Chapter 155: The Strange Palace
"Huh~ha!"
An elongated grimace roared in front of the boy.
The boy panicked, subconsciously took a step back, and fell backwards with one foot in the air. The thought of thousands of meters in the air behind him, his face was full of horror and he waved his arms in vain.
"Smack!"
The man grabbed his arm and pulled him back in time. The boy was relieved, only to feel that his whole body was weak, and he finally stood firm.
"Welcome, welcome, famous university!"
In the distance, an old man on the stage, dressed in a white robe embroidered with gold patterns, beckoned to the two.
At this moment, the boy and the man were in a huge hall, with the top of the mountain behind them, but there was not a cold wind blowing in, but the hot steam rushed outside to meet them. Just as the boy's gaze, he had been unaware of the approaching gate before, but now when he came to the temple, he could see the view of the mountains outside.
"Come on! I have two more empty seats here!" the old man gestured to his side.
The entire hall, tables and chairs, was almost occupied. The tables were filled with delicacies, and chairs were filled with people of all ages, from fur skirts to suits and leather shoes.
The boy was a little unable to move, not that he was afraid of life. But at the moment when the old man's voice fell, the diners stopped talking and eating in unison, turned their heads in unison, and stared at the two of them, with no expression on their faces and no look in their eyes, like lifeless marionettes. The originally noisy hall was suddenly a lot quieter.
The boy was completely frightened, and felt that he was in the middle of a horror movie, and goosebumps rose all over his body.
"Hee-hee-ha!"
The voice sounded above his head, and he raised his head stiffly, and the next second's eyes widened.
Above the main hall, countless ghosts floated. Some gather around and sing and dance to the sound of musical instruments suspended in mid-air. Some were playing cards, some were fighting guns, enjoying many different types of entertainment, and the poker and muskets, among all sorts of other items, seemed even more illusory than these ghosts.
Others, they were looking at the boy, smiling, their chins sinking to their chests.
The boy froze.
"Bang!"
Suddenly, a gunshot rang out, and the boy was excited. I only heard an "ah", and a ghost who had been shot, covering his heart, fell to the ground flutteringly.
The boy was dumbfounded.
"Gone. The man said.
Before the boy could come to his senses, the man pulled him and walked towards the temple.
"Eh, don't ......"
The boy's expression was anxious, and he suddenly paused as soon as he spoke. At the moment when the two of them took steps, the full diners seemed to have life again, and they each returned to what they were doing before, talking about what they should talk about, and eating when they should eat, with vivid expressions. The boy intended to dissuade the man, but now he saw that his stomach was full of words and his throat was blocked.
Along the way, the people around him didn't seem to see the two of them, and they didn't even glance past the two of them. This is the opposite of the group of ghosts floating above their heads.
The boy's heart became more and more nervous, not only because there were ghosts that came down from time to time to look at them, but also because they were about to step over the ghosts who had been shot and fell to the ground not far in front of them. He hurried a few steps and walked to the man's side.
Just then, a rat came out from under the table, straight through the body of the fallen ghost, and into another tablecloth. A black-footed cat followed, leaping lightly over the ghost's body. The ghost looked up, annoyed.
"Don't bother me to play dead!
"Meow!"
In the distance, the black-footed cat responded, and the fallen ghost rolled its eyes before flying away.
The boy secretly breathed a sigh of relief, although it was strange that there were wild cats here, but it was better than coming face to face with ghosts.
It was only then that he relaxed a little, and noticed that the moisture in the air came partly from the table full of delicacies, and some from the heads of the diners.
The boy looked left and right, and this was what he saw along the way. Until a certain moment, his gaze froze.
Next to a diner, a ghost sits and the two are talking. If that's all it takes, it won't attract the boy's attention. The crux of the matter is that the two are dressed in the same way, have the same body shape, and have the same appearance, not so much like twins, but more like a person with two souls.
