Chapter 95 Exploration of the Old Town (Second Update)

Today's sky is dark and gloomy.

Although it is early morning, it looks like night.

Coming to the pedestrian street again...

At this time, Chen Ye has a new understanding of this place. He slowed down his pace, concentrated his mind, observed the direction of the luck aura, and even stopped swiping his bloody phone.

It seemed that after the hustle and bustle, there was a deeper silence.

At a glance, there was no figure on the whole road, and the doors on both sides were closed.

It has completely returned to its previous appearance.

It seems that the night of the nightless night was just an illusion.

Chen Ye hurried to the barbecue stall on the road that must be passed...

However, those barbecue sellers disappeared!

The whole road became empty.

The customers who lined up in a long queue also disappeared without a trace at this time.

"All gone?" Chen Ye frowned slightly.

He originally wanted to use the luck aura to find those barbecue sellers and follow this clue to investigate the source of pollution.

But the changes in front of him forced Chen Ye to adjust his plan.

His eyes fell on the 'skin-skin eyeballs and crispy meat wrapped in rice crust' in his pocket, and he saw several ink-colored lines, which separated and slowly spread towards the old city ahead.

"Is it related to the old city again?"

If I guessed correctly... these barbecue stall owners should be residents of the old city.

Carefully recalling the details in my mind and connecting them into a complete timeline, the equivalent scam that appeared at the beginning may have broken out from the old city.

According to the initial time calculation, barbecue stall owners had already appeared before the food pollution broke out completely.

At that time, these stall owners had been polluted and controlled, and thus became pawns.

Then there was a large-scale pollution outbreak, followed by an increase in food prices, an increase in the flow of barbecue purchases, and then the appearance of beetles...

But why did these pollutions spread in the city?

Except for the old city, other areas near Xijiang River were fine.

While his thoughts were flying, Chen Ye's figure had appeared at the entrance of the old city.

This place left a deep impression on him in the past two days.

However, when I came here again, the main road was still filled with light white mist, and occasionally there were a few black mists, which were also related to the clues of the beetle.

There was no sign of blood coming.

On the contrary, the black and white mists were intertwined, and they were connected to the thick and heavy dark yellow like a mountain.

"Maybe we can find some clues."

Observing the changes in the image of luck, Chen Ye was determined in his heart, stepped forward, and walked forward along this line.

The sky was very dim, but compared with the night, there was finally some light source, and the surrounding details could be seen more clearly.

On the road, the bloodstains disappeared at some point. In addition to the desolation, the road surface was neat and looked clean.

It seemed to have been cleaned.

The buildings on both sides of the old city did not bring such a strong sense of oppression at this moment. The road was open, and it was smoother to walk than the intricate maze of Xining alleys.

With better light, Chen Ye saw the low-rise single-family houses in the old city, the densely packed houses like a honeycomb, the old wells, the outdated drainage system and several abandoned iron buckets next to them.

"Wells?"

Chen Ye seemed to have caught some key clues.

That's right!

The water circulation system in the old city has not been updated much, and many households still maintain the traditional well-style water collection method.

This will bring opportunities for downstream pollution!

Along the way, you can see a wellhead every few meters.

Chen Ye walked to the vicinity of one of the wells.

However...

To his surprise, looking inside the wellhead, the inside was filled with thick concrete and had been blocked. It was drier than dry land, without even a drop of water.

Chen Ye opened several manhole covers in a row and found the same scene.

"Is it not related to the well?" Chen Ye couldn't help but mutter in his heart.

But... when he approached the manhole cover, he clearly saw the ink-colored line, which became a little thicker.

Judging from the aura of luck, it is not completely unrelated.

It's just that the correlation between the two has not been investigated clearly yet.

Chen Ye continued to follow the guidance of the ink-colored line and walked forward all the way.

Walking forward along the main road shrouded in white fog, he basically encountered no danger, and even did not see the shadow of the residents of the old city.

Following the guidance of the ink-colored line, along the fork on the right, he continued to walk westward...

