Chapter 277 Attack
Yu Sheng hung up the phone, took a deep breath, turned his head and looked at Irene: "I feel that Baili Qing is in a good mood."
"That's right. After all, he's the director's man." The little puppet also looked heartless. Seeing that Yu Sheng had finished his call, he immediately jumped down from the coffee table and walked towards the door while talking, "Shall we go out now?"
Yu Sheng didn't waste any words. He opened a door nearby, took out his tetanus stick, and put it on his shoulder: "Let's go!"
The three of them walked out of No. 66 Wutong Road, looked at the thick fog slowly rising just a few meters outside the house, and then stepped into it.
The moment he crossed the invisible boundary, a cold and depressing atmosphere enveloped him from all sides. The indifferent, heterogeneous "foreign" atmosphere in the fog even made Yu Sheng shiver slightly. After walking forward for a while, he looked back and saw that No. 66 Wutong Road had turned into a hazy shadow in the fog. The outline of the mansion stood silently at the end of his field of vision, like a silent, dormant giant beast.
He frowned and said in a deep voice: "...Did you lock the door when you left?"
"It's locked," Hu Li nodded, "I watched you lock the door, benefactor."
Irene was sitting on Yu Sheng's shoulder. When she heard the two talking, she couldn't help but poke the latter's head: "You look so serious just to ask this? Are you still worried that someone in the fog could break into our house and steal things?!"
"I'm just asking casually," Yu Sheng slapped the puppet's claws away, and then paid attention to the slightest movement around him, "... Be alert, something might come out of the fog."
The night was deepening in the boundary city in the real world, and on the "foggy side", the entire foreign land was also shrouded in darkness. The tall lamp posts were blurred in the fog, and the bright balls of light on top of the lamp posts floated in the air without support, like rows of eerie glowing eyes in the night. In the distance, neon lights could be seen between the more prosperous buildings, vaguely emerging in the night.
The surroundings were very quiet. Yu Sheng occasionally thought he heard very faint car horns or music, as if it was a trace of illusion leaking from the real world, but when he listened carefully, the sound disappeared again, as if it was just empty wind.
A faint blue glow appeared beside her, and the tail behind Hu Li was slowly spreading out, with fox fires undulating and circling behind her.
"A little nervous?" Yu Sheng asked in a low voice with a smile.
The fox girl shook her head with a stern face, and then a dozen fox fires accidentally floated out from her side.
Irene was observing the surrounding buildings carefully.
"Is this place really in the same 'foreign land' as the block where my nephew was trapped before?" the little puppet suddenly muttered in a low voice.
"It should be," Yu Sheng nodded, "The blood connection is connected... Why are you asking this suddenly?"
"I'm just sighing. If it's really the same space, then this 'foggy foreign land' is really big. It's not close from Wutong Road to the 'Vanxiang Mall' shopping mall," Irene said casually. "This also proves that Little Red Riding Hood's judgment was correct. There was a wider space after leaving the fog around Vanxiang Mall. You can even walk to the old city through the area blocked by the fog... I just don't know how big this place is in total."
Yu Sheng frowned, and couldn't help but think about what the puppet said - yes, how big is this place? This thick fog has already spanned the old city and the prosperous business district near the city center, and its scope is obviously not limited to this... What about outside? To places where the fog is even thicker? "Will it be as big as the entire boundary city, or even the entire border area?" Irene muttered softly.
"Isn't that equivalent to 'another junction'?" Hu Li's ears pricked up, "An exotic version of a junction?"
Yu Sheng's heart was moved when he heard this, and he frowned subconsciously: "I remember Baili Qing said that there is no second intersection in the world - even if the universe is infinite, there will not be a second place that is the same or similar to the intersection. This seems to be a 'limited rule' like the order of the universe. There is also a planet called 'Terra' similar to it..."
Irene: "When she told you this, did she mention the situation in the 'foreign land'? The foreign land is unreasonable."
"That's not the case," Yu Sheng frowned and thought for a while, "At that time, I didn't even know there was such a 'City in the Mist'."
As he spoke, he took out his cell phone and took a look.
No signal.
Seeing this, Irene curled her lips and said, "It seems that there is only signal within the range of No. 66 Wutong Road... This is really the 'characteristic' of your house."
At this moment, Hu Li, who was walking next to Yu Sheng, suddenly stopped.
The fox girl seemed to have discovered something. She frowned and sniffed the air a few times.
Irene lowered her voice instantly: "Silly fox, what did you find out?"
