The moon hangs high, and the moonlight shines into the alley.
The current situation is that the fast-moving zombies have formed a flanking situation and will soon pounce on you.
The Holy Son was so nervous that he could not speak.
Gu Xing was thinking whether he should use the Dark Crow to deal with these zombies more discreetly.
However, the rules of the Dusky Crow seem to only apply to living creatures.
Whether it's its cry or its projection, it seems to be trying to suck away the souls of living beings. But these zombies may have long since lost their souls.
Or, simply, take the three of them away in Kita Eijiro’s taxi...
At this moment, a black bird appeared in the air not far in front of the car, flapping its wings towards Gu Xing and Shengzi.
Gu Xing recognized it, it was the Dusky Crow, but it was not summoned by Gu Xing.
Weird... Gu Xing tried to summon the Dusky Crow, and a shadow that only Gu Xing could see separated from the black bird in front of him and flew to the other side... So that's it.
"What is that?" The Holy Son also saw the black bird, "It, it seems to be looking at us..."
The dusky crow flapped its wings a few times and turned to fly forward.
"Follow it." Gu Xing said decisively.
The dusky crow flew in a zigzag line in mid-air, and the shadow brought by the moon crossed every zombie in front of it, and the zombies fell to the ground...
Is it possible that these zombies actually have souls in their bodies? This thought came to Gu Xing's head.
The Holy Son chased the zombie's body and rushed towards it. He was about to reach the entrance of the alley, but the road ahead was blocked by a bus.
At this time, Zhenyi, who was sitting in the back seat, suddenly rolled down the window.
"Ah," Shengzi turned around and looked, "Zhenyi? Don't open the window, be careful..."
Before he finished speaking, Zhenyi had already gotten out.
The whole person was lying on the edge of the car window, curling up and accumulating strength. In the next moment, he jumped out, folded and jumped a few times on the walls on both sides of the alley, and instantly came to the side of the bus, kicking it sideways——
There was a "boom" sound.
The bus was kicked away...
The road ahead immediately opened up.
The Holy Son quickly drove forward and walked forward. Zhenyi jumped a few times and got into the car window again.
"Main clothes,"
The Holy Son couldn't help but ask: "What kind of job do you do?"
"investigator."
Mayi replied.
No wonder……
There was no time to ask in detail. The black bird continued to lead the way, and the Holy Son followed closely behind in the car.
For the first time, Gu Xing discovered that Shengzi's driving skills were very good. Perhaps he was driven out of his potential by fear.
"The black bird,"
The Son then asked Makoto, "Is it your bird?"
"no."
"Uh...then where did it come from and why is it helping us?"
"I don't know."
Everything seems to be a mystery.
At this time, the street began to "lively", and many residents of Yinnan Town came out of their houses. They all had a pair of red eyes. After going out, they quickly looked at the car and ran towards it.
Come.
The Holy Son's face became paler and he stepped on the accelerator, making the car go faster.
The three of them followed the faint crow, taking only the main road as much as possible. Soon after, they arrived at a house on the outskirts of Yinnan Town.
Outside the house, there were densely packed red-eyed zombies. They were swaying around, but they did not dare to rush into the house.
In the center of the house, there is a huge banyan tree, with countless aerial roots hanging down, and a red-eyed zombie rolled up on each aerial root.
The dusky crow leading the way made a circle and flew into the courtyard.
"This...shouldn't it ask us to fly in with it?"
"It should be." Gu Xing said.
"But that banyan tree..." The Holy Son looked ahead, "It's very impressive to look at."
"It will help us. If you don't believe it, look, those zombies are afraid of it." Gu Xing was already somewhat confident.
"good,"
The Holy Son turned his head and looked behind him, "What do you think, Zhenyi?"
"No comment."
"That means everyone agrees to enter the courtyard?"
However, the yard is surrounded by zombies...it's not easy to get in.
"There."
Zhenyi suddenly pointed to a very steep slope in front. The other end of the slope was completely broken, facing the courtyard.
"Ah, I remembered," the Holy Son said, "The bird just seemed to have flown over that slope on purpose."
Obviously, what Zhenyi means is that the three of them can use this slope to rush into the courtyard. But the slope is still some distance away from the courtyard, and it is really difficult to rush over. If they fail accidentally, they may fall into the pile of zombies...
…
Looking back, more red-eyed zombies were chasing from the town.
"Let me drive it," Gu Xing said in a deep voice, "I'm sure..."
