Chapter Seventy-One: The Old Town

Dark clouds obscured the faint crimson moonlight.

Chen Ye's figure appeared at the intersection of the old city.

It was the first time he had acted in the middle of the night.

Looking inside, compared with the bustling pedestrian street behind him, the old city is darkly lit and silent.

It's like two different worlds.

Observing with the pupil of luck, the blood light that swirled around the old city was obviously much dimmer than during the day.

When Chen Ye came to the intersection, he specially observed his aura of luck.

The glazed lines around the three-color ring became brighter.

Of course, it also includes the blood light, which is more pronounced and active, as if giving life......

It's just that the blood light is not very close to the black evil qi, but it seems like he wants to swallow someone else with a big mouth of blood.

"Generally speaking, if the blood light is combined with the black evil qi and surrounds the top of the head, it means that the person concerned has a blood light disaster."

"But if it's pure blood light, then it has to be judged in combination."

"This blood light faintly appeared near my mouth, maybe the source of the blood light...... It's me! ”

Chen Ye noticed that the blood light on his body was essentially different from the players he had encountered before, and after a little judgment, he confirmed that the situation was normal.

He no longer hesitated, kept wandering and entered the old town.

At this moment, the golden parchment roll in my mind automatically appeared in front of me.

Zheng Zheng!

There seems to be a loud sound of bells, echoing in my ears.

Suddenly, the parchment scroll erupted with a strange light, and the mist in front of the blood-colored red dot instantly dispersed, and the sinuous ink-colored lines like a black snake gradually outlined on the top of the golden page.

The overall wheel corridor of the old city is presented in a corner of the [Wandering Map].

The blood-colored red dot where Chan Ye is standing is a relatively wide intersection that can accommodate two cars walking side by side.

From the main road, branch-like forks continue to appear, stretching towards the complex old town to the upper reaches of the Xijiang River.

A few decades ago, the old town was a thriving area, and many older generations liked to buy houses there.

However, with the development of the times, the new area has been continuously developed, and it is difficult to demolish all the old buildings gathered here, and gradually developed into urban villages, where most of the people living here are empty nesters, left-behind children, poor households with diseases, and low-income people with no savings......

Chen Ye observed the shape of the aura of luck above his head as he stepped into the old city.

At this moment, a faint smell of blood wafted in the air.

Mixed with the stench of some kind of decomposing animal carcass, as well as the smell of acid and vomit......

Chen Ye frowned, after his sense of smell became acute, he was more sensitive to these smells, and compared to ordinary people, the smell would be more indescribable.

However, with this ability, Chen Ye was able to distinguish the different substances from which these smells came from, while concentrating.

Although I don't have a deep understanding of the world, I can't accurately judge the specific species, but I can probably tell what it is.

Even mixed smells can be dissected and classified.

Chen Ye remained vigilant, walking on this main road with a sense of age, sometimes looking left and right to check the surrounding environment.

In the past, the old town was flanked by old grocery stores, selling large iron pots, prayer talismans, and items used to burn incense and worship the gods that were used decades ago......

Since the Countdown to the Blood, most of the shops have closed their doors and been almost abandoned.

Some shops even collapsed on half sides, weeds grew out of the broken yellow mud wall tiles, and blackened buildings pressed from both sides, like the shadow of demons.

After walking a few steps deeper, Chen Ye suddenly found some scattered pieces of meat, spilled on the road.

He took out his blood-colored phone, and with the help of the faint light of the screen, he could see that there were still traces of blood on the ground, which seemed to be left today, but it was already blackened.

The blood stains were distributed in dots, and it didn't look like the blood that sprayed from the major arteries after being fatally wounded, but more like being bitten by some terrifying thing, and the blood rained down all over the sky......

Not only the ground, but also the walls of the surrounding shops, and even the edges of the roofs of some low-rise tiled houses, there are traces of this blood.

Chen Ye frowned slightly, and in the picture of the Pupil of Luck, he saw a huge black shadow, dancing like a demon in the old city, as if a cheerful and raging killing was going on...... The ring of luck faintly gives people a sense of unease.

Fortunately, this black shadow has left, only the traces left before, turned into a unique image of luck, like a phantom shadow for a short time, but quickly dissipated.

"Could it be what happened this morning?"

Chen Ye couldn't help but think of the early morning, when he looked at the old city, a thick blood-colored river appeared in that area...... He instinctively sensed the crisis, so he didn't immediately go to the old town to check on the situation.

Now that I think about it, my instinct at the time was right, but there would be danger during the day?

But now, the danger here seems to have been swept away by that being, and instead it has become safer.

His gaze couldn't help but fall on the minced flesh on the ground, leaned over to take a closer look, sniffed it with his nose, and suddenly his pupils shrank......

These minced meat belong to human beings!

Of course, this so-called "human" is not necessarily a "human", but only has a human form.

Those barbecue stall owners also have the appearance of human beings, but in "Strange Era", all existence is basically weird, but the form and rules of existence are different.

For a moment, he couldn't tell whether the pieces of meat came from the barbecue stall owner or from the diners who swallowed the black barbecue and then entered the old city.

Maybe......

Both!

At this moment, the main road of the old city, the aura of luck differentiated into a white mist, extending towards the front.

There are only sporadic inky accents, but they don't feel particularly dangerous.

"Isn't there anything I have gained from coming this time?" Chen Ye looked at the white misty road and couldn't help but complain.

Crises and gains coexist.

He's here to hunt perk items!

If there is no crisis, where will the harvest come from?

Chen Ye walked forward along the white mist, and when he came to the main road, he suddenly found a faint scarlet line, which was particularly conspicuous, extending from the fork on the left to the dark and narrow residential area.

There are more slumbers living here than there are shops on both sides of the main road.

The array of old-fashioned single-family houses, like low human heads, form a natural shelter point.

Chen Ye walked around the area carefully, these buildings provided good cover, and it was a great place to play hide and seek!

That's when it happened.

He saw that in the aura of luck above his head, the blood light suddenly became thicker!

Turned into a blood-colored blade, about to slash down......

Chen Ye's face burst open in an instant, turning into the form of a [Devourer], looking forward with one eye and the other behind, gaining a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree field of vision.

The crimson moonlight suddenly appeared in the clouds, and a faint blood mist shone on the two figures wearing tattered ragged clothes and blood stains on the corners of their mouths not far behind Chen Ye......