There were no lights on in the large conference room, and there was no one inside. There was a thick layer of dust accumulated on the huge round table, as well as the chairs and the floor.
It can be seen that this conference room has not been used for a long time.
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door of the conference room, and a hurried female voice sounded from outside the door.
"Report to the city lord,
All the lighting stones in the city suddenly went out just now, and they cannot be relit no matter what method is used."
After saying this, the woman stopped talking, held her breath and waited respectfully outside the door.
There was no one in the office, and no one should have responded, but the strange thing was,
Not long after, a voice came from inside. The voice was neutral, and it was unclear whether it was a man or a woman.
The invisible city lord asked: "When did this happen? Did all the illuminating stones dim at the same time?"
"Yes, just half an hour ago, all the lighting stones went out at the same time without any warning." The woman nodded, and then asked with a worried tone, "Is there any problem with this?"
For Wuji City, the Illuminating Stone is not an indispensable resource. What she is really worried about is whether there will be a special meaning behind it. After all, the Illuminating Stone is a rare treasure and comes from a restricted area. It may suddenly lose its function due to some kind of evil.
Good omen.
"Are you afraid?" The city lord did not answer, but asked a question.
"Yes, I am worried that something bad will happen." The woman admitted frankly.
"I have said that all fear comes from ignorance. There is a lot of knowledge in the library. Don't be lazy.
Go and see more when you have time."
"Absolutely, I will definitely go next time."
The woman nodded quickly, and then asked with some curiosity, "City Lord, I hear what you mean, you seem to know the reason why the Illumination Stone was extinguished. Since you know so much, what do you think about this matter?"
The city lord was silent for a moment, as if he was a little embarrassed to speak, and it took him a while to utter a few words.
"I'm more scared than you are."
The woman was stunned for a moment, opened her mouth wide and said, "Didn't you say that fear comes from the unknown? You know that but you are still afraid?"
"When a person knows something that is completely beyond his knowledge, it is also an unknown, and fear is inevitable." The city lord defended himself confidently.
The woman seemed to understand: "Then can you tell me why?"
She wanted to know why the illumination stone went out.
"I said, if you want to know anything, just look for it in books or history. Many secrets need to be discovered by yourself." The city lord said meaningfully.
He thought for a while and added, "As for whether this matter is dangerous or not... there is no need to worry about it yet."
The woman breathed a sigh of relief,
He smiled and said, "As long as there is no danger."
"I said it's just for now."
The city lord sighed slightly, and then asked: "What is the current situation of the lovers in the city?"
“All is well,
Currently, five couples have applied to advance to the diamond rank.
Your personal witness will be required at that time.”
"This is nature. The sublimation of emotions is one of the great wonders in the world, and I will certainly not be absent."
The city lord pondered for a moment and said seriously, "You must strictly adhere to it. Love is sincere. There must be no hypocritical people in the city. Violators must be severely punished."
"Yes." The woman spoke firmly and said in a proud tone, "I was just about to mention this matter - not long ago, I personally killed my third husband."
"oh?"
The city lord seemed a little unhappy and asked, "Why?"
"While shopping once, he actually looked at other women for nearly a second longer than he looked at me." The woman said coldly.
The air suddenly became silent, and a strange atmosphere spread.
"You did a great job."
After a long silence, the city lord smiled with relief and said, "If I remember correctly, you are a certified couple. You should only have eyes for each other. Such evil deeds are indeed worthy of death... Find your next target as soon as possible."
Well, but..."
"but?"
"But I don't hope you will have a fifth husband." The city lord's tone was a bit colder, "If you change your lover too many times, isn't this a kind of unfaithfulness?"
The woman said yes again and again, and then said: "I will find my last husband as soon as possible. At that time, I will have to trouble the city lord again during the ceremony to advance to the golden couple."
"Well, I will witness it with my own eyes."
As soon as he finished speaking, there was no sound in the conference room. It was empty, and it was clear that no one had ever appeared.
No one knows where that sound came from.
The woman left the office door and climbed straight to the roof, overlooking everything on the street.
Everyone on the street was in pairs, holding hands as if they were stuck together, refusing to separate no matter what; they walked for three minutes, and for two minutes their eyes were fixed on each other - and the remaining one minute was spent kissing.
.
Everyone has a stylized happy smile on their face. Although it looks very sweet, it gives people a strange feeling of horror.
"That's great."
The woman watched this scene quietly, with a full sense of accomplishment in her heart. This is what love should be like, and such a situation is indispensable for her contribution.
"However, it seems that no man in the city has been widowed recently, and it is not easy to win someone's love. The new husband may have to be found outside the city..."
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"All the lighting stones in the tunnel have been extinguished. It seems that there is indeed something wrong..."
In the dark tunnel, Sun Yan led the team at the front. Seeing the endless darkness ahead, his heart suddenly sank.
