The moment the vines snapped, Zhong Cheng's pupils shrank suddenly, and a string in his head seemed to snap.
Li Nian was meditating, Fu Xingchuan was shouting, and Qi Xin was motionless. Their figures blurred into one piece in his field of vision, leaving only hazy shadows.
The dark research hall gradually turned into an equally dark underground research room.
The walls are also full of information, but instead of murals, there are countless newspaper clippings, photos and notes on his walls.
And among them, there is a corner that belongs exclusively to Yin Ren.
[...The composition of Yin Ren's hair is exactly the same as that of human hair, and Liang Shan didn't notice the difference...]
[... As an evil creature, Yin Ren has a moral outlook above the average human level. He learns human cultural customs very quickly, is full of interest in the world, and does not reject human beings as sexual images at all...]
[...To sum up, Yin Ren must have, or once had, a human part.]
The square lined paper is filled with sharp pen writing.
Li Nian replied like this.
"Zhong Cheng said, what are you doing standing still?" Professor Li said sharply, "Help!"
"Fu Xingchuan found no clues, which shows that the controller is not using conventional metaphysical methods. In this case, only the data can't lie... Such a uniform and desperate attack method cannot be the result of a heart-to-heart talk with an evil thing."
His hair rope was burned away by the flames, and his half-length hair was flying in the wind. The red flames quickly rotated around him and turned into a group of huge unicorns.
Miraculously, it was willing to stay for him.
Yin Ren has a close relationship with the Great Heavenly Master who sealed the Six Evils back then.
Professor Li held the whip in both hands and the wicker shot out. The green branches suddenly tied around Qilin's neck, tightly wrapping it around him for more than ten times.
The mummies kept getting closer on the other side of the vine net. They passed through the holes in the vine net and rushed over with their mouths wide open. Zhong Cheng said, pulling Yin Ren closer with one hand and covering his mouth with one hand to block the corners of his mouth that rose in excitement.
Those hands were like spiders weaving webs. Ten minutes passed, and a simple detection wall appeared in front of the mural. The folding equipment in the package was tied into a net, covering most of the mural. The lines on the ground were intertwined, and the power supply at the end flashed red and green lights.
The willow branches swished away from their wrists.
If Li Nian makes a mistake in judgment, Fu Xingchuan will waste all his energy in waiting. The situation became increasingly serious. If he and Yin Ren were just ordinary people, the five of them might have perished in darkness because of this one mistake.
Not to mention the evil force, the bacterial infection is enough for them to drink a pot.
The unicorn's feet are golden, and the end of the dragon's tail is dyed with bright red flames. The two flame auspicious beasts showed their sharp claws, and their eyes flashed with dazzling white light. They raised their heads and roared loudly.
Then he took a deep breath: "Fu Xingchuan, just hold on for another fifteen minutes. I have some ideas."
Not long ago, Yin Ren said this when facing the "man in red" surrounded by evil things in the mural.
"If these evil things are really controlled, and the person controlling the evil things is not a super-standard creature like the evil spirit... then there is absolutely no trace of the controller's control methods."
Thousands of years ago, Yin Ren was an evil creature who cooperated with the Great Heavenly Master Zhong Yi
Or is it that the Great Celestial Master Zhong Yi, who has been famous for thousands of years and is close to a "god", was an evil creature transformed by human beings from the beginning
The light of the fire tore through the darkness, illuminating the entire research hall as if it were daytime. Seeing that the inducement failed, Yin Ren was about to sigh—
And if you find a control method, whether it is cutting off or locating the source, you will have a direction.
"It seems to be me."
He raised his hand and threw a bunch of detectors over. Zhong Cheng said that it took two seconds to identify a very basic module - for a scientific post, it is a physical task that can never go wrong as long as the brain is not shot.
Fu Xingchuan staggered together with the Qilin, and almost threw himself into the arms of the evil creatures. He bared his teeth and claws to make up for the string technique, and said in shock: "Damn it, Lao Li, it's you who is the traitor!"
"I trust my own judgment."
Professor Li Da thought for a while, and the zombies were about to scratch their faces. These are high-quality zombies that have been pickled by evil forces for hundreds of years. Who knows what sequelae they will have if they are injured.
But now, his puzzle is like a bud, opening a crack.
