Chen Yang saw Qian Qin rushing towards the explosion, and he subconsciously wanted to stop him. At that moment, after Qian Qin's departure, there was a gap in the offensive and defensive line, and there was another one.
A wave of tourists took the opportunity to rush in.
Chen Yang immediately tried to stop him, but when he turned around, Qian Qin had already rushed in.
"I can't do it anymore! Brother, I can't do it anymore..." Zhang Qi was exhausted, and the clothes under his coat were soaked with sweat.
Chen Yang’s physical strength was far from reaching its limit, but his mental strength and mentality had also collapsed.
"boom!"
The human wall was broken and a large number of tourists rushed in.
The headphone snatching incident happened again. Those who were originally listening to the headphones withered and died instantly after their headphones were taken away.
More and more bodies fell, and the scene in the square looked like hell at the end of the world.
"Crazy! They're all crazy!" Several taskers were so scared that they burst into tears. Their emotions were like a virus that could melt into the air and spread to all teammates except Chao Jian in the blink of an eye.
Everyone looked desperate. They were all experienced task takers and knew in advance that there would most likely be an abnormality today, but when it really happened, they were still powerless.
The chaos can no longer be stopped, and the death can only intensify.
"So many people died on the day of the Tourism Festival, order and security collapsed, we simply couldn't maintain them, and the Tourism Festival couldn't be held. The evil ghost's obsession with watching the Tourism Festival could no longer be fulfilled. Did we all violate taboos?" A Yuan covered the back of her hand that was scratched by someone. The cut was deep and water was dripping from it. Her eyes were bloodshot.
Her cousin was not with her.
My cousin is gone.
A tasker said: "No, this is a loophole in the rules."
Everyone looked at him: "Loophole?"
The person who answered this question was not the tasker, but Miss Qiao. She tore off her split nails and said: "The black miracle in the experience hall is also a project of the tourism festival." Even in such a battlefield without the smoke of gunpowder, her tone of voice was still very charming.
"The tourists are enjoying themselves, aren't they?" Miss Qiao smiled charmingly.
Everyone couldn't help but feel horrified.
"There is more than one loophole. There is another one." Chen Yang said hoarsely, "When we see disputes, we must actively face them and deal with them. We can't turn a blind eye. We didn't escape just now."
Everyone nodded hurriedly. They really didn't want to escape. The crowd was like a tide of corpses. They tried their best, and most of them were injured and in a mess.
Chen Yang used his height advantage to look for Qian Qin in the crowd, but he couldn't find him. Where did Qian Qin go
Just when Chen Yang was about to go inside, Chao Jian grabbed him.
"Boom..."
Chen Yang was caught off guard. There was a loud bang under his feet. The area began to vibrate strangely. He and others looked up at the sky in disbelief.
I saw countless new black lines appear out of thin air and all flew into the sky.
There is actually a second batch of black lines...
"Oh my God! There is a second batch of black miracles!" A woman's voice came from somewhere. It sounded like she was in her early twenties, and the words she said were full of surprise and expectation.
"Don't fight over it, there are new headphones in the sky." The tone of a spectator.
Chen Yang's eyes scanned quickly and he locked onto a location based on his intuition. It was a woman with long hair.
The crowd that was snatching things away gradually calmed down. They looked up at the sky with longing eyes, trembling and muttering, "So many! So many headphones! Hahaha..."
There were so many headphones coming out this time that the open space west of the memorial was crowded with people. Each of them put on headphones, and their faces showed a replica of obsession and madness, with bright smiles, as if they had already possessed the greatest happiness in life.
Then there were a bunch of extra headphones floating in the air, dancing slowly and strangely...
Chen Yang took half a step forward unconsciously, then he suddenly stopped, closed his eyes tightly, his muscles tensed, and cold sweat dripped from his forehead.
"Everyone..." Chen Yang was about to open his mouth to remind his teammates, but he was still a step too late. When he was speaking, many teammates had already walked to the black line and put on the headphones on their heads without anyone noticing.
Then, like all the other tourists, he stood motionless, bent over, in the open space.
Chen Yang shouted to remind his teammates to stay calm.
Everyone also realized that the headphones had a kind of terrifying magic.
The magic is exuded in a targeted way. Tourists come first and strongest, followed by locals.
Finally, there are these taskers and staff.
"Who has seen Liu Zhi?" Chen Yang's throat was sore and the taste of rust spread in his mouth.
