This bug is amazing!

Chapter 220 Lake Radio Ghost (5k)

Inside the elegantly decorated coffee shop, blood and screams rose and fell.

As blood covered the glass curtain wall, the screams became fewer and fewer, replaced by the low growls of monsters.

Time goes back to ten minutes ago.

Oh my goodness, my dear old baby, guess what I saw? The ecosystem here is absolutely amazing!

The moment Ji Yi opened her eyes, the Data Eye began chattering incessantly.

Before her stood the indifferent-looking Miss Cat, but Ji Yi's attention was focused on the information from the Eye of Data.

See that waitress? Her name is Ji Xue, one of the earliest believers in the ancient gods here. She looks respectable, but in reality…

The woman in my field of vision began to distort like ripples on water, and two seconds later, a horrifying monster came into view.

It was a monster with a squid head, with more than a dozen tentacles waving and dancing in the air. If you looked closely, you could see that they were covered with a thick, green liquid that dripped onto the floor from time to time.

This is a monster, and
They are all of them.

Gulu gulu~
As if a sticky sound was ringing in his ears, everyone in Ji Yi's 360-degree field of vision turned into monsters.

Even the diverse passersby outside the window were no exception.

Tentacles, wings, ominous red fur.

This is practically a monster town. Even with God's vision, which allows you to see through countless obstacles, you can only see countless monsters.

These monsters were doing the exact same things as humans, making the scene extremely bizarre.

[Look west, can you see that lake 30 kilometers away? Geographically speaking, our birthplace isn't that far off from where we were last time.]

Upon hearing this, Ji Yi used her mental energy to see through the buildings and dense forest. A familiar lake came into view again, with a group of renovated buildings on its shore.

That was the "lakeside cottage".

Unlike last time, the lakeside cabins have not only been renovated, but have also attracted a large crowd.

Although there was no fog to obstruct the view this time, Ji Yi could no longer see any more clearly.

Sensing the exhaustion of her mental energy, Ji Yi withdrew her gaze and then staged a scene with Miss Cat.

Back to the present, the coffee shop is completely silent.

Ji Yi poked her head out of the store, flipped the sign that said the store was open, and went back inside.

The elegant decor was filled with monster corpses.

"They are called 'Believers,' unlike the Mist Woman."

Ji Yi casually found a clean spot to sit down and picked up the warm coffee on the table:

"The Mist Maiden received a portion of the power of the Ancient God, and her spirit was not corrupted. These people, on the other hand, worshipped the Ancient God from the bottom of their hearts, and even after their memories were distorted, they still lived as humans."

Ji Yi took a sip of coffee and looked at a monster whose corpse was still relatively intact:

"The only purpose of these guys is to contaminate ordinary humans, and they are unaware of it. Currently, everyone in this town is infected, and the global situation is still unknown."

Ji Yi has figured out the key points of this hellish difficulty level.

In a world where humanity is suffering from spiritual pollution, let's establish a refuge to delay humanity's extinction.
This is difficult, just as difficult as Ji Yi's first attempt at writing a novel, where he aimed to "save the world."

However, the two have different focuses.

The former aims to eliminate tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of alien beasts with strength reaching level B or A or above, making it a truly high-level martial arts world.

Here, we need to find and eliminate those who have been corrupted into monsters from among billions of people, kill them all, establish human refuges, and delay the extinction of humanity.

Of course, this is only enough to reach the hellish level of the game.

If we want this world to be truly safe, we must at least try to reseal the ancient gods in order to preserve this instance world.

Upon hearing this, Miss Cat looked out the window:

"The content of the 'harmful element' here is very low, even so low that it can be ignored."

Ji Yi nodded: "It might be the work of that person back then; the power leaked from the ancient god crossed time and space to reach the island nation. Wait, something seems off."

What was that person's purpose in doing this? Was it revenge against the island nation? It doesn't seem like it.
"It's the Mist Woman."

Miss Cat offered a more credible guess:
"The Mist Maiden's choice to channel the power of the ancient gods to other places in order to preserve her world seems to fit her motivation more."

