Excessive ferocity due to caution

After dealing with Liu Jie, Zhao Yi's phone suddenly rang.

He answered the phone, and Chen Fei's voice sounded somewhat heavy on the other end:

"Brother Zhao, Liu Jie has escaped!"

"Someone saved Liu Jie!"

Zhao Yi replied:

"I know, I saved him."

The person on the other end of the phone was clearly stunned.

"Why didn't you tell me, brother? I almost killed it!"

Zhao Yi said speechlessly:

"Are you stupid...? There's a lie detector where you are. If I had told you beforehand that I wouldn't kill Liu Jie, wouldn't you have given yourself away?"

Chen Fei suddenly realized and chuckled.

"I almost forgot, it's my eldest brother who's so thoughtful!"

After hanging up the phone, Zhao Yi pushed her little cart to continue working.

He had just finished collecting a cartload of rusty grass.

The phone rang again.

Zhao Yi answered the phone, and a deep, terrifying drumming sound came from the other end!

Boom!

dong dong!

The sound was like someone holding two giant hammers and frantically pounding a giant drum!

"Brother Zhao..."

On the other end of the phone was Liu Jie's voice, trembling.

"Is there a battle going on down there?"

Zhao Yi asked a question.

"I don't know... there are so many corpses dressed in black here..."

Liu Jie's throat felt slightly dry.

"They were connected by a very thin, rusty tube leading to the inside of a hole..."

Zhao Yi instructed:

"Go inside; the source of these rusty corpses may very well be there."

Liu Jie remained silent for a long time, then gritted his teeth and said:

"Zhao Yi, tell me honestly, did you never intend to let me go from the very beginning?"

Zhao Yi comforted him:

"Yes."

Liu Jie: "..."

Damn it!

Are you not going to hide it at all?

At least try to comfort me!

Zhao Yi continued to comfort him:

"You should be glad that you still have some use."

"Only ghosts with value can live on."

After a long silence, Liu Jie on the other end of the phone let out a long sigh.

"If I die, can you do me a favor?"

"cannot."

"..."

Break the defense.

It really broke through.

Liu Jie, his eyes red, cursed into the phone:

"Zhao Yi...you'll die a horrible death!"

Zhao Yi said earnestly:

"Helping me is your only chance to survive."

"If the problems inside this factory aren't resolved, you're certain to die down there!"

Liu Jie angrily said:

"If I believe even half a word you say, I'm a complete idiot!"

beep--

It hung up the phone.

Half an hour later.

beep beep-

The phone in Zhao Yi's pocket rang again.

He answered the phone.

Liu Jie's sincere voice came from the other end:

"I'm sorry, Brother Zhao."

"I've realized I really am an idiot."

Zhao Yi smiled and said:

"What terrifying thing did you witness?"

Liu Jie nodded, his voice trembling:

"There's a road ahead, and the further you go, the more rusty corpses you see... Eventually, you can't even tell the colors of the corpses' clothes anymore..."

"Beneath a deep ravine, countless rusty corpses lay..."

"There might be thousands... no, more than that!"

"There must be tens of thousands of rusty corpses!"

It has lost its voice.

The following scene clearly terrified it.

Zhao Yi's heart stirred slightly.

"Is there a lot of resentment?"

Liu Jie shook his head on the other end of the phone:

"They showed no resentment whatsoever... as if they were all asleep."

"The dense network of rusty tubes attached to these rusty corpses leads to deeper within..."

"I didn't dare go across; the bridge looked old and dilapidated, like it was about to collapse."

As Liu Jie spoke, the terrifying drumbeats grew even louder.

Even over the phone, he could exude a strong sense of pressure!

What lies deep beneath the factory's underground?

Zhao Yi asked:

"Have you encountered any living rusty corpses?"

Liu Jie:

Not yet.

Zhao Yidao:

"You go ahead and continue deeper into the area. I need to know the specific situation on the other side. Also, keep an eye out for places to hide. In the next day or two, I'll find a way to bring more people in."

Upon hearing that Zhao Yi would send more people into the factory's underground area, Liu Jie immediately perked up!

Facing fear alone always leads to despair.

But if you have teammates, then even death seems easier to accept!

hang up the phone.

Liu Jie lowered his head and opened the necklace pendant on his chest.

My fingers are trembling.

There is a faded old photograph inside.

It's a little boy and a little girl.

The girl was a head taller than the boy.

Behind it is an orphanage.

Their smiles are so bright and cheerful.

This photo seemed to give Liu Jie a lot of courage. He closed the pendant, took a deep breath, and changed his previous instigating and malicious attitude, carefully feeling his way towards the suspension bridge...

...

Today's work includes not only weeding, but also logging.

Urged on by Zhao Yi, the employees in their group worked very efficiently.

After the rusty corpse incident, these ghosts knew that Zhao Yi's strength was terrifying, and in the ghost world, the strong were respected.

The ghosts present were generally around level 8-12, while Chen Fei, a red-clad ghost, was level 15.

It's worth mentioning that the ghost's level is different from the player's level.

