Urban Night Returner

With a bang, all the pit logs snapped and the tunnel collapsed.A rain of earth and stone quickly buried the four men who were digging.One person stretched out a hand and scratched the air a few times in vain, and then the mine collapsed completely, and everything disappeared.

The three of Shen Gu stood there blankly.At the same time that the hand was buried, everything disappeared, and there was still the empty tunnel in front of him, and a miner's lamp was hanging on the intact pit log, shaking gently.

"Hey, what's going on here?" Zhang Jie's voice trembled slightly.She is a very bold girl, but seeing the four big living people being buried like that just now, seeing the stones and soil falling like raindrops passing through her body without feeling anything, this feeling is really unreasonable. out of horror.At any rate, she could hold back and not cry, Wang Jingjing's legs were already so weak that she couldn't stand up.

Shen Gu didn't know what to say.Said they were dead?He was afraid that the two girls would collapse immediately.It's very strange, although they are dead, but the place they are in is really strange.According to Zhong Lecen, after death, people should go to the ghost realm, go to the gate of ghosts, cross the bridge of Naihe, and be reincarnated again.But the place they are staying in now, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a ghost, does it?If they stay here all the time, they don't know what they will see.

"I don't know what's going on, but we can't stay here, we have to find a way out."

"How do you get out?" Zhang Jie wanted to leave this place first, it was too weird.I thought about the horror movies I watched before, "Are they ghosts? Or, are we ghosts?"

Wang Jingjing cried again with a wow.Shen Gu's head was as big as a fight, and he hurriedly said: "I guess they are not ghosts, but just a kind of resentment."

Zhang Jie looked at him suspiciously: "Grudges?"

Shen Gu thought to himself that he was really just looking for trouble, so why tell these girls this.But the point has already reached this point, it is not clear, at least Wang Jingjing must be terrified to death.

"It's because these people were very unwilling when they died and left behind resentment, so we can see the process of their death."

Zhang Jie groaned, her face full of sympathy: "Is this a coal mine landslide? There have been several landslides in small coal mines this year, and many people have died. If I die like this, I will definitely not be reconciled! How pitiful. "

Shen Gu thought to himself that this girl is not bad, if she is not dead, she must be a good girl, but unfortunately...

Boom!Another explosion.Four more people ran out of the tunnel just now.Shen Gu looked at these four people and shook his head: "It's really a grudge, so we repeat their deaths over and over again. We can't stay here anymore, let's dig too, we have to get out."

There are no tools.Fortunately, Shen Gu has the hero of gold and iron.Of course, it is wronged to use such a spiritual weapon as a shovel, but there is no other way.Shen Gu dug in the front, and the two girls moved the dug out soil and stones behind.This scene is really weird - there are two groups of people digging the tunnel, they are all crowded in the same place, digging the same tunnel, but there is no interference between them.From time to time, the bodies of the two gangs can be seen overlapping.It's not that Zhang Jie and Wang Jingjing didn't want to hide, but there was only such a big place in the tunnel, so they had to close their eyes and pretend they didn't see it.

Time passed little by little, and the dug tunnel slowly extended forward, while the four wraiths behind were still repeating their own deaths over and over again.The tunnel was stuffy and hot, Shen Gu was sweating profusely digging, but the two girls behind him couldn't hold on anymore, Wang Jingjing tripped and fell to the ground and couldn't get up again.Shen Gu looked back and sighed: "Let's rest for a while."

No one disagrees.Zhang Jie also sat down on the ground all of a sudden, obviously too tired.The three of them were panting, and suddenly, Shen Gu heard his stomach growl—is he hungry?

"You guys, are you hungry?"

Zhang Jie shook her head: "It's strange, I'm very tired, but I don't feel hungry." Wang Jingjing also nodded in agreement.Shen Gu was a little stunned, why both girls are not hungry, but he is hungry instead?