“Hmm.” Ji Yi confirmed her guess. “I just don’t know what methods she used to do it. But no matter what, we still have to go to the sealed place. Only by solving the problem at its root can we eliminate future troubles.”

Miss Cat nodded silently.

The two immediately prepared themselves, first changing out of their blood-stained clothes, and then scavenging some supplies.

"The food and coffee here are normal, so eat with confidence. They won't cause genetic mutations."

As she spoke, Ji Yi brewed herself another cup of coffee.

“I understand now.” Miss Cat glanced at Ji Yi from the kitchen. “But you’ve had far too much to drink.”

"Damn! Forty thousand yuan a cup of this stuff, I might as well drink it!"

Ji Yi downed another cup of coffee.

It tastes so good, just like the instant coffee that costs 1.5 yuan a packet.

Glug glug, as the tenth cup of coffee was downed, Miss Cat suddenly squeezed in from the side:

"I found this in the staff break room."

"Ok?"

Ji Yi put down her cup, saw that it was a newspaper, casually wiped her hands, and took it from her.

The news headline read: [Beware of it! It might be right next to you!]

Upon seeing this, Ji Yi glanced at the newspaper's name: "What kind of shady newspaper is this? How can this kind of news make the front page?"

However, this was clearly unimportant. Ji Yi flipped back to the main text under the title, her expression quickly becoming subtle:

"A strange thing is lurking among humans. They look exactly like humans, yet they are not the same species at all. Be careful! This creature could subtly replace the people around you!"

Ji Yi narrowed his eyes. There was such a talent here, who could even discover the matter of monsters.

It's even more outrageous that it made the headlines.

The following text will discuss how to identify this monster and how it becomes infected and parasitized.

Ji Yi wasn't interested in identifying the monster; Hagi could do it himself.

The key is the mode of infection.

Unlike traditional disease transmission methods such as airborne or bodily fluid transmission, the monster's infection method is a form of mental transmission.

Once you read related books or participate in discussions on related topics, your mind will be polluted and you will become a monster.

A very small minority of people are immune to this transmission, but they are often driven crazy by it.

Because in their view, the infected are monsters.

One's living space and time can also undergo inexplicable changes, leading to neurasthenia, insomnia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, paranoia, and so on.

Therefore, these small groups of immune individuals are often sent to mental hospitals as if they were mentally unstable.

[Does something seem off? You were also a victim of this toxin, but your infection symptoms were completely different from what's described here.]

Upon seeing this, Ji Yi recalled the situation of the hotel copy.

A laboratory explosion and the leak of a toxic substance turned people into monsters.

There is no incubation period or ideological dissemination involved; it simply arouses people's negative desires and turns them into monsters.

That's true.

Ji Yi couldn't help but wonder what caused these two different modes of infection, and whether they were related to the ancient god himself.

With no leads yet, Ji Yi continued reading the newspaper.

However, for some reason, the subsequent content became incoherent and illogical, like the ramblings of a madman, and was completely incomprehensible.

"Strange. How did this article pass proofreading and printing?"

Upon seeing this, Ji Yi frowned, just as Miss Cat pulled out another newspaper from the side:
"Look at this again."

Ji Yi took the newspaper and immediately noticed the large headline: "[XX Daily Reporter Suffers Mental Breakdown, Bypasses Multiple Colleagues, Prints 1000 Million Copies of Newspaper]"

You don't even need to read the content to know the gist of it; it's nothing more than treating that report as nonsense, causing XX Daily to nearly go bankrupt, and the reporter involved to be locked up in a mental hospital.

"Hmm, I think I smell something."

Could these people locked up in the mental hospital become one of the keys to passing the mission?

After all, they possess a certain degree of "magic immunity" and cannot be corrupted, which is enough to make them Ji Yi's "allies".

Thinking of this, Ji Yi searched through the newspaper again, confirming the address of the mental hospital and reports of similar incidents.

Half an hour later.

The man and woman, having changed into clean clothes, boarded a taxi in the bustling night.

"Are you referring to Lake Numa? That's quite a distance, it's rather remote, and the roads aren't very well-maintained."

