purgatory artist

Chapter 28 The Chamber of Secrets and the Chamber of Secrets

when the sun rises.

Liu Ping stood on a tree in the small town, looking towards the wilderness.

A distance of 800 meters outside the town has been shrouded in darkness, revealing a deep night.

But Liu Ping clearly remembered that when he came to Dark Mist Town from the wilderness, he had traveled hundreds of miles.

Yesterday, darkness was far from Dark Mist.

After only one night, the sun passed over Dark Mist Town, but it couldn't shine into the night outside the town.

"The world of death..."

Liu Ping said in a low voice.

The world is divided into two, black and white.

On the dark side is the scope of the world of death.

After the attack last night, it was already approaching Dark Mist Town, almost covering the town.

——If no one resists the darkness tonight, will Eternal Night continue to move forward and swallow the entire town into the world of death?
A sense of urgency rose in Liu Ping's heart.

He jumped off the tree, and continued to shuttle through the ruins according to the pattern of the town in his mind.

"Let's go to the bar first..."

He walked through the ruins, and soon came to the location of the bar.

This place has been completely destroyed, broken bricks and tiles are all over the ground, and there is even a huge paw print on the ground several meters deep into the ground.

A layer of black powder-like substance spread all over the ruins of the bar along the edge of the paw prints.

"Fire... still a very powerful fire."

Liu Ping pondered.

As if he had sensed something, he quickly walked to the original location of the bar and moved away the bricks and stones in a collapsed place.

Beneath the masonry lay a charred corpse.

This is not the world of death, so Liu Ping stepped forward with confidence, turned the corpse over and looked at it carefully.

It's the bartender.

He died in a hurry, with one arm spread out, as if to grab something forward.

Crawl -

Liu Ping looked in the direction of the corpse.

I saw a corner of the bar not far away, and there was nothing there.

"Disperse!"

Liu Ping made a trick to blow away all the bricks and ashes on the flat ground.

The original wooden floor of the bar was revealed, but there was nothing on the bare floor.

This little piece of land was undamaged!

Liu Ping stepped forward and knocked on the floor, only to find that it was hollow.

Shall we punch through the floor and see what's underneath?
Liu Ping turned his attention to the bartender.

The bartender had been dead for a long time, and his desperate expression had already frozen on his face, while his body maintained a posture of climbing with all his strength, as if he wanted to climb to the corner wholeheartedly before he died.

Liu Ping pressed the ground with his hand.

Suddenly, a mechanical voice came from the ground:
"Authentication passed, night watchman, you can enter."

The ground suddenly cracked.

Liu Ping fell, flipped a few times in mid-air, and stood on the ground.

I saw that this is a relatively spacious underground secret room, which hides a lot of living materials, as well as a vertical glass pavilion.

In the void, two lines of small characters gave instructions:
"You found the phone booth."

"This is a remote communication tool, and it may have some special functions."

Liu Ping sighed.

I don't need to be reminded by the sequence, I know what it is, after all, I have acquired the basic common sense of this era.

— Now I know what the bartender wants to do.

The bartender probably wanted to report the situation in Dark Fog Town and seek rescue.

The bartender is a receptionist numbered 03687, who has the authority to trade and issue official status.

There must be a powerful organization behind such a person.

But logically speaking, people like the bartender should already be familiar with things in the wilderness, and should be prepared for danger.

The leader of the night watchman also said that the night at the end of the month is the most dangerous.

Why did they try to seek rescue at the end, and it didn't work?

... It seems that basic common sense is not enough.

Sequence also said that this phone booth may have other special functions.

But I don't know.

Just as Liu Ping was thinking, he suddenly saw movement in the void again.

A line of small characters quickly appeared in front of his eyes:
"Remind again:"

"A strange fluctuation appeared in the north of Dark Mist Town."

Last night, Sequence asked himself to interrupt his practice to find out.

Since the sequence is so urgent...

Liu Ping looked at the phone booth, hesitant.

— Can this be sold for money?

The storage bag on my body is of ordinary style, and it can hold limited things, but it can't hold such a big thing.

The piggy bank only accepts currency, not the phone booth.

The only way to do that is to put the phone booth here first, and then turn around to see how to deal with it after I have checked the north side of the town.

Liu Ping turned around and left the ruins of the bar, heading all the way to the north of the town.

