hunter rule

Like a ruined plain, the maggot-like corpses on the ground were arrayed with those words.

"I am really flattered by such a welcome ceremony."

Zhao Guangli raised his hand gently, feeling the solid strength.

The dream is exactly the same as reality, with only very small differences that are almost indistinguishable.

The puppet Gu Xintong was also behind Zhao Guangli, looking around Zhao Guangli.

The sub-hell area [Night Town] has arrived.

Zhao Guangli's muscles were tense at this moment, and the feeling of confidence in his chest was almost completely gone.

The stronger you are, the more you can feel the terrifying aura around you.

"There seems to be something peeping in the surrounding black mist. It is impossible to determine. The hunter's perception ability has been compressed to the extreme... No, it should be said that instead of observing with spiritual vision, you can see more things with your eyes.

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Zhao Guangli was about to take out the black box from the void. As soon as the dark red void appeared, Zhao Guangli's expression changed slightly.

The void... appears in an extremely obscure place.

It's like passing through a sewer full of obstacles. With twists and turns, there is a risk of being blocked at any time.

At the same time, Gu Xintong was using his spiritual energy.

"I see."

Zhao Guangli held the mechanical black box and asked Gu Xintong to disperse the gathered spiritual energy in his hand.

The energy here is too thin, which greatly weakens the extraordinary person's energy dispatching ability.

"It is precisely because of this that mages are greatly suppressed in Night Town."

Zhao Guangli had heard Ayn Rand say before that the knight would be more at home in Night Town.

Without energy, energy mages have no way to cast spells.

But... there is a way to solve it.

Zhao Guangli raised his head and saw the words "Night Town" crookedly written above the dilapidated town in front of him.

No matter how you look at it, this is just a deserted town, nothing more.

The buildings are so dilapidated that some cannot even be called buildings at all.

Zhao Guangli carried the black box and walked straight in with Gu Xintong.

Through the huge broken Night Town sign, from the darkness not far away, there was the sound of something sinking into the mud, but it disappeared after only a few seconds.

Zhao Guangli was too lazy to pay attention to such inexplicable sounds now.

The place looks rundown, but inside it seems surprisingly large.

The darkness seemed to have no boundaries, and occasionally various strange sounds came from it.

The sound of chewing teeth, the sound of flesh and blood twisting, and the sound of limbs breaking apart.

Zhao Guangli's expression remained normal. This was Night Town. It would be even more terrifying if nothing really happened.

In addition to the dilapidated buildings, Zhao Guangli discovered that on the streets full of garbage, the gaps on the walls with weird graffiti were filled with water stains of various tall, short, fat and thin humanoids.

This scene reminded Zhao Guangli of the original Nightmare City, but Night Town and Nightmare City were obviously not on the same level at all.

The human-shaped water stains did not emit any abnormal smell and were everywhere, but Zhao Guangli had the illusion that these water stains were looking at him.

The dark, boundless town has extremely low visibility.

Zhao Guangli was walking alone in the boundless darkness, and Gu Xintong behind him could not give him much sense of security.

This is a restricted area for humans, a place that cannot be suppressed. Even a being as close to a false god as Zhao Guangli can hardly protect himself completely.

Zhao Guangli walked on the dilapidated streets for about fifteen minutes, but did not see any living creatures, or perhaps those creatures did not want to be seen by Zhao Guangli.

At this moment, Gu Xintong raised her slender fingers and pointed ahead, and a cold voice sounded.

"telephone booth."

Zhao Guangli raised his head.

Next to the deserted street, a dark phone booth stood there.

What was a bit strange was that as soon as Zhao Guangli's eyes focused on the phone booth, a faint light flashed inside the phone booth.

The glass of the phone booth was covered with old newspapers and looked extremely messy.

It was this light that made Zhao Guangli feel an uncomfortable feeling, as if something was being pulled out of his body.

At the same time, a faint light also illuminates the distance.

In the distance among the low and dilapidated houses in the town, there is the outline of a huge building.

In the darkness, it looked like a prehistoric beast devouring everything.

"Be alert around."

