21. The place where the bones are buried

The bloodlines I've met are all amazing.... Creature, but the good thing is that she is on our side. Bella may be far weaker than Vasilissa, but to mortals, she is still like a god.

How do I fight against them?

The man under the door panel did not die, but his nose was blue and his face was swollen, and his hand was broken, twisted and deformed, and Salvador gave him an injection, believing that he would get better soon.

This is my first time leading a team, and it is best that there are no casualties, and I don't even want to die because he and Fairhel treat me as one of their own, and their survival will also improve the nobles' evaluation of my abilities.

I asked, "Do you need a break?" ”

Bella said, "No, fast in and out, finish this errand early." ”

I couldn't help but feel like she was a more avid antique collector than Michael, and she couldn't wait on the way.

Bella saw my confusion and said, "When the day dawns, I won't be able to move." ”

We followed the path I had explored, and stepped into the meadow, and I crouched down to shine the light, and found that the grass was red.

I said, "Moose are attracted to this blood weed." ”

Cissus echoed: "Yes, these days, people are not like men, and beasts are not like beasts, they are all changing in the direction of demons. ”

He sneered, "I pretended I didn't hear you, but be careful. ”

Bella said, "Remember? That photo shows the window.... Right in this area, go find the statue! ”

We had to scatter and look for it, there were many exhibits here, and there was no harvest for a while. At the same time, we had to be careful of possible dangers, and I was nervous and watched everyone vigilantly, lest the slightest mistake would lead to their tragic death, after all, human life is as fragile as tissue paper in this place.

As the search grew, I shouted from time to time, "Salvador, don't go to that corner!" Live target! Stand back and shine with a flashlight first! Force, Johnson! Don't lie on the ground, it's too dangerous! Fairheil, Jing Yuan, that carriage is weird, don't get too close! ”

They didn't listen to me, they went their own way, and before I knew it, I was sweating profusely.

Bella suddenly shouted, "Give me all peace!" What did I hear! ”

I kept my mouth shut.

Bella walked over to the ground where the moose had graze, leaned over and listened for a while, and said, "There's a sound down there, under the floor." ”

I obeyed Odin's Eye, and there was a whisper under the floor, like a prayer, reverent, lowly and almost silent, but trying to listen made one feel a great sadness.

There seem to be dozens, nearly a hundred, of people under the floor! They're all girls, or very young children!

Salvador asked, "How?" ”

I said, "Hell, there's someone in there, and they're desperate." ”

Bella asked, "Is it another dimension?" ”

We all think it's quite possible.

I said, "Okay, I'll go in and have a look, maybe the statue is inside, you haven't heard my instructions, don't act rashly." ”

If it were the Goddess Icks, they would probably kill themselves, and I might not have had time to save these many people, let alone deal with them.

Salvador said: "Be careful, don't be careless. ”

We took out the explosives and put them on the ground, and we hid in the distance and detonated them, and with a deafening explosion, a hole was revealed under the floor, not shallow, about two and a half meters, with steps down, enough for ordinary people to walk.

They tied me around my waist with steel ropes, and I mustered up the courage and strength to go down.

The place was all dark, just a tunnel, red brick walls, supported by wooden frames, and a rancid smell.

Those young voices are intermittent, am I crazy?

It reminds me of the underground facility where I was born, and I have to watch out for similar psychic attacks.

Concentrate, concentrate, not relax for a moment, not be distracted for a moment, continue to move forward, perceive the slightest danger in advance, I am the only one who can resist the curse of Ix, I must protect myself.

I probably made a mistake, I should have let some cannon fodder go ahead, if something happened to him, I could save him, but if something happened to me, no one could save me.

There's a red spot on this wall, darker in color, isn't it a bloody handprint? It seemed like yes, the smell was deeper and stronger, I smelled it, it was the smell of corpses that had been dead for a long time. Should I wear an oxygen mask? But it distracts me and obscures my vision.

Do you hear that? I seemed to hear a complete sentence. What is she talking about? Perhaps..... Who is that?

I... Just now, I saw a little girl walking in, she was wearing a blood-red robe, was that my hallucination? I've been mentally attacked?

I can't tell the difference between reality and illusion, because there is no trace, and even if I am affected, I don't know.

I'll have to figure out how to prevent it someday, but will it be now... Too late?

I did hear it, it was a little girl: "Sir, are you telling the truth?" If I die, can I really be pretty? ”

Another girl: "Thank you, sir, for giving me courage, I am not afraid of death, and I am about to go free now." ”

Another different girl: "Sir? I... I've changed my mind, I still want to live! What the? No, no, sir, I really don't want to...."

