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

Chapter 30 Open your eyes and see who is the ghost now?

"Help, help!"

"You can scream, you can scream, but no one will come to save you."

Just listening to the conversation, it is hard to imagine that this happened between an octogenarian and a lovely young man full of vitality.

On the bright red ridges of the fields, an old man and a young boy were chasing the sun and sweating, one was in a hurry and the other was strolling leisurely.

Zhong Xie was not in a hurry to catch up with the village chief. At present, he had no good way to deal with the village chief. After the village chief was resurrected, it seemed that his condition had been refreshed. The injuries on his legs and feet were all healed, and he ran even faster.

The people in this village can be reborn and resurrected in the fields, so there is no point in simply killing the village chief.

Although the village chief himself said that they could not be resurrected multiple times, the goddess would no longer protect them and would let them starve to death, but Zhong Xie suspected that the truth was not so.

"They cannot be resurrected multiple times, otherwise the ghost story will punish them and kill them." This is the rule that the village chief wanted to explain to Zhong Xie.

This is a lie.

If this really belongs to the "rules", then the village chief at this time belongs to the "extraordinary" rules, and he should die at this moment.

In fact, the village chief died because he spread the "spread rules". From this we can see that the previous rules may not exist.

Similarly, this may also be a "rule" made up by the village chief.

Recalling everything the village chief told him, more than half of them were stories that happened in the village. This part was true, and since it had nothing to do with the rules, it was okay to spread it around.

The second is the false rule of "multiple deaths" and the true rule of "cannot be passed on to outsiders". The method of judging the truth is very simple, which is to see whether the village chief will die.

Based on this point, it is not difficult to judge that the local goddess ghost story can resurrect the villagers many times, but she does not seem to be willing to be resurrected many times, so she uses the village chief to spread this "rule".

The village chief is the most respected person in the village, so the intersection between ghost stories and him can be said to be the deepest.

Unwilling to be resurrected multiple times, resurrection itself is part of the rules, and the result of triggering the rules does not consume the rule-based monster's own weird power.

Just like Kuster, the source of the energy that killed his wife was definitely not himself. Kuster was able to use the rules to kill much more advanced ghost stories. If this energy came from him, I'm afraid even if he was squeezed dry, he would not be satisfied.

Rule-based ghost stories are more like a programmer standing in front of the world's rules, mastering a shortcut command. When a certain goal meets the conditions, he can enter the command in front of the "rule" computer to trigger the result.

The burden of "resurrection" is not serious. What is serious is another thing, an automatic program that even Niangniang Guidan herself cannot terminate.

Zhong Xie seemed to be thinking about something and had some guesses in his mind, but they still needed to be verified.

"Save me! Save me! This stranger is going to kill me!"

At this time, the village chief finally saw his own light. He shouted wildly and ran towards the villagers who were running down the mountain. This group of saviors was the only reason why he had persisted in running until now.

When the villagers on the mountain were atonement, they found that the village chief, who was supposed to be present, had not come. So they asked the two tall and short goat-headed men who arrived last, and learned from them that the village chief was still at home.

Because they were worried that something might happen to the village chief as he was old, some villagers who had completed their atonement ahead of time went down the mountain to find the village chief to see what was going on.

It just so happened that they met Zhong Xie, a foreigner with a noble head, who was chasing the village chief who also had a noble head in their own village. The villagers were suddenly furious and wanted to rush over to help.

"Who is this guy who dares to attack our village chief in broad daylight?"

"Catch him! Find out where he came from!"

"You stole my hoe. You bastard, you're looking for death!"

Zhong Xie looked at the hoe in his hand, wondering how the guy in the crowd could find out from such a distance that he had stolen his hoe.

The village chief eventually escaped into the crowd. Zhong Xie did not continue to chase him, but watched quietly as the villagers surrounded the respected village chief and asked about his well-being.

No one knew what the village chief had said to these people, but in a short while, this group of pig-headed and sheep-headed people surrounded Zhong Xie with unfriendly faces and looked quite indignant.

"How dare you hurt the village chief, damn outsider, you've messed with the wrong person!"

"Let's go together and let this guy know the price of angering us!"

The villagers came running over noisily, and Zhong Xie also noticed that another large group of villagers were coming down the mountain behind them, and there were nearly a hundred people in front of him.

People naturally gain courage when they are in large numbers, and what's more, Zhong Xie is just an ordinary person in their eyes at this moment, so there is no need to be afraid.

And Zhong Xie is indeed an ordinary person now. It is undoubtedly a pipe dream to use this body to fight against hundreds of immortal and infinite villagers.

Kuster is not available yet.

The real rules of the village have not been fully understood yet, but there must be a rule that "the use of ghost story powers is prohibited."

Everything is normal as long as he acts within the rules. No strange things will happen, and local ghost stories will not be able to hurt him.

