Fog Formula-Warning Book of Fog City Search Chief's Strange Talk

"...half price-"

"Dididi——!"

"Fresh tamagoyaki..."

The faint voice in the mist gradually increased as the two of them got deeper. From being insignificant at the beginning, to the middle where Marchesias could barely distinguish it, and then to the end where even Shenxiu could clearly hear it, and could hear the noisy shouts in the noisy wind.

If you close your eyes, you will probably see a bustling street scene in front of you, right? Listening to that voice, seeing Shenxiu's mind, he couldn't help but start to have pictures. The shouts of the store, the laughter of the crowd, the introduction of the tour guide, the shuttle of the vehicle, and even the whistle of the ship far away. Even the air seems to be filled with the smell of wealth and joy, which makes people unbearably relaxed, like bathing in bright sunshine and gentle sea breeze.

Seeing Shenxiu for a moment, he even had the illusion of time travel, as if he had returned to his student days many years ago. At that time, he was wearing a black school uniform and carrying a uniform schoolbag, walking on the streets of Xue Jian Ze like this. The setting sun in the evening dyed everything in his sight orange, and seabirds flew over his head. When he looked back, he saw a golden city. The sky is filled with brilliant rays of light, just like Xue Jianze at that time, never dark, full of tourists.

However, until the end, the voice had a very faint ethereal feeling, as if listening to the voice on the other end of the communication through a layer of electronic equipment. Mingming closed his eyes and listened to the sounds in the environment, and pictures would appear in his mind, but all he could see in front of his eyes was the thick fog that was too dark to melt away. The street lamps in the distance radiated dim light, acting as the only light source in the thick darkness. They walked in a space filled with thick fog, they couldn't see anything, but they could hear the prosperity of the past.

It's as if a fog separates the present from the past. Reality is at one end, "past" is at the other.

In Xuejianze, is there anyone who is not troubled by the "past"? Even seeing someone like Shenxiu, his expression was touched. That was their lost golden age, maybe not perfect, but prosperous enough, it was the home and happiness of many people, but under the influence of mysterious power, it collapsed overnight.

"Shhhh-"

The two walked in the fog, and they didn't know how many lampposts they had passed, when suddenly a gust of hot wind blew. Markesias moved his nose slightly, as if he smelled something, then turned his head to look at Jian Shenxiu next to him, and said with full of surprise:

"There is a burning smell in the air, very familiar, like..."

He got stuck in the middle of his words, because the feeling of that breath was so complicated that people didn't know how to describe it for a while. This feeling of helplessness made the young man a little distressed, so that when he said this, he frowned subconsciously, searched his mind, and tried to find a suitable adjective for this breath.

But Jian Shenxiu, who also smelled the charred smell in the air, already knew what the young man wanted to say. He turned his head and glanced at Markesias, and immediately gave the answer.

"It's a bonfire." Jian Shenxiu said softly, "It's the smell of a bonfire on the beach."

It was indeed very familiar, because they had only smelled this smell just in the evening. A touch of smokiness, the heat can be felt from a long distance, coupled with the slightly salty sea breeze by the sea and the aroma of grilled meat. Together, these flavors make up the "smell of a campfire on the beach". Just smelling this breath, it seems that there will be jagged beaches, the dazzling moon on the star dome, and men and women laughing and toasting by the campfire in their minds. In that scene, people are frolicking around the bonfire, and the dark background is full of cruise ships going to and fro all night.

"It's not the one in the evening." Markesias quickly realized, and said to Jian Shenxiu, "The one in the evening has already been wiped out."

He was sure of that, for they had seen the men put out the fire when the time was up.

"Well, it's really not the one in the evening." Jian Shenxiu took a deep breath, "Bonfires are lit for the whole night, but after Yong Ye, there will no longer be any bonfires burning all night in Xue Jian Ze." gone."

"The bonfire is still burning at this time," the Chief Inspector exhaled slowly as he spoke, his tone was low and almost sighed.

"It's something that only existed in the 'past'..."

"past?"

Markesias blinked, not understanding why Jian Shenxiu expressed such emotion. But seeing that Shenxiu seemed to have understood something, he no longer hesitated, but walked towards the road ahead with great strides.

"Before it was the sound, and then the smell." Jian Shenxiu explained as he walked, "What about after that? If you continue to walk along this road, what will appear?"

"Is it... touch? No!" Markesias followed Jian Shenxiu's words to think, but after making a guess, he immediately reacted, and his eyes seemed to light up.

"It's the temperature! It's the temperature they observed! According to the report, there seems to be an abnormal gathering of people... Those temperatures come from here!"

"Yes, but the temperature is not the end."

