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

Chapter 134: Tunnel with Constant Speed
Zhong Xie only gave the people in front of him five minutes to discuss. After he finished recounting his glorious deeds of conquering the strange story of the "recording number" outside the house, his patience had basically reached its limit.

"Okay, if you have anything to say, just say it."

Zhong Xie stood beside the fake Zhang Kai, hugged him intimately on the shoulder, and looked easy to talk to: "Consider my suggestion. Don't be stupid and work for the guy who abandoned your camp a long time ago. Strictly speaking, we are your close relatives. That guy who didn't appear in the Faceless Camp or the Human Camp... is he really a fellow traveler with you?"

He sneered. "Don't be silly. Join the glorious Faceless camp. I am the one who can make the pie bigger. Only by quickly increasing the number of Faceless camp members and then converting everyone into Faceless can the Faceless and humans achieve a win-win situation."

Zhong Xie dragged them to a position facing the back door of the villa, from where they could see clearly that the Recording Number monster looked distorted and strange in the rain, but no one could deny that when the Recording Number was really activated, it was definitely a strange creature with terrifying combat power.

"You should know that after the 'Awakening', there are monsters like this everywhere. You are not hunters at all, but prey just like humans, except that you have the rubbish ability to transform from one prey to another."

Zhong Xie spoke with firmness and certainty, and the credibility of his words at this time was entirely given by his tone. But seeing how confident he was, the group of faceless men actually nodded doubtfully.

After transforming into humans, their IQ was not calculated according to the highest value for humans, but merely the average level. Coupled with the debuff effect of fever, they dazedly agreed with Zhong Xie's statement.

Zhong Xie didn’t know what these guys were thinking, but he understood the patients, especially those who were in a dizzy state.

They will rush to make a decision.

Therefore, he only needs to find a way to divide the Faceless Men internally, and then give a reason to encourage the Faceless Men and humans to unite.

The best reason is naturally a more powerful enemy.

Only a powerful external enemy could bring the two camps together.

Anyway, it's just verbal persuasion, which won't take much time and energy. If it doesn't work, just let Lin Youlan divide these guys into camps.

After Zhong Xie's verbal attack, Lin Youlan, who was standing behind him, suddenly slapped his forehead and said with sudden enlightenment: "No wonder when I caught the disguised Faceless Man earlier, he only recommended that I capture him to gain faction points instead of killing him directly."

Zhong Xie: “…”

That's because if you kill the pretender directly, there will be no way for someone else to replace him.

How did you convince me with all my words?

Zhong Xie suddenly felt helpless, but he certainly couldn't point out Lin Youlan's mistakes at this moment, so he just looked at the patients with a calm attitude.

However, Lin Youlan's sudden realization seemed to be contagious and quickly gained the support of the fake Zhang Kai.

"Indeed, they did not choose to kill me." He nodded as he spoke, and his sudden realization quickly spread to the other four Faceless Men, and they soon reached a consensus.

Seeing the aura of intelligence reduction spreading widely in this villa, Zhong Xie couldn't help but ask...

Wait a minute, could this also be the result of the spread of the rain disease myth among these people?
Mental illness can be contagious, right?
But hasn’t Lin Youlan transformed into a faceless man now?
She should be immune to the Rain Disease Mystery...

Zhong Xie curled his lips and didn't think about the question deeply. Before he gave an ultimatum, Zhang Kai wanted to tell him everything he knew.

Before that, Zhong Xie stopped him and divided these people into three groups for interrogation to prevent them from planning deception.

Even if they have just exchanged statements, just asking a few targeted questions will be enough to determine whether it is the truth or a lie.

Naturally, this task was carried out by Zhong Xie himself, and soon he obtained accurate first-hand information.

Among these five faceless men, the fake captain was the first one to be born, and the other four were copied by Pig Snake through the neutral ghost stories in the dormitory.

The Faceless Man has the ability to steal human identities, but does not have the power to steal the power of ghost stories.

The reason why the pig snake possessed the power of the "fat pig" was because he obtained the original "copy" power in the dormitory.

