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Chapter 491: All Ghosts' Day!
"Mr. Thompson, are you ready?"

In the hazy drizzle, a person wearing a light yellow translucent raincoat stood in front of a silver-white metal case, and behind him stood a photography group. The host wearing a microphone at the corner of his mouth looked at the numbers on the left side of the case that were accurate to milliseconds asked the clock.

There are still 10 seconds until eight o'clock.

Stretch out your left hand and give a thumbs up, making a gesture of no problem. Your right hand rests on the edge of the case, and your thumb is placed in front of the red button.

The countdown begins.

5！4！3！2！1！

The thumb pressed the button hard, and there were a few muffled sounds mixed with the hum of mechanical activation. The lights around the tower where the crowd was located suddenly turned on!
In a bird's-eye view.

Starting from community No. 8 and leading directly to community No. 1, the huge tower with a height of nearly [-] meters standing in the center of the lower city suddenly started at this moment.

Starting from the top floor, the light waves representing the three-dimensional holographic projection are continuously lit up, projecting the pre-set scene images to the various communities in the lower city.

"Look, it's foggy!"

In the park of Community No. 3, someone opened his arms, embracing the "gray fog" created by holographic projections spreading down from the upper floors.

The people in the gray fog cheered enthusiastically.

Everyone knows that this is the beginning of Qianfan City's Ten Thousand Ghosts Festival!
Herod~~
Amidst the obscure gray fog, the resounding hiss of a horse resounded.

The pupils were burning with faint blue flames, and the skeleton horses made of skeletons with drooping skin and flesh leaped out of the gray mist in mid-air, circling around the void between the central buildings of the entire city.

Just a few seconds later, the gray mist on the horse's back began to stir, and warriors holding long swords gradually emerged, driving the horses and galloping towards the parks in various communities.

Every time they reached the sky above a park, giant jack-o-lanterns depicting the face of a devil would rise up in that area, making a sneer.

crackle! ! !

Thunder exploded, and the gray mist on the top layer suddenly began to form a vortex around a central point, creating a doomsday-like scene.

Just as everyone was surprised and shocked by this sight, all the undead knights suddenly hovered in mid-air, and immediately turned around in unison, facing the tower.

At the same time, in the thick fog layer, a huge, brown wooden ram pierced the fog, followed by a terrifying five-masted sailing ship that seemed to sail out of hell.

The hull under the collision angle in the front part is broken into a hideous crack. The hull of the vicissitudes of life is covered with various cracks and dark green seaweed. The black canvas hanging on the mast is also tattered. However, these parts are put together to piece together But it is a very domineering pirate ship.

Just when everyone thought that this was also a fantastic existence projected by holograms, it began to circle the central tower and descend. The huge hull shattered the rainwater in the sky as it advanced, and occasionally passed by the buildings of several high-rise communities. In the outer streets, the ship's side is less than two meters away from the crowd of onlookers.

The blowing wind pressure was mixed with rain, and the few people who were closer were directly knocked to the ground, causing a burst of exclamation from around.

"What an idiot. This is Thousand Sails City. That ship is the real one disguised by our giant empty ship. If you stretched out your hand just now, you might have broken two fingers."

A friend who was in the same company who knew some inside information hurriedly helped him up, and the teasing between the words could not be more obvious.

The pirate ship shuttled non-stop in the central area, and saw that it had circled most of the area. At the top of the thickest mast in the center of the pirate ship, there was someone standing on it, and a loudspeaker disguised as a telescope was floating in front of it. .

Swallowing, he opened his mouth suddenly and shouted: "Do you want my treasures? I hide them in various hidden places in the community. Go find them!"

As his words fell, a large number of colored ribbons spewed out from the muzzles on both sides of the ship's side. This part was a virtual image, but a trick to add to the fun.

In order to increase the lively atmosphere during the Ten Thousand Ghosts Festival, the Thousand Sails City government prepared not only the opening ceremony, but also a lot of exciting activities. Facts have proved that this approach is very successful, easily mobilizing the enthusiasm of the people for shopping.

Such a grand performance is actually just one of the opening scenes in the central building complex of Qianfan City. The place where the Ghost Festival really starts is not here.

In various communities with denser crowds, it is another scene at this time.

