Chapter 1363 City

The next second, the defenseless Jiang Cheng felt dizzy and staggered, as if he was caught in a huge and dark vortex.

After an unknown amount of time, he suddenly felt a solid touch under his feet. As he came to his senses, Jiang Cheng raised his head and found himself in an alley. In front of him was a wall. The seemingly solid brick wall was covered with tiny cracks. The night sky above his head told him that it was night, dark and quite quiet.

Suddenly, a hand stretched out from behind and grabbed his arm. It was a completely subconscious reaction. Jiang Cheng grabbed the other person's wrist with his backhand, pulled the person over, and pressed him against the wall.

Jiang Cheng's tense nerves did not relax until he saw the man's face clearly. His first reaction just now was the green ghost hand.

Li Bai, who was thrown against the wall, couldn't help coughing a few times, "Jiang...Mr. Jiang, it's me, don't be nervous."

Letting go of his hand, he turned around, and Fatty and Yao Shunyu were both there. Looking at their expressions, it was obvious that they had just arrived in this world and were not used to it. Fatty even shook his head to make himself more sober.

When everyone recovered, Yao Shunyu looked around and lowered his voice and said, "Strange, why didn't we get off the car this time, but came directly to this kind of place."

Li Bai rubbed his wrist that was hurt by Jiang Cheng, and placed his hope on Wang Fugui of Jiang Cheng, "Mr. Jiang, Mr. Wang, have you encountered such a situation?"

"Never, it's the first time for us too." Jiang Cheng answered truthfully. After a moment, he suddenly asked, "What do you remember about being in the car just now?"

Hearing this, Li Bai's face became terrified, and his pupils were trembling, "Hand, a ghost hand stretched out from the mist and grabbed my shoulder. It was a... a green ghost hand!"

Jiang Cheng paused after hearing it, and looked at Li Bai in surprise, "You were also Caught by the ghost hand? "

Unexpectedly, Li Bai's expression was even weirder than Jiang Cheng's. "Of course, the ghost hand caught me. It happened suddenly, and I had no time to react. I called you, but none of you reacted."

Before Jiang Cheng could speak, the fat man suddenly spoke, trembling: "Li Bai, what are you talking about? The person caught by the ghost hand was obviously me!"

Hearing this, everyone realized that something was wrong. Yao Shunyu nodded at Jiang Cheng, confirming the latter's guess, "My experience was the same as yours. I was caught by a ghost hand, and then I regained consciousness and came here."

"In my memory, I was the only one caught by the ghost hand. You were all by my side. I remember it very clearly." Yao Shunyu added seriously.

Everyone's memory was biased here, but what was agreed upon was that everyone remembered the ghost hand that stretched out from the fog, and they were also sure that they were caught by the ghost hand.

Jiang Cheng tried his best to recall, but he didn't remember the appearance of the ghost, not at all. The other party was hidden in the fog, and it was very fast.

"I... I seem to have some impression." The fat man recalled blankly, frowning.

"Do you remember that ghost?" Li Bai asked: "No, I mean you... did you see it?"

After a long while, the fat man hesitated and said: "I don't remember it very clearly, but I did see something in the fog. Let me think about it, it seems... it seems to be a pair of eyes!"

"Yes, it's a pair of eyes!" The fat man suddenly became excited, "I remember, those eyes are very strange, they are a pair of... silver eyes!"

The information that the fat man can provide stopped here. He only knew that the other party was a ghost with silver eyes, and he could bring them to this world by some strange means.

After thinking for a moment, Li Bai asked a very critical question, "Everyone, where are we now? Are we on the bus, or, or have we got off the bus?"

No one answered, because no one knew the answer.

At the same time, Jiang Cheng's eyes inadvertently swept over a few people. The incident happened suddenly, and coupled with the experience in recent times, Jiang Cheng was very alert. He suspected the identity of the fat man and the other two.

But a cursory observation was obviously not enough to distinguish the true identities of several people. Jiang Cheng decided to observe slowly. They had entered the mission world, and the first thing to do was to find teammates to join up.

After a brief discussion, the group slowly walked along the wall towards the side of the alley.

