I Upended Yet Another Campus Urban Legend

The city that never sleeps let Lin Yi and Qin Zhou out.

The gold they have is only enough to complete the deal of 'leaving the city that never sleeps for one day', that is, they only have 12 hours.

There was an endless stream of people going to the city that never sleeps, and the two of them walked out quickly against the current.

Walking through the range of the city that never sleeps, before their eyes was the boundless sea, even in the dark night, they could see that the sea was still blue.Where there is the sea, there is the beach. Lin Yi looked far away and could see some lights at the end of his vision.

The castle is also in the same direction as those little lights.

They don't have enough time. What will they face if they fail to return to the city that never sleeps within 12 hours? This is a question that can be answered without thinking about it.

After walking for about half an hour, they finally arrived at this end of the field of vision.

When I got closer, I realized that this place looks like a small town, and there are not many streets, only two vertical and horizontal.The only thing that is spectacular is the castle behind the town. Walk straight from the vertical road in the town to reach the gate of the castle.

There are many soldiers on duty at the city gate, wearing heavy armor and holding sharp spears in their hands.

Before Lin Yi and Qin Zhou walked in, the leading soldier shouted in a heavy voice, "No approaching here!"

Swish-

The soldiers pointed their spears at the two of them, expressing with their weapons that if they dared to go any further, they would stab the weapons into their bodies.

Now that he had come here, Lin Yi couldn't just return without success, he took out his kit, and wanted to continue sending them away with gold.

In the city that never sleeps, gold is the passport.

"Brothers, please do me a favor." Lin Yi stretched out his hand and handed over the gold.

Staring at the shabby gold in Lin Yi's hand, the originally strict soldier suddenly burst out laughing.

"Is this bribing us?"

"With this bit of gold?"

"It's just gold flakes, my toilet doesn't use gold flakes anymore!"

Qin Zhou said: "Leave first."

After being humiliated, Lin Yi silently put the gold back into the kit bag, feeling a little tired from buckling his toes.

The two continued to wander around the town. According to the time of the city that never sleeps, it was 2 o'clock at this time.

The town is not big, and the market is just down the street.

Lin Yi looked at the street vendors. Some sold pork, mutton, and beef, as well as some common daily necessities.

Qin Zhou whispered beside him: "There is no fish."

Lin Yi nodded.

This is a very strange point. This is a small town by the sea. According to normal logic, compared with other meats, seafood should be the most common, but let alone fish, they didn't even see a small shrimp.

Moreover, on the vendors selling tools, there are hammers, hammers, etc., but there are no tools related to fishing gear.

Qin Zhou said, "Go to the beach and have a look."

Lin Yi also thought so: "Okay."

The two of them walked towards the sea, and the closer to the sea, the stronger the salty smell in the air.

They discovered this when they came, but the smell of this sea area was even more irresistible. Even if they pinched their noses, the salty smell still rushed into their nostrils.

Not every resident lives in the small town, and there are some individual houses by the sea, but there is still a distance from the sea.

The two of them stopped at one place and watched the scene here.

Qin Zhou tilted his head and asked Lin Yi: "Young genius, what do you think?"

Lin Yi said, "It's obviously close to the sea, but I can't see the development of fishery."

He looked up and pointed to a small house in front of the two of them: "But there are fishing gear hanging on the wall, and it looks like it has been put aside for a long time. Senior, I feel that something happened here to stop them from entering the sea. But it cannot be ordered by the prince, because the fishermen Living only by the sea, you can’t give up fishing for the sake of living, it’s only possible that the fishermen are afraid of the sea from the bottom of their hearts.”

Qin Zhou nodded: "Giving up fishing and building houses far away from the sea is really not because I hate the sea, but because there are some taboos about the sea."

The taboo of the sea is reminiscent of siren and so on.

But they don't need to guess whether there is really a sea monster in the sea at this time, because they have already guessed in their hearts.

Doesn't the mermaid princess just live in the sea?

They just need to confirm whether the fishermen have given up fishing because of the mermaid.

