During the day, along the highway that starts from the city center and runs through the northwest suburbs of the city to other provinces and cities, drive out of the North Sixth Ring Road for about 20 kilometers, if the road conditions are not tense and you don't plan to speed fast, then when you pass through the east-west section of the road before entering the mountains, even if you unintentionally glance north, you will be immediately shocked by the towering European-style castle more than 100 meters away, so that some drivers even slow down and even turn into the emergency parking lane to stop the car, looking forward to this building rising from the ground outside the mountain. At first glance, it is clear that the castle is deliberately decorated with a sense of vicissitudes, and due to the illusion of distance, it seems to be as tall as the mountains in the distance.

This is exactly what the investors of the castle originally intended, but in fact the castle was only used as an exterior wall, and they had 120 hectares of land under their estate, which was surrounded by a prison-like iron fence on three sides. Behind the huge shadow of the castle, large and small minarets, attics, thatched huts, iron cages, pools, tunnels, and basements are dotted with fountains, ancient wells, sculptures, rockeries, pavilions, and the like. What these artificial landscapes have in common is that they give people an eerie feeling in the same color as the cyan antique castle. If you go inside, you will find the staircase of the dark attic creaking, the gray-green minaret glowing in the sun, the cold air of the ancient well like an abyss, and the bright red pool with a slight ripple...... Terrible? That's right. Ten years ago, the developer acquired the land in order to build Beijing's first large-scale horror-themed amusement park, so all the furnishings, decorations and layouts in this 120 hectares are all in the style of various "ghost town" amusement parks abroad. In addition to building haunted houses, ghost castles, and blood pools, the amusement facilities in this Chinese version of "ghost town" were also equipped with various electric mechanisms, which once activated, ghost puppets would pop up according to the program or make ghost noises and flashing ghosts to scare tourists. Given that this remote area is open and lush with vegetation, the developer has also retained some of the park's old-fashioned plants, so that in the middle of summer, when the creeper wraps around the iron fence, the branches of the old trees overwhelm the ghost roof, and the fierce monsoon wind howls by, people who don't know how to walk outside in the middle of the day can't help but shiver.

The developers don't just want to scare passers-by who don't know what a ghost town is, their ambition is to turn it into Asia's largest ghost town amusement park, so that domestic and international tourists who come here will be willing to pay for it. They had planned to decorate the castle with seven-colored lights to create an eerie atmosphere at night and make the amusement park's night scene even more dazzling.

Thankfully, they weren't able to do that, otherwise they would have had to get into traffic accidents for many timid drivers. Nowadays, there is no light around the castle every day after dark, and on moonless nights, passing drivers may not even notice its presence.

The fact is that the entire ghost town had to be stopped when it was only halfway through the construction because of problems in the investor's capital chain. As a result, only about a third of the planned attractions in the ghost town were built - and there were many pilot projects - and the construction team withdrew. Less than two years after the start of construction, it became a real ghost town, with 120 hectares of unfinished construction sites that were hard to find, except for the castle and the haunted houses and ghost traps that were left unattended in large open spaces, leaving them with the fate of being demolished by the new owners of the land where the ghost town sits.

"Don't you think this French girl is doing things a little bit like us?" At 1:40 a.m., 20 minutes before the agreed time, the black Santana was dormant in a barren meadow away from the surveillance cameras on the side of the highway auxiliary road. Xing Tian touched the nail clipper from the edge of the knife to the handle of the knife by feeling, and then talked with the foolish man in the passenger seat. "How so?" asked Yu Gong. "They all like to wear makeup, they all like to use fake names, and they all like to find unfinished buildings as a base...... Hehe" said Zhigong Yugong also laughed. "It's just a means, and tonight I'm going to show her the difference. The fool smacked his lips, "How likely is it that there is a stronghold of her in this castle?" There is a stop nearby, except for the high-speed direct bus, where the bus from the long-distance station in the city center to the northwest stops, and Dante saw her coming here when he saw her get out of the subway. You see, there are not many people near and far, there are few pedestrians, and the structure of the castle is very complicated, which is easy to hide and evacuate, and it is really a good place to hide. ”

