There are a lot of abandoned resource-based cities, and when a certain mineable non-renewable resource is found in a certain place, humans will build a city around that place.

The size of a city is generally determined by the amount of resources, and those with few resources will only have one camp on the periphery.

Basically, all the work in this resource-based city will revolve around that resource, such as coal mines, oil, and so on.

But when the resources are exhausted, they will live and die because of them, and when the resources are exhausted, the vitality of the city will disappear, and human beings will slowly move out, and the population will become smaller and smaller, and it will not be long before it will be abandoned.

That's probably the kind of town they have beneath their feet.

The town is not small, there are about 100 or so households, there are still a lot of cinders left on the streets, and there are even railroad tracks for transportation on the streets.

Not the tracks of the train, but the ore cart on the mine, which is only one-fifth the size of the locomotive and can be operated by one person.

Normally, this kind of railroad track will only appear in the mine, and the fact that it can appear so blatantly on the main street can only mean that all the people in this town are mining, or most of them, otherwise it will affect ordinary life too much.

Ye Tingbai: "How do I get in?" ”

Chun Xia took the broken jade in his hand and swiped it diagonally towards the open space, and a gap appeared in that place, and within the gap, there was a lot of people, as if some kind of assembly was being held.

"Sister Wang, how much is your knife at this moment, don't fool me, old customers~"

"Six hundred yuan, the latest model, no bargaining!"

"Boss, have you applied for an early engagement?"

"Eh, don't you dare to say this, the guest comes in to talk!"

Ye Tingbai listened carefully for a few minutes, and the gap was automatically closed because it took too long, but he didn't understand after listening for a long time, there are people here, and there are a lot.

The main thing is that they seem to be in a hurry.

Sub-personality: "Everything is very normal, the tone of speech is still responsive, the heartbeat will fluctuate with emotions, and the sound of blood flow is also within the normal range, it seems that everyone here is ordinary people?" ”

Ye Tingbai: "Ordinary talents are outrageous..."

If there was a group of monsters here, then Ye Tingbai might have raised his knife and killed it, but suddenly a bunch of ordinary people came out, he didn't know what to do, and why were there so many ordinary people?

Ye Tingbai turned his head to look at the little monk: "The place where you live is also like this?" ”

Chunxia: "No, I live in a bamboo forest with Master, there is no one, I haven't seen a few people when I've grown up."

But I didn't feel any resentful breath, which is not the same as the breath on your piece of broken jade..."

Chun Xia directly sees through the essence of the soul, the emotions of the soul and the emotions of human beings themselves, in the eyes of Chun Xia, they are two different things, and her ability is quite accurate, and she has helped him a lot before, so Ye Tingbai must believe her.

But if a key is tainted with resentment, then the world that the key leads to is peaceful, isn't it too fake?

Ye Tingbai casually took out a long knife in his hand, and prepared to use the dream body to explore the path first, after all, the dream body died and was seriously injured at most, and it would recover quickly if it was nourished by divine power.

Ye Tingbai: "I'll go in and take a look and protect the two of them." ”

Vice-Personality: "Well, don't worry. ”

The broken jade slashed, and another spatial crack appeared, but this time there was no sound inside, and the evil aura from the shop made Ye Tingbai feel uncomfortable.

Ye Tingbai: "Something is wrong, use your key to draw once!" ”

The little monk immediately picked up the broken jade in his hand and scratched it again at another open space, and the noisy sound of buying appeared again, in the same place, in two spaces.

The main thing is that the little monk's key is still a replica, and it turns out that this replica is more useful.

Vice-personality: "Wu Yi said the theory of the two worlds on the outside and the inside, and the mezzanine world has not been verified, will the key to the third child go to the inner world?"

Spring and summer copied a key to the mezzanine world? ”

Ye Tingbai: "This is possible, does the third grandson want to trap me again?" ”

Deputy personality: "You can't pit you, he may not have even been in, it stands to reason that we should go to this mezzanine world to see." ”

Ye Tingbai: "Well, wait! ”

Ye Tingbai turned around and stepped into the space gap drawn by the little monk, and through the space door, he came to a long street with bright lights, and people came and went on the street, dressed very retro.

