Melted City - Chapter 61

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Ning Gu didn’t have time to think about what was happening in front of him. There were constantly panicking people running out of the fire, and the hair on his face was all scattered with ashes. +++Full American novel: www.mtlnovel.com

The air is full of the smell of smoke and dust. He smelled it in the ghost town, but it was much lighter, and it was difficult to notice without carefully distinguishing it.

The chaotic fleeing crowd once again dashed around, mixed with the cry of the child.

“Run?” Ning Gu was a little bit bottomless. His ability seemed to be unusable. Lianchuan didn’t know if it was affected.

“Look at what a scavenger is.” Lianchuan squatted slowly, his hands on the ground.

“I can’t wake up the dormitory four now!” Ning Gu also crouched down.

“I know.” Lianchuan said.

“So what are you doing here (dry gan)?” Ning Gu stared nervously at the direction of the crowd’s escape.

“Hidden.” Lian Chuan replied.

Ning Gu found that the people around him were not tall. Even in this chaotic scene, he and Lian Chuan Pei were still prominent in the crowd.

“Where is this? If not the main city, where is it?” Ning Gu asked in a low voice.

“A certain generation of the main city,” Lian Chuan grabbed a handful of ashes on the ground with his hands. “Is this thick ash as it was, or was it burned like this?”

“What do you mean by a scavenger?” Ning Gu asked.

“I don’t know, literally, it should be,” Lian Chuan cleared his throat, “clearing the husband.”

Ning Gu looked at him.

“The one who cleans the road, husband…” Lian Chuanxuan wrote.

“Lady who cleans the road?” Ning Gu froze, “Whose lady?”

“People who cleaned the road!” Lianchuan said again with a more accented tone.

“Understood,” Ning Gu nodded. “That’s with you, you are the cleaning team.”

“So I want to see it.” Lian Chuan said.

Ning Gu turned to look at the people who were running around. In addition to being generally not tall, he also looked a little unfamiliar in dress style. He looked up at the sky, but it was the same black (color), but no black mist.

Is it night?

“Whose consciousness is this?” Ning Gu said, “If this is not the main city, then it’s not your consciousness… How did the precursors come from?”

“Data from the previous generation’s main city is retained.” Lian Chuan.

“Could it be your consciousness?” Ning Gu asked.

“Theoretically impossible, the data is only data,” Lianchuan looked forward and jumped suddenly a little chaotic fire, “The Lost Valley is what the last generation of the main city left, the poet has been in the lost valley, this may be the poet’s Consciousness or memory…”

“What does he want us to see?” Ning Gu asked.

“Not necessarily, at least Qi Hang does not want us to see.” Lian Chuan said.

A row of people in uniform rushed out of the chaotic fire, with weapons in their hands.

It is indeed not the current main city. There is no such uniform in the main city, and the weapons are completely different. They are all shaped like small barrels.

“Scavenger?” Ning Gu clenched his fists.

“Hurry up,” said the man in the middle with a weapon in his hands. “Don’t do unnecessary resistance.”

“Go.” Lianchuan whispered.

As they stood up and backed away, the man suddenly raised his weapon and pointed at them: “You guys! Who are you from?”

The two of them did look different from those who had escaped before. They were different in height and dress, especially Lianchuan was still in uniform.

“The secret army of the rebels?” Several people raised their weapons and faced them together.

“Beware.” Lianchuan saw a black (color) suddenly appear in the fire behind them, pulling Ning Gu back suddenly.

The other party’s weapon fired, and there was soot in the place where they stood before, but there was no light from the weapon.

The weapon attack here is not what (meat rou) can see.

There was a dark shadow swaying in the firelight.

Not one or two, but one piece.

When the men with weapons turned around and aimed at the firelight, the shadow had come out of the fire.

As the weapon fired again, the shadows rushed forward towards them at the same time.

The shooting of the weapon brought a gust of wind into the air, and the black image was a phantom blown by the wind, shaking with the wind.

But the speed of advancement has not slowed down at all. It has almost passed through these people’s bodies at the same time, relaxed as if there were no obstacles.

For a moment, it is unclear whether the shadow is illusory, or whether these people are illusory.

Then these people disappeared into the shadow.

“Run.” Lian Chuan clenched Ning Gu’s hand sharply.

This time he did not retreat, but turned and ran in the direction of the crowd’s escape.

Ning Gu looked back and looked back.

Black Shadow didn’t chase it, and the action didn’t seem to be particularly fast, but what made Ning Gu feel a chill was the quantity.

The black shadows swaying out of the fire continuously went out on both sides, and the team could not see the end.

As long as there is a fire, you can see the dark shadows constantly shaking out.

They don’t have a clear look, they can’t see any part of it. Apart from the approximate human figure, there is no other detail.

It’s like some kind of shadow parasitic on fire.

Lianchuan pulled Ning Gu forward and rushed to a place where there was no fire before stopping, hiding behind an ash pile that was two people tall.

The people who ran in front seemed to have dispersed, and there were no more people around, and they could not hear the sound of their shouts.

“This is the scavenger?” Ning Gu asked softly.

