A ghost storyteller can lose his life but cannot lose his job

Chapter 125: "Copy" Power, Battle of Factions
Among Us

Judging from the introduction of the ghost story, they are naturally divided into three camps.

Humans, Faceless Men, and Fat Pigs.

However, Zhong Xie was a little curious about the division of the camps, because those fat pigs should have no IQ at all.

Is the fat pig a human?
How could something that wasn't even a living thing lead an entire faction?
Or is it that the representative of the fat pig camp is actually the ghost story behind the fat pig or that "Zhang Zitai"?
Zhong Xie looked at the heavy rain outside the window again. For some reason, he suddenly felt at ease.

At least these ghost stories will be trapped in the ghost story incidents and there is no possibility of going to Haicheng for the time being.

At the same time, new instructions about the strange incident came to my mind.

[There are 60:00 left before the next survival range is reduced. Please move to a safe area in time. After the countdown ends, those who are outside the safe area will continue to be mentally eroded until they lose their sanity.]

【The heavy rain brought disaster, but also brought hope. 】

[All things thrive in the rain. There are 30 minutes left until the Waking of Insects. After 30 minutes, the ghost stories will be fully revived. ]

[When you are in a rainstorm, you will be more likely to be attacked by ghost stories, but it will also be easier to find treasures condensed by ghost story power, which may be helpful to you. ]

【Have a nice trip! 】

Zhong Xie quickly absorbed all the information in his mind and immediately felt that this strange incident was very interesting.

The shrinking circle mechanism means that the living space of the three camps will be gradually compressed, and conflicts are bound to break out. This is to prevent someone from hiding in one place and causing the game to be unable to proceed.

“This rain has changed.”

Lin Youlan opened the window and stretched out her hand to welcome the rain. The rain quickly accumulated on her hands, forming a small pool of water, which was emitting a bright white light and was beautiful beyond words.

It's like nuclear radioactive water.

"The power of ghost stories is strangely strong. In this environment, I'm afraid that the ghost stories will naturally upgrade every once in a while." Lin Youlan was a little surprised. The Skull Crusher and Wang Youyou appeared beside her at the same time, feeling the powerful power of ghost stories in the outside world.

She frowned slightly. "This level of ghost story power is only about half of what it was a few years ago when ghost stories first revived. It's unthinkable to put it outside."

Looking at the Skull Crusher and Wang Youyou soaked in the rain, Lin Youlan made a judgment based on the energy-based ghost talk's keenness on the ghost talk power: "This kind of ghost talk power is not mixed with other emotions, it should be harmless, as if there is only a kind of vitality, waiting for the expectation of all things to come into being."

"Therefore, those ghost stories will also be revived in the rainstorm." Zhong Xie thought of the word "Qingzhe" mentioned in the ghost story information.

The rainstorm brings life to the ghost stories, and triggers the "Qingzhe" in thirty minutes, when the ghost stories will fully revive.

He didn't know the specific circumstances of the resurgence of ghost stories three years ago, but the current situation was obvious.

This "revival" of ghost stories, to some extent, is more like the strong ghost story power of the rainstorm forcibly giving other things in the incident a tendency to become ghost stories.

Generally speaking, the strange power in strange events is very strong, so it is normal for some strange creatures to be born.

Just like the wife lamp of the pure love god of war.

This rainstorm simply accelerated all of this dozens of times.

At the same time, Zhong Xie also thought of the "treasure" mentioned in the ghost story information, which would most likely be different ghost story props, just like the sniper scope on the ghost story gun.

The only thing that made him feel regretful was that his own ghost story was not on him now. He felt that the bloody mouth was constantly absorbing the power of the ghost story, and an emotion called jealousy was running wild in his mind.

But on second thought, as long as the "Zhong Xie" who stole his identity is not a fool, he should release Kuster and the Ghost Talk Gun to absorb the Ghost Talk power to upgrade, right?
Zhong Xie felt a little nervous, but the four pairs of bloody mouths did not stop at all. They ran into the rain and began to open their mouths wide to catch the water, allowing all the strange power contained in the heavy rain to flow into the bloody mouths in a physical sense.

There were only three mouths behind him, and now, including his own small mouth, Jiang Shuran's, were all filled with rainwater.

This behavior of leaning half of his body out to catch the rain did not cause strange looks from others, because the person standing next to Zhong Xie was Lin Youlan.

