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Chapter 51 051

No matter what the current situation is, since Shen Tang's lost soul has been found, naturally it is better to let it return to Shen Tang as soon as possible.

Once the three souls of a person are out of the body, if you want to call them back after a long time, the body will need to adapt for a while. It was originally your own thing, but when you reinstall it, it looks like an organ transplant. Maybe something will happen. Rejection.

But anyway, which healthy person doesn't want to be healthy?

Xie Yaoling could see that Shen Tang was far more eager to return his soul than himself.

She looked at the location of the soul again, concentrated for a while, got up and went out the door, and returned after a while with something in the shape of a half kerosene lamp.

The blind man with the lamp—

Shen Tang raised his brows, sat on the ground in the empty space of the complex circular formation, with his legs crossed, his chin resting on his elbows, he raised his chin and asked her:

"what is that?"

Xie Yaoling replied indifferently: "The lamp for attracting souls."

Just by lighting it up, the lost wandering soul can be summoned back, supplemented by spiritualism, unless the soul is imprisoned, otherwise it is not so easy to be recalled.

Shen Tang nodded, and kept the same posture to watch her slowly fiddle with things outside her knowledge system.

Quietly in the room, the clock moved clockwise by one notch, and the position of the wick of the lamp in front of Xie Yaoling seemed to be sparked by a flint, and a star lit up with a faint light.

Even though there was no wind, it looked so weak that it would be extinguished in the next second, which made Shen Tang somewhat terrified.

At this moment, Xie Yaoling stretched out his hand to her and said, "Give me a hair."

Shen Tang thought for a while, got up and paid attention to the movements of his feet, walked to the bed where he slept last night, touched his pillow, turned around and handed Xie Yaoling a hair:

"Here."

Looking at Xie Yaoling who was reluctant to pull out her long hair: "..."

For a moment, she truly felt how rare contemporary young people are to their hair volume.

……

In the back kitchen of the hotel, in the rest room of the shopkeeper.

The drawers and hidden compartments were opened silently one by one, and two slender boys were rummaging through them. Qiu Ran looked out of the window from time to time, feeling a little guilty.

He elbowed the person standing close behind him:

"Hey, that thing is too hard to find, what if he puts it on him?"

Chen Shi turned his head to the side and turned to look at him. Out of the corner of his eye, he was still paying attention to the arrangement of the objects on the table. Except for a very small number of objects after the founding of the People's Republic of China, most of them were ancient objects.

His voice drifted out from the cracks in his lips: "Do you think-this small town seems to have a retro cultural style, or is it like a hidden rich village?"

Qiu Ran was at a loss.

Chen Shi was staring at many ornaments from the late Qing Dynasty in the room, and lightly touched the shoulder of the person behind him with his palm, Qiu Ran got the idea, and slipped out of this place with him.

As soon as he walked out of the hotel, Chen Shi decided to test his conjecture while it was still broad daylight. When Qiu Ran was going to find a place to fill his stomach during the intermission, he pulled him by the collar on the back of his neck and continued to walk out——

"Hey, old Chen, what are you doing? It's lunch time!"

"Hurry up!" Chen Shi simply replied two words, remembering that he met Xie Yaoling once when he was taking Yun Xiangrong's order, he deeply felt that to be her opponent, the competition in this metaphysics conference must race against time.

The secrets of this town...he must figure it out.

Qiu Ran was dragged back on the bluestone road by him, and he did not forget to pull him back to the hotel to find her bag. When the two came down from the upstairs, Qiu Ran found out from the bag that she had treasured it for a long time. notes.

That is also his family's only valuable property in the industry. It is the experience of a qualified senior who expected to cultivate immortality a hundred years ago, traveling all over the world. Maybe it is just a wild and interesting book like travel notes for me.

But the Qiu family has been pious and cautious towards this orphan up to now, for fear of damaging a corner of it.

As he walked, he took out this book from his bag: "I secretly came to this conference without telling my dad, and I brought my only treasure with me before I left, look——"

As one of the aristocratic families, the Chen family naturally has more things to offer. At first, Chen Shi just glanced at it casually, but then he was slightly taken aback:

"Wild water Taoist?"

This name is strange, but he has heard it before, it is rare, and it does not belong to people from aristocratic families.

Qiu Ran nodded, turned to the part she had seen before, and pointed out the contents to him.

Chen Shi scanned the ten lines at a glance, and when he saw a formation about dragons listed above and a dragon hovering above, his mind was filled with shock, and he couldn't help but stop.

"You mean to say—"

Qiu Ran nodded, and followed his words: "I have searched for the shape of that mountain, and it is very similar to this one, and in this way, the things about the village and this town can also be confirmed."

