Chapter 9: Corrosive Gas
After a brief moment of surprise, Shi Yuan remembered that those living people were the ones who were forced into the dark world by ghosts.
The villagers of Dark Crow Ridge Village did not all die, but lingered in the dark world, waiting for the doom that would befall them at some point.
You must find the third aunt and Shen Han first!
Shi Yuan's limbs were a little numb. He struggled to his feet and looked to the ground, only to find that the four infant bodies and the metal object were missing.
Fortunately, the backpack is still there. Shi Yuan took out his mobile phone and tried to call Luo Yasen's number.
There is no signal.
Although there was some disappointment, it was also expected. After all, this is not the original world at all.
The skin tingles. The pain was not strong, but Shi Yuan knew that he couldn't ignore it.
He remembered the words on the page.
"The Ghost Realm is a rotten world, full of corrosive aura."
"If a person enters the dark world before he dies, he will be corrupted by the dark world."
Shi Yuan raised his left hand and observed it carefully. He saw that purple-black gas seemed to be wafting in the air, forming tiny cloudy bubbles on the surface of his skin.
Corrode? Is the air here corroding my skin?
Shi Yuan understood that if he ignored it and continued like this, his skin and flesh would definitely rot and his flesh and blood would be blurred.
He also understood that those purple-black gases were actually materialized abnormal breaths. The anomalous aura here is too strong and too strong, and it can directly cause harm to people.
He mobilized the shared ability of Liu Tong to form a "water film" on the surface of his body, protecting himself like armor.
The pain was suddenly reduced by more than half, and only the part that had just corroded was still faintly tingling.
Shi Yuan took out a bottle of healing mineral water from his backpack and took a sip, but was shocked to find that the pain on his skin had not changed at all.
Could it be that healing mineral water is ineffective here?
Shi Yuan's heart chuckled. If this is the case, the possibility of survival will obviously be much reduced.
But instead of throwing the mineral water away, he put it back in his backpack and continued to carry it.
With the "water film", Shi Yuan's mood relaxed a little. He covered the entire residential area of Dark Raven Ridge Village, especially the two houses of Luo Yasen's family and the third aunt's house. He immediately noticed that there were several black shadows in the three-story building, and in the third aunt's house, there were two white human figures.
"They ......"
Shi Yuan immediately left the old cellar quickly, relying on his perception ability to avoid the ghosts not far away, and cautiously ran towards the third aunt's house.
He ran through the farmland, the village committee office building, and Luo Yasen's house...... Along the way, he sensed several white figures. But he didn't stop, but kept running.
The home of the third aunt and Shen Han is just ahead.
Shi Yuan also gradually understood that although this place looked exactly the same as the Dark Raven Ridge Village, it was actually not.
This is the dark world. Even in the ordinary human world, there are so many incredible things, let alone here? Who knows what the essence of these houses is?
The only thing Shi Yuan can confirm is that his special abilities, including his own perception abilities and the abilities of others shared through the studs, are reliable.
Whether it's studs, or knowing Luo Yasen and others, it seems that it is for this moment. If the stud earrings are unreliable here, then nothing makes sense.
In the perception domain, the two white figures of the third aunt's house are motionless, and it can be roughly judged that they are lying on the ground, but the details are still unknown.
Shi Yuan didn't dare to get close to those houses, because many of them had dark shadows in them. He could only move through the clearing, but in doing so, he was an obvious target.
Once a ghost discovers him, it is almost certain to die.
Fast!
Shi Yuan's face was grim, his teeth were clenched, and he ran forward as fast as he could.
Suddenly, he felt someone pat him.
This blow almost made the hairs on his whole body stand on end. He jerked his head back, but saw nothing.
In the Perception Domain, there are no dark shadows around him.
His footsteps did not stop, but ran forward more quickly. Because of the moment just now, Shi Yuan's speed even exceeded the limit.
Just when he thought it was just an accident, he had the feeling of being photographed again. At the same time, he focused almost all of his attention on the perceptual domain, but still did not catch any dark shadows.
Could it be a very fast ghost?
It's entirely possible. According to the pages of the book, there are differences in the abilities of ghosts. Perhaps, some ghosts have speeds beyond the speed of sound. They weren't physically present in the first place, and it wasn't surprising that they reached such a rate.
If the ghost just now was really an extremely fast ghost, then it appeared behind him in an instant, and then moved away at a rapid speed, Shi Yuan would indeed not be able to "see" it.
Or, it's just a ghost that teleports, appearing and disappearing.
Why didn't it kill me?
Cold sweat flowed from Shi Yuan's forehead, and his heart was like a drum.
Finally, the third aunt's house arrived.
Without bothering to open the door, Shi Yuan jumped directly from the top of the fence, and then crossed the courtyard and came to the door of the old house.
The two white figures inside still hadn't moved.
Is it unconscious?
Shi Yuan grabbed the doorknob and slowly opened the door.
It smelled strange, not rotten, not bloody. Shi Yuan couldn't say exactly what it was, but he knew that he had never smelled it.
The two white figures were in the room inside. Shi Yuan walked in lightly and carefully looked around with a flashlight.
Finally, he saw his two relatives.
Their eyes were closed, their faces were distorted, their skin was badly rotten, their features were deformed, and they looked terrifying. Needless to say, they were clearly in great pain.
"Third aunt, Shen Han!"
Shi Yuan shouted in a low voice and quickly came to their side.
No response.
The humanoids in the perceptual domain are still white, indicating that they are still alive. Shi Yuan probed their snorts, and then helped the third aunt up from the ground and let her sit against the wall.
Then, he came to Shen Han's side, helped him up, and shook his shoulders.
"Shen Han...... Shen Han ......"
Shi Yuan was so anxious that he wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead with his hand.
It is clearly written on the page that "if you spend too much time in the dark world, you will die completely", that is, if the living person enters the dark world for too long, he will definitely die.
How long have the third aunt and cousin been in the dark world? Even if they occasionally return to the Ming World due to a certain rule of the two worlds during this time, the damage they take will not be reduced by this.