Chapter 71 Old Town (Additional Updates for Those Who Want to Read Later)

The dark clouds covered the faint crimson moonlight.

Chen Ye's figure appeared at the intersection of the old city.

This was his first time to act at night.

Looking inside, compared with the bustling pedestrian street behind him, the old city was dark and silent.

It seemed like two different worlds.

Observing with the pupil of luck, the blood light lingering near the old city was obviously much dimmer than during the day.

When Chen Ye came to the intersection, he specially observed his luck aura.

The glazed lines lingering near the three-color ring became brighter.

Of course, the blood light in it was more prominent and more active, as if it had been given life...

However, the blood light was not very close to the black evil spirit, but it seemed to have a bloody mouth and wanted to swallow others.

"Generally speaking, if the blood light is combined with the black evil spirit and surrounds the head, it means that the person involved has a blood disaster."

"But if it is just blood light, then we have to combine them to judge."

"This blood light appears faintly near my mouth. Maybe the source of the blood light... is me!"

Chen Ye noticed that the blood light on his body was fundamentally different from the players he met before. After a little judgment, he confirmed that the situation was normal.

He no longer hesitated, kept wandering, and entered the old city.

At this moment, the golden parchment scroll in his mind automatically appeared in front of him.

Zhengzheng!

There seemed to be a loud sound of bells, echoing in the ears.

Suddenly, the parchment scroll burst out with a magical brilliance, and the fog in front of the blood-red dot instantly retreated, and the black lines winding like black snakes gradually slowly outlined above the golden paper page.

The overall outline of the old city is presented in a corner of the [Wandering Map].

The bloody red dot where Chen Ye stood was a relatively wide intersection that could accommodate two cars driving side by side.

Going through the main road, there were branch-like forks that continued to appear, extending towards the complex and intertwined old city and reaching the upper reaches of the Xijiang River.

A few decades ago, the old city was still a prosperous area, and many older generations liked to buy houses there.

But with the development of the times, new areas are constantly being developed, and the old buildings clustered here are difficult to demolish completely, and gradually developed into urban villages. Most of the people living here are empty-nest elderly people, left-behind children, poor families with diseases, and lower-class people with no savings...

Chen Ye observed the shape of the aura of luck above his head while stepping into the old city.

At this moment, a faint smell of blood floated in the air.

Mixed with the stench of some kind of animal corpse rotting, as well as the smell of acid and vomit...

Chen Ye frowned. After his sense of smell became sharper, he was more sensitive to these smells. Compared with ordinary people, the smell he smelled would be more difficult to describe.

However, with this ability, Chen Ye can distinguish the different substances from which these smells come when he concentrates.

Although his understanding of this world is not particularly deep, and he cannot accurately determine the specific species, he can roughly determine what it is.

Even mixed smells can be analyzed and classified.

Chen Ye remained vigilant, walking on this main road with a sense of age, occasionally looking around to check the surrounding environment.

In the past, there were old grocery stores on both sides of the old city, selling large iron pots, blessing talismans, objects for burning incense and worshiping gods, etc. that were popular decades ago...

Since the bloody countdown came, most of the shops have closed down and are almost abandoned.

Some shops even collapsed on one side, weeds grew out of the broken yellow mud bricks, and dark buildings pressed from both sides, like the shadow of a demon.

Walking a few steps deeper, Chen Ye suddenly found some scattered pieces of meat scattered on the road.

He took out his bloody cell phone and saw the blood on the ground with the help of the faint light from the screen. It seemed to be left today, but it had dried up and turned black.

The blood was dotted. It didn't look like blood sprayed from the aorta after a fatal injury. It looked more like being bitten by something horrible, and blood fell like rain...

Not only the ground, but also the walls of the surrounding shops, and even the edges of the roofs of some low-rise tiled houses, all had this kind of blood.

Chen Ye frowned slightly. In the picture of the pupil of luck, he saw a huge black shadow dancing in the old city like a demon, as if carrying out a cheerful and rampant killing... The ring of luck gave people a vague feeling of uneasiness.

Fortunately, the black shadow had left, but the traces left before turned into a unique image of luck, which lingered for a short time like a phantom, but soon dissipated.

"Could it be something that happened this morning?"

Chen Ye couldn't help but think of the early morning when he looked at the old city, and a long river of thick blood appeared in that area... He instinctively felt the crisis from it, so he didn't go to the old city to check the situation immediately.

Now that he thinks about it, his intuition at that time was right. On the contrary, there would be danger during the day?

But now, the danger here seems to have been cleared away by that existence, and it has become safer.

His eyes fell on the minced meat on the ground, leaned over to take a closer look, sniffed it with his nose, and suddenly his pupils shrank...

These minced meat belong to humans!

Of course, this so-called "human" is not necessarily a "human", but just has a human form.

The barbecue stall owners also have human appearances, but in "Strange Era", all existences are basically strange, but the forms and rules of existence are different.

For a moment, he couldn't tell whether these human fragments came from the barbecue stall owners or from the diners who swallowed the black barbecue and then entered the old city.

Maybe...

Both!

At this moment, the aura of luck on the main road of the old city differentiated into a white mist, extending forward.

There were only sporadic ink embellishments, but it didn't feel particularly dangerous.

"Did I come here this time and get nothing?" Chen Ye looked at the road surrounded by white mist and couldn't help complaining.

Crisis and gain coexist.

He came here to hunt special items!

Without crisis, where would the gain come from?

Chen Ye walked forward along the white mist. When he came to the main road, he suddenly found a faint scarlet line, which was particularly conspicuous, extending from the fork on the left to the dark and narrow residential area.

Compared with the shops on both sides of the main road, there are more poor people living here.

The various old-style single-family houses, like low human heads, form a natural shelter.

Chen Ye walked carefully in this area. These buildings provide good cover. If you play hide-and-seek here, it is a great place!

At this moment.

He saw that the blood light in the aura of luck above his head suddenly became thicker!

It turned into a blood-colored blade, about to fall down...

Chen Ye's face burst open instantly, turning into the form of a [devourer], one eye looking forward, one eye looking back, gaining a 360-degree field of vision.

The crimson moonlight suddenly appeared in the clouds, and the faint blood mist shone on the two figures wearing tattered and ragged clothes and blood on the corners of their mouths not far behind Chen Ye...