The faint light of the flashlight illuminates the front.
[Safe City] Rule 13.
[There is no one in the basement. It is normal to have a smell. Do not touch the oil paper, charms and sesame oil piled in the basement without permission. 】
Su Qingyu saw that the basement was filled with humanoid objects.
One after another, they stood close together in every corner of the basement.
The figures were wrapped in oil paper.
The outer edge of the oil paper is covered with dust, and some yellow oil will drip from the gaps, emitting a foul smell.
On the oil paper, Su Qingyu saw something familiar.
It is similar to the charm of White Fire, but the pattern on it is different from the one drawn by White Fire.
It was probably made by other Taoist priests in this copy.
Some of the charms and tarpaulins were broken.
Looking inside through the damaged area, you can see that it is full of cockroaches, rats and bedbugs, huddled together and crawling in an orderly manner.
These human figures have been hollowed out from the inside.
Among these humanoids, Su Qingyu saw two or three wrapped in oil paper, and she could hear breathing coming from under the oil paper.
There was no one in the basement.
Although these things breathe, they are not human.
The rules say that these things cannot be touched without permission.
Su Qingyu controlled her curiosity and watched her mother, sisters and younger brother to prevent them from moving things.
Youyou found a notebook and handed it to Su Qingyu: "Master, take a look at this thing."
Su Qingyu opened the notebook and found that it contained the strange cultivation and control methods recorded by the third young master Zhao Zhishan.
It also mentioned how to make a strange contract.
This Zhao Zhishan was very ambitious. He actually wanted to create his own undead army through a strange contract, and then leave Ping'an City to expand his territory in a larger place.
Some of the human-shaped objects wrapped in oil paper in the basement can really turn into white-level weirdness if they are kept for a while.
Zhao Zhishan was part of the dungeon. He was able to figure it out on his own without knowing the existence of the dungeon. He was quite capable.
Su Qingyu closed the notebook.
There was a rhythmic knocking at the basement entrance.
Su Qingyu heard the voice of the eldest young master Zhao Zhiyan, which was hoarse than usual.
He said: "Xiaoyu, he hasn't come yet, open the door... click... let me in."
Opening the door would be against the rules.
Su Qingyu didn't respond to the sounds outside.
"Open the door, we haven't had a proper goodbye yet."
"I want to take another look at you, but I can't face you."
"I have a thousand words to say to you."
"Open the door."
Su Qingyu strictly abides by the rules.
Regardless of whether the person outside the door is the eldest young master or not, Su Qingyu cannot open the door.
The eldest young master Zhao Zhiyan knocked for a while, and seemed to know that Su Qingyu would not open the door. He gave up knocking and changed his request.
"If you don't want to open it, don't open it."
"Can you lean against the door and listen to me?"
Su Qingyu walked to the door and sat down.
"You tell me."
She couldn't open the door, and the only thing she could respond to was to listen silently.
Zhao Zhiyan told Su Qingyu the story between him and Su Xiaoyu intermittently.
It all started when Zhao Zhiyan discovered that his two younger brothers were calling strange men their father.
That day, after Zhao Zhiyan had an argument with the old warlord, in order to protect the cowardly Zhao Zhili, he finally agreed to the task of closing the city gate.
He came to the city gate and saw his fiancée Su Xiaoyu, wearing a capable riding outfit, sitting on a black horse, her wheat-colored skin glowing with health, appearing under the city tower.
She waved at Zhao Zhiyan, and at the same time waved the gear of fate.
She called him Brother Zhao, pointed a riding crop at him, and ordered him to leave with her.
"Climb out of the well with me and see the outside world."
Zhao Zhiyan was moved, and he led the soldiers to escape with Su Xiaoyu.
This was the bravest thing he did.
It was also the thing he regretted most in his life.
Together they walked into the endless darkness.
Along the way, they saw starved people turned into wild dogs.
The wild dogs followed them all the way, as if they knew they would die.
Zhao Zhiyan felt something was wrong.
Su Xiaoyu, on the other hand, sang forward all the way. She held a map with star patterns in her hand, her eyes always focused on the front. They climbed over several mountains and found the road out.
Zhao Zhiyan saw with his own eyes a white car driving over from the other end of the bridge.
Su Xiaoyu told him that as long as they crossed the rusty iron bridge, they would be free.
The soldiers crossed the bridge.
Su Xiaoyu also crossed the bridge.
She stood at the other end of the bridge, her eyes filled with the joy of new life.
The setting sun was like blood, shining on the people on the other side of the bridge. Just when Zhao Zhiyan wanted to cross the bridge, the bridge collapsed.
The people on the other side of the bridge are like deleted code.
They did not turn into wild dogs like those who starved to death, nor did they scream. They were just like symbols, with the delete button pressed.
Disappeared silently.
It was also at that time that Zhao Zhiyan's cognition was greatly polluted. He ran back to the city and used confusing language to try to reconstruct the scene he saw.
The old warlord didn't allow him to talk nonsense and sewed his mouth shut with a needle.
Zhao Zhiyan was forced to stay in Ping'an City. He found that the city became more and more strange. The people in the city began to abandon copper coins and spend the coins burned to the dead.
He discovered that he was actually rationalizing the unreasonable events that happened in the city subconsciously.
Could it be that his two younger brothers were also influenced by this and considered that strange man as their father?
He seems to have been tampered with, and his memory is gradually declining.
He began to forget what he had seen that day.
Forget about Su Xiaoyu's face and forget about Su Xiaoyu's disappearance.
What is it that is modifying his memory? Obscuring his normal understanding of things?
This unknown power made him feel scared.
…
"Xiaoyu, I have almost forgotten your appearance. I know that not every encounter will have a happy ending, but I believe that our encounter is meaningful."
"When memories become false, what is real?"
"I want you to live in the real world.
Leave, leave Ping An City. The things you need are here with me. After dawn, you can leave after you get the things. "
"Don't feel sorry for me. At least this time, we said our final goodbyes."
After saying all this, the basement door was suddenly slammed hard, and then there was silence outside.
The three brothers of the Zhao family, the two staff members from the Morning Star Group, and several children of the Su family are all prisoners in this dungeon.
Ignorance and ignorance are sometimes a kind of happiness.
Just like the people of the Su family.
They can accept the copy's arrangements calmly, without fear or pain.
Being half asleep seemed acceptable.
Just like Zhao Zhili and Zhao Zhishan.
They thought they had figured out the truth and found a solution.
They have their own goals and work hard for them throughout their lives.
Only those who are awake but have their cognition modified by the copy suffer the most.
That feeling of deprivation can drive people crazy.
