The rising sun shatters the darkness!

Chapter 245: The Cao Gang's Human Snake Team, the Heroes' Club Buries Qiansui (asking for monthly tickets)
Xu Shu walked across the sour-smelling isolation belt covered with a layer of sulfur powder and entered the shelter.

It wasn't too late yet, and there were still people eating in the hall in groups of three or four, and there were also a few tables of shirtless men playing cards.

As soon as Xu Shu entered the room, people in the hall stared at him with scrutinizing eyes.

In the wasteland, it is not uncommon to see people staying overnight. Some good things can only be seen at night and cannot be found during the day. Some people specifically go for these things.

But solo travelers are rare.

Either you have strong abilities, rich experience, can get by on your own, and are qualified to work alone.

Or they lost their teammates and were left alone.

Those who are left alone are also divided into "deflated households" and "oil households".

A "blind household" refers to someone who is unlucky enough to be robbed by scavengers on the road. He is left with nothing, a dead body and little more than a lost soul.

Oil households are different. They generally refer to those who have cheated their peers, monopolized the benefits, and become extremely rich.

Xu Shu worked as a scavenger for a few days, and no one taught him, so he was not very clear about the rules.

Several people looked Xu Shu up and down. He looked like a young and naive person, but also like a person in trouble. For a moment, they couldn't tell which one he was.

But the suitcase filled with white pulp and dust was bulging and particularly eye-catching.

A middle-aged man who was playing cards greeted him: "Young man, you are alone and have lost your companions, so you come to scavenge? Why don't you join our scavengers association, help each other, and share the benefits." He seemed very enthusiastic.

What kind of scavengers have an association?
Cyber ​​Beggars?

Xu Shu was sweating all over and had no mood to pay attention to them. He declined the invitation and walked to the front desk to get a room.

"Little brother, you look young, but you come back so late. You must be full of energy, right? Do you want to dig a hole or stay in a hotel? Digging a hole costs 800 yuan, and staying in a hotel costs 200 yuan." The lady at the front desk, who was sucking on lychees soaked in water, gave me a seductive look.

Drill a hole?

Is this a pun on the original words?

Xu Shu glanced inside the counter in surprise, and found that the salesgirl was half-slumped in the chair. She was extremely charming, and turned out to be an exquisite beauty quite rare in the wasteland, mature, beautiful, and with big breasts. She was wearing short shorts in the middle of winter, revealing her snow-white and tender thighs, which were so white that it was hard to take your eyes off them.

Coupled with the highly provocative tone, most people would shed tears on the spot if they heard it.

But Xu Shu was well-informed and would not be fooled by this beauty. He was even a little unhappy.

Eight hundred to dig a hole?
Why don't you go and rob the money?

It's clearly price gouging.

But considering her looks, eight hundred doesn't seem expensive, and her figure and appearance are just right.

However, Xu Shu thought about it and realized that he had been on the run for his life and was not interested in doing these things at the moment, so he chose to stay in the hotel despite the resentful look of the receptionist.

"Huh, isn't my sister pretty? You are the most beautiful girl in the whole town. How many perverts want to have a chance with me, Little Peony, but they have no way. I gave you 800 yuan for nothing, and you still don't know how to cherish it?" The receptionist who called herself Little Peony seemed to want to make things difficult for Xu Shu. She deliberately held down the registration book and refused to give him the room card.

Xu Shu narrowed his eyes and chuckled, "Sister is naturally pretty, but I am incompetent and physically tired, so I am afraid that I am not pretty enough."

These words seemed to be an admission of defeat, causing the men behind him to burst into laughter.

"Little Peony, this young man is good-looking but useless. I, your brother, will take care of you at night!" A man who dealt cards very quickly took advantage of the opportunity to say something.

"Who cares about you?" Little Peony rolled her eyes, and then seemed to be relieved, and turned to Xu Shu and said, "You are so good at talking, is your little mouth full of honey? There is only one room, go and have a rest, it's cold, don't go out at night."

After hearing this, Xu Shu glanced at the group of people silently and said with a smile, "Okay, thank you, sister."

He could tell that there was something else going on in the group's words, as if they were hinting at something, but he had no interest in getting involved and was too lazy to create unnecessary trouble.

Since the other party has already given in, there is no need to ask more questions.

This shelter is not large and is not divided into so many rooms of different grades, so the price is uniform.

The rooms on the upper floors are two hundred, and the rooms on the lower floors are also two hundred.

