I open a restaurant in Mysterious Recovery

Chapter 457 Boss·Manor Owner, the Boundary between the Past and the Present
"There are fewer people."

The oppressive ghost walked down from a dead foreign ghost rider and returned to Cao Yang's back, causing Cao Yang to breathe a sigh of relief.

"This ghost thing is powerful, but it's a little too heavy. Luckily the ghost I used before was pretty good, otherwise my old waist would have been broken by it."

Xiong Wenwen had a look of disgust on her face, but she didn't say anything. She was just absent-mindedly thinking about something.

If he were in this state during a supernatural event, he would have died long ago. But now there are so many ghost riders around here, so he should have died even faster.

But he still survived, under the protection of Cao Yang and a paper man.

Liu San naturally went to other places to earn points. The only one left here was a paper man to help protect Xiong Wenwen, who was not very aggressive, and to avoid distracting Cao Yang.

"I've met fewer foreigners over there, and it seems like there are only these few left. But it's not bad, a full 100 or 200 points is already a good profit."

Liu San’s paper figurine said.

Cao Yang laughed after hearing this. "Yes, the most expensive character card of Endless Cemetery Master Luo Qian was only worth forty points. There are also thirty points for Zhang Xianguang and fifteen points for Ye Zhen. With our current accumulation, I'm afraid we can completely sweep the points mall."

Xiong Wenwen spoke up at this time, and as soon as she opened her mouth, she poured cold water on them, just like before, "Look at how you guys are showing off. If I were Brother Yuan, I would just revise the points mall and add a few zeros to the end of the points card, and see if you guys can still laugh!"

Liu San's paper figurine looked over and said seriously, "The store manager is very disciplined. I believe he wouldn't do such a thing. It's too disgraceful."

Cao Yang also said solemnly: "Old Liu is right. You are still too young and don't understand how much the store manager values ​​reputation. He is a man of his word and will never change his mind overnight."

Xiong Wenwen curled his lips and stopped talking, because he also felt that Cao Yang and Liu San were right, but he always felt that something was wrong.

It seems that Cao Yang and Liu San are like this, do they have absolute trust in a person?
Lin Yuan was also paying attention here. When he saw Cao Yang and Liu San's paper figures making faces behind Xiong Wenwen, he couldn't help but laugh, "Are these two guys planning to blackmail me morally?"

He finally understood.

Cao Yang and Liu San shared the same concerns as Xiong Wenwen. On the contrary, they were more worried that the points in their hands would depreciate. Then this so-called welfare bureau might very well turn into a disaster.

That's why he said this and was so firm, because he wanted to use this statement to kidnap Lin Yuan and make him embarrassed to change the price of card points in the game mall.

But, does Lin Yuan have morals?
"Of course there are, but as a game planner, GM, and NPC, I still have to maintain the balance of the game from many aspects. If the props in the game store are sold too cheaply and too abundantly, it will destroy the balance of the game, and then it will be meaningless. I still plan to continue this virtual game, and it can't be destroyed like this."

"Before, it was to prepare for the listing of new cards, just like the Dadong couple and the Wang family couple, which have a bond, so there would be such a welfare bureau. But now it seems that when the new cards are listed, we still have to consider the price of the original cards."

"It's not appropriate to reduce the number of points. Imprisoning a ghost is one point, killing a ghost rider is five points, and there is no minimum unit if we reduce it further. We still have to lower the value of the points. Otherwise, add another zero after the price of the card?"

When Lin Yuan was thinking about the balance of the game, Cao Yang suddenly shuddered. His exaggerated look made Xiong Wenwen and Liu San look at him in confusion.

"You know that too?" asked Liu San's paper figurine.

Cao Yang rubbed his arms and asked in confusion: "What did you know?"

"That's right. You don't have the ability to predict the future, and you can't send out paper figures like I do." Liu San muttered, and then said, "My paper figure was found on the other side. Chen Qiaoyang was fighting with a terrible enemy. He was an old foreigner, and you should know him."

Cao Yang was stunned for a moment. "I know him? There is no foreign ghost rider in this era that I know. And in reality, I know him, and he should appear in the Peace Hotel... Are you talking about the King, the owner of the manor, who has also entered the game? Is his strength comparable to Chen Qiaoyang's?"

Although I don't want to admit it, Chen Qiaoyang's strength is really terrifying.

Judging from the time and age, Chen Qiaoyang should be a ghost rider of the same era as the second generation of the Wang family, that is, Wang Lu and his wife. The title of ghost herder is enough to prove that he is not just a name.

especially.

Chen Qiaoyang once coveted the Wang family's magical pendulum clock and even went to Dadong City to... steal it.

