Came to the Death Puppet Agency again, to this sparsely populated and desolate land.
Jiang Xueming went to the department store as soon as he got off the car to buy a month's worth of food. The cash on him should be enough to last three months. Homo sapiens cannot stay in this place under the jurisdiction of Death Rune for too long, otherwise they may become desperadoes.
While purchasing food, drinking water tents, water filters and other items, a man squatting next to the charging box happened to see Jiang Xueming. These large and small bags were delivered outside the door and loaded into the rented car. These strange and bizarre behaviors all confirmed the man's suspicion in disguise -
——This distinguished guest seems to be going to live in a dead partner's institution for a long time.
"Hey, are you a passenger? Are you going to the Death Puppet Agency? Can you give me a ride?"
Jiang Xueming ignored the strange man's invitation and continued to move the goods.
The man was not angry either. The screen of his mobile phone flickered on and off, as if it had been subject to strong electromagnetic interference, but it was still charging.
The guy slowly straightened up, put down his cell phone, walked to the cashier, and put one hand on the compressed biscuits on the counter. These goods belonged to Jiang Xueming.
"Are you Japanese? Or Korean? Can't you understand English? What about Chinese?"
The simple short sentence was broken down into four languages. The man was very patient, waiting for Xueming's response.
Jiang Xueming's face was hidden in the poncho, and the moment his eyes moved to the compressed biscuits, there was still no change.
This man's clothes are gorgeous, consisting of tights made of leather and buckles. The clothes have dust-proof and mud-proof cloth strips, which can be used together with the boots to cope with the dirty swamp terrain. He looks like an Asian. His hair is black and shiny. The texture of his hair is thick and stiff, like a gel-based styling cream that can't be blown by the wind.
His eyes give people a sinister and fierce look, with sunken eye sockets, protruding eyebrows, and plump cheeks. He looks healthy and cheerful, with a sharp and aggressive temperament.
"My security officer doesn't want to take me, how about you come and give me a ride?"
There are a lot of miscellaneous hairs on the eyebrows, which spread out from the center of the eyebrows, and there are hairs that grow in the opposite direction less than halfway. The ends of the eyes are upturned, which is a face full of fighting spirit.
Jiang Xueming responded in a low voice: "I'm sorry, I'm afraid I'm not free."
The man then said: "Oh my god! It turns out you are not mute!"
"I can help you contact other security officers." Jiang Xueming pointed to the four-seater electric car behind him: "This car can't hold any more things. I'm going to live in a death partner institution for a month, so I can't take you with me."
"Oh." The man showed a disappointed and regretful expression: "Then can I trouble you to make one more trip?"
"What do you mean by making an extra trip?" Jiang Xueming stretched out his hand, trying to push the man's hand away and get back his dry food.
The man quickly held the compressed biscuit in his arms and said jokingly, "How about you go in first and then drive out to pick me up?"
Xueming didn't think much and pressed directly on the back of the man's hand——
——At this moment, the ability of Fragrant Fantasy is activated.
The cashier immediately saw this handsome young man unconscious and passed out on the ground. He screamed and ran out, and together with Xueming helped him to the employee lounge.
The cashier girl was frightened and asked anxiously: "Sir! What happened to him? Why did he faint suddenly?"
Jiang Xueming: "Maybe it's hypoglycemia. Maybe he can't stand the spiritual pressure here. I don't know. Let him rest first."
The cashier girl nodded in confusion: "Oh, is he okay? Doesn't he have other illnesses?"
"The passengers should all have a panacea." Jiang Xueming found an ID card from the man's pocket, as well as some universal exploration tools, a compass, a psychic probe, a survival knife and a hook. Hemp rope, besides this guy didn't even have a gun.
Jiang Xueming checked the ID card and found nothing unusual, so he handed the card to the cashier girl.
"Take it and contact the doctor at the nearby trading transfer station to take care of him. There are many mobile food trucks following the trading doctors. Maybe he will wake up later and have a good check-up."
The cashier girl took the card and felt inexplicably relieved. The backpacker in front of her looked very reliable, so she didn't think about it anymore.
Jiang Xueming took the biscuits from the strange man's arms, packed his bags, and immediately drove to the Death Partner Agency. The tram rushed into the endless darkness and headed towards the road with flickering lights again.
The moment he left the department store and the supermarket, the phone at the charging station on his back started ringing.
The ringtone is like a ghost crying and wolf howling, sometimes it is the orchestral organ of Halloween, and sometimes it is the suona and gongs of the Hungry Ghost Festival. It is so noisy that people feel uneasy.
As soon as the cashier girl returned to work, she was startled by the strange ringtone. She looked around uneasily for a long time. When she saw the phone screen lit up, the dynamic screen saver flashed bloody and terrifying pictures of dismembered corpses. There are straw dolls from the West and paper zombies from the East. They are dismembered by various sharp tools, and the blood splattered stains the screen red again and again.
She finally walked over impatiently, thinking that if she answered the phone, she would be able to pick up this weird and rude man in advance if it was a family member or friend.
