Chapter 196: City of Despair

The sky was still shrouded in a thick layer of blood mist, and I didn't know what this blood mist was, but it had always wrapped this dead city and never dissipated. The faint blood-red moonlight could hardly penetrate the blood mist, but it cast a shadow on the dead city.

Lin Yu followed behind the ten monks, and in front of him was Chu Yuanzhen, a white-clothed Taoist who had been seriously injured by Lin Yu before, and everyone walked forward cautiously, for fear of alarming the monsters who were still sleeping in this dead city.

"I don't know where those Yin soldiers have gone, but they disappeared while walking. The Qingnan art master who walked in front was bold, even though he was shrouded in overwhelming darkness, he was not afraid at all, and he still said with a grin, showing a heroic demeanor.

At this moment, the old man who was following Qing Nan was in the middle of the Yuan Infant Stage, but he was scolding, obviously asking Qing Nan and the people behind him to be careful and not to be reckless.

This hunchbacked old man's name is Lao Ox, and it is said that this is not only because he was a farmer before he embarked on the path of cultivation, but also because he has always been conscientious and used as a scalper by other monks until the Yuan Infant Period. However, after this first acquaintance, Lin Yu admired him quite a lot, just because he often said some profound and mysterious words.

"What are you afraid of, isn't it just a city from a thousand years ago?!Are you still afraid that there are ghosts in here?" Hahaha-" The man in brocade robe laughed wildly, and went straight away from everyone, and did not forget to shout at the people behind him, "If you want to find treasures, come with me, uncle, my cultivation in the middle of the Yuan Infant is enough to cover you!"

Lin Yu sneered, this little rabbit cub really didn't know the height of the sky, even he didn't dare to say that he could run rampant in this sleeping town, but he always felt a faint sense of crisis lingering around him!

However, there seem to be more people in this world who don't want to die than rational people, and there is actually a monk in the early stage of the Yuan Infant and two monks in the late stage of the Jindan who followed the brocade-clothed man away, and Lin Yu was only left with the old scalper, Chu Yuan Zhenren, Qingnan of the Chiyang Sect, and two monks in the middle of the Jindan who cowered and didn't know what to do.

"Hmph, that kid really doesn't know how thick the sky is. The night likes to invade those who don't know their depths, be careful, there are many opportunities and dangers in this dead city-" The old scalper sighed in a hoarse voice, but it did not cause a reaction from everyone around him, except for the contemptuous smile of Qingnan who stood at the front.

At this moment, Lin Yu, who was standing at the back, suddenly paused, and he felt a fleeting murderous aura, as if he was going to put them all to death. Lin Yu looked around suspiciously, but he didn't find anything, but the few monks standing in front of him were unhappy.

"I said, Brother Lin, can't you be normal? After entering this dead city, it became mysterious, could it be that this is your homeland thousands of years ago?" said a monk in the middle of the Jindan period, dissatisfied.

Lin Yu could not tolerate others making irresponsible remarks about him, and the murderous intent flashed in his eyes, and an awe-inspiring murderous aura had already enveloped the monk who had just spoken!

"Don't be angry, young man, there's something wrong with this place! Look over there—" said the old scalper with a solemn face, as if he had seen something terrible, and his eyes were staring straight in one direction, which was the residential area of this town!

Qing Nan, who was standing in front of him, didn't pay much attention to the residential area, and directly turned a corner and continued to walk down, at this time, when he heard the words of the old scalper behind him, he immediately turned his head dissatisfied, he didn't believe that there would be anything strange in this dead city. However, when he turned his head to look in the direction that the old scalper was looking at, the whole person was directly stunned on the spot!

At the same time, there were other people including Lin Yu!

Because in the residential area where the old scalper was looking, there was an incomprehensible scene.

It was a relatively remote place in the residential area, surrounded by small bungalows, dark and gloomy, and it looked particularly strange in this dead city, and I don't know if there were any sleeping monsters hidden.

However, among these small bungalows, there are still three families with yellowed candles still lit, which is extremely peaceful and sweet, but they are only strange representatives in this dead city! Are these candles lit tonight, or have they been burning for thousands of years? Lin Yu would rather believe that these candles were lit tonight, because this is much easier to accept than the other possibility.

Is it possible to burn a thousand-year-old candlestick? Even the most powerful cultivator can't have a thousand-year-old lifespan, let alone a candlestick?!

"Let's go over and see-" Qing Nan, who was originally a big grinning character, was very embarrassed, just now he actually missed such a strange place, and at this time he had to run towards the three farmhouses that were full of weirdness.

Lin Yu and the old scalper were the second people to run towards the three farmhouses, and Lin Yu was also curious about this strange scene in the dead city. Maybe there's some kind of treasure here!

