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

Chapter 22: Use Zhongxie's Sword as Zhongxie's Plow to Fight for Zhongxie's Land

The bandits can go, and so can I.

Since A Shui can cultivate friends, why can't he cultivate "Zhong Xie"?
One Zhong Xie is not enough, wouldn’t a group of Zhong Xie be enough?

Zhong Xie made up his mind, and when he looked at the two boys in the closet, his eyes were full of pity, as if he was looking at another self.

Soon, there will be a group of "Zhong Xie"s in this world who understand his unique quirks and sense of humor. They are born to be his best friends.

Thinking of this, Zhong Xie seemed to understand why this so-called "Sister Shui" wanted to gather such a large team of "friends".

Perhaps only the friends you have grown in this world can fully understand your thoughts?
Although she understood it, little A Shui still did something that went against her sister A Shui's will, causing her "friends" to want to buy her life.

"Xiao Shui" and "Sister Shui" have similar faces and similar names. They may be the products of growing "oneself". Does it mean that if one grows "oneself", it is possible to start one's own business?

Will other "Zhong Xie" also think about starting their own business?
New questions emerged in Zhong Xie's mind, but the result of his thinking was never "this matter is to be determined, let's talk about it later", but "hey, let's try it while it's hot."

"We are the ghost story tellers, follow us." Zhong Xie led the two boys out of the closet and said to Ke Yang, "These two should also be your classmates. Tell them the current situation and ask where the others have gone."

Since we are planning to plant "Zhongxie", these ordinary people are not a burden. They are all the basis for "exploding troops".

Zhong Xie had never realized so deeply the importance of "population".

"Ke Yang?"

It turned out that these two boys came here with Ke Yang. It was a reassuring thing to see acquaintances here, not to mention that there were one, two, three or four acquaintances here?

But how come only the heads of two acquaintances were left?
Ke Yang quickly explained the reason to the two and got the whereabouts of the remaining people from them.

When they fled to the bridal chamber, there were several paper maids placed there. They wanted to capture girls to arrange a spooky marriage for the dead young master. They rushed out of the bridal chamber and broke up the team. They chased the female classmates out of the bridal chamber door. The two of them fell behind the paper maids and simply went back to the bridal chamber to hide.

"Going to the next level again?"

Zhong Xie led everyone to push open the main door of the bridal chamber. Outside was a deep and narrow passage. It seemed empty except for a faint light at the end.

According to the scene setting and planning of the haunted house, the bridal chamber may be the final level of "Strange Marriage", so this passage is probably used to leave the scene after passing the level.

A small door opened on the side of the passage in the darkness, and a hand reached out stealthily. The skull-crushing hammer in Kuster's hand also carefully grew iron wires and moved towards the direction of the hand.

All this happened out of the sight of Zhong Xie and others, and the contact posture between the wire and the hand replicated the mural "Genesis".

When they touched, the skull-crushing hammer suddenly became heavier and pierced straight into the ground. After stabilizing the hammer body, the wire exerted a little force and pulled Lin Youlan out of the small door smoothly.

"It's you."

Lin Youlan suddenly appeared in the middle of the team, saw Zhong Xie and the others clearly, withdrew his hands, put the skull-crushing hammer on his back, and felt relieved.

Her skull-crushing hammer could sense the surroundings through the wire, but it couldn't transmit more information to her, so she only knew that her hammer passed by here, but she didn't know who was carrying it.

Just now, the hammer was snatched away by an unarmed crazy woman. Lin Youlan regarded it as a stain on her life. Whenever she thought of it, she couldn't help but grit her teeth and clench her fists.

There's no hammer, so I can only make a fist.

"You are hiding here? Where is Zhang Zita?" Zhong Xie really didn't notice that there was a secret door hidden here. It was probably the staff passage underneath. They probably wanted to give tourists a surprise at the last moment when the "Strange Marriage" tour was over.

"They're also downstairs, with seven or eight other tourists gathering here." Lin Youlan kicked the secret door twice, and Zhang Zita, leading eight tourists, four men and four women, came out of the staff passage and joined the team.

These eight people were not all Ke Yang’s classmates. Among them were a few of the other group of tourists mentioned earlier. They were driven in from the other end of the passage and happened to meet Lin Youlan and others, so they hid here temporarily.

They were participating in another game called "Saw". As a result, they were chased from the scene to outside the scene by a crazy chainsaw NPC, and then from outside the scene to the passage of "Strange Marriage". They were not safe until they met Lin Youlan.

The strange creatures that temporarily appeared in the haunted house due to the increase in ghost power can bully ordinary people. Even if Lin Youlan doesn’t have a hammer, she can easily deal with it, not to mention that Zhang Zitai is by her side.

I got a huge amount of emotional energy from Lin Youlan last time. Now I can barely release a few energy waves to play with, so it’s natural for me to deal with these little monsters.

The team expanded again, and Zhong Xie got new information from Lin Youlan.