The difference in raw strength between ghosts of the same level is not too great. It is unlikely that a player like Zhao Yi, who is only level 6, would possess the strength of an average player of level 15.

Besides raw strength, the different abilities of ghosts are also a key factor in determining their combat power.

For example, if A and B are both level 15 ghosts, and A has the ability to invade minds while B does not, then when A fights with B, B will have almost no ability to resist.

In short, although Zhao Yi did not intentionally want to be the leader, his performance of killing the rusty corpse alone without getting injured has already made the ghosts of his generation feel fear.

Therefore, most of the ghosts under Chen Fei's command dared not ignore Zhao Yi's words.

Who knows if this madman will bring out another gray-clad, rusty corpse to come after them?

According to factory regulations, after completing a day's tasks, workers can freely allocate their remaining time.

Besides waiting for Liu Jie's call, Zhao Yi also spent a lot of time wandering around the factory area.

He was looking for the workers whose clothes were gradually changing color.

It took Zhao Yi about an hour to find seventy-six workers.

They all suffered physical injuries and developed varying degrees of rust due to some strange accidental encounters.

However, these workers chose to conceal the truth for fear of losing their jobs.

Although working in a steel mill may seem undignified.

But the salaries here are quite generous.

A weeding worker earns 30,000 ghost money a month, while an outstanding employee earns 45,000 ghost money.

And that's after tax.

It's worth noting that Zhao Yi's monthly salary is only five thousand.

After confirming the mutated employees, Zhao Yi called Chen Fei and asked him where they would dispose of the rusty corpses after finding and dealing with them.

Chen Fei replied, "The steel melting room."

After these rusty corpses are thrown into the human heads in the steel melting chamber, the steel mill will produce new, high-quality steel.

"Any rusty item, once it enters the steel melting chamber, will be transformed into good steel to some extent."

"The steel mill has been supplying steel to Guxuan Town and nearby villages using this method."

These are Chen Fei's original words.

Zhao Yi recalled his main mission—to investigate the truth behind the corruption of the steel mill.

"Chen Fei, have you guys been to the underground of the steel mill?"

Chen Fei remained silent for a long while on the other end of the phone.

"no."

"We don't know how steel mills work."

"We're just the executors, always transporting rusty materials in, then producing steel and selling it..."

"It's strange, though. A lot of rusty plants are fed in, but very little steel is produced. But when rusty corpses appear in the factory, the steel production increases dramatically!"

Zhao Yi's gaze was deep and unfathomable.

"Could you help me get a piece of steel and its sales record?"

"Very important!"

Chen Fei replied:

"No problem, please wait a moment, sir!"

As a long-time employee of the steel mill, Chen Fei knew many old hands in various positions and quickly got Zhao Yi a brand-new piece of steel and a sales record.

The meeting place was an abandoned old storage room.

The air was very dusty.

Spiderwebs were everywhere, accompanied by rust spots.

"Big brother, what did you find?"

As Zhao Yi held the steel, the power of his evil eyes emerged.

...

[Evil Steel: Neutral]

[Note: It contains some life force and resentment, and is extremely resilient. It is best not to use it to construct large buildings!]

...

Even without any explanation, Zhao Yi could feel the corrosive force emanating from the steel he held in his hand.

However, this resentment is too weak to cause any harm to people.

After weighing it for a moment, Zhao Yi carefully reviewed the steel production records from the past few years.

"really……"

He muttered to himself, a hint of excitement flashing in his eyes.

About three hundred years ago, the steel mill sold a large amount of steel to Moye Village!

It's impossible for the village's construction to use so much steel!

The only explanation is that abandoned train station!

"No wonder the train station turned into that terrifying thing..."

Zhao Yi's thoughts raced.

"They built a demon-headed train station using steel specially imbued with resentment... What on earth are these guys trying to do?"

Seeing Zhao Yi standing still, Chen Fei didn't dare to disturb him. After about three minutes, he suddenly heard Zhao Yi say:

"Now I finally know what those rusty, gray-clad corpses wanted to borrow..."

"What is it?"

Chen Fei hurriedly inquired.

A sharp glint flashed in Zhao Yi's eyes.

"Spirit."

"Or rather...the soul."

Chen Fei was taken aback.

"soul?"

Zhao Yi speaks very quickly.

"That colossal structure beneath the factory... absorbs the workers' spirits and relentlessly draws resentment from them!"

"Every rusty corpse that appears means that the soul of a worker has been absorbed by the ghostly thing beneath the steel mill and has begun to serve 'it'!"

"And that resentment was melted into these steels!"

Chen Fei found it unbelievable, but after thinking about it carefully, a thought suddenly clicked in his mind.

"No wonder the factory's steel production always increases dramatically after the rusty corpses appear..."

"But why did it create this steel, imbued with resentment?"

Zhao Yi did not answer.

But he already understood that behind Gu Xuan Town, there was an unseen, terrifying giant hand manipulating everything...

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PS:

Here's 3000 words, I'll start writing the next chapter right away.

The flaws will be corrected later.

Thank you for reading.