The Grim Reaper Can't Be Tricked

"To be honest, this is my dream job."

Cen Jin didn't want to talk about himself, so he moved on to the next question: "The headmaster of the ghost school, what role does the pastor of the church play at such a close distance? What is the identity of the woman in red under the street lamp? The one who supports the headmaster behind is People are tricky?"

Xia Zhengmin: "The person who supports the principal is the pastor."

Cen Jin: "Is he human?"

Xia Zhengmin nodded: "No one in Guizhou Town knows the real purpose of the priest, nor why he has the power to fight against the monsters and wizards in the town as a person.

The pastor is actually the big boss behind the ghost school, but he doesn't care about it.

The principal has a grudge against Mama Ning. He has a guilty conscience and has been cooperating with the mentally ill Dong to try to capture the Happy Community. Only by eradicating Mama Ning can he feel at ease. "

He sighed deeply: "It's a pity that Ning's mother is seriously injured, it is difficult to protect the surviving humans in the happy community.

There were other people who helped Mama Ning before, but unfortunately, in order to save mankind, they were eventually polluted and turned into monsters. They didn't dare to return to the human camp, and they didn't bother to join the other two forces, wandering the streets of the city like ghosts. "

Quiet Town is said to be a town, but it is actually no less than a small city, so it is not wrong for him to describe it as a city.

"And what about you?"

"us?"

"Human beings like you who stay in the camp of weird monsters, have you ever thought of escaping to the happy community?"

"We are human beings in captivity. No one can escape from the ghost school. Under 15 years of rule and education, at least 15% of the students' thoughts and psychology have been distorted. Instead of rejecting monsters, they long to be alienated and become monsters." .In the past [-] years, it is not that no one has awakened or escaped, but they are often reported by the same kind."

Xia Zhengmin said: "At least ten years ago, I planned how to escape every day, and all the routes from the ghost school to the happy community were deeply imprinted in my brain, but then I gave up.

Because there are still many children in captivity in the school, I can only do my best to save one is one. "

He said just now that [-]% of the students have distorted thinking and psychology, which means that [-]% of the students have a clear understanding, among which there should be the correct guidance of Xia Zhengmin and others who have formed the Three Views.

"And the defense of the happy community is getting worse and worse. If we rush over there in a swarm, it will only increase the pressure on Mama Ning."

Cen Jin: "Do you know the population of Guizhou Town?"

Xia Zhengmin shook his head: "Mother Ning knows. Why do you know this?"

Cen Jin: "I want to know the strength of several camps."

Xia Zhengmin was confused: "Aren't you joking just now? No, do you know how far we are from the other two camps?

There is a huge disparity in strength and a natural barrier. Many human beings who had no time to escape back then fell into the arms of cults or monster camps in despair.

Humans can't win. "

Just as Cen Jin was about to say something, his expression changed suddenly, and he opened the door without a sound, and saw a row of white shadows flashing in the direction of the stairs.

Xia Zhengmin probed to see this scene: "Why does it come at this time? It's only nine o'clock."

Cen Jin: "I guess they saw it when I came up just now." It is also possible that the pastor was blocked, which caused them to disrupt the time of patrolling.

Xia Zhengmin: "Go and hide in the utility room at the entrance of the corridor at the back."

After speaking, he ran out first.

Standing at the entrance of the back corridor, Cen Jin stared at the row of white shadows gradually approaching, and finally saw the true face of the white shadows. It turned out to be a white plaster statue with five upper bodies and a head at the same time. The upper body was bloated, and the lower body had only four legs.

They are not connected side by side, but merged with each other to form a circle. There are upper bodies in the front, back, left, and right sides. The heads are lowered, and the movements are stiff. If you don't take a step, you will fall a lot of finely divided white ash.

In the silent corridor, the lights flicker on and off, only the stiff footsteps of the white plaster statue are particularly loud, the dormitory doors on the left and right are closed, the lights are all turned off, and it is as dead as a dead building.

The white plaster statue stopped in room 709, a head suddenly looked up at the back of the corridor, and there was no one there.

Cen pressed his back against the wall from now on, next to the door of the utility room, Xia Zhengmin was already hiding inside and shivering.

Cen Jin asked, "That thing comes up every two hours?"

Xia Zhengmin: "We won't come from twelve o'clock in the evening to twelve o'clock in the morning."

He said sternly: "The principal lives in that small western-style building, and there is an unknown monster under the courtyard, and the woods are covered with hemp rope loops, which is a vicious spell that curses people to hang themselves.

As for the woman in red, I saw her for the first time today. "

Cen Jin: "It's the first time we met, are you so scared?"

Xia Zhengmin: "She stared at us for a long time, and I was afraid of some newcomer, and she was dressed in red. Aren't you afraid of the woman in red in the ghost school?"

