The sky above the city is vast, but it is darkening at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Night is coming.
The appearance of those ghosts wandering on the street became more and more clear in people's eyes, as if they were gradually condensing into entities. It is not difficult to imagine what it will look like after a while.
But she didn't know if it was Lin You's delusion, she always felt that wherever she went, there were fewer ghosts, and only a few sporadic ones were still walking slowly on the stone floor. But even if it was such two or three sparse shadows, once she got closer, she rushed towards the shadows with lightning speed and merged with them.
"Don't tell me," Lin You said incredulously, "They are avoiding me."
Skull: "... what do you think?"
I am afraid that no one will stare at these ghosts like a diner staring at a cooked duck. From the inside to the outside, there is an aura of "I am plotting against you", which is almost written on the face Come on, people don't hide from you, whoever you want to hide from.
"Do you think I should get a bug net or something?"
The man became more and more whimsical, and suddenly clapped his hands, "When the time comes, one will count as one."
Before the words fell, Youdao's still vague and unformed low ghost screamed in horror and shame, and went straight into the grass.
Lin You: "..."
Skull: "..."
How good is it to scare away a kid with just one sentence
"It's over," she gasped, "Based on this posture, I won't be playing hide-and-seek in this dungeon, will I?"
"If you don't restrain yourself, little girl, it's very possible."
The skull said dryly.
"Or you just go to places that are haunted at first glance, and it feels easier to find."
Lin You: "... Really?"
She began to seriously think about where to search for the most efficient according to the configuration of this city, but at the same time, she couldn't help but feel a little suspicious. In the current situation, when she got to the so-called haunted place, don't even the ghosts there He ran away without a trace.
Could it be that some players were heard talking about her deeds of catching ghosts and fighting ghosts, and then word of mouth spread among these ghosts
Worse yet, if these ghosts are there at dusk, they just can't feel their presence, they have witnessed a grandiose travel that can scare the wet girl back into the water, and then—
For the first time since entering this dungeon, Lin You felt a little cold.
If this is the case, what kind of ghosts are going on at night
"By the way," she paused, "Why do I think you have something to say?"
After getting along for so long, even if the other party is just a skull, they should have cultivated some tacit understanding. Lin You actually saw a bit of hesitation and desire to speak from the movement of its mouth opening and closing.
"Also... nothing."
The tone of the skull sounded like it was not sure, "It just feels a little weird."
The first thing Lin You thought of was the words it chanted in the copy of "Outlander" last time, "Same as that time at Yog-Sothoth's place?"
The "strange feeling" it said probably refers to the induction between it and various parts of its own body. At that time, they found the remaining part of the bone in a certain room of the church club.
"It's hard to say," the skull was stunned, "Let's see again."
The parties did not have a final word, so Lin You had to tilt her head noncommittally. It just so happened that at this time, she seemed to see some traces on the tree trunk from this angle, and her pupils shrank suddenly.
Stepping forward in three steps at a time, she tried to see the scratch clearly. The light at this time was already very dim, and every street lamp on the street was separated by an extremely long distance. The bark of this street tree between the two street lamps was rough, and Lin You had to half-close his eyes. , After several careful inspections, it was discovered that someone might have scratched it with a stone.
… Who is the one
Lin You walked back and forth quickly for about ten meters, and found that the scratches were left on the tree in front of her. She ran her fingers over the bark and found that it was still wet with sap—the scratch was still fresh, and someone had obviously made it not long ago.
The skull "tsk", "I think it's from our side."
Lin You: "Nine out of ten."
The biggest disadvantage of the ghost side over the human side is that most of the latter are placed together, it's just a difference in which enchantment is in the southeast, northwest.
And they, like Lin You, are scattered in every corner of the city. The urban area covers a large area, even if two hundred people are put in, it is difficult to meet it.
Not to mention that she has been hanging around the base camp of the human side all the time. As the saying goes, two fists are hard to beat with four hands, let alone dozens of people. Except for exceptions like Lin You, no normal person would not have a lot of props at hand Come here.
This scratch must have been left by someone among them, in order to secretly cooperate with their own side - after all, the only ones still wandering outside at this time are the ghost side players who have nowhere to go. Lin You thought about whether to go meet and exchange the information everyone has with each other.
She carefully observed four or five trees in succession, following the notches in their bark for a while. But at the next corner, there were no traces on the tree trunk anymore, Lin You thought something was wrong, so she simply walked into the nearest alley.
The alley is quite deep, and it gets darker the further you go in. Lin You has nothing to worry about, but she hasn't taken a few steps when she hears someone shout out in surprise and joy: "Sister You!"
Lin You: "..."
All right, she knows who it is.
Geng Qinghe's tone now is the same as seeing a relative, "I didn't expect it to be you!"
"I still want to ask you this," Lin You said happily, "I feel like you didn't know it before, why do you still use this method now?"
It's better to say that I will scare myself with all my thoughts, and then I don't have the courage to do so.
Geng Qinghe coughed and scratched his head embarrassingly, "Sell what you learn now, and sell what you learn now. Sister Yuyou, you did that in the forest of the black goat before. You have to take some risks to find your teammates."
