The sky is getting darker and darker, clouds are gathering, and it seems like it might rain at any time.
The deserted old house was decorated with lights, and on the road paved with bluestone slabs, the bizarre scene continued.
A gust of wind roared past, and a few figures were seen running wildly in the courtyard.
They had a look of fear on their faces, and even though they were out of breath from exhaustion, they still refused to stop. They looked back from time to time, and they didn't know what terrible sight they saw. Even if they shouted, they quickened their pace, for fear of being killed by the people behind them.
Things catch up.
There were four people running at the front, two men and two women. Three of them were dressed in ancient costumes with messy long hair and quite frightened expressions on their faces. Only the woman dressed in modern clothes was calmer.
She didn't run fast, so her figure was slightly behind the three of them. Her expression was hidden under her bangs, and her long hair was dancing in the wind. She didn't look like she was running for her life, but rather like she had been thinking.
And behind the four people, a figure quickly appeared——
What is surprising is that the person chasing the four people around is not a ferocious monster or a vicious criminal, but an expressionless man.
He was also running, but it seemed that he didn't put in much effort, as if he was strolling in a leisurely way. Not even his hair was floating at all, but he was able to stick firmly behind a few people, like a maggot attached to the bone.
Behind the man, there was another person, it was Bai Mo who looked confused.
Bai Mo looked at the people running in front of him with a complicated mood.
To be honest, he didn't even know if he should continue to follow these people.
He is already a little unsure whether these people are filming, and if they are really filming, wouldn't it be very impolite for him to randomly interfere in other people's plots?
However, thinking that the man and woman did not let him leave when they saw him at first, Bai Mo couldn't help but feel a little more at ease. After thinking for a moment, he simply continued to follow.
I thought that after these people finished filming this scene, I could ask what the situation was like in this place and whether there was anyone else on the mountain.
Han Xue observed the three people in front of him for a long time and saw that they had not moved for the time being, so he glanced back.
Seeing Gu Yan following closely behind her, the faint fear in her heart immediately disappeared, and she began to concentrate on analyzing the current situation.
"It seems that these people regard Gu Yan as a ghost. Have he and I become one of the characters in this story..."
Not long ago, in order to find the taboo sequence d-hateful invitation as soon as possible, Han Xue used the ability of [Deep Mouth Traveler] at Gu Yan's request, thus appearing directly in the unknown restricted area in the east.
After some observation and comparison, she could not find a restricted area in her memory that matched the characteristics of this area. Therefore, either this restricted area was not one of the famous restricted areas that she knew, or it might have just appeared.
restricted area.
She thinks it's the latter.
After preliminary judgment, she believed that the danger level of this forbidden area was not high, maybe at the C level at most, but its characteristics were a bit weird.
If she had to use one word to describe this restricted area, she felt it could be described as "chaos and disorder."
Generally speaking, there are two sources of danger in the restricted area. One is from the terrifying restricted area creatures, and the other is from the rules of the restricted area itself.
But there is nothing in this place.
There are no clear rules for the restricted area, and no creatures in the restricted area appear to attack. Instead, some very strange things appear.
For example, this old house, as well as the swimming pool and school they encountered before.
At the first sight of these places, Gu Yan realized something was wrong. He thought that these places were obviously somewhere between reality and fiction, and both the buildings and the people were the same.
In fact, this is already the third story "scene" Han Xue and his wife have seen.
This place is like a film and television city, hiding countless sets and actors. They seem to have nothing to do with each other. They always present certain scenes in front of everyone in a way of recreating the scene.
Gu Yan didn't intend to waste time in a place like this, but Han Xue noticed one thing -
Everything they saw before might actually have happened.
She once heard a story about a person who scared people and eventually scared them to death. The general trend of the story was similar to what they saw today.
It's just that the background of that story was a university before the forbidden era. It was also about two men and one woman. It was also a joke, and it really scared people to death in the end.
This was a real incident, so Han Xue was deeply impressed by the story. However, at first glance, these people all looked like ancient costumes, so she didn't react for a while.
Stories come from reality, and reasonable fiction is made on the basis of reality to become a story.
Therefore these stories may not be entirely true.
