Urban Sims

Chapter 511 Solving the Mystery
Mixed among the villagers, Zhou Ming walked slowly towards the cloud of gray mist.

The distance is getting closer.

Five meters... three meters... one meter.

Facing the swirling fog in front of him, Zhou Ming suddenly smiled.

Then he stretched out his hand like lightning.

Straight into the cloud of gray mist.

He was not afraid of the huge twisting force, which wanted to twist his arm into pieces.

In fact, Zhou Ming was not worried that his arm would be injured, because it can be seen from the corpses of the villagers who were strangled to the skeleton - this cloud of gray fog can't even crush the bones of ordinary people.

They can only use the strong corrosiveness of the gray mist to devour the flesh and blood of the villagers, as well as their... souls.

So Zhou Ming was [-]% sure that what was hidden in this cloud of gray mist was not a person, but a "thing".

A great thing.

"Ha, I got you!"

Zhou Ming, who shot extremely fast, grabbed the thing from the gray mist and pulled it out forcefully!

It is a stick made of special material.

At the top of the stick is a triangular flag that is as red as blood, with various strange patterns painted on it.

A pungent bloody smell emanated from the flags, and countless demons and ghosts screamed pitifully.

Zhou Ming, who was holding the stick, also felt a huge suction, a huge suction on the soul level.

"System, hurry up!"

Zhou Ming told the system in his head that although his soul is powerful, he still can't hold on to this magic banner that has swallowed the souls of tens of thousands of people.

What's more, in this magic banner, there is also a ray of divine consciousness clone of a super strong man, which must not be underestimated.

Fortunately, there is a system in Zhou Ming's brain. At the soul level, there is no conscious body that can be the opponent of the system.

"Understood, host!"

After the system responded, Zhou Ming heard a large notification sound in his head:
"Ding, destroy 1 primary soul, plane resolution +0%..."

"Ding, destroy 1 intermediate soul, plane resolution +0.0001%..."

"Ding, destroy 1 high-level soul fragment, plane resolution +0.15%..."

In less than a minute, the tens of thousands of souls in the magic banner were all swallowed up by the system.

Including the divine consciousness avatar of the super strong man, he couldn't even struggle, and it turned into a little bit of plane resolution, which accelerated Zhou Ming's progress in clearing the level.

Not bad!

This is an opportunity that the system requires Zhou Ming to seize.

Because the pole banner is the "soul-eating banner" used by the powerful demons in the legend, and the refining conditions are extremely harsh. To make it have the greatest power, it must devour more than [-] souls in order to exert its amazing power. The terrifying power of discoloration.

And the "soul-eating banner" won by Zhou Ming is a near-finished product that has swallowed more than 1 souls, and it is also a "supplement" that the system needs more.

Because the soul itself carries a lot of "information", especially some powerful souls that contain law information, the system is coveted.

Devouring these souls has become another important supplement to the system besides Zhou Ming as the host... a supplement to improve the resolution of the plane.

Of course, it is impossible to forcibly devour the soul of a strong man, it will be detected by the guardian of the plane, so the system needs a medium, a medium that is separated from the physical body... For example, if there is a soul-devouring banner as a medium, the system will Devouring the soul of the strong, the probability of being discovered by the guardian will be greatly reduced.

This is why Zhou Ming is confident and actively completes the task of "Murder in the Ancient Temple".

But for this, Zhou Ming also offended a top powerhouse of the Demon Race.

……

In an extremely dark space.

On a giant seat.

A strong man suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, as if he had been severely injured.

Then it went berserk, releasing attacks in all directions, and the sound of explosions resounded endlessly.

"Asshole, bastard!"

"My treasure, my treasure that is about to be refined!"

"Kill you, I must kill you!"

The sound of the strong man's roar was heard hundreds of miles away, and everyone trembled when they heard it.

……

Control the soul-eating banner, and collect the evil spirits floating in the village and in the bodies of the controlled villagers (the evil spirit is a pure mind body, whose plasticity and complexity are far lower than the soul) into the banner.

Roll up the banner and put away the Soul Eater banner.

The white mist that shrouded Yongshui Village gradually dissipated.

The villagers also woke up in twos and threes.

