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

Chapter 19 [Growing Friends]

"You...what nonsense are you talking about?"

After a brief moment of shock, Boss Chen was a little annoyed. After all, he had a small business, so he would naturally get angry when someone grabbed his clothes like this. So he pushed Zhong Xie's hand away and looked at Lin Youlan: "Is this your teammate? Is he crazy?"

"Well, it seems that you yourself are not aware of it." Zhong Xie stared at Boss Chen for a while, confirming that the other party was not deceiving.

"What did you find?" Lin Youlan looked at Zhong Xie. Although what this guy said was very strange, she believed that Zhong Xie must have noticed something unusual.

Zhong Xie pointed to a video screen on a small screen on the central large screen and said, "What was just played was all the surveillance footage for the whole day on August 8th. You were so busy looking at that woman that you probably didn't notice that Boss Chen went to the restroom 15 minutes ago."

He then played the surveillance footage at the toilet door at eight times the speed: "Yes, Boss Chen hasn't come out yet. He spent eight hours in the toilet and was nowhere to be seen. Or maybe he came out a long time ago, but he came out with that woman."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone present understood what Zhong Xie meant, and the way they looked at Boss Chen changed.

The good news is that the information provided by the reporter is true and some strange things were indeed discovered.

The bad news is that the person who reported the case seems to have become a ghost story himself.

"What? I... wait." Boss Chen's face changed. He had not noticed these two videos. All his attention was on A Shui. He never cared that he had already shown abnormalities under the surveillance.

"Don't worry, you're just involved in a ghost story. You may not be dead yet." Zhong Xie tried to comfort Boss Chen, but unfortunately the other party didn't appreciate it. His already gloomy face became even darker.

Officer Jiang has not yet fully figured out the mystery of the entire strange case, but he has begun to contact the headquarters to investigate the whereabouts of the tour group and Ah Shui, and then he and his colleagues listened quietly to what Zhong Xie had to say.

This kind of professional work needs to be left to professional ghost story tellers.

"No rush, I guess that woman is still in this city and hasn't left yet." Zhong Xie continued to look through the subsequent videos. He needed more direct evidence to confirm his guess, but as he was flipping through them, he opened the folder that Boss Chen had sorted out.

It is still Boss Chen who has prepared all the evidence. Considering the whole incident——

You must be here to turn yourself in!
In the past seven days, the extra person every day was marked out by Boss Chen. He mostly left the haunted house at some time after the afternoon show ended. His appearance and clothes were different, but his hairstyle and body shape were the same.

This consistency is less obvious when set against different clothes.

The person who leaves the haunted house every day is Boss Chen, but under the influence of unknown forces he will turn into someone else.

Yes, others.

Zhong Xie paid close attention to observing these people's subtle behaviors, such as touching their noses, smiling with a crooked mouth, rolling their eyes, etc. These subconscious reactions in front of the camera did not seem to be disguised, which was enough to prove that the person who came out of the toilet every time was not the same "mentally".

If it was really a disguise, then we can only say that Boss Chen's acting skills surpassed all the movie emperors, or he is also schizophrenic, and he has transformed into seven spirits from one qi, which makes him even more awesome than Zhong Xie back then.

"Think carefully about what you did after the afternoon session in these seven days." Zhong Xie looked at Boss Chen. "You need a clear memory, not an ambiguous picture. That might be a patchwork of your past memories."

Boss Chen's face showed a look of confusion. He recalled for a while before frowning and said, "I remember it very clearly. Basically, I would study the surveillance here until after 8 o'clock every night, then lock the door and leave. I would come back the next morning. During this period, I hardly left this place."

Zhong Xie looked thoughtful: "If that's the case, you should be normal during the day. At least before you 'leave' the toilet, you are still yourself."

"But here comes the problem. The first time, she had to go into the bathroom with you to transform you into someone else, but she didn't need to do that later. Is it because there is something strange in the bathroom?"

Thinking of this, Zhong Xie immediately ordered the other two to go and check: "Northwest Hammer King, Danmu Brother, go to the restrooms and check both the men's and women's restrooms to see if there is any evidence of Boss Chen playing cosplay. It could be dangerous, so be careful."

Zhang Zitai is slightly more sensitive to ghost stories, while Lin Youlan is an absolute fighter who can prevent Zhang Zitai from encountering any accidents.

The two of them didn't say much and quickly left the monitoring room to go to the bathroom to check the situation.

However, Zhong Xie actually did not have any hope for this. He felt that the problem might not be in the toilet. The haunted house had been operating normally for the past seven days. If there was really a ghost story hidden in the toilet, something would have happened long ago.

Kuster also said that the woman had left the haunted house and there was no trace of her ghost story here.

