In the first research institute, in Lu Yang's office, Bi Yao is reporting on the progress of the mission in the ghost city.

Lin Hao went to the inner city first according to the plan, and there was a very suspicious one named Green Ghost, I don't know which side it was. Lin Yuan should also go in now, and there is also a teenager named Poseidon who is extremely familiar with the ghost town and has been helping her. The big wolf checked, the paradise came over, and the procedure was regular. Bi Yao sat in Lu Yang's place, smoking a cigarette gracefully.

Lu Yang held a cup of coffee and stood in front of the sun-drenched window: "Poseidon, the loser of the gods' struggle. Hmph, what a bad game. ”

"You should know that if they really snooped on that, Hua Niang and the research institute would tear their faces and not let them out." Bi Yao spat out a puff of cigarette, narrowed his eyes, and tapped his fingers on the armrest.

"So what?" Lu Yang asked suspiciously.

"It's nothing, I just don't understand what you're thinking anymore, Lu Yang, what do you want to confirm in the ghost town?"

"No one can understand what I'm thinking, even if she knows the flower girl of the past and present, she can't count." Bi Yao's golden hair shone in the sun, and his handsome and elegant face exuded flawless tenderness, like a god who purifies all beings.

"Lin Yuan is dead, Yang Zishen will trouble you, he is very different to Lin Yuan, Fang Jin's clue is what he gave."

"He gave it? What did Lin Yuan say? Hehe, Lin Yuan has also learned to deceive people. ”

"It's me, I gave her the contact code." Yang Zishen pushed open the door and stepped in, his black windbreaker stained with dust: "You want to use Lin Yuan to test Fang Jin, I'll help you." “

"You already knew she wasn't dead. Also, she was a member of your God Hunter team, and she trusts you far more than I do. In the face of the menacing Yang Zishen, Lu Yang maintained his usual demeanor.

Yang Zishen's eyes were full of anger, and he walked directly to Lu Yang and pulled his collar, and said coldly: "I said, don't hit her with your mind, you actually let her go to a ghost town!" ”

Lu Yang carefully held the coffee in his right hand, didn't spill a drop, and said with a smile: "You can't hide it from me, I have insight into the cause and effect of you and her." She is the one at the heart of the plan, the queen who leads us to victory. ”

"Then I should be with you, too! Use Lu Yue as bait to transfer me to Afang Palace, you are really willing. He's dying, and I'm not going to save him. Yang Zishen glared at Lu Yang fiercely, revealing layers of bandages on his wrists, and the wound cracked open and soaked it red.

Lu Yang narrowed his eyes, few people could make him hurt, and a trace of worry flashed in his cold eyes: "If Lu Yue really dies inside, it can only prove that he is an unqualified younger brother." You can't go into a ghost town at all, can you? ”

In the blink of an eye, Lu Yang hid all his emotions again and continued: "Yinghe is inside, Lin Yuan will go." He calculated everything, as long as he held Lin Yuan in his hands, Yang Zishen would compromise unconditionally for this, he had already pulled Lin Yuan into this game.

Bi Yao slumped quietly in his chair, watching the two chairmen and immortals fight, there was no way, he couldn't afford to provoke anyone. I really wish I could become transparent and invisible like Fang Jin, so that he could escape immediately.

Yang Zishen finally let go of his hand, glanced at Bi Yao, who hid himself behind a pile of documents, and turned to leave: "I'll pick her up, there is no next time, otherwise I will betray the institute." ”

Lu Yang held coffee in one hand, unhurriedly arranged his clothes with the other, and whispered: "Yang Zishen, I have already held your shackles." ”

In the inner city, Lin Yuan and several people sat on the carpet in the tent, and there was a little boy sleeping in the futon next to him, and the green ghost was guarding outside the tent.

Lin Hao helped an old man walk in from outside, and he briefly explained his experience: "That night, Ghost Face sent people to kill me, and they found out my identity. The green ghost took me to hide in the inner city, and the chased after me, and the pigeon lord saved us. ”

Lin Hao was lying, this was a lie full of loopholes, Lin Yuan looked at his honest and sincere face, shook his head helplessly and chuckled.

Pigeon was a 60-year-old man, the oldest man in the city, with a wooden cane and a pigeon-shaped birthmark on his face. He has a six-year-old grandson named Zero.

"It's been a long time since the ghost town has had so many guests." The pigeon master trembled his hands and insisted on pouring tea for Lin Yuan and them: "I can see that you are not ordinary people." ”

"Excuse me, Pigeon Master." Lin Yuan nodded and thanked sincerely, they are now the people arrested in the ghost town, and once they are discovered, it will be fatal.

The old man waved his hand and sat down on the stool next to him: "There are currently about 100,000 people in the inner city, all of whom are incompletely awakened, and we are commonly known as defective products. ”

"One hundred thousand? How could there be so many! There are less than 10,000 people in the watch city. Lin Yuan exclaimed, the cup in his hand almost fell.

Lin Hao sat up straight and asked, "Pigeon Master, what do you mean by defective products?" ”

The pigeon lord nodded and explained: "The inner city is like a pyramid, and the table city is the spire. Ordinary people who have lived here for a long time will slowly awaken their abilities. But unlike ordinary infected people, we can't release energy, but only in the body, so we call ourselves defective. ”

"The infected must be awakened through the slate." Lin Hao said.

