Chapter 18: The Crypt (Part II)
Lin Yumeng explained the situation she had encountered before to Ye Hanshuang, and the scene in front of her seemed to return to the dream just now. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"Child, wake up. An old man called softly.
"Are you ......," Lin Yumeng asked with her sleepy eyes slightly opened.
"I am the elder of this village. The old man's voice was soft, but not powerful. Hearing this, Lin Yumeng quickly sat up and looked at the elder. The old man had a silver-white hair and beard, and wore a very incongruous earthy yellow cloth hat, which was supposed to be worn because he was bald, but the hair around him was very thick, and when he spoke, the white hair behind his back could be seen from time to time protruding from his waist. The clothes are very simple, a linen robe with a blue belt tied around the waist, without any accessories, wearing a pair of yellow fairy shoes that are extremely incongruous with the proportions of the body, just looking at the feet, you will think that he is a big man of one meter seven or eight, and he is at most one meter three or four.
"Can't you get out too?" Lin Yumeng asked weakly, secretly clubbing the night Ning Han who was sleeping on the side, but he didn't react at all.
"Hahaha. The old man smiled heartily, "If you couldn't get out, you would have been attracted by the crackling noise you just made." ”
"Grandpa, you are the elder Zhang of this village, why is there no one in the village?" Lin Yumeng nodded after hearing this, and suddenly remembered such a question.
"They, after I left, ......," the old man sighed, pointing to the bones not far away. "They're all buried here. ”
Lin Yumeng looked at the elder's sad expression, and couldn't help but sigh for the elder, "But, you, where have you been?"
The elder stroked his beard and shook his head: "I, because of a serious illness, passed away at that time. ”
Hearing this, Lin Yumeng shook his whole body, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and couldn't speak for a while, and didn't forget to poke Ye Ninghan on the side again.
"Don't call him, he's not asleep, he's asleep. The old man said with his head bowed.
"That'...... You...... Is it ......" Lin Yumeng didn't dare to say the word ghost, but she had to ask clearly.
"Hahahaha, the little girl was scared, right?" the old man stroked his beard again and said, "I'm not a ghost, I'm a residual spiritual power." Hearing this, Lin Yumeng exhaled as if relieved. If the night frost is awake now, he will definitely pout his lips. Ghosts really exist in the Aegean continent, which is generally called undead, and is a relatively common and weak branch of undead creatures. Generally speaking, ghosts are formed by intelligent creatures after death, and for some reason the soul does not dissipate. And the soul and spiritual power are inextricably linked, so the so-called residual spiritual power is also the residual soul, in other words, the root is a ghost. However, Lin Yumeng didn't know that she was a samurai, and it was not surprising that she didn't know enough about elemental theory. Ignorant and fearless stupid audacity is generally like this.
"At that time...... I am the only one in the village who can do magic, I came to settle here when I was middle-aged, because I can do magic, and I helped the village to do some things that ordinary people can't do, so I was elected by everyone to become the village head, I thought that I could make this comfortable place calm all the time, but unexpectedly...... A group of strange creatures came to the old man," said the old man's face full of chagrin and frustration: "The old man was not good at learning, and he failed to find out the mystery of this cave or even found those monsters, which caused many villagers to disappear here, and the old man was getting older and bedridden all the year round, and the disappearance of the villagers made the whole village into fear, and the villagers were not at peace all day long, and many people also left the village. However, there were some villagers who were reluctant to give up their hometowns and said that they would be kept until the end, but after I died, I could no longer protect them, and eventually the whole village was buried here. After the old man finished speaking, there were tears faintly glistening in his eyes. Lin Yumeng frowned, and sighed frequently, but suddenly thought that he would also die here like those villagers, and he couldn't help but feel sad.
"That'...... Grandpa, the monster you just talked about...... What is it?" Lin Yumeng couldn't help but ask.
"I don't know......" The elder shook his head sadly, "This kind of monster can create illusions, and it has never shown its true appearance...... And after I died, I only had some of my mental power left, and it was very inconvenient to move, and I couldn't spy on them at all, alas, in vain the villagers trusted me so much, but I was useless at all......"
"Then, old man, why are you here now?" Lin Yumeng did not forget to alleviate the old man's sorrow and diverted the topic.
"I hope you will build a grave for this village and engrave their names. The old man looked at Lin Yumeng pleadingly.
"But we don't know if we're going to get out. Maybe I'm going to die here. ”
"No, you can get out, actually, it's just a simple hole, there are no entrances and exits that you see, you have entered the illusion. It's all fake, it's just what the monster wants you to see!" The old man's words broke through Lin Yumeng's confusion.
