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

Chapter 21 How does Zhong Xie spread?
"Kuster, go and give it a try."

The trainer pointed forward.

Kuster moved forward cautiously. As the second-highest level ghost, he would certainly not be afraid of any ghost below the root level, but no one wanted to be hit by a hammer for no reason.

The woman on the Taigong chair looked up at the three men tiredly. Seeing that they did not respond, she sighed, took off the silver mask on her face and fanned herself with it.

"Okay, are you sure you want to cause trouble? Then I'll have to call for help, okay?"

Half of her face was pitted and the other half was smooth, and the smooth and delicate part was gradually becoming pitted and rough. If you looked closely, you could see maggots drilling in the holes of the pits. Occasionally, something like meat scraps would fall down with the wind from the mask and hit the ground with a "plop".

"You are the friend called by A Shui, where did you get this hammer?" Zhong Xie could see that the other party had no intention of fighting, so he thought of asking him questions first.

What they lack now is information. If they have enough information, they can go straight to A Shui's Huanglong.

"I robbed her." The woman's answer was straightforward. She seemed to be happy to chat with Zhong Xie like this. "When I first came here, I ran into a crazy woman who kept hitting me. I had a fight and only ended after I knocked the hammer off her. If it weren't for the KPI, who would come back to do this kind of thing?"

"Where is the crazy woman?" Jiang Shuran asked.

"That's it." The woman pointed in the direction of the table in the middle of the hall, where were placed the man's black-and-white photo and the red veil she wore when she got married to the man.

There is also a bloody head under the red veil.

"You killed her?!"

Jiang Shuran was excited, her eyes turned red instantly, and a bloody mouth appeared behind her, forming an attacking posture.

The woman sighed, "I'm here to save people, why should I waste my energy killing people? This maggot can only remember faces through photos, not ghost stories. It's already the limit to spend ghost story energy to synchronize physique. Without ghost stories, what else can I use to kill that lunatic?"

She pointed out, "There is a secret passage under the table. The madman went into the secret passage."

Synchronous physique?

Zhong Xie paid keen attention to the woman's words, and the questions that had been in his mind for a long time were answered.

Xiaoshui's version of Boss Chen's Hot Wheels could even hurt him easily, which was enough to show that their physical fitness had been terribly enhanced.

However, he had a question at that time: why couldn't such a strengthened body sense the power of ghost stories?
Unless one has an acquired physique like Zhong Xie, temporary strengthening will definitely involve the power of strange talk.

Now you know that maggots provide weird power and it is consumed during the strengthening process.

The woman mentioned "synchronization", which means that the maggots will be strengthened according to the character's own constitution, and the results of planting with different "friends" may be different.

To be able to be placed here by Ah Shui to stop him, this woman’s ability must be deeply trusted.

The woman was still mumbling, with a lot of dissatisfaction in her words: "I think this woman is crazy, who gave her the courage to do such a thing? If Sister Shui knew...tsk tsk."

The maggots on her face were constantly gnawing at her bones and flesh, gradually restoring her face to a very special state.

It is still uneven and covered with small pits of varying heights, but it forms a certain symmetrical pattern.

Zhong Xie looked at the face and pondered for a moment, finally understanding the meaning behind the pattern.

Anyone who has torn someone else's face before can easily find that the direction of these pits is consistent with the distribution of facial bones and muscles.

So the woman's face now is a bit like...

The construction team has completed the "foundation laying" work?

If we compare the maggots to a construction team, we may be able to understand the situation. They do not simply gnaw on the muscles and bones of the face, but gnaw selectively according to requirements.

I'm afraid the job of maggots is not to eat, but to obtain "building materials". After eating, they probably spit out substances to fill their faces.

It's just like injecting hyaluronic acid during plastic surgery.

This is why Boss Chen can change his appearance just by going in and out of the toilet.

As Zhong Xie made this judgment in his mind, he saw a maggot swimming across a certain area of skin on the woman's face, and then the corresponding area immediately became plump, with an immediate effect.

According to the judgment just now, the maggots have completed the foundation work and now they want to transform the woman into another appearance.

Combining her words just now, Zhong Xie concluded: "Are you leaving here soon?"

It was obvious that this woman entered into the ghost story incident just to complete some kind of KPI. She herself didn't like the so-called "Xiao Shui" very much, so after beating Lin Youlan away and taking the hammer, she was ready to leave.

Changing the face means coming, and changing the face back means leaving.

It seems that neither "Xiao Shui" nor this woman has any interest in "taking over another's body". They will only borrow a body temporarily, but will not occupy it permanently.

Or maybe she couldn't dominate it permanently.

It was as if she had had a fight with Lin Youlan, completely consuming the "energy" that maintained her existence, and since she had completed her target task, she chose to leave without hesitation.