"That's too late,"
The Holy Son took a deep breath and said, "If we wait a little longer, the zombies will rush up and we will all die."
She bit her lip with her teeth, turned the steering wheel with both hands, and the car made a circle, leaving as much room as possible for sprinting. She stepped on the accelerator to the bottom and rushed towards the steep slope...
While flying in mid-air, Gu Xing turned to look at the Holy Son.
To be honest, since the two people kept turning back, Shengzi had been panicking to death, and his face was still pale at this moment. So Gu Xing didn't expect that at the most critical moment, Shengzi would be so brave. This can't help but
It made him a little surprised.
"boom--"
"Boom!"
The car rushed out of the break of the steep slope, flew up in the air, passed over the dense group of zombies, and landed heavily in the yard, stirring up a cloud of dust...
"Chi——"
After landing, the car bumped a few times.
The Son stepped on the brakes, but the inertia carried the car forward and was about to hit the main house.
A figure suddenly appeared in front of the car, raised his foot and stepped on the bumper in front of the car.
"Tum——"
The car stopped abruptly, and the man's feet were stuck in the front hood of the car.
Shengzi and Gu Xing were wearing seat belts, but were pulled by the huge inertia and stabilized on the car seat. In the back seat, Zhenyi raised one foot and pressed it against the backrest of the passenger seat, but was still stable and uninjured.
"This is……"
After the dust cleared, the Holy Son looked forward and couldn't help but call out the other party's name...or rather, his code name——
"Crow...sir?"
Crow looked at Zhenyi who got out of the trunk and said, "Long time no see, Zhenyi."
"Yeah." came the response from Zhenyi.
Ignoring the huge banyan tree in the yard for the moment, Crow, dressed in a black slim-fitting suit, led Gu Xing and the others into the main house of the house. Like most houses in the town, the house is built in the Edo period style, with all wooden structures.
Of course, it was late at night and with such a terrifying atmosphere, neither Gu Xing nor Shengzi was in the mood to appreciate the ancient charm of this place. As for Zhenyi...he couldn't tell. Zhenyi seemed to be very interested, carefully observing the decorative details of the ancient house.
After being introduced by Wu Wu, Gu Xing learned that Mayi was also a weird investigator at the Lidu headquarters, but he had been away from the city for some unknown reasons.
Although there were zombies outside the yard, Crow still poured a cup of tea for each of the three people to calm down their fright.
"Lord Crow,"
The Holy Son did not bother to drink tea, so he expressed the question in his heart: "Why are you here... What is going on in this small town?"
"This, this is my hometown,"
Crow took a sip of tea, "It's a long story about the town... I need to talk about it some time ago, when I... was checking information in the office, and a strange eye suddenly appeared...
That eye said to me: 'All... gifts given by fate have a price secretly marked on them. This is a... transaction...'"
Crow seems to have not communicated with people for a while, and his speech is not particularly fluent. But the ins and outs of the matter are roughly explained——
After getting Dumb Crow, Crow embarked on a journey of revenge that she had never given up for many years. The grotesque knocker who killed Crow's family back then had disappeared for many years. She thought about it and decided to return to the scene of the tragedy first, that is,
Looking for clues in his former home.
That night when I returned home, the weirdness from back then came to my door.
The moment before the opponent's rules were activated, the crow summoned the dusky crow and the banyan tree, and escaped the disaster.
In the following time, Crow and Weird fell into a stalemate stage where you were attacking and I was defending.
Every night, a monster knocking on the door will come to your door, bringing with it a large number of red-eyed zombies.
The entire town will also become eerie, and the residents of the town and the tourists killed by the monster will turn into red-eyed zombies and wander around.
The crow once tried to kill the other party with the shadow and cries of the dusky crow, but the other party failed.
During the day, the weirdness that knocked on the door will leave and everything will return to normal.
The residents of the town will recover from the red-eyed zombie state and start their daily lives. It seems that their consciousness and memory have become almost like normal people. However, they can no longer see the crows at all. The crows cannot leave the town.
Unable to contact anyone.
And those tourists who become zombies will disappear and appear again out of nowhere at night.
"The same goes for you,"
By this time, the crow was talking more and more fluently,
"Actually, I noticed you two when you first entered Yinnan Town. I have been following you, but you can't see me. I really want to remind you to leave the town, but in the town during the day, I
It's like a ghost, with no ability to interfere with the real world..."
"You mean," the Son swallowed his throat and pointed at himself, "Is it possible for us to become red-eyed zombies?"
