Human dimension reduction

The scale of the fire was far beyond people's expectations. The Kyoto city cup with wooden buildings as the main body was shrouded in scorching flames. People ran around the streets, shouting frantically. When they saw the direction of the fire, His expression gradually became weird again.

As if being hit hard on the head, all the shouts for firefighting and life-saving screams were overwhelmed by strange astonishment. The big inside of the pupil had been burned into a torch that pierced the sky, and the invisible clock hands repeatedly Forward and backward, stuck at a certain second and unable to advance an inch, the false curtain hung on the sky fell to the ground with a clatter, and this large-scale stage play is about to come to an end.

It was the members of the leading team who first discovered the anomaly.

They are in the most densely populated machiya in Kyoto, and they can touch the houses on the left and right sides of the road with their arms stretched out. There are only six or seven stacks of houses densely packed together, and more than half of the population of Kyoto is crammed into these grid-like squares. When the house was on fire, people came out with disheveled hair to watch.

The leading team appeared on a narrow street after coming out of Elm Nightmare Street. Together with the people around them, they stared dumbfounded at the fire in the distance. It can swallow several crowded houses every second.

The source of the palace has been burnt into a fuzzy orange-red.

"It's burnt through..."

There were low, strange voices talking from the crowd.

Seeing that there was a sudden chill on Zhou Qing's back, the faces of the people around him seemed to be wearing a thick layer of strange masks. Obviously the fire was going to burn to their habitat, but they stood still here, their expressions and movements were completely different. There was no panic as it should have been.

No... just now, there were still fire basins in their hands, and the panic on their faces when they rushed out the door was very real, but it seemed that because they saw the source of the fire, the panic was washed away immediately It seems to disappear from them.

It's a bit like an actor rushing to go to the show, only to find that the previous performance has failed, so he just holds the props and has nothing to do to watch the excitement.

Zhou Jianqing felt numb all over, he remembered, he had seen this scene before!

At that time in the S-class world of the magic city, Wanjia, which is an important place in the plot, caught fire, and the Wanjia family, who were important characters in the plot, were buried inside. The neighbors who came to fight the fire found that the hero was disabled ... also this performance!

Thinking of the high and low ravings of those monsters in human skin, and the cries of "hunting outsiders and restarting the world" - Zhou Jianqing immediately realized that something was wrong!

"The game is over... something is wrong in this world, let's run away in groups! Save your life!"

Zhou Jianqing turned around decisively and ordered the team members to disband. When the other party had a large number of people, the goal of a group of fifteen people was too obvious, and it was the best choice to break up and escape.

The nature of soldiers obeying orders made the team members not talk too much about what happened. They immediately obeyed the order and disbanded in place, and each chose a direction to run wildly.

Zhou Jianqing led Qiao Zhou and three other team members into a narrow alley. The roads on the Machiya side extend in all directions, and there are countless roads of chessboard size, but the population here is also dense. No matter how they walk, they will bump into each other head-on. There is a crowd of people.

The five of them rushed forward on a sparsely populated, hidden road, and gradually became aware of the changes around them. Those poor people wearing coarse clothes were slowly... turning into terrifying non-human beings.

Long and short roars intertwined above the night sky. Zhou Jianqing pulled down the bolt. When he met the ghosts before, he found that the guns had no effect on them. Therefore, these excellent killing tools can only be temporarily hidden. Now he only secretly hopes that these The monsters that gather can be killed by guns, otherwise it will be too difficult to save their lives.

They drilled around in these narrow passages, and at the beginning they could see some normal-looking people, but later they encountered monsters with twisted muscles and bones like demons, a bat-like spirit with membranous wings growing on its back. The thing chasing them, like a hyena found a good food, Zhou Jianqing originally planned to get rid of it, so as not to cause a big commotion and attract more things, but now it seems that he has to fight.

The specially trained soldiers fled into a dead end in a panic, and the bat spirit let out a shrill laugh from its throat, and rushed towards the four embarrassed prey in front. Its poor brain had no idea why there were fewer animals in front of it. one person.

It moves fast and the other one is faster.

The figure crawling on the low wall fell from the sky and hit it on the back, strangled its throat with one hand forward, and held the handle of the gun with the other hand, and the muzzle of the gun pressed against the temple of the bat spirit and buckled it without hesitation. trigger.

Green blood sprayed out from the other end, and the fragile temples shattered and exploded. Zhou Jianqing's patient hand was still pinching its neck until the beating pulse stopped before putting down the distorted and mutated corpse.

The gunshots caused commotion in the surroundings. Zhou Jianqing looked left and right, quickly got up, and ran in the direction with the least movement. Qiao Zhou followed behind him, watching the direction they were going, with a slightly strange expression on his face.

The front... seems to be Tsuchimikado?

Speaking of which, Abe Seimei, who was forced to seal the ghost gate by Ashiya Road, doesn't know what's going on now. I hope he has successfully locked the ghost gate, otherwise they may face a new...Hyakki Night Walk.

