Chapter 198 Nightmare Town (2)
"It's embarrassing to say," the man sighed, "my husband and I are sorcerers from Feng Country, hunting demons and exorcising evil spirits. We heard there was an evil spirit causing trouble here, and the government offered a large reward for someone who could find a capable person, so we came here to exorcise and capture the demon. Unexpectedly, we didn't even see a trace of the demon, and we've been trapped here for three days!"
The couple, the man named Zhou Quan and the woman named Shunniang, were accompanied by a Taoist priest in his sixties who also came to exorcise evil spirits.
Everything is normal here during the day, but at night you can hear a lot of chaotic noises.
There were sounds of children laughing, women shouting, and hurried footsteps...all coming into my ears from all directions, but I could see nothing.
I can’t see any people or ghosts!
That night, they set up a formation, hoping to force the evil spirit to show up so that they could destroy it.
But no matter how hard he tried, it was of no use. Apart from hearing some random noises coming into his ears from all directions, he still couldn't see anything.
This situation had never occurred in their previous experience.
They realized that even if they could force the evil spirit out, they might not be able to defeat it, so the three of them decided to evacuate overnight.
Unfortunately, it's too late.
The town was obviously not big and the exit was clearly in that direction, but they wandered around all night and couldn't get out.
No matter which direction you go from, no matter how you walk, there is only sticky fog with a bloody smell around you, and you can't get rid of it.
In the blink of an eye, it was dawn. Seeing the rising sun, they seemed to see hope and ran towards the east with all their heart.
They remembered clearly that the east was the direction they came from, and as long as they headed east in the direction of the rising sun, they would find the exit.
But after walking around for a long time, I found myself back to the starting point.
"It's a ghost wall!"
When Zhou Quan mentioned this at this moment, his face was still full of fear.
"Generally speaking, ghost walls usually appear at night when yin energy is strong. People like us with special abilities can easily break through them. But here, all our abilities are useless. We can't get out! No matter whether it's day or night, even if we try our best, we can't break through."
The woman named Shunniang had a dazed look in her eyes and kept mumbling, "We can't get out. We can't get out no matter what. We...we are going to die here."
Zhou Quan said: "My wife, please don't say such discouraging words! We, we..."
He wanted to say a few words of comfort, but he had no confidence at all. Three days of training had already worn away all his fighting spirit.
Suddenly, he looked at Lin Qingyue and said, "You dare to come here alone, so you must be no ordinary woman. Do you have any means to rescue us?"
At this moment, the woman next to him suddenly closed her eyes and fell down softly.
"Shun Niang, Shun Niang!" Zhou Quan hurriedly supported the woman and tried to wake her up.
But no matter how he shouted, the woman didn't respond.
After feeling the woman's pulse again, Zhou Quan's face was suddenly filled with despair, "She...she fell asleep!"
Lin Qingyue said, "If I'm sleepy, of course I'll fall asleep."
Zhou Quan said, "Once you fall asleep, you'll never wake up again! Three days ago, there was an old Taoist priest who entered here at the same time as us. He made it until last night, but couldn't hold on any longer and fell asleep. No matter how much we called out, he just wouldn't wake up..."
"This is Nightmare Town. Once you come here, you can't leave. You'll eventually be trapped and die in the dream. Now, my wife is also asleep. She...she..."
Lin Qingyue walked over, raised her hand and touched Shunniang's forehead, saying, "Your soul is gone, so it's really a bit troublesome."
Zhou Quan nodded: "Yes, that old senior was like that too. After falling asleep, his soul was lost."
Lin Qingyue said, "If we can recover her lost soul before dawn tonight, there's still a glimmer of hope."
These words failed to comfort Zhou Quan. The man became even more desperate: "What if we can't find it? We...we will die here too...What kind of a hellish place is this!"
At this moment, a gust of cold wind blew through the dead leaves and blew past the ground, making a harsh sound.
Lin Qingyue looked up and saw the lights on the long street light up one by one, followed by the sound of people talking, which was so noisy and chaotic that the details could not be heard clearly.
Zhou Quan said bitterly, "It's started again. Every night, the shops along the street light up. There's a lot of chatter, but there's no one to be seen, not even a ghost."
"Can't you see?" Lin Qingyue narrowed her eyes and gathered the spiritual power around her eyes, then she saw hazy shadows floating on the street.
The same thing happened in the shops, with people coming and going, just like a bustling market.
The afterimages are hazy and the voices are shouting.
Even the surrounding scenery seemed vague and ethereal, like the moon in the water and the flowers in the mirror.
This scene seems like... like a dream!
Lin Qingyue suddenly reacted and when she looked around again, she found that the couple had disappeared.
And the scenery in front of me is becoming clearer and clearer!
On the long street of the small town, mothers are holding their children to buy candied haws; white-haired old men are carrying a load on their shoulders and selling pickles; and country gentlemen in sedan chairs are sticking their heads out to greet acquaintances on the opposite side... Everything is so vivid that it seems like a reappearance of past scenes.
Lin Qingyue was thinking about it when she suddenly felt someone approaching from behind. She turned around abruptly and was about to take action, but found that the person was actually Dongfang Qi.
"Yueyue, are you okay?" Dongfangqi was dressed in white. The light from the tavern shone obliquely on him, enveloping him in a warm glow.
"Dongfangqi, why are you here?"
After Lin Qingyue asked, she suddenly raised her hand to grab his wrist and check his pulse: "If it was an illusion, the pulse would be different. You have a pulse!"
She tried to touch his dantian again, but remembered that physical contact between men and women was not allowed.
Just as she was hesitating, Dongfang Qi grabbed her hand and placed it on his lower abdomen: "This is the Dantian, you can feel it."
Through the thin and soft fabric, she not only sensed the breath in his dantian, but also touched his abdominal muscles, which were firm and warm, and felt very good.
Suddenly she reacted and looked up to meet his smiling eyes.
Lin Qingyue quickly withdrew her hand and covered up her gaffe: "Why are you here?"
Dongfang Qi's smile turned cold. "How dare you ask me this? I was confined to the Eastern Palace, and I was worried about your safety. And yet you just left without saying goodbye? If I hadn't been so worried, I would have sneaked out of the Eastern Palace the next day. I wouldn't have known that you had colluded with my father to deceive me! Lin Qingyue, Lin Qingyue, you really make me look at you in a new light!"
Lin Qingyue felt a little guilty and chuckled, "Isn't this also for your own good? With your status, how could you just leave like I did... So why did you run away? Will your father... will your father let you go?"
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