Path of the Dead Prequel: Wings of Silver

"Lin Rui, when you read this unsent voice message, you don’t have to go out to look for it, because I have already set foot on the road to hell.

We have known each other for more than four months, and I am very happy because of you. Before you became Miss Lykugu, even if your skin color was different, I really thought you were my elder brother born from the same placenta, and I had a familiar feeling in this life and my previous life. I can vent my willfulness on you without any worries, thereby finding my lost childhood. Whenever it was time to share the expenses, you knew that I would pretend to be stupid and crazy to take advantage of you, but you never asked for it. In the name of being an elder brother, you shouldered everything without saying a word. In fact, I don't care about the money, I just want to continue to experience the missing feeling of being taken care of. This is too precious to me.

A month ago, on the night when the female soldier arrived, the person we talked about the most was not ourselves, but you. Cherry said that not knowing when one will die is a completely different kind of courage than knowing that one is about to die. I was particularly confused about what kind of mood this was. To this day, when I am on my way to my end, when I look back and think about these things, I feel calmer.

Death is a matter of an instant. The reason why people are afraid is more of all kinds of regrets. If you can't let go of something today, you will have to do something tomorrow. So, assuming it is natural old age and death, shouldn’t we also have to think about these things? That's just a concept of length of time. Since death is bound to happen, why should it be so painful? This kind of thing should be accepted happily. It is by understanding this that I can focus on nothing else.

I have never been an extroverted person, I just pretend to be optimistic, because always mentioning your own bad things will affect you and make everyone around you very unhappy. As trivial matters occurred frequently, the feeling of loneliness that I had forgotten about was once again enveloped in my body because of Krys's passing. After you left, I met many people, and I once felt that they were enough to make me forget the sadness and loss I was born with.

But unfortunately, this is an illusion after all. Others are others, and I am still me. No one will disregard their livelihood because of me, not to mention that I have caused endless suffering to her. The trip to Georgia allowed Krys and I to open up to each other and go beyond the ordinary love of taking care of your girlfriend. She is outstanding and stronger than I imagined. Through a series of ups and downs, we have become comrades who can truly be trusted with our backs. And behind this reason, there is a mysterious sincerity.

In the recorder of your cell phone, there is a song that you recorded in a hurry. It is the girl from the South China Sea you are most familiar with. Although it is hummed by Krys, the singer is another person you miss day and night - Athena.. She unexpectedly stood before me, thus unveiling this lingering nightmare. I did this not only because I was embarrassed to face the Lancasters, but also because I had never met my wife. I didn’t want her to stay in the devil-infested vortex forever. We should have been buried together.

I just made some arrangements, and the answer I got made me feel a little more at ease. If today's golden die belongs to me, then I will give you a brand new Krys. Of course, this possibility is so slim that even I can't believe it myself. Even though this hope is so slim that the chance is only one in 100,000, I still feel that I should give it a try.

Well, Khorisman, farewell! Bless me, if there is an afterlife, we will renew our relationship and be a pair of true brothers."

The wheels of the bicycle slid over the puddles, stirring up patches of rain and dew. They splashed into the rusty wheel, causing the missing central axis marbles to hit each other and make a sharp sound. It was the one I drove in the hotel shed. Yes, the boss was lying on the sofa with the TV on and snoring loudly. More than ten minutes of driving passed by at my feet, and I quickly arrived at the Black Maple Tunnel that was bustling with people a few hours ago. The large miner's lamp left in the tunnel was still there It was on, but there was no sign of anyone. The gray-brown curtains were blown by the strong wind, making strange screams.

The sky slowly turned white, and a new dawn was about to come. Hundreds of people rose up in the lead-blue night sky. A big black bird flew from south to north, and the white bird droppings were carried by the fishy wind and covered my head and face. I had no choice but to abandon the car, raise the sail and rush into the tunnel, lean against the rocks and light a cigarette.. I raised my wrist and looked at my watch. The time was 4:50 in the morning. I arrived ten minutes early as promised.

This was the arrangement mentioned in Lin Rui’s last words. After I listened to the babbling After seeing the girl from Nanhai, the moment I closed my phone, an idea suddenly came to my mind. Why not give it a try? I said to myself, I couldn’t help but press the light screen again and search hard in the call history. Soon, I found one The number that is about to be forgotten is the mysterious wanderer.

Originally, this line of numbers should have been deleted due to the rebuke of Soul Scythe. However, I was not willing to accept it. I was still thinking about the whereabouts of H1-092, and finally kept it He came down. He once mentioned that he had a client who was very interested in the family on Ou Shizhu Street and was even willing to pay me fifteen thousand. Are there really such idiots in the world? Since this guy has great powers, I might as well contact him. Look.

The number was quickly connected, and the drifter seemed to be waiting in front of the phone, and he hurriedly answered it after it rang. He was still smoking a sizzling cigarette on the other end, waiting indifferently to speak. However, I But I can't think of a reason to come back to him. It's been a long time since this happened. If you miss something like a customer, it will be a thousand miles away. It will be difficult to find it again.

