The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

406: Blood Moon

The group found the city two days ago.
They had to enter the city to get to the next level, so they entered it even though they felt the city was ominous.

It didn’t look like a city that had disappeared ten thousand years ago.
There wasn’t a speck of dust and all the buildings look well preserved.

Something strange happened after they split up to search the city – one by one, people disappeared.
There were no traces of a struggle and no clues as to where they’d gone.
It was incredibly strange and the group didn’t dare split up after that.

They stayed together, but that niggling feeling of being watched persisted.
None of them could figure out why despite all being masters.
At this point, it seemed like a good idea to exit the city.

The feeling disappeared as soon as they stepped out beyond the gates.
They didn’t get to enjoy their relief for long before something else strange happened.

Red light appeared in the space outside where all the bones were piled up.
It seemed to animate the bones and filled them with murderous aura.
The once jumbled pile of bones moved and formed into individual skeletons.
It was as if they could actually hear the roaring of the battle horn sounding across the battlefield.

The skeletons stood with swords in their hands and red lights burning in their eye sockets, and soon enough, they rushed toward the group standing outside the city.

The men were understandably frightened and panicked.
There were so many skeletons! They would be overwhelmed in no time! They had no choice but to rush back into the city.

The moment they stepped inside, that feeling of being watched came right back and they started losing track of people again.
A guy could be next to you one second, then you turn your head away, and poof! He would be gone the next.
How did people keep disappearing?

They couldn’t remain in the city – they had to leave.
Fortunately, without the red light, the bones outside were just ordinary bones.

It had only been two days, but their original group of twelve had shrunk to six.
They were at their wits end and about to collapse.

“Red light? Did you see where the red light came from?” Ming Xi had a suspicion the red light wasn’t just any ordinary red light, but he wasn’t sure what it was.
He could only try to find out by asking questions.

The man shook his head.
He hadn’t seen much and didn’t know the source of the light.

“I remember seeing a blood moon above the bones right when the light appeared.” The young man spoke up hesitantly.

“Blood moon?!” Ming Xi and everyone else looked at the young man in disbelief.

There were records of a blood moon.
It wasn’t a real moon, but rather a moon-like object formed by taking a tiny trace of the moon’s essence and mixing in a lot of evil qi.

It only formed in places with a tremendous amount of negative qi.
So if there was a blood moon, then that place was a forsaken place.
Ten out ten, odds were you wouldn’t come out alive from a place like that.

Monsters bred well and strong under a blood moon.
This was why everyone was surprised.

“Blood moon! It was definitely a blood moon you say?!” The middle-aged man shouted as he grabbed the young man by the collar and shook him angrily.

The young man only dared to nod his head.

“Why didn’t you say so earlier?!”

“I didn’t want to alarm everyone even more!” The young man complained, feeling a bit aggrieved by the response.
He had only wanted to keep everyone calm and not make them even more fearful than they already were.

The older man let the younger one go.
He was right.
If anyone else had known about the blood moon, the few still alive would have probably lost the will to keep fighting.

Suddenly someone shouted, “Not good! Red light!”

The response was immediate.
The guy who shouted, opened the gate and rushed inside.
Ming Xi and his group looked back and they saw the mysterious light the middle-aged man had been talking about.

Ming Xi also saw that what the young man said was true.
There was a red moon in the sky which was releasing evil qi into the bones on the ground.

This was why Feng Wu hadn’t seen any evil qi.
It had all been absorbed by the blood moon.

“Go!” Ming Xi herded everyone inside.

The bones disappeared from sight after they closed the city gates.

They breathed a sigh of relief while they pressed their backs against the gate.
They felt lucky to escape so no one noticed the change in Feng Wu’s expression.

For everyone else, it was a deserted city filled with buildings, but for Feng Wu it wasn’t empty at all.
There was a sea of people in front of her.
So many souls were staring at them coldly, and every one of them was identical!

Yes, every one of them had the same face.
It wasn’t possible, and yet there they were.
It was happening right in front of her, so Feng Wu could not not believe it.

“Who are you?” Feng Wu asked them quietly.

Why were there so many identical people staring at them? She was puzzled so she asked the question of the first person in front of her.