Nightmare Attack

Chapter 1362 City
In the next second, the defenseless Jiang Cheng felt dizzy and staggered, as if he had been sucked into a huge and dark vortex.

After an unknown amount of time, a solid feeling came from under his feet. After recovering a little bit, Jiang Cheng raised his head and found himself in an alley with a wall in front of him. The seemingly solid brick wall was covered with tiny cracks. Cracked, the night sky above his head told him that it was night, the surroundings were darker, and it was quite quiet.

Suddenly a hand stretched out from behind and grabbed his arm. It was a subconscious reaction. Jiang Cheng grabbed the other's wrist with his backhand, pulled him over, and pressed him against the wall.

It wasn't until he saw the man's face clearly that Jiang Cheng's tense nerves relaxed a bit. His first reaction just now was that green ghost hand.

Li Bai, who was thrown against the wall by his backhand, couldn't help coughing a few times, "Mr. Jiang, it's me, don't be nervous."

He let go of his hand and turned around. Fatty and Yao Shunyu were both there. Looking at their expressions, it was obvious that they had just arrived in this world and were not used to it. Fatty even shook his head to wake himself up.

After everyone recovered, Yao Shunyu looked around and said in a low voice, "It's strange, why didn't we get out of the car this time, but came directly to this kind of place."

Li Bai rubbed his wrist that was hurt by Jiangcheng, and pinned his hope on Jiangcheng Wang Fugui, "Mr. Jiang, Mr. Wang, have you ever encountered such a situation?"

"Never, and it's our first time." Jiang Cheng replied truthfully. After a while, he suddenly asked, "What do you remember in the car just now?"

Hearing this, Li Bai's face became terrified, and his pupils were trembling, "Hand, a ghost hand stretched out from the mist and grabbed my shoulder. It's a...a green ghost hand!"

Jiang Cheng paused after hearing this, and looked at Li Bai in surprise, "You were also caught by ghost hands?"

Unexpectedly, Li Bai's face was weirder than Jiang Cheng's, "Of course, the ghost caught me. It happened so suddenly that I didn't have time to react. I called you, but none of you responded."

Before Jiang Cheng could speak, the fat man suddenly spoke, tremblingly: "Li Bai, what are you talking about, the person caught by the ghost hand is obviously me!"

Hearing this, everyone sensed that something was wrong. Yao Shunyu nodded to Jiangcheng, affirming the latter's guess, "I have the same experience as yours. I was caught by a ghost hand and then regained consciousness. It's here."

"In my memory, I was the only one caught by the ghost's hand. You are all by my side. I remember it very clearly." Yao Shunyu added seriously.

Everyone's memory is biased here, but what is unified is that everyone remembers the ghost hand protruding from the mist, and they must have been caught by the ghost hand.

Jiang Cheng tried his best to remember, but he didn't remember the appearance of that ghost, he didn't remember at all, the other party was hidden in the mist, and his speed was very fast.

"I... I seem to have a little impression." The fat man recalled blankly, frowning together.

"Do you remember that ghost?" Li Bai asked, "No, I mean you...you saw it?"

After a long while, the fat man hesitated and said: "I don't remember clearly, but I did see something in the mist. When I think about it, it seems... like a pair of eyes!"

"That's right, it's a pair of eyes!" The fat man suddenly became excited, "I remembered, those eyes are very strange, they are a pair of...silver eyes!"

The information Fatty could provide ended here. He only knew that the other party was a ghost with silver eyes, and he could use some weird means to bring them into this world.

After thinking for a moment, Li Bai asked a very crucial question, "Everyone, where are we now? Are we on the bus, or have we already got off?"

No one answered because no one knew the answer.

At the same time, Jiang Cheng's eyes glanced at several people inadvertently. The sudden incident, coupled with his recent experience, made Jiang Cheng very alert. He doubted the identities of the three fat people.

But a cursory observation was obviously not enough to distinguish the real identities of the few people. Jiang Cheng decided to observe slowly. They had already entered the mission world, and the most important thing was to meet up with their teammates first.

After a brief discussion, a group of people walked along the wall and walked slowly and cautiously towards the side of the alley.