By using the power of "copying", he grafted the power of the fat pig into his own body, and thus evolved into a pig snake.

From the mouths of these faceless men, Zhong Xie also learned that the special type of ghost stories born in the rainstorm may possess a kind of power bead, which is the most core ability of the neutral ghost stories.

It is also the most core resource in Heavy Rain.

The appearance of the power bead is not fixed, but creatures of any camp can immediately know its efficacy and function as soon as they see it.

It is a disposable item that can use the power of the ghost once and exert its full effect.

As for the computer that Zhong Xie saw in the dormitory building, he later used the camp points to control this neutral weird story, and its function was only part of the power bead, which was equivalent to the "youth version".

It was with the help of the "copy" power bead that the fake Zhang Zitai was able to complete the progression of life levels and become a pig snake.

After obtaining the strange information in the fat pig's genes, he consumed faction points and used computers to copy a large number of Faceless Men as the power of the faction under his control.

As for what "Zhang Zita" will do next, the Faceless Men only know that he might go to the central area of ​​"Jingzhe" to look for other power beads.

"Zhang Zita" simply let the other faceless men disperse and try to snatch human identities as much as possible to create enough trouble for the human camp.

Every time one less person fights for the Power Orb, he can help the Faceless Men gain a greater advantage.

Anyway, that’s what “Zhang Zitai” said himself, but in the eyes of the captured faceless men, it’s not the case…

It is better not to reveal one's own plan, but to let them entangle humans and delay for enough time.

Moreover, this guy never said that after replacing humans, he would become seriously ill and become a useless person with almost no fighting power!
Isn't this a kind of deception?

Isn't this a betrayal?

At the same time, weakening the Faceless Men and the human camp, the pig snake's wolfish ambitions are obvious.

In short, after talking with the psychologist Zhong Xie separately, these faceless men all figured out what the main contradiction was at the moment, and they all hated Pig Snake to the core.

The bullying by foreign enemies may be tolerated, but the deception by traitors within will never be tolerated!
The so-called foreign aversion...

Anyway, Zhong Xie easily put the blame for the spread of the rain disease legend among the human group on the pig snake. Now these guys who were plagued by the rain disease did not think deeply that the source of the rain disease might just be an accident. They just wanted revenge and wanted to fight.

Humans have the rain disease, and in this case they are trying to encourage us to steal human identities. It is terrifying to think about it.

Conspiracy theories never lack supporters because they are the easiest way to show that one is different.

After obtaining information from these people, Zhong Xie helped them maintain their condition and prevent it from getting worse again.

As for getting better...

This state of rain sickness was no longer something that the body could easily repair itself. He placed several people in a hidden basement, which would reduce the possibility of them encountering wild ghosts, and then ordered Lin Youlan to "capture" the four people and obtain their faction points.

These five people are in the "capture" state, so they will inevitably attract the arrival of the "Faceless Men", among whom there may be some Faceless Men disguised as humans.

Use ideological weapons to assimilate the Faceless Men, and use the Rain Disease and Strange Stories to infect the Faceless Men who have transformed into humans.

Zhong Xie explained his ideological guidelines to them, left these few sources of the rain disease behind and prepared to leave, and headed to the central area of the strange incident according to their instructions.

He didn't have any particular expectations for the role of these five people. He did this only because his own team couldn't carry them and he didn't want them to die for the time being.

It's always good to be able to give others a little trouble.

After winning five camp points, Zhong Xie led the four people back into the rain and found the "recording number" he had just parked behind the villa.

And the faceless man Zhang Kai with the recording number hanging.

"Hey, you took too long to get in there, didn't you? This guy almost ran out of the parking space."

Zhang Kai in the air said to Zhong Xie that he, as the only power source of the Recording Number, had been staying in the rain, while the Recording Number kept "turning left" in the area prepared by Zhong Xie in advance, which was equivalent to constantly circling and staying in the same place.

"This is……"

Lin Youlan watched Zhong Xie climb onto the top of the recording number with a skillful gesture, then activate the strange story and control the recording number forward.

Zhang Kai, who was suspended in the air, did not show any surprise, as if he had long been accustomed to his identity as "gasoline".

