Chapter 286 A Large Wave of Ghosts Is Approaching

My sudden turn back caused the group of people following me to look back nervously. It was okay if they didn't look at it at first, but when they suddenly turned around, everyone felt their scalps suddenly numb. It turns out that a large group of ghosts followed us at some point. These guys all lowered their heads and could not see their facial features clearly, but the visible skin fully demonstrated that these guys were definitely ghosts. , because the human body cannot be this color. In addition, the walking posture of these guys is not alive at all, it feels very stiff. Although it does not feel like a zombie, it is definitely not the movement of a living person.

As soon as we turned around, those guys stopped immediately. They didn't attack and didn't move. They just stood there. They did not whisper to each other like living people, but stood there with their heads lowered and silent, like wooden stakes. At first I wondered why I felt uncomfortable just by looking at these people, but soon I used my keen observation to discover the reason why I felt uncomfortable.

A living person, no matter how awesome he is, even the soldiers in the National Flag Guard, will never be completely motionless standing there. Even when standing at attention, as long as you are a living person, it is impossible not to shake at all. However, after long-term formation training, soldiers will be more stable than normal people when standing in a military posture, but there will be slight swings. But it is inevitable. This is the inevitable result of the movement of the chest and abdominal muscles when a person is not breathing. Even if the subjective consciousness is used to limit it, it can only reduce the amplitude of this shaking. It cannot be completely eliminated. Of course, if you hold your breath, you can greatly reduce this tiny shaking. Snipers often choose the moment of breath exchange when shooting, because at that time, the human body is actually in a completely still state, similar to closing. But it is more comfortable and stable than conscious breath holding.

In short, as long as a living person stands there, he will inevitably sway slightly and will not remain stable. However, the ghosts in front of them were completely still, and they were not breathing. It won't sway at all as long as you don't walk. Although people's subjective consciousness may not notice such details, their instincts have actually discovered this abnormality, which is why they feel very uncomfortable when they see these guys for the first time.

Compared to my surprise, the group behind me was completely horrified. These guys all ran in front of me as soon as they saw the dead souls, obviously hoping to get my protection. However, the young man who took the lead still had some conscience and did not forget to remind me at the critical moment: "In this situation, we First time encountering it. It doesn’t look normal, maybe it’s related to your previous performance.”

I actually know that this situation is probably an abnormal reaction, because "Zero" is different from ordinary games. It has an intelligent core, which is the main system. The intelligence level of this main system has surpassed the scope of human beings, and is not comparable to ordinary computers. Thanks to the help of this super-intelligent core, no map or mission in "Zero" will be static. According to the player's response and various probabilities, everyone in the task will have an interaction with the task itself. If you perform too well in a task, the difficulty of the task will be slightly increased, but of course the system will not cheat you. Increasing the difficulty means that the rewards will also increase proportionally. Of course, if you stumble and complete the task every time despite all the dangers, then the difficulty of the task will be reduced accordingly. Of course, these are all fine-tuning, and the magnitude won’t be too big.

These players used to attack this village in a sneaky way, and only fights would break out when the situation was desperate, but this time I came here and it was almost a push. This obviously affects the task evaluation, so the difficulty of the task is increasing, and may have reached the limit of what the system can adjust. After all, the mission system cannot upgrade a B-level difficulty mission to S-level just because you are very strong.

"You go forward first, I'll watch from behind. Be careful not to go too fast, walk slowly." I warned.

After hearing my words, those guys immediately began to move forward slowly, and then I saw the souls behind them also starting to move forward, at the same speed as ours, always hanging there without closing the distance or doing anything. zoom out.

After seeing the reactions of these guys, I didn't have much reaction, because I wasn't worried about these dead souls at all. The opponent is just an ordinary undead soul, which may be a bit troublesome for ordinary players, but for me, it is the kind of one that can be killed instantly with just one skill. So I couldn't care less that these guys exist.

Although I told them not to go too fast, the guys in front started to move faster and faster without realizing it. I didn't notice it at first, but soon I found that they already felt like they were running at a trot. And what's even more terrible is that I found that as their speed increased, the speed of the dead souls behind them also increased, and the speed of improvement was faster than ours, which means that the distance between the two sides is constantly shortening.