"Wow, you know so many things?" The woman was a little surprised and smiled, a smile that was warm and lively.

The reason why she used the word lively to describe her "smile" is naturally because as she laughed, a few maggots fell out of the holes on her face, and the maggots squirmed on the ground, looking lively and cute.

She thought for a moment and then continued, "You are quite smart. I will give you a task. Go and kill Xiao Shui. How about I give you a gift when we meet next time?"

"The Xiao Shui you are talking about is the thing that possessed Boss Chen? Aren't you here to save her?" Zhong Xie pretended to be confused. He wanted to get more information.

The woman laughed again: "Yes, but my friend's friends are not my friends."

"I originally wanted to save her, but I don't like what she did here. I don't think she got Sister Shui's permission, so I don't want to see her again. I'll just ask you to kill her."

Zhong Xie believed the woman's words because Ah Shui's previous request for help now seemed a little strange.

She was temporarily safe after escaping into the haunted house. With the ability to "change faces", she definitely had a great chance of escaping, but she immediately began to ask for help from Sister Shui, calling on her friends in the name of "saving people".

It's hard not to suspect that she has ulterior motives and most likely wants to start her own business.

Zhong Xie thought that the woman in front of him could stand in the same camp with him because they both wanted Xiao Shui to die.

It seems that since the woman started to reveal the role and details of maggots in her words and deeds, she must have had this idea for a long time.

So Zhong Xie asked: "How to kill?"

"How to kill her?" The woman tilted her head. "Just cut her into pieces."

Then, as if she had figured something out, she raised a finger and said, "You mean to kill Xiao Shui and not Boss Chen on her body? While she 'exists', forcibly remove all the maggots on her face and kill them. When the transformation time is over, if she can't transform back, she will die."

"Okay." Zhong Xie nodded.

After completing the foundation work, the woman's face changed noticeably almost every minute, as the maggots gradually transformed her face into another appearance.

No, it cannot be said to be "transformed" into another appearance, but rather restored to its original appearance.

She was just borrowing this body, and when the time is up the maggots will change it back.

"If you want to kill her, you'll have to hurry up. She doesn't have enough maggots. She has only grown a 'friend' like me now, but she has already started breeding maggots before. It will be too late when these maggots mature."

"Don't underestimate these friends. If you don't want to synchronize your physique and your ghost talk is weak, they may still be able to synchronize their ghost talk."

The woman gave a few reminders, then yawned and threw the skull-crushing hammer back to Zhong Xie: "Please give it to that lunatic for me. He's been numbed by the hammer this time. Next time I see him, I will definitely find a friend who can use a hammer to teach this rude guy a lesson." Synchronize the ghost stories?
The woman sounded weak, but she wasn't really weak to them.

The woman didn't say anything else. She closed her eyes peacefully on the armchair. When she opened her eyes again, she was a completely different person.

"Why am I here? Ke Yang?" She stood up from the grandpa chair and wanted to take a few steps but sat back down on the chair because her steps were unsteady. When she noticed the red lantern of Zhou Ting in Ke Yang's hand, her eyes widened with horror, "Zhou Ting?!"

"You are classmates, right? You explain it to her." Zhong Xie said to Ke Yang, then squatted on the ground and picked up a maggot that was not yet dead and was still twisting, and compared it with the maggot in the lantern head in his hand.

The maggots that fell from the face were complete, while the maggots in the head were only half. Now Zhong Xie could clearly see the difference.

Normal maggots use their heads to eat and their tails to excrete, relying on this process to reshape their faces, but the maggots in the human head lantern only have the front half.

Maggots in this state have entered into reproduction mode, and they can accumulate energy for reproduction by eating without defecation.

It seems that these two human head lanterns will be eaten by maggots sooner or later, and then the maggots will completely hatch into adults.

The maggots in the toilet were taken away by Lin Youlan, and A Shui was in urgent need of planting friends, so he used these heads to breed maggots in large numbers.

"How many classmates are there in your class?" Zhong Xie walked to the desk to look for the secret passage and asked Ke Yang at the same time.

"Eleven people, I don't know how many are still alive." Ke Yang shook his head. He and Jiang Shuran were looking for the secret passage under the table.

"Click."

Since the secret passage was set up for tourists in the haunted house, it was not difficult to find. Zhong Xie flipped the black and white photo and opened the entrance to the secret passage. He thought for a moment and lifted the red veil next to the black and white photo, pointing at the bloody head and continued to ask: "Is this also your classmate?"

Just like what the woman said before, this head was also used by A Shui to raise maggots.

Ke Yang walked up to carefully identify her and gave a negative answer: "No, but I remember that she was in another group of tourists. There were about eight or nine tourists in that group. They entered the recreational area before us and should have been trapped in the strange incident."

He changed very quickly. At first he was panicked when he saw those bloody and horrifying scenes, but now he is much calmer.

