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

Chapter 127: They and I...are not in the same camp?

Hearing the news of my death from other people's mouths...

It's quite strange.

When Zhong Xie heard the news, he was shocked because he was afraid that the faceless man who stole his identity had destroyed his account, but then he thought again and realized that it was impossible.

Because the speed of "Zhong Xie" should not be that fast, he would not be able to run to Shangcun to get killed right after snatching his identity, and he would attack in the form of a wild boar.

Besides, Zhong Xie felt that with his skills it would be difficult for him to die among the pigs, so it was not difficult to do it at all.

His physical fitness is all-round. Some difficult moves that ordinary people consider difficult can be done by him just by thinking about it.

So what exactly is the “Zhong Xie” that these people saw?
Are there other lives living inside those pigs?

Zhong Xie frowned slightly. The person in the wild boar skin suit could be anyone, but it had to be "Zhong Xie". This forced him to go to the upper village to investigate.

At this time, Lin Youlan also found the room from outside, and her appearance made the team members present look happy.

As they were all from the same class, this team naturally knew that there was a repeater in Zhong Xie's team who was equally powerful. When they saw each other here, they suddenly felt like they had found a backbone.

"As you can see, this area has also been invaded by these special fat pig monsters, but they are not as aggressive as the wild boars you mentioned. Normally, you will not be attacked if you do not enter their sensing range."

Zhong Xie said to the group, then he took out a knife from the first aid kit in his snakeskin bag and looked at everyone: "In addition, there is a kind of ghost near this dormitory building that can perfectly replace humans, temporarily called 'Faceless'. They can even use ghosts to make their own ghosts. In order to confirm that there is no Faceless among you four, I need to verify your identities."

His eagle-like sharp eyes swept over the four people in the team: "I have discovered that there is an obvious difference between the humans replaced by the Faceless Men and normal humans. Please stretch out your hands."

The four of them looked at each other, and the captain was the first to ask in confusion, "Do you still have this kind of strange story here? That's right, this fits the situation in the strange story information, but what are the conditions for the faceless men to replace humans? We are basically in each other's sight and have never acted alone."

“Penetration.” Zhong Xie did not rush to verify it, but explained it clearly. “When not possessed, the Faceless Man has two states. The first state is that he has a physical body, with no facial features and an average body shape, with no obvious distinction between men and women. So if you see a woman or a fat person without a face, they might be the unlucky ones whose identities were taken away by the Faceless Man. In the second state, the Faceless Man can turn into a virtual black shadow. When the black shadow passes through your body, your identity is taken away.”

He said slowly: "In this state, your facial features will disappear until you kill a Faceless Man with an identity."

"If this is the trigger condition... I think it is necessary to test it, because we were separated when we went to the toilet. If the Faceless Man in the shadow state replaced his identity at this time, others would not be able to find out." The captain nodded, expressing his conviction in Zhong Xie's statement.

However, others in the team expressed different opinions.

A girl looked at Zhong Xie warily: "No, you are not Jiang Shuran. I have talked to her and her voice is not like this."

Now Zhong Xie only has the same face as Jiang Shuran, his body is still his own, and he has retained Zhong Xie's voice and Zhong Xie's power, so there is not much match between this face and the voice.

They might not have noticed it at first, but after so many words were spoken, the four of them had some doubts in their minds.

“Yes, I am Zhong Xie. My identity was taken away by the Faceless Man, but I killed the Faceless Man who took away Jiang Shuran’s identity, so I am communicating with you in this state now.” Zhong Xie did not hide his identity, and then added, “The person in the wild boar you saw in Shangcun should not be me. I don’t know why for the time being, so I will go to check the situation later.”

In a Werewolf-like environment, groundless suspicion is something that needs to be avoided as much as possible, and being truthful and honest can minimize such groundless suspicion.

In a depressing and terrifying atmosphere, not everyone can maintain normal rationality. If someone thinks something is wrong and feels that he has more and more problems, it will be troublesome if he is suddenly hit hard.

"But...how do we know whether you killed the Faceless Man or the real Jiang Shuran?" The girl couldn't help but take a step back and raised a very terrifying possibility.

