Another customer left in the small shop, and now only Shi Yan was left.

Shi Yan casually asked the boss: "The red brick building over there seems to be empty, why don't you demolish the new building?" ”

The owner of the small shop is a couple in their forties, and the husband glanced at Shi Yan's gaze and said with a smile: "You said that building, it is a ghost building, haunted, no one dares to ask for it, so no one demolishes it." ”

When Shi Yan heard this, he found that he had entered a misunderstanding, there were so many things happening in the red brick building, and there must be a lot of discussion in this area, so whether it is the elderly or the young, they have heard more or less about it, and there is no need to find an old man in his sixties or seventies to inquire.

"Oh, the haunted building? Did the building start to be haunted after it was built, or did something happen later to make it haunted? Shi Yan figured out the above truth and hurriedly asked the shopkeeper about it.

"It was before this building, according to the old man, this place used to be the manor of a large family outside the city during the Republic of China, the city was very small at that time, and it was already outside the city."

The male owner of the small shop may have been in a good mood because Shi Yan had eaten a lot and brought a lot of business to the shop this morning, so he took the trouble to tell Shi Yan the story of the red brick building.

It turns out that eating too much is also beneficial.

"It is said that once, the whole family of this large family came to this manor to play, and encountered bandits, and the whole family of more than a dozen people, young and old, all died, and this place began to be haunted."

The male boss paused, and then said: "There was a time when everyone was talking about this red brick building, and many people were eating and chatting in my shop, so I wrote it down after listening to it. ”

Shi Yan nodded, and then asked, "What about later?" ”

The male boss continued: "I heard that the manor was haunted later, and many people took over, and as soon as they lived in it, they died, and over time, no one dared to live in it, and it became an empty manor, and then his last master felt that it was a waste to be empty, so he dedicated it to the government of the Republic of China, and the government of the Republic of China built it into an army barracks." ”

The male boss lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, and then slowly spit it out.

"It is said that after the construction of the army barracks, I have never heard of the haunting, after the liberation, the barracks have been stationed, and I have not heard of the haunting, and then the garrison here was evacuated, to build a factory here, the red brick building was built at that time, the second year after the completion, there was an accident, the woman went crazy, killed her husband and a pair of children, and finally she also committed suicide."

After listening to it, Shi Yan realized that it was caused by the unjust soul of the Republic of China, could it be a ghost? What kind of energy is in this red brick building? It's close to the gray mist? Could it be that the Grey Mist is haunted?

Shi Yan was a little confused, this thought made him a little hard to believe, the most important thing was that he didn't believe in these things before, and he didn't care about this aspect of the situation.

And what is a ghost? He used to only think about legends and myths, and never thought about what ghosts were, and from the current point of view, ghosts should also be a kind of energy.

"If you want to talk about dead people, there were too many dead people in the turbulent years of the Republic of China, why aren't there many haunted places?" Shi Yan thought about it and asked again.

The male boss frowned a little when he heard this, where did he think about these questions?

The female boss interjected a little mysteriously: "When I was a child, I heard the old man say that some places are too yin and easy to haunt. ”

When Shi Yan heard this, some thoughts flashed in his mind, and he couldn't help but look towards the red brick building again, isn't there any other reason why the woman in the suit came to this building at night?

At this moment, a person came in from outside the door, opened his mouth and called: "Boss, a bowl of soy milk and a fritters." As he spoke, he sat down at a table next to him.

"Okay, right away." The male boss answered and went to call hurriedly.

The female boss also greeted the visitor, and it seemed that she was a regular customer.

"Lao Zhang, what's the news in the near future? What's new with those gray mist monsters you talked about yesterday? ”

As soon as Lao Zhang heard about the monster, he came to his senses, and said mysteriously: "The latest news, the gray fog has stopped expanding, and it has not moved all night, and now the range of the gray fog accounts for half of the Baisha District, and now the entire Baisha District is scattered." ”

The male boss took the soy milk fritters and put them in front of Lao Zhang, and asked, "Then do we need to evacuate?" What if you do want to evacuate? After speaking, I couldn't help but sigh.

