Chapter 75: The Night That Never Sleeps
Chen Ye's figure quickly appeared at the intersection of the old city.
That's when it happened.
The aura of luck that swirled in front of him suddenly became colorful.
White, yellow, green, red......
Colorful, kaleidoscopic lines weave across the pavement of the pedestrian street.
Chen Ye suddenly glanced towards the street and found that this road was full of figures at a glance!
Dressed in ordinary shirts and numb, the residents huddled in the vast sea of people, walking like machines on the pedestrian street, as if they were shopping, and like aimless ghosts.
On both sides of the street, there are rows of passers-by, some with umbrellas, some pushing carts, and some eating skewers...... When the traffic lights came on, they crossed the road in a uniform pace.
When the green light disappeared and turned into a red light, a little boy standing at the edge of the road suddenly got pushed by something and ran towards the other side of the red light.
The boy's expression flashed with panic, and he looked left and right, not knowing where to go.
Suddenly, a black sedan drove from the side, honking its horn frantically, and the shrill sound of the horn suddenly pierced the night sky, and the whole world was in a boiling furnace.
The boy was completely panicked and hurriedly ran across the road.
But the moment he crossed the zebra crossing and stepped into the junction of the red lights, his figure suddenly disappeared.
It's like being erased with an eraser!
Opening the pupil of luck, Chen Ye saw that there were countless pale hands that were pulling the boy to a certain place...... As for where it went, and what fate was, it is unknown.
He ran through the noisy pedestrian streets, his heart beating wildly, his brain racing.
At that moment, Chen Ye's intuition had an extremely strong premonition - if he continued to stay there and take a few steps slowly, he would probably die!
The sense of peeping through the secret seems to turn into a pair of demonic eyes, looking at his back.
Fortunately, when Chen Ye left the old city and walked out from the intersection, the death omen on the verge of drowning gradually disappeared, but the feeling of peeping was still there......
At this moment, Chen Ye had only one thought in his heart, to return to Xining Alley as quickly as possible!
He made his way through the crowd and walked along the road shrouded in white fog to avoid danger.
Beside......
When the numb pedestrians met Chen Ye, they retreated far away and made way for them.
They seemed to smell the smell of blood on Chen Ye's body, and they were reluctant to approach, for fear that the disaster would affect them.
"It is worthy of being a good citizen, and he generally deceives the good and fears the evil." Chen Ye complained silently, and by the way, calmed the heart that was still pounding.
OK...... The inhabitants of the Strange Age generally have a strong instinct for survival. When you encounter a trick that is stronger than yourself, or when you are threatened, you will take the initiative to avoid it.
It is the instinct of these aborigines to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.
Therefore, when Chen Ye was still a [wanderer], he might suffer disasters when he raised his head. But now, when his gaze falls on the other ordinary residents, they must be careful if the calamity has befallen him!
Even if you are walking in an area with extremely high traffic, you don't know how much safer it is than at the beginning of the game.
He didn't look down at the blood-colored phone anymore, there were too many figures around, fate was constantly intertwined, the aura of luck was messed up, and sometimes the safe road shrouded in white fog was crowded with numb aborigines, and even had to use the ability of [Wanderer's Boots] to quickly leap a few steps and bypass a few unsafe places before reaching the target location.
In the early morning, the streets are calm and there are not only a large number of pedestrians on the pedestrian street, but most of the shops on both sides are open, and bright lights shine through the shop windows.
At this moment, Chen Ye passed by a hot pot restaurant, and the outside of the restaurant was crowded with customers waiting in line.
Through the glass window of the store, you can see customers in tattered clothes on the seats by the window, gobbling up hot pot. After he finished eating, the thief's eyes wandered around, and he didn't seem to be ready to pay, so he found an unattended space to get ready to slip away.
Unfortunately, a waiter stopped at the exit and showed the bill in his hand. The guest could be seen quibbling something, waving his hands, shouting loudly, with a hideous face and a bulge of bruises around his neck.
The waiter was patient at first, but he seemed to grow impatient and finally threw the rude guest into the hot pot, rising and falling with the boiling water.
Around the corner, a café was filled with men in suits, their coffees pouring out of blood.
When they drank it in one gulp, there was an intoxicated look in their eyes, as if they had forgotten themselves, and they were drunk and hazy.
Faintly, you can see several transparent shadows in the café, floating like ghosts.
When Chen Ye passed by this café, he suddenly noticed that the air around him was a little colder.
He glanced at the café and saw that in the air of the café, countless chaotic lines were constantly intertwined, forming a mess of garbled characters. It seems that there is some invisible, unknown existence, hidden in shape, wandering in it.
A billboard at the entrance of the café with the title reading Bloody Mary, the store's signature drink.
Price: Free!
These shops, all of which are surrounded by a rich black aura, are rushing to their faces.
"The folklore here is really good!"
Chen Ye sighed in his heart, it was a new copy that he had never seen before, which was much more exciting than the "Mysterious Sea Area", "Playground Haunted House", and "Strange Talk Academy", which were previously known as S-class dungeons!
Sweep it away at will, there are at least several kinds of tricks, which I have never seen before.
Each of these stores is basically equivalent to a copy of a weird game. Players go in and take on the challenge, either they get rich overnight or they have nothing.
Fortunately...... If you don't casually enter the store, there will be no problems.
The bustling shadows passed by Chen Ye's side, and the faces with human faces did not have the slightest normal look at all.
Chen Ye's afterglow swept over the faces, and suddenly he felt as if he was visiting a wax museum, and he unconsciously felt uncomfortable, and a word popped up subconsciously -
The Uncanny Valley Effect!
Chen Ye couldn't help but think of the feedback that many players had reported in the forum: "Don't go to the pedestrian street at night, it's hell!" ”
For normal human players, it's really no different from an endless hell.
It's like ordinary people going to the most terrifying haunted house in the world, but the ghosts inside are not fake, they are all crowded around, and if the psychological quality is not good, I am afraid that I will lose consciousness on the spot.
However, Chen Ye thought of his appearance as a [Devourer], as if he was no different from the aborigines here.
We're all the same.
After calming the beating heart, it is natural to blend into the folk atmosphere here, and follow the safe white halo line all the way back to Xining Alley.
The places with higher traffic are concentrated in the downtown areas.
Finally, leaving the noisy pedestrian street and coming to the intersection of Longhua Avenue, the crowded figures were left behind, and the air became fresh.
That's when ......
On the opposite side of the road on Longhua Avenue, a clown figure suddenly appeared!
Chen glanced at it, his eyes fell on the clown mask, and a feeling of extreme sadness suddenly unconsciously emerged in his heart.
He immediately realized that something was wrong, immediately closed his eyes, shook his head violently, and strongly remained conscious......
When he looked up again, the clown's figure suddenly disappeared again, and only the dim streetlamps illuminated the empty road, and several drunkards staggered under the streetlights, occasionally uttering vulgar curses.
Chen Ye raised his head, only to see the aura of luck on his head, surrounded by a kaleidoscope of glass.
He couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "This kind of aura of luck shouldn't be too dangerous......
The uneasy sense of tracking gradually disappeared at this moment.
Chen Ye followed the stairs of Longhua Avenue and went all the way down to the familiar Xining alley.
When he just walked in, a melodious erhu sound came from the alley.
Chen Ye's mind suddenly calmed down with the tactful and cheerful music, and returned to tranquility.
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PS: Ahem, if you don't understand something, you can read it patiently. The worldview of this book is relatively large, and it is basically a completely new structure.
The various novel settings will be slowly refined, and will be gradually and systematically explained later.