I watched Zhou Xuanye's ugly face continue to slash the stone gate with the ghost sword, feeling the more and more blurred consciousness, knowing that I couldn't delay any longer, I got up and pressed Zhou Xuanye's hand holding the sword.

Neither of us spoke, we looked at each other, neither of us would give in, and time seemed to stand still in this moment.

Suddenly, he blinked, his expression showing a sense of weakness, and I knew that he was not lightly poisoned, and he would not last long. So I said, "You said that I was light and died early." In fact, my life should have died a long time ago, and I have earned it to live until now. If you can't do it, then I'll do it myself. ”

With that, I drew my dagger. Seriously, the feeling of a person who really wants to live is quite painful when faced with a situation where he has to commit suicide. How exactly am I supposed to kill myself? Learn to poke yourself in the stomach like the people in the TV series? It certainly won't die, or at least it will die very slowly.

Heart-poking stab?

There are ribs on the outside, and it hurts to poke it in.

Then cut the throat? When I think about the throat opening, I feel my scalp tingle.

Or...... Why don't you cut your wrists and bleed? This one shouldn't be very painful. I pulled the dagger and gestured at my wrist, Zhou Xuanye saw this, and finally sighed and said, "Okay, you have this affection, I took it for my senior brother and Linlin." ”

It's better to do it yourself than to do it yourself, so I handed him the dagger and said, "Hurry up." ”

Zhou Xuanye showed a tangled look and said, "Actually, you don't have to die, there is a way to compromise." ”

A compromise?

Don't have to die yet?

I immediately came to my senses, and I felt a sense of joy that I had withdrawn from my feet when I stepped into the ghost gate, and I hurriedly said, "What a compromise method for the society." ”

Zhou Xuanye said in a deep voice: "Live refining." ”

He told me about the method of living refining, that is, using the method of refining corpses to refine living people. Originally, this method was born to save people. In ancient times, the economy and trade were not developed, and some people who were seriously ill could only find them temporarily if they needed any special medicinal materials. The patient, on the other hand, could not wait for that time, so a peculiar alchemy was derived, turning the living into something like a 'corpse'.

In this way, the illness will stay at the time of refining the corpse, and then buy time and wait for the medicinal materials needed.

This method also has side effects, depleting the person's potential. If the energy of a person is a thousand, then refining the corpse is equivalent to extracting most of the energy of the living person in advance, in layman's terms, even if it is cured, the physical fitness will be greatly reduced in the future, and if you don't pay attention, you may die early.

This method is similar to the modern 'cryonics technology' that is in the research and development stage, and the patients who are about to get a terminal illness are frozen by cryonics, and when the disease can be treated by medicine, they are thawed by scientific methods to resuscitate people.

Cryonics has already involved a considerable number of terminally ill volunteers, most of whom are adventurous foreigners. There are also some of them who are elderly and rich people who are not sick themselves, but do not want to die, so they hope to freeze themselves temporarily and wait until humans have a way to fight aging and prolong life, and then thaw themselves.

Of course, the price of this 'cryonics experiment' is very high, and not everyone can participate in it, so many of the people who can participate in this experiment are rich people. They will have a long night's sleep, perhaps by the time they wake up again, hundreds of years later.

Compared with this cutting-edge technology, our ancestors have already invented a similar method thousands of years ago, that is, refining corpses from living people.

However, in the early stage of refining corpses, living people will endure considerable pain, and when they wake up in the later stage, their bodies will gradually weaken, so there is still a gap with the current freezing technology.

When I heard this, I said, "That's pretty good, at least you don't have to die." So, how long does this process take? ”

Zhou Xuanye said: "Strictly speaking, it will take about a day, but we don't have that much time, so we can only use the quick method." With this method, you will suffer more and wake up with ......" He didn't finish his sentence, but his expression spoke for itself.

Without further ado, I covered the cloth on my mouth and took a deep breath to calm my heart, which was pounding from fear, and said, "Come on." ”

Zhou Xuanye is a very decisive person, since he has made a decision, he will not say more, let alone be hypocritical. At that moment, he found three things from the equipment bag he was carrying.

The same is a corpse control wedge, the same is a small porcelain bottle with the length of a finger, and the same is a vermilion, strangely shaped blade.

Everything that followed was fast. Zhou Xuanye pulled out the wooden stopper at the seal of the porcelain bottle, handed it to me, and asked me to drink. I knew time was precious, and I didn't bother to ask him what he handed me, so I threw my head up and drank it in my mouth.