"good."

Cen Jin asked Xia Zhengmin the road map for going to the Xingfu Community, saying that he was preparing for the alliance to break through.

Xia Zhengmin directly took out a marked map of the town and stuffed it to him, asking him to help close the door when he set off.

Cen Jin, who set out with the road map, first sneaked into the church to find Ding Yiqing to understand the basic elements of the new psychic spell.

At that time, Ding Yiqing was sitting on the bench in the middle of the lobby, the skylight was wide open, and the moonlight was shining all over the place, covering the white statue of God, giving people the illusion that the plaster statue was alive.

Cen Jin appeared with his hands behind his back: "This is not a statue of God."

Ding Yiqing tilted his head to look at him, put both hands on the back of the chair, raised his middle finger and tapped on the back of the chair to signal him to sit down.

Cen Jin sat beside him, his shoulder was very close to Ding Yiqing's left hand.

"I want to learn a new psychic spell, teach me?"

Ding Yiqing: "How much tuition can I give?"

Cen Jin: "Isn't the store closed? Just treat it as a gift."

Ding Yiqing: "You see, what is the relationship between us that deserves a gift from me?"

Cen Jin: "I am your God who loves you more than gold."

Ding Yiqing: "Be pure, I don't like dirty interests."

"..." Why don't you say that the interest relationship is dirty when doing business?

Cen Jin: "A short-lived lover relationship."

Ding Yiqing heard the words and corrected: "It is a false and short-lived lover relationship."

"On the surface, husband and wife should also be respected, and they have to respect each other as guests. Please respect the script characters arranged by Weizhen." Huang Mao plausibly said that he took out the roses cut from the garden outside from his back, and handed it to Ding Yiqing: "Here."

Ding Yiqing stared at the bunch of unopened buds, neither spoke nor took over.

Huang Mao blinked, and said to him: "The buds I picked specially, the others are wilted. You find a vase and put it in, fill it with water, and it will bloom the next day."

Ding Yiqing looked inexplicable: "Where did you learn this...?"

Huang Mao shrugged his shoulders, and out of the corner of his eye, he fell on the withered rose at the foot of the statue of God.

"Gorgeous."

After hearing Ding Yiqing's comment, Huang Mao thought he didn't like it, so he wanted to take it back.

In fact, he is not confident that he can use this method to impress Ding Yiqing, who is uncertain. Of course, it is not because of his superficial lover status that he sent roses or the like, but just wants to express a friendship.

After all, although Ding Yiqing had bad intentions, he did help him a lot.

So I wanted to give some gifts or something, especially Ding Yiqing's whole body was petty bourgeoisie, and I privately thought that he might like something more romantic, such as more gorgeous flowers.

Huang Mao lowered his arm and retracted it silently.

The wrist was held halfway, and the rose was hooked away. The dejected Huangmao looked over in surprise, and saw Ding Yiqing holding a bouquet of roses in his nose, expressionless, his face covered with light and shadow, his lips pursed, and his profile The lines are extremely superior, and the gaze and expression are unique and slightly soft.

So he likes it.

Huangmao thought belatedly.

Ding Yiqing quickly took away the bouquet of roses, and while casually playing with it, commented on Huang Mao's move: "Opportunistic."

Cen Jin: "Then can you tell me the new psychic spell now?"

Ding Yiqing had a half-smile but not a smile: "You want to deceive the psychic for a new spell with just a handful of roses?"

Cen Jin: "Then what else do you want?"

Ding Yiqing remained silent, and after a long time, when Cen Jin wanted to give up, he said: "Give me a fresh rose every day during the few days in Guizhou Town."

Huang Mao was surprised.

Ding Yiqing put the flowers on his knees, looked at the yellow hair and joked: "In order to maintain the character design, please send flowers every day, rain or shine, regardless of the hail of bullets or artillery fire, I hope you will be more dedicated and don't drop my flowers."

Huang Mao's expression froze. Doesn't it mean that even if he was hunted down by Wei Wei, he would have to come all the way to pick flowers and send them to Ding Yiqing?

Very doggy, very young.

"I promise."

Ding Yiqing then told him the new psychic mantra, and the latter expressed shock from body to heart, then got up to thank him, and left quickly.

In the dark church, there are basically only black and white. Ding Yiqing is like a sculpture, not moving for a long time, only the flowers on his legs are the only bright colors in the church.

***

When Cen Jin came to the plaster room, he easily pried open the door, only to find that the window had been pried open again, and the plaster statue that had been sunburned during the day was about to jump out of the window to escape, but one foot had already climbed onto the window frame, unfortunately it was caught, and it was impossible to maintain this posture. Move again.

"..." Cen Jin: "I can't see, you continue."

