Only me in the world is normal

Chapter 506 The Cursed City That Can't Get Out
In the darkness, a dim light appeared.

Someone appeared with a dangling kerosene lamp.

Visibility from the kerosene lamp light was poor.

The visitor was shrouded in a large black robe, unable to see clearly. The light emitted by the kerosene lamp seemed to be absorbed by the skin, presenting a darkness on the face.

"who?"

Xiaoyao took the initiative to step forward and opened the door of the store.

The cold wind and cold rain poured into the shop together.

It was a dark night outside, but the sword in Xiaoyao's hand was faintly emitting a cold light, and the sword energy was surging on the sword, and he could take off the sword at any time.

"Who are you? Why did you come to the cursed city?"

The visitor approached with a hoarse voice, as if he was sawing wood.

There were also some weird grunting sounds, as if there was water in the throat.

Getting so close, even Alec could clearly see part of the person who came. The face under the hood was completely wrapped in a black cloth, and only a pair of cloudy eyes were exposed.

I don't know if it was because of the kerosene light, but Alec saw that the person's eyes were yellow, which was extremely strange.

"Cursed City?" Xiaoyao asked, "We accidentally ended up on this island because of a shipwreck. Why is it called the Cursed City?"

"Shipwreck? It's unlucky for you, you can't get out of this ghost place."

"Can't get out? Why?" Xiaoyao asked.

The visitor didn't answer, and suddenly said anxiously: "Don't talk nonsense, hurry up, they are coming, go in, go in!"

He walked a few steps quickly and hurried to the door of the store.

Xiaoyao's eyes flickered twice, but he let this person in without making a move.

He did hear various movements mixed with the sound of rain, and there were more "people" approaching in the darkness.

"Quick, quick."

After the man came in, he said anxiously, "Turn off the lights, or you will be discovered."

"What's outside?" Xiaoyao signaled everyone to do the same, and turned off the kerosene lamp.

"It's the ghost, the ghost of the cursed city, the shadow." The man said.

"What's going on with the cursed city you're talking about?" Xiaoyao asked, standing next to the man without a trace.

"This used to be a very prosperous town." The man said, "One day a group of pirates came in and massacred them. There were wizards among the pirates, and after the massacre, they cursed the town, turning everyone into ghosts wandering here Shadow, no one who strayed into this town can escape."

"wizard?"

Xiaoyao caught one of the words, is it an extraordinary power that Alec doesn't know?
"Quick, quick, hide."

The man didn't answer, and after he finished talking on his own, he was about to hide behind the counter of the store.

Xiaoyao grabbed his shoulders and moved to the back, causing the man to fall behind the debris on the other side.

"Hide here," he said.

"Stop talking nonsense and hide quickly." The man buried his head very low.

Xiaoyao looked at his hand, it was stained with some unknown mucus that was close to dark green, it was stained when he grabbed the man just now.

It feels quite sticky in the hand. These things are definitely not like rain in the sky.

With a flick of luck, Xiaoyao completely shook off the mucus, and hid in the shadows without a trace.

The other four also took Alec to hide.

Alec's heart was beating wildly, and he looked outside, trying hard to see something in the lightless darkness.

For a moment, the whole store became extremely quiet.

Alec's depressed and rapid breathing could even be heard.

The sound of footsteps stepping on the stagnant water came from outside, and gradually became clearer. Xiaoyao and the others saw a large number of black shadows appearing outside the store.

Several people hold weapons in their hands.

"boom!"

With a sound, a rather tall black figure flew past the store.

After knocking over several black shadows, it fell into a house around the corner, making a loud noise.

"Grumble!"

A sound like drowning came from those black shadows, and they immediately gave up approaching the store and flocked to the direction where the black shadow flew in just now.

In the next second, Xiaoyao and the others saw a burst of flames, like a huge fiery snake with its bloody mouth open and passing by, engulfing those black shadows.

Fiery flames danced in the night.

After evaporating the falling rainwater, those black shadows also changed from black shadows to real black coke.

There was even some grilled meat smell.

"Cuckoo..."

Alec's stomach growled again, and he was so scared that he quickly covered his stomach.

He was hungry, but his stomach growled because of the smell of barbecue, which still made him feel quite uncomfortable.