No one responded. Who cares about this? It is the most difficult to find people at this time. Some of their old teammates can't be found.
Chen Yang accidentally caught sight of Qian Qin's figure. He took a deep breath, leaned forward and yelled, "Qian Qin!"
Qian Qin had his back to the boy, holding black headphones in his hand, and it was unknown what he was thinking.
"He's finished..." A Yuan and Lin Shuwei said in unison. They could see that Qian Qin must have collaborated with Chen Yang more times than they did, but they could also see that he would not survive.
Chen Yang was choked by a gust of cold air and his lungs ached from coughing.
Chao Jian turned Chen Yang around and held him in front of him, preventing him from looking at his old teammates. Resetting is not rebirth, the person is still the same person, even if Chen Yang has forgotten the past, he still values friendship and loyalty.
This is a weakness for the tasker, but Chen Yang is just like that. He stands among a group of taskers, and is the most shining one, strong and soft.
Qian Qin actually heard Chen Yang's shout, but he didn't respond because he didn't want to withdraw himself.
"What will happen?" Qian Qin held the boy with one hand and stroked the black headphones with the other hand, "Is it an illusion? If I put it on, can I hear Xiaohan's voice?"
It was as if someone was whispering in Qian Qin's ear, repeating: Put it on, put it on...
Qian Qin stretched out the hand that was supporting the boy and held the earphones tightly with his other hand. He slowly raised the earphones and put his head close to them.
The white hair hurts.
"Big brother!" The boy pulled his hair hard and cried, "Big brother, don't wear it, I'm scared!"
When Qian Qin heard the last two words, the hollowness in his eyes cracked open, revealing a glimmer of brilliance.
The boy hugged Qian Qin's neck tightly, tears streaming down his face, all dripping onto his collar: "My parents are dead, they disappeared from this world, big brother, can you..."
Qian Qin interrupted, "You're so young, and you already know what 'death' means?" He once again used one hand to lift up the child who called him "brother" on his back.
The boy closed his eyes and didn’t dare to look at the body lying on the ground. He cried and hiccuped, his little body trembling constantly, pitiful and helpless: “I… I want to go home…”
"I want to go home." Qian Qin turned around.
Chen Yang was looking at him, and immediately shouted at the top of his voice: "Come here!"
Qian Qin didn't do that. He introduced Chen Yang, who kept waving at him, to the kid: "That's my old teammate, but we are not the same kind of people."
Before the boy could muster up the courage to take a look, Qian Qin continued, "My way of doing things is different from his, and he doesn't approve of it, but you see... he is still worried about me."
"Little boy, do you know what people like him are called?" Qian Qin said.
The boy's soft voice was filled with tears: "Kindness."
Qian Qin's pale lips were originally slightly open. The words "goody-goody", "excessive collective consciousness", "overflowing sense of justice" were on his lips, ready to jump out, but he paused after hearing the child's words, and the next second he pursed his lips and swallowed those words: "You are right."
Qian Qin did not look at Chen Yang. He turned around and looked at the corpses on the ground and the people who were wearing headphones and not moving.
“Big brother, I want to go home... I don’t want to stay here anymore... Please take me home..." The boy grabbed his clothes tightly and begged pitifully.
Qian Qin answered irrelevantly, his voice stuck in his throat, so low that it was inaudible: "I don't want to go home."
The snot bubbles from the boy's tears rubbed against his shoulders.
"My parents thought I was an only child, but I actually had a younger brother. No one knew about it except me, and I was the only one who remembered him because he was gone. I left him on the way home. His room became a wall, and I would bump into the wall when I went to his room." Qian Qin said calmly, "I saw him many times afterwards, but all of them were in illusions."
Qian Qin laughed: "Oh, right, illusions are dreams."
After a long while, the boy whispered, "I, I also dream..."
"Big brother's dream is different from yours," Qian Qin's sunken face showed a little smile, "Big brother's dream is a dream within a dream, which means you will never wake up."
The boy was confused and he still didn't open his eyes.
The world was no longer the one he knew. He didn't realize how terrible the disaster was, he just felt scared.
Children's minds and world views are not mature. They do not have so many heavy and sad emotions, and fear is a purely instinctive reaction.
"Should I continue moving forward?" Qian Qin suddenly muttered to himself.
"Yes!" The boy stopped sobbing and said excitedly, "Brother, please go, let's get out of here quickly, please go forward! Please go forward!"
