No matter what.
Baiyu has experienced the Lingjing tides.
He has the basic ability to judge the current situation.
If they can't find the key point of this Lingjing tide now, it will be very difficult for everyone to leave.
Looking at the scene.
The only anomaly is this place that looks like an inn, whether it's the landlady or others, all look very strange.
After Baiyu explained it carefully to everyone, the other people also understood the situation.
After a secret discussion in the room, they decided to go out later and take a look.
While investigating the situation, it would also be good to find a way to solve the anomaly here.
If the Lingjing tides are not resolved.
Then the Greyrock Count's mansion will become the origin of the Lingjing tides, continuously expanding and threatening the entire Mountain City.
This is the characteristic of the Lingjing tides.
Everyone came in this time to solve the anomaly here, and now it's impossible to retreat before the battle.
In a short while.
As time went by, the sky gradually dimmed.
Baiyu keenly noticed this anomaly.
In the No Darkness Realm, there is no black night, even when the sunlight is dim, it can't be this dark.
Now.
The sky is as black as a curtain, stars are shining, and meteors occasionally streak across the sky, beautiful and magnificent.
This is the black night.
A proper, cosmic-star-seeing black night.
Not like the situation in the Lingjing No Darkness Realm, where a sun hangs perpetually for years.
Such a peculiar place as the Lingjing tides.
Even scholars and experts specifically studying it still can't figure it out, having no knowledge of its true appearance.
Baiyu doesn't dare say he can solve it 100%.
After all.
The contact with Lingjing tides is too little.
It requires the teleportation array of the Shelter to be able to search for these strange places in the vast Spirit Realm.
Ordinary people.
If it wasn't a coincidence, like now.
Then it's necessary to pay a greater price than the Shelter's special teleportation array to enter Lingjing tides.
Even though safety inside each tide is unknown.
However.
They often contain precious items.
So most people are attracted to them.
Because places like Lingjing tides are formed by the distortion of powerful extraordinary forces, items possessing such strong extraordinary power are definitely not ordinary.
This is why the Third Prince found Baiyu to enter the Lingjing tides.
After all, Baiyu was recognized by the shelter in Linjiang City, allowing him to enter the Lingjing tides through the teleportation array in the shelter.
This is the method with the least cost.
After another strategy discussion, the group then waited for the opportunity in the room.
Right now, there's still too little understanding of this place.
Xu Qiu and Baiyu plan to find out more about the situation at the inn tomorrow.
The architectural style here is all like the Dark Era's architecture.
It's called the Dark Era.
Because, after enduring war, the technology of the Dark Era almost ended, and humanity returned to a primitive era.
Whether it's steam technology or electrical technology.
They no longer existed in the Dark Era.
So, most people of the Dark Era maintained a lifestyle of working at sunrise and resting at sunset.
Just like when Baiyu visited the S Level Sealing Object "Endless World" in Celestial South Martial Arts University, he saw human forces without any modernization.
Those people still maintained the most primitive state of life.
They are the human forces that have survived from the Dark Era to this day, but they are traitors who worship demons, ally with different races, and believe in foreign gods.
They have been living in the Endless World.
Like an isolated peach blossom source, only these people living in the old era find it hard to adapt to the new era.
The president of Celestial South Martial Arts University once told him.
If the original inhabitants of the No Darkness Realm in the Endless World could abandon their faith and integrate into today's human race.
Then they would be very welcome to receive them.
Unfortunately.
Their worshipped gods are foreign deities.
In the Dark Era, the world was chaotic, rituals and music were ruined, leading to this situation.
Now.
The people here also follow the living habits of the Dark Era, resting after night falls.
Whether it was the woman just now, or others in the inn, they all basically went into their rooms to rest.
Xu Qiu wanted to go out and investigate at night.
But Baiyu stopped him.
"Captain Bai, if according to what you said, these people have survived from the Dark Era.
Of course, whether they are human or ghost is unknown.
However.
From what I know of the Dark Era's situation.
At night, according to the living habits of the Dark Era, they are at their least guarded."
Xu Qiu, as the captain of the Anomaly Bureau in Mountain City, has some understanding of history.
Baiyu said: "Captain Xu, it's not as simple as that. Look at the window outside."
With his reminder.
Everyone looked outside.
In the dark night sky, gray mist floated, coming from all directions.
The surroundings were completely silent.
Like a midnight graveyard, filled with a sense of oppression.
Baiyu and his group stayed in the back courtyard of the inn, from the front, there were large white lanterns hanging under the eaves.
Inside, white candles were lit.
The faint flames burned quietly under the silent eaves, blocking the gray mist outside.
This is why the inn is not affected.
"Rushing out recklessly would likely trap you in that gray mist. As for what might happen inside, you'd best not try."
Baiyu's expression was serious.
The rest of them immediately understood after the reminder, not daring to go against Baiyu's words.
...
At midnight.
Because they were drawn into the Lingjing tides and have been on high alert.
Everyone was very tired.
Thus, during resting time, they all slept deeply.
Only Baiyu, due to the Core Technique, kept his sleep shallow, always on guard for unforeseen events.
Thud, thud!
While everyone was resting.
The door was suddenly knocked upon.
Baiyu frowned, gripping the Moon Blade in his hand: "Who?"
"Director Bai, it's me."
Xu Qiu opened the door, his expression gloomy: "Xiao Li, Xiao Chen, are missing."
When the two came in, they each brought three trusted subordinates.
A total of eight people, divided into two rooms, the Security Bureau and Anomaly Bureau's people slept in one room each.
The rooms were adjacent.
If something happened in one, the other would immediately discover it and quickly respond with support.
But now.
It seems there was a problem on Xu Qiu's side.
"What happened?"
Baiyu quickly called his three subordinates.
Xu Qiu didn't hesitate, quickly said: "Just now Xiao Chen said he wanted to go out to urinate, Xiao Li accompanied him out, and they haven't returned yet."
Baiyu frowned: "Didn't I say not to act alone?"
Xu Qiu shook his head: "I also told them, but maybe they felt there wouldn't be a problem if they went out together... The most urgent thing now is to find them back."
Baiyu nodded.
Now, even if they don't want to go out, they have to go out.
Quickly.
The remaining six gathered and together they stepped out of the room.
The entire inn's outer eaves were filled with white lanterns, blocking the gray mist, so activities inside the inn posed no problem.
The group walked out from the back courtyard.
The front door was locked with traditional door bolts, the wooden doors tightly shut, obscuring the view outside.
Unlike when they came in earlier.
Inside the inn.
It was more lively than during the day.
In front of the back courtyard door.
Through the door crack.
They could see the inn's hall lit up.
One oil lamp after another was burning, flames crackling.
With the light reflected, shadows moved on the ground, looking like a bustling marketplace.
Baiyu and Xu Qiu's expressions changed.
Clearly there were fewer people during the day, but at night, so many appear?
Who exactly are these people...
And what are they doing?
"Oh no, the Mirage King's grand birthday is coming, what are you preparing as gifts? I still don't have any ready, it's driving this demon crazy."
"Who isn't? Let's see if Shujie here has any good items, heard she just got some nice goods last time, maybe the Mirage King will like them."
"You all came for Shujie's goods too? Let me be clear, it's all about first come, first served. Right now goods are many and demons are few."
Chaotic conversations could be heard coming from within.
