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

Chapter 44: Headless Time Machine, Rat Calendar! (Please order first!!!)
The rule of ghost stories is to go back to yesterday, and there is no problem with that.

However, the presentation is not to go back directly to yesterday, but to let you go through today in an instant and then go to yesterday.

In this case, today is Tuesday, yesterday is Monday, and the yesterday of Monday is either Sunday or Tuesday which was just skipped!
His time in the hexagonal nest was no longer a straight line, but a cycle of only two days.

Tuesday is followed by Monday, Monday is followed by Tuesday, and there is no way to go to any other date.

Damn, who moved my time?
Thinking of this, Zhong Xie understood the problem.

No wonder he came to the Hexagonal Nest after seeing footprints in the corridor. It was just as he guessed, because he was in the Hexagonal Nest yesterday.

Normally, if you don't touch these footprints in the maze, you won't fall into this loop and time will still move forward. After Tuesday, it will be Wednesday and Thursday. This is why those people wrote Wednesday and Thursday on the sticky notes.

Or you can just not step on the footprints twice in two days. This way you will only go back to yesterday, rather than going back to "yesterday's yesterday" and falling into a dead end cycle.

Unfortunately, this is exactly the problem.

Zhong Xie fell into the trap.

His ability to act and desire to explore were too strong. As soon as he came up, he stepped on the strange footprints with his two big feet and fell into the circular trap cleanly.

No wonder he hadn’t seen anyone else in the Hexagonal Nest for such a long time. There were obviously many signs of people living here, but he just hadn’t seen anyone else.

Because very few people of Niu Mo's group will stay on Monday, their time continues to pass, and they have already reached the legendary "Wednesday realm", "Thursday realm" or even "Sunday realm".

Even if you are trapped in this "two-day cycle" by mistake, you will probably be trapped in the subsequent days such as "Wednesday-Thursday" and "Thursday-Friday".

Only him!
Only the genius Zhong Xie could be trapped in the "Monday and Tuesday" when he first entered the room, and it was not because he left footprints in the corpse-blasting room.

The starting point of the two-day cycle is definitely not here, but earlier.

As early as when Zhong Xie came to the Hexagonal Nest in that "future", he must have fallen into reincarnation.

It is precisely because the "future" Zhong Xie has been trapped in a two-day loop that he is now trapped in the loop as well.

The two are one and the same. It's just the difference between Monday's evil and Tuesday's evil.

No wonder there are sticky notes with “I’m coming in”, “I’m going out” and something like “Little expert in selling guns”, he is as happy as a monkey.

It turned out that the guy couldn't hold back his joy at the thought of being able to trick his future self.

Birth, how could there be such a person with such bad feet in this world? Do you have to step on the footprints of a strange story to test the strength of the rules?
Now it’s OK. I’ve tried it out. Are you satisfied? Tuesday Zhongxie?

For a moment, Zhong Xie was so speechless that he couldn't even empathize with himself.

"Oops, we might be trapped here for two days." Zhong Xie sighed, summoned Kuster and patted him on the shoulder. "Now we can only go and see if the real body of the ghost story is in the hexagonal nest. If it hides its real body on Saturday and Sunday... Oh no, then I really have no idea what to do."

"You surrendered so soon, Zhong Xie?" Kuster was shocked. "Didn't we just start collecting clues and information?"

Zhong Xie shrugged. "That can't be helped. My time limit is very limited. I can only move within these two days. Even my range of movement is limited. I can never run the distance of a 'day'."

If he spends time normally after being trapped in the loop, his tomorrow will actually be his yesterday.

There is just no solution.

Eh, no solution?
But on second thought, Zhong Xie felt that he had noticed a new piece of information.

Before stepping on the footprints, he was Monday Zhongxie, but after stepping on the footprints he went back to yesterday, so didn’t he become Tuesday Zhongxie?
In other words, he became the person he hated just now.

This is not some classic quote from youth trauma literature. It is true that I have become the person I once hated the most. But isn’t the way out here?
Zhong Xie went out on Tuesday and brought back a lot of guns!

