Chapter Eighty-Five: The Dead City
Grillo Island is connected to Levar Island because a great battle between two powerful men was fought here a hundred years ago, splitting the entire island into two parts, thus evolving into the two small islands it is today.
At the junction of the two islands, it is clear that the coast is smooth, as if it was cut by a 10,000-meter giant sword.
There is only a strait between the two islands, and standing on Levar Island, you can clearly see the branches of trees on the shore of Grillo Island opposite.
Because of the plague, most of the residents of the island border are also closed, so there are hardly any pedestrians on the streets of Levar Island. This is not the case on Grillo Island, where you can see many residents walking in the streets, but they look like they are walking in a strange way.
"Something is wrong...... Qin Xing stared at Grillo Island, always feeling that the atmosphere was a little abnormal, and he faintly felt that the entire island seemed to be isolated from the breath of the outside world.
"We pretended to be civilians and crept in. As he spoke, Qin Xing unleashed the illusion technique, causing everyone to completely hide in the air and slowly fly towards the opposite side.
"Knock-" With a muffled sound, Deng Xinming rubbed his red and swollen face, and endured it without shouting out the pain.
"What's going on?" Xu Yiming raised his hand and pressed it in front of him, he could clearly feel that there was an invisible transparent barrier blocking everyone's way, and he was about to punch it subconsciously.
"Wait!" Qin Xing raised his hand to stop Xu Yiming, "You make too loud a move, it will attract the attention of the islanders, let Tingting come!"
Fu Yuting nodded, raised her hand and pressed it on the barrier, a soft colored light stuck to the palm of her hand, and the barrier in front of her slowly dissolved under the assimilation and devouring of the natural spirit.
Everyone looked at each other and nodded, and entered through the broken barrier in turn, finally not attracting the attention of others.
Hidden in the illusion, the crowd quietly approached the pedestrians on the street, only to be surprised to find that they were all heading in the same direction, all heading west, in the direction of the center of the island.
Xu Yiming's figure flashed out, pulled a young man who looked to be in his twenties, and asked, "Hey, brother, where are you going?"
But as soon as the words fell, Xu Yiming was stunned in place, speechless.
Because the young man in front of him, his eyes were blank, his light gray eyes were hollow and dark, and he looked like a shell like a walking corpse, and he looked a little panicked.
The young man's mouth opened slightly, but finally closed again, ignoring Xu Yiming's question, and continued to follow the flow of people.
"They seem to ...... Ignoring us?" Qin Xing tried to remove the illusion, and sure enough, although four people appeared out of thin air in the street, the pedestrians around them still moved closer to the center of the island as if they didn't see them.
"Ahh
And they hurried to the house, but they saw that the door was shut. Xu Yiming just wanted to raise his hand to destroy the door, but the door suddenly opened a crack, and a cold female voice came from the house: "If you don't want to die, come in!"
Everyone glanced at each other, Qin Xing and Xu Yiming pushed open the door at the same time, stepped out vigilantly, and entered the room, followed by Fu Yuting and Deng Xinming.
It was daytime, but the room was so dark that I couldn't see anything clearly. If they hadn't come in from the street, Qin Xing would have even suspected that this was an underground secret room.
"Poofโ" A dim oil lamp lit up, providing the only faint light of the invisible house.
Only then did everyone realize that the windows of the original house were all sealed with a thick layer of metal plates, so the outside light could not shine in at all.
"You're not locals, are you?" a tall, thin blue-haired girl held an oil lamp in her hand, staring at Qin Xing and the others.
Xu Yiming stood in front of Xu Xia'er and said: "I am from Leval Island, I went out on a trip some time ago, and I just came back today, and I learned that many things happened on the island, so I came to Grillo Island to find out. โ
Hearing him say this, the woman actually scoffed: "I see that you have no ability, but you are not small." I advise you, go back and forth from where you want! This island has become a complete dead city. โ
"Dead city?" Hearing these sensitive words, everyone felt incredulous.
"Dare to ask where the girl came from, what happened on this island?" Qin Xing bowed his hand.
The woman looked at everyone with a playful look in her eyes, but suddenly stared at Deng Xinming, as if she had found a treasure, hesitated slightly, and said lightly: "The body of flames?"
Deng Xinming was stunned for a moment, and nodded a little inexplicably.
"It's really a body of flame!" the woman jumped to her feet, and for a moment she didn't catch it, and slammed into the ceiling, nearly knocking it into a hole.
"I'm sorry, I lost my temper just now!" the woman coughed lightly to hide her embarrassment, "My name is Deng Xinming, and I have been living in seclusion in the mountains with my master all year round. โ
Deng ...... Xinming?" Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but look at her with a strange look, and Deng Xinming even laughed in a low voice with bad intentions.
Deng Xinming was stunned and asked, "What's wrong? Is my name strange? I think it sounds good!"
"Uh...... This ......" Deng Xinming raised his eyebrows, smiled and pointed at himself, "My name is also Deng Xinming......"
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After a short discussion (in fact, it was Deng Xinming's simple suppression by force), it was decided to call Deng Xinming Xin'er and Deng Xinming Xiao Ming, so that it was easy to distinguish.
"Xin'er, you're too heavy......" Deng Xinming rubbed his face that had broken off his skin due to rubbing against the ground, and complained.
"I'm sorry!" Deng Xinming smiled awkwardly, "I thought you were deliberately close to me with ill intentions, but I didn't expect you to really call this name." โ
Xu Yiming interrupted the conversation between the two and said, "Xin'er, you just said that you and your master live in seclusion in the mountains all year round, so why do you appear here?"
"Oh, by the way, I'll keep telling you. Deng Xinming regained his serious expression, "Originally, my master and I had been living a life of hard cultivation in the mountains, and every day was very fulfilling. But a few months ago, Master suddenly sensed an evil aura permeating the island, so he sent me out to the mountains to find out. During this time, I was lurking here and collecting a lot of information. โ
While speaking, Deng Xinming waved his hand casually, and pure drinking water appeared out of thin air in the water cup placed on the table.
Pushing the water cup to everyone, Deng Xinming took a sip of water and said, "We talk slowly while drinking, and it's not good for our throat to talk all the time." โ
Qin Xing's eyebrows were slightly raised, and he couldn't help but be a little more curious about Deng Xinming. Just now, Deng Xinming directly condensed the purest water spirit element in the cup, and Qin Xing could do this kind of thing, but the key was that he didn't capture the fluctuation of the water spirit element in the air just now, which means that Deng Xinming's control of the water spirit element had reached a level beyond his reach.