Chapter 56
"On the contrary? What is the effect of doing the opposite?"
"Nonsense." Wen Shi said coldly, "The counter-effect of closing the city."
If we talk about closing the city, it means protecting this place and preventing other things from entering. Then the counter-effect is...the city gate opens wide.
At that moment, Zhou Xu's blood was cold from head to toe.
Xia Qiao looked at him in horror, and then looked at Zhang Biling in even more horror.
Everyone reacted immediately and jumped away from her, rolling and crawling to hide behind Wen Shi and Xie Wen.
Zhang Biling stood frozen on the spot, looking at everyone with his black eyes unblinking.
She opened her mouth, as if she wanted to defend something, but in the next moment, her dark eyes spread out like ink balls, getting bigger and bigger, like a black hole occupying half of her face.
Her skin was so white that it turned blue. She twisted her neck and struggled a few times, and then completely transformed into another person.
For a moment, the store was filled with screams.
Someone tried to lift the scroll door, but their fingers were weak and they couldn't lift it. During the collision, all kinds of things fell on the ground and were thrown around.
The woman's dark eyes stared at Wen Shi, then she took a step forward and said in a hoarse voice, "Can you put that on me?"
Wen Shi glanced at the talisman in his hand: "Why?"
"I'm looking for someone." The woman sighed softly, "I'm looking for someone. I've been looking for him for a long time, but he hasn't seen me yet."
"Why don't I see you?" Wenshi said.
The woman touched her face and smiled bitterly. But because he was too stiff, he looked a little distorted: "He is afraid of me."
She murmured: "He's afraid of me."
"What are you afraid of?"
"Afraid that I'm like this, afraid that I'll die," the woman said.
"Then why did you come to see him?"
"I agreed." The woman said softly, "I pick up the car and walk from here every day, just in time to have dinner with him. Then I go to the car, and he looks after the store, and closes the door at 9 o'clock and goes home. It's like this every day , why can’t I get better?”
It just happened to be that day and it didn't work out as I wished.
It rained suddenly in Ningzhou, and the viaduct leading to Wangquan Road collapsed a little, and the water covered that section of the road. She came in a hurry and answered the phone again. I accidentally rushed straight into the water.
That part of the water is so deep...
After that day, she would still walk into Eternal City after dark.
The place is deserted, but there are some wholesale shops that are doing okay.
In her impression, Eternal City always looked like it was around six or seven o'clock at night. Outside the glass window, there were dots of light from the buildings, but they were far away, making the shopping mall seem lonely.
Most of the lights in the shopping mall are always turned off, and scattered shops are scattered on the second and third floors. The remaining ones were either closed early, or marked for lease and transfer, and were gathering a thick layer of dust.
Her Lao Song's shop is on the third floor.
She would walk in every night, every night, and slowly follow the escalator to the third floor, but all the shops would hurriedly close their stalls and pull the scroll doors to the end in front of her.
It's obviously a familiar corridor, but there's something strange about it everywhere. The rice noodle shop on the corner has been moved to the other end for some reason, and Mrs. Xu’s sewing shop changes its location every day.
She couldn't find Lao Song.
Lao Song is avoiding her.
She originally thought it was very simple, just take a look and leave.
But she comes every night and cannot be seen every night.
"Did you bring them all in?" Wen Shi asked.
The woman was stunned for a moment, then responded softly: "Yes."
"Why do you bring so many people in?"
"because……"
The woman stood there alone, and after a long time she said: "Because I want someone to help me, to help him escape, and to help me escape."
It's really cold in the rain.
"Can you help me?" she asked.
Wen Shi looked at her and patted the torn off talisman back on the scroll door.
Many, many years ago, someone seemed to have said something to him.
He said: This is destined to be a hard job, and there will be many hardships. After a long time, you will know that most of them are because you can't bear to leave. When you understand this, you will enter the world of mortals.
Chapter 23 Going Home
Two timid passers-by in the store had fainted from fear, and the rest found themselves unable to escape and no longer screamed or cried.
They were still huddled in the corner, not daring to move. But after listening to the woman's words, his frightened and out-of-control expression relaxed slightly and turned into a blank expression.
Zhang Biling's four talisman papers were firmly attached to the scroll door, saying that they symbolized "the city gate is wide open", but everyone waited tremblingly for a while and did not feel the change.
Xia Qiao asked quietly: "How to open the city gate wide?"
Zhou Xu kept staring at the woman eagerly, and took a moment to glance at the talisman paper: "I don't know, I have never practiced it! Anyway, the explanation of this talisman in the book is a bit scary."
Xia Qiao considered his courage and asked again: "What is the explanation?"
Zhou Xu: "Thousands of ghosts massacre the city."
Xia Qiao: "...This is called a bit scary???"
Zhou Xu: "Are you illiterate? I didn't know there was a kind of rhetoric called exaggeration."
Xia Qiao thought the same thing, that was a city, and this was just a small shabby house. What's more, it's calm now, so there's no telling whether Zhang Biling's talisman works.
"Then you a little
Move, my feet are so numb. "Xia Qiao pushed Zhou Xu.