But he just found her.
"Hey, but this street is really scary," he said again, "There are ghosts everywhere, if it's not that they haven't formed yet—"
Don't say it's not in shape, he's shrunk in the dark for so long, watching them rubbing back and forth around him, his legs are still a little weak now.
The ghosts I saw along the way can be counted on both hands Lin You: "..."
"Also, when I first started walking this way..."
As if remembering something, Geng Qinghe couldn't help shivering.
"There's a bus plate right there."
He said.
"As soon as I passed by, I felt a cool breeze brushing past. I saw that it was a bus, and there were passengers sitting by the windows. But all of those people lowered their heads, and their faces were as white as a piece of paper. Yeah, it doesn't look like a living person at all—"
He suddenly fell silent.
"Sister You, Sister You," Geng Qinghe said a little furiously, "Why do you look at me like that?"
Lin You looked at him as if looking at an undiscovered treasure.
"It's nothing." She decided to appease him first, and simply patted him on the shoulder.
She didn't expect her teammates to have such a use before.
"Come on," Lin You whispered, "do me a favor."
The cold wind was blowing.
Standing alone beside the bus stop sign he was talking about, Geng Qinghe couldn't help shivering.
Knowing that what he was waiting for would be a ghost car, he swallowed, took deep breaths one after another, and kept cheering himself up in his heart—it's okay, there is Sister You standing behind him anyway, and besides, this is also to win this game, risking this Little risk is nothing.
... It's no wonder! ! !
But no matter what, he just stood by the stop sign and didn't move. Lin You, who was hiding outside the two walls, kept observing the movement there, and took in all the way he was tremblingly clutching the frame of the stop sign inside.
"... The young man is quite courageous." Skull choked out a sentence for a long time.
In the end, he couldn't help but said more: "I don't know what kind of car I'm waiting for."
Lin You said "Oh".
"Look at the stop sign, bus No. 375." She said.
Skull: "... ???"
"There is an urban legend at the end of the last century," Lin You said in a low voice, "it is said that a young man took the last train of this line, and an old lady was sitting behind him. After a few more passengers came up, the old lady suddenly hit her She scolded the young man for stealing her wallet and dragged him out of the bus. After she got off the bus, she told him that she saw that the passengers had no legs. The next day, the police found the bus in the reservoir, and the fuel tank was not Gasoline instead of blood."
It is said that lonely ghosts rely on this to find a substitute and return to the underworld to reincarnate. Regardless of whether it is true or not in reality, it is obviously true in this copy.
"However, it should not be the same as in this story." According to Geng Qinghe, none of the people in this car were alive, "Anyway, you will know when the time comes."
The skull couldn't help muttering: "When will this..."
"Isn't it?" She smiled, "Here we come."
It was really as Geng Qinghe said.
Even at such a distance, you can still see the passengers with their heads bowed by the window, their faces are lifeless and pale. The bus just stopped silently beside the stop sign, and with a slight sound of deflation, the door opened in front of the only waiting passenger.
Geng Qinghe looked like he was about to faint.
But after going through so many dungeons, he became more courageous, gritted his teeth and stepped directly on the steps.
When he really got into the car, when he saw the car full of wild ghosts, he screamed in his throat, and Geng Qinghe's calf went limp.
Seeing him standing on the steps without moving, the driver would not let the human who came to the door go, he was afraid that he would change his mind and press the button to close the door—
The air cushion door did not move.
A hand pressed against the side of the door.
"Excuse me."
A smiling female voice sounded, "There are still people who want to get in the car."
...! ! !
For those two reasons, Lin You did not guess wrong.
Whether it's the behavior of taking people to surround the nun at dusk, or the word-of-mouth stuffed peppers, electric chaste seeds, or ghosts and animals winking, it has already quietly spread among the ghosts wandering in the city.
It is easier for them to pass messages than humans, and they even know their appearance clearly.
Seeing her face now, the driver was horrified and tried to turn the steering wheel directly.
But it was too late—he didn't move.
The pale little boy squatted on the steering wheel, holding his arms, silently looking at the stunned driver in front of him.
Toshio Saeki opened his mouth, and a slender meow echoed in the ears of everyone—no, every ghost.
Seeing that there was no hope of driving, a certain passenger sitting in the front seat jumped up on the spot and knocked Geng Qinghe away with his shoulder!
The latter staggered when he was hit, and saw this guy boldly rushing towards the door.
Lin You didn't care, she bent her eyes and watched him brush past her.
The passenger's escape was terminated by a pair of hands protruding from the adjacent wall and holding his head.
"Glitch... ck..."
Ten fingers gripped his face firmly, and Kayako's blood-stained face protruded little by little above the ghost's head.
The bubble sound of "cluck" was still resounding in her throat, and her hands were pulled down fiercely—
Before the ghost could make a sound, it was dragged and drowned in a pool of black stains spreading on the ground.
On the bus, all the ghosts were silent.
"Okay," Lin You said with a smile, "Anyone else wants to run?"