He opened his backpack and quickly assembled rows of equipment, moving so fast that no one could see clearly. The mummy roared and rushed towards him, its sharp nails almost touching Li Nian's eyeballs, but he did not blink.
Li Nian's hands were as steady as a machine, and he even had time to answer Zhong Cheng. Although his tone was extremely impatient, with a hint of murderous intent.
The two flaming unicorns had just lowered their bodies and were about to pounce forward when suddenly collars fell from the sky. They howled and scratched the ground with their claws dissatisfied.
"This is it?" Zhong Cheng said and confirmed carefully.
This is really... so interesting.
"Are you sure?" Fu Xingchuan said quietly.
Facing the clueless Shi'an, Yin Ren induced him like this.
So Zhong Cheng said he had supreme patience and suppressed all his curiosity in his heart. He was afraid that he would accidentally go too deep and scare the puzzle away.
Li Nian was putting on one earphone and completely ignoring him. Fu Xingchuan let out a loud tut, and he floated into the air, his gown fluttering in the hot wind.
"Assembling thousands of evil creatures to fight against evil forces together will make it more reasonable in terms of combat power... I don't understand a bit, which side is the 'Ghost King' who summons evil creatures?"
When a person turns evil, there must be a complicated inner story. It was his most beautiful and deepest mystery. Zhong Cheng said that he had thought of countless ways to stay with it as long as possible.
This sentence alone seems like nothing, but when coupled with the four words of the man in red, "It seems to be me"...
The hint given by Yin Ren is enough. Next, it depends on Shi'an's reaction speed.
"Did I take action?" Fu Xingchuan ignored the three young men behind him and repeated loudly to Professor Li.
Zhong Cheng said he knew what he was asking.
Professor Li: "Shut up."
Li Nian made no mistakes throughout the whole process, and his movements seemed to be going at twice the speed. His fingertips were scratched by hard parts, and there were mottled blood stains on the cold metal.
Fu Xingchuan's Fiery Kirin barely held its position. Their position was compressed to a quarter of the hall, but not a single evil creature crossed Fu Xingchuan's defense line.
"Are you ready? Remember to treat me to dinner when you go back." Minister Fu muttered.
Li Nian hummed perfunctorily and pushed the switch with his bloody fingertips.
"Hao Wence, sixty seconds, analyze the data!" he ordered sternly.
Haigu City, Shi'an Park.
Lu Xiaohe was so anxious that he was sweating and his blood almost solidified.
She has no time to worry about the underground for the time being - there are two top masters of Shi'an underground, as well as Hao Wence taking care of them. Since Xiang Jiang answered the call, her attention turned to the nine members on the ground.
The reference data coming from underground was still jumping on the screen, and a series of loud noises came from the other side of the earphones, as clear as if they were in the ears.
Not long ago, she heard clearly the interview between Shi'an and the other mayor.
After the arrival of the gods twenty-eight years ago, the town that lost its mines declined rapidly. The previous mayor tried his best to make the town's economy improve.
However, the decline of Gengsheng Town was slow.
Ren Jiying said that this has something to do with the almost crazy xenophobia in Gengsheng Town - in such an atmosphere, the elderly are unwilling to leave even if they die. Most young people have no choice but to come back to provide for their loved ones until they die, while a small number "betray" their hometown and never set foot here again.
There is no influx of new blood, and not much is lost. It just lives and rots slowly.
The interview stopped at the word "rotten".
Without him, the crisp sound of broken glass drowned out the rest of Ren Jiying's words.
A wine bottle filled with lime smashed the window of the B&B and exploded in front of the four people. Ren Jiying was almost hit by a piece of glass. Fortunately, Xiang Jiang had quick eyesight and used a protective spell to pinch it out.
"The devil didn't warn me, he was facing a living person." He rolled his cloudy eyes and uttered two words quickly.
"Haha." Huang Jin smiled weakly and retracted his head from the window sill, "It's not just a living person."
At some point, the residents of Gengsheng Town were crowded outside Ren Jiying’s homestay, most of them with old faces.
"She let bad things in." The old man held a shovel covered with sand, and his voice was blown into the broken glass by the wind.
"Yes, she brought the bad guys in." The old lady held the kitchen knife in her hand with an exaggerated smile on her face. "Sure enough, that bitch can't do it." The middle-aged man touched his gray hair and tied a hammer behind his back.
