Chapter 149 The palm print of the mysterious man (8000)
He could clearly feel that the unicorn monster in front of him was very powerful.
The monster soldiers in the two rows were silent and just stood there.
The blood around them set them off extremely gloomy, but Xu Bai could feel the gazes coming out of their eyes.
Compared with the gloomy look, this look is completely different, with a curious look.
It's a weird feeling, it's obviously weird, but it's full of human emotions, that curious gaze is even stronger than a human being.
Although the one-horned monster in front of him was very powerful, Xu Bai didn't feel any killing intent in him.
Killing intent, he has been in this circle for so long, and he still has a little feeling. His intuition tells him that it seems that he can't fight it.
Sure enough, the unicorn monster who led the team also looked at him curiously. After a while, he took two tentative steps and asked, "Human?"
Xu Bai nodded, and asked back: "Sly?"
No one would have thought that the meeting between the two parties would be in such a form.
After the two finished asking each other questions, they fell into a long silence.
"The five hundred and sixty-third city of Yaogui City, Wang Fu, the captain of the city guard, welcomes your Excellency." Wang Fu suddenly arched his hands and said, "Your Excellency must have experienced a lot of hardships when you came here, or go to the city for a while. How about it, the city lord has already set up a banquet and wine in the city to entertain your Excellency."
Xu Bai narrowed his eyes, touched his chin with his hand, and thought in secret.
The attitude of the other party is too weird. It may be reasonable to start a fight without meeting, but now he is invited to the city as a guest, and this monster named Wang Fu is not the city lord.
To go or not to go?
This is a question worth thinking about.
Wang Fu seemed to see that Xu Bai was hesitating, waved his hands, and said with a very bold look, "Your Excellency, please don't misunderstand, the city lord is well known for being hospitable, and if you really want to treat you Unfavorable, I have already started."
Xu Bai raised his head, the other party was right.
Now it's like walking into the other party's lair. If the other party really wanted to do something to him, he would have already done so. There is no need for so many ink marks here. Not talking here.
"Since the city lord is so hospitable, I'm not being disrespectful, please lead the way!" Xu Bai laughed.
"Please!" Wang Fu stretched out his hand, pointed in a direction, and led the way.
Xu Bai walked behind, looking at the surroundings while walking.
This place is too much like a place where humans live. Whether it is the surrounding houses or the atmosphere, it really doesn't look like a ghostly city.
If it is placed in the human world, or if these monsters are changed in appearance, I am afraid it will be a gathering of human beings.
Along the way, he didn't speak either.
Wang Fu didn't seem to intend to ask anything, but just led the way silently. When Xu Bai saw this situation, he didn't intend to say anything, and kept following behind.
After about a stick of incense, a magnificent building appeared in front of it. Compared with the surrounding houses, this building stood out from the crowd, and it looked extraordinarily luxurious. This style is definitely the city lord's mansion.
In front of the City Lord's Mansion, there were two rows of guards standing. They held weapons in their hands and stood on both sides. They looked extremely solemn. If it weren't for the dead breath, they would look no different from human soldiers.
"Please, the city lord is inside." Wang Fu opened the door, continued to raise his hand, and made a gesture of please.
At this time, Xu Bai didn't go in, but stood at the door, looked inward, and saw the situation in the yard through the door from the outside.
In the yard, there is a huge table with delicious food, wine and food on the table.
Various guards and maidservants stood on both sides, and in front of the table sat a rich middle-aged man.
The appearance of the middle-aged man is no different from that of a human being, but there are a few long beards on his face, which look like mice, and the hands of this middle-aged man are like animal claws, which looks particularly sinister.
If you leave this aside, it looks like a fat man who always smiles.
Seemingly aware of Xu Bai's gaze, the middle-aged man looked towards him, with kindness in his eyes, but there was more death than kindness in his eyes.
"Oh, the honored guest is here, please come in quickly." The middle-aged man stood up, with a big belly, walked to the door, and said with a kind smile: "My lord of the five hundred and sixty-three city, Huang Kui, I have seen the honored guest , I don’t know the name of the distinguished guest?”