In community No. 8, a procession dressed as a parade of ghosts passed slowly on the street. Several virgin ghosts in plain clothes standing in front of them were holding orange paper lanterns, and they kept throwing out to the crowd of onlookers on both sides of the street. Pile of hand-packed fried beans.

Occasionally, some children dressed as various ghosts rushed out of the line with jack-o-lanterns. They begged for candy when they caught anyone, and if they gave it, they would get a hug. Graffiti on the face, but also bear the disdainful eyes of other pedestrians nearby.

The streets and alleys of the No. 13 community are full of fireworks. It’s not that someone is setting off fireworks, but that every household is burning paper money and rice ears for Buddhist chanting with their doors half closed. With a table of meals, there must be two incense candles on the side facing the door, an incense burner in the middle, and pagoda-shaped rice cakes or steamed buns on both sides.

From time to time, an adult leads a child to put their hands together in front of the joss stick, and bows to pray. After a while, those children will change into a judge or a kid in the back room, with a runny nose, swagger to the door, and shake their hands. I don't know where to break the twigs in the house, and "check the water meter" in groups of three or four.

But for Zhu Jue at this moment.

All the fun is someone else's.

The Epidemic Prevention Institute arranged for him and the doctors sent from his clinic to community No. 35 for medical assistance, and they will leave to report this morning.

Now he and Suzi are waiting for the arrival of the downtown rail car.

"Ah, what a brat, you actually put a candy wrapper in my pocket."

Just as he was sending away a "ghost", he turned around and took out a handful of candy wrappers from his pocket. Zhu Jue turned the handle of the umbrella, glanced at Suzi who was taking candies out of his pocket with ease, and complained helplessly,

"Isn't it just that you don't bring sugar? I didn't know there was such a rule."

"Although the Ghost Festival in other cities is not as important as Thousand Sails City, there should be some activities. Haven't you experienced it?"

Suzi asked in surprise.

"The place I used to live in was the old city of Yecheng. The people there couldn't even make a living, so why would they want to go to the festival?"

Feeling guilty, he took a candy from Suzi's pocket, tore off the package, stuffed it into his mouth whole, and found an excuse to prevaricate it, then looked at his watch pretendingly and said,

"Let's go in quickly, the train is about to leave."

The urban structure of Qianfan City is destined to have natural limitations on ground transportation. It is very troublesome for ordinary vehicles to go to and from various communities. Communities that are relatively close can walk on footbridges, and this kind of huge distance up and down is naturally impossible to use. In the same way, at this time, the rail car that runs through the whole city and has a three-dimensional line becomes the first choice besides the self-driving airship.

This time, they were going to a low-level community like Community No. 35. The docking of the empty boat was very problematic, so the two gave up the self-driving airboat after discussing it.

Walking into the waiting hall, through the window on the other side, Zhu Jue looked at the scene outside.

"How do you think this Halloween compares with the Spring Festival in Rongxia City?"

In Zhu Jue's impression, only the spring festival in Rongxia City was the only festival with such a grand scale.

"Festivals represent traditional culture. This approach of relying on modern technology to attract people's attention is simply impossible to compare with the Spring Festival. The gap is too big, and there is really nothing to comment on."

As a native of Rongxia City, Suzi obviously admires the festivals in his hometown more. I don’t know if there is any favoritism among them. Zhu Jue compares the two in his mind, and finally has to admit that the Spring Festival in Rongxia City has more charm.

Not to mention anything else, but in terms of cultural performance alone, Qianfan City's Ten Thousand Ghosts Festival really had to be thrown a few blocks away by Rongxia City's Spring Festival.

"boss!"

While the two were talking, a familiar voice sounded from behind. Turning around, Lin, who was carrying a purple backpack, was walking towards this side.

Zhu Jue, who was about to ask about the progress of the translation of the "Manuscript of Nacket", could only stop talking and redirect the content of the conversation to Halloween.

"We don't know how long we need to stay in Community No. 35 this trip. Will we miss the whole Halloween?"

According to the statement given by the epidemic prevention, the time for this operation will not exceed a week.

“Will definitely miss it!”

Lin looked at the timetable of the train next to her, her face was a little ugly for some reason,

"Halloween's Festival is actually prepared for communities above No. 25, like that pirate ship. If you want to see it, you have to look twice now, and wait until Community No. 35. In short, be prepared to be disappointed."

(End of this chapter)