On the road, I saw many black marks in the shape of charred people. These black marks were tightly attached to the ground, emitting a foul smell of burning.

After walking only a few hundred meters, there was a sudden sporadic sound from a collapsed building several floors ahead.

"Who is it? Is anyone there?" Liu Ping tried to speak out.

no respond.

But the noise was louder.

Liu Ping became cautious.

He took a few steps back slowly, hid behind a stone pestle, and then made a trick.

Waited for a few breaths.

A shaky figure crawled out from the ruins.

Old K.

His feet had been broken, so he could only rely on his hands to support the ground, crawling towards the place where the sound came from.

Liu Ping looked at each other calmly, seeing Old K's crazy expression, crooked mouth dripping with saliva and black blood, and sharp hands——

"Lost consciousness...became crazy...sorry, my healing can't save you."

Liu Ping murmured, putting away the formula.

But he couldn't let the other party ignore him, he faintly felt that there was some kind of danger hidden in the other party's body.

But in the current situation, every trace of spiritual power is quite precious, so——

Liu Ping drew out his pistol and pointed it at Old K.

Old K didn't realize it, he just opened his mouth and crawled towards Liu Ping desperately, as if Liu Ping was the most delicious food in the world.

Liu Ping pulled the trigger.

boom!
There was a hole in the old K's heart, his body shook, and he lay on the spot and stopped moving forward.

At this moment, something seemed to have changed in him, and his eyes became a little clearer.

"It's you... Hurry up, hit me on the head, I will die only if I get a headshot!"

Old K said hoarsely.

"What happened last night?" Liu Ping asked.

Old K's face showed fear, then turned into madness, and was finally overwhelmed by despair.

"Quick! Kill me! Or I'm doomed!" he yelled.

After saying this, Old K twitched crazily, and within a few breaths, sharp bone spurs grew out of his body.

"Please, hurry—"

he pleaded.

His eyes turned completely milky white, his forehead was split open, and another pair of pitch-black eyeballs re-grew.

boom!
A bullet exploded in his head.

All movement stopped immediately.

The body lay on the ground, motionless.

Liu Ping looked at the corpse calmly.

Kill me, or I'm doomed—

In other words, this sentence can be interpreted as: kill me, and I will not be finished.

...Afraid of becoming a monster?or something else?
Liu Ping was at a loss.

Between heaven and earth, the wind whistled past the town.

The world gradually turned into dead silence.

a long time.

The body didn't move.

Liu Ping slowly retracted the gun, took a few steps back, and continued walking.

Half a quarter of an hour later, he arrived at the north of Dark Mist Town.

A line of small characters floated in the void:

"A strange fluctuation is shrouded 500 meters ahead of you to the left. You need to find the source of this fluctuation. This sequence will analyze it."

Liu Ping stepped on a pile of rubble and looked in that direction.

I remembered.

When I entered Dark Mist Town for the first time, I walked around the entire town and passed by there.

There is a collapsed building there, which is said to be called "The Church".

It looks like it has been abandoned for a long time, but it has a different feeling compared to other buildings.

Liu Ping stepped forward and made a formula.

All the bricks and stones that buried the passage flew out and piled up in a pile opposite the church.

Liu Ping looked into the church.

—he knew why the church felt different from other buildings.

Although the other buildings have collapsed, as long as you do some inspection, you can find that almost everything in the building has been emptied.

But the church is different.

Even though it was discarded, all the things in it were neatly arranged and no one took it away.

Nobody touches church stuff.

Liu Ping walked in, circled around, and finally stopped in front of a wall.

The wall leaked air, and someone inside the wall could be heard praying in a low voice, with an extremely pious tone.

- more than one person.

Liu Ping listened carefully, but found that as he concentrated his attention, he could hear more and more voices.

He collected himself and punched hard at the wall.

Whoa!

Bricks fell to the ground, revealing a secret room inside.

Liu Ping immediately saw the structure of the entire secret room.

The secret room is small, with smooth stone surfaces on the four walls and the floor, densely etched with mysterious runes, forming circles of beautiful circles, surrounding a statue with a metal base.

It was a statue of a woman in a colorful robe.

She looked compassionate and dignified, with her eyes closed, holding a piece of black iron chain in both hands.

Black iron chains bound her hands and wrapped around her body, forming a pair of heavy shackles at her ankles, tightly binding her feet.

(End of this chapter)