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

Chapter 42: Hmm, cat girl explodes? (Please subscribe first, brothers!!!)
Before the gunshots rang out, Zhong Xie wanted to stop it.

Unfortunately, his brain's predictions told him that he would not be able to stop the attack and that he might be accidentally injured.

After all, this is a standard rifle. Even if it is just a scratch, it will probably have a great impact on his combat effectiveness.

Custer is unreliable, and he is the only one who can carry the banner.

So he didn't make any move, but just frowned as he watched the deputy captain in front of him commit suicide, and watched the headless corpse slowly fall backwards, turning the white bed into a dark red.

BYD has information but doesn't tell anyone, so he becomes a riddle teller, right?
Zhong Xie was speechless, but he knew that the deputy captain probably couldn't hold on any longer.

He absolutely believed in the firmness of a soldier's will, so what could drive the deputy captain to lose his mind?
monster?

No, not some physical monster.

Is it "time"?

Death came, and three groups of strange air currents of different colors floated away from the deputy captain's body, turning into invisible strange force supplements and entering the air.

After the death of a ghost story, the ghost stories on the body will lose their carrier in reality and will automatically disappear like this.

In most cases, the ghost story will only be beaten to a near-death state, and then automatically bounce back into the ghost story master's body and enter the sea of consciousness to recover. In very rare cases, it will be directly beaten to pieces and die completely.

Generally, this will only happen when the difference in strength between the two sides is too great. In this case, the ghost talker's ghost talk limit will be reduced by 1 after the ghost talker dies.

Zhong Xie, who knew this rule, also had a vicious idea. If there was a genius like Blue Silver Emperor who opposed him, he would fill the opponent's weird talk slot with rubbish weird talks, and then eliminate all the rubbish weird talks in one go, bringing the opponent's weird talk cap to 0, making him a waste for the rest of his life.

But on second thought, the system that is easiest to awaken in this desperate situation is the most difficult and hot-blooded system, so it is safer to just kill it.

Zhong Xie looked at the deputy captain’s body. The strange talk about the other party had dissipated and even the death animation appeared. It was estimated that he was not a “fake” deputy captain.

Just die here?

He and the deputy captain were separated for only five minutes at most, but it seemed as if he had been asleep for several days. When he woke up, the plot had developed to this point?
You skipped your favorite process of exploring the rules, and people started dying right away, right?
Zhong Xie was searching the corpses while thinking. As a fully armed special forces soldier, the deputy captain still had a lot of good things on him, such as water bottles, individual military rations, energy bars, medical kits, etc.

With these things, plus the resources in the snakeskin bag and a constant supply of water, Zhong Xie felt that he could survive in this hive for more than a week.
Of course the most important thing is firearms.

Even though it's an empty gun, what if we can find bullets?

According to the deputy captain, these guns were brought back by "Zhong Xie" after he ran out of the manor for them to use. Since they all had guns, it was impossible that they only had a small number of bullets.

However, Zhong Xie still had some doubts. He didn't understand why he had to move the hot weapons outside the manor in after he ran away.

Why do you look like you're looking for a fight? Who has pissed me off again?
The captain said that hot weapons are not very useful in the ghost story area, they are only effective against human targets, and it is easy to accidentally injure teammates under the influence of the illusions created by the ghost stories. So what is the purpose of this "Zhong Xie" bringing back guns?
Zhong Xie put himself into the conversation, trying to find the reason why he helped carry the gun, but he had no reasonable idea.

The honeycomb room is so small that I don’t know how many rooms can be penetrated by one shot. How can a weapon with a high chance of collateral damage be used here?
It would be better to just find a piece of steel bar?

Although he didn't have time to ask anything before the deputy captain suffered a mental breakdown and committed suicide, Zhong Xie still learned a piece of news.

It seems that more information can be obtained from the special operations captain because "he" still has a chance.