"Da Da Da-"

The dense footsteps echoed in the empty dead city, and I don't know how many meters away, it was particularly harsh, like the music played by the devil.

Those three families were only five hundred meters away from the position that Lin Yu and the others had just occupied, and the houses of these three families were all dark and secluded. In this dead city shrouded in darkness, there were shadows everywhere, and there was darkness everywhere.

The people who originally thought that this kind of strange house was only three rooms realized that they had completely guessed wrong, in this residential area, there were still thousands of lights, a beautiful and peaceful scene, and the houses they saw were only a small part of these house groups.

"What happened to this dead city?!So many people are still alive, why haven't they walked out of the dead city and out of the battlefield of gods and demons for thousands of years?!" Lin Yu said silently in his heart, at this time, they had already walked to the door of one of the still brightly lit farmhouses.

"Squeak-" The hoarse sound of the wooden door echoed through the empty dark city, like the grinding of the teeth of a ferocious beast, and people couldn't help but shake when they heard it. The wooden door, which had not been opened for thousands of years, peeled off a thick layer of dust, and finally revealed the current state of the house.

Lin Yu only felt that his heart was about to jump out of nervousness, he had been fully mentally prepared, but he actually saw the most incredible scene he had ever seen, in the small house that was only ten meters long and wide, the candlelight was still "on", and a man in cloth stood on the ground in a daze, holding a seven-year-old girl who was hugging her head and shouting in his arms.

What kind of face is this? Even if you are as cold-blooded as Lin Yu, you can feel the boundless negative emotions from these two faces!

Fear, uneasiness, anger, helplessness, reluctance, confusion, madness, and a vague hint of an evil smile but not a smile!

I'm afraid this is the first time Lin Yu has ever seen such a strange face, with two extreme opposite expressions, painful and ecstatic, what makes these ordinary people have such rich expressions?!

And on top of the wooden table, there was a candlestick that made the room light, and it was a candlestick that was "lit". The reason why I say this is because the flame in the candlestick has always remained in a state, and the flame is actually still!

"Time here should be stopped by the powerful man with great power. At this moment, Chiyang Sect Qingnan's voice sounded in front of Lin Yu. I saw that this originally heroic man also had a solemn face at this time, and without saying a word, he walked to the next brightly lit people's house.

However, as expected, the next farmer's house that Lin Yu and they explored was in the same situation. In the second farmer's house, a middle-aged woman is sitting with a newborn baby in her hand. The middle-aged woman's expression was actually the same as the man from the first farmer's house that Lin Yu saw!

Painful, crazy, and sneering, Lin Yu only felt that this evil-looking face was about to be deeply engraved into his mind! Because the other people in the brightly lit room he saw next had the same expression on their faces! And among those dark farmhouses, there were ordinary people who had committed suicide, but they still had such a strange smile on their faces.

"What the hell is going on!" Lin Yu frowned, and the sense of crisis that had been lingering in his heart did not decrease but increased, as if there were countless killing machines lurking around here, just waiting for a moment to pounce on them and kill them in one fell swoop.

Lin Yu and the others, who had rummaged through the residences of 300 households in the entire residential area nearby, already knew such an unbelievable number. Seven hundred people are still alive, but they have inexplicable weird smiles on their faces, and more than 200 people have committed suicide without forgetting to show that terrifying smile.

After a long time, Lin Yu and the other five monks all walked on the dark street with solemn faces, on this wide street, which was originally supposed to be a prosperous market, but at this time it was extremely quiet and empty. Lin Yu and the others were about to go to the palace that was incredibly magnificent, located in the middle of this dead city!

The palace that is more than 700 meters high can be said to stand out in this dead city, you must know that the bungalows in the residential area that Lin Yu and they saw before are only a few meters high, and this palace is actually more than 700 meters high, what is the use of this?

"Ah——!!! help, ——!!!" At this moment, a terrible scream shook the sky, lingering in this empty dead city, and it seemed that it was the cry of someone who had encountered some danger.

"Isn't that the voice of the boy who left earlier?!" The old scalper's face was solemn, and he had already taken a step forward, running towards the source of the cry from the northeast, and in the blink of an eye it had disappeared, contrary to the central palace.

"Be nosy, ignore him, let's go!" and Qing Nan, who was the leader, muttered dissatisfied, obviously very dissatisfied with this old guy named Old Scalper, and was about to walk towards the castle in the middle of the dead city.

Lin Yu didn't say a word, and disappeared into this void in the blink of an eye. Originally, he didn't have the slightest affection for this Qingnan, and when he saw that the monk who came in with him was in danger, of course Lin Yu wanted to rescue him first, and at this time, Lin Yu had already rushed to chase the old scalper!