When she picked up her mobile phone, she was horrified to find that she could no longer hold the electronic product -
——Her fingers seemed to have touched a piece of fine sand powder polymer, which directly hit the screen. There was a slightly strange damping feeling, as if her knuckles were stirring in the dust, and then left the middle frame. The cold touch scratched the skin of his knuckles, and then he touched the warm counter.
She was stunned for a moment, and when her palm completely lifted off the table, the phone was like a thick black mist, and the holes poked by her fingers were slowly recovering.
"It's all your fault!!"
A little Qing Dynasty-style zombie wearing a pheasant robe flashed across the screensaver. Its stomach was pierced by the cashier girl's fingers, half of its intestines were exposed, and it was bleeding from its orifices and cursing viciously.
"Smelly bitch! Look at the good thing you did! You made me into tatters!"
"Hoo" the cashier girl took a breath and took a few steps back involuntarily.
When the screen saver jumps to another dynamic picture, the ringtone is still so harsh.
The little girl's face became extremely ugly, and she subconsciously squeezed closer to the counter, trying to take out some psychic props from the safety box for self-defense - this might be a spiritual disaster.
She hurriedly touched the strange man's identity card, and then touched a magic pestle. This was a psychic catalyst blessed by the greenstone craftsmen, and it was a tool that could directly harm the spirit body.
She was so nervous that she was shaking all over, and she was so frightened that she couldn't hold the ID card. The fluttering card was carried away by a gust of wind -
——The name of its occupants has changed visibly, with black ink stains like squirming insects, changing from a serious Chinese name to a simple English word.
[Ghost·Wandering Ghost]
[VIP·Senior Senior Passenger]
It floated into the fingers of the strange man, and then the passenger opened his eyes. It was not like he was affected by the fragrant dream, and his body straightened up lightly.
He put away his ID card, walked to the front desk, and turned off his phone screen.
"Don't worry, don't worry"
"Sir! Are you awake?!" The little girl finally breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that this living person was safe and sound: "It seemed like there was a spiritual disaster just now. Your phone... you..."
"It's okay." The man took the phone away and comforted the little girl in a friendly tone: "It's okay, it's okay."
The strong suspension bridge effect caused the helpless girl's blood pressure to rise and her heart to beat wildly——
——The handsome boy in her eyes became extremely charming, like a ghost.
"Oh, do you need anything else? Let me make you a cup of coffee to refresh yourself?"
The man walked outside the door and happened to see Jiang Xueming's taillights.
"try your best."
The cashier girl immediately started tinkering with the coffee machine and showed off her tea and snacks.
"Sir, you are in for a treat today. Let me tell you, this place has not seen a single customer for several days. The coffee from our Bailiwe Supermarket can also be ranked in the coffee and tea competitions in several surrounding regions. Number one! Do you like milk? How much sugar do you want?"
The noise of the coffee bean grinder drowned out the man's silent whisper.
"So familiar with the spiritual pressure. A VIP came here to stay at the Death Puppet Agency for a long time - who is it? He seemed to be in a hurry and didn't want to take me with him. He also tried to use his soul power to subdue me. "
The cashier girl was searching for a suitable cup under the counter. When she raised her head, she couldn't even see a ghost.
"Hey? Hey hey?!"
The noise of road gravel could be heard from various parts of the vehicle. This car was not as good as Commander Nanami's Volga, it was a bargain rented from a public tram base station.
There were strange sounds of plastic and rubber parts rubbing against each other from all over the car body, and the light transmittance of the windshield was not very good. In the dark environment, everything became magical and blurry, and the distant city lights collided with the hot and cold air currents. The bottom becomes blurry.
Xueming held the steering wheel tightly, and from time to time she could hear some whistling noises, which were the sound of the strong wind carrying dust and hitting the shell.
The spiritual pressure of the Death Couple Agency still carries a sense of malice and misery. It originally belonged to a mountain giant, but now the owner of this palace has become an irrational zombie. All creatures living around the palace will be subject to death runes. The curse.
This time, no vehicles came out of the city. The Luna Cup has just ended. Perhaps the passengers are busy gathering with family and friends to watch the game and want to take a vacation for themselves.
In the last three hundred meters or so of driving, Xueming realized something was wrong——
——Because this tram is fully loaded with goods, the road to the Death Partner's Agency is a straight road, and its engine is very quiet, making almost no sound.
The cargo load in the trunk and seat made the tires bite the ground tightly. Looking out through the window glass, there was almost no reference object. All this gave Xueming the illusion that "the car is still driving forward." .
More than 300 meters away, the river dam of Death Couple's Government City stood there. Together with the access ramp, it seemed that it would never move forward.
Only then did Xueming realize that the car had not moved at all!
He immediately rolled down the window and looked outside, but he couldn't see the condition of the tires from this angle. The world outside the vehicle is silent except for the hum of the motor as the wheels rotate at high speed.
The cautious man decided to stop the car, turn off the engine, and get out to see what was going on.
He opened the car door and stepped on the solid asphalt road, avoiding the runes on both sides of the road. He squatted down to carefully observe the condition of the tires.
