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

Chapter 40: You didn’t invite me to the party, did you?

Are we the Wolf Squad?

Hearing this, the captain's eyes were stunned for a moment, and his gaze fell on his team members one by one. He felt like something was about to grow out of his brain.

The Wolf Squad?

Yes, the Wolf Squad.

We are the Wolf Squad.

"what are you saying?"

Zhong Xie's words undoubtedly shocked the entire team. The teammates of the special forces team fell into confusion, as if they had just woken up from a dream.

Kuster keenly smelled the danger, so he quietly took a step back, protected Lin Youlan in front of him, and remained in a state of facing all the special forces members.

"I was with them before the distress signal was sent. There was nothing abnormal about them. Was it because of this villa that caused the time and space to be disrupted?" Shen Junyi also felt that the atmosphere was wrong, but was even more confused.

He was very sure that the people with him were living people. If it was the Wild Wolf Squad asking for help, then who were these people around him in the past two days?
Zhong Xie shrugged, still looking at the special forces captain: "Even if I don't know much about it, I have seen Wolf Warrior 1234567. Special forces always have code names, right? At the very least, it's impossible to call them by their real names."

In addition, the villa vaguely reveals some strange characteristics related to "time", and he has not found any signs of human activity until now.

This does not match the distress briefing the captain gave. If he was not deceived, the most likely possibility is what he said.

On the other side, the captain looked at his team members again, and this time he was able to easily recognize the code names of these team members.

Sea wolf, little wolf, lone wolf, plateau wolf, black wolf.

And me, my squad leader used to call me wolf cub, but now I am the wolf captain.

I started calling my players by their names a few days ago, why do I take it for granted?
Can the strange stories here change our cognition far away in Haicheng?

The captain's heart instinctively turned cold when he thought of this, and he realized that this was most likely a trap set for them.

"Go, go as far as you can, get out of here!" He said to the others, "You guys leave the villa first, I'll go in and look for the deputy captain."

The others didn't move, but Kuster was very obedient. He started walking towards the stairs, wanting to go downstairs and get away from this strange place.

He suspected that this was another rule-based weirdness, or a very difficult space-time rule. He was only level 15 now, so it would be better for him to continue to be a turtle and not get involved in muddy waters.

"You can't get away." Zhong Xie looked calmly at Kuster who was sneaking away, and then looked at Lin Youlan and Shen Junyi in the team again, "You two can try to leave the villa. The mission briefing for help may only list six people, not including us."

He himself had no intention of moving. Instead, he studied the location where the deputy captain disappeared, trying to find the corresponding trigger conditions.

"Have we mistakenly entered a ghost story incident? But there is no blocking barrier here." Shen Junyi tried to walk to the stairs. He had also participated in ghost story incidents, so he was able to understand the current situation.

"What traps people is not the barrier of ghost stories, but time." Zhong Xie took the initiative to cross the position where the deputy captain had just been, trying to see if he could make himself disappear as well.

However, it does not.

"It has nothing to do with this line. The rules that trigger the disappearance are something else."

Zhong Xie continued, leaning down to look at the carpet carefully. He noticed the subtle differences in the carpet's texture.

The deputy captain's footprints were very obvious because the roads in the manor were not clean and the soles of his shoes were stained with mud and dust, but there was a larger and lighter footprint outside the carpet footprint.

It is almost impossible to tell, and Zhong Xie can only make the judgment based on the changes in the shape of the wool on the carpet.

The two footprints overlap.

The footprints that step on "it" will disappear. Is it a trigger method similar to "flight track"?
At this time, Shen Junyi, who wanted to go downstairs to check the situation, also disappeared suddenly, which was the same as the deputy captain's situation.

Everyone was shocked again, and all thoughts of escape disappeared.

Shen Junyi, who was not a member of the team, disappeared. Naturally, they could not hide and could only face the strange stories in this villa.

"You reminded me a step too late." Zhong Xie didn't feel anything when he saw Shen Junyi disappear. He just reminded everyone as a matter of routine, "Be careful with your footprints. From now on, only walk in areas that have been walked by others before. Either stick to the wall, or even better, hang on the ceiling light and swing."

In his opinion, solving the ghost story is the right way and there is no escape, because now everyone's "past" is entangled with this villa.

Time and space are the most difficult cages to escape from, because if you go any further you become “history”.

Lin Youlan's mind moved when she heard this. Countless iron wires extended from the skull crusher and quickly connected to the wall, forming a simple suspension bridge in a short time: "Walk on the iron wires, and the rules will not be triggered if you don't touch the ground."

