The familiar wizard from yesterday was guarding the gate. When he saw Gu Shi and Wendel walking side by side, he knew that they were preparing to enter the ruins.

When they stopped in front of the gate, the wizard skillfully extended his hand and handed each of them a small hourglass.

"You two, please take this.

This hourglass is a timing tool we developed. It can reflect the extent of the ruins' entrance's collapse. When exploring the ruins, please be sure to pay attention to the time and leave before the hourglass runs out, otherwise you will be trapped and die in the ruins."

It is said that the entrance to this ruin will collapse in two months, but this is calculated based on the outside time. In order to prevent any accidents or people from remembering the time wrong, they developed this prop.

After listening to the wizard's words, Gu Shi took the small hourglass from him.

It seems that the designers are worried that someone might place the hourglass in the space prop and forget the time to leave, so the hourglass is thoughtfully attached with a silver chain so that people can wear it around their neck as a necklace.

Although Gu Shi didn't think he would make such a mistake, he still put on the hourglass just in case, and Wendel next to him did the same.

Seeing that both of them had brought hourglasses, the wizard added, "Although we are very confident in the accuracy of this prop, just in case, please come out early and don't leave during the final countdown."

"I understand." Gu Shi and Wendel responded in unison.

The wizard nodded in satisfaction. "I won't say much else. Master Wendel must have already understood the situation in this secret realm. I wish you both smooth sailing in the future."

After saying this, the mage stepped back.

Gu Shi and Wendel talked for a while in front of the entrance to the ruins. After confirming that there were no omissions, they looked at each other and stepped into the door at the same time.

After stepping through the gate, Gu Shi seemed to have penetrated a thin barrier, and his whole body was enveloped in soft white light.

Just when Gu Shi thought he was about to step into the ruins, he suddenly felt that something seemed to have changed in the surrounding environment, and a huge feeling of dizziness enveloped his brain.

Gu Shi was overwhelmed by this strong feeling of dizziness and fainted immediately.

I don’t know how much time has passed.

"Hiss, I feel dizzy..."

Gu Shi supported himself on the ground with one hand and covered his head with the other, then slowly stood up. "What happened just now? I haven't heard Wendel say that there will be such adverse reactions when entering the ruins."

After regaining consciousness, Gu Shi immediately began to observe the surrounding situation. He looked around quickly, but the surrounding environment made him fall into deep confusion.

"What's going on? Why is the ruins so bustling?"

Gu Shi was now in a dark alley. Since Wendel had said that the landing point after entering the ruins was random, he was not surprised that he would appear in the alley.

But when he turned his head, he could see people coming and going on the street not far away, it was very lively. This couldn't be explained no matter how, right?

If there were only four or five people, Gu Shi could still understand that those who entered the ruins to explore were gathered together, but this was obviously not the case outside.

The alley looked like an ordinary busy street. Gu Shi could even hear the hawkers' cries and bargaining sounds coming from his ears.

This scene was completely different from the interior of the ruins described by Wendel. The unexpected development made Gu Shi stand there in a daze for a while.

Stay calm, stay calm. Maybe he was just unlucky and stepped into an illusion as soon as he came in. You must not panic at times like this.

Gu Shi patted his cheeks, took a deep breath, and slowly walked out of the alley.

Gu pretended to be calm and walked into the crowd outside. He was wearing a black robe, which seemed a bit out of place on this street, but no one looked at him in surprise.

Gu Shi felt a little confused about this, but it was good news for him. At least he would not be regarded as an invader right from the start and then be attacked by these people.

As he walked, Gu Shi stopped in front of a butcher's shop. Based on his previous observation, the owner of the butcher's shop was a very talkative person. He had talked with the two previous customers for a long time. Perhaps he could try to get some useful information from him.

Gu Shi walked forward and looked down at the meat on the table, pretending to carefully select it. "Boss, is your meat fresh?"

I thought the butcher would respond promptly, but he seemed not to see Gu Shi. He stood there cutting meat and humming an unknown tune.

Seeing his reaction, Gu Shi raised his voice this time, "Boss, is your meat fresh?"

The butcher was still minding his own business.

Gu Shi immediately noticed something was wrong from his boss's reaction. He reached out and touched the table in front of him. It was okay, he could touch it.

Then he stretched out his hand in front of the boss, directly blocking the boss's view, but the boss continued to cut the meat indifferently, not caring about Gu Shi's disruptive behavior at all.

Even though Gu Shi's hands had blocked most of his vision, the boss's movements in cutting the meat were still very precise.

"Can't you see or hear?"

Gu Shi touched his chin, turned around and stretched out his hand to stop the pedestrians on the street. The pedestrian had the same reaction. He didn't even see Gu Shi's outstretched hand and just bumped into him.

The next second, Gu Shi saw with his own eyes that the pedestrian went straight through his arm and walked past.

After Gu Shi withdrew his hand, he pinched it again and said, "I don't feel anything, so I can touch objects now, but I can't touch people, and I can't be seen by others."

After this, Gu Shi conducted several more experiments to thoroughly verify his current semi-ghost state.

After reaching this conclusion, Gu Shi's subsequent actions became much more outrageous. He walked directly and blatantly to other people and tried to find out information from their conversations.

But after spending a lot of time, Gu Shi didn't get much useful information.

He observed this street for a long time and found that most people were like NPCs without self-awareness, and could only speak a few fixed repetitive sentences.

The same was true of the butcher shop owner that Gu Shi first noticed. He used the same rhetoric to treat all customers. He would first greet the customers warmly, and then begin to recommend the meat in his shop.

After a long period of praise, the customer was persuaded by the butcher and bought a piece of meat and left.

Gu Shi couldn't extract much useful information from these meaningless conversations.