The wheel skin was still hot and the wheel hub was in normal condition, so he stretched out his hand to press the road surface, but couldn't touch anything!
Specifically, he stretched his fingers downward, as if he had picked up a handful of dry but smooth sand. When his fingers dug into the sand, they hit the deeper subsidence rock.
He immediately turned on the flashlight and saw an incredible scene——
——The tire sunk deeply into a pit. These pits corresponded to the size of the four wheels. The four wheels were flying in the pit, but they did not burst due to friction and overheating. Instead, they ran smoothly. More than a minute.
"What the hell is this?"
Check the four wheels repeatedly with a flashlight, and this is the case. The jet black sand and dust seemed to be strange substances with life. Due to the stirring of fingers, they sometimes turned into flexible cilia and flew up, then slowly slid down and returned to the mouth of the pit.
Before Jiang Xueming came to his senses, he heard the tram engine tremble and tremble, and the motor started again!
"Is there anyone in the car?! Someone is following me?"
Xueming raised his head sharply and immediately saw a dark figure in the driver's seat. He couldn't see the figure through the glass. He could only see two rows of pale teeth, smiling.
Soon after, the car slumped in the pit seemed to have strength again!
The stranger in the vehicle turned the steering wheel fiercely, and the front wheel ran straight towards Jiang Xueming's calf. The motor with more than 200 horsepower was outputting at full power!
"SD!" Xueming just stood up, unable to make emergency dodge movements, and thought——
——The power of the soul came out of the body, and the big steel cat hugged the front nose of the tram, as if in a bullfight, and forcibly lifted the front-wheel drive car!
The wheel hub was still spinning, losing the traction of the front wheel, and its rear wheel was about to slide backwards. Fenfang Huanmeng pushed it back about ten meters, and finally there was no movement.
The car parked there quietly, motionless. Xueming maintained a vigilant posture, holding a gun to face the enemy, observing the endless dark environment.
Is it soul power? Someone is targeting me?
As he thought this, he glanced at the asphalt road again——
——The four potholes that originally trapped vehicles are still there, and road officials have to come overtime to scold them. The strange sand and dust inside the pit disappeared.
He touched the side of the driver's seat of the tram, opened the door and searched for enemies with his gun, but found that there was no one in the car, only a little trace of psychic energy. At the same time, a dark shadow gathered into a tower behind him and turned into a human form.
Before Xueming came to his senses, his inspiration didn't even sound the alarm.
Fragrant Fantasy has already made an attack in advance! The iron fist struck the ghost's head, causing the shadow's head to tilt and roll to the ground.
"What's going on?" Only then did Jiang Xueming have time to look back and observe.
Not far away, the ghost transformed back into a human form. It was the strange man he had seen in the supermarket. Half of his jaw was split open and not a drop of blood came out.
"Sure enough, it's you! I'm just telling you! You didn't even react! The spirit body took action first!"
The handsome boy's mouth leaked when he spoke.
"Just try using soul power to attack, and your true form will appear immediately!"
The two halves of his jaw slowly healed, and the dark mist reshaped his figure. He stretched out his hand to shake hands with the unknown hero.
"Hello! I am now the sentinel of the Gate of Wonders. You should have heard my name before. BOSS, Joe, and I are all in a social software group. My name is [Ghost·Ghost Shadow]."
Xueming took off his cloak and poncho. He didn't know what to say. He put away the gun and held it in for a long time before finally speaking.
"I'm on a mission."
Ghost didn't take it seriously: "I know."
Jiang Xueming: "Secret mission!"
Ghost: "I know that too."
Jiang Xueming: "I want to find it."
Ghost untied the buckle binding his neck, revealing the rune tattoo under his neck.
"I am--"
"--One of the."
[Real name: Wu Zhaoming·Ghost]
[Soul Power: Ghost·Wandering Ghost (Stardust Warrior Specialized Type)]
[Destructive power: C]
[speed:???]
[Range Distance: B]
[Sustainability: C]
[Precision: B]
[Growthability:???]
[Special Ability ① [Spiritual Disaster Transformation·Earth]: The ability to transform matter into a spiritual body. This transformation is irreversible. The transformed matter can still maintain basic functionality, such as electronic products, mobile phones, electrical appliances, etc. , psychic catalysts and any living creatures show very obvious resistance to this ability - it is like a floor elf that can make all kinds of things in the material world disappear. After being transformed by spiritual energy, the material will become part of Ghost's spirit body. Since this VIP is a walking corpse controlled by Dead Rune, the spirit body also prefers the carbon elemental structure of sand, gravel and soil. ]
[Special Ability ②[Evil Spirit Body]: This VIP is not a human in the traditional sense. He has been transformed into an evil spirit by the dead rune. He is a member of the Stardust Warriors. In addition to some demanding sealing techniques, with the spirit It can trigger him to be locked up, and there is almost no way to kill him completely - his material body is like a ball of dust, his body is a spiritual body, and there is no growth at all. ]
[Note: "Ghost" comes from DEATH STRANDING: Timefall (Original Music from the World of Death Stranding)·Death Stranding original soundtrack promotional album]
(End of chapter)
