Chapter 168 The messenger team and the headquarters' arrangements
Chapter 168 The messenger team and the headquarters' arrangements
On the desolate and dark road.
Two teams, one in red and one in white, were marching forward. The sound of suona floating on the empty road seemed extremely strange.
As the two teams passed by, paper money and red paper were scattered on the ground.
And at the back of the team, there was a group of people who seemed to be there to join in the fun, but these people following behind the team looked extremely strange at this moment.
Some of these people have stiff bodies and slow steps, but they can walk a long way with each step.
Some were skinny, smelled like corpses, and their skin seemed to just cover their bones.
Some were missing limbs, some were soaked, but they just followed behind the team, and no one knew why they had to follow this team.
They were clearly teams carrying a coffin or a sedan chair, but the speed at which the two teams, one in white and one in red, advanced was extremely strange, as if each step could span more than ten meters.
"Zhang Hao, where are we going next?"
He Yuelian sat behind the coffin, glanced at the evil spirits that followed them, and a look of curiosity appeared on her face.
They had been out of the old house for three hours, but this road seemed to have no end, which made He Yuelian feel puzzled.
Hearing He Yuelian's question, Zhang Hao looked around and spoke calmly.
"We'll go wherever there are ghosts."
"Invitations need to be sent to everyone who is eligible to attend the wedding."
Unknowingly, Zhang Hao and others crossed the road beside the old forest and arrived at a cemetery.
There are densely packed grave mounds on both sides of the road. Each mound protrudes like a small hill. Some of the mounds are tombstones with a person's portrait vaguely printed on them.
Some of the mounds are sunken, as if something inside has left the mound and is unable to support the raised mound.
At first glance, this mound of graves seems to have no end, extending all the way to the darkness in the distance. Although no one knows how many there are, it is certain that there are definitely many graves here.
"So many graves? Aren't all of them filled with evil spirits?"
He Yuelian looked around, with some worry in her eyes.
There are so many graves that it makes one's scalp tingle. There is a sense of ominousness and weirdness everywhere, as if it is a large cemetery. If the ghosts here get out of control, it will be very dangerous.
"Don't worry, just send out more invitations here. It's okay if there are too many."
Zhang Hao said calmly when he saw He Yuelian's appearance.
He had been here before, although he was just passing by, but he still remembered it clearly.
This is the cemetery left by Luo Qian. If you want to know which place has the most evil spirits, this cemetery should be the one with the most, except for the old house and Caesar Hotel.
Even the Caesars Hotel and the old house may not have more ghosts than the cemetery.
"Ah good."
Upon hearing this, He Yuelian quickly nodded.
She was indeed a little worried because she was not sure whether the ghosts here posed a threat to Zhang Hao.
Although He Yuelian knew that Zhang Hao was very powerful, she had not experienced many supernatural events and had mainly faced ghost riders.
It was the first time she had seen such a mysterious place full of ghosts.
A stack of red paper appeared in He Yuelian's hand, and she took the stack of red paper and threw it directly into the sky.
At this time, there seemed to be a cold wind blowing.
Along with the gloomy wind, the red papers began to float in all directions. Some of them fell on the ground, while others fell right on the graves.
The red paper seemed to have extremely strange magical powers. As the red paper fell on the grave mounds, the raised grave mounds suddenly sank strangely.
In the grave, a skinny and withered ghost hand stretched out from the soil at this time and began to dig up the soil on the grave, as if trying to crawl out from under the grave.
"No way, he actually crawled out?"
He Yuelian's eyes widened when she saw this scene.
She then looked in other directions. The red paper was still floating. It wouldn't be long before more graves would be stained by the red paper and then climb up, right?
Keep going, there are more tombs here than just these.
Zhang Hao seemed not surprised by this, and just calmly let the ghost slaves carrying the coffin continue to move forward.
As the team moved forward, the cemetery that was continuous along the road ahead suddenly broke off, leaving a piece of open space.
