What exactly does it look like outside Rock Castle? Will we see the remaining Aboriginal people? Or is it still a deserted city outside of Iwa? Or was my previous guess wrong, but there was something more unexpected for me?

Curiosity kept the question in my mind, and I decided to take advantage of the evening to find out, so I told Lin Wei my thoughts.

"Going to the edge of Rock Castle?" Lin Wei's face suddenly showed a look of interest, and she said excitedly: "Okay, okay." ”

"Uh-huh, then let's go and get back quickly." I smiled and nodded.

Judging from the location on the map, our location is about ten kilometers away from the border of Iwaki City, and at our speed, we can reach it in ten minutes.

If you take into account that there may be obstacles on the road, it may take 15 minutes.

A round trip will delay me for nearly half an hour, although I am a little reluctant, but if I don't get the answer to this question, I am afraid that I will have a pimple in my heart, after all, we will not be able to come back.

Therefore, even if I have to delay some of my precious cultivation time on the road, I have to go there myself and see the answer to the question with my own eyes, and besides, half an hour is not much.

Since we have a map of Iwaki on our phones, we just need to decide on a direction and run in that direction.

A little more than ten minutes later, we stopped in front of a dilapidated university.

This is Iwaki Institute of Technology, and the map shows that after here, it is almost the border of Iwajo, not so much the boundary of Iwaki as the boundary of the map.

"We're almost at the edge of the map." I said in a deep voice, "The range of this mission is on the map, so what will happen if we cross this range?" ”

"Then let's go further and see." Lin Wei proposed.

"Hmm." I nodded, "But this time we'll slow down." ”

We slowed down and walked unhurriedly towards the front, the boundary of this direction on the map is Iwasaki Institute of Technology, then we should also meet the boundary of the map...

"Wait."

After walking a few dozen steps, I looked stunned and immediately shouted.

Lin Wei suddenly stopped and looked at me in confusion.

"I felt a wave of ghostly energy... It's right in front. I said with a frown.

"Ghost fluctuations? In this kind of ghost place? Lin Wei said in shock.

"Hmm..."I snorted, in fact, I also thought it was too strange that there were ghost qi fluctuations in this kind of place, but I believed that my perception would not be a problem. I took a deep breath and took a closer look at the night ahead. After a while, I muttered in a low voice, "I see, I see..."

"Vivi, you attach the ghost qi in front of you, and then look ahead." I exhaled and turned to Lin Wei and said.

"Okay." Lin Wei nodded, and then a light green light flashed in her eyes, and then, Lin Wei's face also showed a sudden look.

The two of us took advantage of the ghost qi and saw the situation in front of us clearly, less than twenty meters in front of us, there was a thin, black barrier of ghost qi.

This ghost qi barrier has a vast area, and there is this layer of ghost qi barrier within the line of sight; This ghost qi barrier rises up into the sky, I don't know how high it extends to the sky, with the help of ghost qi, I can vaguely see that there is also a layer of ghost qi barrier in the sky.

To take a figurative analogy, it is a black ghostly eggshell that surrounds Iwajo, but this black eggshell is an impregnable barrier made of incomparably powerful black qi.

It's like the ghost barrier that hangs over the side of the fifth middle school, you can't leave it unless you break it. It's just that the ghost aura barrier of the fifth middle school is shrouded in the whole school.

"This is a ghost energy barrier." I raised my head, looked at the sky, and said solemnly, "I actually surrounded the entire rock city." ”

"The ghost qi fluctuation coming from above is stronger than me..."Lin Wei muttered in shock.

I nodded and said, "It should be around the end of the first star." ”

Although my voice was still calm, my heart was actually extremely shocked. The ghost qi of the late level of one star surrounds the whole city, how much ghost qi does this have to consume? What kind of monster should the owner of this ghost qi barrier be? Anyway, it's definitely not Sun Yu's ability to do it, it should be done by Qingling.

"Ahead, it should still belong to the scope of Rock City, but we obviously can't do without this ghost qi barrier..."

My eyes flickered as I looked at the ghost barrier in front of me, and many thoughts rolled through my mind, which eventually turned into a sigh.

"Ugh."

I suppressed my feelings of staying here and said in a muffled voice, "Let's go back." ”

"Hmm..."Lin Wei nodded.

I can understand the reason for the existence of this ghost energy barrier, that is, to limit our range of activities, otherwise, if our range of activities is too large, so that we can't meet each other's classes, then this mission is meaningless.

Therefore, maybe I can forcibly blast this ghost qi barrier open a hole that can accommodate human passage, but this is no different from death, I forcibly blast open this ghost qi barrier, Qing Ling will definitely be able to detect it as soon as possible, so, let's go back honestly, I still understand the truth that curiosity kills cats.

So, I suppressed my curiosity about the outside of Rock City, and Lin Wei and I turned around and left here.

