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July 15, 2020, in the Qiming Empire calendar, according to the astrological calendar of the Qiming Empire, this will be a rare "Heavenly Dog Eclipse", and it will be a total solar eclipse.

Above the sky, a hideous and huge shadow began from the edge, slowly eroding the golden surface of the sun.

The light dimmed little by little.

In just five minutes, the huge shadow had completely covered most of the sun. Until the last ray of light disappeared from the sky, it was as if a heavenly dog ​​jumped into the sky and swallowed the whole sun into its belly in one last bite.

The next moment, the sky and the earth were dark.

Many people who learned the news in advance from the Internet were originally very excited, and even deliberately walked out of their homes and gathered in the open outdoors. However, when the sun disappeared in the sky and darkness completely fell, everyone unexpectedly fell into a strange panic.

It seemed that in the thick darkness around, there was a creepy malice brewing, and something was lurking in the darkness, silently spying on everyone.

Woohoo...

The strange sound of the wind sounded in the darkness, accompanied by the strange laughter of "hehe", the strange footsteps of "da da", and some strange sounds that were beyond the perception of human ears, but everyone strangely "heard" or received by the soul.

In this sudden darkness, countless ghosts suddenly appeared, on the streets, on the side of the road, in the park, and even under the bridge... Almost every corner was occupied by the suddenly appearing evil ghosts. Countless ghosts were either actively or passively swept together by the sudden appearance of the gloomy wind, like a large group of dark clouds sweeping through every city.

It was like a hundred ghosts parading at night.

Ordinary people who were still immersed in the total solar eclipse didn't even know what was happening. They only felt the biting cold wind blowing around them, and something passed by them in the sticky and thick darkness.

Then, they fell to the ground with their bodies softened, their souls floated away from their bodies, their faces were wooden, and they were swept away by the mighty army of ghosts.

It was only then that the screams of the survivors were heard in the darkness.

The lights in the city lit up one by one, reflecting the large number of people who fell to the ground, as well as the few survivors who were strong and had not had their souls easily taken away. But these people were also like being fished out of the ice storage at this time, trembling all over, and their teeth were creaking.

The whole process took only seven minutes.

The darkness dissipated, and the warm light of the sky was lit up again. The golden light of the sun slowly fell, but it could not dispel the chill in everyone's heart.

"What happened? What happened just now?"

"... Why did so many people faint on the ground?"

"I'm so cold, my legs are frozen and numb..."

"It's a ghost! I just felt it! There must be a ghost!"

"Ah! Dead, dead people! These people are not unconscious... They, they are all dead!"

With this last shout, the streets of the city were completely in chaos. Many people looked at the bodies that fell beside them, as if they were just sleeping, and were almost shocked to the point of losing their ability to speak.

It's hard to imagine that a few minutes ago a group of people were still talking and laughing, wanting to watch the total solar eclipse, but in just a few minutes of the solar eclipse, in the darkness that no one knew, most of them died silently. So terrifying and weird.

The panic brought to everyone by this scene is no less than the beginning of any doomsday movie.

In an office on the top floor of the government building in the center of the city that should have belonged to the official.

A man stood quietly in front of the French window, overlooking the chaotic and panicked crowd below. The transparent glass reflected the face of an ordinary man, but the pupils clearly flashed the cold and fierce light of the evil ghost.

"What a pity..." Looking at the terrifying and tragic scene on the street below, he sighed with regret, "If we continue to develop step by step, sooner or later we will be able to replace the upper echelons of the entire empire without bloodshed, and then implement the plan without leaving any trace... This time it was too hasty after all, and we couldn't accomplish it completely."

"... There is no way, the longer the time is delayed, the more disadvantageous it will be. If it weren't for the sudden emergence of the underworld..." Thinking of this, the man exuded a fierce breath.

After the birth of the underworld, every newly born ghost can be directly attracted by the gate of the underworld, and the evil ghosts wandering in the human world will not be able to escape and will be captured by the underworld messenger.

Without the continuous addition of new ghosts, this is equivalent to directly cutting off the future of the Li Shen Cult. No wonder they can't continue to endure in secret, and they don't even have time to write a detailed and meticulous plan. After selecting the date, they will hastily launch it.

However, perhaps it was precisely because there was no prior sign of the Li Shen Cult's actions this time, and the official intelligence personnel of the empire had no time to collect any clues, and the incident happened suddenly, which actually made them successful.

The clear sky outside the window became gloomy at some point, and the mysterious and strange sound of ghosts kept ringing. The wind was blowing wildly, the black fog and bloody rain continued, and the whole city was completely transformed into a ghostland in the interweaving of hundreds of thousands of ghost energies.

In this Internet age, any small news can be spread thousands of miles in an instant, let alone such a weird large-scale death incident this time? Long before the official empire even reacted, everything had been detonated on the Internet, almost causing panic among the whole people.

"The propaganda department keeps a close eye on the direction of the Internet. At the critical moment, it is necessary to maintain the stability of people's hearts..."

"Notify hospitals in various places to enter a state of war readiness temporarily and cooperate in treating the wounded..."

"Special armed forces are ready to go at any time to suppress the situation before it deteriorates..."

"The Ministry of Supervision strengthens its efforts to guard against all foreign forces..."

In the capital of the empire, orders were issued one after another, and the entire Qiming Empire was like a huge gear running, driving the large and small gears on it.

