Today's sky is dark and dim.

It's early in the morning, but it looks like night.

Come to the pedestrian street again......

At this time, Chen Ye already had a new understanding of this place. His pace slowed down, his mind was highly concentrated, observing the direction of the aura of luck, and he didn't even swipe his blood-colored phone.

It was as if after the hustle and bustle, there was a deeper silence.

As far as the eye can see, there is not a single figure on the entire road, and the gates on both sides are closed.

It has completely restored its previous appearance.

It seems that the night that never sleeps was nothing more than a fantasy.

Chen Ye walked quickly to the barbecue stall that had to be passed......

However, those figures who sell barbecue have all disappeared!

The whole road became empty.

The long queue of customers also disappeared without a trace at this time.

"Gone?" Chen Ye frowned slightly.

He originally wanted to use the aura of luck to find those who sold barbecue, and follow this clue to investigate the source of pollution.

But the changes in front of him had to make Chen Ye adjust his plan.

His gaze fell on the 'crispy meat wrapped in sliced skin and eyeballs' in his pocket, and he saw several ink-colored lines, which were differentiated, slowly spreading towards the old city in front of him.

"Something to do with the old town again?"

If you guessed correctly...... These barbecue stall owners are supposed to be residents of the old city.

Carefully recall the details in your mind and string them together into a complete timeline, and the equivalent scam that appeared at the beginning is likely to have erupted from the inside of the old town.

From the initial time projection, there were already barbecue stall owners before the food contamination broke out completely.

At that time, these stall owners had been polluted, controlled, and reduced to pawns.

This was followed by a massive outbreak of pollution, followed by higher food prices, higher and higher traffic for barbecue purchases, and then the emergence of beetles......

But why did this pollution spread to the city?

Except for the old town, there is no problem in other areas near the Xijiang River.

In the midst of thoughts, Chen Ye's figure had already appeared at the entrance of the old city.

The place made a great impression on itself for the first two days.

However, when I came here again, the main road was still filled with a faint white fog, and occasionally a few black fogs, which were also related to the clues of the beetles.

There was no sign of blood.

On the contrary, between the black mist and the white mist, there is also a connection to the thick mountain-like Xuanhuang.

"Maybe we can find some clues."

Observing the change in the image of luck, Chen Ye was determined in his heart, stepped forward, and walked forward along this line.

The sky was dark, but compared to the night, there was a slight light source, and I could see the details of the surroundings more clearly.

On the road, the blood stains disappeared at some point, except for the desolation, the road surface was neat and looked clean.

It's like it's been cleaned up.

The buildings on both sides of the old city are not so oppressive at the moment, and the road is open, and it is smoother than the intricate labyrinth of Xining alleys.

With better light, Chen Ye saw the low-slung single-family huts in the old city, the rows of densely packed beehive-like dwellings, old wells, outdated drainage systems, and several discarded iron buckets next to them.

"Wells?"

Chen Ye seemed to have caught some key clues.

That's right!

The water circulation system in the old city has not been updated much, and many households still maintain the traditional well-style method of water withdrawal.

This will bring opportunities for downstream pollution!

Along the way, every few meters, you can see a wellhead.

Chen Ye walked to the vicinity of one of the wells.

However......

To his surprise, he looked into the well, and the inside was filled with thick concrete, which had been blocked, drier than dry land, not even a drop of water.

Chen Ye opened several manhole covers in a row and found the same scene.

"Doesn't it have anything to do with the well?" Chen Ye couldn't help muttering in his heart.

But...... The moment he approached the manhole cover, he clearly saw the ink lines, which became a little thicker.

Judging by the aura of luck, it is not completely irrelevant.

However, the correlation between the two has not yet been investigated.

Chen Ye continued to follow the guidance of the ink-colored lines, all the way forward.

Walking along the main road shrouded in white mist, there was basically no danger, not even a shadow of the residents of the old town.

Follow the guidance of the ink-colored lines, follow the fork on the right, and keep walking west......

