Who said I practiced the exercises incorrectly?

Chapter 206 How can we win?
"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

……

Amidst the violent roar, the rocks collapsed and large tracts of grass and trees mixed with the ground and soil rolled down.

The rugged ground continued to crack, revealing deep fissures that were some wide and some narrow. The remaining corpses of several evil creatures nearby fell into them one after another, and not even an echo could be heard.

Fortunately, the weakest warrior on the scene is a senior and domineering one like Ning Yan.

Faced with the sudden and horrific disaster, everyone was surprised, but they quickly stabilized their bodies and nimbly avoided the cracks on the ground.

After a while, the huge commotion around him stopped.

Although everything seemed to have returned to normal, everyone immediately realized that something was wrong.

Even ordinary people can quickly spot the problem.

Because the environment around them has undergone unprecedented huge changes.

Before this, the scene where they fought with the many evil creatures was clearly a lush and quiet valley.

But now, looking around, there are neatly arranged houses and smooth and clean streets.

You can even see steaming steamers from the nearby bun shop.

Suddenly, everyone almost thought they had returned to the city.

"This seems to be Cangming City."

The Fifth Sword looked at a luxurious restaurant not far away, and a strange look appeared on his face:

"That is the Qinghua Restaurant in Cangming City. The Qinghua wine sold there is very famous. When Uncle Thirteen saw that the Qinghua Restaurant was destroyed, he was very sorry."

At this point, the Fifth Sword looked doubtful:

“But when we entered the city, the Blue and White Restaurant was only a ruin. There were at least dozens of corpses piled up inside, and blood mixed with wine was flowing everywhere. It left a very deep impression on me.

But looking at this scene, the Blue and White Restaurant is not damaged at all, which makes me feel that what I have seen before is fake. "

“This does look like Cangming City, but with what happened just now, it is impossible to move all of us to Cangming City at once without being discovered.

And the most important thing is that the environment here is completely different from the Cangming City after the disaster. It is more like the Cangming City before the disaster. If it involves time travel, such a heaven-defying act, it is absolutely impossible to happen. "

Li Qingzhi said in a decisive voice.

"Besides, there's no one here right now. There's obviously a problem. Besides..."

A white-bearded swordsman said this as he casually used his sword to pry open the steaming steamer in the bun shop next to him.

After a layer of steamers as big as a washbasin was lifted up, the white skin of the buns soaked in oil was revealed underneath.

He stabbed a sword into one of the buns and shook his hand. The steaming hot bun shattered on the spot, and the meat stuffing mixed with juice splashed everywhere.

Soon, the fillings turned into a pitch-black mass with a strong stench, as if it was made of rotten meat. One could even vaguely see broken fingernails inside the meat.

"What's going on?"

When the Fifth Sword saw this, he was immediately shocked.

Li Qingzhi frowned suddenly:
"I have an ominous feeling."

As soon as the words fell, there were bursts of intense noises not far away, as if thousands of troops were charging.

The next second, a large crowd of people suddenly appeared at the end of the road.

What kind of crowd is that?

None of them looked like human beings. Some had their heads chopped off and hung on their necks, some had holes in their chests torn by birds of prey, and some were charging forward with their bloody intestines dragging.

There were even old men with gray hair and beards with half of their bodies remaining, women with their legs crushed and crawling on the ground, and even children whose brains had been eaten.

Among the crowd there were not only warriors, but also a large number of ordinary people, all of whom appeared here in their post-death appearances.

At this point, a question that has troubled many people has been explained.

The dead people in Cangming City were not really missing, but were gathered here and are now all being used against them!
"These damned beasts!"

Li Qingzhi's eyes turned cold, and he immediately rushed towards the oncoming tide of zombies with his sword.

Several other powerful swordsmen followed suit.

On the contrary, Ning Yan, who was standing aside at the moment, was immersed in unprecedented excitement.

In his perception, endless crises were spreading from all directions.

Whether it was the ground beneath his feet, the nearby houses, the approaching tide of corpses, or the seemingly gloomy sky, all of them conveyed a strong sense of crisis to him.