"I'm going down to Lin Yong, and I've seen City Lord Huang." Xu Bai clasped his hands.
As for the name, he learned and sold it now, and he brought Lin Yong's name over.
These days, if you don't know what insidious moves are there, you can do something with the name.
So it is better not to reveal your name. Although it is difficult to use those strange tricks with only one name, you must be careful.
"So it's Mr. Lin, please come in." City Lord Huang stretched out his hand and brought Xu Bai into the courtyard, letting Xu Bai sit at the head of the table.
At this time, Xu Bai got closer and saw the things on the table. At first he thought they were delicacies, but when he took a closer look, they were all made of clay.
Xu Bai: "..."
Good guy, he is used to many shabby hospitality methods, but he didn’t expect there to be such a shabby one, even made the surface shape with soil.
Seeing Xu Bai's expression and those beast-like claws, City Lord Huang touched the long beard next to his lips, and said in shame: "It's all the etiquette I paid attention to when I was alive, but no living people eat it in this ghost city. things, so we made a look, at least we have to take a formality."
Xu Bai said: "City Lord Huang has a heart."
Really can only talk about a formality, after all, in this situation, you can't let him use chopsticks, right?
The etiquette at the dinner table is to talk while eating, but now it’s a bit embarrassing not to talk while eating. Talking about things while eating can resolve part of the embarrassment, but this time the embarrassment is getting bigger and bigger.
The two fell into silence. Although the monsters around looked at Xu Bai curiously, they just took a look and then looked away very politely.
City Lord Huang didn't speak, neither did Xu Bai, Xu Bai was stable, and he still didn't know what to say, there were too many mysteries in his mind, he had to sort out one point before asking
Seemingly aware of the seriousness of the current atmosphere, City Lord Huang finally opened up the chatter box, breaking the dead quiet atmosphere.
"Mr. Lin, I invited you here this time because I know that Mr. Lin can resist rejection, so I am very curious and want to see what is going on with Mr. Lin." Huang Chengzhu said.
Fighting rejection?
Xu Bai stroked his chin, thinking secretly.
The so-called rejection is very clear when you think about it carefully, but it is just the things that devoured his soul at the beginning.
Now when he thinks about what happened just now, Xu Bai feels his scalp go numb. In that situation just now, people have no power to fight back. This is still the skill of his soul. If he doesn't have it, it will probably be faster.
Fortunately, Goldfinger was more powerful, which saved him from danger and successfully escaped from danger.
But now this monster named Huang Chengzhu wants to know what happened.
Is City Lord Huang strong?
is strong.
At least in Xu Bai's view, he can't see the depth of the other party, and if he can't see the depth of the other party, it proves that the depth is unfathomable.
Xu Bai thought for a while and said, "What do you think?"
Since he wanted to see his situation, it must involve the question of how to look. Xu Bai didn't hide it and asked directly.
Who knew that after asking this sentence, Huang Chengzhu shook his head decisively.
"The moment your Excellency entered the door, I could see it clearly. No, to be precise, what I saw was a fog, which I couldn't guess."
There was a hint of fear in the words, as if seeing something that shouldn't be seen, and the eyes could hardly bear it.
"A fog?" Xu Bai asked, "What is a fog?"
This answer is sometimes nondescript. Xu Bai seems to understand it, but he doesn't seem to understand it completely.
"It's a situation where you can see it, but you can't touch it. If you want to look carefully, you have to enter the mist, but you can't get out alive after entering the mist." City Lord Huang explained, but he didn't explain it in detail. It seems that I am afraid that if I say too much, it will cause trouble, so I just give a general explanation.
This foggy answer only deepened the fog in Xu Bai's heart.
"Alas..." Huang Chengzhu said: "Mr. Lin, to be honest, even I didn't see it through, so I can only describe it roughly. No matter how you ask, I can't tell you all, because I don't know. , why don't we talk about something else?"
Xu Bai asked: "What does the city lord want to talk about?"
