Chapter 12: Blood drops in the middle of the night
There were twelve people in the entire team when they entered the mountain, but now there are only nine left.
Brother Sun meant to wait for people while resting and bandaging. Everyone did this. Unfortunately, more than half an hour passed and the rain stopped falling, and Thorn Head and Shijiu still did not come back.
"...This mountain is much more evil than I imagined. Boss, should we go back first and make more preparations before coming?" Yin Zi gave up a little, and Finley glared at him, the impatience in his eyes was almost overflowing.
Finley sarcastically said: "How else can I prepare? Why don't you drive a tank to level the mountain, it's safest!"
This is a daily quarrel in the team. People hesitate whenever they go to the tomb, but in the end they followed them.
"What kind of species of this vine? Has anyone seen it before?" Brother Sun asked.
"I don't know, I've encountered vines with suction cups that can suck blood in the tomb of King Kong Zhong before, but it's different from this." Scar pointed to the hideous and restless vine in the hole, "This thing is like a snake. Look, it will still stand like this."
Yu Xing looked along his fingers. Indeed, the attack method of imitating snakes made the vine look even more weird. Suddenly, he remembered the milky white bone-like object brought out in his pocket.
He observed carefully during the discussions of the crowd for a while, and finally found with interest that this thing was really a bone!
Have you seen the vines with bones? I saw them today.
Yu Xing held a bone thinner than his little finger, recalling the broken mouth he caught when he cut off the vine. After the bone fell out, it seemed like a cavity inside.
He threw the bones to Scar and signaled him to circulate them: "The vines are like independent cavity inside, with plant meat under the skin, and bones under the flesh. There are some nerves in the flesh that are connected to the bones. When they move, it is this quick bone that is supporting them."
"Grass, this vine is really going to become a spirit, there are bones." Luke couldn't help but say, "Why do they have bones?"
Because it was Yu Xing who discovered this, Luke habitually asked Yu Xing.
Yu Xing raised his eyebrows and smiled: "How could I know? Maybe... there are too many corpses buried at their roots, and after being absorbed, they will not dissipate their resentment, and they will grow again through the vine's body?"
"You are telling ghost stories here!" Luke felt terrified in thinking about it carefully. He regretted asking Yu Xing this question, and hugged his arms and shut up.
Tsk, tomb robbers are still afraid of ghost stories.
Yu Xing was also curious about the causes of vines, but he was not a biologist. There are even ghosts in this world. Is there anything wrong with plants having a little personality?
After half an hour, all the vines blocking the entrance of the cave had faded away. They turned back to their emerald green colors, clinging to the wall obediently, and even rolled the vines that were cut off by everyone and brought them up.
This also proves Yu Xing's idea. He feels that these vines should be sensitive to heat sources or are active in an environment with rising temperatures. Once the hole cools down, it is not impossible to go in and clean the battlefield.
He felt that if he had a broom now, he could clean the cave.
"Okay, Shijiu and Thorns probably left first, we won't wait." Brother Sun looked at the time and finally announced the next action in a more tactful way. "Continue to move forward, pay attention to this cave on the way, and don't forget the poisonous insects. We'd better climb over this mountain before dark."
Everyone responded and got up from the ground, and their boots stepped on the fallen leaves covering the ground, making a crisp sound.
Luke was not very emotional, and Aaron, who had the best relationship with him, silently accompanied him, while Scar replaced Shijiu's position and walked to Yu Xing's side.
His dagger was always in his hand, because he was engraving the marks along the way.
Yu Xing noticed that Scar always opened his mouth slightly when he looked over, as if he wanted to say something, but he just didn't say anything. After a few times, Yu Xing took the initiative to ask: "What do you want to say?"
Scar touched the stubble and glanced at his ankle: "It's nothing, I just admire you more and more. If you get injured, you can plug your trouser legs so tightly and walk so fast, just like it doesn't hurt."
Yu Xing thought to himself that this man was really observing the details. His legs had not yet grown completely, but just such a little pain would not make him show it on his face. He found a reason on the surface: "I hurt the most when playing extreme sports, my legs are used to it."
