Chapter 8: Reunion

"How is this possible?" I looked at Wen Jin and shook my head to show that I couldn't understand. The fragrance on Wen Jin's body was indeed the smell of Forbidden Woman, but it would be incredible to say that she would soon become Forbidden Woman.

"You can't accept it, I don't blame you." Wen Jin sighed quietly, "When we discovered this, we couldn't believe it."

I still shook my head. At this time, I couldn't think at all. I just felt that everything was ridiculously messy. If all the things I had sorted out before were fragments of the event, the information Wen Jin gave me was like a sledgehammer, knocking all the fragments into powder, and now there is no possibility of any splicing.

"That has tampered with you, preventing you from getting old, but it will turn you into that...that...monster?"

Wen Jin nodded: "In my experience, it only takes half a year to change from the inside of the body to completely becoming that thing. We call it "corpse transformation". The first one to turn into a corpse was a girl. At that time, we watched her become that little by little, which was really scary. It felt like your body omitted the step of "death" and directly changed from "living person" to "corpse".

"But how did this happen?" I asked, "Is there any way to cure it?"

Wen Jin shook his head: "The time of 'corpse transformation' occurs is completely irregular. The only signal is this smell. We speculate that this strange change may be related to the ancient tomb under the Xisha. The first thought at that time was whether it was an ancient disease that had been closed in this ancient tomb. We were infected. Later, after researching it, it was found that it was not. However, this phenomenon must be related to Wang Zanghai."

"Is this why you are studying Wang Zanghai?"

She nodded silently.

They were trapped in the basement of Golmud for a long time, and the process of escaping was quite complicated. Although Wen Jin briefly described it to me, this is another story, so I won't go into details here.

After escaping, they were first hunted by a group of strangers. They had no way out. After some displaced, they sneaked to the sanatorium again, but found that the building was empty and everything in the sanatorium had been emptied. They did not find any information, and they had no idea who imprisoned them and what purpose it was. In order to escape this inexplicable force, they decided to reflect and choose this abandoned sanatorium as a hiding place. While investigating Wang Zanghai's history, they avoided the pursuit of those people.

Then there was something that happened next.

Speaking of this, I asked them, "So, do you think there is any way to cure this 'corpse transformation' in this ghost place?"

"We speculate based on a large number of details that Wang Zanghai was tracing a technique for becoming an immortal recorded in the Warring States silk book, but obviously the technique of resurrecting him from ancient books is not mature. We may become experimental products of this immature thing. Although we can stay young forever, the effect is very unstable and will eventually become monsters." Wen Jin said, "Wang Zanghai's pursuit of this life must be a method to improve this technology. I think this is his last stop. The records in the Warring States silk book come from here.

, Then this is the most likely place. But on this matter, Huo Ling and I had a disagreement. That time she brought people into the place herself and I chose to wait. I thought she was dead at first, but I didn’t expect that she would come back a few months later, but obviously she did not succeed. At that time, her corpse had begun, she began to be forgotten, and began to lose control of her emotions. Her metabolism became faster and faster, and finally she became like that. I was the only one left in the entire expedition team, waiting for an unknown fate."

"I wanted to hide it all the time, but a month ago, I finally smelled the smell from my body, knowing that the final fate has arrived, and I must finish it all. Your third uncle, the 'it' behind Jude Caw."

"But, what does this have to do with me?" I remembered and asked, "Why do you want to send me videos?"

"It's not me who sent the video to you," said Wen Jin seriously. "This is another missing link. When I saw you appear in the team, I was quite surprised, so I asked the decisive master Zhuoma to call you too. From your appearance, I inferred that 'it' has penetrated into my plan, so I warned you. It sent you the tape I sent to Jude Kao."

“Why does it do this?”

"I don't know. Maybe it doesn't want Jude to be successful. It wants to have a simple team composed of Qi Ling, Jie Lianhuan and you. I can only speculate. However, Jie Lianhuan used a very powerful strategy this time, and by chance, my plan was still successful. "It must be judging which of so many people I am."

I rubbed my face, felt my thoughts clearer, and asked, "How long does it take to be the corpse? Do we still have time?"

She held my hand and said, "Don't worry about me. I have arrived here. I accept all the arrangements of fate, whether it is good or bad. Anyway, this is my end, it is also the end of the spiritual origin, and it is also the end of the series of relationships. What you have to consider is yourself."

I looked at them and thought to myself that you were not going out, how could this be possible? At this time, I heard outside the barrier we were doing, suddenly someone gently knocked on the stone, and one of them coughed and said, "Is there anyone inside?"

I immediately became alert, and the oil bottle leaned over, and I immediately shouted: "Be careful, it may be a snake, the snake here can speak human language!"