Now that the other party's words have come to this point, Xu Bai doesn't intend to continue entanglement, and he heard the other party say that he wants to talk about something else, which aroused his curiosity. Of course, coming here is not just such a trivial matter. Ask something.
"I still have some things that I don't understand, why don't Huang Chengzhu tell me what to do, after telling me, let's talk about other things." Xu Bai said.
City Master Huang nodded and said, "Excuse me."
Xu Bai saw that City Master Huang was so upright, and said, "Why are you conscious?"
As soon as this sentence came out, the scene fell into silence. In fact, he wanted to ask this very much. The city owner named Huang Kui in front of him is the leader here. He must know a lot of things. As for whether the other party says it or not, it depends on whether the other party is willing. .
The quiet atmosphere is gradually spreading, and there is a deathly silence around.
Castlor Huang suddenly raised his hand and waved at the surrounding air.
Seeing this, the monsters guarding around immediately bowed and left without staying here. After a while, the place returned to tranquility, leaving only Xu Bai and Huang City Lord.
Xu Bai squinted his eyes, waiting for City Lord Huang's next words.
Since you have called all your subordinates away, you definitely don’t want these monsters to hear, and the next step should be the main event.
Sure enough, after all the monsters left, City Lord Huang sighed, and his tone was very bleak.
"Oh, I know you will definitely ask these questions." Huang Chengzhu sighed: "Actually, I don't know the reason for this, but I do know one thing, only the weird people in the human city or the ghost city have their own life. Consciousness, nothing else."
Xu Bai frowned upon hearing this.
Only the weirdness in these two places has consciousness. Is there any way here?
He kept analyzing the two sentences just now in his mind, and after a while, a clue echoed in his mind.
When a person enters a tricky city, his soul will be devoured. What will happen if his soul is swallowed? This is a very simple matter. He will directly become an idiot and act on instinct.
Xu Bai had already experienced it just now, so he was deeply touched.
What if the situation was reversed?
If Weird enters the place where human beings live, all consciousness will be swallowed up and become a soulless existence.
In this way, isn’t it weird that exists in the world, all of them are idiots, without consciousness, and just do things by instinct?
City Lord Huang seemed to see through what Xu Bai was thinking, and added: "To be precise, it's not completely unconscious, but only knows to kill by instinct, killing everything in front of you. Through our place, we summed up the rules."
As he spoke, he picked up the chopsticks in his hand, picked up a pot of chicken made of loess, put it in his mouth and chewed a few mouthfuls, with a disgusted expression on his face.
"Sigh... How I wish I could taste the beauty of food when I was alive. Where is it like now, even eating has become our luxury."
There was a trace of dejection in the words, as if the most precious thing in life had been lost, and the heart was full of sorrow and despair.
"Mr. Lin, what is the taste of eating? I haven't tasted it for a long time, and I forgot. Can you describe it for me?"
Xu Bai shook his head and said: "If I describe it for you, you will only feel more and more uncomfortable. Why don't you keep it in your heart and think about it."
Take a closer look, this Huang City Lord seems to be quite pitiful. To be precise, the entire Yaogui City is quite pitiful. After all, he can't even do the innate behavior of eating.
"Alas..." City Lord Huang sighed again, put down the chopsticks in his hand, changed his tone, and said, "We don't know the exact reason, but it seems to be some kind of force that prevents us from breaking through this layer." Obstacles, that is to say, as long as we go to the human world, we will become machines that only know how to kill, and the same is true when people from the human world come to us."
He smiled wryly again. He thought this time was a chance to make a breakthrough. He could see some abnormal situation from Xu Bai, and see if he could find the final answer.
But he knew that he was overthinking. Although the person in front of him was very young, his background made people feel trembling.
He knew what the fog represented, because even he couldn't see through it, it was definitely something with great terror.
"Then let's talk about something else." City Lord Huang quickly cleared up his mood. After all, he has lived for so long, and his mood has already become numb: "Mr. Lin, I don't know who is in power now, or the big victory country?"
