on the ground.
Led by Xiang Jiang, who "survived", the other three from Shi'an left the mine early and returned to the town.
At this time, most of the townspeople were out and about. Viewed from a hundred meters away, the crowds of people coming and going are dotted with tall and short evil objects, and the town looks like a peaceful and ordinary everyday scene. Whether it was the terrifying alien shape that stood out among the crowd or the strange mist that loomed around them, it didn't seem to bother them at all.
How should everyone live their lives? Ge Tingting was a little skeptical. Even if there was a bad evil coming from the sky, this group of people would carry their vegetable baskets and step over the bad evil to buy groceries.
Once Shi'an and the other three approached, the townspeople looked like disturbed social animals. The laughter instantly turned into silence. The townspeople quickly stopped what they were doing, and dozens of eyes followed the movement of the three people.
Dozens of faces faced the three of them, turning in unison.
If those people hadn't been talking and living normally just a second ago, Ge Tingting would have thought this place was a sunflower field of human flesh. The malicious sight stung her, Ge Tingting took two steps forward and walked side by side with Xiang Jiang.
Xiang Jiang just ended the call. He unscrewed the mineral water bottle and took a few sips. He ignored Ge Tingting's little move: "We will go find the mayor later."
Behind the two of them, Huang Jin frowned.
Ren Jiying had only been here as mayor for a few years. She was not popular among the locals and had little prestige. To investigate the town's past rumors, they'd better use spiritual weapons to disguise their identities and get close to the townspeople. These are all bad tricks used by night travelers, and Shi'an has no reason not to know.
After waiting home, Ren Jiying carefully locked the security door and checked it several times.
Mayor Ren rubbed his temples vigorously and looked around tiredly: "Okay, I understand. Don't talk here. You go to my house first."
Ren Jiying's face suddenly turned pale: "What's going on?"
B&Bs are no better than ordinary houses and are less enclosed. From the perspective of Ge Tingting, a person who is used to sleeping in abandoned buildings, no matter how well the place is defended, there will always be thousands of weak points for people to sneak in. Mayor Ren's behavior was more like giving himself psychological comfort than being cautious.
"I'm pretty sure now that it was at that point in time - I checked the town's economic data, and from that year onwards, there wasn't a single out-of-town project here."
Directly below the B&B, a few hundred meters underground.
"It's a long story." Ren Jiying took a sip of honey water and laughed dryly. "You must all know about the development of this town. The media reported it overwhelmingly in those years... Everyone likes to watch the glamorous legend. Let me talk about what happened after that."
As usual, Ren Jiying prepared fresh honey water and well-packaged food for them.
"It is most likely a man-made attack. Everyone is fine for the time being. We need to thoroughly investigate the recent activities in the town, and we need your cooperation - it has nothing to do with the previous cases in the town, and we do not plan to call the police."
"Tell us everything related to that mine." Xiang Jiang went straight to the point.
"Something happened." Xiang Jiang went straight in. "The mine collapsed, and our people and Qi Xin fell into the depths of the mine."
"Twenty-eight years ago, a metaphysical natural disaster occurred in and around Haigu City, and Gengsheng Town was within the affected area."
When Ren Jiying was called out of the town government office by Xiang Jiang, she was confused. However, compared to the stony-faced staff around her, she had a rosy complexion and bright eyes, and she looked particularly alive.
"Twenty-eight years ago, there was a 'landslide' here. Shortly after that, everyone... well, everyone became abnormal. Including my parents. They began to exclude outsiders for no reason, and at the same time, they Turn a blind eye to some of the weird things going on in the town.”
In his opinion, the only big thing that could happen now is "the identity of the evil creature Yin Ren is exposed, and the King of Hell and Shi'an break up." I don’t know who the unlucky Shi’an is who is taking care of those two monsters underground. Huang Jin sincerely wishes them good physical and mental health.
Zhong Cheng said and Yin Ren's luggage was still in the same place, and Yin Ren's suitcase was even wide open. They leaned together full of life, as if their owner might come back at any time.
"This matter started from twenty-eight years ago."
Did something happen? But with Xiang Jiang's stinky face there, Huang Jin didn't really want to ask questions.
Ge Tingting's chest sank inexplicably. She quickly looked away and sat at the table to wait.
Ren Jiying shook her head, her face full of helplessness.
She lowered her gaze.
While Fu Xingchuan was planning a route through the buildings, Professor Li used special equipment to take pictures of the murals and spoke like a casual chat.
Zhong Cheng said he was still meticulously slicing and taking samples, but Yin Ren could see that this guy's ears were moving, and he was obviously listening very seriously.
The two scientists present were well versed in the art of multitasking, and research records seemed to have become some kind of muscle memory for them, without the need for their brains at all.
"Metaphysical natural disaster?" Yin Ren listened wholeheartedly.
After all, the two top figures in Shi'an were on full alert. He didn't dare to stretch his hair too long and couldn't even scratch Zhong Cheng.
