When he opened his eyes, in the hazy vision, a monster with blue fangs suddenly appeared, roaring and approaching.

Olivia "shook the tiger's body", and lifted the quilt on the bed as soon as she lifted it was a move to fly to the armbar.

This was followed by a series of screams

"Why are you standing in front of me wearing a demon mask?"

After a long time, Olivia sat cross-legged on the bed, looking at Li Qinglian who was lying next to her and panting with embarrassment.

"I just want to wake you up, don't tell Zhu Jue and Wu Tong about this, otherwise the two of them will probably laugh at me for a long time, in short, get up quickly, tomorrow is the celebration parade, I heard that there will be some sacrificial activities today, we have to hurry up!"

It's scary, and she almost fainted by someone locked up, Li Qinglian really couldn't say it, got up from the bed and went straight to the bathroom to tidy up her makeup.

"The Great Parade"

Olivia, who was wearing only a tactical vest due to the high temperature in the room, sat on the edge of the bed, her eyes swept over the room, and then looked out of the balcony of the hotel, where a mechanical creature in the shape of a Kong Ming lantern was parading through the air, constantly playing about the celebration procession.

Her expression was a little stiff, and the movement of getting up and getting dressed was also slow, in fact, Olivia had some unreal feelings about what had happened so far, she had thought that the result of her mission to the Grotesque Studio was to stay in the studio all day, doing pointless video editing work, who would have thought that in a few days she would break the conspiracy of a Silver Twilight Esoteric Order, which was more meaningful than her paperwork in the Special Operations Group.

Not to mention that he traveled with the people of the Grotesque Studio for a few days, and he also participated in the Spring Festival Celebration in Rong Xia City, but he was criticized a lot when he mentioned this to a few of his friends.

Especially Chu Yun, she has been busy with the search and rescue operation after the snowstorm recently, and she has been talking about it for a long time.

The task wasn't as bad as it could be, was it?

Although the hotel they stayed at was in Rongxia New Town, the breakfast was held in the tourist attraction of Rongxia City.

The celebration is approaching, and even in the morning, it is still full of people and fireworks everywhere.

Li Qinglian said that she had found a time-honored store and had to take them to see it, so Zhu Jue naturally had no opinion and followed up.

Instead of going from the vertical elevator or corridor on the side of the street to the play plaza on the second floor, he walked along the street, and Zhu Jue's eyes wandered around him.

He noticed the strange emotions on the faces of Wu Tong and the others, because the architectural style on the ground floor of Rongxia City and the surrounding layout were very different from the environment they had lived in before.

Half of the vibrant morning sun light is obscured by the mottled high-rise buildings hundreds of meters around, and the rest is also covered by the air platform built on the second floor, leaving only a little residual light to reflect on the ground floor.

Along the sidewalk along the road, the group was about to pass through a tunnel near a rudimentary iron staircase, the rusted surface proving that it had not been repaired for a long time.

"I wish you all the best and good health~"

The familiar congratulatory message came from the mouth of a palm-sized mechanical beckoning cat in a roadside garbage can, and behind it was a slender wall paved with white tiles, perhaps because of its age, the tiles had lost their original whiteness, and there were many advertisements on top of them.

"Seeking children with a lot of money", "God of Gambling stunts", "Specializing in the treatment of strange and incurable diseases" and so on.

Occasionally, there will be some useful ones, such as the store advertisement that Chu Yun said before, turn right forty meters ahead.

"Why is there such an advertisement posted everywhere, and the police here don't care?"

In such an era, such a "retro" form of advertising has appeared, which makes Olivia a little puzzled when she first came to the city.

"They won't care, because you tear it up once, and someone will soon repost it in the evening, and dozens of copies can be printed for a few yuan, and in the old town of Yecheng, there are also such scenes, but there are not as many as here. ”

The so-called progress of the times, what is progressive is those who exist above the second layer, and these people at the bottom are more regressive in Zhu Jue's view

Even maintaining the status quo is a luxury for them.

Hundreds of years have not brought them a better life, and they are still the same.

followed the route on the advertisement to the time-honored store, but what I saw was a cluttered storefront.

"Gangnam Noodle Restaurant is here, how can it be?"

Li Qinglian confirmed that their route was not wrong, and the noodle restaurant in front of her was obviously a fact.