Dashengguo?
Xu Bai was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head, and said, "Da Chu, before Da Chu, there was a strong wind. As for whether it was a big victory before the strong wind, I don't know."
Good guy.
Xu Bai discovered a blind spot. How many years ago was this Huang City Lord who died, and he still exists in Yaogui City.
And most importantly, how strong is this person? After all, I have lived for so long.
City Lord Huang was also stunned, and it took him a while to react, and sighed: "So it's been so long? It really is time flies, dynasties have changed, let's not talk about it, Mr. Lin is here to play with us How long will it take, I will find someone to be your guide."
Don’t care about the other things, he was sucked in out of nowhere, and I really don’t know how to get back.
After all, this place is really too weird, Xu Bai doesn't want to stay here for long, so it's better to leave early, just now, after hearing what City Lord Huang said, he felt that the other party seemed to know how to leave.
"Don't you want to play more?" Huang Chengzhu said: "I thought that Mr. Lin wanted to see a different world, since I want to leave, then I will find someone to take you away.
We did a lot of experiments and sent some monsters to the human world, but the result was still the same, so we didn’t send them there a long time ago.
But Mr. Lin just left, and he can also pass through this passage, Wang Fu! "
Following City Lord Huang finished shouting these words, Wang Fu walked in from the door, and said respectfully, "Your subordinate is here."
"Mr. Lin is leaving, you can take him to that passage." City Lord Huang seemed to sense that Xu Bai was leaving, so he seemed a little uninterested.
Wang Fu was slightly taken aback, and then said: "But it has been abandoned for a long time, and it will take some time to restore it."
"This..." Huang Chengzhu seemed embarrassed.
Xu Bai smiled and said: "No problem, I can wait, how many days will it take?"
"About three days." Wang Fu replied.
"Then do it quickly, don't make Mr. Lin wait too long." City Lord Huang ordered.
Wang Fu hurriedly agreed again, and then left.
After Wang Fu left, City Lord Huang apologized slightly.
"Mr. Lin, I really didn't expect this. How about you stay in my city lord's mansion for a few days, and you can leave after three days."
"Then I have to thank City Lord Huang." Xu Bai was not in a hurry, and said: "By the way, I heard that people and monsters are not in harmony, but I see that City Lord Huang is very friendly to me. Why is that?"
Huang Chengzhu laughed at himself and said: "When we are alive, we have to fight for everything, and we have to grab everything. We know that after death, there is nothing. Now we can't even satisfy the most basic appetite, so why are we thinking about those disputes in the past? Everything has vanished with death."
As he said that, City Lord Huang stopped talking, and led the way, took Xu Bai to a room, and opened the door.
The room is very elegantly furnished. If it weren't for the red light that filled the room, it would look like an elegant place.
"Mr. Lin, are you satisfied?" City Lord Huang asked.
Xu Bai nodded and said, "Very satisfied."
"Then let's rest first. Mr. Lin is also very tired this journey, so I won't bother you." City Lord Huang said a word, and left directly. Before leaving, he even closed the door.
Xu Bai watched the back of City Lord Huang leaving. He didn't find a place to sit down until the door was closed, put his hands on the table, and tapped lightly.
To be honest, he was a little uneasy about today's communication, and the specific reason for his uneasy feeling was also because of the different position he was in now.
As the saying goes, listen to half of what you are told, don't believe it all, or don't believe it.
The other party said that he would be taken to that so-called mysterious place in a few days so that he could return to the human world.
But whether it is true or not, no one can tell.
Judging from today's communication, there is no difference. All in all, let's stay here for a few days and see if we can find any clues.
As for the weird loss of consciousness that we talked about today, Xu Bai still needs to think about it, and ask for relevant information when he returns to the human world.
Thinking about this, Xu Bai looked at the blood red around him, and fell into deeper thinking.
…
There is no such thing as day and night in Yaogui City. Xu Bai just roughly estimated the time, and it should be the next day.
During this period of time, he didn't sleep, let alone do other things.
