Fast Forward To three thousand and seventy seven

Today.

Xu Jiu is undoubtedly a professional special area explorer. It is not too much to say that he is well-informed.

But whether it was the underwater city in the deep sea or the activated earth in the awakened world, he had never had such a strange feeling.

Beyond the barrier, the crowd appeared on a wide road paved with black and gray stone bricks.

Although Zheng Yi had known about the urban relics in the crown level specific area for a long time, Xu Jiu's attention was still inevitably attracted by the urban relics when he really saw it.

This is a gloomy but delicate city.

I do not know if it is a coincidence or some other reason, it is also raining in the crown level special area

The dark sky cast a curtain of rain over the dark gray city.

yes.

No matter the streets or most of the buildings in sight, the construction materials they use show a strange black gray.

From the texture, it doesn't look like ordinary stone, but with the nature of agate.

It is said that this architectural tone, combined with the current weather, coupled with empty streets and silent houses, will only make people feel gloomy.

However, the appearance of these buildings is very exquisite without exception. The embedded doors, the front of the house decorated with patterns, the carved terrace and the bay window inlaid with crystal show the exquisite and elegant architectural style without exception.

It's like a tomb built into a palace, giving people a very contradictory feeling

Zheng Yi, who was standing in the front, was looking around at this time. Suddenly, she jumped up and landed on the house on one side of the street. Xu Jiu motioned others to wait in the street, while she followed.

Out of the sight of street buildings, a city covering an extremely vast area was displayed in front of them.

Zheng Yi looked everywhere, obviously looking for a goal, while Xu Jiu was more observing the layout of the city's ruins.

Looking along the straight broad street, you can see through the roadway, bulbous dome and spire. It is worth noting that there are many squares in the city.

Even at a constant distance, Xu Jiu still noticed all kinds of strange statues standing in the square. They may be the gods enshrined in the city, but they look like human beings and non-human, and the color is not unexpected black and gray

His eyes turned to the edge of the city's ruins.

To the west of the city is a port, which is one of the destinations of this trip. The exploration team can go to the sealed and evil area only by taking the ship that stops at that port.

Yes, there are ships in and out of the port in this special area, but there are no ships landing at present. Moreover, according to Zheng Yi, if you want to board the ship, you must first get the "ticket" only in the urban relics!

This may sound strange.

Who is at the helm of the ship in the port?

Where do the tickets in the city relics come from?

When Zheng Yi first mentioned this to Xu Jiu, the latter's face was full of "really, I don't believe it".

However, Xu Jiu has experienced the adventure of Yuanhai and Lingxing world. It is normal for anything strange to happen in the special area, especially in the crown level special area. Xu Jiu can only convince himself to believe Zheng Yi's plan for the time being.

Further away from the port, that is, the lower reaches of the river, stands a desolate gray mountain range, which gives people an uncertain feeling.

"Yes, the temple in the southeast, that's it!"

Zheng Yi raises her finger to the target location, and Xu Jiu's line of sight shifts.

In the center of the city ruins, there is a magnificent temple located in the center of the huge circular square.

At a glance, Xu Jiu knew that this building is definitely the core of the whole urban heritage. Its status is far superior to other buildings. This is confirmed by the towering stone columns around the main building and the giant statues standing on the square.

Not only that, Xu Jiu soon noticed that the streets of the whole city radiated everywhere with the square as the center.

"Tickets, in this temple?"

Roughly determine the location, Xu Jiu still couldn't help asking.

"The ticket I mentioned is actually a kind of certificate. When we were exploring, we found that a huge three masted sailboat appeared in the port every three hours, and those invisible passengers often boarded the ship with a 'ticket', that is, a badge with a special mark."

More than a month has passed since the last exploration. Coupled with a long coma, Zheng Yi tried to distinguish the most reasonable route to the temple while explaining to Xu Jiu.

Returning to the street again, Zheng Yi, who had a general route in mind, began to organize the team.

Five mystics were arranged in the middle of the team. In front were Zheng Yi and Zongze Kailu. Albert and Madeline took an apostle at the peak of Guizang to guard both sides. Xu Jiu walked last and was responsible for the safety of the rear.

Walking along the right side of the street, the team was very quiet. Only the collision of weapons and clothes mixed with the sound of rain in the long street.

Although Zheng Yi said that in the first half of the operation, that is, there are not too many dangerous creatures in the urban relics. As long as you pay attention carefully, there will be no big problems. However, because of the spread of evil energy, no one can guarantee whether this situation has been changed.

At the end, Xu Jiu always looked at the nearby buildings. He remembered that Zheng Yi said that there were still a large number of invisible "people" living in the urban ruins. Therefore, he began to consciously look for their traces after entering the crown level special area.

However, so far, he has never seen any artifacts and traces of biological activities floating in mid air.

You know, it's rainy now. If there are invisible creatures on the street, the rain will be blocked anyway. The reality is that except for the expedition, other parts of the street are just empty.

The interior of the building is not much worse, because the light is dim, Xu Jiu is difficult to see the scene inside the building, and can only reluctantly judge that the interior of these buildings is just an empty darkness.

Led by Zheng Yi, the team turned the first corner without any accident.

There are no monsters, no visions, and no imagined sinister energy erosion. Some are just the small sound of rain colliding with streets and buildings.

This relic seems to have entered a strange static state, but Xu Jiu always feels that there are other things hidden in this silence.

Like the calm before the storm

Every time she walks out of a distance, Zheng Yi will jump on the roof to determine her current position.

Fortunately, because the seal strange object has been loaded into a space strange object in advance, the speed of the team is not too slow.

Half an hour later, the temple dome in the center of the square gradually appeared in front of everyone.

