Eternal Night

Chapter 18: Ghost in the Yizhuang
Wu Xianxiao had long known that high levels of inspiration were not a good thing.

Because this kind of perception is two-way, it is not just that his high sensitivity can perceive those strange things, but also that those strange things can perceive him.

When he woke up, there were still many seniors, some of whom were even people from three or four shifts ago. They also obtained a lot of information from maintenance personnel in other areas, most of which they told Wu Xianxiao without reservation.

According to the nightmare rules explored and summarized by some predecessors, nightmares are generally urban monsters, demons and monsters that exist in the world, or those gods and Buddhas that are praised by many people. These are the biggest possible nightmares.

Secondly, there are many types of nightmares. The reason why they are called nightmares is that nightmares will specifically target maintenance personnel who enter the dream world, while other monsters in the dream world are not always like this. Some monsters will even communicate, trade, or impart power to maintenance personnel.

Third, the nightmare's perception of the maintenance personnel is supernatural. It is not perceived by the eyes or certain organs. In the words summarized by the predecessors, in a certain higher-level perception system, the whole world is dark, and only life has light. In the nightmare's perception, it is to perceive these lights. When the maintenance personnel just enter, their light is no different from that of ordinary people under the protection of the main brain, with only slight differences. Therefore, in the first five days, it is difficult for the nightmare to perceive the maintenance personnel unless they are face to face. However, once it exceeds five days, the maintenance personnel's light will become stronger and stronger until all the nightmares in this world can perceive it. Moreover, this perception is two-way. The higher the inspiration, the brighter the light in the darkness. You can see the nightmare, and the nightmare can naturally see you.

Finally, this light is just a general description. Nightmares will not carefully distinguish the difference between maintenance personnel and the natives of the dream world, and most nightmares are also some kind of ignorant "things". Only a small number of them have the so-called self. In many cases described by predecessors, it is common for nightmares to kill both the maintenance personnel and the natives of the dream world around them.

Therefore, Wu Xianxiao really did not deceive Xu Rongyu. Now Xu Rongyu can only survive by following them, although the chance of survival is not great. After all, they only have to survive five days, while Xu Rongyu can only stay in this world forever. This is actually an unsolvable problem.

But at least for five days, Xu Rongyu could indeed survive with their help.

There was quite a lot of food in the post station, although it was just some rice, flour, vegetables, radishes, a few pieces of bacon, dried fish and the like. However, as an official post station, it also needed to receive some official officials. Moreover, the Qing government had not completely collapsed and was still under effective rule. Therefore, there was indeed enough food stock in the post station outside the city.

Wu Xianxiao was rich, and several hundred taels of silver were enough to buy a lot of food. He also bought a cart for transporting goods and a donkey. As it was a joint purchase and there was no robbery or anything, the clerk at the post station would not say anything after taking the silver, thinking it would benefit the public interest at the expense of the individual. So the four of them drove the donkey towards the charity cemetery.

Xu Rongyu seemed lost along the way, and his previous cleverness was completely gone. On the contrary, the two newcomers, Yamade and Xu Shilan, looked back to normal, and even started talking and laughing along the way.

Wu Xianxiao was really impressed by these two newcomers. In the battle on Gaia, Amadea's combat power was off the charts and her mentality was also amazing. Xu Shilan looked like a slutty girl, but her mentality was also amazing.

Don't think that this kind of weird and supernatural horror is easy. It's okay to tell or listen to stories, but if you really encounter it in real life, some people may even be scared to death.

Xu Rongyu was captured by Wu Xianxiao, and his life and death were in his hands. He could still chat and laugh, and ask for meat and wine. But after encountering this bizarre glance, his mentality began to collapse. This is the real normal state.

Wu Xianxiongjiu said to the two newcomers: "It seems that your energy before becoming maintenance personnel is amazing."

Yamade and Xu Shilan were both slightly stunned, and Yamade laughed and said, "It's just the word death, or as you said, you can't live or die, but the three war biochemical beasts have the same effect. You don't know, there are at least 80 comrades who died in my hands. I didn't shoot them in the back, but they fell into special biochemical beasts, were transformed, parasitized, and mutated. The worst time was that more than 20 comrades' heads were embedded in the shell of the biochemical beast. They were still howling and had not died yet, but their mouths and eyes could spray machine guns. I have seen this kind of cruelty many times, so these weird things are nothing to be afraid of."

Xu Shilan also smiled and said, "Let's not talk about the Fourth World War. After the war, the solar system, except for the sun, turned into nebula fragments. Even before the Fourth World War, the thirteen singularity technology companies, some suspicious black technologies, the dark side of the government's top brass, and some strange stories that even I have only heard of, the horror they created would not be much different from this."

Wu Xianxiao shook his head and could only sigh that it was simply against the will of heaven.

As they were talking and walking, they saw a dirt road appearing next to the official road ahead. Xu Rongyu was familiar with the terrain and geography here. If a horse bandit was not familiar with it, he would be easily surrounded and killed by the officers and soldiers. If he wanted to rob a caravan or something, he would probably not even be able to eat hot shit.