At this time, the scissors head at the front of the team disappeared without a sound. If there were no one watching that area, it would probably not be discovered in the first time.

Zhong Xie jumped onto the wire suspension bridge and looked at the captain, not sure if he was asking sincerely or teasing: "Captain, is this your special ability?"

"Of course not." The captain's face darkened, "Put your ghost stories back. Don't separate from your own ghost stories in this situation!"

He then added: "I can still feel the presence of my ghost story. It is still on the second floor, but it is missing."

Hearing this, the others retracted their strange talk.

As a ghost story master, it would be terrible if he got separated from his main ghost story master in a place like this.

But Zhong Xie was not in a hurry at all, because it was Kuster who was in a hurry.

"Take me back now, what if we get separated?"

Custer was in a hurry.

Unlike normal combinations, the others are afraid that the monsters are not around, but Kuster is afraid that his trainer is not around.

After many strange events, Kuster went from suspicion to trust and then to support. He might say "I can do it too", but his body is extremely honest. When encountering such unknown events, he can only feel at ease when he is with his trainer.

Cry.

"Why are you in such a hurry? I'm not afraid of getting lost." Zhong Xie said casually. His current focus was on the disappearance of Scissors Head.

The captain's strange scissor head did not move, but it still disappeared.

Are there any other trigger conditions besides overlapping footprints?

"Will it disappear even if it doesn't move?" The captain squatted down to look at the place where Scissor Head had just stood, and made a new discovery, "No, there are footprints under its feet. Does it mean that it will take some time for the footprints to disappear after being stepped on?"

Zhong Xie stood on the wire bridge and watched the other teammates who were getting on the bridge one after another. It was quite a burden for Lin Youlan to have so many people standing on the wire bridge.

Now it seems unnecessary.

"Put away the wire bridge, save your energy and wait patiently." He let out a long sigh. "The footprints will disappear if they overlap, but this condition does not only depend on us, but also on that thing."

Zhong Xie said dimly, "In an unknown time, it has been walking back and forth in this corridor, constantly searching for our traces with its footprints."

"If that's the case... we can only see where it wants to take us." The captain nodded. He now understood everything.

Once the group entered the villa, there was no way back. It was useless for them to avoid stepping on its footprints because they had already left footprints in the villa.

That thing is alive, that thing has intelligence, all it has to do is find their footprints and step on them.

The initiative was never in their hands.

Disappearance does not mean death, because they have not yet sent out a "distress" signal using the communicator, and the logic of time and space has not yet closed, which is enough to show that they will not die immediately.

There is still hope, and we need to devote all our energy to dealing with the strange stories in the villa.

Zhong Xie took out his cell phone and took photos of everyone present, saving them in his address book. As he expected, the team members in the corridor disappeared one by one, and the captain earnestly told his teammates to pay attention to some matters, and to gather first no matter what happened.

In the end, only the captain, Lin Youlan and Zhong Xie were left in the corridor. The three of them looked at each other in silence, but nodded to encourage each other.

"Be careful." Lin Youlan thought for a moment, took off her capsule belt and threw it to Zhong Xie, "These things are not of much help to me. If you are in trouble, you can try to upgrade with capsules first. Maybe the problem will be solved after the upgrade."

Zhong Xie subconsciously reached out and took the slender belt, which was densely packed with capsules, probably most of Lin Youlan's belongings.

When I looked up again, the captain and Lin Youlan had disappeared.

He shrugged and put the belt in his pocket.

"So many capsules? Wouldn't it be possible to upgrade to level 25 or 30 in one go?" Kuster looked envious. At this moment, he suddenly thought that Lin Youlan was a good person.

He prefers this kind of tangible thing to custody.

"Wait until she dies."

Zhong Xie looked towards the corridor where he was the only one left. It was unusually quiet here and he was waiting patiently.

However, after a moment's wait, he suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart, and he cursed at the empty air:

"No, you're not afraid of me, are you? You bastard, you threw a party but didn't invite me?!"

Fortunately, this thing really couldn't stand provocation, so the next second Xie found that the scene around him changed and he appeared in a hexagonal room.

"Finally I got in." Zhong Xie breathed a sigh of relief. What he was afraid of was really different from that of other people.

Each side of the room is equal in length, about two meters. There is a bed on one side, a wardrobe on one side, a table and a toilet on one side, and three doors in the middle of the remaining three sides.

This room is interesting.

A structure similar to a honeycomb appeared in Zhong Xie's mind. Now this small room looked like a small compartment in a honeycomb, and they were the "honey" trapped inside.

