Early in the morning.
A group of dusty people broke into the M city branch of the Supernatural Administration.
The head is a tall man with a full beard.
He rushed in in a hurry, grabbed the receptionist who was approaching, and asked eagerly:
"Where are the people?"
The receptionist looked blank and stammered, "What, who?"
"It's your employee parasitized by unknown creatures, where are you!" The bearded man shook the receptionist in his hand with a fierce look on his face: "Hurry up! It's too late for anything!"
A voice came from a distance: "Oh, Zhao Dong."
Beard let go of the receptionist, his eyes lit up: "You know?"
"Yeah." The employee nodded: "The news came from the hospital today that he is in stable condition and should be able to be discharged this week."
Now it was the turn of the bearded man with a dazed expression: "… Huh?"
After half an hour.
On the eighth floor of the hospital, at the door of the special isolation ward.
Liu Zhaocheng pointed to Zhao Dong, who was sleeping in the ward, and said, "Look."
Beard cautiously walked into the ward, and carefully lifted the quilt covering Zhao Dong.
There are still bluish-purple swelling marks on the patient's limbs, but they are obviously slowly disappearing, and the normal color of the underlying skin can be seen.
The members of that squad looked at each other in disbelief.
This…
This has never happened...
Is it a misjudgment
Only the bearded man standing at the foot of the bed suddenly bent down and looked carefully at Zhao Dong's knee for a while.
He stretched out his hand, rubbed his fingers on the other's skin, sniffed, then stuck out his tongue and licked it.
Liu Zhaocheng, who witnessed everything: "...?"
But the surrounding team members were obviously all familiar, and one of them came up and asked, "How is it? Brother Wu found something?"
The man called Brother Wu had a solemn face:
"It's a ghost spider, yes."
"That… ?"
Brother Wu looked thoughtful, shook his head slowly, and nodded again: "Someone came before us."
The people in the team were surprised.
"Also, very knowledgeable." Brother Wu exhaled slowly.
"!" The members of the team looked at each other, then lowered their voices: "Is it also..."
"Ring bell bell!"
A series of crisp phone rings rang, interrupting the solemn atmosphere in the ward.
Brother Wu picked up the phone: "... um, um, okay, okay."
After a brief answer, he hung up and said:
"The news came from the police station. In the early hours of this morning, someone found twenty-eight missing people on Fourth Street. When they were found, they were all huddled together, and their lives were not in danger. But I can't recall what happened in the days since I disappeared."
Everyone was shocked.
"This," Brother Wu bit a cigarette in his mouth in a trance, and said vaguely: "... Too good to know."
Liu Zhaocheng, who was on the side, was very anxious to hear:
"What kind of riddles are you playing? What do you know?"
Brother Wu and his team looked at each other and nodded.
"Are you the Minister of the Logistics Department?" He took the unlit cigarette out of his mouth, held it in his hand, and looked at Liu Zhaocheng in front of him thoughtfully: "Next, we should stay in M City for a while. , maybe you need your cooperation."
"Would you like to sign a non-disclosure agreement?"
Liu Zhaocheng: "Okay!"
ten minutes later.
Liu Zhaocheng was silent for a few seconds, and then said with difficulty: "This... is this your nondisclosure agreement?"
It was a long black-red worm with a thick wrist, like a huge mutant leech. It only had a disc-like mouth full of sharp fangs, which made people shudder.
"actually… "
I don't even want to know that...
As if he didn't see Liu Zhaocheng's resistance, Brother Wu couldn't refuse and pulled Liu Zhaocheng, who had started to retreat, and put the leech directly on the back of his hand.
Liu Zhaocheng's eyes darkened.
The black-red body of the leech slowly wriggled, and before it could suck much blood, Brother Wu skillfully tore it off, and then threw it back into the previous container with ease: "Okay. "
"..." Liu Zhaocheng laughed dryly: "Haha, that's great."
Brother Wu handed the container to the team members behind him, and then began to explain the matter with a serious face.
The more he listened, the more serious Liu Zhaocheng's face became.
After a long time, he slowly asked: "So, what exactly is that... game?"
"We don't know either," Brother Wu lit a cigarette: "Humans have very little information on it so far, no one knows where it came from, why it appeared, how it works, and how it works. How did it breed so many appalling monsters and ghosts?"