Could it be that Boss Chen himself can transform into someone else?
The toilet is his character refresh point, is it "Boss Chen's Toilet" similar to "Martin's Morning"?
Of course, the answer to the toilet question will be revealed when the two men come back. Now he wants to verify another thing.

Boss Chen is normal during the day, but what about at night?
Is the person who was watching the video in the monitoring room until eight or nine o'clock really him?
There are no cameras in the monitoring room, but there are cameras in the corridor outside the monitoring room door, so if Boss Chen left at 8 o'clock, there would definitely be a record.

Zhong Xie is more inclined to another possibility.

Boss Chen's body goes into the toilet and turns into another person after the afternoon show ends every day, but his soul remains in the haunted house to check the surveillance footage. He does not return home to reunite with his body until after eight o'clock in the evening, and comes to work in the haunted house in his complete form after ten o'clock the next morning.

Yes, the soul and the body act separately, which is probably why Boss Chen always counts one more person.

At eight o'clock, there was only his soul in the haunted house, but he did not feel that he had left the haunted house. If he counted the number of people at this time, the extra person might be his own body.

8月16日19:59 8倍速

The video continued to play, and the door of the monitoring room was never opened until around 8:23 p.m., when a figure slowly opened the door of the monitoring room. His movements in the video were a bit stiff, and he took three steps at a time. Each movement was broken down into pieces, making him look like a robot.

As he walked, the sensor light in the corridor was triggered, and he subconsciously looked up at the light, exposing his entire face to the surveillance screen.

It was an unfinished face, with somewhat strong outlines, but the facial features were already very distinct. One could tell that the face looked somewhat familiar just by squinting.

"It's her, it's her! It's that woman, it must be her, I recognize her, it's her!" Chen Laoben's emotions suddenly became excited, he pointed at the screen and his voice was trembling, "How is it possible? That woman didn't leave that day?"

He murmured as he stood up and searched the monitoring room: "She is hiding here? Where is she hiding? She is just here watching me?"

Officer Jiang and Xiao Wang were alarmed when they saw this. They looked around the entire monitoring room, trying to find a place where the person could be hiding.

In criminal cases, it is true that the murderer will return to the crime scene, but the current situation is obviously beyond their expectations. Investigating ghost stories and facing ghost stories are two completely different things.

Jiang Shuran alertly called out the three bloody mouths behind her and started searching the monitoring room. The room was not small and had many cupboards and tables covered with tablecloths. There were many places where people could hide.

However, Zhong Xie did not care about the hidden panic of the others. Since Kuster said that A Shui had left, he must not be in the monitoring room.

Moreover, the time when the woman appeared in the picture and the way she left were somewhat strange. If you think about it in your mind, you can tell that something is wrong.

"Wait a minute, you're going the wrong way."

Although I was walking forward, my feet were concealed and some flaws were revealed. Why did it feel like my heels were in front of me?
Walking backwards, right?
After a little thought, Zhong Xie slapped Boss Chen on the table without hesitation, pushed aside the hair on the back of his head and looked at him carefully.

The thick black hair on the back of Boss Chen's head quickly faded away, and a high-definition and exquisite female face appeared in front of Zhong Xie. Unlike the rough face in the surveillance footage seven days ago, after a week of repair, she had completely grown into the appearance he needed.

Ah Shui raised the corners of his mouth high, and couldn't help laughing out loud: "Haha, I've been discovered!"

"!"

The sudden change made the others' hearts skip a beat, but this scene did not surprise Zhong Xie. He simply broke Boss Chen's limbs, rolled him into a ball and placed it on the table.

There was a crackling sound of bones crackling, and yellow-white bone spurs penetrated the epidermis and were exposed externally. Bright red blood continued to seep out of the human body, dyeing the entire table red in a blink of an eye.

"Wait...he is...a member of the public." Police officer Xiao Wang had never seen such a brutal situation before, and subconsciously wanted to stop Zhong Xie, but when he saw the human ball that had already taken shape, he held back his words.

Zhong Xie grabbed Boss Chen's hair, lifted him up and was about to leave. Before leaving, he glanced at Xiao Wang and said, "It used to be."

Now we have to consider that Boss Chen is still a "human" at this time, otherwise he would not just destroy his ability to move, but would kill him.

Jiang Shuran on the other side had a slightly solemn expression on her face. It was unknown what she was thinking, but it was impossible for her to ruin her teammates' performance at this time. She just controlled the three bloody mouths to surround the human ball in Zhong Xie's hand.

It seems that the origin of this strange case is in Zhong Xie's hands. Now handing it over to the police's strange envoy will have completed his mission.

