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

Chapter 129 Why not just change homes?

There is no thunder during Jingzhe, it happens in heavy rain, without any triggering prompts.

The last second, several people were walking on the road nervously, watching the countdown in the ghost story information, observing both sides of the highway with full vigilance, guarding against possible strange creatures.

However, the next second, the highway ahead stood up, and everything else on the highway seemed to show signs of recovery. The bodies of those huge monsters gave the most direct impact to Zhong Xie and his companions who were hiding behind the highway railings.

In the rainstorm, these monsters were just wandering around instinctively and did not notice their prey, but the oppressive feeling still made the other people present not have any thoughts of resistance and they just wanted to sneak away from the monsters' field of vision.

"Stay away from the highway and go first." Zhong Xie stood up and looked down from the highway. The road surface was not very high from the land below, only a few meters, so he used his suspended bloody mouth to escort several people to land safely.

Seeing these ghost story tellers hiding behind a tree, Lin Youlan also jumped down to the road with a wire. Finally, it was Zhong Xie. He kicked down the faceless man tied with wire, and then looked at the highway standing in front of him in the heavy rain.

The infrared vision has scanned the area about five meters in front of him. A red circle with a diameter of about thirty centimeters is scanning back and forth, as if it regards all living things that appear in front of it as enemies and kills them without mercy.

After thinking about it, Zhong Xie still did not trigger the monster's detection mechanism. He wanted to know how the monster attacked, but he was also afraid that it would be so strong that it would punch him directly and shatter the entire road.

He himself might not be in any danger, but it's hard to say about the other ghost story makers.

"The levels of those monsters are at least above level 50." Lin Youlan looked at Zhong Xie who had arrived late and expressed her judgment, "They should all be newly born monsters, but the heavy rain has given them too much monster power, and some of them are giant monsters. We have no way of dealing with them now."

Zhong Xie nodded: "Temporarily avoid these guys. Their strength will be further enhanced in this environment."

The liberation form of the giant series is based on the concentration of the environmental ghost power. If the concentration of the environmental ghost power is too high, they can maintain the complete form for a long time after the liberation, or even fix it until the ghost power dissipates.

In this case, only a large-scale military ghost story user can deal with this group of giant monsters on the road.

After asking the captain about the specific location of Shangcun, Zhong Xie led a few people to continue walking towards Shangcun.

The so-called Upper Village is located on the hillside near the highway, where there are large fields and flat lands, and the village was born in the middle of them.

However, under the current circumstances, no one is farming in Shangcun anymore, and the food supply for the Eastern War Zone is basically concentrated in the vicinity of an agricultural city.

It is the city mentioned earlier that is completely covered with plants.

The city's root ghosts have been cleared, but the city's plants have become one and cannot be restored to a state suitable for human habitation.

The plants around the city will be affected by the strange power and thrive. If they are used to grow crops, the yield per mu will be very exaggerated. Half of the city can feed the entire Eastern War Zone. Therefore, the area around the Plant City is also the agricultural and animal husbandry center of the Eastern War Zone.

However, the top leaders did not rely entirely on the Plant City for food security. They organized the reclamation of fields and the planting of food near each city.

On the one hand, it is to increase the variety of agricultural products and enrich people's lives. After all, the living standards of ordinary people in the Eastern Theater have basically returned to the level before the revival of the ghost stories; on the other hand, it is to prepare for emergencies.

The war between humans and ghost stories has just entered a stable stage, and no one can predict what will happen next. Once the war breaks out in full swing, these stockpiled grains will be the guarantee for people's survival.

"Zhong Xie..."

Just when Zhong Xie saw the vague shadow of the building in Shangcun, the captain of another team came to his side, as if reminding him or complaining: "Sorry, brother Zhong Xie, we may need to find a safe place to stay. After such a long journey in the rain, even the body of the ghost story master can't stand it."

Zhong Xie looked back at the unlucky guy being carried by the captain and the pale-faced girl on the other side, and agreed: "The upper village is just ahead. I will find a suitable house to stay in, light a fire to keep warm, and have something to eat."

After the captain's reminder, he also realized this. Others did not have such excellent physical fitness as him, who could run and jump in the heavy rain all day long without any problem. They could not even compare to Lin Youlan.

Hours of continuous rain and long journeys are likely to make these people seriously ill. This strange incident obviously cannot be resolved in a short time, and it will only cause more trouble.

It is not possible to abandon these guys. After all, this strange incident is a battle between factions. If you abandon your teammates here, you will suffer in the final round.

Although he does not seem to be in the same camp as these people now, he still takes care of the "human" side.

