Chapter 321: Simple Stone Gate

The old man lifted the door curtain of the kitchen. Behind him was an old woman covered in blood, slowly chopping a fat man on the chopping board. The fat man turned his head and smiled at Ye Tingbai. The pain made his smile twisted and looked so weird.

Ye Tingbai: "What the hell is this?"

Old Qin sighed, not in a hurry at all, and did not explain his identity.

"We are just a group of poor people. No matter what, we will start all over again at midnight. We opened this butcher shop just to exchange some food with outsiders like you. We are so hungry.

We are so hungry that we are crazy."

Ye Tingbai: "But you opened a butcher shop?"

The old man was a little disappointed to see that there were not many customers today, so he simply sat in front of the meat stall and chatted with Ye Tingbai.

"Everything here will be restored at midnight.

No matter what we eat in this town, it will disappear at midnight, even if it is in our stomach, even if it has been digested, it will be restored to the previous fixed place, and hunger will come twice as much.

We are so hungry."

After chatting for a few words, he found that the old man was conscious, but he had forgotten too many things, and he was very kind, not like a pollutant at all.

It's just that the people in this town seem to be trapped in this dead cycle, living the same day's life endlessly. They can't get anything, but they feel hungry.

They were here a long time ago, long before the Ice Man. You know, the Ice Man is a species of the First Age. Before the Ice Man came, they had been suffering from hunger and lived a crazy life every day.

Until there were Ice Man in this cave, they began to trade with the Ice Man, exchanging food for food, which was their own meat. Everyone in this town had once lay on that chopping board to relieve everyone's endless hunger.

This is not a monster, but a group of ordinary people who are cursed. They are immortal, but they can never leave here.

Secondary personality: "This looks a bit like a curse. There are some records in the books of the Fourth Age."

"Is there any way?"

"I don't know. The power of the curse will decay over time, but from what they said, this situation has lasted for a long time."

While chatting, I don't know why thick smoke appeared around, and some strange figures appeared in the smoke.

Secondary personality: "It's smoke, the purity is very poor."

The dream body appeared, the secondary personality controlled the body, and more than a dozen daggers stabbed into the smoke. Those figures had no ability to resist at all and all fell to the ground and died. The smoke also slowly dissipated with the death of these people, revealing the culprit in the smoke.

These people were dressed similarly to Lao Qintou, all in the same style of clothes. They held a torch in one hand and a plant in the other hand to release smoke. It seemed that they wanted to confuse Ye Tingbai. After all, Ye Tingbai was not a person from this village for them, and he would not be reset if he was eaten.

Old Qin looked at all this coldly, without any reaction.

Old Qin: "Alas, there are no guests today, so there is no food, and these people have gone astray."

Ye Tingbai: "What is the wrong way? Want to eat me?"

Old Qin answered irrelevantly, just emphasizing that as long as the food does not belong to this village, it's fine.

If you think about it carefully, the reason why the soldiers were so secretive before is probably because they often come here to have a feast, so they dare not say it casually. After all, eating this kind of thing is a bit of a bottom line.

But no one can say for sure, the person you eat is still alive, and even the place you eat is restored to its original state the next day. Does this count as eating... people?

Old Qin doesn't know much, he can only ask others, so he called Sun En, who is the only one who can be contacted in this cave.

After asking roughly, Sun En is fully aware of this village, and they have wanted to destroy this weird village before, but it didn't work at all, no matter how many times they destroyed it or killed it.

As long as it's midnight, it will reappear, and all the effects of the previous day will disappear.

External forces cannot affect anyone or anything here.

Sun En: "Although we can't do anything to them, these people are just ordinary people, with poor abilities and average physical fitness.

We also tested their pollution index, all of which were 0."

What Sun En meant was that there was no need to manage the village, because no matter how it was managed, it would return to its original state the next day, and the villagers would still live this torturous eternal life.

Ye Tingbai felt sorry for the old couple, so he asked the soldiers at the base to come and deliver some food, but was told that the time had passed and the village had disappeared.

"What the hell, I'm still here now!"

"The village only appears for five minutes at midnight every day, and after five minutes it will disappear with the village, and will not be affected, but we can't see it from the outside.

If you leave the village now, you will not be affected, and the only restriction is the villagers."

This made Ye Tingbai feel very interesting. Outsiders can't see it, but the people inside actually exist, feeling the passage of time, so what space are they in now?

This place is special enough, it's really a good place.

He began to wander around the town, looking for doors. This bronze key must be useful somewhere.

Secondary personality: "Turn left ahead, there is a cellar door."

"Is it that simple? I haven't even finished my round of the tour."

Ye Tingbai hurried over. This was a dead end, a little dirty and shabby, like where they usually piled up their garbage. There was a stone door with dragon patterns carved on the ground. It looked very humble, as if it could be smashed with any hammer.

Since Si Youxu didn't tell him the location, he just gave him the key. There was only one possibility, that is, this place was not difficult to find, and it was so simple that he was too lazy to repeat it.

The secondary personality first went up and smashed it twice with his bare hands, but it didn't even stir up any dust. He changed to the divine bone dagger, and only scratched a little white mark, but the white mark didn't last more than two seconds before it recovered and disappeared.

Secondary personality: "The various things here have exceeded the limits of ordinary local gods.

First, the curse, which lasted for tens of thousands of years and spanned five eras. This is simply unrealistic. Unless there are gods repairing and strengthening it, it will not be like this now.

Then there is this stone slab. I'm afraid that even the local gods themselves don't have this strength."

After obtaining the knowledge reserve of the Fourth Era, the secondary personality directly turned into a charlatan, and was very proficient in various fallacies and heresies. From time to time, he would exchange a book with Wu Yi. This was of course a good thing. After all, the Fourth Era was the era with the most thorough research on the mystery.