At the same moment when Xiao Li discovered the crack, more or less the same thing happened all over the world.
some road.
A woman was desperately fleeing, the heavy rain overturned the umbrella she was holding, and the umbrella was overturned. The strong wind almost overturned her to the ground, and the raindrops rushed towards her, drenching her whole body. , the dyed brown hair was sticking all over her body, but she had no time to care.
This is the main road of a big city, which is usually crowded with traffic, but at this time, due to the rain and the news, she was the only one on the whole road.
Businesses near the road have eaves, and some even have wide roofs, including the exit of the underground subway station, which can accommodate many people to avoid the rain for a while, but this woman just buries her head and runs forward without looking at it, as if there is something behind Invisible beasts are chasing her fiercely, more terrifying than the rainstorm.
In fact, that's exactly what she is, she is an ordinary person, not a reincarnator.
She was originally on a business trip and just came out of the airport, but was hindered by the heavy rain, and temporarily lived in a hotel near the airport.
The reason why I left the hotel in the heavy rain was also because I was worried about my daughter who was stranded at home alone. I wanted to go back to take care of her early, but I saw a ghost on the way.
She spent ten times the cost of a taxi to get a car that was willing to take her in the rain, but just as she was driving to the elevated point, the driver frequently stretched his head to look in the rearview mirror, and his movements were so frequent that it had caused her to be alerted.
She also looked at the rearview mirror curiously. At first, she was obstructed by the rain, so she could not see clearly, but after the driver opened her mouth to remind her, she saw a shadow.
It seemed to be a person.
It is described as "like" because no human being can chase a high-speed taxi on an elevated road, and get closer and closer, so that she can gradually see the outline of the "person".
The driver asked her in a panic: "You saw it too... right? Damn, I shouldn't be tempted for money, I didn't expect what the website said was true... Now it's really haunted!"
Before she could answer, the driver increased his horsepower, stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, and drove off the overhead at a high speed, but the "people" behind him were chasing after him.
Seeing that the ghost was about to catch up with him, the driver parked the car on the side of the road at will, left her and fled, and disappeared on the side of the road. As a passenger, she also hurriedly chose the opposite direction. , I want to find a place to take shelter from the rain first.
But what she didn't expect was that the ghost did not choose to chase the driver, but chose to follow her!
She was so frightened that her legs went weak, but thinking of her daughter at home, she felt that she couldn't die here, so she gritted her teeth and ran forward, looking back at the ghost from time to time.
The ghost followed her closely like a cat catching a mouse, as if enjoying the woman's fear, and finally dashed forward as if tired of playing!
"Ah—help! Help me!"
She screamed loudly, stayed where she was, and closed her eyes sharply.
At the moment when the ghost touched her, one hand grabbed her and pulled her back. At the same time, an invisible ball rolled in front of the ghost, and the light gray smoke spread out and covered it. Ghostly sight.
It looked around for a while, but didn't find the woman's shadow. It wanted to leave, but was trapped in place by the smoke props.
The woman looked back in shock, and found that there were two men and a woman standing behind her, and it was a young man wearing gold-rimmed glasses who caught her.
"Are you okay?" the woman asked with concern.
The woman stammered, "No, it's fine..."
The young man with gold-rimmed glasses stood in front of her, supported the frame, checked the ghosts in the smoke for a moment, and turned back to his companion and said, "This prop can trap it for five minutes, there are really gaps nearby, but not many, only two."
Another man said: "Try that method."
"Thank you so much, without you, I really don't know what to do." The woman just recovered a little and said gratefully, "What do you call me? When the rain stops, I will invite you to a meal. Bar."
The young man with gold-rimmed glasses said without turning his head: "You don't need to eat, just a little effort, my name is Tian Ji, the other man's name is Jiang Yizhe, and the woman is Wu Tianyi."
Wu Tianyi said to the woman, "You are safe, leave."
The woman had a lot of things to ask, but Wu Tianyi's attitude was very tough, so she had to follow her words and leave.
Wu Tianyi took the woman to the intersection ahead and walked back.
Tian Ji took out a small pale blue crystal from the inside pocket of his jacket.
If Xiao Li was here, he would have recognized it at a glance. This is the fragment of Chaos Power, but compared to the piece left over after the Unknown Female Corpse Incident, the one in Tian Ji's hand can only be regarded as "one drop", and its volume is only twenty of its size. One part, those who didn't know it thought it was the kind of sequined rhinestones.
Tian Ji bypassed the trapped ghost, and brought the Chaos Fragment in his hand to the edge of the crack that had become visible to the naked eye over time—
I saw that after approaching the crack, the crystal shattered into powder as if inhaled by some force, and floated into the crack, and then the crack slowly healed, like an opening being zippered, until the crack disappeared completely. No, the air returned to its previous appearance.
Tian Ji took a deep breath: "That guy Wang Huai is right. After solving the ghosts and monsters in reality, there will be large or small fragments. Filling these chaotic power fragments into the cracks will close them."
"If enough gaps are closed, it is equivalent to repairing the 'wellhead' with the power of chaotic fragments, which can keep the gods and other gods out of the 'wellhead' and prevent reality from entering the copy."