“If that were the case, I wouldn’t have saved you, nor would I have told you about the existence of the Faceless Man.” Zhong Xie glanced at the girl, then pointed at the unfortunate guy who collapsed on the ground and said, “Start with you. Stick out your index finger. I’m going to test you all. Don’t worry, Lin Youlan and I have both done tests and killed Faceless Men, so we know the difference between normal people and Faceless Men very well.”

This guy was the one who was almost eaten by the fat pig just now. Although he was rescued by Zhong Xie, his waist seemed to be injured by the fat pig's teeth and he was temporarily unable to move normally.

The girl still seemed to be suspicious, but she didn't find any loopholes in Chun Zhongxie's words, so she gave up and stood aside.

"Name." Zhong Xie half-knelt beside the unlucky guy, and while asking, he used a knife to cut a small cut on the guy's hand, and used the bloody mouthpiece beside him to collect a small amount of blood.

The three bloody mouths all showed smacking expressions, and it looked like they were really analyzing something.

"Xu Lingxiao." The unlucky guy answered, and then looked at the blood mouth curiously, "Can they tell that my blood is human blood?"

"Tell me an entry in your ghost story configuration. It would be best if you can also explain the effect." Zhong Xie did not answer Xu Lingxiao's question, but continued to ask.

"This... is good. [Three Bodies], an energy-related entry, condenses the energy into three balls and then launches them, making the trajectory of the attack unpredictable and slightly increasing the attack damage."

Xu Lingxiao answered truthfully.

At this time, Zhong Xie also looked at his teammates. The other three teammates nodded in succession, as if agreeing with what their teammates said. It seemed that they had seen the effect of this term before.

Zhong Xie listened to this energy-related entry named [Three Bodies] and took note of it in his mind. This was the third energy-related entry with the word "three" that he had learned of.

"You're fine." Zhong Xie nodded at Xu Lingxiao, then looked at the invisible man in the team, the man who was the only one besides the captain, the girl, and the unlucky guy, and who was also the one who was controlling the bloody ghost story downstairs just now, "You're the second one."

"Is it my turn now?" The man looked quite honest. He scratched his head, walked to Zhong Xie's side and stretched out his hand.

Zhong Xie tried again according to the same method, but just as he finished using the blood mouth to collect the other party's blood, his face suddenly changed: "Your name, and the entry."

The honest man's expression suddenly changed when he saw this. He quickly released a bloody ghost monster similar to a violent gorilla to intercept Zhong Xie, and then he flew towards the window of the room, intending to break the glass and get out.

Previously, he was standing towards the window side of the room, including when Zhong Xie was drawing blood from him.

"There is indeed a problem!"

Zhong Xie saw the violent and bloodthirsty gorilla rushing towards him, so he grabbed the hair on the gorilla's waist and tried to throw it behind him. Then, the violent gorilla hooked Zhong Xie's clothes with its sharp nails while being thrown away, making him one step slower than the honest man.

Just as the honest man was about to smash the window glass and escape, dozens of iron wires suddenly appeared out of thin air on the window frame, blocking the only exit.

The honest man hit the barbed wire and his body bounced back immediately. Lin Youlan, who rushed forward, hit him with a hammer and broke his calf.

On the other side, Zhong Xie controlled the blood mouth to bite a few times, piercing the chest and limbs of the violent gorilla, completely abolishing its ability to move. However, he did not stop there, but continued to let the blood mouth attack the gorilla until it entered a state of near death and returned to the sea of consciousness of the honest man.

"You...he..."

This sudden change happened in just a few seconds. When the three team members realized what had happened, the gorilla and his owner had been completely subdued and lost the ability to resist.

"Is he the Faceless Man in disguise?" The girl looked at the honest man who had just been beside her, with an expression of great surprise on her face, because she could not tell that he was any different from usual.

"Of course, this guy was planning to attack us and then run away." Zhong Xie replied. In fact, most of his actions just now were just guesses, without any actual judgment.

Bloody Mouth cannot determine the identity difference between Faceless Men and humans through blood, but it will be enough as long as the Faceless Men who may exist in the team believe it.

From a practical point of view, Xu Lingxiao, the guy who was almost killed by the fat pig, is most likely not the Faceless Man. The Faceless Man in the team is also aware of this, so Zhong Xie arranged him to be the first experiment to make the Faceless Man believe it.