Zhao Guangli gave orders to Gu Xintong and walked towards the phone booth step by step.

The phone booth seemed to have a mottled luster, and the writing on the newspaper had been completely blurred and could not be read clearly, but Zhao Guangli could vaguely see the blurry photos.

They were smiling figures.

It seemed that the mouths of the figures were grinning and blurred, and the mouths of the figures looked extremely torn, as if they were cracked.

Zhao Guangli raised his right hand and grabbed the handle of the phone booth.

There was something solidified on the handle. Zhao Guangli felt familiar, but he couldn't tell for a moment.

Click!

For a moment, the voices in the darkness became quiet. It should be said that the whole world became quiet.

Gu Xintong could clearly feel the despair called deathly silence.

Only then did Zhao Guangli discover that the light in the phone booth did not come from the electric lamp.

It's a candle hanging above your head.

The pale candle is held by a pale candlestick.

Zhao Guangli understood clearly the feeling on the handle just now.

That's...burned wax oil.

"Want to put in a coin?"

Zhao Guangli walked into the phone booth and closed the door.

At this moment, a warm feeling poured into his heart.

It was as if the darkness had completely disappeared.

In the whole world, only the phone booth, like a lonely boat, gave off a faint light.

"This feeling of stability is indeed real."

Zhao Guangli placed his right hand on his heart, feeling the active beating.

And at this moment, the phone rang.

It was a psychedelic tune that looked particularly hazy and weird in the dark. It clearly stimulated Zhao Guangli's eardrums, as if something was scratching him.

Zhao Guangli thought for a moment, then reached out and picked up the phone.

There is no similar information about the phone booth in the Kingdom's exploration log of Night Town. In this case, you still have to find useful information on your own.

"Hello."

Zhao Guangli picked up the phone and put it to his ear.

Tear, tear, tear.

The sound was like a helpless electric current, scratching Zhao Guangli's nerves.

"Can you hear me?"

Zhao Guangli vaguely heard the sound of slight breathing.

As if suppressing endless fear, there is also a faint sob.

The man tried his best to suppress his breath.

"Hello, can you hear me? Are you human?"

Zhao Guangli asked again in a low voice.

"I……"

The voice of a sobbing woman.

He is young and his voice is trembling.

"I'm so scared."

"I'm so scared, I want to go home."

"Can you save me...I want to go home..."

Hearing such a call in the middle of the night, a normal person would probably feel a sense of fear, just like a suspense story.

Zhao Guangli said: "Madam, please calm down."

The other party doesn't know what kind of existence it is. It may be a human being, or it may be some kind of abnormality, or a demon disguised as a human being. But no matter what, this is the way for him to understand Night Town.

According to the queen, there are abnormalities everywhere in Night Town, and this guy is probably abnormal too.

After all, how could ordinary humans or extraordinary beings survive in a place like Night Town?

Stop joking.

"I'm...I'm...I don't know where I am!"

"This is a black town. There are weird and all kinds of weird graffiti on the walls. They are all kinds of weird. They have everything, beheadings, torture. I'm afraid, I'm afraid..."

The woman's voice was full of extreme fear.

It seemed like it was about to overflow the phone receiver.

Zhao Guangli even heard the sound of his nails tearing the skin, he must have been scratching hard.

Obviously, as a human being, this lady's spirit has reached the edge of collapse.

"There are also human-shaped water stains everywhere."

At this moment, the woman lowered her voice: "It's the whole city."

"There was a water stain. I remember it. I remember it. It has been following me, following me quietly!"

"Wherever I go, it quietly follows me!"

"It thought I didn't notice it, but I would have noticed it a long time ago!"

"At every corner, there is an identical shadow waiting for me!"

The woman's voice became more and more crazy.

Zhao Guangli pondered slightly.

Isn't the environment that this woman is talking about the same environment that Zhao Guangli is currently in?

So, this woman is currently somewhere in Night Town?

In addition, in Zhao Guangli's perception, these water stains did not have any supernatural power, but the woman said that the water stains were following her.

Weird.

It's like being in a scary ghost world.

"I only found this phone booth and made this call with the coins in my pocket..."

