Chapter Twenty-Three: The Soul Deal

In the blood, the insects were fleeing, and when all the insects were gone, the skeleton finally lost its vitality and scattered like dead branches.

And after the skeleton fell to the ground, I saw a black bug slowly crawling out of the skeleton, and when I saw the bug, I hurriedly got up again.

It was also a poisonous insect, a bone-eating insect, but with this kind of bug, it seemed to be able to suppress the red caterpillar on the skeleton.

Looking along the place where the bone-eating worm was thrown just now, I saw Liu Ran and Dongfang standing on a stone platform.

"What are you doing here, how did you get this bug?" Liu Ran asked me, but I was a little noncommittal.

"What else do I want to ask you? Where have you been, and what about Chen Haidong? Why didn't he be with you. ”

"It's a long story, he wasn't with us all the time, and we didn't know what was going on until we found the stone platforms and the bones on them." Dongfang explained as he and Liu Ran walked down from the stone platform.

"Chen Haidong is not with you, where will he go?" I frowned, "And Old Zhong, originally we were all checking the bone inscriptions, but when we turned around, we couldn't see anyone else, if Chen Haidong wasn't with you, then it should have been taken to other places by the mechanism in the tomb alone." ”

Liu Ran didn't say anything, he glanced at me first, only then did he find the gun on my body, and immediately asked me if it was from.

I didn't hide it, pointed to the stone wall over there, briefly told her about the previous discovery, and asked Liu Qingchun who found this place with back then.

She was silent for a moment, as if she was thinking about something, but then she shook her head and said she didn't know, and then took her flashlight and went to find the exit.

Watching her walk towards the stone wall, I felt that she was preoccupied, but just as she was about to speak, she was pulled by Dongfang.

He handed me a cigarette, and I waved my hand to say no, and asked them what they were going through.

After lighting his cigarette, he took a puff before he began to talk about the previous incident, "Actually, we were all going around those skeletons, but on a few of them, we found some paintings? ”

"Painting?? What is the painting? I couldn't help but interject.

He put down his cigarette and tried to recall it for a moment before continuing, "Maybe it was also a kind of text, but I felt that it was a painting, and the content of the painting seemed familiar, as if I had seen it somewhere, but for a moment I couldn't remember what it was." ”

"So, I wanted Liu Ran to come over and help check it, because she used to be at our house often, so there are many things that I am familiar with, and she should not be a stranger."

"In this way, she leaned over and looked at it twice, and then she couldn't take her eyes off it anymore, and I waited for her for half a minute, and I didn't see her say a word, and I didn't feel right at that time, but no matter how I pulled and shook, her eyes were still staring straight at the skeleton."

"I can't help it, when I was about to call you, I suddenly heard a robbery, I heard it clearly, it must have been a robbery, that's right, it was Chen Haidong's gun, but I don't know who he shot this shot for, maybe he also found something, it was just a mysterious sign."

The smoke in Dongfang's hand dispersed chaotically, like I am listening to his story now, and gradually nervous.

"I was aware of the atmosphere here, but the first thing that came to mind was those damn skeletons, they must have been playing tricks on us, so I kicked them down. ”

"The skeletons scattered, but they didn't seem to be dead, because I felt like they were being summoned by some kind of mystery, slowly piecing together their dead bodies, and I couldn't believe what I was seeing."

"When those skeletons crawled to Liu Ran's side, I saw that her eyes were empty, and she didn't know when she had taken out a knife in her hand, and the blade was cutting into the carotid artery."

"I shouted her name and looked back to ask for help, but all I saw was those skeletons, and even Chen Haidong was nowhere to be found!"

The cigarette butt in Dongfang's hand was clenched between his index and middle fingers, and the red tobacco burned in the darkness, emitting bursts of gray, indistinguishable smoke.

"The blood dripped on the skeleton and burrowed into the bones, and the lines carved into the bones were injected with new strength, turning into red grooves that continued to extend inward."

"The red pattern, wrapped around the bones, is like a plant, watered by bright red blood, and it grows rapidly."

"And then?" Seeing him stop, I asked cautiously.