The blue smoke curled up and floated upwards in a circle.
"We only know that its system collapsed for unknown reasons." Brother Wu bit his cigarette butt: "So, those monsters who were originally locked in the game broke free and began to invade our world, although the two worlds have not yet Full integration, but it's only a matter of time."
Liu Zhaocheng felt a chill rise from his bones, and he shivered involuntarily.
The unknown darkness spread out before his eyes, making him instinctively terrified.
He settled down: "What about you? Why do you know so much?"
Brother Wu smiled briefly, but there was no smile in his voice.
In his dark pupils, the sparks of the burning cigarette were reflected, like fireworks blooming in the dark:
"—Because, I crawled out of it."
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Ye Jia sternly smeared seven or eight layers of yin on his body, and stopped after he was absolutely sure that there was no more human flavor on his body.
He pulled the ghost away and arrived at the place agreed with the ghost after just a few seconds.
The setting sun above has gradually fallen, and the drowsy twilight shrouded the barren clearing.
The ghost is already waiting there.
Its body takes on a translucent, fuzzy texture in the sunlight, swaying in the evening wind.
Ye Jia cautiously looked around the wasteland in front of him.
The familiar figure did not appear.
As soon as he saw Ye Jia, the shadow ghost greeted him enthusiastically:
"Here here."
Ye Jia walked over and asked tentatively, "Ji Xuan didn't come this time?"
"!" The shadow ghost made a choked sound, it lowered its voice and hurriedly said: "What's the matter with you! How can you call the king's name directly! Thank you he didn't come this time, you don't want to die. ?"
- Didn't come this time.
After accurately capturing the key words in Shadow Ghost's words, Ye Jia secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Feel sorry."
He asked, "What are we going to do this time?"
Shadow Ghost's voice instantly became cold: "Clear the portal."
"Although most of the ghosts who participated in the rally yesterday were directly eliminated by Wang, there are still some fish that escaped the net," it sneered cruelly: "Since you have the courage to betray, you must have the courage to take on the next step. s consequence."
Ye Jia glanced at it quickly.
— Obviously, this is a warning.
The ghost ghost took out a pitch-black compass. There were no needles on the compass, only thick or light ink, which was slowly changing and flowing.
It glanced down, then looked in a certain direction ahead: "There."
Ye Jia closely followed the erratic figure of the ghost in front, and the scenery around him flew by, blurring into a phantom at high speed.
They shuttled fast in the shadow of the building, and finally stopped at the entrance of a dark alley.
The sound of the roaring traffic in the distance seemed distant and vague, and the alley in front of him was shrouded in a gloomy silence. When you listened carefully, you could hear the faint sounds of chewing and swallowing from the depths of the darkness.
The shadow ghost slowly melted into the dark shadow.
In the depths of the alley, two hungry ghosts were chewing the stump of a human being. They tore the meat in their mouths and devoured them to the bone. They were not satisfied after eating. While eating the remaining minced meat and blood on the ground, he murmured: "... Hungry, hungry, hungry..."
"You will soon be full forever." A cold voice came from the darkness.
The two hungry ghosts suddenly became alert, and slowly leaned towards the opposite direction of the sound, hissing resentfully:
"Ji Xuan's lackey..."
"Yes." Ying Gui laughed miserably: "The king's lackey sends you his greetings."
The voice that was in front of him just now suddenly sounded behind Hungry Ghost's head, whispering maliciously, "Good luck."
The dark shadow suddenly swelled, as if opening a big mouth, and suddenly wrapped one of the hungry ghosts in it.
The next second, the hoarse and miserable roar of the hungry ghost sounded in the darkness.
The other hungry ghost saw that something was wrong, and hurriedly fled to the entrance of the alley. In the depths of the shadows, several shadowy hands tightly grasped its bony and slender lower limbs and pulled it into the darkness.
The hungry ghost opened his mouth sharply, lowered his head and bit his calf, and then quickly slipped out.
At the moment of leaving the body, a mouth was split open on the pale calf, and it bit the hand of the ghost ghost.
"Damn it!" Shadow Ghost was taken aback.
The hungry ghost wrapped in the ghost ghost took the opportunity to break free and attacked it violently.
