Chapter VI
In the next few days, Ling Xiao and I drove around almost the entire Huani City, eating, drinking, and having fun. Every day, we follow what Bai Yushu warned us before leaving, and never go out after 1 o'clock in the morning. A week has passed, what should be bought, no, what should have been taken, what should have been shopped, Ling Xiao began to be restless again.
She lay on my bed and rolled, "Momo, it's been a long time like this, it's so boring." ”
I was reading a book in front of the bookshelf and decided to ignore her. Ling Xiao crawled over and slapped my book off, "Momo, listen to what he said, Huani City in the second half of the night is different from the daytime, it's very exciting." ”
Recently, I've become accustomed to a few unfamiliar names popping out of Ling Xiao's mouth from time to time, and I don't bother to ask about the origin, so I casually answer, "So?"
"So, let's go check it out!"
"Nope. I was categorical, "Have you forgotten that your little white brother didn't allow you to go out in the middle of the night?"
"Hmph," Ling Xiao pouted, "Don't mention that Bai Yushu again, it's been a week since he disappeared, and the phone will never get through, so he will leave us here!"
I sneered, "People are kind enough to lead the way, eldest sister, what responsibility do you have to bear." ”
Ling Xiao walked out of the door in a huff, and a voice came from outside the door, "I don't care." "It's probably a long way off.
I shrugged my shoulders and heard Ling Xiao singing loudly in her room, "Happy breakup, I wish you happiness, you couldn't find anything better." ”
This song suddenly touched my nerves, I took out my mobile phone and typed out a line of familiar numbers, yes, it was Zuo Liang's. I hesitated, gently pressed the call button, and immediately, I heard a sweet female voice on the phone, "I'm sorry, the phone number you dialed doesn't exist..."
"Knock knock," came the roar of a locomotive downstairs mixed with a few knocks on the door, I sorted out my mood, looked from the upstairs, and saw five or six locomotives parked downstairs in our building, led by a young man wearing a leather jacket, knocking on the door. Seeing that I was observing him and giving me a flying kiss, several men next to me immediately began to coax, making me shrink my neck in fright.
Ling Xiao changed into a neat and tight jacket, and the short T-shirt inside exposed his navel. Jumping out, I was stunned for a moment, and shouted to her, "Ling Xiao, what are you going to do!"
She looked at me inexplicably, "Go out and play!"
"And them?"
Ling Xiao nodded, "That's what I just said, a handsome guy, a big man." Momo, do you want to play with me?"
I shook my head resolutely, "No! they don't look like nice people!"
"Momo, you're sometimes conservative like an old lady. Saying that, she had already opened the door, "You don't have to wait for me tonight!" I sighed helplessly, although I was very relieved of her in my heart, but after thinking about it, Ling Xiao is also an adult, and she often goes out early and returns late in "our world", she has not changed, but I have become uneasy and timid.
At first, Ling Xiao pestered me every time I went out to let me accompany her, but slowly, she became ignorant of my existence, and the communication between the two of us became less and less, and even later, I didn't know when she would go home. Until, I hadn't seen her for about a week.
My neighbors often hinted at me when they were chatting with me, but I couldn't do anything about it. Until one day, I curiously asked them what Huani City was like at midnight, but they all shook their heads in embarrassment. They say that on their first day here, they were told not to go out at midnight, and only a girl named Rarity shivered and seemed scared. I asked her if she knew anything, but she said with a pale face that she would only know if she went, and then began to run away in a trance. The party ended unhappily, and I began to have a strong interest in Hua Ni City at night.
I began to drive around the city every day, and I was familiar with every street and shop, but there was no Ling Xiao. I began to try to get home a little later each day, carefully discerning the subtle changes in the city at night, trying to find any clues. 12:30, 12:45, 12:55... On this day, I decided to drive home at 12:55. This is a dangerous attempt, because 5 minutes is not enough time to get home, even though the streets are already empty.
The city, it seems, is dead.
I grabbed the steering wheel, excited and scared by the fear of the unknown. I licked my lips nervously, took a deep breath, stepped on the gas, and my heart hung in the air as the car started.
At 12:59, I hadn't driven out of the city, and from time to time I was scanning the time in the car with my spare eyes, while looking around nervously. Suddenly, I saw the hands of the clock jump to 1:00. At 1 a.m., it arrived.
All the lights on the road suddenly went out, including the lights of the car I was driving, and I slammed the switch in horror, but to no avail. I slammed on the brakes and stopped, quiet enough to hear my own heartbeat. I looked left and right, trying to see through the darkness.
Suddenly, there was a click, and the surroundings lit up, which startled me, and I couldn't help but scream. I saw two thick pillars standing in front of my car, which were leaning at the moment. Looking up along the pillars, oh my God, what did I see? I saw a huge boar-like thing walking upright! The two huge pillars were its two thick thighs. It must have been attracted by my exclamation, and was bending over to look at me at the moment. Miraculously, it was dressed in armor and appeared to carry an axe behind it. I stayed for a few seconds, cold sweat already dripping down my bangs and onto my nose, I blinked vigorously and pressed the accelerator hard with my right foot.
My car slid out between its feet, it startled, took a step back, and reached out to take its axe and slashed at me! My mind was blank at the moment, and all I could think about was running for my life!