After Ye Tingbai stood firm, he immediately hid in the corner, this place is definitely not normal!

Because almost all of them have a mask sewn on their face, which is made of marble, and each of them has two blush-like origins on their cheeks.

Or rather, it's more like the red circles on the faces of those in the paper shop.

These people's masks fit so well on their faces that if it weren't for the fact that everyone's masks were about the same, he would even think it grew from their faces.

Near the base of the cheeks and ears, the masks and their normal skin have fused together, with a transition zone of about a centimeter, and the masks on these people's faces, although they have the same texture as marble, can make a variety of expressions.

Their faces are soft!

On closer inspection, it is not that all of them do not have masks on their faces, only those children do not have masks on their faces.

Ye Tingbai lowered his head and used his divine power to pinch out a similar mask and put it on his face, making himself look less dazzling, and he glanced at the shop next to him.

Old head contouring

There happened to be a girl who had just entered the store, wearing a cheongsam, and her body was a little fat, but her face was really exquisite, and she was also a superb beauty if the texture of the mask was removed.

"Lao Zhang, give me another repair, I want to lose a little more weight!"

The boss was an old man with a white beard, Ye Tingbai stared at the beard carefully, but he couldn't find a trace of fraud, their masks and faces could not only make expressions, but also grow beards?

"Miss Sun, I've repaired your face dozens of times, I really can't fix it anymore, it's already perfect, if you lose weight, it won't be coordinated!"

With an extremely delicate and thin face, with a bloated and fat figure, is it coordinated now?

The boss seemed to have some conscience, but the woman was unrelenting, and asked the boss to fix it for him, and in the end, the two were deadlocked, and the woman finally relented.

"Okay then, I've been unhappy for the past two days, change my crying face!"

Crying face?

When this woman said that she was crying, Ye Tingbai paid attention to the expression on her face, and he found that even if this woman was arguing with the boss, she would only make one expression, that is, a smile, a very charming smile, as if it was set in advance.

And the boss is the same, either calmly entering or frowning.

Looking at all the people in this town, he found that everyone in this weird town had only one expression, and more than 90% of the people were smiling, ordinary smiles that could not be found in the crowd.

The transaction in the store continued, and the boss did not refuse the request to change the crying face, he let the woman lie on a clean bed, and closed the curtain.

Ye Tingbai didn't have the X-ray-like vision of a sub-personality, so he could only touch it hard, but fortunately, he had a magic technique to eliminate the breath, and he could still be physically invisible at a critical moment.

He has not studied the principle of invisibility, and he does not have a similar magic technique in his hand, at most, he can only be optically invisible if he does not understand it, and if he observes carefully, he may still be discovered, so he can only be careful and careful.

But fortunately, there was no sound, and these two ordinary people didn't notice him, Ye Tingbai touched outside the curtain and secretly looked in.

I saw that the boss poked a tube of white liquid into the woman's cheek, the technique was very rough, two thumb-thick syringes, a full tube was poked in less than a second, and the woman's face was visibly bulging a big bag.

But the woman didn't scream, she didn't seem to feel any pain.

Then the man took out a professional tool, like the kind of fire tongs that picked charcoal from the stove, the tongs clamped the woman's original mask, and pulled it up, and the woman's face was dragged down alive, and below it was the bloody and blurred facial features, without normal facial skin.

So the mask that was ripped off was her face.

Lao Zhangtou casually threw the mask he took off into the trash, and then took out a new one from the cabinet next to him, the cabinet where the mask was placed was not a freezer, it was an ordinary utility cabinet, and there were even old man's dishes and chopsticks in it.

The new mask was put on by the old man, and after about five minutes, the mask grew back together with the woman's face.

He didn't continue to look at it, because the face swap had already ended, there was no sterilization and no stitches, and it was over, which was an almost impossible operation to complete in the outside world.

The problem is that Ye Tingbai can't find any abnormality, no pollution, no divine power, and he doesn't know what special power has done all this.

