I have delusions, and you want me to participate in a ghost story?

Chapter 136: Xiong Da's abnormality, Boss Li's plan! (Additional update! A -word chapter is presented)

It takes about an hour to drive from the wooden house to the depths of Bear Ridge. It took him an hour yesterday.

But this time, he drove for a full hour and a half.

The reason was simple. He went to the river where King Jiji and Maomao were buried, as well as Big Bear’s wooden house!
In his two simulations yesterday, he found that animals that should have died, such as King Jiji, Maomao, and the squirrel Bengbeng, appeared in the darkness outside the wooden house, and they were obeying the orders of Boss Li.

When he reached the river, Zhou Xiaochuan discovered that the water was still burning. He threw a branch into the river, and it instantly turned into a pile of black ashes.

Zhou Xiaochuan used a simulation opportunity to try to jump into the lava, and as expected, he was burned to death. However, the river water turned into lava, but it did not mean that King Jiji and Maomao were dead. Zhou Xiaochuan could not survive in the lava, but it did not mean that King Jiji and Maomao could not survive in the lava.

Zhou Xiaochuan secretly kept it in mind and drove to Big Bear's tree house.

When heading to Big Bear's tree house, Zhou Xiaochuan first started the simulation to prevent Big Bear from falling into madness again and attacking him.

[You entered Big Bear's tree house, only to see Big Bear still sitting where he was when you left, motionless, with a dull look in his eyes.]

[“Xiong Da! Can you hear me? I’m Baldy Qiang’s younger brother. I came to see you yesterday afternoon!”]

[As you spoke, you looked at the bodies piled up in the tree house. All of them died in horrible ways, with their eyes open, and there was a huge gap in their hearts. And Zhou Xiaochuan remembered that the arrangement of these bodies was exactly the same as yesterday.]

[If these animals are not dead, but are just pretending to be dead to deceive you, then it is absolutely impossible to arrange them exactly the same as yesterday. ]

[When Big Bear heard what you said, he moved his head, but his eyes were still a little dull: "Bald Qiang... stinky bald head, give us the lives of the animals in Bear Ridge back! Don't think that we are afraid of you just because you are good at martial arts!"]

[“Xiong Da! Xiong Da! Calm down, I’m not Baldy Qiang, I’m Baldy Qiang’s younger brother!” You saw Xiong Da had fallen into madness again, and hurriedly tried to persuade him.]

[After hearing what you said, Xiong Da stopped, his eyes regained clarity, and he looked at you for a long time, then he sighed deeply: "Alas! You are not Baldy Qiang! You are not!"]

[You think there is something else behind Xiong Da's words, but as long as you mention Baldy Qiang, Xiong Da will return to his original crazy state and attack you, so you don't mention it for now.]

[You noticed that Xiong Da had a slightly disappointed look on his face, which flashed across his face.]

[“Big Bear, I saw dead animals outside the window last night! Bengbeng, Luobutou, Hutu, King Jiji, Maomao, and even your brother Xiong Er were all there! It seemed that they had obeyed Boss Li and were accomplices to the evil…”]

[You told Xiong Da everything you saw and heard last night, except that you had a talent for simulation and that you had a lot of strange props.]

[After hearing what you said, Xiong Da became extremely angry.]

[“Impossible! Their bodies are all here. I didn’t sleep the whole night, so there’s no way I was wrong. And… I don’t know about the others, but my brother Xiong Er was definitely bitten to death by me. He will never come back to life…”]

[You saw that Big Bear was on the verge of collapse, so you quickly comforted him, then gave him some instructions on what to be careful about when ambushing Boss Li at night, and then drove away.]

【You terminated the simulation.】

Zhou Xiaochuan touched his chin. He found that Xiong Da was very vague in his words. Sometimes he was evasive, as if he was hiding something. Especially after knowing that he was not Baldy Qiang, his aura suddenly weakened and he fell into decadence.

Moreover, Big Bear's reaction to seeing these animals walking at night and obeying Boss Li's orders was indeed too strange. This Gou Xiong Ridge was already in a state of weirdness, and the weirdness had caused Gou Xiong Ridge to be in such a state, so it was not incomprehensible that the dead animals were used by Boss Li.

This world is full of weirdness, and anything that happens is normal.

But Xiong Da insisted that this was impossible.

And it looks crazy...

Yesterday, when Big Bear went crazy, he rushed over and tore him to pieces without saying anything. But today, Big Bear was so docile when he went crazy, and even though he mentioned his younger brothers, Second Bear and Bald Qiang, several times, he did not lose control and come to kill him.

Could it be that yesterday's Big Bear was really crazy, and today's Big Bear is just pretending to be crazy?

