We removed the portrait on the wall, and sure enough, behind the frame, there was a small dark compartment, and when we opened it, it was another copy of "Black Town".

Lao Dao took this copy of "Black Town" and flipped through it several times: "Aji, it's really exactly the same as your one, but this one has all the words in it." ”

I handed the flashlight in my hand to the old knife, took the book and looked at it, and it was indeed so.

It's still the outer cover of the locust wood, like the skin is not the skin, like the paper is not the paper of the inner page, the only difference is that the inner page is densely packed with text, I took a cursory look, the content of the text is roughly the same as what Haruko said, it is indeed the plot of another story, and at the end of the book, there are indeed a few pages missing.

"Brother Ji, ...... in your arms"

At this time, Li Yi suddenly pointed at my body, and Cheng Cheng and Lao Dao also looked at me at the same time.

I looked down and saw that there was a slight red light flashing in the satchel I was carrying, faintly revealing a rectangle!

It occurred to me – it was the book!

I took out the copy of "Black Town" that I had from my satchel, and the whole book was emitting a strange red light, and after I held it in my hand, it began to get hotter, and there was a faint feeling that I was about to come out, as if there was an invisible hand pulling outward......

No, it's not the hands, it's gravity—the source of gravity, as if it were the other copy of "Black Town" that the old knife had just found from the dark grid behind the portrait.

The content of the two "Black Town" books is a message of prompting and guidance, and the purpose of Jolo's writing of these two books is also to get rid of the control of the power of the netherworld, so if these two books have a certain consciousness or obsession attached to them, then at least there is no ill will towards us now.

So, I stacked the two books on top of each other.

"Bang!"

There was a loud and sudden bang that jumped all four of us.

After a little discrimination, we found that the door of the small western-style building was suddenly smashed by something!

"Bang bang bang!"

The sound of slamming the door became more and more dense and louder, and Cheng Cheng shone it with a strong flashlight - the door had been smashed inward, and the entire door frame trembled violently with every loud noise!

And the two copies of "Black Town" in my hand are emitting a dazzling red light!

"What's outside the door? Aren't they monsters? Li Yi took a step back slightly, and every time the loud sound of slamming the door sounded, his face twitched slightly.

The old knife gave Li Yi a kick: "Stand firm for me!" Your ancestors, stinky fish, what are you pretending to be a big brother with me all day long, why are you so embarrassed? ”

Li Yi didn't dare to refute the old knife, and said with a sad face: "Brother Dao, I've never been afraid of fighting with others, but I've been a little afraid of ......ghosts since I was a child."

"Fuck, you're afraid of the hell, you're going to come along?"

"Isn't that curious? I always hear you and Brother Ji brag so much, and I'm itching too......"

"Okay, you two - Aji, the gate is almost out of place, what should I do?" Cheng Cheng asked me.

I took the two copies of "Black Town" into my arms and wrapped them tightly in my coat: "The one who came is not good." Let's go upstairs! ”

However, before I could finish speaking, from the stairs on the side of the living room, several black figures floated down, Cheng Cheng and Lao Dao hurriedly shot them with the light pillar of the flashlight, but they were dodged by the black shadows.

And the door behind us also made a loud "boom", and it was finally slammed open!

Soon, the entrance passage was crowded, and the first person was the suspect in Yu Yashi's case-Niu Chunhua!

Niu Chunhua's eyes flashed with a fierce red light, and as soon as she saw a few of us, she let out an angry roar, opened her hands, and rushed towards us, and behind her, there were more townspeople like her, with crazy faces!

Many of these townspeople we have seen before, those who are active in the town, most of them are gray-haired old people, and sometimes middle-aged women, but all of them have hideous and crazy looks on their faces.

"Old knife, give the flashlight to the stinky fish! These townsfolk are no longer alive, they are all alive! I shouted, feeling the two books in my arms start to get hot—I was already sweating, half from nervousness, and the other half from the heat from the two books in my arms.

Cheng Cheng on the side stuffed the flashlight he was holding into my palm, and then pulled out his pistol as well.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

The old knife and the pistol in Cheng Cheng's hand opened fire almost at the same time, and Niu Chunhua and another townsman who rushed to the front suddenly appeared two blood holes, and then fell to the ground.

But these two shots did not have a deterrent effect, and more townspeople rushed forward, still looking like they were going to tear us apart!