Under the firelight, Dongfang's face appeared with a rare solemnity, and he said silently, "This is a curse, I want to stop it, so I injected my blood into that skeleton." ”

"In the past, I read in an ancient book that blood sacrifices have been passed down from generation to generation, and if we really have the so-called soul in our body, then the qi and blood in our body are the link between the body and the soul. They are based in a sense, the connection between the living and the dead. ”

"This may be a bargain, the bones here tell the people who come here to explore what they see here, and in exchange, the living also have to inject some blood into the bodies of the dead to convey the gift of life!"

"This is somewhat similar to the way of the bone sealer, the difference is that the other party of this exchange must have a certain measurement, or be familiar with this person before death, or have a certain cultivation before death, and after death, the soul hides in the bones, so that the soul can be used as a medium to trade with the living people it comes into contact with."

"The patterns on the bones are the reason why the soul of the living can see it, when our brain waves are kept at a certain frequency, all kinds of perceptions on the body will be reduced to a level close to death, which is also similar to suspended animation, but the soul is not out of the body."

"It's a very dangerous existence, but again, communicating with that kind of power requires a very special factor, and I think that's probably why I wasn't attracted to the power hidden in this skeleton."

"That's a kind of mental power, and Liu Ran is the one who is more in line with catering to this kind of mental power. I don't know why it did it, so I interrupted them with my own blood. ”

"In the dark, the contract for this blood sacrifice was broken, and I asked her what she had just seen, but she didn't remember it at all, but I felt like she was hiding it from me."

"Maybe she had found the information that Liu Qingchun found when she came here back then, but it was not complete, like a vague memory."

"It's just my guess, and I don't dare to ask her again until it's confirmed. But it is undeniable that she is the most persistent person who came here, and she is also the person who has refused to give up looking for the original person for more than ten years, so she will cater to that mental power and accept this deal! ”

"I can feel her pain, but I also know that those things are not worth her effort, and maybe one day when she fully understands the outcome she is looking for, it will be even more painful, or we shouldn't be here, and this place is different from what we first thought!"

The smoke finally burned out, and Dongfang took one last puff, threw it on the ground and trampled it out.

"When I came here, I felt that she was just like the rest of the Liu family, because of Liu Qingchun's practices and because of that exercise, she went to a dangerous place, and even died."

At this point, he fell silent again, relieved his senses, and then continued, "I don't know what happened just now, but in the end, there were only two of us left in that tomb, and the others were gone. At first, I thought it was the skeletons, but I couldn't find you by any means, so it occurred to me that it might be because of the changes in the chamber itself. ”

"After that, we had to go back the way we came, but the burial chamber we returned to was not at all what we had first discovered, but a different burial chamber where there were many stone statues carved into human shapes."

"Among these portraits, there is a mountain, and the mountain takes on the appearance of a building, layer upon layer. On each floor, there are some red bugs crawling. ”

"As you saw just now, those insects were able to resurrect the skeletons here, and they were sealed inside the stone platform, using those ancient vine scripts as seals."

"There, we found another burial chamber, where there are also stone platforms like this one, and from one of the stone platforms we also found the bone-eater that just saved you."

Hearing him say this, I finally understood that the reason why these red caterpillars suddenly crawled out was because I lured away the previous bone eaters.

But they are both poisonous insects, how can they become natural enemies and survive in the same area?

In all things, they are all mutually reinforcing, but nothing is under the same attribute, but it can still maintain an opposing form.

I threw the question to Dongfang, and he couldn't answer it, just shook his head, "Maybe there are many more things here that we haven't discovered, and their wisdom is much higher than what we currently know. ”

According to him, in the first burial chamber, when they disappeared, I repeatedly asked if I really didn't feel any movement at that time.

He still said those words, only heard Chen Haidong's gunshots, and then it was Liu Ran's problem.

Gunshot? I frowned, why did Chen Haidong shoot, what did he find, and disappeared alone in the tomb?

It seemed that the burial chamber was really not simple, and it was able to divide us into three groups in such a quick way that neither of us even noticed what was happening between each other.

At this time, Dongfang began to ask about me and Lao Zhong again, and I smiled a little wryly about how Lao Zhong found those feng shui diagrams and beast heads, and then disappeared strangely on the beast's head, and finally I crawled over the endless stone cave clouds...... Tell me everything as it is.

After listening to this, Dongfang nodded, but took out a pen and paper and Kun Tiandou from his backpack, and began to calculate the topographic map here on paper, as well as the law of magnetic field changes, trying to use this method to find the way out.