Chapter 1362 City
The next second, the unprepared Jiang Cheng felt dizzy and staggered, as if he had been sucked into a huge and dark whirlpool.
I don’t know how long it took, but suddenly there was a solid touch under my feet. As he recovered a little bit, Jiang Cheng raised his head and found that he was in an alley. In front of him was a wall that looked like solid bricks. The walls were covered with tiny cracks, and the night sky above his head told him that it was night, and the surroundings were relatively dark and quite quiet.
Suddenly a hand stretched out from behind and grabbed his arm. It was a completely subconscious reaction. Jiang Cheng grabbed the other person's wrist with his backhand, pulled the person over and pressed him against the wall.
It wasn’t until he saw this man’s face clearly that Jiang Cheng’s tense nerves relaxed a little. His first reaction was that green ghost hand.
Li Bai, who was thrown against the wall with his backhand, couldn't help but cough a few times, "Jiang...Mr. Jiang, it's me, don't be nervous."
Let go of his hand and turn around. Fatty and Yao, Shun, and Yu are both there. Judging from the expressions of the two of them, it was obvious that they were still not used to this world when they first arrived. The fat man even shook his head to calm himself down.
When everyone calmed down, Yao Shunyu looked around and lowered his voice and said: "Strange, why did we not get off the car this time, but came directly to a place like this."
Li Bai rubbed his wrist that was hurt by Jiang Cheng and placed his hope on Jiang Cheng. Wang Fugui said, "Mr. Jiang, Mr. Wang, have you ever encountered such a situation?"
"Never, this is our first time." Jiang Cheng answered truthfully. After a moment, he suddenly asked: "What did you remember in the car just now?"
Hearing this, Li Bai's face became frightened, and his pupils were trembling, "Hand, a ghost hand stretched out from the mist and grabbed my shoulder. It was...a green ghost hand!"
Jiang Cheng was surprised after hearing this Looking at Li Bai, "You were also caught by the ghost hand?"
Unexpectedly, Li Bai's expression was even weirder than Jiang Cheng's, "Of course, the ghost hand caught me. It happened so suddenly that I had no time to react. I called you, but all of you No response."
Before Jiang Cheng could say anything, the fat man suddenly spoke, trembling: "Li Bai, what are you talking about? The person caught by the ghost hand is obviously me!"
Hear this, everyone Everyone noticed something was wrong. Yao Shunyu nodded to Jiang Cheng and confirmed the latter's guess, "I had the same experience as you. I was grabbed by a ghost hand, and then I regained consciousness and ended up here."
"In my memory, I was the only one caught by ghost hands, and you were all by my side. I remember it very clearly." Yao, Shunyu and Yu added seriously.
Everyone’s memory is biased here, but what is unified is that everyone remembers the ghost hand that stretched out from the fog, and was definitely caught by the ghost hand.
Jiang Cheng tried his best to recall, but he couldn't remember the appearance of the ghost, not at all. The other party was hidden in the mist and was very fast.
"I...I seem to have some impression." The fat man recalled blankly, his brows knitted together.
"Do you remember that ghost?" Li Bai asked: "No, I mean you...did you see it?"
After a long while, the fat man hesitated and said: "I can't remember clearly, but I did see something in the fog. When I think about it, it seems... it seems like a pair of eyes!"
"Yes, it's just a pair of eyes!" The fat man suddenly became excited, "I remember Get up, those eyes are very strange, they are a pair of... silver eyes!"
The information that the fat man could provide stopped abruptly. He only knew that the other party was a ghost with silver eyes. And he can also use some weird means to bring them into this world.
After thinking for a moment, Li Bai asked a very crucial question, "Everyone, where are we now? Are we on the bus, or have we gotten off the bus?"
No People answer because no one knows the answer.
At the same time, Jiang Cheng's eyes glanced at several people inadvertently. The sudden incident, coupled with the recent experience, made Jiang Cheng very wary. He doubted the identity of the three fat men.
But a cursory observation was obviously not enough to distinguish the true identities of several people. Jiang Cheng decided to observe slowly. They had entered the mission world and it was business to meet up with their teammates first.