After all, it is not clear whether the things outside are people, ghosts or monsters.

How can you develop an appetite for such a ghost thing?

"Is it Big Eleven?"

Xiaoyao's teammate Gui Xie said in the team channel.

"It should be. It's a very strong and fierce flame. But doesn't the eleventh master use a sword?"

Xia Yan really wears the burning blood sword on his waist, and everyone can see it.

"Maybe it's a sword of flames."

Several people guessed nothing.

However, Xiaoyao stretched out the Lengyue sword in his hand towards the face of the strange man, picked up the tip of the sword, and lifted the black cloth wrapped outside, revealing a somewhat distorted face.

The man's chin protruded forward, and the area around the mouth was dark brown. If you look closely, you will find thin and dense scales, just like fish scales.

Xiaoyao's movements were as fast as lightning, and the man realized that the camouflage on his face was no longer effective, so he hurriedly covered his face with his hands and roared: "What are you doing!"

"what are you?"

Xiaoyao raised his sword and touched the man's forehead, leaving a sword mark.

A trace of turbid yellow blood flowed out from the wound, making the man calm down a bit.

Others also relit the kerosene lamps to see the man's appearance clearly.

Alec was full of surprise, this guy looks so ugly!
The man hesitated and didn't speak, and Xiaoyao was unambiguous, and directly swung his sword to leave a wound on the man.

"Okay, I'll say it, I'll say it!" The man took a few steps back in pain, and immediately confessed.

At this time, someone outside approached with a kerosene lamp.

Xia Yanzhen and Tiamat returned and entered the store.

"The canned food here is so rotten that I can't eat it anymore, but I found some very strange fish." Xia Yanzhen signaled Tiamat to come forward.

Tiamat threw the box in his hand to the ground.

The box rolled open twice, and a few fish rolled out of it.

Several people took a closer look and showed uncomfortable expressions: "What kind of strange fish is this?"

The few fish jumping on the ground were dark brown, about the length of an adult's forearm, without scales, and their bodies were covered with that dark green mucus.

The mouth is wide and protruding, revealing teeth that are very similar to humans—the shape of incisors.

Not only that, but there are several small "arms" growing in the belly of the fish.

The shape of these arms is exactly the same as that of a human being. They grow crookedly in the belly of the fish, like human hands that have been shrunk countless times.

The color is the same as the whole fish, showing dark brown.

The arm is struggling with the beating of the fish, and it is constantly shaking and convulsing, which makes people extremely uncomfortable.

"This is a devil fish." The strange man looked at the fish on the ground and said.

"Oh, so those outside are devils?" Xia Yanzhen asked.

"No, they are cursed ghosts."

The man shrank back.

I don't know why, but the person who just came in gave him a feeling that was far scarier than another person who threatened him with a sword, and it was countless times more terrifying.

Just looking at it is creepy.

The man began to tell his story, and the story of the abandoned town.

This person is called Matt, and like Xia Yanzhen and the others, he is an unlucky guy who accidentally entered this abandoned town.

Once inside, Matt and his companions are stuck in the town.

No matter how they go, day or night, they cannot leave this town.

A group of people searched the entire town, and learned that this town is a "cursed city" from the log left by the "predecessors".

Anyone who enters the town can no longer leave and will stay in the town forever.

Matt and others definitely don't want to die, they want to live.

But in towns, there is nothing to eat except water.

Whether it's canned food or any other food, it's rotten.

The only thing that can be eaten is the fish in the sea - these devil fish brought back by Xia Yanzhen.

When people are extremely hungry, they don't care about the appearance of the food.

Also, it's less unpleasant when cooked than when it's alive.

Even if it feels wrong, Matt and others have to eat it.

They depended on fish and lived in this cursed city for several years.

I finally understand what it means to stay in this town forever in those diaries.

All humans, one body after another, mutate over time.

Scales began to grow on their bodies, and their mouths protruded, showing obvious fish characteristics.

And they went crazy one by one, actively sinking into the sea on the edge of the town.

Those black shadows are mutated people like Matt's companion.

They spend most of their time "sleeping" on the bottom of the sea, and come ashore at certain dark nights - especially if someone strays into a town.

