As night fell, Yunzhou City, which was busy during the day, gradually quieted down. In the originally crowded commercial area, the merchants also packed up their belongings early and left, returning to their warm homes.

Although it was relatively early, the people of Yunzhou City seemed to have made an agreement, and every house turned off the lights, and the whole street was pitch black. Only the sound of the wind was whirring, but there was no trace of human breath.

"During this time, it is important to pay attention to patrols so that citizens are not allowed to light fires and lights at night. Zhou Hong repeatedly instructed the commander of the Yunzhou City soldiers in the hall. After receiving the order, the captain quickly left the lobby and went to patrol the streets.

"Master, are you going out on patrol tonight?" Xiao Er helped Zhou Hong place his weapon.

"Well, I'm sorry for you. Zhou Hong nodded, carrying a weapon.

Two months ago, it was supposed to be the entrance ceremony of Yunzhou College, but because of the recent "Yunzhou Incident", the start of school was helplessly postponed indefinitely. Students studying at Yunzhou College were also forced to stay at home to rest and were not allowed to return to school. The reason why Yunzhou City is so strict with the lights at night now.

It all started one night two months ago.

It was just getting dark that day, and the soldiers in charge of patrolling were in charge of persuading the merchants who had not yet closed their stalls in Yunzhou City as usual, looking for any lost children and other complicated matters.

Two soldiers, carrying torches, weaved through several streets. Just as he was about to call it a day, one of the soldiers suddenly became anxious, and after saying yes to his partner, he went to a corner to solve it.

But when he returned, he did not find his fellow waiting for him to finish his work and drink, so the soldier went to another street to look for his colleague, but he had just arrived on another street when he was attacked by someone and was killed on the spot.

When dealing with affairs in the morning, Zhou Hong was extremely concerned about this matter, and immediately issued a reward warrant for the wanted murderer, and at the same time sent more people to the patrol.

However, it didn't end there.

The next day, a seven-member patrol team all died violently, the cause of death was unknown, and there was more than one laceration in the body. Zhou Hong was furious and immediately mobilized the talents and forces of Yunzhou City to join the investigation.

News of the patrol's death soon spread throughout the city, and while the citizens were panicking, rumors appeared among themselves that the patrolman who was killed for the first time was a target because he was burning torches at night. All of the patrolmen who had an accident were targeted by burning torches.

As soon as the rumors spread, everyone's hearts were panicked. Zhou Hong initially reprimanded the citizens who walked the rumors, claiming that the lights were not the criterion for the murderer to find a target. However, to Zhou Hong's surprise, at first, the brutal murderer only selected patrol members to attack, but it was not until later that a bold businessman lit multiple fires in his home in the middle of the night, and was also killed, and the scars and causes of death on his body were the same as those of the patrol members who were killed before. Zhou Hong couldn't help but feel distressed, and at the same time immediately issued an order in Yunzhou City to strictly prohibit lighting fires at night.

It is precisely because of the killer's brutal methods and mysterious whereabouts that no one has ever seen his face, so the rumors circulating among the citizens call him the "Shadowless Killer".

". Zhou Zheng waved his hand with disdain. "Does anyone really believe this?"

"Don't be stinky, now this shadowless killer is in a big trouble, you see that the old man has been annoyed all day long and has a sad face. Xiao Er was in Zhou Zheng's room, eating dinner with Zhou Zheng as usual.

"No, this rumor is very false, how can it be possible to kill so many people, and no one has ever seen him. ”

"Because everyone was scared, no one went out at night. As a result, fewer people can see him when he commits a crime. ”

"I'll tell you, don't talk about the Shadowless Killer, even if he has a shadow, I still press the hammer when I touch him. Saying that, Zhou Zheng made a fist posture.

"Don't let your master hear this, don't let him come back and have you good-looking. ”

"Daddy is out, going on patrol?" Zhou Zheng picked up a piece of meat and put it in his mouth.

"Well, the number of people killed has exceeded ten people so far, and the master now goes out to patrol in person almost every day. ”

"That'll do. Although Zhou Zheng's tone was calm, for some reason, he vaguely felt that something big was going to happen tonight, and a feeling of extreme uneasiness came to his heart.

Late at night, Zhou Zheng was lying on the bed with his eyes open. The feeling of uneasiness at dinner was still there, and Zhou Zheng tossed and turned and just couldn't fall asleep peacefully. After staring at the ceiling for a while, Zhou Zheng couldn't help but get up directly, put on his clothes and ran to the back mountain.

To Zhou Zheng's surprise, the ancestor was not on the back mountain.

"Master. Zhou Zheng's voice surrounded the cave for a long time, and he sat on the boulder and waited for a while, but he did not wait for the ancestor to appear. In the end, Zhou Zheng could only leave the back mountain depressed, and the inexplicable feeling of uneasiness along the way still existed, and his intuition told Zhou Zheng that something bad had happened.

Zhou Zheng looked around the yard and made sure that there was no one else, and then sneaked out of the house.

The effect of the light control is indeed obvious, and Zhou Zheng did not see a trace of fire on the street at all. The surroundings were pitch black, coupled with the cool breeze blowing Buddha, Zhou Zheng regretted a little that he should bring more clothes. Although the surrounding environment was pitch black, after turning on the Foehn Split, Zhou Zheng could clearly feel the aura of the surroundings, and his vision was not affected by the darkness.

Walking aimlessly through a few streets, Zhou Zheng found that the citizens not only did not light fires in their homes, but even the doors of their homes were reinforced to varying degrees.

A familiar breath came from behind him, Zhou Zheng turned his head suddenly, and it happened that standing in front was Zhang Xing with a long sword.

"Brother Zhou, why are you here? ”

"Brother Zhang?" Zhou Zheng found that Zhang Xing was wearing cloth armor. "I can't sleep and go out for a walk. ”

"You're too fat. Zhang Xing looked at Zhou Zheng with strange eyes. "You've been out hanging out lately, so dangerous?"

"Isn't this sleepy, come out and walk around. If you're lucky, you might be able to eradicate harm for the people. ”

"You're really good. Zhang Xing gave Zhou Zheng a thumbs up.

"Brother Zhang is so late, shouldn't he be able to sleep either?"

"I joined the patrol not long ago and happened to be on my shift today. ”

"Uncle Zhang actually allowed you to come out to play?" Zhou Zheng raised his eyebrows slightly.

"My dad really didn't allow it at first... Later, I snatched a place for one of our thugs, and then he couldn't do anything about me. However, he asked Uncle Zhou to transfer me to this area, which is currently the safest. ”

"The safest?

"No patrolmen in this area have been killed for the time being. ”

"Do you mean that?" Zhou Zheng pointed behind Zhang Xing, who turned his head in confusion, only to see a man in a black cloak standing behind him, holding a rusty iron rope in his hand and a full white gauze wrapped around his elbows.

"Is this called security?" Zhou Zheng scoffed.