"Bang bang bang!"

The old knife and the pistol in Cheng Cheng's hand began to fire continuously, and there were more than a dozen corpses in the living room in an instant, but from the entrance of the gate, there was still a steady stream of zombie townspeople squeezing in, and it seemed that there were quite a few of them.

"Click."

Cheng Cheng's pistol had run out of bullets, and the empty magazine he had withdrawn from made a "duh" sound on the floor, and the spare magazine in his other hand immediately advanced the loader, and shouted in his mouth: "Lean against the wall!" Our firepower is too weak! ”

In the face of these dead people who are not afraid of death, Rao is an old police officer like Cheng Cheng was also a little flustered at this time, and even forgot to recover the magazine.

But Cheng Cheng was right, since the retreat to the upper floors was blocked, he had to find some cover, so that if he stood in the middle of the living room, he would soon be completely surrounded by monsters.

Li Yi shouted: "No! What about Haruko? ”

In a hurry, a few of us actually forgot for a while, and there was a Haruko who was sleeping on the sofa!

I gritted my teeth and put down the wind lamp in my hand: "Stinky fish, let's move the sofa!" ”

Cheng Cheng and Lao Dao had to pay attention to the direction of the entrance, and there were about 5 night shadows behind us, flying all over the room, dodging the flashlight posts in the hands of Li Yi and me.

The two books in my arms are getting hotter and hotter, and I feel like I am carrying a boiling copper kettle in my arms, but at this moment, even if I am burned, I can't put these two books down!

I was sweating like rain, gritting my teeth, and Li Yi and Li Yi pushed the sofa to the wall with all my might.

Night Shadows are not as afraid of light as they are alive, but when Li Yi and I struggled to move the sofa, we had no intention of threatening them with lampposts, and those Night Shadows immediately flew in the air in several black tracks, exploding like fireworks, and flew towards the four of us respectively!

I was horrified, and immediately shot the flashlight at the old knife with my backhand - a night shadow that was flying towards the old knife was suddenly swept by the pillar of light, and in the scream of "hiss", it turned into a trace of black smoke.

I immediately turned the lamppost towards Cheng Cheng again, killing one Nightshade and forcing the other back.

On the other side, Li Yi also shot a night shadow that pounced on him into black smoke!

"Brother Ji, watch your back!"

At the same time as Li Yi was warning me, the lamppost turned towards me, I knew that there must be a night shadow behind me, but my flashlight must be used to protect Lao Dao and Cheng Cheng, so I could only bend forward, trying to let the night shadow behind me explode under Li Yi's flashlight-

However, a dark shadow suddenly popped out from under the sofa and almost came face to face with me!

"Smack-"

This black shadow shot like lightning, and all of a sudden, the bright flashlight in my hand flew away!

Then, Nightshade's claws went straight to my chest!

The claws of my hand shrouded in thick black smoke tore my coat in an instant, and the next second, I felt a sharp pain in my chest!

Seeing this scene, Li Yi shouted in horror: "Brother Ji! Get out of the way! ”

I knew that the night shadow behind me must have been annihilated by Li Yizhao's flying ashes, but the night shadow in front of me was cunningly hiding in the shadow of my body!

Just when I was desperate, I saw a blinding red light appear in front of me!

The two copies of "Black Town" in my arms also fell out with the claw of Nightshadow-

The intense red light pierced my eyes, and I could only see a square lava-like object, smashing the night shadow beneath me in the middle!

"Hiss——!"

Nightshade let out a terrible scream, and the red square object pierced through its black mist-made body, melting him like molten iron!

A tremendous force struck, like an exploding airflow, knocking me to the ground.

Immediately after, the dazzling red light illuminated the entire living room in blood red!

Everything in the room, including the five of us, the night shadows flying in the air, the stiffness that almost surrounded us, were shot by this blood-red light like magma in hell—

"Shhhh

"Shhh

"Hiss——!"

Countless screams of horror and despair rang out in the living room, like the screams of a hurricane, piercing our eardrums.

All the monsters froze in place as if under the immobilization spell - the Nightshades were frozen in the air, unable to do anything but scream.

Then, something shocking happened.

All the monsters, the surface of the body is "soaring" with a layer of red flames, the flames flicker, and the monsters' bodies are like ignited waste paper, starting from top to bottom, quickly burning into ashes......

