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

Chapter 126: Wild Boar Set is the best in the world!

I have to play with this thing.

When Zhong Xie thought of the interesting uses of the "copy" power, he couldn't help but feel a little eager.

Not strong, but always there.

This "copy" power does not simply copy individual organisms, but copies the entire room together, and also covers the original room...

It's called "copying", but just like the Faceless Men replacing humans, they directly take away the original identity, and even the strange stories of the original owner can be taken away and used.

It’s just that the original owner still exists and has not been “covered” and erased, which may also mean that the other rooms on the third floor of this dormitory building also exist somewhere.

Might come in handy.

In short, the operating space of this "copy" power is very large, and it can accomplish things that are unimaginable with common sense.

"I'm going to go to the toll booth and another dormitory first to see what the situation is like there." Zhong Xie asked Lin Youlan for her opinion, "Do you want to go somewhere else?"

"I also want to go back to the toll booth to check the situation of the driver and the toll collector." Lin Youlan's face turned cold when she thought of this. "The toll collector who was with us was killed by the Faceless Men a long time ago. They thought she was not worth replacing, and she discovered at an inappropriate time that the 'Lin Youlan' and 'Jiang Shuran' around her were fakes."

Zhong Xie thought of the photo that Lin Youlan had sent him before. In the photo, the replaced "Lin Youlan" and "Jiang Shuran" were posing with the toll collector's head.

"So, we have avenged her." He continued, it is really difficult for ordinary people to survive in such a weird story.

But at this time Zhong Xie felt something was a little wrong, because when he was listening to Brother Liu's live broadcast on his way to the dormitory, he seemed to hear the toll collector talking.

According to the time, the toll collector should have died at that time, but her voice did appear in Brother Liu's live broadcast. Zhong Xie confirmed that his memory was correct.

Unfortunately, he was rushing on the road in the rain at the time and did not see what was happening in the live broadcast room, otherwise he would have been able to judge what was happening to the toll collector.

What made Zhong Xie most curious at this moment was that he had searched almost the entire staff dormitory, but did not see the anchor Liu Ge, the assistant and the dead toll collector.

No one can be seen alive, and no body can be seen dead.

According to Lin Youlan, these ordinary people should not be the targets of the Faceless Men, and they would most likely not survive, but now they have all disappeared.

Even when Zhong Xie found the staff dormitory, he still saw Brother Liu, but he disappeared in the blink of an eye.

It is unclear whether the bodies were moved or they found a chance to escape from the dormitory, or "fell" into the disappeared space.

Zhong Xie thought of the "third floor" space that he had guessed was covered up.

There is too little information now, so I can only save this information temporarily, maybe it can be used later.

The two of them quickly went upstairs and came to the rooftop.

"Are you sure your wings can carry two people?"

Lin Youlan looked at the biological wings behind Zhong Xie and doubted how strong they were.

"It should be possible. Do you still want to go through the ground? There are fat pigs on the ground. If you insist on breaking into the toll station, you will probably have to take a long detour and it will be dangerous." Zhong Xie shrugged and walked into the rain wearing a raincoat.

In fact, at this point, it doesn’t matter to him whether he wears a raincoat or not, because his body is equivalent to being soaked in water for a long time, and now the skin on his fingers feels "swollen".

Lin Youlan looked at Zhong Xie's broad back. She didn't have any gender awareness and didn't feel ashamed of what she was going to do.

Perhaps it was because she knew that Zhong Xie had a weaker gender consciousness and ignored the differences between men and women.

The degree of distinction between "father" and "mother" is probably much more sensitive.

So Lin Youlan swung the skull-crushing hammer in her hand, reducing the mass to a level that was substantial but not heavy, and then threw the hammer high into the sky.

Soon after she let go, Lin Youlan suddenly increased the mass of the skull crusher according to the feel of the wire, and then an irresistible pulling force came from the wire, driving her and Zhong Xie to take off into the sky together.

After rising about twenty meters overall, the hammer's kinetic energy reached its limit, so Lin Youlan retracted the skull-crushing hammer and glided with Zhong Xie towards the toll station.

Zhong Xie maintained the bird-man gliding posture, while Lin Youlan half leaned on his back, holding the two bloody mouths placed by Zhong Xie on his sides with both hands. The two bloody mouths were like armrests, and there was a third enlarged bloody mouth behind her as a waist support to support her body. The three-point support kept her body stable behind Zhong Xie.

After getting used to it, the two were basically able to glide as a whole, using their biological wings to glide dozens of meters in the rain in one breath.

Under normal circumstances, this take-off height is enough to glide hundreds of meters, but the heavy rain weather seriously affected the gliding speed. To be able to perform at this level already shows that the biological wing is extremely powerful.

