Chapter 19: In the Dead of Night, Beware of Ghosts (Part I)
"What's wrong?"
The dizzy side effects of the crossing fade quickly.
Conscious.
Wayne sat up and rubbed his eyes as he feigned sleepiness.
"I'll ...... You kid slept too much. Wang Jian stepped on the bed ladder, his head was full of sweat: "I shook you for a long time and didn't react, otherwise I would have thought you were still breathing, and I would have thought you had soared on the spot." β
"Ahem, isn't it a tiring day and too sleepy?"
Wayne casually prevaricated with a reason, but in his heart, he quietly brought up the idea of moving out of the dormitory as soon as possible.
"That's right, Wang." Putting on a short-sleeved sleeve casually, Wayne glanced at the faintly noisy night outside the window, and Pan Yi, who was standing in the corridor with his arms and talking to a few people: "You called me up in the middle of the night, what's wrong?" It can't be an earthquake, right? β
"If there is really an earthquake, I will just pick you up and run away, why do you still grind and chirp and shout at you!"
Wang Keyboard jumped off the bed ladder, took a sip of water, and his face was not very good-looking: "There was a dead person on the first floor of the dormitory opposite us, and the police car just drove over for a while." β
"Dead?" Wayne's expression was stunned, and he thought he had misheard: "Really? The building across the street from our dorm? β
"I hope it's fake." Wang Keyboard shook his phone at Wayne: "The police car is still parked below, and the school penguin colony is about to explode." β
Quickly dressed, Wayne jumped out of bed and walked out of the hallway with his slippers.
As far as the eye can see, most of the dormitories in the nearby dormitories are lit up, and many students are standing in the window corridors, looking this way.
The dormitory building closest to Wayne was even brighter, with several cars parked downstairs, and many people standing.
At the door, Pan Yi and several people in the dormitory next door were also whispering and discussing.
"This is the fourth police car, and there are so many policemen here, and I don't know when I will find out."
"That's not for sure, it's really as evil as the post bar and the group said, the police uncles are a headache."
"It's not good to say, I still feel that what is said in the post bar is too fake, living alone, can bury yourself in such a small basin and drown alive, this difficulty is simply higher than pinching yourself to suffocation, it's too unscientific, right?!"
"What's the fake, you got up too late, earlier, there were photos in the post bar and the group, those photos are really called evil, not bragging at all, I had goosebumps all over my body when I saw it."
"I'll go, really, and with photos?"
"What are you lying to, I heard that next door to the dormitory where the dead man was, there was a warrior from the journalism department, who took it while the police were not coming, and then after a while, there were photos of the post bar in the group, which were deleted by the teacher and management......
"You didn't save it?"
"Mom, do you think anyone's heart is as strong as that journalism warrior, I was shocked when I looked at the photo and the urine was about to come out, how can I remember to save the photo!"
"Is it that scary, you're exaggerating......"
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Listening to the small talk of Pan Yi and the others.
Wayne pretty much figured out what was going on.
Today, in the 14 dormitory buildings opposite, the air conditioner of 106 is broken.
At the end of September, the Wanling Autumn Tiger is still there, and it is still quite hot during the day.
A few people simply moved to the dormitory of the same class to spread the floor and use the air conditioner, leaving only a student named Lai Yunxing.
In the second half of the night, when the weather turned cold, a student who was rubbing the air conditioner next door was woken up by the cold on the floor and ran back to his dormitory.
As a result, he opened the door of his dormitory, only to find that Lai Yunxing was kneeling on the floor of the bathroom, burying his head in the basin and already dead.
"Burying one's head in a basin and drowning, this way of dying is an instinctive reaction of the body unless someone holds it down, just as it is impossible for a person to hold his breath and suffocate himself to death......
But if there is no external force, this thing is interesting, and it feels very similar to the way the water ghost kills people in 'weird'......"
Wayne furrowed his eyebrows, always feeling that 'drowning in a basin' sounded familiar.
The world of Pandora is full of magic, not only allowing humans to give birth to extraordinary powers, but also beasts to evolve into extraordinary species.
And in addition to these living beings, there are also extraordinary things about those dead things.
These extraordinary powers, which do not belong to the living, are called 'weird'.
But ordinary people still prefer to call them 'enemies of the living', meaning mortal enemies of all living creatures.
There are many types of 'weird', and according to their 'recipes', the Pandorans divide them into three broad categories.
Spirit-suckers, vampons, and mind-suckers.
Among these three categories, spirit-sucking monsters contain dozens of spirits such as water ghosts, unjust spirits, ghosts, and earthbound spirits.
Their food and way of living depend on absorbing the soul and spiritual power of intelligent beings such as humans.
As they absorb more soul and spiritual power, they will gradually become stronger, so that they will slowly give birth to wisdom.
Vulcans refer to living corpses, ghouls, undead knights, corpse golems, skeleton spirits, corrupted giant corpses, blood locusts and other corpse monsters with physical form.
Their food is the flesh and blood and life force of all living beings.
Those low-level vampons who have no intelligence have an almost endless appetite for living flesh and blood, and will frantically attack all living creatures they can perceive.
And the 'weirdness' of the mind demon is a bit strange to say.
