Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Yin City
Behind the statue is the entrance to the elevator.
This elevator is very similar to the one Chen Xian encountered in the mental hospital, and it can only go down.
Taking out the electronic identity card prepared in advance, Chen Xian swiped it at the elevator button.
With a ding, the elevator doors opened.
"Follow me."
"Hmm."
The elevator leading to the Yin City is actually no different from an ordinary elevator, with a bright silver gray as the main body, and the shape and craftsmanship are very modern, but the buttons inside are a little more unique.
The buttons are all raised buttons, which seem to be made of copper, and the surface has a faint dull yellow sheen, except for the button that opens and closes the elevator door, the remaining two buttons are 1 and -1.
Press the button on the negative floor, and the elevator door slowly closes and begins to descend silently.
It can be seen from the descent time that the distance between the first floor and the negative floor is very long, and it is definitely not the distance of three or four meters like ordinary residential buildings, but the distance of tens of meters or even hundreds of meters.
Maybe it was because the elevator was going down too fast, Chen Xian felt his eardrums buzzing, and the feeling of weightlessness made him feel very uncomfortable, and his brows couldn't help frowning, he just hoped that the elevator would arrive soon.
Suddenly, the girl tilted her head and glanced at Chen Xian, and at this time her expression became a little strange, as if she sensed that Chen Xian's body was not very comfortable.
Chen Xianzheng frowned and closed his eyes, and suddenly felt something hot in his ears.
When I opened my eyes, I saw that she had reached over and was covering her ears for herself.
When she saw Chen Xian open her eyes, the girl smiled stupidly, revealing a cute little tiger tooth.
"Sometimes I think you're stupid, sometimes you're smart......." Chen Xian patted the back of her hand gently, as if she was not used to this kind of slightly intimate action, her expression became a little unnatural, but her mouth was still counting her, "Don't stumble when you walk, we are going to apply for a permit, do you want to be low-key?" β
"Yes." The girl's voice was clearer, but not as inarticulate as it had been.
Soon, the elevator stopped, the heavy metal doors slowly opened, and the colorful neon lights reflected in the street outside.
What does the yin market look like?
Before Chen Xian came to the Yin City for the first time, he had also constructed the appearance of the Yin City in his brain.
There should be eerie streets, cobwebs everywhere, burning paper money, and ......
Anyway, it's how to be eerie and terrifying.
This stereotype lasted until he stepped through the gates of the netherworld.
It wasn't until he saw the real Yin City that he realized that he was wrong.
"Follow me, don't run around."
"Hmm!"
"Don't say yes, yes, yes."
"Hmm!"
Although Yin City is only a special underground business circle, and the area is not very large, if you look at it from outsiders, it will definitely feel like a small city independent of the world.
The zenith is about 50 meters high from the ground, and if you look at it during the day, you will inevitably feel depressed, but it has always been in the "middle of the night", and the special starry sky lamp made by the management party has been hitting the zenith, at first glance, the zenith seems to have really become a starry sky, the sky is full of stars, and there is even a bright moon hanging on the "sky" not far away.
The night was just right.
This is the feeling that everyone who comes to the underworld will have.
Compared with the modern city outside, the buildings in the Yin City are more old, about the level of the 90s in the domestic cities, most of the houses are still only brick and concrete structures, and most of the decorative paint painted on the exterior walls is also peeled, and every corner exudes a dilapidated atmosphere of the old times.
Of course, old is just old, and in a way, it's very prosperous.
It's like the old Hong Kong in the last century, the streets are lined with dazzling neon signs, and under those colorful lights, the old streets are also covered with a layer of bizarre shadows, and the pedestrians are lined with these strange halos, and everyone seems to come from the shadow of the lights and go to the shadows of the lights.
Lao Liu's home-cooked food, Jinli comes to the pawnshop, and hospitality comes to the hotelββ
Names that seem to be ordinary are shining on the neon lights.
Most of the passers-by whispered, but occasionally drunken people made loud noises, and sometimes some young people could be heard giggling and laughing.