Secondly, when Zhong Xie was replaced by Jiang Shuran, he could only use Bloody Mouth Weird Talk, and he had no idea what the specific terms of Bloody Mouth Weird Talk were, so he guessed that the Faceless Man might be the same.

When facing the second test subject, Zhong Xie noticed that this guy was standing next to him, and on the side close to the window. This meant that the other party was subconsciously in a defensive posture and wanted to escape, so he deliberately pretended to have discovered something and changed his expression.

As expected, he revealed the evil in the Faceless Man's heart and prompted him to escape.

Unfortunately, this guy didn't realize how big the gap was between himself and Lin Youlan and Zhong Xie, and he was taken down almost at the first encounter.

Not to mention Zhong Xie and Lin Youlan, even the current Jiang Shuran is much stronger than the reserve members of the same period.

Lin Youlan's training and high-intensity experience of ghost stories have been very effective, and have helped Jiang Shuran and Zhang Zita to distance themselves from their peers.

It’s just that these two people could never get over their own hurdle, and felt that they had not fully demonstrated the strength of their own ghost stories.

"When did it change? Was it when we were checking the faulty new energy vehicle on the road ahead?" The team leader looked at the honest man who had been tied up with wire, his face showing a solemn expression.

“No, Captain, don’t trust this guy. He is the Faceless Man hiding among us. He doesn’t understand the difference between Faceless Men and humans. He is using us for experiments!” The honest man tried to make a final resistance, but saying this now would not convince the other team members.

Seeing the three people's eyes becoming increasingly cold and strange, and filled with anger, the girl asked him harshly, "What did you do to him? Tell me the truth!"

“They have been killed long ago.” The Faceless Man stopped pretending and swept his resentful eyes over the people present. “I have memorized your appearance. You will die in their hands, soon.”

"Shut up, let me think about how to deal with you." Zhong Xie went up and slapped the Faceless Man on the head. He was indeed thinking about how to deal with the other party, because the strange information in his mind emerged at this moment.

[You have successfully captured a member of the "Other Camp", please choose how to deal with him. ]

[A. Accept into your own camp (cannot change their thoughts)]

[B. Clear and claim faction points (including the member's own faction points and the faction points they have earned)]

【C. Undecided】

[Note: Faction points can be used to activate the abilities of other neutral ghost stories in this event, increasing the chances of winning for your own camp. It has strategic significance, so please choose carefully.]

This message pops up when you capture a guy from another camp for the first time after triggering the strange event, and it reveals an important resource that is crucial to winning the game.

Camp points.

Currently, it can only be obtained by killing members of other camps, and can be used to activate some neutral weird stories.

Zhong Xie suspected that the copied ghost story in this dormitory building was one of the "neutral" ghost stories, and it was a ghost story ability that he could utilize with this kind of camp points.

And according to the information vaguely revealed in the ghost story...

It seems that there are other neutral ghost stories that can be used, and they can be used by multiple camps, making it a battleground for military strategists.

I feel that the strange events in this rainstorm are becoming more and more interesting, and are gradually developing in the direction of deep gaming.

Zhong Xie did not make a choice directly. He had already beaten this guy's ghost to the point of near death. A ghost of more than ten levels would need at least ten hours to recover after entering the state of near death.

Just let Lin Youlan keep an eye on him during this period.

Zhong Xie was not worried that the man would secretly turn into a virtual being and run away, because as far as he knew, the Faceless Man would lose the ability to turn into a virtual being after changing his identity.

Otherwise, "Jiang Shuran" at that time would not have allowed him to strangle her to death bit by bit with the ground strangulation technique, and would have long since turned into emptiness and escaped.

If this ability is not revealed between life and death, then we can only say that this faceless man's concentration is incredible.

"What are you going to do?" Zhong Xie looked at Lin Youlan, "A or B?"

"I have already made my choice and the faction points have been added. Didn't you see it?" Lin Youlan looked at Zhong Xie curiously.

Zhong Xie was stunned. He looked at the other three people in the room. They seemed to have received the news that their camp points had increased.

except him.

For a moment, Zhong Xie felt as if he had fallen into an icy cave. He looked at the faction score in his mind which still showed "0" and frowned slightly.

What do you mean?
Me and them...

Not the same camp?
but……

This faceless man is not dead?

What did you choose?
(End of this chapter)