Chapter 198: Nightmare Town (2)

"It's a shame to say." The man sighed and said, "My wife and I are sorcerers from Feng Kingdom, eating the rice of catching demons and driving away evil. I heard that there were evil spirits making trouble here, and the official government offered a high reward for capable people, so we came here to drive away evil and catch demons. Unexpectedly, we didn't even see the shadow of the evil spirit, but were trapped here for three days!"

This couple, the man was called Zhou Quan, and the woman was Shun Niang. Besides them, there was also a Taoist priest in his sixties, who also came to drive away evil.

Everything was normal here during the day. However, as soon as night fell, one could hear many chaotic sounds in one's ears.

There were the sounds of children laughing, the sounds of women arguing, the sounds of chaotic footsteps... pouring into the ears from all directions, but one couldn't see anything.

Couldn't see people, couldn't see ghosts!

That night, they set up an array, wanting to force the evil spirit to show itself so they could eliminate it.

But they used all their skills, and it had no effect, except for being able to hear some messy sounds pouring into their ears from all directions, they still couldn't see anything.

This situation had never appeared in their past experiences.

They realized that even if they forced the evil spirit out, they might not be able to deal with it. So the three decided to retreat overnight.

Unfortunately, it was too late.

Clearly the town was not big, clearly the exit was in that direction, but they turned for a whole night and just couldn't get out.

No matter from which direction, no matter how they walked, there was only sticky fog with a bloody smell around them, unable to get rid of it.

At dawn, seeing the rising sun, they seemed to see hope, and with all their hearts, they ran toward the east.

They remembered very clearly that the east was the direction they came from, as long as they walked all the way east in the direction of the rising sun, they could find the exit.

But after walking a big circle, they found that they had returned to the starting point again.

"It's a ghost wall!"

Zhou Quan mentioned this, still full of panic.

"Generally speaking, ghost walls usually appear at night when the yin energy is strong. And people like us who have supernatural abilities can easily break them. But here, all our skills are useless. We can't get out! No matter day or night, even if we try our best, there is no way to break the bureau."

The woman called Shun Niang, her eyes were already blurred, murmuring and repeating: "Can't get out, just can't get out. We... we are going to die here."

Zhou Quan said: "Wife, don't say discouraging words! We, we..."

He wanted to comfort her, but he himself had no confidence at all, and three days of grinding had worn away all his spirit.

Suddenly, he looked at Lin Qingyue and said: "You dare to come here alone, I think you are not an ordinary woman. Do you have any means to save us?"

Just at this moment, the woman beside him suddenly closed her eyes and fell down softly.

"Shun Niang, Shun Niang!" Zhou Quan hurriedly supported the woman, wanting to wake her up.

But no matter how he shouted, the woman had no reaction.

Touching the woman's pulse again, Zhou Quan was full of despair, "She... she fell asleep!"

Lin Qingyue said: "Sleepy, of course she will fall asleep."

Zhou Quan said: "Once she falls asleep, she will never wake up again! Three days ago, there was an old Taoist priest who entered here at the same time as us. He held on until last night, but couldn't hold on and fell asleep. Later, no matter how we shouted, he just wouldn't wake up..."

"This is Nightmare Town, once you come here you can't leave, and finally you are trapped in a dream. Now, my wife has also fallen asleep, she... she..."

Lin Qingyue walked over, raised her hand and touched Shun Niang's forehead, saying: "The soul is lost, it is indeed a bit troublesome."

Zhou Quan nodded: "Yes, the old senior at that time was also like this. After falling asleep, the soul was lost."

Lin Qingyue said: "If you can find the lost soul before dawn tonight, then there is still a glimmer of life."

These words failed to comfort Zhou Quan, and the man was even more desperate: "If we can't find it? We... we are also going to die here... what kind of ghost place is this!"

Just at this moment, a gust of yin wind rolled over the withered leaves and scraped across the ground, making a harsh sound.

Lin Qingyue looked up, and saw the lights on the long street light up one after another, and then human voices came, chaotic and messy, unable to hear the details.

Zhou Quan said bitterly: "It's starting again. Every night, the shops along the street light up. And there are messy talking sounds. But you can't see anyone, and you can't see any ghosts."

"Can't see?" Lin Qingyue narrowed her eyes, gathered her spiritual power around her eyes, and saw one hazy shadow after another drifting on the street.

In the shops, it was the same, people coming and going, simply like a bustling market.

The residual shadows were ethereal, and the human voices were clamoring.

Even the surrounding scenery was like water, moon, and mirror flowers, ethereal and swaying.

Such a scene seemed... seemed like a dream!

Lin Qingyue reacted suddenly, and when she looked beside her, she found that the couple had disappeared.

And the scenery in front of her became clearer and clearer!

On the long street of the town, there was a mother holding a child buying candied haws; there was a white-haired old man carrying a pole selling pickles; there was a squire sitting in a sedan chair poking his head out to greet a familiar person opposite... Everything, vividly as if it were a reappearance of the past scene.

Lin Qingyue was thinking, when suddenly she felt someone approaching behind her, she turned her head and was about to take action, but found that the person was actually Dongfang Qi.

"Yueyue, are you okay?" Dongfang Qi was in white, and the light from the wine shop shone obliquely, covering him in a warm color.

"Dongfang Qi, how did you come?"

Lin Qingyue asked, and then suddenly raised her hand to grasp his wrist to check his pulse: "If it's an illusion, the pulse will be different. You have a pulse!"

She tried to touch his dantian again, but remembered that men and women should not touch.

Just as she was hesitating, Dongfang Qi grabbed her hand and placed it on his lower abdomen: "This is the dantian, you can explore it."

Through the light and soft fabric, she not only explored the breath in his dantian, but also touched his—abdominal muscles, firm and warm, feeling very good.

Suddenly she reacted, looked up and met his smiling eyes.

Lin Qingyue hurriedly withdrew her hand, covering up her loss of composure: "How did you come."

Dongfang Qi's smile turned cold: "You still have the face to ask me? I was confined in the Eastern Palace, still worrying about your safety. But you, you left without saying goodbye? If I wasn't worried, I would have secretly slipped out of the Eastern Palace the next day, and I wouldn't have known that you actually colluded with my father to deceive me! Lin Qingyue, oh Lin Qingyue, you really make me look at you with new eyes!"

Lin Qingyue felt a bit guilty, laughing hehe: "Didn't I do this for your own good? What is your status, how can you leave as you please... so you ran out? Can your father... father let you go?" ===== CHAPTER 199 =====