Originally, it would be okay if it was just like this. Anyway, this street is not too long. We should soon see the open house in front, and then we can turn to other streets. I think these ghosts probably have their own territory and may not wander around, so as long as they pass by, they will be fine. However, unlike the guys in front of me, I was not nervous at all, so I could leisurely observe the situation around me. It soon became clear to me that we were in big trouble, and that it was bigger trouble than the rest of the group behind us.

"Stop, everyone stop." I yelled and made the guys in front of me stop, while the ghosts behind us rushed forward a little bit before stopping. The ghosts in the front row were less than six meters away from me, and even the person with the shortest sight range in the team could clearly see what these guys looked like.

Seeing the ghosts approaching to such an extent, the people in front were very nervous and moved two more steps to that side. As a result, as soon as they moved, the ghosts immediately followed them, and they moved two steps. People move three steps.

When I realized that those people were trying to run again, I yelled again: "Stop all of them. If anyone moves again, I will throw him into the middle of those guys."

Sure enough, the effect was very good this time, and everyone immediately settled there.

"President Ziri. Why did you tell us not to move?" The young man leading the team asked me about the situation.

I did not answer his question directly, but first said: "Did you see the sign of the store on the side?"

The young man turned around and took a look. This was a very ordinary shop, specializing in selling cloth. There was nothing special about it, so he didn't understand why I wanted him to see that shop.

Seeing his questioning look, I immediately continued: "We have passed by this cloth shop three times."

"What?" This time, not only the young man, but others also screamed. Because if what I say is true. That means we have been sealed in a closed space, and this space is likely to be a cyclic space. If you don't find a way to crack it, you can't expect to get out even if you are exhausted inside.

"What's going on now?" A little girl said loudly: "Brother Ziri, please think of a way to help us get out!"

"Calm down if you want to go out. Those ghosts have been approaching us during your run just now, but when I asked you not to run and walk slowly before, they did not approach us. In other words, the faster you go, the closer they are to us. The faster you go. If you walk slowly, they will never be able to catch up with you."

Those people all showed embarrassed expressions when they heard my words. Apparently they also realized that their previous behavior was quite embarrassing.

"Don't worry. Since those things won't get close as long as we don't run, it means that at least we are safe now. What we need to think about now is how to solve this endless loop."

"Hey." As I was talking, someone suddenly shouted: "That's not right! Where are the two dog spirits you brought out, President Ziri?"

"Did you just find out now?" I said with some contempt: "They had already discovered that something was not normal here before, so they jumped to the roofs on both sides to check the situation. You actually didn't find out until now. I said you used to How did you survive when you came here?”

"There weren't so many strange phenomena back then!" someone complained.

I have to say that this really hit the nail on the head. I was so shocked that I didn’t know what to say. But speaking from objective facts, the difficulty of this task is indeed caused by me. So they are right to say so. Precisely because what others said makes sense, I don’t know how to refute it. In fact, if they had gone alone instead of with me, they wouldn't have encountered so much trouble at all. They were completely implicated by me this time. Of course, this situation is not my fault, because I told them about this situation before coming in. They insisted on following me, so they can't blame me.

"Don't move, you all. I'll go check out the situation. Help me protect him." As soon as I finished speaking, the young man wanted to agree. Unexpectedly, the king suddenly appeared in front of him and agreed first. The guy touched his nose awkwardly, and then realized that I wasn't talking to him. But think about it, their legs are weak when they see these ghosts. To ask them to protect the Czar is like asking a group of sheep to protect a little white rabbit in front of the wolves. This is completely the rhythm of delivering food!

After the king appeared, he immediately asked the tsar to stand next to him, and a few seconds later, Sayoko also appeared on the other side of the tsar. The guy's eyes immediately lit up when he saw Sayoko, but I reminded him at the right time: "Hey, we are both here, don't talk nonsense if you don't want to die."

