There were many strange rustling sounds coming from behind. Ye Tingbai turned around and looked back. They were a group of deformed dwarfs about half a meter tall.

These dwarfs were all wearing red bellybands, both male and female, and their looks were very different. At first glance, they thought they were elementary school students gathered together, but these elementary school students all held very long watermelon knives in their hands and kept making utterances in their mouths.

A quacking laugh.

These dwarfs are all pollutants, but the pollution on their bodies is very strange. The behavior of ordinary pollutants on humans will be very distorted, like two different materials, forcibly mixed together, like water and

Oils are supposed to be incompatible with each other, but if they are stirred with strong external force, they will enter a state of fusion, but it will still look strange.

But now these dwarfs don't have this disharmonious feeling. The pollution is on them, as if they were born this way.

"Brothers, whoever catches it first belongs to him, I'll go first!"

The first dwarf to scream was a man. He was the first to run towards the two of them. When he ran, he was on all fours instead of using his feet. The tattered watermelon knife was tightly grasped in his hand.

in hand.

When he ran about one meter in front of Ye Tingbai, his figure suddenly disappeared, flashed and came to Ye Tingbai's side. Because the attack was on the left side, he had to raise his left hand to fight back, but it was useless.

He applied too much force and just punched the doll into the wall.

It was like bursting an ordinary water balloon, with blood and minced meat splashing everywhere, and this lethality also stunned the little dwarfs behind him. They turned and ran away without looking back.

The sub-personality followed closely for two steps, then caught the slowest one and came back. At least these things still spoke human language and could communicate.

"Let me go, let me go!"

Ye Tingbai: "Who are you?"

"We are people, not things!"

Ye Tingbai: "You are considered human beings. How do you look like a human being? People like us are human beings. But you are not surprised to see my kindness. Why?"

If these things were monsters that the woman gave birth to in this ruins, how could they not be surprised when they saw the two people suddenly appearing?

On the contrary, it seems that I am very accustomed to this scene, just like seeing prey in the wild and shouting to the companions around me, "I went first!"

Boom~~~

The sudden sound of the bell interrupted Ye Tingbai's thoughts, and in such a trance, the dwarf in his hand disappeared, disappearing in a way that he could not understand.

Ye Tingbai: "Why is that thing gone?"

Sub-personality: "I don't know, I think the ringing of the bell just now affected us. It seemed like it was over in an instant, but in fact it has been several minutes."

The sub-personality pointed to the blood stains on the wall for Ye Tingbai. The dwarf who had just been blown up was hanging on the wall and was bleeding. In such a dazed moment, the blood was already flowing all over the ground. This was different from what he had done a second before.

What you see is different.

Ye Tingbai: "So that bell can suspend our consciousness, and even you are not immune..."

Sub-personality: "Not only that, this place is very strange, look at your feet."

There is no light source in this ruin, so Ye Tingbai made two flashlights when he entered the door. With the flashlight of his secondary personality shining on him, Ye Tingbai also saw something strange, his shadow...

No upper body.

And when he took a photo of his secondary personality, it showed that he only had his upper body.

Although the two complement each other, they do not share half of each other's soul. The sub-personality has its own way of birth, and the original sub-personality also has a body. He is a normal person, and at least his soul is complete now.

Sub-personality: "I don't know why this is happening, but those dwarfs just now didn't have any shadow at all. Everything started when we entered this door."

Ye Tingbai: "What if...we go out now?"

The door is there, and the two of them only need one step to take it out. But even though the door is open, they can't take that step out, as if there is another self in their hearts that is resisting the action of leaving.

Ye Tingbai: "Push me out!"

The sub-personality stretched out his hand to try to push Ye Tingbai, but he couldn't push it down halfway. The door seemed ordinary, but it could imprison him.

Ye Tingbai: "Did Yu Lei trick me?"

Sub-personality: "I can't see it. Maybe he didn't expect that this place has become like this. I have been observing this old man. If he really did it on purpose, I can only say that he is very good at acting."

Ye Tingbai let out a long breath. If he couldn't get out, he could only go into the ruins to see what was stopping them from getting out.

"Don't go in, just stay here with me. Once you go in, you won't even be able to keep the last half of your shadow..."

Ye Tingbai frowned and looked at the withered bones in the corner. The sound was actually made by the withered bones. The skull didn't move, but the sound came from there.

"Welcome to the Shadow City~"

Ye Tingbai stretched out his right hand and grabbed the skull's head, but the skull had already weathered. He didn't need his right hand at all. Any external force could break it. Seeing Ye Tingbai's move, the voice mocked again:

"It's useless, everyone will be the same after entering the Shadow City.

Once you're in, you can't get out..."