After a few people walked out of the alley, the scene in front of them shocked everyone. There was a street in front of them, with a lot of wooden buildings standing on both sides, which were antique, and paper lanterns were hung under the eaves.

It's just that these lanterns are all extinguished, and as a gust of wind blows, the lanterns shake slightly, like pale human faces hidden in the darkness.

Then there was only a little bit of starlight. Looking around, the paper lanterns were connected together, and further away was the shadow left by a building. The shadow and the dark night were clearly layered, and the entire street seemed to have no end.

A short observation is enough to judge that this mission is in ancient times, and this is a relatively large ancient town. Although it is night, it is enough to infer the prosperity of this street during the day from the shops.

Jiang Cheng suddenly noticed a building diagonally across the street. There was a plaque hanging on the building, and the four characters of Fu'an Inn could be vaguely read on it.

"Fu'an Inn..."

Fatty, Yao, Shunyu and Li Bai also noticed this inn.

At first Jiang Cheng felt that there was something weird, but after a while, Jiang Cheng suddenly felt an inexplicable chill, and he knew what the problem was.

This inn is not very eye-catching on the whole street, and it is not directly facing their direction. Normally speaking, they would not pay attention to it, but there seems to be something attracting them in the dark, and the four of them almost At the same time noticed this inn.

The others were also aware of this, and it seemed that their mission this time might be related to this inn. The fat man cautiously asked everyone if they wanted to stay, after all, this was an inn.

And it's late at night, the temperature here is so low, it sounds like a sin to be outside all night.

"I don't think so, this neighborhood... this neighborhood is too strange." Li Bai lowered his voice, and couldn't help but look at both sides of the street with his eyes.

"That's right, I don't think so for the time being. This street looks very busy, and there should be a lot of people living around it, but it's eerily quiet now."

"Also, since it's an inn, candles will be lit in the lobby even late at night, for passengers who may come to the door at night. The inn does not extinguish the candles. This is a rule, but look, let alone keep candles here. There is not even a single family lighting lanterns in the whole street, are the people in this city dead?" Yao Shunyu's voice revealed vigilance.

"Don't go there, let's retreat and spend the night in another place."

Jiang Cheng's opinion was the same as that of Li Baiyao and Shun Yu. This inn and the whole street were full of weirdness. Before he figured out all this, Jiang Cheng decided to play it safe.

After simply identifying the direction, Jiang Cheng's group walked along the street towards the other side of the town. On the way, they pricked up their ears to listen for the movements in the nearby dark buildings.

"Where are we going?" Fatty couldn't help asking in a low voice.

Yao, Shunyu, who was closest to him, replied: "According to the direction of this street, we were in the center just now, and now we are heading towards the edge. It is very difficult to build a huge ancient city. Let's try to find the edge of this city. , it might be safer there."

Although I can't understand it, since the doctor didn't object, there must be his reason. The fat man followed the doctor cautiously. A group of people walked on the empty street, and the more they walked, the more uncertain they were, just like Yao Shunyu As I said just now, it seems that there is really no one here, it is an empty city.

But gradually, they saw light appearing in front of them.

It's fire!
A row of wooden fences sealed one side of the street, and looking forward, there was a tall city wall not far away, no, it was a city tower to be precise.

The city tower stood up in the darkness, like a huge monster. Below it was a city gate that could accommodate two cars side by side. At this moment, the city gate was tightly closed.

The fire is not far behind the city gate, both on the left and back, and it is erected about the height of a person, and at the junction of the fire and darkness, there are still a few figures standing.

The figure was dressed in gray clothes, holding a spear in his hand, standing upright.

"It's the soldiers guarding at night." Yao Shunyu said softly after several people hid themselves.

The methods of siege in ancient times were relatively simple, and the large cities with strong walls were easy to defend and difficult to attack, which often made the attacking party helpless.

Fatty finally heaved a sigh of relief when he saw the person.

But slowly, the surrounding atmosphere changed, because everyone found a very strange place. They had been hiding nearby for 10 minutes, but the soldiers guarding the city did not move, not even changing their positions.