Xu Shu paid two hundred yuan and booked a room on the third floor.

There are twelve rooms on the third floor. Xu Shu lives in room 305. All the other rooms have their door numbers covered up, meaning they are all occupied.

Next door was 307, and the sound of drilling could be heard from inside. Xu Shu couldn't help but shook his head.

Coincidentally, this is exactly the room of the four-legged beast that I saw before coming in.

He is still in good physical condition. It has been more than half an hour.

Unfortunately, not as good as me.

As the saying goes, a small shelter may have all the necessary facilities, and the accommodation services provided here are surprisingly good. There is a small independent bathroom and free hot water.

Although Xu Shu did not have the resources to practice tonight and increase the erosion level of his curse seal, hot water was still better than no hot water.

After taking a refreshing bath, Xu Shu rolled up the cup, silently prayed for a good sleep tonight, and fell asleep amid the occasional moans and shouts.

The night is quiet.

The cold wind is howling.

The wind made Xu Shu feel uncomfortable all over.

The more you don't want to care, the stronger the trend becomes.

Wuuwuwu! Wuuwuwu! The chill ran down my spine and made the hairs on my back stand on end.

"Is it because the window is broken and leaking air?!"

Xu Shu couldn't sleep anymore, so he crawled out from under the bed and checked.

Strangely enough, as soon as he woke up, the wind stopped.

After the inspection, the doors and windows were closed very tightly, with no gaps at all, and there seemed to be no air leakage at all.

Xu Shu was puzzled and pretended to continue sleeping.

Woohoo! Woohoo!
As soon as he lay down, the wind started up again, blowing back and forth in the room, accompanied by faint sobbing sounds, as if it was crying.

"Damn it, what's this about? All the bitches in your building have someone with them, and I don't think any of them look like they're alone!"

Xu Shu turned over angrily, but did not get up in a hurry. Instead, he listened carefully to the sound.

This time I was awake and could hear clearly that it was a woman singing.

"Human hearts and livers, soaked one by one"

"Flowers fade, flowers bloom, day by day is bad~"

"In February, the flowers are in full bloom~"

"It's a dark night, the wind is strong and there's no end in sight~"

"It's a dark and windy night and there's no end of murder~" (Note 1)

The tune is melodious and cheerful, and it sounds quite nice.

Is this content too bizarre and bloody?
And this sound...

hiss!
Xu Shu's eyes suddenly fixed.

The singing was clearly coming from my own room!
"Could it be that the wronged souls are crying?" Xu Shu guessed.

As the saying goes, if you have done nothing wrong in your life, you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door in the middle of the night. Xu Shu was not afraid, nor did he rush to take action. Instead, he closed his eyes and took deep breaths.

When he opened his eyes again, his pupils had become deep and dark, like bottomless holes.

"Yang Shen", "Spiritual Vision"!
Xu Shu currently lacks complete means to deal with this suspected evil spirit activity, but he can activate his "spiritual vision" to search for the other party's traces.

Ghosts like the former Yin Shen Ai can now be found out as long as one's spiritual vision is awakened.

In the clairvoyant state, many things that were not normally visible appeared in Xu Shu's field of vision, just like an old TV covered with a layer of snow, with special threads constantly flashing.

Xu Shu followed the imperceptible silk thread slowly and found that it had circled the beam several times and finally fell into a corner, inside a suitcase that was wrapped in rags on the outside but had a very delicate interior.

It was stolen from Ji Yang's "external elixir body" by the wealthy businessman Ji Bochang.

"Could it be that after Ji Yang's death, his ghost is still here and he's singing to disgust me?"

"But he's not a woman either."

"Or his daughter Ji Yu?"

"Wait, this voice seems a little familiar..."

Xu Shu walked over, and a secret golden light was silently glowing on his body. This was a sign of the start of the "Jingwei Filling the Sea" project.

He carefully unlocked the suitcase and opened it.

It was filled with bundles of cash, a bulging green lace bag, some dry food, and a warm jade Buddha about a foot long.

Xu Shu and the Jade Buddha looked at each other quietly.

Narrow-sleeved Guanyin!

She actually opened her eyes.

She is singing!
Although the singing stopped at this moment, Xu Shu was not someone who could be easily fooled. He was certain that the singing just now came from this little action figure girl. The reason why the sound was a little off was because it was covered in the box and the pitch was a little off.

