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

Chapter 38 Old Man Bug (Big Chapter!)
It was going to be a peaceful, comfortable and quiet sightseeing tour, but now a "friend" has joined the group.

uninvited guest.

And Zhong Xie is still not sure what this unknown "friend" wants to do.

Is it because Sister Shui knew yesterday that I was coming to Wangcheng, so this "friend" was able to accurately judge my identity?

Zhong Xie felt that it was unlikely that the other party was sent by Sister Shui specifically to protect him, because Sister Shui was very honest. 1 is 1, 2 is 2. If she wanted to do this, she would have said it directly yesterday.

This friend came here for his own business, and now it seems that he is at least not an enemy.

Although Zhong Xie somehow became the ninth brother in the "circle of friends", he still had no contact with other friends.

I checked my Moments a few times, or just lurked around to see what my friends on the public screen were posting.

Judging from the chat content on the public screen, the organization of the Circle of Friends is extremely loose. There are no managers and no rules. At most, a few people will jump out to remind friends when they are chatting enthusiastically.

"Don't get involved in pornography or politics. If you get blocked, you will suffer the consequences."

Moreover, you don’t have to be able to speak only on the public screen in the Moments. You can double-click a specific barrage to enter the private chat page, and you can even send voice messages in the private chat page.

However, what has always puzzled Zhong Xie is that he has never seen a specific "name" either on the public screen or in private chat.

In other words, he couldn't tell who was who.

How do you chat without a name?

How do you know who is who?

Could it be that it is true as I thought before, that your circle of friends is actually 4343 personalities of A Shui communicating with each other?
They belong to the same person, so there is no need to distinguish who they are talking to. They naturally have the ability to distinguish.

This made Zhong Xie think of a terrible guess.

Stand-alone post bar.

——Actually, you are playing a stand-alone circle of friends, and the other users are the administrator’s smurf accounts. If you don’t believe me, I’ll get back to you with another account later.

——Actually, you...

That would be too rude.

The friends behind the baby-faced driver only appeared for a moment. Since these friends did not have any strange powers, no one in the car noticed this except Zhong Xie.

Lin Youlan was resting with her eyes closed, while the special forces captain was studying the map recorded by Zhong Xie.

By the way, when I got the WeChat Moments business card a few days ago, Sister Shui helped me swipe it. It seemed like a friend of mine was trapped in Wangcheng due to some travel troubles, right?

Could this friend behind the baby-faced head be here to save his friend and help him complete his KPI?
It's possible.

In that case, that friend was trapped in the same place as us?

Is Benboerba there too?

Zhong Xie thought of a new possibility, and it is the biggest possibility at the moment.

It can’t be that the circle of friends rushed thousands of miles to provide emergency assistance to the Wangcheng Revolutionary Army, right?

One person for emergency assistance, seriously?
The jeep moved forward at a constant speed. Along the way, some signs of human activities could be seen, such as the camp of the ghost story master and some temporary material supply points. However, as the vehicle went deeper, these signs became fewer and fewer, until the surroundings fell into dead silence.

"Captain, the signal for the rescue location is in the town ahead."

The baby-faced man looked at the captain in the car mirror and said.

The car slowed down gradually. There were a few scattered wild villas on both sides of the road. This was probably a suburb close to the urban-rural fringe, and was the junction of two districts within Haicheng.

"It's still about a kilometer to the rescue point. It should be in the center of the town. Just drive there. If there are any strange stories on the way, let me deal with them."

The special forces captain gave the order, then looked at Lin Youlan and Shen Junyi: "It is not clear yet what the level range of the ghost stories in this town is. Don't attack the ghost stories at will, it's very dangerous."

"clear."

"Ah."

Lin Youlan and the other person agreed, only Zhong Xie blinked and looked around.

You didn't say I was, right?
Then I can level up?

It's no wonder that the special forces captain didn't emphasize the importance of the reminder. After all, during the conversation in the morning, he learned that Zhong Xie's ghost story was only level 15, and it was a giant-type ghost story with a lot of noise. Normal people would not think it was possible for Zhong Xie to level up in this area.

