Chapter 5: The Dark Land
Leaving the terrifying tea shed, Wang Xuan's heart became more and more suspicious.
This kind of murderous maniac lives on the side of the official road, and uses the place of the tea shed to kill people and chop up corpses, how can they not be detected by the government. The official road can be said to be the lifeblood of a city, and it is unjustifiable if the government does not send people to exterminate such murderers. What's more, after walking for so long, except for this female demon, he has never seen anyone else, coupled with the gray-white mist that permeates everywhere, Wang Xuan has some bad feelings in his heart.
After walking on the official road again, all kinds of dead corpses gradually appeared on the side of the road, including men, women and children. Some of the corpses were withered or gnawed by unknown beasts, while others looked like they had been dead for days, staring at the sky with fat maggots and a foul stench. As you walked forward, more and more corpses appeared, which was shocking to see.
No, all the people here are dead!
Wang Xuan's heart became heavier and heavier, "Could it be that this place was also attacked by demon clouds, and it was long before Feng County?" If this is the case, Mr. sent himself out of Feng County desperately, but he happened to come to another demon city, I don't know how Mr. would feel if he was still there!" Wang Xuan thought with a wry smile.
Although he knew that he was in danger, Wang Xuan couldn't think about it at this time, so he had to leave temporarily. It's just that this place is very weird, and this official road can't be walked anymore, it's too eye-catching.
Looking up at the sky, although for some reason, the gray clouds in the sky dissipated a little, and a faint bright moon hung behind the gray clouds. But you can't see the stars, and you can't recognize the direction with the bright moon alone.
In desperation, Wang Xuan turned around and left, walking through the wild grass on the side of the official road, but even if he walked in the wild grass, he could see the scattered human and beast corpses from time to time, with different degrees of decay, but there was a thick smell of decay, as if all the living creatures in this place were dead.
Wang Xuan tried to urge a qi sensing method that Mr. had taught him, saying that it was used to explore all kinds of breaths between heaven and earth that could not be discerned by the naked eye, but as soon as the method was activated, what came into Wang Xuan's eyes was an endless gray dead qi that covered the sky and the earth. This kind of dead qi can often only be seen next to the old man who is sick and dying, and he can only see one or two points, but at this moment, everywhere Wang Xuan's eyes can reach, there is endless dead qi, and even the aura of heaven and earth can't be seen.
Wang Xuan's face was even more ugly, not to mention that there are so many dead qi here, so all kinds of ghosts must emerge in endlessly. What's more, with so little aura, I'm afraid that the spell won't be able to use some power at that time.
Wang Xuan thought for a while, took off the floating light sword tied to his neck, and placed it in the palm of his hand to urge the method. After a long time, the little sword was still lying quietly on the palm of his hand, without the slightest movement. Wang Xuan sighed and tied the small sword back to his neck. In addition to this strange gray fog here, even the light of the stars and moon is obscured, and the floating light sword cannot be urged. As for that pure yang jade, his mana was not enough to drive the light of the sun in it, so he still had to leave here as soon as possible.
Fortunately, although there are many wild corpses in the wild grass, they don't seem to be in much danger, but they are a little quiet.
Fortunately, as time passed, the gray fog seemed to disperse more and more, and the bright moon in the sky became clearer and clearer. Seeing the moon come out, Wang Xuan breathed a sigh of relief. Even if you don't run the Qi Sensing Method now, you can clearly feel that the dead qi filled by heaven and earth seems to have dissipated a little, and the floating light sword on your neck has also fluctuated slightly.
It's just that although it is a little normal now, the world here is still weirdly tight, and Wang Xuan didn't dare to stay longer, holding the floating light sword in his hand to absorb some moonlight, and his footsteps continued to walk forward without stopping.
After walking for a short time, the moonlight had reached mid-heaven, and it seemed that the bright moonlight had restored the earth to its normal appearance, and the surroundings were no longer gray, and Wang Xuan could still hear a few subtle insect chirps.