"You were killed by that monster. You are still alive now. Just like me."
"Ah, then what are his rules for killing people?"
"Knock on the door and die,"
Crow said:
"The people he kills will turn into red-eyed zombies at night. They will keep looking for living people near the town. After finding the living people, they will stare at each other and say:
'No, you're not!'
After saying that, he pounces on the person and bites him to death. Then, the person bitten to death will turn into a zombie..."
"This," the Holy Son's teeth chattered after hearing this, "sounds a bit like a ghost story."
"It's true." Zhenyi said.
"I know! I'm not afraid, it's just that what she said was too scary..."
After listening to Crow Crow's words, many doubts in Gu Xing's mind were solved——
Those disappearing buses and individual passengers must have been left in Yinnan Town due to strange knocks on the door.
It is probably a weird rule that makes people in the outside world forget the whereabouts of the bus and individual passengers.
The strange thing is that Xiaodong once said: The crow is probably trapped by some very high-level horror and weirdness, and the opponent's level cannot be lower than the weird trader. Therefore, Gu Xing cannot see the situation on the crow's side.
But judging from the current situation, this weird knocker in the town is having a hard time dealing with crows...
[Don’t ask me, I don’t know either]
All in all, the passengers on the bus that Gu Xing and Shengzi met before were probably in a bad situation. He felt some unspeakable resentment in his heart and made up his mind: he must find a way to solve this weirdness.
"We have to find a way to get out." Zhenyi suddenly said.
"The game between me and him is at an impasse, no,"
Crow looked outside the yard, "It should be said that I am the more passive one.
That weirdo has been reinforcing the rules... He will knock on the door of all tourists who stay in the town. He will also knock on the door of the bus that has no time to leave at dusk, and there will be a whole busload of tourists... These days, I feel
His rules are getting stronger and stronger, and it seems that he will soon reach the critical point of breakthrough, so I am planning to take the initiative and fight him to the death..."
At this point, the atmosphere suddenly became dull.
"Why," Crow seemed to notice that the Holy Son's face was ugly, "Is there something wrong?"
"Bus." Mayi said.
"What Mashiro-sama means," Shengzi explained, "is that a new bus got lost outside the town today..."
"We must take action tonight,"
After hearing the news, Crow's expression became serious. He was silent for a while and said, "I need help."
Mayi raised her hand.
Gu Xing also raised his hand.
"Okay, okay," Shengzi looked at Zhenyi and Gu Xing, hesitated, and raised his hand, "I can do that too."
"Ordinary people can't help,"
Crow said: "It's enough to have real clothes. You two can wait for the results."
Worried that Gu Xing and Shengzi would get in the way, or be targeted by the red-eyed zombies, Crow and Zhenyi hid the two of them in the storage room of the house... and locked the door at the same time.
"If the two of us can survive," a crow's voice came from outside, "we will open the lock. If we die, your chances of surviving..."
"Equal to zero." This was Zhenyi's voice.
"There's no need to struggle." This is the crow.
…
The light in the storage room can no longer be turned on. I don't know if it's a weird rule or if it's really broken.
Gu Xing switched his sight to outside the house - in Eijiro Kita's taxi. He had transformed into a faceless man. Gu Xing had his own ideas on how to deal with the weird guy knocking on the door...
"Hello,"
In the darkness, the Holy Son suddenly said: "Gu Xingjun."
"Um?"
"Can you see me?"
"So dark..."
"I have a question - what happens if we all die here?"
"Will not."
"I just want to know what will happen if I die."
"Didn't the crow tell us everything?"
"I want to hear Gu Xingjun's answer."
"I'll turn into a zombie."
"Yes, that's not right either -" Sheng Zi said: "It will turn into a zombie, but it will turn back into a living person during the day. It will live in this town forever and never leave again."
"Those are the aboriginal people in the town," Gu Xing said: "Tourists like us don't even know where they went during the day."
"In the forests and mountains, I guess."
"Um?"
"At night, we turn into red-eyed zombies and wander around.
During the day, we would hide in the forests and mountains, or travel around and play as much as we want. We don’t have the worries of work or the pressure of life. We have become zombies anyway, so we won’t be afraid of being harassed by weird people.
It's very safe and secure... isn't this kind of life beautiful?"
"..."
"Gu Xingjun."
"Um?"
"If tonight is the day we die..."
"Don't say such depressing words, you won't," Gu Xing said.
"if,"
The Son said: "I mean if, if we would die tonight -"
"Okay...what if."
"Can you hug me?"
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