South America.
A little-known town welcomed a special group of visitors today.
According to the address provided by Wayne, Hao Ren and the others came to this place first, and temporarily settled in a small hotel in the town. They chose the kind of family-style country hotel, which can avoid the trouble of status.
Wayne Walter has returned to his family to deal with some matters. According to the agreement, the vampire patriarch will come to this town to join Vivian in two days. Before that, Hao Ren and the others can move freely here . So after finding a place to stay and getting a little familiar with the environment of the hotel, Hao Ren and Vivian left the hotel and started wandering around the town.
The atmosphere of this small town reminded Hao Ren of the old streets and alleys in the southern suburbs—although the styles are completely different, the same atmosphere lingers in every street. The things outlined by the old houses and the narrow and old-fashioned streets. This small town has a history of at least a hundred years. When Hao Ren and Vivian walked around the streets, they could see very old houses, traditional brick and tile structures, and mottled and peeling exterior walls. There are also town roads that can be seen everywhere, repaired and used to this day. There is a concrete road that can accommodate two cars in parallel as the main road of the town. The whole town is built along this road. On both sides of the road, old houses can be seen scattered, and the moss and mildew spots on the skirting of the houses are everywhere. It can be seen that in this historical building, modern street lamps and billboards are inlaid in an incompatible and abrupt way. Although he knew that this town could not have any connection with the ancient times, Hao Ren couldn't help but think that such a town really fits the definition of "an ancient family's hermitage".
The hundred-year-old town, as well as the alien family from ancient times, are all equally ancient, equally forgotten, and equally incompatible with modern society.
"I didn't expect Hesiana to stay in Athens in the end." Hao Ren thought of the little bat spirit who had been tugging on Vivienne's leg for a long time before leaving, and couldn't help but smile, " I thought she would follow whatever she said. In the end, you persuaded me to go back."
Vivian's head grew dizzy when she heard the words Hesianna. She rubbed her forehead and sighed: "That child is getting more and more outrageous. I guess it was a mistake to keep her at home last time. She is the kind of person who shines when given a little sunshine." Guy, he is getting more and more disobedient."
Hao Ren had nothing to do with the relationship between Vivienne and Hessiana, so he just smiled lightly and looked up into the sky.
Directly above the two of them, a blue, meteor-like point of light flashed past.
The data terminal is scanning the terrain of the entire town and surrounding areas in mid-air, and sharing the observed scene in Hao Ren's mind. Hao Ren is now focusing on two things. In another virtual vision in his brain, he is looking down at this place from a height of hundreds of meters.
He saw that this small town with a population of only a thousand people was located beside a small black hill, surrounded by a large area of uninhabited wilderness. The town was built along the gentle slope beside the hill. As night fell, The town lights come on and it hangs like a gorgeous necklace at the foot of the hill. At first glance, all of this is not unusual, whether it is the bare stone hill or the old town at the foot of the hill, they are all ordinary, but after careful observation for a while, Hao Ren found that the layout of the town is somewhat inconsistent: all the buildings Everything stops abruptly halfway up the hill.
Although understandably this is for cost and convenience reasons. People didn't build houses on higher hillsides, but the boundaries between those houses were still too neat, especially after the lights were on at night: it was obvious that there was a line of light and dark on the hillside. dividing line. The artificial lights stopped at that line neatly, as if avoiding something.
But the place without lights is not empty: there are several apparently abandoned houses lying alone on the other side of the "dividing line". They were the "offcuts" of the town's extension into the hills, looking abandoned for many years, thrown out as if discarded, with no roads in the town extending between those few houses. But between the abandoned huts, traces of roads from a longer time can be vaguely seen: After zooming in on the data terminal, Hao Ren saw some things like cement blocks and broken bricks scattered on the mountainside .
Vivienne didn't pay attention to the picture sent by the data terminal, she just looked at the peaceful scene of the town and thought: "The atmosphere here is a bit incredible... I thought the territory of the Ancatero family was a more eerie place-after all, it is a heterogeneous place rule, and that happened a month ago."
"Aliens must want to hide their whereabouts. Look at the size of the Athens Sanctuary. Isn't the city of Athens quite lively?" Hao Ren said casually, "And the Shadow of Chaos doesn't attack humans."
"That's true..." Vivian muttered in a low voice. "I don't know how the Ancatero family hides it. I can't find any traces of the secret realm, and I don't know where the entrance is hidden. It seems that I can only rely on the guide sent by Wayne."
Hao Ren hummed, and looked up at the end of the street in the town. The town lights in front of him extended along a slope, and the outline of the black hill not far away was reflected in the lights: "There may be something in the north of the town, over there The few abandoned houses here are quite interesting. How about we go and have a look? Maybe they are the former property of the Ancattero family."
"Going to see it?" Vivienne blinked, "But the guide of the Wayne family should be here in two days."
"Anyway, idle is idle," Hao Ren shrugged, "and there may be demon hunters active in this town, and they may also be targeting the Ancattero family. If we can find their traces in advance, we can avoid them." Two days later there was a lot of fuss."
Ordinary aliens would hide when they heard about the activities of the witcher. In fact, Hao Ren was the same at the beginning—but now his behavior has changed. Due to the fact that he has been in contact with the demon hunter many times, and he has already experienced many life-and-death situations, Hao Ren is now more used to thinking of more positive solutions. If necessary, he will even choose to actively contact the demon hunter, so as to Avoid being passive in the future. And even if you don't think about these, Hao Ren knows that he has nothing to do with the demon hunter. He is not a "heterogeneous" like a vampire werewolf. A bunch of demons and goblins caused him to feel somewhat awkward when he came into contact with the demon hunter...
Vivian didn't have any objection to Hao Ren's decision. She basically didn't care about the witcher's attitude, so she nodded and followed Hao Ren to the end of the town.
Soon, they took advantage of the night to reach the halfway up the black hill, where the road to the town ended.
A fence stood in front of Hao Ren. The fence stretched out to both sides and disappeared into the deep night. One couldn't help but wonder if it separated the entire town from the mountain top. On one side of the fence are the brightly lit buildings in the town, while on the other side there are only dark hillsides. Looking to the dark side, you can see several shadowy buildings dormant in the night, which are the buildings that passed by before. Several abandoned houses observed from the bird's-eye view of the data terminal.
At the end of the road was a rusty fence gate with a red placard saying No Passing. Hao Ren stepped forward and shook the fence gate, and there was a tooth-piercing creaking sound of metal friction: this gate has probably not been opened for many years, and all the hinges have been covered with rust.
Vivienne looked around, made sure there was no one around, and then turned into a thick fog and bats with a bang, and flew through the fence to the opposite side, while Hao Ren jumped straight up, jumping over lightly and delicately. A railing more than two meters high was erected.
"We should have asked the locals before," Hao Ren casually said to the bats beside him, "Ask them why the end of the town is blocked by a fence gate. It shouldn't be a problem for outsiders to be curious."
"As an afterthought," Vivienne emerged from a swarm of bats, "Let's talk about it tomorrow. I saw the abandoned houses you mentioned, let's go... hmm?"
Hao Ren was taken aback: "What's wrong?"
Vivian frowned and looked at one of the abandoned houses: "There seems to be a breath of living people over there." (To be continued~^~)