The whole weird world is waiting for me to go to heaven

Chapter 840: Outer City Turbulence

Chapter 840: Outer City Turbulence
However, the failed operation still left a hidden danger.

That is - Liu Sheng did not really kill the two defenders, he just knocked them out.

The biggest problem is that once they wake up, they might identify the followers of "Lord Ling" Ling Fu.

"Why don't you protect your face?" Liu Sheng asked.

"I thought no one would recognize me in this state." Ling Fu muttered as he stroked his scruffy beard, "Who knew that person would have such a deep impression of me... It seems that my face is still as good as it was back then."

Liu Sheng curled his lips.

Ruan Shizhi was shocked. He didn't expect Liu Sheng's uncle to be of such a temper...

Yes, both of them are high-profile.

At this time, Ling Fu did not forget to fight back: "But why don't you kill him?"

"They are just working, why would you kill them?"

"That's true."

The niece and uncle were arguing with each other, and it seemed that they did not take the hidden danger seriously.

Ruan Shizhi's scalp tingled and his eyes widened as he listened. He didn't dare to say a word and didn't sleep all night.

"Aren't you... worried?"

The next day, Ruan Shizhi, with big dark circles under his eyes, looked at Liu Sheng, who also hadn't slept all night but was full of energy, and asked in shock.

"What are you worried about?" Liu Sheng replied without raising his head as he flipped through a thick book filled with symbols that Ruan Shizhi couldn't understand.

"It's... those two people!"

"Oh, don't worry, everything will be arranged."

Ruan Shizhi wanted to ask more, but saw Liu Sheng casually close the book and stretch.

"Let's go out and take a look at the outer city. I didn't have a good look at it yesterday. I heard there's a black market there, right?"

Ling Fu was the first to raise his hand in agreement.

He had recovered a lot of energy after a night's sleep. He casually played with his greasy, messy hair and said, "Okay, let's go out and get some fresh air."

Ruan Shizhi really wanted to ask, don’t you want to continue climbing the wall?
Also, aren’t you worried about Lord Ling who is entering the inner city?
He was still thinking about seeing his mother soon...

But the two seemed to have moved on from this and did not discuss the matter again, so Ruan Shizhi timidly did not ask.

However, this unasked question soon got an answer.

In response to him, the outer city became filled with a solemn and murderous atmosphere.

The obviously increased number of patrol troops and the city defense troops who had changed their post spacing from one every five miles shattered Ruan Shizhi's last bit of hope.

But I don’t know if it’s because of this that the streets are much busier than yesterday.

Originally, there were only a few people floating like ghosts on the street, but when they were stimulated by the Northern Border Army searching everywhere, one after another appeared from nowhere.

It looks more like a city now, and there are even small stalls set up to sell things that are hard to find in the North.

For example, hard food, blood-stained clothes that have passed through countless hands, and rusty weapons.

Liu Sheng even saw someone selling the Divine Book Mirage Device - but it was still the original version, and you could see that the outer shell was a bit tattered and had stains from nowhere, so it was obviously not a first-hand product.

In addition, there are of course some things that cannot be seen outside the North...

As Liu Sheng walked along, he saw many people wearing masks and hoods. In front of them was a small stall covered with thick cloth. He didn't know what was covered underneath, but he could see people dressed mysteriously asking questions in front of the stall.

"These people all come to the North to buy 'specialties'." Ling Fu lowered his voice and spoke in her ear.

"specialty?"

Liu Sheng raised his eyebrows and quickly reacted.

In the North, the only thing that can be called a specialty is the same thing—

Weird creature.

She fixed her eyes on the box-shaped objects covered with cloth and was almost certain that they were containers for collecting strange objects.

“If this kind of transaction happened right under the temple’s nose, it would have been cleared out long ago.” Liu Sheng whispered.

"That's right. But this is the northern border." Ling Fu said softly, "It's far away from the temple and the court. If it weren't for these shady businesses, the people here... I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to survive."

Who needs a weirdo?

The first thing Liu Sheng thought of was naturally the ghost master.

Perhaps in this world, the group of ghost controllers is not as declining as Liu Sheng imagined.

In addition-

Liu Sheng looked at a stall in the distance and said in a deep voice: "It seems that it is not that far away..."

I saw a figure wearing a black hood standing in front of the stall, with his head lowered. A piece of white robe with three golden bars on it was faintly visible from the drooping sleeves.

Ling Fu followed his gaze and raised his eyebrows in understanding: "Yes, there are quite a lot of people from the Temple here."

"You didn't even hide your identity..."

Liu Sheng understood.

Ruan Shizhi didn't dare to speak, for fear of attracting these people's attention. He shrank behind Liu Sheng and tried hard to hide his presence.