“It should be.” Lian Chuan said.

“They are so slow,” Ning Gu said. “Why can these people still be chased by them?”

“I don’t know,” Lianchuan looked around. “There seems to be a high place over there. Go there and find a way to leave. It’s not safe here.”

“Well.” Ning Gu responded.

The high platform that Lianchuan saw was an artificial building, which had been damaged a lot, but the side stairs were still there.

“It looks like a lookout?” Ning Gu stomped as he walked up. “Solid, not a house.”

“Huh.” Lian Chuan responded.

At the top is a platform, which looks like a large table on the square outside the entrance of the City Hall. On the celebration day, General Su Su stood on it to announce the start of the carnival.

“This is…” Ning Gu has stood on the edge of the other side of the platform, looking at the front in shock, “What the hell?”

Lianchuan walked over and saw the other side.

The place they stood on was like a high cliff, and the other side seemed to have been cut with a knife, and suddenly fell down.

In front of it is a large flat ground, under the light of the sky, you can see the ruined ruins and the sparse lights in the middle.

And farther away, there is firelight, even in a film, Lianchuan turned back, and the distance behind him is still firelight.

These fires formed a circle, tightening inward little by little.

This is a world that is almost at the end of destruction.

“Those people were rushed here,” Ning Gu froze for a long time. “The circle of fire has been gathered. These people have no place to go, they can only escape to the center…”

“Huh.” Lian Chuan responded.

“In the end this circle became a point,” Ning Gu turned to look at him. “This generation of main city is over.”

Lianchuan did not speak.

“What about the scavengers?” Ning Gu said, “Is the fire burning like this, do I still need them to come and kill them?”

“Make sure there are no residues,” Lian Chuan said. “The desire to survive is very strong and can make people live in incredible ways.”

“Are you talking about yourself?” Ning Gu said.

“We are going to leave here,” Lianchuan said. “We can’t find the way to leave or the door to go back, and we will disappear at the last point.”

“But we should still be in Lost Valley,” Ning Gu said. “Isn’t it? We are just conscious.”

“Well,” Lian Chuan looked at him, “then we might be trapped here forever, leaving two empty shells in the lost valley.”

Ning Gu instantly remembered the shells of the travelers on the border of Tongue Bay, and his back was cold for a while.

“What should I do now?” he asked.

“Look for something special,” Lianchuan said. “We can remember everything, but we can only remember the important part. This is the memory of the poet. There must be something special in this part. Will come here.”

“Understood,” Ning Gu looked around. “I’ll find it.”

Lian Chuan groped in his uniform (Mo).

“How?” Ning Gu suddenly felt nervous. “Injured?”

“No,” Lianchuan said. “Enable the backup energy.”

“Can the uniform work?” Ning Gu asked.

“Yes,” Lianchuan nodded, “but the weapons are not.”

Ning Gu also immediately started on himself (touching Mo): “I see if there is anything that can be used on me.”

“Your clothes,” Lian Chuan glanced at him, “Is that the one in the ghost town?”

“Well,” Ning Gu looked at it, suddenly as if he had found something, and raised his head to look at Lianchuan. “You are in uniform when you are in a ghost town. Our time is the same!”

“Yes.” Lian Chuan pressed the side of the uniform’s trousers, and the small lid that popped open was empty.

“This is the time to go to Tongue Bay,” Ning Gu pointed to his leg. “Your finger tiger has been taken out.”

“What about the paper?” Lian Chuan looked at him. “The piece of paper was picked up before this, right?”

“Yes!” Ning Gu quickly pulled out of his clothes. “Will there be any mechanism for the paper.”

“I don’t know.” Lianchuan said.

“What do you know?” Ning Gu snorted.

“I know you are really slow,” Lianchuan said.

“Here!” Ning Gu held the paper with his fingers and handed it to him.

Lianchuan didn’t pick up, just staring at the piece of paper.

“Why?” Ning Gu glanced at the piece of paper, and quickly turned it over and over and read it several times. “The word is gone?”

“Find the person who wrote this.” Lian Chuan said.

The only place where people can be found is estimated to be in the ruins under the cliff.

Lianchuan found a gap along the messy footprints on the ground.

“Go down from here?” Ning Gu leaned over and looked.

“Probably here,” Lianchuan said, “but I have to climb down, it’s too high, and I’ll fall if I jump down directly.”

“Will consciousness also fall to death?” Ning Gu asked, “Are we dead or alive, will it also be an input like a taste?”

“It’s possible,” Lianchuan climbed to the edge of the cliff, and took photos with the uniform lighting down. “There is a way, come down.”

A narrow, chiseled path on the cliff wall can only accommodate one person.

Ning Gu followed Lianchuan and rubbed a little against the cliff next to him: “Fortunately, I haven’t lived here all the time.”

“How.” Lian Chuan asked.

“It’s too high,” Ning Gu said. “How can this generation of main city have such a terrain? The highest place in the ghost city is the clock tower, and the highest place in the main city is the light bar? Is there a higher place?”

“No,” Lianchuan said.

