For days, I was with this strange man whose origin I didn't know, and I, who had planned to leave the next day, had been silently observing the strange man in front of me. He doesn't communicate with me at all, but he eats and even speaks the same body language as a normal person. I'm trying to find a breakthrough in him, and if he's running in from the outside, he can take me out of here.

"Hey, hey!" I clapped my hands and he looked up at me, "How did you get in?" From which direction did you come in? Can you point that out to me? ”

He shook his head, then waved his arms wildly, it wasn't the first time I've tried to communicate with him, but it was the same result every time. Gradually, I began to lose my breath, sighed, took out the cigarette case, and came in with not many cigarettes, and the box that was originally full of cigarettes was now a third less. I pulled out one, and as soon as I lit it, the strange man on the opposite side suddenly smelled the smoke and came over, but because of the rope tied to my body, I could only stretch halfway, and the rope was so tight that I couldn't pull it.

"Ahh

He pulled for a long time, but he couldn't tear the rope, and shouted anxiously.

Want to smoke? The strange man couldn't even speak, but before he could finish it, I handed the lit cigarette over, and he took it as if he had found a treasure, and then spat out a long smoke ring, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face.

I looked at it and laughed, pulled out another one and lit it for myself, and when I looked down to light the fire, I heard the strange man say coldly, "I haven't smoked in a long time." ”

I was stunned, and the hand that lit the fire also stopped in mid-air, and suddenly raised my head to stare at the strange person in front of me, and asked, "What did you just say?" ”

He held his cigarette and smiled, "Didn't you hear clearly? ”

The contrast between the situation before and after was too great, I didn't even react for a while, my eyes widened and I said in surprise: "You just spoke?" ”

"What? Anyone else here? ”

He cracked his mouth and smiled, the wrinkles on his face slowly unfurling.

"But weren't you still crazy just now? How did you suddenly wake up? ”

I even became a little incoherent, he took a puff of cigarette and smiled: "I can't say the exact situation, but I have been in a half-dreaming state." And over the years, the state of madness has become longer and longer, and the time spent awake has become less and less. It seems that you will only be awake when your heart is particularly longing. ”

Will the desire awaken his will, because he wants to smoke so that he is sober? Although this is nonsense, people who have a big addiction to smoking know that those decades-old smoking guns, if there is no cigarette in their hands for a while, the whole person will feel uncomfortable, and even more irritable and irritable.

"Who are you?"

This is a rare opportunity, I asked hurriedly.

"I should have told you before, I'm Xu Tianwang."

He replied.

"Impossible!" I shouted in a lost voice, "If Xu Tianwang had lived to be more than a hundred years old by now, he should be too old to even move, I have seen your skills, you will never be Xu Tianwang!" Who are you! ”

He slowly stood up with his cigarette in his hand and asked in a low voice, "How many years is it now?" ”

"In the eighties, it was liberated early, not the Republic of China."

I said hurriedly.

He paused, then laughed lightly, and said: "It turns out that it has been so long, but it also verifies my guess in my heart, this place, this city, is different from the outside world. ”

"Different? What does it mean? I've read your notes, what did you find in the first place? What is it that says that you have discovered something that is enough to alarm the whole world? ”

I threw the questions away, not knowing when the guy would fall into a coma, so I was anxious for answers.

He took a cigarette in his mouth, pointed outside, and after a moment said, "This city is different from what you expected, although time is flowing here, it seems that the speed of physical aging is very slow. When I first came here with the team, I thought it was just an ordinary city. But on the first night, the sky was occupied by ghosts as it is now, and I knew then that this place was far from being as simple as I thought, and the reason why Mr. Tang came to me was not for me to do research. I wrote in my diary that I was separated from the group, but not exactly, I ran away. We had a lot of deaths in this city, especially on the last day. ”

"What the hell do you see?"

I asked, a little stunned.

"On the last day, we entered the central part of the city, where there was a huge room, and before we were ready to enter, the door of the house opened by itself, and something came out of it. Some are scary...... I don't know ......."

His voice grew softer and softer, and he kept shaking his head, as if his mind was beginning to lose consciousness again, his breathing was heavy, his face was flushed, and he kept exhaling outward.

"I, I seem to be ...... again Wrong...... Remembered...... Don't go near the big house in the center with ...... inside."

In the middle of his sentence, his mind was completely confused, and he held himself on the ground, and with both hands he tore the rope desperately, and let out a howl like a wild beast. The resistance of his sanity, which was finally awake, was completely gone, and he fell to the ground, returning to his previous crazy appearance. I frowned, looking out the window at the gray ghosts flying in the sky, the conversation was very short, and there was not much to mention, but he kept mentioning that he would not let me go to the central city, was there anything in that city?

The more the other party said this, the more curious I became, and I saw that my equipment was quite complete, even if I encountered a powerful zombie ghost, it was a big deal, and I wouldn't necessarily lose. In my opinion, although the mystery of Xu Tianwang has not been solved, after all, he does not understand the skills of our circle, so it is not surprising to warn me.

"Bell, bell......"

I was wondering if I was going to see what was going on, when suddenly there was a sound of gongs and drums outside, I closed the door, climbed up the roof along the fence and looked into the distance, in the darkness, there was a red light dancing in the distant street, as if someone was slowly approaching.

"What's going on?"

I've been in the Charm City for a few days, and this is the first time I've encountered this situation, and I've never seen that light before.

I bent down and walked along the roof, sticking to the edge of the fence and looking down, the sound ......of gongs and drums kept coming, very loud and crisp, and the crowd of about a dozen people coming from afar was coming along the main road. I leaned down, took a deep breath and looked intently.

The group of more than a dozen people turned out to be all little ghosts in red and white clothes, all of them were only about a meter tall, with deformed heads, short stature, one of the leaders was beating gongs and drums, and the next few were each holding a strange cloth bag. The bags were pointed at the surrounding sky, and as the team progressed, gray ghosts were constantly sucked into the bags and then vanished.

"Ghost collectors?"

I whispered to myself.

Earlier, I had heard of the so-called ghost messenger soul collection, the world is very large, but the number of ghost messengers is not large, sometimes there is a disaster or war, and when the casualties are serious, they will form a team to come to the yang world to collect souls. But I've also seen the ghost cha, it must be a ghost fork, which is a status symbol of the ghost cha, but these few in front of me are not. So it's not just a ghost who collects souls, but a little ghost who collects souls.

There is a difference, because there are not many ghosts, but when there is too much work, they will let the trustworthy imps do the work for them, and each of these imps will carry a large bag like this in front of them, and the ghosts will not be able to get out when they are sucked into it, and they will be brought into the underworld to wait for punishment. But there are also disadvantages to doing this, although these little ghosts are exercising power on behalf of ghosts, many of them are evil-minded, and sometimes they will not be polite when they meet a living person, and they will take away their souls.

I shrank back so that I would not be discovered by them, and that there would be a fight in vain.

However, as soon as my side retreated, the imp's team ran into trouble, and a thick cloud of black gas wafted in front of them, blocking their way. I frowned, this was a scene I hadn't seen in the last few days.

What kind of thing is this black gas, it doesn't look like a good thing.