Judging from the time and the content of the diary, that time should be within the last ten years or so, and it will definitely not exceed the time that Wang Lu wrote in the diary in the Dingchou year as currently analyzed.

At this point in time, the Wang family must have died, and because of the blood curse, they turned into evil spirits and were driven by Wang Lu.

Faced with an enemy who came to steal a supernatural item like the restartable pendulum clock, how could Wang Lu be soft-hearted and hold back on Chen Qiaoyang?
But the result was that Chen Qiaoyang was able to escape the attack of the dead souls of the Wang family and was only imprisoned in the Wang family's ancestral home in Dadong City. This was enough to prove his strength.

This is also the analysis result of the think tanks at the headquarters, and we can make inferences based on this result.

Chen Qiaoyang reaches his strongest when he has evil spirits to control around him, but even if there are no other ghosts around him, the four ghosts around Chen Qiaoyang alone are not something that an ordinary captain can deal with.

In this game, Chen Qiaoyang controlled dozens of ghosts.

When attacking Cao Yang and his men, they only let these controlled ghosts take action, which forced them into the point where they could only defend themselves and had no chance to fight back.

If Chen Qiaoyang's true form takes action, they would probably be in great danger.

Although they didn't want to admit it, Chen Qiaoyang was indeed much stronger than them this time. He was probably playing tricks on them to retaliate against his provocation at the Peace Hotel.

If they hadn't happened to come across the Peace Hotel, they would probably be out by now.

Thinking of this, Cao Yang wanted to slap himself. He was not regretting provoking Chen Qiaoyang, but regretting not calling a few more captains.

He and Liu San are no match for Chen Qiaoyang.

What about adding a few more captains?
As the most advanced ghost rider of the new era, he is unable to face the store manager. Is it possible that he cannot even fight against a superior generation who was born only a few decades earlier than him?
So, what about the owner of the manor?

As a king in a foreign country, the owner of the manor had a terrible reputation, but he was only benchmarked against the captains at home and was a contemporary of theirs.

Even if the owner of the manor entered the game, could he really face Chen Qiaoyang, the ghost herder who controlled many evil spirits and was in excellent condition?
No, no!

The owner of the manor is quite old now, probably in his fifties or sixties. Could he be from the same era as Chen Qiaoyang?

Cao Yang was a little skeptical. "Is it a supernatural characteristic? Just like the ghost realm of the ghost painting suppresses all other ghost realms, but Li Jun's will-o'-the-wisp can easily unfold in the ghost painting?"

Of course, when considering supernatural states, the store manager, the Peace Hotel, and the white fog ghost domain are automatically excluded. They are not on the same level.

Liu San said: "Maybe, but we should still go and take a look. After all, Chen Qiaoyang is our compatriot, can he be bullied by foreigners?"

"I think it's most important to find Wei Jing. He controls the power of a ghost messenger. Now we have almost killed all the foreign ghost drivers nearby, but we haven't found Wei Jing yet. Will he encounter a greater crisis?" Cao Yang said, looking at Xiong Wenwen, "Give us a heads-up."

Xiong Wenwen glanced at him, crossed her arms, raised her head and uttered two words: "Beg me!"

Cao Yang glanced at Xiong Wenwen, then at Liu San's paper figurine.

"understood."

Liu San's paper figurine nodded and turned its back, as if looking at something. "I think Wei Jing should be in this direction. He seems to be right there. I'll go over and take a look first."

"Liu San, are your eyes also damaged?!!!" Xiong Wenwen was amused by the poor acting skills, but as he laughed, he found that he had suddenly grown a lot taller.

No, it's not that it grew taller, but that it was lifted up.

He turned his head angrily and saw Cao Yang's brilliant yet extremely dangerous smile. His face turned pale and he swallowed his saliva. "What do you want to do?"

Cao Yang's smile remained unchanged. "Don't talk as if I want to bully you. In fact, I have thought about whether I should take a teacher's qualification exam. Now, I can first feel the feeling from you. Maybe I really have the ability to be a teacher?"

"You, you you you... stop messing around... help! You're killing the child!!!"

Listening to the noise here, Liu San, who had walked several hundred meters, sighed and muttered: "Although this is a game, it is indeed still in the manager's ghost domain. Otherwise, how could there be such rich emotions? And..."

Liu San shifted his gaze to a location about ten kilometers away from Dadong City.

With the advantage of the paper man, Liu San's collection of information was completely instinctive, including the map itself. He also wanted to take a look outside Dadong City.

But unfortunately, the paper man that had gone the farthest was stopped, and what blocked his way was the high wall made of white fog in front of him.