"A bitch who is blinded by money." The woman held the child with a sharp screwdriver in her pocket.
The townspeople crowded around the B&B, gathering more and more. Several people brought ladders from their homes to help others climb over the wall into the courtyard. Just looking at how they get along outside the wall, these people can even be called harmonious and friendly.
However, the members of Group Nine did not like this murderous "harmony and friendship."
Ge Tingting followed Huang Jin's example and raised and retracted her head. Sweat broke out on her forehead: "Shall we call the police?"
"It's useless." Ren Jiying hid in the gap between the two windows, a wry smile appeared on her round face, "If they dare to do this, the Public Security Bureau has already blocked it. Believe me, they are all seven or eight It’s not that easy for a ten-year-old man to seek life and death.”
Huang Jin's eyes went straight: "But we can't handle it either."
Harming the masses is something that is strictly forbidden by Shi'an. To attack people, they must have sufficient reasons - the so-called sufficient reasons are nothing more than extremely limited circumstances such as "being possessed or controlled" or "illness due to drugs or mental illness".
The people outside are behaving excessively, but there are no signs of sanity, so they really can't do anything.
"Lu Xiaohe, arrange an escape route."
As soon as Xiang Jiang started the call, another wine bottle flew in. This time the bottle smelled of smoke and gasoline.
Ren Jiying grabbed the flowerpot next to her and quickly poured the sand into the bottle. The flames were finally extinguished, the smoke in the house became a little heavier, and the smoke alarm sounded like crazy.
"We are facing the masses, so we must abandon this stronghold. There are two metaphysics posts and a science post here. The ground cannot be walked. There may be evil things outside to attack."
Lu Xiaohe: "...Why is it so serious all of a sudden!"
Her underground colleagues were besieged by evil beings, and her aboveground colleagues were besieged by living people. Her brain was almost at a loss for control.
"I don't know." Xiang Jiang said, "Maybe there was something disturbing about Fu Xingchuan. Anyway, we didn't do anything."
Lu Xiaohe took two deep breaths, and she called up local satellite maps: "First use the floating technique to reach the tree canopy in the courtyard, and then go to the roof of the yellow building in the northwest. Next, I will show you the way, you go to the town Go to the center - there are many abandoned buildings there, so it’s easy to hide.”
"Don't use the technique too obviously, be careful of someone taking pictures." She added as usual.
Xiang Jiang didn't know whether he was impatient or sarcastic. He snorted and hung up the communication.
On Lu Xiaohe's screen, several small dots leaped out from the shady window on the second floor and moved to the crown of the big tree. The floating fog around them finally had some use, and everyone moved all the way to the roof of the building next door. The whole process went smoothly.
"Lu Xiaohe, sixty seconds, help process the data!" Hao Wence's voice came from behind her.
"Hey!" Lu Xiaohe's back trembled and he responded with a grimace.
Not far behind her, Hao Wence was typing on the keyboard so loudly that it made Lu Xiaohe's ears buzz.
The wall in front of me is filled with machines at full power, and countless waveforms and charts fill the screen. Lu Xiaohe read the various indices, and was distracted from time to time by looking at satellite thumbnails, his temples tingling.
Crowds moving, safe route... What does this secondary reading mean? There seems to be no trace of being manipulated... I feel dizzy and feel like vomiting...
Thirty seconds to go.
Lu Xiaohe slapped his face hard and forced himself to scan the corner data one by one.
Her eyes jumped between the flashing numbers on the screen, and the habit she had in the archives did not disappear for a while. Her eyes subconsciously passed through the tables showing various emotional indexes.
"Fear" and "Satisfaction", and the four categories below them: "Evil", "Sadness", "Happiness", and "Love".
Her vision froze.
Twenty seconds.
"The emotional readings of the evil group are highly abnormal!"
"Same on your end? Very good, it doesn't seem to be a reading deviation."
Ten seconds.
Lu Xiaohe frantically calculated the set of data, and Hao Wence's screen flashed as if there was a malfunction, obviously still ruling out other possibilities.
Zero seconds.
"sad."
Hao Wence pressed Enter and gave the answer as a rear commander.