It’s a pity that Wang Youyou is an energy creature, otherwise Lin Youlan would have asked Wang Youyou to open his mouth wide and let the rain water in.

Since they have already determined that this kind of ghost talk power is beneficial to their ghost stories, Zhong Xie and Lin Youlan will naturally not let it go given their personalities, and they will ensure that the three ghost stories present are always in the rain.

However, Zhong Xie is now using his three bloody mouths to catch the rain, and his own small mouth is used to discharge the rainwater in large gulps.

Three in and one out, four mouths open at the same time, maintaining this efficiency, he felt that this Blood Mouth Ghost Story was getting stronger all the time. At this rate, it could be upgraded to a level in half an hour, and every additional period of time would result in considerable progress.

Now Zhong Xie also understood why this ghost story incident had to set up a mechanism to shrink the safe zone. If there was no such mechanism, both humans and ghosts would probably choose to stay here for ten days or half a month.

If there is enough food, I might be able to stay here for another three years, and then come out again after three years...

"Do you want to go upstairs to check? You said earlier that Jiang Shuran broke up with you. Could she be upstairs now?" Zhong Xie looked at Lin Youlan.

Lin Youlan looked at the ceiling upstairs: "There is no one on the first and second floors. She is probably on the third or fourth floor, but the faceless men just jumped down from the third floor."

"There's no one on the fourth floor either." Zhong Xie recalled the scene when he just took over Blood Mouth. He was very sure that he didn't see any other strange creatures on the fourth floor. "These guys are really lucky. They just happen to be on the third floor."

If they were on the fourth floor, or if Zhong Xie hadn't had the sudden inspiration to run out to find fat pigs to feed Bloody Mouth, these Faceless Men might have already been in Bloody Mouth's stomach.

It may not be possible to finish it all, but it is okay to eat most of it.

"No, Jiang Shuran wouldn't be so stupid as to not notice so many Faceless Men hiding on the same floor as her, right?" Lin Youlan quickly used the process of elimination to summarize Jiang Shuran's whereabouts. "Then she basically has two places to go. Either she left the staff dormitory directly and ran out to ask for help; or she mixed in with the group of Faceless Men. She may have temporarily gained their trust by appearing as a Faceless Men, and just now she followed them out of here."

She rolled her eyes and made her own judgment: "Jiang Shuran lost her identity in the staff dormitory. Under normal circumstances, she would definitely choose to stay in the dormitory, so I tend to believe the latter."

"They are among us, and Jiang Shuran is among them. It's interesting." Zhong Xie was convinced by this judgment. Judging from Jiang Shuran's style of doing things, this was the most likely option.

The "Zhang Zita" might not have paid attention to the number when it gave birth to the Faceless Men, or Jiang Shuran might have killed one of the Faceless Men's fetuses by surprise and replaced it.

At this time, he was feeling lucky that he had gone to look for the fat pig. If he had sneaked into the Faceless Man's lair quietly, wouldn't it be very likely that the Bloody Mouth Ghost would eat Jiang Shuran?

Come and taste what your former master tastes like. Do you feel that your soul is nourished after eating her flesh and blood?
It was pretty hellish when he thought about it. It felt like a special way of training some perverted witch. Zhong Xie went to the third floor with three bloody mouths. He needed to see what the Faceless Man's lair looked like.

The two of them carefully came to the third floor, which seemed to be no different from the other floors, with the same corridors and more than twenty rooms.

It has fallen into disrepair, the walls are peeling, the lights are dim, and it looks a bit shabby, but it is still strong and can last for a long time.

It looked fine, but Zhong Xie always felt that this corridor was strange, as if he was seeing a painting that did not conform to normal logic.

He couldn't figure out what was illogical.

"No, there's something wrong with the light source." Lin Youlan pointed to the dim lights above their heads. "The lights here are very dim, so the shadows are hard to see, so it's not easy to identify."

She continued, "These light shadows... show that their light sources are not the same, not the seven lights above the corridor. If you learn sketching, you can find this more easily."

"Really? I've learned it, so why didn't I see it?" Zhong Xie was surprised, but after Lin Youlan said that, he came to his senses. This place was indeed a bit weird.

As Lin Youlan walked through the first few rooms, her intuitive discovery confirmed her guess: "Sure enough, this corridor has been copied many times. If the corridor is divided into dozens of parts, and each part includes the room and the corridor at the door of the room, then the current corridor is the result of copying the first part twenty-five times."