The shadow ghost had to deal with the hungry ghost before he could finally get out and turn his head to look for the hungry ghost that had just escaped.
It hurried out of the alley.
Just after walking out of the darkness, I only heard a "pop".
The heavy body of the hungry ghost fell at its feet.
The slender limbs like dead branches are spread out, the pale face is raised, the mouth at the chest cavity is wide open, and a huge opening is split from the depths of the mouth, as if it was neatly cut by some sharp weapon, almost cutting it open. Its entire body was torn in two.
Its body gradually faded away.
- It's actually dead.
The shadow ghost raised his head and looked at the new ghost standing at the entrance of the alley in disbelief.
Layers of dark yin shrouded the opponent completely, and under the illumination of the street lamps at the alley, one could faintly see the tall and straight figure hidden under the thick ash-like shadow.
A trace of cold light flashed on the other's fingertips for a moment, and then disappeared.
Shadow Ghost couldn't help but secretly startled.
Hungry ghosts are extremely difficult to deal with. Although their attack power is not high, their defense power can be regarded as abnormal.
This escaped hungry ghost can alienate the amputated limb, which means that it is at least B-level or above.
And the one it just dealt with was only C+ grade.
Even so, it has to pull the hungry ghost into its own ghost creature, in order to barely break through the other party's hard and abnormal skin.
And this new ghost is actually... able to accurately kill a B-level hungry ghost in the real world without any bonus from ghosts and mythical creatures. In its impression, even a ghost of his own level can Very little has been done.
-Technology, experience and strength are indispensable.
The way the shadow ghost looked at the other party changed directly:
"Brother, it's awesome."
It recovered the body of the hungry ghost with its shadow, and then approached Ye Jia: "What was that just now?"
"Did you use it to hurt me yesterday?" Shadow Ghost looked at Ye Jia curiously: "You must know that I am also fast, I didn't see how you did it!"
Even if the sound of yesterday's narrow road meeting at the entrance of the cave sounds now, the shadow ghost is still a bit sore.
The terrifying pain that directly hurts the body, it has not felt for a long time:
"Is it your weapon?"
Ye Jia: "... Almost."
"What does it look like? Let me see?" Shadow Ghost asked.
If you see me, my true identity will be lost.
Ye Jia: "It's the claws, which usually don't stick out."
"But didn't you stick it out when you were fighting?" Yinggui refused.
"That's passive." Ye Jia got a headache from it, so he lied casually: "Well, only when mating does it take the initiative to reach out."
"Oh!" Shadow ghost suddenly realized: "So you are the kind of race that needs to mate! I'm sorry, sorry, we shadow ghosts are split by ourselves, so it's easy to ignore the feelings of your races."
This is a privacy issue.
After confirming that the opponent's strength is not bad, the shadow ghost looked up and down at the new ghost in front of him, and the more he looked, the more comfortable he became.
As expected of a king!
So insightful!
The previous estrangement and the ice melted instantly, and the ghost asked, "Hey, by the way, what's your name?"
In the game, ghosts and monsters are usually distinguished by race, such as hungry ghosts, shadow ghosts, suckers, ghost-faced spiders, etc., but within the ghosts that have evolved high intelligence, they will also have their own names. These names are very Privacy, rarely revealed to ghosts outside the race.
However, as employees working under the same boss, they should have exchanged names.
The reason why it has been delayed until now is because it was not recognized enough before.
Shadow Ghost said, "You can call me Ami."
Ye Jia: "..."
What the hell is this name
He asked slowly, "Did you... did it yourself?"
Ami nodded, and Ye Jia could actually see a trace of shyness from its fuzzy facial features: "Yes, does it sound good?"
"..." Ye Jia returned dryly: "... very characteristic."
"And you?"
Ye Jia said casually: "Aye."
After exchanging names with each other, their relationship became visibly better, and the next job of dealing with other traitors became smoother.
One person and one ghost cooperated tacitly, and quickly caught those fish that slipped through the net.
Ami looked down at the time on the phone unexpectedly: "It's much faster than I thought."
Ye Jia's eyes lit up: "It's over?"
"There is one last piece left." Ami put away the compass: "There should be a lot of spider soldiers and spider eggs left in the spider nest. If you leave it alone, they may be able to raise another insect mother."