"No wonder. Lin Yumeng nodded, this makes sense, otherwise everything before is not logical at all, even in the magic world.
"This illusion has a great impact on elemental users, as a samurai, you will gradually lose your combat effectiveness, your reaction will become slower and slower, and your body will become fragile, so your legs will be injured, and as the influence of the illusion deepens, it will become more and more obvious. As a magician, the young man will be robbed of his mind by this illusion, he will be extremely angry and irritable, and it will be difficult to control his emotions, he is now subconsciously dormant, and this dormancy will deepen more and more, and it will slowly be difficult to distinguish between dreams and reality, and eventually he will stay in dreams forever. In the end, both of them died here. The old man said solemnly, and then stroked his beard again.
Lin Yumeng listened to the beads of sweat the size of mung beans dripping down, thinking that it was no wonder that his movements were much clumsier when he dodged just now, and he was sprained to the point of fracture with just a few small stones. Ye Ninghan was also so irrational and fired indiscriminately, and asked helplessly: "Old man, what are we going to do then?"
"If you want to realize that you are in an illusion, you can only break it if you are aware of it, and I can only help here, this is the list of villagers, the village is called Merlin Village. After speaking, the old man took out a piece of paper from his coat pocket, handed it to Lin Yumeng, and said with a smile: "Good luck to you." It turned into a wisp of green smoke and disappeared in front of Lin Yumeng. Lin Yumeng had just turned out the kraft paper, and before he could say thank you, the old man disappeared. Lin Yumeng woke up suddenly, and saw that it was already dark in front of him, maybe it was just a dream just now, Lin Yumeng glanced back at Ye Ninghan, who was asleep next to him, and was drooling! As soon as he turned around, he felt a pain in his shoulders and small waist, and he was about to move his waist with his other hand, and the ground supported by his hand turned out to be a piece of paper! Through the feel, Lin Yumeng knew that it was a piece of parchment.
Hearing this, Ye Ninghan chanted a spell, and under the reflection of the blue light star ring, the words on the entire brown paper slowly became obvious, and the title of the paper prominently displayed the words "Merlin Village", and there was a list lined up in four columns below.
"It seems that it is the spiritual power left by the village chief that has affected you, I really don't know how strong he is and how many years he has been waiting. Ye Ninghan said in a low voice, looked at Lin Yumeng and remembered what happened just now, and couldn't help but be embarrassed: "Just now, I'm sorry, I ......" In fact, Ye Hanshuang had a little misunderstanding, the old village chief's mental power was far from being as strong as he imagined, but Lin Yumeng, who had fallen into an illusion, and his own essence were very unstable and easy to be affected, but even so, the old village chief could only affect Lin Yumeng, who had poor mental defense, when the frost fell into dormancy and Lin Yumeng was also confused. This is also the reason why the old village chief failed to help the two of them in the first place.
"It's okay, just act like nothing happened. Lin Yumeng immediately interrupted Ye Ninghan's apology, but gently bit her lip from an angle that Ye Ninghan couldn't see.
Although he knew that he was in the illusion, the illusion still hadn't been lifted, and seeing that the hour was about to pass, Lin Yumeng's panting sound became more and more aggravated, presumably trying to restrain his pain. Ye Ninghan thought to herself, this time she owes Lin Yumeng a favor, but she owes a big deal, and she doesn't know how to pay it back.
"There will be some flaws, there will be some. Let me see again, you are waiting for me here. Ye Ninghan got up and said to Lin Yumeng, "I'll be back soon." After speaking, he took the blue light star ring on the road, carefully observing the road conditions along the way, every rock, every human bone he carefully investigated, but after walking two laps, there was still no flaw, the sleepiness of the night condensation was becoming more and more serious, from time to time he could see Lilith appear beside him, he did not hope that Lilith would not appear at any time like today. Ye Ninghan rubbed his brow with one hand against the wall, trying to wake himself up, and suddenly there was a trace of movement in the corner of the wall, very subtle, but he could hear its movement. Ye Ning Han expanded the blue light star ring to the corner of the wall, and found a creature a little bigger than a mouse, as the night Ning Han's light approached, the creature stood motionless in place, a pair of dark eyes against the light of Ye Ning Han, take a closer look, haha, it turned out to be a hedgehog eating insects! Ye Ning Han grabbed the hedgehog's thorn with his hand and lifted it, the little hedgehog was not big, and when he picked it up, it instantly shrank into a ball, and it was the size of Ye Ning Han's hand. Ye Ninghan thought that he hadn't seen this hedgehog all along, could it have just fallen in, so he quickened his pace and walked back, at this time Lin Yumeng had already shrunk into a ball and frowned, it seemed that the effect of the medicine had failed.