The two had the same idea, and Lin Yi whispered to Qin Zhou, "Senior, I have a solution."

Lin Yi secretly ran to the small house in front of him, and he heard the voices of people talking in the house, which meant that there were people living in this house.

He took off the rotten fishing nets that had been put aside by the fishermen for a long time, wrapped them around his lower body, bent down and adjusted the fishing nets at his feet, and arranged the fishing nets into the shape of a fish's tail.

Then Qin Zhou also hung the small lamp he got on top of Lin Yi's head, so that the shadow of a mermaid appeared on the ground.

Qin Zhou raised his voice and shouted, "The mermaid has appeared!"

The originally harmonious conversation in the small house suddenly stopped, followed by the sound of panicked footsteps.

Someone pushed the door carefully, and saw the shadow of the mermaid on the ground through the gap. The residents were so frightened that they fell to the ground: "Mermaid! It's a mermaid!"

The words were filled with horror and fear.

Lin Yi put one hand on his throat, cleared his throat, and was about to speak to scare the residents.

The residents in the small house, who had been frightened by Lin Yi, recruited themselves like beans. They knelt down in front of the mermaid shadow, holding gold and silver treasures in their hands: "These are all given to us by the prince, and they are all here." , don’t kill us don’t kill us!”

Lin Yi glanced at Qin Zhou who was stuck against the wall.

Qin Zhou nodded slightly towards him.

Lin Yi pinched his voice and asked, "I won't kill you, I'll go find the prince."

"Thank you! Thank you!" The fishermen were grateful to Dade, and they didn't feel that there was anything wrong with Lin Yi's voice. Perhaps they had never seen a mermaid before, and this was the first time they saw a mermaid.

Lin Yi asked: "But you must tell me how to get to the castle. If you tell me, I will let you go."

The fishermen just wanted to survive, so they had no reservations, so they betrayed their prince immediately: "The castle will change its guards every hour. At that time, the guards are slack. You, you can take advantage of that time to enter the castle."

After getting what he wanted to know, Lin Yi didn't scare them anymore: "Go back to sleep immediately, and forget about seeing me today."

The fisherman hurriedly said, "Okay, okay."

With a sound of 'squeak', the door of the small house was closed by the obedient fishermen.

Lin Yi bent down to untie the fishing net wrapped around his legs, and Qin Zhou came out to help him untie it.

Lin Yi whispered: "No wonder the guards don't like my gold pieces, so the fishermen are so rich. Senior, the toilet in the guard's house may be inlaid with bricks."

Qin Zhou couldn't help laughing.

After untying the fishing net, Lin Yi returned the fishing net to its original place.

The two walked towards the castle again.

When they reached the edge of the castle, they did not show up before the guards, but hid in the shadows.

"Little genius." Qin Zhou asked, "How much longer?"

Lin Yi counted the time: "It's like 7 minutes until the next hour."

Qin Zhou raised his eyes to look at him, and after a while concealed the emotion in his eyes: "Okay."

Whenever Lin Yi reports the time on time, Qin Zhou's heart palpitates.

This is not the sensitivity that normal people should have to time.

Lin Yi pretended not to see it.

Seven minutes later, the guards on duty at the city gate entered the city gate in unison.

Without hesitation, the two rushed to the city gate and entered.

Once inside, they heard the approaching footsteps of a group of guards in the distance.

They hid behind a pillar and waited for the guards to leave the city gate before communicating.

Lin Yi said, "Senior, we have to separate."

After entering the castle, Lin Yi glanced around.

The castle is bigger than what you can see from the window of the city that never sleeps. They only have 12 hours, and they have to take out the time to go back and forth. There is no way for them to explore the castle at the same time in the remaining time.

Qin Zhou nodded.

"Be careful."

Lin Yi: "Okay."

After separating from Qin Zhou, Lin Yi ran to the tall building.

In fairy tales, the prince or princess lives on the top floor of the castle.

So he didn't discuss it with Qin Zhou. If he discussed it, he might not necessarily go to the top floor.