When the few people really walked out of the alley, the scene in front of them shocked everyone. There was a street in front of them, with a large number of wooden buildings standing on both sides, antique, and paper lanterns hanging under the eaves.

However, these lanterns were all extinguished. As the wind blew, the lanterns swayed slightly, like pale faces hidden in the dark.

Then, with only a little bit of starlight, looking around, the paper lanterns were connected into a piece, and farther away was a shadow left by a building. The shadow and the dark night were clearly layered, making the whole street seem endless.

A short observation was enough to judge that this mission was in ancient times, and this was a relatively large ancient town. Although it was at night, the shops were enough to deduce the prosperity of this street during the day.

Jiang Cheng suddenly noticed a building across the street. There was a plaque on the building, and he could vaguely see the four characters "Fu'an Inn" written on it.

"Fu'an Inn..."

Fatty, Yao, Shun, Yu and Li Bai also noticed this inn.

At first Jiang Cheng just felt that something was strange, but after a while, Jiang Cheng suddenly felt an inexplicable chill, and he knew where the problem was.

This inn was not eye-catching on the whole street, and it was not facing their direction. Normally, they would not pay attention to it, but something seemed to be attracting them. The four of them almost At the same time, I noticed this inn.

Others were also aware of this. It seemed that their mission this time was probably related to this inn. Fatty cautiously asked everyone if they wanted to stay there. After all, this was an inn.

And it's late at night now, and the temperature here is very low. Staying outside all night sounds like a torture.

"I don't think so. This neighborhood... this neighborhood is too strange." Li Bai lowered his voice and couldn't help but look at both sides of the street with his eyes.

"Yes, I don't think so for the time being. This street looks very busy, and there should be a lot of people living around it, but it's eerily quiet now."

"Also, since it is an inn, candles will be lit in the lobby even late at night, ready for travelers who may come at night. The inn does not put out the wax. This is a rule, but look at it, let alone leaving candles here. There is not even a single person lighting a lantern in the entire street. Are all the people in this city dead?" Yao, Shunyu's voice sounded wary.

"Don't go there, let's retreat and find another place to spend the night."

Jiang Cheng's opinion was the same as that of Li Bai Yao and Shunyu. This inn and the whole street were weird. Before he understood all this, Jiang Cheng decided to play it safe.

After simply identifying the direction, Jiang Cheng and his group walked along the street towards the other side of the town. On the way, they pricked up their ears and listened for the movements inside the dark buildings nearby.

"Where are we going?" The fat man couldn't help but ask in a low voice.

Yao, Shun, and Yu, who were closest to him, replied: "According to the direction of this street, our location just now is relatively central, and now we are walking towards the edge. It is difficult to build a very large ancient city. Let's try to find the edge of this city." , it might be safer there.”

Although he didn't quite understand, since the doctor didn't object, he must have his reasons. The fat man followed the doctor cautiously, and the group walked on the deserted street. The more they walked, the more uncertain they became, just like Yao, Shun, and Yu. As I said just now, it seems that there is really no one here, it is an empty city.

But gradually, they saw light appearing in front of them.

It's fire!

A row of wooden fences blocked one side of the street. Looking further ahead, there was a tall city wall not far away. No, it was more accurately a city wall.

The city tower stood in the darkness like a huge monster. Below it was a city gate that was large enough to accommodate two cars passing side by side. The city gate was closed at the moment.

The fire was not far behind the city gate, on the left and back. It was raised up about one person high, and at the junction of the fire and darkness, there were still several figures standing.

The figure was wearing gray clothes, holding a spear in his hand, standing upright.

"They are soldiers guarding at night." Yao, Shun and Yu said softly after a few people hid themselves.

In ancient times, siege methods were relatively simple, and large cities with strong walls were easy to defend and difficult to attack, which often left the attacking party helpless. The gates needed to be strictly guarded to prevent the enemy from attacking inside and outside, opening the gates and letting the enemies in.

When he saw the person, the fat man finally breathed a sigh of relief.

