Chapter 398 Memories of Gu Pingsheng
Time goes back half an hour.
The five Yu Wenxuan people who were trapped in the mysterious house fell into deep thought after listening to the words of the man whose face could not be seen clearly.
Gu Pingsheng already knew who this person was. After all, he was an eyewitness who experienced it ten years ago. He was one of the people selected last time. He also experienced life and death with the man in front of him whose face he could not see clearly.
"Bai... Yanren?"
Gu Pingsheng revealed the identity of the mysterious man.
There was silence in the room.
After a moment, the man whose face could not be seen clearly nodded slightly.
"Long time no see, life long."
His voice made Gu Pingsheng feel in a trance, and the memories that he had deliberately concealed came back to life bit by bit...
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My name is Gu Pingsheng, and I am a negotiation expert by profession.
My profession requires me to remain calm under any circumstances, but at this moment, I still feel the long-lost fear and panic.
Even though three minutes have passed, I still haven't figured out the current situation.
What the hell is going on?
Why did I come to this foggy and dim space when I opened a door?
I obviously pushed open the office door...
I don’t know why I’m here. Fear is an uncontrollable reaction when humans encounter unknown dangers, and I am no exception.
Until——
"Hey, come here!"
The strange man's voice startled me. Originally, there was no way I would be frightened by such a movement, but the "extraordinary events" that were happening had brought my world view to the brink of collapse. Now, if there is even the slightest disturbance, I will Grass and trees are all soldiers.
I immediately looked for the sound, and there was indeed a man in the mist, and he was waving to me.
It was a very young man, and there seemed to be some figures behind him.
"Who are you? Where is this place?"
I stood still and asked the question in my mind.
"Me? My name is Xun Weimo, and I run a bar. As for your second question, I can't answer you."
The man named Xun Weimo's voice suddenly became softer. He must have turned his head and spoke to the other side: "You can ask him, this guy is the most senior person here."
I walked over. In fact, I had no other choice.
The mist was like two curtains, slowly opening as I approached.
Here...there are indeed others.
Without exception, their expressions when they looked at me were very complicated.
However, I can also see the relationship between this group of people. Their positions are far away from each other, and the atmosphere lingering here is also far away and close. This is a group of people... who need to cooperate with each other and must be wary of each other.
"Hello, my name is Bai Yanren."
As if in response to Xun Weimo's words, the most senior man said with a smile.
"The name of this place is Wuji. Generally speaking, it is the boundary between life and death."
The... border between life and death?
Bai Yanren's answer made me stunned for a moment.
"Am I already dead?"
I asked.
As a generally successful person, I had only used the words "Gu Pingsheng" for less than thirty years. Could it be that I died so inexplicably?
"Not yet, but soon." Xun Weimo interrupted.
His words were filled with a sense of dejection, a feeling I was familiar with and which often occurs in people who attempt suicide.
This is also where my negotiation skills need to be used. Although such people are sad and desperate, most of them can be persuaded relatively easily.
A truly desperate suicide will not give a "negotiation expert" like me any chance to negotiate.
I took a look at the people present. There were quite a few people here. I couldn’t count them at a glance. There were at least dozens of people. But the strange thing is that although everyone keeps distance and contact, there is only one person, and everyone's bodies are faintly turned sideways towards him.
That person...is none other than Bai Yanren in front of him.
He is the "leader".
I immediately confirmed Bai Yanren's identity.
Even if he is not the leader on the surface, he is the "leader" subconsciously recognized by these people.
I finally calmed down completely.
These people, probably like me, entered this place called Wuji, the boundary between life and death, for some unknown reason.
I walked towards him completely because I knew I had no choice.
Since then, all kinds of strange "tasks" have appeared in the fog. At the beginning, those "tasks" did not appear in the real world, or in other words, they were more like a section of time that had passed. It is used to execute for us, often when the word in blood ends, and as soon as we open our eyes, we are in another time and space.
But when the outline of a key faintly appeared in the palms of all of us, the situation changed.
Fogji’s “missions” began to be closely related to the real world, and some were even predicted a few days later.
No one who can survive to the later stage is a fool.
Everyone is aware of the problem.
The words in blood at the beginning were more like some sort of screening.
When it comes to the stage of condensing keys, it’s no longer about screening, but about selecting them all.
All have the same qualifications.
Obtain the qualification of a certain "key".
During this period of time, I have become closer and closer to Bai Yanren, Xun Weimo, and Feng Yiru. Once human beings become accustomed to the separation of life and death, they will easily lose their respect for death.
The same is true for me. In fact, everyone has the same understanding deep down in their hearts - those of us will definitely die in a mission with a scarlet word.
But, no one is afraid anymore.
Only Bai Yanren, only he, still maintains a reverence for death. It was only after getting along with him that I realized why everyone seemed to be vaguely centered on him.
It's not because he is much smarter or much better than everyone else.
Because...
He is an anchor.
Everyone is affected by a series of abnormalities such as fog, life and death, ghosts, etc.
Everyone is changing.
Only he has remained unchanged.
He still maintained the same state as when he first entered the fog. When everyone was in a trance and became a zombie in another sense, a "living" person was too conspicuous.
Bai Yanren is such a conspicuous person.
Until one day, until that time...
"Yanren... you seem to have changed a bit," I said. "I feel that you have been silent a lot recently. You are always looking up at the foggy sky alone. Did you find something?"
"For the rest of my life, I want to see him."
"Meet?" I was stunned for a moment, "Who?"
"The real master of Wuji."
His words made my eyes widen.
Does Wuji have a master?
"You also noticed, right? The bloody words given by Wu Ji are both a mission summary and a hint of a way out. If you just want our lives, a hint about the way out is actually completely unnecessary."
"It's almost like ghosts and us humans have formed some kind of weird balance in Fogji. The ghosts want to drag us into hell, but they also have other wills that want us to survive."
Bai Yanren looked up at the dim sky above the fog, with a slight curl in the corner of his mouth:
"I want to see who this hint of survival is, the will that has been protecting us in some way."
(End of chapter)