Chapter 124: The Disappearing Corpse
Yan Xiaoying's expression was serious, her tone was cold, and it didn't look like a joke.
Listening to what she meant, after she and Lao Fei escaped from being chased by the ghost-faced crab before, she met Huang Yuting, who deceived them and locked them in a dungeon.
Later, Yan Xiaoying escaped, but Lao Fei's life and death were unknown.
After thinking about this, I couldn't help but sink in my heart, looked at Huang Yuting who was tied up by Yan Xiaoying with a corpse rope, and said coldly: "It turns out that you have been calculating since we entered here, and I have always felt that someone is following behind, could that person be you?" ”
After listening to my words, Huang Yuting was not nervous, and said slowly: "Yes, the two of them were indeed led away by me, but ......"
She looked at me with a sincere expression and said, "I have done all this for your own good, you must know that this place is extremely dangerous, and if you run around, you may lose your life." ”
"Hey, so we have to thank you, right?" Yan Xiaoying sneered.
"Whatever you want." Huang Yuting said.
"How did you become like this?"
I frowned, then turned my head and asked Yan Xiaoying, "Do you see anything wrong with her?" The personality changes before and after are so great that I suspect that she is not herself at all. ”
Yan Xiaoying stared at Huang Yuting, her eyes were clear, and she shook her head after half a ring: "Except for the change in personality, I can't see it." ”
I was silent, since I rescued Huang Yuting from the 100,000 mountains, I always felt that something had happened to her.
"You ......"
I had a lot of questions I wanted to ask Yan Xiaoying, but before I could speak, she interrupted me and said, "After I escaped from that dungeon, I met Lin Miao, who was hunted down by the Gu Clan's people. That woman is very powerful, she is a witch of the Gu clan, and her strange methods have been endless. Even if Lin Miao and I work together, they are not their opponents, and the most important thing is that she seems to be in the same group as Lu Ji. ”
"What? The witch who chased and killed Lin Miao actually had something to do with Lu Ji? ”
I was shocked and asked nervously, "Then how is Lin Miao doing now?" ”
"I don't know, we had a fight after coming here, and then Lin Miao lured them away."
Yan Xiaoying said as she shone a flashlight into the depths.
I followed the beam of my flashlight and gasped.
It turned out that there was a big tree behind the stone gate of the small temple, and we have now entered the inner space of the tree.
The center of this big tree turned out to be empty, and ten meters in front of it was an abyss, and when I walked to the edge and looked down, it was so dark that I couldn't see anything, I don't know how deep it was.
"This place ......"
It felt familiar, and I suddenly remembered a nightmare I had when I was unconscious. In my dreams, I saw myself suspended from the abyss by countless chains, and wasn't that the place here?
Why can I dream of this place in advance? Does it have anything to do with my background?
"Xiaoying, is the injury on your body important?"
I looked at Yan Xiaoying and found that her face was very pale, her whole body was covered with blood, and I didn't know how badly injured.
"It's not in the way, it's all skin trauma, it's not serious."
Yan Xiaoying shook her head, walked to Huang Yuting's side, and untied the rope that was trapped on the latter's body.
Huang Yuting's expression was a little stunned, she looked at Yan Xiaoying and asked, "Are you sure you let me go like this?" ”
"Or else? Did it kill you? ”
Yan Xiaoying rolled her eyes and said coldly.
Huang Yuting was silent, but her eyes flickered, and she didn't know what she was thinking.
Although I don't know how Lao Fei is now, no matter what, I am still very happy to meet Yan Xiaoying here and know Lin Miao's news.
I didn't ask her what she had been through these days.
I sighed, looked around, and said to Yan Xiaoying, "What should we do now?" ”
"Lao Fei is nowhere to be found, and he can't be found for a while, let's meet Lin Miao first, he was chased and killed by that group of people, and I don't know what happened now? Besides......"
Yan Xiaoying's gaze first fell on Huang Yuting, then looked at me, and continued: "Besides, the mountain god Niangniang's bedroom is right here, you should be very anxious, right?" ”
I smiled bitterly and said, "My wife's life and death are unknown, how can I not be in a hurry as a husband?" ”
"That's it, let's go! We catch up. ”
Yan Xiaoying, as before, still does not smile, even if she finally reunites, she still says nothing.
After she finished speaking, she walked towards a plank path next to the abyss.
It was a wooden plank that surrounded the abyss, sloping upwards, with huge trees embedded in the abyss wall at the bottom, and wooden planks on top of it.
The planks were inches thick, but they were rotten, and I don't know how long they had been laid here, and it was doubtful that they could hold our weight.
"The artificially built wooden plank road, could it be that there are still people living on it?" I was surprised.
"It should have been repaired by the aborigines who once lived here, and as for your mountain god Niangniang, she doesn't need this kind of plank road." Yan Xiaoying said.
"Maybe there's something else up there." At this time, Huang Yuting opened her mouth faintly.
"You've been here?" I asked with a frown.
"No, it's the first time." Huang Yuting replied.
"Then why do you know so much about this place?" I doubt it.
Huang Yuting replied with only two words: "Guess." ”
In this regard, I was a little speechless, more helpless, and I didn't know what kind of attitude I should use to treat her now.