In the darkness, when some villagers fumbled to light torches and gradually restored some light to the village, the scene in the central square of the village made them scream one after another in fright.

Bones.

Lots of bones.

About [-] villagers died in this attack.

Of course Zhou Ming left quietly long ago, joined Chen En and the others, and returned to the tavern at the entrance of the village.

When Tan Ke and the others rushed back to the village at high speed, the crisis had long since passed, except for the mournful and howling sounds that could be heard from almost every household... This year's "Black Sky Festival" is a heartbroken day for Yongshui Village .

"Xiao Zhou, what about Xiao En and the others? Are they all right?"

What Tan Ke and the others were most worried about was the safety of Zhou Ming and the others. Once they returned to the village, they started searching everywhere.

Soon they all breathed a sigh of relief. In the tavern at the entrance of the village, they saw the five people intact.

What surprised Tan Ke and the others was that Zhou Ming and the others repelled the mastermind behind the scenes and rescued most of the villagers in Yongshui Village.

"I've said long ago that it's not evil cultivators who create phantom arrays to kill passers-by and ordinary people, but demons."

"Evil cultivators kill people regardless of day or night, and there's no need to use any phantom formations, just shoot directly, and it won't be so complicated."

"And why did that ancient temple only start killing people in the darkest day? It can only prove that it is a demon race that cannot see the sun."

"The white mist is actually not a phantom array, but a substance from the demon world. After inhalation, it has a strong hallucinogenic effect, so it loses the ability to resist and becomes food for the demons."

On the square table on the second floor of the tavern, Zhou Ming reasoned methodically.

"Demons... In this world, do demons really exist?"

Qiao Yixue held her fragrant cheeks in her hands and muttered to herself, still a little unbelievable.

Because the demon race described by Zhou Ming is a special kind of "life" that lives thousands of miles below the ground. It is mainly composed of dead animal and plant souls, which sink into the ground and attach to underground creatures. They do not need water and water. For food, you can't see the sun, and you see things with spiritual eyes. Some demons are powerful individuals, comparable to powerful immortals; and some are extremely weak and vulnerable.

More importantly, the demons are not only diverse, but also extremely large in number.

Even thousands of miles underground, a huge demon world has been formed.

Zhou Ming nodded and said:

"The world is full of wonders. Although we and other human beings live on the boundless and vast land and enjoy the sunshine and rain, the area where we move is only on the outermost layer compared to the endless thick land. , have never been deeply involved in the underground, not to mention the demons, if there are other strange races, it is not surprising."

"But the demons do exist, because I have seen records of this in the diplomatic books in the school library."

With the increase of Wancheng Country's foreign exchange activities, of course, he learned more about the outside world.

For example, on a continent hundreds of millions of miles away from Zhongyuan Continent, there is a bottomless abyss on the land. Every dark day, countless demons will emerge, wantonly hunting and killing humans. On that continent, The war between humans and demons has lasted for hundreds of millions of years, and humans can only defend passively... because the number of demons is really terrifying.

"Then what do you mean to say, there is a gap leading to the demon world under that ancient temple, and the demons ran up through that gap?"

Tan Ke immediately figured out the key point and nodded repeatedly.

This can be explained. It can explain why bombing the ancient temple has no effect. It can explain why mysterious deaths occur near the ancient temple every year, and why the black hand behind the scenes always appears and disappears near the ancient temple...

"not good!"

Tan Ke's complexion changed again, "If the ancient temple is bombarded with the Lingyuan battleship, wouldn't the crack expand even more, and more demons would come out?"

"I must report this matter to my superiors, and the Lingyuan warship must not be transferred here!"

At this moment, Tan Ke completely believed Zhou Ming's deduction. After dawn, he immediately returned to the big pit left by the ancient temple. Sure enough, at the bottom of the pit, he found a gap as wide as a thumb. bottomless pit.

About 100 tons of cement was injected into it, and after it dried and condensed, a [-]-ton boulder was pressed on the original site of the ancient temple. The crack leading from the devil world to the human world was finally sealed.

The mystery of "Murder in the Ancient Temple" in Yongshui Village, which has not been solved for a hundred years, is solved here.

(End of this chapter)