Chapter 505 The cursed city that cannot be escaped
In the darkness, a dim light appeared.
Someone appeared with a swinging kerosene lamp.
The visibility of this kerosene lamp is very low.
The visitor was completely shrouded in a large black robe, and his appearance could not be seen clearly. The light emitted by the kerosene lamp seemed to be absorbed by the skin, leaving a darkness on his face.
"who?"
Xiaoyao took the initiative and opened the door of the store.
Cold wind and cold rain poured into the store.
It was a lightless night outside, but the sword in Xiaoyao's hand was faintly emitting a cold light. The sword energy surged around the sword, and he could take off the sword at any time.
"Who are you? Why did you come to the Cursed City?"
As the visitor approached, his voice was hoarse and unpleasant, as if he was sawing wood.
There were also some weird gurgling sounds, as if there was water in the throat.
Being so close, even Alec could clearly see part of the person's appearance. The face under the hood was completely wrapped in a black cloth, only a pair of cloudy eyes were exposed.
I don't know if it was because of the kerosene light, but Alec saw that this man's eyes were yellow, which was very strange.
"The Cursed City?" Xiaoyao asked, "We accidentally landed on this island because of a shipwreck. Why is this place called the Cursed City?"
"Shipwreck? It's unlucky for you, you won't be able to get out of this hellish place."
"Can't get out? Why?" Xiaoyao asked.
The visitor did not answer, but suddenly said anxiously: "Don't talk nonsense, hurry up, they are coming, go in, go in!"
He walked a few steps quickly and hurried to the door of the store.
Xiaoyao's eyes flickered twice, but he let this person in without making a move.
He did hear various movements mixed with the sound of falling rain, and there were more "people" approaching in the darkness.
"Quick, quick."
After the man came in, he said anxiously, "Turn out the lights, otherwise you will be discovered."
"What's outside?" Xiaoyao signaled everyone to do as he was told and put out the kerosene lamps.
"It's the evil ghost, the evil ghost of the cursed city, the shadow." The man said.
"What is the cursed city you mentioned?" Xiaoyao asked, standing next to the man without leaving a trace.
"This used to be a very prosperous town," the man said. "One day a group of pirates came in and massacred them. There were wizards among the pirates. After the massacre, they cursed the town, making everyone wander here.
Ghost, no one who strays into this town can escape."
"wizard?"
Xiaoyao caught one of the words. Is it a supernatural power that Alec didn't know about?
"Quick, quick, hide."
The man didn't answer. After he finished speaking, he went behind the store counter.
Xiaoyao grabbed his shoulders and pushed him backwards, causing the man to fall behind the debris on the other side.
"You hide here." He said.
"Stop talking nonsense and hide quickly." The man buried his head very low.
Xiaoyao looked at his hand, which was stained with some unknown dark green mucus, which was stained when he grabbed the man just now.
It feels quite sticky when you first get it. These things will definitely not rain in the sky.
With a stroke of luck, Xiaoyao completely shook away the mucus and hid in the shadows without leaving a trace.
The other four people also took Alec and hid.
Alec's heart was beating wildly as he looked outside, trying hard to see something in the lightless darkness.
For a moment, the entire store became extremely quiet.
You could even hear Alec's suppressed and rapid breathing.
The sound of footsteps stepping on stagnant water came from outside, and gradually became clearer. Xiaoyao and others saw a large number of black shadows appearing outside the store.
Several people held weapons in their hands.
"boom!"
There was a sound, and a rather tall black figure flew past the outside of the store.
After knocking over several black figures, it fell into a house at the corner, making a loud noise.
"Grrrrrr!"
A sound like drowning came from those black figures, and they immediately gave up approaching the store and flocked towards the direction from which the black figure had just flown.
The next second, Xiaoyao and the others saw a blaze of flames, like a huge fire snake opening its bloody mouth and passing by, swallowing up those black figures.
The blazing firelight danced in the dark night.
The falling rain evaporated, and those black shadows turned from black shadows into real black char.
It even smells like some barbecue.
"Gu Gu Gu Gu..."
Alec's stomach growled again, and he was so frightened that he quickly covered his stomach.
He was hungry, but his stomach growled at the smell of barbecue, which still made him feel quite uncomfortable.