Don't ask, it's just a weird thing.

And when Zhong Xie's height drops to more than ten meters, Lin Youlan will gain new power by swinging the skull-crushing hammer.

This time she did not choose a one-time power like she did when taking off, but instead lengthened the wire to expand the circle of the skull crusher's swing.

The skull-crushing hammer increases its mass when it swings upward, and reduces its mass when it moves downward. The skull-crushing hammer is performing circular motion, and the conversion of mass provides Zhong Xie with upward kinetic energy, while the biological wings are used to change direction and control speed.

In this strange balance, the Zhong Lin combination continued to fly in a slow but steady state. The constantly rotating skull-crushing hammer was like the propeller of the plane, full of the flying style of the First World War.

About a few minutes later, Zhong Xie saw the first toll booth. He stopped briefly on the top of the toll booth. The area below was almost submerged by fat pigs, and he could only judge the actual situation by some iconic things.

The central toll booth was in ruins. There was a car on the left side of the toll booth. These fat pigs stopped in the toll booth as if they were taking a rest, but it seemed more like they had simply lost their target.

However, there are still some fat pigs that cross the highway railings and go to the mountains to breed. In Zhong Xie's opinion, their breeding is not an instinct.

Devouring creatures within the perception range is an instinct, and reproduction is just a natural process after devouring creatures.

So when there are no other creatures within their sensing range, these fat pigs will just stay still instead of aimlessly looking for other prey.

"This is a fake toll booth. The one we're looking for is still ahead." Zhong Xie briefly explained his understanding of the "copy" story about dormitories, then pointed in a direction and said, "But I've experienced buildings disappearing before. I may not be able to see the real toll booth and fake dormitories this time. I haven't figured out the mechanism yet."

The Zhong Lin team took off again and headed towards their destination. Soon they saw a toll station again. There were only a few fat pigs there.

The fat pigs did not occupy this place, or in the eyes of the fat pigs, there was no need to occupy the real toll booth now, because there was no sign of life in the toll booth.

With the help of the wire, Zhong Xie carefully landed in the toll booth. He found the toll booth where he had stayed in the morning and took out the snakeskin bag from it.

This time it was a duty mission, so he did not bring any female transformation suit, nor did he bring the necessary pesticides and rat poison in Wangcheng. He only had maggots, emergency food and a first aid kit.

The snakeskin bag showed signs of being rummaged through, but the contents were not missing much. Perhaps the person who rummaged through it did not think the garbage had any value.

After all, these face-changing maggots won't reveal much weird power before they're activated, and they won't release any weird power after the face-changing is complete.

This kind of replacement method, which has almost no loss of weirdness, is the most concealed.

In comparison, the Faceless Man's concealment is not as high as Sister Shui's maggots. He can only forcibly seize the ghost stories from the original owner and use them for himself.

Fortunately, these faceless men were trapped here through the ghost story incidents. Otherwise, when the faceless men ran into Haicheng, they would be lucky enough to snatch a high-level ghost story master who happened to have no means to defend himself and control his powerful ghost stories. That would be really bad news.

Zhong Xie took out two scallion-flavored compressed biscuits and an energy bar and threw one to Lin Youlan: "Eat something. I don't think you'll have much time to rest."

Lin Youlan took the biscuit and started to eat it. The taste of this compressed biscuit was actually not bad. It was a high-fat, high-salt, and high-sugar carbohydrate. Combined with an energy bar, it could quickly restore physical strength.

There is hot water in this toll station. Zhong Xie is not afraid that the hot water may have been poisoned by the Faceless Man, because he is now Jiang Shuran's enhanced stomach, and ordinary toxins will hardly affect him as long as they enter through the mouth.

Unless it is some particularly advanced ghost story cursed object, such as Sukuna's finger or something like that.

In fact, Zhong Xie himself was not hungry, because he had just eaten a Faceless Man, and after digestion, he had a lot of energy to replenish himself, but Zhong Xie was greedy.

After experiencing the three-year rat period, he could now eat compressed biscuits with gusto. He ate while strolling in the toll station, trying his best to avoid the scattered fat pigs and not trigger their attack sensors.

There were no signs of fighting at this toll station, which meant that Zhang Zita might have been just like him, and had his identity stolen by the Faceless Man without noticing.

He also did not see the bodies of the two ordinary people, and the car at the gas station had been driven away, which meant that the two men might have fled in the car.

Did he run away?

Some time has passed since the strange incident occurred, and they did not drive back to the toll station, which means that they were not blocked by the barrier of the strange incident, but drove out of the dangerous area smoothly.