The last time, after the Narrow-sleeved Guanyin swallowed the "Yang God·Purifier: Ji Yu", she closed her eyes. Unexpectedly, this time she finally opened her eyes and sang in the middle of the night.

No, not only that!

She actually even wrote her own lyrics, and the song she sang was not the one Xu Shu had recorded before!

Has she completed her promotion?

Has there been another mutation?
Will it get out of my control?
Questions popped up in Xu Shu's mind one after another. He couldn't help but clench his fists, and his other hand reached for the prop bag, ready to make a thundering attack at any time.

He was still somewhat wary of Narrow-sleeved Guanyin, even though he always kept her by his side and she had always been very honest and dutiful, doing her job diligently, and seemed to have turned into an object between life and death - for example, the Star Tower would not attack Narrow-sleeved Guanyin who was in a state of 'playing dead'.

But Xu Shu had suffered losses from this thing more than once, so how could he really trust it completely?

Especially with this sudden change, there's no guarantee it might have any malicious intentions.

They confronted each other for a while.

This time, both eyes of the Narrow-sleeved Guanyin became very clear, no longer one red and one dark as before.

With a creaking sound like a clockwork, the melodious tune sounded again, like a drama, and this time the voice changed:
"Hey, my husband, why are you so fierce and evil?"

"I sincerely remind you that your husband is so cruel. I feel wronged. I cry~wuwuwu~"

Xu Shu:?
What's the fuss?
Wait, that sound...

"Empress Heishan?" Xu Shu asked tentatively.

A mature woman came out of the narrow-sleeved Guanyin: "Yes, it's me~ My husband, I miss you so much, I look forward to it every night, think about it every day, I only hope to meet my husband, and go to Wushan to make love again~嘤嘤嘤~"

Damn, you’re a second-level Yin general, and you’re really being cute?

What if I didn't know you were killing people like crazy?
Xu Shu was not fooled at all. Instead, he picked up the figurine, looked around for a long time, and asked coldly: "Where are they?"

He was asking about the Narrow-sleeved Guanyin, the corpse dog, the Yin God Xiao Ai, the Yang God Ji Yu and other monsters that were merged in.

"My husband already has me, why are you still thinking about other people? I feel wronged~" Heishan pretended to cry again.

Xu Shu interrupted and said, "Stop pretending and tell the truth, otherwise, I will kill you in the safe zone."

This Lady Heishan is a genuine second-order evil spirit. At the moment, she is suppressed in the Narrow-sleeved Guanyin. She has the means of "primordial spirit and spiritual wisdom" to help her hide herself, so the Star Tower did not discover her.

But if they enter the safe zone, and Xu Shu uses his figurine to attack someone at random, she will be exposed instantly, and the Star Tower will directly activate its defense mechanism, shattering her and turning her into erosion crystals.

This has been proven through many experiments.

However, Heishan seemed to be sure that Xu Shu would not attack her, and continued to cry and pretend: "I helped you, but my husband was still mean to me~My husband is bad, I am devoted to my master, I, I am not unwilling to tell them, but the time has come, my husband should ask them."

The sad tune slowly faded away.

Xu Shu noticed that the jade Buddha blinked a few times.

Then, her mouth did not move, but a timid voice came out.

"Ah, sir, I, I am Ji Yu~" This time the Jade Buddha spoke without any more drama.

Xu Shu felt much more comfortable after hearing this.

At the same time, a guess came to my mind.

"Can you take turns to come?" Xu Shu asked. Ji Yu said pitifully, "Yes, we can take turns to come for a while every night, but only for a while, we can come out to get some fresh air, it's so stuffy inside, but they are all very nice to me, they don't bully me..."

"That's it..."

Xu Shu touched his chin.

Can they appear in turns, what is the use?
Will it affect the ability of the Narrow-sleeved Guanyin itself?

With a moment of contemplation, he picked up the jade Buddha, found the right position, pressed it with his two thumbs, and rubbed it with his left hand first.

"Ah, sir, no, you can't touch there~" Ji Yu shouted shyly.

Along with it, Xu Shu's familiar voice rang out: "Come on, be happy~"

The seductive singing voice mixed with Ji Yu's shy resistance.

After listening for a while, Xu Shu stopped rubbing his left hand and started using his right thumb to rub and rub, then started working.

Ji Yu said: "Hey, hey, hey, here, this place is not allowed either~"

But the Guanyin statue was out of her control and played music on its own: "Girl across the street, look here, look here, look here~"

After listening for another five minutes, Xu Shu turned off the music thoughtfully.