Qian Qin's eyes only saw a dark wasteland: "There is no sunshine."
The boy nodded vigorously: "Not today, but there will be tomorrow!"
"What about tomorrow?" Qian Qin cried silently.
The boy was stunned by the question: "Then, the day after tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, there will definitely be a sunny day. It can't be cloudy all the time."
Qian Qin was stunned for a while: "... You are right."
"Big brother! Let's go!!!" The boy lay down beside his ear and cried loudly.
Qian Qin slowly loosened his grip on the earphones.
Chen Yang watched Qian Qin walk steadily through that hell on earth and towards their outskirts.
Even at such a long distance, Chen Yang could feel that all of Qian Qin's thresholds were rising rapidly. As he retreated from the death line of this crisis, he also moved away from the finish line.
Qian Qin could not enter the last level of the single-player mission, but his condition had recovered and he would definitely be able to leave the mission alive. Then he would wait for the next registration review.
He was not ready this time, but he will have a better chance of winning next time.
Chen Yang breathed heavily. He knew that the auditing task was difficult. However, when he really started doing it, he found that it was many times more difficult than he had imagined.
The threshold is too low, and a slight stimulation will produce a huge reaction. However, after a certain number of times, one will inevitably adapt to the strong feeling and become numb, and then the threshold will automatically increase.
If the threshold is too high, you will lose your assessment status.
So we need to control, manage, and adjust the threshold at all times. It is easy to say, but it all depends on chance. And chance is something you can only encounter.
Everything has two sides. Knowing the truth has its advantages, but it also has its disadvantages. Chen Yang was watching himself go crazy, but he didn't know how crazy he would go. He was afraid that if he went too crazy, he would unconsciously become indifferent to life and death, have no desires, and no interest in life.
He didn't even dare to hold on to the belief of going home. He could only hide it at the bottom of the ruins and hypnotize himself to forget it temporarily.
Chen Yang sometimes felt that it would be better to know nothing and leave everything to fate, rather than relying on himself to overcome fate like now. His rational world was completely collapsing and about to fall. His psychological defenses had already collapsed into a mess. There were several moments when he wanted to kill himself and free himself. He didn't dare to tell Chao Jian about this.
The back of his neck was pinched, Chen Yang closed his eyes, and he curled his lips to Chao Jian: "I'm fine."
The person who said this had an air of despair about him.
Chao Jian turned his face towards Qian Qin.
Chen Yang looked at Qian Qin.
Chao Jian took advantage of Chen Yang's inattention and quickly took a few pills, swallowing them with a fishy and sweet taste. He had been preparing for so long, forbearing and restraining himself, and carefully waiting for the most suitable opportunity. The situation at this moment was all planned and expected.
But there was one thing he had no data to refer to. He was not aware of this when he was doing the review task and did not know that it was the assessment before the final stage.
Therefore, he did not know what kind of torture the informed tasker would face during this period, and he could not share such experience with Chen Yang.
He tilted his head slightly towards Jian, and stared at the person beside him with his peripheral vision. If you really can't reach the end, then forget it. Let's go to hell together.
"What are you thinking about?" Chen Yang sensitively noticed something strange, and he shifted his attention from Qian Qin to Chao Jian.
"The time is not yet ripe. I was too impatient." Chao Jian lowered his eyes.
Chen Yang quickly understood what Chao Jian meant. He frowned and said, "This is the best time."
"The current situation is inevitable. It will be like this no matter when I pass this level. This is the only way. It's okay," Chen Yang pursed his trembling lips, "It's okay. It will all pass. I will reach the end no matter what." If you can't walk, just crawl.
The sound of the child sniffling reached Chen Yang's ears. He raised his head and looked at Qian Qin standing in front of him. He didn't ask any more questions, but just said, "I'm glad you're back."
Qian Qin's lips moved slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't utter a word. He just nodded and continued walking with the boy on his back.
During this time, several more taskers couldn't wait to run to the square and put on headphones.
“Dear tourist friends…”
The scenic area broadcast sounded again without warning, and the announcer's tone was still cold, without a trace of emotion. "In response to your enthusiasm, the Black Happiness event is open without restrictions, and miracles belong to everyone."
"I wish you a happy Tourism Festival." She seemed to laugh, very satisfied with the liveliness and enjoyed watching it.
Chen Yang's face was grim. Last time, the number of places was limited and they were asked to clear out the extra tourists. But they don't have to worry about it this time, right
Now the open space west of the memorial has been surrounded by black lines.
