Hunter x Hunter: The Ubiquitous Dragon Life - Chapter 369

There were many people dining in the hall, and when they heard the words, there was an uproar, and many people immediately swarmed up to surround the two policemen, and began to ask questions.

“What happened? Didn’t you leave town at 2pm? Why are you still here?”

“Ghost hitting the wall? What do you mean? Do you mean you can’t leave this town? Is it simply lost? Don’t create panic! Explain it!”

“Ghost hitting the wall? Is it the legendary ghost hitting the wall? Hey, it’s interesting! I really want to see and see~”

“There are ghosts in the town? Never heard of it before. How do you know what to say? What happened in this town? We’re not going to be in a ghost town, right!”

“Don’t be scary! The murder happened yesterday, and today the town is said to be haunted? What a joke! Where the **** have we come! I want to go back! Go back now!”

“Ghost place? Could it really be a ghost place, and go back? I didn’t hear the ghost hit the wall! Shit! Can we go back?”

“No, why did it suddenly become such a terrifying style? I’m here to take a vacation and chase a star!”

“Don’t say half of it, it makes people panic!”

“Yes! Make it clear! If there is danger, there is still time to escape!”

“Come on! What the **** happened!”

Everyone has different ideas. There are normal curious inquiries and trying to understand the truth, and there are good people watching the fun and adding fuel to the fire, but there is no shortage of people who panic because of this. It happened to be the most, so the atmosphere gradually became tense and restless.

The two police officers seemed to have just escaped from the disaster and just returned to a safe place. The adrenaline had been fully secreted, so that they looked extremely weak and mentally lethargic. They opened and closed their mouths several times, but couldn’t say a word for a long time. .

Seeing this, Cellulu was about to greet everyone to leave first, and give the two police officers a quiet space to relax. When they asked in detail later, Director Bill arrived.

“Okay, let’s disperse, don’t surround yourself here, what can you ask! We will communicate with the police, I will announce the details later, everyone will disperse now!”

Many people suddenly quit and shouted.

“Why are you leaving? We have to listen too!”

“We have a right to know what happened!”

“Are you trying to hide the truth?”

“I’ve long heard that something is wrong in this town. Now, does the director have to hide it? Isn’t that taking everyone’s life as fate? It’s too much!”

“Yeah, don’t make things clear in front of everyone today, and no one wants to leave!”

Panic and watching the fun don’t seem too big, led to louder and louder protests. Facing the indignant fans of the group performance, Bill kept trying to appease the crowd, but he felt that he could no longer hold back the scene.

“I didn’t want to hide the truth, everyone calm down, calm down…”

Bill kept shouting hoarsely, but was forced back by the excited crowd.

Jin can’t stand it anymore, panic will be contagious, and now it’s obvious that it’s about to enter a state of mass panic, so it’s not far from collapse and riots, don’t wait for the ghosts to appear, I’ll be killed by myself first .

It’s just that Jin hadn’t acted yet, and with a ping, the crisp sound of gunfire suddenly resounded through the room, which was deafening.

The crowd fell silent for a moment, and then, before a new panic formed, a voice with a smile that seemed to be at ease poured into everyone’s eardrums.

“Everyone, don’t worry, please listen to me.”

Everyone heard the sound and looked up. The vice-chairman of the Hunter Association stood with his hands behind his back on the revolving escalator in the hall leading to the second floor. Five mercenaries in camouflage uniforms were separated on both sides. There was still smoke in the mouth.

Seeing the gun, everyone became more and more quiet like chickens. In the face of absolute power and authority, everyone’s reason came back, or from the heart.

Parison leaned slightly on the armrest and smiled at everyone below.

“It seems that everyone has calmed down. Collectivism is a good thing, but sometimes it only makes things out of control. Before the truth is clear, any impulsiveness and irrationality will only make everyone fall into unnecessary trouble. There is great danger, so if you are willing to believe me, how about handing over these two policemen to me? I will definitely not let you down.”

Everyone looked at each other for a while, and then someone quickly laughed and said.

“This, of course I believe…”

Another person shouted at the people around him, as if he was finding the steps for himself.

