twenty one
"There's a dead person ahead!"
"I heard someone died in front of me!"
"Ah...how did you die?"
"There was no gunshot, how could it be possible?"
"There are scratches all over the body and blood on the chest! It seems like he was stabbed to death with a knife!"
He was surrounded by people, and Xu Du was blocked in front.
What is certain is that someone died.
There were scratches on his body, and he might have been stabbed to death.
In this way, the crowd gradually broke out from all kinds of small questions and suppressed sobs.
As soon as the parade started, something unexpected happened and all plans came to a standstill.
Suddenly, the crowd started to move again.
I learned from the people in front that the leader at the front asked us to bypass the corpse and continue moving forward.
So soon, the crowd began to move in unison again.
"Severely punish national traitors!"
"Fight to the death!"
"Abolish the treaty!"
Neat slogans echoed throughout the streets.
As the crowd moved, I gradually saw that the corner in front was surrounded by people who were walking around.
When I got closer, I saw that it was a corner with some mottled and blood stains on the wall.
I squeezed into that corner.
Then everything came into view.
A long-haired beauty was lying on her back on a raised hill in the corner.
But at this time, this long-haired beauty had turned into a corpse without vital signs.
The chest of the black tunic student uniform was now wide open, revealing the chest that had been pulled to the belly and the pair of bloody breasts.
A head of black hair spread out in all directions as if it were alive, like a mandala soaked in blood and blooming.
The person who fell to the ground was Hu Yun, and it was exactly the same as the Hu Yun body I saw in the eternal space.
But it’s strange, where did the hills on the street come from?
Moving down the line of sight, it was a pile of straw, which happened to be piled into a small mound.
It's like the shape of a hill in eternal space.
I stopped there and wanted to take another look, but the crowd behind me pushed me forward.
The huge impact and the unison of the crowd made me feel like I was in a whirlpool of rapid water.
But I just saw that the blood on his chest seemed to be flowing.
The only difference between Hu Yun here and the eternal space is the blood on his chest.
The blood is flowing into a special pattern, like a totem.
That looked particularly familiar.
Being coerced by the crowd, I had no time to finish the whole thing, so I had to keep looking back.
But suddenly the sky suddenly changed, and the light-colored wind-swept clouds on the horizon quickly retreated.
The dark, moonless sky appeared again, and all the people behind me disappeared. The air was filled with large tracts of white mist, and my breath turned into visible white mist.
The street looked extremely dark without the moonlight, but coincidentally, the hillock was being illuminated.
The light source comes from the street lamp above it, so Hu Yun under the lamp also looks extremely dazzling.
I walked closer to him and into the light.
The blood stains on her breasts were drawing together to form a special pattern.
And as it changed, I gradually remembered where I had seen it.
That gradually overlapped with the strange patterns we saw on the ground when Dagang and I were taken to the Bell Tower Square for the ceremony.
When the last trace of blood completed the entire pattern, I felt the fog around me getting thicker.
The pattern formed by the blood on Hu Yun's chest was exactly the strange pattern on the ground when Dagang and the others worshiped in the square.
Hu Yun's body was covered up in the thickening fog. I quickly lowered my head to look out, only to find that the body gradually merged with the thick fog.
In the end, only the chest wrap, black tunic uniform, and a pair of straw sandals were left.
Hu Yun's body disappeared out of thin air without a trace.
I suddenly remembered what Xiaoli said to me just now: Don't look back, don't look for people you shouldn't be looking for.
But it was already too late. No matter how much I turned around, I could never get back to the crowd. The sky was still dark and moonless, and the thick fog completely swallowed me up.
As you can imagine, the mist didn't have the thick, moist feeling or the suffocating feeling, but my sight was still affected. I guess if there was a person standing in front of me, I wouldn't be able to notice him at all as long as he didn't exhale in my face.
I felt a warmth in my palms and looked down, only to find that my sight was completely blocked by the mist.
I had to raise my hands in front of my eyes.
I found a pattern lying quietly in the middle of my palm, which was glowing with strange colors.
It is dazzling but not blinding, like Hastur.
That was drawn on the palm of my hand while I was in "Nine Days of Ghost Story".
It has not appeared since leaving [Nine Days of Ghost Story], and it has been absent before. Unexpectedly, it appears at this moment.
I found that there was a thin layer of light between my body and the fog.
That's why I can be in the fog without feeling suffocation or wetness. It's the fog that protects me.
I had no choice but to walk forward without direction, and I didn’t know how long I had walked.
At first I walked in one direction, but I couldn't hit anything.
At first I groped forward cautiously, but I don't know how long it took, and even when I reached numbness, there was still nothing.
I no longer restrained myself, walked in all directions, and even started running.
But still nothing.
I'm obviously not on the same street anymore.
I don't know where this is.
But what I do know is that the thick fog here looks familiar.
It was very similar to the aggressive, thick and rolling fog that I saw in the foggy world before, as if it wanted to swallow up all signs of life.
Or maybe it's the same fog.
When I had this idea, I didn't know if it was my imagination, but it seemed that the temperature around me suddenly dropped a lot.
My feeling tells me that there seems to be something standing directly in front of me now.
The reason why it is a thing is that living creatures can inhale and exhale.
There is heavy fog everywhere here. If there is any flow of breath, it will definitely stir up the fog in front of me.
But no, and I felt that it was not the fog that made me feel colder and colder, but something that suddenly appeared in front of me.
I stopped where I was and didn't go any further, but I didn't walk back in a hurry.
Because I still remember what Xiaoli said: Don’t look back.
I don't know how long it took for me to be face to face with it, until the light pouring out of the pattern on my hand gradually dimmed.
A feeling of terror instantly ran through my body along my heels.
I found that the shallow light on my body was gradually becoming fainter at this moment.
They retreated steadily in the thick fog.
At the same time, I felt the cold air seeping out of the thing in front of me getting stronger and stronger.
But I couldn't look back, so I made a bold move.
I raised my feet and walked towards the way I came.
But I didn't look back.
Instead, he stepped on the steps backwards and returned the way he came.
As I walked backwards, the fog around me began to flow rapidly, and there was no stirring of fog in front of me some distance away.
It stands to reason that it did not catch up.
But strangely, the coldness that only comes from it is still following me closely in front of me, increasing instead of decreasing.