The tsar reacted immediately upon hearing this. He glanced at the king on the other side and immediately became honest. However, the king became awkward and said embarrassedly: "Well, we are actually..."

"Okay, I understand. These girls don't have any excuses. Why are you so anxious?"

The king was completely choked by my words. As a heroic spirit, this guy is not the type who can speak well. Plus, I am his master, so it is difficult for him to contradict me. Besides, most people are joking like this. I don’t know how to refute it.

After joking, I didn't stop, turned around and walked towards the dead souls behind me. These guys were only five or six meters away from us, so I walked over in a few steps. It's different from those hungry ghosts before who bit everyone they saw. These dead souls didn't react at all to my approach, they just stayed there without any reaction at all.

I walked up to the front soul. This is a young man who looks to be in his twenties, with short hair and a cotton-padded jacket. He looks like the standard dress of a rural farmer. but. You can see it when you get closer. The fingers of this guy's hands are tightly together and hanging straight on both sides of his body without any shaking. This is what I found abnormal about these guys before. In addition, this guy's face was extremely pale, and it was also tinged with cyan, which was obviously not the color of a living person.

After taking a rough look, I took another step forward. We were almost face to face in front of this guy. Then I started showing off my super beefy gallbladder. He stretched out a finger and pressed it on the forehead of the dead soul in front of him, then pushed his head up, and now he finally saw his face.

I have to say that this guy is quite upright, but he doesn't look very handsome if he is rustic. Of course, according to ancient aesthetics, this kind of appearance should be considered very competitive in the countryside. Of course, the way this guy looks now can definitely scare a bunch of girls to death. Because this guy is not only pale, but also has dark circles under his eyes. More importantly, his eyes have no whites and are completely black. In addition, this guy's face had a serious greenish look, which was obviously not the type of person who died normally.

Holding this guy's head, I quickly discovered another scary part of this guy's body, and that was his neck.

"I'm sorry, I'll borrow it for a moment." I said and immediately changed my hands to hold down both sides of this guy's head, and then lifted it up slightly, and the head immediately separated from the body. I took it down directly. I myself was fine, but the group of people behind me were trembling and pointing at me and almost lost their breath.

Because my back was to that side, I didn't see the reaction of those people. He turned the head in his hand with his backhand and looked at the broken neck of this guy. It was very neat and the cross-section was very flat. It was obviously a cut wound caused by a sharp instrument. It is clear. This guy was beheaded to death. His head and body were basically two pieces, but they were placed there before and could be pulled off with just a little force. But I'm wondering why this guy isn't aggressive.

It is said that if this kind of ghost did not reincarnate, it would probably be a very powerful ghost. After all, it died by beheading, not a normal death. But the strange thing is that this guy just followed us and did not attack us. Although he may not attack us when he catches up with us later, at least he has no reaction now.

After thinking for a while, I put the guy's head back again, and the wound on his neck healed automatically the moment it came into contact. Of course, the healing is only on the surface. This guy is a dead soul, not a corpse. The wound on the neck is the memory of the dead soul, not a real injury. After all, the dead soul is an energy body, just like water, so there is no problem of cutting it off.

After putting down this guy's head, I pushed him away and walked to a female ghost behind him. This female ghost is wearing a white mourning dress, with long hair spread in front of her face, looking like Sadako's sister. Of course, I would not be afraid of such a female ghost. After all, when it comes to fierce ghosts, the one standing next to the Tsar is the real ghost. Sayoko was originally a top-notch thing among the resentful spirits. Her destructive power was so great that even I was in a hurry when I faced her. There is no comparison between the female ghost like the vengeful spirit in front of me and Sayoko.

After walking up to this female ghost, I still reached out and brushed her long hair away without hesitation, and then looked at her face. This one is much prettier than the previous water ghost, at least he still has half a face. Yes, it's half a face. Although the left half of the face of the female ghost in front of me is very pale, she is still a beauty. If you block the right half of her face, she is at least a commoner-level beauty. However, if you add the other side, she will be beautiful. Just go out and scare people.