“Professional things are left to professional people. There are big figures from the Hunter Association appearing. Do we have anything to worry about? What do you guys say?”

Then, everyone joined in.

“Yeah, yeah, don’t worry, okay, I’m hungry, it’s time to eat.”

“Well, it’s scattered, the sky is falling and there is still a tall man on it, everyone, don’t mess around.”

“Haha, really, what I was thinking about just now. I didn’t know what was going on, but I was thinking of running for my life. Really, I’m too timid.”

“Me too, I was frightened for a while, and then got excited.”

“Wait for official news anyway.”

Everyone laughed at each other and went down the stairs for themselves, and left one after another, and the commotion subsided.

Cellulu looked at Pariston and found that at this time, the benefits of his bureaucratic-politician style were reflected, at least it could stabilize people’s hearts and balance the overall situation, no matter if it was a fool or not!

As he himself said, collectivism only fuels panic, and sober cognition is not for everyone, because it does not necessarily lead to the right choice.

We found a quiet study room, and after the two policemen calmed down a little, the questioning began. In addition to Parisstone and the five mercenaries he brought, there were also Director Bill, and Cellulu and his party.

Of course, Bill actually didn’t want too many people to get involved, but after hearing that Hatsune’s assistants were all hunters and powerful hunters, he shut up wisely.

The first policeman was in his early twenties, and he fired a gun in panic and panic.

“I really can’t get out of this town! We’ve been trying for a few hours, and I didn’t realize it at first, but I just thought I didn’t get to the town entrance after driving for a long time. I thought Uncle Tom was leading the wrong way. The map was wrong, but Uncle Tom insisted he didn’t lead the wrong way! We had a quarrel.”

“Really? Since there is a map and you have not led the wrong way, why does this happen?”

Pariston smiled interestedly on his cheeks and looked at the other old policeman, hoping he could explain too.

The policeman known as Uncle Tom was in his fifties. He was even more unbearable than the young policeman. Anyway, the young policeman could explain what happened clearly, but he kept shaking his head while holding his head, and kept repeating in his mouth. write.

“If we can’t get out, we will all be swallowed by Ghost Town…”

Pariston’s smile did not change, and he still looked at Tom. Beside him, a mercenary took a step forward, grabbed Tom’s collar, and roared.

“If you are afraid, you have to tell me clearly first!”

The roar was effective, shaking Tom’s sanity back a little, and the tight collar made it difficult for him to breathe.

He looked at the mercenary. This man was full of suffocation. He was not easy to mess with at first sight. Compared with the unknown terror, it was more uncomfortable at the moment. The fear brought by the small town was temporarily suppressed. He said with difficulty,

“I…I know, you let go first…”

The mercenary let go a little, still staring at Thom, Thom loosened his collar and lowered his head with trembling hands.

“The map is definitely fine. The problem is the town. I shouldn’t have taken a chance, thinking that if the ghost town is abandoned, there will be no more strange things. I was too naive! As I mentioned before, the map is only useful to those who already live in the town, and to outsiders, the map is useless at all! This town is alive!”

Pariston was a little disapproving of this statement, he waved his hand and asked.

“Whether the town is dead or alive will be discussed later. In short, when you found the map was useless, you just turned back like this?”

The young policeman Rick shook his head immediately.

“No, I thought it was Uncle Tom who was confused and couldn’t even read the map, so I took the map and identified the way myself, and it turned out that I really drove to the town entrance, at least I thought it was Zhenkou, because there is a tall plaque that looks exactly like the Zhenkou logo from a distance, so I drove over, and as a result, behind the plaque is still the exact same street…”

“Wait, you said you thought you saw Zhenkou, but there is still the same street behind it?”

Pariston’s smile narrowed slightly, and he exchanged glances with Jin thoughtfully.

Jin pondered, Chrollo raised his eyebrows, and Cellulu also thought of it. In the video shot last night, the town entrance seemed to be mirrored in the fog, which seemed to match the scene they said, isn’t it just an illusion? ?

“Yes, that’s right.”