Boom!There was another explosion sound from behind.This time the three of them didn't bother to look back, it was still the four wraiths.However, the situation was different this time. The voices of the four people were getting closer and closer, and they got into the tunnel dug by Shen Gu and the others.Shen Gu and the others looked at the four wraiths in surprise, and one of them pointed to the place at the end of the tunnel that hadn't been dug and said, "Look, it's blocked here, I remember digging diagonally upwards from here to the first floor." , I don’t know if the cage is okay, but we should be able to climb up along the steel cable.” After speaking, the four of them swung their picks and started digging.

Zhang Jie looked at them blankly: "Why are they, aren't they already in that tunnel..."

Shen Gu was also stunned.He heard from Zhong Lecen that the resentful spirit produced in that situation just now seemed to be a kind of earth-bound spirit. Because he died extremely unwillingly, he was forever confined to the place where he died, repeating his own death forever.But now, how did the four earth-bound spirits leave the tunnel?Could it be because the three of them came?Because they dug a tunnel?

Boom!The explosion sounded again.This time, the tunnel dug by Shen Gu and the others began to collapse.However, just like in the tunnel just now, the rocks and soil passed through the bodies of the three of Shen Gu, only to bury the four earth-bound spirits again.Then everything disappeared, only the three of Shen Gu were still sitting in the tunnel.

The two girls stared at Shen Gu, but unfortunately he couldn't give an explanation.For a long time, Wang Jingjing said weakly: "Can we dig it out?"

Shen Gu thought for a while: "The four people just now should be miners in this mine, and they are more familiar with the terrain than us. Didn't they say that digging up at an angle can reach the first floor? Let's dig up at an angle."

Digging at an angle is more strenuous. While Shen Gu was digging, the soil and stones that were dug down fell all over his head and face.This is not the soil that buried the earth-bound spirit. It fell on his face, and it was a real pain.After digging for a long time, suddenly the last shovel was dug out, and a large piece of soil fell down from the top, and then the light appeared.Shen Gu climbed out and took a look. It turned out that a vertical well was dug. The well was not deep, with two steel cables hanging down, and the bright sky above the wellhead.Shen Gu was overjoyed, turned around and shouted to the bottom: "Come up quickly, you can see the outside."

With this sentence, Zhang Jie and Wang Jingjing were immediately full of energy.Unexpectedly, he climbed up by himself without Shen Gu pulling.The three of them looked up at the small round sky happily, and were about to speak when there was a sound of crawling in the tunnel, and the four earthbound spirits also crawled out.One of them pointed to the sky and shouted: "I saw the sky, I saw the sky, we are saved!" Amidst his cheers, the bodies of the four gradually faded until they disappeared into the air.

Wang Jingjing stared blankly, and asked blankly, "Why did they disappear?"

Shen Gu was also in doubt.How did it disappear?Either buried alive by landslides, or just disappeared, and their cheers seem to still echo in the well.He vaguely felt that the tunnel he dug might have changed something, but he was not sure.

"Leave them alone, let's go up."

The well was not deep, so Shen Gu climbed up easily, but as soon as he got out of the mouth of the well, he was so suffocated by the stench that he almost wanted to jump back into the well again.This is simply a dump!As far as one can see, there are mountains of rubbish everywhere. There are all kinds of domestic waste and construction waste. Countless plastic bags are flying all over the sky.What kind of coal mine might open in a dump?After being stunned for a while, he turned around and pulled the two girls up, and sure enough, they covered their noses as soon as they came up: "What does this smell like? Why is it a garbage dump!"

Shen Gu looked around, only the mountains in the north were undulating, and the other three directions were all white and nothing could be seen: "I don't know where it is, let's go to the north first."

The two girls now regard him as the backbone, so naturally follow him.There was rubbish everywhere on the ground, and there were all kinds of smelly things. The three of them walked through the rubbish with their mouths and noses covered.After walking for a while, seeing that there seemed to be less garbage, Zhang Jie said happily, "It seems to be going out."