Ning Yan knew clearly that this sense of crisis was not an illusion at all, but was real. It was because he had just controlled the evil spirit that his perception became too sharp, so he could feel this omnipresent sense of crisis.

But how can there be crises everywhere?
The surging tide of zombies looked dangerous, but how could the ground of this street and even the grey brick walls make him feel dangerous?
As time went by, the crisis he sensed quickly faded away, but Ning Yan knew that this was not because the hidden crisis had disappeared, but because his perception was gradually returning to normal. After all, he was not controlling the evil spirit now, and he only had a little residual sensitivity to perceive the problem.

In other words, the hidden crisis has not actually disappeared.

Ning Yan frowned slightly.

He ignored the endless tide of zombies in front of him, and instead walked to a stall nearby and chopped the wooden stall into pieces with a single blow of his knife.

The stall broke into pieces, but black mucus flowed out from the cuts, like blood.

He keenly noticed that this so-called blood was actually very similar to some evil things he had encountered before.

Could it be that this stall is alive?
From this we can further infer that the ground, walls, and even the ubiquitous sky are actually alive?
Ning Yan suddenly had a very ominous premonition. At this moment, the fifth sword's voice of doubt suddenly came from the front:

"Something is wrong. Why can't we kill all these monsters?!"

"It's not that we can't kill them all, but after we kill them they will quickly regenerate!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Qingzhi casually chopped off a group of corpses of warriors who were rushing towards him.

He watched the group of corpses quickly rot and disappear, and then the same corpses appeared again at the end of the road, as if what he had just killed were air.

"No! There's no way to recover your energy here. Everyone, be careful and don't waste it at will!"

Hearing the voice coming from the swordsman, everyone's expression changed.

But when they tried to recover their vitality, they immediately found that the vitality that was everywhere seemed to have been completely drained away, and not a trace of it existed.

"What the hell is this place?! How is it possible that vitality doesn't exist?!"

Suddenly a swordsman couldn't help but curse out loud.

Then came a reply:
"It's a ghost city."

Ning Yan said:

"We are all trapped in the haunted city."

"It is indeed a haunted city."

Li Qingzhi said with an unpleasant expression: "Only a place like this that is self-contained can completely isolate the existence of Yuan Qi."

The Fifth Sword was full of doubts:
“But even if the Ghost City is extremely evil, how can it isolate the vitality that is everywhere in the world?”

"The answer is simple. Guicheng is a whole."

Li Qingzhi casually cut off the head of a violent evil creature and then said:

"According to the documents of the clan, everything in Ghost City, whether it's corpses, victims, buildings, city walls, etc., are all part of Ghost City.

You can think of the ghost city as an independent living organism, and we are now inside the body of this organism, fighting with its organs that digest food.

That’s why we can’t absorb the vital energy, and that’s why these corpses keep dying and coming back to life. As long as the Ghost City is not broken, these corpses will be almost endless.”

When the Fifth Sword heard this, he couldn't help but take a breath:
"Doesn't his type of resuscitation require any energy consumption and have no upper limit?"

"There is definitely an upper limit, but we will never be able to hold on until it reaches that limit."

Li Qingzhi said in a deep voice:
“Don’t forget that at least tens of thousands of people died in Cangming City, and most of them were swallowed up by this strange city and were controlled by it.

Moreover, when we were hunting down some evil creatures before, evil creatures and dead warriors kept disappearing. It was very likely that those evil creatures and dead warriors were also swallowed by it.

This means that the enemies we have to face are far more powerful than we imagined, even though they are just ordinary people or some weak warriors in Cangming City.

In fact, they all exist to consume our strength.

When we have used up most of our energy and the hidden trump card is used, we will have no chance of recovery."

"So, there is no way to break out?"

Ning Yan couldn't help but ask.

Li Qingzhi fought and retreated, and replied:
"As for methods, it's not that there aren't any. There are even several."

"The first is to force your way in. Use your tyrannical strength to break out of the encirclement of corpses and the restrictions of the city until you break out."

