A ghost storyteller can lose his life but cannot lose his job

Chapter 142: There are a thousand Zhong Xies in the eyes of a thousand people
【Planting Friends】

This was the first strange incident that Zhong Xie, Lin Youlan and others encountered when they were performing strange tasks. In order to fight Xiao Shui, Zhong Xie gathered all the survivors at that time and used maggots to transform them into his own appearance.

Through the efforts of several Zhong Xies, this strange incident was solved smoothly.

However, what Zhong Xie did not expect was that this matter was not over yet. After experiencing his possession, these ordinary people were actually affected and began to develop in the trend of "Zhong Xieization".

After solving the ghost story, he specifically asked Sister Shui, and she said that the maggots would not have any impact after restoring the original appearance of humans.

Maggots are just disposable items. Unlike the symbiotic relationship between Jiuyaodi and Baby Face's front and back faces, maggots are essentially the same as applying a facial mask and will not have any side effects.

Now it seems that even Sister Shui herself hasn’t figured out the workings of maggots?
No, as the creator of maggots, Sister Shui must know a lot about it, but she may have made her judgment based on "accumulated experience."

Other people have used maggots in the past and never had any problems, so Sister Shui naturally doesn’t think that maggots will have any side effects.

So, is it my fault?
Zhong Xie was puzzled. It couldn't be that because he was particularly strong as a "human being", those ordinary people's bodies were reluctant to leave his consciousness, right?
After all, his consciousness only existed in the bodies of these ordinary people for a little over half an hour. Even if he "produced" memories and instincts, it was only for half an hour. Under such circumstances, how could he be allowed to gradually take over and control the original body?

Zhong Xie couldn't help but frown. Could it be that his consciousness was infected by a meme?

No, to be precise it should not be "consciousness" but "memory".

"Zhong Xie's memory" has become a special medium that can be carried by the human body and project information, and this medium has become a "meme."

In a meme infection, all memes will instinctively replicate and spread themselves. This method of replication and spread is inconsistent with human scientific common sense, so this type of weird talk is often the most difficult to deal with.

After the revival of ghost stories, there have been many cases of meme-infected ghost stories in the Eastern Theater, but these ghost stories often appear very abruptly, spread rapidly, and eventually disappear just as abruptly, as if they had never appeared.

Just like some infectious diseases in human history, they seem to have disappeared, but it is not because humans have developed special antidotes for this series of infectious diseases. It is simply because the host of the infectious disease has died down, and eventually the disease has also calmed down.

Perhaps it is because of multiple mutations that the disease has been able to reduce damage and coexist with humans as a conceptual host, becoming a normalized disease. Or perhaps all hosts have died, making it impossible to spread.

In short, humans have never eradicated this infectious disease, it is only because they do not have a suitable environment for transmission at the moment that they disappear temporarily.

The meme infection that appeared in the Eastern Theater is just like this. Some scholars speculate that their destinations are nothing more than these two:

One is normalization, hiding in society with the host. They are likely to have developed intelligence and actively reduce harm to achieve coexistence.

Perhaps there will be a destined person who will really become the ultimate host chosen by the meme, but according to this development trend, the vast majority of memes that once wreaked havoc eventually chose to be good kids under the leadership of the Party.

The second possibility is that the meme itself cuts off the route of transmission. This is a bit like an infectious disease setting its mortality rate too high, causing all hosts to die suddenly, and taking the intermediaries that transmit the meme with them.

Perhaps it was in the form of a cursed video, sealed in a broken projector and placed in an abandoned attic; or perhaps it appeared in the form of a Death Note, and as a result, all those who knew about it were killed by the note, and eventually the note was left on the black market.

However, no matter what, Zhong Xie could not understand why he was infected by a meme. From a material perspective, he was definitely made up of "human beings".

With doubts, he continued to read the subsequent memo contents, but the subsequent contents did not contain much information, and were more like some records made by the owner of the phone through his memories.

Some records of his gradual transformation into "Zhong Xie".

For a long time, he had no idea what this "Zhong Xie" in his body was. He could only judge from its name that it was indeed very evil.

At first he only dreamed about the situations in the escape room. Whenever he encountered danger or saw other people in danger, he could solve the problem perfectly by transforming into "Zhong Xie" in his dream.

Just like some kind of special effects drama in which he transforms into a Kamen Rider, he gradually falls in love with the story of his incarnation as Zhong Xie, a chivalrous man who upholds justice in this almost real dream.

Unfortunately, all power comes at a price, including Zhong Xie.

Gradually, his dreams were no longer limited to the copies of the escape room, but gradually entered his life.

The original text of the memo used "Conan-style life" to describe the gradually changing dream life.

Just like in each episode of a special effects drama, there are always some sudden dangerous situations around him, and at such times he often needs to transform into Zhong Xie to solve the problems.