Of course, the restricted area cannot be harmless, but she has not discovered the danger yet.
In Han Xue's view, putting aside all negative factors, these scenes might really be the reappearance of some real history, so he advised Gu Yan to wait and see patiently, maybe he might see something interesting.
Gu Yan did not refuse. In the past, when he entered the restricted area, he was basically fighting life and death. There were not many opportunities to "watch a movie" in such a safe and immersive way, so it was just a good time to relax.
It's just that the first two times were fine, but this time there was obviously something wrong with the story.
Both of them were forced to become characters in the story. This has never happened before, and I don't know if this is the price of watching the story.
Of course, Han Xue did not panic. After all, it is not difficult to solve this situation. The way to escape from the story is very simple - just kill everything that moves.
Ancient sayings have proved this with actions before.
I just don’t know the background of the guy following Gu Yan. Maybe he is a explorer who entered the restricted area through the entrance of the restricted area. I can ask him the name of this restricted area later.
Another thing worth paying attention to is that we don’t know what happened to the little girl who was taken out of the [Shenkou Traveler] space by Gu Yan. They were separated when they appeared in this restricted area.
However, as the old saying goes, don't be hasty, Han Xue naturally won't say anything more.
That girl is obviously not a simple person, so she probably doesn't need to worry about her.
Suddenly, her thoughts were withdrawn and she felt a little coolness on the tip of her nose. She raised her head slightly and saw raindrops falling from the sky.
When he lowered his head again, he saw that the three people who were in a hurry ran to the door of a room similar to a wedding room.
…
"It's raining."
Lu Zhan stopped, looked up, and then was entranced by the scene in front of him.
The big yellow dog next to him twisted slightly, his eyes were dull and lifeless, and his face showed human dissatisfaction, looking a little irritable.
Bai Mo followed the traces left by Xia Yuxi along the way, so he quickly chose the path on the left at the three-way intersection, and then appeared here, a place that was incompatible with the mountains and forests——
This is actually a city full of fireworks.
However, under his "sincere" greetings, the old beggar on the road could be said to have told everything he knew, so he was not panicked, but rather looked forward to it.
If it is what the old guy said, it is impossible to say that he can really see something important.
...even if you have to bear the price.
The dark sky was crying quietly, and the falling light rain still couldn't stop the hurried passers-by. All kinds of umbrellas gathered into a colorful torrent, surging in the city.
Among the colorful torrents, there are also those who don’t hold umbrellas——
It was a pale woman holding a child. She walked silently in the rain, seemingly unaware of the coldness of the rain and not noticing the person and dog under the eaves.
But Lu Zhan narrowed his eyes.
The woman turned a blind eye to the strange looks from passers-by, looked around, and soon entered a store on the corner. She carefully selected for a while, then took some food and walked to the cashier.
The woman was soaked all over and looked a little embarrassed. Her long hair was stuck together. The rainwater on her body flowed onto the floor, forming a puddle of reddish water stains.
"There are thirty-one in total, just give me thirty."
The shop owner glanced at the products casually, then lowered his head and looked at his phone.
"My wallet was stolen, and my mobile phone and money were lost..." The woman glanced at the sleeping child in her arms and whispered, "Can I pay on credit?"
"Credit?"
The shop owner was a middle-aged man. When he heard this, he immediately put down his cell phone. There was a hint of anger in his voice, "No, put the things back, we can't do credit here."
The woman was indifferent and said after a while: "The main reason is that the child is hungry, I..."
"I also run a small business and have children at home! I can't get credit even if I starve to death!" The shopkeeper interrupted the woman impatiently, "If you can't afford it, get out, and put the things back before you leave!"
Hearing this, a red light flashed in the woman's eyes, and her expression became a little scary, but she did not have an attack after all. She silently put the things on the counter, ignored the shopkeeper's complaints, and turned around and walked into the rain.
This is obviously not the first store to refuse her credit.
The woman was soaked in the rain and had a cold expression. She only looked better when she lowered her head and saw the child in her arms. She comforted her in a low voice: "It's okay. Mom will find you something to eat right away."
For some reason, the woman laughed after saying this, looking genuinely happy.
