Daoist, I am not fragrant!

When Zhong Tang followed Li Bizhi to the street, he was really surprised.

In this dying stone city, there were many pedestrians passing by in a hurry.They wore the same shabby Xili clothes, both male and female, covered most of their faces with dark long cloth, only their forehead and a pair of eyes were exposed.

Zhong Tang and Li Bizhi also followed the same way, covering their faces with a long cloth, and followed behind a few people in aloof manner.

They soon came to the shop that Li Bizhi was talking about. This shop looked no different from an ordinary stone house, and there were three sarcophagi and bowls and chopsticks in front of the door.

People who came to buy things lined up in a short line, carefully bypassing the three sarcophagi and walking to the front of the shop.

And the owner of this shop seems to be a rather old lady, and she still wears a gold ring on her hand.

When every guest walked in front of her, he didn't need to talk anything, he just took out a piece of gold from his body and handed it to the old lady, and the old lady would take a black thing and give it to him.

With such a simple transaction, the team moved very quickly, and it didn't take long before it was Zhong Tang and Li Bizhi's turn.

Zhong Tang imitated his predecessors, and took out half a broken gold ring from his waist and put it in the old lady's hands. The old lady didn't show anything unusual, and handed the black thing to him as usual.

After Zhong Tang got the things, he didn't look at them too much, and put them into the pockets he had prepared, and left with Li Bizhi.

The two of them didn't open the pocket until they turned into a deserted alley, and took out the dark stuff inside.

"This is..." Zhong Tang couldn't see what it was in his hand for a moment, it was not big, it was smaller than his palm, it looked like a stone, but there were some lines on it.

Li Bizhi took it from his hand, put it under his nose to sniff, and said, "It's meat."

As soon as meat was mentioned, Zhong Tang somehow remembered the coffins in the city.

Among other things, he has never found anyone raising livestock in the city, and there is no trace of hare and pheasant outside the city, so where did this meat come from?I'm afraid it's really in that coffin...

Fortunately, Li Bizhi interrupted his thoughts in time: "It's not human, it's sheep."

Only then did Zhong Tang suppress the nausea rising in his chest, and heard Li Bizhi say: "This meat is old, it seems to have been completely dried."

In the desert, air-dried meat is not uncommon. Whether it is nomads or long-distance traders, they often use this method to preserve food.But... the meat sold by this old lady must have been preserved for too long.

From this, Zhong Tang began to think again: "What happened here? So many people died, and even the animals disappeared, which made them want to buy and sell the meat that has been stored for so long."

Zhong Tang was thinking carefully, but Li Bizhi's eyes were fixed on the passers-by in the streets outside the alley.

Although they all covered their faces and couldn't see their expressions clearly, Li Bizhi could see the deep numbness in their eyes.

They came out to buy meat, not because they wanted to eat meat, but just to complete such a thing, like walking dead, without personal will.

What's going on here?Or... is this meat really for eating?

"Let's go, let's go to the abandoned castle." Zhong Tang's voice timely recalled Li Bizhi's thoughts, and Li Bizhi nodded: "Okay, let's go."

However, this time, they were not able to approach the abandoned castle like Zhong Tang did before.

"These people are... guards?" In the hidden alley, Zhong Tang looked towards the ruined castle through the cover of the stone wall.

The ruined castle looked like it should have been a two-story stone building, but for some unknown reason, the wall on the northwest side almost completely collapsed, and the remaining southeast corner wall was also crumbling due to the desert wind and sand. Stretching out a short pole, hanging on the pole is the only light source at night in the whole city, a sheepskin lamp.

On the surface, this place is indeed just an ordinary ruin. Before that, even if Zhong Tang had doubts, it was only doubts.

But now, seven or eight people wearing black and gray cloaks appeared around the ruined castle.

Most of their faces were covered by hoods, and they could hardly be seen. They stood motionless in place, obviously guarding the non-abandoned castle behind them.

"It seems that something is going to happen today." Zhong Tang picked up the little golden bell at the end of the jade bead again: "Is brother's luck really like this? I have been here for the past few days, but I haven't encountered any opportunities, but you As soon as you come, there will be."

Li Bizhi gently shook Zhong Tang's hand, knowing that he was joking, but the two of them were not as relaxed as their faces.

Is it really because of Li Bizhi's good luck that such a coincidence happened?

Or...was it because of Li Bizhi's entry that the changes in the city were brought about?

"Let's go and look elsewhere." No matter what the reason was, Li Bizhi had no choice but to take Zhong Tang with him and wander around the city because he couldn't go to the abandoned castle.

Although there were no obvious gains in this walk, there were also some minor discoveries.

