The relief on the first floor, with seven people on each side.

The second layer is fourteen, and the number is doubled.

The process in the relief is generally the same, but the appearance of the fourteen monsters that secrete parasites has changed greatly. But what I care more about at the moment than that worm is the numbers.

"Seven, fourteen...... Fourteen? ”

I flashed back to that picture, and counting me, there were exactly fourteen of us. Except for me, the bodies of the rest of the people were found in the western-style buildings on the outskirts of the city. So, a month ago, we went into this deep mountain, into the cave, and then went through the ritual in this second layer of relief?

"That's not right."

I suddenly remembered something else.

Ye Tianze!

That guy didn't appear in the previous group photo of the travelers! A month ago, he had no reason to enter Moshan at all. If it is said that the corpse that was disemboweled, corresponds to the human skin shed in the relief, then why did Ye Tianze, who did not participate in this ceremony, also come back from the dead?

Judging from the video of the scramble for files, before being killed by me, Ye Tianze was still very normal.

So what exactly went wrong and why did he get infected?

Why?

Why!!

I had a splitting headache and my emotions seemed to suddenly become extremely agitated. But this is not the first time that whenever I have strong mood swings of fear, excitement or anger, it becomes difficult for me to control myself.

And at the moment, I felt as if I had thought of something.

But there is a force in my heart that is resisting, and I can't remember it.

I tried to calm myself, but my gaze, at this moment, inadvertently noticed the last of the reliefs.

"That's ......" is the last relief of the picture, which seems to hide something.

The one who was surrounded by thirteen people in the middle.

It's him!

His expression, his face, was not the same as in the previous pictures!

My gaze moved rapidly in several pictures, and the expression of this guy in the first few pictures was almost the same, however, in this last scene, it suddenly looked very hideous and angry!!

Why?

I walked towards the relief.

The face that seemed to be "angry" became clearer and clearer.

No, it turned out that the face, not anger......

It's a metamorphosis!

He turned into a monster's face, and the position corresponded to the tentacle flesh worm above his head that had not yet left!

The human face is almost exactly the same as the insect face!

The only difference is that the eyes of the insect on the human face are open, while the eyes of the insect are closed. Compared with the previous reliefs, there is only this last one, and the insect did not open its eyes!

So, what does it mean to close your eyes?

It can have many meanings.

But in this relief, it is not only the strange insect that closes its eyes, but also the "human skin" that has been shed.

If this ritual is to allow the worms to get nutrients for the human body, grow and reproduce, and finally break out of the cocoon and be reborn, then are these living people or insects in the end? The answer seems obvious. These skins are no longer skins, but human beings who have been absorbed in nutrients, sucked dry of life, and lost their lives.

It's a corpse.

If understood in this way, closing the eyes means death.

So in the last picture, the mother body spreading the parasite on the top of the head has died, and the human in the center has the same face as the mother.

Its meaning is......

"Maternal parasitism!" I stepped back, my hand trembling and touching my chest, and a feeling of nausea appeared for no apparent reason!

"What's wrong with uncle, is it uncomfortable?" Yao Qianwen saw my abnormality and was about to come forward to ask, but at that moment, my mood was unprecedentedly bad, and my mind kept flashing back to my previous memories, assuming, we also participated in the expedition a month ago, and really participated in this ritual, but I was different from the other thirteen, then, am I the one in the middle?

If yes, then, I'm a monster.

"Don't come near me."

"Huh?"

"I said stay away from me......"

The laughter in my heart came again, and this time I clearly understood that it was not laughter, it was a signal from the "worm", it was in my body, or rather, in fact, I was it.

At this moment, my mind fell into a strange circle, and I began to hear strange noises constantly.

I almost lost myself.

But fortunately, at this moment, I suddenly heard Yao Qianwen's dissatisfied muttering, "Uncle, you're schizophrenic, right?" Why do you suddenly get angry, do you think I want to be with you, I can't get out! ”

It's like a knife that pierces the darkness that covers me with one blow!

It gave me the feeling of being suffocated for a long time and suddenly resuming my breath.

"Schizophrenia", that's right, my memory is still there, I clearly recognize that I am the person of Zora, no matter what happens to me, at this moment, I still exist.

Only, it's there.

It's like schizophrenia.

Since I killed Ye Tianze, I have lost consciousness several times, and now I suspect that in the process of losing consciousness, the dominance of the body is likely to be in the hands of that thing.

I've got to figure out a way to get rid of it.

But before I can do that, I need to get out of here.

……

"Keep climbing, there must be something up there." After stabilizing my mood, I found the mechanism in the position corresponding to the upper floor, and asked Yao Qianwen to come over to help.

"What the hell did you just go crazy about?" Yao Qianwen grabbed the handle of the mechanism and looked at me curiously: "Actually, you've been here before, right?" Did you remember something? ”

"Perhaps, but I forgot about it."

"What are you looking for?"

My hand paused, looked up at Yao Qianwen, and met her gaze: "The woman you said." ”

"You mean mermaid sister, you know each other? Where is she? Yao Qianwen's eyes lit up: "Sure enough, when you asked before, I probably guessed ......"

The three words "where is she" are in the middle of Yao Qianwen's words, which she said suddenly, and I noticed that it was instinct to say this sentence, and it blurted out without any thought. So, there's no evidence, it's just a gut feeling on my part.

But if this instinct is correct, I probably understand why Yao Qianwen is here.

"You're here to find her?"

Yao Qianwen was stunned for a moment, and immediately changed her words: "I didn't say it!" ”

"So, your previous story is not true."

"What I'm saying is true...... But you, what do you have to do with it? You still denied it to me before, saying that you don't know each other? ”

"She's my girlfriend, but she's missing. And this is probably the last place we will meet. "I don't know if Mina, who has been with me for a month after that, is still her.

"Oh?" Mina looked at me suspiciously.

"I didn't want to say it before, I wasn't in the mood. But this matter itself, or not to say it, has no effect on me or you, and I have no reason to lie to you. So it's your turn. ”

I thought Yao Qianwen would confess to me, but who would have thought, "Uncle, are you a little over-brained?" I do wonder why you are looking for Sister Mermaid, but what I said to you before is indeed not lying. I'm really here for transshipment. ”

"Fool me, huh?" A little annoyed, I twisted the mechanism hard, and the revolving stone door above my head opened. I was about to get angry, but I noticed that something was hanging from inside the stone door above my head!

Yao Qianwen and I looked up at the same time.

That is, a human arm......