Before she finished speaking, a gust of wind blew towards her face, and a stench made Wang Jingjing vomit on the spot.Shen Gu frowned and took two steps to see that the garbage dump had indeed come to an end. There was a small river in front of it, but there were white flowers and layers of dead fish floating on the surface of the river, and the river water exposed in the gap was dirty black. It is full of yellow and white foam.The stench of rotting dead fish was mixed with the pungent smell of chemical products. Another gust of wind blew over, and Zhang Jie also vomited.

Shen Gu picked up one with each hand: "Hurry up and go to the limelight." Mining accidents, garbage dumps, seriously polluted rivers, these things should not be together, why are they all here now?Where the hell are they now?Is it still in the belly of Nian Beast?

The river was not long, and Shen Gu dragged the two girls for a while, bypassing the river, and the stench became lighter.Zhang Jie breathed a sigh of relief, wiped her mouth: "God, what's going on here, it seems that something unlucky has happened to us."

Shen Gu's heart skipped a beat, thoughtfully.Wang Jingjing whispered: "How do we go? What is this place? Can we go home?" By this time, no matter how ignorant the two of them were, they knew that this place was weird.Not to mention anything else, at least there are no coal mines near Binhai City.When it comes to going home, it's really... hopeless.

Shen Gu looked at them: "I don't know what this place is, but if we go down, there may be some clues. If we don't go, I'm afraid we can only be trapped in this weird place."

Zhang Jie cheered up: "Yes. Let's go, it can't be worse than this, right?"

Before she could finish speaking, there was rumbling thunder above her head, and then the big raindrops fell down, which hurt people's faces.Zhang Jie looked up at the sky numbly: "How can I say what?"

Shen Gu wanted to laugh but couldn't: "Go quickly, find a place to shelter from the rain."

The mountain in front of him was in front of him, and Shen Gu dragged the two girls to run wildly through the rain.While running, his stomach was playing empty city tricks, and he felt thirsty, but the two girls didn't show the slightest hint of hunger, which made him even more puzzled.Is there any difference between myself and them?But this level of hunger and thirst was far from beyond his tolerance, so he didn't take it to heart for a while.

It was getting dark quickly, Shen Gu and the others had just run to the foot of the mountain, and the surrounding area was already a bit dark in the middle of the night.With the light of lightning, Shen Gu saw a small village at the foot of the mountain, with dozens of scattered families living close to the mountain.Although it was very strange that there were people living in this ghostly place, Shen Gu still went to knock on the door.In any case, the two girls had to find shelter from the rain.

The houses are the kind of houses that people live in mountainous areas, the door is closed tightly, and there is no movement inside after Shen Gu knocked on it for a long time, which can't help but be a little strange.According to the weather just now, he estimated that it would be about three o'clock in the afternoon. Even though it was terribly dark due to the thunderstorm, it was not night after all, so why didn't there even be anyone to answer the door?Suppose there is no one at home?The door was locked, obviously someone was inside.

"Aren't they going to open the door?" Zhang Jie asked, wiping the rain off her face.Wang Jingjing was already sneezing from the cold.Shen Gu frowned: "Wait a minute, I'll go in and have a look."

In Shen Gu's eyes, there was no such wall, and he overturned it easily.Leaning on the window and looking in, there is a shadow of someone, but it seems to be fast asleep.Shen Gu knocked hard on the window: "Is anyone there? We want to hide from the rain." But even if he knocked on the window loudly, the people inside seemed to be deaf, and had no intention of waking up.

Is it dead?Shen Gu's heart trembled, and he wanted to pry open the window and go in, but suddenly he heard a sound amidst the wind and rain, like thunder, but not quite like it, faintly coming from the mountain.He jumped onto the wall and looked up the hill as hard as he could.Several bolts of lightning streaked across the night sky, illuminating the front. In the lightning, Shen Gu saw the trees on the mountain actually move—moved forward, and then fell down.

