"Is he going to that place?" The Rat King, who was standing next to me, whispered.

He was talking to himself, he didn't look at me at all when he spoke, his eyes kept staring into the depths of the tunnel.

There was no light in the corridor, and there was only darkness as far as the eye could see.

I felt that the Rat King's mood was quite fluctuating now, so I asked, "Where are you going?" ”

"Execution Square," replied the Rat King in a muffled voice, "it used to be a place where prisoners were executed, and it is said that there was an accident there not long after the new city was built. ”

He paused several times as he spoke, and seemed to deliberately ignore some important details in his words.

I asked, "What happened?" ”

The Rat King shook his head: "The people who witnessed that incident are now dead, and I only know that many people died at that time." ”

Since it is a place of execution, of course, many people have died, but listening to the tone of the Rat King, the death of these people seems to have nothing to do with the execution.

At this time, the Rat King sighed sullenly: "If he really wants to go there, we have to be careful, that place is quite weird." ”

With that, the Rat King pressed his steps into the corridor.

Unlike most of the tunnels in the drainage system, there are very few branch roads in this tunnel, almost in a straight way that slopes downward, and occasionally you can see some side holes in the road wall, each of which is very shallow, and you can see the uneven bottom of the cave at a glance, I feel that these caves should have been excavated as drainage pipes, but they were all stopped for unknown reasons.

As we went deeper and deeper, the light reflected from the shantytown could no longer penetrate the darkness, and because we were discovered, we did not dare to light the light, so we could only follow the footsteps of the scorched man.

After going into the darkness for a while, the scorched-faced man lit a candle, and the rat king and I realized that he was less than ten meters away from us at the moment.

Due to the heavy echo in the corridor, I couldn't accurately judge the opponent's position by sound like I did in the arena, and I didn't stop the speed at once, but I was so close to him.

The scorched-faced man seemed to sense someone following him, so he turned around and glanced at us carefully.

Fortunately, it was dark enough that he didn't notice us.

After that, the Rat King and I had to slow down and keep our footsteps very soft to avoid being spotted by the Scorched Man.

I don't know how far we walked in the dark, until the sound of rushing water began to echo in our ears, and the scorched-faced man suddenly stopped, illuminated the wall with a candle, and probed carefully.

After about a minute, the candle flame illuminated a hole in the wall, and the scorched-faced man once again held the candle and looked behind him twice, making sure that no one was following, before shrinking back into the hole.

At the moment when he got into the hole, the Rat King's mind fluctuated violently again.

If I'm not mistaken, behind the hole, there's the execution square he just mentioned.

I pressed my steps to keep up, but I felt the rat king rub my arm with his palm, and he probably wanted to put his hand on my shoulder to make me stop, but the light was too dark for my palm to touch.

When the footsteps of the scorched-faced man disappeared behind the hole, the Rat King whispered to me, "Wait a minute." ”

"What are you waiting for?"

"Light."

Light? What light?

I wondered, but the Rat King grabbed me by the shoulder, as if to tell me not to ask again.

In a moment, there was a sudden humming sound like an engine in the mouth of the cave, and then a dim light shone out of the hole.

Only then did I understand what the Rat King meant, and this was the light he was waiting for.

But at the moment when the lights came on, I felt a great fear floating in the Rat King's heart.

By the light, I could vaguely see the face of the Rat King, and I saw that his face was bloodless for a moment, and there was no expression on his face, which was as white as paper, like a zombie.

I couldn't help frowning: "What's wrong with you?" ”

The Rat King said stiffly, "The dead can never leave." ”

"What do you mean?"

"There are no lights in the square just now, which means that there is no one there, the generator is at the end of the square, after the black fire enters, it will take at least a minute to get there, but he has just entered for less than ten seconds, who turned on the generator?"

That's how I learned that the nickname of the scorched-faced man was "Black Fire".

Like the crew of the Iron Maiden, the people who live in the sea market seem to have their own nicknames.

Hearing the rat king say this, I immediately understood what he meant: "You mean...... The ghost of the deceased still remains in the square today? ”

The dim light illuminated the Rat King's face, and he nodded at me with a solemn expression: "I have hired some cultivators like you to get rid of those ghosts, but none of the people I invited have left there alive. ”

I suddenly muttered in my heart, if there are really powerful ghosts in the square, why don't I feel the yin energy, listen to the meaning of the rat king, the ghost things in it are still quite powerful, the stronger the ghost things, the more refined the yin qi on the body, although the perception ability of our people sect disciples is generally weak, but the yin qi on the ghost body, we can still sense it.

To be cautious, I shoved a horn charm into the Rat King's pocket and told him to save his life at the critical moment, and told him to put it away carefully.

At that moment, there was a very piercing sound in the hole in the wall, which was the sound of the rusty door shaft being twisted forcibly, and it was no less powerful than grabbing the blackboard with my fingernails, and I was startled with a tingling of my scalp.

The key was that voice rang twice.

It wasn't until the tail of the noise was finally completely suppressed by the sound of running water that the rat king raised his voice slightly and asked me, "Are you sure you want to go in?" ”

I didn't respond, I responded to him directly, and while he was talking, I leaned over to the entrance of the cave and glanced inside.

It was an extremely open square, with a black stone pillar in the center, and there was no other shelter at all.

The figure of the scorched-faced man could not be found anywhere as far as the eye could see, and thinking of the noise just now, I guessed that he should have entered some secret door at the edge of the square.

Thinking of this, I no longer hesitated, and immediately shrank down and dived into the hole.

The square is estimated to be the size of two football fields, and is surrounded by walls made of steel, with a door embedded at the end of the square and on the left side of the square.

The hum of the generator came from the end of the square.

There was no evil in the air, but I had a very strange feeling in my heart, it was very stuffy, as if someone had blocked my nose and mouth with a very thick cotton cloth, making it difficult for me to breathe normally, and at the same time there was an invisible force that was stirring my meridians, and I felt as if my lungs and trachea were trembling slightly.