"The second is teleportation. Some special spiritual tools and secret treasures can connect the Ghost City with the human world, forming a special passage that allows you to get out."

"The third is hiding. As long as you cover your tracks perfectly and hide in the Ghost City, you can avoid all kinds of pursuit. When the Ghost City reappears in the world next time, you can take this opportunity to find a way to escape."

"According to this statement, we no longer exist in the human world?"

The fifth sword kicked a child over and asked in confusion.

"You can say that."

Li Qingzhi immediately replied:
“This is not the first time that the Ghost City has appeared in the world. Although there have been many different opinions about its origin and formation, after long-term research, a lot of information has been accumulated.

We all know that haunted cities often appear suddenly in the wilderness, inducing unsuspecting travelers to mistakenly enter them and become a part of them.

Most of the time, ghost cities do not appear in the human world. At this time, they are often hidden in another space parallel to reality.

Due to the huge number of these parallel spaces, it is difficult for us to tell where they are hidden from the outside world, but there are often anchor points of connection between the ghost city and the human world.

It is this anchor point that allows them to continue to appear in the human world, but currently we are still unclear about the formation principle of the anchor point and how to break it.

Many people speculate that the anchor point of Guicheng is related to its predecessor.

It is rumored that after a huge disaster or a complete destruction of many cities, there is a certain chance that ghost cities will form.

The strange city we are in now is most likely derived from the Cangming City, and is a newly formed strange city.

The reason why we were suddenly trapped in the ghost city was most likely related to the Demon-Suppressing Banner that was destroyed before.

The destruction of the Demon-Suppressing Banner was a signal for the Ghost City to appear and trap all of us unexpectedly.

This is the real killer weapon of the mastermind behind the scenes!"

Li Qingzhi led everyone to retreat as he spoke, having decided not to fight those monsters anymore.

Anyway, no matter how you fight, it's just a waste of energy.

But they had a good plan. But how could they avoid the ubiquitous surveillance in someone's stomach?

The group had just shaken off the pursuers behind them and turned into a new street when they saw a large number of zombies suddenly appear in front of them.

Numerous zombies rolled in like a tide, rushing towards them madly, trying to drown them.

Seeing this, everyone's face suddenly changed.

"Go left!"

Ning Yan shouted loudly.

On the left, I saw an extremely narrow alley, which was probably only wide enough for two people to walk side by side. In this way, even if they retreated into the alley and were still followed by the tide of zombies, everyone could take turns guarding the front and back, which was enough to hold out for a long time.

Everyone quickly retreated into it.

Sure enough, the zombies that followed immediately huddled together at the entrance of the alley.

Because of the overcrowding, many zombies even squeezed themselves to death.

Some zombies struggled to squeeze forward, but ended up squeezing each other too hard and temporarily got stuck in the alley.

Seeing this, the Fifth Sword couldn't help but laugh:

"A bunch of idiots! Come and chase your master!"

As he said this, he patted his not-so-perfect butt with his hand.

The crisp sound of "pa pa" had just fallen.

The next second, the narrow alley seemed to come alive. The walls on both sides suddenly expanded outward by seventy or eighty feet, and the road in the middle became extremely spacious in an instant.

The Fifth Sword was completely stunned:

"What the hell! Is this even possible?!"

Immediately afterwards, a large number of zombies came like a tide, rolling and tumbling, quickly rushing towards this side.

The Fifth Swordsman fled forward in a panic, following the main force.

However, the team's progress was gradually slowing down.

I saw that the entrance of the alley in front, which was originally extremely unobstructed, suddenly appeared with a thick gray-white stone wall, which blocked the entire exit tightly without leaving any gaps.

At the same time, the walls on both sides of the alley seemed to have undergone a secondary development, growing rapidly upwards. In an instant, they became sixty or seventy feet high, and the upper wall edges even seemed to be about to close.

If you want to lock them in completely.

At this moment, Ning Yan finally understood where the omnipresent sense of crisis came from.

There was nothing wrong with his perception.

This city, including every blade of grass and every tree in it, is their enemy.

How the hell do I win?!

(End of this chapter)