Ye Qiu tapped his sword finger lightly, and the power of the Space-Time Kendo spread instantly. The surrounding time and space seemed to be pulled by an invisible force and began to flow slowly backwards.
The light in the room became distorted, and all the scenes began to blur, and then gradually became clear, as if time took them back to the past.
Master Changmei, Lin Daniao and Mo Tianji all stared at the scene in front of them, for fear of missing any detail.
As time and space went back, the furnishings in the house began to change. The room that was originally full of musty smell became extremely tidy, and the extinguished oil lamp also regained its faint light.
Suddenly, a burst of rapid footsteps sounded outside the house, and then, a figure rushed into the house in panic.
It was a cleanly dressed woman, with panic written all over her face, and an unconscious child tightly held in her arms.
As soon as the woman entered the house, she looked around anxiously, as if she was looking for something.
Finally, her eyes fell on the wooden table, and she quickly carved several deep claw marks on the table, mixed with blood stains.
"Help!"
After the woman finished carving, she was about to turn around and flee when suddenly, a strange low roar came from outside the house.
Immediately afterwards, a gray mist surged in from the crack in the door, filling the entire room in an instant.
In the mist, there seemed to be countless pairs of eyes twinkling, exuding a heart-stopping aura.
The woman screamed in horror and tried to escape from the gray mist, but her speed was far less than the spread of the mist.
In the blink of an eye, both the woman and the child were swallowed up by the mist, leaving only frightened screams echoing in the air.
Ye Qiu and the others felt their hearts tightening, as if they were being held tightly by a big invisible hand, and it became difficult to breathe.
They wanted to see the true face of the gray fog, but the fog disappeared in an instant, as if it had never appeared.
"What the hell is this?" Master Changmei couldn't help but curse.
Ye Qiu frowned. He had never seen anything so weird before. This gray mist seemed to contain some kind of evil power, which made people fearful.
At this moment, the power of Space-Time Kendo gradually dissipated, and the surrounding scene began to return to normal.
The room became dark and silent again, and the oil lamp was extinguished again, as if nothing had happened.
"That was..." Lin Daniao asked with a trembling voice.
Ye Qiu said in a deep voice, "What we saw was a scene that happened here."
"What is that gray mist?" Mo Tianji asked.
Ye Qiu shook his head and said, "I don't know, but I can feel it. It's very weird."
Master Changmei said solemnly: "It seems that the disappearance of people in the four cities is closely related to the gray fog just now."
"We must find out the origin of this fog as soon as possible." Ye Qiu said, "Maybe it can help us find the missing people."
At the moment, the four people searched the house carefully again, hoping to find more clues about the gray fog.
However, this house seems to have been forgotten by time. Apart from a few deep claw marks and blood stains, nothing related to the gray mist can be found.
"Boss, what are you going to do next?" Lin Daniao asked.
Ye Qiu thought for a moment and then said: "If you want to find out the truth, I'm afraid you have to go to the other three cities. I just don't know if anything happened in the Imperial City?"
"Let's do this. I'll summon Ning'an and ask."
After saying this, Ye Qiu took out the summons slip and began to summon Ning'an.
Unexpectedly, after a few minutes, I didn't receive a reply from Ning An.
Then, Ye Qiu sent another message to Nangong Xiaoxiao, but strangely, Nangong Xiaoxiao didn't reply.
"Go back to the Imperial City first. We'll talk about things here later." Ye Qiu was worried that something might happen to the Imperial City.
"Without further delay, let's set off right away." Master Changmei said.
The four people left the house and were about to leave when Ye Qiu suddenly turned around and stared at the street.
"What's wrong, brother?"
Mo Tianji noticed Ye Qiu's eyes. He looked up and found Ye Qiu staring at an ancient tree on the street.
The old tree is so thick that it takes five or six people to hug it.
Ye Qiu did not answer, but came to the ancient tree and circled around it.
His actions aroused the curiosity of Master Changmei and others, and they also followed him.
"Little brat, what are you looking at?"
As soon as Master Changmei finished speaking, Ye Qiu waved his hand, and immediately, a hole appeared at the root of the ancient tree.
The hole was a little larger than the basin, and it was dark inside.
"Is there something inside?" Master Changmei asked.
Ye Qiu stared at the tree hole and said calmly: "Come out!"
Unexpectedly, there was no response.
Ye Qiu lost his patience, his arms instantly lengthened, and he stretched into the tree hole. Then he pulled hard and took out a girl from the tree hole.
"There are actually people alive!"
The three of them, Lin DaNiao, looked at each other in confusion, all staring at the girl.
The girl was about seventeen or eighteen years old, with a slender figure. She was dressed in rags, her face was covered with dust, her hair was messy, and she exuded an unpleasant odor.
At this moment, her eyes widened and she looked at Ye Qiu with horror on her face, as if she couldn't believe that she had been pulled out of the tree hole.
"Hey, there is actually a little beggar." Lin Daniao said in surprise.
Master Longmei said: "Strange, why is she hiding in the tree hole? Is it related to the gray mist?"
The girl was shaking all over, obviously very frightened.
Ye Qiu tried to calm her down and said softly: "Don't be afraid, we are not bad people. Can you tell us why you are hiding here?"
The girl's eyes widened and she didn't say a word. She just hugged her shoulders tightly and her body kept shaking.
Ye Qiu said to the girl gently: "Don't worry, we won't hurt you, but we need your help. Can you tell us what exactly happened here?"
The girl raised her head and glanced at Ye Qiu, then quickly lowered her head, her body still trembling.
"This little girl is probably a survivor of Lingyin City. She seems to be frightened." Master Changmei sighed.
"Let's do this!" Ye Qiu suggested: "Let's take her away from here first and find a safe place for her to rest. Maybe when her mood stabilizes, she will tell us what happened here."
Master Changmei nodded: "Okay, let's go back to the imperial city first."
At that moment, the four of them left Lingyin City with the girl, stepped onto the Wind Sword again, and galloped towards the imperial city.
Along the way, the girl held Ye Qiu's arm tightly, as if she was afraid of being abandoned again.
Suddenly, Ye Qiu discovered that the girl was actually wearing a purple crystal bracelet on her left wrist.
What caught his attention was not the shape of the bracelet, but the material of the bracelet.
Because Ye Qiu has never seen that kind of purple crystal!