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

Chapter 18: The Haunted House Creation Incident (Additional chapter for Silver Alliance Leader!!!)
"Sit over here."

"Ok?"

"You're really holding my tail."

On the back seat of the SUV, Zhong Xie pulled the Nine-Section Tail out from behind Zhang Zitai, frowned, patted the non-existent dust on it, and continued to lean sideways against the seat.

Although the back seat of the off-road vehicle has a large space, it is still not very friendly to people like them who have tails. The seat does not have a preset position for the tail, which causes Zhong Xie's tailbone to be stuck uncomfortably.

It was originally said that ghost story survivors like Zhong Xie could not leave the school within a week, unless they were dealing with ghost story-related matters and were accompanied by a black-level ghost story hunter.

Lin Youlan is this black-level hunter.

The hunter level classification is consistent with the entry color, which is also gold, silver, black, gray and white. Black-level hunters are already the elite class, and generally speaking, the main ghost stories have reached level 50.

Hammer Girl can become a black-level hunter, and the ghost story bounties she completes are probably massive.

Ghost story cases are not ghost story incidents like dungeons, but special cases in which ghost story forces are suspected to be involved.

The police are still the main body responsible for solving the case, but ordinary police are a little vulnerable in the face of ghost stories, so it is necessary to issue a reward to recruit ghost story agents for assistance.

In this era, the police also have plans to train ghost story masters, but compared to the military, they have fewer resources. After all, ghost stories in human cities are generally weaker, and there are also a large number of wild ghost story masters to assist.

After the concept of "ghost stories" became widely known, there are always people who will link normal cases to ghost stories, and attribute all incomprehensible things to ghost stories.

Therefore, in this situation, the police will hire a ghost story team to investigate the place where the crime occurred first, and will not directly send professional ghost story officers from the police force to clean up the ghost stories.

"arrive."

Lin Youlan parked the car across the street from the haunted house and brought a few people to another car. She raised her hand and knocked on the car window: "I am the 'Northwest Hammer King', and these people are my teammates."

The window of the car opened, and the police officer in the main driver's seat was a little surprised: "You... I thought this code name was a man. My last name is Jiang, you can just call me Officer Jiang, and he is Officer Wang."

Officer Jiang pointed at Xiao Wang who was sitting in the passenger seat, and then the two of them got out of the car and looked across the street at the Haunted House Adventure Hall: "We haven't been in to investigate yet, so we need your help to see if it involves any ghost stories."

Now the police station has issued relevant regulations, and when handling ghost story cases, they must enter the relevant locations accompanied by a ghost story master, at least two people, and the entire process must be recorded and uploaded to the local police station in real time for backup.

No need to ask, the reason is that many incidents have occurred and this regulation is required to be enforced.

Zhong Xie held a cup of soy milk and looked around the street. This place was in the city center with a large flow of people. The so-called haunted house was actually a three-story store with simple scenes set up inside for play.

"Aren't places like haunted houses the most likely to breed ghost stories? Why are such places allowed to continue operating after the revival of ghost stories?" He whispered to Zhang Zita beside him. Zhang Zita was a local and knew more about all aspects of the matter.

Zhang Zitai thought for a while and said, "There are usually precursors for the emergence of ghost stories in a city, such as the ghost story power in this area being more intense, plus some special events as catalysts. In the first stage, there will often be ghost story masters who absorb the excess ghost story power and disinfect the ghost story in the cradle."

He added: "To some extent, haunted houses are places that regularly produce a large amount of ghost talk power, which are like the paradise in immortal cultivation literature. One must pay work points to enter the cultivation. The act of consuming ghost talk power will also curb the birth of ghost talks."

"Opening a haunted house in this city is quite profitable. I guess it has some connections with the authorities." Zhong Xie sighed. Among novels with ghosts, the ones he admired the most were those who ran haunted houses.

"That's about right. In addition, you can also conduct ghost story simulation drills and related education in the haunted house." Jiang Shuran heard the two people talking, "Humans will have to coexist with ghost stories for a long time in the future. If you are too scared when encountering ghost stories, your survival rate will be greatly reduced."

Several people followed Lin Youlan and Officer Jiang into the haunted house. The hall inside the store was very brightly decorated. On the black walls were hung posters with various escape room themes, such as the classic Spooky Marriage, Zombie Crisis, Chainsaw Escape, etc.

There were about a dozen young people chatting and laughing in the waiting area. Judging from their age, they were probably high school students. They had just made an appointment to visit the haunted house this weekend.

There was a disappearance case but the business was not stopped?
A big question mark popped up in Zhong Xie's mind. After the two policemen showed their police ID cards to the front desk, the receptionist immediately stood up and whispered, "Hello, Officer Jiang, you are here. The boss is waiting for you in the monitoring room. Enter from this corridor and turn right. The room at the end is the monitoring room."

