Chapter 49: The Labyrinth of Bones
For some reason, Chu Cheng suddenly remembered the 'soul aberration' he had encountered when he encountered an abnormal phenomenon with Dai'er. I remembered the faces that screamed in pain, and the scene where the thing screamed and tried to devour Dale's soul.
Chu Cheng remembered that Nameless had said that the face-eating insect was the product of the pollution and distortion of reality by negative spiritual consciousness, which meant that the essence of the face-eating insect was likely to be the same negative consciousness collection as the 'soul deberration'!
You must know that since the face-eating insects attacked the camp, Chu Cheng has seen human faces on the face-eating insects more than once, although these faces are material, but the painful moaning and distorted appearance is exactly the same as those human faces on the 'soul aberration'. This made Chu Cheng have to suspect that soul aberrations and face-eating insects ...... Could it be the same thing in essence!
"If that's the case, then the matrix of the 'Negative Consciousness Collective' represented by the huge black dots on the map could be the so-called 'Face-Eater Lord'!?" Thinking of this, Chu Cheng suddenly became even more worried about the safety of the Eagle Regiment, and hurriedly called Imari to continue on his way.
Who knew that at this moment, Imari suddenly grabbed Chu Cheng's arm, and Rou Yi trembled and pointed in a direction.
Chu Cheng hurriedly looked in that direction, and saw that a piece of white gravel was scattered on the ground of the mechanical structure in front of him!
Grit?
Chu Cheng frowned and walked over, only to feel the white grit in front of him, in this world based on black mechanical bodies, it seemed indescribably weird and disobedient.
"No, it's not grit!" Looking at the things in front of him carefully, Chu Cheng was suddenly slightly shocked. His eyes were so sharp that he immediately saw that there was a skeleton half-buried in the gravel. The skeleton is so badly decayed that it scatters into granular bone chips at the slightest touch, just like the white gravel around it.
What made Chu Cheng even more shocked was that this skeleton actually had no face.
"Maybe it's too old, and the part of the face has decayed." Chu Cheng thought so, but as he continued to go deeper, more skeletons began to appear on the path ahead, and at the same time, Chu Cheng also discovered something even more terrifying......
These skeletons, whether they are well-preserved or have been mostly gravel, are all faceless!
To be precise, the bones of these skeletons' faces are incomplete, as if when the corpses died, the flesh and blood on their faces, along with some of their facial bones, were cut off...... Taken!
"These bones...... Who left it!? There were more and more bones in front of him, and there was even a faint tendency to pile up into mounds, which made the uneasiness in Chu Cheng's heart more and more intense. For some reason, he always felt that there was an inexplicable and inexplicable connection between the white bones that appeared here and the face-eating insects.
As Chu Cheng continued to move forward, a metal facility with a somewhat special appearance suddenly appeared in his field of vision. The facility looks like a giant "tombstone" made of black metal, towering in the middle of a large pile of white bones. The main part of it has been submerged and covered by the white bones of the skeletons stacked around it, and from a distance, it looks as if these bones are frantically trying to burrow into this "tombstone" before they die, which makes people's scalp tingle.
Chu Cheng saw that directly above the "tombstone", there was a row of round holes similar to jacks, like some kind of connection port, and like some kind of keyhole.
Chu Cheng tried to use the master key, but who knew that this "tombstone" facility was actually opened, and suddenly a thick smell of decay suddenly erupted. Chu Cheng hurriedly pulled Imari backwards, and when the rotten aura dissipated, he saw a shriveled corpse curled up in the space inside the "tombstone" facility.
The corpse looked similarly old, but it looked much better than the faceless skeletons outside. Although the body of the corpse is still white bones, it is very well preserved. Chu Cheng saw that the corpse was even covered with a layer of dry human skin, giving people a bit of a mummy.
Judging by the size of the skeleton, the owner of the corpse should be a woman.
"Master, look ......" At this moment, Imari suddenly pointed towards the corpse's right hand. Chu Cheng looked at it and saw that there seemed to be something hidden in the palm of the corpse's clenched hand.
The dried yellow skin on the right hand of the corpse was torn open, and suddenly a small black box half a finger wide and one finger long, with complex secret patterns engraved on the surface, fell out. Chu Cheng picked up the pitch-black box on the ground, but the moment his fingers touched the small box, he heard a "pop", and a sharp long needle bounced out of the small box.
"What is this?" Chu Cheng cautiously looked at the things in his hand, and he didn't see any clues.
[Obtain a "personality preservation device" and pierce a 'long needle' into the skin to read the information inside the device.] ใ
[Reminder, there are several chances that important information may be stored in the "Personality Preservation Device.] ใ
ใWarning! It can be dangerous during the reading process, so choose carefully. ใ
When Chu Cheng heard this, he immediately frowned, he was a normal person, and he naturally had an instinctive rejection of the things that were picked out of the hands of the corpse. But if there really is this and the face-eating insect in this little box...... Even the huge black dot in the center of the hall, then it is likely to be the key to the next breakthrough.
"Imari, you're in charge of guarding." Griffith and the others were in danger, and Chu Cheng didn't have time to think about it, and finally pierced the needle deep into the skin of his arm.