Such a spectacle that the boy couldn't take his eyes off it. As if sensing his gaze, the ghost suppressed his voice and turned his head to look at the boy with a grin.
After a series of strange scenes, the boy was somewhat adaptable, and when he saw this, he waved his hand mechanically at the ghost and barely laughed twice.
However, the boy soon regretted his response.
The interest in the ghost's eyes increased greatly, and suddenly turned into a streamer, and disappeared into the mouth of "himself" beside him. The diner's eyes rolled, and his demeanor suddenly became more agile than the diners around him. The first diner to focus on the boy on his own initiative, he got up from his seat and walked over to the boy.
The boy's heart lifted suddenly, but he still had to pretend that nothing happened, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and smile and nod to the diners next to him.
In response, there was a burst of muttering, unintelligible words. The boy blinked, he didn't know how to answer, he could only continue to smile, in addition to nervousness, there was a little more embarrassment in his heart. At this moment, there was another murmur around him, and it was a man replying.
The boy let out a sigh of relief, and the man indirectly relieved him, and he consciously went around to the other side. During the conversation, the diner occasionally looked at the boy, but the man was in the way of talking, and the boy was a lot more relieved at this time.
After a few words, the diner quickly returned to his seat, only to glance behind the boy with an inexplicable smile before heading back.
What's going on this time?
Strange things came one after another, and the boy turned his head a little bit with a sad face.
As far as the eye can see, vipers, leopards, hyenas, etc., all kinds of animals on the African continent are gathered together, and they are all small predators.
They gathered behind the two of them, following them, keeping a short distance and following them. Occasionally, one or two predators, chasing small herbivores such as mice, hares, and meerkats, interrupt the hunting process when passing by the two of them, and merge into the animal army.
The boy's face was full of panic, and he slapped the man's arm continuously: "Look at it!"
"I know, it's fine. ”
The two of them had already walked under the old man's seat at this moment. The man stepped onto the throne, glancing only at the animal behind him, and then beckoned the boy to follow.
Seeing that the man was still calm, the boy was sure in his heart, followed the man to the temple, turned around and sat down beside the old man.
However, when he looked at the audience again, the boy was stunned again.
There were all young people in the same uniform standing in the audience.
The boy's face was happy.
"Go, go, wait until school starts, and some of the new students will make fun of you. The old man waved his hand.
"Hey, hey. ”
"Okay, okay. ”
"Gone, Headmaster. ”
The young men said a few words and went their separate ways.
Sure enough, under the boy's expression, one by one they turned into various predators and scattered throughout the main hall.
The boy suddenly had a sense of belonging to this school in his heart, and imagined a beautiful campus life in the future, and he sincerely showed a look of longing.
"Gollum!"
A sudden burst of hunger pulled him out of this wonderful state of mind. Faced with the headmaster, who was looking at him with a funny face, the boy scratched his head in embarrassment.
"Is that okay?" he said, pointing to a plate of fried chicken thighs on the table.
"Of course, you can eat whatever you want. The old man waved his sleeves.
The boy looked at the man again, who nodded.
"If you want to turn it into cutlery. The man added.
The boy's hand reached for the chicken leg and paused.
The old man smiled: "Oh, don't scare the child, let him eat whatever he wants." ”
The boy looked at the man with some grievance. However, the man ignored it, and simply poured a few plates of dishes into one place, freed up a few empty plates, and placed them on the floor.
"Smack!"
As the men applauded, rats, hares, and meerkats, all the small animals that had been hunted before, all came out of the bottom of the table and ran up to the temple in unison, sitting on empty plates.
As soon as the man's hand was raised, the plate floated up and landed on the table: "Eat." ”
When the words fell, the living animals suddenly turned into plates of delicacies.
However, looking at the plate of chicken legs conjured up in front of him, thinking that this was a cute little rabbit before, the boy really couldn't put his mouth down, and he looked at the man as if asking for help.
"Hey!"
The man sighed.
"Hahahaha!"
The old man laughed nonstop.
The boy's second monk was confused.