"Are you here to have fun with me again in the middle of the night?"The ghost waited for a long time and got no answer. He couldn't help but feel very angry and wanted to hang up the phone.

"Oh, the signal was very bad, but it's much better now."I scratched my scalp, walked to the wooden chair in front of the guest room and sat down, and said anxiously:"This, I don't know how to tell you. What happened last time was that the person in charge of us didn't allow me to keep in touch with you, and now, I'm forced to have no choice but to ask you for help. You said last time that you had a client who was very interested in the case of the Durhan family. So, can you still contact them now? I have something I want to talk to the other party about."

The drifter teased me a few words in a weird way. He probably had finished venting his anger and regained his balance. He asked me to hang up first and he would call me in three minutes. In the end, it only took two minutes before the phone rang again. I pressed Talk. I clicked the button to listen, and the guy resumed his enthusiastic tone. The ghost said that I was lucky, and his client was very interested in it from beginning to end. However, because the time was delayed for too long, once I don’t have to worry about it anymore. I can only get eight thousand yuan at most.

"My client went to the countryside where you are yesterday and currently lives in the surrounding towns. Originally they decided to start tomorrow night, but you are familiar with geography after all. Well, at five o'clock sharp, the client will meet you in the tunnel. They are two people."

Ten minutes later, the phone rang again. This time it was the customer himself, with a hoarse and old voice. After asking a few general questions, he said he would leave immediately. From this, I went to pick up the phone. Come to the appointment in a broken car

"I won't lose you a penny of money, but there is a condition. You must tell my master everything you know in detail. How could you find people from the dark world to investigate together? This is basically a chicken-and-duck talk, and I don’t understand what is being said."

I stood alone in the tunnel, smoking silently, but my heart was very excited. When Lin Rui read this voice, what expression would be on his face? This kid must have gone crazy! He lost two close relatives in the blink of an eye. , they will definitely resent the female soldier and force me to a dead end. Then Fan Fat and Glasses will probably be in a hurry. They will try their best to come here crying in mourning and kneel down in front of the stone plate. Then, if How will Dixie react when she learns this bad news? She shouldn't show it too obviously, but she will definitely cry silently in the dark and regret for her negligence for a long time.

Thinking about the various ugly behaviors of these people in the near future, I laughed out loud.

There was a work by a French cartoonist. A large group of people stood in front of the portrait and cried. Only the deceased in the picture was grinning and laughing. Thinking about it, this is probably the feeling. I felt extremely relaxed. , it turns out that death is also full of comfort.

As the hour hand points to the number five minute by minute, two black shadows vaguely appear at the other end of the black maple tunnel, one is particularly tall, about three meters high, and the other One was very short, about the height of a primary school student. The two of them used flashlights and strobes to check the code with me. They judged correctly and came over without any delay. A few minutes later, we successfully met in front of the Cosita Totem.

"Are you two customers?"I opened my mouth and couldn't believe what I saw. The short man was an old woman with long white hair. Her teeth were almost missing, and her body was so haggard that it could be knocked down by a strong wind. The other man was a An ordinary young woman with an ordinary appearance should still look like a student. The reason for misunderstandingIt is three meters high because this person is holding a long stainless steel pole in his hand, with a weird decoration hanging on the top. This thing should be a lamp, with a frame tied with copper wire and then embedded in a plastic sheet. It is the size of a newborn baby, with hands and feet, and a huge eyeball painted on the navel, with a burning wick inside.

This thing looks very familiar to me. It was the long pole that I waved in Dixie's hand not long ago at the Yin Eclipse Dojo. The old man and the young man stood calmly at first, but later they saw that I had a sullen look on my face, and they felt trapped. They looked at each other and asked what they were looking at.

"I have seen this gloomy lamp! I pointed my long pole and asked,"Did you two follow me to Green City?""

"I have never been there, so why do I say this?"The old woman was confused. She grabbed the long pole and walked forward.

After some exchanges, she finally figured out that the doubt was on the long pole, and couldn't help but secretly sneered. The old woman put her hand behind her back and pointed at the strange lamp. Said:"It's no wonder, people in the dark world are only proficient in Tongshu and Hushu, and they know nothing about other left sects. Young man, let me ask you, what do you think this is? This thing is sold everywhere as long as you have been to the underground black market of pigeon boys!"

"Eh? It turned out to be true."I reached out to take it doubtfully, and sure enough I saw a sticker on the steel pipe that had not yet been removed, indicating that the price was 155 bucks. This was a product. Looking closer, I saw that the color of the strange lamp was also slightly different. The one I saw last time was glowing. Green light, but now this one is a dark rose red. Thinking about it, I puffed out my chest and belly and asked,"Oh?" So what is it? Appreciate further details"

"This steel pipe is called a corpse-carrying pole, and the lamp is called a Jiaoweiqin. It is a dharma ring that people from the left sect carry with them when they go out to do business, just like the butter corpse lamps that disciples in the dark world often carry. It can be used as lighting, and it can also seal the souls of people who are engaged in dangerous work so that they cannot be taken away. The artifact itself does not hurt people, but the real evildoers are the people behind it."The old woman replied disdainfully.

