Eighteen people.
Without any communication at all, the number of survivors alone is convincing enough. Previously, even if the group of nine people from Tumen were at least within the survival estimate mentioned by Chui Ying, now the eighteen people...
Lu Ning really couldn't help but want to ask, how did they survive?
No matter how much room there is to operate, the eighteen places...can't be squeezed out at all, right? Just three ghosts killed for seven days, that’s twenty-one!
Not only were the people in the car shocked by this number, but even Chuiying seemed a little unexpected.
"Dear tourists, this is the carriage to welcome you back to the distribution center. It can relieve your fatigue and relax your body and mind..."
"Forget about the scene, can we get treatment?"
Among them all, the person at the front was a long-haired girl with delicate appearance wearing a dark blue hooded sportswear. Her expression was indifferent, no emotion could be seen in her eyes or movements, and her words were flat and had no ups and downs at all.
"After everyone gets on the bus, all the pain will be relieved."
"Including people who are resurrected by the blood of the divine bird, won't they die again?"
Lu Ning was shocked and leaned against the window.
"Of course not. He was alive when he was picked up, so he couldn't be dead. Miss, you really discovered a very useful piece of information!"
Chui Ying's words made Lu Ning feel like something exploded in her mind.
Outside there was a lot of laughter and joy.
"Great, it's exactly what Miss Cheng said!"
"That way we don't have to worry!"
"Hahaha, it seems like ghosts have nothing to be afraid of."
However, after Miss Cheng said plainly "get on the bus", no one was talking nonsense, and they quickly lined up and squeezed into the bus.
The car immediately seemed a lot more crowded. In fact, there were more empty seats. However, the new people who got on the car seemed to be relaxed. They took out drinks from the refrigerator while chatting, as if they had really come out. Traveling in general.
——A group of movie kings.
Lu Ning cursed in her heart. After getting in the car, her memories would be returned. So far, even the five men who seemed to be the most brainless didn't show any expressions about the fact that they were dead. Sure enough, they could come out alive. None of it is just luck.
Ms. Cheng, who was the last to get on the bus, still showed no emotion, but she felt like something was wrong. After she found a seat and sat down, she took out her mobile phone and started browsing. Apparently she quickly found the personal terminal APP. Since she was sitting relatively close to Lu Ning, Lu Ning could even slightly recognize the moment she opened her account. number.
Four digits.
"What? Are you interested?"
Miss Cheng raised her head when her eyes were noticed. Although her tone was calm, she was surprisingly not indifferent and she took the initiative to extend a hand.
"Cheng Wuling, let's get to know each other."
"My name is Lu Ning."
Lu Ning stood up and shook hands with her, and at the same time saw the amount on the phone in her hand.
[Account amount: 4800 (check details)]
"curious?"
Cheng Wuling did not cover up, and Lu Ning just nodded and took out her mobile phone: "I am 3100, I don't know what others are like..."
"Well, I'm curious too. Li Rong, Xue Tao, you two, come here."
The instructions were given in a low voice, but the two young men chatting next to the bar were immediately asked to come over.
"Open your phone, find the app with the crow pattern, and let me see your account."
"okay!"
Responding to Cheng Wuling's commanding tone, the two young men didn't hesitate at all and immediately turned on their phones.
Soon, the two people's accounts were displayed.
Li Rong's account is 1,200, and Xue Tao's is 700.
"Why do you have more than me?"
Xue Tao looked surprised, and Li Rong didn't know very well, but it's not a bad thing to have more of these things... right?
"Li Rong has done more things. This is evaluated based on our seven-day performance." Cheng Wuling saw the two people looking confused and said, "Although I don't know what the specific evaluation rules are, the more you do, the more you will get." The odds are certain... Xue Tao, you don't have to be depressed, if nothing else happens, those who do nothing but survive will probably only have a score of about 300."
"But there are very few such people, right?"
"That's right, even though we are all following your orders, we have also done a lot of things, otherwise we wouldn't have so much... money. If we really think about it this way, who among the survivors has not done anything? Come?"
The two young men had quick minds, and their estimates of scores were not particularly optimistic.
"I didn't mean this time..."
Cheng Wuling explained to the two people while looking through various information in his personal terminal.
"After this time, we have both experience and basic funds. In the next test, it is very likely that someone will adopt a more negative attitude to ensure survival. However..."
"It's not that easy."
Tu Men and the twins came over at some point and took up Cheng Wuling's words.
Tu Men grinned: "My name is Tu Men. Nine of us survived. I already feel that this is not easy. Seeing so many of you... I am really curious. Please forgive me if I make you unhappy."
The twin sister also smiled and nodded to several people: "My name is Mo Xiren, and this is my sister Mo Lianren. We survived together."
Cheng Wuling stood up, shook hands with the three of them one by one, and introduced himself: "Cheng Wuling—you probably haven't heard of my name."
