Prey Chapter 17 - Rituals in the Graveyard
On the open earth that can not be seen at a distance, there are dense and countless tombs and stone monuments. As far as the eye can see, only a few are barely intact, and most of them are staggered, messy, and messy.
Song Xiaocheng and his group of five people passed through a whole field of barren grass, and there was no light in all directions. By the time we reached the edge of the graveyard, it was a little brighter: the stars in the air, occasionally flickering with a small shimmer, fluttering, as if floating in the air without a fall, a little bit, like the spark of a lighter, emitting a dim pale green light.
Barely a little light could be seen, and the cemetery seemed to be crowded with people. Some stood motionless, some moved aimlessly and occasionally for a step or two, and some squatted on the ground, their hands frantically stuffing something into their mouths, making rough chewing and tearing sounds. At the same time, if there is nothing, there is also a whisper.
"Meat...... Blood...... Meat ......"
"And ...... And...... Ghosts! and ......"
"So wronged...... Wronged......"
Needless to say, no need to look at it, the five of them are already clear. This cemetery, I don't know what year and month it is, I am afraid that tens of thousands of bones have been buried. Now, the bones are standing again!
The five of them hurriedly lowered their bodies and lurked carefully, who knew that if their whereabouts were exposed at this time, it would be more than lucky, at least it would be inevitable to fight for their lives, let alone catch the hooded black shadow!
Right now, on a mound of earth towering in the distance of the cemetery, stood the hooded black figure, but it had taken off its hood and raised its hands to the sky as if to embrace the moon, but it was still motionless.
"I ...... Oh my God!" The sheriff named He Xuming exclaimed in a low voice, "Why has the X-City Express never reported this!"
Gao He raised his eyebrows and lightly "shh
As the black shadow action continued, the originally weak floating fire in the graveyard gradually brightened, and the pale green color became more intense, which also made Song Xiaocheng see more clearly.
The mound where the shadow stood, surrounded by a large circle of naked living corpses. Although compared to Song Xiaocheng and the five big living people, the skin of these corpses was dull, and even large corpse spots could be seen, and several of the injured and deceased were covered with dried blood. But compared to the other dead bodies in the cemetery, they seemed much fresher.
At the very least, they still have relatively intact skin and flesh.
The other dead bodies in the cemetery, some of them were only a pair of white bones, but they were still holding sticks, and they were wandering around; some of them seemed to have just been dead for a short time, and their flesh was severely rotting under the relatively intact skin, and the whole body was propped up into a puffy skin; some were missing limbs, some were missing heads, some had lost half of their faces, and some had opened a large hole in the heavenly spirit cover; and some of their bodies had broken from their waists, leaving only the upper body to crawl on the ground, making a terrible roar.
The circle of fresh dead bodies gathered around the mound stood obediently, as if they had taken root under their feet, motionless, men and women, old and young. As the four got brighter and brighter, the shadow was no longer just a shadow. The man was indeed dressed in a sweatshirt and dark jeans, with a large, round head, not half a hair on his head, but raised sarcomas in some places, and his hands were held high, with short and thick fingers, and thick palms that seemed to be slightly deformed.
The light of the fire also illuminated the dirt slope beneath his feet, and it turned out to be a mountain of bones and skeletons.
The bald monster raised his hands high, and the few floating flames closest to him began to fly towards his misshapen and ugly hands, and gradually merged, brighter and brighter, until all the flames were held in the palm of his hand, like two bonfires, and then suddenly he clasped his hands and grasped the two emerald flames.
For a moment, Song Xiaocheng felt a trace of unbelievable fluctuations, and a sharp stabbing pain came from the palm of his right hand, making him involuntarily clench his fists.
What happened next made the five people hiding in the weeds dumbfounded.
The bald man stood on top of the mountain of bones and looked around at the freshly alive corpses standing on the periphery. With a twisted finger and a tap on the thinnest and shortest one, the corpse walked up to the pile of bones on its own. The bald monster grabbed the top of the corpse's head with one hand, and the other emitted a slender emerald flame. The flames condensed like ropes, like saw blades, wrapped around the thin corpse, spun quickly on the flesh, making a burst of sound of flesh being torn, and as the emerald flame rope cut, the skin and flesh on the corpse were torn apart, separated from the bones, torn off, and fell at the feet of the bald monster.
In less than half a minute, the emaciated living corpse was left with only white bones and no scraps of flesh. As soon as the bald monster let go, a complete human skeleton piled up on the pile, merging with the countless others who had suffered the same fate.
The bald monster gestured to the periphery again, and a living corpse with only one leg climbed up the pile of bones with its hands and feet. The bald monster did the same, peeling off the flesh of the one-legged living corpse.
"I**...... Lao He, what do you think he is doing here?" one sheriff asked the other softly.
"How do I know!