Lin Yuan nodded, she also discovered this problem, what is there in the inner city that can make ordinary people become incomplete awakened people, similar to the function of the slate, is this what they are looking for? She asked suspiciously, "Why is people's supernatural energy collapsing, and the energy of various attributes is condensed into particles?" ”

"It's not dissipation, it's absorption, and the energy in our body is forcibly pumped out uninterruptedly and slowly." A gleam flashed in the pigeon's eyes.

"Drawn by what?" Lin Yuan clenched the cup of his mobile phone, and the green tendons on his wrists were exposed.

Lin Hao replied: "I don't know, we are investigating, it was suspected that it was used as an energy supply for the Table City, but we didn't find the energy transmission channel." ”

Could it be that it was supplied to the Ghost-Faced Golden Spider? Lin Yuan knew in his heart that Lin Hao and they might not know about the ghost-faced golden spider yet. If the location of different spider webs is different, it is likely that Lin Hao and the others came directly to the 20th floor, so they did not see the mirror image of the ghost-faced golden spider on the top layer.

The pigeon lord nodded slightly, holding the cane in both hands, and the beard on his mouth shook up and down slightly: "Yes, we don't even know where our abilities have gone." No one has ever been to it, and even if it was crowded, we only lived on the three floors below. Some people say that the higher you go, the faster the energy collapses. ”

Lin Yuan stared at the reflection in the cup, and secretly pondered: No wonder, I feel a lot more relaxed after reaching the twentieth layer, it turns out that the degree of energy dissipation in each layer is different, so why is the first layer the most absorbent.

"I've lived for 60 years, and I've been in the inner city for 43 years, and my life is coming to an end.

Lin Hao nodded: "Pigeon master, please speak." ”

"Death row prisoners, refugees, terminally ill patients, vagrants, suicides... It is a place where people who have been outcast by society, we are all dead in society, and the ghost town has picked us up and created this safe haven for us. ”

"We don't need to work and think, there are endless resources for us to eat, drink and be merry, and the latest technology for us to pass the time. What is paid is only freedom and the supernatural energy in the body. Some people think it's good, you don't have to fight all your life in society; There are also people who can't bear the loneliness and commit suicide by jumping into the abyss outside. ”

"So... Isn't that like that to be slaughtered..."

"Livestock?" Poseidon was the first to say what Lin Yuan had not finished.

Lin Yuan's heart is very complicated, she knows that the ghost town is wrong like this, but if the ghost town is gone, where can these people go.

The pigeon smiled and continued: "I am a loser, hovering on the edge of the fault again and again, regretting the choice of that day again and again. ”

"It was 1977, and the college entrance examination had just been resumed. I am an educated youth in the countryside, and my parents are extremely educated intellectuals, and I am eager to show myself through the college entrance examination. But I failed, my good brother was admitted to my dream school, and my beloved girl followed him. I was depressed, tired of the whispers of the people around me, and finally stood by the river in the torrential rain, wondering how good it would be if my life ended here. ”

Looking back, the pigeon master chattered and was in good spirits, but his tone was so indifferent, and his eyes were calm and waveless.

"He appeared, accompanied by the red-clad messenger in despair, and he uncovered the bloody truth that I had suspected for a long time. My friend betrayed me, and the person who got into me was actually me, and he used his family connections to intercept my acceptance letter and rob me of everything that should have belonged to me. Knowing the truth, I only wanted revenge, but the messenger in red caused an accident for me, and my friend soon died of drunkenness in the middle of the night. In exchange, I came to the inner city. ”

"However, I was not happy, and I spent the remaining 40 years of my life repenting and enlightenment. My parents must have washed their faces with tears, the knowledge of the college entrance examination, the time spent growing up with friends, and the appearance of the beloved girl, these have long been unclear. But I have never been able to let go of the fetters that belong to people and become a real ghost. ”

"There are very few newborns here, they don't dare and don't want to have offspring, and Zero is the few poor children who survive. His father didn't know who it was, and his mother was a desperate lady who wanted to raise him well, but unfortunately died in childbirth. He longs for the outside world, longs to get out of here. But he is the child of the ghost people, and he is destined to live here for the rest of his life from birth. ”

"I've been wondering why the city doesn't completely isolate us from human civilization, so that Zero can be a ghost with peace of mind and happiness."

As he spoke, the pigeon's head slowly rested on his hand on crutches, and his voice became quieter and quieter, as if he was asleep.

"Humans are extremely fickle animals....."

Poseidon stepped forward to check, only to find that his lips were blue and his face was pale. He reached out to sniff, felt the artery in his neck, and finally shook his head and said, "He's dead." ”

The pigeon died suddenly without any warning. Lin Yuan put down the tea that had cooled in his hand, and looked back at the sleeping Zero behind him, a well-behaved and cute little boy who was still coquettish in his parents' arms.

"When we go out, take him with you." Lin Yuan folded the quilt for Ling and said softly.

Lin Hao was silent, this was not within the scope of the mission, and it was impossible to take people out from the inner city. The meaning of the ghost city is that there are 100,000 hidden people in the inner city, they are the real ghost people, and they exist to be extracted from the energy of the ability.

"Okay, I'll help you." Poseidon came over.

"No, Poseidon, let's separate here." Lin Yuan said with a straight face, his eyes full of determination.