Looking up, you can see this wall-like white fog extending upwards, almost connecting the sky, and you can't see the top at all.

He also tried to search upwards through the rainbow in the ghost realm, but even if he reached the limit of this paper man, when he looked down, the entire Dadong City became a sesame dot, and he still couldn't find the limit of the wall of white fog.

On the contrary, at this height, he can see this...game map more clearly.

Taking the Dadong City of this era as the center, about ten... or nineteen kilometers away from the edge of the city, it will be blocked by white fog, forming a wall of white fog like the one where he is now.

As players, they obviously cannot pass through this kind of wall.

It clearly looked like mist, but it actually felt indestructible when touched, but this seemed to only be the case for people like them.

For the people of this era, whether they are ordinary people or ghost riders, whether they are Chinese or foreigners, it has no blocking effect.

Liu San can see it.

On the road under his feet, a caravan was slowly walking into the wall of white fog. The people in the caravan were talking and laughing, and no one could observe the wall of white fog. "This is the game map, just like the game map in Taiping Ancient Town before, but we didn't find it at that time. Now that the boundary has been determined, there is no need to think about anything else. Wei Jing must be in this map, but where is he now? Why can't we find him?"

There are some special existences among Liu San’s paper figures, which contain some evil spirits and possess the evil spirits’ supernatural powers.

Although it is impossible to use it as recklessly as the aliens, it can also be used as a desperate trump card. Simply using the ghost realm like now is naturally a simple matter.

Under the effect of the ghost domain turning into rainbow, Liu San didn't need too many paper figures at all, as it was enough to explore everything in this map clearly.

In order to avoid misunderstanding and also out of fear for the Wang family, he did not fly over Dadong City in a swagger, for fear of being suddenly hit by an anti-aircraft gun and losing a paper man.

Afterwards, most of the paper people gathered together in a small valley, where a fierce battle was taking place.

Chen Qiaoyang and the manor owner!
Cao Yang and Xiong Wenwen also arrived at the scene one after another. Perhaps they noticed the arrival of several people, or perhaps for other reasons, Chen Qiaoyang and the manor owner, who were originally fighting, stopped and separated.

The owner of the manor still uses a cane, but he is in very poor condition now.

There were many injuries on his body, including wounds from knives and axes, some deep enough to see the bones, and swelling from being soaked in water for a long time. It was obvious that he had suffered a great attack.

But he was not dead yet, it was just that the cold aura became even stronger, and there was a nauseating stench of corpse that was still nauseating even at a distance of hundreds of meters.

Chen Qiaoyang is in much better condition.

There was just a large area of ​​gray on his body, and this gray was slowly decreasing. It would probably return to normal in a few hours.

And the four ghosts around him, not one was missing.

But his expression was very ugly. He glanced at Cao Yang and the paper figures rushing in from all directions, and sneered, "Are you treating me like a drowned dog?"

Cao Yang and Liu San looked at each other and said, "There are no monsters nearby, so we came to take a look."

Chen Qiaoyang joined the game as a player, so he naturally knew what Cao Yang and the others meant by "monster", but the owner of the manor didn't quite understand.

He still doesn't know what happened.

After arriving here in his own horror manor, he clearly wanted to come out to ask for directions, but he ran into a scary and terrifying guy like Chen Qiaoyang.

Now, from what Cao Yang and the others said, they think of themselves as so-called "weirdos"?

"Really? I've been underestimated. Although I don't know exactly where this place is, it must be God's arrangement. You guys are the opponents God has arranged for me, right? If so, I'll just kill you. All of you, become my God's sacrifice!"

The manor owner spoke in a high-pitched tone, like some kind of aria, which made Cao Yang and the others' faces change slightly.

The sky around suddenly darkened, a thick darkness began to spread, and a layer of strange shadows began to emerge, as if some mysterious place was about to descend and replace reality.

Behind the owner of the manor, there appeared an old and terrifying castle.

"This is the power God has given me, to summon the Horror Manor to come! All of you, stay here and become sacrifices to please my God!"

The owner of the manor grinned, turned around and walked into Gu Bao's gate.

Looking at the completely changed surroundings that could no longer be seen in their original state, Cao Yang said solemnly, "Really? We are clearly just here to join in the fun, so why do we have to start challenging ourselves?"

"This guy is very scary, he should be the boss for the final level. Even if he is not, he is an early-stage boss. Chen Qiaoyang, let's team up together." Liu San said.

Chen Qiaoyang sneered: "I don't team up with losers."

waste? !
Cao Yang and Liu San narrowed their eyes at the same time, hiding their inner anger, but neither of them took action. They just watched Chen Qiaoyang leave.