After all, it is not clear whether the things outside are humans, ghosts or monsters.
How can you develop an appetite for this damn thing?
"Is it the eleventh elder?"
Xiaoyao's teammate Gui Xie said in the team channel.
"It should be so, the flames are so strong and fierce. But doesn't the Eleventh Elder use a sword?"
Xia Yanzhen's blood-burning sword is worn on his waist, and everyone can see it.
"Maybe it's a sword of blazing flames."
A few people were just guessing.
Xiaoyao stretched out the Lengyue Sword in his hand towards the strange man's face, raised the tip of the sword, and opened the black cloth wrapped outside, revealing a somewhat distorted face.
This person's chin protrudes forward, and the area around his mouth is dark brown. If you look closely, you will find thin and dense scales, like fish scales.
Xiaoyao's movements were as fast as lightning. When the man realized that the disguise on his face was no longer effective, he hurriedly covered his face with his hands and yelled: "What are you doing!"
"what are you?"
Xiaoyao raised his sword just between the man's eyebrows, leaving a sword mark.
A trace of turbid yellow blood flowed from the wound, making the man calmer.
Others also lit their kerosene lamps again to see the man's appearance clearly.
Alec's face was full of surprise, this guy is so ugly!
The man hesitated and said nothing, and Xiaoyao didn't hesitate and directly swung his sword, leaving a wound on the man's body.
"Okay, I'll say it, I'll say it!" The man felt pain, took a few steps back, and immediately gave up.
At this time, someone approached with a kerosene lamp outside.
Xia Yanzhen and Tiamat returned and entered the store.
"The cans here are so rotten that they are no longer edible, but I found some very strange fish." Xia Yanzhen motioned for Tiamat to come forward.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Tiamat threw the box in her hand to the ground.
The box rolled twice and opened, and several fish rolled out.
Several people took a closer look and all showed uncomfortable expressions: "What kind of strange fish is this?"
There were several fish jumping on the ground, all black and brown, as long as an adult's forearm, without scales, and covered with dark green mucus.
The mouth is open and protruding, revealing teeth that are very similar to humans - they are still in the shape of incisors.
Not only that, there are several small "arms" growing on the belly of the fish.
These arms look exactly like human arms, growing crookedly on the belly of the fish, like human hands that have been shrunk countless times.
The color is the same as the whole fish, showing dark brown.
The arms struggled with the beating of the fish and were constantly shaking and twitching, which made people extremely uncomfortable.
"This is a manta ray." The strange man looked at the fish on the ground and said.
"Oh, so those outside are devils?" Xia Yanzhen asked.
"No, they are cursed ghosts."
The man shrank back.
He didn't know why, but the person who just came in made him feel far scarier than the other person threatening him with a sword, and it was countless times scarier.
Just looking at it makes people's hair stand on end.
The man began to tell his story and the story of this abandoned town.
This man's name is Matt, and like Xia Yanzhen and others, he is an unlucky man who accidentally entered this abandoned town.
After entering, Matt and his companions were trapped in the town.
No matter day or night, no matter how they walked, they could not leave this town.
A group of people searched through the entire town and found out from the diary left by the "predecessors" that this town was a "cursed city".
Anyone who enters the town cannot leave and will stay in the town permanently.
Matt and others definitely don't want to die, they want to live.
But in the town, apart from water, there is nothing else to eat.
Whether it's canned food or any other food, it's all rotten.
The only food that can be eaten is the fish in the sea - these stingrays that Xia Yanzhen brought back.
When people are very hungry, they don't care what the food looks like.
Moreover, it is not as uncomfortable when cooked.
Even if they felt something was wrong, Matt and others had to eat.
They relied on fish and lived in this cursed city for several years.
I finally understood what those diaries meant by saying they would stay in this town forever.
As time went by, everyone's bodies mutated one after another.
Scales began to grow on their bodies, their mouths protruded, and they took on obvious fish characteristics.
And one after another they went crazy and sank into the sea on the edge of the town.
Those dark shadows are mutated people like Matt's companions.
They will "sleep" on the bottom of the sea most of the time, and will come ashore during certain dark nights - especially after someone accidentally enters the town.
These mutated people will drag the survivors who accidentally enter the town to the bottom of the sea and quickly become one of them.
