Ning Zhou's Yu Ying circled in front of him for a week and then returned to the master's side.
"There is movement ahead." Ning Zhou said after receiving Yuying's reminder.
In the darkness, some buildings can only be seen vaguely in front of them. The rich black obscures people's vision, and people can't help but feel fear because of the darkness and the unknown.
Ning Zhou looked forward. On the other side of the street, several figures were wandering staggeringly. Although his night vision ability was good, he still couldn't see clearly. fly there.
"It's a devil." Ning Zhou said coldly.
Sure enough, just like in "Nightmare Game", demons began to appear in the holy city after entering the New Moon Calamity. At that time, the Qi Le people were attacked by these demons and died, but this time they will not repeat the same mistakes.
"Don't worry, they won't find us." Su He said and continued to walk forward.
This group of alienated demons walked on the dark streets, swaying, seemingly without sanity and thought, Qi Leren observed them up close, although the darkness made him unable to see their appearance, but he could vaguely see them naked With a mutated body, he walked slowly like a zombie.
As the group walked into the bustling area of the holy city, the number of this group of demons also increased. They were not organized and disciplined, but obeyed strange orders and wandered here... Wait...
"Are the residents of the holy city okay? Will these demons attack humans?" Dr. Lu asked nervously.
"There are no more humans." Su He's voice sounded in the darkness, "Now, there are only demons left in this holy city."
A chill crawled from under his feet to the back of his neck, and Qi Leren couldn't help horrified. Although he knew that the holy city would be full of demons after midnight, he didn't expect these demons... to be the residents living here
"Why is this happening? Do the residents here know that they will become demons? Wait, if they don't sleep..." Qi Leren remembered the last residents who disappeared on the night of the new moon, a more terrifying feeling Conjectures came to his mind.
"Once you fall asleep on the night of the new moon, you will become a demon after midnight. If you stay awake, then..." Su He paused and said slowly, "...you will become the devil's prey."
As if to confirm Su He's conjecture, the door suddenly sounded in the street ahead, the door of the house on the side of the road opened, and a young man rushed out screaming: "No, devil! Don't come here!"
Behind him, two monstrous demons staggered after him.
As he escaped from the house, the demons roaming the streets chaotically were awakened, and the group of irrational monsters roared excitedly, chasing him towards the direction of the four, and the young man cried While escaping, he fell in the dark, and even got up and continued to run, but the greedy predators behind him were getting closer and closer, and they would catch him in the next second...
Qi Leren felt his wrist loosen, and Ning Zhou had already rushed out.
"Don't kill them! They are alive!" Qi Leren shouted.
Ning Zhou really didn't kill him. He grabbed the young people who fled in a hurry, kicked away the demons who were pounced on him, holding an adult man in one hand, and grabbed the railing of the adjacent house with the other and pulled him up. More demons were alarmed and rushed here frantically...
There was a sound of a piccolo in the darkness. It was not beautiful, but it made people hang upside down. However, in the strange sound of the flute, the originally crazy demons calmed down. They stood there blankly, stunned. After a while, they continued to wander in twos and threes, turning a blind eye to the two big living people.
The sound of this flute is too weird, could it be the little girl with blond hair? Qi Leren stared at the direction of the sound, which was soaked in pure darkness, and vaguely saw a few figures walking towards here.
Three figures in cloaks came to Ning Zhou, one of them was still playing the flute, the one at the front looked up at the two people on the roof, and said in a hoarse and erratic voice: "Outlander, please give him to us."
The frightened young man knelt on the roof, trembling, and shouted in a broken voice: "No no no, "Don't hand me over... I want to go home, I want to sleep... "
"We'll take you home, and you'll sleep peacefully until dawn, then forget about it, come on, we'll take you home," said the cloaked man.
"Who are you?" Ning Zhou asked, he was full of vigilance against these three people wearing cloaks, because he felt that these people also had strong demon power.
Qi Leren became nervous, took a step forward, and was pulled by Su He: "Wait, let's see what this group of people wants to do."
The cloaked man was silent for a while, and the two of them talked in a low voice, and finally said: "You can call us the night watchman."
"Devil?" Ning Zhou asked coldly.
The demon under the cloak gave a wry smile, took off the hood, and revealed a mutated, hideous face: "Yes, it's just that we are sober demons."
The young man rescued by Ning Zhou trembled even more, his teeth clenched as he trembled, and it seemed that he would faint at any moment.
"On this night of the new moon, all those who fall asleep will become demons, and those who are awake... will become the targets of demons. Although we are standing here now, we can walk and talk, but we are also asleep. This should be called 'sleepwalking', in every new moon night, we will sleepwalk around looking for living people who haven't slept, save them before the devil eats them, make them forget it all, and then sleep peacefully. Man, promise me to keep this secret like we do." The man in the cloak said hoarsely.
"Why didn't you say it? Instead, let this kind of thing continue?" Ning Zhou asked.
In the faint sound of the piccolo, the night watchman's mutated face showed a hideous and sad smile.
"The crimes committed by people in ignorance can be forgiven by God. Every night of the new moon, these sleeping people take off their clothes in their dreams, turn into cannibal demons, and hunt their own kind everywhere. , and then clean up all traces before dawn, put on the cloak of human beings again, and wake up safely... Eight years have passed without incident. If one day, this false peace is broken, innocent The people who know they are eating people, the city is truly over, they... we, anyone, will go to hell, and will never be redeemed."
Cannibalism... Qi Leren once again thought of the young man who recorded all this in his notebook. Did he end up being eaten by demons? Think about the last knock on the door he heard... The only people who would appear in his house that night were his relatives who had already fallen asleep.
Qi Leren felt a tumbling in his stomach, as if it was burning, he covered his stomach, trying hard not to imagine the bloody and cruel picture.
The young man who was rescued by Ning Zhou let out a desperate whimper and vomited on the roof. On every new moon night before this night, he was slumbering like the bloody demons, attacking greedily. living person. He couldn't help but think of one day many years ago, he spent the night of the new moon peacefully in his dream, and when he woke up, he still felt happy and satisfied, as if he had a beautiful dream. On that day, the neighbor's grandmother, who had watched him grow up since childhood, disappeared during the New Moon Calamity...
The night watchman's devilish face showed that smile again: "Look, knowing that eating people is far more terrible than eating people themselves."