Late at night. Eleven a.m.

Yushan City. Central City.

A crimson moon of immense proportions, with cratered craters on the surface of the celestial body, hung high above the city's dark and gray sky.

The scarlet moonlight quietly reflected the prosperous and gorgeous neon of the foggy capital of this mountain city at night.

A plump and tall purple-haired woman stands in front of the subway station called Hongya Road, a smoky cigarette twisted around her fingertips.

She let out a breath of mist and looked up at the scarlet blood moon above the sky with interest.

In front of the woman, a construction team dressed in reflective overalls quickly surrounded the entrance of the entire subway station with a cordon, while a large group of armed police assisted in the evacuation of the crowd.

"The circuit of the subway is broken, this station has to be shut down for maintenance tonight, and the last train can't be taken, so please go home and take the bus."

Listening to the words of such an evacuation, the people suddenly began to leave.

A small number of people walked a little further away and looked at the heavily armed police officers with concern.

"Build a subway...... Is it such a big battle? ”

The person in charge of the subway station who rushed to the station after hearing the news was a little confused - he received a call from his superiors fifteen minutes ago, informing him that the "Hongya Road" station would be suspended for maintenance tonight.

But...... The site is clearly functioning well, and there is no so-called line failure at all.

And, if the subway is to be repaired, why would such a large number of heavily armed troops be sent?

"That's just a necessary public explanation, please understand."

The purple-haired woman held the cigarette between her fingertips and smiled gently.

Her pleasant voice seemed to be born with a sense of comfort, and one couldn't help but want to believe her words.

Standing in front of such a tall and plump beauty, the person in charge of the site obviously looked a little narrow, and he didn't know where to put his gaze, and he couldn't help but catch a glimpse of a document hanging in front of his full chest.

The iconic headshot is smiling gently, the corners of her mouth are hooked up without losing the charm of a thousand charms, and her current name, job title and work unit are marked below the avatar.

"Zheng Lingye."

"Deputy Director of the Yushan Natural Disaster Countermeasures Bureau."

"It is under the Department of Natural Disaster Emergency Prevention and Management."

Subconsciously chanting the above content one by one, the person in charge of the site couldn't help but feel more and more confused.

Ha...... Act of God?

Is it a flood or an earthquake or something?

It has been raining a little more recently in Yushan, but everywhere is good, where did the natural disasters come from?

It seemed to sense his doubts.

The purple-haired woman named Zheng Lingye slowly showed a seemingly nonexistent arc at the corner of her mouth.

"Mr. Principal."

She asked with a gentle smile,

"What color is the moon you see now?"

The man who heard the words couldn't help but subconsciously raise his head and glanced at the cold full moon above his head.

"Recently, the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, of course it is cold white, can the moon have other colors? Director Zheng ......"

The purple-haired woman, who heard his answer, just smiled and shook her head.

"So, what we're going to deal with has nothing to do with you, so have a good dream......"

The words fell.

The head of the site, whose face was full of confusion, began to shiver inexplicably, and a strong drowsiness welled up in his heart, causing him to quickly fall into a deep sleep.

A waiting maintenance worker behind him grabbed the man's limp body at the right time, carried him away quietly, and put him on a stretcher.

The unrelated personnel who stayed 100 meters around were completely evacuated.

Zheng Lingye, who had his hands behind his back, glanced at the hideous blood moon on the sky dome that seemed to be getting bigger and bigger, slowly smiled and lowered his gaze, and glanced towards the entrance of the subway station.

in her field of vision.

The entrance of the subway station, which was originally made of stainless steel and full of modernity, was inexplicably filled with a cold gray mist.

The scene in the station seems to be as if it has been used for decades, and it looks old and decayed-

The old fluorescent lamps swayed slightly in the ceiling, hissing with electric noise.

The whitewashed walls were cracked with mottled lime marks, and the scars that bloomed resembled human eyes.

The newspaper on the floor was covered in all sorts of twisted and blood-colored handwriting, "Don't let them know you can see it!"

The overall atmosphere is eerie and permeating, not like a pedestrian walkway in a subway station, but more like a morgue for corpses.

Just a stone's throw away.

This misty passage.

It's like a gateway to another strange and unknown world.

"The appearance of a blood moon is a harbinger of natural disasters.

"Tonight, I finally captured one of the entrances to this Scourge Secret Realm.

"The recent frequent cases of sudden death of subway passengers should also be able to trace the source.

"Time is limited, and we can't let the influence and scope of the secret realm continue to expand.

"Everyone, please hurry."

The purple-haired woman snuffed out her cigarette in the night, and the words of her smile were silenced.

Waiting at the entrance, the countermeasures bureau agents wearing maintenance uniforms to disguise their identities glanced at each other and nodded, their respective character cards appearing at their fingertips.

