The Haunted

Chi Yan held Ye Yingzhi's hand, trying to pull him forward, breaking through the resistance of the gray shadows, the two finally moved a little forward - but in the next second, the space changed, and the two appeared in front of them again. At the place where we get off the bus, there is an empty, snow-white street like a fairy tale, a whole glass window, and all kinds of strange goods in the window, reflecting a large area of ​​strong afterglow of the setting sun, as if mocking their innocence and overreaching.

Don't go back the way Aaron said without telling them why they shouldn't.They know from strong men that people who respond here, take things here, or leave things here will be left behind; now, after experiencing it personally, they know that they can’t move forward if they go back, they can only go back to the original point and start over again. start.

The purple-red sunset in the sky was gradually swallowed up by the night, the vision had become dim, and the night was coming soon.In such a short period of time, they could not rush back to the place where the carriage was again anyway.

The imperative became to keep alive and get out of here.Devils can go to Devil Town to have fun, so there must be a way to return to Devil Town from hell. Ye Yingzhi believes that as long as they leave here, even if they can't catch the return bus of the travel agency, they must have a way to return to the world.So even though it seems that the form is very bad, he can still guarantee calmness.Especially when Chi Yan was around, it had almost become his instinct to protect his partner from harm and support him.

He took Chi Yan's hand and comforted him softly: "Don't be afraid, it's fine."

Chi Yan looked back at him and nodded quietly.

On the other side of the street is an empty and barren open space. In the distance, you can vaguely see the rolling hills, without the slightest human habitation or buildings. It is obviously unwise to leave from there. The two can only walk along the original road hand in hand. keep going.

The last ray of sunlight was completely swallowed by the darkness, and the whole of Niabs was plunged into endless darkness.

Faint dark yellow door lights lit up in front of the store, and the originally closed store door was automatically opened outwards by some kind of induction, as if welcoming the arrival of the guests—the whole city seemed to "live" in an instant. "Get up.

Chi Yan and Ye Yingzhi had already reached the middle of the commercial street, but there was a rhythmic "da da" sound of metal knocking behind them.Chi Yan turned his head and saw the copper doll of the pirate captain he had seen during the day sliding towards them with a smile on his face. Its feet were pressing on a single-wheeled metal plate, and the copper doll seemed to consciously control the metal plate. Slowly approaching them, the rattling sound was made when the metal plate slid.The huge copper hammer is held high above the head by it. Against the dim light and the shadow of the building, the smiling expression on the copper face of the puppet looks a bit ferocious, revealing a little bit of weird distortion, as if it is alive.

Chi Yan and Ye Yingzhi looked at each other, and ran forward together tacitly.But as they run, the puppet slides faster, always following them.

Ahead is the street where the brown-robed man who made the soup was.

However, this time was very different from the daytime scene.

During the day, all the brown-robed people sat motionless at the door of the house, stirring the iron pot in front of them with a spoon, and would not leave their pots to actively block or entangle the passing tourists; at this time, all the brown-robed people stood up, Holding a spoon, they kept gobbling the soup in the pot. Because the handle of the spoon was too long and it was inconvenient to use, almost half of the soup would spill back into the pot. They didn't care, they just repeated scooping, eating, sprinkling, and scooping again the process of.No matter how they ate, the soup in the iron pot did not decrease at all.

When Chi Yan and Ye Yingzhi appeared at the intersection, all the brown-robed men within the range of vision stopped their movements and looked at them, and then they rushed forward, all holding their own full spoons and squeezing into the two Beside him, he desperately tried to stuff the spoon into the mouths of the two of them, and the mouth made a thin and vague voice: "Eat mine", "I'll eat it for you", "Eat it quickly"...

The disgusting soup was put between his mouth and nose, Chi Yan felt nausea in his stomach, couldn't help turning his head and retching, but even so, there were still three or four long-handled wooden spoons trying to put it into his mouth. stuffed.Ye Yingyi hugged him and pressed him into his arms.

He slammed several brown-robed men away, stared at a familiar figure in front of him, and asked sharply, "Tell me! How to get out of here!"

The strong man has just fallen, and he believes that the other party should still maintain his sanity.

Wrapped in a brown robe with only one pair of eyes exposed, the man only tried his best to stuff the wooden spoon in his hand into his mouth, his lips curled up, showing a playful expression: "Eat quickly, eat quickly, and you can leave after eating." It's gone." His eyes glowed with cunning and joy, and his voice, like those brown-robed men, became blurred and shrill.

Ye Ying held Chi Yan in one hand, raised his foot and kicked him aside, and took advantage of the gap to look forward - more and more people in brown robes rushed towards them holding long spoons. The men in brown robes who had fallen to the ground also got up again, and crowded around them with a full bowl of soup.

Ye Yingzhi's eyes became serious, and he slowly backed away with Chi Yan in his arms - in this state, it was almost impossible for him and Chi Yan to break through the encirclement and run to the other end of the street.

Undoubtedly, after nightfall, these things seemed to be lifted, and Niabs in the dark was more dangerous than in the daytime.From the current point of view, there is only one copper doll in the commercial street behind. The most ideal situation is that they get rid of the copper doll, and then hide in the commercial street for one night, and continue to look for a way to leave until daytime.

Those brown-robed things still surrounded them, Ye Yingzhi didn't dare to take it lightly, and didn't dare to open his mouth to speak, while staring at those things, he stroked Chi Yan's back comfortingly.

