Fantasy Game: Infinite City

A few hours later.

In the middle carriage of the train, Han Zu was lying on the sofa, covered with his clothes and his hat covering his face, sleeping quietly.

The carriage was very quiet, with no sound except the friction between the train and the rails. Opposite Han Zu, a beautiful woman wearing a snow girl's outfit was holding a ticket in her hand. She seemed to be distracted and accidentally froze the ticket into pieces, which broke with a crisp sound.

The monsters around all looked at her with frightened and nervous expressions on their faces, as if the woman had done something terrible. The woman also seemed to realize her own gaffe and looked a little flustered.

"Heh... where are we?"

Han Zu woke up yawning, took off his hat and put it on the table, then stretched out his hand and waved it twice at the faceless man standing in front of the bar.

The faceless man walked over, bowed respectfully, and hung Han Zu's clothes on the "hanger".

"Have a drink...ah...anything is fine, as long as it's not alcohol."

The faceless man swiftly took a clean cup, poured half a cup of blood that came from nowhere, then put some ice cubes in it, held the cup with both hands, and handed it to Han Zu respectfully.

Han Zu took the cup, took a sip, put it on the table in front of him, stood up, stretched his waist and neck, sat back on the sofa, crossed his legs, and took out a "Extinction Order". The woman dressed as a snow girl opposite him tactfully extended a hand, with a flame on the tip of her index finger, lighting the cigar for Han Zu.

“Hiss… Huh…”

The strong aroma of cigars filled the carriage, which made the somewhat nervous women and monsters feel at ease.

"How many?"

"Ten... four should be."

"How was the fusion? Was there any 'rejection reaction'?"

"No, it went smoothly. Before arriving in Chuan Gu County, I was able to master all my abilities perfectly, but I can't figure out... you..."

"Why should I help you?"

"Yes sir.. I..."

"You Fuso people are just weird. You always call me sir. As for the reason, I will tell you later. Now I haven't sorted out my thoughts yet, so let's not talk about it for now. How are they?"

The slit-mouthed woman standing nearby came over, bowed respectfully, and said,

"With the help of the adults, after devouring those cores, our strength has become even stronger."

"Ah, very good."

Han Zu glanced out the window, and after turning his head, the wooden brocade demons on the windows that served as blackout curtains closed automatically, and the carriage became a little darker.

Han Zu was about to say something when a prompt suddenly popped up on the system panel. However, the display was still garbled, and he didn't know what was written on it. Han Zu simply closed the prompt and continued chatting with the "people" around him.

"Where did I just say that?"

"My Lord asked where we are. According to the route, we have one more stop to reach Chuangu County."

"Where is this intermediate station?"

"It's a burial area. It was a village decades ago. I heard that because of a ghost, more than 200 people in the village died overnight. The descendants of the villagers built tombs and erected tombstones for their deceased family members, but a few months later, all the tombstones were destroyed on the same night. On that day, a few lost tourists happened to pass by there. It is said that they saw a large number of terrifying evil spirits. Although they did not die, they were scared crazy after returning. Since then, because they think that the place is cursed, even the descendants and relatives of those villagers dare not go back. Over time, it has been abandoned and turned into a mass grave."

Han Zu thought about it and asked again,

"This train, as you said, has an unfixed route, but it has several fixed stops, such as Hoshimi Shrine and the final stop at Kawako County. Is this... the mass graves, a fixed stop?"

"Yes, sir. The mass grave is indeed one of the fixed stops for the train."

"So, in all these years, no one has boarded the train from this station?"

"Yes, sir. It's strange to say that no one has ever boarded the train at this place. This place does seem to be cursed. Even the train stops here for a very short time. Before you boarded the train, the train usually stops for five minutes at other stations, but at the mass grave, the train only stops for one minute."

"It sounds like an interesting place."

As Han Zu was communicating with everyone, the speed of the train gradually slowed down and the train was ready to stop.

"Woooo~!"

A few minutes later, with the sound of the train whistle, the train stopped steadily, and Han Zu got off the train with the woman wearing the snow girl's costume.

It is very desolate here. There is not even a platform for trains to stop. Outside the tracks is a large wasteland with weeds more than half a person tall.

Han Zu glanced at the sky. It was covered with dark clouds and the surrounding environment was very dim. In the distant sky, the roar of an airplane was heard. Judging from the sound, the airplane should be very far away from Han Zu and the woman.

Han Zu turned around, faced the woman, and said,

"This is a nice outfit, much better than the one worn by the conductor. What's your name? It's annoying to always call you conductor."

"My name is Saori, sir."

Han Zu nodded, turned around, looked at the surrounding wasteland, and analyzed the surrounding situation.

The weeds were overgrown, more than half a person tall, and the leaves were yellow and withered. But from the information obtained previously, although Han Zu was not sure about the exact time, he could be sure that judging from the temperature, it should be summer now. So the yellow and withered weeds must have been robbed of their nutrients by something. And to be able to rob these weeds, which were known for their tenacious vitality, of their nutrients, that thing must be very powerful.

