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

Chapter 26: The Rat Starship, start!

Zhong Xie happily returned to the villa with two cards in his pocket, planning to go to the forum to see if he could try a single-player dungeon. Lin Youlan went upstairs to find a ghost story capsule and threw it to Zhong Xie downstairs: "Give it to Zhang Zitai, he also contributed to the ghost story incident, the reward can't be shared by the two of us."

"Okay." Zhong Xie put his hands in his pockets and walked towards Zhang Zitai's room.

It seems that Lin Youlan is quite considerate of other people's feelings, unlike what he previously thought of as "only focusing on ghost stories and fighting".

Zhong Xie knocked on Zhang Zitai's door and walked in after getting a response.

At this time, Zhang Zita was leaning on a recliner playing with his mobile phone, with his feet on the bed. The sheets were a little messy, and there were papers with scribbled handwriting scattered on the table.

"The reward for this ghost story event." Zhong Xie threw the ghost story capsule to Zhang Zita. He had just read it. The entries in the capsule were average, but the ghost story projection was very interesting.

【Gunner Soul】

相隔10/30/50/70/100米，进行一场打手枪对决吧！
Projection is an energy-type strange story that can be triggered 6 times. You just need to charge the strange story power.

For an energy-type ghost storyteller like Zhang Zitai, this thing is a powerful tool for training accuracy. It may not improve the ghost story level much, but it greatly improves combat effectiveness.

Energy-type monsters do not automatically search for enemies when they release attacks by clicking the mouse (maybe there are such types). They are very precise in sensing energy and are natural sharpshooters, but they still need a certain amount of training.

Moreover, there are many ways to use energy, which all need to be developed. Zhong Xie has some very wonderful ideas, but unfortunately he has to conquer the energy-related ghost before he can try them out.

"This capsule... is exactly what I need." Zhang Zitai glanced at the information on the capsule and his face lit up. "This kind of basic training capsule is very difficult to obtain. How could it have such a big contribution to this strange incident?"

He looked at Zhong Xie and scratched his bald head. "Could it be that the higher-ups only gave us this one capsule? Or should I consider it as something I bought? After all, your contribution is much greater."

"No need, we all have a share." Zhong Xie took out a card from his pocket and shook it, signaling Zhang Zitai to relax.

"That's good." Zhang Zitai smiled, and then asked Zhong Xie humbly, "I've been following your advice these past two days and have been browsing those forums, and have tried to post a few messages, but I have a strange question, why do they all recommend me to be the new forum favorite?"

"Bar favorite? This is a title that only the most watched and beloved person in the entire bar has the opportunity to obtain. What did you do?" Zhong Xie was curious. He asked Zhang Zitai to go for further studies, but he didn't expect that this guy would be able to achieve success so quickly.

The bar's favorite, he is a well-known figure. Just showing up in the bar can attract hundreds or thousands of insults. Could it be that Zhang Zitai is really a genius with extraordinary talent?
"I didn't do anything." Zhang Zitai frowned, and tried to recall the events of the past two days in as much detail as possible. "It's just like what you said. At the beginning, I just read the posts. What the forum users said was quite interesting, but many words needed to be carefully studied to understand their meaning."

Zhong Xie thought of Zhang Zitai's sloppy handwriting on the table. Now he remembered it clearly. The paper was full of jargon such as "4000+", "cjb", "Little Tangren", etc. Zhang Zitai had carefully deduced the meaning of these words based on the complete sentences and took notes in time to consolidate his memory.

Trying too hard, really trying too hard.

Zhong Xie felt relieved and asked, "And then?"

"It took about a day for me to understand what most people were saying, so I joined in," Zhang Zitai said. "At first, I saw two people cursing at each other for hundreds of times, so I tried to stop the fight with a rational attitude."

He continued: “I dismantled and analyzed each of their arguments one by one, then pointed out the logical fallacies in them and used examples to further analyze them.”

"And then?" Zhong Xie had never seen a bar friend like Zhang Zitai.

Zhang Zitai replied: "They both said I was a reasonable person, and then they teamed up to scold me for more than a hundred floors."

"So I posted a message, calling on everyone to calm down, to debate with an objective and pragmatic attitude, to reduce sarcasm and ridicule. At this stage, I also posted the comments of those who insulted others for critical research." He continued to express his theory, "I call this the 'clean network action'."

After saying this, Zhang Zitai blinked his eyes and said, "Then my account was blocked."

Zhong Xie: “…”

Good man, you still want to lead the Internet cleaning campaign. I can only say that you don’t blame me for being blocked.