"It smells like a human." Hu Li's ears twitched sharply in the wind, and he carefully adjusted the direction. "It smells like a stranger who passed by here not long ago."
Someone in the fog?!
Yu Sheng's eyes suddenly became serious.
Irene on his shoulder looked a little excited for some reason: "Another trapped person?! Is this a Didi Lao Ren order directly smeared on his face?"
“It’s hard to say,” Hu Li showed a rare serious look, “It doesn’t look like they are trapped… There are still some very strange smells around here. I don’t know them, but they are definitely not ordinary people. There is a strange smell.”
"Strange smell?" Yu Sheng had no way of understanding what the world in the fox fairy's senses was like. In addition, there was a cognitive gap between the two worlds. He could only roughly interpret it as a "human" thing that had passed by here. So his attitude immediately became cautious, "Then be careful first - Hu Li, put away the fire first, it's too conspicuous."
"Yeah." The fox girl nodded gently, and pieces of fox fire slowly dissipated in the air. Then she raised her hand and pointed in a certain direction, quietly leading Yu Sheng into the depths of the fog.
She was still tracking the traces left by the "strange smell", stopping from time to time along the way, bending down to sniff carefully at the nearby road corners, then calibrating the direction and continuing to move forward, looking serious and professional.
Irene secretly poked Yu Sheng's head and whispered quietly: "Hey, our hotel has its own police dog..."
Yu Sheng: "I won't stop her from beating you later."
"whispering sound."
Irene snorted disdainfully, but she didn't stay quiet for more than two or three seconds before she frowned and muttered nervously, "The fog around here is even thicker than before... Did the silly fox really lead us the right way? What kind of good person would choose to go to the place with the thickest fog..."
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"That means the people who got here are not good people," Yu Sheng muttered casually, but he also noticed the changes in the surrounding environment. He calmly took the tetanus stick off his shoulder and held it in his hand. At the same time, he approached Hu Li who was looking for a way, "Are you close?"
"The smell is getting mixed up," Hu Li stopped and looked up with a depressed expression. "It seems that the person has walked around here many times. I don't know if he did it to erase his tracks or to do something else. It's hard to tell where he went in the end."
Yu Sheng hummed and said nothing more, but slowly glanced around.
The fog was already thick enough to be disturbing. Everything was blurry a few meters away. Between the barely discernible outlines of the buildings and the dim street lights, he noticed that everything seemed a little more...weird than in other areas.
Many houses appeared tall and crooked, and the lights seemed to be living things, stretching and trembling with the flow of fog. The ground seemed to undulate and curl up in the distance, and the neon lights floating in the stairwells had turned into large patches of malicious dark red at some point.
It seemed that as the fog thickened, the environment of this "foreign" place was also changing, and this area was... becoming "deeper".
And as if to confirm this feeling, suddenly, a suspicious shadow flashed across the edge of Yu Sheng's vision!
It was a tall, thin and strange figure.
Yu Sheng didn't even have time to see what it was. The next moment, he felt the malice behind him rising sharply! The strong warning made him rush forward without hesitation. After taking two steps, he turned around and swept the tetanus stick in his hand. Then, regardless of whether he hit it or not, he dodged to the side.
In the thick fog of the night, there was a sharp sound of metal collision, and with a "clang" sparks flew. Yu Sheng saw that he had hit a strange and slender blade. At the moment when the blade was bounced away, several other cold lights slashed at the place where he stood at the beginning.
A ball of fox fire suddenly exploded between Yu Sheng and the blade, and the impact dispersed the surrounding fog. Yu Sheng finally stood firm at this time and saw the attacker clearly.
A figure who was almost a head taller than Yu Sheng walked out of the fog, taking elegant but strange steps.
The figure had a slender female outline, but it was just an outline. "Her" entire body was covered with a layer of black shell with a metallic texture, which served as both skin and armor. "Her" joints showed an obvious puppet lock structure, and a dark red glow could be seen flowing between the joints and in the seams of the shell. "Her" face was like that of a noble lady, but it was a piece of iron mask cast from white metal, on which was solidified a perfect and chilling smile, without any warmth at all.
What’s even more bizarre is that this “iron puppet” has a black veil on its head that seems to have a priestly color - the veil does not seem to have any protective effect, but adds a weird and terrifying atmosphere to this inhuman thing.
“She” walked out of the fog, her iron heels tapping the ground, and slowly raised a hand towards Yu Sheng——
Each finger is a sharp blade more than half a meter long, shining coldly in the night.
(End of this chapter)
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