Now Zhong Xie has two guesses in his mind:

1. The "Zhong Xie" who took the gun was an illusion created by some weird story, and he himself inexplicably entered the hive a few days late, so he could not understand the current plot node.

2. The "Zhong Xie" who took the gun is Zhong Xie in a certain time period in the future. The beehive is the gathering point of chaotic time and space. Zhong Xie and the special forces from multiple time periods gathered together, which made the current situation so complicated.

Zhong Xie tends to believe the latter, because the influence of "time" plays a large role in this strange story, and it can also explain the special forces' request for help.

In this villa, the Wild Wolf Squad sent two messages to the headquarters.

The first one was a sign indicating that there were suspected high-level ghost stories around, and the second one two minutes later was a distress signal.

His memory was very clear. The first message was sent by the deputy captain, and two minutes later the deputy captain disappeared with the communicator.

This can be explained if the time in the hive is messed up. To the outside world, the two messages appear to be only two minutes apart, but in fact a long time may have passed inside the hive.

Zhong Xie looked at the headless body of the deputy captain, but did not find the communicator around. It seemed that the communicator had fallen into the hands of someone else.

Pity.

He reluctantly looked away, thinking that the vice-captain was a bit of a waste.

Instead of committing suicide, it would be better to leave it to him to create another Zhong Xie. Now, his head has collapsed and there is no chance to summon a second Zhong Xie.

Wait a minute.

Some derivative speculations emerged in Zhong Xie's mind.

Could it be that the person who held the gun for them was Zhong Xie, who was born in this state?
Then this Zhong Xie became disloyal and betrayed the main body, just like Sister Shui and Xiao Shui.

"Do you remember what you were doing a day ago?"

There was also a small sticky note book on the table in the deputy captain's room. Unlike the blank sticky note that Zhong Xie found, someone had written something on this sticky note book.

This sentence is written on the first page.

Zhong Xie recalled that it was Tuesday now. The day before was Monday. On Monday, he completed the strange story case "Crime and Punishment", went to the Civil Affairs Bureau in the afternoon, and successfully facilitated the marriage of a pair of mice in the evening.

He turned to the second page. This sticky note book was a bit like a message board, and it seemed that different people were answering the question on the first page.

"I was in Hexagon Nest a day ago (Thursday) and I saw the train, the train brought food and water, thank you for the gift."

"(Wednesday) I was making final preparations at home a day ago. I am about to leave for Wangcheng. I will earn enough high-quality ghost story capsules on this trip. If I am lucky, I will get rich by picking up a ghost story egg. Nannan's disease will definitely be cured. Remember, I am here for Nannan."

"(Monday) I was in the Hexagon Nest a day ago. I avoided everyone. I washed clothes and kept washing clothes. Be careful of them and be careful of yourself. Everyone wants to correct the time and go back to the day when they didn't come to Wangcheng. How is it possible?!" "(Tuesday) I was in the Hexagon Nest a day ago. I went out and I came back. I went out again and I came back again. La la la la la la, I am a little expert in selling guns~"

Zhong Xie looked silently at the handwriting of the fourth answer to the question. Although he was a little reluctant to admit it, he still recognized it easily.

This is the handwriting belonging to Zhong Xie.

This little gun-selling expert who "went out" and "came back" is him.

"This was written by you, right? How come you were already in the Hexagonal Nest yesterday?" Kuster, who was carrying a snakeskin bag on the side, was puzzled. Seeing this, he naturally understood that the Hexagonal Nest referred to the area where they were, but didn't Zhong Xie take him everywhere to look for ways to get married yesterday?

Could it be that he and Zhong Xie both blacked out?

Zhong Xie said nothing, but just kept flipping through the pages. There weren't many pages in this sticky note book, so he finished it in a few seconds.

Nine out of ten recorders said "I was in the Hexagon Nest yesterday". They recorded the date at that time, and almost every answer used a key specific thing to aid memory.

"Train", "girl", "washing clothes", "gun"...