At first, Zhong Tang guessed that if the death of the people in this city was related to Huoyu that year, but it has been more than a hundred years since Huoyu fell, but although there are many old people in this city, there are also many young and middle-aged people.

In this way, many of them should have been born after the disaster fell, which means that they are still multiplying in this isolated place.

But the problem appeared again, although there were young people here, Zhong Tang hadn't seen any of them in the past few days.If they can really have offspring, why are there no children in the city?

Unless... Zhong Tang told Li Bizhi his conjecture, and Li Bizhi also analyzed it with him in a low voice.

Either this dying city was not harmed by Misfortune at all, so naturally it cannot be said that it has been more than a hundred years, but in this case, it is not so easy to explain the piece of meat that has dried like a stone.

Either it was a misfortune that made the city what it was, but at first people were able to reproduce in the city, and it was only later that something evil happened that resulted in no children in the city.

"...It may also be that, for some reason, the people in the city have always stayed at a certain age, so there are not so many old people."

Every time Zhong Tang said something, he fiddled with a jade bead, and held several round jade beads between his fingers, but it was only a guess after all.

"This place should be related to Huoyun." Li Bizhi's answer was very positive, which attracted Zhong Tang to raise his head and ask him: "Why?"

"The catastrophe happened a hundred years ago. Since it fell, there has been no life within a hundred miles."

"It's impossible for them to escape this catastrophe easily, and if they can escape even disaster, how can they not escape what happened later."

Zhong Tang also felt that what Li Bizhi said was reasonable, after all there were too many things in this city that they didn't know about.

At the same time, he also had a hunch that maybe they could get some answers tonight.

In this way, another day in Shicheng passed.

Zhong Tang stood in front of the small square window of the stone house, watching the setting sun on the sand dunes in the west, sinking away bit by bit.

The last glimmer of light also disappeared, and the small town in front of him was plunged into darkness again. On the ruined castle not far away, a dim light of fire was also ignited in the sheepskin lamp.

Neither Zhong Tang nor Li Bizhi fell asleep, they leaned against the stone bed, they waited for the expected event to happen in the dark night.

One hour passed, two hours passed, and it was almost midnight in a blink of an eye, but the whole city was still eerily quiet, as if nothing had happened, and nothing would happen.

But Zhong Tang didn't intend to give up just yet. He leaned on Li Bizhi's body, took off the jade bead and golden bell, and wrapped them round and round around Li Bizhi's hands, and then let go when they reached the end. interest.

Li Bizhi also let him pester him, his eyes followed the movements of Zhong Tang's fingertips, and almost never left.

Just when Zhong Tang couldn't count how many times he had entangled himself, suddenly there were a few light footsteps on the street outside the stone house.

Zhong Tang untied the jade bead string in Li Bizhi's hand in an instant, and the two looked at each other, then slowly came to the window and looked out.

The street tonight is no different from last night.

The desolate and cold moonlight still shines on the sarcophagus and the empty streets.

But at this moment, the door of a certain stone room was suddenly pushed open, and a black figure walked out quickly from inside. He first came to one of the sarcophagi, bent his body stiffly, and then slowly Raise your hands slowly.

Zhong Tang frowned, feeling that it was some kind of strange ceremony, worshiping the dead in the coffin.

After a while, the person in front of the sarcophagus put down his hands, slowly straightened his waist, and then leaned on the sarcophagus with most of his body, uttering a spell-like sound with difficulty.

Just when Zhong Tang wanted to calm down and roughly remember the voice, the person who didn't want to lie on the sarcophagus suddenly let out a terrifying cry.

From the first sound, black figures also stepped out of the surrounding stone houses. They worshiped and howled in front of the sarcophagus, like a pack of wolves who had lost their companions in the grassland and desert.

Soon, the whole small town was completely enveloped by this kind of crying and howling. The sound was all mourning, as if it contained not only the mourning for the deceased relatives, but also the despair of not being able to escape death.

It was also the sound of howling that caused the originally accumulated and peaceful dead air in the city to be stirred up suddenly, and each sarcophagus was like a black mouth, constantly swallowing new dead air.

Fortunately, the howling sound did not last long.At first, the person who lay on the sarcophagus climbed up with great difficulty, then took off the black bowl next to the sarcophagus lid, and put the pieces of meat bought during the day in the original position of the black bowl.

After doing all this, he carefully held the black bowl in both hands, walked through the streets and alleys filled with lifelessness, and walked towards the abandoned castle.

"Let's go too." Li Bizhi lowered his head slightly, and whispered in Zhong Tang's ear.

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感谢在2020-10-2723:41:47~2020-10-2822:02:01期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the mine: 1 Qianqianqianke;

Thanks to the little angels of irrigation nutrient solution: Caiwei rabbit 20 bottles; little fairy 6 bottles; 322465101 bottles;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!