Chen Shi touched his chin and patted him on the back: "My good brother, I feel that this is the closest I've come to winning the championship."

Qiu Ran smiled embarrassedly, hid her book, and continued to ask, "Do you want to form an alliance?"

He was actually ready to be rejected by the other party.

After all, there are a huge crowd of people from the Eight Great Aristocratic Families, even if I and the other party are college classmates, there is no need for them to be on the same team as me because of this free reminder.

As soon as he said the words, he realized that he wanted to take them back.

In the end, Chen Shi nodded without even thinking about it: "Of course, let's talk to each other."

Qiu Ran breathed a sigh of relief, and willingly followed him to the depths of the alleyway with her bright orange bag on her back, giving him a lookout from time to time, and reminding him to run away at any time.

The two of them are like those little boys in Zhuangzi who like to steal chickens and dogs from neighbors' houses. They rummaged in and out of the entire town's walls. Before five o'clock in the afternoon, when Chen Shi came out again, his pockets were a little bulging s things.

"We've been discovered, let's go—"

He simply gestured to Qiu Ran, and Qiu Ran was about to run when he saw several cards falling out of his trouser pocket, which were quite heavy.

Looking down, he was half a beat behind before he remembered what it was.

ID card, temporary residence permit.

It's all from a long time ago, if he didn't have good eyesight to see the words on it, I don't know when he would recognize it.

After a moment of pause, in the courtyard that Chen Shi found, a figure stood silently on the top of the wall, staring down at the two of them.

When Qiu Ran raised his head, his dark, unwavering eyes met, almost making him paralyzed on the spot, forgetting to run away.

Chen Shi raised his hand and pulled him out of the alleyway very quickly.

……

"Huh, huh..."

The sound of panting kept ringing, and the sound of the heartbeat almost shattered the eardrums. The brand-new sneakers under the boy's feet were already stained with mud, and even the back of the bright and dazzling backpack was scratched. Fluorescent effect has been reduced slightly.

With five fingers propped against the wall behind him, amidst the sound of dripping water from the drainage pipe next to him, he glanced at the person opposite and asked, "Have you caught up?"

The heart and lungs on the opposite side were almost exploding. He just shook his head at him, indicating that he was not clear, and then carefully concentrated. After a while, he took out a coin-shaped thing from his pocket, and pushed it hard The direction of the sky is thrown away.

That was the emergency distress device for this metaphysics conference.

Once someone sends out this, all the personnel in the game can sense it, and they will collectively come in this direction.

This is one of the iron rules of the competition, in order to minimize the losses of the young juniors in the competition, but in terms of specific operations, if someone really wants to target someone, it is not uncommon to strike before the opponent sends a signal.

No matter what, this is the hope that Chen Shi and the two threw out.

Just when the thing was about to launch into the sky and explode, a black shadow flew over the narrow alley, snatched the signal, and then stood silently on the eaves, like a lightning rod built on a rainy day, quietly He stared at the two people below.

At the end of the alley and at the end of the alley, people in twos and threes were also surrounded at some point.

Those people were wearing ordinary clothes, and some even wore aprons, as if they came out of the kitchen temporarily, but no one made a sound, and the expressions on their faces were not as vivid as when they first saw them.

Qiu Ran kept swallowing her dry throat, wanting to call for help, but found that the two of them had led these guys to a remote place at the beginning in order not to startle the enemy and attract the attention of other contestants.

Now... unless Immortal Da Luo passed by and wanted to meddle in his business, the two of them would be in danger.

……

"Old Xie, are you sure you are here? I always feel that this town is very evil. Why is my sha here?"

In order to avoid his words attracting the attention of others, Shen Tang deliberately replaced his soul with "that what" to refer to, and rubbed Xie Yaoling with his shoulder when speaking.

I like to use various small gestures to attract the attention of the other party.

Xie Yaoling took her around in the alleys of this small town, heading straight for a certain place.

When Shen Tang asked the question, she answered three words unhurriedly: "I don't know."

It was obviously something she didn't know about, but it also had a sense of righteousness.

Shen Tang raised his hand to pull a lock of her hair behind her ear, and when he withdrew his hand, he counted with his fingers and said to her: "According to the general routine in novels, when things go very smoothly, there is either a fraud or a fraud. or—"

Xie Yaoling tilted her head, motioning for her to continue.

Shen Tang blinked his eyes, and continued: "It means that this is Shuangwen's routine, the protagonist will always turn against the wind, and slap everyone's face with a slap."

Xie Yaoling gave her a lot of face: "What do you think you are?"

Shen Tang clicked his tongue. If she was the protagonist of Shuangwen, how could she be in such a tepid and embarrassing state in the entertainment industry now?

But thinking about it, he still cast a glance at Xie Yaoling's side face, and replied truthfully: "To have such a beautiful daughter-in-law, maybe you followed the Shuangwen route?"