"I'm not a tomb robber. If you specialize in this industry, you'll definitely be a ruthless person." Speaking of this, Scar even showed a hint of regret. He seemed to want to persuade Yu Xing to give up painting and devote himself to the great tomb robber career, but this is obviously impossible.
Anyway, the chat has started, and Scar shows a lot of curiosity about Yu Xing himself: "Hey, I heard that the style of your paintings is very strange, like a horror movie?"
Yu Xing: "This adjective was instilled in you by someone without cultural background."
"Brother Sun said." Scar raised his chin, and Brother Sun happened to take a look here.
The nine people were close to each other, and they chatted and didn't whisper. In fact, the entire team could hear what the two were talking about.
Yu Xing: "...that's fine, he's right."
"Tsk tsk tsk tsk, did this live vine give you new creative inspiration?" Scar was unexpectedly interested in this topic. Yu Xing glanced at him strangely: "Why, do you want to put down the butcher knife and learn to draw with me?"
"How can that be?" Scar shook his head and reached out to help Yu Xing: "Don't you think you are showing off your power. You want to talk to divert your attention."
Yu Xing: Here, the man’s strange carefulness is - but unfortunately he doesn’t need it very much.
There was no more trouble along the way, just that there were more big grey bugs and vines living in the small caves. Everyone cheered up and avoided them, and finally crossed the mountain after the sun set.
They came to a quiet valley.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The air in the valley became even more humid, and as the sun disappeared, it emitted a burst of fine coldness, and it penetrated into everyone's clothes like a maggot attached to bones.
The surroundings are quiet, with fewer trees than on the mountain, but there are many more shrubs. There are also some plants with large leaves that are full of vitality.
"This place is good, camp." Finley observed the terrain and waved his hand in a relatively flat leeward. The team suddenly became busy, took out the tent she carried, and went to support the tent to make tents.
Yu Xing's tent is a small single tent. He didn't need to do anything about Scar, so he had already set up his tent. In this regard, Yu Xing was particularly satisfied with his identity as a painter. He was simply lazy when he wanted to be lazy.
Afterwards, they gathered together to eat canned food and compressed dry food. After chatting for a few casual words, Yu Xing went back to the tent to rest in advance.
Although Brother Sun and Scar of this team can get some equipment that requires a way, in his opinion, their financial resources are still a little lacking, the tent is not strong enough, and the food is not good.
In terms of reaction ability, the level of the team's personnel is uneven. Not to mention the temples and tombs, these people may not be able to survive even if they are taken to the coffin village.
If something really happens, he will still drag him down.
Yu Xing was thinking about changing teams.
Since poetry and wine can leave temporarily, it means at least there is a team nearby, right?
Of course, he just thought about it casually and was mentally prepared to react as quickly as possible until he had to leave.
It was dark, and his intuition told him that this valley without a name on the map would not be a harmless place. It was so wet that it would lead to the birth of many strange animals and plants.
Half of his body was stuffed into his sleeping bag, pinching the time to wait for the second wave of background of the system to be released. During the boring waiting time, he silently listed all the information he had in his mind.
About the tomb.
What a group of tomb robbers and the possible funding boss behind them pursued is the resurrection technique studied by the demon.
Judging from the ancestral hall of the coffin village, the existence of the black coffin will gradually affect the entire range, allowing people who have already died to have consciousness and action again - or in fact only consciousness.
Because when he left, he looked back and saw that the location of the coffin village was a wasteland covered with weeds, and there was no village at all. It is hard to say where everything they experienced at that time was real, where was illusion, and where was a special area created by ghosts.
No matter what, there must be many things in the temples and tombs that can create hallucinations. Hallucinations will be elements as important and terrifying as corpses, ghosts, and mechanisms in the tombs.
Then there are corpses. Unlike ordinary corpses, the Black Hall gives corpses in the coffin village many characteristics that should not be possessed, even including "procreating offspring" that can be achieved by living people.
This is a proof that the corpse is truly alive.
Another point is that the zombies are very aggressive. He has not forgotten that night, he chased the two villagers behind Julan with an axe and a knife. He also knocked on his door in the middle of the night and turned his eyes into the gap to peek at him at the village chief's wife. During the day, these "people" were just a little weird in chatting, but at night, they seemed to be unable to suppress them, and the ghosts were revealed.
