499, midnight
In fact, to tell the truth, Xiao Zhang's handling of urgent problems is still somewhat flawed, firstly, because of his lack of experience, and secondly, he has always been accustomed to enjoying the special attributes brought by benefits.
In the past, whatever he did Brother Zhang was a standard wish, and the multiverse with the current world as a module had nothing difficult for him at all, even if he said that he wanted the sun to come out of the west, and the rotation of the earth would have to be adjusted from tonight.
But now, without the blessing of ability, he has been trained as an ordinary ability, and his flaws and advantages have been exposed at once. But this is a good thing, if you put it in the past, where can Brother Zhang get a strong sense of accomplishment from such trivial things.
"Let's go, let's go back to the cafeteria."
Immortal Gu beckoned to Brother Zhang: "Nod." ”
The two men went back and forth and began to count the number of people, which was finally determined to be one hundred and thirty-three, and of that one hundred and thirty-three people were thirty-nine in modern clothing, including two of their colleagues.
These people all have a common characteristic that they seem to have lost their six senses, they are not moved by any external factors, and they act completely according to the process standards of this guest house, even if they are overthrown or tied up, they cannot control their behavior, just like marionettes following a predetermined path over and over again.
According to Brother Zhang and the fairy Gu's observations, the guest house does have its own time points, such as breakfast at half past seven in the morning, lunch at half past eleven in the afternoon, dinner at half past five in the evening, and then it is evening, there are many more activities at night, in addition to the knocking incident they experienced last night, there will be all kinds of random events.
They spent a day observing the changes in the guest house, but there were no signs of reincarnation, which means that there must still be some traps that did not meet the trigger conditions, just like playing a game, it must be a prerequisite task that they did not complete, so all NPCs entered a stereotypical behavior pattern.
When the next day's night was about to fall, Xiao Zhang and Xian Gu did not return to the room, they chose to sit in the courtyard and wait for the night to officially come.
"We've definitely missed something." Xian Gu said: "It's a pity that there is no signal on the mobile phone, otherwise I can ask my colleagues to help find out what happened to this guest house." ”
"Huh?" Brother Zhang took out his mobile phone at this time: "I have it." ”
Xian Gu watched the chat software in Brother Zhang's mobile phone keep refreshing the message, he silently took out his mobile phone and glanced at it, and there was a big no signal on it, which made Xian Gu look at Brother Zhang with a confused look in his eyes again.
"Why do you have a signal?"
"I don't know, it just does."
The fairy girl slapped her thigh: "Then what are you waiting for, ask!" If you say it earlier, we can't afford to wait a day. ”
"I didn't expect that." Brother Zhang laughed twice to hide his embarrassment: "Inexperienced." ”
"It's okay, I'll find out next time."
With the help of the fairy aunt, Brother Zhang quickly reported what happened here to the outside.
"It's basically like all the residents and colleagues are stuck in the field, and they're repeating the course of that day, but we can't trigger the next step, and we hope to help investigate the details of the hostel's devastation."
After this request for help, the people outside also breathed a sigh of relief, and then the video call was directly hung up outside, which was probably the first time that human beings crossed the two different worlds of the human world and the ghost through instant chat software.
"Wait a minute, wait a minute, we'll even record the whole process on the computer." There were seven or eight ten people squatting in front of the mobile phone camera opposite, and everyone wanted to see what the ghost looked like: "How do you feel over there?" ”
"I don't feel it, it's just that things are weird here."
After speaking, the fairy aunt took Brother Zhang's mobile phone and pointed it at the half-faced beauty who was in the duty room, after seeing her appearance, the people outside gasped, when did these guys in the house see such a scene, a girl in charge of recording covered her mouth and rushed to the bathroom, and even those men were scared.
"It's not that I'm talking about you, you guys are really frustrated, and this scene can scare you like this."
"Behind you!"
With a shout that I don't know who, Brother Zhang and the fairy Gu turned around, this turn almost scared the fairy girl, in just a few minutes, there were people standing behind them, because they were sitting, so those people gathered around them and bent down to look down at their mobile phone video, these people turned pale, and then the light of the mobile phone became even more white, and they felt particularly terrifying when they looked at the video.
The fairy girl hurriedly got up and took out a dagger from her waist to make a state of alertness, but those people still maintained the posture of onlookers and remained motionless, like scarecrows in the field, but their dead fish-like eyes stared at the boss, and they gave people a creepy feeling when they looked at them.
Brother Zhang was still sitting there, his reaction was more than half a beat slower than that of the fairy girl, and when he turned around, he happened to meet the faces of those people, Brother Zhang stared at them for a while, and then slowly took out the charm from his arms, picked out a thunder fire and took out a lighter and began to read the manual.
"The first step is to take out the rune paper and sandwich it between your index and middle fingers."
Brother Xiao Zhang did so, and then continued with the following article: "The second step is to light it with fire." ”
"Tap."
"Step 3, throw!"
Brother Zhang threw out the burning rune paper in his hand, and at such an instant, hundreds of purple lightning like giant pythons suddenly appeared in the sky, winding from the sky, as if tearing through the space and lighting up the night.
The burning rune paper did not hit the ground, but it rose straight into the sky, and then the lightning came straight here as if it had a soul, and with it came white dazzling flames.
Almost instantly, thunder and lightning and flames swallowed it all up.
When Brother Zhang's eyes recovered again, he found that he was already standing outside the residential building, and the entire residential building in front of him had disappeared without a trace, leaving only a circle of white marks on the ground to prove that the building once existed.
What ghosts, what residents, and what colleagues have been overtaken by this spell comparable to the Nine Thunder Tribulations, the little sister is gone, the hemorrhoid cream is gone, the fairy girl is gone, and of course the guest house is gone......