Not only the monster, but everything in the room, the furniture, the floor, the ceiling, the walls, all burst into flames.

Ash glowing red, torrential rain fell over our heads.

After a few breaths, everything in the living room, except for the five of us, was reduced to ashes.

A gloomy wind blew across our faces, rolling up the black ashes in the sky, and in a red and blood-like light, we felt as if we were in hell.

"My head, my head hurts......"

At this time, Haruko actually woke up.

She propped herself up halfway, half lying in the ashes on the ground, looked around, then at the four of us, and said blankly, "I...... Are we all dead? Is this the Netherworld? ”

Haruko's words were like a signal, and the yin wind in the room suddenly disappeared, as if it had never appeared.

Pieces of ash fell, like black snowflakes.

The red glow began to dim, and after a few seconds, the lights of the wind lamp and flashlight reappeared, and the red glow disappeared completely.

I quickly crouched down and lifted the black ash that had been piled up to my ankles on the ground—

Under the light of the flashlight, I saw a book with a blood-red cover, half-buried in the black ashes.

"How did it be...... A book? Li Yi was very surprised.

There is no doubt that the two copies of "Blacktown" are gone—or rather, merged into a new book.

This new book is only the size of my palm, the thickness and size are like a Xinhua dictionary, and when I picked it up, on the red book cover, several large black characters like blood vessels half protruded:

"Bloodline of the Netherworld"

That's the title of this new book.

But I couldn't open the pages, as if carved out of a solidified lava with no real pages.

"Aji, those words ......" The old knife also noticed something unusual.

That's right, the four black words "Yin Netherworld Blood" are really like blood vessels bulging on the blood-red book cover, and they are really beating one at a time!

I touched the "blood vessels" that formed the words with my fingers, and came to a terrifying conclusion: these "blood vessels" were like words, and the pulsating frequency was exactly the same as my heartbeat!

When I thought of this, my heart couldn't help but start to speed up - and the words that my fingers touched also began to beat faster!

This book must have something to do with me!

But what just happened?

Suddenly, I woke up!

As soon as I touched my chest, there was a tingling pain, and at first glance, my fingers were stained with blood, and what was even more terrifying was that these blood stains were actually driven by invisible suction, crawling from my fingers all the way to the book "Yin Yin Blood Book" in my palm, and then absorbed by the book without a drop left.

So...... Is it because the moment I was injured and bleeding just now, my blood got on the book?

"Brother Ji, why don't you answer me? Brother Dao, what's wrong? Are we dead? Haruko on one side got up from the ground. Still entangled in her doubts.

"Put your heart back in your stomach, Haruko. How can we be dead? The old knife replied to Haruko, and asked me with concern, "Aji, what's the matter?" ”

"Pack up our things first, we're not done yet." I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, trying to suppress the clutter of emotions in my heart.

Now is not the time to panic.

Although all the monsters that attacked us were eliminated by us, the actual danger has not disappeared, and we are still in Blackwater.

I can't let the tragedy happen again.

I told myself: I can't let the tragedy of Zhou Ou and Liu Haijun repeat itself...... We want a safe exit from this crazy town.

So, I can't make any more mistakes.

"Take it."

Cheng Cheng handed me a wind lantern, and I opened my eyes and took it.

"Half of the oil is left, so we don't have much time left."

I could see that Cheng Cheng wanted to urge me to explain their doubts and tell them what to do next, but he held back.

I gave him a grateful look back.

I put the flashlight back into my waist first...... The small satchel I was carrying with the book was scratched by the Night Shadow's claw just now (if it hadn't been for it, the wound on my chest would have been worse), and the old knife handed me his tactical satchel, I thanked him, put the "Netherworld Bloodbook" in my hand, and then fastened the satchel.

The old knife saw the wound on my chest: "Aji, take off your shirt and treat the wound for you." ”

I nodded.

We didn't have much supplies on hand, that is, Lao Dao and Cheng Cheng each carried a medical kit, I asked him to save some money, he agreed quickly, but he still poured a whole bottle of white medicine on my wound, and then tied it up with a hemostatic bandage.

The others also took advantage of this time to nibble on a compressed biscuit and drink a little water.

I also rested for a while, and when I got up again, I had already thought things through.

"Let's go, let's go find the water of the Yellow Spring." I said.