“The bell tower and the light thorn are not as high as one-fifth…” Ning Gu raised his eyebrows. “As soon as I look down, my legs are soft, so I can compare the vertical holes in the lost valley, but we go down You don’t have to do this when you put a hole…”

“Why are you looking down.” Lianchuan said.

“Can’t help it.” Ning Gu sighed. “I’ve been thinking, what is outside of the black fog, what is on the other side of the border… Now that I see it, it is like this…”

“This is not outside of the black mist,” Lianchuan said. “This is another way of walking the lantern.”

Ning Gu was silent for a while: “Is it a place that no longer exists?”

Lianchuan didn’t speak.

“If we can’t go back,” Ning Gu said, “stay in this place that doesn’t exist… then do we still exist?”

Lianchuan stopped and turned to look at him.

“What’s wrong?” Ning Gu asked.

“Don’t think about things that don’t happen,” Lianchuan said, “find the person who wrote.”

“Uh.” Ning Gu nodded.

Lianchuan continued to move forward, Ning Gu followed behind, did not look down anymore, fearing that his legs would fall softly, but kept staring at the back of Lianchuan.

After a silent walk, he smiled: “I want to think about it for a second, do you want to listen?”

“Say.” Lianchuan said.

“If it’s really stuck here, it might not be too bad,” Ning Gu said. “At least it’s not me, and you, fortunately you… who do you want to be?”

“You can do it,” Lianchuan said.

The cliff is actually not too high, it is much easier to walk down than it seems, and after a while, they walked to the middle position.

This cliff is a concave U-shape. Their current position has reached the right side of u. You can see the opposite cliff by turning your head.

It’s okay not to look. After seeing the cliff on the opposite side, Ning Gu suddenly leaned on the cliff and didn’t want to move.

This kind of cliff with eyes full from top to bottom makes your legs softer than looking down.

“Huh?” Lianchuan found that he hadn’t followed, and stopped.

“It’s okay.” Ning Gu withdrew his eyes and followed.

But after a few steps, he stopped suddenly and looked back at the opposite cliff.

Lianchuan glanced back at him, without questioning, he turned his eyes directly and looked at him.

In the middle of the opposite cliff, there was a glimmer of light on the cliff wall below their current position.

“Is it a lamp?” Ning Gu pressed his voice, “Or fire?”

“Fire will flash,” Lianchuan said. “This is a lamp.”

“Someone is there,” Ning Gu stared carefully and looked again. “We walked this road as if we didn’t pass there.”

“Go forward to the corner,” Lianchuan said. “You can jump over.”

Ning Gu’s eyes quickly descended to the bottom of the cliff, and then bounced back suddenly, falling on Lianchuan’s face: “If you don’t jump in, you will die.”

“I won’t jump in.” Lianchuan said, and began to move on.

“There’s a hole there,” Ning Gu chased, and his mouth was almost touching his back neck. He said anxiously, “I don’t know anything in it, just jump over?”

“Then you say hello first,” Lianchuan said.

Ning Gu took a breath and didn’t wait for a sound. Lian Chuan had covered his mouth.

Ning Gu blinked.

“Keep quiet,” Lian Chuan looked at him. “Did you understand?”

Ning Gu blinked again.

Lianchuan let go of his hand: “Look for it again.”

“What are you looking for?” Ning Gu asked.

“Your brain might be thrown here,” Lianchuan said.

Ning Gu couldn’t help laughing: “I just didn’t want to shout, to tease you.”

Lianchuan glanced at him.

“Too nervous,” Ning Gu said. “I want to ease it.”

“Is it relieved?” Lian Chuan asked.

“It’s much better.” Ning Gu twitched his teeth.

When he reached the innermost side of the cliff, Lianchuan stopped.

If you go further, it will be parallel to the lighted hole, and you have to jump over from here.

The distance is not close, at the limit of Lianchuan.

He glanced back at the cliff behind him and kicked twice with his foot.

“Now?” Ning Gu asked.

“Huh.” Lianchuan reached out and prepared to pull him.

“Don’t pull me,” Ning Gu said. “Leave your hand out. In case of any unexpected situation, only you can react.”

Ning Gu hugged his waist: “I will hug you.”

“Leave.” Lianchuan said.

“Go.” Ning Gu tightened his arms.

Lianchuan slammed on the cliff wall, and the two jumped from the middle of the cliff to the hole over there.

The wind slammed through the ear with the leap of Lianchuan, and Ning Gu had the illusion of suddenly returning to the ghost town.

No matter how lonely and desperate the ghost town is, where he has lived for more than two decades, he will still feel nostalgic at any similar node (gougou).

The light in front of you quickly became larger in front of your eyes.

The speed at which Lianchuan broke out surprised Ning Gu.

The hole immediately appeared in front of them.

A hole that is not particularly deep.

There is a warm yellow (color) light spill.

On the side facing them, there is a bookshelf with many books stacked.

Then Ning Gu saw a table.

I also saw a book opened on the table.

And the people sitting behind the table.

Lianchuan’s final landing point was on a stone outside the entrance of the cave.

The sound of the landing made the person behind the table suddenly raise his head.

Ning Gu saw his face.

Most of his face was covered by a dog head mask.