He had just tried it, and these illuminating stones could not be relit using the original method. This was indeed wrong. As for whether it was related to the forbidden creatures mentioned by the second child, it was not yet certain.
"Second brother, do you remember what that monster looks like? Maybe the eldest sister knows him."
He touched the wall and walked forward, suddenly asking.
"Of course I remember." Bai Mo replied in his second voice, "I will never forget it until I die."
"Just remember... Damn, the problem with Zhaoshi seems to have affected the entire passage. We can't use the dragon scale pattern. We can only walk back step by step. It's so damn unlucky." Sun Yan cursed.
Hearing this, Bai Mo's heart moved, and he suddenly remembered the scene where the other party appeared quickly before. At that time, the other party's speed was indeed too fast. It turned out to be related to this passage...
However, he did not understand the so-called dragon scale pattern, so he did not answer the call to avoid exposing any flaws.
During the previous march, he had killed all four of the men brought by this guy in order to create the illusion that a monster was chasing him to kill him.
However, I don’t know if it’s because the guy in front of me was too stupid. He didn’t realize that his subordinate was dead until now...
But Bai Mo is not in a hurry, it's just a matter of time.
After walking for about twenty minutes, some voices finally came from the front. Although he was in the darkness where he couldn't see his fingers, Bai Mo could clearly feel that the space in front of him had become larger——
Of course, the main thing is that he can see it.
"Damn, we're finally here." Sun Yan cheered up and said, "You guys can go have a rest later, while the second child and I will go see the eldest sister."
There was silence behind him, no response.
He raised his eyebrows: "You're mute? Didn't you hear what I said? Why don't you say thank you to Brother Sun Yan?"
Still no one responded.
Gradually, Sun Yan finally realized something was wrong, turned around quickly, and planned to light the candle.
"call."
The light of the fire was fleeting, and the candle was blown out in one breath before it was lit, plunging the passage into darkness.
The corner of Sun Yan's mouth twitched: "I wonder if this guy is finished, what about the others?"
After a moment, Bai Mo said in a trembling voice: "Dead... they are all dead."
"What's the meaning?"
Sun Yan was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that the moment the candle was lit, he had indeed only seen Wu Laoer, and there seemed to be blood stains on his body, while the others had lost all traces!
He panicked and quickly asked: "Why is it dead? Please explain it clearly!"
He was almost reaching the camp now, and he couldn't bring some messy things with him.
Bai Mo pretended to be scared and said incoherently: "On the way back, I heard a strange sound. I subconsciously touched back, but I didn't touch anything."
Sun Yan recalled it with a sullen face. There were no strange sounds in his memory, but his men did not move at all along the way. This was obviously something wrong.
On weekdays, they would tell dirty jokes...
"Speak clearly!" He retracted his thoughts and yelled.
"Keep your fucking voice down!" Bai Mo yelled back not to be outdone, and then whispered, "I don't know what happened, but I vaguely heard the sound of chewing, and finally tried to touch the ground - I touched
Come to blood."
Sun Yan's hair stood on end as he remembered the blood stains on his second son just now.
"So you know why I didn't speak just now? I didn't dare at all. Something has been following us!" Bai Mo was still frightened.
What this guy means is... something has been following us and killed so many people without my noticing?
Sun Yan didn't even dare to think about such a scene, and quickly shook his head, wondering: "But why are we the only two okay?"
He was a little suspicious of this guy, but Wu Laoer might lie to him, but his men would never cooperate with this guy's acting, and this guy didn't have the ability to kill them quietly.
He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he just felt that the passage suddenly became much colder.
Maybe in the current darkness, there is a pair of cold eyes staring at them maliciously.
He suddenly became excited.
"Who knows." Bai Mo shook his head and said, "I was so scared just now that I didn't have time to think about the conditions for that thing to kill."
The more Sun Yan thought about it, the more frightened he became. He quickly gritted his teeth and said, "We can't delay it any longer. Let's go. Follow me to see my eldest sister immediately!"
As he spoke, he hurried forward, fearing that he would be overtaken by something.
Bai Mo followed quickly——
In fact, the reason why the Zhang Tao brothers and the charm stall owner did not show up was because they deliberately stayed behind at his request.
He couldn't tell how many people were in these guys' camp, and the camp couldn't be without lighting. Apart from anything else, Zhang Tao's tall figure would definitely be exposed, and everyone would be in a very dangerous situation.
Bai Mo was close in size to his second brother, and he had a mask to cover his face, and he could also imitate the guy's voice. Therefore, after thinking about it, he felt that it would be best for him to go and explore alone, at least he could escape unscathed.
As for whether the stall owner would have thoughts about Zhang Tao and Zhang Rouzhu while he was away, Bai Mo thought it was impossible. First, the Zhang Tao brothers and sisters were not of that great value, and if that guy wanted to go out, he would never do such a thing.
Stupid thing.