"Oh? Miss Cheng is implying that we are not actually from the same world?" Mo Xiren said with a chuckle.
"Indeed."
Tu Men's eyes lit up: "So maybe we really are people from different worlds?"
"Judging from the fact that our languages are similar, even if it is, the difference won't be particularly big." Lu Ning also joined in the conversation.
"This lady..." Mo Xiren looked at Lu Ning, "It seems that she got to the car before us."
"Yes, I am the only survivor, so I am also curious about how you did it."
Tu Men laughed and was about to speak when he was cut off by Mo Xiren: "We just feel that everything is suspicious, so we don't believe in those things at all. When a ghost appears, we try to run away. After seven days, people will die." It’s almost the same, I just survived by luck.”
"Didn't you look for the collection?" Xue Tao asked quickly.
"Collection?"
Mo Xiren was stunned, and Tumen also showed a confused look.
"If you hadn't looked for those collections at all, you wouldn't have been possessed by the stand-in ghost in the Mensart manuscript." Cheng Wuling looked at Lu Ning, "Lu Ning, you probably found the manuscript in the first place, which caused the stand-in The ghost has been released, and if the killings are not prevented in the first two days, there will be a more serious disaster later."
"Indeed..." Lu Ning nodded.
"But, that's the limit, right? It's totally lucky that we can survive. Eighteen of you... how can you do it?" Mo Xiren showed just the right amount of curiosity.
Li Rong scratched his head: "We also listened to Miss Cheng. We did whatever she asked us to do, and then we survived... You have to ask her."
"There was no difficulty. We discovered most of the collection, including the Mensar manuscripts, in the first three hours. There was no way to stop the ghost killings on the first day, and I didn't stop them either."
"Yes, we completely dispersed our operations - I still wonder why we did this when it was so dangerous..." Xue Tao was still frightened when he recalled it.
"It's wrong to be afraid. There are only two situations for ghosts on the first day. Either they kill people quickly to create terror, or they kill carefully for the sake of quota. No matter which direction is beneficial to us humans. The whole first day is not just for those who are unlucky to be killed. Except for the three people, it is safe time. This is also the best time for us to gain an advantage." Cheng Wuling explained to Xue Tao, and then continued what he just said, "Everyone returns to the hall at noon and searches each other. At that time Two people have been killed, the invisible ghost and the person who found the manuscript, but this does not affect it. Everyone must take out the things they find, and then I will check them one by one with the message in the bottle..."
"Wait, how do you know that ghosts can disguise themselves as humans?"
"I don't know, I was just in case, in case there was a ghost among us from the beginning." Cheng Wuling glanced at Lu Ning, "The stand-in ghost had too many weaknesses, so it couldn't survive the first day. .”
Lu Ning couldn't refute.
Except for the ability to kill people with one hand, the substitute ghost is almost no different from an ordinary person. After it took over Gongsun You's body, it also became physically weak, otherwise Lu Ning would not have been able to succeed so easily.
But finding the ghost substitute and sealing it with a dagger on the first day was easier said than done, but definitely very difficult to do.
This not only avoided one-third of the crisis in the next few days, but also helped Cheng Wuling establish enough prestige.
"The next day, we seized the opportunity of the invisible ghost to kill people and performed the banishment ceremony——"
"No, wait. Banishment ritual?"
"The Mensar Manuscript, although that thing is deceptive, the rituals on it are real. Have you not tried it?" Cheng Wuling asked.
"The blood sacrifice is not enough." Isn't this problem the biggest obstacle to the implementation of the banishment ceremony?
"...the blood of the divine bird."
Cheng Wuling made the point: "The blood sacrifice requires human portions, but it does not require human blood. The activity of the divine bird's blood is not limited to thirty human portions. No matter how much it is, it can be deducted."
If I were to describe Lu Ning's feeling now, it would probably be the mood he felt after finishing the exam and discussing the answers with the top students.
Everything seemed to be a matter of course for Cheng Wuling, finding the message in the bottle, detecting the stand-in, discovering the location of the laboratory... The most frustrating thing was that he had done all this too.
The results were completely different.
"The threat of the invisible ghost was lifted the next day, and we can feel more at ease. Although the mirror ghost's elusive murderous behavior is a bit hard to guard against, after the fourth message told us its killing limit, it was unable to do so in those two days. Killed successfully."
A ghost really can't cause any trouble.
"On the night of the fifth day, we moved some necessities to the greenhouse, then took advantage of the darkness to dismantle the main house and set a fire. After the main house was destroyed, the strange dryness in other houses disappeared. .Although a few people died in the last two days due to the appearance of new ghosts, we survived with the props in our hands without any problem. After performing the ritual, the blood of the divine bird was not consumed enough, so I tried my luck to resurrect one person before dawn. See It depends on whether he will die if he is treated in time... That's basically it."
Not to mention people like Lu Ning and Tumen, even Li Rong and Xue Tao, who had survived together, didn't know there was such a consideration.
