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Fengdu Long Street, Dengxia District.

As a long street that the celebration procession must pass through, the neighborhood environment here is obviously different from other locations in the city.

For example, the buildings on both sides of the street are generally antique, such as the Qingxin Tea House where Xu Jiu just talked with Martial Mask. The exterior looks like a wooden structure, and there are cloth strips hanging above the main entrance. , In fact, there is a signboard embedded with an electronic display screen.

There are also three towering painted archways on the street. The painted on the top is a virtual projection, but it looks like that. The vermilion plank road promenade around the street is specially provided for the public. Used to watch the parade.

The most elegant thing is the bluestone long bricks that pave the streets. Although these bricks are not naturally excavated, they are specially processed by the factory, but I don’t know how many years they have been trampled by the crowd here, and they do have them. Some quaint meanings.

The ghost mask was moved to the back of the head, and a fixed red string hung in front of the forehead. Xu Jiu wore a long brown-gray trench coat today, lined with a loose turtleneck sweater, and the bottom is the same color. Straight leg trousers.

The cloth bag with the Ascendant Light longblade is hung diagonally on the back, with his hands in the pockets, Xu Jiu holding the umbrella, walking among the crowded people, always feel a little out of place.

Xu is a special reason for this celebration. The people in Dengxia district wear cloth gowns that can be called old-fashioned in his previous life, and they wear masks on their faces. There are various types, but ghosts seem to be more common.

Especially children, the masks they wear are basically all ghosts, a blessing knot is posted on the chest of the shirt, and the rattle is in his hand, and they are shuttled around in the crowd. The sound of drums and the sound of rain are mixed. Together, spread the word.

After eating the last Sandscale Fruit in your hand, throw the core into the trash can by the side of the road, and put all your energy into the evolution of Flame Fist.

Sandscale Fruit is a relatively common kind in rare treasure, otherwise the agent of Martial Mask would not directly take out a few as a reward.

There is not much evolutionary energy contained in it, but it is better than nothing.

Xu Jiu walked to a stall, looked at the fried dough sticks in the frying pan and the snacks in the wooden cupboard next to him, then looked up at the goblin mask on the stall owner’s face and paid for it. I have two fried dough sticks and one scallion pancake.

He is not actually hungry, but seeing these things, he still can't help but want to buy them and taste them, whether they are different from the ones he has eaten before.

"Guest, Ghost Messenger will be here soon. Don’t forget to turn the mask over after you finish eating."

As a merchant on the celebration street, it’s obviously done in advance. After his homework, the stall owner reminded with a smile.

"Anything to say?"

Xu Jiu took a bite and was folded over the scallion pancake. The edges are light and crisp, and the inside is flexible and mixed with the aroma of scallion oil. Flour cake, asked vaguely while chewing.

"The Ox Head and Horse Face I'm going to see later is to send the wandering souls back to the underworld. This mask is used to pretend to be their kind or something else...otherwise it will be the case Watching, it’s easy to go wrong."

The stall owner mysterious and secretive said these rumors, and it sounded like that.

Xu Jiu can probably guess the rumors that these all are to attract tourists, but the celebration is a little mysterious to be fun, if you really get a glimpse, then what's the point.

Thinking about this, the moving crowd behind him suddenly stopped and looked towards the street.

Is this the beginning?

Xu Jiu turned the mask back to his face, but only put it on his forehead, and most of his face was still exposed. The fried dough sticks and pancakes were not tasty when they were cold.

Relying on his height and strength, he squeezed two steps forward, then forcibly took a position and looked at the team not far away.

In the misty drizzle.

A team of "Ghost Messenger" wearing hats, wrapped in loose cloth strips of mixed colors, are walking slowly.

They used their right hand to hold a pan-butter paper umbrella with a lot of gaps on the umbrella surface. The hands holding the umbrella were all wrapped in cloth strips, as if they were trying to hide the shape underneath, and the rain was running along the umbrella surface. The gap and the edge of the umbrella slipped down, making their faces that were already covered by the hats more blurred.

"Ghost Messenger" is also wearing stilts or padding under their feet, making them all look more than two meters tall, and they will make a crisp sound when walking, as if to remind Everyone.

Yin Soldier borrows the way, strangers retreat!