There was a road in the open space leading directly to a small hill.
In this bleak and dim world, on a hill surrounded by graves, stands a small wooden house.
The wooden house was old, as if it had been in disrepair, it was crumbling, and the construction was rough. It had a feeling of air leakage from all sides, as if the wooden house would fall apart if it was kicked a few times.
He Yuelian looked at the wooden house in the middle of the cemetery vigilantly. Her intuition told her that there was some kind of crisis there.
However, with Zhang Hao around, He Yuelian didn't worry too much about this intuition.
Since Zhang Hao had said that there was no need to worry about the danger of the cemetery, He Yuelian naturally chose to believe Zhang Hao.
She took out new red paper and continued to scatter it around.
"Crench!"
As the red paper floated in the air, the small wooden house standing in the middle of the cemetery suddenly creaked open its wooden door.
A man walked out of the wooden house. His face could not be seen clearly, only a tall and thin outline.
The man stood at the door of the house until a piece of red paper floated in front of him, then he reached out and picked up the red paper.
However, what was strange was that after the tall and thin figure in the wooden house deep in the cemetery got the red paper, he did not follow the team like the other evil spirits, but closed the door again and went back into the house.
"Zhang Hao? What's going on?" He Yuelian was a little confused.
Why did the ghost not follow the wedding procession after getting the red paper, but instead returned to the house?
"This ghost is the owner of this cemetery. His existence maintains the existence of this cemetery."
"He won't leave this place until all the evil spirits here leave."
Zhang Hao looked at the sunken graves. Although many of them had sunken, it was still too early to wait for all the evil spirits to crawl out of such a large cemetery.
"Don't worry about him. Just keep sending out invitations. When the time is right, he will lead the ghosts that crawl out of the cemetery to the ancient house."
Starting from the ancient house, Zhang Hao’s final destination is still the ancient house.
But before returning to the old house, he needed to deliver the letter to where it should be.
The team moved forward and soon passed through the cemetery, but at this time, there were densely packed red papers left on the edge of the cemetery.
As the red papers stained the soil of the graves, the graves began to collapse.
"Are we about to enter reality?"
After passing through several mysterious places, He Yuelian looked at the road ahead which was beginning to become brighter, with surprise in her eyes.
"Well, some spiritual places cannot be reached via that road. You need to go through reality."
"And our targets for delivering letters are not limited to those mysterious places." At this time, the team was walking on a winding road.
This road seemed to be drawn. As it twisted and turned, it branched into several different roads.
Following the drawn road, Zhang Hao and his companions soon entered a city.
The red and white teams traveled together and soon attracted people's attention.
Some people walked closer and looked at this strange wedding procession from afar, with curiosity and worry in their eyes.
"Are they going to pick up the bride? Why is it that the funeral begins and the wedding follows?"
Some older people looked at this scene with astonishment in their eyes.
However, this astonishment only lasted for a short while.
Because as the wedding or funeral procession passed by, the procession following behind quickly frightened the onlookers, and they all fled far away.
Although the wedding procession looks strange, it still looks like human beings. But what about the team following behind?
These strange people are just like evil spirits.
"thump!"
At this moment, a sound of someone falling was heard.
At some point, a person who was running towards the back suddenly turned pale and fell to the ground lifeless.
This sound was like the beginning. After the first sound, various other sounds of people falling began to be heard.
The evil ghost behind the wedding procession started killing people after entering reality.
Although they followed the team all the time due to the influence of the red paper, after someone triggered their killing pattern, these evil spirits were still able to kill people and were not completely controlled.
Headquarters.
The group of evil spirits led by the Red and White Devils were soon noticed by the headquarters.
"Deputy Minister Cao, what should we do next?"
"After just a few days of silence, the Red and White Devils reappeared in reality, and they are leading so many evil spirits in a parade."
"This has already reached a level beyond S-level, even an X-level supernatural event."