There are very few lights in the castle, and the overall look is dark. Qin Zhou doesn't have his night vision, and going to the top floor will only be more dangerous than him.

Although the castle was not well lit, it did not affect Lin Yi's discovery of the gold and silver treasures scattered everywhere in the castle.

If he didn't pay attention, he would kick a luminous pearl away with his forward steps.

Lin Yi walked carefully to the back of the innermost room on the top floor.

He tried to push the door.

The door wasn't closed, and he slipped in.

The room was huge, and after entering Lin Yi, he was attracted by a huge painting on the wall.

A huge ship weighed on the rough sea, the bottom of the ship smashed the spray into a splash of white.On the deck is a prince wearing a medieval dress, dressed very solemnly, holding a sword in his hand, surrounded by guards with bowed heads.

And the bottom of the boat is not only covered with waves, but also a mermaid that is about the same size as the hull.The huge fish tail full of gold flakes was pressed heavily by the boat, making it impossible for the mermaid to turn over and escape, but to struggle violently, creating bigger waves on the sea surface.

And the prince's sword was stabbing towards the mermaid.

Lin Yi looked at the mermaid's face, this is the strangest part of this painting.

The mermaid's face has only one outline and no facial features. In the whole painting, only the prince clearly depicts the facial features, so clear that one can feel the victor's posture coming from the prince with just one glance.

This painting has a name, called "Nautical Chart".

He was looking at the painting when he suddenly heard quick footsteps coming from outside the door.

Lin Yi froze for a moment, then hurried to the depths of the room.

The bed was behind the painting. After hearing the kicking of the door, Lin Yi didn't think much, and slipped under the bed to hide.

He adjusted his posture hiding under the bed, paying attention to the movement at the door of the room.

Two pairs of feet appeared in the field of vision.

According to the length of the feet and the style of the shoes, a man and a woman entered.

"why!"

The man's voice roared, "I treat you so well, why do you treat me like this!"

The woman's voice was calm and impatient: "I didn't do anything."

"You did it!" The man grabbed the woman's shoulders: "You looked at my soldier for three full seconds! But you didn't even give me a straight look!"

The woman was speechless.

Lin Yi was listening under the bed, feeling a little speechless.

The man grabbed the woman and said: "You talk, why don't you continue to explain? Oh, I see! You are guilty! You really had an affair with him!"

"Your Highness!" The woman seemed unable to listen, and emphasized, "I didn't do anything."

This title made Lin Yi sure that the man was probably the prince of the castle.

"Really?" The prince sneered, "I'll call him here, do you dare to confront him face to face!"

"As you like."

Lin Yi scratched his head, it turned out that the princes in fairy tales were also afraid of wearing a cuckold.

After a while, a third voice appeared in the room.

The soldier knelt down: "Your Highness."

"Say!" The prince pointed at the soldier's face and said, "Are you coveting the princess!"

Upon hearing this, the soldier quickly explained: "Your Highness, how dare I covet the princess!"

The prince smiled coldly: "You really covet the princess."

"You didn't answer 'no'."

Lin Yi: "???"

He, a melon-eating bystander, didn't understand where this logic came from. He felt sympathetic to this soldier, and there was nothing he could do if he wanted to incriminate him. If others figured out what you were, it would be useless even if you opened your mouth a hundred times.

Swah——

Lin Yi heard a crisp sound, like a sword being pulled out of its scabbard vigorously.

Then the princess screamed: "Ahhhhhh!"

Lin Yi's angle of view could not allow him to see the whole picture of the development of the incident in the room, he could only see the soldier who was kneeling on the ground suddenly fell down.

Then Lin Yi gasped.

The fallen soldier was headless; his head had been chopped off by the prince.

At this time, 'Gulu Gulu' was rolling on the floor until it reached the edge of the bed, looking at Lin Yi at the bottom of the bed.

Such a shock made Lin Yi's breathing freeze for a moment, and then the sound of footsteps slowly walking towards the bed.

The prince's feet appeared next to the head, and then the prince knelt down to pick up the head.