However, no normal person would have thought that what Zhong Xie likes to train is not the Pokémon level, but the trainer level.

If trainers really had a level of ghost stories.

"The ghost story teller has already conducted a general search of this town, right? Have you found any signs of activities of survivors?" Zhong Xie looked at the scene outside the window.

There were some vehicles parked scattered on both sides of the road, their windows covered with thick dust, but they were not damaged, not as dilapidated as in the doomsday scene.

The doors and windows of shops were closed, the low buildings were silent, and the whole area was extremely dead and lifeless.

He noticed that the shelves inside the store were neatly arranged with merchandise, with no signs of looting or vandalism. Even the items in the windows were still brand new, the lights in the glass cabinets were still on, and the TV screen showed "no signal."

Various signs indicate that this place did not begin to decline after the revival of ghost stories three years ago, but rather began to lose "human presence" after Miss Black Goat was defeated three days ago.

Did this town receive inside information and migrate deep into Wangcheng as soon as Black Goat was captured?
Damn it, I forgot there is a 0 Yuan shopping supermarket in Wangcheng, which made me waste so much money.

Zhong Xie looked at those shops and felt sorry for his money.

"The investigation record of the ghost story envoy..." The special operations team leader turned on the car computer and saw that there was no network signal in the city. However, he had already downloaded all the necessary information in advance, so he just had to open it and read it.

He read out the report: "No traces of high-level ghost story activities were found in Zhuanghang Town (the current town). According to the feedback from the three ghost story teams, there were no signs of survivors. It was recorded as a 'dead zone'."

The special operations team leader then specifically explained the concept of the "dead zone": "The dead zone means that there are no powerful ghosts entrenched in this place and there are no traces of survivors. It is basically a relatively safe area, so it is very strange that the Wild Wolf Team disappeared here."

"Impossible. The three teams in the report probably didn't look carefully." Zhong Xie shook his head immediately after hearing this. "There were people in this town before. There were even people three days ago."

He frowned slightly: "Perhaps the 'people' here need some kind of switch to appear."

"I personally tend to believe this, otherwise they wouldn't disappear for no reason. They might have triggered some special mechanism." The captain affirmed Zhong Xie's judgment, and then looked at Zhong Xie, "The annotations you gave didn't mention any powerful strange creatures here."

Zhong Xie said: "I just don't remember it. Now I am sure there is something hidden in this place. I will look for it in the sewers and the mountains in the suburbs. If we can't find anyone on the street, they may be hiding in that kind of place."

"The sewers and the mountains... The sewers are easy. Judging from the direction of this town, it's easy to find the central pipeline area. As for the mountains, the nearest mountain is still very far away, almost ten kilometers away." The captain quickly found two areas on the map and listed them as pending search areas.

He believed in the experience of his guide Zhong Xie, but was still curious about how he made such a judgment, so he asked: "Can I ask how you know this? Have you been to many places when you were in Wangcheng before?"

"That's not the case. At least I haven't been here before. But Wangcheng is still under the influence of the Black Goat's rules." Zhong Xie expressed his own judgment. "You should know His core rules. Humans exchange identities with something or some things."

He continued: "This exchange is not a crude twist, but a 'logical chain' is created to make it forcibly reasonable."

"Forced rationality means that the answer can be obtained through reasonable inference." The special operations team leader understood what Zhong Xie meant, and at the same time recorded such important key information in his heart.

He didn't understand why the people above didn't learn these secrets about the black goat legend from Zhong Xie.

This is absolutely a serious dereliction of duty.

It was unknown how much it would cost to use a ghost storyteller to find out such valuable information, but now it came out so lightly from the mouth of the survivor in front of him.

Although the correctness has not been verified yet, the special forces captain already has a tendency in his mind. Next, he will try his best to verify what Zhong Xie said and bring the news out alive.

