Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Spirit of the Earth, Split Him
When the sun rises.
Ryuhei stood on a tree in the town and looked out into the wilderness.
Eight hundred meters outside the town, darkness was already shrouded, revealing a deep night.
But Liu Ping clearly remembered that when he came to Darkfog Town from the wilderness, he had obviously traveled hundreds of miles.
Yesterday, darkness was far from Darkfog.
Only one night later, the sun swept through Darkfog Town, but it couldn't shine into the night outside the town.
"Dead World ......"
Liu Ping said in a low voice.
The world is divided in two, black and white.
On the dark side is the realm of the world of death.
After last night's assault, it was already approaching Darkfog Town, almost enveloping the town.
- If there is no one to defend against the darkness tonight, will the eternal night continue to move on, swallowing the whole town into the world of death?
A sense of urgency rose in Liu Ping's heart.
He jumped off the tree and weaved through the ruins according to the pattern of the town he remembered in his mind.
"Let's go to the bar and check out ...... first"
He walked through the ruins and soon came to the location of the bar.
The place had been completely destroyed, with broken bricks and tiles all over the ground, and even a huge paw print could be seen on the ground several meters underground.
A layer of black, powder-like material runs along the edge of the paw prints, all over the ruins of the bar.
"Fire ...... It's still a very powerful fire. β
Liu Ping groaned.
As if sensing something, he walked quickly to where the bar had been, removing the masonry from a collapsed place.
Beneath the masonry lay a charred corpse.
This is not the world of death, so Liu Ping stepped forward with confidence and turned the corpse over and took a closer look.
It's the bartender.
He died hastily, one arm outstretched, making a forward gesture to grab something.
Grabbing β
Liu Ping looked in the direction of the corpse.
Not far away was a corner of the bar, and there was nothing.
"Scatter!"
Liu Ping made a trick and blew away the bricks and ash on the flat ground.
The bar's original wooden floor was revealed, but there was nothing on the bare floor.
This little piece of land is untouched!
Liu Ping stepped forward and knocked on the floor, finding that it was hollow inside.
Do you want to punch through the floor and see what's underneath?
Ryuhei set his sights on the bartender.
When the bartender died for a long time, his desperate expression had already frozen on his face, and his body maintained a posture of climbing with all his might, as if he was bent on climbing to the corner before he died.
Liu Ping pressed his hand on the ground.
Suddenly, a mechanical voice came from underground:
"Authentication passed, night watchman, you can enter. β
The ground cracked.
Liu Ping fell, flipped a few times in mid-air, and stood on the ground.
I saw that this was a relatively spacious underground secret room, hiding a lot of daily necessities, as well as a vertical glass pavilion.
In the void, two lines of small print give the explanation:
"You found the phone booth. β
"It's a remote communication tool, and maybe it has some special features. β
Liu Ping sighed.
You don't need to be reminded of the sequence, you know what it is, after all, you have obtained the basic common sense of this era.
- Now I know what the bartender is trying to do.
The bartender probably wanted to report the situation in Darkfog and seek help.
The bartender is a receptionist with the number 03687 who has the power to trade and issue official status.
Such a person must have a powerful organization behind him.
But it stands to reason that a person like a bartender should already be familiar with things in the wilderness and should be prepared for danger.
The leader of the Night's Watch also said that the night at the end of the month was the most dangerous.
Why did they not seek rescue until the end, and they were not successful?
...... It seems that basic common sense is not enough.
As the sequence says, this phone booth may have other special functions.
But I don't know.
Liu Ping was thinking about it when he suddenly saw movement in the void again.
A line of small words quickly appeared in front of his eyes:
"Again:"
"A strange wave appeared on the north side of Darkfog. β
Last night, he asked himself to stop his practice and find out.
Since the sequence is so urgent......
Liu Ping looked at the phone booth, a little hesitant.
- Can this be sold for money?
The storage bag on my body is an ordinary style, and it can hold a limited amount of things, and it can't hold such a large thing.
The piggy bank also only accepts currency, not phone booths.
The only way to do that is to put this phone booth here, wait for yourself to explore the north side of the town, and then turn around and see what to do with it.
Ryuhei turned away from the ruins of the bar and headed towards the north side of the town.
