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

Chapter 17: Haunted House Disappearance Case. Reported by: Mr. Chen
Get rid of the third party.

Upper position.

Regain custody.

The combination of the three is a very explosive idea, which happens to be Kuster's goal.

It was indeed his fault that he was not clear about the activation method before, but this was not a reason for Zhong Xie to completely finalize the raising plan (which he did not).

The timing is exquisite now.

As soon as Zhong Xie said "Show me", Hammer Girl must have thought that "Marry me" was also part of the display, and she might have agreed subconsciously.

What Kuster said, "Marry me," was not a simple request, it was a "proposal" that was more in line with the triggering conditions of the rule system.

That's right, propose.

"Entering a marriage contract" is actually a very abstract concept for the monsters. Only by actually doing it can you know which step to take to succeed.

Is it “saying yes”, “getting a marriage certificate” or “arranging a wedding”?
No one can tell for sure until we get the [Ritual Simplification] entry.

Therefore, Kuster chose to test it out. It wouldn't hurt to try. Anyway, he spoke in a low voice. Zhong Xie was standing far away and couldn't hear him, so he naturally wouldn't stop him.

The widower's [Wife's Loss] entry is different from the rules of other rule systems. It is not a passive skill. After the conditions are met, he needs to decide whether to trigger the result.

There is no point in killing. After all, Lin Youlan has been of great benefit to his growth. He just wants to try to see if he can regain custody.

He doesn't dare to touch the trainer Zhong Xie's share, but Lin Youlan's share should be fine, right?
As for why he, who advocates rationality, could do such a thing as repaying kindness with enmity, Kuster said, "It's just a strange story."

However, there was one thing that Kuster did not consider.

His voice changed a lot after he transformed from a lizard man into a golden bear. What he thought was a quiet voice was actually as loud as a bell, and the four people present could hear it clearly.

Zui Jie and Danmu Ge looked at each other, suspecting that they had heard it wrong.

Lin Youlan blinked, and for the first time a look of confusion appeared on her face.

Kuster knew he had said something wrong when he opened his mouth, and looked back at Zhong Xie cautiously. Zhong Xie just stared at him with a calm look, so he opened his mouth wide and sucked in the strange power violently, then consciously released his form and prepared to fight.

"The full name of his strange story is 'The Cold-blooded Son-in-law Who Married a Goat's Family'. He often says nonsense. You just have to pretend you didn't hear anything." Zhong Xie made up a story and put the matter aside, while warning Kuster in his heart.

We are Chinese here, don't do your bestiality stuff.

Kuster agreed reluctantly, and only dared to secretly complain that Zhong Xie was overly obsessed with the tentacle girl, the black goat.

After just ten minutes, Kuster's appearance was completely different. The original hamster still had obvious limb features, but now it had turned into a giant golden ball.

It looks like a soft lump, with short limbs tucked under its body, and its tail is also a furry little ball.

There were two round little eyes shining on Kuster's front. He was crawling on the ground, trying hard to support his head.

Without oxygen-producing symbiotic bacteria and resistance symbiotic bacteria, it would not even be able to carry out normal activities after releasing its complete form. Gravity would pin it to the ground and make it unable to move, and the scarcity of oxygen would also affect its combat performance.

The original complete form could last for ten minutes, but now it can only last two or three minutes.

As the hamster's momentum soared, Lin Youlan's eyes gradually lit up. At this point, anyone could see that the golden bear was not a simple elephant-level giant.

"How much does it weigh in its full form? Elephant-class? No, it's definitely over 50 tons."

When Kuster enters his complete form, his body is about twenty meters long, and nearly fifteen meters tall when lying down. His hard hair is like a lion's mane, and his infinite strange power surrounds him, even forming a special cloud-like cyclone.

The boundary between the gray elephant level and the black dragon level of the giant system is 50 tons and level 50. Previously, Zhong Xie said that the golden bear was only level 45, but judging from its current size, it is obviously over 50 tons.

"No, white makes you look fatter." Zhong Xie pointed at Kuster's sides and belly. Both parts were covered with large patches of white hair, making him look fatter.

Without further ado, several people returned to combat mode. Zhong Xie climbed onto Kuster's head in two or three steps, grabbed the top two tufts of hair and transformed into a hamster knight.

"Roar--" Kuster followed the surging and impatient strange power instinct in his body and released it in the form of an agitated wave. The cyclone on his side spun rapidly and exploded, driving the majestic strange power to vibrate out.

At this time, Kuster was a level 50 ghost story. Even if it was a castrated version, it was still level 50. The initial shock wave almost blew away the three people on the ground.

The hammer girl thrust her hammer into the ground to stabilize her body. The turbulent waves that swept through took away the blood color of the hammer head, making it much dimmer.

Zhang Zitai and Jiang Shuran were not the main targets of the agitated wave. Kuster had tried his best to control the direction, but this was not a game and there were no friendly targets. Therefore, the two people's strange conversation was still affected and their bodies began to become virtual.