"That's right." Zhong Xie nodded. "Assuming that there were more than a few humans in this town, then the scope of their identity change is actually not large." "Humans are social creatures, so under the rules, they are preferentially replaced by other social creatures, such as rats and insects. Since they are no longer seen on the streets, they may be nocturnal creatures based on their habits. They may now be active in the sewers or mountains."

At this time, the jeep finally arrived at the designated location where the distress signal was sent and stopped at the gate of a small manor.

The manor is located in the center of the town, opposite the once bustling street and with a canal not far behind.

From the location, we can tell that the owner of the manor must be very wealthy in this small town, but after the revival of the ghost story, everything became a thing of the past, and the manor even became a place where some evil spirits and monsters live.

Through the gap in the rusty iron gate, Zhong Xie saw that the manor was overgrown with weeds, covering the original stone road. The entire manor was obviously full of plants, but unexpectedly no sound was heard, as if the vitality of the entire land could only be supplied by these plants.

"Get out of the car and take the regular control equipment." The special forces captain got out of the car quickly and said to the baby-faced team member and the five team members in another car, then took out the stun gun, barbed net and other equipment from the trunk one by one.

"Don't you have a gun?" Zhong Xie saw the guns and cannons in the trunk and felt itchy for a moment.

This is a powerful weapon personally certified by the ghost story master Sister Shui.

"There's no need to use it. This is a rescue mission. Our target is some kind of ghost story. The effect of carrying hot weapons is very poor, and it is easy to hurt our own people." The special operations team leader shook his head and refused. These hot weapons are locked and can only be opened with the fingerprints of their respective team members, so there is no need to worry about being stolen.

Besides, it doesn't look like there is anyone near the manor.

Zhong Xie had no choice but to retract his gaze. He roughly understood what these guns were used for.

Hunting down the ghost story teller.

Guns have little effect on ghost stories, but they have a great effect on them. Zhong Xie is very confident in his physical fitness, but he still has to behave himself in front of a battle-hardened gunman like the captain.

Similarly, when dealing with those extremely evil monsters, there is no need to hold back, and guns are the cleanest and most efficient way to solve the problem.

Who is playing a ghost story with you? Wouldn’t it be better to kill you with one shot from hundreds of meters away?
In this case, everyone except some of the ghost story users who have powerful protective ghost stories will die.

Thinking of the self-protection ghost story, Zhong Xie immediately looked at Shen Junyi on the side. Parasitic ghost stories like clothes must have this function.

Even if it doesn't come with its own, the Ghost Story Master will try his best to configure the "protection" function for it, and the two are highly compatible.

The special forces members in another vehicle packed their equipment, took out a briefcase-sized communicator and began sending messages to headquarters.

The black goat's territory has disappeared, and Wangcheng is no longer an absolute vacuum zone for signals, but the shielding of basic signals still exists. Only this special communicator can penetrate the shielding and transmit information.

If it is a city where there is a root ghost story, even this kind of communication device will be useless. There must be a Ku Lao to secretly install a network cable.

After everything was sorted out, the special forces captain led two team members to cut the lock of the gate, and the group entered one after another.

During this stage, they basically released their own weird stories.

The captain's ghost story is about a scissor-head monster, which seems to be bloody. The ghost stories of the others are mostly parasitic, such as mirrors and swords. The baby-faced team member has a virtual doll floating next to him.

The doll's long hair covered its face, its body leaned forward and floated, and it looked dirty and old.

The ability to virtualize is basically a standard feature of energy-based ghost stories, and Zhong Xie can now easily identify the attributes of other ghost stories.

There was only one tall member in the group who did not release the ghost. He was holding a communicator and was in the middle of the team, giving a sense of being protected.

Zhong Xie guessed that this guy's strange story should be of the giant type, and it is not convenient to release it now.

"Keep quiet." The captain whispered, but the "ping-pong-clang" sound was still coming from the team, so he couldn't help but look back.