However, Ah Shui's wild laughter still did not stop. The man suddenly spun around, and many bone spurs made a whirlwind slash, cutting Zhong Xie's wrist like a sharp gyroscope. He could only retract his hand to avoid it.

The wound on the wrist was so deep that the bone was visible. If he hadn't avoided it, his entire right hand would have been cut off.

The next second, Ah Shui began to change her form. She turned her ankles 180 degrees and bent her knees. She suddenly moved from behind to in front of her, took big strides and rushed towards the door.

She held her head high, and behind her, Boss Chen's face was closed with his eyes lowered, as if he was sleeping, only his bangs kept swaying from side to side with his strange steps.

In this state, A Shui walked very fast and arrived at the door of the monitoring room in an instant, while Jiang Shuran's bloody mouth couldn't even keep up with the other party's pace.

"boom--"

A gunshot rang out, hitting Ah Shui's ankle and causing her to stagger.

Then a Zhong Xie jumped out from the side, and with a self-sacrificing kick, he barely caught up with Ah Shui. He chased after Ah Shui and kicked him, breaking his calf, causing him to fall to the ground and lose the ability to move.

"It hurts, it hurts, my leg is broken, it's really broken!" Ah Shui howled with his teeth bared, lowered his head and closed his eyes, losing his life. Boss Chen behind him opened his eyes and raised his head, scratching at Zhong Xie with bloodshot eyes.

The claw wind was so fierce that Zhong Xie didn't have time to get up from the ground. He could only roll sideways twice to avoid it again.

His physical fitness is strong, but Boss Chen has just proved with facts that ordinary people under the influence of ghost stories are extremely dangerous.

After driving Zhong Xie away, Ah Shui's face floated to the back of her head again. She arched her body and grabbed her feet with both hands. Her arms swung like electric fans, driving her feet like motors, and she moved forward quickly in an extremely strange movement.

She pushed open the door of the monitoring room and quickly fled into the play area of the haunted house, her figure melting into the darkness in an instant.

The three bloody mouths chased her for a while, but they couldn't catch up with this guy at all and retreated back to Jiang Shuran.

"I can't catch up with her. She runs too fast." Jiang Shuran was a little helpless. The range of her ghost story control was limited. Once the other party ran out of this range, it would be equivalent to her chasing her personally.

Even Zhong Xie failed to catch up, so it was even more impossible for her to do so.

At this time, she also noticed the bloody wound on Zhong Xie's wrist, so she moved the blood mouth over and opened it to cover the wound: "It has some healing ability, which is equivalent to emergency medical treatment. When it's safe, you can find a doctor to sew it up."

Zhong Xie looked at his wrist, and felt a sucking sensation on the wound covered by the bloody mouth. Then his pain gradually subsided. If he savored it carefully, he could feel a warm current constantly flowing into his wrist.

He looked at Jiang Shuran and said, "Tell Lin Youlan about the situation. This thing has entered the game area of the haunted house. There are probably other tourists inside."

Then he said to the two policemen, "Tell the headquarters about the situation and ask the front desk where the exit of the haunted house is. It's best to seal it off. This thing can change its appearance. Don't let any tourists go. I'll try my best to catch her now."

Officer Jiang had just pulled out his gun to help, but firearms are not very effective against ghost stories.

There's nothing you can do about it. Ordinary people are just so powerless in the face of ghost stories.

After saying that, Zhong Xie and Jiang Shuran followed into the haunted house's amusement area. They kept in touch with Lin Youlan and Zhang Zita to see if they could attack Ah Shui from both ends to stop him from escaping.

"We've come out of the restroom. We found a box of live maggots and a lot of maggot eggs in the innermost cubicle of the men's restroom. Although we don't know what they are for, it's definitely related to that woman." Zhang Zita's voice came from the headset.

"Are you still near the toilet? She may come to you to get the maggots back, be careful." Zhong Xie also didn't understand the function of the maggots, but he could feel that this thing was crucial and must be related to Boss Chen's changing head and face.

"Shh-"

Lin Youlan's voice came from the other end of the voice call: "Something is coming."

Zhong Xie turned up the volume to the maximum, and Ah Shui's sharp cry could be heard faintly from the other side:

"Sister Shui, save me, I will never come out to play again."

"Let your friends rescue me. I will never expose you."

"You value your friends the most, don't you?"

"Please, make it into a ghost story. I can escape."

Make a weird story?

Zhong Xie was stunned. He had never heard of such a statement before.

And why is it A Shui's voice calling A Shui Sister?

Could it be that Sister Shui is someone else?
However, it wasn't long before something even more shocking happened, and information about the strange incident flooded into his mind in an instant.

【Planting Friends】

【Her friends are coming soon. 】

(End of this chapter)