"Finally, find out clearly!"

"Thirty-six cities, it is estimated that nearly one million people died..."

"We must find out what happened and find out which forces are behind it! No one can be spared!"

In this constitutional monarchy, the emperor is just a mascot on the surface, and the real decision is still the huge cabinet organization. With the order of the prime minister, this organization has begun to operate at overload.

However, a piece of bad news came again.

The thirty-six cities suddenly unilaterally cut off communication with the outside world. No more news came out, as if the archipelago was hidden in the depths of the ocean.

This disrupted the official pace at once.

In the images sent back by satellite monitoring, the thirty-six cities were all shrouded in thick fog, and there seemed to be many ghosts flashing in the strange and ominous black fog.

The culprit was also easy to find out. Not to mention that on the day before the total solar eclipse, almost all the open Li Shenjiao believers in other cities rushed to these thirty-six cities for various reasons, and the ticket booking records on the Internet were clear at a glance. As for the Li Shenjiao itself, there was no intention to hide it.

It was not until this time that the imperial officials discovered that at least 50% of the upper-class celebrities in the thirty-six cities that had lost contact had already joined the Li Shenjiao, including government officials.

On weekdays, these people strictly enforced the imperial laws, but as soon as the Li Shenjiao order arrived, they seized the military and political power at the fastest speed.

Even if these cities can only be regarded as the third line in the entire Qiming Empire, they are also a considerable force when gathered together. This discovery made the imperial high-level sweat. If the Li Shen Cult had not suddenly taken the initiative to attack, they might have stolen the power of the empire without knowing it.

For a moment, they didn't know whether to be thankful or upset.

Although the other party had seized third-tier cities, the total population of so many cities was tens of millions, which made the cabinet quite cautious. It was decided to try to let people with supernatural powers take action first.

The special departments of the empire and the Xuanmen Tianshi who hurried over gathered together.

Hundreds of people sat in the conference hall, staring at the big screen in front of them with tense expressions. Projected on the screen was a map of the Qiming Empire. 37 of the cities were completely marked in red at this time, which looked particularly eye-catching.

"... What exactly do these people want to do?" Someone said to himself in confusion, "What good will it do them if the empire falls into chaos?"

After all, this world has entered a civilized society, and the game between forces is no longer a simple and crude cold weapon confrontation, but more inclined to competition in the fields of economy, technology, and military. Even the handover of the ruling party is carried out in a peaceful manner. The actions of the Lishen Cult were simply too radical and crazy for many people.

"This is a ghost domain! They want to create a ghost domain in the world of the living!" Someone suddenly spoke up.

Everyone looked at each other and found that this seemed to be a well-known Taoist priest.

The gray-haired Taoist priest said solemnly: "To create a ghost domain, formations, energy, and souls are all indispensable. Thirty-six cities are activated at the same time, which will take at least a dozen years to plan..."

"And..." He stood up tremblingly and stretched out his hand to draw a circle on the projection screen in front of him, "These 36 places are not randomly selected. The nodes of the earth veins where they are located seem to be some kind of formation layout..."

"Change the earth veins, change yin and yang..." Another voice suddenly exclaimed, with fear in his tone, "What exactly do these crazy people want to do? Do they want to create a ghost country in the world of the living? Don't they worry that they will be attacked by evil spirits?"

Everyone looked at each other in silence, and their faces changed in horror.

"That's because... the members of the Li Shen Cult are ghosts, not humans."

In the underworld, a young man sitting by the Styx and fishing leisurely answered this sentence slowly.

The questioner was Ji Yu, who looked puzzled.

However, he was even more confused when he heard this answer. During this period, he went in and out of the Yin and Yang, and made up for a lot of common sense in the metaphysical world. Naturally, he also knew that the Li Shen Cult was famous for its ghost-controlling skills...

"The practice that the Li Shen Cult publicized to the outside world is based on the principle that people raise ghosts, and ghosts feed people... In fact, it is simply a lie. But many people fell for it."

The reason is that this world is too unsafe. In order to avoid being scattered, evil ghosts invade living people almost every day. Ordinary people at the bottom may not know, but those at the top are absolutely clear about the existence of evil ghosts. At this time, the Li Shen Cult came to the door, and as long as they joined, they would teach them the practice and help them contract with powerful ghosts... Who wouldn't be tempted?

But what these people don't know is that the Li Shen Cult only values ​​their bodies.

"The real purpose of the Li Shen Cult is probably to trick the living into actively providing human energy to the evil spirits, while at the same time using the evil spirits' ghost energy to continuously infect the bodies of the living, gradually polishing them into bodies that are compatible with the evil spirits."

"In the end, those who think they have conquered the evil ghosts will be replaced by the evil ghosts. Their souls will even fall into the hands of the usurpers and become mindless ghosts driven by them."

And these evil ghosts who have taken over the bodies are the real members of the Li Shen Sect.

Ji Yu's eyes widened in an instant: "Human-ghost exchange? Could it be that those who joined the Li Shen Sect have been replaced by evil ghosts?"

Chu Si nodded and fished a grinning fish from the Styx.

"Li Dai Tao Jiang, avoiding the laws of the Yang world, directly refining the original owner's soul into a ghost... I have to say this is a genius idea!"

He couldn't stop his admiration and his eyes were full of yearning.

"…If this person is still alive, I really want to have a good exchange with him."

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