"Ahh Brother Zhang clasped his hands together: "Time goes back!" ”
With a whin, he returned to the guest house again, and was bent over by a large number of strange things, and the fairy girl next to him was waiting for him, and kept glancing at him.
Brother Zhang let out a sigh: "It's good that I can cheat." ”
One of the characteristics of space-time retrospective is that it cannot change the established facts, that is to say, no matter how you go backwards, this thing will definitely happen, and any human interference will be broken back by the powerful error correction ability of the world line, but time and space do not correct Brother Zhang, so as long as it is because of some problems caused by him, such as who he accidentally killed, he can use retrospective to go back to before that person died and then avoid his angle.
This does not conflict with his rule that he does not resurrect the dead, because only those who die because of him can be rescued by the space-time recalls he casts, and if others die, they will still die.
"Brother Zhang, come here!"
The fairy girl shouted, and Brother Zhang silently took those charms back into his arms, and then stood by the side of the fairy girl, but he kept wondering in his heart what the more powerful guy Lao Jun was talking about......
However, Brother Zhang also discovered his flaw from what happened just now, that is, he habitually used cannons to dry mosquitoes, this kind of thing is tantamount to dimensionality reduction in the mortal world, if this thinking does not change, he will use the space-time retrospective function in the future.
And what was happening in front of him didn't make him afraid, but the fairy aunt leaned on Brother Zhang's back very nervously: "Brother Zhang, be careful." ”
"Hmm!" Brother Zhang also drew his dagger: "What are we going to do now?" ”
The fairy girl looked at the people who were slowly getting up, and then took Brother Zhang back step by step, pushed them to the position of the porter, and patted the window of the half-faced beauty vigorously: "There are many people in front!" ”
The half-faced beauty poked her head out and looked: "Don't go out at night." ”
After speaking, she raised her voice outside and shouted: "The blind stream can't come in!" ”
After that, she walked out and closed the door of the guest house with a bang, and the people outside really didn't come in again, but Brother Zhang and the half-fairy were trained by this half-faced beautiful waitress to be like the third grandson and were driven back to the room.
After returning to the room, they took out their mobile phones, and before the video hung up, a bunch of people were already crowded on the other end of the video, and even the senior executives of their area had arrived.
"You just saw it, it's that weird." The fairy girl panted and said, "Hurry up and tell me what's going on here?" Why are you so hazy. ”
There was a little girl who was in charge of the file management over there, she looked sweaty, probably running all the way, he took a printed copy in his hand and began to speak.
"According to the information we found in the National Eucalyptus Database, the tragedy at this guest house occurred on May 18, 198x, which is today. According to records at the time, a gang of gangsters stormed the guest house at 1:40 a.m. and held hostage the staff and tenants of the guest house until about 9 a.m. on the third day, and only seven people survived. ”
Immortal Gu frowned: "Details! ”
The little girl was obviously startled, trembling and then trembling, "According to the survivor's description...... There were eleven gangsters, all of whom were men. After entering the guest house, they immediately chained the front and back doors, then drove the people to the guest house canteen, and brutally killed four victims at the beginning, namely the person in charge of the guest house, the cook, the receptionist and a service person, and then asked the abductees to throw the victims' bodies downstairs through the third-floor window. After that, they would kill one of the abductees every hour in various ways, in an extremely brutal manner, and they humiliated the women. ”
Just by describing it, Brother Zhang realized that these people were extremely vicious, and he could already feel the despair of those innocent people at that time just by making up his brain.
"They ......" When she said this, the little girl in charge of the stall actually retched, and finally her face began to become embarrassed.
Hearing this, the fairy aunt and Xiao Zhang glanced at each other, isn't this plot right, the scene they saw in the morning was really what happened.
And the purpose of those dead souls is probably not to harm people, but to want someone to avenge them.
"Go on." Immortal Gu took a deep breath and said, "What else is up there?" ”
"On the morning of the third day, they found that there was no hope of escaping and wanted to die together, causing a third of the guest house to collapse, and only seven people survived, but all were injured to varying degrees."
"Alright."
Brother Zhang nodded, turned his head to the fairy girl and said, "What time was the incident triggered?" ”
"1:40 a.m."
The two looked down at the time, and after calculating, they came to the conclusion that it was about nine o'clock in the evening, and then there would be a waiter knocking on the door and a late-night supper, and after these two events passed, it might trigger the tragedy.
But they didn't hear anything yesterday, what's going on?
The two racked their brains in the house, and finally Brother Zhang thought of a possibility, he said: "Do you say that there is a ghost in the guest house, and he helped open the door of the guest house?" ”
"The front door? No, there is a courtyard in front of it, and the yard has an iron gate. ”
After the fairy girl finished speaking, she glanced at Brother Zhang again, and said in unison: "Back door!" ”
If according to this statement, many unreasonable places become reasonable, and only the existence of ghosts can let this gang of gangsters understand the movements of everyone in the guest house and the layout of the guest house itself, which also explains why their actions will be so smooth.
"Let's go find the back door of the guest house now, and I'll hang my phone here." Fairy Gu put on a tactical strap and fixed the phone on it: "You have to record the whole process." ”
"Okay, both of you have to be careful."
Brother Xiao Zhang turned his head sideways to the camera at this time and said: "In my understanding, if the dead soul needs to be avenged, we are not in any danger, we just need to let them out." ”
"They have all been dead for so many years, and those gangsters have been dead for a long time, what grievances do they have?" The leader on the other end of the video asked curiously, "This shouldn't be." ”
Brother Zhang laughed: "What if there are one or two left?" ”