What will become of Ghost Town 665
The gray crane was originally sitting there powerlessly, but now it simply lay directly on the ground, looking up at the sky without any image at all, as if it could still see the former night sky from above the smoky and dust-filled sky when it fixed its eyes.
"If you're lucky, there might be new guides." Gray Crane said, pausing, "If you're unlucky, it might become a land of no one."
Borderlands…
Su Qingxing has never liked this word.
When standing in such a ruined ghost town ravaged by flames, no one would think of the greatness and vastness of the underworld. But for the underworld, the ghost city is only a small part of the underworld, insignificant.
The underworld never cares about the life and death of any ghost city. Even if a city has no guides and builders, it is as insignificant to the underworld as a drop of water is missing from the sea.
But a ghost town without builders and guides... will become a land of no man, lose all restraint and control, and eventually lead to the road of self-destruction. Thinking of this, Su Qingxing glanced at the half ghost city engulfed by the raging fire, and felt that although the guide here was still alive, the city had already reached the brink of destruction.
The title of Guider of the Underworld sounds very prestigious at first glance, and has many privileges in the world of trials.
For example, the guide of the underworld can know the life information of each trial person, can freely travel between the ghost town and the trial world, and can summon the ghosts of the ghost town during the trial...
The most important thing is that the guide of the underworld can open the gate of the lava hell and lock the eliminated ghosts into the lava hell!
But there is one thing that requires the guides of the underworld to be extra careful, that is, when the guided ghost officially becomes a part of the ghost city, the residents of the ghost city can no longer be easily sent to the lava hell.
To put it simply-the ghosts I choose, even cry and live in peace!
In order to prevent the guides in the underworld from being backlashed by the ghosts they have chosen, under normal circumstances the guides will try not to choose ghosts that they cannot control.
Over time, the stronger the ability of the guide in the underworld, the more popular they are in the ghost town. After all, for monsters like Niutoumamian who are most suitable to be guides, they only need to sneeze to make the monsters in the ghost town docile and obedient.
As for the guides of the underworld with weak bloodlines, even if they earnestly beg the ghosts to keep their own place, the effect can be minimal.
It is for this reason that when other ghost towns know the status quo of ghost town No. 666, the first conclusion they draw is that the new guides of ghost town No. 666 must be very weak, so the ghosts selected are also those who are not hostile and very easy to attack. The type being controlled.
For this misunderstanding, Su Qingxing did not intend to defend anything.
But this Mr. Gray Crane in front of him...
Even Su Qingxing could tell that Gray Crane's strength was not strong, it could even be said to be very weak, but he didn't know why he chose so many uncontrollable ghosts to enter the ghost city.
"Where is the builder of the ghost town?" From Su Qingxing's point of view, although Zhu Sha always likes to stay in his room and never go out, he is one of the indispensable managers in the ghost town.
"Not all ghost towns are as lucky as No. 666, ahem." Gray Crane lying on the ground turned his head and glanced at Su Qingxing, "Compared with guides, there are very few people who can become builders. There are very few builders, and I believe that most of the ghost towns at the entrance to the underworld lack qualified builders, and there are even no builders like mine here."
Su Qingxing had heard about architects before, and knew that cinnabar was a very special existence among architects.
According to Su Qingxing's understanding, most builders don't build scripts for the trial world, at most they create a basic world, similar to deserts, wastelands, doomsday, volcanoes...
Cinnabar is probably the only architect who has painstakingly created so many different worlds.
"Your ability is no longer enough to manage this place." After Su Qingxing hesitated for a while, he still told the truth, "We must quickly find someone to take over here."
"Who would want to work here?" Gray Crane looked at the streets flooded by fire, "There are ghost towns with job vacancies everywhere, so how could anyone look at a place like 665?"
Su Qingxing felt that the gray crane was also very sad, but it would not make people feel pitiful either.
"You are a senior, so as a junior, I shouldn't have said much." Su Qingxing shook his head, "But these things could have been avoided in the first place, but Mr. Gray Crane, the guide of the underworld, you didn't do it."
