Chapter 6 – Ghostly Masked Man
Outside the old city center.
The man who had just unfolded the forbidden ruins sat by the notice board, looked back at the half of the old city that was as still as a canvas, shook his head helplessly, and pulled his cell phone out of his pocket to start playing elimination games.
”Bro, why are you sitting here in the middle of the night playing with your cell phone? Not afraid of catching a cold on your ass?”
Not long after, a pedestrian walked over from the opposite side of the road and was instantly happy to see this image.
The man looked up at him, and then lowered his head to continue operating, “Nothing to do, idle.”
The pedestrian laughed and pulled out a cigarette from his pocket, handing it to the man.
The man waved his hand and said with a straight face, “No smoking during work hours.”
”Hey, you squat on the road to play with your cell phone, this is also considered going to work?” The pedestrians were happy.
”Uh-huh.”
”Okay.” The pedestrian shrugged and stood up to walk toward the street behind the man.
”Where are you going?” The man spoke suddenly.
”Going home.”
”You can’t go back, at least not now.”
The pedestrian raised an eyebrow, “What do you mean?”
”This road is impassable right now, you can’t go back until it’s open.” The man pointed to the notice board behind him.
Pedestrians followed his finger to see that inexplicably stood in the middle of the road sign, was about to say something, only to see that “prohibited” four big words on the shimmering light flickered away.
The pedestrian’s eyes immediately froze
A few seconds later, he stiffly turned around, step by step toward the road back again, eyes full of confusion ……
The man seemed to be unsurprised by this, and just as he was about to continue playing Elimination, another man’s voice suddenly sounded in his headset.
”Zhao Kongcheng!!!”
The instant this voice rang out, the man sat up violently from the ground, the leisure and sleepiness on his face disappearing, replaced by absolute seriousness!
”To! Captain, what happened?”
”Something went wrong, a Ghostface King was promoted out of this batch of Ghostfaces, and while we were rounding up the other Ghostfaces, he stormed up and seriously injured Red Tassel, and escaped from the confines of the Forbidden Ruins through the sewers.”
”Ghostface King?” Zhao Kongcheng’s face changed, “Which direction did he run in? I’ll go intercept it!
”No, Empty City, you’re not good at fighting, you won’t be able to win against the Ghost Face King, its up to me to go after it.
Zhao Kongcheng froze, “Then I ……”
”After the Ghost Mask King fled, two more Ghost Masks took the opportunity to escape into the sewers, the others are purging the remaining Ghost Masks can’t get away.”
”In which direction?”
”Southeast.”
”Good.”
Zhao Kongcheng’s eyes exploded with essence, and he raced to the other end of the street, got into a black van, slammed on the gas, and sped away in a buzzing sound.
On his passenger seat, neatly folded, was a black and red cloak
and a sheathed straight sword!
”Alright, I’m going to make a turn from here, I’ll go first.”
Wang Shao stopped his steps and turned back to the four people behind him.
Right at this moment, Li Yifei then seemed like he suddenly remembered something and spoke, “Wang Shao, if I remember correctly, isn’t your house next to the old city center?
”Yeah, what’s wrong?”
”…… Nothing, remember to be careful on your way back.”
Wang Shao’s mouth corners slightly twitching, rolled his eyes, “You have something to say, do not say halfway to hold back, make people’s hearts strange difficult.”
Li Yifei hesitated for a moment, “I heard that the old city is not peaceful recently, there are perverted homicidal maniacs!
”Perverted homicidal maniac? Really!” Jiang Qian was a bit disbelieving.
”Of course it’s true!” Li Yifei looked around and lowered his voice, “This is something that you guys might not know, in recent days in the old city that has been one after another a dozen people have died.”
”A dozen people? Impossible, if it’s really such a big commotion, the news would have already reported it.” Wang Shao shook his head.
”Hey, how impossible, I tell you, this happened strangely, someone at the top forcibly pressed the wind, if not my father is working in the police station, I do not know this.”
”Fishy? What’s strange?”
”It is said that ……” Li Yi Fei paused, and lowered his voice a little.
”It is said that those who died, their entire face was stripped off, only a bloody mass of mutilated flesh and protruding eyeballs remained on their face, the method was extremely ferocious!”
The slightly cool evening breeze brushed by, and when they heard these words, several people only felt a chill rush from the soles of their feet straight to the top of their heads!
”Li Yifei! Are you sick, saying this at night!” Jiang Qian’s face turned pale, subconsciously looking around the silent streets, annoyed.
This place was originally close to the old city center, belonging to the remote area of Cangnan City, the evening self-study class was over and it was nearly ten o’clock, there wasn’t even a single pedestrian on the road, matching with Li Yifei’s words really made people a little bit creepy.
Not only her, even Wang Shao and Liu Yuan, the two big men are a little scared, Wang Shao glanced at the narrow path he was about to walk, suddenly a little heart ……
If Li Yifei’s words only made people a little scared, then Lin Qiye’s next words directly made their scalps numb!
Lin Qiye pondered for a moment and spoke quietly, “Are you sure …… that these things are done by people?”
”Seven Nights, you ……” Jiang Qian’s petite body trembled!
The corners of Wang Shao’s and Liu Yuan’s mouths twitched slightly as they looked at Lin Qiye with odd eyes.
”Good you thick-browed Lin Qiye, I can’t imagine that the one with the deepest hide is actually you?”
Li Yifei looked at Lin Qiye in surprise, “You think so too?”
”Shut up shut up shut up shut up!” Jiang Qian really couldn’t take it anymore, reached out and twisted hard on Li Yi Fei’s arm, the latter screamed out in pain on the spot.
”Don’t tell ghost stories in the middle of the night! I have to go home after a while!”
Li Yi Fei covered his arm, grinning straight from the pain, hiding at the side and muttering in a low voice, “This is not a ghost story ……”
Wang Shao shrugged his shoulders, “No bullshit with you guys here, I don’t believe in these cow ghosts and gods anyway, let’s go.”
Wang Shao’s figure gradually disappeared in the narrow alleyway.
Jiang Qian glared at Li Yifei again, walked forward a few steps and suddenly stopped.
She sniffed hard, her brows wrinkled slightly, and a
Some doubts surfaced in her eyes and
Turning her head, she said, “Do you guys smell a stench?”
”Stench?”
”It’s that kind of stench, the stench of something rotting.”
”I don’t smell it, Liu Yuan you?”
”I didn’t …… vomit either!!!”
Before Liu Yuan and Li Yifei finished speaking, their faces suddenly changed, violently covering their noses and looking around in shock.
Lin Qiye was about to say something, a disgusting and extremely foul odor suddenly poured in from his nasal cavity, this feeling was like throwing a piece of meat that had been rotting for ten days out of a septic tank and mixing it with a dozen of rotten egg liquids, and just sniffing it made the gastric juices violently roll over.
This was the stinkiest smell Lin Qiye had ever smelled after living for so long.
As for Jiang Qian, who had the most sensitive nose, she directly squatted down and vomited.
”Damn, what the hell stinks so bad?!” Li Yifei shouted as he covered his nose.
”I don’t know.” Lin Qiye’s brows furrowed slightly, and a moment later, he reached out to point at the alley where Wang Shao had left.
”But judging from the direction the smell is spreading, it seems to be coming from there.”
The next moment, a miserable scream came from not far away, echoing in the silent night sky.