Chapter Ninety-Three: The Man in the Iron Cage
Candles, keys, small wooden tables that are aging rapidly, traces of blood drying up on the floor... All of this seemed to want to tell Mo Yuan something, and now he only needs to find the source of the bloodstain to basically understand the situation.
Mo Yuan lowered his head and walked all the way along the bloodstains, but the more he went, the tighter his brows were.
Those stains don't go straight all the way to the distance, in some places the stains appear disorganized, and the number of stains is far greater than normal.
Was there a fight or any accident here? But this doesn't make sense, Ye Qing became a powerful ghost under his own gaze, there can be no blood, then the owner of these blood stains can only be... Ye Qing's younger brother, Ye Yang!
Mo Yuan didn't know how Ye Yang was injured, according to the analysis of the situation afterwards, Ye Yang should not have been injured so badly, and if it was a trace from the fight, who was left by the fight with Ye Yang?
The doubts in his heart became a little stronger, and Mo Yuan continued to walk forward with doubts, no matter what, let's find the source of the stain first.
Mo Yuan subconsciously glanced at the candle in his hand when he walked, the candle was still burning and emitting blood-red light, but it did not decrease in the slightest, and he didn't even see half a drop of wax oil.
If it weren't for the fact that he hadn't seen the existence of a socket on the candle, Mo Yuan couldn't help but want to reach out and touch the flame to see if it was a lamp or something like a realistic workmanship.
In fact, Mo Yuan had already stretched out his hand when this thought rose in his heart, but when he was close to the flame, a great sense of crisis appeared in his heart.
It seemed that if he touched this flame, what would happen to him that he would regret it, and the outstretched hand stopped in mid-air and did not take action.
The strange touch of this candle has always made Mo Yuan a little worried about it since just now, and Mo Yuan feels that he should have been exposed to something similar to the touch not long ago, but he can't remember when and where it happened.
There were thousands of thoughts in his heart, but there was no stop under his feet, and along the way to the stains, Mo Yuan finally found something other than the floor and stains, but this thing made Mo Yuan a little sluggish and frightened.
It was an iron cage made of pure metal, each iron pillar was the thickness of an arm, and it was densely written with words, Mo Yuan couldn't read these words, but it felt a little similar to the patterns on the rune paper drawn by Mu Tian.
The iron cage was wrapped around several thick iron chains, which were supposed to be used to tie the beast to a very thin young man, and it seemed to give people a great sense of disobedience.
And not only that, the young man's body was also densely pasted with rune paper that emitted a faint golden light.
When the young man raised his head weakly and saw Mo Yuan, the whole person's mood was a little excited, and he moved his arm that was tied to him as if he wanted to reach for Mo Yuan.
But it was this small action that led to the golden light of the rune paper attached to his body, and a faint black smoke continued to emerge from the young man's body, and a muffled snort of pain came out of his mouth at the same time.
At the same time as the golden light of the rune paper was flourishing, the iron chains that were like giant pythons that were wrapped around the young people also quickly turned red, like a red-hot soldering iron, and the part that came into contact with the young man suddenly heard Zizi's voice, and Mo Yuan was terrified when he heard it.
Just when Mo Yuan couldn't bear to look at it anymore and was about to turn his head, he couldn't help but be stunned when he glanced at the red-hot iron chain.
Originally, the whole body was pitch black, except for the thick and heavy, there were no special iron chains, but in this state as if it was burned red, runes appeared on the surface of the burned red, and it looked like the iron cage outside was made by the same person.
"Ye Qing, why are you locked up here?"
Mo Yuan couldn't help but ask in the end, he had recognized this young man as early as when he saw Ye Qing for the first time, and those runes were also thought to exist so that the iron chains and other things could have an effect on Ye Qing, who had become a powerful ghost.
It's just that Mo Yuan still doesn't know why Ye Qing is locked up here, isn't Ye Qing driven by his younger brother to collect physical strength in some way?
Driven? Wait a minute! I think I probably know what's going on!
Mo Yuan had a guess in his heart, and if that guess was true, then everything made sense.
Ye Qing was suffering a great deal of pain, and when he heard Mo Yuan's inquiry, he opened his mouth several times but didn't say a word.
Seeing Ye Qing's appearance, although Mo Yuan wanted to help him, he couldn't do anything about the crimson iron chain, so he simply didn't care about Ye Qing who was screaming, thinking that there was a time limit for this situation.
It's not for any reason that Ye Yang won't do too much to Ye Qing, what can't he do to kill someone who can even love his own brother in every way?