"Beginner Martial Artist", "Inferior Monster Hunter", "Inferior Modified Cyber Body", "Newly Awakened Psychic Person", ......

"Listen to Zheng Ju's words, let's make a quick decision, after adding this shift, everyone can go back to sleep......"

Suddenly.

As the character card is suddenly activated.

The brilliant colors that flowed like wax spread across everyone's bodies, completely transforming their shapes and outfits into characters that only appear in games.

One had a hairscarf tied around his head, the muscles of his arms were strong and full, and bursts of pale blue ripples brewed in his palms.

One wore a helmet, a heavy beast armor, and a slender sword almost as tall as a human on his back.

A man whose arms had been replaced with metal mechanical prosthetics with clear lines of transformation appeared on his face.

There was also a person who didn't change his outfit at all, but the objects on his side seemed to float slowly......

Under Zheng Lingye's signal.

The armed police slowly carried down a heavy square black box from the heavily guarded armed car and slowly carried it in front of the subway entrance.

A moment later.

In the center of the box, a strange and bloodshot huge eyeball slowly opened, twisted a few times, and then as if sensing something, it stared at the entrance of the misty "Hongya Road" station.

"Want to eat...... Want to eat...... Want to eat—"

A mouth that cracked open from the box hoarsely roared, and sticky saliva flowed out.

A freckled girl with eyes who looked a little restrained ran over with a laptop and connected a data cable on the black box to her computer.

The frenzied flow of data then began to search for information at a rapid pace.

"The wish power from this natural calamity secret realm fluctuated, and the target with a 99% fit rate was retrieved!"

"The secret realm of natural disasters that have come this time should come from the video game "Strange Talk City" series!"

"I've been told to contact the game's development team to see if we can find a more detailed world setting."

"Judging from the report data within half a month, there should be more than one entrance to this secret realm, and its scale and danger are preliminarily judged to be a month-level secret realm!"

"According to the original setting of "Strange Talk City", it must be filled with a large number of supernatural and ghostly enemies."

"It is recommended to form a team of dependents who are good at exorcism, evil suppression, or other high-intensity spirit attack abilities, and enter the secret realm strategy!"

After the freckled girl's words were quickly recited, the officers of the Natural Disaster Countermeasures Bureau, who were originally gearing up, suddenly gassed and looked difficult.

"Grass, Moon-level Secret Realm!"

"My 'Monster Hunter' character card is still at the gate level! This is directly two notches away! ”

"Goblins? Are there any female ghosts? Snow Girl? Mrs. Eight Feet? The good-looking kind? ”

"Don't mention it, I played the "Strange Talk City" series, and the ghosts in it are all abstract deformities, and it's good not to have nightmares at night."

"Hey, that's still free ......"

"My current character system is based on the Nian Qi Martial Arts, except for picking up some wish power crystals, it seems that there will be no talent that will suit me in this kind of supernatural secret realm."

"I'm the most annoying ghost, too."

"If you die accidentally, you will have to be a vegetative person on the hospital bed for at least half a month, and you will be irrigated by perfusion food to live rather than die......"

Listening to the retreat of the operators, the purple-haired woman in the lead did not change her expression, and there was still a subtle smile on the corner of her mouth.

Because, complaining is complaining.

In the Natural Disaster Countermeasures Bureau, all of them are staffed civil servants.

Do you want to get paid anymore?

So...... This class should be added or must be added.

"Zheng Ju, how many of us are really sent? The four of us are still doorways. ”

The Taidao man in the armor of the beast lin snorted, not that he was cowardly, if it was a secret realm such as killing monsters, he would be better at it.

"Go and call Lao Zhang of the clothes rank over, I remember that he received the talent of the Heavenly Master of Longhu Mountain in "Midnight Killing", it should be very convenient to use the thunder method to exorcise ghosts."

"Just the four of you." Zheng Lingye said with a smile.

"Zheng Ju, we are four steps to attack the secret realm of the moon level?"

The martial artist also shook his head,

"There is no opinion, the order of the organization is an iron law, but isn't this pure giving people heads?"

Imagination gathers into a power called "wish".

Novels, comics, film and television, art, games...... The imagination and consensus of human beings have shaped all kinds of wonderful cultural products.

I don't know where to start, the magnificent fantasy begins to erode reality, and the pattern of appearance is like a sudden natural disaster, and then the reality is formed into a subspace called "Natural Disaster Secret Realm", which is like a roguelike game copy.

The more popular the works and cultures of each country, the easier it is for the "secret land" of natural disasters to emerge corresponding to the content of the works.

It is difficult to determine exactly when the Secret Realm of Natural Disasters first came.

Since the magnificent fantasies of human society, the form and content have become more and more abundant.