Chen Yang's eyes swept within the black circle, and he suddenly saw several familiar faces, Ye Yu's sister and brother-in-law, Guan Xiaoyun, and... Cheng Jin's wife. She was holding a baby in her arms, and she even brought her newborn baby with her while "enjoying the good life".
In that split second, a thin figure rushed over, only able to snatch the baby from Cheng Jin's wife's arms, but failed to stop her from wearing headphones.
It's a pony!
Chen Yang didn't expect that the next moment, Xiao Ma would throw the baby out. When he did that action, his expression was not normal. It was obvious that he was also fascinated by the black miracle and couldn't get out. All he could do was to send the baby out before he was completely fascinated.
Xiao Ma did not tell anyone that he saw Cheng Jin running into the memorial hall that day. He followed him in out of curiosity and witnessed him being hanged on the second floor of the bell tower. He did not dare to make a sound, let alone save him. After that, he did not dare to put him down. He cried for a while and then left.
From then on, he dreamed of the scene of Cheng Jin's death every night.
Xiao Ma eagerly took the black headphones and put them on, with a happy smile on his face. He was freed from the sea of suffering and saw heaven.
The baby was thrown by Xiao Ma towards the lawn. It was a bit far from Chen Yang. He couldn't catch up with it. It was no use. He had to give up.
When Chen Yang reacted, he was already running towards the direction where the baby fell.
Faster, faster...
The feeling of lack of oxygen became more and more intense, accompanied by a faster heartbeat, rising body temperature, swelling head, and congestion in the brain. The moment Chen Yang pounced to catch the baby and fell to the ground, he felt the pain as if his heart was about to explode and he was about to die.
Chen Yang lay on the grass with his back facing up, gasping for breath: "Catch it... Catch it..."
Chao Jian squatted down without saying a word and looked at his frighteningly red face.
"I thought... ahem... I couldn't... catch up." Chen Yang felt dizzy and it took him a while to hold the hand that Chao Jian extended to him. He said intermittently, "Human potential... potential is indeed infinite."
Chao Jian picked up Chen Yang and held his waist with his hands: "It's not all about potential, it's more about a sense of belief."
Chen Yang's legs were weak, he held the baby awkwardly, took several deep breaths with difficulty, and was still panting heavily: "So you have to trust me."
"Yeah." Chao Jian straightened Chen Yang's crooked baseball cap.
"She's smiling..." Chen Yang lowered his eyes to look at the baby in his arms and shouted excitedly, "Look, Chao Jian, she's smiling!"
The little girl, who was only a few days old, leaned against his heart, which was beating violently, and smiled at him unconsciously.
Chen Yang's eyes suddenly became hot and his vision became blurred. Life is fragile, yet strong and beautiful.
"If you like children, we can raise one when you get out." Chao Jian wiped the tears from his face, held his scraped hand, and gently pinched off the grass debris on the wound.
Chen Yang actually didn't have this idea. Two people were enough. At most, they could raise a dog. He still asked, "Can you accept it?"
Chao Jian turned his head and looked into the distance without answering. After a while, he said, "Nothing is more important than your being alive."
"Me too." After Chen Yang said this, he didn't look at Chao Jian, he looked at the baby's mother.
I didn't expect that the people in the house would be affected. And Cheng Jin's wife lives far away from here...
This shows that the black miracle covers the three bridges.
"Where should we put the child?" Chen Yang asked Chao Jian. It would not be safe to give the child to anyone, and he couldn't possibly keep the child with him.
Chao Jian said: "Small clinic."
Chen Yang was stunned: "That place is nearby." He didn't consider whether the doctor was still alive or not, and went there directly.
The door of the small clinic was closed, the doctor was inside, and she was still alive, but she refused to open the door.
The human defense system is very powerful, and she dare not put herself in danger.
Chen Yang resisted the urge to tear the door down. No matter how hard he tried to persuade them, even until his lips were broken, the door was still closed.
Moral blackmail should never exist at any time. The doctor did nothing wrong and she just wanted to stay alive.
It was impossible for Chen Yang to break into the house by force and destroy her protective shell.
"What should I do?" Seeing the baby was about to wake up, Chen Yang paced back and forth anxiously.
Chao Jian glanced at the window which was also tightly closed, and whispered to Chen Yang, "Put the baby at the door."
"Put it at the door? Okay, I'll listen to you." Chen Yang gently placed the baby on the ground outside the door. He bent down and kissed her forehead.