"Wait!"
I stopped Yan Xiaoying and asked, "If we leave like this, what will happen to Yang Feng's corpse?" ”
Yan Xiaoying frowned and said, "Everyone is already dead, what else can I do?" Do you still want to carry her body away? ”
"But after all, she was a classmate with me, and we met in the forest before, she ......"
I didn't say the rest of the words, because at this time, Huang Yuting sneered next to her, and interjected: "You are still like that, a good old man, now we can't take care of ourselves, where do we still have the heart to think about a dead person?" ”
"Besides, when people die empty, everything will disappear with smoke, and even if you do more for her, she won't feel it, what's the use?"
When I heard this, Huo Ran turned around, stared at Huang Yuting and said in a deep voice, "How could you become so ruthless? I didn't do this for others to see, we used to meet by the reservoir and laughed, cried, and frolicked together...... Have you forgotten all this? ”
"Are you so indifferent to your former friends? Although I don't know what happened to you, I can't destroy humanity, and what's even more ridiculous is that you can still laugh. ”
In the face of my questioning, Huang Yuting chose to be silent, and then sighed faintly, her eyes fell on the dark and endless abyss, looking a little lonely and even sad.
I ignored her, and Yan Xiaoying and the two walked towards the place where Yang Feng's body was found just now.
It was dark, and the beam of the flashlight seemed to be swallowed up, illuminating only a distance of ten meters in front of him.
When we came to the location where we found Yang Feng's body before, our faces couldn't help but change greatly.
Because he was lying here just now, Yang Feng's body was gone.
Next to it was a closed stone door, and I remember clearly that the corpse was not far from the stone gate just now. However, at this moment, Huang Yuting and I searched around, but we didn't find Yang Feng's body.
My back is a little cold, how did a good corpse suddenly disappear?
You know, the three of us have been here all along, and if her body is removed, we should be able to detect it.
But who else is going to move her body in this place besides the three of us?
Could it be a demon? Or did she cheat the corpse herself?
The more I thought about it, the more I felt that my scalp was numb, and at this time, Yan Xiaoying on the side suddenly leaned down, as if she had found some clues.
"Tianyan, come and see, there are many claw marks on this ground."
This temple is built against a large tree, and we are in the inner space of the tree at the moment, the ground is wooden, and the surface is covered with a lot of moss, which can easily leave traces.
I looked carefully underground, and found that in addition to our footprints, there were many footprints like chicken paws underground. In addition, there are crawling marks with thick arms.
"It's the traces left by that strange snake."
I exclaimed, "Is it ...... Just a moment ago, Yang Feng's body was moved away by that strange snake? But...... Hundreds of pounds of corpses, how can it be easily moved? And silently......"
"A strange snake may not be, but what if there are dozens or hundreds? You see the paw prints on the ground, densely packed, and there are not a few in number. ”
Yan Xiaoying said as she followed the paw prints left by the strange snake, and after walking for more than a dozen steps, she stood on her feet, turned her head and shouted to me: "Tianyan, come and see, there is a hole in the ground here." ”
I walked over quickly, and I found that there was a dark and secluded hole under Yan Xiaoying's feet, which could be entered, and I didn't know how deep it was, and I could smell a faint fishy smell when I approached.
"It's that kind of strange snake hole, there are traces of dragging on the ground, Yang Feng's body should have been dragged down by the strange snake."
I swallowed a mouthful of saliva and couldn't believe it: "How can there be so many strange snakes in this place?" That strange snake...... It's hard to deal with just one, but there's a group here, and it's ......"
"You've been to that deserted village in the woods before, haven't you? I had found the paw prints of this strange snake in the stone house of that deserted village, and also on the altar. I suspect that the creature that decomposes the corpse and feeds it on the burial platform is this strange snake. ”
"You mean...... Those people used to feed this strange snake with corpses? ”
I was shocked, my face full of incredulity, and I finally gasped.
Let's not talk about why those people did this, but, Yan Xiaoying's guess is that if it comes true, Yang Feng's body was dragged into this cave by that kind of strange snake, then her body is probably being devoured at this moment.
"Stand back!"
When I was shocked and inexplicable, Yan Xiaoying suddenly exclaimed, and then pulled me back sharply.
When I came back to my senses, I suddenly felt a lightness in my hand, and I saw Yan Xiaoying snatch my Death Scythe and slash down at the hole.
"Ding! Burst! ”
The scythe seemed to have struck something, making a sound of gold and iron.
Yan Xiaoying stepped back, her face gloomy, staring at the cave in the ground.
It was only then that I realized that a two-headed snake with a thick arm had silently appeared in the dark cavern.
At this moment, its two snake heads had been exposed, and one of the snake heads was cut by Yan Xiaoying, the flesh and blood were blurred, and it was close to the ground, but it was not broken.
The head of the other snake was held high, the scarlet letter swallowed, and the snake's eyes flashed in the light of the flashlight, full of resentment.
It's terrifying, as we all know, the snake's eyes are semi-vestigial and can't see like humans, it mainly relies on smell and temperature sensing to discern direction and prey.
But this strange snake in front of him, its gaze is like a human, extremely resentful, staring at us, very humane.