In about ten minutes, a considerable amount of fresh corpse flesh had piled up under the feet of the bald monster. After throwing down a pair of bones in his hand, the bald monster looked around, pointed with his hand again, and said in a rough and gray voice:
"Here you come. ”
A tall and broad skeleton stepped up to the pile of bones, hungry and hungry for fresh corpse flesh on the ground, and held it in his arms. Emerald green flames erupted from the bald man's hands, wrapping around the skeleton's body. The corpse in the skull's arms stretched out wisps of tentacle-like muscle fibers, wrapped around the white bones, as if they had an independent life, pulling and gluing the flesh and bones together piece by piece. After a while, a skeleton that was originally covered with only blind bones and bones was randomly pieced together with rotten flesh, although it did not look very beautiful, but it was inevitably terrifying.
As in the case of skinning, one after the other, tall skeletons or badly decomposed corpses were reassembled with fresh flesh, imbued with a stale and lifeless vitality that exuded a terrifying force.
Song Xiaocheng only felt that his stomach was tumbling over, as if a hand was squeezing his throat violently, and he couldn't help but retch.
A sheriff next to the "vomit ——!" simply vomited, and a sour smell of vomit came from the side of the already decomposing cemetery.
"You two, be quiet!" Gao He retorted in a low voice.
"It's so unbearable! It's good they didn't find out—" Song Xiaocheng sighed in a low voice.
However, at this moment, there was a dry sound of heavy metal music in Song Xiaocheng's trouser pocket.
"My phone ......"
"Alive!!"
"Raw meat!!"
As the sound of Song Xiaocheng's mobile phone pierced the corpses' ritual-like behavior, everything in the cemetery suddenly realized their existence. The bald freaks stood on the towering piles of bones, turning their heads and pointing their deformed fingers at them, and millions of living corpses let out an earth-shattering roar.
"He's ** thank you, Song Xiaocheng!!" Gao He scolded and pushed Song Xiaocheng violently, jumped up from the ground with a rolling belt, turned around and ran. Of course, the other four people did not hesitate much, and scrambled to follow Gao He and run in the same direction.
"Catch them! the secret of the ghouls must not be revealed!!" shouted the bald head on the pile of bones, as if to order the resurrected corpses.
Song Xiaocheng had just taken a breath of relief, and in order to escape for his life at this time, he had no choice but to follow behind Gao He and continue to run wildly.
"Gao He!
"Nonsense! What do you say?"
"Ahhh
"Dai Yi!!"
Song Xiaocheng suddenly heard two shouts behind him, and when he looked back, it turned out to be the sheriff named Dai Yi, who was dragged by the ankle by a ghoul who was only half cut off, and the other sheriff stopped and was about to go back to help him.
Just when Song Xiaocheng was making a choice between morality and life, Cui Wei, who had been following Song Xiaocheng, suddenly turned around and raised his foot and kicked the ghoul on the head, the ghoul's head was kicked and exploded, but the saved body and hands still grabbed Dai Yi deadly. Cui Wei raised his foot without hesitation and stomped twice on the ghoul's arm, stomping the rotting arm in two. Another companion hurriedly grabbed Dai Yi's arm, but a few more ghouls entangled Cui Wei. A few were tearing their clothes, a few were holding their legs, and one even threw himself straight at Cui Wei's throat, but fortunately he was holding it with both hands.
The two sheriffs took two steps closer, each took out their pistols, and shot at the ghouls who were entanglement with Cui Wei, and the huge impact sent several ghouls flying out, but the tide of corpses like a huge wave in the sky was about to surge
Song Xiaocheng flew a few steps, grabbed in front of Cui Wei, roared, and pushed forward violently with his right hand, and a huge flame vibration wave erupted from his palm, spreading out a full two meters away. The four or five ghouls in the vicinity were pushed out of balance and had been burned into fireballs, and several ghouls in the back row were also set on fire, with orange flames burning on their flesh.
Cui Wei twisted and smashed several ghouls on his body, and finally got rid of the entanglement with the help of Gao He, and the five of them ran again.
Song Xiaocheng's flame blast couldn't be delayed for long, and more ghouls continued to chase after the five people. They didn't run far, and the five of them finally lost their physical strength and began to slow down. Fortunately, they had already seen the light in the distance, and the rows of streetlights and the occasional sound of traffic told them that they were finally back in the city.
Standing on the sidewalk under the street lamp, five people held their knees and couldn't stop panting, and Song Xiaocheng simply sat on the ground.
......
"And the ghost-sama...... I...... I ......"
"You've disappointed me, thank you!"
"I'm sorry!
"It's not time yet...... It's too early!"
"And the ghost-sama...... My lord!"
"It's all your fault, thank you!!" You're too cowardly, too cowardly!!"
"My lord! they ...... Those people...... They're not ordinary humans! They have magic!"
"It's impossible!I'm the only person in this world who has magic!!"
"And the ...... of the ghost"
"Shut up!!"
There was silence in the tomb, except for dust and hair, and the occasional sobbing of thanks.
"Maybe you're right, thank you...... It seems that we have to execute the plan in advance. ”
Xie's crying suddenly stopped, and he seemed to fall into surprise.
"Big ...... My lord?"
"Execute the plan. Thanks, get ready to take the city!"