Instance game: I signed a pact with the gods, and the gods accused me of cheating

Qin Shang noticed the key point in his words and was immediately shocked.

"Where have you seen those haunted people?"

As soon as he said this, the old man immediately realized the grammatical error in his words, but when he met Qin Shang's cold gaze, the old man vaguely read a hint of cruelty and murderous intent from this seemingly gloomy young man.

It was as if if I didn't cooperate, or my answer didn't satisfy the young man in front of me, perhaps the next second some violent means would be waiting for me by the young man.

The fear in his heart overcame his work ethic.

After all, as a person who was paid to spread rumors, to be honest, even if he had any professional ethics, it was not much. How much moral integrity could a person who starts to take advantage of his seniority have?

"Rise Hospital, in the past month, many people who are interested in "The Nun Picture" have encountered ghosts one after another, and then they were sent to Rise Hospital after the incident. Didn't you watch the news?"

"Well, young man, I don't want to provoke that kind of ghost. I have already told you all the information I know. Can you let me go now?"

At the end of his words, the old man lowered his head and cautiously glanced at Qin Shang out of the corner of his eye. His eyes rolled around and his tone was filled with pleading.

Hearing this, Qin Shang pondered for a moment, then glanced at the old man from the side.

There was a hint of coldness in his eyes.

The old guy is really old at heart. He rides on the will-o'-the-wisp and runs around everywhere. It seems that he has a lot of bad intentions but nowhere to vent them.

Even though I kept threatening and tempting him, this old guy still didn't answer the questions honestly, and he was afraid of being targeted by ghosts. If you were really afraid, you wouldn't spread rumors and would have stayed away from him for eight lifetimes.

"Rise Hospital?"

"I'm sorry, old man. I'm not from Jiangcheng. Since you said it's Lishi Hospital, please lead the way. Take me to Lishi Hospital so I can see these people who have encountered ghosts."

When these words came out, the old man was also stunned.

"What? You can find the name of this hospital by searching it online!"

Hearing this, Qin Shang sneered in his heart.

Fuck your mother!

"What if I say that I must let the old gentleman lead the way for me?"

The old man's face suddenly turned gloomy, and he looked at Qin Shang warily with a look of doubt and surprise.

This old guy is really not honest. Qin Shang has not forgotten the cost of the item after using [Bewitching]. After five minutes, the person being used will develop an almost paranoid disgust towards the user, and this disgust will last for three days.

Precisely because he knew that there was such a price, Qin Shang was still cautious when asking the old man questions. He never intended to truly trust him from the beginning to the end.

As expected, the result was exactly as I guessed. This old guy was not honest either...

He was betting that I wasn't from Jiangcheng, so I had no idea whether it was news or not.

In the morning, Qin Shang and Fang Mo had seen the blood-selling vehicle with their own eyes when they were together. It was obvious that Li Shi Hospital had received many patients who needed surgery, and it was definitely not a criminal case or a major accident, otherwise it would have been reported in the news. At that time, Qin Shang guessed that it was probably related to the Shenlu players.

It must be because of the special geographical location of Jiangcheng. As a city with the highest probability of polluted copies appearing, the Bad People Organization in Jiangcheng is under tremendous pressure. In order to prevent these continuously emerging pollution sources from affecting the lives of ordinary people, the Bad People Organization in Jiangcheng has no choice but to continuously post tasks to clear out pollution sources in the "Official Tasks" section of the official forum of Shenlu players, led by the Bad People Organization, and recruit players from private organizations and free players.

After realizing that the official mission [No. 1 Monastic Grudge] had been released for almost a month, Qin Shang began to suspect that the patients in Li Shi Hospital were most likely the players from the civilian organizations who participated in clearing out the [No. 1 Monastic Grudge] copy.

Based on the content of other people's comments in the forum, the sentence "The team leader will be changed every day" directly attracted Qin Shang's attention.

If this copy was cleared in one go, not only would Qin Shang not be able to see the information about this task, but there would also be no reminder like the sentence "The leader of the bad guys is refreshed every day" from other people in the forum.

Damn it, the official players of the Bad People Organization are not NPCs in the dungeon. To clear out the same contaminated dungeon, the team leader has to replace the old with the new every day... There is no other possible reason other than the failure to clear out the pollution source.

In other words, those patients in Lishi Hospital, those patients whose blood bank was running low due to surgeries, were most likely civilian players who had failed to clear [No. 1 Xiudao Grudge].

As for the ghost story mentioned by the old man, although it is unlikely that the news will be made public, it also depends on the situation.

If a large number of people encounter similar things and the impact is very bad, although the authorities will not openly admit that it is a ghost or support some feudal superstitions, they will definitely report it and then order the Public Security Bureau to intervene and investigate it.

No matter what the final investigation results are, the public must be given a reasonable explanation.

If the news really reported this, many patients who were recently admitted to Lishi Hospital claimed to have seen ghosts or encountered supernatural events. With so many people being hospitalized in Lishi Hospital because of haunted things, it would definitely be impossible to suppress it.

Pretending to be blind will only cause public opinion to deviate towards conspiracy theories or more negative and pessimistic directions.

But apparently the news that a large number of trauma patients were admitted to Li Shi Hospital had not spread at all.

