"How about you go to bed later?" Chi Nu held Luo Ling's hand, looking anxious. "Let's go see the sun come out again. You said something funny when it came out last time, so I turned my head away and didn't see it. You have to accompany me to see it again!"
"You're such a grown-up, why do you still have the temper of a child?" Luo Ling smiled, "I'm just asleep, not dead. Wait and see in the blink of an eye.
"Besides, maybe it's just a few days or a few months. Wasn't it only a month last time?"
"But, but..."
Chi Nu wanted to say something, but when she saw that Luo Ling's eyes were almost closed, she realized that no matter what she said, she could not keep Luo Ling.
"Okay, I'll wait until you wake up."
Chi Nu held Luo Ling's cold little hands in both of her own and said very seriously,
"I will wait for you. By then, maybe Sister Yaoji will have finished her important work. We can travel around and don't have to stay in Chaoge City."
"... I hope so."
Luo Ling smiled, then closed her eyes completely.
The trance consciousness flashed away, and Luo Ling returned to the real world. However, this time her heart was hard to calm down.
I don't know why, but I always feel uneasy.
I looked up at the time and found that only a few hours had passed.
The geographical omen nearby was still in a dormant state, and like every time before, it was covered with a faint dark gray mist in the long river of time.
Luo Ling simply continued to stay in the room, waiting for the time node to be restored.
A few more days passed, and Luo Ling gradually got rid of the influence of her previous transformation into a demon, and her power was restored to that of a "savior witch."
If the condition does not deteriorate completely, recovery is relatively simple, because Luo Ling himself practices more of a path of "transformation" rather than "doomsday".
When the time node was finally unlocked, Luo Ling couldn't wait to step in.
After a familiar trance, Luo Ling slowly opened his eyes.
It was pitch black.
"Was it at night?"
Luo Ling was confused for a moment, but just as he was about to stand up, he hit his head with a "bang".
"Ouch! Eh, it doesn't seem to hurt?"
Nonsense, how can some ordinary wood withstand Luo Ling's forehead.
It broke into pieces upon touching it, with a lot of sawdust scattered and almost falling into Luo Ling's mouth.
"Pfft, what the hell?"
Luo Ling couldn't help but complain, reached out to touch the thing above his head, and pushed it away.
Then, she sat up and saw the horrifying scene that filled the entire city.
In her memory, the city of Chaoge, where she had visited several times not long ago, was full of coffins.
Luo Ling looked down and saw that she was lying in a coffin.
"... Last time I was thinking about sleeping in a coffin, but this time I really slept in a coffin?"
Chapter 128: Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Years (5k)
Looking around, the city was full of coffins.
Even Luo Ling felt a little creepy when seeing this scene.
She opened the coffin and found that she was in the place where Akane lived.
But...
But it's all ruins.
But except for Chi Nu's house, even the neighbors' houses were still intact, which made Luo Ling even more confused for a moment.
What happened
Could it be that... the Akane girl was attacked
Something is wrong. If this is true, with Chi Nu's ability, it is impossible for her to only destroy her own house.
Luo Ling reached out and touched the coffin and found that the wooden coffin was quite rough. It was simply made of a few wooden boards and looked very messy.
Moreover, the wood was almost rotten. Luo Ling only touched it slightly and rotten wood chips kept falling off.
"this... "
Luo Ling was panicking. How long had she slept this time
Even Chi Nu thought she was dead and buried her in a coffin
That's not right..
Luo Ling turned his head slightly and looked over, his expression slightly gloomy.
She went out and walked around the entire Chaoge City according to her memory, and found that every household was filled with coffins, either in the courtyard or inside the house.
Their number was equal to the number of people in this family in Luo Ling's impression.
"...I'm sorry."
Standing in front of the coffins of a family of three, Luo Ling took a deep breath and opened all the coffins.
The family inside was the same one from before.
but.
Not only were their bodies intact, but they all had their eyes open.
Moreover, after Luo Ling pushed open the coffin lid, he turned his gaze towards her.
Three people with a total of six eyes stared at Luo Ling. It must be said that although he knew that these people might not be in a good state and posed no threat to him, Luo Ling still felt a little scared.
The dead person was buried in a coffin, and the person buried did not resist at all, but stayed in the coffin obediently. It was ridiculous no matter how you thought about it...
"Okay, just continue lying down.
Luo Ling was worried that something else might have happened, so he quickly closed the coffin lid again.
From beginning to end, the family of three did not make any sound.
After leaving the gaze of those three pairs of strange eyes, Luo Ling breathed a sigh of relief, and then immediately realized something.
"etc... "
Judging from the degree of decay of these woods, many years must have passed.
But this family of three is still the same family of three as before, and their appearance has not changed at all.