While driving along Boss Li's latest car tracks towards the depths of Gouxiong Ridge, Zhou Xiaochuan started thinking about Big Bear.

Big Bear speaks evasively, but he is definitely the most special animal in Bear Ridge, and he is the only one who still retains his last bit of sanity.

However, the most important reason is that the Bald Qiang described by Xiong Da is different from the Bald Qiang described by other people in Gou Xiong Ridge!
In the eyes of Boss Li, King Gigi, and the real Boss Li in Bear Town, Bald Qiang is just a lumberjack who has no skills and cannot make any money.

But in Xiong Da's mouth, Bald Qiang's strength is extremely strong! He is a monk from Shaolin Temple, and his Buddhist name is Zhiqiang. Xiong Da and Xiong Er combined can only barely compete with Bald Qiang.

Moreover, Bald Qiang alone is enough to fight against all the animals in the entire Gou Xiong Ridge combined. It is precisely because Bald Qiang restrained all the animals in Gou Xiong Ridge that Boss Li was able to activate the parchment.

To be honest, compared to the image of Bald Qiang as a wretched, listless, incompetent but greedy person described by other people, Zhou Xiaochuan would rather believe that the one described by Xiong Da is the real Bald Qiang!
The reason is very simple. If Bald Qiang was really that useless, how could he fight against all the animals in Bear Ridge for three years? Judging from the strength of Big Bear's roar, a tree was blown down. If Bald Qiang was really incompetent and chopped trees in Bear Ridge every day, he would have been killed by Big Bear and Little Bear long ago!
and……

What Boss Li said this morning was also very intriguing.

[“Dealing with animals? You’ve been dealing with them for three years, and not a single animal in Bear Ridge died. And I’ve killed them all in just three days. Humph.”]

Bald Qiang had been fighting against the animals in Gouxiong Ridge for three years and was hated by the animals in Gouxiong Ridge, but he had never killed any animal in Gouxiong Ridge, nor had he been killed by any animal in Gouxiong Ridge.

If the fact that he was not killed by the animals in Gouxiong Ridge means that Bald Qiang is very powerful, then it is intriguing that he did not kill any animal in Gouxiong Ridge in three years.

A single animal from Bear Ridge would definitely not be able to compete with Baldy Wang mentioned by Big Bear. If they see him, they will be killed by Baldy Wang.

In other words, as long as Bald Qiang catches these animals alone, he can kill them one by one.

But he didn't kill any animal!
Zhou Xiaochuan felt that there was something fishy going on here.

"Big Bear definitely knows something. Compared to other creatures in Bear Ridge, what Big Bear says is more credible and more reasonable, and maybe even closer to the truth. It's just that it doesn't want to say it, or it can't say it?" Zhou Xiaochuan's heart tightened. The worst plan he had ever made was that Big Bear pretended to help him, but turned against Boss Li and attacked him!
This is not impossible, but Zhou Xiaochuan conducted two simulations yesterday and had a falling out with Boss Li both times. But the result was that Boss Li had the help of all the animals in Bear Ridge, and he was no match at all.

He didn't even have a chance to shoot before being torn to pieces by these animals.

Boss Li could easily deal with Zhou Xiaochuan. So there was no need for Xiong Da to pretend to help Zhou Xiaochuan and then betray Boss Li at the last moment.

Even if Xiong Da hadn't deceived his trust, he would definitely not be a match for Boss Li.

In fact, even if Xiong Da helped him, he was not sure he could defeat Boss Li.

The strength of Boss Li himself is not yet known, but among the forty or fifty animals under Boss Li's control, there is also Bear Two, whose fighting power is almost the same as Bear Big.

His only hope now is to find something in the deepest part of Bear Ridge.

As he was thinking, he happened to see an apple tree. Zhou Xiaochuan stopped the car, cut down the tree with an electric saw, picked up some apples and loaded them into the car.

"When you go to see Big Bear in the afternoon, don't go empty-handed. If Big Bear has been sitting in the tree house, he must have not eaten for a long time. Find something for Big Bear to eat. On the one hand, see if you can win his favor, and on the other hand, let him have more energy at night..."

……

Zhou Xiaochuan stopped the car at a checkpoint deep in Gouxiong Ridge because he spotted Boss Li's Maybach, which was also parked outside the checkpoint deep in Gouxiong Ridge.

Zhou Xiaochuan clearly remembered that he did not see the Maybach belonging to Boss Li at the checkpoint deep in the Bear Ridge yesterday. He originally thought that Boss Li might have driven in, but now it seems...

