A cool breeze blew through the empty underground city from time to time. The closer to the Red Palace where Salamander, the Lord of Fire City, lived, the more obvious the chill became. In fact, everyone has felt this unusual magnetic field, but they are unwilling to speak out for fear of being regarded as an hallucination due to timidity.
Except for a part of the cavalry regiment soldiers who were left for treatment on the platform outside the entrance to the underground city, the rest all arrived at the square in front of Chi Le Palace. Under Ouyang Xiaoleng's order, everyone got off the sand camel beast one after another and observed everything around them.
The pale lights cast a ghostly light on the entire square and the Red Palace, which seemed to be the source of the chill they felt just now. As long as you stand in this square for a period of time, your body and mind will be occupied by various emotions, pain, fear, sadness, inexplicable feelings of grievance, resentment... These negative emotions are entangled together to form a huge whirlpool, constantly pulling Everyone in the Royal City Army standing here is trying to lead them into the abyss of eternal destruction.
"I really don't like this place!" Ling Yu said, hugging his shoulders tightly.
He had long felt that this was no longer the underground city he was familiar with. In the past, although this place was full of luxury and entertainment, it also made the small underground city become as hot as fire, but now it was as cold as a tomb.
"Me too!" Qianqi didn't show off for the first time, but made no secret of his heartfelt fear.
Ouyang Hongye sent a team of soldiers to check the situation around Chi Le Palace, and found out that all entrances to the entire palace had been sealed and could not be opened. They had to stay in the square for the time being to find other ways to enter the palace, but it was obvious that no one wanted to stay here for even a moment longer.
Because the longer you stay here, the chill around your body becomes stronger and stronger, and you can even see white breath coming out of your mouth. Some translucent shadows vaguely emerged in the breath. At first they were only vague outlines, but gradually they became clearer. It can be seen that there are men and women, old and young. Their hands are handcuffed and their ankles are connected with iron ropes.
Ling Yu soon saw a few familiar figures among these people, and immediately shouted in fright: "They are all residents of the underground city!"
"What happened to them? Are they undead, or are they just our hallucinations?" Mochizuki responded, and then when his eyes scanned the crowd, he suddenly spotted a familiar figure. Isn't the guy with horns on his head and a mustache on his chin the goat demon Lao Yang who once lived with him in a hotel room? He couldn't help but run over and call him, "Lao Yang!"
The old sheep's complexion was sallow, his eyes were dull, and his body was covered in scars. He had obviously suffered great pain and torture. His mind was already in a trance, and he slowly came back to his senses when Wang Yue called out. He slowly raised his head and looked at him with his eyes as hollow as a dry well, and let out a slight cry for help from his throat.
"It's you, Brother Wutong, save me, save me..." His voice sounded so painful, in sharp contrast to his expressionless face.
"Old Yang, tell me what's going on?" Mochizuki took his arm and asked.
The strange thing is that the shadow that seemed blurry just now had a sense of reality and even warmth. And the moment he touched the old sheep, with the old sheep as the center of the circle, the sense of reality expanded outwards, and the whole square seemed to suddenly have a sense of reality. of vitality.
Others felt the same as Wangyue, and Lingyu also began to look for his companions in Paradise in the crowd. From a distance, he saw the boss of Paradise, Sturgeon, and several other girls handcuffed together. . Although Sturgeon is old and a little obese, she always pays great attention to her clothes. In his impression, she always wears dresses of extremely exquisite styles and materials, wears heavy makeup, and combs her hair meticulously. But now But her hair was messy and half covered her face, and her dress was dirty and in tatters.
The situation of the girls was not much better. They were all disheveled, like flowers that had been damaged by the storm, without their former charm and vitality. When they saw Ling Yu, it was like seeing a savior. Their eyes shone with light, and at the same time they stretched out their tightly cuffed hands in his direction.
"Lingyu, save us!" the girls shouted almost in unison.
"What happened?" Ling Yu asked while trying to help them break the handcuffs.
"The city lord Salamander was instructed by the mysterious man who lived in the hotel in the east of the city. He planned to trick everyone in the city into coming to this square, and then captured us all. They wanted to execute us all in batches. , said it was a massacre of the city, leaving no one behind! I, Mrs. Sturgeon, have been running a style shop in the underground city for so long, and I have lived to this age, but I didn’t expect that it would end like this." Mrs. Sturgeon responded with a choked sob. .
"Where's Leng Ai?" Ling Yu asked her.
"Leng Ai, she... I don't know who reported that she helped you hide a key criminal, and she has been..." When Leng Ai was mentioned, Lady Sturgeon cried even more sadly. In fact, Leng Ai treated her very well when she was alive, but now she thinks that she is about to follow in her footsteps, so she feels sad.
"How could this happen! Is that Salamander crazy? He could do such a cruel thing as massacre the city!" Ling Yu roared angrily and hatefully.