Zhong Xie, hiding in the hamster's head, observed the entire process of the shock wave. He noticed that this strange shock wave seemed to have limited impact on non-living things, such as the lamps and window glass in the venue did not suffer corresponding damage.

Does the impact of the ghost force have a greater impact on living things, especially ghost creatures?
Zhong Xie's gaze fell on Lin Youlan who had regained her ability to move. The opponent's target was obviously on Zhang Zitai and Jiang Shuran. He probably knew that Kuster still needed time to rest before releasing the next surge wave.

"She's coming. Keep your distance from her." Jiang Shuran looked at Lin Youlan who was approaching quickly with a hammer, and whispered a reminder to Zhang Zitai behind her. At the same time, she summoned two sharp mouths and rushed towards Lin Youlan to bite.

Lin Youlan narrowed her eyes, calculated the distance in her mind, and smashed the ground in front of her with one hand. The hammer head suddenly accelerated during the fall, and the skull-crushing hammer threw her out in a manner similar to a shoulder throw, instantly avoiding Big Mouth's attack and approaching Jiang Shuran and the other person in the air.

"boom."

She landed in front of Jiang Shuran, raised her right hand high, and a wire was connected from her right hand to the hammer behind her. She pulled the hammer gently and it fell into her hand. She held it horizontally and pointed the hammer head at Jiang Shuran.

Zhong Xie, who was standing high up, witnessed the entire process of the hammer girl's smooth movement and made a silent judgment in his heart.

Lin Youlan must have changed the weight of the hammer. When she hit the ground, it was extremely heavy, and gravity pushed her body forward. When she retracted the hammer, it was extremely light and could be pulled back with just a wire.

On the battlefield, Lin Youlan stared at Jiang Shuran, and finally shook her head slowly: "You haven't completely accepted your own weird talk. I will not hold back in my attack from now on. I want to record your true level."

Jiang Shuran did not reply, her expression gradually becoming serious. The three mouths slowly floated back to her and whispered something in her ears.

"?" Zhang Zita's tablet man was able to clearly sense energy fluctuations and noticed Jiang Shuran's changes at the first moment.

"I'll try to control myself." Jiang Shuran whispered. Her expression was no longer as reserved and elegant as usual, but became vicious and crazy. Her long black hair spread out forward, and two scarlet eyes were faintly visible between her hair.

With these words, the battle started again, and it was still Lin Youlan who initiated the attack. The swing of the hammer kept compressing Jiang Shuran's evasive space, and the ground was hit with a loud bang.

The people in the battle may not be able to see it, but the bystander Zhong Xie clearly discovered that Lin Youlan would always leave a direction for Jiang Shuran to escape. She just wanted to help her teammates feel the crisis and break through themselves in the battle, and she didn't really want to kill anyone. Danger is the best medicine to stimulate the instinct of ghost stories. After only a few rounds, Jiang Shuran gradually adapted to the rhythm and was even able to fight back under the suppression of Lin Youlan.

With disheveled hair, slender fingers and blood-stained clothes, Jiang Shuran was like a real female ghost at this moment. Her body was erratic and agile, and she was always able to dodge Lin Youlan's hammer.

She didn't say a word, but shrill voices rang out everywhere on the field. Three big mouths kept repeating "Kill you" and "Die". If she stopped for a long time, she would feel irritated as if a devil's voice had entered her head.

Three bloody mouths rushed forward to bite continuously. Their target was very clear, and it was only Lin Youlan's hammer.

Although every impact would be broken up by the hammer head, Sanzui still bit off the invisible strange force from the hammer and then reshaped the entity beside Jiang Shuran.

She knew very well that the turbulent wave released by the golden bear just now had dissolved most of the hammer's strange power. A full-strength attack of level 40 or 50 was not so easy to withstand.

However, her bloody mouth was not hit head-on, and her ghost story ability was equal to Lin Youlan's at this time, so this tactic of equal consumption was the most effective.

After all, she still has two teammates...

Two teammates?

Jiang Shuran glanced at him and saw Zhang Zita standing aside, talking confidently, while Zhong Xie, who was on top of the chinchilla bear in the distance, was nowhere to be seen.

"Do you still have the strength left?" Seeing that Jiang Shuran was distracted, Lin Youlan pushed the tail end of the hammer handle forward, pointing it at Jiang Shuran like a gun. But at this moment, her eyes were suddenly covered by a black screen, and she instinctively hesitated with the hammer in her hand.

A sense of crisis of blindness surged into her heart, so she quickly changed her tactics, from stabbing to sweeping, giving priority to protecting her body. The real feeling from the hammer indicated that something had taken the opportunity to attack her.

After a brief adjustment, she got used to the darkness. The feel she had gained from years of practice would not be completely lost because of blindness. She simply closed her eyes and focused her mind on her hearing to sense Jiang Shuran's position.