As a result, I couldn't stand the smell at all, it was too smelly and disgusting, and my body was suddenly one step ahead of my thoughts, and I was about to vomit as soon as I lowered my head. At this moment, Zhou Xuanye was extremely fast, raised his fist under my chin, pushed my head high, and pressed my other hand down my throat, the physiological stimulation made me have to grunt and swallow the thing.

The vomit, the stench and slimy nausea, almost cost me half my life, and I had to use all my energy to restrain my crampy stomach from spitting it out. At this moment, Zhou Xuanye held a corpse wedge in his hand and stabbed it towards my shoulder socket.

At first, there was a sharp pain that made people feel numb, but in the next second, the sharp pain disappeared without a trace.

My body suddenly couldn't move.

To be exact, I felt like I couldn't control my body anymore.

The hands are still my hands, and the feet are still my feet, but I feel that they do not belong to me, but to another person, and the only thing left of me is thought.

The brain, which had been groggy and unconscious due to poisoning, also regained its clarity at this moment.

Naturally, the pain is not felt. Then, Zhou Xuanye shot extremely fast, piercing one on my right shoulder and one on each of my two thighs, a total of four, and I didn't feel anything. In the end, Zhou Xuanye still had one left in his hand, and he said to me, "This is the last one." As he spoke, he swiped the index finger of his left hand with a dagger, and blood instantly came out of his hand, Zhou Xuanye's bloody fingers were put together, spread out his right palm, and his left hand was volleyed into the air, and finally the bloody fingers were in the center of his right hand, leaving a blood mark.

He used his right blood-stained hand to run my forehead from top to bottom. Originally, I couldn't even control my eyelids, but when he stroked it, my eyelids closed by themselves, and the surroundings were instantly plunged into darkness.

Then, in less than an instant, there was a sudden silence around them.

Originally, the place was quiet enough, but I could still hear the breathing, but for a moment, I couldn't even hear the breathing. There was absolute darkness and silence all around. In this process, I don't know what Zhou Xuanye did, almost a few seconds of effort, a sharp pain, suddenly rose from all four limbs.

The sensation is indescribable, not a muscle pain, but a pain rising from a bone, as if there is a huge nail running through the inside of a human bone. At this moment, my painful brain crashed, but the whole person couldn't move, couldn't make a sound, and couldn't perceive everything in the outside world.

Oh my God, where is this severe pain, it is clearly painful to death. This painful feeling is very similar to the pain after eating the Yin Corpse Worm in the first place, but at that time I could still wail and roll on the ground, but now I can only bear it alive.

This is how I feel, and then I feel like I have no consciousness at all, and I feel as if I have been in pain for a long time, and in this pain, my mind is like a tight string, and finally it snaps and breaks.

When this string broke, I was in an indescribable situation.

There was no thought at all, but I could hear a voice that seemed to come from far away.

It's a ringtone.

The ringtone that never stops.

When I woke up, I found myself standing upright in the corner of the wall, and when I opened my eyes, I saw a camp lamp on the ground not far away, and the dim light shone everything around me flickering. I had just woken up, my brain was stiff, I kept my posture straight, and I stood in the corner for a long time before the sensation in my body slowly recovered.

It hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, I want to burst into a foul mouth, my whole body feels like I have been run over by a big truck, my muscles are swollen and painful, and I fall to the ground.

Immediately after that, my brain slowly returned to thinking.

Right.

We were hunted down by the people of Hamen.

Entered a tunnel full of mechanisms.

In order to save Zhou Xuanye and them, I sacrificed myself......

Now this place ......

I took a look, it should be a stone room, and it was no longer the tunnel before, so after that, Zhou Xuanye should have used me to escape.

But...... Why am I the only one left now?

What is this place?

How long has it been since I became a corpse?

There was a dead silence all around, and with the lights on, I saw a black equipment bag not far from me. When I thought of Xiao An, I immediately looked at my wrist, and immediately called: "Xiao An Xiao An!" Can you come out? Tell me, what's going on now? ”

The beads on my wrist were very quiet and no one answered me.

I tried to change the name again: "Brother, you come out." ＂

This call, it really came out. A puff of gray smoke drifted out of the god's seat, and gradually became a little baby with a blurred face. When it wasn't cut by Zhou Xuanye before, its body and face were very solid, but now even its face is blurry, as if it can't be formed, and it looks actually quite terrifying.

"Hmph, now you know to call me!" It thrust into its waist and turned its head angrily, looking like it didn't want to pay attention to me.