—Wish you good luck, and good luck to me and everyone else.
When Chen Yang and Chao Jian walked to the corner, he heard a "creaking" sound. A gap appeared in the originally closed door, and it opened quickly and closed quickly.
The baby on the floor at the door was carried inside.
Chen Yang's footsteps became a little lighter, but became heavy again after a few seconds. There was no one in sight wherever he passed.
The last large-scale disaster was the task of the A3 building in the Science and Technology Park. That area was flooded by sea water, leaving only half of the building in the water bubble.
Chen Yang took a bottle of water from the small shop on the left and threw a coin in. The coin began to spin on the counter.
"This is the first time I've spun a coin so well." Chen Yang took a sip of water and handed the bottle to Chao Jian.
"Let's go." Chao Jian's voice was mixed with the crisp sound of the coin falling.
Chen Yang returned to the square west of the memorial hall, and everything was still the same.
"Brother, what should we do?" Zhang Qi stumbled over, followed by a group of taskers, and everyone was at a loss.
"I don't know how many died. I can't even count them." Jiang Jiang's voice was shaking. There had never been so many deaths in any of his previous missions. This number made his panic reach a level he had never reached before.
"Mr. Chen, we can't move those people wearing headphones. Should we just let them wear them all the time?" A Yuan was carrying a dried corpse. It was her cousin, whom she found and carried out.
The tasker's body will disappear, and my cousin won't be able to stay on her back for long.
Chen Yang glanced at the mummy, shook his head and said he didn't know. It was also the first time for him to experience this type of mission.
"Let's take a look again. This mutation should not be over yet. It is still ongoing." Chen Yang said.
These words shocked everyone. They all turned their heads in unison, facing the group of people in the black line. Is the mutation still going on... Then what will it take for it to stop
Zhang Qi leaned close to Chen Yang's ear and whispered, "Brother, can you help me ask Qian Qin what it felt like to hold the headphones, whether he heard any sound, and how he got out?"
Chen Yang threw a few questions to Qian Qin, and the other taskers were waiting for the answers openly or secretly.
Qian Qin returned to his original cold and wooden attitude. He lifted the boy who had fallen asleep from crying on his back and said, "If you wear headphones, you will hear hallucinations. You need to use your mind to get out of it."
"Then why did you rush towards the headphones?" someone couldn't help asking.
Qian Qin gave two words: "Curiosity."
Everyone: “…”
Those tourists were definitely not curious, they were bewitched.
"ah-"
Suddenly, a tasker screamed. Chen Yang recognized her as Ai Xiaoyu, one of the two girls who helped find the fool. Her strengths and weaknesses were quite obvious, but her strengths outweighed her weaknesses. She was pretty good. At this moment, she widened her eyes and pointed to a place with a trembling hand.
Chen Yang and others looked in the direction she pointed, and their expressions changed randomly.
The tourists who had been knocked unconscious by them woke up, climbed up using their hands and feet, and rushed madly towards the black group in the square. The scene was no different from zombies exploding coffins.
A young girl was bumped into by a tourist. She instinctively pulled the other person to hold him back, but was dragged into the pile of mummies by the force.
The girl's reaction was not slow. She covered her ears, closed her eyes and ran back almost instantly.
When everyone thought she could run out, she suddenly stopped and changed direction.
“Don’t take the headphones… Oh my god… Don’t take them…”
"Put down your headphones!"
“Hurry up!”
However, no matter how her teammates shouted, the girl still put on the headphones. She was not like Qian Qin who could hesitate and think, nor did she pause like the little boy. She put them on directly without any hesitation.
There was silence in the team. After a while, panicked gasps and cries of pain were heard one after another.
"Another one is gone."
"It's useless. Closing your senses will still affect you."
"If someone had rushed in and brought her out before she touched the headphones, would she be fine?"
"Who's rushing?"
"We are all veteran taskers. Everyone knows that self-protection is a prerequisite! There are so many earphones everywhere. Who dares to say that they won't be confused if they go in?"
"… "
The team fell silent again. Many people looked at Qian Qin. He had been through it before, so he could go in and give it a try.
Qian Qin's black and white hair was messed up by the wind, and his tall and thin figure looked very solemn. In the past, he liked to simplify the problems and he would choose the most efficient way to solve them.
If he wanted to save that teammate, he would have chopped off her hand the moment she got the headset.
Now Qian Qin...