After a brief discussion, the group of people walked slowly and carefully along the wall towards the alley.
After a few people actually walked out of the alley, they were shocked by the scene in front of them. There was a street in front of them, with a large number of wooden buildings standing on both sides. They were antique, and paper lanterns hung under the eaves.
But these lanterns were all extinguished. As a gust of wind blew by, the lanterns swayed slightly, like pale human faces hidden in the darkness.
Then there was only a little bit of starlight, and looking around, there were paper lanterns connected together, and further away was the shadow left by a building. The shadow and the dark night were clearly layered, making the whole street seem to be endless.
A short observation is enough to determine that this mission is in ancient times, and this is a relatively large ancient town. Although it is night, it is enough to deduce this street from each shop. Bustling during the day.
Jiang Cheng suddenly noticed a building diagonally across the street. There was a plaque hanging on the building, and he could vaguely see the four characters "Fu'an Inn" written on it.
"Fu'an Inn..."
The fat man, as well as Yao, Shun, Yu and Li Bai also noticed this inn.
At first, Jiang Cheng only thought something was strange, but after a while, Jiang Cheng suddenly felt an inexplicable chill, and he knew what the problem was.
This inn is inconspicuous on the whole street, and it is not facing their direction. Normally, they would not pay attention to it, but there seems to be something attracting them. The four of them noticed the inn almost at the same time.
Others also realized this. It seemed that their mission this time was probably related to this inn. The fat man cautiously asked everyone if they wanted to stay there. After all, this was an inn.
And it’s late at night now, and the temperature here is very low. Staying outside all night sounds like a torture.
"I don't think so. This neighborhood...this neighborhood is too strange." Li Bai lowered his voice and couldn't help but look at both sides of the street with his eyes.
"That's right, I don't think so for the time being. This street looks very busy, and there should be a lot of people living around it, but it's eerily quiet now."
"Also, since it's an inn, even if it's Candles are also lit in the lobby late at night. It is prepared for travelers who may come at night. It is the rule of the inn to not put out the wax. But look, let alone leave candles here. There is not even a family lighting a lantern in the whole street. The people in this city are dead. " Yao Shunyu's voice revealed vigilance.
“Don’t go there, let’s retreat and find another place to spend the night.”
Jiang Cheng’s opinion was the same as that of Li Bai Yao and Shunyu. This inn and the whole street were weird. Before knowing all this, Jiang Cheng decided it would be better to play it safe.
After simply identifying the direction, Jiang Cheng and his group walked along the street towards the other side of the town. On the way, they pricked up their ears and listened for the movements in the dark buildings nearby.
"Where are we going?" Fatty couldn't help but ask in a low voice.
Yao and Shunyu, who were closest to him, replied: "According to the direction of this street, we were in the center just now, and now we are walking towards the edge. It is difficult to build a very large ancient city. Let's try it. Find the edge of this city, it might be safer there."< br>
Although he didn’t understand much, since the doctor didn’t object, he must have a reason. The fat man cautiously followed the doctor. The group of people walked on the deserted street. The more they walked, the more uncertain they became. Just like what Yao, Shun, and Yu said just now, it seems that there is really no one here, it is an empty city.
But gradually, they saw light appearing in front of them.
It’s fire!
A row of wooden fences blocked one side of the street. Looking further ahead, there was a tall city wall not far away. No, it was more accurately a city wall.
The city tower stood in the darkness like a huge monster. Below it was a city gate that could accommodate two cars passing side by side. The city gate was tightly closed at the moment.
The fire was not far behind the city gate, on the left and back. It was raised up about one person high, and at the junction of the fire and darkness, there were still several figures standing.
The figure was wearing gray clothes, holding a spear in his hand, standing upright.
"They are soldiers guarding at night." Yao, Shun and Yu said softly after a few people hid themselves.
In ancient times, siege methods were relatively simple, and large cities with strong walls were easy to defend and difficult to attack, which often left the attacking party helpless. The gates needed to be strictly guarded to prevent the enemy from attacking inside and outside, opening the gates and letting the enemies in.
The fat man finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the person.
But slowly, the surrounding atmosphere changed, because everyone discovered a very strange place. They had been hiding nearby for 10 minutes, but the soldiers guarding the city did not move, even changing their positions. None.