It’s not that the right side of this person’s face isn’t beautiful, but the key point is that the right half of her face is gone. This person's face seemed to have been operated on. All the way down the middle line, the flesh on the right half of the face was almost rotten, leaving only some red minced meat stained on the bones. It's even scarier to have no flesh at all, and the eyeball on her right side completely fell out of its socket because she lost control of her muscle group. It was just hanging half out, looking as scary as possible.

"Holy crap, how did you die? How did you end up like this? Did you meet a perverted doctor?"

Although I don't know exactly how this person died, it is definitely not a normal death. So I can be sure that it is just a wraith, and the level is not too low. However, this female ghost is the same as before. He was also standing there completely motionless, just standing there.

"What on earth is going on?" I left the female ghost, and then checked several ghosts around me. I can confirm that these are not people who died normally, because most of them are not old people, basically young people or He is a middle-aged man with many children. It is impossible to die at these ages. So it can only be an accidental death, or at least it was due to illness.

In addition to the wrong age, almost all of these ghosts have external injuries. This is why I confirm that none of them died normally, and this kind of ghost village should not appear here if the ghosts died normally. This kind of place is obviously a place where the innocent souls who have not been reincarnated can stay. Ordinary ghosts will not appear here.

I checked the causes of death of these ghosts and roughly calculated the number. There are far more ghosts here than I expected. Originally I thought I could only see this part from the front, but I soon discovered that this was not the case. The number of these ghosts is at least two thousand, and the number is very dense, far exceeding my expectations.

After checking the quantity, I was about to walk back when I suddenly saw a ghost in front of me that seemed to be shaking. If you were an ordinary person, you would probably ignore it, but I am not an ordinary person. Part of the dragon's brain is an electronic brain, and all hallucinations cannot appear in my mind. I can see hallucinations in the game, and that’s because of the digital visual signal input, not because of my own hallucinations. There is absolutely no such thing as hallucination among dragons. So, I was sure that someone really moved just now, but because my focus was not there, I just saw a little bit from the corner of my eye, so I could only determine the approximate location, but I couldn't confirm which guy moved.

Although I wasn't entirely sure what was going on, I squeezed through. There are too many ghosts here. Just like the train station during the Spring Festival travel rush, you have to squeeze through these guys to get through. I finally moved in front of the ghosts and took a rough look. There are about seven or eight ghosts in the suspicious area, but only three are possible targets, because the others are either of the wrong gender or children. Only three targets match my intuitive impression.

After identifying these guys, I immediately walked towards the one closest to me among the three guys.

This is a relatively tall ghost, much taller than me anyway. After getting closer, I quickly checked this guy and confirmed that it was no different from other ghosts. Moreover, this guy's wound was in the heart. No, his entire heart was actually missing. Instead, there was a big hole, leading from the front to the back. Directly translucent.

Feeling that there was no problem with this, I walked over to the second target and took a look. This is also a very ordinary-looking ghost. There is nothing special about it, but it smells a little strange. I searched around this guy's body and found no wounds, but since there were no other abnormalities, I walked towards the next target.

The final ghost is slightly shorter than me, the elongated costume is normal, and the ghost's feel is normal. After searching around this guy's body, I finally found a big hole in the back of his head. The inside of his head was completely empty. It felt as if someone had opened a hole the size of a ping pong ball in the back of his head and then put it in. It's like everything inside has been taken away.

After checking this guy out I started to wonder again. The three targets looked normal and nothing was wrong, but I was sure that I was not hallucinating. So here comes the question, why can’t I find the moving ghost?

Staring at the ghosts in front of me, I looked at them again. I even expanded the scope to include female ghosts and children that I had previously excluded. However, I didn't find anything wrong after looking at them for a long time. Finally, my eyes glanced at one of the very beautiful female ghosts. She must have been very clean when she was alive, and she was the kind of person who liked to dress up. She even wore makeup when she died. I guess she must have carried it with her wherever she went. A fragrant breeze.

Wait, Xiangfeng? Suddenly an idea flashed in my mind. I just smelled something strange when I was checking one of the ghosts.

odor? Do spirits smell? (To be continued ~^~)