"Too late." was his answer.
Chen Yang squatted down, looked down at Jian's black hair, and his throat moved several times.
It was also difficult for Chao Jian, as the accompanying family member. He used to give guidance when Chen Yang was confused, and he was used to it. But this time it would not work. He had to suppress his habit by force.
Fortunately, Chen Yang was helped by several firemen to make sure that he was capable enough, and then he came here with the help of Chao Jian. He didn't let Chao Jian worry for long before he came to his senses and stood up and said, "Let's go."
Zhang Qi was confused: "Where are you going, brother?"
"Administrative Office." Chen Yang pulled Chao Jian up and said to everyone as they walked, "We need to go through the underground passage there to enter the experience hall."
"If we all leave, what will happen to public security?" There was a commotion in the team.
"That's right, damn, there are so many tasks and restrictions, I'm confused and want to kill myself."
"… "
Zheng Zhiqin put out the fourth cigarette he had smoked since the incident, his fingertips feeling numb. "Is there any problem with public security? No one is fighting over it anymore. Everyone has a share. The order is good and the world is peaceful."
Everyone: “…” They all looked at the square, where an eerie tranquility permeated.
Those who saw their old teammates couldn't help sobbing.
"Let's go." Chen Yang didn't bother to count how many people were in the team. He walked in the front with a slightly disordered figure, having the illusion that he was going to the execution ground.
It's not an illusion. The mission point in the experience hall is the source of the black miracle, and it is not much better than the execution ground.
But I have to go.
The smell of cigarettes wafted over from behind the team. Chen Yang also took out his cigarette box and lit two cigarettes. He and Chao Jian each had one, puffing away as they walked.
"The rainbow is gone." Zhang Jinyang, who was at the end of the team, suddenly spoke up.
Everyone looked up like him, and the rainbow was really gone.
"The anomaly has changed, either a sign that it is about to end or a sign that it is about to evolve."
"I have a bad feeling."
"I have, too."
"… "
The discussions in the team gradually faded away.
As Ayuan was walking, she felt a lightness on her back. Her cousin had left. Her steps staggered, and she bit the rotten flesh in her mouth and continued walking.
"Oh my God!"
“… Holy shit!”
There were screams from behind, and Chen Yang quickly turned around. The scene in front of him made him stunned.
All the mummies in the square turned into powder, and all the people wearing headphones began to swell up like ripened fruits, and faint groans from the depths of their souls could be heard from their throats, a mixture of pain and joy.
"Bang... Bang... Bang..."
When these people grew to two or three times their size, it seemed as if they had reached their limit, and the black lines on their heads all broke off with a "bang".
The horrifying sound of breaking echoed throughout the square!
after…
Those people fell down on the square like ripe melons, motionless like corpses.
The world fell into silence.
Everyone made eye contact and saw the fear and panic that was about to explode in each other's eyes.
"Are all those people dead?" Jiang Jiang whispered.
No one spoke. They estimated that there were at least hundreds of people in the square. If they were all dead...
"Alive!" someone shouted in surprise, "Still alive!"
Sure enough, under everyone's hopeful and vigilant gaze, those people began to struggle to get up, but their bodies had grown too big, which made them look very slow.
"The headphones on their heads disappeared." Chen Yang bit the cigarette butt hard.
The headphones those people wore on their heads all withered and fell off, and even the black wires broke, drying up and breaking into pieces inch by inch, dissipating like ashes.
A breeze blew past, sweeping away the ashes on the square. After a long time, the wind died down, and the world fell into a deep silence, with no one making a sound.
Because everyone still couldn't believe that the disaster was over, until they held their breath and waited for a long time, making sure that nothing would happen again.
"It's really over..." Zhang Qi rubbed his face and looked at Chen Yang, "Brother, didn't you say that the mutation is still in progress?"
Chen Yang didn't answer, and a teammate said for him: "We are all guessing, and there will always be times when we guess wrong."
Chen Yang did not refute. He held the cigarette butt in his mouth and stared at the people in the square without blinking, breathing in and out very slowly.
The tourists and local residents in the square also gradually woke up. They rubbed their heads and found that their bodies had become larger. Their expressions were all dull and they forgot to collapse and scream.
"Don't go over now, just stay here!" Chen Yang called out to his teammates who were about to go and check.
The boy refused to listen and kept muttering, "Order."
He was immersed in his tasks, giving full play to his love for what he did and focusing on maintaining order.