"Hold on a little longer, what do you see this?" Ye Ninghan put the hedgehog in front of Lin Yumeng, the girl raised her head slightly and opened her eyes to see this small thing shrunk into a ball like herself, even if she couldn't help but smile in this situation, but she was interrupted by the pain that hit her.
"Did you see him when you were awake?" asked Ye Ninghan anxiously.
"It seems to be...... Seen ...... But...... It's just a blink of an eye...... I thought it was a mouse. Lin Yumeng took a breath and continued: "There are so many corpses here, and it is underground, it is normal to have a mouse, so I didn't make much fuss, but it is larger than the size of a mouse, and now that I think about it, it should be it." Lin Yumeng finished speaking in one breath, and began to gasp heavily.
"Did you run away when you saw him?" Ye Ninghan continued to ask.
"Well, it seems to have disappeared, the light is too dim, I must have run from the hole, and I didn't see it clearly. ”
"Where?" Ye Ninghan hurriedly asked, seizing on this last hope.
"Right in front of me where there were the most human bones, there was a stone, about the size of a stone bench, that probably ran away from behind the stone. Lin Yumeng's sweat droplets fell one after another. Ye Ninghan stepped forward to support Lin Yumeng and said, "Lend me your dagger and wait for me to come back." Lin Yumeng handed the dagger to Ye Ninghan with difficulty, took the dagger and walked away with the small thing, and Lin Yumeng, who was in the same place, looked at Ye Ninghan's departing figure, couldn't help but shed tears, clenched his fists and slammed it on the ground, and whispered: "It's useless." ”
Ye Ninghan found the stone that Lin Yumeng said, lifted the little hedgehog that was shivering, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "It's up to you!" Ye Ninghan put the little thing in the corner of the wall and shone it with a blue star ring. At first, the little thing didn't dare to make any moves, but when he saw that there was no movement for a long time, he stretched his body, a grunt turned around and stood up, looked back at Ye Ninghan who was squatting aside, stared at it for a while, suddenly turned his head, and hit the corner of the wall, you must know that there is no gap in the corner of the wall, but the little thing just disappeared in the corner, Ye Ninghan was surprised, took out the dagger and scratched it the calf, and instantly opened the flesh, and scolded in his heart: ", this dagger is really sharp." "But I don't know how powerful the illusion is, so I don't dare to swipe lightly, this only opportunity must be used accurately. As the pain hit, Ye Ninghan's mind became more and more clear, and the scene in front of him began to blur and gradually became clear again. The long tunnel began to shorten and disappear, and instead a deep and large earth pit appeared in front of him, Ye Ninghan looked around with a blue light star ring, and found that the entire hole was not as big as before, maybe he was going around in circles, and Lin Yumeng was just a few steps away, and the white bones were scattered in all corners of the cave, looking much more cautious than just now. Ye Ninghan happily shouted to Lin Yumeng: "I'm untied!" wanted to run over quickly, but his calf fell to the ground in pain, and Lin Yumeng just raised his head slightly, smiled lightly, closed his eyes and fainted. Ye Ninghan struggled to stand up, his entire calf was already covered with blood, and he didn't have time to take care of the injury to his calf, if the illusion struck again, it was estimated that he would really die here. Ye Ning Han evoked the levitation technique, floated to Lin Yumeng's side, and picked up Lin Yumeng, Lin Yumeng had a little consciousness, opened his eyes slightly, and saw that he was lying in Ye Ning Han's arms, and said with a soft smile: "Saved?"
"I'll take you out, hold on!" Ye Ning Han once again evoked the levitation technique, thinking that the cave mouth floated over, and on the way, he saw the traces left by his use of the Wind Blade Heavenly Attack and the Wind Curse Kill, so he continued to speed up and rushed out, Ye Ning Han felt the recovery of mental strength and physical strength, and rushed back to the previous hut in one go.
At this time, thousands of miles away in Pompeii, Genesis rubbed his forehead and muttered to himself: "Actually, I shouldn't do it, alas, but who told that little girl who doesn't make people worry about making such a big mistake, just use a little bit of means...... I'm exhausted...... I need to take a break and relax, well, it's been a long time since I've gambled on two handfuls......"