Chapter 591: A Miserable World

There are also things that come as a pleasant surprise, which is that the Painted Halberd is the second national treasure capable of movement. Another question that feels hard to explain is—who sent back the coffins of the two wives excavated from Bai Lang's tomb? The current preliminary consideration is that it was Bai Lang himself... "A corpse-dissecting immortal is entirely possible!" Otherwise, how else to explain it?

It's just that there's no way to explain it. What Bai Lang needs to do now is confirm that the outside world won't just loop back around while fighting. If there's enough time, he'd rather just slip away—as for manifesting his holiness in this world? "I'm not that bored. What's the point of manifesting holiness? Is being the king of an anthill really that satisfying?"

This world is becoming increasingly lively. Self-media is very eager to film those eerie places—people are both afraid and love to watch; the click-through rates for videos of every eerie place are off the charts. Therefore, quite a few are actually special effects performances, and then someone gets into the spotlight only to be exposed and shamed. Genuine videos of eerie places are usually accompanied by casualties of the cameraman or the cameraman's friends—at least of the people appearing in the video.

The national treasure that can go abroad now is the Painted Halberd. This thing is relatively weak, and it looks easier to control—it's just that it exhausts strong men. A man with vigorous blood energy can swing it three or five times to hit a fierce ghost before he basically collapses and must be replaced. And this man must eat well and get a good night's sleep; he can only recover after at least three days.

If that eerie place has dozens of fierce ghosts, then a dozen men will need to rotate. Sometimes there are few fierce ghosts but they are strong, and it still takes at least ten men rotating to swing it to kill them. The breathing technique left behind by Bai Lang still has limited effects on increasing blood energy and strength to this day, because it lacks the training method for the physical body.

Bai Lang is happily whiling away his time in an internet cafe, digging for news from abroad through various self-media outlets. "I remember that when I left, I gave the eerie places in North America quite a pull; it seems the effect is remarkable now." The self-media footage from the United States is also being reposted by domestic firewall-jumpers, which Bai Lang finds quite entertaining to watch now.

"No wonder they say there are few foreigners." Watching the videos of American people actively testing and filming those eerie places—half of which are fake, but the other half are basically real—in the genuine footage, the casualties of the American people are indeed not small.

The shaky footage and terrified screams are completely different from their initial confident tone... Generally speaking, the victims in these are both black and white; it's just that there are fewer indigenous people. And every single incident is caused by these people actively looking for trouble.

Bai Lang has seen the most common Wendigos and Slender Men; these two types of eerie entities are the most common on North American soil, but they are also extremely dangerous. And what is also numerous on North American soil are haunted houses, all kinds of haunted houses. Such haunted houses are everywhere, from Philadelphia, Chicago, and New York to San Francisco, and they even appear in the woods in some places.

Bai Lang even saw in one video that a skyscraper was actually a haunted house, but its activity level wasn't high. Others thought it was a fake haunted house and filmed it casually without anything happening, but Bai Lang knew at a glance that this place was a genuine haunted building, and it would become increasingly active as time passed.

"Those nightmares of Stephen King are all going to become real." Bai Lang said, "Then let the Yankees enjoy it themselves."

It is very difficult for the Yankees to open their mouths to ask the mainland for help. Anyway, they have an advantage in low human rights. Although there are many eerie places, few can harm the rich, and the rich can even use this for amusement—in a sense, this can also be considered a type of reality show, can't it? It's just that the price is life.

The American people don't really care either; they believe more in fate. Anyway, this is all God's arrangement. Since God has arranged this, then everyone should grip their shotguns tightly, hoping the shotguns can be of some use. In a sense, shotguns are really useful—under certain rituals or after using some special materials, the weapons in their hands can really cause the effect of driving away some of the fierce ghosts in the eerie places.

And the "older" these weapons are, the better. Western revolvers and Colt pistols are among the best weapons, followed by lever-action Winchesters; almost every automatic weapon is useless. "The American people don't need the help of a dictatorial country anyway, it's normal." Bai Lang gloated.

The Yankees' trouble is still to come. Before, it was just the devaluation of the US dollar and the decline in the American standard of living. Now, coupled with the large-scale generation and strengthening of eerie places, the "independence" of American communities is just around the corner. Everyone can only trust the "parish" they are in.

The American military is of no great use in this regard—unless they drop nuclear bombs on their own soil, the gear in the hands of the American military is almost useless. And there isn't enough money either. Rational people in the United States are very envious that the mainland possesses the only few ancient weapons that can kill eerie entities, but they cannot persuade the mainland government to give the United States a hand—the price to be paid would make them unable to take office.

The situation in Europe is only worse. Because Europe is a loose sand, their dealings are also about shifting the blame to their neighbors, trying every means to get the eerie places to other countries—if they are near the border. Eerie places can "move" in a sense; governments of various countries have more or less discovered this point.

The eerie entities appearing in Europe are also various misty places, haunted houses, and the sequelae brought about by the past war—that war which once swept the whole world created the largest and most terrifying human hell on European soil. And because of this, some places from the past have now reproduced terrifying eerie places—such places have appeared in Poland and Germany.

Poland has the revived Auschwitz. This killing factory is as usual when the weather is fine, and apart from being a little gloomy, it does not have any impact on the living. However, from time to time, this location, which has been turned into a memorial hall, will be shrouded in thick fog, the sky will also become gloomy, and pale sunlight will shine on the earth.

Buildings that had collapsed years ago will reappear, and everything will return to its old appearance. Internal combustion engine trains will come and go from the fog, and inside the camp, there are shadowy figures walking back and forth, and there are extremely terrifying screams and wails...

And at this time, this place is a dead zone. Living people who watch this from afar will still fall ill, and those who accidentally enter the range will disappear. Perhaps those processing plants spitting out smoke and fire have "processed" the missing persons...