But were they really the two who drove away?
Zhong Xie sighed in his heart. He didn't have time to take care of this matter. He could only hope that Haicheng had organized a force to conduct a secondary search and protection against the rampant ghost stories.

After a short five-minute rest, the two climbed to the top of the toll booth and repeated their previous trick to fly towards the fake dormitory building. Soon they could see the shadow of the dormitory building in the heavy rain.

However, what they did not expect was that a considerable number of fat pigs had gathered around the dormitory building.

As they got closer, they saw a small team fighting against the fat pig.

One member of the team was held in the mouth of a fat pig, while his companions around him continued to attack the fat pig.

The energy-based ghost story attacked, but the effect was not good. Instead, it caused the fat pig's body to begin to split, giving birth to more little fat pigs.

The bloody ghost story stepped forward and used brute force to pry open the fat pig's mouth, but the giant pig was so powerful that it had used up all its strength and could only watch the fat pig's mouth slowly close, with its blunt teeth about to crush the member in its mouth.

The situation was urgent. Zhong Xie controlled the biological wing to dive down. The three bloody mouths came into battle together, swallowing the fat pig from the middle, using a method similar to "encircling Wei to save Zhao" to rescue the team members from the fat pig's mouth.

Lin Youlan behind him no longer had the support of Bloody Mouth, so Zhong Xie changed his hand and pulled her in front of him, but there was no ambiguous scene of hugging her in his arms. Instead, he casually threw Lin Youlan towards the dormitory building.

Lin Youlan was abandoned during the high-speed fall, but she still reacted quickly. She smashed the window of the dormitory building with a skull crusher, then hooked onto the bed in the room and pulled herself into the building.

"Enter the building and go straight to the third floor. Don't stop."

Zhong Xie was familiar with these guys and knew that they were students from the same class as him, so he covered the four of them as they entered the dormitory building.

He controlled his bloody mouth to devour several fat pigs in the surrounding area, then quickly ran into the dormitory building and closed the door.

These fat pigs rely on the cicada pupae in their bellies to move, so eating their legs or heads will not stop them from moving. You have to eat most of their bodies.

After running up to the third floor in one breath, Zhong Xie casually opened a window and used his bloody mouth to spit out the excess fat in his stomach. Only then did he feel that his stomach, which had just been bloated, felt better.

"Are you from... Team Zhongxie?"

When they reached the third floor, the four-member team had just finished a thrilling escape from a fat pig. Seeing Zhong Xie's "Jiang Shuran" face and bloody mouth, they recognized his identity.

"Well, where are you from?" Zhong Xie nodded, not intending to explain his true identity to them for the time being.

These people certainly didn't expect him to fall from the sky, so the state of being attacked by the fat pig should not be a disguise.

In other words, these ghosts are humans, or the humans in this team are more powerful than the Faceless Men, at least on the surface they are all humans.

"We are from Patrol Team 6, and we are in the mountainous area to the east. Our patrol mission is to check whether there are people in the ruins of the three villages of Luojia Village, Shang Village, and Xia Village." The team leader stepped forward to explain to Zhong Xie, and then he seemed to have thought of something, his face turned pale, "In Shang Village, we found a large amount of pork, and there were signs of human consumption. After entering the village, we were attacked by pigs. The original patrol team was composed of three teams, but they got lost in the panic. Our team ran down the mountain chased by wild boars, ran all the way along the highway, and startled the domestic pigs in front of the dormitory building..."

"Wild boar?" Zhong Xie initially thought that the wild boar the other party was referring to was a fat pig, but when he heard the term "domestic pig", he immediately realized that this was not the case, so he quickly asked, "What is this thing? When did it appear? Before or after the strange incident?"

"It's a wild boar with fangs. It's different from the domestic pigs downstairs. There are a lot of wild boars in the back mountain of Shangcun. They existed before the ghost story incident. We were only alerted to the ghost story incident when we were chased to the side of the road." The captain continued, frowning slightly, "The situation when we were attacked was a bit chaotic, so I'm not sure if what I saw was real..."

"A wild boar was smashed to pieces by our ghost story attack, and a person fell out of it. It didn't look like he was eaten, but rather that he had been hiding in the wild boar's body from the beginning."

"Huh?" Zhong Xie asked puzzledly.

"That person seems to be your captain Zhong Xie. After he fell out, he was trampled to pieces by a group of wild boars. I only saw him once, so I'm not sure." The captain of the team continued, then looked at the "Jiang Shuran" in front of him cautiously.

At this time, a voice came in from outside the door: "No, you are wrong. The captain is not Zhong Xie, but me."

Lin Youlan appeared at the door, looking serious and solemn.

(End of this chapter)