On the long street, there was a figure running very fast. He ran at his fastest speed, as if something was chasing him.
Something was indeed chasing him.
"Bang!"
There was a slight gunshot and he dodged suddenly. The bullet penetrated a tree next to him and exploded a small spark.
Who is hunting me
On the roof of a tall building, a man put away his gun, bent down and moved forward quickly. When he estimated that he was about the same position, he suddenly stood up and threw a homemade bomb downstairs, and then continued to move forward.
With a loud bang, a heat wave surged into the sky, sweeping up trees, billboards and countless gravel on the street, and then fell to the ground with a loud noise.
Lu Yanli, who was still running on the street, hid in a small shop in time, but he was still injured by the explosion. There were large wounds on his face and left shoulder, and blood was flowing down. He ignored the shop owner's horrified eyes and went straight to the faucet to wash the wound, and asked for some gauze to wrap the wound.
He acted very politely, but the shop owner was still afraid. He saw the other person's calm and tough attitude and took the medicine box. He thought that the man would leave after cleaning, so he relaxed a little. The other person did the same. After cleaning, he said thank you and stood up, and it seemed that he was going to leave.
The knife flashed.
Blood splattered more than a meter high.
Lu Yanli put on a hood to cover the wound on his face, picked up the axe and walked out.
He knew he would die in the future, so he made a wish to God to go back to the past so that he could change his future.
God is with us.
And this time, it finally added the price of the previous wish together, on the condition that all the residents of the psychic town save their lives.
Most of the time, Lu Yanli couldn't see these people as creatures of the same race as himself. He didn't hate them or dislike them, but more often he felt bored.
He is clearly an ordinary person in our impression, so why can't he live like an ordinary person
He naturally agreed. As he experienced the future, these people would also die.
Anyway, once this mission is over, everyone in the Psychic Town will naturally "resurrect" in another form.
After stepping out of the store, Lu Yanli quickly raised his head to look at the direction where the bomb had just been thrown. There was no one in the room, so he must have left.
but…
He took out two small knives from his pocket and placed them in front of his eyes.
The two knives are exactly the same.
One was his own weapon, and the other was a weapon used to attack his younger self.
He stood still, looking up and around.
There is no mistake, the one who attacked him was also himself. But I don't know whether it was him in the future or in another timeline, and what the tracing method and reason for the attack were.
It seems that from some point on, these missions began to produce elements of time and space chaos to a greater or lesser extent.
Lu Yanli put away the knife and continued running forward.
Even though he knew that the one who attacked him was himself in the future, or maybe there were other reasons, he would not give up. Compared to the concept of "him in the future" which sounded a bit illusory, he would rather put his hope on himself at the moment.
Another bomb fell, and before it hit the ground, Lu Yanli picked up a piece of rubble on the ground and threw it at it, knocking the homemade bomb falling from the air into the window of a residential building nearby, while stepping back.
Screaming, wailing, calling for help... The sound of sirens was heard again in the distance.
The other end of town.
Lu Yanli was not asleep, but was leaning against the wall, resting with his eyes slightly open.
He guessed right, that thing... was hiding in his eyeballs, so the person who created the explosion couldn't let him look into the mirror, otherwise, that thing would find him through the mirror.
Most people probably can't sleep tonight. There have been at least twenty explosions in the town, and the death toll is unknown.
Another explosion was heard, and Lu Yanli looked in the direction of the sound.
About two blocks away from the window, flames were shooting into the sky.
In the future, he seems to have no intention of committing suicide.
Indeed, he can kill his future self, because as long as the mission is completed, he can continue to live. But if the future self kills the past self, then will the future self still exist
In a certain room, some people were holding an impromptu meeting.
They are the ones with the most say among this group of taskers: Di Ying, Ximen Yuan, Jiang Yu, Ling Tong, and Tan Xu.
Ling Tong glanced at his watch and asked, "Did anyone of you notify Shen Zhu? Why did she stay here?"
Di Ying: "I have informed her, but she doesn't look well today, so she may need to rest."
Jiang Yu: "In that case, let's not wait for her. Please remind her later." After saying that, he stretched out his hand and spread out a map on the table.
This map was hand-drawn by Jiang Yu himself, and completed with the help of everyone's description. It was very detailed. He took out a plate of small flags with a base from under the table and placed them on the map little by little.
"Everyone can come and see, these places are where the explosions occurred tonight." He pointed at the map, "Can you tell what it is?"
There were twenty-three places in total, and there seemed to be no regularity or pattern like those described in suspense novels.
Di Ying asked: "Are they mostly residential buildings?"
Except for a library and a supermarket, all other places with small flags were marked as residential buildings.