Perhaps it is because of the influence of ghost stories that memory will gradually become blurred, so we need to constantly deepen our memory?

Now one thing can be confirmed, he did not trigger the ghost story incident, what affected this villa was not a ghost story incident, but some kind of ghost story.

After entering the Hexagonal Nest, no basic information about the strange incident emerged in his mind. This is the most basic method of judgment.

Since it is not a ghost story, then everything he encountered is the ability of this ghost story.

[Rule-based weird story, time type, with entity.]

rule:

When the footprints overlap with it, you will be teleported to the hexagonal nest. 】

Zhong Xie wrote down the information about the ghost story that he had judged on the memo, but somehow, he frowned slightly when he looked at the rules of the ghost story, then took out his mobile phone and tried to check the time.

However, the time displayed on the phone is "88:88", which is no different from garbled characters.

So Zhong Xie turned to the answer of "Zhong Xie" in another memo and pondered silently.

It took him a long time to modify the rules.

【rule:
When the footprints overlap with it, it will return to yesterday. 】

Yes, it is not that you enter the hexagonal nest by stepping on the footprints, but because he was in the hexagonal nest yesterday, stepping on the footprints is actually going back to yesterday.

The name "Zhong Xie" written on the sticky note is Tuesday. It was Tuesday when Zhong Xie entered the villa, and stepping on the footprints would take him back to yesterday, which means that the moment he entered the hexagonal nest was actually Monday.

The content of this sticky note was left by tomorrow's "Zhong Xie", which means that tomorrow's "Zhong Xie" will leave the Hexagonal Nest and bring back all the guns mentioned by the deputy captain.

In this way, the time logic for entering this place is straightened out.

"The power to move time?" Kuster was surprised for a moment. Just thinking about it, he knew that this level of power would definitely appear in a powerful ghost.

His tone was somewhat hesitant: "And it also has the ability to modify cognition. This is weird..."

"Things that play with time will eventually be punished by time."

This sentence was written on the last side of the sticky note. It sounded like a warning, but also like a reverse curse against the ghost story. Now Zhong Xie interrupted Kuster with this sentence.

They were unlucky, as the place entrenched was a rule-based weirdo, so the frontal combat capability that the special forces were so proud of could not be displayed normally.

They were also lucky because this was a rule-based horror story, the only type of advanced horror story that Zhong Xie could deal with so far.

"Let's go, take the snakeskin bag, and look for other people. There are quite a few people stranded in this hexagonal nest. I have a feeling they will know more information."

The hunch was wrong.

Zhong Xie searched for an entire afternoon, passing through more than a hundred rooms. At first, he just opened a room at random, took out his shorts and looked at the sticky notes. Later, he gradually felt something was wrong and tried to move forward in a straight line, but until now he has not made any new discoveries.

Kuster's snakeskin bag was already filled with 138 pairs of shorts for men and women. Even though he had great trust in Zhong Xie's ability, he was still confused: "Why is there no one here? Did they go to the mountain to worship the goddess temple to atone for their sins?"

"Click——"

Zhong Xie tried to turn the doorknob but failed, so he went around to the other two doors in the room and tried again.

Still failed.

A room has three doors, all of which are locked and cannot be opened, which means there is someone in the room.

Zhong Xie suddenly became excited. He went up and smashed the door lock with the butt of his gun. Then he fumbled around to pull out the door handle and finally kicked open the unlocked door of the room.

This room is very clean. It can be seen that the owner is a good kid who loves cleanliness just like Shushu...

Eh?
Zhong Xie raised his head, his sight fell on a corner of the ceiling, where a corpse was quietly clinging to it, motionless and unusually well-behaved, as if it wanted to merge into one with the ceiling.

However, the smell of lard still betrayed it.

What surprised Zhong Xie even more was that the exploded corpse had a pair of familiar cat ears.

Um, cat girl exploding corpse?

　Also, wait a minute, it seems that the VIP ticket has been overwritten for me, wait a minute
　　
　
(End of this chapter)