Along with these "Ghost Messengers", not only the lingering fog, but also the parade in colorful costumes behind them, among them, the few people behind Ghost Messenger sang sadly. There are a bit of a weird song in it.

Such a mysterious scene made most people on both sides of the street couldn't help but hold their breath Qi Condensation, adjusting the masks on their faces, for fear that these "Ghost Messengers" would discover the problem and lock their souls.

When the Ghost Messenger team arrived on the street of Xu Jiu up ahead, he also saw other people behind the team, not just the singing team, but also wearing big exaggerated ghost masks, constantly A team of strange dances.

Huh~hu~

At this moment, a cold wind blows.

In the next second, Xu Jiu keenly noticed that the equipment concealed in the painted projection on the Long Street Archway was officially operating.

All kinds of illusions appeared on the long street for a while...

Of course, this is a celebration, not a horror movie shooting site, so these "illusions" are more It is to highlight the festive atmosphere and not to intimidate the people.

It looks like a sailing boat carrying ancients, passing over the crowd, and there are more animals on the street, as well as a faintly discernible orchestra that holds various musical instruments, wears ancient costumes, and plays melodious music.

By this time, the atmosphere of horror has begun to dissipate, and it turns into the part of celebration.

The appearance of those Ghost Messengers before was a gimmick, just to mobilize emotions, first suppress and then rise, the organizers of the celebration still understand the truth.

Interesting.

There is still a big gap between viewing this kind of celebration parade on the computer and participating in the scene.

Although Xu Jiu likes to stay at home, he does not reject this kind of interesting activities. Life needs adjustment.

He is not a workaholic.

Furthermore, dealing with disgusting monsters all day long, even normal people may have mental problems.

Before turning around to taste other food at other food stalls on the street, Xu Jiu's eyes swept the surrounding crowd unconsciously.

An extremely discordant silhouette flashed across his field of vision, causing him to turn his gaze back.

In the crowd on the right, there is a thin young man with long "aristocratic" glowing green hair and a leather jacket with rivets on his shoulders and arms.

This is like a rock guitarist suddenly mixed into the costume film, which is very eye-catching.

That’s it. It’s not a strange thing that the youngster has a personality. What really caught Xu Jiu’s attention was this guy’s behavior.

Holding the mobile phone in his left hand, as if talking with who, I was very excited and kept talking about something. As for the right hand, I kept it inside the open coat...

To say that this guy has no crooked mind, Xu Jiu doesn't believe it.

However, under the premise of not being completely certain, Xu Jiu was not interested in entangled with this kind of person, looked around, and quickly found the security personnel on duty on the street, and told him what he had discovered in the past. Two people.

Soon.

Xu Jiu, who was eating the remaining half of fried dough sticks, saw two police officers blunt past and subdued the young man.

His instinct was correct. This guy had a pistol hidden in his clothes. He was still struggling when he was caught, but his body obviously didn’t have the ability to break free from the police’s restraint, and he was beaten in two circles. On the stomach, he immediately got down.

At this time, most of the people were immersed in the celebration, and the riots did not spread.

Xu Jiu, a enthusiastic citizen, found that the young man’s phone seemed to have fallen on the ground when he was dragged out of the crowd. He took two steps to pick it up and hand it to the police Uncle.

Just waiting for him to pick up the phone from the ground, and suddenly found that his face appeared on the screen.

There are barrages floating above one after another.

Is that person live streaming just now?

I scanned the screen interface, only to find it inexplicably familiar. After exiting the live broadcast room, Xu Jiu realized that the live broadcast software used by the youth was the hunter live broadcast that Vanessa showed him in the morning.

"What's the matter with this guy?"

Not long after Xu Jiu picked up his mobile phone, the police who hadn't been far out seemed to have an accident.

I raised my eyes and looked over. The young man who had been pedaling like a rabbit before was now limp to the ground as if he had been drawn away.

Wait.

What is that?

In Xu Jiu's eyes, a grayish-brown mist rose from the top of the young man's head, and then disappeared in the rain.

"He's dead!"

Another policeman reached out to detect the young man's breath, paused for two seconds, and then withdrew his hand abruptly, said solemnly.

"He was hooked...He didn't wear a mask and wore this look again. He must have been noticed by Ghost Messenger!"

The crouched old man cried out in silence.

The crowd rioted again.