Residential buildings mean a large flow of people, especially at night when everyone is asleep, making it virtually impossible to escape after an explosion.
"Not only that. Look again." The man pointed his finger at a certain place.
The place happened to be the building where they lived.
"We live in a residential building with dense traffic. In addition, we are all here to complete missions, so we should be more attractive to ghosts. Why did the explosion bypass our residence?"
Indeed, even if the location of the explosion was difficult to determine, they should not have been missed based on their route.
As for the mission of "protecting" them? Ha, it would be more credible to call them "faithful science".
"If it's a ghost killing someone, it doesn't necessarily have to be this way, so I prefer it to be human."
As for why the locals avoid the places where they live, this is very interesting.
"Don't be too sure. Let's see in two days whether it will affect us." Ling Tong added.
"Speaking of man-made crimes, do you remember Wang Shunde? He was the one who stood guard in the tunnel for two days." Ximen Yuan seemed to be thinking, "At first everyone thought it was a ghost. Later it was concluded that the murderer was most likely Lu Yanli. What do you think, could this explosion also be...?"
He hadn't finished speaking yet, and everyone present understood what he had not said.
"It's hard to say."
If it was really Lu Yanli, why didn't he attack them? Because among the people who died in the explosion, almost all of them were mission personnel, and most of them were local residents.
Besides, if it was really Lu Yanli, why did he kill everyone in the town? Obviously, the residents of the town didn't know him, so it couldn't be that he was a fierce ghost seeking indiscriminate revenge, right
The mission cannot be unsolvable. Since it has been clearly stated that Lu Yanli must be killed, there must be a way to eliminate him.
No one could think of the other's reason. After thinking for a long time, Di Ying asked, "Is there any news from Lin Chu?"
Jiang Yu pointed to his ear, where he wore a small headset, and said, "She fell asleep."
"What do you think of her?" Di Ying frowned when he thought that the other party could still fall asleep. He didn't have anything to say.
Ximen Yuan: "He is a suspicious person."
Ling Tong: "I don't believe she doesn't know, but she shouldn't have mastered other ways to break the situation like we guessed."
"Maybe she has some other reason that we don't know."
Di Ying asked: "Where is the man who has been helping her to call Yu Huaiyao?"
"Also fell asleep." Jiang Yu said.
"When it comes to reality, everyone should check the identities of these people. I think Lin Chu is the most simple one." Jiang Yu added, "She may be the most dangerous one among this group of newcomers."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone immediately became alert.
For Jiang Yu to use the word "dangerous" to describe him, he must be someone extraordinary.
"You think it's possible that the mission she got is different from ours?"
In the silence, someone put forward this conjecture.
"How is this possible?" Ling Tong objected loudly, but stopped as soon as he finished speaking.
Yes, why is it impossible
Now the tasks are becoming more and more strange, and the way out is more difficult to find. What's so strange about different tasks in the same world
Everyone discussed for a while before leaving. Only Jiang Yu was still sitting in the room.
"Lu Yanli... Jiang Bai... Lin Chu..."
He pondered silently, his mind seemed to be covered with a thick fog, and he could not see the truth clearly.
If Jiang Bai is Lu Yanli, the first task can be easily completed. However, where should we find the missing person
After a while, Lu Yanli still tried to escape.
The people who were chasing him with hot weapons have gone into hiding and even provided the police with information about his location. Now, it is a small team of police officers who are chasing him.
In order not to hinder his own journey on this line of time and space, he hid the axe halfway, then found a motorcycle, picked the lock and started to escape.
He increased his speed to the maximum, and the roar of the motorcycle resounded throughout the entire street. If he could rush out of this street again, he could escape to the west side of the town, where there were more numerous and chaotic streets, making it easier to escape.
but…
When he was about to pass a street, Lu Yanli braked suddenly. The tires of the vehicle rubbed against the ground with a loud noise, and even produced bright sparks. Before the motorcycle stopped, he jumped off the vehicle without caring about anything, and let the motorcycle be thrown out due to inertia and hit a tree on the side of the street.
He also rolled to the ground, and luckily protected his head. Although he suffered minor injuries, he was more thankful.
The police car following closely behind was unable to brake in time, and the heads of the four people in the car along with the roof were cut off by the metal wire across the middle of the road while driving at high speed. The wire flew high into the air, but was stopped by the metal wire above and fell down.
The tire of the car was also cut off in half, and the car flew out with four headless corpses on board, crashing into a street shop at an angle - another explosion occurred.
Lu Yanli took a breath, stepped back and hid in the shadows.
He never imagined that in the future he would actually place three metal wires on the street!
In this way, whether he was running, riding a bike or driving a car, he would definitely be disturbed. If he had not jumped out of the car at that time, he might have been the same as some people.
