The Only Player in ‘Child of Stardust’
Chapter 255 - 173 Ghost Market

Chapter 255: Chapter 173 Ghost Market

The intelligence indicated that the abnormal situation occurred five minutes ago.

At first, a sudden white fog appeared without any warning on a secluded street. Because the street was in a remote location, not many people noticed the problem. By the time this abnormal situation was detected and reported, the fog had already rapidly expanded to cover three or four blocks and was still crazily spreading outward.

Zhou Yuan looked outside the window, where a gray-white barrier seemed to stand like a thick wall, isolating the bar from the world.

Even with his hearing, he couldn’t catch any sounds from outside, only dead silence. This eerie fog seemed to have the effect of blocking the transmission of sound.

Bang!

At that moment, the door of the bar let out a dull thud, struck by immense force.

The patrons screamed in terror and quickly distanced themselves from the door.

Bang!

Another loud bang echoed, immediately followed by countless shadowy figures appearing in the gray-white fog outside. They crowded around the glass, as if trying to peer into the bar.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The banging on the door grew more intense, and numerous pairs of pitch-black hands stretched out from the fog, starting to pound on the windows violently.

The dense sound of pounding was like waves, conveying an indescribable hunger. The doors and windows trembled, on the brink of shattering at any moment.

Zhou Yuan focused his thoughts, and a wall of shadowy matter rose up, blocking the windows and cutting off the ferocious gazes from outside.

The Shadow Mud continued to spread on the floor, climbing the walls and ceiling until it enveloped the entire interior of the bar, isolating the breath of the living.

The hastening pounding abruptly ceased, and the exterior of the bar fell into dead silence, devoid of any sound.

[This area has opened a temporary passage connecting to an alternate dimension. The passage will close on its own in half an hour. During this time, the two worlds will briefly intersect. Unfortunately, the point of intersection in the other world is a vast ghost market.]

Zhou Yuan frowned as he looked at the prompt.

Dimensional intersection.

This abnormal phenomenon was extremely rare. In the past century, less than twenty instances had been recorded in the Control Bureau’s archives, more than half of which occurred in the alternate dimensions rather than the real world.

The most recent dimensional intersection occurred three years ago when a group of elves migrated to the real world using the intersection.

These elves were different from those in the real world; they were all female and came from a world that countered stereotypes.

In the common perception of the public, elves were holy, kind, artistic, noble, elegant, intelligent, beautiful, and had a degree of cleanliness, almost merging with nature.

However, the nature of these elves was the opposite. They were more lascivious than succubi, each one an insatiable nymphomaniac, which made them extremely unpopular in their original world.

Goblins would exclaim, "We are going to be humiliated."

Beastmen, when captured, could only despairingly say, "Ugh, kill me."

But after arriving in the real world, these unwanted nymphomaniac elves thrived, leaving succubi astonished and worried about their businesses being taken over.

As a result, normal elves innocently took the blame and had to publicly distance themselves from the nymphomaniac elves in a just manner.

This time, the dimensional intersection brought a ghost market filled with ghostly entities to the real world. The shadowy figures outside the door just now were clearly fierce ghosts drawn by the scent of living beings.

Zhou Yuan summoned a magic shadow to scout the situation outside. The magic shadow slipped under the door and emerged outside the bar.

To his surprise, the white fog had completely disappeared, and the numerous shadowy figures that had blocked the bar were gone. In their place was an ancient market filled with a sense of antiquity.

Modern asphalt roads turned into dirt paths, and the shops lining the streets were no longer concrete buildings but quaint structures with the ancient architecture of the East Continent. Looking into the distance, a variety of shops, from silk stores to antique shops, from inns to teahouses, were all there.

The street was bustling with life, throngs of people, and the incessant cries of vendors created a lively atmosphere.

Yet, amidst the bustle, there was an eerie coldness because both the pedestrians and vendors were lifeless, cold corpses!

A ghost market was naturally filled with fierce ghosts.

Humans venturing in here were nothing more than roasted chicken legs delivered to their doorstep!

But where were the people?

Zhou Yuan manipulated the magic shadow to look around, but he couldn’t find any ordinary people. The area outside the bar was supposed to be a bustling district with lots of people, yet there wasn’t a single person to be found now.

Could they all have been killed?

Inside the bar, Chen Guangxi elbowed Zhou Yuan and read out the message she received on her phone, "A few high-level extraordinary persons were eating barbecue nearby when the abnormal event occurred, so they immediately transferred most of the people, but a small number didn’t have time to be relocated.

It’s obvious that we are among that small number."

"I see," Zhou Yuan nodded. No wonder the street was empty. It turned out everyone had been transferred.

As an international metropolis, it wasn’t unusual for high-level extraordinary persons to be active in Xinyue.

"Everyone, don’t worry. Just stay here for a while, and we will be rescued. This abnormal event is only temporary and will end in about half an hour."

Zhou Yuan reassured the patrons. Thanks to his extraordinary charm, his words acted like a tranquilizer, quickly calming the panicked crowd.