"Boy, I'm already dying, so why bother to sprinkle salt on my wound?" Gray Crane coughed several times in pain, coughing up blood again, "I used to think that as long as the strength of the ghost city can become stronger, It can make the residents of the ghost town live better. But I didn't expect... When I brought the first ghost into the ghost town, I had already sent the originally peaceful life into the tiger's mouth."
"Su Qingxing, your name is Su Qingxing, isn't it?" Gray Crane's voice became more energetic, but at this moment it looked more like a flashback, "The ghost town conference held every two hundred years, you must be careful! Be careful! Even If you lose for a while, you must not destroy the peace of ghost town No. 666! Be careful!"
Gray Crane suddenly grabbed Su Qingxing's hand and pressed it tightly with all his strength.
"If you really regret it, I can help you." Su Qingxing said this not because he was soft-hearted for a while, but because he hoped that the neighbors in his ghost town would be as calm as possible!
But Gray Crane still shook his head, and suddenly smiled at the corner of his mouth that was exposed outside his hair, and said with inexplicable pride: "Actually, I lied to you just now."
"..."
"I have found a newcomer who is willing to take over Ghost City No. 665." Gray Crane sounded really happy, "But I can't let the newcomers see such a bad ghost town, so I will do the final cleanup."
Final cleanup
After hearing the gray crane say these five words, Su Qingxing's face suddenly changed, and many blue light spots suddenly appeared around Su Qingxing's body, lifting Su Qingxing's entire body, and floating in the midair of No. 665 ghost town.
That is, the moment Su Qingxing floated up, the entire streets of No. 665 ghost town as far as he could see began to crack!
The ghosts, who were still fighting and arguing, made their last cry for help at this moment. But Gray Crane just smiled and watched the gate of Lava Hell open in the ghost town!
The terrain of each ghost town is very similar.
A straight street with various buildings on both sides.
But if you look down on the entire ghost town from above, doesn't it look like a door? The street in the middle is the gap between the doors, and the buildings on both sides are the left and right doors.
When the guide opened the lava hell in the ghost town, what he opened was this real door to hell that could destroy the entire ghost town!
"Su Qingxing, do me one last favor." Gray Crane just lay on the cracked street, refused Su Qingxing's help, and shouted loudly—
"If you meet the new guide of Ghost Town No. 665, tell him... This is actually a great ghost town! With his efforts, it will become even better one day!"
"Also, thank you for accompanying me to the end, Su Ye."
The moment Su Qingxing heard that name, there was an incredible expression on Su Qingxing's face. Because the name Gray Crane called out at the end...Su Ye...that was the name of Su Qingxing's mother!
Could it be that the guide of the underworld that Gray Crane had heard in his previous words was his mother? !
After finishing speaking, the gray crane flicked towards the gap in the air with its last strength, and then closed its eyes forever.
Su Qingxing just floated above the opened lava hell, watching the gray crane's body sink into the lava, watching the ghosts and buildings in the ghost town fall into the lava...
"Ahhh!"
Su Qingxing, who was floating in the air, watched all this silently, and then threw the paper lantern he had been carrying in his hand directly to the lava sea in front of him.
In the paper lanterns are the intruders who were trapped on the third floor of the villa, and now they have returned home in another way.
I don't know how long it took, the opened gate of hell closed, and the entire No. 665 ghost town returned to calm.
But at this moment, there was no life other than Su Qingxing in Ghost Town No. 665, and the buildings that had already collapsed disappeared into the lava along with the ghosts.
There is only one straight street that stretches to the endless distance.
nothing left…
Su Qingxing didn't know what memories Gray Crane had with his mother.
But Su Qingxing knew that Gray Crane's final choice was to fall into hell with all the ghosts he had chosen.
Before Gray Crane died, he had helped repair half of the gap, so Su Qingxing just reached out and flicked the gap that was suspended in mid-air completely closed, and then disappeared directly from the deserted No. 665 ghost town.
Before Su Qingxing left, he vaguely saw the sky that was completely covered by fire and smoke, and it seemed to finally show its original appearance.
That was the original black.
In the blink of an eye, Su Qingxing had already returned to No. 666 ghost town where his duty was. Although it looked empty and quiet, and although the buildings stood up like tombstones in the dark night, when Su Qingxing was completely exposed to the familiar cold air, there was a feeling of... coming home.
