Chapter 264: A City of Doubts
"What second round, what nameless fog...... Brother, are you sick in the second middle school......" Dong Bin, who came to call himself downstairs to eat, muttered and pushed the door open.
This kid still retains the false memories that were injected into this dock capital a hundred years ago, and in his cognition, he still maintains the identity of Xiao Yao's younger brother and the identity of an ordinary person who has never been in contact with the transcendent world.
So he pushed open the door and froze.
Xiao Yao sighed, if there was no Xiao Ash in his spiritual world, then everything would be over, and he would be like Dong Bin in front of him, ignorantly continuing to live an ordinary life in this city according to the arrangements of the people behind the scenes, living a hypocritical life...... A worthless life.
He looked at the stunned Dong Bin, opened his mouth and prepared to explain a few words casually, and then find an opportunity to wake up this kid too-
I saw Dong Bin turn his head and shouted downstairs: "Big sister!" Xiao Yao, he kidnapped a girl from outside and came back! It looks like it's all done! ”
Xiao Yao squirted out, he turned his head to look, Xiao Ash somehow put back the scales and wings on his body by being clever, and then said simply...... It's just that I don't have any clothes......
This guy claims to have no gender, never cared about clothes and human aesthetics, usually she has a layer of scales on her body, like fish scale armor, no different from wearing clothes, but you can see obvious inhuman features. Therefore, when Xiao Ash followed Xiao Yao and they ate and drank in front of outsiders, they privately avoided Xiao Yao's sight and put on the clothes prepared by Elizabeth - Elizabeth's rules.
And now, it is estimated that this guy thinks that keeping those scales and wings will scare Dong Bin, who has not yet recovered his memory, and then thinks that he is very wise to hide the scales and wings......
Well, the inhuman characteristics are gone, and Xiao Yao's innocence is gone.
Xiao Yao immediately gave up all the relatively mild plans, grabbed Dong Bin and pulled him into the room, and shouted at the same time: "Little Ash, you turn the scales back for me!" Use violence with me to get back the memories of this stinky boy! ”
Violence doesn't always solve the problem, but it often solves the person who created the problem.
"What are you doing? Kill people? Sister, save me...... Wait, that's wings? Paw...... Ahh......hhh Help, murder! Sister, run, Xiao Yao has become a demon......"
Dong Bin's ghost crying wolf howl was quickly stopped by Xiao Yao's violence, Xiao Yao wasted a lot of effort, turned over several keywords that Dong Bin should care about, and dangled in front of Dong Bin with a ball of cangyan...... Whether it's useful or not, it's always very angry......
Finally, Dong Bin's eyes changed from frightened to confused and finally woke up, he pushed Xiao Yao away, slowly pulled out a bone sword out of thin air, and then held the bone sword and thought about life blankly.
"I'm finally awake," Xiao Yao finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Dong Bin like this, "I was thinking about whether to see you and let you have some blood just now." ”
The corners of Dong Bin's mouth twitched, and sure enough, Xiao Yao, this guy is still as heavy and light as ever: "Although my brain is a little messy now...... But one thing I know for sure, just ...... It's the black history that the two of us share, right? ”
Xiao Yao nodded, and it seemed that the Dong Bin he knew at the corner of his mouth was back.
"Then let's forget what just happened."
"Good idea...... Don't hide, Ash, swear to me that you won't put away your scales in front of anyone else in the future! Don't quibble, I'm not the only one I can see! It's a bit messy...... But you get the idea, right? ”
Next, it was easier to wake up Ye Ruoxue, this time there was no violence, Xiao Yao just told some things about Yiyi, the girl sat on the sofa and hugged her knees for a while, her eyes quickly cleared up, and the Ye Ruoxue they knew was called back so simply.
The four of them sat around the restaurant, and the fish head that Ye Ruoxue had just stewed was still emitting steam, but no one was in the mood to move the chopsticks.
"It's really fortunate that Ash is here this time, otherwise we wouldn't all have to fall here." Xiao Yao concluded with a sense of guilt, "Now the things we are going to discuss are also very clear - how to solve this incident. ”
"Then let's quickly figure out how we got hit...... Dong Bin grimaced, "I remember to be with Ye Ruoxue, follow the caravan out of the city, and then there will be no follow-up." ”
Ye Ruoxue added: "I remember a little more, we seem to see some 'people' who shouldn't be there...... Yes, some, and they're 'basically' human...... I can't remember any more of it, and there is only one word left in my memory—mutilated. ”
"Mutilated...... It's kind of strange that I haven't been exposed to anything like it at the moment, at least not yet. Xiao Yao silently memorized the word "mutilated" in his heart, "Me too, I can't remember clearly." But the point is - what did we trigger to be assimilated overnight? ”
Looking at each other, none of them would answer this question.
Originally, they all underestimated the horror of the city's "assimilation", thinking that the process of "assimilation" would take a long time, and they only needed to keep in mind that this place was hypocritical, remind each other, and solve it quickly, so that they could avoid being assimilated here, but now, ...... It is clear that this "assimilation" can be very rapid, and as soon as a certain condition is met, overnight they will lose themselves.
But what exactly is that "condition"?
"We can only be vigilant first, it's best for us to act together during this time, once someone has a tendency to be assimilated, the other people remember to wake him up immediately - it's okay to wake up." Ye Ruoxue sighed, this absolute disadvantage in the clouds made him very unhappy.