After he finished speaking, he went to the studio next door to find some tools such as small carving knives and utility knives, and came back. At this time, the green plaster statue stayed quietly in the corner, and the windows were closed firmly.

Cen Jin squatted in the middle of the plaster room where the new psychic spell was drawn, observed carefully for a long time, hesitated for a moment, slightly damaged a few runes, and almost stopped.

"You want to break the spell? It's useless, we have broken it many times."

Cen Jin was startled, and when he looked up, he saw the green plaster statue squatting beside him, staring at the runes on the ground.

"My name is Xindong, what about you?"

"Cen Jin."

"Are you a superhuman?"

Cen Jin's heart skipped a beat, and he re-examined the green plaster statue and asked, "Could you be a member of the two special attack teams 15 years ago?"

"Yes."

Cen Jin: "How did you become a plaster statue?"

Xindong: "In order to save people. Before the longevity serum appeared, the plaster room was a place where murderers were buried. If you look carefully, you will find that the classroom is full of ancient Sanskrit inscriptions. Those are the results of the principal's experiment.

He found a special new psychic spell from ancient books, which can bring life to dead things.

But the new spell was incomplete, and the headmaster could only try it over and over again, and every time he tried, he needed to sacrifice his life.

And I suspect that the rumored Allahabad descended on the town because of the principal's constant psychic spell, causing a group of jackals and vultures to swarm the town, almost tearing the town apart. "

Cen Jin: "The principal you're talking about doesn't mean the current one, right?"

"I'm referring to the former principal." Xindong said: "The first victim was the management teacher who watched the studio. Every time the teacher disappeared, the reasons given were either that he didn't cover the white plaster statue with a white cloth or trespassed in the plaster room without telling. The key to the plaster room has always been kept by the former principal, but he will pay special attention to the plaster room to every management teacher.

Just like the last room of Bluebeard, the more attention is paid to it, the more people's curiosity can be aroused. Once they enter the plaster room, they will be killed as disobedient sinners, and then sacrificed.

The original headmaster is a devout Catholic. It is wrong to kill, but he can deal with sinners. "

"Pervert." Cen Jin asked again: "Where's the original principal?"

Xindong: "It's missing."

Cen Jin: "You haven't said how you turned into a plaster statue."

Xindong spread his hands: "Many people died in vain, and there was a lot of resentment. Coupled with the psychic ghost spells and new psychic spells created here and there, a room full of weirdness was created in the end. Emotions caused them more pain, their minds and bodies were tortured, and they couldn't do anything to their enemies.

Even the superhumans of our special attack team couldn't help, so I had to sacrifice my life, transfer their pain and resentment to myself, and help them liberate. As a result, I was polluted into a weird beast... Actually, I don't know what I am .

I am definitely not human now, but it is not the same as the weird features taught in school textbooks. At least we maintain our reason and emotions and will not harm humans. "

Cen Jin moved his lips, and goose bumps formed on his arms.

Xindong finished the process in a few words, but Cen Jin knew that it was not so easy. It is absolutely not easy to change from a human being to a strange, hostile and contemptuous species, not to mention the body during alienation. pain.

He said "sacrifice one's life for benevolence" plainly, anyone can say a word, even the choice of going to death is easier than alienating into weirdness, and extraordinary people know weirdness better than anyone else, and human beings are hostile to weirdness.

Knowing that you will suffer dire consequences, you still choose to "sacrifice your life for benevolence", how can you praise the greatness of this choice?

Xindong was very uncomfortable being looked at by Huangmao's strange eyes: "Don't look at me like that. At least I'm still alive, and I still have a chance to become a Buddha. Do you know the story of the Buddha who cut his flesh to feed the eagle and then cultivated? I'll tell you Let’s say, this is how we are, and sooner or later we will become Buddhas.”

"you?"

"I'm not alone in making the same choice."

"Do you know Baimu, and a purple-haired killer?"

"Huh? Do you know him?" Xindong was particularly surprised: "Are you their brother or son?"

Cen Jin hesitated and said, "It's a friend who just met once."

Xindong stared at him, and suddenly realized: "You are an outsider, so to speak, there is a new movement in the cult." He clapped his hands and said, "Both Baimu and Shamat are our team members, and they came here to save some people." Alienated into weird.

At the beginning, Baimu girl was to save a girl in the town who was harmed by a high-risk and weird portrait. The girl's family was destroyed by the disaster. Her arms and chest were covered with eyes, and she was about to become a high-risk and weird thousand-eyed girl. Transcendental skills are transformed into oneself.

Hmm...Speaking of which, the reason why we alienated into weirdness is also because of Baimu girl's special extraordinary technique, which can transfer the damage value of others to oneself, and then reduce the damage value by 50%.