There are no people and ghosts in the street, and the light of the street lamps is extremely weak. Su Qingxing walks on the street like a leisurely stroll.
The number of residents in ghost town No. 666 seems to be very small, but it is actually because most of the residents are distributed in each trial world for work. But even so, the number of residents in this ghost town today is much more than what can be seen with the eyes.
"Lord Guide!" A female voice came from Su Qingxing's right side.
As soon as I turned around, I saw a female ghost in a white dress standing next to the bus stop in the ghost town. She looked ghostly, but she was greeting Su Qingxing respectfully.
"Thank you, Sensen." Su Qingxing called out the female ghost's name, "Recently, there are a lot of newcomers in the ghost town, and the reception work is busier, right?"
"Yes, but everyone is a good boy, and I didn't encounter any problems when arranging housing and work." The female ghost named Sensen has been in charge of the reception of new "people" in the ghost town. Cinnabar solves many problems.
Su Qingxing continued to walk forward, and when he reached the gate of a school, he happened to see the ghosts from the second and fourth grades of high school coming out of the school gate, looking at the test papers in their hands with pale faces.
Although the ghosts were originally pale-faced, Su Qingxing felt that these students seemed to be hit by the ghost town exam.
"Master Guide!" After seeing Su Qingxing, the students stopped and greeted him. Maybe it's because they just came to the ghost town not long ago, and Su Qingxing was once their classmate, so the students were more relaxed than Sensen just now, and they all waved to Su Qingxing with a very enthusiastic smile.
"It looks like an impressive exam." Su Qingxing pointed to the test paper in Xu's hands.
Then, all the students showed exaggerated expressions of despair, and wailed, "Ms. Chubai's research subject test is terrible. I'd rather memorize English words!"
"I'd rather be in the second year of high school for another ten years!"
"Oh my god, this is too cruel!"
"..."
After chatting with the students in Class 2 and 4 of Senior High School for a while, a rickety bus came from a distance, and it was supposed to borrow the students' shuttle bus from school.
And from the driver's seat of the bus, there was also a figure familiar to Su Qingxing.
"Hey, long time no see, young master!"
"Long time no see, Zhang Biao." Su Qingxing greeted Zhang Biao, who was the driver of the ghost town, with a smile, and watched the bus full of students stagger away.
On the way back to the ghost town management office, Su Qingxing greeted all the ghosts he met along the way. Although some of the ghosts in the ghost town were brought by Su Qingxing's predecessor, everyone got along very well with the new guide of the underworld. There is also a very harmonious relationship between them.
At least…
He will never allow Ghost Town 666 to become the next Ghost Town 665!
And after Su Qingxing walked into the "ghost town management office", there was an even bigger "surprise" waiting for him.
"Qingxing!" As soon as he pushed open the door of the management office, Zhu Sha rushed towards Su Qingxing with disheveled hair, "The big thing is bad!"
"What's going on?" Seeing the flustered look on his friend's face, Su Qingxing also became nervous instantly, "Is it...the computer crashed, the snacks were finished, the creative bottleneck, or did you finally find the French fries stuck in your hair?"
"..." Zhu Sha accepted Su Qingxing's unconventional concern, then shook his head desperately and said, "No, no! It's Shapi from ghost town No. 444 who sent another notice! It's only been a while, and the higher-ups have sent two notifications to the ghost town Formal notice, is the underworld about to usher in the end of the world?!"
"What's going on?" Su Qingxing tried his best to pat Zhu Sha on the back, trying to calm down the anxious builder as much as possible.
"Yes..." Zhu Sha swallowed nervously, "Big maintenance once every two hundred years!"
"Maintenance?" Su Qingxing didn't quite understand the meaning of this word.
"To put it simply, the underworld will close the trial space every two hundred years, and use this time to maintain the... well, things like the general program in the trial space. The duration is about 30 minutes." Cinnabar The more I talked, the more excited I became, "During this period, the trialists cannot enter the trial space, even the ghosts and guides in the ghost town cannot enter!"
"But the last time the entrance to the underworld was closed for three seconds, it caused so many troubles. This time..." Su Qingxing didn't know if he understood Zhu Sha's meaning.