From the experience of the coffin village, Yu Xing can also find some clues, such as the resurrection requires a black coffin, the existence of candles is very important, and the living zombies have an almost paranoid enthusiasm for the replacement of leaders. When they welcomed Zhou Qinghai, they dragged Zhou Facai away. Yu Xing is still vivid in his mind. I wonder if Zhou Facai is still buried under the big locust tree.
Hallucinations, zombies, candles and candle plates, leaders...
Yu Xing deliberately pieced together these clues, but it was because it was too fine and failed.
But he at least sorted out and his senses of the tomb became much clearer.
Not long after, the system prompted to arrive on time. The background this time seemed to be the last time, and it could be directly connected.
[Before you set off, you received an invitation from your friend Carlos. Since you often chat in WeChat groups, he also knew about your joining the investigation studio. He appreciated your abilities very much and hoped that you could go to the tomb with his team. But you had already negotiated with Brother Sun at that time, pretending to be a horror painter who was a little interested in the tomb and was ready to set off with Brother Sun at any time.]
Yu Xing: "?"
There is indeed something about Carlos here, but Yu Xing can't figure out why he rejected Carlos?
San is so stupid. If it were him, how much money did Brother Sun give him? He directly betrayed. At this young age, he has such a strong sense of responsibility. No wonder he is still trapped in the family struggle.
With Carlos's ability to use paper-made people, it is a path-finding tool in the tomb. I wonder how much more reliable these people in Brother Sun's team. Isn't it good to cooperate with Carlos?
But thinking that Carlos would not help him carry supplies and set up a tent, Yu Xing felt relieved.
That's fine.
[Carlos did not give up and revealed some information he had, such as the legend of the demon path. He had a more accurate version. He also said that he had a line with the team looking for the black ancestral halls around the world. The team had more accurate guesses about the structure of the tomb palace to attract you.]
[You did not agree or refuse. You learned from Carlos that their team set out three days in advance than Brother Sun, so he replied to Carlos, saying that when the Tomb Palace meets, if the two sides do not conflict, you can find an opportunity to leave Brother Sun's team and him.]
[When he heard this, Carlos told you jokingly, be careful of the insects, vines, dead people and flowers around the tomb. He didn't want to reveal more content, but thought he used the information in his hand as a bargaining chip to attract you to join.]
The new information ends here, Yu Xing: "..."
The system is really a pitfall. Can't you tell him the reminder about the dead people and flowers of the bug vines in the first background?
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! He rubbed his temples, and the big gray worms and vines have appeared. The former killed Ade, while the latter injured the whole team and disappeared. What are the dead people and flowers behind?
It sounds quite interesting, I really want to see it quickly...
The wind outside the tent became heavier and heavier, and Yu Xing gradually felt tired. It was quite exhausting to make trouble this day.
He drilled into his sleeping bag with his vigilance that he had never let go, and planned to rest early. After hearing Scar's words, he had to set off at dawn tomorrow.
But I don't know if he was lucky or bad. Just as he was about to fall asleep, a slight and messy footsteps sounded outside his tent.
Before he could sleep well, Yu Xing woke up immediately. He squinted his eyes and looked out, and saw a strange figure shining through the moonlight, leaving a deformed shadow on his tent.
This was a tall and thin figure, who seemed to be carrying something in his hand. He stopped outside Yu Xing's tent and stood there and stopped leaving.
What is it like to wake up and there is a silent person standing outside the tent?
interesting!
Yu Xing had only one answer. He took the dagger next to his sleeping bag, grabbed the zipper of the tent with his left hand, and pulled it up without hesitation.
The zipper passed by and a buzzing sound seemed to disturb the people outside. As soon as Yu Xing pulled open the tent, he found that the person was missing.
He leaned out, and there was silence around him. The other team members' tents were intact and no one came out.
Where is the person? Hiding behind the bushes?
Yu Xing hesitated for a moment between sleeping and going out to find someone, and the other party made a choice for him.
A drop of blood dripped on Yu Xing's head. At the same time, a metal card fell from Yu Xing's side. Yu Xing's eyes adapted to the light and used the bright moonlight to see the content on the card in an instant.
Chapter completed!