Rick’s tone became a little weird.

“Also, I found another strange thing, the time was wrong! I remember very clearly that when we left, the sun was shining on my face from the right side, and my right eye was a little dazzling. It should have been around 2:30 in the afternoon, but after we drove for so long, it felt like it had been at least an hour or two, but the sun was still shining on the same spot on my right face, and my eyes were still dazzling.

But this is not right, the position of the sun should have changed! It was only then that I thought to check the specific time, but I found that Uncle Tom’s watch actually stopped. The time was 2:23, as if it stopped from the moment we planned to leave. What’s even more incredible is that the time in the car And the time on my mobile phone, it actually shows 2:23, the time has not changed at all! Our one or two hour drive was like a dream! “

“I panicked at the time, this is not a ghost hitting the wall, I have heard some rumors about ghost towns before, but because they are all old things, I didn’t go to inquire about what happened. , I don’t know what to do next, I can only continue to wander around the town, but I just can’t get out. Anyway, I feel that time passes very slowly. After that, my mind is a little blurry, and many things feel like in a dream, At that time, the oil was almost gone. Then, Uncle Tom told me to give up the idea of ​​leaving the ghost town and come back first. I thought I was lost at the time. Is this something that I can come back if I want to give up? But Somehow, I really came back here when I was driving, and the time and the weather also returned to normal when I wasn’t paying attention…”

That’s all there is to it, and Rick couldn’t say more, so he stopped.

Pariston frowned slightly, then he looked at Tom and asked with a smile.

“Sergeant Tom seems to know more, don’t you mind sharing it?”

Tom seemed to have remembered something again, his expression became extremely frightened again, and he repeated annoyed like a Xianglin’s wife.

“I really shouldn’t believe in evil, I know that Guimi Town will do everything possible to keep everyone here until we become part of this town, obviously things like that have happened, I really Come into this ghost town.”

Kim asked immediately. “What happened?”

Tom didn’t hide it, and opened his mouth with an expression of memory.

“When I was a child, I had a distant cousin who was a tax collector in the county. He was responsible for collecting taxes in Guimi Town for one year. He didn’t listen to the advice of his predecessors that he should not enter Guimi Town to collect taxes, so he went in. After that, he never came out. At that time, both the work unit and the family went to look for him, but the people in the work unit did not dare to enter the ghost town. , At first, everyone said that they had never seen this person.

After going for three days in a row, the people in the town finally brought my distant cousin to the town, but my uncle was reluctant to go back and said that he had found a daughter-in-law and wanted to start a family here. He already had children. At that time, his wife was crazy, and he didn’t care about the rumors that he couldn’t enter the ghost town, so he rushed into the town and fought my uncle. My uncle’s mother was anxious, so he also entered the town. , want to pull them all out.

As a result, the people in the town rushed to persuade the fight, and after persuading them, they pulled all three away. Cousin, his daughter, some relatives in our family and people from the work unit have been there several times. As a result, my uncle, his wife and mother came, but they were not willing to leave the town. They could not persuade them to come back. His father and cousin and daughter could only enter the town. The family later settled in the town. They entrusted relatives to dispose of all the properties in the county. Who is the person who married her, and it turned out that there was no such person at all. I don’t know why my cousin lied and had to stay in the town.

This kind of thing is not just one or two times. Many long-distance drivers who come here to collect mountain goods or pass by along the way accidentally enter the town, but they don’t come out in the end. I begged and refused to go back. As long as they didn’t step into the ghost town, they would eventually give up and leave, but if they had entered the town, they would all end up living in the ghost town. “

Tom said with a long sigh.

“When I first started working, I heard an old household registration policeman who was about to retire casually mention that more than two-thirds of the people in Ghost Town are foreigners, and they stay in Ghost Town for various reasons every year. The number of people is never less than one or two hundred, but the strange thing is that the total population has never changed. The ghost town is not connected to the outside world, so I don’t know what happened, so I came to report the death and cancel it. There are only a handful of registered households, I really don’t know where so many people have evaporated, but when I was working, the town had been abandoned for more than ten years, who would care about a town that has disappeared.”