"It's not the same, it's not the same!" Cinnabar shook his head immediately, "The closing of the entrance to the underworld will prevent the dead from entering the underworld, and the entrance to the underworld will not be closed during the maintenance period, but the testers cannot enter the trial space."
"Where can the practitioner go if he doesn't go to the trial?" Su Qingxing immediately asked like a curious baby.
"..." Zhu Sha immediately tried to take a deep breath, and finally revealed the answer, "All the dead souls during this period, all·the first time·enter the ghost town!"
Zhu Sha put an emphasis on the last sentence, and continued to explain: "All the souls who died during the maintenance period will be directly tested in the ghost town!"
Trials in a ghost town? !
"Qingxing, can you imagine?" Zhu Sha's emotions became more and more excited, "This is definitely the biggest trial map in history! All ghosts from all over the ghost town will participate with all their talents! The most trial participants! The most extravaganzas! The largest map! The largest scale! This can be said to be a festival once every two hundred years in the ghost town!"
Hearing what Zhu Sha said, Su Qingxing could almost imagine the joyous cheers of those fighters and the jungle ghost towns at the moment. After all, this can be regarded as the most anticipated scene of chaos in those ghost towns.
"You seem to like this maintenance very much." Su Qingxing held his forehead with some headaches, "Then why did you say that the big thing is not good just now?"
"Because there are only three months left for maintenance!" Zhu Sha seemed to have a headache, desperately scratching her already messy hair, "Even if the maps, buildings and staff of the ghost town are all ready-made, as a builder I still I want to complete the most exciting script! I already have the inspiration, as long as I realize all the ideas within three months, I will definitely be able to create a script and trial that those who practice will never forget!"
Builders have their own troubles.
Three months is still a long time for Su Qingxing, but for Zhu Sha who wants to prepare the script and arrange the largest trial, the time seems very tight.
"However, Qingxing..." Zhu Sha suddenly calmed down, and her expression became very serious, "Since the maintenance once every two hundred years is about to start, it means that it is coming soon."
"That? Once every two hundred years?" Su Qingxing thought for a moment, and quickly combined the two things together, his expression sank, "You mean the ghost town meeting once every two hundred years? The one that makes ghost towns fight with ghost towns Ghost Town Convention?"
"The strength of our No. 666 ghost town..." Zhu Sha almost started to sweat coldly on his forehead, "we must make preparations in advance, we will never let the students in the school and those ghosts who know nothing but keep their own place to fight with those ghosts." Are ghosts fighting?"
"If you say that, you should already have a plan." Su Qingxing heard Zhu Sha's voice-over.
"Ghost Town No. 666 has a very long history. When I first became the builder here, there were actually many ghosts that were difficult to deal with in the city, but because of the lack of guides from the underworld, it was very difficult for me to manage it alone."
Zhu Sha gradually calmed down, and even stretched out her hand to tie her messy red hair into a bundle, and continued: "At that time, in order to prevent those ghosts from making trouble, I had to build several different trial worlds according to their requirements, and let them leave the ghost town to go to the world of ghosts. Those little worlds live."
"So I hope Qingxing, you can go to those worlds to see if there are any ghosts who are willing to participate in the ghost town conference." interested."
"In this way, maybe the loss of our ghost town will be minimized."
"Yes." Su Qingxing nodded without hesitation.
"Hey, don't agree so quickly! You must be mentally prepared." Zhu Sha urged again, "The ghosts in these worlds don't know the guide of the underworld at all, and even if they know your identity, they may not buy it at all. It can be regarded as the no-nonsense zone of No. 666 ghost town!"
"It sounds very interesting." Su Qingxing smiled with interest instead, and then said comfortingly, "Don't worry, I know you've been worrying about a lot of things, worrying about these issues 'boys', worrying about the ghost town conference, Worried about maintenance, about my safety and everyone's safety."
"I'm not worried!" Zhu Sha refused to admit it.
"But don't worry." Su Qingxing smiled, "After all, you are no longer supporting ghost town No. 666 alone, we have two of us!"
"So, which world should I go to next?"
"You guy..." Zhu Sha couldn't help laughing, "It's a pity that you are not my type, otherwise I would have fallen in love with you."
"That's really sorry!" Su Qingxing glared at his friend pretending to be angry.