"It's still the same....." Chen Xian walked down the street holding the girl's little hand and sighed in a low voice.
The girl saw everything fresh, kept looking left and right, and as if she had found something, she suddenly tugged Chen Xian's arm hard, and secretly pointed to a certain man walking on the road.
Chen Xian glanced in the direction she was pointing and admonished in a low voice; "Don't point at people on the road, it's rude."
The man the girl pointed to was about forty years old, pale, dressed in a dark black suit, with a top hat of the same color on his head, walking down the street with his head bowed, as if he was in a hurry to do something, even in thick-soled leather shoes, he did not make a sound.
If you don't look closely, you can't see anything strange about this man.
He was floating, about ten centimeters above the ground.
"It should be a spirit, the same dean you tore off." Chen Xian took the girl by the hand, and did not delay any longer, and went straight to the old liar's shop.
There are not only humans in the Yin Market, but also some non-humans who have entered the Yin Market legally with a license.
The most common is spirits.
It is undeniable that in addition to those harmful spirits, there are still many good spirits in this world, and a very small number of them have intelligence that is no different from that of humans, and they can also practice independently.
According to religious theory, they are considered ghosts and immortals, and they have much more power than ordinary spirits, although they still can't have real physical bodies, but their bodies condensed by using yin qi look no different from real physical bodies.
Walking on the road, the girl looked very surprised, and from time to time she would drag Chen Xian and signal him to look in a certain direction.
Chen Xian didn't make a sound, didn't say much to the girl, and rushed to the location of the old liar as quickly as possible, in the deepest alley of the yin market.
The old crook opened a grocery store, the area is not small, three stories high, but the location of his store is too remote, and there is no signboard, it is estimated that it will take a lot of effort for unfamiliar customers to find here.
Chen Xian took the girl into the door and saw that the old liar was not on the first floor but upstairs, it seemed that he was in a good mood today, humming and chirping upstairs and singing, the older the more sassy the singing made Chen Xian's scalp a little numb.
"Time has passed, and there will never be ...... The past can only go back to my grass!! β
There was a muffled thud, and the old liar's song was broken.
Judging from the sound of him landing, this old thing should have fallen not lightly, and hissed for half a minute.
"Boss Ge!"
"Xiao Chen, are you here? Wait for me to come down right away! β
With the sound of thumping footsteps, an old man with gray hair and a thin figure quickly ran down the stairs, he didn't seem to feel cold on these March days, wearing only a white vest with holes on his upper body, a pair of particularly eye-catching colorful beach pants on his lower body, and a pair of flip-flops under his feet.
Seeing him dressed like this, Chen Xian couldn't help but sigh in his heart, if he had gone to Xing Ye's kung fu to interview for a mirror, maybe the role of the Huoyun Evil God would be his, this outfit was simply unusual.
"You're not cold?" Chen Xian couldn't help but ask him.
The old liar smiled, took out a box of cigarettes from his pocket, and nodded with a smile: "There is heating in my store, anyway, the public reimburses the electricity bill, so the fool won't turn it on." β
"It's March and the heating is on, and you're not afraid of getting hot." Chen Xian said helplessly.
The old liar just laughed and didn't explain, took his eyes off Chen Xian, and stared at the girl almost intently, the fire of gossip in his eyes burning.
"Xiao Chen, this girl is ......"
"My friend." Chen Xian's face did not change and introduced, "It is she who applies for the certificate." β
The old liar approached the two with a smile, kept looking at the girl, and asked in a particularly gossipy manner, "Little girl, what is your name?" How did you meet Xiao Chen? β
The girl blinked her big innocent eyes and didn't say a word.
"Ge Ye, can you stop asking...... Chen Xian said a little eagerly, and didn't call him the boss anymore, "This matter is really urgent, let's get down to business first?" β
Hearing this, the old liar glanced at the girl a little unwillingly, and although his face was already full of curiosity, he still decided to do what Chen Xian said.
"Okay, let's come up and take a photo first."
The old liar said this, and went to the staircase again, and staggered upstairs.