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

Chapter 132: Faceless Men and Humans
Fatigue, dizziness, nausea.

Drowsiness, low libido, alternating hot and cold sensations.

The feeling of being sick for the first time was so mysterious. For this group of faceless men, it was a feeling of weakness they had never experienced before.

That is why, when the two men and two women who had transformed into faceless men ran away from the villa, this group of faceless men, who had just become humans and had suffered a severe disease, suddenly suffered a brain crash.

Wait, why did these people just run away?
Oh yes.

We are the strong ones who got the strange stories, and they are the weak ones who lost the strange stories. After the Faceless Men replaced humans, they became predators, and humans became prey after being replaced, so they ran away.

Haha, it’s so easy to succeed. We are indeed creatures superior to humans.

But I’m so tired, my eyelids are drooping.

The four faceless men looked at the open door of the villa. The four figures had already been submerged in the heavy rain. At this moment, the wide-open door of the villa was letting in the howling strong wind, which made them feel even colder all over.

The burning and jumping bonfire kept jumping in the wind, trying to break free from the shackles of the wood and lick the cheek of the Faceless Man sitting against the wall.

"It's about to burn me... Someone go close the door."

"Xiao Yuan" said, his domineering look was somewhat similar to the original owner's personality.

Yet no one moved.

The five people currently around the campfire are all Faceless Men and have the same status, so no one will obey the orders of others.

After being replaced by humans, they will instinctively act according to the personality and style of the original owner, including some quirks and small movements, which are basically exactly the same. They are creatures with natural acting skills, otherwise they would not be able to deceive other humans.

It is really cold now. Even in the middle of summer, the faceless men present feel their bodies are freezing.

Only when they dragged their sick bodies here did they discover that most of the doors and windows of the entire villa were open. With ventilation on all sides, the air circulation was excellent. Even rain had blown in, forming small puddles on the uneven ground.

"Zhang Kai, you go ahead." The captain looked at the honest man, "You've been lying here for so long, your strength should be restored to its best."

This is the faceless man who was captured by humans. He was also the first one among these people to be replaced.

However, Zhang Kai did not respond to the captain's words because he no longer had the strength to speak. He just wanted to get closer to the fire so that he could absorb more heat from it.

Seeing that Zhang Kai didn't want to pay attention to him, the captain looked at the others and said, "Don't you have ghost stories? Let the ghost stories close the door? The parasitic ghost stories and energy ghost stories can't do it, but the bloody and giant ghost stories should be able to be released to close the door, right?"

However, the others just looked at him with indifference, and after a while they answered: "The ghosts are all dying, and it will take more than 20 hours before they can be summoned again."

The only person whose ghost story has not yet entered the near-death stage is the Faceless Man's "Lin Youlan". Her Wang Youyou was beaten into a near-death state, but the Skull Crusher did not.

However, the skull crusher was stolen.

It was snatched away by its original owner and escaped from the ghost story's recall range in a very short time. Therefore, she temporarily lost this ghost story, which was equivalent to temporarily losing her only fighting power, so she was no different from the people around her.

"Zhang Kai, haven't you been here a long time ago? Aren't your ghost stories bloody ones?" Xiao Yuan thought of something and said to Zhang Kai.

"There are still 19 hours left." Zhang Kai responded coldly, then curled up in the blanket.

In fact, with his identity, he had no chance of getting the blanket in front of the real Lin Youlan and others. But when the accident happened, this group of faceless men were so happy when they completed the replacement that they did not notice that the blanket that fell on the ground was hooked away by him.

Moreover, Zhang Kai occupies the only position where he is not directly exposed to the wind. With reliable warm equipment, he is now a popular player who is determined to win the championship in the chicken battle.

Following Zhang Kai's words, the five people present fell into silence again.

Due to the high fever of the serious illness, their brains have become confused and have slight hallucinations. This level of illness is actually something that any ghost story teller can barely cope with, but this group of faceless men is different.

This is a feeling I have never experienced before, like a person who has no sense of pain suddenly regains the sense of pain, but as soon as he regains the sense of pain, he is kicked in the groin...