On the way, I saw many charred black marks of human figures, which were clinging to the ground, emitting a foul-smelling smell of burning.
Walking only a few hundred meters, in a collapsed building several stories in front of him, there was a sudden sporadic noise.
"Who is it? anyone?" Liu Ping tried to speak.
No response.
But the noise was louder.
Liu Ping became cautious.
He took a few slow steps back, hid behind a stone mound, and then pulled out the spirit fan.
Waited for a few breaths.
A rickety figure crawled out of the rubble.
Old K.
His feet were broken, and he had to crawl towards the place where the sound came from, holding his hands on the ground.
Liu looked at each other calmly, looking at Old K's crazy expression, crooked mouth with saliva and black blood, and sharp hands-
"Unconscious...... Going crazy...... I'm sorry, but my healing can't save you. β
Liu Ping muttered and put away the spirit fan.
But he can't let the other party go, he faintly feels that there is some kind of danger hidden in the other party's body.
But in this situation, every trace of spiritual power is quite precious, so-
Liu Ping drew his pistol and pointed it at Lao K.
Old K didn't realize it, just opened his mouth and desperately crawled towards Liuping, it seemed that Liuping was the most delicious food in the world.
Liu Ping pulls the trigger.
Bang!
Old K opened a hole in his heart, his body shook, and he lay in place and stopped crawling forward.
At this moment, he seemed to have changed something, and his eyes became a little clearer.
"It's you...... Quick, hit me in the head, I'll die only with a headshot!"
Old K said in a hoarse voice.
"What happened last night?" asked Liu Ping.
Old K's face showed a look of fear, and then turned into madness, and was finally covered in despair.
"Kill me, or I'll be finished!" he yelled.
After saying this, Lao K's whole body twitched wildly, and in a few breaths, sharp bone spurs grew out of his body.
"Please, quick-"
He pleaded.
His eyes turned completely milky white, and his forehead cracked, and another pair of pitch-black eyes grew again.
Bang!
A bullet burst his head open.
All movement suddenly stopped.
The corpse lay on the ground, motionless.
Liu looked at the corpse calmly.
Kill me, or I'll be finishedβ
In other words, this sentence can be interpreted as: Kill me, and I won't be finished.
...... Is it afraid of turning into a monster? or something else?
Liu Ping was a little dazed.
Between heaven and earth, the wind whistled through the town.
The world is falling silent.
Long.
The corpse did not move.
Liu Ping slowly put away the gun, took a few steps back, and continued to move forward.
Half an hour later, he reached the north of Darkfog.
A line of small words floats in the void:
"An unusual wave hangs five hundred meters in front of you to the left, and you need to find the source of this fluctuation, which will be analyzed in this sequence. β
Ryuhei stepped on a pile of rubble and looked in that direction.
Come to think of it.
When I first entered Darkfog Town, I walked around the town and passed by it.
There is a collapsed building there, which is said to be called a "church".
It looks like it's been abandoned for a long time, but it has a different feel than the other buildings.
Liu Ping stepped forward and pinched a trick.
The masonry of the buried passage flew out and piled up in a pile opposite the church.
Ryuhei looked inside the church.
- He knew why the church felt different from other buildings.
Although the other buildings have collapsed, there are some clues that the contents of the buildings have almost been emptied.
Churches are different.
Even though it was abandoned, all its contents were neatly arranged and not taken away.
No one touched anything in the church.
Liu Ping walked in, circled around, and finally stopped in front of a wall.
The wall was leaking, and I could hear someone inside the wall whispering a prayer, and the tone was extremely reverent.
- And more than one person.
Liu Ping listened carefully, but found that as he focused his attention, he could hear more and more sounds.
He froze and threw a punch hard at the wall.
Crash!
The masonry fell to the ground, revealing a secret room inside.
Liu Ping immediately saw the structure of the entire secret room.
The chamber is small, with smooth stone surfaces on all four walls and floors, densely etched with mysterious runes, forming a graceful circle that surrounds a statue with a metal base.
It was a statue of a woman in a colorful robe.
She looked compassionate and dignified, with her eyes closed and holding a black iron rope in both hands.
Black iron ropes bound her hands and wrapped around her body, forming a heavy shackle at her ankles that tightly bound her feet.