"They... what happened to them?"

Jiang Cheng turned his head and mouthed to the other three people. The fat man felt cold when he saw it. Jiang Cheng said he was dead.

What's the situation?
There was no popularity in the whole city, and finally ran into a few people, who were soldiers guarding the city, but they turned out to be dead!
Yao, Shunyu pondered for a moment, and asked the people in Jiangcheng to wait here. He stepped back quietly, circled around, found a good angle, and looked at the soldiers from another direction.

With a gust of wind blowing by and the moment the flames danced, Yao, Shunyu finally saw clearly that these soldiers were not dead, but straw men.

Stuff the grass into the clothes, prop up the clothes, and then make a straw man.

Because of the ingenious workmanship and the fact that it was hidden at the junction of fire and darkness, they didn't notice it at the first time, but when Yao Shunyu was about to go back and explain the situation to the people in Jiangcheng, they suddenly heard a very light noise coming from behind. The sound, it seemed to be...some kind of footsteps.

When Yao, Shunyu and the Jiangcheng people met again, he looked a little embarrassed. His hands were cut behind his back and his mouth was gagged, and there were a few people standing beside him.

There are quite a few people, 4 men and 2 women. From the point of view of clothing, they are all in modern attire, which means that these people are their teammates this time.

"I said, there's no need to do this, everyone is teammates."

Fatty looked at Yao Shunyu's appearance and couldn't help frowning. It was easy to distinguish him from his clothes, and he couldn't figure out what the other party wanted to do.

"It doesn't matter if it's a teammate, we still have to investigate." Among the other party was a very thin man with a wound on his forehead and a gloomy expression.

Fortunately, after some probing, the other party finally let go of their vigilance. The group did not dare to stay here for a long time, so the people in Jiangcheng followed the other group to their foothold.

It is a stable not far from the city wall. There are no horses in the stable and it is empty, but there is a not-so-large room behind the stable, which is piled with piles of hay.

Several people went in and sat on it directly. It was much warmer here than outside.

"You... there are only 4 of you?" An old man in a dark windbreaker looked at Jiangcheng and asked. This person's eyes are not sharp, but they are dignified. It seems that he is also a high-ranking person in real life. .

"Yes, it's just the four of us. We came together." Jiang Cheng didn't hide it.

After chatting for a while, Jiang Cheng roughly understood the composition of these people. There were 6 people on the other side, but only two of them came together, and the other four were lone wolves.

What's even more rare is that the two people who came together are still a couple. The man is probably in his early 50s, and the woman may be well-maintained, and she looks about 30 years old.

It can be seen that someone is very cold and shivering non-stop, but the old man in the windbreaker just said lightly, "Get over it, we can't make a fire in this situation, and no one knows what the hell is going on in this city thing."

"Did you see those straw men just now?" The old man asked Jiang Cheng while rubbing his hands slowly.

"I saw it."

"how to think?"

After hesitating for a moment, Jiang Cheng expressed his opinion, "There must be some kind of accident in this city. It is very dangerous at night, so every household is locked up, and even those who have conditions have already fled. Even the guards in charge The soldiers didn't dare to be on duty at night, but they didn't dare to disobey the military order, so they had to get a few straw men to deal with it."

"En." The old man replied, "We also thought the same way, and when we first came, you noticed that inn, Fu'an Inn."

Jiang Cheng nodded, "I noticed, that inn is very strange, it seems that there is something attracting us."

"Have you gone to see it?" the old man asked.

"No."

A trace of regret flashed in the eyes of the old man. It could be seen that the old man and the others also noticed that the inn was very strange, but in order to protect themselves, they did not go to see it. When they met a group of people from Jiangcheng, the old man naturally thought of this problem.

"What's your plan next?"

Yao, Shunyu, who was untied, was also a person who could afford to let go. He didn't show any dissatisfaction with the old man and his group who tied him up, and asked in a formal tone.

The old man leaned back on the hay stomp, let out a long breath, "Wait, wait until dawn, if no one comes to see us yet, let's go to that inn and have a look, I always think something will happen there."

(End of this chapter)