As the sun sets, the dark night arrives as scheduled, and every household in the city lights candles, every house lights up, and there are fewer pedestrians on the road.

In the middle of the night, the city gate began to close, and the huge tree with a thickness of a foot and a length of many feet was tied by the sergeants guarding the gate. From now until dawn tomorrow morning, the city gates will not be opened again unless there are special circumstances.

- Except for the hundred ghosts entering the city.

In the middle of the night, hundreds of lights go out, the moon is hidden and the stars are gone, and everything is silent.

With the sound of bells ringing throughout the city, the dark blue ghost fire lit up one after another in the air at some point, outlining a long path of ghost fire in the city, and beyond the long path, there was a black mist that was darker and more gloomy than the night.

"Quack~Squeak~Squeak~"

In response to the permeating rhythm, the ground began to shake slightly, and the sound from a distance seemed to be a door that had been sealed for countless years. The crunching sound lasted for a long time before there was a "bang" sound of the door panel hitting the wall.

The sound of pantothenic acid on the bones had just stopped, and the smell of decay and decay came out, and the sound of low weeping sounded from all directions, and countless figures as stiff as wooden stakes came from the end of the long path of ghost fire.

The soul seed knocks on the door, and the ghost fire leads the way.

This Dao figure is all blue and gray, his face and body are stiff and strangely not like humans, and there are many missing arms and legs on his body, and even his head has been cut off, his limbs have been crushed, and even his whole body has been crushed into a pile of flesh and blood, and he is moving forward little by little.

Xu Heng felt that his hand was quietly clenched, and it was cold, and when he looked down, he happened to meet the girl's somewhat frightened gaze. With a face towel over his face and only his eyes exposed, he smiled at the girl, shook the girl back, and conveyed confidence with his eyes, signaling the girl not to panic.

At this time, the four of them were all dressed in nocturnal black, with a cloak covering their heads and a black scarf covering their faces, revealing only a pair of eyes. Hidden in an alley, a dozen steps away from them is the Ghost Fire Long Road, this alley is located in the south of the city, closer to the south gate than the Fugui Inn, it is a dead end, usually few people come. It's even less accessible in the middle of the night.

According to the paper that Xu Heng appeared in the room, the ghost city of Xudu will come to the world tonight, and the city will be the place to carry the ghost city, and the city gate will be opened at that time, and a hundred ghosts will enter the city.

And the people who want to go to the ghost city to worship their ancestors, as long as they hold the ghost guide in their hands and wear black clothes, they can mix among the nocturnal ghosts and step into the Huangquan Road together.

In order not to reveal flaws and cooperate with Kong Liancheng's plan, they have been lurking here since nightfall, waiting in the dark for half the night, such a scene suddenly appeared in front of them, and it was naturally normal for the little girl to be startled.

Su Su, who was standing on Xu Heng's right, noticed the girl's fear, turned her head and put her hand on the girl's shoulder, and the girl took advantage of the situation to let go of Xu Heng and hugged Su Su's waist and buried her face.

The two looked at each other, and at the same time gave birth to a sigh: "After all, she is still a little girl......"

At this time, Su Su's eyebrows furrowed, and he suddenly turned his gaze to the hundred ghosts, Xu Heng turned with him, and there were only four or five so-called "ghosts" in his line of sight, he looked at Pu Feng on the left side of his body, and the latter shook his head, and he didn't find anything abnormal.

But Su Su was still frowning, her eyes wandering around the few ghosts that were passing by the alley where they were, and only after the few ghosts in front of her staggered through the alley did she withdraw her gaze and show an apologetic look to the two beside her.

"What's wrong?" Xu Heng asked with his gaze.

Su Su shook his head again in denial: "It's okay." ”

Xu Heng patted the woman's shoulder, his eyes were concerned: "Tell me something." ”

"Delusion. Su Su shrugged.

At this time, Pu Feng stretched out his hand and waved in front of the two of them, and pointed to the front: "It's here!"

Here it comes?!

Xu Heng hurriedly turned his gaze away and saw the target they were waiting for: a ghost whose right arm was cut off from the middle.

This ghost was bleeding from seven holes, wearing a black robe and soap suit, his waist was missing, his right arm was broken and missing, and the rest of his limbs were still there. It is exactly the same as the person they are looking for described by Kong Liancheng.

This is the person Xu Heng is waiting for, and it is also the "ghost inner response" that Kong Liancheng is looking for.

He is an extremely important part of Kong Liancheng's plan.

It turned out that Kong Liancheng, as the patrol envoy of the Northern Ya, had already heard about the ghost city of Xudu.

The cause of the incident was the sudden appearance of the Japanese outside the city. The Wako are sea bandits from overseas Wakoko. The Wa Kingdom is a general term for the small islands that were founded on overseas mountain islands, because the islands are poor in resources, so sailing out to sea and plundering overseas has become their main mode of development.

As a close maritime neighbor of the Wa Kingdom, the Wa Kingdom often had sporadic pirates sailing ships to plunder property. Due to the frequent wars and turmoil between the small countries on the island, large-scale invasions could not be organized, and most of them were three or two small boats landing on the shore to burn and kill and plunder on the spot, which did not last long, and they ran away after grabbing.

The Dayang Navy is also strong, but it is precisely because of the small-scale rebellion of the Japanese that it is not easy to deal with their counterattack. In this case, the Dragon King Palace of the five provinces of the East China Sea and the Beiya of the three provinces of the North also took on the responsibility of expelling the Japanese invaders.

Kong Liancheng was inspecting the coastal defense along the coast when the Dinghuan City incident occurred, but he didn't expect the Japanese to bypass the coastal defense and appear outside the inland Dinghuanche City like a fall from the sky.

When he felt that he was bound to surround the city, the corpses of the would-be robbers outside the city had been eaten into wreckage by the wild beasts in the forest.

Ma Wang Ye and his ghost army are nowhere to be seen.

There are many doubts about this matter.

First of all, the location where the Japanese appeared was nearly a thousand miles away from the nearest coast! How could they rush to such a point by bypassing the heavy eyeliner set up by the Beiya, this incident made Kong Liancheng unbelievable;

The second is the number of Japanese pirates, as mentioned earlier, they have always been a few people and a dozen people, and it is rare for more than 100 people to be in company, not to mention an army of nearly 1,000 people. There is no country on the island that can come up with an army of 1,000 men to attack Dayang, unless the kings of those small countries are crazy.

In view of the many doubts, Kong Liancheng was very concerned about this time.

Not to mention the rumors about the ghost town of Xudu that spread in the rivers and lakes later, and the strange and inexplicable seven hundred ghosts entered the city at the beginning of the third year of the new year.

Kong Liancheng once did not sleep in the city on the night of the third and seventh days of the Lunar New Year several times, and each time he fell asleep without knowing when, and he didn't find anything until dawn.

Later, he got the ghost guide, and he would no longer be "sleepy" at night. He has lived in Dinghuan City for a long time, participated in several ancestral worships in Xudu, and boasted that he had seen through the conspiracy and trickery of the ghost city of Xudu, and made a detailed plan in order to debunk them.