clang! clang! clang!
It was past twelve o'clock, and the bell suddenly rang.
Of course, Fang Cheng and Isis would not be frightened. They turned their heads and looked in the direction of the bell, and found that it was the old-fashioned wall clock that had been hung on the wall of the living room.
There seems to be nothing strange about the ringing of the clock, but the problem is that it is a wall clock from half a century ago, the kind that needs to be wound, and it has rotted to a state of disgrace.
The sound of the wall clock immediately brought a strange atmosphere, like the rhythm of the opening of a supernatural movie, and the originally hot temperature suddenly turned cold.
In addition to the ringing of the bell, there were various subtle movements coming from outside the house, and through the window, a faint light could be seen coming.
Fang Cheng and Isis looked at each other, quickly walked out of the living room and opened the door.
The town outside the door has completely changed.
The poisonous mist floating in the air has disappeared, and the dust as thick as volcanic ash on the ground has also disappeared, revealing a smooth gravel road.
The dilapidated and rotten houses have all been restored. In the windows, a faint light shines through, and occasionally people's figures flicker.
At this time, Fang Cheng and Isis were finally surprised.
what's the situation?
Fang Cheng's blood has always been spread throughout the town, and he can be sure that nothing unusual will happen in the town before twelve o'clock.
When the hands skipped twelve o'clock, his blood disappeared and the whole town completely changed.
It seems to return to the scene half a century ago, before the fire broke out.
Fang Cheng and Isis looked back at the same time. The dilapidated house behind them had also taken on a new look, and the door that had been open a second ago had been closed.
There was light coming from the crack in the door below, and a woman's faint humming voice could be heard faintly inside the house.
Fang Cheng and Isis' eyes easily penetrated the door and saw the situation inside the house.
The environment inside the house is also completely new. A middle-aged man is sitting on the sofa in the living room reading a newspaper with his legs crossed.
In the kitchen nearby, the hostess was humming a song while preparing food, and there was a young child eating snacks next to her.
Obviously, this is a family of three in the house.
The two looked at each other, and Isis frowned and said, "Is it an illusion?"
"What illusion can fool you and me?"
Fang Cheng asked back, and then released the blood again: "Wait for me to see what's going on."
His blood spread to the entire town in an instant.
As expected, all the damaged areas have been restored, and thousands of residents in the town have been resurrected.
Most of the people were preparing food at their own homes, and a small number of people stayed in the only pub in town to have a drink. They were probably singles.
From the outside, it looks like an ordinary remote town with thousands of ordinary residents.
However, this town was destroyed half a century ago, and these residents also died half a century ago.
Everything is suddenly restored, the residents of the town are suddenly resurrected, and even fools know that something is wrong.
And the time is wrong, it's already twelve o'clock at night, why are these residents just starting to prepare dinner.
Fang Cheng's blood continued to expand outwards, and soon flew outside the town.
Outside the town, apart from the lush vegetation, there is only one road submerged in the deep night.
As Fang Cheng's blood expanded, he soon realized something was wrong.
A few kilometers away from the town, the vegetation disappeared, the road disappeared, and the outside fell into darkness.
Fang Cheng is very familiar with this situation. Isn't this a crack in the subspace?
He continued to let the blood expand into the darkness, and soon he lost contact with the blood and disappeared completely.
Sure enough, the entire town was like a lonely island, surrounded by dark cracks.
After Fang Cheng discovered this, he immediately tried to open the subspace crack and successfully entered the subspace of the Lord of Demons.
This made him breathe a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he could open the space crack, which meant that even if he encountered any danger, there would be a safe way out.
Isis saw Fang Cheng suddenly disappearing and reappearing, and couldn't help asking: "Did you find anything?"
Fang Cheng nodded slightly and told her his findings.
Isis was also surprised after hearing this.
Obviously, this is a special subspace, and the town and its residents have been resurrected in this subspace.
