Chapter 358: Dead Moonlight City
I saw the steel bridge in front of me, the bridge deck was not only full of potholes, but also collapsed in some places, and the river was rolling below.
The railings on both sides were rotten, and the thick suspension cables were covered in rust, giving the impression that they would break at the slightest touch.
It seems that the bridge has not been maintained for decades before it becomes like this.
Look at the moonlight city in front of the bridge, in the dark city, the streets are full of dead branches and leaves. In the crevices between the building and the ground, there are also all kinds of tall weeds.
Road signs, signs, and advertising lights on the walls are all rusty and mottled, and most of them are even falling apart.
The whole city exudes an absolute dead silence.
Qu Ember looked back at the off-road vehicle and found that the car was still there, and Xiao Wang inside was still sleeping.
At such a close distance, he could even hear Xiao Wang's voice.
When he looked at the bridge again, he walked forward.
When passing over the bridge deck, he chose the part that looked solid.
Because even if the structure of the bridge is huge, it is now in jeopardy.
Perhaps one of his steps will be the last straw that breaks the camel's back, causing the entire bridge to collapse.
When he came to the middle of the bridge, Qu Ember found that the river was actually turbulent, but there was no sound of uproar.
The silence around him seemed to amplify his breathing many times over, and it traveled far away.
After finally passing the bridge across the river, he continued to walk towards Moonlight City in front of him.
Qu Ember made eye to the surrounding buildings, as well as the streets beneath his feet, and realized that this was not another city, but indeed Moonlight City.
When he came to a three-way intersection, he thought about it and chose the road on the left.
As he walked, he looked at both sides, each building was the same as the Moonlight City in his memory, without any difference.
Even the shops next to the street have exactly the same name.
The only difference is that the city in front of me has no electricity, no people, no life, and it seems extremely dead and silent compared to Moonlight City.
When passing a newspaper, Qu Ember stopped, and then walked towards the newspaper.
Stepping inside, he found that newspapers and periodicals had been abandoned for years, and the floor was littered with various items, including book shelves, chairs, and teacups.
And there is a thick layer of dust on these things.
This dust is a viscous type that cannot be wiped off even if you wipe it.
After looking around, Qu Ember took two steps inside, and picked up a newspaper from the cabinet next to him.
The surface of the newspaper had been completely blackened, and he tore the page away, revealing that it had not yet decayed.
Qu Shen looked through it carefully and found that the newspaper was about a mutation incident, and it was a mutation event that he was extremely familiar with.
In a certain area of Moonlight City, the plant that can devour people's bodies and make the faces of the devoured people grow in the stamens of the flowers is mutated, devouring an entire building of people.
Its vines are like parasites, covering not only the inside of the building, but also the exterior of the building, which looks like a creeper.
Above the text introduction of the mutation event, there are also several pictures, which occupy a large section.
Qu Ember looked at the pictures and recognized the building.
In his memory, it was an office building, and although it was in the outer city area, it was still quite prosperous.
But the world in front of me is different, and the building is occupied by a botanical anomaly.
Qu Shen looked at the upper left corner of the newspaper.
He found that the time was the same as it was now, even the date.
But if this is the case, then the "Moonlight City" where he is now must be at least ten or twenty years later than the Moonlight City where he is located.
Because in less than ten or twenty years, the city cannot become so barren.
Now it seems that the other world that Carlin is talking about is the desolate Moonlight City in front of him.
Qu Ember flipped through the newspaper for a while, then left the newspaper and continued to walk towards the depths of Moonlight City.
As he went, he used a spell and found that there wasn't even a single insect in the entire city.
That's not to mention rats and the like.
After flipping through the newspaper, Qu Ember was thrown on the ground at random.
His journey was not aimless, but in the direction of his home.
His home was in the out-of-town area, not far from where he was now.
Carlin said to let him go back before dark, it was still early before it was dark, and he had plenty of time.
After walking for forty minutes without hurrying, Qu Ember finally came to the community where his house was located.
As he imagined, the community had become extremely dilapidated, and the old security room at the entrance had completely collapsed. And it can be seen that before it collapsed, it was used to accumulate debris.
The old buildings in the community are black, a bit like haunted houses.
