I didn't become a human today

Ji Ran woke up at dawn, and when he woke up, he had already turned back into a human form.

He looked around in a little confusion, why are he in the room?He clearly remembered that they all fainted on the street last night, why did they all lie in the house when they woke up this morning?

And it was the room they booked in the inn last night.

On the side, Liang Xingye and Lu Zhihe also woke up one after another. What was amazing was that they didn't remember what happened to them last night.

Lu Zhihe glanced at Ji Ran innocently, "Who are you? I don't think I've seen you before."

Ji Ran ignored him, this kind of thing is more troublesome to explain.

Except for Ji Ran, none of them knew anything about what happened last night.

"So what happened to us last night?" Lu Zhihe knocked on his head, but still couldn't think of anything. Regarding the memory of last night, there was only a blank in his mind.

"Think about it again?" Ji Ran sat on the edge of the bed and made two gestures, "We wanted to follow up last night to see where everyone went, but we lost track. A person appeared in the mist, and he said We shouldn't be here, and you'll all fall to the ground after saying that, and I'll be the last one to fall."

Ji Ran licked his dry lips. As for why he was the only one among the three who retained the memory of last night, Ji Ran felt that maybe he was a pheasant last night. After all, he was different from a human being. road.

Liang Xingye pushed open the door with a puzzled look on his face, "What time is it now? Why is it so quiet outside?"

"The sun is already overhead, at least it's noon." Lu Zhihe walked outside the inn, "Why is there no one on the street? Where did everyone go?"

Ji Ran followed him to the street, and looked in from house to house, but there was no one in the house, and the city gate was still closed.

Overnight, everyone disappeared.

Ji Ran remembers the way people came and went on the streets here in Shanghai yesterday. The street vendors, merchants, and countless gold diggers used to fill the streets, but now, they all seem to have evaporated. The streets There was dead silence.

"I think it might be the reason why everyone was possessed by the soul last night. After the soul possessed, they manipulated those people to go to a place together, a place we don't know."

At this moment, an old man coughed from behind the dilapidated vendor.

"Old man? So you're here too!" Ji Ran finally discovered that besides them, there were other people in this city, and that person was the old beggar from before.

"Old man, tell us the truth, do you know what happened yesterday?"

The old beggar took a comfortable position to bask in the sun, "When I told everyone to leave yesterday on the street, I already knew everyone's fate, but after a night, I found that if those people really listened to me If I escape from Mirage City, then I have made a big mistake."

"Can you tell me more about it?" Lu Zhihe was getting more and more confused now.

The old beggar looked at the three of them, "Do you know why we survived? Because there are enough people, and the four of us are extra."

"Are we extra people? I don't understand, where did the other people go?" Ji Ran continued to ask.

The old beggar sighed, "They are all dead."

"Did you see it with your own eyes?" Liang Xingye asked.

The old beggar shook his head, "No, the person in the Yellow Sand Palace told me that I stumbled into the Yellow Sand Palace by mistake last night, and that person told me everything. During a huge sandstorm In the middle, the ghost gate in the middle of the desert is exposed, and a group of gold diggers accidentally opened the ghost gate, once the gate is opened, countless lives will be used to fill it."

What the old beggar said next gradually connected all the previous clues together.

Many years ago, a big sandstorm exposed the gate of hell that had been buried under the yellow sand for a long time. A group of people who went to the desert to pan for gold thought that there would be endless treasures in that gate. Driven by curiosity, they opened it. door.At that time, their water source was exhausted, and everyone was dying of thirst. One of the gold diggers knelt in front of the door and prayed, hoping that God would give them an inexhaustible source of water. After the door was opened, the man's The wish came true in this way, and a steady stream of water flowed out from the ghost gate.

But there is always a price to pay for making a wish.Once the gate of hell is opened, it can only be filled with human life.

At that time, people in the desert did not know that this spring was the gate of hell. They thought they had discovered an inexhaustible source of water, so they built cities one after another beside the source of water. People, in the end, have to use their own lives to fill the gate of hell, it's just a matter of who comes first.

Those cities that rely on water sources to continue to prosper are also dying because of water sources.

This is a long filling process that took several generations of human life.

"And just last night, the last group of people used their lives to fill the gate of hell, and the gate of hell was completely closed. As for why we are safe and sound, there are two reasons." The old beggar still has lingering fears when he thinks of these things, "The first reason is that we Drinking very little water."

Ji Ran nodded immediately, "Yes, we just came here yesterday, so naturally we only drank very little water."

"The second reason is what I said before, there are enough people to fill the gate of hell, so the four of us survived."

Now everything is over, the gate of hell is closed, there is no more inexhaustible water, and the last city in the middle of the desert is doomed to perish.

"Wait!" Just as the old beggar turned to leave, Lu Zhihe grabbed him, "You said...you entered the Yellow Sand Palace? The Yellow Sand Palace really exists? Then what price did you pay? What did you get? what?"

The old beggar smiled, "I can only tell you that the Yellow Sand Palace is real, and what I got after paying the price is the truth I want to know. You are lucky, you know it without paying anything The whole story of the ghost gate. But from now on, worry about yourselves for you, the water source in Mirage city is dry, many people died, and the rest left, and they will never come back. Look Come around, these mirages overlap with all the buildings, this place is as complicated as a maze, if you can't get out of this city, you will still die."

As the old beggar spoke, he left on crutches.

Lu Zhihe asked him from behind, "What about you? Do you know the way out? Do you know how to get out?"

The old beggar didn't look back, but the voice came from afar.

"People who have no tomorrow, what can they do when they go out..."