Of course, he really had no sense of presence. The priest hidden in the black robe quickly retreated after completing the transaction. A box was transferred from the stall to under the robe, and he passed by him without even looking at him.

Of course, it also proves that "Chaos Yin and Yang Sutra" is indeed effective.

Liu Sheng thought for a moment and walked towards the stall.

"Do you have any more here?"

"Which one do you want?"

Each is a question, and there is no direct answer.

Liu Sheng thought about it, then nodded at the priest who disappeared into the crowd in the distance, "The one that the man just bought."

After these words were spoken, the stall owner fell silent. The pair of eyes revealed under his felt hat narrowed slightly, emitting a vigilant cold light.

"I thought that since he was a priest, he must want something good."

This explanation is reasonable.

What's more, the priest did not deliberately hide his identity, and everyone could see the symbol representing a third-rank priest.

The stall owner was silent for a moment, and finally slowly lifted the blanket, revealing a palm-sized box.

"This is the latest transformed weird thing. I found it from the ruins..."

"What ruins?"

"Of course it's the village that was swallowed by the cold night a few days ago."

"South of the Great Wall? On a cold night?"

When Liu Sheng asked, the stall owner's expression changed immediately and he covered him with a blanket.

"Go, go, go, I have nothing to sell!"

Seeing that Liu Sheng didn't move, he said coldly: "If you don't leave, I will report to the commander and say that you are a spy who infiltrated from the north of the northern border!"

[Spies from the north of the North? ]

[How can a weird creature have such intelligence? 】

Liu Sheng frowned.

It looked like this person would not answer no matter what, so Liu Sheng could only give up and take a step back.

Turning around, he saw a puzzled look in Ling Fu's eyes, as if he was also thinking about the sensitivity shown by this man.

After the three of them walked a few steps away, Ling Fu whispered, "Is this something we should know?"

"The point is," Liu Sheng's eyes were calm, "A cold night south of the Great Wall? Can it swallow up a village? And it sounds like there might be more than one."

She paused, "Uncle, have you heard of it?"

Ling Fu slowly shook his head and said in a deep voice: "Perhaps... we should really explore it again."

Fortunately, in this small strange object trading market, there were quite a few people willing to speak up for the sake of the spirit pearl. Moreover, with the experience of being rejected at the beginning, Liu Sheng's questioning became much more clever, and he quickly sorted out several clues:
First, cold nights have now appeared south of the Great Wall, and in more than one place, but the court does not seem to have made this matter public.

Second, only those who can control ghosts dare to set foot in the village swallowed by the cold night.

3. What remains in these villages is exactly what the priests who are now wandering around the Great Wall in the North urgently need.

It is for this reason that, as the figures of priests appear more and more frequently here, those ghost controllers who were once regarded as heretics and treated like rats crossing the street are also surfacing one after another.

This was almost unimaginable in the past.

Once upon a time, the priests were like the sunlight. Once they appeared, the evildoers could only hide underground like shadows and dared not show up.

But now, they are in the same market, on the same street, and may even bargain in public for a strange object.

Not to mention, this place is under the Great Wall.

The rules of the Great Wall were originally designed to resist evil spirits. Logically, it should be the place where evil spirits are least allowed to exist. However, it has now become a place where evil spirits gather.

Perhaps, this contradiction between exclusion and tolerance was already buried from the day the Great Wall was first built.

This is why in another world, the Northern Divine Kingdom would first appear here, and now there are so many ghost controllers gathered at the foot of the Great Wall.

These ghost control masters all claimed to belong to a mysterious organization——

Xiaoxiang Pavilion. When Ling Fu whispered the name with a frown on his face, Liu Sheng felt relieved.

Sure enough.

At this point, she finally saw the signs of everything intersecting.

In the cold snow, lines seemed to emerge slowly with the drifting snowflakes. The erratic lines intertwined into a tangled spider web, quietly unfolding before her eyes.

But just when the spider web was about to take shape, with a sudden scream, the wind and snow became chaotic, and a figure suddenly fell from a distance, shattering the clues in Liu Sheng's eyes.

The man fell to the snow, his hood slipped off, and his long black and white hair fell down.

She tore off the cloth on her face, wiped the corner of her mouth roughly, and spat out a mouthful of blood, her eyes still fierce.

Staring at this face, Liu Sheng's heart was shocked.

She recognized this man.

To be precise, the world recognizes it.

And Liu Sheng trusts the world's judgment very much.

[Isn't that Song Ru? ] The World reminded.

As for the memory of "Song Ru", Liu Sheng searched her memory bank for a microsecond and finally remembered that it was the girl she met when she first participated in hunting ghosts.