"Xiong Wenwen, please make a prediction." Cao Yang said.

"Humph!"

Xiong Wenwen was obviously unhappy, and he was still full of resentment towards Cao Yang, but he did not argue with Cao Yang. Instead, he used his precognitive power.

A cold aura began to spread, and Xiong Wenwen looked more and more like a ghost.

Cao Yang and Liu San stood where they were, protecting Xiong Wenwen while watching Chen Qiaoyang rush towards the horror manor.

Just when we were breaking through the vegetable field, strange things started to happen.

The scarecrows inserted everywhere started to move, holding various tools, trying to kill Chenqiao Sheep. It was hard to guard against them, but fortunately they were not scary.

The biggest danger is its concealment, which makes it difficult for people to think of it at the first time. The attack is of ordinary level and not worth mentioning.

At this moment, Xiong Wenwen screamed in fear, curled up into a ball, and her body began to tremble uncontrollably.

"What's going on? What did you foresee?" Cao Yang quickly hugged the kid and asked in a low voice, "Don't be afraid, that's just a future. You're fine now."

After a while of comforting, Xiong Wenwen finally calmed down a little. He pulled Cao Yang's arm and said in a crying voice: "It's too scary here. We are dead, all dead, and we are made into scarecrows and hung in that vegetable field. I don't want to become a scarecrow, I don't want to become a scarecrow!!!"

"It's okay, it's okay. Everyone is fine now. Can you tell us what happened?" Liu San asked.

After a long period of comfort, Xiong Wenwen finally calmed down and told everything she had just predicted, which was actually very simple.

Among the three of them, Cao Yang and Liu San are both captain-level.

The vegetable field below was not difficult for them at all, but the difficulty came after they entered the manor. They were ambushed by the manor owner as soon as they entered the door.

Under the sneak attack of a top king, Xiong Wenwen was the first to die, without any chance of struggle.

Cao Yang and Liu San chose to fight to the death, but there was not only the owner of the manor in this manor, there were also many powerful gardeners besieging them.

Among these gardeners, the most common ones are ghost riders who control two ghosts, and there are also several who control three.

In addition, the manor owner was extremely powerful. Even though Liu San finally chose to use the old corpse to revive himself, he was ultimately unable to escape and became one of the manor owner's trophies.

Liu San is a paper man, without skin.

But Cao Yang and Xiong Wenwen did, so they were skinned by the manor owner and made into new scarecrows, which were placed in the vegetable garden outside the manor.

"This is really despairing news. It seems that we still have to wait for news from Chen Qiaoyang. I hope he can turn this manor upside down so that we can fish in troubled waters." Liu San said thoughtfully.

Cao Yang's face was solemn. "This is a suppression of hard power. There is no other choice. It is not possible to turn the situation around by desperately trying."

Xiong Wenwen said in disbelief: "No, aren't you afraid of that kind of future?"

"It's just a possible future. If we don't go into the manor, can he still take me in?" Liu San said as a matter of course.

Xiong Wenwen thought about it and it seemed to be right, and her complexion immediately recovered a lot.

Liu San glanced at Cao Yang and said, "I don't know what Wei Jing is doing. If he were here, things wouldn't have become so troublesome."

"Yeah, what is Wei Jing doing?" Cao Yang also sighed.

So, what is Wei Jing doing?

Under normal circumstances, he would naturally be a player fighting against the foreign ghost riders in the game, just like before, Lin Yuan threw in Simon Cowboy's double-barreled shotgun to create a similar ghost rider belonging to this period.

It’s just that Wei Jing’s ghost catcher’s supernatural powers are extremely exaggerated. Unless he faces a terrifying ghost that can kill him directly, his supernatural powers will quickly grow to an incomprehensible level.

In the original mysterious revival world, this was also the strongest ghost, but his later performance was not good, making it difficult for people to identify with him.

But in fact, the title of the strongest may be a bit exaggerated, but his growth potential is definitely beyond the reach of ordinary evil spirits.

A fully grown ghost messenger would not be easily killed by the tall male corpse that was revived after Li Qingzhi's death, as was done by Wei Jing in the virtual game, ZS City, Caesar Hotel.

Such a terrifying ghost is actually a very good...carrier!
Now, Wei Jing was walking in the white fog ghost area, which was the "map boundary" that Liu San had been unable to enter before, and he was trying to get out.

He didn't walk here for long, and there was still a endless white fog in front of him, but he stopped at some point.

"This is the border. What will it be like after we step out? Will it be a void, or... will we truly integrate into this era?"

Wei Jing?

No, it should be Lin Yuan.

At some point, he had taken over Wei Jing's body and began... exploring this era.

(End of this chapter)