Chapter Twenty-Three: Dead and Alive
The sacrifice at night should be very solemn, and the inhabitants of the city began to walk in the direction of the temple one after another, and they should all go to participate in the sacrifice ceremony. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Yalan was carried to the temple by these women, and the old lady who had persuaded her just now cried like a tearful person, but she was helpless. My heart was extremely unhappy, and I knew the result, but I couldn't do anything about it.
I couldn't bear to go to see some bullshit ritual like those residents, and the thought of Arlan's last appearance made me feel uncomfortable, and I just wanted to go out of the city to breathe......
As soon as I walked out of the city gate, I saw a black line rising from the sky in the distance, and it seemed that a black storm was about to blow again! Sure enough, after a short time, the black wind carrying the yellow sand arrived in front of me in an instant, but just as I was about to enter the city to take refuge, I suddenly saw a figure in the black storm walking along with the storm.
It was a tall man, but he kept his body hidden in the wind and sand, and I couldn't see what he looked like.
"Who are you, why are you here?" said the man in the wind suddenly.
I was a little shocked because I didn't expect him to see me, so I asked him, "Can you see me?"
The strange man who appeared in the wind did not answer my question, but glanced at the ancient city behind me, and then said to me: "I am going to take this ancient city with me, you don't belong here, hurry up and leave!"
I looked at the ghostly man in front of me, thought of Yalan's lover, and blurted out, "Do you know Yalan? She is dying, can you save her?"
The man's expression was stunned, and he said with a sad face: "I can't save her, let alone fulfill the promise I made to her before, the only thing I can do now is to let the whole city bury her!"
It seems that this man is indeed the young city lord, and I think his current form is definitely not a living person.
"What happened, and if you were able to come to the gates, why couldn't you go into the city to save her?" I asked.
The man's hands clenched into fists, and he said bitterly, "Three years ago I was sent by my father to find a new vein of water, but I didn't expect that all this was a trick of my eldest brother and the high priest, who bought off the retinue who traveled with me and threw me down in the desert. I had no water or food, and I encountered a rare black storm, and finally died in the desert...... Maybe it's because I've been thinking about Arlan in my heart, and my powerful obsession has turned my soul into one with the Black Storm, but when I came back from thousands of miles away, I found that I couldn't enter the city at all! I've been wandering outside the city for the past three years, trying to see Arlan, but I've never been able to do so. I didn't expect to hear from the people who came out of the city today that Aran would be sacrificed to the god of water tonight, and I knew that it was all a conspiracy of my eldest brother and the high priest...... Stranger, all the grievances here have nothing to do with you, don't go into the city!"
After the man finished speaking, he turned into a black storm and swept towards the ancient city frantically......
I was in a hurry, so I chased after it, but when my feet were empty, my body fell straight down, and I suddenly felt that the world was spinning.
"Jinbao, Jinbao, wake up!"
In a trance, I seemed to hear Uncle Li calling me, although I felt very sleepy, but I still struggled to open my eyes, only to see Uncle Li calling my name anxiously, and Ding Yi was standing on the side with an expressionless face.
I struggled to sit up and felt dizzy.
"I ...... What's wrong with me?"
As soon as Ding saw that I was awake, he squatted in front of me and said, "You fainted as soon as you left the city just now, I couldn't wake up no matter how I screamed, and the wind and sand were strong outside, so I had to carry you back first." ”
It's rare for me to hear Ding Yi say so many things at once, and it seems that my situation just now must be very scary. At this time, I remembered the dream just now, and the scene in it was vivid, if it was really just a dream, it would be a little too real!
Ye Zhiqiu came over and fed me some water, then handed me a piece of chocolate and said, "You may have fainted because you didn't eat enough and your blood sugar was a little low, you eat it, maybe you can feel better." ”
After I took the chocolate, I thought of Zhao Qiang and Liu Ziping, so I asked Ye Zhiqiu, "How are Brother Zhao and Brother Liu?"
Ye Zhiqiu looked at me with a gloomy face, looking like he wanted to speak and stopped.
As soon as I saw her expression, I knew that it was not good, and immediately turned my head and asked Uncle Li, "Uncle Li, Brother Zhao...... What about them?"
Uncle Li sighed heavily, then shook his head and said, "The two of them can't do it anymore......"
I opened my mouth wide in shock, "What...... What, how can it be so fast? How long have I been unconscious and they're not going to die?"
"You've been in a coma all night. Ding Yi interjected.
I couldn't accept it for a while, yesterday we had a good meal together, but today there are no people.
"What about their corpses?" I said.
Luo Hai pointed to the entrance of the underground water cellar and said, "Because of the contagion, I temporarily settled them down first,"
Although I knew that they were likely to be the result, I still couldn't accept it when it happened. After all, if they hadn't come here to join this bullshit search group, they would be alive and well by now. Think about them and think about yourself, maybe the end will not be much better than them......
Ding saw that I was a little stunned, so he gently pushed me and said, "Don't think about it, let's hurry out of the city now, I saw our two cars when you passed out just now!"
This was the most exciting piece of good news I heard when I walked into the desert, and I was busy covering my mouth and nose like everyone else, preparing to brave the wind and sand to look for a car outside the city. Just as everyone was about to go out, they suddenly heard a strange sound of footsteps behind them, as if someone was hobbling towards us.
I looked back and saw that the sound was coming from the same passage that led to the underground water cellar. At this point, everyone stopped, and they looked in the same direction as I did......
Immediately afterward, everyone saw two guys with festering skin coming out of the passage, their eyes glazed over, their movements stiff, and their walking posture was also very strange. When I looked at their faces, my frightened heart almost jumped out of my chest, these two zombie-like guys turned out to be Zhao Qiang and Liu Ziping!
"Uncle Li! Uncle Li, this ...... What's going on? Doesn't it mean they're dead?" I asked Uncle Li beside me loudly in fright, but I didn't see him answer me for a long time, and I turned my head to see that this old guy had already run to the gate of the temple!
Damn, this old fox! But fortunately, Ding Yi has always been by my side, which makes me somewhat relieved. But I have a problem with being small, that is, my legs are weak when I am afraid. The things I encountered before can be explained by science, but these two people in front of me ...... It's a zombie in a horror movie!