Large and medium-sized human settlements are closed and open at the same time.

It is a large enclosed castle with four high walls and a high-strength, transparent dome of unknown material, which envelops the settlement impenetrable. The castle has gates on all sides, but the east, west, and north gates are always closed, and only the south gate can enter and exit.

This seemingly well-fortified castle allows anyone to enter and exit freely as long as they sign it. Yi Mufuhua said that this is the most liberal and inclusive post-apocalyptic settlement he has ever seen.

There is no gate guard at the south gate, only a guard room. The guard's room is made of a single transparent material, with a yellowish color, and there are no doors and windows in the direction facing the outside of the city, only a round hole about ten centimeters in diameter. A middle-aged man with a big belly sat in a chair, holding a rare paper book in his hand.

From a distance, it looks like someone has placed a large amber at the south gate, and the amber is not wrapped in insects, but people.

When Luo Youcheng and Jiang Xiaoyu approached, the middle-aged porter moved his gaze from the book to the two of them, he put down the book, got up and walked to the position of the round hole. He stretched his hand out of the round hole, and in the palm of his hand was a thick pen. He smiled and said to the two:

"Sign it."

There were no paper autographs or electronic signature pads, and the siblings looked at each other.

The middle-aged porter said, "Sign it in the palm of my hand." ”

So Luo Youcheng picked up the signature pen and wrote the word "sir" in the palm of the concierge. The porter waited two seconds, frowned, withdrew his hand, wiped the ink stain off with a square towel, and again put his hand out of the round hole, and said:

"I want to sign my real name."

Luo Youcheng signed "Chen Youluo". The porter wiped the ink again, and the smile on his face vanished.

"One last chance, write down your real name, or you will be turned away from the city forever."

Luo Youcheng had no choice but to write down his real name. His name faded in the palm of the middle-aged porter's palm and quickly disappeared, like a drop of water falling on a pile of sand. The palm of the porter could distinguish the real and fake names, which made Luo Youcheng look up to him a little bit.

Jiang Xiaoyu also wrote down his real name, and after the name disappeared, the porter nodded with satisfaction and said:

"I remember both of you, and I won't need to sign when I go in and out in the future."

Luo Youcheng asked in surprise: "Can you remember all the people who have been in and out?" ”

The porter smiled, didn't answer, and sat back in his chair, pressing a button on the console in front of him, and the heavy alloy door quickly slid open to the sides. Luo Youcheng saw that the other party didn't care about his intentions anymore, so he didn't ask any more questions, and entered the south gate with Jiang Xiaoyu.

Inside and outside the door are two worlds, and the primitive desolation outside the door and the bustle inside the door form a huge contrast. Inside the gate, there is a wide straight street lined with shops.

Walking through the streets, you will feel like you are in the downtown area of ancient times. The buildings here are of the same style and height as the 10-storey buildings, but there are different decorative paintings on the façade to distinguish each building. Although the streets are not crowded with people, they are constantly crowded. It was lunchtime, and several restaurants were full. This is very different from the internal structure of the castle that Luo Youcheng expected.

He looked up at the dome again. Previously, he and his second sister were going to fly in directly, but they were blocked by the big "glass cover", Luo Youcheng tested it with his mind and found that the cover was not ordinarily strong. That's why I walked through the door. There is no splicing of the dome, and the two square kilometers of high-transmittance material are formed in one piece. Looking up at the sky through the dome, there was no discomfort, as if the dome didn't exist at all.

The sister and brother followed the positioning coordinates sent by Yi Mu Fuhua and found a hotel. The name of the hotel is "Little Hotel", in fact, it is not small at all, and the ten floors are his family. The hotel's service is also in place, and the intelligent waiter made a special trip to guide the sister and brother to Yi Mu Fuhua's room.

Yi Mu Fuhua and his guards lived on the top floor. The top floor has the highest floor height, reaching four meters, and the giantess Liu Jianniang does not feel cramped here. After Liu Jianniang joined the escort team, her personality was also a lot more cheerful, and her crisp and tactful voice came out of the mouth of the two-meter-and-a-half big man, although he had heard it many times, Luo Youcheng still didn't get used to it.

"Sir, the person you worked so hard to recruit was stolen by a piece of skin, so aggrieved."