Doesn't this mean that he can go out today too?

Doesn’t this mean that not only can he go out, but he can also leave a message on the sticky note “I’m going out” or “I’m back”!
whee.

I want to laugh when I think about the next Zhong Xie seeing my sticky note and thinking that it was me who tricked him into the “two-day loop”.

He did what he said, and Zhong Xie's frustration came and went quickly.

He immediately began to look for props in the hexagonal nest that could change his fate. Since Zhong Xie was able to do it last Tuesday, he could certainly do it.

After going around in circles, Zhong Xie found himself back in the room where he had just entered the hexagonal nest. He thought for a moment, then reached out and pushed open the door.

Once, when the door was opened, it was the deputy captain who had almost completely lost his mind, and then he committed suicide in the room.

Zhong Xie was mentally prepared. When he opened the door, he saw the deputy captain's headless body still lying on the bed.

Well, the corpse-blasting room is full of young girls’ bacon, which means that the cycle in this hexagonal nest will not restart and refresh the corpses.

Then why is there only the body of the deputy captain here?

Shouldn't it be piled up like a bomb room?

Could it be that it was eaten by something?

Even if you fry a corpse, you can't eat it until only a corpse is left.

While thinking, Zhong Xie started cleaning the room. He had cleaned it before when he sorted out the deputy captain's belongings, but it didn't seem clean enough now.

As he was cleaning, Zhong Xie had a new idea.

He seemed to know where the headless bodies had gone.

Zhong Xie took Kuster back, then placed the snakeskin bag on the bed, letting the headless corpse's feet half droop down to the ground, and then placed a piece of footprint paper on it.

He jumped onto the bed, grabbed the headless corpse's clothes, put on his snakeskin bag, and then stepped on the accelerator lightly.

Well, the accelerator, the accelerator is the leg of the headless corpse.

After being affected by Zhong Xie's force, the corpse's feet naturally fell to the ground, just touching the strange footprint.

Sit tight, the Rat Time Machine is about to start!

Happy bus, woosh, woosh, let’s go!

So the next second.

whoosh-

The headless corpse, Zhong Xie and the two snakeskin bags in the room disappeared instantly and were teleported to the unknown "yesterday" together.

Well, "Zhong Xie's" yesterday has been determined, and he is trapped in a two-day loop.

What about the vice-captain?
Let’s go to the vice-captain’s office yesterday to see the head office?
This is probably why there are no other deputy captain bodies in this room.

Because every headless corpse was used as a time machine by Zhong Xie and driven away beautifully~
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"Where the hell is this?" Zhong Xie got up from the ground and patted his back. He looked at the room in the hexagonal nest in front of him, still confused.

What day of the week is it now?

In a trance, Zhong Xie finally realized what had happened during the time travel.

The first time he traveled through time, he seemed to have entered a room, but there were strange footprints at the footsteps of the room, so the time machine took him on a second journey.

After the time travel, the time machine became unstable, causing him to swing down and flip to the ground, where he happened to touch another footprint.

After repeating this process over and over again, he could only confirm that he had vaguely traveled through time several times, but he could no longer tell where exactly he was.

Because this is not a cycle, one moment it is the headless corpse's yesterday, the next moment it is his own yesterday.

When his cycle becomes intertwined with that of the headless corpse, it becomes more than a simple cycle of "Monday" and "Tuesday."

New changes have occurred in time travel, making the current Zhong Xie even more confused.

Which idiot set this trap?
Are you doing this to me?

Zhong Xie was confused for a moment, he realized that this was most likely a targeted attack.

In this way, he would not be able to tell the time clearly, and would only become more and more confused, because he had no idea how many times he had traveled through time, nor did he know what point in time he had traveled to.

Is it because this Dogecoin weird story is paying attention to me?
Zhong Xie's face darkened and he sat on the bed again to think.

There must be something to assist in timing, otherwise he would not be able to judge what happened "yesterday" after he stepped on the footprints.

The memory will only become more and more confusing, just like the people in the Post-it Notes.

They are all using something to help them remember what happened that day, and they don't want their minds to be confused.

