Chapter 886 A Small Town on the Mountainside

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 hotel in the countryside 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 then, 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 small town reminded Hao Ren of the old streets and alleys in the southern suburbs - although they are completely different places in style, the same atmosphere floats in every street. It is the taste of time and the atmosphere of the past. The old houses and the narrow and old streets together outline something. This town has a history of at least a hundred years. As Hao Ren and Vivian walked around the streets, they could see ancient houses with traditional brick structures and peeling exterior walls. There are also urban roads that can be seen everywhere, repaired and used to this day. There is a cement road that can accommodate two cars parallel as the main road of the town. The entire town was built along this road. You can see scattered old houses on both sides of the road. Moss and mildew stains on the skirts of the houses are everywhere. It can be seen that in this historic building, modern street lamps and billboards are embedded 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 "ancient family retreat".

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. Guy, he is becoming more and more disobedient to discipline."

Hao Ren couldn't do anything 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 was scanning the terrain of the entire town and surrounding areas in mid-air, and shared the observed scenes into Hao Ren's mind. Hao Ren was now multitasking. In another virtual vision in his brain, he was looking down at this place from an altitude of several hundred meters.

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 come on, and it hangs like a gorgeous necklace at the foot of the hillside. At first glance, there was nothing unusual about it. Both the bare stone hills and the old town at the foot of the hills were unremarkable. However, after Hao Ren carefully observed it for a while, he discovered that there were some irregularities in the layout of the town: all the buildings Everything stopped abruptly halfway up the hill.

While it's understandable that people didn't build their houses higher up the hillside for reasons of cost and convenience, those houses were still too neatly demarcated, especially when the lights came on at night: Okay It is obvious that there is a dividing line between light and darkness on the hillside. 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 had been abandoned for many years, as if it had been abandoned and thrown outside. There were no roads in the town that extended to the middle of those houses. But between those abandoned huts, traces of roads left in the past could be vaguely seen: After zooming in on the data terminal, Hao Ren saw some things like cement blocks and broken bricks distributed halfway up the mountain. .

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’s heterogeneous rule, and that’s what happened a month ago.”

"Aliens must hide their whereabouts. Look at the size of the Athens Sanctuary. Isn't the city of Athens still very 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, and 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 take a look? Maybe they are 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 many contacts with demon hunters and having experienced many life-and-death situations, Hao Ren is now more accustomed to thinking of more positive solutions. If necessary, he will even choose to contact the demon hunters proactively in order to Avoid being passive in the future. And even if he didn't consider these things, Hao Ren knew that he actually had nothing against the demon hunters - he was not an "alien" like a vampire werewolf. As a prosecutor, he was neutral from the beginning, but he happened to be the first to do so. Adopting a bunch of monsters made me feel a little embarrassed when I came into contact with the demon hunters...

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 whether it separated the entire town from the top of the mountain. On one side of the fence are the brightly lit buildings in the town, while on the other side there is only the dark hillside. Looking to the dark side, you can see several shadowy buildings dormant in the night, which are the buildings that passed through before. A bird's-eye view of several abandoned houses from a data terminal.

There is a rusty fence gate at the end of the road, and a red sign hanging on the gate says No Passage. Hao Ren stepped forward and shook the fence door, and there was a heart-wrenching sound of metal friction: This door had probably not been opened for many years, and all the hinges were 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 more than 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 tomorrow. I saw those abandoned houses you mentioned, let's go there... huh?"

Hao Ren was stunned: "What's wrong?"

Vivian frowned and looked at one of the abandoned houses: "There seems to be a breath of life over there."