Chi Yan was held in his arms by Ye Yingzhi, so he couldn't see the current situation, but he could guess from the situation just now that the situation was not optimistic. He guessed that Ye Yingzhi probably wanted to retreat - this is why they are now The only viable option.So he didn't move, and stepped back step by step with Ye Yingzhi. He didn't raise his head until Ye Yingzhi let go of his waist and took his hand, and turned around and ran towards the commercial street together with the other party. go.

The brown-robed man couldn't leave that street. After Chi Yan and Ye Yingzhi ran away, they could only stand at the corner of the street, howling and stomping angrily. Soon he returned to his own territory and began to greedily eat the soup in his own pot.

The pirate captain doll stood at the end of the commercial street, still looking at them with a smile on his face, as if he had already expected this result.

Chi Yan pointed to a shop on the left: "Welcome, I'll run here in a while to distract it and lead it away, and you take this opportunity to get rid of it."

Ye Yingzhi shook his hand and nodded.There is no need to say much between the two, they can understand each other's meaning.

As soon as they stepped into the commercial street, the puppet really slid towards them holding a copper hammer, as if it didn't intend to let them go easily this time.

Chi Yan squeezed Ye Yingzhi's hand, quickly ran towards the pre-arranged direction, and stopped under the eaves of the shop in one breath.Sure enough, the copper puppet hesitated for a moment, but quickly chose to chase in Chi Yan's direction—but when Chi Yan entered the range of the shop, it stopped abruptly outside the shop and stopped chasing.

This gave Ye Yingzhi an opportunity. He took out the corrosive potion he bought from the demon shop, and quickly sprinkled it on the pulley under the doll.

The pulley was corroded, and the puppet who reacted directly turned 180 degrees on the roulette, looked at the human in front of him with a ferocious expression, and immediately smashed the huge copper hammer to the back of the opponent's head without hesitation.

Chi Yan looked nervously at his lover's figure, feeling his throat tightening, afraid that the doll's copper hammer would fall off unexpectedly, but he didn't notice that a length of white sleeve stretched out silently from the shop behind him, suddenly The trouble wrapped around his wrist, and before he had time to react, he was pulled into the dark shop in an instant.

At the same time as the copper hammer fell, Ye Yingzhi immediately raised his head, put his hands on the ground and leaned back. When he was about to withdraw his legs, the metal eyes of the puppet met his dark eyes—the pair of metal sculptures Cheng's pupils turned twice in a humane manner, and the heavy copper hammer, half a man's height, stopped in the air. Then, without hesitation, the bronze figure fell backwards on the ground, as if fainted to death.

Ye Yingzhi didn't know why, stood up on the ground, and patted the dust on his hands.Could it be that the corrosive potion directly corroded the core of this thing?

Ye Yingzhi was still worried, and poured all the remaining corrosive potion on the wrist of the doll. He didn't feel at ease until the wrist melted, and he kicked the copper hammer attached to his hand far away.

After doing all this, he raised his head and instinctively looked at his lover, his expression immediately changed - the place where Ah Yan was standing was empty now, only the dark shop door was wide open, like a devil choosing someone Take a big bite.

Ye Yingzhi frowned, and after looking around for a week, he stared at the door of the store again.He had a hunch that Ah Yan might be inside.

He didn't hesitate any longer, and quickly strode into the shop—there was no lights on in the shop, and it was dark. From the light at the door, it could be seen that this was a ready-made clothing store, and the shop was full of all kinds of clothes. Very fine and beautiful clothes.Ye Yingzhi's gaze swept around the shop, and when he landed on the ground, his expression changed again.

He quickly picked up the things on the ground - a simple white shirt and dark blue slacks, he would not be mistaken, these were Ah Yan's clothes, he personally put them on in the morning.Ah Yan is here.

Ye Yingzhi closed her eyes, straightened up with her lover's clothes in her hand, and without warning, swept the hanger in the middle of the store to the ground, and there was a loud noise when the hanger fell to the ground.

He opened his eyes, stood calmly in the middle of the store, looked ahead, and whispered in a low voice: "Don't play tricks with me, return my Yan."

At that moment, he just felt that his heart and mind were blank, he couldn't remember anything, he couldn't even tell who he was, and there was only one thought in his mind, which was to return his Ah Yan.

If the world dares to stop it, then let the world be destroyed.

He also didn't realize that his own shadow reflected on the store floor had changed silently—the long and powerful magic horns were slightly curved to the sides, and the huge bone wings stretched backwards, spanning the entire room. storefront.

*****

Chi Yan fell into a semi-conscious state from the moment he was pulled into the store, he could only vaguely feel that all his clothes had been taken off, and then another piece of clothes was put on his body.

He heard a soft voice beside him saying: "This dress really suits him."

Then there were many echoing voices in my ears.

He thought of Ye Yingzhi, and the heavy copper hammer that was about to fall. He wanted to struggle, but he felt that his limbs were getting weaker and weaker, and his body was getting more and more out of control.He struggled desperately in consciousness, but his body gradually fell into dormancy.

Those are the devil's new clothes, clothes that suck the life and soul of people, and once put on, they cannot be taken off.

Until the end, the human body decays and dies, and there is no bones left, but the consciousness wakes up in the clothes—the people become clothes, and "live" forever in the clothes.