At this time, the bell suddenly rang in the square, followed by a wailing.
"It's about to start again, it's about to start again!" Everyone said this sentence over and over again.
Before Ling Yu understood what was about to start again, he saw a group of little demons under Salamander pushing a cart over. There were various torture instruments on the car, including long whips, guillotines, and sticks... These torture instruments were all wet and looked like they had just been washed.
"We will be dragged out one by one and killed with the torture tools they choose." A girl who had just loosened the handcuffs and the iron chains on her feet with the help of Ling Yu said to him.
"Don't be afraid that I and the army from Wangcheng are here. They will never let them touch a hair of yours!" Ling Yu comforted Sturgeon and the girls around her.
"Where is the army in the royal city? Why didn't we see them?" Sturgeon asked with suspicion in her eyes.
"Isn't it right there..." Ling Yu turned around and pointed, but found that apart from the other locked city residents, Ouyang Xiaoleng and the others were not seen behind him. He suddenly felt strange and shouted, "No, they are obviously following I came with you, and I was still there just now.”
He thought in his mind about the possibilities that they would suddenly disappear. Could it be that they abandoned him and left? Or maybe they have already entered the Chi Le Palace? But in any case, it only took a blink of an eye. Could everything in front of him be an illusion? But seeing the expressions of these residents eager to be rescued, he had to believe that they were real, and that he could let them escape the disaster in front of them.
Wangyue also encountered the same situation as Lingyu. He had just used the Moon Shadow Knife to help Lao Yang break the chains and handcuffs, and Lao Yang informed him that the underground city lord was working with Qingyun on a terrifying plan to massacre the city. He wanted to report all this to Ouyang Hongye and Ouyang Xiaoleng immediately so that he could discuss countermeasures with them, but who knew that he couldn't even find a companion. He firmly believed that Ouyang Hongye could not abandon him, so he became even more curious as to why this was the case.
The little demons had already appeared in the square pushing a cart full of torture instruments, so he had no choice but to capture them all first. After all, the few little demons were no match for him. As soon as the Moon Shadow Knife came out, he killed every one of them with three strokes, five divided by two.
Then he and Lao Yang began to untie the city residents one by one, and prepared to arrange for them to escape out of the underground city. After all, there were injured cavalry soldiers stationed on the platform at the exit. They could also temporarily protect these unarmed soldiers. residents.
He directed the residents to line up and evacuate the square in order and watched them go away. Then he prepared to look around to find where Ouyang Hongye and the others had gone. As the residents slowly dispersed, the empty square fell into a deathly silence again, and the cold air slowly became obvious again, making him shiver.
After this chill, the world in front of him returned to the scene he saw before he saw the old sheep. Standing next to him was still Ouyang Hongye, with a strange expression on his face. Wang Yue guessed that the expression on her face at this moment must be similar to his.
"Where were you just now?" Mochizuki complained with some displeasure.
"I still want to ask you! As soon as I turned around, you were all gone! Then I saw the residents of the underground city in the square. According to them, they were tricked by the city lord Salamander into coming here in order to lure them Kill them all!" Ouyang Hongye shook his head and said.
"Massacre the city, that's what they said, and they said it was all ordered by the devil who lives in the east hotel, that is, Qingyun." Ling Yu also joined in.
"I first killed the little monsters pushing the carts full of torture instruments by myself, and then let all the residents of the city go." Qian Qi recounted his experience just now with a blank look on his face.
"Where are Xia Qiu and Xiao Leng?" Ouyang Hongye suddenly realized that they were the only two who had not spoken.
"What you saw is the same as what I saw. I met Qingqing. Do you remember Qingqing from Huaichun Pavilion, right? She was the one who told us about the Chengdong Hotel. She later helped us when we were chased by Qingyun's men. Us." Xia Qiu had already been stunned by what others said, and only came back to her senses when she heard Ouyang Hongye calling her.
"I also saw Qingqing..."
As soon as Ouyang Xiaoleng's words came out, he felt that he was sucked into the extremely cold vortex again. The square in front of him was once again filled with underground city residents who had been captured by Salamander. They were still handcuffed and their feet were Chained. Their faces were full of fear, waiting for the death that was about to come over their heads, as if the scene just now was happening all over again.
He thought to himself that these people had just been let go by him, but why were they all captured so quickly, so he asked, "Why are you back again?"
The resident closest to him replied: "We have been pressed here for many days, watching other people being executed one after another, and no one came to save us."
"Yeah!" Another one echoed.
"Help us!" Others began to ask him for help.
Ouyang Xiaoleng didn't understand what happened. He had never encountered such a situation. If it is a hallucination, why does it repeat itself over and over again? If it wasn't an illusion, why would it appear out of thin air? And when it appeared, all his companions were gone.
Whatever it is. Do they have to rescue these residents again and again? Or watch them being killed by the little monsters and see what happens after that? He felt that he was gradually lost, and so did Xia Qiu and the others.