Eight hundred and eighty-fourth chapter mountain town
South America.
A little-known town welcomed a special group of visitors today.
According to the address provided by Wayne, Hao Ren and the others came to this place first and temporarily settled in a small hotel in the town. They chose a family-style country hotel to avoid identity trouble.
Wayne Walter has returned to his family to deal with some matters. According to the agreement, the vampire patriarch will come to this town to join Vivian in two days. Before that, Hao Ren and the others can move freely here.
.So after finding a place to stay and getting a little familiar with the hotel environment, Hao Ren and Vivian left the hotel and wandered around the town.
The atmosphere of this town made Hao Ren couldn't help but think of the old streets and alleys in the southern suburbs. Although they are completely different in style, the same atmosphere floats in every street. It is the smell of time and old age.
The old houses and the narrow and old streets together outline something. This town has a history of at least a hundred years. When Hao Ren and Vivian walked around the streets, they could see that everything they saw was very...
Old houses, traditional brick structures, peeling exterior walls, and town roads that have been repaired and used to this day can be seen everywhere. There is a cement road that can accommodate two cars in parallel as the main road of the town.
It was built along this road. You can see scattered old houses on both sides of the road. Moss and mildew stains on the house skirts can be seen everywhere. In this historic building, modern street lamps and billboards
It was embedded in it in an incongruous and abrupt way. Although he knew that this town could not have anything to do with ancient times, Hao Ren couldn't help but think that such a town was indeed in line with the positioning of "a secluded place for ancient families".
The century-old town, as well as the alien families from ancient times, are all equally ancient, equally forgotten, and equally incompatible with modern society.
"I didn't expect that Hesiana would stay in Athens honestly in the end," Hao Ren thought of the little bat spirit who dragged Vivian's leg and made trouble for a while before leaving, and couldn't help but smile on his face, "
I thought she was going to follow her no matter what. But in the end, you persuaded her to go back."
Vivian felt dizzy when she heard the word "Hesiana". She rubbed her forehead and sighed: "That child is getting more and more ridiculous. It was probably a mistake to leave her at home last time. She is the kind of person who shines brightly when given a little sunshine.
Guys are becoming more and more disobedient to discipline."
Hao Ren had nothing to do about the relationship between Vivian and Hesiana, so he just smiled softly and looked up into the air.
Directly above the two of them, a blue, meteor-like light flashed past.
The data terminal is scanning the terrain of the entire town and surrounding areas in mid-air, and sharing the observed scenes into Hao Ren's mind. Hao Ren is now multitasking. In another virtual vision in his brain, he is hundreds of meters away
Looking down at this place from high in the sky.
He saw that this small town with a population of only a thousand people was located next to a black hill, surrounded by a large area of uninhabited wilderness. The town was built along the gentle slope next to the hill. As night fell,
The lights in the town lit up, and it was like a gorgeous necklace hanging at the foot of the hillside. At first glance, there was nothing unusual about it. Whether it was the bare stone hill or the old town at the foot of the hill, they were all unremarkable.
But after Hao Ren carefully observed it for a while, he discovered that there was something inconsistent with the layout of the town: all the buildings ended abruptly halfway up the hill.
While it's understandable that people don't build houses on higher hillsides for reasons of cost and convenience, the boundaries between those houses are still too neat, especially when the lights come on at night: Okay
It is obvious that there is a dividing line between light and darkness on the hillside, and the artificial lights stop on that line, as if they are avoiding something.
But the place without lights is not empty: there are several apparently abandoned houses alone on the other end of the "dividing line". They are "leftovers" that the town extends to the hills, and they look like they have been destroyed.
It has been abandoned for many years, as if it was abandoned and thrown outside. There are no roads in the town that extend to those houses. But between those abandoned huts, traces of roads left from earlier times can be vaguely seen: in the data terminal
After zooming in on the screen, Hao Ren saw some things like cement blocks and broken bricks distributed halfway up the mountainside.
Vivian didn't pay attention to the picture sent by the data terminal. She just looked at the peaceful scene of the town thoughtfully: "The atmosphere here is a bit incredible... I thought the territory of the Ancatero family was a more gloomy place. After all, it is alien.
Dominate. And that happened a month ago.”
"Aliens must hide their whereabouts. Look at the size of the Athens Sanctuary. Aren't the city of Athens still quite lively?" Hao Ren said casually. "And the Shadow of Chaos does not attack humans."
"That's true..." Vivian murmured in a low voice, "I don't know how the Ancatero family hid it. I can't find any traces of the secret realm, and I don't know where the entrance is. It seems that I can only count on it.
Wayne sent a guide.”
Hao Ren hummed and looked up at the end of the town's streets. The town lights in front extended upward along a slope. The outline of the black hill not far away was reflected in the lights: "There may be something to the north of the town, over there.
There are a few abandoned houses that are quite interesting. How about we go and take a look? Maybe they were the former human properties of the Ancatero family."
"Want to take a look?" Vivian blinked, "But the guide from the Wayne family should be here in two days."
"Anyway, nothing is idle," Hao Ren shrugged, "And there may be demon hunters in this town. They may also be aiming at the Ancatero family. If we can discover their traces in advance, we can avoid them.
I was in a hurry after two days.”
Ordinary aliens would hide when they heard about demon hunters. In fact, Hao Ren was the same at the beginning, but now his behavior has changed. Due to his many contacts with demon hunters and his experiences,
There have been many life and death situations, and now Hao Ren is more accustomed to thinking of more proactive solutions. If necessary, he will even choose to actively contact the demon hunters to avoid being passive in the future. And even if he does not consider these,
Hao Ren also knew that he actually had nothing against the demon hunters. He was not an "alien" like vampires and werewolves. As an inquisitor, he had been neutral from the beginning. It just happened that he had adopted a bunch of demons and monsters first, which led to his own
It's a little awkward when you come into contact with a witcher...
Vivian had no objection to Hao Ren's decision. Her attitude towards the demon hunter was basically indifferent, so she nodded and followed Hao Ren towards the end of the town.
Soon, they took advantage of the night to reach the halfway point of the black hill, where the road to the town ended.
A fence stood in front of Hao Ren. The fence extended to both sides and disappeared into the deep night. People couldn't help but wonder if it separated the entire town from the top of the mountain. On this side of the fence were the brightly lit lights in the town.
buildings, while on the other side there is only a dark hillside. Looking to the dark side, you can see several shadowy buildings dormant in the night, which are the few buildings previously observed through the overlooking perspective of the data terminal.
An abandoned house.
There was a rusty fence gate at the end of the road. There was a red sign on the gate with the words "No Passage" on it. Hao Ren stepped forward and shook the fence gate, and there was a heart-wrenching creak.
Metal friction sound: This door has probably not been opened for many years, and all the hinges are covered with rust.
Vivian looked around to make sure there was no one around, then suddenly it turned into a thick fog and bats flew across the fence to the other side, while Hao Ren jumped directly upwards and jumped over lightly and deftly.
There is a railing over two meters high.
"We should have asked the locals before," Hao Ren said casually to the group of bats around him, "ask them why the end of the town is blocked by a fence gate. It should be nothing for outsiders to be curious."
"In hindsight," Vivian appeared from a swarm of bats, "Let's talk about it tomorrow. I saw those abandoned houses you mentioned, let's go there... eh?"
Hao Ren was stunned: "What's wrong?"
Vivian frowned and looked at one of the abandoned houses: "There seems to be the breath of living people over there." (To be continued.)