Although that happened only this year, to Liu Sheng now, it seems like a dream from his past life.

After all, after countless high-dimensional analyses, her sensitivity to time scales had long since become blurred and faded.

It’s only now that I see it that I suddenly remember—

This is the first new human being Liu Sheng knows who has appeared in this world.

【Think about it, they still ask us for help, how pitiful. 】

【Think about that special order. 】

[Yes, that was our first time making a crematorium, so we put a lot of thought into making it smokeless, efficient, and environmentally friendly.]

At the end of my memory, I witnessed her being captured by the Jinwu Guards through the little tentacles. I don’t know if she was finally released from the Dali Temple during the battle of Chang’an’s launch and entered the sewers…

I don’t know what will happen next.

Liu Sheng shook his head.

But what about the person in front of me?

There is no doubt that he is also a new human being, or in other words, a weird person.

Looking at her hands and feet, she was wearing heavy shackles like those criminals who were sent to the Great Wall.

Song Ru struggled to get up, but was kicked down into the snow by a thin, hunchbacked, and ugly man.

She lowered her head, with a bloody smile on the corner of her mouth.

The man was as thin as a monkey, his whole body was twisted, and he obviously had some deformity. He covered one eye with one hand and his face was covered in blood, making him look even uglier.

Everyone looked at him with disgust, but what he could not stand the most was the look Song Ru gave him.

"How dare you, a lowly and cunning person, glare at me? I am willing to buy you back to be my concubine. It is your blessing! How dare you hurt me?"

He wiped the blood from his face and removed his hand.

There was a dark hole on his face.

"Pooh."

Song Ru didn't say anything, but spat at the man fiercely.

The skinny monkey was furious: "How dare you! Believe it or not, I will send you directly to the Great Wall——"

He kicked again.

But the spectators around remained indifferent, as if they had already become accustomed to such scenes.

A chill appeared in Liu Sheng's eyes, and he was about to take action, but was held down by Ling Fu.

"Don't worry about it." His voice came softly into my ears.

Ruan Shizhi avoided her gaze and nodded slightly.

Liu Sheng was about to ask back when he suddenly saw a team of Northern Army soldiers walking on the snow, their armor shining. The leader had scars all over his face and was of burly build, and he looked somewhat familiar.

The three of them quickly hid in the crowd.

"What's going on? What's going on? You don't want to set up your stall here? Why do you have to stir up trouble to attract the general's attention?"

The scarred man in the lead shouted, "Skinny monkey, I think it's you. You've been causing trouble for me all day. Do you want to go to the Great Wall?"

[Inside the Great Wall? ]

[Same threat.]

[It’s actually called “Skinny Monkey”…]

"Brother Chen, you are innocent!" The skinny monkey quickly stepped forward and smiled apologetically, pointing at Song Ru and saying, "It's all this bitch's fault! I took her in out of kindness, but she actually bit me back!"

"She is a sinner of the temple." The scarred man said coldly, "It is the temple's business to deal with her."

At this time, the skinny monkey came forward and whispered something in the strong man's ear.

Liu Sheng had excellent hearing and heard it all clearly, his face darkening.

Then the sturdy man said "hmm" so softly that it was almost inaudible.

"Well, since it's something we both want, you can take it with you."

Song Ru suddenly raised her head and her eyes shot towards the burly man like knives.

This kind of look contains hatred, disappointment, and endless resentment.

The relationship between the two does not seem to be simple.

However, Song Ru could only stare and spat fiercely.

A round object came out of her mouth and hit the strong man.

The sturdy man was caught off guard and was actually hit in the face, leaving a bloody mark.

Then the ball bounced into the thick snow, silently and without a trace.

"Ouch, my eyeballs!"

The skinny monkey was nervously searching in the snow with his body bent. His embarrassed look made Song Ru chuckle.

Only then did Liu Sheng realize that half of Song Ru's tongue was missing from her mouth. No wonder she hadn't uttered a word from just now until now.

I felt a deep pain in my heart.

In the end, it was the sturdy man who picked up the round, bloody thing from the snow and handed it to the skinny monkey.

The skinny monkey thanked her profusely, then pulled Song Ru away in front of everyone's gaze, and disappeared in the wind and snow.

Just like that, the farce ended.

Sellers and buyers, everything remains the same.

As if nothing had ever happened.

The garrison also left under the leadership of Chen Shanyuan and continued to patrol the Great Wall.

That’s right, Liu Sheng finally recognized that the scarred burly man was Chen Shanyuan.

We also hunted ghosts together before.

He was the captain at that time.

Perhaps in this world, Song Ru and Chen Shanyuan also participated in hunting ghosts together, but now their fates are different.

No wonder Song Ru looked at him like that.