There were two police cars arriving. Seeing the miserable state of their colleague, the second one slammed on the brakes. However, the distance was too close, and they still had their roofs scraped off, as well as the heads of the two people sitting in the front seat.
In the back seat, the young policeman's chest heaved violently. The instant the car in front of him had an accident, he understood what had happened. After yelling "Get down!", he lay down on the seat.
But the two people in front of him didn't have time to react and were saved...
In order to prevent the car from losing control and exploding, he lay down for a moment, held the car door with his hands and pushed it slightly open. The sudden stop almost made him fly out holding the door handle, and he had to hook his feet on the seat to stabilize himself.
He raised his car and through the gap between the cars saw the face of the person they had been chasing.
No one noticed him and seemed to be in a hurry to escape. He pulled up his hood and left.
He crawled out of the car, turned around, and saw the vehicle in front of him that had half crashed into the building, with parts of the top and bottom cut off and on fire. He saw several skulls rolling to the ground, and... and a motorcycle.
It's a tool used by those guys to escape.
The person has already slipped away.
He limped over to see if he could find any information from the car. After searching around, he found a piece of bloody gauze.
It's good to have this, at least we can detect some information about the other party.
In the distance, another group of teammates came. The young policeman put away the gauze and waved to his teammates from a distance.
"What do you think of him?"
The young policeman's surname was Yang. He nodded and began to describe: "He looks very gentle, relatively tall, more than 1.8 meters tall according to reference, with a thin face and eyes..."
As he described, the painter sketched out the image of a young man bit by bit on the paper.
"Here, and here, there are burn marks." Xiao Yang pointed to his left cheek, from the forehead to the side of the face. "It's not a complete burn, but there is a large area of skin that has been scraped off and is bleeding. It's very obvious. It will take at least three days for the scab to heal. I suspect the gauze I picked up was the one he originally applied to his face."
The artist would paint a scar on the paper with the tip of the pencil.
"Yes, that's right. It can't be wrong." Xiao Yang nodded repeatedly.
The newly-produced suspect portrait was immediately circulated within the police station. After it was printed out, a wanted warrant was prepared to be issued the next day.
So, when the task force members woke up the next day, they found that wanted posters for the bombing suspects were posted on every street corner, even downstairs where they lived.
"Don't you think this person is Jiang Bai?" Ximen Yuan took a picture of the wanted poster and compared the two faces carefully.
Minus the scars, they are exactly the same.
Early in the morning, Lu Yanli came out of the building opposite the one where they lived.
He barely slept all night and looked a little haggard, but he was very calm, as if he didn't know that a group of people were deliberately trying to kill a man named Lu Yanli.
As soon as all the taskers left, the real owner appeared and everyone looked over there.
So similar...
However, the face on the wanted poster clearly had a large wound, but Jiang Bai's face was clean and without any scars.
"Jiang Bai" smiled at them good-naturedly, his slightly pale face looking somewhat frail: "Good morning, what are you looking at?"
Ximen Yuan didn't say anything, just looked the other person up and down.
He looked like he had had a good rest, but his body was clean... He moved his nose and could smell the smell of gunpowder on him.
Are there really two people who look so similar
"You will know if you come and see for yourself."
Lu Yanli walked closer and saw the face on the wanted poster. He was startled and subconsciously raised his hand to touch his face: "How could it be? This person..." He waved his hands repeatedly, "It's not me, I didn't, I stayed in my room to rest last night."
"So, Mr. Jiang Bai, do you have a twin brother?" Jiang Yu asked.
"Jiang Bai" shook his head, looking confused.
"I see you are not a local, right? What are you doing here? The psychic town is quite remote, and few outsiders come in."
Just as Lu Yanli was about to tell his previous reasons, his eyelids twitched and he stopped immediately.
His current identity is Jiang Bai. What if they ask to see his press card? He cannot show them any documents he has on him.
"I heard that the town is going to hold a traditional cultural festival soon, so I came here to collect folk songs." Lu Yanli said, "To be honest, I am a painter, and I plan to hold an art exhibition after I get here. But I didn't expect that I would encounter such a thing just after arriving..."
"Traditional Cultural Festival?"
The others looked at each other. How could they not know
"Yes, the Traditional Culture Festival." Lu Yanli took out a flyer from his bag and showed it to them.
It was exactly the one I received a while ago.
The leaflet had changed. The facial mask remained the same, but a row of small blood-red characters had been added, stating the time and place of the cultural festival.
The cultural festival will be held at the end of this month!
"You all look like locals to me, and I thought you were all here to celebrate the festival."