"Okay." Officer Jiang took back his police ID and walked into the haunted house according to the instructions of the front desk. At the same time, he asked the ghost story masters around him, "Do you feel any ghost story power?"

Lin Youlan looked at Zhang Zitai when he heard this, and Zhang Zitai slowly shook his head: "No, I didn't feel the breath of a ghost story."

Zhang Zitai's main type of ghost stories are energy-related, and this type of ghost stories is more sensitive to the perception of breath and energy.

After receiving such a reply, Officer Jiang felt a little more relieved. He and Lin Youlan led the way at the front. After entering the inner passage of the store where few outsiders paid attention, Lin Youlan took out the skull crusher.

"No, the taste is very weak because it has left."

At this time, Zhong Xie heard Kuster's voice in his heart, and he reminded him seriously: "Something must have happened in this store, be careful."

"I know." Zhong Xie glanced at the dim passage. In the corner above the side of the corridor, there was a spherical surveillance camera that could monitor the entire corridor.

He did not make it public, as he needed to collect more information before making any plans.

A group of people walked into the monitoring room. The passage outside was dim because of the atmosphere of the haunted house, but it was very bright here and was fairly clean.

There are twenty small screens on the large LCD screen against the wall. They should be the surveillance images of various areas in the haunted house. Although they are black and white, they are very clear and you can basically see the frightened or nervous expressions of the people in the pictures.

"You are finally here. I have already captured some clips from the surveillance that can verify my idea." Boss Chen is about thirty years old and looks like a strong man, but his face is gloomy, his eyes are sunken, and he speaks weakly. It is obvious that he can't sleep because of this incident.

"Hello, Mr. Chen. I am a police officer from the Haicheng Public Security Bureau. This is my police number. I am currently investigating a missing case that you reported. Everything you say will be recorded." Officer Jiang handed his police ID to Mr. Chen and made an official statement, while confirming that the recorder on his chest was always on.

Xiao Wang beside him immediately took out a notebook and pen to prepare for a simple record. Although there was a recorder, paper and pen were still indispensable.

It is not uncommon for strange forces to affect the normal operation of recorders.

“This isn’t actually a missing persons case.”

Boss Chen's first sentence was beyond the two policemen's expectations, but they did not interrupt him. Instead, they remained quiet and listened.

It seemed that he was under too much pressure these days. When he really wanted to talk, Boss Chen was a little speechless. His lips trembled slightly. He took two pieces of chewing gum and chewed them to ease his emotions. He finally spoke: "On the contrary, there are more people in the haunted house."

Boss Chen continued, "I watched the daily surveillance repeatedly. I counted everyone. It was like this every day. The number of people leaving the haunted house was always one more than the number of people entering the haunted house. And only one more. This has been going on for a week."

Your haunted house is so capable of creating humans?

Zhong Xie raised his eyebrows and resisted the urge to complain.

Have you ever considered opening a chain of haunted houses?
Call for more births?
"One week in a row? You just reported the case yesterday and selected 'general police situation'." Officer Jiang pulled up the case details on his phone. "Yes, because I'm not sure if this is just my illusion." Boss Chen told the truth, "Even the call to the police this time to ask you to come and check the situation was because I asked for help. Otherwise, how could I have invited you to come if there wasn't even a missing person?"

He sighed, "I asked my ghost story friends to take a look, but I think their level might not be good enough. Anyway, they all said there was no problem. I don't know if there was something wrong with me. I checked the entire haunted house, and there was no place to hide people, but there was one more person every day, every day!"

Mr. Chen grabbed his hair with both hands in pain. It seemed that this problem had become a knot in his heart. If it was not solved, he would have to close the store.

On the surface, it seems that there is nothing wrong with the haunted house. The problem is with Mr. Chen, so the haunted house is still open for business, right?
Zhong Xie's eyes fell on the computer screen. The most crucial information on it was a screenshot of a woman's side profile, but she seemed to be deliberately avoiding the camera, and the outline of her facial features could only be barely seen after zooming in.

"Mr. Chen, you discovered this situation a week ago. We want to know what happened on that day and why you felt that there was one more person. Under normal circumstances, no one would count the number of people one by one on the surveillance camera." Officer Jiang brought the topic back to the point.

"Yes, it all started with this woman." Boss Chen pointed at the picture of the woman on the computer screen and said, "She came with a tour group. I heard everyone call her Ah Shui. She was not particularly conspicuous in the tour group. The others were probably from the same high school and had just graduated and came to Haicheng to travel together. They didn't deliberately isolate her, but it was obvious that she didn't fit in with these people and always stayed alone."

He opened a folder on his computer, which contained some surveillance footage clips. Judging from the video cover images, they were basically all related to this woman named A Shui.

