009 Graves, Cultists, Rituals
The ghost that Violet incarnated looked dazed and her eyes were blank, but she did not participate in the team attacking Li Xiang, she floated beside Li Xiang for a while, and then suddenly flew in one direction.
"Do you want me to come along?" Li Xiang was stunned, blocking the attack of a skeleton soldier, the killing of the shadow on the other side continued, but for some reason, these skeleton soldiers were more and more numerous, all over the mountains, and they kept attacking from all directions, which was much more terrifying than the one he came before.
These are the ghost soldiers used to protect the Sakura Shrine, and according to Sakura, they are all the lonely ghosts that the First Lady captured back then, sealed in the skeleton, to guard the Sakura Shrine, and since she left here, the ghost soldiers have been out of control.
When Li Xiang and Shizuko Ise came to the isolated island, the ghost soldiers were basically hidden in the black fog, and some of the people who wandered outside were also stiff and extremely poor, and they were not as difficult as they are now.
He shouted at Shadow, and immediately headed in the direction Violet had directed.
The shadow was covered in wet sweat, and the combat effectiveness of these ghost soldiers was not strong, only at the level of a level 1 magician, but their bodies were hard, and there were remnant souls in them, which was extremely difficult to deal with.
After the warm-up exercise, she was about to deal with it seriously, but she heard Li Xiang's call. Here his perception seemed to be more agile than his own, and Shadow hesitated, but decided to temporarily abandon the ghost soldier and go in the direction he was going.
These ghost soldiers are made in a strange way, and the original owner or manipulator is likely to be a very strong magician, and she is not willing to face him in the realm of a magician.
With Violet's pace, Li Xiang shook off the pursuit of the ghost soldiers, and gradually got rid of the black fog rising into the sky, and his vision slowly became clear, and when he stepped into the new area, he found that it was an amazingly large mass grave.
The cemetery stretched out, and he couldn't see the edge of the grave as far as he could see, with different graves rising one after another, to say the least, thousands of graves.
The wind is howling.
A shadow remnant suddenly floated by, it was Violet, and she paused, then went further inward.
Ying's speed was very fast, and she arrived at this cemetery almost at the same time as Li Xiang, and even she was shocked to see such a large mass grave.
"There are so many graves, how many people have died. Shadow clenched the black blade in her hand, and the feeling here made her more and more unsettling, as if she had been on a mission related to Calamity with the other players before.
Spooky, bloody, chaotic, evil, all identical to Calamity habitats.
She even wondered if the other party had succeeded in alienation, if that was the case, if she followed her, she would be sent to death.
The two glanced at each other, hesitated for a moment and decided to follow, after all, the other assassins were likely to be inside, and to solve the problem here, it was necessary to find the source.
The cemetery is empty, and the more you go inside, the more terrifying and weird it becomes.
At first there were empty graves, then there were several people-high cross tombstones and some strange-shaped stone tablets, some of which were chained, some of which were leaning against shields, and then there were some huge windmills, the blades of which were turning slightly, blowing a wind with a very strong smell of blood.
When I walked in, I found that each fan blade of the windmill was tied to a rotting corpse, these corpses were unrecognizable, and their bodies were full of scars.
If you look closely, you will see that there are many strange and bloody words and graphics on it.
He hadn't even seen that kind of text, so he could only forcibly write it down, ready to go back and ask the erudite honey pear.
"It doesn't feel right, it's completely different from when I came. Li Xiang muttered, when he came to the isolated island, although there was a strange atmosphere on the island, it was not so curious at all.
The first thing that came to mind when I came here was the ruins of the abandoned hospital I saw in Crimson Moon City.
"It should be completely deformed, I suspect there's a Calamity inhabited here. Shadow waved the black blade in his hand, and the whites of the pupil in his left eye gradually diffused, and then returned to normal, and the assassination tattoo at the base of his thigh also dimmed.
The woman's cheeks stopped crying, and even the eyes above them were completely closed.
"The body of [Thousand-Eyed Evil Girl] is an E-class Calamity, and even though it has been made into an assassination tattoo, it still retains a trace of Calamity. Its ability is [Remnant of the Magic Eye], and when I use this dagger, it will randomly open its eyes, giving me the ability of the deceased, which generally does not automatically expire until it is canceled. ”
Shadow touched his eyes that had recovered to his original state, and his voice became heavier and heavier: "It automatically exited, indicating that a higher-level calamity inhabited here, according to your description, even if the little witch who originally existed on the isolated island had to advance, it would not be so fast, unless there was another one left here!"
