood on his hands opened the sliding door and tried to escape from inside.

But unfortunately, that person failed.

Along the way, I didn't see a single corpse, but I smelled a stench of corpse. This stench was particularly strong in this house.

"This place is really dangerous. It is very likely that it has been attacked by wild beasts, and even the owner has been eaten as food."

Lin Yuan took a deep breath, clenched the Black Star in his hand, and his expression became ugly for the first time. "Lao Hua, I am also... alone."

(End of this chapter)