"However, after being conferred the title, I have gained many supporters. They respectfully call me the King of the Unsullied, probably to praise my intolerant nature. I also call those who support me the Unsullied Army, but I don't know why they immediately turned against me and started scolding me." Zhang Zitai couldn't figure it out. He felt like he was a bit like Zhao Kuangyin now.

At a time of chaos and turmoil, he suddenly became a prominent figure in Tieba just because his account was blocked.

I remember that the Unsullied are all eunuchs, right?

Zhong Xie stood in awe of the king in front of him. He had a premonition that Zhang Zitai would become a legend.

The sanctification of the physical body has become an Internet myth, and ascending to heaven in broad daylight is probably not out of the question.

At this point, Zhang Zitai scratched his head again and smiled shyly: "Just like you said, I found that I seem to like this feeling."

"It may be a bit embarrassing to say it, but I really felt good when Lin Youlan and A Shui were annoyed by the barrage of comments. Only at that moment did I feel that my side as a ghost story master was recognized." Zhang Zitai's slightly chubby face showed an uncontrollable excitement.

"This feeling of being noticed and valued is what I have been lacking for a long time. I like it very much. Even now, I feel that the scolding of me by those people in the forum is a different kind of enjoyment."

Zhong Xie stared at Zhang Zita, whose face was flushed red. He suddenly found that Zhang Zita seemed to have taken a strange path. He didn't find it strange even if he hummed softly the next second.

"Keep this state, and study your ghost stories with this spirit. I believe it won't be long before you can satisfy your ghost stories." Zhong Xie generally supports Zhang Zita. For a ghost story master, a change in mentality is the most important thing.

Zhang Zita began to enjoy the feeling of disgusting people with barrage of comments, which is good and the first step from 0 to 1.

It is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. Zhong Xie does not intend to help Zhang Zitai think about the usage of the barrage machine throughout the whole process. It would be best if he could stimulate his subjective initiative now.

Seeing Zhang Zitai working so hard, he felt relieved and left Zhang Zitai enough room for upgrades.

Refers to the forum level.

Zhong Xie returned to his room, placed all his current earnings on the table, and began to think about the most efficient plan to become stronger in a short period of time.

The fourth startup entry comes from Lin Youlan.

The giant projection experience package capsule comes from Lin Youlan.

Gray entry exchange card, from strange events. First use the experience pack to upgrade, then configure the four-start entry to Kuster, use the entry exchange card to exchange for an entry that accelerates the entry into the complete form, and another one is to go to the black market to look for interesting strange events without strategy.

After a simple plan, Zhong Xie placed an exchange card on the back of his phone and scanned it to recharge his "Ghost Talk Forum" account. If he had no balance, he wouldn't even be able to enter the official gray entry library, let alone select one.

Entry Points: 100
White entries are worth 10 points each, and grey entries are worth 100 points. The official has not divided the entries into detailed categories according to their specific functions, such as 8 points, 9 points, 11 points, etc. for white entries, because the way to obtain entries is not just to wait for the express delivery, but requires personal instruction from the elite ghost story master.

The energy spent on teaching different white entries is similar. According to the principle of distribution according to work, white entries are uniformly 10 points each. This is really not done by the official just to be lazy and easy to remember.

He clicked on the unlocked grey entry library, and the first thing that popped up was a prompt box.

[Please confirm your ghost story type before exchanging the terms. A 20% service fee will be added to the configuration of different attribute terms, and the terms may not match the actual item after configuration (mostly weakened by 5%~20%)]

[Please confirm the content. We are not responsible for any losses caused by related circumstances.]

Different attribute entry configuration?
Zhong Xie was stunned for a moment and asked Kuster in his heart.

"Different attribute entries? What do they mean?" Kuster also had a head full of question marks, as if he had never heard of it before.

His previous forum account was stolen from a fugitive who was a ghost storyteller who had fled into Wangcheng. The fugitive must have "confirmed" the content, so it was reasonable that he didn't know about it.

Besides, why bother studying entries of other attributes?
Are the giant-type entries not cool enough?
He couldn't exchange the entries, so he had to figure out and experiment with the corresponding training methods on his own. He usually had to carry Miss Black Goat on his back. He was very busy, okay?

Zhong Xie shrugged, and had a deeper understanding of the unreliability of Kuster, the "second weird story".

You still want to give orders about the configuration of entries when you are in such a bad condition? Just be your tool mouse.

Fortunately, Zhong Xie found relevant content in the forum's featured posts, which provided a more in-depth explanation of the five-attribute weird stories.

There is a picture in the post, and the attributes of strange stories are placed in the five corners.

