Chapter 16: The First Item: Deserted City Notes

Shen Li knew what it meant to fall asleep.

Once he closed his eyes, he would never wake up again.

He helped Ye Minglang up stubbornly and simply let him sit on the Wuling Box.

"I won't wake you up, so stay awake."

Chen Li hid the "family" that Ye Minglang had been protecting until now, and asked Ye Minglang to sit down. He stood behind him, pushing the box and walking forward with him.

The side effect of the blood moon was that the corridor, which was originally straight with no end in sight, became crooked.

In order to prevent Ye Minglang from closing his eyes, Chen Li could only keep talking to him.

"I haven't asked your name yet, what's your name?"

"Yeminglang."

"My name is Shen Li."

"Don't sleep. Tell me how you've been spending the past six months."

"I'm seriously injured and it's hard for me to speak."

Ye Minglang's two sentences ended the conversation.

Then a long silence fell between them.

Chen Li pushed Ye Minglang on the Wuling Box forward for a long time. Outside the window on one side, Chen Li saw his towering shadow being torn to pieces by the monsters.

Chen Li looked at his feet. Every time his shadow was torn apart, he could feel the pain. The shadow under his feet became fainter after it returned.

But if there was no shadow outside to hold them back, those monsters would appear behind them.

So Chen Li could only stop temporarily, open the window on one side, and control his shadow to go out again to delay time.

Now, there was nothing under his feet, and there was no trace of his shadow at all.

Ye Minglang tilted his head slightly and saw him skillfully pick out a drop of blood from the center of his index finger and sprinkle it into a gray shadow, which then climbed out of the window by itself.

The staggering posture made him look weaker than he was, and he looked very forced.

Ye Minglang, who didn't want to talk, opened his mouth: "What is this?"

"My shadow gets weaker the more I use it. It can only last a few minutes like this."

Ye Minglang felt like he had a moment of enlightenment. "You can control shadows? Then can I let you control my shadow as well?"

Shen Li: "No, I can only control my own shadow."

If it were in the past, he might have given it a try.

But now he is imprisoned by a powerful seal in his body and can only control his own shadow, and now the shadow he controls is as weak as he is.

Recalling this guy's blood and his method of controlling shadows, Ye Minglang concluded that this guy must be someone important, so he began to test him:

"What's your ranking on the Tianxu Ranking?"

He felt that with Chen Li's means, he would be able to rise to a high position in Tianxu.

Shen Li said woodenly: "I don't know."

Speaking of the Tianxu Ranking, Chen Li couldn't help but recall the person who was at the top of the list that Li Dangxin mentioned that time. His name seemed to be Ye Minglang?

Although Ye Minglang was surprised by the answer, it was not impossible if he thought about it carefully.

"Is this your first delivery?"

Shen Li hummed.

That's right.

He should be one of the people who was sealed up by Wuliang Express. He was just recently unsealed and started delivering the first order.

A bit of a late start.

"It doesn't matter. With your ability, you will be able to climb to the top of Tianxu sooner or later."

Wuliang Express established the Tianxu ranking system and the points redemption system. The higher the ranking on the list, the fewer points are required to redeem items.

Chen Li has no interest in the Tianxu Ranking.

Just now, he sensed that his shadow was torn apart again, and the monster outside was about to catch up.

Shen Li couldn't help but speed up and push forward, getting faster and faster.

Ye Minglang was pushed forward by Chen Li. He felt the wind whistling in his ears and his body was a little unstable.

The rich aroma from the monster box lingered around, and the smell increased his hunger.

If he had not been seriously injured and his movements were restricted, he would probably have collapsed by now, opened the box, and stuffed the fragrant thing into his mouth.

Thinking of this, Ye Minglang looked at Chen Li.

How did he hold back?

Ye Minglang propped up half of his body: "Can't you smell this fragrance?"

Chen Li answered casually: "I used talismans to borrow my own sense of smell and taste for three days before."

Ye Minglang sighed: "Talisman skills? How many skills do you have?"

Chen Li: "Talisman, Shadow Control, Blood Control, I have only tried these so far, I haven't tried the others, I guess I can use a few, I don't know much."

Ye Minglang: “…”

Isn't that a lot?

He didn't know that Shen Li's current abilities were indeed much less than before.

At this moment, the ground began to shake. Shen Li looked back and saw that many animal eyes had appeared in the dark corridor behind him.

Their bodies were still hidden in the darkness, but those prying eyes were constantly reminding him that the real danger was coming.

Fortunately, Ye Minglang's teammates were all placed in a room nearby.

The things in the ghost box are more attractive to them than the dying people.

"run!"

Ye Minglang reminded Shen Li.

A large number of monsters poured into the corridor behind him in a short period of time, and the outer walls were squeezed and deformed.

But this building seemed to have vitality, and the corridor was able to hold up despite being deformed and cracked.

As the monsters rushed forward one after another, their movements were restricted due to collisions with each other.