Then Zhong Xie led them to quicken their pace, and soon they saw the first house built on the side of the highway.

However, the highway next to the house has been shut down overnight, leaving only a huge square pothole under the roadbed, which has accumulated a lot of mud and water.

This house was too close to the highway and did not meet Zhong Xie's requirements, so he took a few people and walked deeper into Shang Village. After walking along the mountain road and passing an abandoned tea garden, Zhong Xie finally saw the main part of Shang Village.

A small village located in an open space in the mountains. Looking vaguely from halfway up the mountain, there are about thirty or forty households, and it is not too big.

Several people chose a three-story villa that was relatively close and looked newer and broke in. Zhong Xie climbed over the wall to check the situation inside the villa and tried to find out if there was any faceless man hiding inside.

After confirming it was safe, several people entered the first floor of the villa and settled down temporarily.

First floor.

The living room is right after the entrance, with a table on the side and a hard wooden sofa against the wall. The doors of several rooms are closed, and the entire first floor looks empty but not messy.

It seems that the previous government arranged for the villagers of Shangcun to leave the village, so the houses left behind are still in good order.

The villagers took away almost everything of value, but some old furniture was left in the villa.

Zhong Xie used the windproof lighter in the first aid kit to light a fire in the living room on the first floor, and found that the water supply in the house was still there, so he found a broken kettle to boil some water for the three sick-looking monsters to drink.

There was water, but there was no food or electricity in the house. The only things left were a few unwanted clothes found in the closet on the second floor.

There was nothing to complain about in this situation. Zhong Xie distributed the clothes to the children. They would look better after they dried their bodies and put on clean clothes.

"Thank you." The captain thanked Zhong Xie gratefully. He seemed to have thought of something and reminded Zhong Xie, "It seems that there is a farmhouse in this village that was still in business a while ago. There should be some daily necessities there."

"A farmhouse?" Zhong Xieyao looked in the direction the captain pointed and nodded, "I'll go take a look later."

The Eastern War Zone had a developed economy before the revival of ghost stories. In rural areas like this one, you can hardly see stone houses or thatched houses. Basically, every household has built a small Western-style building. Even the roads in the village are solid and wide cement roads. There is even spare money for landscaping.

It’s just that these things seem a bit dilapidated now, three years after the revival of ghost stories. Usually, no one comes to this village except fishermen or tourists.

Yes, tourists.

However, they are not the kind of tourists who come to enjoy the mountains and rivers, but the kind of tourists who come to the farm to fish, eat, and experience farm life.

In such places where people live, there are basically people from the Ghost Story Bureau who come regularly to detect the concentration of ghost story forces in the surrounding area to minimize possible ghost story threats.

Under normal circumstances, the probability of encountering wild ghost stories in the farmhouse and its surrounding areas is not high, basically the same as the probability of encountering ghost stories in the city. For the entire Eastern Theater, the probability of encountering ghost stories is actually about the same as death in a car accident, so this is not a suicidal behavior. Secondly, the local chickens, fish and pork are really delicious, so the farmhouse here does attract some gourmets.

For this reason, pigs are raised in the backyard of the farm house, and those pigs may be the source of the "wild boars" encountered by the team earlier.

Zhong Xie's goal of leaving the villa this time was to see if he could find some food and other daily necessities in the only remaining farmhouse in Shangcun.

If you really want to survive in a ghost story for a while, daily necessities are essential.

However, before leaving the villa, Zhong Xie went to take a special look at the trapped Faceless Man, and only felt relieved after confirming that this guy was still under Lin Youlan's control.

However, what made Zhong Xie curious was that the lips of this honest man were pale and his complexion was very bad. It seemed that he was sick due to the heavy rain, and there were signs of fever.

Helplessly, Zhong Xie knew that the other person's body was quite important, so he asked the captain to wipe the rain off the surface of his body, covered him with a blanket and kept him by the fire.

Considering the extraordinary physical fitness of the Kōdanju, he will recover after a period of recuperation. If he can meet a Kōdanju with healing powers, this minor illness will basically be nothing.

After regrouping, Zhong Xie quickly left the villa. This time he acted alone, leaving Lin Youlan to look after the house.

Traveling quickly along the country path, he soon found the trace of the farm house according to the captain's instructions.

It was similar to what the captain had said before. The situation around the farm house was a product of chaos. It could be seen that many huge monsters had crazily crashed and destroyed things here, and there were also a lot of traces of fighting.

This should be the place where the "Battle to Protect Wild Boars" took place.