The period of assimilation was not actually worthless, at least they "broke into the enemy" and learned more things that they could not have learned as "tourists". Several people discussed it back and forth for a while, sorting out as much information as possible about all the possible valuable information in the city—
First, there is a problem with people in the city.
The first is the quantity, a hundred years ago, Wudu, although the number of residents is certainly not as good as the modern city a hundred years later, but a few tens of thousands of people are more than enough. However, in this hundred-year-old dock capital, they estimated the number of people - more than a thousand.
There are more than 1,000 people, but I am afraid that there are more than these people in a slightly larger village.
Many of the houses in the city are empty and uninhabited, but when you walk into those empty houses, you will find that the houses are clean and undusted, and the sound of balconies and even clothes drying will create a false impression of being inhabited.
It seems that it is precisely because there are relatively few real residents in the city that the more than 1,000 people know each other almost all of them.
Second, they listed those who might be behind it.
Boss Zhao of the caravan, Dong Bin and Ye Ruoxue followed him out of the city together, I don't know what happened outside the city, both of them were assimilated by the hypocrisy of the city, and the next day Boss Zhao continued to eat seas in the tavern as if he had never been out of the city.
The mysterious wizard, as the only person in the city who has his supernatural powers written on his face, must have some connection to the forces behind the scenes.
The person Qi Rui went to meet, Qi Rui has not heard from him since he went, and it is still unclear whether he was assimilated or imprisoned. Of course, Xiao Yao didn't believe that Qi Rui would die like this, this was an instinctive judgment.
Finally, it is also the most suspicious one - in the memory of hypocrisy, Xiao Lian, who is Xiao Yao's childhood sweetheart.
Although Xiao Yao didn't want to suspect this little girl who looked harmless to humans and animals, the facts showed that her suspicion was even much greater than that of Zhao Lao.
"When you look at it this way, it seems that the city is not as 'normal' as we thought it would be at the beginning." Dong Bin concluded with satisfaction.
"Yes, these loopholes are indeed interesting...... Xiao Yao thought with his chin propped up, "The question now is - what are we going to do next......
"There is a suggestion: Dong Bin and I will investigate Boss Zhao, and you will investigate Xiaolian, I feel that this is a better entry point." Ye Ruoxue said, "Our advantage is that the forces behind the scenes may not know that we have returned to normal. All we just pretend nothing is happening and try to find out as much as we can. ”
"Coming back?" Xiao Ash, who had been sitting on the sofa in a daze, said that he was too lazy to use his brain, and Xiao Ash, who was bored and ate fruit, raised his head, "I remember that this was almost the division of labor before you were lost, if something goes wrong this time, I can't guarantee that I can wake Xiao Yao up again." ”
Ye Ruoxue's face turned slightly red: "Last time, I underestimated the enemy, but this time I won't." ”
"That's right! I think what Sister Xue said makes a lot of sense. Dong Bin has always maintained the style of supporting Ye Ruoxue.
"No, I support Ash's claim." Xiao Yao shook his head, his eyes were slightly strange, "The last time we did, it was such a failure. Once a condition is triggered, even the person who breaks the rules will be tricked - this is much more troublesome than the average knife, and we can't guarantee that we will not inadvertently touch the trigger condition when pretending to be 'normal', or it is possible that 'pretending to be normal' is the trigger condition. ”
"So, what's your opinion?" Ye Ruoxue asked.
"In the first leg, we didn't repeat everything we did...... In other words, not only should we not pretend to be 'normal', but we should also be as abnormal as possible......" Xiao Yao sneered and said, "Aren't the people behind the scenes trying to make this city develop normally and smoothly?" We're going to let this place fall into hell! ”
……
The next day, among rumors among the residents of Wudu who got up early, there was a bloody homicide in Wudu.
According to rumors, Dong Bin, a young man who moved to Wudu a few years ago, has always been lively and active, and gets along well with many parents and neighbors, has died.
The corpse was nailed to the roof of the house where they lived by a nameless bone sword, and many people who got up in the morning saw the scene—the boy's stiff face was full of horror, and his body was covered with bloody wounds, which seemed to appear out of thin air, outlining strange runes on the boy's body.
Ye Ruoxue, the eldest daughter of that family, seemed to be crazy, the girl was huddled in the yard trembling, crying and laughing for a while, and she was talking nonsense all the time, unable to say any valuable words.
"In the eternal mansion, L'Alaye, the sleeping Cthulhu waits for you to fall asleep."
"The black goat of the forest that gives birth to all things!"
"King of the Yellow Coat, Unspeakable High Priest!"
“……”
She repeatedly told such non-questions as if in a dream in front of those who came to inquire.
The more terrifying thing was still to come, when people pulled out the bone sword in Dong Bin's chest, several people heard a few faint heartbeats. At first, people thought it was an illusion, but in the evening, Dong Bin's body was unattended and the coffin was pushed open and disappeared with the bone sword.
The string of bloody footprints, stretching from the coffin to the depths of the night, made the funeral home people heartbroken.
The eldest son, Xiao Yao, is still missing. However, people found many cracks in his room, the same as the wounds on Dong Bin's corpse, and also found a bloody footprint on the window frame, similar to a human but with sharp claws.
The atmosphere of strangeness and fear enveloped the whole city, and everyone in Wudu talked about it, and they fell asleep in fear for the first time.
And it was at this time that Xiao Lian, who took care of Ye Ruoxue, who was crazy, heard a sentence in Ye Ruoxue's mouth-
"It's Xiao Yao...... It's Xiao Yao...... He summoned demons...... The Old Dominator pushed him into the abyss of madness with his own hands......"
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