After sorting everything out, Shen Lin looked at the mechanical watch on his left hand. The time pointed to 6:37 in the evening.
During the ghost incident in Dongchuan City two years ago, he used Xiong Wenwen's precognitive ghosts to reluctantly deduce the rules of the ghost watch.
According to the summary of the scenes in the prediction, the watchdog will start its activities at 0:00 a.m. every night until 6:00 a.m. for a total of six hours.
During this period, every ten minutes the watchman would wave the watchstick in his hand, and the two sticks would collide with each other and make a banging sound, just like the ancient watchman beating the gong to watch the watch.
When the stick is struck, if the person who hears the sound opens his eyes, the law of the evil ghost will be triggered and he will die on the spot.
Shen Lin couldn't guess how terrifying the night watch ghost was, because in Xiong Wenwen's prediction, they had never won. Even the time when they relied on the ghost candle to survive, the red ghost candle, which was regarded as a treasure by countless ghost controllers in the early stage, was directly defeated. God knows what impact it had on Shen Lin at that time. Even Shen Lin now doesn't feel he has the capital to compete.
It was now more than five hours before midnight the next morning. Shen Lin groped his chin as he tried to deduce everything in his mind.
The law of terror resurgence.
Fierce ghosts have patterns, and you can avoid them if you find the patterns of ferocious ghosts.
It is quite simple to avoid the wake-up call rule. All you need is a high-precision electronic watch or other instrument that can prompt you ten seconds before the rule is triggered. If you are bolder and more careful, you will have no problem surviving.
But the problem is that Shen Lin now not only needs to circumvent the rules, he also needs to find a way to get a better fight in the hands of Li Gui, which is undoubtedly equivalent to facing Li Gui directly.
Shen Lin mentally calculated the possibility of success of the plan.
Li Gui's regular trigger events are from midnight to six in the morning. Except for these six hours, the other times are relatively safe and he has a lot of room to operate.
Shen Lin glanced at the shopping mall in Dongchuan City in front of him. In order to ensure that there was no error in the time level, he wore four high-precision mechanical watches of different styles on both hands. They also had built-in alarm functions. Every ten minutes, an alarm would appear. The alarm sounded at nine minutes and forty seconds to ensure that Shen Lin had sufficient reaction time.
Slowly pressing his restless heart to the bottom of the valley, Shen Lin disappeared into the evening sunset under the gaze of everyone.
The evening in Dongchuan City was a bit cold. Perhaps because this commercial street had been deserted for a long time, Shen Lin felt a desolate chill for no reason.
Except for the dense vegetation and the obvious sense of decay, everything is the same as when Shen Lin left. Including the corpses of those who died in the ghost attack in Dongchuan City, they are still placed in the same position at that time because it has been too long. , has mostly turned into bones.
The existence of the ghost watcher made Dongchuan City very wary of everything nearby. Coupled with Shen Lin's description of the seriousness of the incident, for the sake of safety and to avoid causing trouble, both Dongchuan City officials and governors The Ghost Headquarters all acquiesced to the current scene.
No one is qualified to condemn, exchanging a batch of corpses of dead people for the peace of living people. I have never seen such a good deal since Li Gui's resurrection.
After not cleaning for a long time, dead leaves were crunching under Shen Lin's feet. The sound was actually not loud, but the surroundings were so quiet that even the slightest sound was very noticeable.
When the sunset cast its last rays in Dongchuan City, Shen Lin entered the darkness like a lonely ghost, wandering in a remote corner of the city.
Shen Lin walked carefully enough and looked at everything around him as much as possible. The most taboo thing in the ghost incident was carelessness or complacency. Knowing the rules of the ghost watch does not mean that Shen Lin has a chance to win. This is the essential difference. And many ghost masters died in the incident because of this, at the moment when they thought they had control of the overall situation and had a chance of survival.
There are cicadas chirping and crickets chirping in the dilapidated old streets. Coupled with the unique sense of emptiness of this old street, when the scattered sounds around echo in the darkness, there is actually a sense of horror.
Time passed by minute by second, and different voices echoed in the dark environment.
After another watch alarm sounded, Shen Lin stopped in a corner.
The time came to 9:10 p.m., and it had been two and a half hours since Shen Lin entered the Dongchuan City Shopping Mall. He found nothing in this area.
It was not the time of the night watch event, so the Dongchuan City Shopping Mall was indeed as safe as he expected.
But it was too safe, so safe that Shen Lin wandered around for more than two hours without finding any trace of the ghost.
Seeing that the time before midnight was getting closer and closer, Shen Lin felt anxious for no reason. He repeatedly rubbed a watch on his wrist, and after a brief pause, he had to embark on the journey again.
A rustling sound suddenly came through in the headset, and Wu Qiu's voice appeared.
"Captain Shen, the ghost codenamed Corpse Swamp has changed again, and its speed has accelerated a lot. The security incident that was originally expected to take ten hours has been greatly shortened. According to the latest estimate from the headquarters, it will not exceed five hours at most. This ghost The invasion of Daxia will officially begin."
Wu Qiu's communication team will maintain communication with Shen Lin during the incident unless there are special circumstances, so as to facilitate the exchange of intelligence and support at any time. In order not to disturb Shen Lin, communications are generally in a silent state, and only extremely critical information will be transmitted.
It is obvious that Daxia City has reached a crossroads of destiny.
Shen Lin didn't reply. He just stood in the middle of the street. Under his calm appearance, he was still worried, and an urgent feeling of helplessness spread in his heart.
Forcibly suppressing all restless emotions, he gritted his teeth and stepped forward.
Shen Lin just followed the established route in his mind, walking leisurely and looking back from time to time, as if the huge pressure and sense of urgency had not had any impact on him.
Fifteen minutes later, standing at a certain intersection where Dongchuan City's Ghost Hospital met the ghost for the first time, Shen Lin stopped.
He remained silent, and the ticking second hands of his four watches seemed extremely noisy at the moment.
Just like a certain point in the journey, the increasingly tight time forced Shen Lin to consider whether to try some dangerous methods.
The extreme horror of the ghost watch prevented him from easily using the ghost domain. But in this situation, if he could not find the ghost before dawn, he would not only lose precious safe time that would never trigger the law, but also make Daxia irreversible. .
After midnight, there were six full hours of ghost activity, and it was impossible for Shen Lin to succeed under such circumstances.
"Squeak~"
There was a sudden buzz in the headset.
Shen Lin was stunned. He looked around hastily and suddenly saw something at the corner of the street.
At that moment, his heart was beating extremely hard.
Suddenly I found this chapter to be very auspicious, but I got stuck.
This is the first update tonight. I have ideas in my mind, but for some reason I can’t write them down.
It's like you are looking at a word that is obviously very familiar, and suddenly it feels strange, and you can't write it.
It may be that the recent updates have caused some wear and tear on the thinking.
Adjust it and update it tomorrow.
The missing updates will be made up during the May Day period.
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