How Am I Still Alive?

".Don't try to fight a monster you can't understand."

Sufficient experience allowed her to make the most appropriate decision.

If it was a creature with obvious intelligence, she might still try to trade and communicate, but this obviously wrong scene made her choose to remain invisible.

Even though she lost her sense of direction, she still moved forward in silence.

With her abilities and the supplies she brought with her, there would be no problem even if she spent several days here.

".There's something wrong with the fog."

With the power of her feet, even if she didn't run at full speed and move at high speed (invisible) for several hours, she would still be able to touch the boundaries of the city.

So, it's probably because the "fog" interferes with perception and direction, and also uses abilities such as hallucinations to interfere with vision.

"Sure enough, I have been here."

The scenery that she had carefully recorded appeared again, and Hua Xueyi was sure that she had probably been tricked.

So, she used a "route stick (throw a stick to see where it falls)" and left the direction to chance. Maybe her eyesight would deceive her, but the "direction" that kept falling would always find a way out.

This time, it had a vague effect, at least the scenery was never repeated again.

Finally, in this fog, she discovered something obviously wrong.

"There's smoke from the kitchen and lights on, but there are still people alive here?"

She hesitated for a while. According to past experience, "normal people" in very abnormal places are the most dangerous. But it seemed that there was no other place to go.

She further reduced her presence and slowly approached her target.

She climbed to the roof along the outer wall, carefully hanging upside down, and observing the lives inside.

But soon, she realized that her caution was a little too much. At least a few of the people here didn't look like the masterminds behind the scenes.

They were three numb ordinary people, warming themselves around a campfire and testing dry food.

Two long-hand tribesmen and one fish man, they all appear to be native residents.

They were in good condition and seemed to have enough food and clothing, but their faces were quite ugly, with numbness and despair on their faces, as if they were waiting to die.

"Snapped!"

Knowing that time waits for no one, Hua Xueyi took action immediately.

A sudden strong wind blew open the window, and flying rocks knocked over the water glass on the table. When everyone's attention was attracted, the mercenary walked in upside down and dragged away the youngest long-hand clan among them.

"I ask, you answer."

The deliberately hoarse voice still rings in his ears, and the bloody knife incision on his neck is the best "communication tool."

And this ordinary person was frightened, but at the same time he looked happy.

Maybe he has been waiting for this moment for a long time

"You, you are from outside, we have been waiting for a long time"

Hua Xueyi was a little surprised by the fact that the other party knew everything, and it seemed that the other party was really not the mastermind behind the scenes, but an unlucky and lucky survivor.

".Diary, I have a diary here. I originally thought that no one would come in even after I died. It was all written in it. We are all victims."

Hua Xueyi took the notebook, glanced at him warily, and then disappeared into the shadows again.

But in fact, she was observing the three survivors. After seeing them hugging each other with joy on their faces after hearing the news, she seemed to be just victims, and then she slowly opened the note.

After a brief glance, she frowned.

Obviously, this person's level of education is not high. He uses simple and common Chinese characters, mixed with pinyin, and a bunch of confusing descriptions.

But he did remember the important things clearly.

"There has been another murder, and people in the city are panicked. The victim has turned into a mummy, losing his blood, as if he had been dead for a long time."

"The guard knights said they might be cultists, and they said they would conduct door-to-door inspections. Hey, I hope they can succeed."

The first half of the diary is quite normal, basically what Hua Xueyi heard, and it is also the most common trouble encountered in modern times.

A murderer appeared in the city, suspected to be a follower of the evil god, and the whole city began to search.

The normal development is that the guy is extremely cunning, kills all the way, is almost super god, and is eventually easily defeated by the protagonist who happens to pass by. It would be like in a detective fantasy novel.

"Repeated inspections throughout the city, following the anti-cult work manual, focusing on finding those who are not right, such as those who suddenly become younger and stronger, those who suddenly disappear, those who have no job but have a large amount of money, and those who suddenly spend large amounts of money."

The "police" in reality are often much more professional than the officials who clean up the battlefield in detective novels. After a series of combination punches, there is some gain, and this time it is even more outrageous.

"We found it, we found it. He calls himself the 'Eternal One', but he is actually a shoemaker, the old fish head from Sixty-Second Street."

Hua Xueyi didn't know how to evaluate such a development.

But there are really some cultists who are committing crimes and lurking there. If we conduct a search in time, the unprofessional ones can really be caught. And then, that guy escapes?

".The Eternal One is dead, he was hanged on the city gate"

Well, it's too easy to follow the flow. It's completely logical. Now that a dangerous person who threatens everyone has been found, it is natural to execute him immediately.

".But this is the beginning of the nightmare. He used to be an ordinary shoemaker and was seriously ill. During the interrogation, he said that he had suffered"

The further down she looked, the more chills Hua Xueyi felt in her chest, and she couldn't bear it any longer.

"You guys, are all of this real? Is there really a 'wishing' treasure? Are you really stupid enough to make a wish?"

At this moment, seeing the three people in front of her nodding quickly, Hua Xueyi rubbed her eyebrows, feeling really happy now.

". The shoemaker died, but the 'treasure' he gave became everyone's talk. Newspapers reported it and said it was a variation of 'self-knowledge', but it was attributed to some strange treasure. It is a typical superstition. .”

It is said that it is a three-fingered fish-man's severed hand. As long as it comes into contact, you will hear a voice in your ear, constantly asking "What do you want?"

The shoemaker was old and about to die, so he made a wish and said, "I want to live forever and live healthily."

As a result, his wish was realized. He had the power to obtain the "life" of others by killing others, causing a series of murders.

When they caught him, it was also because of his obvious youthful changes. But in fact, he was still just an ordinary person, just a little stronger.

Many people's conjectures may be wrong. If that fragment really exists, maybe it is not "life/death", but something even more incomprehensible.

The diary ends here, only mentioning that the severed hand was used as evidence, and a group of idle men with nothing to do made another wish.

"Which of you, what did you do? What wish did you make?" Hua Xueyi forced out a smile to appease people, but she was already on full alert.

"The atmosphere in the city was very bad at that time. Many people blamed each other, and some asked the government to compensate the victims. Everyone was arguing every day. If someone wanted, one of us would make a wish."

This is the place where the wish was made, and it is also the reason why the survivors can survive.

". I hope, I hope everyone will stop arguing. I hope everyone can understand each other and coexist peacefully. Then, then it exploded! Everyone exploded into white mist."