"There are zero traces of magical control, and the possibility of violent coercion is extremely low. There are no abnormalities in any data, only the emotional value of the evil object has a huge deviation."
"Dejection, confusion, sadness, despair...all the 'sorrow' emotions are seriously exceeded. They are driven by the same general category of emotions, and seem to regard you as the source of pain."
Hao Wence took a sip of wolfberry soaked water and scratched his sparse hair. This person has fair facial features, thick eyebrows and round eyes, and slightly chubby cheeks. His temperament is slightly like that of an unhappy flat-faced cat.
"There has never been such a control method in the information database... It's a pity that the values of living people cannot be measured here, otherwise I would be very curious about the emotional index of the townspeople."
"To break the situation, you need a special ability user of the emotional 'resonance' branch. As long as you can disturb the emotions of these things, they will wake up and disperse according to their nature."
Li Nian: "We have no one."
Although Fu Xingchuan is the number one combat force in Haigu, he is pure and unpolluted and has no special abilities at all.
Hao Wence: "I'll just tell you. It's frustrating not to tell you the solution. Oh, and also, this kind of scene is not something that a person with the ability of the 'resonance' branch can do. There are too many goals, and the human brain simply can't bear this kind of situation." degree of calculation."
"Deeply polluted by evil power?"
"As long as you are still a 'human', you can't do it. I can only say that there is indeed 'something' behind Gengsheng Town that is controlling the evil things. Capture the thief first, capture the king first, and just fighting the evil things will cost you Even retirement can’t be used up.”
"You could give me a serious solution." Fu Xingchuan's voice interrupted.
"Everyone says that a weak enemy will win. This kind of enemy is quite difficult. You two have to figure it out on your own." Hao Wence said ruthlessly, "I'm just an ignorant programmer."
"Compared to this, you'd better hurry up. Xiang Jiang and the others are surrounded by living people and are in urgent need of manpower."
Fu Xingchuan: "...Tsk!"
Underground, he retracted his hand in frustration: "At least we have gained something. If these things can't be defeated, just use all your strength to escape."
"Hao Wence, Lu Xiaohe, you continue to investigate and try to locate the controller." The precious cultural relics were saved at least, and Li Nian breathed a sigh of relief.
After understanding the enemy's tactics, they can at least find a suitable strategy to deal with the enemy. Next, we can only try to find ways to deal with them.
More than ten seconds passed, and Zhong Chengyue was once again wrapped in the levitation technique and shot through the door and window like a cannonball.
This time Fu Xingchuan rushed to the front. After determining his tactics, he decisively defended with all his strength, completely ignoring the evil environment. Li Nian quickly identified the architectural style in the afterimage. Regardless of the direction, the group only sprinted in order from oldest to newest.
Huang Liang picked up the flightless body and bit it tightly behind the five people. It changes form, squeezing through the gaps in the building like a liquid, and the pressure is close to that of an asteroid.
Zhong Cheng said that he clenched Yin Ren's wrist, and countless murals quickly retreated in his field of vision. The wind sounded sharply in his ears and the moist air hit his face, but he was calmer than ever.
He could hear his heart beating rapidly.
No matter how outrageous the evil thing is, just proceed step by step, collect clues bit by bit, and gradually determine its habits and characteristics.
When the fog first came out, it just trapped them here and didn't take action right away.
What follows is the gaze and intimidation from the evil creatures, and the hatred and interference from the townspeople. They are like test subjects in a petri dish, reacting to various deliberate stimuli.
As a result, everyone in Shi'an did not try to leave the town, but instead conducted further investigations.
At first, the evil creatures did not actively gather. Probably because they realized that the soldiers didn't flinch before Huang Liang, the evil thing behind them decisively took action, preparing to strangle them in the mountain mist as soon as possible.
The idea is very correct, but it is not the style of the Sinking Club.
If this is the plan of the Sinking Club, there is no need to attack the shrimps on the ground as well. Concentrate all your efforts to eat Fu Xingchuan and Li Nian. This victory will be enough to be recorded in the history of the Sinking Club. Inciting ordinary people to take action will attract strong attention from non-metaphysical institutions.
So why does it do this
The ground and the underground are one, and they are frantically expelling outsiders who may pose a threat. It is simply like...
It's like guarding this place clumsily.
(End of chapter)