When he opened the door, he found a person standing outside the door, to be precise, a monster standing there.
—Wang Fu.
Wang Fu was still holding the unicorn, and was wandering outside the door, obviously waiting for Xu Bai, but he was too embarrassed to enter the house.
After seeing Xu Bai open the door, he cast a look, he seemed a little hesitant, and he didn't know why.
"Brother Wang, you are guarding outside so early in the morning. It seems that you have something important to tell me. Why don't you come in?" Xu Bai stepped aside and returned to the room.
Wang Fu stood there hesitating for a moment, finally gritted his teeth, and walked to the room, and sat next to Xu Bai.
Xu Bai just subconsciously wanted to pour a cup of tea, only to realize that there is no tea in this Yaogui City, no matter whether it is food or drink, there is none here. After all, they are Yaogui who can't even satisfy their appetites.
Thinking about this, he lowered his raised hand, Xu Bai stared at Wang Fu with burning eyes, and said slowly: "If you have something to say, just talk about it."
Wang Fu took a deep breath, and suddenly said: "Mr. Lin, I want to ask you to do me a favor."
As he spoke, he stood up and bowed to Xu Bai to the end.
This etiquette is still used even in the Great Chu Kingdom, and it is a very solemn etiquette. From this, it can be seen that what Wang Fu said just now is very important.
Xu Bai turned his body slightly, did not accept this gift, and said: "Brother Wang, if you have anything to say, just say it directly. If I can help you, I will do it. Of course, I have to ask for something."
As the saying goes, in business, reciprocity is all about a transaction, and they haven't known each other for a few days, and the relationship between them is not deep, so in the end they still need things.
Wang Fu thought it was normal when he heard the first half of the sentence, but when he heard the second half of the sentence, he froze on the spot and didn't react.
Need something?
Need something?
He was a little confused.
"To be honest, I am a businessman, so if I want to help, I have to get paid." Xu Bai said with a smile.
This is very upright, without beating around the bush, and without shrinking. In his opinion, the transaction is very aboveboard, and there is no need to hide it or be embarrassed.
Wang Fu remained in a stiff state, and only then did he understand what Xu Bai was talking about, and he couldn't help showing a wry smile: "Mr. Lin, I've already died, and I don't have anything, so how can I give you anything? "
"That's a pity." Xu Bai sighed: "I may not be able to help you with this matter."
Wang Fu gritted his teeth and said: "Mr. Lin, as long as you do me this favor, although I have nothing to bring you, I can definitely ask my descendants to give you something."
Descendants?
How did this matter get involved in some descendants?
Xu Bai stroked his chin and asked, "Tell me what you are doing first, and I'll see if I can help."
Wang Fu nodded, and said: "That's right, I've been dead for a long time, but I don't know if my family exists, so I want Mr. Lin to go to the Banyue Sea and find the tuna family."
"Tuna family?" Xu Bai was full of surprise, looking at the unicorn on top of Wang Fu's head, and only then did he understand what the unicorn was.
Good guy, isn't this the tuna's mouth? How did it change to the top of the head?
Of course, Wang Fu didn't know what Xu Bai was thinking, and he was still talking to himself: "That's right, you just need to say my name at that time, the main thing is to give me a sentence and tell them that if they really insist If you don’t go down, you can find a place together and die.”
Xu Bai frowned.
He saw what Wang Fu was thinking. If the monster died and turned into a monster, if it was a gathering of people, it was possible to enter the monster city.
Wang Fu wanted to allow his people to enter Yaogui City and maintain consciousness.
"Just like that, just mention your name?" Xu Bai said.
Wang Fu nodded, and said: "I am an extremely secretive existence in the clan. Only the clansmen can know my name, and only the clansmen of the direct line can know. Before I died, my clansman had a very good life. difficulties, that's why I asked Mr. Lin to bring a sentence."
Xu Bai touched his chin and said, "Okay, I promise."
Wang Fu was planning to spend more time talking, but Xu Bai agreed all of a sudden, and he hasn't reacted yet.
