Forbidden Zone of Deception

Chapter 116 Danger Surrounded
Dingyou Reincarnation Camp.

Long Cang's eyes were almost blood red.

"Don't worry, I will make sure Xiao Wu's funeral is held in a grand and respectable manner."

"Thank you... Commander."

Long Cang's hands were still trembling; he still couldn't bear the reality of having personally chopped off his nephew's head.

The Blood Lord walked up and patted him on the shoulder.

"You and Xiao Wu were among the first people to team up with me after I left the Insect Nest team. I know you better than anyone else. What's the story behind Xiao Wu's death?"

Long Cang almost bit his lip until it bled. He looked up at the sharp eyes of the Blood Lord through his glasses, murmured, and suddenly knelt on the ground!
"Commander! I am guilty!"

Blood Lord gripped the corner of the table tightly and said, "Fine... what crime have you committed?"

"I used a resentment crystal to cast a substitution spell, making someone else die in Xiao Wu's place so that he could advance to the Flying Head Curse! But, something went wrong."

Upon hearing this, Blood Lord frowned deeply and roared, "You're confused! Do you know how many people are watching us? Do you think that just because we're doing dirty work for the court and acting as their front men, they'll protect us? Fine, fine, fine, Long Cang, you've got some nerve. You dare to keep anything from me now?"

"It's all my fault!" Long Cang lowered his head sharply. "I handled this matter very cleanly. I issued a silence order, so it won't implicate our team!"

"Don't be so clever! How many capable people are there among the reincarnators? Do you think the imperial court is really determined to control us and can't do it? Many things seem insignificant until they are weighed, but once they are, they weigh a ton! Tell me the details of what happened!"

ten minutes later.

"The cleaners rescued those children, right?" Blood Lord looked at Long Cang, his most trusted confidant, whom he absolutely could not sacrifice. "You'd better pray that the children are alright, otherwise, if anything happens to any of them, I can't protect you either! Remember, we are just lackeys, not born with a silver spoon in our mouths!"

"I know! But Commander, Xiao Wu... Xiao Wu's death cannot be left like this!" Long Cang had gone mad and began to speak recklessly: "As long as I can avenge this, I am willing to atone with my death and will never implicate you, Commander!"

"What you did is the same as what I did! How could it not implicate me!" Blood Lord stepped forward and forcibly helped Long Cang up. "I'll clean up your mess first, and then investigate the cause and effect of the matter! Avenging Xiao Wu requires careful planning, at least not now! Xiao Wu will not have died in vain, and no one in my Bloody Team can have died in vain!"

After calming Long Cang down and letting him go, Blood Lord picked up his phone and started making calls to his contacts.

To be honest, Long Cang had gotten him into a lot of trouble, but since they were brothers who had gone through thick and thin together, he still had to try his best to find a way to solve the problem for him.

As for revenge... we need to see who's involved, whether they're reincarnators, what their background is, and whether we can afford to offend them.

"Hello, please connect me to Minister Chen..."

"Minister Chen, it's me..."

After a half-hour phone call, Blood Lord's expression turned somewhat grim.

“Jiang Jin? That name sounds familiar…” After recalling for a full five seconds, Blood Lord’s eyes lit up. “That’s right! One of the suspects who might have killed Wu Qin!”

Among the suspects who might have killed Wu Qin and taken his resentment crystal fragments and soul-refining urn, Jiang Jin was basically ruled out from the beginning, after all, he was just a newly reincarnated person.

But unexpectedly, I heard that name again so soon.

"coincide?"

impossible!
One of the reasons why Blood Lord has survived to this day is that he has never harbored any侥幸心理 (a sense of侥幸, or a belief that he can get away with something).
"Su Yuan promised me that this matter had nothing to do with Chen Xi, and given Lady Pustules' personality, if she had killed Wu Qin, she would be unlikely to cover it up. Could it really be this Jiang Jin?"

"But his brother is about to take office as the chief constable of the Changming District government. And Jiang Jin himself has been assigned to the outer ring patrol team! Could this identity be related to the Yanjing court? Or is he able to speak with high-ranking officials?"

If it were an ordinary person without any background, Blood Lord could have arrested them simply out of suspicion. But the sensitive nature of their identity makes him hesitant to act rashly.

Every LV4 reincarnator is under close scrutiny by the imperial court. The court has always strictly controlled the path from LV4 to LV5, ensuring that no LV5 will disobey their orders. Therefore, he cannot ignore the need to cultivate good relations with those above him.

"It seems we need to think this through more carefully. We need to find a way to test... this person named Jiang Jin."

If it really is him, and Xiao Wu hadn't died, Blood Lord would definitely offer him generous terms to recruit him! You know, a newly promoted LV1 reincarnator who just came out of the first terrifying dungeon actually had the ability to kill Wu Qin, a near LV3, what kind of heaven-defying monster is that? If this person is willing to submit, then everyone will be happy, and I can gain a good general!

But Xiao Wu's death made him suspect that this person might be specifically targeting their Bloodthirsty Team! First Wu Qin, then Xiao Wu—could this person have secretly sided with Madam Pustules? In any case, they had to find out the truth. If this kind of monster was really against their Bloodthirsty Team, then they had to eliminate him before he grew up, at all costs!
"Shumei said that she sensed some spiritual energy through the shrine, so..."

At this moment, Jiang Jin would never have imagined that he, a newbie at LV1, would be targeted by a LV4 giant like Blood Lord.

Time flew by, and fewer and fewer customers came in after that, and none of them bought lime juice.

