Sure enough, the next second, the black-haired shrine maiden spoke: "I have said before, I am the shrine maiden of Kisaragi Shrine - Kisaragi."
Her voice was very cold, like the cold moonlight: "I am not here to clean up the zombies, and these things are not zombies, but the vengeful spirits of those who died unjustly."
"The resentment formed by those who died unjustly?" Xiao Tangqiu was stunned. This truth was far different from what he had imagined. He thought that the zombie outbreak was a reappearance of a real fragment that existed at a certain point in time, but in fact, those "zombies" were not zombies at all?
Ruyue nodded and said coldly, "A few years ago, a rare subway accident happened here. The subway was heading from the previous platform to this one. Due to a staff error, the two trains collided..."
"That accident caused countless casualties. The passengers died with hatred in their hearts, and their resentment lingered, eventually forming vengeful spirits. Therefore, whenever the time period of the accident occurs, a ghost subway train appears here, constantly recreating the scene of that year."
Xiao Tangqiu instantly recalled the scene when he first entered this dungeon. He was sitting on that ghost subway train at the time, witnessing with his own eyes the horrifying sight of passengers instantly transforming from normal-looking passengers covered in wounds to missing limbs...
So what he saw at that time was a replay of the subway accident that year?
Ruyue continued, "The resentment of those vengeful spirits is lingering, and it can easily lead to accidents. As the shrine maiden of Ruyue Shrine, I naturally have to liberate them and send them on their way to the afterlife... However, the resentment of the spirits who died in the accidents is too strong. If I can't dispel all of their resentful spirits at once before dawn, they will recondense into new forms."
"I see!" Tang Mianmian suddenly understood. "No wonder you said we failed yesterday! Because we didn't have time to kill all the zombies last night!"
Ruyue said calmly, "If I can't eliminate all the vengeful spirits before dawn, my efforts will be in vain. Now that I have finally succeeded in converting them... Things here have come to a temporary end."
Xiao Tangqiu keenly sensed something: "Is the situation here temporarily over? Is there something going on somewhere else?"
Ruyue looked at Xiao Tangqiu coldly without saying a word.
Xiao Tangqiu realized that he had to do something to trigger the plot, so he looked at Xue Junli.
Xue Junli nodded and asked in a different way: "Can we follow you? Maybe we can help."
Ruyue then asked, "Are you exorcists from outside?"
Xiao Tangqiu frowned slightly: "From outside?"
Tang Mianmian touched her chin and said, "Exorcist?"
Ruyue glanced at Xiao Tangqiu and said calmly, "This is Hundred Ghosts Town. There haven't been any exorcists from outside for many years."
"Exorcist... This title sounds a bit cool! That's right! We are exorcists from outside!" Tang Mianmian actively claimed this title.
Xiao Tangqiu: "...It's obviously very childish."
After hearing Tang Mianmian's words, Ruyue breathed a sigh of relief. She nodded and said, "Since you are exorcists from outside... then please come with me."
Xiao Tangqiu subconsciously asked again: "Where are we going?"
Ruyue still didn't answer, turned around and left.
Everyone looked at each other for a while, and naturally followed immediately.
Xiao Tangqiu suddenly said, "...I feel like we seem to have forgotten something."
Tang Mianmian didn't react for a moment: "Ah? What did you forget?"
Xiao Tangqiu thought for a long time before finally remembering what they had forgotten: "...Where is Lu Renjia?"
Tang Mianmian's mouth twitched: "It seems that he is still on the ghost subway. I guess... he is in great danger."
Xiao Tangqiu silently mourned for Lu Renjia for a few seconds, hoping that next time he could be transported to a YY novel and be surrounded by beauties, or be transported to a fantasy novel and dominate the world, or be transported to a cultivation novel and change his fate to achieve a counterattack and upgrade!
Soon, they followed Ruyue and left the long-abandoned platform.
Xiao Tangqiu looked back at the platform. Under the cover of night, the deserted platform looked particularly eerie and strange. But he soon discovered that it was definitely not just the abandoned platform that was eerie and strange.
They crossed a wasteland overgrown with weeds and came to the streets of the small town.
This Baigui Town, which no one knew what relationship it had with Baigui Village, looked particularly desolate. Xiao Tangqiu originally thought that the platform was desolate because it was abandoned, but he soon discovered that after leaving the platform, other places were the same. The streets were empty and deserted, without even a single pedestrian.
Under the pitch-black night, the streets of this small town looked particularly desolate. There wasn't even a fallen leaf on the ground, the street lights were not on, and the shops on both sides were pitch black with their doors and windows locked, as if they had been closed for a long time.
Xiao Tangqiu looked up into the distance. As far as his sight could see, there was no light on anywhere. The entire town seemed to be shrouded in darkness, like a dead town... Although there was no cold wind blowing, he still couldn't help shivering.
However, Ruyue, who was walking at the front of the group, remained unmoved and continued walking forward on her own. Xiao Tangqiu hesitated for a moment, but couldn't help but ask, "Ruyue, isn't this town a bit strange?"
Ruyue continued walking forward without answering his question.
Xiao Tangqiu sighed. Could it be that the conditions had not been met and the plot could not be triggered?
Ruyue didn't say a word the rest of the way. The others had obviously noticed the weirdness of this town and immediately became extremely alert, so no one started chatting along the way.
Xiao Tangqiu was also observing the surrounding environment vigilantly. Ruyue led them through one street after another, but every street was equally desolate and deserted. All the shops were dark with their doors and windows closed, and even the occasional residential houses they passed by were dark.
The whole town was dead silent.
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