"Girl, why don't you hold an umbrella on a rainy day? Oh, I'm holding a child. Come on, come on in and sit down for a while."
At this moment, a loud voice rang out, and the woman stopped and saw a slightly fat middle-aged woman standing in front of a canteen, waving to her.
Seeing her frozen in place, the fat woman quickly took an umbrella from the house and ran out of the store, covering the woman's head, complaining: "Look at you, it may not matter if you get wet, but the child can't bear it."
Her words didn't sound nice, but they obviously meant well.
The woman followed her into the canteen as if she had not heard anything. She picked up some food from the shelves and walked to the door and said to the middle-aged woman: "I lost my wallet..."
"Eat."
It's the same rhetoric, but a completely different answer.
Before she could finish speaking, the fat woman smiled and said, "I know you are in trouble even if you don't tell me, otherwise no one would be walking around in the rain, let alone holding a child."
"But you're not a good mother at all. You can't let your child get wet in the rain."
The fat woman shook her head. As she spoke, she lowered her head and glanced at the child in the woman's arms. Then she was stunned and said with some confusion: "The child is not wet. How could it be..."
A smile appeared on the woman's pale face and she said, "How about it? I'm quite competent as a mother, right?"
"Competent, competent."
Hearing this, the fat woman also laughed and said, "But don't get wet in the rain anymore, you will catch a cold. Just sit here with me for a while, maybe the rain will stop soon."
Perhaps hearing the fat woman's affirmation of herself, the woman smiled even more happily, adding a bit of life to her pale face.
"Xiaoyu, I'm fine."
"Is this still light rain?"
But the fat woman didn't listen. She turned around and took out a stove from the house, and lit it at the door. The charcoal fire was bright red for the woman to keep warm.
"Let's go home when the rain stops," she said.
There were very few customers in the store, and almost no one came. The fat woman sat next to the woman and chatted with her casually.
"By the way, where is your husband?"
The woman was stunned and remained silent for a long time before replying: "He's gone."
The tone is full of complex meanings.
As if she understood the meaning of these words, the fat woman quickly changed the subject, looked at the child and said, "Your child is so cute, white and tender. Many people will like her when she grows up."
"Really?" the woman laughed, "I don't ask for him to be liked by everyone, I just hope that no one hates him."
The fat woman said helplessly: "Your requirements are really low."
"Then let me make a more difficult wish," the woman said hopefully. "I want to keep watching this child grow up."
"This is indeed not a simple request." The fat woman sighed, "In today's world, children who grow up with their parents can be considered happy."
"My husband, who joined the army, had to go out every day to deal with monsters that appeared out of nowhere. It's an honor to join the army, but it's hard on the child, who is always clamoring to see his father all day long."
The woman remained silent.
The fat woman smiled bitterly and said: "At least in today's world, it is not easy to grow up with your children. You have to work hard."
She thought for a while: "Let me tell you, it would be great if all those monsters died one day, otherwise we would not have a good life at all."
After a moment of silence, the woman suddenly asked a very strange question: "What if monsters also have children?"
The fat woman was stunned: "Of course we have to kill them all together, otherwise wouldn't there still be monsters when we grow up?"
She didn't know why the other party asked this question.
The raindrops fell, and the woman was silent for a long time. She touched the suspicious child's cheek and spoke softly.
"No matter what, I will always be with this child."
When the fat woman heard this, she couldn't help laughing.
"Really, that's great."
"Yes, that's great." The woman said softly.
As the words fell, blood spattered.
The sound of wind and rain seemed to have stopped, and even the fire was gradually extinguished, just like the life that was passing away.
The smile on the fat woman's face froze. She looked at the bloody hole in her abdomen, and then looked at the woman in front of her who suddenly became ferocious-looking, her eyes losing focus.
"Thank you for the hospitality."
This was the last sentence she heard, and then she closed her eyes for a long time with doubt and confusion.
The woman swallowed, resisted the urge to stuff her bloody hand into her mouth, and left quickly.
Lu Zhan watched the scene in front of him quietly, and was about to follow the woman to take a look, but suddenly he felt something in his heart and turned his head to look in one direction.
I saw a petite figure appearing in the deserted corner.