A chinchilla bear was carrying Zhong Xie's snakeskin bag and moving forward with great difficulty. He was already very careful, but the things in Zhong Xie's snakeskin bag were in a mess, and made noises with every step.

So Zhong Xie kicked the golden bear's butt without hesitation: "I told you to keep your voice down, don't you have ears?"

Kuster touched the ear that was bitten off by Zhong Xie and fell silent.

He wanted to release his complete form right now, use a few shock waves to completely destroy the manor, and then throw a few of these garbage in the snakeskin bag over his shoulders, making a deafening sound for Zhong Xie to hear.

Unfortunately he didn't dare.

If the reason is...

Naturally, this kind of turbulent wave has a bad effect on buildings.

Even if it's good, we can't physically exorcise the demon, because blowing up the manor will make things worse. If the ghost story uses a certain item as a preservation node, then the team that accidentally entered will never come back.

Kuster could only move forward more carefully and try to lower the decibel of the sound as much as possible.

When they arrived at the door of the villa in the manor, they found that the plants outside had already climbed into the villa through the doors and windows. The two special forces members quickly cleared the vines and weeds at the door. They tried to open the door to no avail, so they forced the door of the villa open.

"boom--"

The gate of the manor collapsed with a loud bang, revealing the interior of the villa to everyone.

The hall in front of me was covered with cobwebs, tables and chairs were tilted, and the surface of everything was covered with thick dust. The hands of the pendulum clock were always stuck at a certain moment, and the oil paintings on the wall were yellowing, and the faces of the people in them were blurred.

The vines and weeds have not been cleared.

The Wild Wolf Squad entered this manor to escape from a powerful ghost, so are there so few traces of human activity here?
Zhong Xie was curious.

"Search the first floor in groups of two quickly, gather in the lobby within five minutes, and then go upstairs." The captain gave the order, and the special forces members quickly dispersed and entered various rooms.

Zhong Xie had a clear goal. He followed Baby Face's teammates into a bedroom. At the moment, Baby Face was the biggest variable in the team.

The bedroom was also covered in dust, and judging by the dressing table, it looked like someone had once lived in the room.

"Lin Yi, you look over there in the closet, I'll take a look over here on the dressing table." The baby-faced man said to his teammates, then he put on gloves and a protective mask and began to rummage through the boxes and cabinets, while not forgetting to say to Zhong Xie, "Brother, just wait at the door for a while, we are more experienced in these matters."

Hearing this, Zhong Xie did not refuse. He did not sense any weird atmosphere in this room, and the things he was looking for might only be related to the owner of the house.

This villa doesn't look like there have been any strange incidents, at least nothing happened before the family moved out.

The only thing that made Zhong Xie feel strange was that weren’t these teams referred to by code names?

Even Lin Youlan has a code name, but he himself had just become a ghost story master so he didn't have time to come up with an awesome code name.

(You can provide some sexy nicknames, apex players, shut up)

Lin opened the cabinet and found a dead mouse in the corner. Several strange insects with old man's faces on their backs were lying on the mouse and eating it. The dead mouse's head was open and its brain was missing.

The insects made slight coughing sounds as they ate.

"Cough-cough-"

The strange insects panicked when they saw the light, and took off and fled, flying past Lin Yi. Lin Yi wanted to shoot them down with the pole in his hand. As long as he could catch one, he could give it to the guide to see the situation.

Just as he subconsciously turned around to search for those old bugs, his whole body froze.

There were originally three old bugs, but now he only saw two bugs fleeing to the corner of the room.

The inexplicable palpitations made him realize that something bad had happened, and sure enough, the next second he heard that strange coughing sound again.

"Cough-cough-"

The chirping of insects began, and this time it was very close, right next to his ear.

"Cough-cough-"

Closer, deep in the mind.

　No, buddy, why are you guessing five or six thousand? I wouldn't dare to do this even in my dreams... If I had five or six thousand followers, I would still be begging for followers here. I won't guess now, because there are still four or five days left. I'll make a separate post in the comment section the day after tomorrow and then guess.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)