"There are about 20 tourists." Zhong Xie got the answer, "Then there should be quite a few survivors, about or ?"

This number was his guess, not because he was optimistic, but because no more people could die.

Don’t forget, growing friends requires “people”.

How to make friends if all these tourists die?
I guess Ah Shui's heart must have been bleeding when she killed these three people to hatch maggots, because every person killed meant one less friend she could summon.

Planting friends, using human faces as fields, maggots as farmers, and producing the fruit called "friends".

interesting.

"Give priority to finding those tourists. One more tourist we find, the less pressure we will have later." Zhong Xie strengthened his determination to rescue them, and Jiang Shuran certainly had no objection to this.

Although she always thought it was scary that she had lost her humanity after turning into a female ghost, compared to Zhong Xie who would show an excited expression when dismantling or breaking a human body...

I'm such a saint.

But she is not a saintly bitch, so it is impossible for her to oppose Zhong Xie.

He always chooses the most correct option.

Several people entered the secret passage, with Kuster still leading the way. Due to his huge body that almost blocked the entire secret passage, and his inability to move around easily in a doll costume, they moved slowly.

He was also kicked several times by Zhong Xie.

"So this strange incident was caused by the guy called 'Xiao Shui'?"

In the low secret passage, Ke Yang, holding a human head lantern, bent forward and asked in a low voice.

Zhong Xie said: "Yes, we are preparing to kill her now."

"I can do anything. I want to contribute." Ke Yang's voice was not loud, but very firm. As he walked with his back bent, he was very close to Zhou Ting's head in the lantern.

The originally strange and ferocious head just stayed there calmly, looking at Ke Yang calmly. It opened its mouth after a long time, tears streaming down its face before it could speak.

The man and the head were separated only by a thin layer of red lantern skin, but they seemed like a world apart.

"Great joy, great joy." She muttered softly.

They were like this in the class before. There was only a thin layer of window paper between them, but it felt like a mountain and sea separated them.

The secret passage was not long. After a few minutes, Kuster pushed open a small door above and crawled out from under the bed.

Here is the next scene of the “Strange Marriage” theme – the bridal chamber.

The room is not small, and a layer of red gauze divides it into two parts: bedroom and living room. The Chinese-style decoration of the room, combined with the three red candles and two white candles lit on the table, makes it look very gloomy.

The word "囍" is pasted everywhere, but the place where it should appear, the one at the head of the bed, is just an upside-down word "甸" with a white background and black background.

According to the childhood story of "blessings falling down", the meaning here is probably "founded".

"Three long and two short? Interesting." Zhong Xie walked to the black lacquered wooden table, looked at the three long red candles and two short white candles that were lit, and explained the deep meaning behind them, which he found quite interesting.

Originally, there was nothing to be afraid of in the haunted house, but now after the ghost story incidents have occurred, the density of ghost stories in the entire area is completely different, and these originally "fake" things may become true.

Zhong Xie walked around the room but found nothing special. The only places where people could hide were the two huge black double-door wardrobes in the corner.

So he walked to the closet and flung open the door.

Sure enough, there were two boys hiding inside, who looked about the same age as Ke Yang.

"Close it quickly, there are too many people hiding here, you should go somewhere else." One of the boys hurriedly urged Zhong Xie to leave, while the other boy looked behind Zhong Xie nervously.

He said in a trembling voice: "There is a paper maid who has been looking for someone. She just left the room. You should find a chance to leave. Don't stay here. It's very dangerous."

"Paper man?" Zhong Xie made a puzzled sound, and then pulled out a humanoid creature more than one meter long from the corner of the closet above the two boys' heads.

He pointed at the paper maid with a white face, red cheeks and big eyes and asked them: "Are you looking for her?"

"Hehe, I've been discovered." The paper maid stuck out her tongue, looking very cute.

Two boys: “!!!”

"Kuster, get rid of it." Zhong Xie reached out to take off the paper man, Tuan Ba Tuan Ba threw the paper man to Kuster, then looked at the two boys and fell into deep thought.

In this case, there will be four burdens in the team.

With his and Jiang Shuran's level, it would be difficult to deal with them if they met a few more "friends".

These ordinary people have little fighting ability and are timid. If they are abandoned, they will become an aid to the enemy, which will be very troublesome.

Ok?
Capitalize on the enemy?

Since it is supplies, if it can help the enemy, why can’t it help ourselves?
Hey, I have a bold idea.

Zhong Xie's eyes lit up, and he showed an expression of sudden inspiration, as if "the man with glasses stretched out his finger".

Wouldn't it be enough to use maggots to turn these ordinary people into "Zhong Xie"?
If one Zhong Xie can't do it, ten Zhong Xies can definitely do it, right?
To spread the Zhongxie, we must spread the Zhongxie vigorously!
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