Luo Youcheng said bitterly: "Who said it wasn't? ”

Yi Mu Fuhua asked: "Are you sure that the murderer is a knife shop?" ”

"The appearance and characteristics match, when he left northwest Yunnan, he also brought a broken knife."

Yi Mufuhua said: "I went to inquire later, and the knife breaker used a long-handled two-handed knife, and the clothes on his body were made of black and gray fabrics, like a flower child. ”

"That's right, it's him." Luo Youcheng said, "But it stands to reason that the skin ghost should take him back to Donghu in Seoul and go to Hunan Province to do something?" It's not a good way to go. ”

Ice. No one could answer that question, and they had only heard about Peeves.

Luo Youcheng said to Yi Mu Fuhua: "No matter what you say, the knife shop is our person, and the big, middle and high-level are angry, but I am afraid that the cooperation with them will not be easy to discuss, or it will not be counted." ”

"When the news came out, I only listened to it as a story and didn't pay much attention to it, so the information was a little biased." Yi Mu Fuhua waved his hand and said, "The knife shop did kill people, killed two. Neither of them is a native of this place, and they came here two weeks ago to do some medicinal herb trading. I don't think that the top brass will make a feud against us for two outsiders, and it's a big deal to give them some compensation. ”

At this moment, two guards entered the room. Luo Youcheng looked at it, they were all familiar to him, sharp corners and directions to the east. The two gave Luo Youcheng a college salute. Xiang Dong said excitedly:

"It's out again. It is said that a lot of evidence was found in the rented houses of the two deceased, which proved that they were spies from the west. The high-level officials all went out, not to arrest the swordsman, but to invite him back to join the gang. ”

The plot reversal caught him off guard, but it made Luo Youcheng feel a lot more at ease, he said: "Then talk to them." Sharp Corner and continue to inquire eastward. My second sister and I went to Donghu Lake in Seoul to listen to what the water ghost king had to say. ”

Yi Mu Fuhua asked, "Don't you continue to look for it anymore?" ”

"Before coming in, my second sister and I had already searched for a radius of dozens of kilometers, and we didn't even see a figure." Luo Youcheng got up and walked out, "Tell me any news in time." ”

When the siblings came to the south gate, the gate opened automatically. This gateway into the city, as long as you sign it, you can enter and exit freely, and the security measures are outrageous.

The middle-aged porter looked at them in surprise and asked:

"Are you two going to leave so soon?"

"yes, there's something else." Luo Youcheng lazily coped. Suddenly, thinking of something, he hurried to the round hole in the guard's room and asked:

"Can you remember all the people who came in and out?"

"Yes." The porter responded positively this time.

"Did the murderous swordsman ever enter the city?"

The porter asked, "Are you here for the swordsman?" There was no superfluous expression on his face, and he couldn't tell whether he liked it or disliked it.

There is a second version of the news at the bottom, Luo Youcheng wanted to see the reaction of the concierge, and he said half-truthfully:

"He's our friend, he's been having a brain problem lately, I'm afraid he'll continue to cause trouble outside, so I'm going to find him quickly and take him back."

The porter glanced at Luo Youcheng with interest and asked, "You said that he is your friend, but there is evidence." ”

"You can remember all the people who signed it, you should know that his name is Knife Hang."

The porter tugged at the corners of his mouth, sat back in his chair, and picked up the paper book. He lost interest in talking to the two again.

Luo Youcheng looked at Jiang Xiaoyu suspiciously, and asked, "Isn't it the knife that kills people?" ”

Jiang Xiaoyu was also puzzled, all the characteristics were consistent with the knife line, it should be him. But the one who enters the city is not called a knife shop, and a fake name or a pseudonym can't deceive the porter, she guessed:

"Isn't the knife shop his real name?"

Luo Youcheng hurriedly called the old man Dao, and the old man swore that his great-grandson had been called by this name since he came out of his mother's womb, and he had never used his name.

Jiang Xiaoyu had a flash of inspiration: "It is the skin ghost who controls the body, since the skin skin ghost has wisdom, will it also have a name?" ”

Luo Youcheng called the water ghost king again, and the water ghost king said yes, and he laboriously spit out a few syllables from his mouth - da, ku, lu, and yo. After the line was closed, Luo Youcheng's monocle received several strange characters, which were very complex, like mycelium emitted by slime molds.