But now there is no movement here. Both wild boars and humans have disappeared completely. Only the corpses of a few giant wild boars are lying on the road, and some of the bloody smell has been washed away by the rain.

The good news is that Zhong Xie did not see any human corpses, nor did he see the corpse of the so-called "Zhong Xie", and there was no substance similar to meat paste on the ground.

It is unclear whether it was washed away by the heavy rain or eaten or taken away by some weird creature.

"Wait a minute, that car..."

Zhong Xie looked intently at a car parked in front of the farmhouse. The car was not familiar, but it happened to be the new energy vehicle mentioned by the team.

So he walked forward to observe the situation inside the car. The keyhole of the car had been removed, and the inside seemed to be connected to each other with something wrapped in black plastic. The rear window was smashed violently, and some rain water had accumulated on the floor of the back seat.

Judging from the depth of the accumulated rainwater, the car had not been parked here for long, which means that the driver was probably nearby, in the farm house.

The most likely scenario is that the real body of the "honest man" mentioned by the captain earlier drove away after turning into a "faceless state". He did not choose to catch up with the captain, probably because he felt that his face could not convince the captain and others. After all, there is a very normal "him" with a face in the team.

So the guy drove back to the farm, perhaps to look for some survival supplies, or perhaps to find out the details of the ghost story.

He seems to be a smart guy. Let’s go to the farm house and see if he can help.

Zhong Xie let Blood Mouth surround him and walked carefully into the farmhouse.

Overall, the farm house has a "U"-shaped structure. Four long corridors form a square, with a rockery and a fish pond in the center, the kitchen behind the rockery, and different private rooms on the two side corridors.

There seem to be a few rooms for people to live in on the back mountain, but generally no one wants to live in a farm house in the mountains, and most people will rush home before dark.

Except for the fisherman.

Zhong Xie walked inside along the corridor. The situation in the private room was basically tidy, but the door was locked. It was probably because the owner of the farm house knew that there would be heavy rains recently and there would be no guests, so he went to live in the city early.

Walking all the way inside, Zhong Xie soon arrived at the kitchen. There was a warehouse inside the kitchen, where some rice, flour and oil were stored. The cold storage next to it also stored some frozen chickens, ducks and fish, and strips of bacon were hung on the beams.

There were no wild boars and no people.

Nothing could be heard except the sound of rain.

Judging from the scene at the scene, the origin of this fat pig legend should not be this farm house. The group of violent wild boars were more like "latecomers" who just arrived earlier than the patrol team, so the conflict broke out between the two sides.

Zhong Xie turned around and noticed that the rice bags on the outside of the warehouse seemed to have been moved. Looking at the footprints on the ground that were almost completely dried, he realized that someone had been here. So he searched all the way from the kitchen and soon saw a man rummaging through something in the freezer on the other side.

The man had his back to Zhong Xie. At this time, he also heard Zhong Xie's movement. He turned around to look at Zhong Xie, and the frozen chicken in his hand dropped to the ground in excitement.

The man's face had no features.

Zhong Xie looked at the guy's figure and made some judgment about his identity, so he asked tentatively: "Zhang Kai?"

This was the name of the honest man, he had heard the captain call him that.

"You are..." Zhang Kai widened his nonexistent eyes, and could only see that his eye sockets seemed to move slightly, "Can you recognize me?"

"Well, your identity was stolen by the Faceless Man. We have already controlled that guy. Don't worry." Zhong Xie glanced at the man. He looked at the neatly arranged supplies in the cold storage, felt the temperature of the cold storage, and asked curiously, "Aren't you cold? Working in here?"

"It's not cold. I just wanted to see how much food there is here and save it for my classmates. I don't need to eat in my current state." Zhang Kai shook his head. "After becoming like this, I seem to have stayed like this. I can feel cold or hot, but not very uncomfortable. I won't feel uncomfortable even if I'm in the rain for a long time. Otherwise, I would have been sick a long time ago."

Get ill?

Zhong Xie was stunned for a moment when he heard this. He thought of the four patients in the villa, and then looked at the lively guy in front of him in the faceless state, and he immediately had an idea in his mind.

Humans can get sick, but the Faceless Men don’t seem to.

In such heavy rain, hunger and disease are things that humans have to endure, but this is not the case for the Faceless Men.

What's the point of being a human being if that's the case?
You can just give the human body temporarily to these stupid faceless men. They will never imagine that the human body can be so weak.

Why don't we wait until these faceless men turn into humans and then give them some minor illnesses, and then we can easily defeat them, right?

Anyway, it only mentioned faction victory, but didn't say what faction victory to use.

Why not just change homes?

(End of this chapter)