The erosion of reality by the Secret Realm of Natural Disasters is also becoming more and more frequent.

As a cultural product with the largest audience, video games often have a systematic worldview setting, which is very convenient for building consensus.

The content from the game began to gradually crowd out the mainstream of the secret realm.

Fortunately, the vast majority of secret realms are harmless and short-lived; There are even some secret realms that have great benefits that can be exploited.

But, correspondingly.

Some dangerous secret realms, if they are not dealt with for a long time, have not been quickly eliminated.

The worldview and otherworldly creatures will gradually invade reality in reverse, tamper with the history of reality and people's cognition, and give corresponding settings to reality.

Among them, the secret realm of ghost enemies can be described as the most tricky one.

Danger is secondary.

Mainly...... If you fail to do so many times and don't handle it cleanly enough, it is easy to let the influence of the secret realm gradually expand, so that ghosts and various supernatural phenomena are slowly born in reality.

Unlike monsters or terrifying monsters, ghosts are a danger that is difficult for ordinary people to avoid.

In the Natural Disaster Countermeasures Bureau here in Yushan, the veteran cadres suffered a lot of casualties in the Demon Realm Rift incident a few years ago, and now the manpower is indeed relatively tight.

However, let the gate-level dependents team up to attack the moon-level secret realm, and the success rate may be less than half of it.

Or is it this kind of secret realm full of ghosts......

The purple-haired beauty smiled and put her hands behind her back, and the documents of the countermeasures bureau swayed slightly under her full chest.

"For the first time in attendance, of course, there are newbie benefits. I will summon the wraith to escort you. ”

She spoke softly.

"Spirits and ghosts are enemies......

Zheng Lingye groaned for a moment, then snapped his fingers lightly.

"Since it's a demon hunter, it must be okay to ask him to help in the battle, right?"

The white fingertips suddenly appeared a delicate gold coin engraved with a wolf's head pattern, exuding a thin glow.

"Silver Silver Wolf's Coins"

"Moon-Tier Phantom Relic"

"From the Witcher series"

"Effect: Randomly grants the user three Witcher-related talents and makes them experience the equivalent of devouring poisonous grass trials (99% mortality)."

"Associated Wraiths: Silver Wolf Gerald, Silver Wolf Daughter Ciel, Phantom Warlock Yenafa"

See this Moon-Tier Phantom Relic.

The operators were boiling as if they had exploded.

"I'm super, it's the witcher's silver coin!"

"There's still this kind of good thing in the bureau, this wave is to summon Gerald the silver wolf?"

"Summoning a moon-level phantom, the consumption is not small, Zheng Ju is bleeding a lot now.

"But, that's a witcher! The ability to hunt demons and slay demons can be called specialized, and if the four of us are concerned, it is enough to just follow the Wish Crystallization behind his ass, right? ”

"It's stable, this wave of strategies has been stabilized!"

Looking at the operators who suddenly cheered up and were gearing up.

The purple-haired beauty smiled and shook her head, her fingertips slowly twisting the silver coin inch by inch.

The flying silver quicksand slowly gathered on the ground into a middle-aged man with silver hair and silver sideburns, and a longitudinal hideous scar at the corner of his left eye.

He was covered in fine chain mail, his burly and solid arms seemed to be able to hold up the sky, a delicate wolf's head pendant hung from his chest, and behind him he carried the iron sword of slaying beasts and the silver sword of slaying demons, and his pale silver hair was combed into a neat bun at the back of his head.

Known as the silver wolf, the protagonist of the famous "Witcher" series of games, slowly opened his amber vertical pupils under the night of this modern city.

Between his eyebrows, there was no trace of the witcher's murder and ferocity, but instead touched his chest with his left hand, nodded to his summoner, and smiled gently.

"The Silver Wolf Gerald has arrived, beautiful young lady."

*

A decayed, dilapidated, seemingly unpopular station corridor.

The mist, which was as cold as a mist, suddenly surged up, and was incinerated by a burst of blazing flames.

As the witcher wielded a glittering silver sword, he sliced the deformed goblins into pieces of flesh like chopping melons and vegetables, and then a flame sigil blew them away into scattered ashes.

The four rookie operators of the Countermeasures Bureau shouted 666 after the witcher while absorbing the overflowing wish power with their character cards.

"Brother Jie, you are my god!"

"There's a monster there, I'll help you bring it here!"

"The difference in strength between the dependents and the phantoms is too big, it's almost insurmountable, and it's more convenient to summon the phantoms to attack the secret realm."

"Zheng Ju said that this attendance belongs to the novice welfare, and next time I will go to the secret realm by myself, and I have the ability to explode the illusion relic by myself."

"Huh...... It's a pity—"

I heard the discussion among the operators.

