Chapter Twenty-Five: The Altar of a Thousand Corpses
The laughter lasted for another five or six seconds before it faded away, and then the green dots of light disappeared. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoCould it be that the laughter came from the point of light?
Little by little, fear grew in my heart, and I wondered what it was, could it be a human being? If not, what else would it be? I tried my best to keep myself calm, there was no way back anyway, I had to go and see if it was a ghost or a ghost, and it was better to be killed by it than to be drowned in water.
I got up and walked forward slowly, this time I was much more careful, I just hit the wall because I was careless, and I can't say anything about the same mistakes.
I walked slowly in the darkness, trying not to think about something horrible because in this absolute darkness a man is likely to drive himself crazy if he is not mentally able to bear it. I took a deep breath and tried to relax.
After walking for a while, I touched the stone wall, and it seemed that this section of the road was much shorter than the one just now. I immediately subconsciously looked around, but I couldn't see anything. Without those green dots of light, I really don't know where to go now.
Just as I hesitated, the area in front of me suddenly lit up - it was those points of light! I'm a little excited, at least I know where to go.
This time there seemed to be dozens of times more than just now, and the area not far away was illuminated, and I couldn't see exactly what those bright spots were, but I could clearly see that there were two forks in the road.
The fork in the road does not seem to be straight, but has a bend in it.
After about half a second, the strange laughter sounded again, and then the light began to move towards the fork in the road to the left, and then disappeared into the depths of the curve, and I was plunged into darkness again, accompanied by the ghostly and desolate laughter.
As in the previous two times, the laughter lasted only five or six seconds before fading. Now I'm 100% sure that the laughter must have come from those points of light, and that those points of light weren't some behemoth, because they weren't connected, they were individuals.
I touched the stone wall on my left hand side and moved forward, and it didn't take long for me to clearly feel that I had entered a curve. My fear wasn't as strong as it used to be, because so far the points of light weren't meant to hurt me, but more like they were guiding me, as if they appeared and disappeared at every point.
The rest of the road was much more tortuous than I had imagined, with some of the corners almost 180-degree turns, and I was so dizzy that I wondered if it was a loop.
I had no choice but to hold on to the stone wall and keep going, since the points of light seemed to guide me, there must be a reason for them, and if I didn't expect, they would definitely appear at the next node.
Gradually, I suddenly smelled a disgusting smell, at first it was very faint, I thought I had accidentally let out a fart, but as I went deeper, the smell became stronger and stronger, it was an extremely bad stench.
Suddenly, I had a stirring start, and I seemed to realize that there was some rotten smell in the stench, like the smell of a "dead fawn" - it was a corpse stench!
In the darkness, I felt my breathing become rapid, and cold sweat broke out, and the smell of corpses was so strong that I had a very ominous premonition.
The flames of fear were rekindled, and although I had seen corpses more than once since I arrived in the ghost town, I had no idea what was going on around me in this completely dark environment. I was afraid that I would suddenly see a dried corpse sitting next to me, staring straight at me, and that a bloody dead man's head would suddenly fall from the top of my head and fall right into my arms.
I couldn't suppress the fear, but my feet still walked forward involuntarily. Sometimes, the more fearful people are, the more curious they become, as if they have an innate desire to learn, and when the truth is revealed, they tend to retreat. It's kind of ironic, like a rebellious child who knows it's wrong, but still wants to try.
I don't know if I'm a child or not, my mom said that when I'm an adult, I'd rather be a child, I'd rather never grow up.
In the darkness, I was dizzy from the stench of decay, but I couldn't stop looking further. Finally, there was a faint green light in front of me, which was not clear, it should be from the point of light, and when I turned that corner, I should be able to see the answer I wanted.
I became excited, and at the same time, a mixed emotion arose. I want to move forward, I want to solve the mystery in my heart; But I was also afraid, afraid to see a sight that I couldn't accept.
With this entanglement in mind, I slowly approached the green light and turned the last corner. For a moment, I was almost fainted by the sudden, even stronger smell of corpses than before. I covered my nose and took my breath, and when I saw everything in front of me, I felt like my heart was about to jump out.
In front of me was a huge altar, the size of half a football field, and there was nothing in the middle of it, but the ground beneath the steps around it was littered with decomposing corpses, an unimaginable number of them, and as far as the eye could see, there was almost a regiment in number.
On these corpses, there were dense green points of light, ghostly illuminating the entire altar. I looked at the corpse closest to me, and when I looked closely, it almost scared me to death: I saw a dozen large fist-sized, strange-looking insects tearing at the corpse, like wild beasts, their backs faintly glowing with dark green cold light, like the fluorescence of fireflies, except that the glowing part of the fireflies was the abdomen, and theirs was the back.
I casually glanced at them, and there were thousands of them, like countless green points of light scattered on the ground.
I stood there and was shocked, it turned out that the green light I saw was emitted by these bugs, and these strange bugs actually ate people!
The bug on a corpse at my feet suddenly looked at me, and then made a "clucking" sound, and I shuddered with fright, this is the terrible laughter, it turned out to be a big bug. Immediately afterwards, the sound of "clucking" came from all directions, and the atmosphere was extremely weird!
My whole body was frozen in place, my nerves were uncontrollable, and there was no reaction. I can't imagine how painful it would be to be bitten by so many bugs, and it would be better to drown than to be bitten alive here!
I feel full of regret in my heart, I really want to kill the cat, just me toss around like this, no matter how many lives I have, it will be wasted.
Suddenly, the big bug that had just seen me flew up, and the cold green light approached my face little by little. My brain was racing, and it was definitely too late to run away now.
Soon, the bug was less than a foot away from my eyes, and it was going to be over!