Chapter 42: The Gloomy City
The ground was rapidly moving away, and Lin Hui turned his head to look at the surrounding shields, his eyes flashing, and he had a strange look. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The wind around him was so strong that a large amount of air piled up on top of the shield as it moved, forming a veil of air draped over the shield.
If it is in a certain high-speed state, this phenomenon is completely normal, but the speed of the wooden ship at this time is not less than Mach 1 at all, and the phenomenon produced by flying at such a speed should not be like this, but will continue to produce a series of sound barriers that break through the air with the movement, and the roar continues.
This is by no means the influence of the different laws of this world, but the shield around the wooden boat greatly reduces the resistance of the air in some mysterious way, which prevents the sound barrier from occurring.
Wonderful, the structure of this wooden boat is completely incomprehensible to Lin Hui now, only after cultivating to the realm of spiritual transformation and being able to release divine thoughts, Lin Hui will be able to study it, and now this thing is just borrowed, and he will return it when he returns.
While Lin Hui was thinking, the wooden ship had risen to a height of five thousand meters as it moved, but even so, the ship continued to rise into the air, five thousand three hundred, five thousand five hundred, six thousand, seven thousand, eight thousand, nine thousand, until ten thousand.
At 10,000 meters, the wooden ship flew to this height before breaking through into the clouds in one breath and reaching the world above the clouds.
The sun here looked very bright, and when Lin Hui looked up, he could see that there was another layer of clouds in the sky very far above him, this layer of clouds was different from the clouds below him, covering a large area but very thin, enough to pass through the sunlight, and when viewed from the ground, it was basically transparent and could not be seen.
As for what other worlds are behind this thin cloud, Lin Hui has no way of knowing.
After thinking about it, Lin Hui lowered his head, took out a spirit crystal from the storage bag, and meditated into a cultivation state.
A month was a very long time, Lin Hui had nothing to do along the way, except for sleeping, the rest of the time could only be spent in cultivation, this kind of day was very boring, so that Lin Hui suddenly remembered the scene of hunting demon beasts on the way to cultivation.
In this way, after Lin Hui had spent a boring month, the wooden boat finally dived down one day, broke through the clouds, and gradually flew to the ground.
Lin Hui opened his eyes and looked ahead, and saw that a very distant city in front of him was constantly enlarging with the advance of the wooden boat, and its specific appearance gradually came into Lin Hui's eyes, this city was Mingyang City.
It's a big city, and it's definitely very densely populated.
The wooden boat quickly lowered its flight altitude from seven to five thousand meters, four thousand meters, three thousand meters, one thousand meters, one hundred meters, and finally landed.
Lin Hui jumped off the wooden boat, injected it into the wooden boat, and turned it back into a fist-sized mini wooden boat.
After taking the mini wooden boat in his hand and looking at it a few times, Lin Hui suddenly called out the processing furnace and registered the wooden boat.
Since this wooden boat has to be returned when he returns, he might as well make one himself. However, after registering, Lin Hui checked the materials needed for the manufacture of wooden boats, which were naturally extremely expensive, these things could only be collected by those powerhouses in the Xuan Transformation Realm, even if Lin Hui had a processing furnace in hand, it would take a considerable amount of time to collect these materials, and this matter was not something he needed to consider now.
Putting the wooden boat into the storage bag, Lin Hui looked at the gate of Mingyang City, which was still hundreds of meters away from him, and launched a swift movement to run.
After a while, Lin Hui came to the entrance of Mingyang City, looked up at the endless street, and felt more and more that the city was big.
This was indeed a very large city, several times larger than the city that Lin Hui lived in before joining the Qingyun Sect. The people in this immortal cultivation world don't have any scientific and technological abilities, and it is not easy for a group of mortals to build such a large city.
Lin Hui's whole body spiritual power was constricted, and he walked into the city, looking left and right, this street was sparsely populated, and the houses on the left and right were closed, and there was no such excitement as Lin Hui imagined, but it was deserted.
Lin Hui felt a little strange that there were so few people on the streets of such a big city, and he continued to walk forward, carrying out the task of patrolling the city.
Walking on the streets like this for a while, Lin Hui felt more and more strange, there were too few pedestrians on the streets of this city, so lifeless, Lin Hui couldn't believe that this was a big city.
He thought about it, quickened his pace and continued to wander around Mingyang City, just like this, he kept walking, and when he came to the corner at the end of the street, Lin Hui turned around and continued to walk for a distance, and then finally found a place where the crowd gathered.
Looking up, in front of this street, there was a group of people gathered in front of the door of a house, and this group of people also looked gloomy, just like the other pedestrians Lin Hui had seen on the street before.
Lin Hui felt that he might be able to get some information from them, so he walked over.
After approaching the crowd, their frustrated voices all reached Lin Hui's ears.