Sometimes, just as the ghost customer is about to step through the door, a paper figure will rush out and take him away!

Now, Jiang Jin understands.

The paper effigy was always on Yimin Road outside the convenience store, helping them get rid of those ghost customers. Because of this, only a few people were able to get into the convenience store in the end.

But even if there are only a few, if even one person buys lime juice and drinks it in the store, then they are definitely doomed!
Currently, it seems that the cognitive pollution of ghost customers requires both Nuo opera masks and burning incense; neither can be omitted. In other words, the cognitive pollution effect of incense is limited, and masks are still needed to make the ghosts believe that they are also ghosts.

After midnight, everyone is working hard until the daytime shift ends!
Half past one in the morning.

Wu Ge is currently handling the cashier's duties.

"Ding--"

The automatic door opens.

Wu Ge's pupils suddenly contracted—he saw a strange customer enter, walk straight to the freezer, open the door without hesitation, and pick up a can of lime juice from the third row!

At that moment, the fluorescent green can looked like the Grim Reaper's scythe in Wu Ge's eyes.

Wu Ge's fingers tightened under the cashier's counter as he touched the fruit knife he had hidden beforehand.

As the customer approached, he quickly gestured: "Sorry, these are employee storage items, not for sale."

After a few seconds of silence, the ghost customer's fingers suddenly flew across the screen: [Lying.] The gesture was sharp as a knife, meaning: [This drink has been on the shelf for three years.]

Wu Ge then noticed that the customer's fingernails were growing longer, with a metallic sheen at the edges.

Just as tensions were about to rise, the ghost customer's claws came over with a prepaid card and made a payment gesture.

Wu Ge, suppressing his trembling, paid the bill for the customer and returned the recharge card.

Fortunately, the customer picked up the lime juice and left without drinking it.

The moment the automatic door closed, Wu Ge almost collapsed to the ground.

On the freezer side, the third row of lime juice bottles had been strangely refilled with eight more cans.

After that, everyone took turns...

At three in the morning, Murong Yan was on duty.

An elderly woman, a ghostly customer, walked in hunched over, her withered fingers reaching directly towards the freezer.

As the old woman approached with the lime juice, Murong Yan quickly gestured with her fingers: "[This store is clearing out its inventory tonight, minimum order of eight cans.]"

If the unit price remains the same, and you buy a full eight cans, will the other party still buy them?
The old woman tilted her head, her eyes turning a cloudy yellow.

Just when Murong Yan thought she was about to be exposed, the old woman actually turned around and took the remaining seven cans of lime juice from the freezer!
Murong Yan felt like her brain had shut down. Did these ghosts really like drinking lime juice that much?

Eight cans of lime juice were lined up on the checkout counter. If it weren't for the fact that this product could be automatically restocked, Murong Yan's actions would have saved everyone else.

Fortunately, Murong Yan was lucky again this time. After paying the bill, she took a plastic bag, filled it with eight cans of lime juice, and gave it to the old woman, who then left immediately.

She suddenly thought: If I buy all eight cans of lime juice, will they not restock?
Murong Yan quickly looked at the third row of the freezer, but unfortunately, the miracle did not happen.

A can of lime juice sits securely in the third row.

As for Jiang Jin, he was also waiting and enduring!

Most people's SAN value is now approaching 40%. They are beginning to fall deeper into the Lost Layer.

If it weren't for the paper figures, I'm afraid even more ghostly customers would have come in.

For Jiang Jin, the cooldown time for his rule-altering ability is drawing ever closer!

……

as time flows.

It's five o'clock in the morning.

Jiang Jin's SAN value is currently 39.3%.

His survival is entirely due to the protection mechanism of a rule-based task.

Upon reaching this level, Jiang Jin began to suspect that the effects of incense might also be weakened!
But there's no other choice; someone has to collect the money.

Jiang Jin yawned as he approached the cashier.

He was starting to miss the Death Knell, Chen's boning knife, the Death Cry hunting rifle, and Liu Yan's Gu worms more and more.

Even a rusty crossbow or a dead man's finger bone arrow would be fine!
Arriving at the cashier, Jiang Jin waited for the new ghost customer to arrive.

Here... Old Chen, A Zi, Qiu Feng... all of them are dead.

He was grabbed by a ghost and swallowed in its mouth in just a few seconds.

Human life is so cheap here, like that of an ant!
The reincarnation system could easily distribute SAN points, so why make them undergo such a cruel and terrifying dungeon trial?
Ultimately, is the reincarnation system that emerged alongside the meme contamination outbreak truly meant to save humanity? This very question raises doubts.

Jiang Jin clenched his fists.

Even if he dies, he will not die a lowly death like livestock.

He will resist!

Even if we can't win, even if we die!

He too would put up a final, desperate resistance against the ghostly creature before him!

As long as he survives today, one day, Jiang Jin will surely become a true hunter who hunts ghosts!
The incense can still burn for a long time.

At that moment, a ghost customer suddenly walked in.

That ghost customer was very tall, at least a head taller than Jiang Jin.

As soon as the ghost customer entered, he made eye contact with the doll on the food shelf.

Jiang Jin immediately realized something was wrong and subconsciously looked at the incense!
However, the next moment, the ghost customer immediately looked at Jiang Jin, following the direction of the doll's finger!

Then, the ghost customer walked in step by step!

Before Jiang Jin could dodge, the ghost customer rushed up and ripped the mask off his face!
No! ! ! !

Then, the ghost customer in front of him grinned from ear to ear, and a huge mouth like a black hole opened in front of Jiang Jin!

(End of this chapter)