What does it look like outside Yancheng? Will we see the remaining aborigines? Or is there still an abandoned city outside Yancheng? Or maybe my previous guesses were wrong, but there is something more interesting to me.
An unexpected sight appears?
Curiosity made this question linger in my mind, and I decided to go find out while I was free at night, so I told Lin Wei my thoughts.
"Go and have a look at the edge of Yancheng?" Lin Wei suddenly showed a look of interest on his face, and said excitedly: "Okay, okay."
"Yeah, let's go and get back quickly." I nodded with a smile.
This rock city is not big. Judging from the location on the map, our location is about ten kilometers away from the boundary of rock city. At our speed, we can reach it in ten minutes.
If you take into account that there may be obstacles on the road and it is not smooth sailing, it may take fifteen minutes.
A round trip will take me nearly half an hour. Although I am a little reluctant, if I don't get the answer to this question, I'm afraid I will feel knotty in my heart. After all, we can't come back again.
Therefore, even if I have to waste some of my precious practice time on the road, I still have to go there in person and see the answers to the questions with my own eyes, and half an hour is not much.
Since we have a map of Yancheng on our mobile phones, we only need to determine a direction and run in that direction.
More than ten minutes later, we stopped in front of a dilapidated university.
This is Iwaki Institute of Technology. The map shows that after passing here, it is almost the boundary of Iwaki. It is not so much the boundary of Iwaki as it is the boundary of the map.
"We have almost reached the boundary of the map." I said in a deep voice: "The scope of activities of this mission is on the map, so what will happen if we exceed this scope?"
"Then let's go further and see." Lin Wei suggested.
"Yeah." I nodded: "But let's move slower this time."
We slowed down our pace and walked forward leisurely. The boundary in this direction on the map is Iwaki Institute of Technology, so we should soon meet the boundary of the map...
"Wait a minute."
After walking a few dozen steps, I looked stern and shouted.
Lin Wei suddenly stopped and looked at me confused.
"I feel a wave of ghost energy... right in front." I frowned and said.
"Ghost energy fluctuations? In such a ghost place?" Lin Wei said in shock.
"Hmm..." I hummed. In fact, I also thought it was unbelievable to have ghost energy fluctuations in such a place, but I believed that there would be no problem with my perception. Then I took a deep breath and looked carefully ahead.
The night. After a while, I murmured in a low voice: "So that's it, I saw it..."
"Weiwei, put the ghost energy in front of your eyes and look ahead." I exhaled and turned to Lin Wei.
"Okay." Lin Wei nodded, and immediately a light green light flashed across her eyes, and then a look of surprise appeared on Lin Wei's face.
The two of us took advantage of the ghost energy and saw clearly the situation in front of us. Less than twenty meters in front of us, there was a thin, black barrier of ghost energy.
This ghost aura barrier covers a vast area, and there is this layer of ghost aura barrier within sight. This ghost aura barrier rises into the sky, and I don’t know how high it extends into the sky. With the help of the ghost aura, I can vaguely see something in the sky.
A layer of ghostly energy barrier.
To use a vivid metaphor, it is a black eggshell of ghost energy that surrounds Yancheng, but this black eggshell is an indestructible barrier made of extremely powerful black energy.
It's similar to the ghostly energy barrier that surrounds the Fifth Middle School. You can't leave there unless you break it. However, the ghostly energy barrier that surrounds the Fifth Middle School covers the entire school.
"This is a ghost energy barrier." I raised my head, looked at the sky, and said solemnly: "It actually surrounds the entire Rock City."
"The ghost energy fluctuations coming from above are stronger than mine..." Lin Wei murmured in shock.
I nodded and said: "It should be around the late one-star stage."
Although my voice is still calm, my heart is actually extremely shocked. A late-stage ghost energy surrounds the whole city. How much ghost energy does this consume? The owner of this ghost energy barrier should be a
What kind of monster? Anyway, it's definitely not something that a rookie like Sun Yu can do. It should be made by Qing Ling.
"The front should still be within the confines of Rock City, but we obviously can't do without this ghost barrier..."
My eyes flickered as I looked at the ghost barrier in front of me, and many thoughts rolled through my mind, which finally turned into a sigh.
"well."
I suppressed my desire to stay here and said in a low voice: "Let's go back."
"Well..." Lin Wei nodded.
I can understand the reason for the existence of this ghost barrier, which is to limit the scope of our activities. Otherwise, if our scope of activities is too large and our classes cannot meet each other, then this mission will be meaningless.
Therefore, maybe I can forcefully blast open this ghost energy barrier to create a hole that can accommodate people, but this is no different from seeking death. If I forcefully blast open this ghost energy barrier, Qing Ling will definitely be able to notice it immediately.
, so I’d better go back honestly. I still understand the principle that curiosity killed the cat.
So, I suppressed my inner curiosity about the outside of Yancheng, and Lin Wei and I turned around and left here.