Judging from the direction presented by the wanderer's map, this old city is connected to the lower reaches of the West River.

Go out from the westernmost intersection and cross a road to the lower reaches of the West River.

Before the blood countdown came, the area near the river was the most prosperous area in the old city. That area was full of stylish single-family courtyards, and the architectural style was obviously closer to modernity.

When Chen Ye came here, these single-family buildings had been abandoned and covered with moss. The messy wires crisscrossed and passed through the old residential buildings, like a spider web.

At this time, Chen Ye clearly noticed the ink-colored lines, which became particularly bright.

He was getting closer and closer to the source of guidance...

"Why does this lucky eye that I drew seem so suitable for detectives?" Chen Ye complained in his heart.

If I unlocked a detective career now, I'm afraid my weird value would increase every minute!

However, to investigate these halos, it seems that you have to rely on your legs to get out.

This is consistent with the performance of the wanderer...

His figure stopped near a ditch. The water inside this gully had completely dried up, and only gray gravel and soil were accumulated inside.

However, when Chen Ye stood here, the ink lines next to him seemed to come alive and began to slowly squirm, becoming prominent and bright.

"Is this right here?"

Chen Ye looked down and found that underneath the water channel, there were countless ink lines, constantly intertwined, like a mess.

He looked around and found that there was no other way to go down.

But judging from the signs of luck, there are clearly traces of "living" underground in this canal!

Is there something buried inside?

After taking a few hard steps, Chen Ye felt that the water channel under his feet was not that "solid", and there seemed to be some hidden cave space hidden at the bottom.

He found a stone from the side and threw it hard...

If you listen carefully, you can hear a slight echo, indicating that there is a wide space hidden under the water channel!

"The ink is distributed in dots, blending with the faint blood color. It is not a ring of disaster or evil, but rather like a secret hidden in the dark."

"Although there is blood light, it is not obvious, which means that although there is danger in the things inside, it should not be a big threat to me at the moment."

"After all, I have a second career, and I am still the top [Devil Cooker]!"

"The question now is...how to get down?"

Chen Ye stood there, frowning and thinking.

Who would have thought that what he wanted to investigate was actually underground!

Do you really want to turn into a gopher and dig a hole?

etc……

Speaking of gophers, Chen Ye suddenly remembered that he could grow sharp horns like electric drills by devouring "slices of skin, eyeballs, and crispy meat wrapped in crispy rice", giving him powerful digging abilities.

It seems like you can really transform into a gopher!

Chen Ye took out the piece of eyeball in his pocket, split it into several vines, and swallowed it directly.

The next second, his mind changed into the same shape as the beetle, but bigger, thicker, and faster...

Touching the new [Devil Mask], Chen Ye couldn't help but shake his head and smile. Things are unpredictable. He never thought that one day he would become a chainsaw brother!

He put his head down and drilled hard, and the hollow surface broke instantly, making a cracking sound.

The drilling efficiency was extremely high, but after a while, a hole large enough to accommodate an adult was drilled into the surface of the ditch.

boom!

Suddenly, the stratigraphic structure seemed to be destroyed to a certain critical point, and suddenly the whole piece collapsed!

Chen Ye suddenly felt that he was falling somewhere. He immediately switched to the form of [Devourer], his face split open, and turned into vines, supporting himself towards the ground!

The demonic vines touched the ground and immediately found a point of force, like countless tentacles stepping on the ground.

Chen Ye's body was suspended in mid-air with the help of vines. After stabilizing his body, he looked around.

It was an underground space similar to a cave.

With the help of the screen light source of the blood-colored mobile phone, Chen Ye's eyes adapted to the dim light and saw the surrounding objects clearly...

However, the scene reflected in his pupils was like another hell!

He saw the mountains of bodies, the white bones, rotting flesh and blood all over the ground, and the densely packed ugly insects crawling among the mountains of countless corpses!

Those insects seemed to have entered their own paradise, happily devouring the essence and blood of the bodies on the ground, and occasionally making cheerful roars.