The voice outside immediately said, "Are you too naive?"

The oil bottle reassured me that the snake would not talk to you. As he spoke, he removed the barrier. I immediately saw a face full of mud. It turned out to be a fat man. When I looked again, there were several people behind him, all of them, including the third uncle’s friend, and the black glasses.

The fat man looked muddy and said, "Sure enough, you are here, brother, you are here too. Oh, have you caught it?"

I thought to myself that you should not send so many onomatopoeia, so the fat man asked us what was going on. I said that things have really grown here, or asked them what happened and how did they find us? Where is my third uncle?

The fat man said "ah" and said, "We saw a bra stuffed in a gap. Damn, this is really a Talmud scene. When we bumped into it, we found the gap and mud inside. I taught them to protect themselves, but your third uncle didn't catch up and was bitten. He immediately got serum and was behind us. When we heard the sound of talking, we came to take a look, and thought it was those snakes."

Although Wen Jin said that Uncle San was pretending to be Jie Lianhuan, when I was in a hurry, I still didn't feel that he was fake at all.

I looked back at Wen Jin and thought to myself, what are you going to do. Wen Jin nodded at me, "Go and go and have a look."

The guys behind him didn't know Wen Jin and asked me who the woman was.

I said, "This is the third master's love." The fat man immediately said, "Call the eldest sister."

Those people were also scared and heard the fat man's words. They immediately called. Wen Jin glanced at me and told me to stop talking nonsense.

They were in a reservoir not far away. The reservoir was larger and had almost no forks. They were also covered with myceliums like tree roots. This time, at least half of the people were missing, and all of them looked like earth. Wen Jin taught them to block the only hole, and I said strangely, is this reservoir already the end of this reservoir system?

I went to see Uncle San and saw blood holes on his neck and arms, his face turned blue and his mind was a little blurred.

"He was bitten after he was killed by three people. The venom was dried up, but it was still fierce." The human being who took care of him said.

Uncle San opened his eyes slightly. I didn't know if he had seen Wen Jin. It must have seen it. I noticed that he trembled for a moment, looked at me again, and couldn't say anything.

I felt sour in my heart. Looking at his face, I couldn't imagine that he would be Jie Lianhuan. After I became sensible, I got along with him. Even if he was Jie Lianhuan himself, most of the impressions of my third uncle in my mind came from him, and all this could not be changed.

Wen Jin walked over, sat next to him, looked at him without saying a word, and the two of them looked at him. Uncle San suddenly stretched out his hand to her with difficulty.

Wen Jin held it up and whispered: "Xiao Xie knows everything, you don't have to hide it anymore, we don't blame you."

He moved his mouth, and I saw his tears gushing out. I looked at me, Wen Jin, and tried my best to speak.

Wen Jin was also moved a little, so she leaned down and pressed her mouth. After hearing this, she held his hand tightly: "I understand, you have returned to the team, it's not your fault."

He looked at me and I held his hand. I didn't know what I should say. Things happened here too quickly. Yesterday I was still chatting with him. Uncle San was short, but now he was like this. Thinking of it, I couldn't help but shout: "Uncle San."

Hearing me call him Uncle San, he suddenly became excited, moved for a moment, and slowly lost consciousness. I thought he couldn't do it anymore, so I immediately called someone. The person next to me came over and looked at him, and said, "Don't worry, I just fainted."

I let out a long sigh, and at this time I heard someone shouting behind me, "There is a stone gate here!"

We went over and saw some of the third uncle's friends and found that there was a stone slab at the bottom of the reservoir with two iron rings on it.

They shouted, pulled the iron ring hard and lifted the iron plate up, and found a hole pressing underneath.

Black glasses and the oil bottle went down to explore the way, and soon returned. Black glasses said there was another cave underneath, which was not artificially dug. It seemed to be a cave with many stone doors around it. It seemed that they were discovered and used when digging the water storage system here. The air inside was fresh, as if there was no trace of a snake. It seemed that it could also be connected to other places.

The road we came may be covered with snakes. We had to wait until dark when we returned from the same road. Maybe there was a way out from below. The fat man said, either go down and take a look.

When I heard that there were no snakes, everyone here had to go down. I told them that the situation was still unclear, so don’t go down like a swarm of rushing. The place we are staying at is relatively safe now. There may be a mechanism trap below, which is even worse than a snake bite.

After saying this, no one was willing to go on, so in the end we decided to go down and take a look first. The others were all mobs and couldn't help them even if they went down, so we stayed to take care of the injured and waited for us to come back.

The man oil bottle and the black glasses went down again, followed by me and Fatty, and Wen Jin followed us.
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