The functions of the Narrow-sleeved Guanyin itself seem to be unaffected.

Then what's the point of letting them take turns?

Xu Shu thought for a moment and asked, "Who allowed you to take turns?"

Ji Yu panicked: "It's not me, it's not me, sir."

Xu Shu was speechless: "I asked who gave permission, and I know it wasn't you."

Ji Yu then became a little bolder, and Xu Shu seemed to hear her whispering to someone.

"My Lord is asking, can I tell you this? Can I tell you this?"

After a while, her voice got louder: "Sir, it was the Bodhisattva who asked us to take turns. Here, the Bodhisattva is the greatest."

"Oh, is it so?"

Xu Shu narrowed his eyes. Bodhisattva, needless to say, refers to the original body of the Jade Buddha, the original spirit, "Narrow-sleeved Guanyin".

He asked Ji Yu a few more questions, but Ji Yu obviously didn't understand much and couldn't answer most of them.

After a while, Ji Yu apologized: "I'm sorry, sir, Ji Yu is too stupid, let her answer you, Ji Yu's time is up."

Only an hour had passed.

Xu Shu judged that they each had very little time to "bubble".

After waiting for a while, Xu Shu asked, "Who are you?"

A voice came from the narrow-sleeved Guanyin: "Aba Aba, Gululu, Waibi Babu."

Xu Shu:?
I see. This is Yangshen Corpse Dog.

This is better than not being able to speak human language.

After waiting for another hour, the narrow-sleeved Guanyin's voice changed again amidst the "humming" sound that was not sure whether it was cursing or accusing. It became pitiful and mournful, making people cry when they heard it.

No need to ask, Xu Shu knew that this time it was 'Yin Shen·Ai'.

"Yellow note, green note, and after you choose, there's a black note; you'll die in three days, you'll die in seven days, if you don't choose, you'll die today~"

"I am eighteen years old. I live in the south of the city and sell watermelons. My watermelons are big and round, and all of them are top quality. My husband loves me every day, and my life is full of joy!
"Who knew that Chen Huaqiang was so rude and unreasonable? He came to buy watermelons but didn't pay. He even smashed the watermelons and said they weren't sweet. My grandfather got into a fight with him, but he stabbed him up to the sky with a knife..."

"Stop, stop, stop!"

Xu Shu was annoyed by the singing and quickly waved his hand to tell the little sister to stop singing.

Where did you get all these tricks? Did you learn them from Heishan?

After another hour or so, the Narrow-sleeved Guanyin became completely quiet and made no sound.

There was no change in her appearance, but she had regained that feeling of seriousness, dignity and majesty.

Needless to say, this must be the original spirit and spiritual wisdom: the true form of Narrow-sleeved Guanyin.

"Can we chat for a few minutes?" Xu Shu sat upright.

Guanyin stood still like a mountain, like a dead object, but her two eyeballs emitted a purple-gold light.

Xu Shu looked carefully and found that her left and right eyes each revealed a tiny gem wrapped in purple gold, each with a floc-like spiral inside, one with 18 and the other with only one.

They were actually two erosion crystals!

The two gems moved horizontally toward the center and finally combined together, one wrapped inside the other, so it looked like there was only one crystal, but there were nineteen floc-like spirals inside.

After a few seconds, the scene disappeared, like the end of a slide show.

The Guanyin figurine lay quietly, without any change, its eyes wide open, as if looking at Xu Shu, yet seemingly out of focus.

Xu Shu waited for a long time with caution in his heart, and did not feel the feeling of "staring at the soul for a long time and suffering mental damage", so he felt relieved.

It seems that Narrow-sleeved Guanyin has really surrendered completely.

"The scene she just showed of the two crystals merging together, if it goes as expected, should be a token of her loyalty to me, showing her current strength, which has reached the second level."

"Well, that should be it..."

"It seems like we've gained a lot this time. We've finally made her the second level."

"These two crystals are superimposed into one. Is this supposed to be telling me the method she uses to avoid detection by the Star Tower?"

Xu Shu didn't know whether his judgment was accurate or not, but this was the only option for now.

The only pity is that although her soul has successfully advanced to the second level, judging from the strength she has demonstrated, she is still in the process of slowly transforming from purple to gold, and has not yet completely become an "epic" evil spirit.

Xu Shu was a little disappointed.

But it doesn’t matter, since he won’t need the second-level seal for the time being anyway.

If you really want to use it, you have to get a third-level one.