It is not a vampire soul-sucking monster that comes back to life in a strange state, but a living creature, which can be both a human and a beast.
In essence, the Mind Demon is actually completely different from the god-giver who awakens the spell-like ability by looking at his face, that is, the warlock in the mouth of wizards.
It's just that the magic-like abilities awakened by the warlocks are relatively normal.
The spells awakened by the Mind Demon are the same as vampons and soul suckers, and have the terrifying ability to greatly strengthen themselves by devouring the life force and soul of living beings.
In this bloody and primitive enhancement process, although the strength of the Mind Demons has improved extremely quickly, no matter whether the body is a human or a transcendent species with spiritual intelligence, their minds will gradually become chaotic and violent, tending to beasts, leaving only a crazy desire to destroy.
So, in view of the threat that this creature poses to all living things, the Pandorans have also classified it as 'weird'.
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And what Wayne is hearing now is very similar to the water ghosts in the 'weird' soul suckers.
According to the Wizard Enlightenment of the Bruce Family, most of the 'weird' water ghosts are the ghosts of intelligent creatures, and there is a small chance that they will be born in waters with abundant magical power.
In the early stage, the water ghost did not have much wisdom, relying on instinct to act, and its spirit body was also very weak, and fire, explosion, and strong light would cause a lot of damage to it.
There is no powerful soul sucker that directly and forcibly plunders the souls of the living.
Therefore, water ghosts generally choose sick people and children who are not physically strong (not strong in vitality) and who are mentally weak.
When their mental reflexes are the weakest and sluggish when they sleep, they quietly take advantage of the weakness to enter their bodies, manipulate their bodies to find water sources according to their instincts, and drown them in the water, and then eat the souls and spiritual powers that are not protected by their bodies.
A few years ago, Florent had a case of water ghosts harming people, drowning in the same basin.
The victim buries his head in a basin filled with water until he suffocates to death, and even dies with a happy smile on his face due to being manipulated by the water monster.
From the outside, it looks like a bizarre suicide.
Later, the successive drowning cases in the basin attracted the attention of the Florent Garrison Security Bureau, and directly asked the priests of the Ocean Church to use [Revenant Detection] to find the traces of the water ghost, arrest it, and burn it.
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"I'm not exaggerating."
The student who saw the photo was still saying: "Obviously I was drowned, my face was bruised and swollen, but I still didn't seem to have any pain, grinning and smiling, as if I was asleep, you don't think it's scary enough?!" β
The cold wind swishing at night sent the corridor through the hall, and several people looked at each other, imagining that scene, and couldn't help but get goosebumps.
After a moment of silence, a student whispered, "Hey, you say, could there be a ghost at work in this matter?" β
"It's really impossible, otherwise this thing doesn't make sense scientifically at all, such a small basin, the body instinctively moves casually and can be overturned, but the result is drowned, not to mention, with a smile on his face, it's too evil."
"I also heard from the students of the previous class that the lower part of our dormitory building used to be a mass grave, and the first floor was so close to the ground that the yin qi was ......."
"Hey, hey, you guys are mass graves and ghosts." Wang Jian listened to the increasingly mysterious content of several people, and his face was a little unnatural: "In the middle of the night, it's not good to talk about this." β
Pan Yi glanced at Wang Key's somewhat pale face, and couldn't help laughing: "Old Wang, why is your face so pale, it can't be that you are frightened, right?" β
"Nonsense, it's all feudal superstition, can you scare your brother Wang?!" Wang Jian looked at the eyes of several people, and blew hard: "It's not me who blows, when I was a child, I went to the old grave with a few buddies in the middle of the night......
At this time, just as Wang Keyboard was talking energetically, a buddy who had just come out of the back bedroom slapped Wang Keyboard on the shoulder coldly.
Frightened, Wang Jian jumped forward and hung directly in Pan Yi's arms.
"Are you still talking here? The counselor said in the group that he was going to come up in a moment. β
"I'm fucking your uncle, surnamed Xu, you walk silently in the middle of the night, scare Lao Tzu!"
"I'll rub it, Lao Wang, you're too bold......"
", you're timid, your whole family is timid......"
Wang Jian covered his trembling little heart and said a few words to the buddy surnamed Xu.
After being startled, the other people looked at each other for a while, and couldn't help laughing.
"Haha, there is an old saying about the old man, or people are scary and can scare people to death the most......"
"Haha, Lao Wang, you still say that you are not afraid, you have fallen into Lao Pan's arms......"
laughed and made trouble for a while, and the mysterious and scary atmosphere just now also diluted a lot.
At this time, Wayne and the others had seen the counselor surnamed Zhang inside since the beginning of school, and walked up and howled: "Hurry up and go to sleep, whoever comes out to see the excitement again, and those who spread feudal superstitious rumors in the group, will all be punished with demerits......
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[According to the latest statistics, there are as many as 376 spells applied to water ghost materials in commonly used spells.
And there are as many as seven hundred and forty-two magic potions that require the body tissue of the water ghost as the main irreplaceable material!
From this point of view, the large-scale artificial cultivation of water ghosts is indeed a big business opportunity......]
ββFrom the Magic Business Daily: Morning Issue of July 3, 460