"Mr. Thompson, are you ready?"

In the hazy drizzle, a man in a pale yellow translucent raincoat stood in front of a silver-white metal chassis, and behind him stood a photography group, the host of the wearing microphone at the corner of his mouth looked at the millisecond digital clock on the left side of the chassis and asked.

There are 10 seconds left until eight o'clock.

Stick your left hand flat out and give a thumbs up, making a gesture that doesn't matter, and place your right hand against the edge of the case and put your thumb in front of the red button.

The countdown begins.

5！4！3！2！1！

The thumb pressed the button hard, and there was a buzz of mechanical activation mixed with a few muffled sounds, and the lights suddenly lit up around the tower where the crowd was!

Bird's-eye view.

Starting from Neighborhood 8 and leading to Neighborhood 1, a giant tower with a height of nearly 100 meters standing in the center of the lower city was suddenly activated at this moment.

Starting from the top floor, light waves representing stereoscopic holographic projections are constantly lit up, projecting images of the scenes that have been set up for a long time to the major communities in the lower city.

"Look, it's fogging!"

In the park of Community 3, someone opened his arms and embraced the "gray fog" created by holographic projections that spread down from the upper floors.

The people in the gray fog cheered enthusiastically.

Everyone knows that this is the beginning of the Thousand Ghosts Festival in Thousand Sails City!

Herod~~

In the obscure gray mist, a loud neighing of horses sounded.

The pupils burned with a faint blue fire, and skeletal horses made of skeletons with bits of flesh and skin leaped out of the gray mist in mid-air, circling the hollows between the buildings in the center of the city.

After a few seconds, the gray mist on the horse's back began to stir, and the samurai with a sword in hand gradually emerged, riding the horse and galloping towards the parks of the various neighborhoods.

Everywhere above the park, giant jack-o-lanterns depicting the face of a demon began to rise in that area, sneering at each other.

Crackling!!!

Thunder exploded, and the gray mist on the top began to form a vortex around a central point, creating an apocalyptic scene.

Just as everyone was amazed and shocked by this sight, all the undead knights suddenly hovered in mid-air, and immediately turned around in unison, heading towards the tower.

At the same time, within the thick layer of fog, a massive, tan wooden ramming horn pierced the mist, followed by a terrifying five-masted galleon that seemed to sail out of hell.

The hull of the ship under the front corner was shattered into a hideous crack, the hull was covered with various cracks and dark green seaweed, and the black canvas hanging from the mast was also tattered, but the combination of these parts was a very domineering pirate ship.

Just when everyone thought it was a holographic projection, it began to circle around the central tower, smashing the rain as it went, occasionally skimming the outer streets of several high-rise neighborhoods, with its side less than two meters away from the crowd of onlookers.

The wind pressure mixed with the rain knocked several people closer to the ground directly, causing a burst of exclamations around them.

"What a fool, this is Thousand Sails City, that ship is the real thing in the disguise of our giant empty ship, if you stretched out your hand just now, maybe two of your fingers could be broken. ”

The friends who knew the inside story hurriedly helped the person up, and the ridicule between the words could not be more obvious.

The pirate ship kept shuttling through the central area, and seeing that it had circled most of the area, the top of the thickest mast in the center of the pirate ship was standing on top of it, and a megaphone disguised as a telescope was suspended in front of it.

Swallowing his saliva, he opened his mouth sharply and shouted, "Do you want my treasures, I hide them in various hidden places in the community, go find them!"

As his words fell, a large number of streamers erupted from the muzzles on both sides of the ship, which were virtual images but a little trick to help the fun.

In order to increase the lively atmosphere during the Halloween Festival, the government of Thousand Sails City prepared not only the opening ceremony, but also many activities with colorful heads, which proved to be very successful and easily mobilized the people's enthusiasm for shopping.

Such a huge performance is actually only one of the opening contents that appears in the central complex of Thousand Sails City, and the place where the Ten Thousand Ghost Festival really begins is not here.

In the denser neighborhoods, it's a different story.

In Neighborhood 8, a procession dressed as a hundred ghosts marched slowly through the streets, and several virgin ghosts in plain clothes stood in front of them, carrying orange paper lanterns, constantly throwing piles of hand-wrapped fried beans to the crowds of onlookers on both sides of the street.