Under normal circumstances, as long as we return to the institution in time for surgery and pollution cleanup, there will be no alienation. But at that time, the situation was urgent, and no one expected that everyone, including Guizhen, would be trapped in Kusinara in the end. "

Xindong said with a helpless smile: "No way, this may be a trick of fate."

Cen Jin: "What does Sha Matt mean when he says they can become Buddhas?"

Xindong patted his head and said quickly: "Oh yes! We are also researching new psychic spells, and one time Sister Ning made a new psychic spell that can communicate with the outside world. The other party claimed to be a prophet and accurately predicted what we have The difficulties we face also tell us that there will be a person in the future who will lead us to become Buddhas."

"Becoming a Buddha means living from death?" Cen Jin asked softly.

"Yes." Xindong said with a smile: "Falling leaves return to their roots, and they are safe in the soil."

Cen Jin took a deep breath, remained silent for a while, and continued to ask: "Did Baimu Nu become a sanitation worker later, and buried many heads under river willows?"

Xindong: "She even told you this kind of thing? But it's not the human head, it's the weird ones that don't have any emotions, just kill them and throw them into the river. She just likes to deliberately make up stories to scare you."

Cen Jin smiled, and asked again: "The sister Ning you are talking about is Mother Ning? Could it be that she is also a transcendent?"

Xindong: "It's our captain. She is from Lion City. Her daughter lives in a small town. It's a pity that she is busy with business and neglects her daughter."

Cen Jin can finally be sure that almost every story told by the story club has actually happened. The reason why the stories they tell are so similar to the past of Quirky Town may have something to do with the "goal thinking orientation" mentioned by the red lip girl.

Every main story has a weirdness mixed in it, quietly leading the story, telling people the truth about the strange town that has disappeared for 15 years, and pinning their hopes on the so-called Buddhahood prophecy of a prophet who has never met.

Xindong: "Later, Sister Ning created a new psychic spell and successfully sent Baimu and Shamat out, but there was no way to expand the new psychic spell to send others out."

He leaned in to look at Cen Jin again, not knowing what was going on, Cen Jin felt that he could see hope in his white eyes.

"Are you the rescuer brought by Baimu?"

Cen Jin scratched his head hesitantly, not being able to deceive Xin Dong, so he told him honestly: "I am not. But my brother and the others have all come in, they are all geniuses, as long as they can be contacted, and then contact other humans in Guizhou Town to resist together, maybe There will be a way."

Xindong immediately poured cold water on it: "It's very difficult, we haven't been able to handle it for so many years."

Cen Jin: "That's because your combat strategy is wrong."

Xindong: "Sister Ning is familiar with Sun Tzu's Art of War. Let me tell you, although I am a Southeast Asian and a Buddhist believer, I am a Cantonese.

Do you know Chinese Americans?I also read Sun Tzu's Art of War. The art of war that wins more with less has either been tried or deduced in the sand table, but all failed.

Do you know the total strength of the ghost school + the mentally ill building + the villain camp in the wandering town?

Let me tell you this, assuming that we only have 1% of our troops, 8% of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, and the villain camp has at least 9% of our troops. Each of them is one against ten, and even brainwashed humans can become the main labor force.

The disparity in practice is so great, can you beat it? "

Cen Jin: "That's why your strategic policy is too backward. With such a disparity in practice, you are still struggling for 15 years. What does this mean? It means that the other two forces are fighting extremely seriously, and there is still longevity serum hanging over your head, so They would rather put the third party with the human camp as a buffer than eradicate it.

Once the human camp disappears, the ghost school headed by weirdness and the cult headed by wizards will face each other directly, and it is easy to lose both sides.

But as long as they can't find the longevity serum for a day, they won't fight to the end. They are afraid that whoever is cheap will pick up the leak. So in such a favorable situation, you can engage in guerrilla warfare and steal some homes. "

The green and white plaster seemed to be dazed, and felt that the green dye on his body was more vivid and dazzling.

"Then why don't you lead us to steal the house now?"

With a heavy sigh, Cen Jin said: "It's too late, the situation is not optimistic now. When the fourth party appears, I guess it is still a cult, but I don't know if the current 'Feitian' cult is still the same as the cult 15 years ago.

But it's not impossible to take advantage of it. The more chaotic the situation is, the better it is for us. "

Xindong couldn't understand it, but it felt very powerful.

"What are you going to do next?"

Cen Jin: "Go to the Xingfu community and join the human camp."

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The author has something to say:

What Xindong and Baimunu mean by becoming a Buddha is: to achieve the right result of cultivation, to complete the merits and virtues, and to die contentedly. (There will be a happy ending, don't worry)

In fact, the "Kusinara" mentioned in the first story of the story club has various echoes from here, including that Guizhen was sent to Kusinara, the place where the Buddha passed away, implying the cultivation of positive results and merit. Consummation.

Lion City: Singapore.