"The most obvious thing is here. She was clearly alone the whole time, but when she left, she was talking and laughing with a man." Mr. Chen clicked on the comparison of the two videos, "I couldn't find this man in all the videos of that day. He never entered my haunted house."

"He's like... a ghost, a figment of the imagination."

The others listened to Mr. Chen's words in silence, but so far it was just his one-sided statement, and the facts still needed to be verified personally.

For grassroots police officers, some work is boring but necessary, such as checking surveillance cameras.

The recording on August 8 basically started at 15 a.m., because the store clerks would start to come to work at this time. At Lin Youlan's request, the recording before 10 a.m. was still played, but there was nothing unusual.

At around 10:, Boss Chen appeared in the picture. He walked into the store, greeted the front desk, then walked into the employee passage and went into his office.

There were two groups of players at 11 o'clock, and it was almost 12: when the game ended. The employees who played ghosts took turns to eat, and so far the entire haunted house remains normal.

Zhong Xie carefully recorded the whereabouts of each employee to ensure that he would not miss anyone.

Since Boss Chen thinks the number of people doesn't match, then the number of people is naturally a very important piece of information.

At 1 p.m., the tour group entered the haunted house. There were 12 people in total. Because there were so many people, they were divided into two groups to play games.

The brave ones play "Saw Escape", the timid ones play "Star Trek", and the one emphasized by Boss Chen, A Shui, chose "Star Trek".

She was dressed simply, in a shirt jacket with khaki suit pants, and had long black hair. She looked pretty and delicate.

Similar to what Boss Chen said, this woman spoke very little and did not interact much with other people in the tour group. She spent most of her time wandering around alone with her hands in her pockets, slowly pacing in the hall of the haunted house, admiring the posters on the wall and the ghost models in the glass windows.

"She was consciously avoiding the camera. Basically, we could only capture the back of her head and at most the right half of her face." Officer Jiang was very experienced. He noticed the clues at a glance and became alert.

Most people would definitely not care about the camera, and the overall atmosphere of the tour group was very happy. Several young men were trying their best to attract girls, but A Shui seemed a bit out of place.

She is a quiet tourist, who sees things purely with her own eyes and does nothing unnecessary.

“She’s learning.”

Zhong Xie observed for a long time and came to an accurate conclusion.

He had seen such behavior when he was in Rat University. Miss Black Goat's ability would forcibly transform some creatures into strange "people". These "people" were not human at the beginning.

They may not look like humans, but their behavior is trying their best to be closer to "humans". Mr. Kuster is such a person.

Of course, Kuster has gone a long way on this path and is a complete "spiritual human being", while A Shui in the picture is a growing form.

She must have learned some social common sense, and even joined places like tour groups to come into contact with other people more widely, and was able to take the opportunity to travel to various human cities.

Zhong Xie's words attracted everyone present, and they all looked over.

"This woman is not a ghost story maker. She is most likely a ghost story herself. Your hunch is correct." Zhong Xie said confidently. He patted Boss Chen on the shoulder and said, "Fast forward this part. I want to know how she left."

"She really is a ghost story, right?" Boss Chen suppressed his excitement. The guess that had tormented him for so many days was finally verified. He fast-forwarded the video records and soon came to the scene where Ah Shui and a man appeared in the corridor together.

Boss Chen said quickly: "This is the first time the man appeared. This is the entrance to the toilet. The area near the toilet is the only blind spot for surveillance. But based on the video footage from other places, we can still tell that this man appeared out of thin air."

The man in the picture was captured with his face straight on. He was handsome and looked about the same age as the woman. They were talking and laughing about something, and the atmosphere between them was similar to that of the high school couple in the game just now.

"Wait a minute..." Zhong Xie snatched the mouse and repeatedly checked the videos at the toilet door.

He turned around to look at Boss Chen's stunned face, and his eyes swept over him: "Aren't you the one with her?"

"what?"

Boss Chen didn't understand, and neither did anyone else present, because the person in the video didn't resemble Boss Chen at all.

"Although the face is different, the clothes are different, the gait is different, and the personality is different, but this is you." Zhong Xie was very sure.

Everyone else admires him for being able to make such illogical words sound natural.

"Then what else could be the same?" Zhang Zitai's question seemed dull.

"The hairstyle is the same, the figure is the same, can't you tell?" Zhong Xie asked everyone with a blink, and when he saw that they didn't reply, he shrugged helplessly.

He reached out and grabbed Boss Chen's clothes, his face ferocious:

"You're also a weirdo, right?"

"And counting people."

"Aren't you the one who appears in the haunted house every day?"

　Thanks to the big boss for being the silver leader who is neither foolish nor wise! More updates will be added (the big boss agreed to the rest after it is put on the shelves) Thank you for your support! Everyone can comment more when they have nothing to do, which is conducive to upgrading and the popularity of the book can also increase hehe

　　
　
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