Finally a little angry, Wang Xuan breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
At this moment, a continuous black shadow appeared not far ahead, which seemed to be a village, faintly dancing in the light of fire. Wang Xuan's heart moved, there was firelight, maybe there were still living people here, if he could meet people, he should be able to ask where he was now.
Walking through the knee-deep barren grassland, a large area of villages with only ruins and broken walls appeared in front of Wang Xuan's eyes, with collapsed house walls and dilapidated portals, showing the dilapidated scene.
Wang Xuan frowned slightly when he saw this, looking at the appearance of the village, it should be uninhabited. It's just the faintly beating fire just now, what is it?
Just as he was thinking, a whistle suddenly came from the side of his ears, followed by a girl's exclamation. Immediately, Wang Xuan's ears cooled, and he tilted his head to see that a golden hairpin with a tail still trembling slightly on an earthen wall behind him was deeply sunk into the earthen wall.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I thought some ghost thing had come over!" A faint bell rang, and a young girl ran to Wang Xuan.
Wang Xuan frowned and looked, only to see that the girl was dressed in plain clothes, with beautiful eyebrows, a bun on her head at will, and a few hairpins falling, the most special thing was the exposed slender hands, respectively, with two pairs of golden rings tied with golden bells, and the bell rang between the steps, which was quite pleasant.
"Oh, the little girl has acted recklessly, and she has frightened Childe!" said the girl as she ran to her and said apologetically.
Wang Xuan smiled and said.
"It's okay, it's weirdly tight here, and it's right to be so nervous. But the girl was the first living person she met here, and she wanted to inquire what was going on here!"
The girl grinned and said.
"Childe is also the first living person I have met! By the way, my sister's surname is Xuanming Jin, so Childe will call me Xuanjin. It seems that Childe doesn't know anything about this dance city, so how could he break in recklessly?
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Wang Xuan smiled bitterly and then said.
"In Xia Wang Xuan, it was also a coincidence that he strayed into this place, but he didn't expect it to be a dead city, and he saw it all the way, but I was afraid that the rumored ghost was nothing more than that. ”
The girl laughed lightly,
"Wang Gongzi is right, now, the entire Lianwu City is a real ghost city!"
After the bright moon passed the middle of the sky, the brilliance gradually dissipated, and the gray clouds that had originally dissipated began to gather silently again, covering the entire sky. The gray aura that was vague also spread over the earth again, covering all the barren grass and trees around it with a layer of gray.
"According to what the girl said, this Lian Dance City is since the withdrawal of the Heavenly Master of Dao Xuan Mountain, and under the suppression of no one, a ghost king has appeared out of nowhere, turning this entire Lian Dance City into a daytime ghost?"
The two of them found a slightly clean clearing in the abandoned village, lit a bonfire, and the gray fog around them seemed to dissipate a little under the light of the fire.
Xuan Jin held a wooden stick and tossed the fire, and said.
"Well, I heard that the ghost king is very tight, and the city lord of Lianwu City seems to have provided for a few cultivators, but after the ghost king came to Lianwu City, the first people to be turned into a living corpse were the people of the entire city lord's mansion. Then the ghost king used his magic power to cover the entire Lianwu City with ghost mist, and none of the people in the city ran out. Since then, this Lianwu City has become the residence of the ghost king, and the people nearby do not even dare to approach this city, and sometimes some fierce evil ghosts take advantage of the night to run out of Lianwu City and devour the living people outside the city. In short, even the vicinity of this city is slowly becoming desolate. ”
"Listening to what Miss Xuan said, this Lian Dance City is already completely a world of ghosts, and even the surrounding area is not inhabited. Why did Miss Xuan come to this ghost town alone?"
Xuan Jin glanced up at Wang Xuan and said,
"If you are not mistaken, Wang Gongzi has a hidden spiritual light, and he should also be a cultivator! ”
Wang Xuan nodded.