"And you can hide more than one or two people. I just received the news that our backup is in place, let's go. After that, Yugong picked up a black suitcase and got out of the car with Xingtian, it turned out that they were also wearing suits. "Can the backup see where we are?" Xing Tian asked in a low voice. "Don't worry, Zhuo Wu has already practiced as a night owl, he will choose a good angle. ”

As Yu Gong said, Zhuo Wu was hiding more than a hundred meters outside the iron fence at this time in a direction that even Yu Gong and Xing Tian did not know, raising a telescope to observe the movements of the ghost town. This telescope was brought by Shang Yiming from his father. "Military supplies, excellent quality. Do you want a manual?" Zhuo Wu believed that Shang Yiming must have memorized the manual, and wanted to bring him with him to avoid malfunctions when using it, but this time the action was in the middle of the night when the lighting equipment could not be easily used, and the location was a "ghost town", just afraid of Neo? Bay, an old classmate, would scare himself out. So he had no choice but to memorize words and write down some of the main points described by Shang Yiming, and did not switch the observation mode casually. Choosing the night vision mode, his eyes locked on Yugong and Xingtian, and they walked into the castle gate to find a wall with the two Chinese characters "Zaotou" written in phosphor - that was the agreed meeting code.

This wall is in the center of the ghost town, and Yugong and Xingtian walked all the way over, but when they saw the unfinished ghost statues around them, they couldn't help but worry about which of them suddenly came to life and pounced on them. "Have you asked someone to help you retrieve the engineering drawings here?" Yu Gong wanted to ease the primal fear in his heart, recalling the conversation with Xingtian when he drove over. "Yes, the engineering structures of the ghost town are all painted on it. It should be noted that in order to test the operability of the attraction, the construction party has assembled a complete set of power control systems. As long as you plug in enough power, those things can move. ”

At this time, the phosphor writing is not hard to find, and the wall with the word "miscellaneous" written on it belongs to an uncovered witch's hut, which looks like the graffiti of a passing idler. Foolish Gong according to Neo? Bay replied to the request and took out a handkerchief to wipe off the phosphor. Xing Tian vigilantly peeked into the blind spots on all sides, he was no longer worried about ghosts, but worried about where someone was hiding and preparing for an ambush. Zhuo Wu moved with the two of them, making sure that his one-meter-nine size would not be exposed, and scanning a path that would get as close to them as possible in the event of an accident. Just as he was staring at Yugong's back, suddenly, a dazzling white light overwhelmed his vision, and he shook his hand and dropped the telescope to the ground.

Seeing such a bright light in a lifeless ghost town was tantamount to seeing a monster, and Yugong and Xingtian were also shocked. They've really powered this place!" Yu Gong thought, but when he calmed down, he immediately realized that he was wrong. Glowing was a group of high-powered fluorescent tubes, which hung from the unfinished eaves of the witch's house, and were not connected to the internal wiring, and the wires that supplied them were exposed, hanging down the walls of the house and extending into the darkness in the distance, presumably with a small generator connected to it. The inaudible rumble is not audible, indicating that the generator has a limited amount of power, unless Neo? Bay has installed a lot of units, otherwise it would not be enough to supply the entire power system that has been installed in the ghost town. Setting up so many small generators in this place is laborious and difficult to centrally control, so Neo? Bay should have just wanted to light the fluorescent lamps, with the aim of illuminating him and Xingtian.

"Good evening, you two, and welcome. "Fluent Chinese comes through a microphone. The woman's voice? Xing Tiantong was surprised, followed the voice, and saw no one. Welcome, welcome, welcome?" he chuckled. After more than ten years, the treatment is not much better than that of Lu Haibo.