Xu Rongyu led everyone onto the dirt road. Perhaps to dispel the fear and anxiety in his heart, he started to talk: "There are three charity cemeteries around this city. One of them was burned down two years ago. Now there are two left. The one we are going to is called Yijia Charity Cemetery. It was originally..."

Yamade asked, "So, what is Yizhuang?"

"A place where dead bodies are piled up."

Xu Rongyu said this casually, and then he paused, probably thinking about the horror and weirdness that he would have to face with these people next, so he explained: "We Chinese are different from you barbarians. We believe in returning to our roots. Our bodies and hair are given by our parents, and we want to return to our hometown even after death. You barbarians and beasts naturally don't understand this, but..."

"This world is so big, how many people have the wealth to return home after death? Most of the bodies are eaten by wild beasts in the wilderness, so there are charity cemeteries to store their remains, waiting for their descendants to carry their coffins back to their hometowns, and at the same time, this charity cemetery can also provide a place for the poor and distant relatives of wealthy families to stay, so that they will not become people in troubled times." Xu Shilan said thoughtfully: "So this is a place to store corpses? But there will be living people too?"

Xu Rongyu said: "Most of the charity cemeteries in other places have living people, but this Yijia Charity Cemetery has no one. They..."

Xu Rongyu shook his head.

At this time, Yamade suddenly said, "Ant, are you okay? Will the dead cause weirdness or nightmares?"

Wu Xianxiao was a little speechless. He said, "Just call me Wu. As for whether a large number of dead people will cause any weirdness or bizarreness... it's very likely, but this is the baseline reality 0.9 after all, and the deviation from the real world is very small. At least in the dream world of the baseline reality 0.9 that I have experienced, I have not encountered any weirdness other than nightmares."

Yamadea nodded in understanding.

The crowd continued forward along the path. After walking for a while, they vaguely saw a wooden building in front of them. Suddenly, at this moment, Wu Xianxiao stopped and stood still without moving.

Yamade was the one who reacted the fastest. He was a veteran of three world wars. If he hadn't been so alert, he would have died long ago. Less than a second after Wu Xianxiao stopped, he immediately stood behind Wu Xianxiao and stood back to back with him. Xu Shilan's reaction was a little slower, but it only took her a little over a second. She immediately stood beside the two men, forming a triangle with them.

On the contrary, the horse bandit Xu Rongyu drove his donkey for at least another five or six meters before he became shocked. Then, regardless of anything else, he almost crawled to the side of the three people and looked around with horror.

After waiting for five or six seconds, there was no movement around, and the three of them became confused. Yamade asked, "Is there anything?"

Wu Xianxiao was silent for a moment, but still reached out and touched the skin of several people. He wanted to test whether he could share his inspiration with them.

The moment they came into contact with Wu Xianxiao, the three of them felt a chill all over their bodies. Then they saw faint human figures behind a row of trees close to the charity cemetery. Even in broad daylight, these figures still existed.

This is not the kind of thing that makes people suspicious, but a truly translucent non-human humanoid shadow, each of which is missing arms and legs, and some are half-rotten. There is absolutely no way anyone would mistake it for a human.

Xu Rongyu's legs went soft and he half-knelt, shaking all over. The other two stiffened for a moment, but remained on guard. Wu Xianxiao was fine, his blood was flowing smoothly, and he was like a crouching tiger, filled with bloodthirstiness, madness, and fighting spirit.

This may be the case that a skilled person is brave. Wu Xianxiao does not think that he is born a warrior. He was naturally afraid of these supernatural things before, but now he has mastered the dark energy level of national martial arts and has the superb control of the Tiger Demon Skill. He is indeed not afraid of these wandering ghosts now. Even the paper man before only made him feel dangerous, not fear.

Of course, this is probably also related to the characteristics of Chinese martial arts. Practicing Chinese martial arts itself can train courage. Even if a person is cowardly and incompetent, as long as he can practice Chinese martial arts persistently for a long time, he can become courageous and unyielding.

As he moved his Qi and blood, the Tiger Demonic Power's distracting thoughts and evil thoughts arose, and at the same time, an elusive spiritual light suppressed everything. The Qi and blood in his body surged, and his body temperature began to increase. Anyone standing around him could feel a faint heat current surging.

With such changes, the ghosts more than 20 meters away actually became slightly agitated, and then gradually disappeared.

After at least ten seconds, Xu Rongyu took a deep breath, and the other two breathed a sigh of relief. Yamade immediately asked, "With so many ghosts, are we still going in?"

Wu Xianxiao looked at the charity cemetery in the distance and said, "Go in, why not? These are all dead people, they won't be transformed by nightmares. It's better to stay with them than with a bunch of living people who may turn into paper figures at any time, right? Let's go into the charity cemetery!"

Although the three of them couldn't tell what was wrong, when they thought about the paper figures they had seen all over the city before, they felt that these ghost shadows were far less weird and terrifying than the paper figures. At this time, they were helpless.

He followed Wu Xianxiao to the charity cemetery.

(End of this chapter)