Zheng Yi is still at the front of the team. The silence along the way doesn't make him feel at ease, and even his heart is more and more bottomless.

As a second time here, he clearly knows what existed in the ruins of the city in the past. Is it really a good thing that they or "they" suddenly disappeared?

It's just that it's impossible to look back. Zheng Yi had to turn around again and told the team members behind him not to relax their vigilance. She wanted to see Xu Jiu's state, but found that he was holding a thermos and sipping in the last hand.

With an air hood, the rain couldn't get close to him.

After realizing that he was found, Xu Jiu did not hide, shrugged, put the thermos containing invasive alienated animal broth back into his backpack, just zipped the backpack back, looked unconsciously across the street, and immediately frowned.

"Stop!"

He shouted to stop the team. Xu Jiu took two steps forward, looked at Madeleine on the left and said,

"Lean to the right and pay attention to your feet... No, raise your feet and get rid of the rain!"

For Xu Jiu's sudden reminder, Madeleine was surprised but did not hesitate. She directly raised her legs and began to shake her feet. When she moved, she immediately found that what was thrown down on both sides of her boots was not rain at all, but a thick black gel!

When others saw this scene, they began to look at the street. Immediately, someone found the strangeness of the rain under their feet.

"My legs!"

A secret instrument man exclaimed with his trouser legs. Xu Jiu turned his head and looked at him. He saw that the ankles of his legs had been occupied by black lines.

You should know that the street itself is paved with black and gray bricks and stones, which makes it difficult to attract attention when the transparent rain flows in it, even if it turns black.

"Stay where you are."

Xu Jiu raised his feet and stamped fiercely. The dark blue air flow centered on him spread in all directions. In the blink of an eye, it set off a wave formed by a layer of black viscous glue and pushed them away. Then he shouted,

"Deal with the injury now!"

There was a safe area marked out by Xu Jiu, and the other secretaries immediately began to check all the ankles. Finally, they found that three people had been unknowingly invaded by these black colloids.

In the face of this sudden situation, Zheng yidang immediately decided to stop moving forward and deal with the problems on her feet first. After all, there is still a long way to go later. At this time, she hurt her legs and feet, which will inevitably become a burden at that time.

"Sorry, I don't feel anything at all. These... Have evil energy reactions. It's weird!"

The mystic who first found that there was something wrong with his ankle simply sat on the ground. After observing the condition of his legs with his glasses, his face suddenly turned pale.

Evil energy has gone deep into the flesh and is destroying the body!

The body was invaded by monsters, but he didn't feel it at all. If Xu Jiu hadn't found it quickly, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"Is there any way to get rid of it?"

Zheng Yi looked at the black lines still creeping on her ankles and asked in a deep voice.

"It should be possible. Governor Xu cut off the follow-up energy supply and had a chance to recover."

The mystic who can be sent to participate in this action is obviously also the best in the secret society. After simply checking the situation of the injured, he immediately began to use his ability to recite the obscure spell in a low voice, took out a short knife from his waist, wiped it with his fingers, and the blade glowed green.

"The last time you came here, did you encounter such a strange thing?"

Xu Jiu approached Zheng Yi and asked while looking around.

"No, at that time, apart from the invisible residents, some ordinary alienated animals... It should be the influence of evil energy. The problem is where these black liquids came from. I didn't pay attention to the surrounding rain. It's obviously normal."

Zheng Yi, who walked in the front and opened the way, was not distracted from beginning to end, including the rain. It is reasonable that if it is mixed with evil energy, he should be aware of it at the first time.

"Rain is normal. It's strange to spread these liquids with the help of its fluidity. The source is definitely not in the sky, but somewhere around. Prepare. I'll catch it, otherwise it's very troublesome."

If this uncanny strange is not solved, Xu Jiu will have to keep the existence of the air hood all the time, which is obviously unrealistic.

Squatting down, Xu Jiu looked around at the black colloidal body still impacting the gas hood, and his fingers touched the street.

Suddenly, the dark blue flame spread wildly along the gap, crossed the air hood and ignited the monsters outside. At the same time, it suddenly soared. First, it evaporated the surrounding rain, leaving only the black colloids that were originally hidden in the water.

Because the strange is not so easy to be burned out, the flame burned in the reverse way, and it is easy to find the source of these black colloids, which is in the street gap more than ten meters away!

Under Xu Jiu's control, the flame split into more than ten lines of fire, ran straight through the thick bricks and stones, plunged into the ground, swayed for a while and then pulled out, but there was still a mass of amorphous colloid hidden in the ground.

Under the burning of the flame, it kept twisting its body and trying to drill back to the ground. Unfortunately, the dark blue flame storm took off first and burned it completely.

To deal with this strange, Xu Jiu can easily crush them even without the help of round beads!

Just looking at the gradually dissipated flame storm ahead, Xu Jiu had no relaxed look on his face.

Because just as he wanted to kill the strange at one stroke, other areas of the street where the exploration team was located, whether between the bricks and stones on the street or between the door beams of the buildings on both sides, began to gush out the same black colloids.

Xu Jiu killed only one of them just now!

In just a few seconds, these black colloidal bodies gathered together to form a humanoid body without limbs. The body nearly five meters high was intercepted in the middle of the street in front of the expedition.

"No, our actions startled them..."

Before she finished, Zheng Yi saw a large number of cracks in the space in front of her.

Correspondingly, the newly formed monster seemed to have been smashed with a sledgehammer. It burst into a large number of fragments and splashed all over the street. For a time, the houses on both sides of the street were painted free of charge.

"We don't have time to waste here. No matter what this thing is, if we dare to block the way, we'll die!"

Xu Jiu took back his hand. For these strange things, he didn't even have the idea of looking more.