Outside the old town.
The man who had just unfolded the Forbidden Ruins sat next to the signboard, looked back at the half of the old city that was as still as a canvas, shook his head helplessly, took out his mobile phone from his pocket and started playing Candy Crush Saga.
"Brother, why are you sitting here playing with your phone so late at night? Aren't you afraid of catching a cold?"
Not long after, a pedestrian came from the opposite street and was immediately amused when he saw this scene.
The man looked up at him, then lowered his head and continued to operate. "I have nothing to do. I'm bored."
The pedestrian smiled, took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it to the man.
The man waved his hand and said seriously, "No smoking during working hours."
"Hey, you're squatting on the road playing with your phone, does that count as work?" The pedestrians laughed.
"Um."
"Okay." The pedestrian shrugged, stood up and walked towards the street behind the man.
"Where are you going?" the man suddenly asked.
"go home."
"You can't go back, at least not now."
The pedestrian raised an eyebrow, "What do you mean?"
"This road is blocked now. You can go back only when it is open." The man pointed to the sign behind him.
The pedestrian looked in the direction his finger pointed and saw the sign that was inexplicably placed in the middle of the road. Just as he was about to say something, he saw a faint flash of light on the four large words "No Entry Ahead".
The pedestrians' eyes suddenly became dazed.
A few seconds later, he turned around stiffly and walked back the way he came, step by step, his eyes full of confusion...
The man didn't seem surprised by this. Just as he was about to continue playing Candy Crush, another man's voice suddenly sounded in the headset.
"Zhao Kongcheng!!"
The moment the voice sounded, the man suddenly sat up from the ground. The leisure and sleepiness on his face disappeared, replaced by absolute seriousness!
"Here! Captain, what happened?"
"Something went wrong. A Ghost Face King was promoted from this group of Ghost Face Men. While we were besieging the other Ghost Face Men, he attacked and severely injured Hongying, and escaped from the Forbidden Ruins through the sewer."
"Ghost Face King?" Zhao Kongcheng's face changed. "Which direction did he run to? I'm going to intercept him!
“No, Kong Cheng, you are not good at fighting and you cannot defeat the Ghost Face King. I will go after him.
Zhao Kongcheng was stunned, "Then I..."
"After the Ghost-Faced King escaped, two more Ghost-Faced Men took the opportunity to flee into the sewer. The others were trying to eliminate the remaining Ghost-Faced Men and couldn't get away."
"Which direction?"
"southeast."
"good."
Zhao Kongcheng's eyes flashed with brilliance. He ran quickly to the other end of the street, got into a black van, stepped on the accelerator, and sped away with a buzzing sound.
On his passenger seat, a black and red cape was neatly folded.
And a sheathed straight knife!
…
"Okay, I'm going to turn here. I'm leaving first."
Wang Shao stopped and turned around to speak to the four people behind him.
At this moment, Li Yifei seemed to suddenly remember something and said, "Wang Shao, if I remember correctly, is your home next to the old city
"Yeah, what's wrong?"
“…Nothing. Just be careful on your way back.”
The corners of Wang Shao's mouth twitched slightly, and he rolled his eyes. "If you have something to say, just say it. Don't hold it back halfway through. It makes people feel uncomfortable."
Li Yifei hesitated for a moment, "I heard that the old city has been in turmoil recently, and there is a perverted murderer!
"A perverted murderer? Is this true?" Jiang Qian was a little unconvinced.
"Of course it's true!" Li Yifei looked around and lowered his voice, "You may not know this, but more than a dozen people have died in the old city in the past few days."
“More than a dozen people? Impossible. If there was such a big commotion, it would have been reported in the news long ago.” Wang Shao shook his head.
"Hey, how can it be impossible? Let me tell you, this incident happened strangely. Someone above me tried to suppress the news. If my dad hadn't worked at the police station, I wouldn't have known about this."
"Strange? What's strange?"
"It is said that..." Li Yifei paused and lowered his voice a little.
"It is said that the faces of those who died were peeled off, leaving only a bloody mass of flesh and bulging eyeballs. The method was extremely brutal!"
The cool evening breeze blew by, and when they heard these words, they felt a chill running from the soles of their feet to the top of their heads!
"Li Yifei! Are you sick? Why are you talking like this so late at night?" Jiang Qian's face turned pale. She subconsciously looked around the quiet street and said angrily.
This place is close to the old city and belongs to a remote area of Cangnan City. It was nearly ten o'clock when the evening self-study get out of class was over, and there was not even a single pedestrian on the road. Combined with Li Yifei's words, it was really creepy.
Not only her, but even the two grown men, Wang Shao and Liu Yuan, were a little scared. Wang Shao glanced at the narrow path he was about to walk on, and suddenly felt a little guilty...
If Li Yifei's words only made people a little scared, then Lin Qiye's next words would make their scalps tingle!
Lin Qiye thought for a moment and said faintly: "Are you sure... these things were done by humans?"
"Qi Ye, you..." Jiang Qian's delicate body trembled!
The corners of Wang Shao and Liu Yuan's mouth twitched slightly, and the look in their eyes when they looked at Lin Qiye suddenly became strange.
You are so good, Lin Qiye with thick eyebrows and big eyes. I didn’t expect that you are the one hiding the deepest
Li Yifei looked at Lin Qiye in surprise, "Do you think so too?"
"Shut up, shut up, shut up!" Jiang Qian really couldn't stand it anymore. She stretched out her hand and twisted Li Yifei's arm hard. The latter cried out in pain on the spot.
"Don't tell ghost stories so late at night! I have to go home soon!"
Li Yifei covered his arm, grimacing in pain, and muttered quietly to the side, "This is not a ghost story..."
Wang Shao shrugged. "I won't talk nonsense with you. I don't believe in these monsters. I'm leaving now."
Wang Shao's figure gradually disappeared in the narrow alley.
Jiang Qian glared at Li Yifei again, took a few steps forward, and suddenly stopped.
She sniffed hard, frowning slightly.
There was some doubt in his eyes.
He turned around and said, "Do you smell any bad smell?"
“Smell?”
"It's that smell, like something rotting."
"I didn't smell it, how about you, Liu Yuan?"
"Neither did I... Ugh!!"
Before Liu Yuan and Li Yifei could finish their words, their faces suddenly changed. They covered their noses fiercely and looked around in horror.
Lin Qiye was about to say something when an extremely disgusting stench suddenly filled into his nasal cavity. It felt like a piece of meat that had been rotting for more than ten days was thrown into a septic tank and mixed with a dozen rotten eggs. Just sniffing it made the gastric juice churn violently.
This was the stinkiest smell Lin Qiye had ever smelled in his entire life.
As for Jiang Qian, who had the most sensitive nose, she squatted down and started vomiting.
"Damn, what stinks so bad?!" Li Yifei shouted, covering his nose.
"I don't know." Lin Qiye frowned slightly, and after a moment, he pointed to the alley where Wang Shao left.
"But judging from the direction the smell was coming from, it seemed to be coming from there."
The next moment, a miserable scream came from not far away, echoing in the silent night sky.