"Alas...... Dead, dead, and dead, what will happen to our town?"
"The way he died, like the old man next door, was also because of that strange disease. ”
"After all, the old man is already weak, and he can accept death, but this man is one of the best strong men in our city, and even he is dead, and there is still a way to cure this strange disease. ”
"Natural disaster, natural disaster! This is a natural disaster, this city is going to end!"
"Go, don't say unlucky things! There is no incurable disease in this world. ”
Restless, gloomy, impatient, chaotic, and all kinds of negative feelings were revealed in everyone's voices, all of which were heard by Lin Hui.
Hearing this, Lin Hui released a gentle spiritual power and separated left and right in the middle of the crowd, causing the crowd to divide into two parts, dividing a passage, Lin Hui walked between them, stepped on the door of the house, and looked inside.
Inside the house there was an old woman and a sturdy middle-aged man, who was lying on a bed with a large area of his skin turned black, as if burned by flames, he was no longer breathing, his heart was no longer beating, and he was undoubtedly dead. The old woman next to her was the person's mother, and she was in tears and grief-stricken.
Lin Hui looked at it, his expression remained unchanged, and he mourned for the deceased for a while in his heart.
Lin Hui was silent while looking at the body of the deceased, he was on a mission to patrol the city, it was necessary to observe this, and he might not be able to get any information from it.
"Huh?"
As a result, after looking at it for a while, Lin Hui suddenly sighed, and he realized that there seemed to be something wrong with this corpse.
Lin Hui couldn't see what was going on, but he just felt that something was wrong with this corpse, and he couldn't tell what was wrong, but in short, he just felt that something was wrong.
Lin Hui's thoughts furrowed in his heart, he might only be able to see some clues if he approached the corpse and observed it carefully, but at this time, the old woman was grief-stricken, and in this case, he was embarrassed to enter someone else's house rashly.
After thinking about it, Lin Hui retreated, putting this matter aside for the time being, planning to wait for the woman to calm down tomorrow and then come to take a look at the corpse.
After that, Lin Hui continued to observe the city for a while, occasionally asking a passerby, so he wandered until the evening and found an inn to live in.
............
The next day, Lin Hui came to the door of the old woman's house where her son had died, raised his hand and knocked on the door.
"Who's ......"
After Lin Hui knocked on the door for a long time, there was a faint sound from behind the door.
"I'm sorry when it's inconvenient, it's a disciple sent by the Qingyun Sect to look for the source of the disease here, can you let me come in and see your son?" Lin Hui said politely outside the door.
“......”
The old woman didn't reply, there was silence in the house, Lin Hui was not in a hurry to enter, and waited quietly in front of the door.
After such a minute, the old woman in the house slowly opened the door with a small crack, obviously not allowing Lin Hui to enter.
"Can you let me in?" Lin Hui asked again.
The old woman's expression darkened, and she suddenly said with a look of resentment: "Your Qingyun Sect also sent an immortal here a year ago, and that person said that he would definitely find out the cause and end this plague, but that person left without doing anything in the end. ”
"Hmm. When Lin Hui heard this, he immediately showed a troubled expression. It seems that this old woman thinks that her son's death is the fault of the disciples of the Qingyun Sect for not fulfilling their agreement, but this matter has nothing to do with him. Moreover, the disease in this city can't even be found by the strong spirits, where can the previous disciple be able to solve it.
Thinking of this, Lin Hui said: "I think the person who was sent here before really has no choice, after all, a long time ago, our Qingyun Sect sent a special person to look for the cause here, and even that person didn't find out the cause, let alone anyone else." ”
"Then can you find out the cause?" the old woman heard Lin Hui's explanation, and the resentment in her eyes became even stronger.
"I'm not confident, I'll do my best. Lin Hui shook his head with a wry smile and replied.
"......" The old woman was silent again, but after a while, her expression changed slightly, although there was still resentment in her eyes, she completely opened the door and let Lin Hui enter.
"It's rude. ”
Lin Hui nodded and stepped into the house, walked over to the deceased and looked down.
Yesterday when he was in the distance, Lin Hui looked at this corpse and felt strange, and when he walked in at this time, he felt that something was wrong, what was wrong at this time, Lin Hui couldn't say for a while, but he already had a faint clue.
He looked at the corpse and reached out and touched the other's arm.
"Huh?"
Found it, this touch first made Lin Hui discover the first strange place, that is, the skin of this corpse can still feel the temperature of a living person, and his body is not stiff, let alone softened, which is not in line with the change in the state of the corpse after the death of ordinary people.
After death, the corpse will undergo various changes over time, such as loss of temperature, change of skin color, and stiffening and softening of the corpse. But this corpse does not have any of these changes.
And in addition to this, there is a particularly strange thing about this corpse, and that is anger!
The man was supposed to be dead, but the corpse was alive.