Holding up a protection seal, the silver-haired handsome uncle demon hunter turned his gaze with interest and glanced at the young people in front of him.

The wraith summoned to this world will be given modern common sense, and there will be no language barrier - he can certainly understand what they are talking about.

"Phantoms are strong, yes, but they're just phantoms after all."

Gerald shook his head as he curled his mouth and said in a small but clear voice.

"We are just phantoms summoned by thought.

"We, who were born of thought, cannot protect all the calamities of mankind, and if we lose the support of our will, we will dissipate.

"What if you can't summon it next time?

"What if I can't respond to your appeals?

"What if instead of a handsome and helpful uncle like me, you're met with some dark and evil wizard?

"Little ones, don't be presumptuous."

Listen to the words of the silver wolf.

He himself is being taught by the protagonist of the well-known game, the series "The Witcher".

As soon as Nerves realizes such a thing, it will make any player feel a burst of excitement.

"Ming...... I see! Mr. Gerald! ”

"! I want to become stronger, I will rise to the Abyssal Rank, the Core Rank, the God Rank, and blow up the Scourge with one punch! ”

Looking at this group of excited young people.

Gerald couldn't help but think of the lively little ones in his castle.

Each other has their own stories, but because of their thoughts, they have a fate that intersects in everything.

He stroked his well-trimmed beard and smiled rather uninhibitedly.

"Keep calling me Brother Jie."

Under a tight formation (one-sided slaughter).

The ghosts on the periphery of the entire platform were quickly swept away.

Standing on an empty waiting platform.

The complexions of the countermeasures bureau and his party gradually became more and more solemn as they went deeper into the secret realm.

"The strength of the ghosts is gradually getting stronger, and it has become difficult to destroy them."

With its amber pupils, the Silver Wolf began to apply sharp potions to his dull silver sword.

The beautiful summoner gave him a mandate to protect the newcomers.

Even if he didn't consider the compulsion of being a phantom, the silver wolf would carry out this order seriously out of consideration for the charm of the young lady.

The newcomers were well protected by his Seal of Protection, but most of them began to suffer some slight injuries, and their bodies became a little illusory.

"That last train is the core of the "Strange Talk City" series, and all the strongest ghosts are gathered on it."

In the mist that spreads like a mist.

You can see a rickety tram with dim lights on, slowly approaching the platform from the tracks not far away.

"I'll be the first to break into the carriage, you follow behind me, don't be left behind, and pay attention to protect yourself in the narrow space."

Tell me so carefully.

Known as the Silver Wolf, the witcher held his breath and silently held his silver sword, standing on the edge of the platform, waiting for his next final battle.

However...... In everyone's astonishment, even in the gaze of condensation—

The treacherous tram slowly drove into the platform, staggering to a stop, and the creaking old doors slowly opened and closed on the platform.

...... There are no ghosts.

The empty tram car suddenly caught everyone's eyes.

"Don't let them know you can see it!"

"Don't let them know you can see it!!"

"Don't let them know you can see !!"

The mottled, twisted blood on the ground.

A series of extremely clear footprints from leather shoes have been trampled on.

Someone from the rear of the car.

All the way to the front of the car.

Not a single cloud was left.

"Carriage...... It has been swept away. ”

From the unhurried footsteps, you can see the visitor's relaxed freehand.

Even, in the entire carriage, there was not even the slightest trace of a fight.

Looking at this scene.

The Silver Wolf frowned deeply, and immediately activated the spiritual senses that belonged to the witcher.

Suddenly, he snorted in pain and raised his hand to cover his eyes.

From between the cracks in the fingertips, thick red black blood slowly oozed out.

In the blink of an eye.

Gerald seemed to see the entire tram turn into a distorted puddle of flesh and blood, and at the front end of the cab, a blurry mass of foreign objects covered in tentacles and eyeballs squirmed.

Just looking at it, he was shocked by the spirit, which was a strange demon that he would never be able to fight.

"You're ......! Don't look! Come on! ”

The doors of the tram slammed shut.

With a slightly dazed expression.

Everyone followed the witcher's gaze and slowly looked forward.

I don't know when.

A silver-haired, delicate girl was already sitting in the seat near the cab, swaying her fair and clean slender feet slightly.

Her long, waterfall hair looked like some fine brocade, and her jade-like fingertips clutched a blood-stained and worn dictionary, and she was staring at the silhouette of the city outside the tram window in a daze.

It seems to be aware of his own essence, and accidentally touches the spirit of the visitor.

The girl named Tsukizhi slowly turned her crimson eyes, and said softly with a slightly apologetic voice.

"I miss him so much......

Is this burning sensation called "longing"?

"The moon tells me that he is in your world.

"So—

"I want to ask you guys to help me find someone."