"Is there anything else?" Xu Bai asked again.
Wang Fu shook his head stiffly, indicating that there was nothing else to do.
Actually, Xu Bai promised to agree, but whether to do it or not is another matter.
No one can go to the Banyuehai to find the Yaozu just because of a verbal promise.
Unless that person has a serious brain disease?
In case the so-called clansmen don't buy it, they have to figure out a way to get out.
This is a bad deal.
As for why you agreed, when you are strong enough in the future, it’s okay to go and have a look at that time.
"But I can't promise to go right away." Xu Bai added.
Wang Fu smiled bitterly and said: "It doesn't matter, if they are gone before you go, it can only be said that their fate is bad, I am dead, I have already seen it, this only obsession is not very deep. "
"Okay, since you have nothing to do, let's have a chat?" Xu Bai smiled.
Compared to Huang Chengzhu, who even he can't see through, this Wang Fu's performance is much simpler. Of course, Xu Bai will not let go of this opportunity.
Wang Fu asked: "What does Mr. Lin want to talk about?"
The other party has agreed to his request, and of course he will not hide his secrets.
Xu Bai pondered for a while, organized his words, and then asked: "Yesterday, I heard that you have a ghost city with a number of more than 500. It proves that there are at least more than 500?"
Wang Fu nodded, and said: "That's right, there are actually thousands of them. After all, counting from our era to the present, there are countless monster races that have died. Come on, there are quite a few."
"Then what is the strength of City Lord Huang? To be able to live for such a long time, he must have very strong strength?" Xu Bai continued to ask.
Wang Fu understood that this was to inquire about their strength.
But he knew that even if he inquired about it, it would be nothing. Anyway, if they couldn't get out, others would immediately become idiots if they came in.
"Yipin." Wang Fu said directly: "Mr. Lin, you may not know much about what strength is before you die, and what strength you have when you come in. It will not change with time. We can't cultivate, but we can live for a long time. Almost never dies, except by external force."
will not change?
One product?
Xu Bai pondered: "That is to say, other city lords are also first-class?"
"No." Wang Fu said: "Other city lords may be stronger or weaker. After all, each ghost city has different strengths. Only the strongest can become the city lord.
In addition, every ghost city will not allow outsiders to rob it. If it is robbed, it will be attacked by groups. Therefore, the city lord can only be selected from the local people. This is to prevent chaos. "
Xu Bai hummed to make it clear.
Regardless of whether what the other party said was true or false, or whether it was fooling him, he marked it first before speaking, and firmly remembered what he just said.
These things can be verified later, and at that time, maybe we can exchange information with the emperor.
"Are there any other questions?" Wang Fu asked.
Xu Bai nodded.
Of course he still has questions. Now this is a good opportunity. Facing this seemingly simple Lin Fu, of course he has to ask more useful things.
"Everyone who comes in will become a fool. Isn't there a special case?" Xu Bai continued.
This is also what he wants to know.
Wang Fu shook his head and said: "There is no special case, only you are a special case. From the birth of Yaogui City to the present, there has been no special situation in every Yaogui City."
Speaking of this, Wang Fu seemed to have thought of something and tapped the horn on the top of his head.
"There is a special case that is not a special case. That time, a person without a soul came in. As soon as he came in, he killed everywhere. Many city lords couldn't resist it. In the end, the top ten city lords took action and jointly repelled him.
The last battle was still in our place. Before he left, he printed a huge palm print on the ground, which has not disappeared until now.
It’s really scary to say, the physical strength of that person is unimaginable, no matter what attack falls on him, he will recover instantly,
He seemed to be looking for something with a soul, because I saw with my own eyes that he kept repeating the word "spirit" in his mouth. "
While speaking, Wang Fu showed a fearful expression on his face, obviously thinking of the scene that day, which made him fear.
Blood flowed like a river that day, and the man in white was like a tireless machine.
Xu Bai was still sitting there like an old god, but when he heard this, he stood up abruptly: "You said... he left a palm print, and he is still in this ghostly city?"
(end of this chapter)