- However, last night, Ye Jia had personally ensured that this would not happen.
But it doesn't know this.
Ye Jia nodded calmly: "Okay, let's go."
Soon, they came to the construction site last night again.
A waning moon hangs overhead among the thin clouds, and the desolate construction site below is cold and terrifying.
It was obviously summer, but the moment I set foot on this land, I could instantly feel an icy cold air that penetrated my bone marrow, making people cringe subconsciously.
Even if you haven't come to the entrance of the cave, you can feel the soaring evil energy and blood energy coming from the front, condensing into a thick forest of cold smoke, shrouding the broken walls and ruins below.
"Hello." The little black hand whispered in Ye Jia's ear: "There seems to be someone here."
Apparently, Ami also noticed this. He turned his head and stared in a certain direction with that blurred face, hissing: "I smell human."
At the moment when its voice fell, a few figures slowly appeared in the ruins not far away.
"It's here."
Wu Su didn't even need to look down at the map in his hand, Wu Su knew that he had found the right place - this thick yin and bloody smell was a creepy feeling that even people without Spirit Vision could not ignore.
The other members of the team also had the same solemn expressions.
Although they are still far away, they can still feel the evil aura coming from the front.
Even though they have been through hundreds of battles, the instinctive fear of danger still exists, slowly climbing up the spine like an icy snake.
Without taking a step forward, they could already realize how dangerous the front was.
"Brother Wu," one of the team members hesitated, turned to look at Wu Su, and asked, "Are we... really going in?"
Wu Su took out a cigarette and bit it in his mouth.
He looked into the distance thoughtfully, as if he was struggling with something, even forgetting to light the cigarette in his mouth.
After a long time, he finally made up his mind, gritted his teeth, and said:
"Let's go."
On the other side, Ami stared coldly at the team that was heading towards the spider's lair. The shadow behind it slowly expanded and elongated, as if it was about to move.
Ye Jia quickly grabbed it: "Wait."
"What's wrong?" Ami glanced at Ye Jia suspiciously.
Ye Jia said, "Do you still remember the job the king gave me?"
"certainly."
Ye Jia pointed to the team: "What they are wearing is the uniform of the administration."
"There is no need for us to get involved in this matter. If there are any traces left, it will not be good to destroy the king's plan." He lied without changing his face: "Anyway, there are spider soldiers waiting for them in the lair, maybe he will It can help us lighten our workload.”
"Oh!" Ami suddenly said: "It's still as comprehensive as you think."
"However, I think it's better for one of us to sneak in and watch it," Ye Jia patted its shoulder: "It's all your efforts tonight, my queen, you can rest this time, I'll go. Just fine."
Ami was very moved: "Brother, you are so kind."
Ye Jia is very humble: "No no. I should do it."
So, one person and one ghost say goodbye happily.
Ami was watching the wind at the entrance of the cave, while Ye Jia secretly followed under the cover of night.
The little black hand, who had been clinging to Ye Jia's shoulder, said quietly, "Will your conscience not hurt by lying to the honest ghost like this?"
Ye Jia asked back: "Which sentence did I say is not the truth?"
Little Black Hand: "..."
It seems to be true.
This human is playing tricks, it's really an old sow wearing a bra, a set of a set.
- You guys have a dirty heart for playing tactics!
inside the cave.
Wu Su walked at the front of the team. He walked forward slowly, his sharp eyes moved inch by inch in the dark cave, alert to everything that might happen.
There was a strong stench in the passage, the ground and walls were wet, and a dark red light flickered under the light of the flashlight.
As if a massacre had just happened here.
Wu Su bent down and carefully examined the corpse of a spider soldier more than half a person tall in front of him.
He reached out and moved the dead spider's dark, bristly legs, observing a huge wound on its belly that was so deep that it nearly cut it in half.
The yellow-green liquid slowly gushed out with his movements, and fell on the ground, making the air in the entire cave even more polluted.
Wu Su let go: "We came a step late."
"... Haha" One of the team members laughed dryly: "That's pretty good too."
Judging from the current indications, if they come really early, I am afraid they will die.
Wu Su bit the cigarette butt and didn't answer.
He led the team to continue groping forward.