Ye Tingbai tried his various abilities, but none of them had any effect. The only problem was that he couldn't leave and the shadow was incomplete. When he used a flashlight to shine on the skeleton on the ground, he found that the skeleton was completely intact.

Not a trace of light or shadow can be illuminated.

Ye Tingbai: "Without soul and strength, but it can make us hear voices, there is only one possibility, fantasy...

You must be among those powders, right?

You can speak because you still have a little body outside. If I bury you in the wall..."

Hearing Ye Tingbai's words, the man shouted in horror: "No, don't!"

Ye Tingbai could understand most of the things here. The only thing beyond his cognition was the strange purple powder mixed in the door and the walls. And through contact with the powder, he also had a certain inference that those things were

It is the embodied product of a certain soul.

It is not difficult to conclude that the specialness of this skeleton is related to those things. Those purple powders are very active and are all living humans.

Ye Tingbai: "Tear apart his bones and see if there is any purple powder."

After hearing this, the sub-personality just raised his palm, and the skeleton was completely ground into powder. This was the real ashes. All the useless ashes were scattered. They really found a small particle among the ashes.

Purple dust couldn't be any smaller.

When Ye Tingbai put his hand on it, he felt the vivid flexibility. He easily broke into his spiritual world and saw what he wanted to see.

He was forced by the Foundation to stay and close the door at the end. When the Foundation sent a group of them into the Shadow City, the place was not that weird, and there would be no swallowing of shadows here.

This came later.

The foundation would send people here to explore every year until it ended more than ten years ago. This was not much different from the information Yu Lei gave him. Yu Lei seemed to have implicitly expressed that this ruin was difficult to deal with, but he really did not.

Warning Ye Tingbai.

As the exploration deepened, Ye Tingbai also understood why those monsters were not surprised when they saw humans. This was because in the past ten years, Hardness had captured all the humans who had left here safely, except for the Yu family.

Being recaptured by Hardness seems to trigger certain conditions, such as mentioning Hardness to the outside world. Most of the people who were recaptured suddenly returned here when they were talking loudly to the outside world.

And this person has been staying at the door for hundreds of years. He can only see what is going on in front of the door. He only knows that those people entered the Shadow City and never came back.

Ye Tingbai: "It's interesting, let's go in and have a look."

The inner walls of Shadow City are made of gold ore, which is of very low purity, but a layer of golden light is reflected under the illumination of a flashlight, and there are also those purple powders inside these golden stones. Looking at it this way, the entire

Relics are all made of gold and soul crystals.

Gold is very inert and rarely reacts with other things. It has always been a relatively expensive metal, but it does not seem to have any special effects.

At the end of the passage is a crossroads, but strangely, the forward and right paths are missing, and the walls and floors are broken in the middle, as if the ruins were dug out of the ground by some external force.

In the process, some channels were broken.

This incomplete ruin was buried deep in the soil. This was Ye Tingbai's first feeling.

In the broken corridor on the right, there is a statue of a god, a stone statue with a strange face enshrined in it. The stone statue has only one eye, and the faces on both sides are as if they were directly symmetrical with mirror tools. The small archway outside the statue is also broken.

Half of it is in disrepair.

Ye Tingbai: "Why are there such weird... things at the entrance?"

Sub-personality: "In ancient times, most of these hateful-looking statues represented imprisoning certain things and using evil to fight evil. But I can't say this. Maybe it was just a symbol of guarding."

Ye Tingbai wiped the statue with his hand. It was an ordinary stone, not a star skeleton, nor a precious material. There were big stones everywhere on the roadside. He waved his hand and restored the small archway of the stone statue.

By some strange coincidence, he suddenly became superstitious.

Then we walked towards the only way, which is the road on the left.

But just after Ye Tingbai left, the stone statue's eyes lit up. He seemed to be looking in the direction Ye Tingbai left, and it seemed that it had been looking there all along.

From the moment Ye Tingbai stepped into the left passage, he felt a faint feeling of danger. He always felt that something was about to appear, so he walked extra carefully.

Just when he had just walked two meters away, there was a sound of machine vibration, and the sound of the machine starting up became more and more obvious. Ye Tingbai finally became a little irritated, so he jumped up and punched a big hole in the wall above his head, and the deputy

His personality was completely shattered with ease.

Faced with such destructive power, the statue turned its head to the right again and did not dare to look at it again.

The passage was completely smashed, and the sound of the mechanism stopped abruptly. There were indeed many mechanisms buried underground, but because they were old and many were broken, that's why I read them without being activated for so long.

Ye Tingbai: "The things here are so strange. They seem to be used to deal with ordinary people?"

Regardless of the mechanisms, fragile doors and walls, these are not designed to target pollutants or gods, but there are indeed some strange extraordinary powers here. With extraordinary powers, there is no normal way to deal with extraordinary creatures.

Prevention.
To be continued...