The driver, sporting a small mustache, looked at Ji Yi with a troubled expression as he glanced in the rearview mirror.

"Enough with the nonsense, I'll just pay you." Ji Yi hugged Miss Cat and glared at her in the rearview mirror. "Name your price."

The mustachioed driver: "Okay, one price: 400,000 game coins."

"Okay, I'll pay you when we get there. Don't bother me now."

As she spoke, Ji Yi made a gesture as if to kiss Miss Cat.

At the request of the guests, the driver did not turn on the interior lights, making it impossible to see the situation in the back seats.

But he just smiled and didn't take it to heart.

The fare, which was originally only worth 200,000 game coins, has doubled in value. That's a huge profit!

With that thought in mind, the driver happily drove away from the town.

When the bright lights and bustling city life are left behind, the only remaining source of light is the headlights.

Ji Yi and Miss Cat were in the shadows in the back seat, and the two of them were silent, as quiet as if the car were empty.

The driver then realized something was wrong: why didn't the two of them make a sound when they kissed?

Did they pick up two ghosts on the bus?
As soon as the thought crossed his mind, the mustachioed driver felt a chill run down his spine. He thought he saw two ghosts, a man and a woman, staring at him with blood streaming from their seven orifices.

The man with the mustache didn't dare to breathe loudly, wondering in his mind whether he should turn on the interior lights of the car.

Just then, a man's voice came from behind:
"Master, why is the lake we went to called Lake Numa? I don't remember it having a name before?"

Hearing the noise, the driver felt a little relieved, but he still felt uneasy about the passengers behind him.

Even if it's not a ghost, what if it's a murderer or something? I just heard on the radio about some kind of duo of male and female demons.
"I'm asking you a question, are you mute?"

Ji Yi's voice rang out again.

The man with the mustache could only force a smile and say to the rearview mirror:
"Sorry, I was just spacing out. Lake Numa, I remember it has always been called that, it has never changed. Are you sure you're not mistaken, sir?"

"Well, then just pretend I remembered it wrong."

Ji Yi's voice was flat and indifferent.

The man with the mustache chuckled awkwardly, about to laugh it off, when Ji Yi asked again:

"Numa Numa, doesn't anyone think this name is strange? It sounds like a foreign name."

Ji Yi's tone was filled with doubt:

"Although this place is remote, as far as I know, there are no ethnic minorities here, nor have there been any in history. The word Numa doesn't even sound like Tibetan."

Miss Cat's voice rang out: "You can hide things?"

Ji Yi: "I'll guess. The foot is called 'Hook Eight,' and that's all I know."

Miss Cat: "."

Ji Yi stopped joking with Miss Cat and asked the driver in a serious tone:
"So, what is the origin of the name Numa?"

The man with the mustache was puzzled: "It's Numa! Lake Keltic Numa, that's what it was called before humans appeared."

"Oh, before humans appeared?"

After the male passenger behind him finished speaking, he fell silent.

Only the man with the mustache was still holding a grudge in his heart:
This person seems mentally unstable. Could he be crazy? He even had to ask about Lake Numa for so long. He doesn't seem like a local at all.
Wait, could he be lying to me? He never actually went to Lake Numa, and he just found an excuse to lure me to the wilderness to rob and kill me?
It shouldn't be possible; how could something with such a low probability happen?
Feeling tense and uneasy, the man with the mustache couldn't find a way to relieve his anxiety.

He had no choice but to turn on the radio and play his favorite crosstalk channel.

A: "Crosstalk requires four skills."

B: "Yeah, right."

A: "Arson, murder, looting, and plunder."

B: "Hmm?"

A: "Speaking of arson, murder, and looting, we have to mention a horrific murder case that happened just an hour ago! It's still fresh in our minds, I'm not kidding."

B: "Hey, I also do news broadcasting part-time."

A: "Oh my, that scene was terrible. There were pieces of food scattered everywhere, and I would vomit after every bite. I just stopped eating because I wasn't hungry."

B: "No way, I won't eat it either."

A: "Alright, let's stop joking around. The story takes place in a coffee shop in Yunshui Town, where there are as many as thirty-nine dead, and the perpetrators claim to be a pair of ruthless wolves who roam the world."