Judging from the appearance of the villagers in front of him, the impact of local ghost stories on reality is very limited, and he can only use these villagers.

However, under the rules that restrict ghost stories from outsiders, it doesn't matter even if local ghost stories have limited impact on reality. These hundreds of villagers are enough to deal with ordinary people.

Using the power from Kuster would violate the rules, which was something the seller specifically reminded him of, and it was also something Zhong Xie did not want to happen.

Breaking the rules is a crime, and crime will be punished, growing out of that field.

Those branches and vines are constructed together with the brain. They will take the opportunity to retrieve your soul and then reshape your body.

Zhong Xie was not quite sure what would be lost in this process, but he was very clear that the people who were reconstructed would completely lose the ability to resist local ghost stories.

Become a part of the village like the villagers.

This is a cannibalistic village that uses these mysterious rules to assimilate, erode and control others.

From this point of view, the village is actually an integrated whole, linked together by the punishment of "death". The village chief was just killed by the rules and reborn, and the ghost story learned about the outsider from his memory, so the villagers came down the mountain to find him.

There was almost no gap in the period. Although the process was reasonable, the timing was too coincidental.

A possible explanation is that the village chief shared the information with the local ghost story through "death", and then the local ghost story passed it on to other villagers.

After figuring this out, Zhong Xie took a deep breath. It was impossible to fight this weird story with conventional means. He couldn't even deal with the hundreds of villagers in front of him.

In that case, I will obey you.

Obey your rules.

"Kuster, step out!"

The tip of Zhong Xie's tail moved, and Kuster, who was more than two meters tall, appeared beside him. But before Kuster could figure out what was happening, Zhong Xie jumped up and bit him hard.

The bite was on Kuster's more vulnerable ear, because the flesh in other places was simply impossible to bite.

"Ouch..." Kuster's ears suffered a sudden severe blow. He instinctively covered his ears and made the same sharp explosion sound as Miss Black Goat, but Zhong Xie retracted his sound into his tail halfway through.

Zhong Xie reduced Kuster's screen time as much as possible, so much so that he didn't have time to see the limited edition Kuster that mocked "One Ear".

Simply summoning it out and taking it back shouldn't be considered "using a strange thing".

If that counted, then he could only throw the resurrection coin. He didn't have many options now, and this was the one he thought was most likely to succeed. Zhong Xie shook his head, turned his head to look at the many villagers running in front of him, and laughed strangely: "Isn't it just a transformation? Who can't do it?"

People will turn into the last animal they eat and gain its abilities, so is it okay for me to take a bite of Kuster?

At this time, Zhong Xie's appearance had changed drastically. A golden hamster head appeared on his neck, and his body was also quietly changing.

Higher, faster and stronger.

His body was still human, but there was something vaguely different about him.

Kuster is a giant monster, so his flesh is naturally not comparable to that of ordinary pigs and sheep. Therefore, after obtaining Kuster's ability, Zhong Xie became tall and strong, and his field of vision was suddenly raised a lot, and he felt as if the vision was suddenly opened up.

Zhong Xie was seen swinging the small hoe in his hand vigorously and shouting:
"I am the Great Sage Huang Feng, why don't you surrender quickly?"

Kuster in the tip of the tail was shocked: "You...you ate me?"

He just found it unbelievable.

No, buddy, I have been waiting for you for a long time, just waiting for your order to let the rats go back to the mountains and kill people in the village at will, but you ate my ear instead?

Although it is said that you will become what you eat, how can a normal person imagine a giant monster eating itself?

Are you worried that there is something wrong with your brain?!

"If you and I, brothers, come together, how can we be defeated?"

Zhong Xie responded to Kuster with a classic line, saying that returning to the mouse form made him feel very comfortable and he felt that he had infinite strength in his body.

These are the abilities imposed on him by the village rules, and what makes him even happier is that he now seems to have gained an additional magical power of "controlling the laws of heaven and earth".

The so-called "following the laws of heaven and earth" is actually the liberated form of the giant system.

He actually gave me the ability to tell strange stories?

This is so much better than I imagined!
Zhong Xie had never had such a novel experience before. Wanting to try everything, he activated the "Three Minutes of Real Man" mode without hesitation.

In just a moment, the fields were filled with a solemn and murderous atmosphere.

Dozens of villagers rushed towards the rat-headed people with simple farm tools. Their formation was scattered, but they still ran with the momentum of thousands of troops.

Opposite them, a two-meter-three tall rat-headed man was carrying a hoe on his shoulder, standing alone against the enemy.

According to scientific principles, the concept of vision follows the rule that things appear smaller when they are far away and larger when they are close. So when the villagers approach Zhong Xie, the rat-headed man in their field of vision will become larger. Is that right?