Xie Yaoling was about to comment on her desire to survive, when the two of them suddenly heard a softly hummed song.

Like a gentle hand caressing the auricle, it brings boundless comfort and relaxation, making the heart softer.

It's a lullaby.

Shen Tang glanced at the shops on the side of the road, and it turned out that the two of them passed by the steamed stuffed bun shop yesterday.

During the day, the proprietress returned to her gentle and caring appearance, but at night, she could not find her over-burned and unrecognizable appearance, as if last night was just an illusion brought about by the fog.

When Shen Tang looked over, the sound of the lullaby stopped——

The proprietress of the bun shop also looked over at the first moment.

When the four eyes met, Shen Tang actually saw a little embarrassment in her eyes.

It's quite embarrassing. As a woman, when someone sees her in the most embarrassing appearance, anyone will feel embarrassed and even become angry from embarrassment.

When Shen Tang went out with Xie Yaoling, he was already ready to travel to the ghost town by himself, but he didn't expect that these years...

Even the guys who are neither human nor ghost have such vivid emotions?

Her mind was complicated for a moment, and the proprietress didn't know what she was thinking, so the two just stared at each other for a long time.

By chance, Shen Tang asked, "Do you want to eat steamed stuffed buns, Lao Xie?"

Of course Xie Yaoling didn't want to.

But she knew that Shen Tang was not in a hurry, and she must have her own reasons for asking this reason. The next moment, Shen Tang leaned into her ear and asked:

"Do you remember when you were in the game?"

Maybe I can ask the shop owner for some clues.

Xie Yaoling was startled, only pursed his lips, and said slowly: "Your affairs are more important."

Shen Tang shook his head, tugged at the corner of her clothes again, and led her to the store, and stepped up the last step, Shen Tang said to the proprietress:

"The barbecued pork buns here yesterday tasted pretty good. Did you get up early in the morning to make breakfast?"

Unexpectedly, the proprietress came back to her senses and said to the two of them, "Today's buns are sold out."

The steamer was still steaming, and everyone present was well aware of this behavior of opening their eyes and talking nonsense.

While speaking, she looked in Xie Yaoling's direction with some hesitation. Obviously, she did not have no memory of what happened last night.

There was a bit of anticipation in that gaze, but it was quickly extinguished.

Then, as if she didn't care about the person in front of her at all, she lowered her head and hugged the child in her arms to coax her again, and the lullaby sounded again.

Fluttering, still soft and warm.

No one knew that she would take on another face at night.

Shen Tang cleared his throat, and lowered his voice subconsciously: "You must also know that some new guests have come to the town recently. They are all very capable, and the person next to me is the same, so... If you don't mind, can you tell me Me, did something happen here?"

The proprietress's singing paused, her eyes were lowered, and she couldn't see her expression clearly.

She looked at the child who was already asleep in her arms, the child who was born with all her expectations, but could never grow into the child she expected. There was a bit of pain in her eyes, and she was quickly suppressed. go down.

Some pain, after too long, is also numb.

"You are not the first to come."

She spoke, perhaps because of her mood swings, her voice was skewed when she spoke, and her pronunciation was a bit slurred.

Before all the aristocratic families came to this metaphysics conference, the leader of this town secretly invited the most powerful metaphysics master in the world to see it.

No one can save them from this bad luck.

Shen Tang couldn't help looking at Xie Yaoling. She couldn't imagine what other people were like, but the most powerful person she had ever seen in this aspect since she was born was Xie Yaoling.

No matter what kind of evil spirits and ghosts are under her staff, they are not worth mentioning.

"...What if, what if?" Shen Tang felt a little guilty when he asked the question provocatively.

The store proprietress who was holding the child smiled. Because she didn't apply any makeup, the corners of her lips curled up a little bleakly. She gently hugged the child in her arms and coaxed her, but she squinted at Shen Tang:

"Have you ever seen a dragon?"

Shen Tang especially wanted to ask: Does the dragon's corpse count?

She tried very hard to control her eyes from looking in the direction of Xie Yaoling's cane.

After seeing Shen Tang shaking her head, the proprietress subconsciously glanced at the person beside her. The person was leaning on a jade-white crutch with a strange shape, and his eyes were covered with a white strip of cloth.

She has heard that some people who are capable in this industry are born with some disabilities.

Although she was the one who was invited to solve the problem this time, she was unwilling to reveal the embarrassment of the whole small town in front of others when she was not sure. When she saw Shen Tang shaking her head, she had no choice but to continue. Intend.

Just when he was about to drive people away, the cold-eyed person suddenly said:

"... seen."