When we returned, it was almost one o'clock. In the following time, we raced against time to practice ghost energy. While practicing ghost energy, we were also monitoring the movements of the classes on our side.
Fortunately, they stayed still all night, probably because it was only the first day and there was still plenty of time.
It wasn't until it got slightly brighter the next day that we returned to our gathering place. With Anyang's help, we managed to sneak into the gathering place without being noticed by the students on duty.
We went to Anyang's room. Jiang Chen and Zhang Xinyu had already returned ten minutes before us. At this time, they were squatting on the ground, surrounding a stove to keep warm. We can buy items like stoves from the Credit Mall, too.
Not expensive.
No wonder Anyang's room was so warm. It turned out to be a stove. As soon as Lin Wei and I entered, we immediately came forward.
The temperature in Yancheng is also quite cold. The temperature has already entered sub-zero, especially in the early morning, which is the coldest time of the day. We stayed up all night and practiced ghost energy outside all night. It was not too much for our bodies, after all.
My physique is fine, but I really feel uncomfortable.
It was like the feeling on the way home after playing in a hot Internet cafe for a night. Coldness and fatigue came together at that moment, which was particularly uncomfortable. And since we were tired after a night, this feeling was even worse.
strong.
"Drink some hot water."
Anyang handed over a water glass, which was steaming.
The hot water warmed my body and I felt extremely comfortable. I put my hand in front of the stove and sighed, "It's still warm inside the house."
In fact, although this dilapidated residential building is better than outside, it is still extremely cold. It's just that there is a stove in the room in Anyang, which makes it warmer.
"Do you want cup noodles?"
Anyang first brought over a steaming kettle. The kettle was brought by Anyang and the water was freshly boiled. Then he took out five cups of boxed braised beef noodles from his backpack.
"Eat!" the four of us said in unison.
Then, the five of us squatted in a circle on the ground, warming ourselves by the stove. In front of us, each had a cup of cup noodles being brewed.
These were such difficult years, but looking back many years later, they are extremely interesting and precious memories.
"Guess what day today is?" Anyang said suddenly.
Hearing this, we were startled and immediately fell into deep thought.
"What, I just want to ask, what is today's date..." Zhang Xinyu asked, covering his face.
"November 18th." Jiang Chen replied.
Actually, I also wanted to ask what day it is today. During my time in the fifth middle school, I had been confused for a long time. It was only after Jiang Chen reminded me that I remembered.
It turns out it's almost the end of November...
"Winter Clothes Festival?" Jiang Chen thought for a while and guessed.
"It seems that there is indeed such a festival today, but that's not what I want to say." Anyang shook his head and pretended to be ignorant.
"Is it your birthday?" Lin Wei also guessed.
"No." Anyang shook his head again, but he chuckled and said, "By the way, my birthday is February 25th."
Several of us rolled our eyes, but I silently remembered his birthday in my heart.
"What is that?" Zhang Xinyu scratched his head and asked in confusion.
"One month anniversary of the ghost master's appearance?" I had a flash of inspiration and asked tentatively.
"Bingo, that's the right answer." Anyang snapped his fingers and said with a smile: "It was also the day when our class had its first death mission."
October 18th left a very deep impression on me. On that day, Sister Jiujiu called me, and at the same time, Sun Yu also appeared in front of us as a ghost master.
"...I came later, so I can't guess at all, okay?" Jiang Chen said depressedly. Indeed, Jiang Chen was transferred to the original Grade 1 and 4 classes after the ghost master appeared in our class, so he was
There is no deep impression on this day, October 18th.
"Damn, it's only been a month." Hearing this, Zhang Xinyu said in shock: "Why do I feel like it's been so long?"
"I think so too." Lin Wei said with deep approval: "This month has been too long for us..."
Not only them, but I also feel that this month has passed like a year. The reason is that we have been too difficult every day.
After we sighed for a while, the instant noodles were ready. Anyang picked up the instant noodles and said: "If we keep at it, we will be able to survive..."
"Yeah." We nodded.
"Actually, there was an episode when Lin Wei and I were practicing ghost energy last night." I took a sip of instant noodles, and then told me about our experience last night, oh no, we went to the border of the map early this morning.
They listened.
"The ghostly energy barrier was obviously set up for us to prevent our activities from being too large and causing the mission to be unable to proceed normally." Jiang Chen analyzed: "But I didn't expect that there was actually a ghostly energy barrier that enveloped the entire city.
..”
"The ghost energy barrier covers the whole city. How powerful must the owner of the ghost energy be?"
"Qing Ling is the only one who can do this. Sun Yu and his bunch of noobs can't do this. So, in other words, Sun Yu and this group of low-level ghost masters are just running errands to spread the word..."
"Sure enough, Qing Ling is the real mastermind..."
While we were eating noodles, we were chatting away.
Just as we were chatting enthusiastically, there was a knock on the door outside, and we immediately fell silent. Then, Kang Qing's voice came from outside the door.
"I have good news for you, Han Mengxuan is awake."