The mutated people are called "cursed shadows".
Matt is also a member of the Cursed Shadow, but he said that for some reason he didn't know, he didn't lose his mind.
Staying rational is a kind of torture.
Becoming a cursed shadow did not give Matt any special power, it just "eternally" stayed with the cursed town, like the town's shadow.
Endless hunger and the pain of suffocation after entering the water have been tormenting him.
Only by occasionally landing ashore can we gain freedom.
"So what do you want to do when you approach us?" Xiaoyao asked after hearing Matt's inaccurate and flawed description.
"I don't know either."
Matt showed a painful expression, "I want you to save me, but I also want to drag you into the water." Really.
"How long have you lived here?"
"I don't know, ten years, twenty years or more."
"Didn't you encounter these cursed shadows at the beginning?"
"No, there was just no one there at the beginning. I don't know why those cursed shadows didn't appear." Matt answered many questions obediently.
"Apart from us, is there no one else who has entered this cursed city?" Xiaoyao continued to ask.
"Yes, they have all become cursed shadows." Matt said.
There was a time when he still wanted to cooperate with others.
But gradually, playing with these strays, approaching, integrating, deceiving, watching them go from hope to despair, watching them go crazy, and letting the survivors sink together became what Matt really wanted to do in his heart.
It's just that this time it seemed like I'd hit an iron plate.
The shadow of the curse was swept away by the blazing flames.
When he saw the flames, Matt even had an urge to throw himself into it like a moth to a flame.
The light and heat frightened and fascinated him.
"Do you know where this island is? There is also Mouth Island, have you heard of it?" Xiaoyao did not dwell on the secret of the cursed city.
This cursed city can trap ordinary people, but it may not trap them.
He did not forget that the mission was to kill the mermaid princess.
"Mouth Island, the legendary island where people lived under the sea? I heard that it was all a group of weirdos." Matt said.
"Yes, do you know where Mouth Island is?" Alec interjected.
He was thinking about Mouth Island and wanted to see it.
Matt shook his head, but immediately met Xia Yanzhen's gaze and said, "I know there is a sea map somewhere, and maybe I can find clues."
There are no "maps" for the archipelago, only nautical charts.
"where?"
"In town..."
"Take us there."
"Now?" Matt said, "There are many more cursed shadows. If you wander around, you will be arrested."
The tone is like a parent telling a child: If you don’t sleep, a wolf will come and snatch you away.
"You will be back in the sea by tomorrow morning, right?" Xiaoyao said, "How will you take us to find the sea chart then? Go now."
"Okay, if you are dragged away by the cursed shadow, remember to kill me." Matt reminded.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! He did not lie about one thing.
It's just that his own mind is very confused. He wants to be free but also wants to drag others into sinking.
Jumping sideways over and over again.
"Okay." Xiaoyao agreed immediately.
"Are you leaving now?" Alec looked at the dark night outside, feeling uneasy.
"Don't worry, Your Highness, we will protect you." Xiaoyao was full of confidence.
He didn't have this information just from them alone, but with Xia Shiyi here, Xiaoyao didn't think that a mere cursed shadow could stop him.
"Okay." Alec was easy to talk to and didn't object anymore.
Several people walked out of the store carrying kerosene lamps.
The cold rain falling outside made Alec shiver and tighten his tight clothes.
Matt led the way, followed by Tiamat, and then Xia Yanzhen.
Then came a group of happy people, who did not forget to surround the prince Alec.
As long as this mission has some shadow of a fairy tale, then Alec is the key figure to find the mermaid princess, and we can't let anything happen to him.
Not long after walking, there were some noises around.
"Here they come," Matt said.
"Leave it to you." Xia Yanzhen said to Tiamat.
"Then..." Tiamat asked Xia Yanzhen for his opinion, "No more hiding?"
"No more hiding."
Xia Yan is really sure.
Tiamat jumped up, and suddenly, the wind and rain in the sky stopped.
No, it's not a pause.
Instead, a terrifying behemoth appeared above everyone's heads, directly covering the sky and blocking the raindrops falling from the sky.
Tiamat's entire landscape was submerged in darkness, and only the outline of a huge shadow could be seen.
But the burning eyes were as dazzling as two blazing flames.
