Ma Lin hadn't had dinner yet, so he and the others had a very full meal with Zhou XingXing.
Half an hour later.
Zhou XingXing said, "Let's all go out now to have a look, so we can understand what this place is."
So, everyone stepped out of the house.
The moon was three-quarters full and had risen to its highest point.
The sky was very narrow, just like the neck of a bottle.
The moonlight poured in, and it felt as though they were inside a bottle.
Ma Lin was very surprised by this phenomenon and asked, "Master Xing, what's going on?"
Zhou XingXing replied, "This is the kind of place we're in. About twenty li outside the city is all fog. If you walk too far into the fog, you will die, turn into skeletons. Sometimes the skeletons will return and attack the city's residents. There are a few days each year when an army of skeletons mounts an assault on the city, seeming to be the creatures that died in this place, including demons and wild beasts."