Maiden: "Sir, I give my life to the goddess Ix!" ”

Girl: "Sir, will my death really make my sister better?" ”

I heard the voices of countless maidens! They are pitiful, desolate, and that so-called gentleman is persecuting them... They committed suicide.

This is where the statue of Icks is located, one of the three sisters of Icks.

A cold wind blew, and I realized that I was mired in an illusion.

It was a group of female students who had come to visit the museum, dressed in neat school uniforms, and one of them, a skinny girl, frowned, seemed to be isolated and made fun of.

She walked up to the statue of Ix, a maiden in a robe and walking. The skinny girl was attracted to the statue and stared at it.

A man with a big nose in a straight suit appeared next to her, and he asked, "Do you have something on your mind?" Child? ”

She looked at him, quickly turned her head, and asked, "Sir, who are you?" ”

The big-nosed man said, "I'm the curator here, and I'd love to help you, if you need it." ”

This scene disappears, and another emerges. The curator asked the thin girl to dress up in a red robe and walk through the underground passage, holding the statue of the goddess Icks, and on the way whispered to her about the Mayan beliefs about the goddess Icks.

He said: "Sometimes, death is not terrible, on the contrary, death is noble, it is a contract with the three sisters of Ix, when you die, all the pain of life will be gone, and you will enter the most beautiful paradise, where you will become a spirit accompanying the goddess of Ix, not only can you live well, but also help your family out of trouble." ”

The girl trembled, "Death? ”

The curator's expression was intoxicated and reverent, and in the darkness, his face appeared extremely thin, his cheekbones were high, and his smile was eerie, and he said, "Don't be afraid, all you have to do is believe." ”

They came to the end of the passage, a large secret room, in which many girls in red were already waiting for the thin girl, they were besieging the city like a family, looking expectantly at the comer, but their eyes flashed with a feverish light, like a group of hungry little devils.

As the skinny girl sat down between them, they began to chant, the ecstatic lyrics monotonous and harsh, the enthusiasm but the evil faintly hidden.

Then one of the strange girls stood up, took off her hood, showed her thin and pale face, smiled and picked up a dagger, knelt before the statue of the goddess, and stabbed herself in the neck.

I clenched my fists heavily, my nails digging into my skin, and my mind cleared from the pain.

I'm already in that secret room, and the floor is full of those.... The bones, the bones were very short, they belonged to the girls.

The curator tricked them into setting up a cruel cult and let them end their lives here to honor the three Ixes sisters.

In the midst of the corpse, the statue of the evil god stood upright in front of me, and I couldn't see her face clearly, but the more I did, the colder my spine became.

Someone behind me snorted in pain, and I looked back and saw that Bella and Salvador were all in this secret room, why did they.... Didn't I tell them not to come with me?

They couldn't move, but it wasn't their shadows that were holding them, the bodies of the maidens were covered with white flowers, petals that turned into soft ropes and draped over them. Bella was dreaming of a dream she couldn't wake up, her eyes closed and her body trembling.

As the petals floated by, I heard the maidens laughing, as if they really found happiness after death, Bella, were they attracted to this laughter?

I'm still awake because I've been through the same crisis, but I'm also paralyzed and my body doesn't listen to me.

The girl smiled, "New friends, welcome, welcome to the world after our death, we haven't met new friends for a long time." ”

Salvador raised his gun and aimed it at his temple.

I tried my best to say, "The curator lied to you, you.... Not in paradise of bliss. ”

The girls said, "But we are very happy, very happy." "We don't have to be bullied anymore." "We are always together and are the happiest family." "We never go out again, the outside world is too big and dangerous, we are safest here, it will always be bright."

I was in a hurry and said, "You.... Want to see the stars? ”

They said, "Stars? Indeed, we haven't seen it for a long time. ”

I said, "The world has changed, and now, when you look up, you can see hundreds of millions of stars, illuminating the night sky into lilac, which is the light from the vast universe hundreds of millions of light years away, beyond time and space, distant and mysterious, indescribably beautiful." You are in the Pure Land of Bliss, but you will not see the stars. ”

Only in the darkness do the stars appear.

They whispered, and after a few minutes, one of the girls said, "Okay, we secretly let you go, you take us to see the night sky, to see the stars." ”

The moment I resumed my movements, I released my shadow and seized the statue of the evil goddess, and it was out of the altar, and in an instant the maidens cried out, "You liar! You have destroyed our homeland! "Where are we going now?" I don't want to, I don't want to leave everyone! ”

They let out the cries of the fugitives, but I hardened my heart and ignored them, and after a while the voices became extremely faint, and they seemed to have truly passed away.