"They...what happened to them?"
Jiang Cheng turned his head and gestured to the other three people. The fat man felt cold when he saw it. What Jiang Cheng said was that two people died. word.
What's going on?
The whole city has no popularity at all. I finally bumped into a few people, and they were soldiers guarding the city, but they turned out to be dead!
Yao and Shunyu pondered for a moment and asked several people in Jiangcheng to wait here. He quietly stepped back, walked around in a circle, found a good angle, and observed the soldiers from another direction.
At the moment when a gust of wind blew and the fire light danced, Yao, Shun and Yu finally saw clearly that these soldiers were not dead, but straw men.
Stuff the grass into the clothes, hold the clothes up, and then make a straw man.
Because of the ingenious workmanship and the fact that they were hidden at the junction of firelight and darkness, they did not notice it for the first time. But just when Yao and Shunyu were about to go back and explain the situation to a few people in Jiangcheng, they suddenly heard a very soft sound coming from behind them. The sound seemed like... some kind of footsteps.
When Yao, Shunyu and others from Jiangcheng met again, he seemed a little embarrassed. He had his hands cut behind his back and his mouth was gagged, while there were several people standing beside him.
There are quite a few people, 4 men and 2 women, all dressed in modern attire, which means these people are their teammates this time.
"I said, don't do this, we are all teammates."
The fat man couldn't help but frown when he looked at Yao Shunyu's appearance. It was easy to tell him apart from his clothes. , he couldn't figure out what the other party wanted to do.
"You don't have to say whether it's a teammate or not. We still have to investigate." Among the other people there was a very thin man with a wound on his forehead and a gloomy face.
Fortunately, after some testing, the other party finally let down their guard. The group did not dare to stay here for a long time, and the people in Jiangcheng followed the other group to their destination.
It is a stable not far from the city wall. There are no horses in the stable and it is empty. However, there is a small room behind the stable with piles of hay in it.
After a few people entered, they sat directly on it. It was much warmer here than outside.
"You...there are only four of you in total?" An old man wearing a dark windbreaker looked at Jiangcheng and asked. This man's eyes were not sharp, but they were very majestic, and they were the same in real life. A person of high authority.
"Yes, there are just the four of us. We came together." Jiang Cheng didn't hide it.
After chatting for a while, Jiang Cheng roughly understood the composition of these people. There were a total of 6 people on the other side, but only two of them came together, and the other four were lone wolves.
What’s even more rare is that the two people who came together are a couple. The man is probably in his early 50s, and the woman may be well-maintained and looks about 30 years old.
It could be seen that some people were very cold and shivering, but the old man in the windbreaker just said lightly, "You guys get over it. We can't make a fire in this situation. No one knows what's going on." What the hell is going on in this city?”
“Did you see those straw men just now?” The old man slowly rubbed his hands and asked Jiang Cheng.
"I saw it."
"What do you think?"
After hesitating for a moment, Jiang Cheng expressed his opinion, "There should be some kind of accident in this city. It is very dangerous at night, so Every household was closed in, and even those who could afford it had fled. Even the soldiers responsible for guarding the city did not dare to go on duty at night, but they did not dare to disobey military orders, so they only So I got a few straw men to deal with it."
"Yes." The old man responded, "We thought so too, and when we first came here, you noticed the inn, right? , Fu'an Inn."
Jiang Cheng nodded, "I noticed, that inn is very strange, there seems to be something attracting us."
"Have you gone to see it?" the old man asked.
"No."
A trace of regret flashed in the old man's eyes. It could be seen that the old man and the others also noticed that there was something strange about the inn, but in order to protect themselves, they did not go to see it. After meeting Jiang Cheng's group, the old man naturally thought of this problem.
“What are your plans next?”
Yao Shunyu, who was unbound, was also a man who could afford to take things and let them go. He had no dissatisfaction with the old man and his group who tied him up. Action and tone of voice to ask formally.
The old man leaned back on the hay and took a long breath, "Wait, wait until dawn, if no one comes to us yet, we will go to that inn to take a look. I always feel that something will happen there." ( End of chapter)