Chapter Thirty-Six: The Dark Figure Summoned by the Bell's Toll

  Just as Losie was hesitating whether to go down or not, a distant and melodious bell suddenly rang out. The bell sounded very strange in the night, it rang continuously for three times, then stopped, and the small town returned to silence, but Losie didn't know what information this sudden bell ring conveyed.

  She looked at Chen Xing in confusion, only to find that he had also furrowed his brow. The city was quiet, but Luo Siqi suddenly let out a low cry. She saw a black shadow appear not far behind Chen Xing!

  Chen Xing almost simultaneously felt it, he lightly turned an arc, leaving his original position, and pounced on the figure from another direction.

  Chen Xing's attack on the black shadow was smooth, his silver cloak tracing a path under the moonlight like a small silver eagle, swift and agile. Luosi saw him strike the black shadow's chest with one palm, borrowing force to jump back, lightly floating like an autumn leaf without wind.

  The figure advancing in the dark suddenly stopped, it crashed down without making any scream, like a wooden puppet, no matter what blow, there was only the sound of falling to the ground.

  Luo Siqi and Chen Xing didn't have time to confirm who the black shadow was or why it suddenly appeared here. It wasn't that they weren't curious, but rather they simply didn't have the time for confirmation.

  Soon a second black shadow appeared, a third, a fourth, and then dozens.

  The dark shadows slowly approached, and under the moonlight, they gradually revealed their true appearance. They were just ordinary people, but why use "they" instead of "them"? It was because their faces were cold and expressionless, devoid of any vitality, like the zombies Lusheqi had seen in horror movies before. However, unlike those zombies that jumped around, these people simply walked towards them with blank expressions. Lusheqi and Chenxing began to be surrounded by these guys, and at the center of the encirclement was the well into which the innkeeper had just jumped.

  Luosiqi didn't bring out the Bixue Sword in her haste, and Chenxing never carried a weapon, only using his bare hands. At this moment, facing these ghost-like creatures approaching them, Luosiqi was at a loss for what to do.

  Fortunately, these guys didn't rush up immediately, and now there's no time to think about why they appeared here. Rosyth looked at Chen Xing with her right hand nail on her left arm lightly scratched, and a wound was drawn on his good-looking arm, some blood seeped out and stuck to her right hand fingers, she whispered some unknown spells, the blood on her fingers began to shine, swung her hand, a bright silver line blocked in front of the two, after a few swings, several silver lines connected together, formed an irregular polygon around the two, the guy walking in the front stopped moving as soon as he approached the silver line, his gloomy eyes no longer looked at Rosyth and Chen Xing, but lowered his head to look at the silver line, and didn't step forward.

  The guy behind still walked towards Rosy and Morning Star, but similarly, after reaching the silver line, he didn't move forward anymore. Gradually, along the line drawn by Morning Star, they formed a similar pattern. Rosy didn't know what magic Morning Star used, but it seemed to be working, and she also used her own blood. This was somewhat like when Rosy froze Wu Xie, yet not completely the same, because Rosy's was heart-driven, while Morning Star, although speaking softly, clearly recited some incantations.

  The two sides persisted for a while, when suddenly a flute sound came from not far away. The flute sound was sorrowful and complaining, and Luosiqi saw those gloomy-faced men start to retreat, gradually disappearing into the shadows one by one. And Chenxing suddenly took off, his figure swiftly rushing towards the source of the flute sound! Luosiqi naturally didn't dare stay here, but this time, because Chenxing was running too fast, she couldn't catch up with him no matter what!

  Rothschi couldn't catch up with Chen Xing, and she had just stepped out of the circle that Chen Xing had drawn. She was about to take a breath when she saw another black shadow that looked almost identical to the one she had seen before. Rothschi felt uneasy without her sword, so after losing sight of Chen Xing, she decided to run towards the inn. The inn not only had her Pi Xue Sword but also two powerful Moon Maidens; no matter what, it was better than wandering alone and defenseless on the streets.

  Fortunately, the speed of the dark shadows was far from that of Rosalie's full-force sprint, but there were too many of them, blocking many of the routes that Rosalie had taken. By the time she finally ran back to the inn, which now seemed especially gloomy, she felt like a disaster star, bringing back a whole reinforced company of monsters for the people inside!

  In fact, those so-called monsters looked very ordinary from the outside. She didn't think that this inn would be normal until the owner of the inn suddenly knocked on her door in the middle of the night, leading herself and Chen Xing to the edge of a bottomless well, where they heard strange bell sounds and saw many terrifying-looking residents.

  She went back to her room in the inn and found the Pi Xue sword, with it in hand she felt much more at ease. Actually, she had hardly ever used the Pi Xue sword before, first there was Tang Xiao Yu, then there was Chen Xing, every time even if they encountered many surprising things, ultimately there were no dangers.

  She grasped her sword and went out the door, thinking to herself: "I'm not someone to be trifled with either. If you really want to chase after me, I'll chop each and every one of you down with my sword!"

  But those strange people did not come in, the door of the inn was as effective as the few silver lines painted by the morning star, and they came to the door of the inn and turned away, without any intention of entering.

  This made Luosi feel a lot more at ease, but as she let out a gentle breath and the crisis that had just been triggered also dissipated with it. She thought she should call Mengxi out to find Chenxing, but now that there was danger lurking outside, she didn't want to go out again after barely escaping back to the inn safely. She thought: "Chenxing is so capable, even if he can't catch the owner of the flute sound, he should be able to come back on his own, the city is not too big or too small, it's best to just wait quietly in the inn."

  She didn't even call out to Tsukino, and instead went back to her own room, locked the door, and lay down. Rosalie thought she'd calm herself down with a good night's sleep until dawn, but she couldn't shake off the feeling of unease, tossing and turning without being able to fall asleep. She hadn't heard any noise from Chise coming back, and it was strange that those people outside the inn were doing whatever they were doing, and where did the sound of the bell and the sudden flute melody come from?

  She was still afraid that she would persist until dawn, but Chen Xing had not returned yet. She really didn't dare to think about what she would do at that time.