Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 101 Overcoming Fear
Jiangbo City Control Bureau, Investigation Department Three.

An obese figure sat in front of the computer, staring at the rapidly growing numbers on the website with an extremely excited expression.

"Okay! Okay, Xiao Xia, go for it!" Wu Lang stuffed buns into his mouth excitedly while clenching his fist to encourage Xia Shou.

Last time, he made a wrong bet and bet on Xia Shou's death, which resulted in him losing a large sum of money. But this time, before he made the bet, he deliberately peeked at the minister's work schedule and found that the subsequent tasks assigned by the minister for Xia Shou were all of the type with bizarre content and strange difficulty.

Judging from those tasks, the minister is quite confident in Xia Shou's ability.

Based on this, he borrowed a large sum of money from his subordinates in the Ninja Wind Team, collected several million, and directly bet on 200 meters!
This is Kirigakure Goro's rule of doing things. If he doesn't take action, he will go all in. And now his all-in has undoubtedly paid off. Xia Shou's height is soaring towards 300 meters!
Although this has exceeded the 200 meters he bet on, it does not affect his ability to make money, because he is already the person who bet the highest number of meters. Even if Xia Shou reaches 1,000 meters later, he will still be the biggest winner in this bet.

"Charge!" Goro shouted in the empty office.

At this moment, the door of the director's office opened, and Shangguan Yan came to Wu Lang with a document: "Your task today, go and solve it immediately, otherwise you will have to pay interest on the salary advance for the next three months for your team."

"Buyer, it will only be a moment!" Goro said coquettishly, twisting his fat body.

Shangguan Yan hit the other person's head hard with the document: "If you keep talking like that, it will be 5%."

Wu Lang was slightly shocked, took the document, opened it and looked at it, his expression froze instantly: "Wait, isn't this for Xia Shou?"

"Xia Shoudu hasn't come back yet, how can I assign him a task?"

"But I clearly saw that you had arranged everything for him."

"Oh, I forgot to change the title of that document. It was assigned to you."

Wu Lang took a breath, but then breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, although he made some mistakes in prediction, Xia Shou's altitude has now exceeded 200 meters and it is impossible for him to lose.

"Huh? Are you gambling again? Be careful or you'll lose everything." Shangguan Yan glanced at the website on the computer and said casually.

"Hehehe, that's impossible, because I am destined to be the biggest winner!" Wu Lang said with great confidence.

He turned his head to look at the numbers on the screen that were still soaring wildly, with a puzzled expression: "But... Isn't Xia Shou's rising speed too exaggerated? It's as if the instrument is broken."

Xia Shou's altitude was still rising, and in a blink of an eye it exceeded three hundred meters, and continued to soar!

Everyone in the chat room was no longer calm.

[Wasteland Cowboy: This isn't normal. Is the display malfunctioning? ]

[The top card of the trump card: Oh my god, it's already over 350 meters and still rising. The rebel leader said that the highest he has ever seen is only 340 meters! ]

【Cute little cutie: Oh my god, this is outrageous. The data must be wrong, right? If it's not wrong, who is the trump card brother?】

[Welcome to Shanda’s rebellion: I am not sure what exactly happened, but there is no need for Mengwang to commit fraud, and the possibility of manipulators is not high. After all, there are so many talented users of Mengwang, and they don’t need to destroy their reputation.

What’s more, there are many people from the control bureau among Mengwang users, and they are all gambling.

However... Trump Card's record this time is really a bit outrageous, but it's okay. Every time the Fear Lighthouse refreshed the record in the past, the control bureau had the same reaction as you. Basically, the higher the record, the more exaggerated the gap. After all, anything over 200 meters is considered inhuman. 】

The chat room was buzzing with activity, and Xia Shou's number had already exceeded 500 meters!
Those numbers are skyrocketing!
1009!

2230!
At first, the single digits were jumping rapidly, followed by the tens, then the hundreds, and now the thousands!

Finally, someone couldn't help but @ the administrator, asking him to confirm whether there were any errors in the real-time broadcast. The administrator replied that everything was normal, at least the altitude record of the control bureau was like this, and there was no possibility of error. And in the short moment of replying, Xia Shou's climbing record had reached 5000 meters!
Wu Lang, who was sitting in front of the computer, was also stunned. He quickly called Shangguan Yan, who was about to leave, and asked in surprise: "Minister, Xia Shou is more than 5000 meters above the lighthouse. Isn't this a problem?"

Shangguan Yan glanced at the other person calmly and said, "What's so strange about this? It just proves once again that Hume has outstanding foresight in weird research. Who says that the Lighthouse of Fear has never appeared at a height of thousands of meters before, and it will not appear in the future?"

"That's true... " Wu Lang replied nervously.

Although he should be the biggest winner now, and would still be the biggest winner even if Xia Shou's altitude rose to 10,000 meters, for some reason, Goro still felt vaguely uneasy.

However, the next second, Xia Shou's height data changed again!

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Xia Shou followed the mysterious man and walked higher, carefully observing the surrounding environment along the way. His purpose of coming here was to find the ritual utensils left by Yi Lei in the tower and destroy the rituals that Yi Lei might have set up.

But now, he still didn't see any suspicious objects. The steps of the lighthouse were clean and there was nothing unnecessary.

Moreover, the black threads floating in the air became more dense and had now turned into strands of wavy hair, dancing wildly around Xia Shou. If it had not been for the person in front of him, who isolated all the "black hair" like the tide, he would have been overwhelmed by fear at this moment.

Who is this person who helps me?

Can we just follow him and go all the way up?

The fear of the unknown, and the realm of absolute safety.

In an instant, he suddenly realized that he was now on the road of retreat.

Greedy for the sense of security that comes from the sky, afraid of the unknown darkness, so stop in the light.

But what exactly does this tower of fear desire?

Xia Shou stopped and no longer followed the person in front of him.

He watched the other person continue to walk towards the top of the lighthouse, like a reef moving further and further away, until it disappeared at the end of his sight.

Without the opponent's obstruction, the surging black lines around him rushed towards Xia Shou like a tsunami.

His clothes began to float up, and the pocket watch in his pocket floated into the sky under the effect of reversed gravity and was grabbed by Xia Shou.

The black line surging in front also began to slowly change direction and came from behind.

At this moment, he became a reef that separated fear. The area in front of him was clearly visible, and everything behind him was submerged in darkness.

Xia Shou did not feel any fear.

Perhaps, the moment he stopped, he had already stepped over the greatest terror.

Here and now, up and down and front and back are reversed.

Outside the lighthouse, the numbers displayed on the altimeter dropped sharply from 5000 meters and returned to zero in an instant.

The next second, the numbers began to grow in reverse.
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1 m.

(End of this chapter)