Judging from the direction shown on the wanderer's map, this old town is connected to the lower reaches of the Xijiang River.

Walk out from the westernmost intersection and cross a road, which is the lower reaches of the Xijiang River.

Before the blood countdown, the area near the river is the busiest area of the old town. That area is full of Western-style single-family courtyards, and the architectural style is obviously closer to modern.

When Chen Ye came here, these small single-family buildings were abandoned and covered with moss. A mess of wires crisscrossed through old residential buildings, like cobwebs.

At this time, Chen Ye clearly noticed the ink lines, which became extremely bright.

is getting closer to the source of guidance......

"Why does this drawn pupil of luck feel so suitable for the detective?" Chen Ye complained in his heart.

If you unlock the detective profession now, I'm afraid you won't have to explode the weird value every minute!

However, to investigate these auras, it seems that you also have to rely on your legs to get out.

This is in line with the role of the wanderer......

His figure stopped near a ditch, the water inside which had completely dried up, and only gray gravel and clods of earth had accumulated in it.

However, when Chen Ye stood here, the ink-colored lines next to him seemed to come to life and began to squirm slowly, conspicuously highlighted.

"Is this it?"

Chen Ye looked down and found that under this canal, there were countless ink-colored lines, constantly intertwined, like a mess.

He looked left and right, and saw that there was no other way down.

But judging from the luck of luck, there are clear traces of "living" in the underground of this canal!

Could it be that there is something buried inside?

After stepping a few steps hard, Chen Ye felt that the canal under his feet was not so "real", and there seemed to be some hidden cave space hidden at the bottom.

He grabbed a rock from the side and slammed it down......

If you listen closely, you can hear a slight echo, indicating that there is a wide space hidden under the ground of this canal!

"The ink color is distributed in dots, blending with the faint color of blood, not a circle of calamity and evil energy, but like a secret hidden in the shadows."

"Although there is blood light, it is not obvious, which means that although there is danger in this thing, it should not be a big threat to me at the moment."

"After all, I have a second-class career, and I'm still the top [Devil Chef]!"

"The question now is ...... How can I go down? ”

Chen Ye stood in place, frowning and thinking.

Who would have thought that what they were going to investigate would be underground!

Do you really want to turn into a gopher and make a hole?

Wait a minute......

Speaking of gophers, Chen Ye suddenly remembered that he devoured 'sliced skin eyeballs and crispy meat', which can grow sharp horns like electric drills, giving him powerful digging ability.

It seems that you can really become a gopher!

Chen Ye took out the piece of skin and eyeballs in his pocket, split several vines, and swallowed them directly.

In the next second, his mind took on the same shape as the beetle, but bigger, thicker, and faster......

Touching the new [Demon Mask], Chen Ye couldn't help but shake his head and smile, the world is impermanent, he didn't expect that he would become a chainsaw brother one day!

He turned his head down, drilled violently, and the surface of the hollow drum instantly cracked, making a cracking sound of "click".

The drilling efficiency was extremely high, but after a while, a large hole was suddenly made in the surface of the canal that could accommodate an adult to drill into.

Bang!

Suddenly, the stratum seems to have been destroyed to a critical point, and suddenly the whole block collapses down!

Chen Ye suddenly felt that he was falling towards a certain place, and he immediately switched to the form of [Devourer], his face split, turning into vines, and heading towards the ground support!

The demon vine touched the ground and immediately found a point of force, like countless tentacles, stepping on the ground.

Chen Ye's body was suspended in mid-air with the help of vines, and after stabilizing his body, he observed the surroundings.

It's a cavern-like underground space.

With the help of the light source of the blood-colored phone's screen, Chen Ye's eyes adapted to the dim light and saw the objects around him clearly......

However, the picture that comes into the pupils is like another hell!

He saw mountains of bodies, white bones, rotting flesh and blood, and ugly insects crawling among the countless mountains of corpses!

The insects seemed to have entered their own paradise, happily devouring the essence and blood of the bodies on the ground, sometimes making a cheerful roar.

(End of chapter)