Wu Tianyi's tone was filled with unease: "A crack is really a drop in the bucket, and this is the one we got after solving a lot of ghosts. If we want to be able to stop the underworld, how many cracks will it take? Fragments of the world. Plus I don't know if it's enough, after all, there are still many ghost incidents that have not been resolved at all, and the fragments are still in the hands of ghosts."
Tian Ji silently browsed his mobile phone. There was a WeChat group on his mobile phone. It was a small group of reincarnators who could only enter after verification and guarantee, to ensure that there were no people from the Inquisition.
Now this WeChat group is sharing the news that the reincarnators have obtained the chaotic fragments. Everyone contributes their own small strength. Some people are happy to announce that they have "healed" one crack, and some people "healed" two, currently the most The records are five.
But at the same time, some fragments were collected by the people of the Tribunal.
They spread the totems of the underworld gods through various channels, triggering the mutation of ghosts in reality, just like raising a gu, letting these mutated ghosts go out, causing trouble to the reincarnators and widening the cracks, and some of the ghosts were killed by their own hands. Chaos Fragment, used for sacrifice to the Underworld.
Jiang Yizhe asked suddenly, "What do you think about Sherlock?"
"There is no news yet..." Tian Ji said, "This is not in his style, I always feel that he is brewing a big wave."
Cloud Province.
Wang Huai was driving in the driver's seat, the wheels rolling over the ditch.
He didn't have a specific destination. Originally, Xiao Li asked him to go to the train station, but after browsing the ticketing website, he found that even the train had stopped, and the car started to circle aimlessly around the edge.
Ye Zeqing originally saw Xiao Li not speaking to the phone screen, thinking he was thinking and didn't want to disturb him, but seeing the car spinning back and forth, he couldn't help asking, "What are you doing?"
"Check the route to S City." Xiao Li frowned slightly, he finally stopped looking at his phone, but stared at the front of the car window in a trance.
"From here, to S City? Planes and trains are suspended, cars will run for at least several days, and the intercity expressway doesn't know whether it will work..." Ye Zeqing thought about it, and he asked again, "Why are you going? S City? What's so special over there?"
Xiao Li: "That's the source of the unknown female corpse getting the fragments of chaos power."
Ye Zeqing hesitated: "This... so?"
Xiao Li: "Since it is one of the places where Chaos shatters, there should be a lot of cracks there, at least more than the nameless female corpse. I need to find a place with relatively more cracks."
Ye Zeqing stopped talking and said, "That...why?"
Xiao Li didn't answer his question, he suddenly patted Wang Huai: "Go over there."
The place he was referring to was a pier. There were various cruise ships, fishing boats and boats on weekdays, but no one was around at this time, only the boats were docked on the edge of the pier.
Wang Huai originally planned to go around here, but Xiao Li took such a shot. He glanced at the other party, but he didn't ask anything, but just turned the car and drove towards the pier.
The car sank into the beach beside the pier, and the tires slipped. Wang Huai said with a "tsk", "I have to go down and walk."
When they got out of the car, Shen Mizhi held the Eternal Soul Umbrella firmly and covered Xiao Li.
Everyone stood on the edge of the pier, one step away from the rolling waves.
The heavy rain submerged into the ocean, as if the Milky Way was rolling down in nine days, the strong wind swept up the big waves, the dark clouds in the distance, the sea and the sky were a line, and the end of the sea water poured into the end of the sky, which looked like the eve of the doomsday Atlantis.
The wind at the seaside was stronger than that in the urban area, Ye Zeqing only felt that his whole body was about to be blown and he couldn't breathe. If he hadn't been heavy enough, he might have been blown directly into the sky.
Before Ye Zeqing could speak again, Xiao Li blocked him with a question: "Is there a ship over there?"
Ye Zeqing squinted his eyes and saw nothing at first. He took out his mobile phone and used the camera function to zoom in continuously. After zooming in to the extreme, he found a small black spot. It looked like a ship, and its stern Facing the pier, there is a strange cross totem engraved on the tail, and it has already sailed into the distance.
But in this weather, ordinary people will not let the boat into the sea at all, and even if they do, they will be swallowed by the sea.
"This is Tang Huaqing's ship." Wang Huai suddenly affirmed, "a prop ship that can ignore the surrounding storms. He got it from a certain island world. I have seen its tail in a certain copy. It is this kind of ship. pattern."
Xiao Li pondered for a moment, then he looked towards the sea again, but he was not looking at the distant ship, but in another direction—
Over there, a dilapidated ghost ship is heading this way.
Between strong winds and heavy rains, it rides the wind and waves, sometimes staying high on the top of the waves, and sometimes being completely covered by the waves, like a ghostly ghost, but it always floats steadily on the sea.
The ghost ship finally stopped in front of Xiao Li, the hull was horizontal, and the skulls printed on the sails fluttered in the wind. Even if it was wet by the heavy rain, it still unfolded with a rustling sound.
Immediately, Captain Sturt's energetic voice came over: "Moriarty, get on board!"