Chapter 317: After a woman disguised herself as a man, the rabbit spirit ran away with the ball. 27

The heavy city gate was suddenly opened from the inside.

As the person came slowly, the city gate creaked, as if it had not been opened for a long time and suddenly saw the light of day.

The moment the city gate was opened, the resentment and black and red mist in the inner city seemed to have reached a critical point. They spread out all at once and covered the sky. Su Zhiruan couldn't even see the face of the person who came. She gritted her teeth and looked over, refusing to miss any suspicious points.

When Chang Qi held her hand, Su Zhiruan could see the face in the mist clearly.

It was a wrinkled face of an old man.

Perhaps because he was sure that Su Zhiruan and the others could not see clearly, a cruel smile appeared on the old man's face. Then he slowly retracted his fangs and licked the blood at the corner of his mouth. His facial features were twisted into a very strange look, as if he was laughing, but also crying. His eyes were cloudy and his hair was scattered in a messy manner.

"Who are you?" the old man asked.

His voice sounded like a saw with a bent blade sawing wood. It was a little dry and hoarse, and did not sound like a human voice.

Just now in the carriage, in order not to alert the enemy, Chang Qi cast a spell to cover up the spiritual energy of Su Zhiruan and him. In front of outsiders, the two of them are now just ordinary people, powerless, but the victims who have a lot of spiritual stones.

Chang Qi took out the invitation letter and handed it over, "We are invited to obtain the elixir of life."

The old man looked at the invitation carefully, and the fog around him dissipated a lot. After reading it, he squeezed out an extremely stiff smile on his wrinkled face, "Dear guest, please come in!"

Then, the gate was pushed open further, and the entire scene of the abandoned city was directly displayed before them.

The first thing that comes into view is a desolate ruin.

It’s not entirely true to call it a ruin, but it looks too eerie, making people feel physically uncomfortable just by looking at it.

The roadside stalls were still there, but the stall owners and vendors were nowhere to be seen. The food on the stalls had long since rotted, and the dust on the jewelry stalls had accumulated into a thick layer, covering everything underneath.

Chang Qi looked at her, and Su Zhiruan saw worry in his eyes.

The two did not loosen their holding hands.

She continued to look around, and with every step she took, she could see bloodstains of varying depths and white bones on the ground.

The sky of the abandoned city was completely shrouded in haze, and one could not see the light or the road clearly.

Everything here is grey and gloomy.

"The leader is not here today, so I'll take you two to stay here first." The old man pointed to an inn on the corner of the street and motioned for them to go over.

At this time, Chang Qi let go of Su Zhiruan's hand.

She felt a flash before her eyes, and when she opened her eyes again, she saw a completely different look.

At this moment, in Su Zhiruan's eyes, the scene of the abandoned city had undergone a complete change. The streets were clean and tidy, small vendors were hawking their wares, the sky was light blue, and the warm light shone on his body.

The bones and bloodstains seen just now seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, replaced by clean bluestone streets.

She turned to look at the old man. The old man at this time was completely different from before. He looked kind and gentle, dressed neatly and cleanly, stroking his beard and leaning on a cane. He extended his hand to greet Su Zhiruan and Chang Qi, "Come in quickly. When the leader comes back tomorrow, there will be new arrangements for you two. I will inconvenience you two guests to stay in the inn today."

"It doesn't matter. As long as we can get the recipe for immortality, staying in an inn for one night is no big deal." Su Zhiruan followed Chang Qi into the inn.

There were a lot of people in the inn, with many men and women sitting in the lobby. When they came in, they all smiled at them. The waiter and the shopkeeper also came hurriedly. Even the chef inside saw them coming, wiped his hands on his apron and came out.

"Dear guests! The leader has long instructed us to treat you two well. Please go to Room No. 1 quickly. Everything is ready there!" The shopkeeper showed great enthusiasm to all the diners. The focus of the entire inn was on Chang Qi and Su Zhiruan at this time.

Su Zhiruan watched all this and she knew that it was all an illusion.

Now, this method of being gathered together and becoming the focus of the crowd is a bit like a method used in modern pyramid schemes.

She pretended to be shy and approached Chang Qi, gently holding his hand, "Husband, everyone is so enthusiastic~"

The moment her palms crossed, she saw the true appearance of the inn clearly.

Even though she was well-informed, she was still shocked at this moment——

The diners who had just responded to them with warm smiles were all a bunch of big black rats!

The huge rat dragged its long tail and gnawed the rotten meat on the table with its sharp mouth. Its eyes were dark and creepy as it kept turning to look at the two of them.

The inn with bright windows and clean tables was actually just a shabby, rotten and smelly house with many holes. The waiter was a very big rat. When he stood up, he was even much taller than Chang Qi, about two meters tall!

The shopkeeper who was standing with the old man turned into a ball of black mist.

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In the black fog, he had no body, no limbs, only a pair of eyes.

His eyes were red, and they were staring straight at Su Zhiruan. Although he didn't move, Su Zhiruan could clearly feel that he was smiling.

"Okay, since the leader has arranged rooms for us, let's go up first. We must be tired from the journey." Chang Qi squeezed her hand, then let go.

In an instant, the beautiful illusion that was created appeared before her eyes again.

Although the change in the scene was a bit creepy, Su Zhiruan was not very scared. The main reason was that she had Chang Qi by her side, she had the ability to protect herself, and she also had the talismans and compass she got from the leader of the rabbit tribe.

Even after they went upstairs, the shopkeeper and the diners downstairs all kept looking at them with their heads tilted.

Just before the door was closed, Chang Qi pointed his finger and instantly the several black rats responsible for surveillance in the room were flung away.

He formed seals with his hands and set up a barrier. When the transparent barrier enveloped the two of them, Su Zhiruan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Okay, you can talk now." Chang Qi moved the cleanest chair from the room and gave it to Su Zhiruan, and he also wiped another chair and sat down.

"Your Majesty, I saw two different scenes just now. What I saw when you and I shook hands was the real one, right?" Su Zhiruan also roughly guessed it.

"What you saw with your own eyes was the illusion they wanted us to see, which is what you see now," Chang Qi explained to her. He sighed and reached out to hold the back of Su Zhiruan's hand. "What you see now is real."

The room that Su Zhiruan saw herself was very clean, even the bed was made, but the room that she saw with the help of Chang Qi was an extremely shabby room with drafts leaking through the windows.

There were even dead bodies in the corners.

Two skeletons, one of a human and one of a mouse.

There was dried brown blood on the wall.