Maybe yesterday, when he reached the depths of Gou Xiong Ridge, Boss Li had already left the depths of Gou Xiong Ridge? But after leaving the depths of Gou Xiong Ridge, where did he go? Did he go back to his cabin?

If that was the case, then everything made sense. The theft of his parchment could also be explained.

However, if Boss Li would go back, Zhou Xiaochuan drove all the way along Boss Li’s car tracks to the depths of Gouxiong Ridge yesterday. If Boss Li still takes this road, they will definitely meet!

It would be impossible for Boss Li to return to the cabin from the depths of Gou Xiong Ridge without taking this route!
Because when Zhou Xiaochuan drove to the depths of Gouxiongling this morning, he clearly saw another tire track on the road. This was not there when he returned yesterday afternoon.

Between this morning and yesterday afternoon, Boss Li drove back from the depths of Gouxiong Ridge.

But if that was the case, then Boss Li must have been deep in Gouxiong Ridge, but where was his Maybach parked?
Zhou Xiaochuan noticed that the body width of Boss Li's Maybach was similar to his current car.

The entrance to the depths of the Bear Ridge was not big enough for Boss Li's Maybach and the car Zhou Xiaochuan was driving. Since the Maybach did not stop at the entrance yesterday, it meant that Boss Li was not in the depths of the Bear Ridge at that time yesterday...

But at that time, there was only one trace of Boss Li's car when he came...

Suddenly, a bolt of lightning exploded in Zhou Xiaochuan's mind, and he thought of a possibility that could connect these seemingly contradictory things together.

It is very likely that Boss Li was not in the depths of Gouxiong Ridge yesterday.

The reason why there is only one tire track is that Boss Li used the same method as him! He drove back along the tire track he came from, and he could fake the appearance of having only one tire track!

Then, during the time when Zhou Xiaochuan drove out of the depths of Gouxiong Ridge (5:30 p.m. on the first day) and when Boss Li woke Zhou Xiaochuan up (7 a.m. on the second day), Boss Li forged a trail from Gouxiong Ridge back to the cabin!

This guess is very likely!
Thinking about it now, Zhou Xiaochuan felt that he was really abnormal last night.

He actually fell asleep without realizing it, and slept for nearly eleven hours without realizing it. If Boss Li hadn't woken him up, he didn't know how long he would have slept.

Not to mention in this dangerous and tense world of ghost stories, even in the real world, he has never slept so soundly! Unless the doctor at Qingshan Mental Hospital gave him tranquilizers and sleeping pills...

Last night, it was very likely that Boss Li did something to him! Judging from the results of the simulation, Boss Li was pretending to be asleep at that time. His purpose of pretending to be asleep was probably not to seduce Zhou Xiaochuan in, because Boss Li did not want to break up with Zhou Xiaochuan.

This would destroy his "ten-day plan".

Boss Li pretended to be asleep, and during the nearly eleven hours that Zhou Xiaochuan was asleep, Boss Li had the opportunity to do many things.

Moreover, if Boss Li was not in the depths of Gouxiong Ridge yesterday, then where was he yesterday?
Could it be that everything Zhou Xiaochuan did yesterday was under Boss Li's nose?
Zhou Xiaochuan frowned. The logic that was originally clear now fell into chaos again.

He calmed himself down, and after making sure that Boss Li was not nearby, he parked the car in a bush in a secluded place about one kilometer away from the entrance.

In this way, even if Boss Li came out from the depths of Bear Ridge, it would be almost impossible to find his car.

After arranging all this, Zhou Xiaochuan walked towards the depths of Gouxiong Ridge.

The depths of the Bear Ridge are absolutely dangerous, but he must complete the Bear Ridge dungeon tonight. He only has nine hours at most, and he must explore the depths of the Bear Ridge.

Zhou Xiaochuan held in his hand the mud pill given to him by the real Boss Li in the Bear Town. According to Boss Li, eating this mud pill could enhance one's mental strength to resist pollution deep in the Bear Ridge, but it only lasted for fifteen minutes!

The strange necklace hung around his neck was given to him by the security guard of the Xingyue Theater. In the system description at that time, there was also resistance to strange pollution.

Everything is ready, all we have to do is explore the depths of Bear Ridge.

PS: Here is a 4,000-word chapter! Thank you again for your support. If possible, could you please leave more comments? This will give me a lot of motivation and let me know that someone likes my book. Thank you everyone.

The storyline of Bear Ridge will probably be finished in the next two days, and I will soon return to Lingjiang No. 2 Middle School, which still has about 20 to 30 chapters to write. The storyline of Bear Ridge is connected to the storyline of Lingjiang No. 2 Middle School, so you can guess the connection between the two after Bear Ridge is finished.

(End of this chapter)