Chen Li pushed the Wuling Box for about half a minute and was already exhausted.

He was thin and weak, and had never had much physical strength. He would start panting after running a few steps.

Ye Minglang was a little speechless.

"Don't you exercise normally? Why are you out of breath after these few steps? How about I get off and you get on, and I push you to run?"

Shen Li was too busy catching his breath to pay attention to him.

He was only a few steps slower, and the monster behind him caught up with him.

The ground rumbled as the animals ran, like an earthquake.

Some of them were already right before their eyes, opening their bloody mouths towards them.

Ye Minglang gritted his teeth and half-knelt on the Wuliang Box, asking Chen Li to change direction and run in front pulling the Wuliang Box. He then steadied his center of gravity and swung his sword neatly, killing several monsters that were chasing him.

“Faster!”

This is a race with no end in sight.

They had no way to retreat except to move forward.

The outer wall of the corridor swelled to the point where it looked like it would burst at any moment, and Shen Li searched in the darkness while running.

Where exactly is the staircase leading to the sixth floor?

As he was running, Shen Li suddenly found a fork in the road ahead.

There was no time to think about whether to choose left or right. Chen Li randomly entered a fork in the road, but found that there were more forks in the road before him.

Could this be a corridor?

This is basically a maze!

Shen Li was a little confused, "Is this normal?"

Ye Minglang stared closely at the back of them. Fortunately, a fork suddenly appeared, allowing them to get rid of some of the monsters.

"It's normal. The building is affected by the blood moon. The space is distorted and misaligned. Sometimes gravity will also change. Keep circling. Don't stop."

If the corridor hadn't split just now, they would have been caught up long ago.

The fight just now involved his wound again. Ye Minglang supported the Wuling Box under his body with one hand, covered the wound with the other hand and turned forward.

Shen Li led him around in the dark corridor, his pace slowing down due to exhaustion.

"There's one catching up, be careful!"

Ye Minglang no longer had the strength to resist, so Chen Li would have to deal with the one that caught up with him himself.

The two of them simply stopped.

The maze-like corridors caused most of the monsters to lose track of them, but there was one that managed to follow them accurately.

Shen Li stared at the corner!

It appeared! It was a fox as tall as a man, with snow-white fur mixed with blood-red.

The look the fox gave them was too strange. It didn't look like the look of an animal at all. Instead, it looked more like the look of a human who could think and speak!

Why is it a fox again?

They had dealt with a lot of foxes outside the high-rise building before, and the majority of the monsters outside were foxes. Did they have a fight with the foxes during these three days of the Blood Moon?

The fox's eyes were extremely ferocious, its sharp teeth were biting something tightly, and it suddenly attacked the Wuling Box.

When the fox pounced and got close to Shen Li, he could see clearly that the thing in the fox's mouth was a fragment of his shadow.

It turned out that his shadow was torn into pieces by it.

The shadow that was supposed to stay obediently under Shen Li's feet was torn into pieces, black and flat, hanging on the fox's mouth.

There was still a faint connection between the shadow and Shen Li, as if it was blown by the wind, pulling it towards Shen Li.

The fox opened its mouth, revealing its sharp teeth, which could bite off Shen Li's head in one bite, but he had no intention of dodging.

Ye Minglang lay weakly on the Wuling Box, wanting to help him. Using all his strength, he could only raise his hand with difficulty, rubbing the soft fur on the fox's belly with his fingertips and grabbing a handful. Apart from that, he could do nothing else.

But at the moment the fox opened its mouth, Shen Li quickly raised his hand and recalled his own broken shadow from its mouth.

Ye Minglang saw his lips move and he seemed to say something, but the voice was so soft that he couldn't hear clearly.

Then he saw the two broken shadows suddenly turn into two black shadows, pushing the fake monster box, like two black garbage bags, and turning towards another fork in the road with unsteady steps.

This is too fake!

But the fox was fooled!

The fox completely ignored their presence and jumped over their heads to chase after them.

Ye Minglang came back to his senses and looked at the backs of the two twisting garbage bags. He found it unbelievable no matter how he thought about it.

And now, the third shadow that looked like a black garbage bag was lying flat on Shen Li's palm, struggling to do a sit-up.

"There's no time." A thin layer of sweat covered Shen Li's forehead.

He grasped his own shadow and tore it to pieces.

Every time it was torn, his soul suffered the same pain, and he looked as weak as the broken shadow.

Chen Li scattered the torn shadows on the ground and said to them, "Find the staircase leading to the sixth floor."

After saying this, he suddenly fell to the ground and didn't move.

The broken shadows disappeared along the wall.

Chen Li now looks even weaker than Ye Minglang.

"Hey, Shen Li!"

"I won't wake you up, so stay awake!"

"Shen Li!"

The pale-faced boy did not respond to him.

Ye Minglang moved his body slightly, and then he rolled down from the monster box.

He lay on the ground, trying to reach out his hand towards his cheek.

Shen Li is no longer breathing...