I lost count of how many turns I had turned, and by the time I had calmed down a bit, the car had hit a fire hydrant on the side of the road. I heard a lot of people around me pointing at me, struggling to open the car door, stumbling out of the car, and immediately stunned by what I had seen and done.
Oh my God, I was surrounded by "weird" "human" things, some like animals, some like plants. Some of them have obvious human forms, and some are completely giant monsters. At the moment, they are looking at me, whispering. This is the city of Huani at midnight?
A large blue snake with wings, its tail wrapped around a building, its huge head poked out, and the blood-red letter licked my face, fishy and sticky. My limbs were stiff at the moment, my body was completely undominated, and I couldn't even move my eyes. The other monsters burst out laughing, and some of them pretended to bite me.
At this moment, the wild boar that had been chasing me came panting, and I felt my ground tremble with every step. I sat down on the ground in despair, watching him slam his huge body into the monsters that were blocking him in front of him, and chop me down with his axe in his left hand.
I yelled, subconsciously covered my head with my hands, and I heard a "boring" sound, and a hurricane blew me on my head. When I was still thinking about where the axe had struck me, I saw a man kneeling on one knee in front of me, he clamped the tip of the axe with both hands, and then he stood up and looked at the pig demon, and the pig demon and the surrounding monsters all exclaimed in surprise after seeing his face, and fled in all directions. The man patted the ash on his body and didn't look back, "This is not where you should be. Then he threw over a car key and said, "Go back." ”
"I, I, I'm still looking for Ling Xiao..." Before I could finish my sentence, the man disappeared. I struggled for a moment, thinking that it would be better to listen to this person first, and then I pressed the car key in a gloomy way, and not far away, the lights of a black sedan flashed.
I lay on the bed, tossing and turning, the east was gradually turning white, and it was already morning. What happened last night replayed in my mind over and over again, Huani City at midnight turned out to be a gathering place for monsters, and, that man, who he was, he felt very familiar to me, but I can't remember where I saw it. Ling Xiao, where is she at midnight on such a monster infested with monsters, and will she be in danger? I got up and washed my face with cold water to calm down.
I have always been a comprehensive contradiction since I was a child, and I will always hesitate not to be forced to a dead end. Being a Scorpio seems a bit incompetent. However, after I reorganized my thoughts, I felt that Ling Xiao must go to find it, He Shu also seems to be a human being, they can all wander around Huani City at midnight, to a certain extent, there must be danger, but the degree of fatality seems to allow humans to live. As long as you are bold enough and careful enough.
I made up my mind, I was about to go out to buy something, and as soon as I opened the door, I saw that the car I drove back yesterday was gone, and my SUV was parked in front of my house intact. Somewhat frustrated, I kicked the car key into my pocket and started my own car.
The sun is shining, and Huani City is still prosperous. I went straight to the mall and got a set of elastic dark pants, a pair of mountain sneakers, two bottles of anti-wolf spray, a flashlight, a saber, and a vanity case. I parked my car in a relatively secluded street and wandered around until the sun went down.
At 12 o'clock, the number of pedestrians on the road began to decrease little by little, and I dodged and hid in a garbage can, painted myself as a horrific image of a vampire ghost dripping from the corner of her mouth, and then held my breath. Because of the high level of nervousness, I began to feel sleepy, but I was secretly admiring myself in my heart, maybe this is the real me. It turns out that those indifference and indifference are all illusions, and this pursuit of tension and excitement is the real self?
With a bang, the lights went out, and I tilted my ears to discern any sounds that might appear in the darkness, and suddenly, my phone rang. I was startled, and hurriedly touched the phone in my pocket, and finally turned the phone off to silent, and the green light turned on faintly.
A group of cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods came into view.
Two huge bull-headed monsters were carrying a load of something over my head, a beautiful boy with a one-horned figure was pulling out a golden fire-breathing bird from his pocket, lit a cigarette between his fingers, he stretched out his white-gloved hand and beckoned to me, "Miss, look at the face...", and I suddenly saw that the wild boar that had killed me last time was tug-of-war with something that looked like a tree, and the rope of the tug-of-war turned out to be a weak little snake...... I still had a lingering feeling for the pig, and hurried over. Along the way, all kinds of monsters are very lively.
I was worried about the mobile phone that had just rang, so I went to a secluded place to take a sneak peek, and it turned out to be sent by Ling Xiao's mobile phone! I rushed to my brain with enthusiasm, and I really wanted to scold her, but I saw that she actually sent a coordinate. There is no superfluous text, just a coordinate! I said in my heart, your uncle, it seems that the life is quite moist, because that coordinate indicates a bar called Crow.
Crow... But I don't remember that there was a bar there during the day, and after 1 a.m., all that changed? Although a few suspicious monsters on the street came over to smell me, I walked over calmly and was fine.
Half an hour later, the Raven Bar. A pitch-black wooden sign is carved with the word crow, and a woman in a cheongsam is reclining against the door, her eyes glazed over. Her appearance is what she looks like a human being, which confuses me a bit.
At this time, the phone suddenly vibrated again, and when I opened it, it turned out to be a voice message from Bai Yushu, who had been missing for nearly a month. I clicked on it and listened, and all kinds of noises were completely inaudible.
Suddenly, I saw several locomotives parked at the door of the Raven Bar, although I didn't recognize these cars, but in my heart I was telling me that this must be what they did!