Earlier, the two of them met Ah Shui near the toilet. Lin Youlan saw that she was planning to go into the toilet to take away the maggots, so she hid in the dark and prepared for a sneak attack.

However, A Shui seemed to have the ability to sense the maggots. She knew that the maggots had moved and predicted Lin Youlan's sneak attack. After a fight, both of them were injured. Just when Zhang Zitai was helping Lin Youlan to gain the upper hand, the ghost story was triggered.

The toilet is at the entrance of the three game scenes. The sudden appearance of new strange creatures disrupted Lin Youlan's attack, and A Shui took advantage of the chaos to escape.

In fact, Lin Youlan still had a chance to catch up at this time, but thinking that there were still a large number of civilians involved in the ghost story incident, these ghost stories in front of them would inevitably pose a threat to them, so Lin Youlan chose to stay and kill all these messy ghost stories before chasing A Shui.

After all, her class teacher Lao Qin had sternly taught her that when participating in ghost stories - especially those involving ordinary people - she should prioritize protecting herself, then protect civilians, and finally hunt ghost stories.

When you encounter any situation, you should clearly arrange your priorities in your mind before taking action.

Now that she has a contract again, she has to listen to the "Saint Mary" Zhong Xie in the ghost story incident. Lin Youlan believes that if Zhong Xie were present, he would definitely make the same choice, right?
Well, “Saint Mary” Zhong Xie.

Lao Qin had hinted something and asked her to listen to Zhong Xie, and the reason was very simple.

He had heard from others that Zhong Xie's first goal after entering a ghost story case would be to save the most lives.

What a kind heart of a bodhisattva!
It complements Lin Youlan's "people-loving" personality.

Zhong Xie is calm, while Lin Youlan is impulsive; Zhong Xie will save people when he is calm, while Lin Youlan will hurt people when she is impulsive.

Isn’t it wonderful that the former restrains the latter?

It’s a pity that Zhong Xie didn’t know these inside stories. If he knew, he would definitely scratch his head and ask in confusion:

Save the most lives?

I accomplished this achievement in my first ghost story event, right?
Are there any extra rewards for doing it twice?

After Lin Youlan and the others solved the wandering ghost stories, they chased Ah Shui along the "Strange Marriage" scene. They happened to see Ah Shui using skulls to make lanterns to raise maggots, and he had already planted friends on a person.

Lan was furious and chased him away, but his "friend" happened to wake up and he continued to beat him.

Zhong Xie knew what happened next. Lin Youlan failed to defeat the "crazy woman", but she also helped the other party complete the KPI, and later gathered the current eight people.

"Well done." Zhong Xie was praising sincerely. He had never fought with the friends summoned by Ah Shui, but he had Shushu's sense of crisis and knew that the woman was very dangerous.

That woman probably only had force and was not on the same page with A Shui, so A Shui left her alone to stop Lin Youlan.

Ah Shui might have asked her to help look after the maggots in the human head lantern, but unfortunately the woman had long disliked her and not only did she not help, she even added insult to injury.

Lin Youlan was able to barely draw the battle and protect the safety of eight ordinary people, which was indeed a good job. Otherwise, Zhong Xie would not have enough people to expand his army.

He looked at Lin Youlan and realized something: "Since Ah Shui knows the location of the maggots, does that mean she also knows that you are hiding here and that I have joined you?"

"That's true." Lin Youlan suddenly realized that he had never thought about this issue before.

Zhong Xie had already started the next step. The female friend had intentionally revealed the usage of the maggots, and now it just came in handy. He took out his mobile phone and took a 45-degree overhead shot. For practical reasons, he did not choose the beauty camera.

There is not much time left for Zhong Xie.

All of this was within A Shui's expectations. She hadn't come to find them yet, so she must be planting friends. Once the next batch of friends were planted, A Shui would definitely appear.

There are a large number of maggots and sixteen pieces of high-quality fields here. As long as they get rid of Zhong Xie and other ghost storytellers, their power will be strengthened again.

More than twenty friends and A Shui, together, immediately became a powerful force when they left the ghost story incident. If there was no powerful ghost story master outside, it would probably cause quite a bit of trouble.

No, there won't be any trouble.

Among these twenty-odd friends, there must be someone whose strange story is about changing memory. The woman said that the power of maggots can barely introduce weak strange stories into friends, and it is very likely this is the case.

Either through hypnosis or hallucination, they can make their memories confused, so that A Shui and her friends can evacuate smoothly after solving the troubles in the haunted house.

They can hide themselves behind the minds of the twenty or so people at the scene, fabricate a false illusion to get away with it, and hide themselves in the crowd again.

When they hide in the back of human heads, humans will not be tainted with any weird atmosphere, and they don't know the rules and methods of "planting friends", so the outside weirdos may not be able to find them.

If this group of people succeeds, Zhong Xie and his group will face the risk of being possessed by other people at any time for the rest of their lives. Their lives will be controlled at any time without them knowing it.