These mutated people will drag the survivors who stray into the town into the seabed together, and quickly become one of them.

The mutated people are called "cursed shadows".

Matt is also a member of the shadow of the curse, but he said that for reasons unknown to him, he has not lost his mind.

Maintaining reason is actually a kind of torture.

Becoming the shadow of the curse did not allow Matt to gain any special power, but to "persist" with this cursed town, like the shadow of the town.

Endless hunger and the pain of suffocation after entering the water have been tormenting him.

Only after occasionally going ashore, can they be free.

"So what do you want to do when you approach us?" Xiaoyao asked after listening to Matt's incomplete description with many loopholes.

"I do not know either."

Matt showed a painful expression, "I want you to save me, but I also want to drag you into the water together." Really into the water.

"How long have you lived here?"

"I don't know, ten years, 20 years or more."

"Didn't you encounter these cursed shadows at the beginning?"

"No, it's just that there was no one in the beginning. I don't know why those cursed shadows didn't appear." Matt answered many questions obediently.

"Aside from us, did no one else enter this cursed city?" Xiaoyao continued to ask.

"Yes, they all became shadows of the curse," Matt said.

Once upon a time, he also wanted to cooperate with people.

But gradually, playing with these strays, approaching, blending in, deceiving them, watching them go from hope to despair, watching them go crazy, and letting the survivors sink together became what Matt really wanted to do in his heart.

It's just that this time it seems to have hit the iron plate.

The shadow of the curse was swept away by the blazing flames.

When he saw the flame, Matt even had an urge to jump into it like a moth to the flame.

The light and heat both frightened and fascinated him.

"Do you know where this island is roughly? There is also Mouth Island, have you heard of it?" Xiaoyao didn't get entangled in the secret of the cursed city.

This cursed city can trap ordinary people, but it may not be able to trap them.

He didn't forget that the task was to kill the mermaid princess.

"Mouth Island, the legendary island where people lived under the sea? I heard that it is full of weird people." Matt said.

"That's right, do you know where the Island of Mouth is?" Alec interrupted.

He misses the island of Mouth and wants to see it.

Matt shook his head, but met Xia Yanzhen's gaze and immediately said: "I know there are charts somewhere, maybe I can find clues."

There is no "map" of the archipelago, only charts.

"where?"

"In town..."

"Take us there."

"Now?" Matt said, "There are still many shadows of the curse. If you walk around, you will be caught."

The tone is like a parent saying to a child: If you don’t sleep, wolves will come and take you away.

"You will be back in the sea by tomorrow morning, right?" Xiaoyao said, "How will we take us to find the chart? Go now."

"Well, if you are dragged away by the shadow of the curse, remember to kill me." Matt reminded.

For one thing he wasn't lying.

It's just that his own mind is very confused, he wants to be free and wants to drag others into sinking.

Constantly jumping sideways repeatedly.

"Yes." Xiaoyao agreed.

"Leave now?" Alec looked anxiously at the night outside.

"Don't worry, Your Highness, we will protect you." Xiaoyao said confidently.

He didn't have the information about them alone, but with Xia Shishi around, Xiaoyao didn't feel that the mere shadow of the curse could stop his pace.

"Okay." Alec was easy to talk and didn't object anymore.

Several people carried kerosene lamps and walked out of the store.

The cold rain outside made Alec shiver and tighten his clothes.

Matt led the way at the front, followed by Tiamat, and then Xia Yanzhen.

After that, a group of Xiaoyao people did not forget to surround Alec, the prince.

As long as this task has a little shadow of a fairy tale, then Alec is the key person to find the mermaid princess, and he must not be allowed to have an accident.

Not long after walking, there were some noises around.

"Here they come," Matt said.

"I'll leave it to you." Xia Yanzhen said to Tiamat.

"Then..." Tiamat asked Xia Yanzhen for his opinion, "Don't hide?"

"No more hiding."

Xia Yan is really sure.

Tiamat jumped up, and suddenly, the wind and rain stopped.

No, not a pause.

Instead, a terrifying giant appeared above everyone's heads, directly covering the sky and blocking the raindrops falling from the sky.

The whole of Tiamat was sunk into the darkness, only the silhouette of a huge shadow.

But the burning eyes are as dazzling as two blazing flames.