Luo Youcheng shouted at the guard room: "His name is Da, Ku, Lu, and Yu." ”

The porter glanced at Luo Youcheng, but still didn't mean to stand up.

Luo Youcheng continued: "The strokes are very complex, like slime mycelium. ”

The porter closed the book, but still did not speak.

Luo Youcheng continued: "Like the veins on the leaves...... Well, it connects like a traffic map. ”

The porter finally stood up, took a page, and walked over. He handed the pen and paper out of the hole. Luo Youcheng drew the symbols in the monocle.

The porter took the paper, and the same symbol appeared in his palm. He contrasted the two and said:

"All I know is that he ran southeast. But if our people can't find him, it's in vain for you to go. ”

Luo Youcheng knew that the porter was telling the truth, half a day had passed, and Peeves' concealment ability was extremely strong.

The porter continued, "Otherwise, you will stay here, and maybe the Daku will be sometime...... The Knife Breaker is back. Our people here are simple, warm and friendly, and the living conditions are also good. ”

The siblings both heard that the porter was soliciting in disguise, mostly because they were friends with the knife shop. The porter took the initiative to lure them, and their identities must not be simple, and the sisters and brothers were not in a hurry to leave. Luo Youcheng's high-frequency perception was activated, monitoring the mood of the concierge.

"Uncle." Luo Youcheng's title also changed, "Did our friend disturb the local residents?" ”

"He cut off two people's heads in the downtown area, did you say it was disturbed?" The porter glared at Luo Youcheng, and he wasn't really angry, "However, he killed someone and left, and didn't hurt anyone else." ”

"I heard those two people are spies?"

"From the west."

Luo Youcheng nodded and said, "There are few good people in the west, so they should be killed." ”

The porter laughed: "You have a grudge against Weston? ”

Luo Youcheng didn't find anything wrong in the concierge's mood, he decided to test it, and projected an image on the clearing, which was intercepted from the battle in Chuxiong City. After the porter saw the impact, the emotions of joy and surprise could not be faked, so Luo Youcheng said:

"The Charm has killed a lot."

The porter opened his mouth and smiled brightly, and his greasy belly fell together, and he shouted very proudly:

"Good job, heroes out of boys."

"Uncle, I have a reluctant request."

"Tell me about it." The porter was enthusiastic about the two powerful young men.

"Can you show us those two bodies? Maybe you can see some clues from this. It would be great if you could sort out a line. ”

"I'll call an AI to take you there." After the porter finished speaking, he shook his head again, "I'll take you there." ”

He clicked on the light screen to operate, and eight big words appeared on the guard room - those who did not sign suspended entering and leaving. Then he opened the door to the inner room and walked out.

The siblings entered the city again, and the porter was already waiting on the street. The porter is fatter than in the guard's room, and it seems that the "amber" still has a "slimming" effect.

Luo Youcheng complained to the porter:

"Your security is terrible."

The porter said, "We don't defend against those who keep to ourselves, and if we do something, it will be bad." ”

He clapped his hands, and many gun barrels poked out of the outer walls of the buildings on both sides, scaring all the pedestrians on the road into hiding in the shops. They huddled in front of the window and pointed outside, thinking that someone else had killed someone else in the city.

The porter shouted into the window, "Show, I'm showing." ”

Luo Youcheng reminded: "You said this is a drill." ”

The porter patted his head, straightened his belly and shouted, "This is a drill, don't panic." He turned to the window on the other side and shouted again.

Everyone watched the porter stand well on the street before they came out of the shop one after another. The porter clapped his hands again, allowing the barrel to retract. He smiled smugly at Luo Youcheng. Luo Youcheng said disapprehantly:

"It can bluff ordinary people, if I'm not mistaken, it's all [anesthetic] guns, right? These things don't work. ”

"And electric shocks [guns]." The porter argued.