Zhong Xie was used to being confined to a restraint bed, so the mere thought of such speculations made his scalp tingle, and the blue and white striped psychiatric uniform almost grew out of his body.

So he immediately started to act, moving through the crowd like a ghost, knocking out ordinary people one by one. There were a few people with particularly strong necks who needed more force, and were knocked unconscious by Zhong Xie after several consecutive hits.

Fainting at this time is certainly a good thing, otherwise no one would be able to watch their face being eaten away by maggots bit by bit without changing their expression.

The last person to be hit hard was Ke Yang. He looked at the students who fell one after another and had a guess in his mind: "Is it to kill that person?"

"Of course." Zhong Xie replied.

"I believe you. If I can wake up again, remember to tell me how she died. If I can't wake up, you can tell her." Ke Yang gently placed the human head lantern in the corner to prevent others from touching it by accident.

After doing all this, he stood in front of Zhong Xie as if accepting his fate: "Come on."

"Great joy, great joy." Zhou Ting's faint voice came from the corner.

"Okay." Zhong Xie stretched out his hand to his neck, pressed two joints and applied a little force, and Ke Yang fell limply to the ground and slept peacefully.

"What are you going to do?" Lin Youlan had a vague guess in her heart when she saw that Zhong Xie took action after he knew the method and began to deal with those ordinary people.

Zhong Xie stretched out his hand and asked: "Give me the maggots. If you want to live, trust me. Otherwise, you will die."

When Ah Shui summons all his friends, they will definitely die with their level.

Kuster?
Kuster is useless. He doesn't have the "taunt" special effect. How can a giant system that can only last for three minutes protect everyone?

Although he thought so, Zhong Xie had already instructed Kuster to release his form in his heart.

After all, it's a castrated version of a level 50 ghost story, which will definitely give A Shui and the others a hard time.

However, he still asked Kuster to control the speed of absorbing the strange power, and the complete form would be used in the battle with Ashui.

It takes ten minutes to enter the full form, but the full form can only last for three minutes.

If the control is not good, Kuster may be finished before he even meets the enemy. This is the same as Gnar stacking full health to clear the minions, then transforming into a cute beast to fight in the bottom lane.

"Who are you going to summon? Do you have any 'friends' that you know?" Lin Youlan was puzzled, but she moved quickly and handed the maggot box to Zhong Xie without hesitation.

I’ll listen to Zhong Xie’s story about strange events. It’s you who picked it, Lao Qin.

"Summon myself? Can you find anyone who can fight better than me now?" Zhong Xie was not bragging, he was just stating a fact.

He continued, "What do you think Ah Shui is doing? She must be doing the same thing as me. Our only advantage is that we have ready-made maggots to use. She hasn't thought of me having 'friends' to plant, so she's not in a hurry to snatch them."

"If we don't meet the enemy with the highest standards, we will really die."

Zhong Xie looked straight at Lin Youlan.

Lin Youlan stared at Zhong Xie in astonishment for a long time before she revealed an arrogant smile:

"It seems that I have wronged you. You are more cruel and courageous than me. From now on, I will follow you and listen to you in all ghost stories!"

"Ah?" Zhong Xie was puzzled after receiving Lin Youlan's promise, "You dare to have your own ideas after signing the contract?"

He has a strong sense of contract and doesn't understand why Lin Youlan's current pledge of loyalty sounds the same as the flag before the war.

Unlucky thing.

Zhong Xie threw his selfie into the maggot box so that these special worms would remember his appearance firmly. Then he arranged the tourists scattered in the passage one by one. With the eerie red light in the passage, it looked like some kind of horror morgue.

Jiang Shuran and Zhang Zitai also heard Zhong Xie's grand plan, and they...

If you have any instructions, just tell us and we will ensure that the task is completed.

Zhong Xie, the most reliable member of the team, and Lin Youlan, the second most reliable member, were suddenly caught up in an atmosphere of resonance with their fellow patients. What could they do?
As long as they are not turned into Zhong Xie, we will be very grateful to the kind-hearted Master Zhong Xie.

"The more maggots we put in, the faster they will grow and the faster they will bear fruit, making it easier for us to win our counterattack."

Zhong Xie was like a village official who taught farmers about farming in the countryside. He stood in the middle of twelve fields and instructed his three farmers to sow maggot seeds, giving them some pointers from time to time to speed up the planting efficiency.

But when he thought about it carefully, he seemed more like a special kind of entrepreneur, using cattle and horses as fields, planting his own flowers and reaping his own fruits.

Perhaps because Zhong Xie was willing to make such a bold move, the cattle and horses and the fields entered the autumn harvest stage in just a few minutes.

Following Zhong Xie's order, the twelve Zhong Xies suddenly opened their eyes.

So now——

Use Zhongxie's sword as Zhongxie's plow to gain more of Zhongxie's fields!
　Two more, and
　　
　
(End of this chapter)