A: "The man is 1.8 meters tall, with a strong and muscular build, and looks a lot like Daniel Wu. The woman is 1.7 meters tall, and she's a real person."

"puff"

As the radio broadcast reached this point, the man with the mustache vaguely heard laughter coming from the back seat of the car.

The radio broadcast continued, with the stand-up comedy routine describing the crime in great detail. It was so horrific and inhumane that the scene was far from funny; it felt like a demon had descended upon the world.

Not only was the process described in great detail, but the appearance of the two prisoners, a man and a woman, was also vividly and realistically depicted on the radio.

They even revealed the direction the two fled, how they escaped, the model of the taxi they called, where they got in, and the license plate number.

The more the man with the mustache listened, the more alarmed he became, and the more strangely familiar the sound seemed.

A: "The license plate number is Lu D·2B945, and the driver's name is..."

B: "Stop, stop, stop! How do you know so much?"

A: "Of course! I'm in the car! Look, the driver's still listening to our stand-up comedy. Let's say hello to him!"

Before he could finish speaking, a hand suddenly popped out of the car stereo speaker and grabbed the mustachioed driver's thigh.

"Ahhhh!!!"

The man with the mustache let out a bloodcurdling scream as his body was pulled into the gap in the speaker like rubber and disappeared.

"beep--"

Ji Yi hung up the [paranormal phone] in her hand.

Then, he displayed the call log for the number "113" and set up a contact.

The contact name was written with the words "Broadcast Ghost".

After thinking about it again, I marked it with "A+ grade (tentative)".

At that moment, all that could be heard was a static hum from the car radio and a flurry of frantic activity.

Soon, the unfamiliar host's voice rang out:
"This was a mistake by the production team, causing the program schedule to be messed up. Please don't panic, listeners. The recorded content was just the script for the horror story radio station, not..."

"clatter."

Ji Yi raised her hand and turned off the radio.

"According to the original program schedule, what was broadcast should have been the wanted notice for us."

He opened the car door and sat in the passenger seat of the front car:

"But with the involvement of the [Broadcast Ghost], everyone involved died, and ordinary people were terrified, so our information didn't become common knowledge."

Using the "Ghost Phone" to summon ghosts does come at a price, but that price doesn't necessarily have to be paid out of your own pocket.

The broadcasting ghost killed everyone involved in disseminating the message, not just radio stations, but also television news.

This is the price of summoning ghosts.

Although Ji Yi believed that humanity was very likely to have been thoroughly infiltrated, and that if he randomly opened fire on the street and killed ten people, eight of them would not be innocent victims.

But if he could, he wouldn't want to hurt innocent people.

Summoning ghosts to kill is a last resort; if one is too saintly, it will backfire and one will not be able to save a single person.

At this moment, Miss Cat also got out of the back seat and came to the front driver's seat:
"But if someone wants to investigate, they can't stop you. Are you testing the methods of humanity in this world?"

Ji Yi nodded: "Yes. To dare to investigate a 'ghost killer' is not just about courage, but also about ability."

"This radical approach to engaging with the world in a transcendent way is neither too high-profile nor too obnoxious. It's the best solution we can think of."

As she spoke, Ji Yi's gaze drifted to the window.

Strategically speaking, his decision was not problematic; most of the people killed by the demon were simply monsters that were being replaced.

That's how games are supposed to be played, but the people in this instance world aren't playing a game.
In the end, he harmed innocent people, so what he did seemed no different from the Mad Celestial Venerable.

Thinking this, the vehicle slowly drove into the woods.

Just then, the paranormal phone rang.

It's a text message.

Ji Yi opened the message and saw it was a text message sent to him by the broadcast ghost:
"Eating alone... not getting any food... not... happy eating."

Ji Yi was taken aback when she saw this.

Are all the people on media programs monsters? There's not a single living person among them.

Does this mean that all of humanity has already fallen?
Just thinking about it.

"Ring ring ring!!!"

The phone rang; it was the ghost from the radio calling!

(End of this chapter)