"dragon?"
Xiaoyao and others were stunned, knowing that Xia Shiyi was very strong and the absolute number one among the Dream Apostles.
But a dragon suddenly appeared, and the gap between it and us third-level apostles who are still painted in martial arts style is too big!
"Roar!"
Tiamat let out a dragon roar, opened her mouth, dragon breath poured out, and a stream of flames swept around, engulfing the building and the cursed shadow that appeared.
Under the impact of the dragon's breath, those buildings collapsed and turned into ruins.
The cursed shadow also turned into charcoal.
"This is it, this is it..." Matt's body trembled.
The scorching heat of the dragon's breath made him feel a warmth that he had not experienced in many years, and he even couldn't help but want to step forward and plunge into it.
With Matt's perception, he naturally couldn't detect the coldness hidden in the scorching heat.
The charred corpses stood up one after another after being swept by the dragon's breath. Tiamat controlled these cursed shadows and turned into its undead army.
A cold air spread.
The corpse collided with more cursed shadows, and monsters began to fight with each other.
The biggest monster king "sits" in the sky, looking down at this scene, solemn and ancient, with a ferocious dragon head without any emotion.
"Continue to lead the way." Xia Yanzhen said to Matt who was stagnant.
Matt woke up as if from a dream and continued to move forward with his unsteady steps.
"This, this is...what?" Alec had fallen to the ground, stammering and unable to speak complete words.
"Don't be nervous, this is a magical transformation technique." Xiaoyao suppressed the surprise in his heart, helped Alec up and started to fool around, but he remembered a rumor.
I heard that Tie Xue once sold a dragon egg to the brigade.
It must be this dragon.
But, can dragon eggs really hatch into such a terrifying dragon?
With such a powerful dragon egg, why would Iron Blood sell it to the brigade?
The fact that this giant dragon is so powerful is probably a result of his upbringing.
Xiaoyao's guess is correct. Tiamat's ability to be so powerful is a result of her upbringing.
If the iron-blooded dragon eggs were hatched normally and the dragon eggs were cultivated normally, the extra servant now would be just a flying tiger, and it would not have the strength of Tiamat now.
With Tiamat opening the way, everyone reached their destination unimpeded.
Transforming back into human form, Tiamat stood beside Xia Yanzhen silently.
But Xiaoyao and others looked at it with different expressions.
As for Alec, he had been fooled into a daze by Xiaoyao and felt that since there were mermaids, it was normal for him to have a shape-shifting human dragon.
Alec is easily "convinced" and accepts everything in front of him. He is not only capable of talking nonsense freely.
It's even more because Xiaoyao used the magical martial arts - mind-telling technique.
It's enough to easily influence an ordinary person like Alec, making him obedient without knowing it.
The house that Matt brought everyone to may belong to a certain crew member, or a higher-ranking captain.
I have a lot of sailing-related things at home.
After rummaging around for a while, he found several nautical charts.
Xia Yanzhen and the others used the dim light of the kerosene lamp to observe carefully and determined that the island they were on was called Sumi Island.
And in the northernmost corner of a chart, a corner of Mouth Island was discovered.
"Mouth Island, found!" Alec said excitedly.
His original destination was Mouth Island, but he was shipwrecked on the way. Normally, Mouth Island is not too far away.
It is quite normal now to be able to determine the location of Mouth Island on the nautical chart.
The next thing to do is to head to Mouth Island.
Often, this is difficult.
It is impossible to cross the sea without a boat.
The weather in the archipelago waters has always been changeable, and some small boats dare not go too far from the shore for fear of capsizing.
Even large ships can be damaged by terrible sea weather.
To go to Mouth Island and find clues about the Mermaid Princess, a boat - and a big boat at that - is absolutely essential.
But now, everyone doesn't need to worry about this issue at all.
Because Tiamat is here.
Now that there are "airplanes", who would take a boat?
Xia Yanzhen remembered that Tao E and the others had obtained a ship prop, which was very suitable for use in this mission world.
Alec was quite excited.
"It's useless. Even if you know where it is, you can't leave the Cursed City."
Matt's hoarse and sinister voice came, breaking the "joyful" atmosphere.
Don’t forget, this is a town you can’t get out of!