Facing Jiang Bai's temptation, Ximen Yuan said: "We have heard of the Wenhua Festival, but we heard that the scenery is beautiful, so we came to have a look."
"Xiaoxiao, are you going to participate in this cultural festival?"
A bold idea suddenly popped up in Lu Yanli's mind.
His eyes gradually became weird, staring at everyone, with a cold smile on his face: "Are you going to participate in this cultural festival?"
At this moment, he was no different from an ordinary person possessed by a ghost. The tasker closest to him was so frightened that he took two steps back: "You..." After saying this, Jiang Yu immediately stopped him and shook his head silently.
Do you want to die if you stop the ghost rashly
"Are you guys... going to... the cultural festival?"
The whole person of "Jiang Bai" looked a little abnormal. He stared at them intently, his face was hideous and distorted, and an almost inhuman and cold hissing sound came from his throat.
"You have seen the flyer, you must come..."
They could still negotiate with ordinary people, but when faced with people possessed by strange spirits, the taskers had to escape at the first possible moment, which showed their strong psychological endurance.
Just as he finished speaking, "Jiang Bai" rolled his eyes and seemed to faint. Jiang Yu, who was closer to him, reached out to hold him. The next second, he stood still again and looked up with confusion.
"Jiang Bai" covered his forehead with his hand and gasped softly. After he finally recovered, he smiled apologetically at the others like a victim, saying that he was going to clear the room and asked them not to mention him to the police, otherwise it would be very troublesome.
After he went upstairs, the others resumed communication.
“He just…” Someone was about to mention “Jiang Bai” as something strange, but was immediately stopped by a look and changed the topic to other topics.
Although it's hard to say, but looking at this face, it's obvious that he is possessed by a ghost, right
"Cultural Festival? Why have I never heard of anyone else talking about it? It seems like there's some reaction in the town, too."
"Maybe it's because of the bombing. Everyone's attention is focused on the bombing. This year's Wenhua Festival may not be able to go on."
Jiang Yu looked at the back of "Jiang Bai" until he disappeared into the corridor. He said, "Let Lin Chu out and let her test this 'Jiang Bai'."
Fang Tu nodded with some regret, indicating that he had listened.
Just now, his eyes were also fixed on "Jiang Bai".
Such a person... If Da is really a human being, it would be very interesting to dissect it.
Will there be any difference for an NPC who has been possessed by a ghost
Jiang Yu gave him a warning look: "It's still unknown how dangerous he is at the moment, so you should be more restrained."
Fang Tu nodded and walked away.
He came to the door of the room where Lin Chu was imprisoned, knocked symbolically and then broke in. He smiled sinisterly at Lin Chu, who was twisted in fear sitting by the window: "Don't you like these NPCs very much? Now, your chance has come."
Lin Chu was startled: "What are you thinking?"
Fang Tu walked over and untied the rope on her wrist. His skin was cold, and his soft and slender hands slowly climbed on Lin Chu's skin like a snake.
He was like a snake hiding in the dark, spitting out its tongue at its trembling prey: "You'd better know what to say and what not to say."
Lin Chu trembled: "I... I know, I will definitely not say anything nonsense."
Fang Tu held Lin Chu hostage and walked towards the place where "Jiang Bai" lived. He hid under the stairs and saw with his own eyes that Lin Chu knocked on the door before he left with peace of mind.
The other side of town.
The man wrapped in dark clothes sat in an abandoned building with a lot of raw materials in front of him. At this moment, he was quickly completing the work at hand.
He knew that he would die in this mission, and that he would only have one day to commemorate Wenhua.
Therefore, the cultural festival of the dead itself went back to the past, that is, the present, through making wishes. However, the "wishes" made by gods have never been credible. This time, making a wish will lead to even more terrifying and chaotic consequences.
He must stop this suicide! He must also survive this cultural festival!
Thinking of this, Lu Yanli quickened his movements, and soon, another small homemade explosive was placed on the table.
When the daylight came in, you could see some faint scars on his left cheek. They had already scabbed over and would heal in some time.
On the table in front of him was a wanted poster, with a face exactly like his, except for the scar. On the table was also a bunch of gunpowder tubes that had just been extinguished, made of metal and hot.
He stretched out his hand and pressed the tube against his face.
Severe pain and burning sensation came, with a burnt smell. Lu Yanli endured it and healed the scar bit by bit.
This time... he must survive.
Another world.
After Chu Xiu and An Ru separated, they went back to their own residences.
He had lived with the statue for more than a month and should have disposed of it in time, but he suddenly didn't want to do it.
This is God... How can we blaspheme
Chu Xiu felt that something was wrong with him, so he wiped the statue clean respectfully and placed it on the shrine.