When we went back, it was almost one o'clock, and in the following time, we were racing against time to cultivate the ghost qi, and while cultivating the ghost qi, we were also monitoring the movements of the classes on our side.

Fortunately, they didn't move all night, probably because it was only the first day and there was still plenty of time.

It wasn't until the next day that we returned to our gathering place, and with the help of An Yang, we managed to sneak into the gathering place without the sight of the students on duty.

We went to Anyang's room, and Jiang Chen and Zhang Xinyu had already returned ten minutes before us. At this time, they were squatting on the ground, warming themselves around a stove. Items like stoves, which we can buy from the credit mall, are not expensive.

No wonder Anyang's room was so warm, it turned out to be a stove, as soon as Lin Wei and I entered, we immediately stepped forward.

The temperature in Iwaki is also quite cold, the temperature has entered below zero, especially in the early morning, which is the coldest time of the day. We stayed up all night, and practiced ghost qi outside all night, but it was not enough for the body to be unbearable, after all, the physique was there, but it was really uncomfortable.

It's like being on your way home after a night in a hot internet café. The cold and tiredness hit at that moment together, and it was extremely uncomfortable, and the feeling was even stronger when we were tired all night.

"Take a sip of hot water."

An Yang handed over a glass of water, which was steaming hot.

The hot water warmed me up, and I put my hand in front of the stove and sighed, "It's still warm inside the house." ”

In fact, although this dilapidated residential building is better than the outside, it is also extremely cold, but there is a stove in the room in Anyang, which is warmer.

"Do you eat cup noodles?"

Anyang first brought a steaming kettle, the kettle was brought by Anyang, and the water was freshly boiled. Then he took out five boxes of braised beef noodles from his backpack.

"Eat!" The four of us said in unison.

Then, the five of us squatted around the stove to keep warm, and in front of us, each with a cup of noodles that was soaking.

What a difficult time it was, but looking back on it many years later, it was an extremely interesting and precious memory.

"Guess what day it is?" An Yang said suddenly.

Hearing this, we were stunned and immediately fell into deep thought.

"What, I just want to ask, what day is it today..."Zhang Xinyu asked while covering his face

"November 18th." Jiang Chen replied.

Actually, I also want to ask what day it is, in the fifth middle school period, I have long been confused, Jiang Chen reminded me like this, I remembered.

It's almost the end of November...

"Winter Clothes Festival?" Jiang Chen thought about it and guessed.

"It seems that there is such a festival today, but this is not what I want to talk about." An Yang shook his head and sold Guanzi.

"Is it your birthday?" Lin Wei also guessed.

"Not really." An Yang shook his head again, but he smiled and said, "By the way, my birthday is February 25th." ”

A few of us rolled our eyes together, but I silently remembered his birthday.

"What's that?" Zhang Xinyu scratched his head and said puzzled.

"The one-month anniversary of the ghost master's appearance?" I had a flash of inspiration and asked tentatively.

"Bingo, that's right." An Yang snapped his fingers and said with a smile: "When the first death mission appeared in our class, it was also on that day. ”

On October 18th, I was very impressed, it was on that day that Sister Jiujiu called me, and at the same time, Sun Yu also appeared in front of us as a ghost master.

“... I came later, so I can't guess at all, right? Jiang Chen said depressedly. Indeed, Jiang Chen was transferred to the fourth class of the original high school after the ghost teacher appeared in our class, so he didn't have a deep impression of the day of October 18.

"Damn, it's only been a month." Hearing this, Zhang Xinyu said in astonishment: "How do I feel that it has been a long time." ”

"I think so." Lin Wei said thoughtfully: "This month, we have lived too long..."

Not only them, but I also feel that this month has been like a year, because we have had a hard time every day.

After we sighed for a while, the instant noodles were also soaked, Anyang picked up the instant noodles and said, "If we insist on persevering, we will soon get out..."

"Hmm." We nodded.

"Actually, when I was cultivating ghost qi with Lin Wei last night, there was another episode." I took a sip of instant noodles and told them about last night, oh no, we went to the map border early this morning.

"That ghost qi barrier is obviously set up for us, lest our range of activities be too large, causing the mission to be unable to proceed normally." Jiang Chen analyzed: "But I didn't expect that there was actually a ghost qi barrier that enveloped the whole city..."

"The ghost qi barrier covers the whole city, how strong should the owner of that ghost qi be."

"Only Qingling is undoubtedly the only one who can do this, and Sun Yu's gang of rookie cows can't do this, so let's say, Sun Yu's group of low-level ghost masters are just running errands to pass on words..."

"Sure enough, Qingling is the real mastermind behind the scenes..."

We were eating noodles and talking about it.

Just as we were chatting hotly, there was a knock on the door outside, and we immediately fell silent, and then Kang Qing's voice came from outside the door.

"I'll tell you good news, Han Mengxuan is awake."