Once my second-level spell seal is fully upgraded, I can consider upgrading to the third level. By then, it seems that all the materials needed for the third-level spell seal are complete.

First of all, it is the mark. He now owns an "Yin Shen" altar, which is an epic one. According to the common rules of the "Five Weird Families", the "Yin Shen" entry fully meets the requirements for promotion.

This point has been thoroughly verified in the second-level "Yang Shen Iron Armor".

As for the required third-order spell crystals, they were all available this time, and I had to thank Suki Herrera for that. With some operation, she directly gave me three spell crystals, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd order, and all of them were purple and flawless quality.

However, Xu Shu remembered that there seemed to be a special prerequisite for advancing from the second level to the third level.

In addition to the basic condition of "second-order seal at full level", another condition is required to perform an "upgrade" of the upgrade drive.

This requires a lot of contribution, exchanging the corresponding upgraded tools from the array, and it can only be completed by finding a transcendent who is at least a "mechanical expert" level to process it for you.

"There is still a long way to go, but there is no need to rush. The most urgent task is to make money first to exchange for a large number of erosion crystals. Haha, I have to consume materials worth millions of Alliance coins to upgrade to a new level. I am also a big spender."

Xu Shu smiled.

Then he looked up, at the ceiling, and at the wall where occasional tapping sounds came from.

It was "Niangniang Heishan's" turn just now, and she was acting all the time. She also said that she had kindly reminded herself, but was scolded and felt wronged.

In fact, she doesn't need to feel wronged.

Because Xu Shu listened to it.

He knew that things were not peaceful in the shelter tonight.

In fact, as early as when he checked into the shelter, he had already discovered the clues and knew that the little Peony at the front desk and the men playing cards were not real refugees.

Their words and actions seemed to be warning Xu Shu, saying that they were not easy to deal with and that it would be better for Xu Shu to leave. If he did not leave, he should not go out at night and cause trouble.

It seems that these people have seen through my identity as a supernatural being?

What do they want to do?
What's the intention?
According to the rules, since the other party said that and Xu Shu still insisted on moving in, he meant that he had tacitly agreed to the other party's proposal and should not meddle in other people's business.

But things are different now.

Xu Shu looked at the ceiling carefully for more than ten minutes, and saw a little black outline coming out from the base of the ceiling fan.

at last.

Drip, drip, drip. Snap, snap, snap.

The overflowed liquid accumulated enough to slide down the fan blades and hit the ground.

A faint smell of blood splashed out.

Very fishy.

Very new.

Xu Shu wrinkled his nose, stood up, and pinned the advanced narrow-sleeved Guanyin on his waist.

When he turned around, he found that there were four words written on the coin that the Narrow-sleeved Guanyin was originally pressing.

"New account, don't do it"

Xu Shu was stunned: "Who wrote it? I asked you who wrote it?"

The narrow-sleeved Guanyin did not move.

It might have been written by Ji Yu, or Heishan, or Xiaoai.

It can't be a dead dog. She is illiterate and a fool.

"Damn it, he's creating a new account, is he still a human being?"

"I didn't want to meddle in other people's business, but now it's different."

"You disturbed me and soiled my clothes."

"Then I'll have to go and see it."

"You asked for it."

Xu Shu shook his head and stood up, talking to himself.

He walked to the window, covered his face, and was about to jump out of the window, continuing his old job, climbing over the outer wall to see what was happening.

But as soon as the window was opened, another large splash of blood spilled from the windowsill.

Some of it splashed onto the windowsill and then onto Xu Shu's face.

Newer than the previous one!

Xu Shu's face turned completely dark.

He withdrew his hand, wiped the blood off his face, closed the window, calmly opened the door and walked out.

There were two men in black at the end of the corridor. Xu Shu didn't know them, but guessed that they might be in the same group as the people downstairs at the beginning.

When they saw Xu Shu approaching, they immediately stood up and said with gloomy faces:

"Friend, where are you going in such a cold night?"

"The shopkeeper said, it's cold at night, don't walk around! Don't break the rules!"

The two men had stern faces, each with one hand behind their backs, holding a pistol.

Xu Shu curled his lips, pointed at his head, pointed at the softest part of his temple, and said jokingly: "Try it, hit here."

"..."

The two men looked at each other, murderous intent revealed.

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Explanation: The song is called Wu Ya, a very interesting folk song. It is also the theme song of a Chinese cartoon. You can listen to it if you are interested.

(End of this chapter)