In short, it is extremely painful, and it is a long-lasting, gradually deepening pain that continues without end.

Just when he was gradually giving up thinking, a group of people suddenly broke into the villa. They were the four faceless men who had just escaped.

Led by the maskless Lin Youlan, they brought several buckets of rainwater and placed them at the gate. Four of them stood in a row blocking the door to protect the five patients sitting by the campfire from wind and rain.

"Now, I ask, and you answer."

The real Lin Youlan had just made a clear judgment that this group of faceless men no longer had any ability to resist, and immediately became fearless.

The skull-crushing hammer that she had just taken away was thrown outside the villa. As the owner of the skull-crushing hammer, she naturally knew the most basic recall range of the skull-crushing hammer and would not let the patient "Lin Youlan" who was present snatch the hammer that she had just taken away.

Her hammer was taken away by that crazy woman in the escape room store, so it was only natural that she took it away by herself now.

At least it's a handy weapon.

"Hmph, you actually dared to come back? When our people arrive, all of you guys will be dead." The fake Xiao Yuan stared at Lin Youlan viciously, and even though he was extremely weak now, he would not give in at all.

"Biu—"

A straight stream of water shot out from the muzzle of the gun, splashing onto the fake Xiao Yuan's face, wetting her face. A stimulating and cold feeling immediately made her shiver from top to bottom.

Lin Youlan put down the water gun in her hand, and her face had a cold expression, just like a secret agent torturing a spy, but this torture method was a little weird.

"Go, fan her." She instructed the captain beside her and handed the small electric fan in the summer cooling kit to the captain.

The captain nodded upon hearing this, turned on the small fan, tied a fake Xiao Yuan to a place where he couldn't reach, and began to torture him with cold wind, and combined with the water torture just now, successfully completed the combination technique.

"You!" Fake Xiao Yuan was already feeling extremely uncomfortable due to his illness, and now his face was wet by the water. Coupled with the small electric fan and the chaotic wind flow in the house, the chill penetrated deep into his body.

Seeing that the five faceless men were still leaning against the campfire without saying a word, just staring at them angrily, Lin Youlan closed her eyes. She knew that she couldn't get any information from them by brute force at this time. These faceless men might not necessarily be the kind of people who would rather die than surrender, but at this moment when they were seriously ill, they might really be angry and would rather die than surrender.

It's the kind of person who is willing to die because of the torture of illness. Anyway, it means losing two thousand dollars to oneself and one thousand dollars to the enemy.

Without them, these humans might never recover, so they have this only trump card to use.

So at this time, Lin Youlan began to recall Zhong Xie's style of doing things.

Don't panic when you encounter something, think more about what Zhong Xie would do.

"We humans have an old saying, 'He who knows the times is a hero.'" Lin Youlan raised the water gun in her hand. These things were found in a nearby villa. They were probably left behind by the previous owner.

She said leisurely, "If you can provide us with some useful information, at least it can make you feel more at ease. What do you think? It's not pleasant to be exposed to the wind and rain, right?"

Lin Youlan smiled wryly: "You know that we have to leave this place. We don't have time to watch over you here. Say something useful, and I won't tie you up outside in the rain. If you faceless men die in this state, you are really dead, right? Believe me, dying of illness is definitely the most painful way to die."

She didn't say it explicitly, but she knew what these faceless men would think.

If they could be coaxed away first, giving them time to recover, or wait until the next time the circle shrinks, people from the Faceless Men camp would most likely come over to check on the situation, and then they would be saved.

"If you do this...will there be problems with our bodies?"

At this time, Zhen Xiaoyuan beside Lin Youlan couldn't help but ask in a low voice. In fact, she had doubts about Zhong Xie's plan from the beginning, but seeing that no one else had any intention of objecting, she didn't say anything directly. But at this moment she was a little anxious.

She didn't want to have a face without any facial features, so she didn't want Lin Youlan to really destroy these bodies.

Lin Youlan just glanced at her and didn't say much.

As for the five patients sitting by the campfire opposite, they did not actually hear what Xiao Yuan said, but they could understand that Lin Youlan in the team was not the absolute leader, and they immediately realized that these people were also afraid to act rashly.

