Global Game: I Have Portable Store-Chapter 270 - 269: Scythe

From a distance, numerous zombies were surrounding the entrance of the gathering place, continually attacking the barriers.

A dozen or more people stood atop the barriers, using long pole weapons to attack these zombies.

This was considered a very safe and steady method.

Due to previous circumstances, the area around the gathering place seemed unusually quiet.

Su Changxing and the others cleared away the piled-up zombies at the entrance and stepped into the gathering place, where Huang Tao was already waiting with people at the door.

His face looked quite grim, with a sense of mental exhaustion. Clearly, managing a gathering place was not an easy task, especially with so many terrible things happening.

Huang Tao approached, saying, "Uncle, you’re finally back. The situation has become very bad. Since eight o’clock, people have been dying continuously, in the same manner."

Huang Biao felt his heart skip a beat and quickly asked, "Didn’t we already implement countermeasures? Why are people still dying?"

Huang Tao rubbed his forehead, focusing his mind as he said, "This time, four or five people died simultaneously, and there was no commotion at all... very eerie, as if they encountered a ghost."

Upon hearing about ghosts, Su Changxing and the others showed no reaction. They had already encountered them before, more than one.

"A ghost, huh, perhaps the presence in the dark is a ghost."

Huang Tao amplified his voice to repeat his words, sensing the people around looking at him strangely, seemingly unsurprised.

Was there something wrong with his statement?

Zhou An patted his shoulder, saying, "Ghosts, we know about them, aren’t they those green glowing things?"

Huang Tao asked in confusion, "Hmm? You’ve seen them?"

Zhou An nodded, pointing not far behind, "Just saw one, look, isn’t there another one right there."

Huang Tao turned his head to look and indeed saw a ghostly green, transparent floating humanoid creature. Its facial features were unclear, making it difficult to see what it truly looked like.

"It’s really a ghost!"

Huang Tao was startled, but upon seeing Su Changxing and the others remain calm, he also settled down.

Zhou An explained, "This is an Evil Spirit controlled by Brother Su, it should also count as a ghost. But after getting familiar with it, it’s actually not scary at all, rather obedient."

Obedient?

What kind of words are these for a ghost?

"Is that so?"

Huang Tao looked at the Evil Spirit again and continued, "Anyway, I think there’s something similar to a ghost hiding in the gathering place, otherwise it would surely reveal itself."

Despite taking every possible countermeasure, it was still impossible to guard against, and to this moment, no one had seen the culprit.

Su Changxing thought for a moment and said, "The people who died, do they still have those blackened scythe wounds on their chests?"

Huang Tao nodded, "Yes, it’s not exactly the same as before, but definitely caused by the same scythe."

"Scythe? What scythe?"

Zhu Wenwu suddenly interjected; he was unaware of this matter, having previously focused on tracking the Hunter’s base.

Huang Biao led the group inside, then turned back to say:

"The presence freely killing in our gathering place uses a large scythe weapon, which is not easy to hide, let alone use to kill silently."

Zhu Wenwu didn’t have any special thoughts, just feeling a bit bewildered that such a thing could happen in the gathering place, and more importantly, he hadn’t known before.

Su Changxing pondered for a while before saying, "Take me to see those new bodies, maybe there will be some clues. Others should rest first, but be cautious."

Although they had traveled and fought for a day, thanks to the Totem’s healing, they were energized, and most still looked spirited.

Zhu Wenwu looked at Su Changxing, saying, "I’ll go see Zhu Xin Xue first and come over later."

Su Changxing nodded, saying, "Hmm, rest a bit, there will be action tonight."

Zhou An chuckled, "I don’t have a sister, so I’ll just tag along and take a look."

The group headed upstairs to the fifth floor, where the bodies were placed.

Huang Biao walked in the front, saying, "This means it’s quite powerful if it can kill four or five people silently."

The normal way of thinking is like this, judging a thing by comparison.

Su Changxing slightly shook his head, saying, "Not necessarily, strength is relative, maybe certain conditions were met... what were those four or five people doing when they died?"

Huang Tao replied without thinking, "They had just finished changing shifts, a small team, should have been preparing to eat something."

"It seems like the timing was perfect, meaning the killer knew their shift change time and caught them just at that moment to strike."

Su Changxing spoke to himself, contemplating various possibilities in his mind.

A sharp glint flashed in Huang Biao’s eyes, saying, "You mean, the killer is very familiar with the shift change times?"

Su Changxing nodded in confirmation, "It should be like this, coincidence is unlikely, otherwise others would easily notice."

Approaching the room, five bodies lay on the floor, all with expressions of terror and despair on their faces, as if they had seen something horrifying before death.

Su Changxing’s pupils suddenly widened, the souls of these people were completely shattered, unable to form an Evil Spirit, as if bitten by Tao Yi.

Is this also an Undead?

The same existence as Tao Yi.

This was Su Changxing’s initial reaction, without extra rational thinking, instinctively felt it was so because it was just too similar, like shattered cookie crumbs.

Even if not an Undead, it should be a similar spirit body existence.

"They died exactly the same, like they came off an assembly line, what kind of compulsion is this?"

Zhou An murmured looking at the dead bodies, involuntarily shivering, subconsciously feeling a bit feeble. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Recalling the mission information, Su Changxing said:

"It will make a move again, tonight, we just need to catch it during its next action."

Tao Yi and seven or eight Evil Spirits were already roaming the gathering place, trying to catch that presence in the dark.

Ghostly green things drifted around the gathering place, making many people anxious, though Su Changxing had told them it was his means, the fear of the unknown was unavoidable.

These Evil Spirits were like his eyes, even if they scattered, they could reveal what kind of existence the killer was.

Next, they entered a room on the sixth floor to check on someone exhibiting symptoms of corpse transformation, a short and stout middle-aged man named Wang Haisheng.

Upon seeing Huang Biao, he cried out, "Boss Huang, I’m fine, shouldn’t be a corpse transformation, I feel great... don’t kill me."

Alone in this place, he felt a bit terrified, uneasy, and thought of some bad outcomes. If he turned into a zombie, no one would show mercy.