Qu Ember walked in, and when he came to the downstairs of the unit, he saw that the flower beds on both sides were covered with black weeds, seven or eight meters high.
Not only in the flower beds, but also in the corners next to them, and even on the visors, there are all kinds of weeds.
He walked through the unit door and stepped up the stairs.
The corridor was already dark and quiet, so his footsteps were exceptionally clear.
Eventually, he came to a door and looked at the closed door.
After thinking about it, he took out the key and inserted it into the lock hole. To his surprise, although it was a bit blocked, he still succeeded.
But when he tried to turn, he found that it wouldn't.
The reason why it doesn't turn is that the door lock has completely rusted, not that the key and the door lock are not paired.
Qu Ember had a strong intuition that the key in his hand was completely capable of opening the door.
After pulling out the key, Qu Ember reached out and pushed it against the door.
As he slowly increased his strength, he saw that the iron door was gradually deformed, and the place where he pressed the palm of his hand was deeply dented.
Finally, with a bang, he pushed the deformed door open and collapsed into the room, kicking up a large cloud of dust.
Qu Ember stood in the doorway, waiting for the dust to dissipate before he walked in.
The old leather sofa in the center, the table against the wall, and the bookcase next to the TV catch the eye.
When he saw the familiar scene in the living room, his heart became extremely strange.
He came to the room, opened the door and saw a large bed with a balcony facing the outside on one side.
The direction of the foot of the bed is the bathroom.
He also saw a familiar dressing mirror, and he often stood naked in front of it, admiring his body.
Everything is so familiar.
Everything is so strange.
Qu Ash's heart was full of doubts, why is there such a place?
That is, compared to the world he lives in, time will be ten or twenty years in advance.
But these ten or twenty years have been barren, as if all the people in the city have disappeared overnight.
Qu Shen went to Wang Rou's room to take a look again, and found that the situation was exactly the same as he remembered.
He opened the door of the next room, and inside was where Aunt Liu Fang lived.
In the room, he found that everything was the same as he remembered.
Just as Qu Ember was about to turn to leave, he saw what seemed to be a heavy black box at the foot of the decayed bed.
After thinking about it, he walked in and dragged the box out.
At the same time, Qu Ember was even more puzzled.
Because this very avant-garde black iron box has nothing to do with Aunt Liu Fang, who works the night shift in the automobile factory.
The iron box is a combination lock, and even after ten or twenty years, the iron box is still intact.
But for Qu Ash, this thing is obviously still easy to open.
He used his energy tentacles to roll up the box, and he snapped both sides of the box into it, intending to forcibly and violently disassemble it.
But suddenly, he remembered what Carlin had told him, which was not to do anything that could change the world.
And now he intends to violently dismantle this iron box, which is obviously not appropriate.
Although he was very curious, what was inside.
But after thinking about it, I put the iron box back.
"Dut...... Honk...... Honk...... Toot ......"
Suddenly, he heard a rhythmic rush of car horns from a direction deep in the city.
The sound of horns throughout the city was unusually harsh.
It's like breaking the calm water surface in an instant.
I saw him get up and strode towards the living room. When I came to the living room, I had already begun to rush forward and jumped out the window.
His body fell rapidly from a height, and when he was about to hit the ground, the eight energy tentacles that emanated from behind him attached to the wall, slowing down the speed of his rapid fall.
After landing on the ground, Qu Ember sprang in the direction where the sound came from.
His speed was very fast, and the tentacles of the energy body pulled again and again, bringing him closer and closer to the place where the sound came from.
In just two minutes, after using the invisibility spell, he came to a secluded street.
On the street, he saw a limousine parked on the side of the road in the distance.
The beeping sound came from this car.
If you look closely, a billboard on the roof of this car has been smashed down.
Qu Ember looked up at the original location of the billboard, and saw that the place was completely decayed.
Judging from the situation in front of him, it should have been a rotten billboard that fell naturally and hit a luxury car of very good quality. Even if it has been parked for ten or twenty years, it has sounded the alarm as it should be.
"Idiot! What are you doing! ”
Just when Qu Ember was guessing like this, from the floor where the billboard was located, a woman's scolding suddenly came.
At this moment, his eyes became fierce.