"Our two camps are at war to the death, what else is there to say? Besides, if we die... you won't be able to change back. If we really tell you everything, you will kill us and change back, right?"

The fake captain's mind became clearer and he gave a few well-thought-out rebuttals.

Lin Youlan didn't waste any words. She just picked up the bucket of water on the ground and poured it towards the fake captain, putting out the bonfire.

Then she said, "Does your life or death matter? Have you forgotten that there is a replicator in the dormitory building? When the time comes, can't you just use the replicator to reshape a physical body and go in? Moreover, in this situation... is it really that important to have a decent face?"

When she said the last sentence, Lin Youlan glanced at Xiao Yuan beside her intentionally or unintentionally.

In fact, she had no idea whether the replicator was useful or not, but she couldn't let herself be at a disadvantage at this time and had to say it directly.

If these guys knew the details of the replicator, they might be exposed, and this negotiation mistake was all caused by Xiao Yuan.

"Then... we still can't survive?" A faceless man asked back. To them, it seemed like a dead end no matter what.

Fortunately, these faceless men did not understand the function of the dormitory replicator. They were all created by the original pig snake. They only knew that the pig snake did use "replication", but they did not know to what extent this replication could be achieved.

"The victory of the faction does not mean the victory of the race. For you, the most important thing is to survive now, not to die in the future, right?"

Lin Youlan's brain was working at such a high speed that it was almost smoking, but her face remained cold and calm, as if everything was under her control.

In fact, she didn't know whether she could convince these guys with words.

"The number of victories for the human camp is limited, while the number of victories for the faceless camp is unlimited. This is the difference."

At this time, Zhong Xie jumped in from the side window of the villa. He heard some of Lin Youlan's words, and then he continued speaking according to Lin Youlan's thoughts and said a very crucial piece of information.

“What do you mean?” The Faceless Man was puzzled.

"It's very simple. In this current ghost story incident, the number of human camps is conserved. It may decrease, but it will never increase, because humans will not be born out of thin air, and the replicators in the dormitory building cannot do that." Zhong Xie added, "In other words, the number of ghost story agents is constant. There will not be an additional ghost story about a human being just because there is one more identical human being."

He continued, "But the Faceless Camp is not like that, because you can copy them through the replicator in the dormitory building. By copying, you can increase the number of Faceless Camp. When the Faceless Camp wins, each additional Faceless Camp means one more winner, and that's what we want to do."

Zhong Xie stood beside the extinguished campfire with a smile on his face. He kicked away a few wet firewood sticks and reignited the fire, showing his sincerity in the negotiation.

“Why else do you think I turned these people into Faceless Men? Of course, it’s because I’m looking for a win-win cooperation. You don’t really think that this strange incident is just a fight between humans and Faceless Men, do you? Think about the pig snake that created you. Is he more like a Faceless Man, or more like…”

"pig?"

Zhong Xie took out a tissue and carefully wiped the captain's face that had just been splashed with water. He said slowly, "Why didn't he copy himself, but copied the Faceless Man? Think about this question, and then think about the monsters waiting for an opportunity and the fat pigs that reproduced crazily in Jingzhe. Once you figure it out, you should know."

“You…you mean…” At this time, the previously indifferent fake Zhang Kai broke free from the blanket. He seemed to have figured something out and began to frantically explain to the people around him, “That pig snake is not from the Faceless Men’s camp, nor is it from the Human camp at all. I have been thinking about this for a long time. In this case, what exactly does he want to do by copying the Faceless Men? Whether the Faceless Men win or the Humans win, it is not his win.”

"See, you seem to have understood."

Zhong Xie shrugged and threw the result that the other party had imagined back to him. He just needed to give the information and let the other party think about it for himself.

Don't worry, people with a fever can't figure it out.

Then he walked slowly to Lin Youlan's side.

Lin Youlan asked in a low voice: "Why are you back? Aren't you going to look for the strange creatures?"

"Found it and caught it."

Zhong Xie smiled like a reliable man.

(End of this chapter)