Xuan Jin smiled slightly,
"If it weren't for the magic of the body, I'm afraid that no ordinary person would be able to walk in this ghost town. After all, in addition to the various ghosts that are rampant here, there are also some living corpses that are not human or ghosts for the ghost king!"
"Living corpse?" Wang Xuan's heart moved, thinking of the fat woman who seemed to be a living person but could shoot her own ice light at will.
"As for why the little sister ventured here, just to find someone. People found it, but they also lost their direction, and temporarily stayed here to think about going out, but they met you, the prince of the princes. ”
"Come to this kind of place at this time to look for someone..."Wang Xuan was a little puzzled.
"A distant relative, but I saw it, and by the way, I helped him free himself from the battle of the ghost king. Xuanjin nodded.
"That's it, let's not talk about this, leaving the dangerous place at this time is the best policy, I don't know Miss Xuanjin, is there a way to get out of this ghost town?" Wang Xuan asked.
Xuan Jin threw the wooden stick in his hand and said helplessly.
"This ghost city is all covered by the ghost mist of the ghost king, and there is very little aura, so there is no way to distinguish the direction. Only when the ghost king disperses the ghost mist and absorbs the moon yin every night, can I take that moment to use the bright moon to discern and adjust the direction. It's only been three days of walking, and I still haven't found my way out,"
"This is troublesome!" Wang Xuan also frowned.
"Now I can only find a place to hide during the day, and then walk on it again when the moon comes out at night, and I can always get out if I want to. Xuanjin also said helplessly.
"Alas!" Wang Xuan sighed deeply,
"Wang has no way to go out, so he can only bother the girl to take Wang for a ride!"
"That's natural, Wang Gongzi also has a magic body, although he doesn't know geometry, but he is always a little stronger than me, who is just getting started. In other words, it is better for two people to walk together than to be single, and there is a response in case of trouble. ”
Wang Xuan nodded and didn't speak again, but he thought in his heart, if this Xuan Jin knew that his technique was actually about to start, he didn't know what to think in his heart.
The two of them were silent for a moment, only the sound of burning and bursting firewood in the fire rang from time to time. In the distance, the gray fog is locked, and the ghost is full of ghosts, which makes people's hearts even more sad.
Suddenly, Xuan Jin's ears moved, and he noticed something and said in a loud voice.
"Something, come out for this girl!"
As he spoke, a burning firewood was thrown out of his hand.
"Ahh
Where the fire landed, a little girl's scream rang out, followed by a cry.
"Don't bite me, don't bite me!"
Person?!
Wang Xuanjin and Xuanjin glanced at each other, and they both stood up, and then Xuanjin shouted again,
"Come out!"
A thin little girl in the gray mist walked over with some cringe, glanced at the two quietly, and immediately lowered her head.
Wang Xuan squinted and saw that this little girl was at most seven or eight years old, with two pigtails, and the flower cloth jacket on her body was tattered, and there was a lot of mud and dust, which looked very embarrassed.
"Who are you child, how can you be here alone?" Xuan Jin saw that it was a little girl, his expression relaxed slightly, but he still asked vigilantly.
"I... I'm Cuckoo, my family... My family is here!"
"Home?!" Xuan Jin repeated, and whispered to Wang Xuan.
"Wang Gongzi, this little girl is only afraid that there is a problem. At first, you walked for so long and didn't see ghosts, but it was just in time for the moonrise that the ghost fog cleared. Now that the moonlight has disappeared, it is the time when the ghost fog covers the city and evil ghosts haunt. This little girl came out of the ghost fog, although there was no ghost aura on her body, but it was really weird. What's more, if she is really a person from this abandoned village, but even this city has been occupied by the ghost king for almost a month, how can she survive here!
Wang Xuanzi had already used the method of feeling qi as soon as this little girl who called herself Du Juan'er appeared, but as Xuan Jin said, he did not see the ghost qi on him, and he seemed to be a living person. It's just that what Xuan Jin said is also reasonable, such a little girl is unlikely to survive alone in this bad environment for more than a month.