But the reason for this is not yet clear.
Isis asked thoughtfully: "Have you checked over there at the mine?"
"Checking."
Fang Cheng answered, his blood already spreading towards the mine.
It was quiet down there in the mine, and the underground fire that had been burning for half a century had disappeared.
The shaft is in a mess, filled with primitive and rough mining equipment, with only a few vigil workers and their dogs making any noise.
Fang Cheng's blood penetrated deep into the mine. Without the destruction of the underground fire, the situation inside the mine was not complicated. Several dug holes were quickly explored.
Fang Cheng's blood continued to penetrate deep along the mineral deposits. After going several kilometers deep, it also sank into the cracks in the subspace.
In this way, he had thoroughly explored the town and its surroundings.
Nothing is found except the resurrection of the town and its inhabitants.
Isis was also a bit muggle about this situation. She frowned and was about to speak when the door behind the two of them suddenly opened.
"Hey, who are you?"
The hostess of the house was holding a basin of water in both hands, as if she was going to pour it out. When she opened the door, she saw these two strangers standing in front of her door.
Fang Cheng and Isis looked at each other, and then stretched out their hands at the same time.
The hostess was easily subdued before she could even utter a exclamation.
Fang Cheng and Isis returned to the house, and soon the family of three lay down neatly.
Of course, there were no injuries. Fang Cheng and Isis would not kill people at will when they didn't know anything. If they touched some taboos, there would be no place to cry.
After subduing the family of three, Fang Cheng read their minds one by one.
Isis waited aside and asked after Fang Cheng stopped, "How is it?"
Fang Cheng shook his head: "There is nothing wrong with their memory."
From memory, although the husband and wife are both outsiders, they have lived in the town for many years and worked for a mining company.
Children's memories are even simpler: they eat and sleep, sleep and play, and play and eat.
Isis also checked all three members of the family to make sure that they were all living, ordinary people.
Fang Cheng frowned and said, "Could it be that these small town residents are not dead and have been living in subspace for half a century?"
Before Isis could refute, Fang Cheng himself felt that this guess was unreliable.
"Is it possible that we traveled through time and arrived half a century ago?"
"Then there's no way to explain the space cracks outside. This town is independent within subspace."
The two were silent for a few seconds, and Isis suddenly said: "Check again to see if they have any memory of Richard."
Their main purpose in coming to this ruined town was to find traces of Richard.
Richard finally settled in the town of Centralia, but when a fire broke out the next year, he did not leave and disappeared along with the residents.
Then these residents should know Richard. After all, the population of this town is only a few thousand.
Fang Cheng read the male master's mind again, and sure enough, he quickly found the memory about Richard.
Richard came to settle in the town a year ago.
In the memory of the male protagonist, Richard is a weirdo.
The town of Centralia is a town developed because of the mining industry. There are no charming scenery and ancient books here, nor is there prosperous commerce and culture.
All residents in the town are employees of the mining company. In a sense, this is actually a large dormitory of the mining company.
In such a place, it is really strange that Richard, an outsider, would come to settle here.
In the first few months of settlement, Richard often went out and talked with the residents of the town.
He claimed to be a writer, and he came to settle in the town to collect stories and prepare to write a long novel about mining.
As the town residents gradually accepted Richard, he began to live in seclusion, always shutting himself in his home and not coming out for ten days and a half.
Some children in the town once sneaked into Richard's house and ran away in fright when they met the disheveled and shouting Richard.
Later, everyone thought Richard was crazy, and few people dared to approach his house.
After reading the memory, Fang Cheng said to Isis: "From the memory, Richard doesn't look like someone who can collect his mother's body."
"It's not far anyway. If it's true or false, you can tell by going over and taking a look."
Isis replied: "If he is still alive, maybe we can just take the mother's body."
"Haha, I don't think it's that simple."
Since arriving in the small town, these changes have occurred beyond their expectations.