"From your tone, it sounds like you are very familiar with the ways of the dark world. So, who are you two?"

"Hey, young man, you've crossed a line. We agreed on the phone not to ask each other's whereabouts, and you don't need to know who we are."The old woman took a paper bag from the girl's hand and handed it over, and said:"This is the fee agreed upon before. Please click on it."

"No need, you have to be trustworthy when you go out to hang out. You two will never blackmail people for money."I consciously made a mistake and hurriedly grabbed the bag and put it in my bag. This is asking for help. They are the last straw for me. I have to lower my attitude both emotionally and rationally. Thinking about it, I scratched He scratched his head and said with a smile:"No, that's not what I mean. I can't call you"Hey" or"that"."

"oh? I see, then, just call me Aunt Polly."After the old woman finished speaking, she walked around behind me alone and whistled deep into the empty tunnel. Not long after, a petite figure from the distance quickly came up, jumped onto the woman's shoulders, and stared at a pair of copper bells. Big eyes, licking his front paws. I saw this thing not long ago. It was a black cat that ran into the stone gorge.

"Eh? Could it be that you two were among the crowd at that time and had already been to the tunnel?"I stretched out my hand to pet the black cat, while the woman stood still without saying a word with an expression on her face as if she owed her more than she deserved. I felt quite uncomfortable, so I deliberately approached the black cat and joked:"So it's you, We met again. How about it, you're not being followed, are you?"

"Okay, okay, if you like it, take it with you when you're done. The old woman asked me to step back three feet and asked,"Have you brought everything?" We don't have much time, we have to finish before people travel, so let's start quickly."

I responded, quickly ran back to the tunnel, took off the ice pack and gasoline bucket from the bicycle, and ducked into the rock crevice alone to start playing with the copper bead device. After about five minutes of fiddling with it, I snapped my fingers and signaled them. Standing in front of the stone plate, with a roar, the totem slowly rose, and the fragrant mist floated out. It was refreshing and refreshed, and the Kondia Stone Gorge opened again.

"Although it looks sacrosanct on the surface, it is like a dancing girl far away teasing you to chase. Once you step through this door, the deeper you go, the darker and more sinister it becomes, full of evil and chilling. I tried to calm down and warned again and again:"This is not a theme park. It can really kill people. It's not too late to quit now. You have to think clearly.""

The woman raised her hand impatiently, indicating that I should just lead the way and I shouldn't worry about the rest. Since she and the old woman dared to enter, they would definitely come out. I opened the dark brown curtain and asked the two of them to bend down and climb in. Then she led the way. The old woman glanced at the sail and kept nodding, saying that there are still experts in the dark world. This curtain is in the right position, and it can prevent the things inside from being forced to escape.

"These are just rags that a group of moralists found in some warehouse."I dismissed this and responded casually.

"This is not an ordinary old curtain that can be turned over, but a sail removed from a ghost ship that has been bumping for hundreds of years in the rough ocean. It can be encountered but cannot be found. It is called Gong Chang. This gate has been drifting on the sea for a long time and has become like a dead thing. It has been hung at the mouth of the gorge. If the evil spirit breaks through the siege, it will hit it head-on when it comes here, so it is beaten back to the underworld. mythical creature. I say they are not simple because the person who thought of this move was very cautious. Not only did they set up the palace gate here, but they also did not miss the two entrances to the tunnel. The old woman shook her head and sighed, then took the cigarette I brought and said,"It's boring to be on the road. You might as well take this opportunity to talk about the whole experience.""

This was decided on the phone. I must report all the details to the two of them. However, the trouble caused by the attack on Wulongya Island is still fresh in my memory. Every loss is a huge loss. I then cut off the beginning and gave them a simplified version, specifically ignoring the existence of freesia. I speculated that Miss Cosita had some evil deeds or was possessed by a monster, leaving the beginning of the soul-crushing elegy. This led to frequent chaos, which eventually became uncontrollable. The old woman did not elaborate, but just focused on a few questions, such as when Miss Cosita was soul-crossed, and how Soul Scythe and others bravely entered the vortex. Wait.

When I was making a selective reply, the woman held the black cat and walked behind me without saying a word. In fact, she had never spoken since we met. Her eyes were always scanning me, sometimes lowering her head to think, and sometimes She frowned, as if she was suspicious of every word I said. The old woman also pretended to be deaf and dim, and asked me to say it a few more times. This atmosphere was very depressing, so I changed the topic to her.

"This lady doesn't seem to talk much. She looks very young. She should still be a student."I shrugged and asked

"The little master never went to a secular school, but stayed at home to receive private tutoring since she was a child. Of course you can also say that. She is very young and will probably take the driving license test next year. The old woman nodded and replied:"She has social anxiety and doesn't like to talk.""

"I see, she looks so noble, I have to take good care of her, so what should I call her?"I smiled crookedly, thinking there is nothing to pull. In the eyes of the old woman, you may be the master, but in my eyes, you are not even a piece of shit.