Perhaps he has a sense of pride in his heart, probably because he can be compared to oil, which is called "black gold", which is enough to demonstrate his value.

Zhong Xie did not care about Zhang Kai's opinion, but kept asking Lin Youlan to use the camp points to test the ability of this recording number.

He himself has no faction points, so he cannot trigger the special functions of the recording number.

Lin Youlan quickly gave the answer. The ability of the recording number is very simple. After inputting the flesh and blood of a creature from a certain camp, the flesh and blood can be converted into a "sound signal" through the camp points and transmitted to the minds of all creatures in that camp.

It is equivalent to the camp’s channel loudspeaker and is used to convey messages.

Each faction point can convey a broadcast of no more than 100 words.

As for other uses, they are not revealed in the strange information of the recording number.

Obviously, "Channel Transmission" is an ordinary ability of the neutral ghost story in the recording seat. It must have a more advanced ability that requires a power bead to trigger.

If the recording number really exists.

Anyway, Zhong Xie has not found the existence of the Power Pearl for the time being. He is not sure whether it does not exist, or it fell on the highway, or it was taken away by some other creature in advance.

However, every two steps Zhong Xie took on the recording number he felt that its speed was too slow. He remembered that when he was ransacking the villa earlier he saw several pairs of roller skates upstairs, so he found some and assembled them on the jade feet of the recording number.

This speed satisfied everyone, but when Zhong Xie invited them to get on his new car, the others chose the new energy vehicle that Zhang Kai drove in front of them.

"They have no taste."

Zhong Xie shrugged and pushed the twin ponytails of Recording Number forward. With the help of roller skates, the speed of Recording Number was very impressive.

Although it is not as fast as new energy vehicles, it has the advantage of not having any consumption and can carry the radio with it everywhere, which is very convenient.

Walking on the country road, Zhong Xie and others crossed the ordinary road in the mountains. The highway on the other side had already stood up and ran away, so they couldn't go to that section of the highway.

Until a tunnel appeared in front of them.

There are bright and warm lights in the tunnel. Looking from one end, countless lines lead straight to the end of the tunnel, gradually converging into a single point at the end.

However, the point at the end of the tunnel did not show the scenery on the other side, which meant that the tunnel was deeper than they imagined.

"There must be something wrong with this tunnel."

The captain said something nonsense.

"We have to go in no matter how problematic it is. The expressway is gone, so we have to go through the tunnel to take the ordinary road. If we don't take this road, there will only be dirt roads, which are so narrow that we can only walk." Lin Youlan explained. She definitely wanted to try to go through the tunnel.

"Well, it's definitely impossible to give up the car and take the mountain path." The unlucky guy who possessed the Grass Baby said so. After transforming into a Faceless Man, the wound on his waist healed automatically and he is now very healthy.

Zhong Xie's opinion was the same as Lin Youlan's, but for a different reason: "We have to go to this tunnel even if there are ghost stories. Every additional power bead will increase the possibility of victory for our faction."

What Zhong Xie is most curious about now is not the Power Pearl, but his own camp.

The Pig Snake knows the existence of the Power Pearl, and the guys in his camp probably know it too, otherwise they wouldn't appear in the temple on the top of the mountain.

The only explanation is that they found and obtained the Orb of Power there.

What ability would it be?

The recording number and the car continued to move inward, and the light above their heads was constantly receding like a fleeting point of light. After entering the tunnel for about ten meters, there was no rain on the ground inside.

The entire tunnel was extremely quiet, with only the occasional sound of raindrops dripping in puddles, as if coming from the other side of hell.

When the car and the recording number had traveled about two hundred meters, they slowly stopped.

Because there was a fork in the road.

Two identical forked roads.

"Why is there a fork in the road inside the tunnel?" Zhong Xie, who had little experience, asked Lin Youlan loudly on the recording number.

Lin Youlan, who was driving, did not answer, but slowly started the car, which continued to move forward at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour.

Unlike Zhong Xie's calmness, she noticed something else.

The car must move at a constant speed because there is someone in the rearview mirror helping to push the car.

(End of this chapter)