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Bloody
Giant System - Parasitic System
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Rule System - Energy System

(Pictured)
Adjacent attributes are similar in composition, so the ghost story can learn entries of its own attribute and adjacent attributes. For example, the bloody system can additionally learn adjacent giant system and parasitic system entries, but the effect of the entries will be discounted in actual configuration, generally reduced by 5% to 20%.

"This... shouldn't be particularly important, right?" Kuster felt unsure when he said this.

"I don't blame you, go and have fun."

Zhong Xie ignored Kuster.

After mastering this rule, he has more choices. As a dual-attribute monster, Kuster's entry range covers the rule system, giant system, blood system and energy system.

In other words, Kuster can also possess the powerful body of the Bloody System and the precise long-range attacks of the Energy System. In addition, the rule entries and giant entries of this system do not decay, which immediately opens up a gap with the single-attribute Giant System.

So Zhong Xie entered the entry library again, and this time his preliminary list also included the bloody and energy series.

Due to the reduced cost-effectiveness caused by the attenuation of special attributes, the two entries are not within Zhong Xie’s consideration for the time being, but it’s free to browse around, so just make a note of any that you like.

After browsing casually, Zhong Xie put a few gray items into the shopping cart for selection.

[Storm Inhalation (Giant)]: Expands the entire body to absorb the power of the monster, increasing the progress of the form release by 20%. Each form release can only be done once.

[Whale Fall (Giant Series)]: Releases the perfect form and replenishes the remaining ghost power into the surrounding ghost creatures (the range depends on the size of the perfect form).

[Storm Inhalation] Needless to say, it instantly increases the liberation progress by 20%. Zhong Xie suspects that this entry is a must-have for every giant-type ghost story.

If not, either the strange story is not powerful enough and cannot afford to acquire this entry; or the strange story is too powerful and there may be a superior substitute.

[Whale Fall] is to cooperate with Kuster's combo. If the performance of the fourth activation under [Paradox Coexistence] is the "three-hit combo" that Zhong Xie believes, then this entry is extremely useful.

After unleashing three consecutive attacks, Kuster will fall into a cooling-down period of several rounds, which is almost like paying off a debt, and Zhong Xie has never liked to pay off debts.

After I've used my three axes to defeat you, Kuster, just get out of here right away. I'll use [Whale Fall] to replenish the strange power to my teammates around me. I don't have time to watch you dawdle and wait for it to cool down slowly.

Well, after borrowing the usury, you distributed gold bars to the village, and then died on the spot after distributing them. Only the name at the top of the ancestral hall family tree can prove that you, Kuster, have been here.

The second thing that excited Zhong Xie the most was actually an energy-related entry.

[Victory Oriented (Energy System)]: Each time an attack hits a valid target, the movement speed increases by 10% for 3 seconds.

According to the in-depth information revealed in the entry, the scope of "effective targets" is very large, basically including all living things that are clearly visible to the naked eye, such as normal animals and plants and strange creatures, but excluding microorganisms.

The content of the entry is a bit like Xiao Qiao's passive in Honor of Kings, and this is also the superiority of the dual-attribute weird story discovered by Zhong Xie.

Normally, the Giant System is adjacent to the Blood System and the Rule System, so it is impossible for them to learn the Energy System entries. However, the dual-attribute Kuster can do it because the Energy System entries are adjacent to the Rule System.

This is scary, what is Kuster’s current main means of attack?
Large-scale surge wave, how many targets can be hit in one move?
Each target can provide acceleration. If a surge wave is released to places where there are a lot of stray hairs, won’t Kuster’s movement speed take off?

The Dragon-level bulk may not be that obvious yet, why not try it with the Titan-level bulk later?
A Titan-class body weighs tens of thousands of tons, and its size is similar to that of an aircraft carrier. The attack range of the surge wave is wider, affecting more targets and causing greater acceleration.

This is not Xiao Qiao at all, this is a Titan-class starship that is about to activate the warp engine for interstellar travel!
Zhong Xie was definitely looking forward to the effect of this configuration on Kuster, so that if he failed in a dangerous area in the future, he would have a backup escape plan.

Custer could simply use a surge wave to increase his speed to 300 yards, and he could disappear in the blink of an eye.

He may not be able to escape the barrier of ghost stories, but who says he can only play tricks in ghost stories?
He is not such a utilitarian person. Even if there are no rewards from the achievement system, he is still happy to do some interesting things outside of ghost stories.

Moreover, he had heard that some super-large ghost story incidents had a very wide impact range, and the barrier might even surround an entire city. In this case, escaping at the speed of light could completely become his trump card.

　It's a new week, I'll continue to ask for monthly tickets, thank you for your support!!!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)