Chapter 80 80. Midnight

"Can the Familia come with me?"

If she could only enter the midnight alone, Xu Zhi would feel somewhat insecure.

Just make sure they're within the light.

"Then the question is, how big is the range of this light?"

[Currently, your core can only provide light within a one-meter radius.]

That’s it? ?

It seems that I can’t take Gouzi and Xiaozhen with me, I can only take Xiaoyi and Xiaoyi with me.

After all, the dog is more than one meter tall, and Xiaozhen can't reach any light if he flies into the sky. It's better to let these two stay at home.

"You stay home and keep an eye on these two."

When night fell, Xu Zhi decided not to stay at home for the first time.

After explaining the situation to her family, she took out ten high-level cores with the [Light] attribute from the warehouse with some reluctance.

There is a small box on the base of the lantern that can be used to place the core. Xu Zhi only needs to pull it out and throw the core in, then close it, and the lantern will light up.

Before she was about to leave, the narrator appeared and reminded her:

[Be careful not to use the Prying Eyes in the middle of the night. You will see things you shouldn't see, which could lead to blindness or even death!]

[Whatever the situation, don't panic, don't talk to anything, don't answer any sounds, and don't run around. Remember the way you came and return before the light runs out!]

"knew."

Seeing the tone of the narration, Xu Zhi knew that this was a very serious reminder. She did not laugh, but responded seriously.

[Okay, go ahead.]

Xu Zhi inexplicably sensed a hint of an elder's tone in these words. With a strange look on her face, she put the game console into her arms and placed ten high-level [Light] attribute cores into the lantern. After the light came on, Xu Zhi did not notice any changes in herself for the time being, or any buff bonus. Perhaps she would have to wait until something happened to her before she would have a more specific feeling.

She opened the door slightly, and the black fog spread through the open gap into the unlit room, avoiding the range illuminated by the lantern. Xu Zhi walked out of the house through the open door.

Before she went out, she made many assumptions about the streets at midnight and imagined the "dangers" therein. The city was already gloomy during the day, and there was no light at night. It might be pitch black without a finger in sight, or there might be strange light sources, such as the eyes of a huge monster. There might also be a large number of monsters wandering in the streets that she had never seen before.

In short, Xu Zhi was full of fantasies about midnight, but they were all things he had more or less seen in fantasy works before.

But when she actually set foot in it, she found that it was not what she imagined.

The first thing she smelled was the smell of soil, but the road here was all concrete, so where did the soil come from?

Then she saw a strange scene in front of her. It was just a door, and she seemed to have stepped from the city into a strange forest.

A pale full moon hung high in the sky, and countless straight black trees of unknown species rose into the sky, standing like blades in the forest. There were no extra branches, only sharp trunks, which brought endless oppression and cramped feeling to people, making people want to lower their heads and involuntarily avoid these trees.

The only light source was abnormally white, and the ground was covered with a thin layer of mist. The shadows of the trees were darker than the trees themselves, and as thick as ink poured on the ground. Xu Zhi didn't feel that this place was somewhat familiar, but more than that, he felt a sense of uneasiness and panic from the bottom of his heart.

She felt very dangerous, but she didn't know where the danger came from. It was as if, staying here, there was danger on all sides and even in every gap, so she had no way of judging where the danger came from.

This place gave her a feeling of being here and not here. She always felt that she had been here before, but it didn't mean she was here at all.

Xu Zhi turned around and saw that Yuncheng had disappeared. All that was left was a door standing in the air behind him.

The fact that the door was still there made her feel a little relieved, but just as she turned around, a black figure seemed to flash by at the edge of her vision, as if the shadow of a tree suddenly moved.

But, how could that be?

There was no wind at all, and the trees seemed to be made of steel and remained motionless.

Xu Zhi looked around vigilantly. The surroundings were still as quiet as when she came. There was no movement except for the mist slowly flowing on the ground. But she always felt uneasy, as if a thorn in her back was attached.

Suddenly, there was a slight noise in the forest.

Xu Zhi immediately looked in that direction with a vigilant look in his eyes, holding the knife behind his back. He remembered the narrator's reminder and did not use the [Prying Eyes], but this was a bit too passive.

After a few slight noises, Xu Zhi thought that some monster would appear, but

A pure black cat came out from behind the tree.

It looks very normal, even a little petite, about the size of a kitten about three months old.

It looked at Xu Zhi curiously with its emerald eyes, and then leaped forward.

At the moment of jumping, the body turned into a puff of smoke, and then solidified into a black cat when landing. The whole process was light and graceful, like a dream.

After staring at it for a while, Xu Zhi suddenly felt dizzy. She quickly looked away and forced herself not to close her eyes, but stood straight. You know, she could hardly control herself and wanted to fall.

The feeling of dizziness was so strong that Xu Zhi was even unable to think of anything else except trying his best to fight this feeling. Fortunately, the feeling soon subsided.

She thought that perhaps the light played a role, and without it, she might not have been able to hold on.

"Huh."

A clear and questioning voice rang out in Xu Zhi's mind. She was so frightened by the sudden voice that her hair stood on end and her head went numb.

Where does that sound come from?

Why did it appear directly in her mind?

Moreover, it is impossible to tell the age or even the gender.

"A living person?"

"How could a living person come here?"

Two unreasonable questions popped up in Xu Zhi's mind.

She couldn't help but have a bold guess: could this sound be made by the black cat?

Xu Zhi remembered the narrator's warning: Don't answer any sound.

She obediently ignored the question that suddenly appeared in her mind.

Seeing that she didn't reply, the owner of the voice didn't get angry, and even looked interested: "How did you get in?"

"Can't you speak?"

"Do you know where this place is?"

"Human, how long has it been since I last saw a human?"

"You look delicious, why aren't you being eaten?"

"It's good that you didn't get eaten. You can still play with me for a while."

He kept mumbling and talking to himself, accompanied by the sound of light footsteps wandering around Xu Zhi.

So, this guy is a chatterbox?

(End of this chapter)