Jiye City is located in the southernmost part of the entire safety zone. The days are short and the nights are long all year round. There are about sixteen hours a day in the middle of the night. This is where the name Jiye City comes from.
It is precisely because of the lack of light all year round that food crops in Jiye City are extremely scarce, and trade with other urban areas is quite frequent. For this reason, some restricted areas have even been cleared at all costs, and a more convenient trade route has been carved out.
Regarding the difference between day and night in Jiye City, most researchers actually have quite the same idea, that is, Jiye City may have been affected by the Dayless Hell of the S-level restricted area immediately adjacent to it.
The Dayless Hell is extremely famous. Even among all the known S-level restricted areas, it is ranked at the forefront in terms of danger. Let alone exploring the secrets, almost no one dares to approach the Dayless Hell in recent years.
The entrance to the stone monument of Dayless Hell is a dark door. You can't see what material it is made of, and there is no door handle. But once you touch it, you will be sucked into the forbidden place, without exception.
So far, I have never heard of anyone being able to open the door and leave the Hell without Daylight.
No one knows the scope of the Dayless Hell, which can't be seen to the end, but many people believe that its area may be second only to Huangquan, which is also an S-level restricted area.
Just like the name of the restricted area, the Dayless Hell never sees the light of day all year round. It is always dark at the top of the entire restricted area, and there is never any light. Birds will always avoid it subconsciously and dare not fly into that sky.
Some people say that maybe that dark sky is the real dayless hell.
Precisely because few people dare to approach Dayless Hell, few people know that there is an unknown tunnel in a cave between Jiye City and Dayless Hell.
The tunnel is very deep and extremely long. When you reach the end, you can see a simple square secret room, which is completely made of soil. The wall is full of cracks, as if it will collapse at any time.
The entire secret room was empty, with torches lit in the four corners. It looked quite ordinary. Only the ground was a little strange. Even though there was scattered soil, it was vaguely visible that there seemed to be a door embedded in the center of the ground.
Suddenly, the ground in the secret room trembled violently, and a gap opened in the door with flame patterns. A figure flew out of the door and landed on the ground, raising a cloud of dust.
The man's hair reached his shoulders. He quickly stood up like a normal person and patted the dust on his clothes. He seemed to have been accustomed to this scene for a long time. The rose earrings in his left ear shone slightly, as if echoing something.
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Perhaps sensing the movement in the secret room, a series of hurried footsteps suddenly sounded outside the tunnel. Gu Nian turned around and saw a man and a woman running into the secret room.
Seeing that there was only one person in the secret room, the excitement on their faces suddenly disappeared and became a little ugly.
The man said fiercely: "Why are you alone, where are the others? What is the situation behind the door, what happened?"
Facing this series of questions, Gu Nian suddenly broke into a cold sweat and said nervously: "Brother Meng, Sister Xu, there is a new restricted area behind the door. Everyone else... is dead..."
"How is that possible!"
Hearing this, the men and women opposite were shocked, especially the man named Brother Meng, who said in disbelief: "They are all dead? Is Ouyang dead too?"
Ouyang is the B-class extraordinary person who has the ability of [Thunderstorm] that Gu Nian once mentioned.
Sister Xu also looked ugly: "Since they are all dead, why are you the only one who came back alive?"
Gu Nian's expression changed drastically, and she shook her head hurriedly: "No, actually I'm not the only one alive..."
Is there anyone alive?
Brother Meng was overjoyed and looked around quickly, but found no trace of anyone else, so he angrily said, "What nonsense are you talking about? Are there anyone else here?"
The air became silent.
As if feeling bored, Gu Nian opposite him gradually put away his frightened expression, and his voice became calm and low, completely different from the timid and fearful look he had before.
"Yes, there are others."
A man and a woman quickly realized that something was wrong, but at this time, their wariness was all focused on Gu Nian opposite them, and they did not notice the two knives that appeared out of thin air behind them.
The two knives were pitch black and had a cold edge. They did not stop after appearing and stabbed into the backs of the two people's necks, causing blood to flow profusely.
"puff!"
The two of them didn't even have a chance to say their last words. They fell to the ground and died in an instant, with their eyes open and blood flowing all over the ground.
Tread, step.
Footsteps sounded, and Gu Nian walked to the corpses expressionlessly, squatted down, pulled out two black knives from their bodies, and wiped them clean with their clothes.
"You have to be careful in what you say, there is really only one person now."
After saying that, he stood up and stood quietly, as if waiting for something.
Suddenly, all the torches in the four corners of the secret room were extinguished, and the surrounding area fell into darkness. Gu Nian felt that his left ear was inexplicably hot, and as if he had sensed something, he raised his head and looked into the air.
His sight seemed to be able to penetrate the darkness, and it was clear that there was nothing there, but his eyes were slightly focused, as if he was looking at something.
"What's behind the door?"
The next second, a lazy male voice came to his ears, extremely hoarse.
Gu Nian did not answer, but asked: "Hell without daylight?"
The voice smiled: "You guessed it right, he seems to be a smart man."
"Can you break through the restricted area?"
"The restricted area is never a restriction. Wherever there is darkness, there will naturally be hell for me."
The voice didn't say much, but continued the previous question, "Answer me, what's behind the door?"
Gu Nian flipped up her long hair and chuckled, "Why should I tell you?"
"Because I can let you lie here forever like those two corpses at any time."
The voice was calm, but the words were full of threats.
Gu Nian showed no fear and sneered: "This is not the first time I have dealt with a restricted area like you, so I know one thing..."
"You can't do anything outside the restricted area."
"Oh?" The voice was still calm, "Then why do you think I can leave the restricted area to talk to you?"
"Because of this."
Gu Nian pointed to her earlobe, where there was a faintly glowing rose earring.
He smiled and said, "Understand, you didn't find me, but I called you."
The voice fell into silence and seemed to be sizing up the earring. After a while, he said: "You are very interesting. Tell me your purpose."
Gu Nian was stunned for a moment, feeling like he had heard this sentence somewhere.
He temporarily abandoned this idea and chuckled: "I want to use the secret of this door to exchange a secret with you."