“Who would have thought that people would come to such a place now…”

Tom sighed and glanced at everyone almost resentfully.

Thom’s story only terrified him, and even Director Bill didn’t think it was scary, and it had nothing to do with the ghosts they encountered.

Kim said.

“Excluding those supernatural reasons, this incident of your cousin can actually be explained by more practical reasons. In order not to cut off the population, or to develop the village, or to need labor force, many backward and remote small villages and towns will take the whole village. , The whole town went into battle together, tricked, kidnapped and even forced outsiders to stay in the village and town. If outsiders did not obey, they would be restricted in freedom, tortured, and may even lose their lives. Forced to do so, many people had no choice but to succumb. What Uncle said at the beginning about marrying a wife is not necessarily a lie. The usual way for villages and towns to keep outsiders is to let this person have a new home in the local area. After years of monitoring, and finally confirm that this person is really naturalized by the village and town, then they will relax. This kind of surveillance, and some may even be under this surveillance for a lifetime.”

Cellulo kept silent, this is indeed a common phenomenon, and this kind of thing often happens in savage, ignorant and backward villages.

Who knows, Tom suddenly retorted fiercely.

“No, I know what you said, but it’s different! If it’s coercion, you can see some clues. Besides, with so many people trapped in it, do you think outsiders won’t suspect it? Ghost Town is a mountain road. Difficult, but not so isolated from the world!

Also, people from Ghost Town can come out! Including my cousin’s family, they all came to the county to buy things, and they all came out. There is no such thing as a single person in the town, so everyone can only go back. Therefore, they are definitely not restricted from freedom. !

It’s just that they have become very strange. My relatives said that sometimes it even makes people feel a little scary. Moreover, not only my cousin’s family, but all the townspeople who live in the ghost town feel strange, not like normal people , people from other towns and villages are unwilling to deal with them, and our relatives also cut off contact with this distant cousin. “

“This… doesn’t explain anything, does it? Maybe it’s because I’ve been abused too much and my mind is numb…”

Director Bill pouted, isn’t Stockholm Syndrome a similar situation?

Thom no longer knew what to say, without seeing it with his own eyes, without being there, completely unable to understand the horror of a person he once knew suddenly becoming a person who had no idea what it was, and even him, in fact, I don’t know much about it, but I clearly remember the deep fear on the faces of my relatives when they mentioned the cousin.

Chrollo asked suddenly.

“Then do you know what happened to your distant cousin’s family in the end? I heard that everyone in Ghost Town should have died, right?”

Tom was silent for a while before speaking.

“I have inquired about it, my cousin was hanged, on the largest Quzhi locust tree in the town, and I heard that he was the 135th person to be hanged on that tree, and there are many people behind him. Hanging, although I haven’t counted it carefully, at least a few hundred people were hanged from this tree.”

Cellulu suddenly remembered the large horned tree that was covered by the moonlight and showed countless densely packed legs. She and the others looked at each other in amazement. Obviously, everyone thought of this.

“His daughter-in-law disappeared in the middle of the night after a few days, and she was found dead in front of her cousin’s grave in the early morning of the next day. When she died, her whole body turned back, like a U-shape, as if there was something in the tomb. The person hugged her by the waist and dragged her in, and she struggled so hard that her spine was broken in two.”

Cemetery group! Celluloid’s face became more and more solemn, and the second terrorist incident took place.

Tom sighed.

“A week later, Cousin’s parents were found dead at home. They died very tragically. Their bodies were dismembered and then cooked as vegetables. It is said that the neighbors went to the Cousin’s house without seeing anyone coming out. I visited, and when I entered the door, I saw that the table was full of hearty meals, such as broth, meatballs, and cutlets, all kinds of meat. My cousin, his six- or seven-year-old daughter, was eating it. She said that she ate a little every day, and she had already It’s been a week and she still hasn’t finished her meal. At that time, others didn’t know whether she was eating her own grandparents, or only later found out the human heads and some other human remains in the pot.”

“Is that the one the daughter killed?” The knight asked curiously.