But slowly, the surrounding atmosphere changed, because everyone discovered something very strange. They had been hiding nearby for 10 minutes, but the soldiers guarding the city were motionless, not even changing their posture.

"They...what happened to them?"

Jiang Cheng turned his head and made a mouth gesture to the other three people. The fat man felt cold when he saw it. Jiang Cheng said the word "death".

What's going on?

The whole city has no popularity at all. I finally bumped into a few people, including soldiers guarding the city, but they turned out to be dead!

Yao and Shunyu pondered for a moment and asked several people in Jiangcheng to wait here. He quietly retreated, walked around in a circle, found a good angle, and observed the soldiers from another direction.

With a gust of wind blowing and the flames dancing, Yao and Shunyu finally saw clearly that these soldiers were not dead, but straw men.

Stuff grass into clothes, hold up the clothes, and then make a straw man.

Because of the ingenious workmanship and the fact that they were hidden at the junction of firelight and darkness, they did not notice it for the first time. But just when Yao and Shunyu were about to go back and explain the situation to a few people in Jiangcheng, they suddenly heard a very soft sound coming from behind them. The sound seemed like... some kind of footsteps.

When Yao, Shunyu and others from Jiangcheng met again, he looked a little embarrassed. His hands were cut behind his back, his mouth was gagged, and there were several people standing beside him.

There were quite a few people, 4 men and 2 women, all dressed in modern attire, which meant that these people were their teammates this time.

"I said, don't do this. We are all teammates."

The fat man couldn't help but frown when he looked at Yao Shunyu. Judging from his clothes, it was easy to tell him apart, so he couldn't figure out what the other party wanted to do.

"You don't have to say whether it's a teammate or not. We still have to investigate." Among the other people there was a very thin man with a wound on his forehead and a gloomy look on his face.

Fortunately, after some testing, the other party finally let down their guard, and the group did not dare to stay here for a long time. The people in Jiangcheng followed the other group to their destination.

It was a stable not far from the city wall. There were no horses in the stable and it was empty. However, there was a small room behind the stable with piles of hay piled inside.

A few people went in and sat down directly. It was much warmer here than outside.

"You... are there only four of you?" An old man in a dark windbreaker looked at Jiang Cheng and asked. His eyes were not sharp, but he was very majestic. He seemed to be a powerful person in real life.

"Yes, there are only four of us. We came together." Jiang Cheng did not hide it.

After chatting for a while, Jiang Cheng roughly understood the composition of these people. There were a total of 6 people, but only two of them came together, and the other four were lone wolves.

What's more rare is that the two people who came together were a couple. The man was probably in his early 50s, and the woman might be well maintained, so she looked about 30 years old.

It can be seen that some people were very cold and kept shivering, but the old man in the windbreaker just said lightly, "You should overcome it. We can't make a fire in this situation. No one knows what ghosts are in this city."

"Did you see those straw men just now?" The old man asked Jiang Cheng while rubbing his hands slowly.

"I saw it."

"What do you think?"

After a moment's hesitation, Jiang Cheng expressed his opinion, "Something must have happened in this city. It's very dangerous at night, so every household stayed indoors, and even those who had the conditions had fled. Even the soldiers responsible for guarding the city did not dare to be on duty at night, but they did not dare to disobey military orders, so they had to make a few straw men to deal with it."

"Yeah." The old man responded, "We thought so too, and when we first came, you noticed that inn, Fu'an Inn."

Jiang Cheng nodded, "I noticed it, that inn is very strange, as if something is attracting us."

"Did you go to see it?" the old man asked.

"No."

A trace of regret flashed in the old man's eyes. It can be seen that the old man and his group also noticed that the inn was very strange, but in order to protect themselves, they did not go to see it. When they met Jiang Cheng and his group, the old man naturally thought of this question.

"What are your plans next?"

Yao Shunyu, who was untied, was also a person who could take it or leave it. He did not show any dissatisfaction with the old man and his group who tied him up, and asked in a formal tone.

The old man leaned back on the hay and took a long breath. "Wait until daybreak. If no one comes to find us, we will go to the inn and take a look. I have a feeling something is going to happen there."