However, the villagers still felt that something was wrong. They stopped running and looked up at the Yellow Wind Monkey King who was more than ten meters tall in front of them. They were confused for a moment and turned back to look at the village chief.

Ah, village chief, I am a rat giant?

After a brief hesitation, the villagers dropped their farm tools and began to run back, shouting in fear: "The rat demon is coming! Run! Go up the mountain to seek shelter from the goddess!"

"Please call me Rat Immortal!"

Zhong Xie, who was more than ten meters tall, caught up with the villagers in a few big strides. The abilities granted by the village rules didn't even have any side effects. He was not like the stupid Kuster who couldn't even move after becoming bigger.

However, correspondingly, he did not have the ability to release shock waves.

Zhong Xie stopped in front of the villagers, lowered his head and looked down at them, scanning all the villagers below with his sinister rat eyes: "Stop! Stand still, everyone!"

He pointed at the tall sheep-headed man behind the village chief and said, "You, go to the mountain and call everyone down. If there is one less, I will go up and catch them. I will kill everyone I catch."

Rat Immortal snorted coldly: "Don't think I don't know. The village chief told me (not really). You guys will never be able to escape from the village. If you don't listen to me... hehe."

He squatted down, stretched out two fingers to grab the village chief hiding in the crowd, threw him high into the air, and opened his rat mouth wide to catch and swallow him in one gulp.

"Ahhh!"

The village chief screamed again. He had been screaming a lot during this period of time, causing his voice to become hoarse. However, Zhong Xie felt that he might be a screaming chicken. Although his voice seemed hoarse, he could still scream.

In the end, the Rat Immortal reached out his hand to intercept the village chief's body from the air, threw him to the ground with weak legs, and warned the other villagers in a cold voice:
"I'm in a good mood today, so I won't eat anyone. You have half an hour to gather in the village chief's yard. Don't let me find you hiding, otherwise... humph."

Of course, it is impossible for Zhong Xie to really eat the village chief. Whether it is disgusting or not is one thing, but the main thing is that if he eats people, he will not be able to maintain the Kuster mode, right?

And he really didn't expect that the rules of this village could be so useful.

That is to say, I, Rat Master, love to deal with rule-based weird stories.

(Kester alert: Huh?)
You see, the rule-based ghost story is really honest. The rules are there, and essentially anyone can use them. It just depends on whether you are lucky enough to live to the stage of "studying the rules".

Originally, Zhong Xie looked at the villagers all over the mountain, thinking that he would just fool around for a while and then log off.

This is a purely conceptual horror story. It might have been possible to use the invincible power to deal with all the villagers and clear the concept through physical removal. However, it turned out that these villagers were almost resurrected infinitely because the flesh and blood in the field was endless.

Not only can it revive, but it can also refresh the status, all injuries will be recovered, and it can be restarted continuously.

And if you want to destroy the field, this is considered an attack on the head in the field, and you will be directly judged as a violation of the rules, and then you will grow out of the field.

Once it grows out of the ground, everything is over and it has fallen into the hidden control of the ghost story.

I’m playing a game, but the final boss doesn’t even have a health bar showing, how can I beat him?
It's called Niangniang, so it might be a female creature, but it's a purely conceptual type, and Kuster's [Wife's Death] can't be selected at all.

Haha, shit.

But now Zhong Xie finally found an interesting idea.

Through the rules, he possessed absolute force in the village. Judging from the reactions of the villagers, they still hadn't lost their humanity and hadn't been transformed into crazy zombie-like creatures by the ghost stories.

Okay, you like to be a "concept" weirdo and hide away from the world, right?

I will destroy your foundation directly.

You didn't show up, but you renovated a temple for yourself in the name of the village chief. If I'm not mistaken, you must need something like "influence", right?
From now on, there will be no goddess temple on the mountain. The only one to be worshipped in this village is me, the Rat Immortal!

Zhong Xie is full of confidence. He will not violate the rules set by the ghost story. He wants to steal these rules directly.

You don't allow villagers to mention the rules to outsiders, otherwise it would be a crime.

Okay, then I won’t let you either.

You say the villagers' heads will be determined by the kind of meat they ate last time.

OK, good rules, now I make them.

Zhong Xie will definitely become a loyal supporter of Niangniang Ghost Stories. After all, his extraordinary martial arts powers are obtained due to the rules of the village.

The villagers won’t break any of your rules. No, the villagers won’t break any of my rules either.

From now on, the villagers will only know me, the Rat Immortal, but not you. How can a mere invisible ghost story be more terrifying than the visible Rat Immortal?
Open your eyes and see who is the weirdo now?

　I don't know if I can post it. This is the impression of Kuster and Zhong Xie. Hehe, it only represents my personal opinion. If you don't like it, please don't criticize me.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)