Zhong Xie followed her and carefully observed each room. Although the appearance of each room might be different, the details were exactly the same.

There is a gap in the upper left corner of the door, and a piece of wall on the right side of the room is half-peeled off.

All the rooms are identical to the first room in the corridor, which is equivalent to the first room copied twenty-five times.

It is precisely because the light and shadow in the twenty-six spaces are exactly the same that Lin Youlan felt strange. The light and shadow in the entire corridor were not coherent.

"Indeed, there are no house numbers on the doors of the rooms on the third floor. Otherwise, it would be easy to identify." Zhong Xie nodded. "In that case, the Faceless Man is likely to reproduce by copying the rooms."

Just like the toll station and staff dormitory that appeared in the rainstorm, both the real one and the fake one, the Faceless Man put himself in the first room, and then copied the first room twenty-five times, thus obtaining twenty-five companions.

He has the ability to fatten a pig, but is the method of producing faceless men related to the strange story itself?
Zhong Xie breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. He was quite afraid that the Faceless Men would reproduce by splitting like fat pigs.

One cut turns it into two Faceless Men, and another cut turns it into four Faceless Men. What the hell is this? You win.

However, in this case, what was copied was not a pig-snake like "Zhang Zitai" but a faceless man?

In this case, it feels like "copying" is not the ability of "Zhang Zitai", but more like utilizing some mechanism.

Due to the influence of Miss Black Goat, Zhong Xie is a person who is very sensitive to "rules" and "mechanisms".

While searching each room, the two found the body of a faceless man in the closet of the fifteenth room.

The corpse is in human form, but the skin surface is not like that of a pure yellow person. Instead, it is a gradient of matte black and yellow-white skin, which seems to be able to switch freely.

This is probably the reason why Zhong Xie often sees black shadows. It is not because he is dazzled, but this group of faceless men are mostly black, which should be the characteristic when they switch to semi-virtualization.

Considering that the corpse was in a gradual state, Zhong Xie had reason to guess that the faceless man wanted to make his body virtual after sensing the danger, but it was too late and he was killed by the murderer.

According to previous speculation, the murderer should be Jiang Shuran.

In the drawer of this room, Lin Youlan found the message Jiang Shuran left for them.

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I am Jiang Shuran, now a Faceless Man. Something has stolen my identity, so if I see another Jiang Shuran, I will kill her first.

Of course, if she tells you the content of the code, don't do it, it means I have already recovered my identity.

The snake was copying the Faceless Man. He had no intention of copying himself. I didn't know what he was going to do, but I knew he had his own intentions.

I killed the Faceless Cub in this room and replaced him. Next, I might follow this "Zhang Zitai" snake until I regain my identity, or find a way to kill this thing.

Also, I suspect there is another dormitory building, and these guys escaped from that dormitory building.

"There really is some residual 'copy' power in this building. Fortunately, we found it. Unfortunately, time is running out. We should take these guys to find someone to replace them. As long as we can infiltrate human society, we can create a new world by ourselves."

The above is what I overheard from the Sub-Snake, and I want to try to stop it.

I'm going to go with them, hoping that the first person to find this place will be a human.

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"Jiang Shuran really did sneak in." Lin Youlan and Zhong Xie read the letter together and confirmed their guess.

"This guy is pretty crazy. He doesn't have any weird stories, but he dares to hang out with Pigs and Snakes." Zhong Xie praised Jiang Shuran verbally, thinking of the scene when Jiang Shuran indulged in weird stories during the first battle, and realized that he didn't seem to know this teammate very well.

Jiang Shuran overheard Zhushe's plan, but she probably didn't understand how much information Zhushe's words revealed, so she simply wrote down the original words on paper, hoping that later generations would be able to figure it out.

As a latecomer, Zhong Xie did notice a piece of information.

There is some special "copying power" in the dormitory building, and Pig Snake obtained this power through "searching".

This shows that "copying" is indeed a mechanism, and the Faceless Man himself is the product of this mechanism.

If it is a mechanism, there is a possibility of utilization.

The pig snake said "what a pity" that time is a bit tight. Does this mean that there may be other "copying" powers?
At the toll booth...

Or another staff dormitory building?

(End of this chapter)