Qiao Zhou's worry was justified. When they rushed out of the alley and stepped on the solid dirt road, the first thing they saw was the black ghostly aura that was about to materialize in front of them. The surrounding temperature dropped several degrees in an instant. The feeling of cold air exuding from the inside out is more terrifying than being naked in the ice and snow, as if someone is greedily sticking to the back to absorb the warm breath of human beings.

A man of moderate stature is standing not far away, with his back to this side. In front of him is a terrifying ghostly aura that is about to condense into a solid body. An endless stream of ghosts are stretching out their claws and climbing out of it. Monsters of various shapes They stood on the side, this mighty army was slowly taking shape, and the man standing at the front was obviously their commander.

Although I didn't see the face, but the back, the familiar hunting clothes, and the bat fan...

Qiao Zhou gasped slightly, as if the man had sensed something, he turned his face to this side, revealing narrow and smiling fox eyes, a high nose bridge, and strangely red lips.

Gan, Seimei Abe!

It's just that the current Great Onmyoji has obviously begun to undergo indiscriminate mutations, with dark blue lines appearing on his face, his ears are elongated and pointed, and a pair of black eyes have the golden color that only beasts can have. He is handsome and gentle. Onmyoji is slowly transforming into the direction of ghosts and ghosts.

The sudden appearance of five intruders quickly caught Abe Seimei's attention. The alienated Onmyoji turned his head and looked straight at it. The distance and the noisy voice were covered up, Zhou Jianqing and the others didn't hear it, but they didn't wonder for too long, only to see those Huangquan monsters crawling out of the ghostly atmosphere, raised their heads at the same time, and twisted their necks towards them. side.

What are the things that come out of the ghost gate? Black and red carrion hangs on the white skeleton that can barely maintain the human shape, and there are disgusting scales growing on some parts, and protruding fibroids and blood vessels hang randomly. On the skeleton, the wings and tail with periosteum can grow out from any part at will, and the plump, round and moist eyes are crowded in the middle of the pelvis, and they creak as the skeleton moves. There was a strange creaking sound, and dense maggots covered the human tissue. If it weren't for the occasional fine wriggling, it would almost give people the illusion that it was a layer of intact and smooth skin.

Legend has it that the goddess Izanami, who was left in the underworld, looked like this half-life and half-dead. The left half of her body was as delicate and youthful as a blooming flower, and the right half of her body was a decayed skeleton with maggots hanging on it, because I saw her right half of the body But Izanaki, who was terrified and escaped from the underworld, abandoned his wife, and the goddess issued a vicious curse.

In Huangquan under her rule, of course all living beings have such a distorted, grotesque and ugly appearance.

The ghosts who climbed up from the underworld crawled at the feet of Abe Seimei. In this world without the goddess of the underworld, the great onmyoji who can connect the underworld and the human world is naturally the commander without words.

Under the commander's order, countless evil spirits turned their faces towards the five people at the entrance of the alley, and blue-black will-o'-the-wisps ignited in their empty eye sockets.

Being stared at by hundreds of such eyes, the pressure was extraordinary. Zhou Jianqing stood at the front, facing this inhuman force, his always laughing expression calmed down for the first time. Tightened, the strength of the whole body was mobilized and accumulated in the limbs.

He vaguely realized that this might be the last journey.

"I'll try to buy time, and you guys will take Mr. Qiao out."

"I'll stay with the team leader, Santie Laohan, take Mr. Qiao away."

Zhou Jianqing spoke out first, followed by another soldier to refute.

"I'll stay, the team leader will take people away." The man called Lao Han protested in a low voice.

"Enough! It's time to dawdle, Datou and I stay, you go, this is an order!" Zhou Jianqing interrupted them, his voice was like a low resonance buzzing from his chest.

Their conversation was short and fast, their lips were moving, their eyes were fixed on the evil spirits on the opposite side, and their bodies remained motionless.

Qiao Zhou didn't express his opinion for the time being. They thought that this gentle young man was frightened by the battle on the other side and hadn't recovered yet. In fact, this gentle young man was quickly changing his perspective, and half of him was facing the ghost directly. The monster came out of the door, and the other half of him stepped on the high wind and tossed and turned in the streets and alleys where the fire and monsters roamed carnivally. The moment his hand was as stiff as steel, all the monsters hit by the spell were pulled into an unknown space.

The speed of the people walking on the wind was so fast that it seemed as if heavy snow made of yellow paper had fallen over some parts of the capital, with undetectable rays of light flashing one after another, like a funeral procession strung up on a long street. The flames rushed to devour the flying talisman paper, but lost the target the moment it touched it.

The man holding the bat fan took a step back. This action seemed to be a signal that turned on the switch of the evil spirits at once. These decayed and twisted creatures from the underworld let out a shrill scream, like metal scraping, and the baby The screaming sound exploded, and the blood of the five people froze under the terrifying sound.

These monsters opened their mouths, screamed, and rushed towards them like a violent wind!