Wang Qiang looked at Cao Yanhua, his eyes full of despair.
"Yang Jian and his team formed a team to deal with the Red and White Devils, but they haven't sent back any news yet. Instead, the Red and White Devils appeared here first."
Cao Yanhua couldn't help but frown when listening to Wang Qiang's words.
"If you ask me, I have no other options."
"How is the construction of the safe house going? Can it be put into use?"
Upon hearing this, Wang Qiang hurriedly took out a report on the safe house.
"Our people have renovated the basements that house the evil spirits."
"The total number of people that can be accommodated in those safe houses has now reached tens of thousands, and they live in the safe houses all year round."
"Another 100,000 safe houses that can accommodate people but cannot sustain daily supplies have been built."
"Is that so? Let's arrange for them to live in a safe house first." Cao Yanhua nodded.
"Give priority to the elites from all walks of life to enter the safe houses with circulating supply, and then gradually screen the elites from various fields to enter the safe houses without circulating supply."
"What about Deputy Minister Cao? Are you going to reserve some vacancies?" Wang Qiang asked.
"Me? Forget it." Upon hearing his quota, Cao Yanhua smiled bitterly and then shook his head.
"I didn't handle the matter of the Red and White Devils in time and let them grow up."
"I am a sinner of humanity. How can I have the nerve to enter a safe house and live there?"
"Give the quota to other people." Cao Yanhua said in a deep voice.
"But Deputy Minister Cao, your family..." Wang Qiang said in a heavy tone.
"It's okay. Cao Yang left some safe houses. Although they can accommodate a small number of people, they are enough for my family to live in temporarily."
"As for future matters, let's leave it to others."
In fact, if humans really lose control, safe houses that cannot recycle supplies will not be much different from staying in reality.
Unless you can enter a safe house that has been equipped with an internal circulation system, entering an ordinary safe house will only mean death sooner or later.
"That's fine." Wang Qiang nodded and didn't ask any further questions.
Since Cao Yanhua doesn't want the quota, there is no need to force it.
After all, this is a major event concerning the continuation of mankind. Putting aside personal feelings, Wang Qiang still hopes that those who enter are the elites of mankind.
"Wang Qiang, remember to reserve a spot for yourself." Cao Yanhua suddenly spoke at this time, leaving Wang Qiang stunned for a moment.
"In fact, if anything happens to me, you should be the next person to take my place."
"Apart from being a ghost rider, you are also an elite in your understanding of the supernatural, and you are the best among the best."
"Even if we can hide in a safe house and live there, even if we have an internal circulation system, I don't think that kind of life will last long."
"Sooner or later, we will have to return to real life. When that happens, we will need some people who have studied supernatural events."
Hearing this, Wang Qiang reacted and nodded quickly.
"By the way, priority will be given to scientists, parts workers, and agriculturists," Cao Yanhua continued.
"Scientists are necessary to ensure that we can explore the outside world in a safe house."
"Parts workers are there to manufacture various products, and agricultural scientists are there to study the ecology of the real world when we return to reality."
“Only when science develops and agricultural output reaches the target can the population grow rapidly.”
"Doctors are also a necessary condition. As for other things like celebrities and officials, they can be secondary considerations. As for management personnel and entertainment methods, it only takes someone to be responsible, but they are not necessary conditions."
"As for the specific arrangements, you can discuss it with the people above. These are just some of my suggestions."
"Okay, I understand." Wang Qiang nodded.
"Go ahead. I still have to figure out how to arrange things in the real world. If these ghost riders knew about the safe house plan, it would be a huge problem."
“If they really come and seize the safe house spot, it will be very difficult to deal with them.”
The ghost rider was already dying, but he survived temporarily because of the evil ghost.
If these ghost riders really knew that they were the abandoned people, no one would be able to stop them when they started making trouble.
After all, all the captains are dead now.
Moreover, even if he is the captain, he may have his own thoughts and ideas.
(End of this chapter)