After passing through the tortuous and complicated passages, they finally came to the center of the entire spider's lair.
Specter will dissipate into Yin Qi, but monsters will not.
In that huge and empty cave, the horrific corpse of the Insect Mother was laid out.
Her human face was frozen by death, twisted into a ferocious appearance in anger, pain, viciousness and hatred, her turbid eyes stared into the distance, and her huge body still had countless traces of blood worms left behind. Wound.
The egg sac on the back of the stomach has been broken, the liquid has already seeped into the soil, and the spider eggs that have lost their nutritional supply have a stiff gray-white color.
The ground is full of severed limbs and dried blood.
The team members were stunned, stunned by the almost purgatory-like scene in front of them.
"Are these... are all the people who know what you said did?"
One of them asked slowly in a very soft voice, as if afraid of disturbing something.
"...I'm afraid yes." Wu Su took a deep breath and took the cigarette butt in his hand: "This ghost-faced spider is probably at least A-level or above. I don't think anyone can do it except him. at this point."
The team member was stunned: "Who?"
Wu Su's eyes were deep and solemn, and he said slowly, "ace."
Ye Jia who was inexplicably cued: "..."
?
Actually it's not me this time...
The name was very unfamiliar, and the players repeated it suspiciously: "ace?"
"He is a myth in the game." Wu Su twisted his beard, his eyes flickered, and he seemed to fall into memory: "The game is a points system, 100 million points can be exchanged for the qualification to leave the game, and ace is on the points list. The first place in the game is also the only player in the game who has cleared the game."
What? !
The players all took a deep breath.
In this team, no one does not know Wu Su's experience.
He stayed in the game for three whole years, struggling to survive in the blood and rain. He thought that his life might be ruined here, but suddenly one day, the game's system failed.
The standings hanging above his head dimmed for the first time.
The game's store is inaccessible, and the program no longer responds to players' calls, and no longer forces players one by one into dungeons.
After a brief period of confusion, experienced players realized a fact.
Game crashed.
— The door back to the real world opened.
All the players were ecstatic, as if after a catastrophe.
But they forgot that this door was not only opened for them, but the ghosts in the game also lost their restraints and invaded reality.
As one of them, Wu Su entered the Supernatural Administration after returning to reality, and used his in-game experience to try to curb the rapidly increasing number of ghosts in society.
- It is precisely because he knows Wu Su's experience that he has fought side by side with him, and has had close contact with and even fought those terrifying ghosts.
Therefore, the other team members are so clear about the meaning of the title of "the first player in the standings, the only player who clears the game".
"My God..." One of them asked in a trance:
"This... is this... a fairy or a monster?"
"Maybe both." Wu Su looked up at the spider's corpse not far away, his eyes slowly passing through the scars on the ugly corpse.
"I teamed up with him once, shortly after I got into the game," he said.
The team members eagerly asked: "Then what? What does he look like?"
Wu Su took a deep breath, retracted his gaze, and said solemnly, "Very strong, very strong."
- He still remembers every scene that happened in that copy.
Under the dark sky, the hooded youth walked silently at the end of the line, shadows covering his face.
He didn't speak, just followed silently.
No one knows his identity.
- until the copy starts.
The scythe, which was as bright as moonlight, shone with cruel and sharp light, and cut into the abdomen of the monster with ease.
When they came back to their senses, the other party had slaughtered the entire ghost group.
In fact, Wu Su took the initiative to ask Ying to take over the task of M City this time.
In fact, it was because when he was sorting out the documents, he saw that ace's name appeared on one of them.
And now, all the evidence points to the same conclusion—
The rumors are true, and ace has really cleared the customs.
and…
A frantic light flashed in Wu Su's eyes, and he murmured, "—He is in City M now."
In a hidden passage not far away.
"My God," the little black hand clasped Ye Jia's shoulder, listened to the conversation in the distance with relish, and exclaimed, "So are you so popular? You've cleared the customs for so long, and you still have diehard fans?"
"..." Ye Jia was expressionless: "Shut up."
Is there anything more shameful in this world than listening to someone blowing their rainbow farts in person
-No.
"So, are there still forces in this world that don't want to find you?" Little Black Hand asked quietly.
Ye Jia: "..."
suffocated.