I slay demons and monsters in a bizarre city.

Chapter 57 Strange Coordinates
Li Changgeng picked up the yellowed piece of paper that had fallen to the ground. It clearly showed latitude and longitude coordinates. Could these coordinates be related to his parents' mysterious disappearance?
Li Changgeng took a picture of the piece of paper with his phone, put the paper away, and then carefully put the two photos into the inside pocket of his suit and buttoned it up.

Some parts of the house are tiled, while others are solid wood floors. Li Changgeng didn't want to cause any damage, after all, this was the place he had lived in for over twenty years. If there really was something there, it should be under the wooden floor.

Li Changgeng gently tapped the joints between the wooden floors with a Phillips screwdriver, looking for hollow sounds.

There was a cacophony of shouts outside.

Gu Chao's clothes caught fire. He was wearing an elegant suit, and once it caught fire, the flames spread very quickly.

Ah... Ah!

Gu Chao screamed in agony.

The short vampire stomped on it a few times, and the effect was quite good; the burning pants were actually extinguished.

"I told you, if there's a fire, you have to stomp it out with all your might!"

"You son of a bitch... I'll kill you!" Gu Chao was in so much pain that he was sweating profusely, glaring fiercely at the short vampire.

"Ouch! My crotch is on fire again!" The short vampire was very excited and jumped up, stomping on it with both feet.

Splash! Splash!
Smoke was billowing from Gu Chao's groin, and his hands were frozen in mid-air due to the intense pain. The specially made underwear he was wearing was burning with a frightening intensity.

Li Changgeng lifted up a piece of wooden floorboard; there was nothing underneath.

Then another piece popped up, but still nothing.

Most of the wooden floorboards in the room were torn up, but nothing was found.

Perhaps, what Li Ying, the younger sister, said on the ghost train is not credible.

Li Changgeng tapped on the wooden floor under the dining table and felt that the sound was a bit off.

There was a dull, empty echo.

This is it!
As soon as Li Changgeng lifted the wooden floorboards, he could clearly feel that the gaps between them were much larger than before.

With a clang, Li Changgeng exerted force, and sure enough, the space under the wooden floor was hollow, revealing a small box wrapped in plastic sheeting.

Li Changgeng took out the small box and opened the plastic bag. This box was a special birthday gift that his parents gave him when he turned eighteen, I think it was his coming-of-age ceremony.

Strangely, when Li Changgeng opened the box, it was completely empty; there was nothing inside.

Li Changgeng looked under the wooden floor again and vaguely saw a small iron box about the size of a baby's fist.

The iron box was covered in rust; it was clearly rusty.

Pry open the metal box, and inside there's only a rusty key!

The key is shaped like an incomplete S, with serrations of varying lengths.

What's this thing? A key? What's it for?

Li Changgeng was at his wit's end. There were almost no locks in the house. Apart from the front door, there were no such strange locks in the house, even when his parents were alive.

Let's accept it first.

While there's still plenty of time, let's go to Blacksea City Hospital as soon as possible and give the Meng Po soup from the brocade pouch to my sister Li Ying. It might have a miraculous effect.

Reluctantly leaving home, Li Changgeng had no choice but to accept the loss. His neighbors had either moved away, died with the arrival of the eternal night and mist, or simply disappeared.

This place is indeed not very safe. It doesn't matter to Li Changgeng staying here, but if his sister wakes up, he won't feel comfortable leaving her alone at home.

Li Changgeng could still see the city's light rail trams speeding by, but he was determined not to take the trams anymore. He would take the subway instead, at least he wouldn't be taken to Fengdu City.

"You are...you are Li Changgeng, right?"

A sweet, soft voice came from ahead.

The girl who arrived was none other than Li Zhiman, the undisputed campus beauty of Black Sea City University.

"Oh, it's you!" Li Changgeng was a little nervous; Li Zhiman was still as beautiful and charming as ever.

"I've come here several times, but you're never home. And the last few times, I noticed your door was broken." Li Zhiman crossed her arms in front of her flat stomach; beneath her black pleated skirt, her long, slender, fair legs gleamed with a porcelain-like sheen. "I've sent you several text messages, but you haven't replied!"

Li Changgeng scratched his head. Sometimes he was on the ghost train, and sometimes he was on the Naihe Bridge in Fengdu City. Where could he receive it?

During his university years, he didn't interact much with Li Zhiman. Li Zhiman had too many suitors; the line could stretch from Black Sea City University to the gate of KMS Games Company.

"What's up?" Li Changgeng asked.

Li Zhiman, with her full, round breasts puffed out, said coyly, "It's not really anything I need to do. Are you going to Gu Chao's midnight party tonight? If you're going, I'll go too. If you're not going, I won't go either."

Li Changgeng was a little confused. What was going on? Why did Li Zhiman suddenly have this attitude?

"Then let's go together!" Li Changgeng didn't want to go at first, but he just received a text message from the hospital on his phone. The 200 million yuan fee had been deposited into his account. Gu Chao's meaning was clear: as long as Li Changgeng went to the midnight party, he wouldn't have to pay back the money.

“Great!” Li Zhiman bit her red lips lightly and blinked her big, beautiful eyes. “Then it’s settled. Come find me at six o’clock tonight. Wait for me at the entrance of AIDK Technology Company, and we’ll drive there together.”

"Alright." Li Changgeng was still a little confused. There must be something fishy about Li Zhiman's unusual kindness. Her father was the founder of a technology and artificial intelligence company in Black Sea City. He was quite powerful. Under normal circumstances, Li Changgeng would have no chance to get close to Li Zhiman.

Li Zhiman turned around and smiled, then got into the white flying car. After facial recognition and iris scan confirmation, pale blue flames shot out from under the unfolding wings of the car door, and the flying car took off from the spot.

Few people own flying cars; there are no more than a hundred in the entire Black Sea City.

Ordinary poor people, ordinary people, even if they have the money to buy a flying car, will not have the right to fly in the airspace.

"Watch out!" Li Changgeng saw Li Zhiman's flying car crashing directly into the light rail tram in mid-air. Strangely, the raging fire scene that Li Changgeng had imagined did not happen. The flying car passed through the light rail tram and flew towards the tall buildings in the distance. That direction should be AIDK Technology Company.

Is he the only one who can see it?
The city's light rail system doesn't actually exist; it's only there to transport the vengeful spirits of Black Sea City to Fengdu City and throw them into the Bridge of Helplessness.

Li Changgeng took the subway, entered the station, and looked again at the place where the cat Qi Xi had appeared before. This time, there was nothing there.

The subway stopped at Black Sea City Hospital.

Li Changgeng entered the hospital's special care ward. The hospital was gloomy and terrifying, with dark lights. Li Changgeng got goosebumps all over his body; it was very cold.

The hospital morgue was full of corpses, and the only way to prevent them from decomposing was through powerful air conditioning circulation, with the central air conditioning blowing cold air.

The special care ward was still the same as before, and Li Changgeng didn't see any cat-headed people this time.

Seeing his younger sister Li Ying lying quietly in bed, Li Changgeng felt very gratified.

My sister is in a coma. How can I get her to drink the Meng Po soup?

“If I were you, I would never do this. You would kill her!” Lin Mo, wearing a white coat and with his hands in his pockets, walked straight over. “Censor Lin Jiuge from the Night Slayer Division just came by. She said you’d better not think of any evil schemes.”

(End of this chapter)