There were no trails left in this wasteland, and it was obvious that no one had been here or gone out from here for a long time. Those guys on the train should not have lied.

However, Han Zu had his own way. He knew which direction to go. Han Zu sensed the specific location of something, which aroused his curiosity.

"Saori, clear the weeds, we're going in this direction."

"Yes, my lord."

Saori waved her right hand, and several wind sickles appeared beside Saori, flying into the weeds and heading in the direction given by Han Zu, clearing a path for the two to walk side by side.

While walking on the road, Han Zu inadvertently looked down at the ground that had been cleaned by Saori and found something unusual.

The land is very dry and even cracked, and under such geological conditions, it should be impossible for such dense weeds to grow. However, judging from the height of the weeds, the land should have been very fertile and moist, at least before it turned dry and yellow.

In general, the changes in the ground should have happened not long ago. Something suddenly appeared, robbing the weeds of their nutrients and even turning the surrounding land into this state.

Following the location they sensed, Han Zu and Saori quickly arrived at a location.

Not far away is a tree about four or five meters high. It has few branches, but they are covered with unknown flowers. With this tree as the center, there is a circular open space with a diameter of twenty meters.

Unlike the surrounding wasteland covered with weeds, the land here is fertile and moist, with many petals in varying degrees of decay scattered on the ground. Judging from their appearance, they should be the kind of flowers on the trees that cannot be named.

Han Zu half-knelt on the ground, picked up some flower petals, rubbed them with his fingers, and found something wrong. The feel of these petals did not feel like petals at all, but more like a piece of thin skin fragments.

Grabbing a handful of soil, Han Zu put it in front of his face and smelled it. There was a smell that Han Zu was very familiar with, a bloody smell with a faint smell of decay.

"Sir, have you discovered anything?"

Han Zu did not reply, but stood up, clapped his hands to shake off the dirt on them, took out an "Extermination Order", and walked under the tree.

Saori wanted to come over to light Han Zu's cigar, but Han Zu waved his hand and told Saori not to move for the time being. Han Zu put his other hand on the tree trunk, groping for something.

From the outside, this tree looked no different from an ordinary tree, but Han Zu always felt that something was wrong. Han Zu closed his eyes, blocked his vision, and concentrated on feeling the tree through the sense of touch of his hands. Sure enough, he found something unusual.

Through the sense of touch in his hands, Han Zu felt that he was not touching a tree at all, but rather a living creature, because Han Zu felt like he was stroking some kind of skin.

When he opened his eyes again, the real scene appeared in front of Han Zu. What was in front of him was not a tree at all, but a strange totem composed of a bunch of twisted and bent bodies.

Where the tree trunks used to be, there were a lot of badly damaged faces. All of these faces had one thing in common, which was that they were only half a face, and every two faces were sewn together with red needle and thread. But the strange thing was that the faces sewn together didn't look out of place at all, except for the somewhat exaggerated expressions.

This strange totem has the same temperature as an ordinary person's body, and from the place where Han Zu touched just now, Han Zu felt something inside the totem beating slowly and rhythmically, like a beating heart.

Han Zu waved his hand, took off his clothes, and handed them to Saori.

"boom!"

Then he punched through the "trunk" and pulled something out of it. That thing was not the heart as he imagined, but a piece of meat wrapped in hair.

"boom!"

Nothing happened when I crushed the piece of meat in my hand. It seems that this strange totem has no practical effect.

Taking the clothes and cigar from Saori, Han Zu smoked the cigar, patted the "tree trunk" twice, and walked towards the mass grave on the other side.

It was far away from the totem and took more than 20 minutes to get there. At this time, strange changes suddenly occurred. The originally normal cemetery suddenly turned into a village, and even from the outside, there were quite a few villagers inside.

Suddenly, a few villagers came to the entrance of the village and enthusiastically invited Han Zu and Saori to come in. Han Zu suddenly laughed.

"My Lord, what are you laughing at?"

Han Zu did not answer, but his laughter became louder and louder, and he seemed very happy. He waved his hand, motioning Saori to step back a few steps. As Han Zu's face became a little distorted for some reason, the roar of an airplane engine suddenly came from the sky.

"Om~!"

Several fighter planes swooped down from the sky, and the machine guns on the planes plowed the entire village back and forth several times. The illusion was instantly dispelled, and the village returned to its appearance of a mass grave. Of course, it has now become a ruin.

A monk wearing a bamboo hat and holding a Zen stick suddenly appeared behind Han Zu. He smiled and was about to say something.

But before he could open his mouth, Han Zu spoke first and interrupted him.

"You mentioned the monk before, was it him?"

Saori looked at the monk and shook her head. She didn't know him.

Han Zu walked up to the monk and returned to normal, with the same kind smile on his face.

"I.."

"boom!"

As soon as the monk opened his mouth to say a word, Han Zu put his palms together and smashed his head into a pulp, but almost instantly, the monk returned to his original state. Han Zu's eyes were a little dazed, and it was unknown what he was thinking.