Ye Tingbai returned to the door, and casually threw out two magic techniques to identify souls at the pedestrians on the side of the road, this magic is only useful for human beings, if these things are not people, nothing can be detected, and the result is even more surprising, all silver souls.

In the normal world, most of the souls of ordinary people can't even rank white, and the souls of those people have long been mixed with pollution, and silver is already precious.

He also discussed this issue with Bian Geng, when the outer gods did not meddle in this world, silver souls were common, but then the quality of human souls has been declining.

If a person can live in a world without pollution from a young age, perhaps his soul can be like these people now.

Although the town was full of weirdness, at least it looked harmonious, and he didn't feel any pollutant breath, compared to the polluted world outside, this place was already considered a pure land.

Ye Tingbai quietly retreated, without alarming anyone.

Li smiled: "How is it, how is it, can you enter?" ”

Ye Tingbai made out a few expressionless masks and asked the three of them to put them on, when he was standing on the side of the road with the mask, someone noticed him, but he just glanced at it and left, so there was no problem for him to bring in a few more people.

Ye Tingbai: "Put on the mask, try not to speak if you can, come to this position and open a door!" ”

The buildings in the world inside are roughly the same as those outside, but there are obviously more buildings inside than outside, and if there are a hundred abandoned houses in the normal world, then there may be two hundred or even three hundred here.

But all the buildings in the normal world are reflected in the mezzanine world.

There is a projection mechanism in the world of the surface, which seems to be equally applicable to this mezzanine world, and the little monk put on his mask and opened another door, and several people stepped in together.

The place Ye Tingbai chose was the gap between the two shops, and basically no one could see here.

Li Xiaoxiao: "Contouring accessories... What is this selling? ”

Ye Tingbai: "It should be a carving knife, all the faces here have masks, and this kind of mask can be carved and modified."

Or even replace. ”

A few people left the alley with their heads down, obviously it was already night, but the street did not decrease at all, but more and more trends.

Most of the shops in this town are related to cosmetic cosmetic, and most of them sell cosmetic tools, some maintain masks, some adjust masks, and some sell special skin care products.

A few people walked around the street and found that the place that was supposed to be a mine cave had now become a siege city, and the name was Kerong Temple.

Ye Tingbai: "Kerong... Contouring...

There have been several stores talking about the qualifications of facelifting, what is the relationship between facelifts and contouring? ”

Sub-personality: "Two of those who asked about the qualifications of Kerong did not wear a mask, and one had a child, and this Kerong is most likely a title for wearing a mask."

Finish in front and contour in the back. ”

Ye Tingbai: "Well, it makes sense, little monk, do you see anything?" ”

Chun Xia: "Don't be a little monk and a little monk is called, people have a name, call me Chun Xia!"

I don't feel any resentment, these people's souls are very stiff, I feel that I have lost myself, this is just my own feeling, at least on the surface, these people are normal. ”

Ye Tingbai: "Didn't you find anything?" ”

Alternate: "I saw a girl about twenty-five on the street without a mask, and if I don't have an idea, I suggest I go and meet the girl."

The one who didn't wear a mask at this age was the only one. ”

Ye Tingbai: "Sure enough, you have to look at the junior deputy at the critical moment!" ”

The sub-personality also remembered the direction in which the girl had left, and they followed that direction to a private house.

Li Xiaoxiao: "People have long been gone, how did you find the way?" ”

Alternate personality: "It's not difficult to tell by the size of the footprints and the degree of newness, this is it, living alone..."

Li smiled: "Wow~ How can there be footprints on this ground!" ”

Ye Tingbai: "If you worship it, go back and talk about it, hide behind me, don't come out." ”

Ye Tingbai went up and knocked on the door, there was still a light in the house, it was an ordinary kerosene lamp, the town was already electrified, and most people used electric lights, like this, they still used kerosene lamps, they came all the way, and they really didn't see a few.

Life seems to be struggling?

Crunch~

The door opened, and it was a very ordinary girl who pushed open the door, with a little freckles on her Chinese face.

"Who are you?"