"Idiot, look carefully, they didn't have a conflict!" Lao Xiao punched him.
The boy started fighting with Lao Xiao with blood flowing from his nose.
Lao Xiao's partner kicked the man down, then pulled him up by his hair and made him face the square.
The boy covered his egg and howled while looking at the square. There was indeed no conflict. Those people were all dumbfounded.
This is the loophole in the rules. No matter what the tourists do or what they face, as long as there is no conflict, they don't have to care.
One second... Two seconds...
Time passed by and there was no movement in the square.
Zhang Qi let out a long sigh of relief: "The event is really over."
"It seems so." Several people collapsed on the ground, still in shock.
"But... what about those swollen people? Will they explode?" Ai Xiaoyu said in panic.
"I don't know. Where is Liu Zhi? Where did he go?"
"Is he dead in the square?"
"I didn't notice. If he really died there, he would have been pink by now."
Everyone was speechless.
The screws in Chen Yang's mind kept tightening. He stepped back, a little further away from the square. Then he turned his head to look at the management office, judging the distance between the two places. It was unknown what he was thinking.
"Xiao Yangyang, you are always so sensitive." Miss Qiao moved closer.
Chen Yang blew a puff of cigarette to the side and found that the corners of her eyes were a little red and swollen. She had been crying. This was not surprising. After all, her coming here was enough to explain what her world was like.
"Sister Qiao, why has your cheongsam become shorter?" Chen Yang glanced at the hem of her cheongsam with surprise on his face, or did he remember it wrong
"You remember correctly, I was wearing a long one today, and it just got torn and torn off." Miss Qiao said lightly.
Chen Yang twitched his lips: "I can't tell."
"Sister is very clever." Miss Qiao asked Chen Yang for a cigarette. "The smell of men's cigarette is very strong. I don't like it. I'll just make do with it."
Some gay men looked at her legs, which were really white, but they really couldn't have any evil thoughts because they were too tired.
"I don't plan to stay here. I'm going to the management office. What about you?" Chen Yang asked.
"Let's do it in batches." Someone suggested, "Some people stay here and wait and see, and some people go to the management office."
Just as everyone was dividing into teams, there was a sudden sound of electricity coming from the walkie-talkie in Jiang Jiang's back pocket.
“Squeak… Squeak… Hello! This is the scenic area control room. Can you hear me?”
"I can hear you!" Jiang Jiang quickly picked up the intercom, "Captain Liu!"
Everyone held their breath.
That bastard Liu Zhi is still alive, haha.
"Great! We're connected!" Liu Zhi breathed a sigh of relief. He looked anxious, as if saying, "I've been trying to contact you for a long time. I was so worried, and now I've finally gotten in touch with you."
Everyone:"… "
"Where have all the people gone? What's going on with the square west of the memorial hall?" Liu Zhi asked curiously.
"What a sudden change! Many people died, and many others are alive but not much better! I said last night that we should disperse the tourists, but you refused!" Zhang Qi came close to Jiang Jiang and spit into the intercom in his hand, "What you said about the black miracle is just a legend, what legend is that!"
Zhang Qi's temperament is relatively good, and he doesn't like to swear normally, unless he is really angry. For example, now, he is shaking with anger. He knows that he shouldn't get emotional with a villain NPC, but he just can't control himself and treats the other party as a colleague.
Zhang Qi was very emotional and his brain was not getting enough blood. He felt a little dizzy. He grabbed Jiang Jiang and said, "Little brother, don't move. Let me hold on for a while." Then he continued to spray.
By the time Zhang Qi finished spraying, the intercom was already covered in water.
Jiang Jiang didn't know whether to wipe it or not, he just felt awkward.
There was no sound from the intercom. After a while, Liu Zhi's nervous and warm voice came out: "Everyone, the Tourism Festival is still going on."
"It's good that it's still being held. I beg you to complete the tourism festival well," he added.
There was a faint sound of a woman's laughter mixed in with the words, and there was a sense of eerie pleasure.
The people gathered around the intercom were feeling suffocated. The female ghost who was killed and dismembered by Liu Zhi was right next to him!
Chen Yang took a half-smoked cigarette and coughed twice. He now had a strong guess that the woman came to Sanlianqiao last year for the black miracle. She knew this legend from somewhere and came here out of curiosity and hunting.
If this is true, then they are all thinking too simply. Her last wish is not an ordinary tourism festival, but for the experience center to be reopened and the black miracle to appear again.