And he really doesn’t know anything about metaphysical natural disasters. Twenty-eight years ago, Yin Ren was still flowing freely on the pile of bones, standing out as a deaf man who did not hear anything outside the window and only slept on beauty sleep.
"This is information that can only be accessed by Level B and above, but the experience of both of you is completely comparable to that of ordinary Level Bs, so it doesn't matter if you know it." Professor Li's tone was a bit like a lecture, but it was more inexplicably sarcastic.
"That year, there was a 'divine descent' in Haigu - you can understand it as an unexplained large-scale outbreak of evil power. After that, the large and small mines in Gengsheng Town suffered serious collapse, resulting in a sharp decrease in the mineable resources. Of course, That’s just what the documents say.”
After Li Nian finished taking pictures of the mural, he looked out the window and the door outside. There are endless layers of them, but the corpses in them are all different.
Like a weird kaleidoscope.
"Generally speaking, after the gods descend, Shi'an will immediately deal with the main sources of pollution, and the remaining pollution will naturally be eliminated due to the flow of air and population."
"Gengsheng Town is no different from plain cities. The terrain here is special and the population flow is extremely small. Under the deliberate interference of some people, the evil power here has persisted for a long time, and it still retains the environmental characteristics of the 'God's Descend' period. ”
The air, soil, and running water are all filled with a faint evil force, and pollution is everywhere.
Yin Ren lowered his lips in a rare move and looked at the dirty stone floor under his feet. Maybe it was because he entered a familiar environment that he suddenly felt blessed and understood the source of the familiar feeling before.
It's the environment itself.
This mountain town was soaked in evil power from head to toe.
And this environment, where every corner is filled with evil forces, is very much like the era he lived in back then. However, compared to the world in Yin Ren's memory, the concentration of evil power in Gengsheng Town is not that high.
Maybe it was because of this that he failed to react immediately...
Yin Ren bit his thumbnail unconsciously. On both sides of his body, firelight bounced in the eye sockets of the monster corpse.
No, there is something missing, a key breath, a key flavor. This kind of anxiety that cannot be remembered is comparable to scratching an itch that cannot be scratched. A few strands of Yin Ren's hair are hidden in his coat, shaking irritably.
A few steps away, Zhong Cheng said that he had stuffed a specimen box with a very straightforward look of satisfaction on his face. He carefully put the box into his backpack, put it behind Yin Ren, and put one hand on Yin Ren's shoulder.
The lover was close enough, and those strands of hair instantly had a target and quickly wrapped around Zhong Cheng's little finger.
"What were the environmental characteristics during the period of 'God's Descending'?... What characteristics?" Zhong Cheng said taking the initiative to ask.
"The evil power continues to be active, which will give birth to evil things, and will also wake up sleeping dangerous evil things. Of course, these changes are not obvious to us, but are relatively intuitive to the metaphysics post."
Professor Li's eyes were still locked on the mural, and he didn't notice the strange way of intimacy between the two.
"According to our experience, the sinking will abandon the undiscovered 'ant nest'. It can only be caused by high levels of pollution or evil things out of control... There are no traces of strong pollution here. Twenty-eight years ago, something probably woke up here, it The activity resulted in the destruction of mineral deposits.”
As he spoke, Li Nian fell into deep thought looking at the murals.
Zhong Cheng said he also turned his attention to the murals.
In the style of the Sinking Society, the murals definitely don’t exist just as decorations. But they didn't intend to make this thing too easy to understand. Looking in the dim light, they could only vaguely distinguish a "person" entangled with evil things.
The murals are mottled and the paint has faded, leaving only the person as bright as before.
The limbs of the person in the picture are twisted, the brushstrokes are abstract, and the whole thing is painted red. Sometimes he or she stands on a giant pot, and sometimes he or she is surrounded by countless evil things. The pictures are intertwined, large or small, and put together in irregular forms. At first glance, they look a bit like stained glass in a religious place.
In the painting of the Sinking Society's painter, the red figure has a strange evil nature, which makes people feel cold from behind.
Among the more small patterns, the figure was simply reduced to a touch of red, like a few drops of blood splashed on an ancient mural.
As the King of Hell who travels at night, Zhong Cheng said that he had indeed come into contact with the ruins of the ant nest. Murals are a common way of recording sinking events, and their content is inseparable from the theme of ant nest research. The latecomers to the Sinking Society can take away the spiritual artifacts and recorded documents, but they cannot take away the murals themselves.
This is an excellent place to start.
But Zhong Cheng said that he had never seen people from the Sinking Society distinguish between color pigments.
Thousands of years have passed, and the figure is so distinct that it is difficult to say what kind of emotions they have placed in it.
There are specialties in the arts, and Li Nian specializes in history, folklore and other research directions. Zhong Cheng said that his thinking failed, and decisively turned his attention to Professor Li: "This is..."
Li Nian shook his head solemnly. He glanced at Fu Xingchuan, who was busy not far away, and for the first time there was a hint of concern in his eyes.
At the same time, Yin Ren gently pulled Zhong Chengshuo's ear.
"It seems to be me."
(End of chapter)