Occasionally, some children dressed as various ghosts rushed out of the team carrying jack-o'-lanterns, and begged for candy when they caught someone, and if they didn't give it or didn't, they would not only be graffiti on their faces by a group of "little ghosts", but also endure the disdainful gaze of other passers-by nearby.

The streets and alleys of the No. 13 community are full of fireworks, not that people are setting off fireworks, but that every household is half-closed and burning paper money and rice bundles for chanting Buddha, and when you get closer, you can also find that there is a table of food in the house, regardless of the size, and there must be two incense candles at the end of the door, the incense burner is placed in the middle, and the two sides are stacked into pagoda-shaped rice cakes or steamed buns.

From time to time, adults lead children to fold their hands in front of the incense candles, bow down and pray, and after a while, those children will change into a judge or a ghost-like outfit in the back room, snort, swaggering to the door, shaking the small branches in their hands that they don't know where to break, and "checking the water meter" in groups of three or five.

However, for Zhu Jue at this moment.

All the excitement is someone else's.

The epidemic prevention center arranged for him and the doctors sent from his clinic to the community of No. 35 for medical assistance, and he will leave this morning to report.

Now he and Suko are waiting for the arrival of the city rail car in Xiacheng District.

"Ah, what a bear kid who actually stuffed candy wrappers in my pockets. ”

As soon as he sent away a "demon", he turned around and took out a handful of candy paper from his pocket, Zhu Jue turned the handle of the umbrella, looked at the vegetarian who was familiar with the car and took out the candy from his pocket, and complained helplessly,

"Didn't you just bring no sugar, and I didn't know there was such a rule. ”

"Although the Ten Thousand Ghost Festivals in other cities are not as focused as Thousand Sails City, there should be some activities that you haven't experienced?"

Suzi asked in surprise.

"Uh...... I used to live in the old town of Yecheng, and the people in it even had problems with their lives, so where did they get the heart to go to the festival. ”

With a weak heart, he touched a piece of candy from his pocket and tore off the package, stuffed it into his mouth, found an excuse to prevaricate, pretended to look at his watch and continued,

"Let's get in, the train is about to leave. ”

The urban structure of Qianfan City is destined to have natural limitations in ground transportation, ordinary vehicles want to travel between various communities is very troublesome, the closer communities can walk through the overpass, and this kind of up and down span is very large distance naturally can not be used in the same way, at this time through the whole city, the three-dimensional state of the rail car has become the first choice outside the self-driving empty boat.

This time, I was going to the bottom community of Community 35, and the docking of the airboat was very problematic, so the two gave up the self-driving airboat after discussion.

Walking into the waiting hall, through the window on the other side, Zhu Jue looked at the scene outside.

"What do you think of this Ten Thousand Ghost Festival compared to the Spring Festival in Rongxia City?"

In Zhu Jue's impression, the only festival celebration with such a huge scale in front of him is the spring festival of Rong Xia City.

"The festival represents traditional culture, and this practice of relying on modern technology to attract people's attention is simply not comparable to the spring festival...... The gap is too big, and there really is nothing to comment on. ”

As a native of Rongxia City, Suzi obviously admires the festival in his hometown more, I don't know if there is favoritism in this, Zhu Jue compares the two in his mind, and finally has to admit that the spring festival in Rongxia City is more charming.

Not to mention anything else, in terms of cultural embodiment alone, the Ten Thousand Ghost Festival in Qianfan City did have to be thrown out a few streets by the Rongxia City Spring Festival.

"Boss!"

In the middle of the conversation between the two, a familiar voice sounded behind him, and he turned his head to look over, and Lynn with a purple backpack was walking this way.

Zhu Jue, who was about to ask about the progress of the translation of the Codex Nackert, could only stop talking and redirect the conversation to Halloween.

"We don't know how long we need to stay in Community 35 this time, will we miss the entire Halloween Festival?"

According to the statement given by the epidemic prevention, this operation will not last more than a week.

"Definitely going to miss it!"

Lin looked at the train timetable next to her, and her face was a little ugly for some reason,

"Halloween's Day is actually for communities above the 25th, like the pirate ship, if you want to see it, you have to look at it now, and wait until the 35th community...... Anyway, be prepared to be disappointed. ”