Zhong Xie walked around the room and opened the closet. There was only one set of men's clothes and one set of women's clothes in it. They were both simple white T-shirts and sweatpants, with a pair of men's boxer shorts that were obviously worn.

The shorts underneath the women's clothing looked very new, as if no one had ever worn them.

Zhong Xie thought about it and put the women's underwear into his pocket.

Looking at the table again, there was only a sticky note book and a pen on it. Judging from the number of remaining pages on the sticky note, it must have been used by someone.

Similarly, the toilet also showed signs of use. As soon as Zhong Xie opened it, he saw the dirt on the ceramic inner wall, so he cleaned it with the toilet brush next to it.

Now I can basically confirm one thing, this room was once occupied by someone, and the person who lived there was definitely not me, nor was it my former self.

Hamsters love cleanliness.

Zhong Xie opened three doors in succession. Just as he had just guessed, each door was connected to a room with the same layout, but the situations inside were completely different.

The items were the same, but some were kept clean, some were dirty, and in one room everything was violently destroyed, looking like someone had a fit of rage.

However, it is hard to say whether he/she will calm down or become even crazier after venting.

Zhong Xie walked into the clean room. The first thing he did was not to explore, but to open the closet in the room and put two clean pairs of shorts into his pocket.

These rooms were obviously occupied by people, and he might have to stay here for a while. It would be really uncomfortable without clean shorts to change into.

Washing shorts?
Should I wash my shorts with scarce drinking water or in the toilet?

Since you have clean shorts readily available, why not collect them in advance?

Zhong Xie firmly believed that if an orderly society could gradually form inside this hive, then these clean shorts would definitely be an important material.

Kuster in the tip of the tail was amazed. A normal person coming into this environment would definitely think about investigating the situation first, but Zhong Xie was different.

He first stole clean shorts.

Women's version too.

Is this the gap between normal people and genius trainers?

【Zhong Xie Observation Notes 1-1】

When entering an unfamiliar environment, give priority to collecting precious non-renewable resources. They can be useless, but they cannot be absent.

Kuster wrote it down in his mind with a small pen. He had decided to completely transform himself into an evil being, to use his body to study hard and to have the courage to surpass others.

Even if I can't imitate Zhong Xie's spirit, I must imitate Zhong Xie's appearance.

What humans are best at is summarizing experiences and learning, and he is no exception.

"Click..."

Zhong Xie took off his shorts, and his ears keenly caught the movement in the opposite room. He immediately pressed his body against the door to listen carefully to the movement next door.

"Click..."

This time he heard it clearly and noticed that it should be the sound of some mechanical parts getting stuck in the slot.

Zhong Xie had not seen any relevant equipment in these rooms that matched his guess, which meant that this thing was from outside.

He opened the door suddenly, wanting to see what was in the room opposite, but he was frightened by the situation as soon as he opened it, and quickly called Kuster to stand in front of him.

gun!
The person in the room was an acquaintance, the deputy captain of the special operations team, and he was holding a rifle in his hand.

The moment Zhong Xie opened the door, the deputy captain also pointed the gun at him, or to be more precise, at Kuster who was standing in front of Zhong Xie.

"You...it's you. You're here."

The deputy captain was breathing heavily, his eyes were bloodshot. He used his last bit of sanity to put down the gun, then looked back at the broken magazines on the table.

The magazine was probably broken by the huge force and could no longer be used normally, so he was picking out the intact bullets and adding them to the magazine on his gun.

"How did you become like this? And... where did this gun come from?" Zhong Xie looked at the rifle and asked puzzledly.

He remembered that the captain did not allow these team members to carry guns. If it was a pistol, it would be easy to deal with, maybe they could hide it secretly on their bodies, but how could such a long rifle be hidden?

If I had brought it with me, I'm afraid others would have discovered it long ago, right?

"Gun? Have you forgotten it too? Didn't you go out and get it for us?" The deputy captain took out the empty magazine of the rifle and stuffed the intact bullet he had just taken out into it.

"Click——"

The sound of loading a magazine was heard again. This time, there was only one bullet left in the magazine. The deputy captain stared at Zhong Xie with his bloodshot eyes, and only closed his eyes slowly after a long time.

As if he had used up his last bit of rationality, he put the muzzle of the gun to his chin and muttered, "Go find the captain. He still has a chance..."

"boom--"

A loud gunshot was heard, and the deputy captain's head exploded in front of Zhong Xie. Blood splattered everywhere, instantly dyeing the white hair on Kuster's chest red.

Eh?
Is he really dead?
Zhong Xie blinked his eyes.

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