Most of the time, he's able to hide his identity and be a mediocre, unknown hero, but it doesn't take long before he meets a busty, mature researcher who's able to come up with Mickey Mouse's magical tools, and an iceberg-like girl who solves crimes with a high IQ.

By coincidence, both of them witnessed his transformation process, and one of them acted as his solid backing, providing him with logistical support, while the other, with a bit of tsundereness, kept giving him advice at critical moments, helping him to destroy the evil ghost's conspiracy.

The dreams were beautiful at this stage, reminding him of the heroic fantasies of his youth, until the researchers invented a female-bodied mecha called the "Mark One".

The subsequent unbearable situation was not caused by the female mecha, but because his dreams changed again. He began to "see" Zhong Xie's memories and knew the source of this powerful force in himself.

It was an extremely terrifying demonic realm full of ghost stories, disguised as a normal family, and he was just a little mouse in this family.

From Zhong Xie's perspective, he could not resist the invasion of those horrific audio and video into his brain. He felt that his mental state was getting worse every day, until he saw the sheep Huanxi placed on the table. He finally realized that "Zhong Xie" was not a power, but a curse.

There are eleven other people who have the same curse.

That is to say, there are twelve Zhong Xies in total, which correspond to the twelve zodiac signs, and he is the "rat" among the twelve zodiac signs.

Unfortunately, he later found out that there was only one rat in the Chinese zodiac, and there were only twelve rats.

During his secret investigation and research, he occasionally came into contact with other carriers of Zhong Xie, and gradually figured out the origin of "Zhong Xie".

This is a demon from Wangcheng. "Zhong Xie" craves for sex and violence all the time. He is an extremely evil devil.

Finally, he found the air-raid shelter in the tunnel with the answer.

He didn't want to let Zhong Xie go to Wangcheng as he wished, because he felt that Zhong Xie must be intending to release the sheep-headed monster. At the same time, he didn't want Zhong Xie to resort to sex and violence on his family, so he took some wilderness survival supplies and hid in the air-raid shelter.

Afterwards, there were no more records on the phone's memo. It seemed that the man had disappeared in the tunnel. He might have been killed by the tunnel ghost story, or he might have met some other end.

After launching the memo, Zhong Xie tried to look through other software and found that the owner of the phone had almost stopped using the phone in the last period of time.

It could be the lack of electricity or the loss of worldly desires.

Only the gallery shows that the guy took a photo on a recent day.

Those were words carved on the wall with stone.

The tunnel is the * of the mountain, I want to * kill her.

"Well... this kind of thing should have nothing to do with me."

Zhong Xie stared at this incredible photo for a long time. Even he felt it was incredible.

I can only say that there are a thousand Zhong Xies in the eyes of a thousand people. You have been contaminated by "Zhong Xie" and turned into a monster who only knows sex and violence...

Anyway, it’s definitely not Zhong Xie’s problem, but your own problem.

After all, it’s not like I only know these two things. To be more precise, I have nothing to do with these two things.

After seeing this photo, Zhong Xie did not continue to explore in this space. He was afraid of exploring the essence of this guy, which would be too disgusting.

After slowly exiting the air-raid shelter, Zhong Xie subconsciously raised his head and immediately noticed the three neatly written “正” characters above the entrance.

Thinking of the photo just now, Zhong Xie felt that the tunnel in front of him was a little shameful and he couldn't bear to look at it for a moment.

Through this mobile phone, Zhong Xie learned about the unfortunate experience that happened to an ordinary person.

Although he was not sure about the reason, he was sure that this matter was indeed related to him. If he met this unlucky guy, he would think of a way to explore the root cause of his change.

It can't be that this guy's body has really been exposed to the noble consciousness of Zhong Xie, and then began to gradually evolve into "Zhong Xie", right?

However, the evolution did not go well, and he turned into a semi-crazy monster, without the Zhong Xie fate, but with a lot of Zhong Xie diseases.

She has been made to look like a fairy. After dating a tall, rich and handsome ex-boyfriend, she really thinks she is worthy of him. She is picky in the older dating market, not knowing that there are eleven people like her in the relationship history of the tall, rich and handsome man...

Oh, more than eleven.

Zhong Xie thought of Lin Youlan and also of a certain rat in Rat Town.

It’s not clear about the guy in Rat Town for now, but Lin Youlan should not be showing any signs of “becoming evil”, right?
Zhong Xie recalled the slight change in Lin Youlan's behavior after she met him, and felt that it was hard to explain.

At this moment, a new message suddenly popped up on the main page of his mobile phone.

He clicked on the message and saw that the phone owner had left the other party with the note “AAA No.7 Zhong Xie (calm, dark, disabled and yandere version)”.

"If you are also trapped in the rain, come to the Wandering Mountain Temple. We have found a way to completely transform into 'Zhongxie'."

“That’s the path to becoming a god.”

(End of this chapter)