The current situation is very exciting for her who has become a fierce ghost.
—This is the real tourism festival.
Chen Yang shuddered.
The palm on his back gave him warmth and support. He and Chao Jian looked at each other, and the cigarette butt between his fingers rubbed each other lightly.
"Brother, look towards the square, they seem to be in pain!" Zhang Qi said in surprise.
Chen Yang took the cigarette from his lips and turned his eyes. The people in the square were suffering from back pain and abdominal pain due to their swollen bodies, and some of them were even retching.
"It's normal to feel pain. My body is deformed," said Chen Yang.
"Then...are they okay?" One of the taskers showed worry on his face.
"I feel like they won't die. From what I've seen so far, apart from the swelling, they don't seem to have any other problems." The person next to him said uncertainly.
At this moment, the square became chaotic again. The number of people who began to retch was increasing, and hoarse vomiting sounds were heard everywhere.
"What's wrong with them?"
"I don't know, why did you start retching?"
"… "
The atmosphere in the team became tense again.
Chen Yang began to retreat, his left hand still holding onto Chao Jian, not letting go at all.
The others also walked backwards step by step towards the management office. They looked around cautiously, and could not tell whose heartbeats and heavy breathing they were hearing.
"As long as they are not aggressive, everything is fine. I am very afraid of zombies." Zhang Jinyang spat.
The people around him glanced at his upper body wearing only a black vest, looked at his thin but not strong dark muscles, then looked at his scarred hands and the backs of his hands with bulging veins. They silently began to pay attention to every brick and stone on the roadside, wondering what could be used as a weapon for self-defense.
Chen Yang spat out the cigarette butt. He had a nail in his pocket, which was his favorite little thing. There was no need to find other props.
Chen Yang was also walking backwards, and he took in all the movements in the square. He found that the conditions of those people had deteriorated rapidly, and soon everyone began to retch.
"Ah!" A tourist's body suddenly straightened up, he fell on his back, and his whole body became a "C" shape.
“Ugh…uh…” Veins bulged on his painful face, his mouth opened wide and a low roar came from his abdomen.
Chen Yang and others stopped at the same time. They witnessed the tourist roaring for a while, making a dry retching sound, and then a wisp of white thread-like substance came out of his mouth.
"Ugh..."
As the vomiting became more intense, more and more filaments were vomited out. These filaments were very light and all floated in the air.
"That guy...what happened to him?" someone screamed in horror.
"Maybe he is spreading seeds." Zheng Zhiqin narrowed his eyes and said thoughtfully, "He is like a..." After a pause, Zheng Zhiqin said, "a ripe fruit."
Something surged from deep within Chen Yang's mind, but it happened so quickly that he couldn't catch it in time.
Gradually, everyone who had worn the headphones developed the same symptoms, until the sky was filled with white filaments that looked like floating snowflakes, taking on a strange beauty under the sunlight.
"Huh..."
A cool breeze blew by, and all the filaments were blown away by the wind, floating across the entire Sanlian Bridge.
"Cover your mouth and nose quickly... Cover your mouth and nose quickly..." Chen Yang's eyes widened instantly. He heard his own voice change its tone, "Cover your mouth and nose quickly..."
His eyes were bloodshot, and he yelled with all his might: "Cover your mouth and nose!"
Some of the taskers had already done so before Chen Yang finished shouting, while some people's abilities and experience were far behind, not even reaching the average level, so they were much slower.
"Ah!" A tasker sneezed involuntarily. He rubbed his red nose desperately, met everyone's gaze, and smiled awkwardly, "Don't be nervous, I'm just a little allergic to pollen..."
Before he could finish his words, the tasker's expression froze abruptly, and then his face turned purple. He grasped his neck tightly with both hands, and his pupils dilated rapidly.
"Bang!" The tasker fell to the ground and stopped moving.
This scene happened so quickly that no one could react.
Ai Xiaoyu, who was closest to the tasker, quickly squatted down to check. After she confirmed the result, her body trembled violently: "Dead, dead."
But this is just the beginning…
"Ah-chu!" Another tasker couldn't help but sneeze.
The same tragedy happened again, and there was one more body on the ground.
"Ah..."
Chen Yang held the mask that Chao Jian had put on him and took several steps back. He pulled the other person and turned around and ran, shouting as he ran, his throat aching and his voice hoarse.
"Hurry into the management office! Run—"
“That white stuff is poisonous!!!”