The situation he faces now is dozens of times more complicated.

Need a timing method, right?
Have it.

"It seems that only you can defeat this strange story."

Suddenly, Zhong Xie seriously praised Kuster's ability. He said solemnly:
"I know that the Giant System has the ability to restrain the Rule System to some extent. If the Rule System's ability is a cleverly constructed palace, then the Giant System is a monster with full destructive attributes, and can often defeat cleverness with force."

"No, it depends on the difference in strength between the two sides."

Kuster was puzzled. Why did Zhong Xie, who was just in a confused dilemma, suddenly start praising him?

However, no matter how confused it was, the hamster's round, spherical tail had begun to sway unconsciously, expressing a joy that was inconsistent with its humble words.

This was the first time in many days that he felt valued and cared for by his trainer.

Listen to what it means to "only I can defeat it". It's so well said and makes so much sense.

In good times, you rely on Zhong Xie; in bad times, you rely on Zhong Xie; when you are in desperate times, you have to rely on me, Old Ku.

There is no other way now. Am I the only one who can break the impasse?
"No, now is the best time." Zhong Xie said firmly, helping Kuster recall, "Do you still remember? The previous ghost story was because I provoked it to let us in. I thought it was afraid of me, but after thinking about it carefully, there is no need to be afraid of an ordinary human. It must be worried about your power."

Kuster's eyes widened: "Is... is that so?"

Listen carefully to this...

That makes sense.

"That's right. Your full form is at least level 50. You can definitely pose a threat to some weird stories, especially those based on precise rules. One of your waves can have a drastic impact on them, and I can find loopholes and defeat them with one strike." Zhong Xie said sincerely, "Let's fight side by side, okay?"

Fight alongside.

This is a word that is unfamiliar to Kuster, but it must be said that it is definitely a word that moves the ghost story.

It is nothing more than devoting all one's energy to a cause until death.

So he followed the trainer's instructions, began to absorb the strange power without hesitation, and began to release the form without any concealment.

Zhong Xie pricked up his ears and listened carefully to the movements around him. His heart was pounding and the palpitations indicated that something was about to happen.

Of course something will happen.

The vice-captain's strange story is that he doesn't even use the giant type, so he must have suffered losses before.

And now Zhong Xie took the initiative to take the risk and see what the situation is.

Soon, Kuster's body filled the room, and Zhong Xie silently opened the door and retreated to another room.

"Woo——"

The sharp sound of a whistle came from far away, and Zhong Xie immediately showed a surprised look in that direction.

coming!

A steam train came at high speed, crushing the rooms blocking its way one by one, constantly penetrating the small grids in the honeycomb, and rushing straight to the room where Kuster was.

Without waiting for Kuster to react, the steam train hit Kuster's body, which had not yet been fully liberated, like a sledgehammer, crushing him into powder, and then continued to move forward without looking back, as if nothing had been done.

The crushed Kuster dissipated into strange power and merged into Zhong Xie's body in a dying state.

Zhong Xie had taken his luggage and the headless time machine and hid in another room in advance, so naturally nothing happened.

He checked the situation in his sea of consciousness and made a judgment.

Well, now that Kuster is in a dying state, it will take 25 hours for him to recover and be summoned again.

This is recorded as 1 kWh.

That’s right, this is Zhong Xie’s solution.

Since it is impossible to confirm the specific situation after time travel, we can use ghost stories to manually time it.

1 library hour is 25 hours, and the process is repeated every 25 hours, so that you can clearly know what time you are in the Hexagonal Nest, and you can also calculate how much time the ghost story reset him.

As expected of an excellent ghost storyteller trained by me, even the near-death time can be put to good use.

I like to call it the Rat Calendar.

With a timer and a time machine, now it’s time to really find a way out!

With a wave of his hand, Zhong Xie took control of the road ahead and set off immediately, carrying the corpse and snakeskin bag!

　Ahem, I'll take a nap first. At least I'll update to 10,000 words QAQ
　　The next update time will be postponed to 12 noon every day. I can’t write today. Sorry QAQ
　　
　
(End of this chapter)