There were two variegated stray cats poking their heads out of the gaps in the debris to look at them, Zhu Jue took a few steps forward, turned his head sideways and looked at the door behind the debris, the lock ring between the doorknobs was broken, just because it was buckled inward, and it was impossible to find it if he didn't look carefully.

"Now that it's closed, let's go back and eat on the second floor, it's only eight o'clock in the morning, and we still have time. ”

Eyes moved up, glanced at the second floor of this Jiangnan noodle restaurant, there were beige curtains that covered the contents of the can't be seen clearly, the hands in the pockets tightened, the eyebrows raised slightly, and said softly.

Zhu Jue was about to leave with the group, but he acted as if he hadn't seen anything.

Even if there is something, he is here to travel this time, and he doesn't care about other bullshit things.

Behind the curtains, there were shirtless, mechanical eyeballs behind goggles watching their departing backs, the mechanical blades on their right arms staggering, and scarlet blood slowly dripping.

Along the way, Li Qinglian was still thinking about why the shop closed suddenly, and it wasn't until she changed to a breakfast shop that she was attracted by those exquisite meals and completely left the noodle restaurant behind.

It's just that this time the breakfast was not restless.

roadside

"Slightly~"

A child with a red ghost face and a navy blue horse coat rushed from the side of the street, ran to Wu Tong and took a custard bun and ran, ran a few meters away and turned around, and put on a real "grimace" for Wu Tong.

"This bear child!"

Wu Tong gritted his teeth, and in the end, he could only smile helplessly, it's just a custard bun, and I will eat it.

Zhu Jue was holding a bowl of mushroom and chicken porridge looking at this scene with a smile on his face, and suddenly noticed that there was someone behind him, but when he turned around, he saw a little girl wearing a camouflage face mask and a red cotton jacket who was reaching out to pull the corner of his clothes, and holding a coin in his empty hand.

Why Little Girls?

Because she wore two pigtails at the back of her head, and she wore a pair of cloth shoes embroidered with flowers on her feet.

"Big brother, this is the money for the custard bun, I'll help my brother pay for it, but you have to give me another one, because two dollars a dollar. ”

"I'll give you another egg waffle, can you tell my brother why you're all wearing these strange masks?"

Zhu Jue noticed that not only these two children, but also many adults nearby were also holding masks in their hands, and they were all masks that looked rather hideous, which made him a little curious.

"The ghosts of the underworld, wanting to find the dead, cannibalizing flesh and blood, devouring people's hearts and lungs, this is what my mother told me!"

After the girl finished speaking, she took the egg waffle from Zhu Jue's hand, and then trotted to chase her brother.

Zhu Jue raised his head, and his gaze unconsciously fell to the bottom of the porch in the aisle in front of him, where a group of masked children were running from there.

Most of these children are petite, but the masks on their faces are larger than theirs, so the masks involuntarily begin to shake during the run, which should be a relaxed and childish picture, but now it seems quite strange.

Zhu Jue, who had always been a little sensitive to this aspect of things, stared at them for a long time, until he was attracted by Li Qinglian's voice.

"The spring festival of Rongxia City has two meanings, one is to welcome the new year, with a huge and gorgeous procession to worship the gods, asking for their blessings, this is known to everyone, but this second layer is a little different, on March 10, in Rongxia City was called the "Ghost Gate" , This is not the ghost gate between life and death, that is, on this day, the gate of the underworld they are talking about here will be opened, and there will be ghosts and ghosts coming to the world, just like the little girl said just now, these ghosts must find a suitable body to replace themselves in order to seek to turn around, and the mask on their hands and faces is to let those ghosts treat them as their own kind, and this spring festival is also to push the popularity of Rongxia City to the peak and resist the yin energy from the underworld. “

Li Qinglian held her mobile phone to check the content on it, these are traditional customs, so it is not difficult to find.

"Then we have to buy a mask, too? Otherwise, everyone else will wear it, and if we don't wear it, won't those ghosts have to come to us?"

Although he has received many years of atheist education, when he arrived in Rongxia City, the religious atmosphere here was really pervasive, and even Wu Tong began to subconsciously want to cooperate.

But this in itself is not a bad thing, follow the customs of the locals, anyway, they are here to play, there is no need to force the customs here.

Tomorrow is the Spring Festival Parade, and Zhu Jue doesn't want to be that maverick, so nodding his head can be regarded as approving Wu Tong's idea.