Then everything in front of my eyes turned bright and white again.

The contrast of the sudden switch between black and white strongly stimulated the brain. The barrage of comments flashed like flashes, and the picture in front of her eyes was sometimes normal and sometimes blocked, just like a mobile phone falling into water and the screen leaking liquid. Coupled with the non-stop harassment from the three big mouths, even though she loved fighting and fun, she felt deeply unhappy.

The iron wire of the hammer head grew wildly in all directions, and quickly determined Jiang Shuran's position by locking onto the strange aura. Lin Youlan did not hesitate to hammer forward to test the situation, and at this time, three sharp screams from Bloody Mouth came from behind.

Didn’t hide?
The information conveyed by the wire indicated that Jiang Shuran did not choose to escape again. It seemed that she wanted to use Bloody Mouth to attack from behind and exchange injuries for injuries.

Lin Youlan did not stop after receiving the signal, and continued to strike with great force.

However, Jiang Shuran opened her mouth, the corners of her mouth were stretched to her ears, her thin and long lips connected from her left ear to her right ear, and her tiny, scaly teeth were densely packed in between, forming a large, terrifying and eerie smile.

The next second, her mouth fell off from her face and instantly expanded to the size of a snakeskin bag, covering Lin Youlan like a net bag.

The fourth bloody mouth is Jiang Shuran’s own mouth. She herself is also a part of this weird story.

However, Zhang Zitai's blinding had reached its limit at this time. Lin Youlan changed his tactics and used a hammer to grab the ground, and used the same trick to throw himself out, temporarily away from the double-team of four bloody mouths.

Lin Youlan looked at Jiang Shuran not far away. The performance of this crazy woman was far beyond her expectations, and she couldn't help but smile with satisfaction.

She adjusted her breath, raised her hand slightly, and the wire pulled the hammer towards her, ready to start the second round.

"Snapped."

A foot came from somewhere and stepped on the wire to the ground. Zhong Xie quickly picked up the wire and pulled it hard. Lin Youlan at the end of the wire immediately flew towards him like a flying rag doll.

He caught it steadily, pinched Lin Youlan's neck with his right hand, and then gently placed it on the ground.

Zhong Xie clapped his hands and ended the battle.

Lin Youlan's trick of changing the weight of the hammer to produce displacement is indeed very imaginative, but the flaw is also obvious. It would be better to intercept it and pull her over.

It is true that her physical condition is superior to that of ordinary people due to years of training and her ghost story ability, but that's all. Compared with Zhong Xie, she is just at the level of an infant.

"You..." Lin Youlan quickly got up from the ground, looked at Zhong Xie, and didn't know what to say for a moment.

Her vision became clear again. The pinch on her neck by Zhong Xie just now temporarily cut off the blood supply to her brain, and she was dizzy and couldn't make any effective response.

The bad news is that he was killed in seconds by a level 5 ghost story. The worse news is that the opponent didn't use a ghost story.

"It's okay. It's normal for trainers to get into fights in our place." Zhong Xie patted Lin Youlan's shoulder and said thoughtfully, "Think about it carefully. If we fight with other ghost stories now, we probably won't need ghost stories."

How can a trainer tame Pokémon if the Pokémon is not as strong as the trainer?

After the battle, Jiang Shuran's appearance returned to normal. She was not injured except for her messy and torn clothes. She walked up to Zhong Xie and looked him up and down. "You are so strong? Judging from your physical combat power, you are no less than a level 10 Bloody Ghost Story."

"Yeah, it looks like I'm already the Devil Muscle Princess." Zhong Xie teased secretly, and Lin Youlan immediately lowered her head to look at her phone.

Zhang Zita tapped twice on the screen of his tablet, secretly surprised.

The sparring just now allowed him to gain a huge amount of emotional energy. He wouldn't have to be so stingy when creating barrages for some time to come. He might even have enough energy to release energy waves for attacks.

It’s not obvious on the surface, but did what I did actually cause Lin Youlan to have so many negative emotions?
even……

The fluctuation is larger than that of normal people.

A sinful thought suddenly arose in his mind.

Using Lin Youlan to increase energy seems to be a very cost-effective method.

Lin Youlan, who had just been browsing her phone, said, "You are stronger than I thought. Now you can try to take on bounty missions and participate in ghost stories."

She showed the page on her phone to everyone: "Yes, the missing person in the haunted house case, the reporter's surname is Chen."

After saying this, she seemed to have thought of the contents of Lao Qin's contract, and because Zhong Xie's strength was indeed highly regarded, she said sincerely:
"I'll listen to you about the ghost stories. I think Lao Qin wants you to control me. I do do some things that seem a little crazy when handling cases, but I have definitely thought them through. You can trust me on this."

Crazy? How crazy can it be?

Zhong Xie raised his eyebrows.

I accept your challenge.

(End of this chapter)