"It's still dark outside and there are inexplicable sounds."

"There are footsteps, there are footsteps!!"

The woman suddenly seemed to be stimulated by something, and she screamed.

That kind of sound made the candlelight above tremble.

"Footsteps!"

"It's running!"

"It's coming to me!!"

Zhao Guangli could only hear rapid breathing and crying.

"Calm down first and tell me where you are!"

"I am a human being, I can..."

Zhao Guangli imagined a woman hiding in a dark and deserted night town, making this phone call tremblingly under the only candlelight.

"He's coming."

The woman said these three words.

The only emotion left was despair.

Peng.

There was the sound of a phone being dropped, followed by a weird rustling sound, as if there was no signal.

Zhao Guangli did not speak, but continued to wait.

After about a few minutes, there was a sound on the phone.

It's no longer a woman's voice.

But a voice full of malice and despair!

"No dreams!!!"

"No dreams!!!"

“No dreams!!!!”

There was only one sound at first, and then it was mixed with a lot of different sounds.

Men's voices, women's voices, children's voices, old people's voices.

The collective voice was filled with the kind of despair that was about to come out.

Zhao Guangli listened to the voice on the phone very calmly.

"No dreams allowed?"

"On such a beautiful night, life can naturally have a beautiful dream full of meaning."

Zhao Guangli said calmly: "Who can fall asleep when they hear your voices?"

After Zhao Guangli said these words, the sounds in his ears stopped instantly.

Instead, it turned into a voice similar to that of countless people.

With vicious spells and full of resentment.

"Find you and kill you."

"Find you and kill you."

"Find you and kill you."

He kept repeating this sentence as if he had no thoughts of his own.

Zhao Guangli said nothing, and the hereditary curse wrapped around the phone line.

But all the curses seemed to have disappeared into the sea without making any sound.

"Found you...Found you!!!"

Suddenly, Zhao Guangli looked up and saw a pair of pale human feet standing outside the phone booth!

The upper part was obscured by old newspapers, so nothing could be seen.

Gu Xintong!

Zhao Guangli thought about it, and the girl outside stared at the phone booth.

"Outside, there's nothing."

"There is no abnormality, no extraordinary aura, no life, no enemies."

"Energy flows normally."

Several weird little people returned to Gu Xintong's fingers.

"The secret technique [Inspection of the Evil God] that was released to monitor the surroundings is also normal, and there is no abnormality."

Outside, there are no enemies.

Zhao Guangli looked at those pale feet.

It looks like a dead body.

"turn up……"

"It's you."

Zhao Guangli frowned: "Pretend to be a ghost."

On the right hand, [Gene Defect Arrow] condensed on the fingertips.

It exploded in the phone booth instantly.

The glass shattered and the entire phone booth became hollow.

Only the candlelight above was left swaying in the night.

Zhao Guangli raised his head slightly, and there was still the boundless night above.

There aren't any stars.

The blow just now didn't hit anything.

Except for a huge gap opening in the ground due to the explosive damage from the arrows, there was no trace of the owner of those feet.

"interesting."

Zhao Guangli hung up the phone receiver and looked at the flickering candlelight.

The core of [Dark Town] should be managed by the so-called Candlelight Council mentioned by Queen Ayn Rand.

The inexplicable candlelight in front of him made Zhao Guangli a little sensitive to this keyword.

"Soul, candlelight, and...dreams."

If each sub-hell area is regarded as a theme park, then these are the most important keywords.

Zhao Guangli chewed.

"Speaking of which..."

Zhao Guangli took out two coins from his pocket at this moment.

From the beginning, he was a little stunned.

"[Soul Coin]."

I don’t know when the currency appeared on Zhao Guangli’s body.

The coin is made of an unknown metal, and has a relief on the top that goes against Zhao Guangli's aesthetics. It can be described as weird.

It is a humanoid being with a roaring expression that makes it look particularly ferocious.

"Two soul coins, this is one of the few hard currencies in Night Town besides souls."

"Every new traveler who arrives in Night Town will be given a different number of soul coins. I just don't know how they were given to me."

Zhao Guangli held the soul coin and felt the touch.