Seeing Shenxiu with a serious expression, he moved his wrists and was ready to fight at any time. And the distance between those street lights has also become significantly shorter. It took them a full ten minutes to go from the first street light to the second street light, but now it only takes two or three minutes to pass through a street light.

Temperature is not the end? Marchesias was slightly taken aback. So what is the end? The temperature is already the most obvious phenomenon they found, but now seeing Shenxiu actually say that the temperature is not the end?

Thinking of this, Markesias suddenly thought of the thermal vision device in the backpack, and quickly took it out of the bag and put it on his head. However, the first time he looked around after putting it on, he couldn't help shivering violently, and even his hairs stood up suddenly. At that second, countless dense figures appeared in his sight on the thermal vision device, almost surrounded them!

Damn it! The hot wind just now interfered with his judgment! Marquesias broke out in a cold sweat and subconsciously wanted to strike violently. Originally, at this distance, he should be able to feel the heat from those figures even without the help of the thermal vision device, but the hot wind affected his sense of the surrounding temperature, making him ignore the changes in the surrounding environment!

But just before he was about to make a move, Jian Shenxiu, who was walking in front of him, had already made a lightning move one step ahead of him. The search chief clawed at the air next to him with his gloved hand like an eagle's talons, using the most standard grappling for that position. In Jian Shenxiu's eyes, there was only a cloud of fog at that position, but there was a figure standing there clearly in the line of sight of Markesias wearing the thermal vision device.

"..."

However, this lightning attack did not catch anything. Obviously there is temperature feedback in that place, but when I grabbed it, I found nothing. After one blow, Shenxiu silently withdrew his hand, stopped and looked around.

It's not that they surrounded us.

Markesias also calmed down at this time, and stood next to Jian Shenxiu to observe the surroundings with him. When the boy wore a thermal vision device to observe those figures, he could see more clearly than when he saw Shenxiu, and he could discover the surrounding situation more straightforwardly.

Rather, they are here. It's where we walked into them.

Markesias came back to his senses and realized something was wrong. The figures in the line of sight moved naturally. Although the thermal vision device could only see orange-red outlines, the boy could still see that these people were celebrating something, as if they were attending a grand banquet. These people didn't react to the actions of the two of them. Instead, they saw Shenxiu walking between them on their own.

"We can feel them, but actually they are not in the same space as us. They are inside the 'door' and we are outside the 'door'."

See Shenxiu speak softly. Sound, temperature, smell... various senses at this distance can already help them feel the existence of those "people". They could even feel the heat radiating from those people, the airflow brought up by those people when they passed by - but they were still not in the same space as those people. There is an invisible "door" that separates them and keeps them out.

"That door is the entrance to the hidden place." Markesias knew what Shenxiu was talking about, and he looked around, but didn't find any place that looked like an entrance.

"But we walked all the way, and still haven't found where the entrance is."

"Yeah." Jian Shenxiu nodded first, then lowered his voice and said, "But this is the last street light."

"What?!"

Markesias was taken aback, only to realize that they had reached the end of the road at some point. In front of them is already the last lamp post. This road in the mist stretched endlessly in the dark night, and even Markesias didn't know how much time had passed, but he suddenly reached the end.

"Could there be a door behind that pillar?"

He leaned next to Jian Shenxiu and asked in a low voice. The "door" in the mist is not necessarily a concrete thing, it may also be some abstract concept. If the first street light represents the beginning of the road, will the last light ... the end of the road?

"How do you know if you don't try it?"

Seeing that Shenxiu's tone fluctuated a bit, the search chief subconsciously licked his lips, with the joy of finally finding the prey.

He is not sure, but according to past experience, the correct "door" is most likely to be here. This path is the lead left by the strange in the mist, the bait left for the hunt. The purpose of this road is to attract people.

So... what's behind the line?

Seeing that Shenxiu narrowed his eyes slightly, he stepped firmly towards the back of the last street lamp, and took the last step abruptly.

next second——

"——!"

The line of sight was clear for a moment, and the two suddenly returned to the streets of the resort. Seeing the street lamps around Shenxiu emitting a warm yellow light, beside the closed shops. The moon and stars are sparse, and there is no trace of fog.

The fog... has cleared?

wrong!

Seeing Shenxiu turned his head abruptly, his eyes fixed on the street behind them. The street at this moment is quiet and peaceful. Under the illumination of the street lamps on both sides, it looks clean and cold, without any abnormality. Even his movements were too big, and he disturbed a crow resting on a nearby branch. The poor bird quacked twice, flapped its wings and flew away.

The way is right!

See Shenxiu's expression is cloudy and uncertain.

The way was right, but they failed to enter the hermitage step by step, instead they were driven away.

They... were rejected by the master here?