"dragon?"

Xiaoyao and the others were dumbfounded, knowing that Xia Shishi was very strong, and he was definitely the number one dream apostle.

But a dragon suddenly appeared, and the gap between us and the third-order apostles who are still martial arts is too big!

"Roar!"

Tiamat let out a dragon roar, opened its mouth, and the dragon's breath gushed out, and a flame swept across the surroundings, engulfing the building and the cursed shadow that appeared.

Under the impact of the dragon's breath, those buildings collapsed and turned into ruins.

The Cursed Shadow also turns to char.

"That's it, that's it..." Matt trembled.

The scorching heat of the dragon's breath made him feel the warmth he hadn't had for many years, and he couldn't help but want to step forward and plunge into it.

With Matt's perception, he naturally couldn't detect the coldness hidden in the scorching heat.

The charred corpses stood up one after another after the dragon's breath swept by, and Tiamat controlled these cursed shadows, turning them into its undead army.

A burst of cold air spread.

The corpses collided with more cursed shadows, and monsters began to fight with each other.

The biggest monster king "sitting upright" in the sky, looking down at this scene, solemn and ancient with no emotion on his hideous dragon head.

"Continue to lead the way." Xia Yanzhen said to the stagnant Matt.

Matt woke up like a dream, and continued to move forward with a fluttering pace.

"This, this is... what?" Alec had already fallen to the ground, stammering, unable to speak a complete sentence.

"Don't be nervous, this is a magical transformation technique." Xiaoyao suppressed the surprise in his heart, helped Alec up and began to flicker, but he remembered a rumor.

I heard that Iron Blood once sold a dragon egg to the brigade.

It must be the dragon.

But, can a dragon egg really hatch such a terrifying dragon?
With such fierce dragon eggs, why did Iron Blood sell them to the brigade?
This giant dragon can have such power, I am afraid it is due to the cultivation of the day after tomorrow.

Xiaoyao's guess is correct, Tiamat's ability to have such strength is due to the cultivation of the day after tomorrow.

If the iron blood hatches the dragon eggs normally and cultivates them normally, the extra servants now are just a flying tiger, and they will not have the strength of Tiamat now.

With Tiamat clearing the way, everyone arrived at their destination unimpeded all the way.

Transforming back into human form, Tiamat stood silently beside Xia Yanzhen.

But Xiaoyao and others looked at it with different expressions.

As for Alec, he has been dazed by Xiaoyao, thinking that since there are mermaids, it is normal to have shapeshifting dragons.

Alec was easily "persuaded" and accepted everything in front of him, not just his ability to talk nonsense.

It is also because Xiaoyao used a magical martial art - the mind-stimulating technique.

It is enough to easily influence an ordinary person like Alec, making him obedient without knowing it.

The house that Matt took everyone to may belong to a certain crew member, or a higher-ranking captain.

There are a lot of sailing related things at home.

After searching for a while, he found several charts.

With the help of the dim light of the kerosene lamp, Xia Yanzhen and the others observed carefully, and determined that the island they were on was called Sumi Island.

And in the northernmost corner of a chart, a corner of Mouth Island was found.

"Mouth Island, I found it!" Alec excitedly said.

His original destination was Mouth Island, but he was shipwrecked on the way. Normally, he is not too far away from Mouth Island.

It is quite normal to be able to determine the position of Mouth Island on the chart now.

The next thing to do is to head to Mouth Island.

Usually, this is difficult.

It is impossible to cross the sea without a ship.

The weather in the archipelago waters has always been changeable, and some small ships dare not go too far from the shore for fear of capsizing.

Even large ships can be wrecked in dire sea weather.

To go to Mouth Island and find the clues of the Mermaid Princess, a ship—and a big ship is absolutely essential.

But now, you don't need to worry about this problem at all.

Because Tiamat is there.

There is an "airplane", who still takes a boat?

Xia Yan really remembered that Tao E and the others had obtained a ship prop, which was very suitable for use in this mission world.

Alec was quite excited.

"It's useless, even if you know where it is, you still can't leave the city of the curse."

Matt's hoarse and gloomy voice broke the "joyful" atmosphere.

Don't forget, this is a town you can't get out of!
(End of this chapter)