Instead, when Mu Tian made a move before, Mo Yuan profoundly understood that whether it was rune paper or runes, the nature of this kind of thing should be similar, that is to say, although the runes on it seemed to be powerful at the moment, there was always a time when the energy was exhausted.
If you don't get enough energy, then it will naturally stop when the stored energy is used up, which explains why the outer iron cage that seems to be completely out of touch is densely engraved with runes.
It should have been engraved after the energy contained in things such as iron chains was used up, in order to prevent Ye Qing, who had turned into a powerful ghost, from taking the opportunity to escape.
But there is another point that Mo Yuan doesn't understand, how to replenish the energy in this? Is it up to Ye Yang to come over to replenish it in person, or is there any mechanism to set up automatic replenishment?
If it was the former, then it would not be a big problem, after all, Ye Yang was already dead, and it was naturally impossible to replenish his energy.
But if it's the latter... Mo Yuan's gaze continued to scan around the iron cage, and so far he hadn't found anything similar to this kind of mechanism, and he didn't know if it was hidden too deep or there was no such mechanism at all.
After a long period of searching and searching, Mo Yuan finally found a lock, an old-fashioned padlock, in a hidden corner of the iron cage.
Without the existence of this padlock, Mo Yuan would have almost been able to find that the place that looked almost welded together was actually the door of this iron cage.
Finding the key from the pile of sawdust from his body, Mo Yuan said that the key was put together at the keyhole of the padlock and compared, and found that it was basically a complete match in terms of looking.
Why is the key to this iron cage hidden inside that small square table?
Although the situation has gradually become clear, Mo Yuan always feels a little uneasy in his heart, as if he has neglected something very important.
This feeling made Mo Yuan very uncomfortable, but no matter how hard Mo Yuan tried to recall what happened before, he couldn't find the problem that he had overlooked.
"Uh, you're..."
A weak voice came from the side, which startled Mo Yuan, who was deep in thought, and hurriedly looked up at the sound, but found that Ye Qing, who had been tortured before, was talking to him with a weak face at this time.
The rune paper, which originally emitted a strong golden light, had completely lost its brilliance at this time, and it looked like ordinary yellow paper at this time.
The red-hot iron chains had also reverted to a swarthy appearance, and the runes that had surfaced when they were burned red had quietly disappeared, and there was no trace of what had existed before.
"You don't know me?"
Mo Yuan was a little surprised, and then hurriedly spoke as if he had thought of something: "You are Ye Qing, right?" ”
Ye Qing looked at Mo Yuan strangely and nodded.
"You know me? We've seen it before? ”
Mo Yuan stared deeply into Ye Qing's eyes, but he only saw weakness and doubt in Ye Qing's eyes, and there was no trace of weakness in his heart.
"Hey, it seems that the situation is still a little different from what I thought."
Mo Yuan sighed softly, but Ye Qing heard it clearly, no wonder, there was boundless darkness all around here, and after staying in this environment for a long time, he would naturally be extremely sensitive to sound.
"What do you mean something that's a little different from what you think? Have we really seen this before? ”
Ye Qing was a little hesitant about Mo Yuan's attitude that they should know.
"Well, I see, I've seen you who have become a ghost, and I saw everything that happened to you before you died."
Mo Yuan said seriously to Ye Qing in the iron cage.
It's just that, completely different from Mo Yuan's expected reaction, after Ye Qing listened to Mo Yuan's words, the whole person fell into a strange silence, and the temperament of the whole person also changed from weakness to despair.
"What's wrong with you? Is there anything that's struggling for you? If it's this iron cage..."
Mo Yuan just wanted to say that he had obtained the key to help him open the iron cage, but he shook his head when he saw Ye Qing laughing miserably.
"Forget it, forget it, it's also his own fault, I'll say how could anyone come to this place, it turns out... Hahaha, brother, you're still ...
Although I don't know how Ye Qing came to the conclusion that Ye Yang is dead, it is not difficult to infer from Ye Qing's words that Ye Qing has already obtained the answer.
Mo Yuan, who had seen what happened to Ye Qing before his death, didn't feel that Ye Qing shouldn't laugh at all, on the contrary, Mo Yuan felt that Ye Qing should laugh uncontrollably when he learned that Ye Yang was dead.
But Ye Qing's smile was not without the joy and pleasure of revenge, but some sadness and sadness, and some inexplicable emotions...
"That's it, that's it, I didn't feel my brother's breath of death in you, I guess he didn't die at your hands, but this is not right, if he didn't die at your hands, why did you come here? Tell me. ”
In the end, Ye Qing looked at Mo Yuan firmly: "Tell me what happened." ”