"Landslide! Mudslide!" Shen Gu suddenly understood.Could it be that the Nian beast is not actually a beast, but the product of all the disasters gathered in a year?What they see and experience now is actually all the disasters of last year, and these disasters form the Nian Beast.In the past, Nian Beast ate one person on New Year's Eve and left, but now it ate several people in a row. Is it because the disasters are more serious now than before, so eating one person can no longer solve the problem?

Things like landslides seem slow, but they come quickly. It won't take long to swallow up this small village.Shen Gu jumped off the wall and kicked the door forcefully: "Wake up, wake up! Get up and run for your life!"

With solid strength, this broken door can be kicked open with just one kick, but now even after he kicked it a few times, it was as if he was kicking on a steel plate, and there was no movement in the room.Shen Gu suddenly felt a chill in his heart.That's right, all the people here should be dead, right?Just like the four wraiths in the mine, they have been buried alive by landslides, and it is impossible to come back to life.The same is true for the people in this village now. They were probably buried by mudslides while they were sleeping soundly late at night, right?What can he do?

Zhang Jie actually opened the gate at this moment, and dragged Wang Jingjing into the yard: "There seems to be some noise on the mountain, why are they still awake?"

"It's a landslide, a mudslide."

Zhang Jie was stunned for a moment, then blurted out: "Are you the same as those people in the coal mine?"

Shen Gu nodded heavily.Zhang Jie opened her mouth wide in a daze: "Then they are all dead?"

Shen Gu jumped up suddenly: "No, I want to try!"

"Try? Try what?" Zhang Jie said blankly, "They are all dead already?"

"I want to try." Shen Gu was thinking about the four earthbound spirits in the coal mine. Originally, they should have repeated their deaths over and over again in that mine, but after they dug a path, the four earthbound spirits The bound spirit disappeared.He remembered that Zhong Lecen said that the earth-bound spirits were a sad soul that could not be reincarnated because they were imprisoned by their own grievances, but the four earth-bound spirits cheered and disappeared in the shaft. Does that mean that they Maybe it has broken away from the identity of the earth-bound spirit?If so, then he will give it a try. If all the people in this village are dead, maybe he can make one or a few of them stop being earthbound spirits.

"You two, go out and run to a higher place, and I'll go to another house and call the door." Shen Gu dropped these words, turned around and rushed out.

It was stormy.In the wind and rain, Shen Gu kicked down the doors and smashed the windows of every house.But even with Jin Tiezhiying, he couldn't break open any thin doors and windows.The tiger's mouth was actually cracked by those wooden doors and windows, and every time it was smashed, it was painful.But he dared not stop.Every flash of lightning, you can see the mudslide is getting closer, and it has swallowed up the few houses closest to the foot of the mountain.Shen Gu ran towards the direction of the mudslide, seeing the mudslide approaching, this was the last house he could smash.In desperation, he slammed on the door with all his strength, and with a bang, the door was knocked open.Shen Gu didn't expect to be able to knock it away, and almost fell to the ground with too much force.

"Who?" An old man's panicked voice came from the room, followed by a child crying.

"Mudslide! The mountain has collapsed!" Shen Gu touched the edge of the bed, and saw by lightning that it was indeed an old man with a three or four-year-old child, "Hurry up!"

"Ah?" The old man sat up in fright.Shen Gu picked up the child, dragged the old man and ran outside.

After running a few dozen steps, the house behind him collapsed.

Before Zhang Jie and Wang Jingjing had gone far, Shen Gu carried the child on his back and supported the old man, and the five of them walked uphill step by step.By the time they got to a safe place, the sky was getting brighter and the rain was easing up.Shen Gu looked down the mountain, and the small village had disappeared, and it was not even obvious that there were people living there.The sun slowly revealed his face from the edge of the clouds, Shen Gu felt light in his arms, and when he looked down, the child had gradually faded away, and the old man beside him also slowly turned into a wisp of smoke, gently disappearing into the sunlight... …