As soon as the words came out, the proprietress gave her a blank look, and Shen Tang couldn't help but squint at her from the corner of her eyes.

——Have you seen anything, have you seen it in textbooks?

Just as Shen Tang thought, the proprietress smiled, shook her head and said, "There are no more dragons now, where are you going to meet?"

Unless the person has lived a long time.

Xie Yaoling didn't dwell on this issue, but said bluntly, "I understand."

After all, she tilted her head and said to Shen Tang: "Let's go, your matters are more important."

Shen Tang: "...???"

She asked in amazement: "Do you know what's going on here?"

Xie Yaoling pursed her lips and nodded slightly to her.

Not to mention Shen Tang, even the proprietress was a little stunned, and then quickly relieved, and asked in a low voice: "So, is there any help?"

The room was quiet for a long time.

Shen Tang looked at the people beside him, no matter how difficult the problem was, when it came to her, it seemed to be calm and not worth mentioning, this time——

"No solution."

She saw Xie Yaoling's thin lips parted slightly, her pale lips opened and closed, and the two words fell into her ears lightly and heavily.

It also fell into the heart of the proprietress.

The proprietress smiled, full of the look of 'as expected', and sighed: "Many years ago, I thought, when everything is fine and my son grows up, I will send him out to study, and when he comes back Then slowly taught me, and then went to see the current world."

After she finished speaking, she paused for a long time, looking down at her child, with a little regret and loss in her eyes.

"Later," she said, "I gradually stopped thinking about it."

I don't want to know what the world is like.

"I'm just waiting to be buried in the ground." The proprietress adjusted the cloth covering the child a little, as if she was protecting the sleeping child from the wind, and then continued: "I hope that in the next life, I can see him grow up again."

she said so.

Shen Tang listened in a cloud of mist and didn't know what was going on. He just turned his head and looked at Xie Yaoling in a daze. Seeing her nodding to the proprietress, he said sincerely:

"I'm very sorry."

I asked about your sadness, but I couldn't do anything.

Hearing her words, the proprietress waved to the two of them, indicating that they could leave.

So Shen Tang could only walk forward with Xie Yaoling full of doubts. Just after leaving the store, there was another "hey" from behind. In his hand, he packed a small steamed bun for the two of them, and said:

"I'll send it off to you guys. You haven't eaten the buns made by people like me before?"

There is a bit of self-deprecation in this statement.

Indeed, Shen Tang has eaten a lot of steamed stuffed buns made by living people, this kind of...reckless...uh.

Shen Tang shook off the strange complaints from the bottom of his heart, took the bun, took out the change from his pocket last night, walked up quickly and put it on the lid of the steamer, bowed to her, and quickly He caught up with Xie Yaoling.

……

"This place is cursed by a dragon."

Before Shen Tang could ask, Xie Yaoling answered softly.

Shen Tang opened his mouth and only let out a sound: "Ah."

She scratched her hair, she had heard of the descendants of the dragon, what is the curse of the dragon?

The dragon and the phoenix are both auspicious, so there is such a negative thing——

Doubts flashed through her mind, and she motioned for the other party to continue talking.

"The appearance of the proprietress I saw last night is the result of being burned by something, and the souls of all the people in this town are in a strange melting state. I was very puzzled yesterday."

"Now there is an answer."

Xie Yaoling continued slowly: "I don't know what the people here have done. After being baptized by that dragon's breath, they finally looked like this."

Shen Tang answered in a timely manner: "Zombie?"

Xie Yaoling shook his head: "It should be said that they are the living dead. People are already dead, but their souls stay in this world in a state similar to eternal life."

Shen Tang felt that he knew every word in her words, but it was a bit difficult to understand them together.

She pouted and said to Xie Yaoling: "A qualified wife should learn to take care of the IQ of her partner."

Xie Yaoling: "..."

After thinking for a while, she said simply: "It means that a dragon appeared near here before, and breathed out here, and then these people were baptized by the dragon's breath, and became what they are now."

Shen Tang: "Huh? Spraying... a fire-breathing dragon?"

Xie Yaoling was speechless for a while, and replied: "You can understand it this way, as the power of destruction, dragon's breath can destroy everything in the world, but—"

Speaking of this, Xie Yaoling paused, feeling a little confused, and the follow-up voice was much lower: "But there is a ray of vitality in that breath, which led to the current effect."

That's why it is said that this place is cursed by that dragon.

Those people are not dead, but they are not alive. Time stops on them, but it does not take them away. They are left behind in the last era, and in the ever-changing world, they look at them beyond recognition.

Even dying has become a luxury.

This must be... how much hatred?

Xie Yaoling was only halfway through his train of thought when he suddenly heard a voice from the alley ahead:

"Brother Chen, are you alright! Help, is there anyone here! Someone is dead!"

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