Regarding the electric shock [gun], Luo Youcheng was noncommittal, but said lightly: "I didn't leave my friend." ”

The porter said, "I let the water go and didn't lock the door, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to escape." ”

Luo Youcheng smiled and asked, "Why don't you lock it?" How good it is to catch turtles in an urn. ”

The porter's expression was a little stiff: "He's so powerful, close the gate, what if he kills in the city?" ”

Luo Youcheng said that you are very thoughtful, and motioned to the porter to lead the way. The concierge summoned an intelligent hovercar, and after the three of them boarded the car, the hovercar drove north along this straight street.

The funeral home is at the end of the road, away from the accommodation and business areas. In fact, halfway through the road, the apartment buildings are gone, replaced by various factories, including vegetable bases and artificial meat cultivation bases.

There were only two male bodies in the funeral home, which were placed in a freezer. The skull is placed in front of the neck and is not sutured. Luo Youcheng opened the freezer cabin and turned on the shooting mode of the monocle before he went to check the neck incision of the deceased and made sure that it was a person, not a Lu. The siblings examined every detail of the corpse and finally found a faint black line on the skin on the back. The concierge said that it was the effect after washing the tattoo, and the person who washed the tattoo was unprofessional and did not wash it cleanly.

Luo Youcheng asked: "Can you see what the pattern was before?" ”

The porter, struggling to overcome the obstacle of the big belly, leaned closer and gestured his finger on the deceased's skin for a moment, saying, "It seems that XY is spliced together." ”

The sister and brother glanced at each other and said in unison: "Ghost cave logo." ”

The porter asked, "What hell cave?" ”

Luo Youcheng asked, "You don't know about ghost caves?" But you seem to know the ghosts. ”

The porter said that they had heard the legend of the Charm from many outsiders, so Luo Youcheng was not surprised to mention him. However, they did not send anyone into your province to investigate, and there were only eleven Strangers in this settlement, each of whom was very valuable, and they were not willing to take the risk. The strength shown by the Knife Breaker made them happy to see Hunter, and they hoped to persuade the other party to stay, so they set out to chase the Knife Breaker.

Luo Youcheng knew that once the Peeves were ruthless, but the six relatives didn't recognize it, he worried: "Aren't you worried that he will hurt your companions?" ”

The porter said with a fluke mentality: "You have to try your luck, the two people he killed, we were under surveillance a week ago, and now it has confirmed our suspicions." I think the enemy of my enemy should be able to be friends. ”

Luo Youcheng said: "But my friend is not conscious, and I am worried...... Accidental injury. ”

The porter was also worried, he closed the freezer, walked into the funeral home's office, called up the brain light screen, found a conversation window, and asked where his companion was. The other party quickly replied, saying that the Knife Breaker was not found. The porter breathed a sigh of relief and told them to hurry back to the settlement. Because of Luo Youcheng's sisters and brothers, the porter's thirst for the knife breaker is not so strong, not to mention that a master who is unconscious is placed in the settlement, like a time bomb.

Luo Youcheng saw that the porter recalled the strangers of the settlement, and he was also relieved, he still had a good impression of this settlement, and he didn't want to cause them losses.

"What did you find in the relics of those two people?"

"They are collecting large and medium-sized intelligence, including population data, industrial structure, factory distribution, and security layout, and the first three items are listed in great detail."

Luo Youcheng suggested: "Your security really needs to be changed, and if you can't report your real name, you can just put people in it." ”

"There is flow to be vitality...... "The porter said nothing, he pondered for a while and said, "Let's discuss it again." ”

Luo Youcheng said: "We also have a few companions, staying in room 1018 of the small hotel, you can find Yi Mu Fuhua, he will tell you the story of the ghost cave and the ghost king, and will also give you some pertinent advice." ”

The porter's brain was still very useful, and he immediately heard the sound outside the strings. He looked at Luo Youcheng's sister and brother, and finally smiled helplessly:

"It seems that Dazhong can't invite you to join, which force do you belong to?"

"The forces that oppose the Ghost King." Luo Youcheng replied, he said apologetically, "We have to get our friend back as soon as possible, and we can't delay any longer." Your questions can be answered by emu. ”

The porter did not insist on it, and drove the siblings out of the settlement in a hovercar.

"Goodbye, then, Chief, I hope we have a chance to cooperate." Luo Youcheng said suddenly.

The porter just smiled and waved to the siblings.