Lao Zhang comforted him and said: "Don't worry, even if you want to leave the government, you won't care about everyone's livelihood, and now that the gray fog has stopped expanding, isn't it far from us?" I guess I don't need to scatter it. ”

The landlady said with some concern: "Is it safe to continue to live here?" ”

The male boss sighed and did not speak.

Lao Zhang comforted them again and said: "Don't be so nervous, it is said that at the edge of the gray fog, all the cordons have been set up, and it should still be safe." ”

The male boss sighed and said, "I hope so." ”

Shi Yan understands the mood of the male boss very well, as ordinary people, they don't have the strength to toss, once they move out of the current place, where are they going to live? What to eat?

Ordinary people don't have so much spare money to save to support them to move around, which is in response to the famous sentence of an ancient celebrity: prosperity, the people suffer, death, the people suffer.

The biggest direct cause of death in the turbulent years is not to die in battle and be killed, but to starve to death.

Lao Zhang may have felt that the atmosphere was too heavy, so he quickly changed the topic and said, "Lao Wang, your son is not bad in Changbei City." ”

When the male boss heard about his son, he couldn't help but smile heartily and said, "It's okay, it's okay, I'm going to take the university entrance exam next year." ”

Shi Yan's mind was withdrawn from their small talk, although he also sympathized with the snack bar couple about the gray fog and the evacuation just now, it was not something he could change, if the gray fog continued to expand, he himself would be one of the people who wanted to evacuate, but he was alone, and it was much easier to evacuate.

At present, he is very interested in the nature and origin of the gray fog, and he instinctively feels that the more he knows about the gray fog, the easier it will be to find a way to deal with the gray fog.

A few kilometers away from Shi Yan, the atmosphere was tense and heavily guarded, and a cordon composed of troops surrounded the gray fog area layer by layer.

Behind the cordon, there is an eighteen-story high-rise building called the Stellar Building, which used to be a high-end office building, but now it has been completely emptied and has become a front-line command center.

It is a joint command center composed of the military, police, intelligence, special services, and science and technology departments, mainly to deal with the expansion of the gray fog and the attack of monsters.

People have long been experienced in monster attacks, but they don't know anything about the gray fog, and the failure of scientific and technological means in the gray fog makes everyone very passive.

The science and technology department has long drawn the best scientists from all over the country to study the gray fog, but so far, nothing has been achieved.

Someone wanted to analyze the composition of the ash mist, filled the ash mist in a sealed container, and then brought it to the laboratory only to find that the ash mist in the sealed container had disappeared.

After many experiments, it was found that the gray mist contained in the closed container, once it left the range of the gray fog, would mysteriously disappear without a trace, and scientists have not yet figured out the reason.

Some people proposed that since it was impossible to bring the gray fog out of the range shrouded in the gray fog, it was necessary to simply bring the instrument into the gray fog area for research, but as soon as the instrument entered the gray fog area, it was completely out of order and could not be used at all.

Even in the gray fog area, there is no electricity at all, no matter what electrical appliances, as soon as they enter the gray fog area, the power will be cut off, whether it is with its own battery or pulling the wire.

Someone even did an experiment at the edge of the gray fog area, a light bulb connected to a wire, in a place where there is no gray fog, glows normally, but walk one more meter forward into the gray fog area, the light bulb can't light up, no matter how you try.

Modern advanced scientific research instruments basically rely on electricity, and after losing the means of science and technology, scientists' research has also fallen into a dead end.

And without the assistance of scientific and technological means, the combat power is even more plummeting, in the gray fog people's visual distance is only more than ten meters, no matter how far away you can not see even if the world is turned upside down, and telescopes and other means are all ineffective, those night vision systems can not be used at all.

The sound transmission in the gray fog was much smaller, and the sound in the gray fog seemed to have a strong echo, but a voice came out as if it was coming from all directions, and it was impossible to tell which direction it was coming from.

The gray fog has now become a mountain in front of everyone, restricting everyone's actions.