Luo Ling had already noticed the weirdness of Chaoge City last time, but he didn't reveal it to Chi Nu.
But... even if Chi Nu was unconscious again, she could still see these changes.
Perhaps, it was because of this that she discovered something...
"Go back and have a look."
Luo Ling made a decision immediately and planned to go back to Chi Nu's house to look for clues and see if Chi Nu had left anything behind.
She rushed back without stopping and began to search among the ruins of broken walls.
The tattered wardrobe was filled with beautiful, dusty clothes, but all of them had been lost in the erosion of time.
Luo Ling also found the piece of clothing she had worn before, but before she could pick it up, it turned into ashes in an instant, leaving only pieces of clothing scattered all over the floor.
This made Luo Ling more cautious and he stopped searching randomly, for fear that he might find something useful but accidentally destroy it.
Finally, after rummaging through a bunch of useless things, Luo Ling finally found something valuable.
A pile of envelopes.
These envelopes should be made of special paper. Luo Ling squeezed them a few times and saw no signs of them falling apart, so he boldly opened them.
"These are..."
After Luo Ling flipped through a few pictures, his expression became slightly gloomy.
The letter that Chi Nu sent to Yao Ji.
The dates are also marked on them one by one.
Luo Ling searched for a while and collected all the letters he could find.
“Although it’s rude to peek at other people’s letters, but... I can’t help it, Akane, I’m sorry first.
Regardless of whether Chi Nu could hear him or not, Luo Ling opened the letters one by one according to the date and checked them one by one.
Most of them were complaints and trivial matters. Chi Nu's handwriting was a little sloppy, and Luo Ling had difficulty in deciphering it. He had to spend a long time reading each letter.
"... .
"Sister Yaoji, you would never have thought that Luo Ling finally woke up today! I took her around Chaoge City for several rounds, but she didn't seem to like such a busy place. Instead, she kept looking at me... It's really weird."
"I don't know why, but I suddenly felt that Luo Ling was pretty, especially at sunrise. I couldn't help but look at her a few more times and missed the sunrise..."
"Luo Ling fell asleep again today. I don't know when she will wake up... But it doesn't matter. I still have a lot of clothes for her to change into until she wakes up again!"
... ...
"Sister Yaoji, I suddenly miss Luo Ling a little. Although we are far away, we can still communicate through letters. But Luo Ling, who is by my side, can't even say a word. I feel depressed."
"Another thirty years have passed. The rooster of the Guan family next door keeps crowing. It's really annoying. It must be because Luo Ling hates the rooster's crowing too noisily that she refuses to wake up!"
"... ...
"Sixty years ago, Luo Ling woke up on this day last time. Last night, I secretly covered the mouths of the Zhao family's dog, the Guan family's chicken, and the Li family's pig. Luo Ling should finally wake up this time!"
... ...
"Ninety years."
"... .
"One hundred and twenty years."
... ... .
One hundred and fifty years."
"There are a few outsiders in the city. They seem to be surprised by the prosperity of Chaoge City. They insist on staying here and keep yelling at me. It's very annoying. Other people are not as noisy as them."
"There was a short man who sneaked into my room late at night. He must have secretly seen Luo Ling in my room. He is so hateful. I killed him directly."
"How come the little guy I killed is back in the city? How strange... But he seems to be much more obedient. He didn't yell when he saw me. That's good."
"One hundred and eighty years have passed, and Luo Ling still hasn't woken up today. But why are these outsiders becoming more and more strange? Their faces are full of wrinkles, and they are already ugly, and the more wrinkles they get, the uglier they become. But the little guy I killed a few years ago looks normal now."
... ...
"Grow old? What do you mean... Will you grow old after growing up? Isn't it because of the wounds from the ghosts that you grow old? No, no...
"It turns out that the weird one is not an outsider, but me, a person from Chaoge City...
"It turns out that they are all dead, so their appearance will not change...
"We are all ghosts?"
The latter part no longer appears in the form of a letter, but more like a diary.
Luo Ling read the letters one by one, his expression becoming more and more solemn.
Akino is extremely lacking in common sense; she doesn't even know that human life span is limited.
Because the beings she came into contact with, whether it was Luo Ling or Yao Ji, never worried about their lifespan.
As for her experience in the abandoned city, she had only been there for a few years, and she thought that the old age of the veterans in the abandoned city was due to injuries caused by ghosts and gods.
Therefore, Chi Nu never felt anything strange about the abnormality in this city.
Until the arrival of outsiders, the long-standing stagnation here was broken.
These outsiders could not move when they saw the beauty of the naked woman, so they stayed and shouted loudly. Luo Ling could roughly imagine the scene at that time.
But...what happened next was something these outsiders had never expected.
It is easy to enter the city of Chaoge but difficult to leave. They were trapped there until they died of old age and were unable to escape.