Fang Cheng felt that things were not that simple and smooth, and there was always a faint sense of crisis in his heart.
After erasing the memories of the family of three, Fang Cheng and Isis left the house, walked quietly in the darkness, and soon came to the place where Richard lived in the memory of the male owner.
This is a two-story building with a courtyard. It looks so old that it seems like it could be blown down by a gust of wind.
A faint light came from the windows inside the building, and Fang Cheng's blood seeped into it, and he quickly explored the small building inside and out.
No mother's body or anything else of note was found.
Richard was sitting on the sofa in the living room on the first floor, reading a book.
There was steaming tea and bread on the coffee table in front of him, which should be a simple dinner.
Richard was probably in his forties, with an elegant and easy-going appearance, wearing glasses, and his hair was meticulously combed.
He looked like a polite scholar, not the crazy weirdo he remembered.
Richard read the book for a while, took a sip from the teacup, and then picked up the bread to eat when his movements suddenly stopped.
He put down the bread and book, took off his glasses, rubbed the bridge of his nose, and finally raised his head and looked at the strange man and woman who suddenly appeared in front of him.
Fang Cheng and Isis did not look like ordinary people in any way, but Richard did not panic. Instead, he looked at the two of them in surprise: "Are you two new here?"
newcomer?
Are they referring to the new residents who came to town from out of town?
Fang Cheng and Isis were puzzled by Richard's reaction. Didn't he notice that the two quietly passed through the locked door and came to the living room?
Isis said calmly: "Mr. Richard, we have something to do with you."
Fang Cheng did not find his mother's body in the small building. The whereabouts of his mother's body could only be known from Richard's mouth.
Richard looked at the time on the wall clock, smiled at the two of them and said, "I have about ten minutes. If you have anything, you can sit down and talk."
If Fang Cheng was used to it, he would probably use strong force to directly read Richard's memory.
But now the situation is unclear, and neither of them knows what this town is about.
Therefore, Fang Cheng did not act impulsively and left it to Isis to handle.
At least she has much richer life experience than Fang Cheng.
Isis did not sit down, but stared at Richard with a faint pressure in her eyes: "Please hand over your mother's body."
When he heard Isis's words, Richard's body trembled, and a surprised expression finally appeared on his face: "Is this what you are here for?"
He frowned and asked again: "Which era are you from?"
The words coming out of Richard's mouth also surprised Fang Cheng and Isis.
He actually knew that the two of them were from other eras?
Fang Cheng and Isis looked at each other and felt that the situation was getting out of control, and problems appeared one after another.
Before Isis could speak, Fang Cheng took the initiative and asked, "How do you know we are from other eras?"
Richard put away his surprise and replied: "Because no one has come to this place for a long time. Even I have forgotten how long it has been."
Fang Cheng and Isis suddenly understood what Richard meant when he said 'you are new here' when he saw them for the first time.
"It doesn't matter where we come from."
Isis brought the topic back: "Please hand over your mother's body."
Richard looked at the two of them and sighed: "I don't know what you are looking for that thing, but I'm sorry, that thing means a lot to me and I can't give it to you."
Isis smiled slightly: "Do you think you have the right to choose?"
Richard said calmly: "At least in this town of Centralia, no one can force me to make a choice I don't like..."
Before he finished speaking, Fang Cheng appeared in front of him like a flash, reaching out to touch his head.
Richard didn't react at all when Fang Cheng touched his forehead with a hand.
But at the moment of contact, Richard's whole body became blurred, and then disappeared completely.
Fang Cheng and Isis looked surprised, neither of them could see how Richard disappeared.
At the same time, at the entrance of the town, figures emerged from the darkness, probably dozens of them.
These figures are of both men and women, wearing clothes from different eras. The only thing they have in common is that everyone has a solemn, even numb expression on their faces.
The leader was a gray-haired young man. He raised his hand and waved forward while silently shouting in his heart.
"Operation 3795! Start!"