Otherwise, with so many eyes of the people watching, how could Li Shi Hospital dare to drive a blood collection vehicle blatantly and find part-time workers outside in the name of selling blood just because there were not enough blood bags in the blood bank?

This old guy dared to say that there was a haunted scene reported in the news...

This is sheer nonsense. Whenever the news mentions that a group of patients suspected of encountering supernatural events were admitted to Li Shi Hospital, the name of Li Shi Hospital would have been pushed to the forefront in Jiangcheng recently. The top management of their hospital must have really decided not to live anymore.

Otherwise, if you dare to buy blood under the name of a blood collection vehicle at this critical juncture, wouldn’t that be digging your own grave?

The next moment, Qin Shang glanced at the old man with a cold gaze.

"I'm talking to you nicely, why are you treating me like an idiot?"

"I'll give you three seconds to tell me who is behind you spreading rumors about The Nun and ghosts, and how you knew the temple in the painting was a coffin. If you don't explain it to me clearly, I'll call the police and report you for deliberately disturbing public order and taking advantage of your seniority to cause trouble in the Xiang'an District Art Museum!"

A slightly angry voice came slowly.

Hearing this, the old man's expression froze.

Seeing that Qin Shang's patience was almost exhausted, the old man didn't dare to talk nonsense anymore and took a step back in panic.

"Jincheng Zheng family, it was the people of Jincheng Zheng family who asked me to do this!"

"But the haunted thing is true. It's not something I made up. I admit that I lied. It wasn't reported in the news, but the Zheng family took me to see the people in the Lishi Hospital. Since last month, many people who came to the Xiang'an District Art Museum were haunted by that ghost thing, and eventually developed mental problems. Many people began to self-harm and were finally sent to the Lishi Hospital. I really saw it with my own eyes. Those survivors who encountered supernatural events and were lucky enough to survive. It was really like their brains were broken. They kept muttering about nuns, Buddha amulets, ancient pagodas and the like. Anyway, I didn't hear it clearly. After I was taken there by the Zheng family, I was scared to death when I saw those people. They all looked like their yang energy was sucked away by the female ghost. Their faces were a strong deathly gray. I didn't dare to get close at all..."

“As for the fact that there is a coffin behind the main character nun in ‘The Nun’, it was also the Zheng family who taught me this. They instructed me to sneak into the museum at one of three time periods every day, morning, noon and evening, and pretend to be crazy and stupid. They said that spreading rumors in this way could dissuade some people with ulterior motives, and also divert the majority of ordinary people who came to visit the painting out of curiosity from continuing to delve deeper into it, so that they would only retain a stereotype of the painting similar to a marketing account deliberately trying to get attention, and no one would suspect that there was anything wrong with the painting.”

"But in fact, the Zheng family's words are very convincing, including that the nun in the painting is wearing a wrong way of wearing monk's clothes and that the temple behind is not a monastery at all but a coffin in the shape of a Buddhist temple. They are not making up stories without any basis. Moreover, I can even pat my chest to guarantee you that although I didn't live near there thirty years ago, I have heard that there were rumors of ghosts in the monastery at that time and after a fire, a high monk was indeed invited to expel the evil spirits."

"Moreover, in 14, half a month before the renovation of the Jiangcheng Museum, a coffin was dug up in this area. Inside the coffin was a rotting, hanged female ghost corpse with a very long neck..."

Persuade some people with ulterior motives to retreat and stop them from suspecting that there is something wrong with the painting?

What do you mean?

Qin Shang caught a key word in the words and was suddenly shocked.

A sense of foreboding arises spontaneously.

Persuade whom to quit?

Misleading, who are you trying to mislead?

What is the purpose?

Why mislead others?

Is it because he doesn’t want the majority of people to delve into the historical events that took place in the monastery based on this painting, but rather simply regard this painting as a work created by a painter who is desperate to become famous and wants to attract attention and traffic?

and many more.

Persuade some to quit, and then what?

There is a key word here, part of it...

So, what about the other part?

In the Zheng family's purpose, isn't the other part that has not been persuaded to withdraw the Zheng family's target?

The people who have not been persuaded to withdraw, means... those who have not been misled?

Qin Shang's mind tensed up and he suddenly took a deep breath.

In order to mislead other people's attention and prevent them from delving into the historical facts, it is very likely that the painting depicts some elements related to the story that actually happened thirty years ago. If ordinary people have only heard the supernatural version, it is difficult for them to connect the so-called Ten Weird Stories of Jiangcheng with the content shown in the painting.

This will prevent people from delving into the authenticity of the strange story and will just treat it as an ordinary ghost story that has been spread by word of mouth.

Most people would not think that the painting has no information to offer.

Then, on the other hand, those who thought the information in the painting was useful because they had received some advice from the old man were the ones that the Zheng family of Jiangcheng wanted to stay and pass on this part of the information through the old man’s mouth. Those people were the ones who were still selected after being misled by the information...

The Zheng family is fishing. They sent this old man to act crazy in the museum for two purposes. They want to find out the person who knows the historical background of the original Nun Painting and the story that really happened in the monastery. Their purpose is to lure out the person who knows the true historical process.

If most people believed what the old man said and thought that the painting had nothing to do with what happened back then, and instead targeted the old man after he repeatedly said that you don't respect historical facts, then it is very likely that they knew exactly what happened back then, or knew something about the monastery thirty years ago.