While thinking, he quickly followed Sun Yan into the camp.
At the end of the passage was a large underground space with many tents standing inside. A group of men in black robes were chatting among the tents. At a rough glance, there were about thirty people in total.
Because all the lighting stones went out at the same time, the camp had to light candles for lighting. Noisy discussions could be heard, and everyone seemed to be worried about the reason why the lighting stones had lost their function inexplicably.
The tent in the center of the camp was the largest and most imposing. Thick green vines spread out from the tent and clung to the surrounding walls, like huge blood vessels, some of which were even beating slightly.
Sun Yan ignored the people who were talking to him and walked quickly towards the largest tent, looking back from time to time for fear of a scary monster following behind him.
Bai Mo followed closely behind him, also imitating him and refusing to speak to him. Perhaps everyone saw that they had something important to report, so they did not continue to come closer.
Bai Mo noticed that most of the men in black robes were men, and there were very few women. In addition to the men in black robes, there were several half-clothed women sitting paralyzed outside some tents. Their hair was unkempt, their eyes were empty and numb, as if they had no thoughts.
The doll has lost interest in living.
Several men in black robes came over and looked at them, groping with their waistbands for a moment, but they still lost interest. They cursed "trash", spat, and left.
There seemed to be several corpses lying on the open ground further away, mostly female corpses, but also male corpses. They were all naked and looked like they had just died. They were piled up like garbage, with a relieved smile on their faces.
It seemed that he was glad to have finally escaped his tragic fate.
Thin green branches clung to the corpses, as if they were alive, piercing deep into the flesh and eating away at their flesh and blood.
The candlelight flickered, and the figures of a group of men in black flickered in the firelight. They seemed to be unable to see the corpses, and they were chatting happily.
Bai Mo watched all this silently, his eyes extremely calm.
He followed Sun Yan to the entrance of the tent and saw the latter saying to the thick vines at the entrance: "Sister, I have something to report."
After waiting for a moment, the vine lifted up slightly, swinging its end up and down, as if nodding, and then gave way to a path.
The two of them then walked into the tent.
The tent was nothing but green. It was filled with unknown green plants. A large number of branches and flowers were intertwined. All the roots gathered in the center of the tent and finally connected to a woman.
It was a woman wearing a black mask. Only one head was exposed. Her body was naked, but it was all wrapped in plant roots. It seemed to be a hotbed for nourishing these plants. The blood vessels showed a shocking dark green color, which looked shocking.
.
"It is indeed a boundless grass seed..."
Bai Mo understood clearly in his heart.
Sun Yan was not surprised by this. He carefully crossed a vine and finally found a foothold. He stood in front of the woman and respectfully greeted: "Sister."
The woman opened her eyes, glanced at him and Bai Mo, and said "hmm" softly.
"What's up?"
Sun Yan immediately told what happened before.
Too many words lead to mistakes. Bai Mo didn't want to speak at first, but under the woman's gaze and confirmation, he had no choice but to add something next to him.
"I already know about the extinguishing of the Illuminating Stone, but I didn't expect it to be this reason..." The woman's voice was very weak, sounding a little lazy and charming, "Second brother, tell me what that monster looks like.
.”
Bai Mo was also unambiguous and immediately described it vaguely.
The woman thought for a moment and sighed: "It is indeed a light-eating beast. If it is it, it can indeed do this... But you made a mistake. Its danger level is not level B, but level A."
Sun Yan was horrified. Is there really a monster that feeds on light, or is it an A-level monster?
This kind of existence is beyond comprehension, and it can destroy this camp just by stamping its feet.
Bai Mo was also a little surprised. This woman had a lot of knowledge. Although his previous words were all false, the eating monster he described did exist, and its appearance was also described according to that thing. Unexpectedly, this woman actually knew...
The woman said to herself: "But one thing is strange. The light-eating beast is a forbidden creature from the Dayless Hell. Logically speaking, it can only wander around the Dayless Hell. How could it appear near the Endless City?"
She examined Bai Mo carefully and asked a few more questions.
The latter took his time and answered as if he was remembering, as if he was telling the truth.
After listening, the woman sighed slightly and said to Sun Yan: "You go out first, I have something else to ask my second brother."
Sun Yan didn't say much, bowed respectfully, then turned and walked out of the tent.
Only the woman and Bai Mo were left in the tent. Neither of them spoke, and the air fell into a long silence.
Finally, the woman spoke.
"You are not the second child."
Her tone was incomprehensible, and there was no hint of emotion or anger, but she seemed very determined.
Bai Mo's heart moved, and he asked in Wu Laoer's voice: "Sister, what does this mean?"
The woman did not answer, but said to herself: "Although I don't know where you heard about the characteristics of the light-eating beast, you have no idea how terrifying it is... That thing will die on sight. With Wu Laoer
After seeing his strength, he will never come back alive."