“I don’t know. Anyway, I heard that my cousin’s daughter was locked up in the town hall and waited for the next day’s questioning. As a result, the child disappeared that night, disappeared from a completely closed interrogation room, and there was no indoor surveillance at that time. No one knows how this child disappeared, anyway, until the last person in Ghost Town died, no one saw this child again.”

Tom paused and said.

“I heard that since the disappearance of my cousin’s daughter, there have been continuous disappearances of children in the town, all of them disappearing in the state where the door is locked and completely closed, and I don’t know what is the connection. From that day on, the cousin’s family is completely gone.”

Rick was shocked. “I didn’t even know it happened, Uncle Tom, why didn’t you mention it?”

“What are you talking about, it’s not a good thing! If it weren’t for the weird thing about not being able to get out now, I wouldn’t even say it, it feels too evil and infiltrating!” Tom said angrily.

Pariston put his finger on his cheek,

“Just listen to these things. At least it doesn’t seem to be of any use to the current situation. In short, let’s solve the current affairs first.”

Pariston suddenly said as if he had thought of something.

“So, apart from you, the other three policemen have not returned yet. If you have contact information, why don’t you ask the situation first?”

“What? They haven’t come back yet? Indeed, I didn’t see Fergus and the others, I didn’t notice it just now.”

Tom had a look of surprise.

He looked at his watch in shock. It was already 8:30 pm. There was no water or electricity in this town. Except this house was still bright because of the generator temporarily pulled by Director Bill. Painted dead town, where can they spend the night? It’s not really going to happen, is it?

Tom hurriedly took out his cell phone in worry and called one of them.

There was no such strange thing as imagined that the call went unanswered, or there was no signal at all. The call was quickly connected, and a voice spoke clearly.

“Hello? Tom?”

Tom was overjoyed and asked immediately. “Feggs? Where are you?”

“Where? It’s right here.” Fergus said in a confused tone, as if he didn’t know the purpose of his question.

“Where is this place? Why haven’t you come back?” Tom asked angrily.

“Where? What are you talking about…” Fergus’ tone was even more puzzled on the other end of the phone.

At this moment, Cellulu and everyone heard another voice coming from the phone.

“Figgs, who are you calling?”

Cellulo and the others suddenly changed their expressions slightly, and looked at Tom at the same time.

That voice sounded strangely familiar to Tom, and before he could figure out who it was, Fergus on the phone had already asked in horror.

“Tom? Are you Tom? You’re not on the phone? No, no, if you’re Tom, who is this Tom on the phone?”

Tom finally remembered why the voice was familiar, wasn’t it his own voice?

He was immediately startled. “Feggs, I’m the real Tom, no matter where you are, get out of there!”

On the phone, Tom over there was also talking, with a very alert tone.

“Feggs, what are you talking about? Thom on the phone? Someone’s impersonating me? Hang up! Who knows who the **** is over there, you forgot the horrors of Ghost Town? That’s knowing we’re going all night. Are you deliberately disturbing and alienating me by leaving Ghost Town?”

“Feggus, don’t hang up, I’m the real Thom!” Thom immediately shouted in anguish.

At this time, there was another messy footstep sound on the phone over there, and then a female voice came.

“Mr. Thom, Mr. Fergus, are you still going? It seems to be foggy outside~”

Chrollo, Jin, and Illumi raised their brows slightly, and Hisoka, Knight, and Feitan also looked at Cellulu in amazement.

Cellulo stared at the phone in Tom’s hand in astonishment. The voice was clearly hers.

“Let’s go right away.” Thom on the other side of the phone replied, and then angered Fergus. “What are you still doing!”

“I see!” Fergus said in a panic, and then, with a beep, the phone was hung up.

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When I revised the text, I deeply hated myself for having too many words in each chapter. If I changed one chapter, it was equivalent to someone else changing three or even four or five chapters. I want to vomit blood when I changed it. I planned to change it on Thursday, and it was all occupied by the revised text. I hope that next time the wind blows, I will not create a bunch of problematic chapters again. I am afraid to change the text. ╮(╯_╰ )╭

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