Li Xiang chuckled in his heart, and subconsciously remembered a question.
This is the site of the Sakura Shrine, one of the seven veins of ancient martial arts, and an ancient calamity is suppressed underneath.
Could it be that it has been revived?
If the first lady is not wrong, then what the Cicadadew Temple Heavenly Tiger has been trying to seal is just an empty nest, and the real Sakura Shrine has long been transferred here by her.
Then there's a calamity sealed underneath here.
And it's a terrifying existence that even a shadow can't deal with.
At the end of the road, Violet's figure flickered again, as if urging them to hurry up.
To go or not to go?
Shadow hesitated, if his assassination tattoo was ineffective, then his combat effectiveness would be sharply reduced, and he would not be able to fight against the calamity with his ** strength alone, and to go would be to die.
But Ye Tao: They are probably inside.
"Let's go, it's a blessing or a curse, you can't avoid it. Shadow gripped the black blade and stepped out.
Li Xiang nodded, there are too many questions here, he has to go over.
The closer you get to the inside, the stench gets stronger and stronger, and it seems to be mixed with thousands of disgusting smells, which are mixed together to completely destroy the normal person's sense of smell.
Further on, the huge windmills were gone, replaced by neat rows of black coffins, much more orderly than the mass graves outside, each with a bloody symbol carved on it, not any steam text circulating outside.
There are so many symbols, Li Xiang can't remember them, so he can only pick some that look the weirdest to remember.
The black coffin seemed to be oozing a crimson liquid that looked like blood, slowly flowing into the earth.
Unconsciously, the deeper you go, the more the sky becomes dark red, the originally black earth now reveals a strange red light, and the smell of blood in the air also covers the stench.
In addition, Li Xiang could also smell two sweet smells, which he only vaguely smelled after walking here, one was the smell of Sakura's body, and the other was even sweeter, very familiar, but he didn't know where it came from, as if the whole isolated island was filled with this smell.
Violet was alone on the red coffin at the front.
That coffin was the most peculiar, alone in the forefront, and the largest.
Countless bright red vines wrapped around the surface of the coffin, and the red liquid from the earth poured into the vines, completely dyeing the coffin, which was supposed to be black, red.
"This ...... Could it be a death sacrifice?" Ying suddenly stopped, grabbed Li Xiang, his eyes flickered, and finally said with certainty, "It should be." ”
"Death sacrifice?"
"An entire area here is actually doing [Death Sacrifices for the Living]!" Shadow gasped and whispered, "No, you can't get any closer to it." ”
Afraid that Li Xiang would not be able to understand the situation and die, Ying trembled and explained the so-called [Sacrifice of the Dead].
"Our outermost mass graves should be thousands of ordinary people who died, and a little inside, all kinds of tombstones are the family tombs of many aristocratic families, and then the dried corpses on those windmills should be the corpses of magic apprentices, and they also have very weak magic particle fluctuations on their bodies, because you haven't become a player yet, so you can't perceive ......"
"And each of these neat black coffins should have a magician buried inside, they were all stuffed into the black coffin when they were alive, and in order to prevent them from coming out, these bloody symbols were carved. I don't know the meaning of the symbols, but I've seen them drawn in battles with the cultists, and only those madmen would do such a terrible thing!"
Shadow calmed the tremor in his heart and continued, "You should be familiar with the evil cult as well, you have encountered it. ”
"Tarot people?" Li Xiang immediately thought of those crazy people, who had been entangled with him in their past and present lives, and it seemed that they would not rest until death.
"It's just a part, I don't know when it began, a group of players who believe in cults have gradually spread very evil knowledge and beliefs among the player community, claiming that humans and calamity are the same origin, and that calamity is the perfect form of evolution. The leader of this group of evil cults is an evil leader, and no one knows his identity, but the upper echelons say that the evil leader and Calamity have made an unknown deal. ”
"What is his purpose? As a player, you should understand the madness of Calamity, this is to seek skin with the tiger. Li Xiang can't understand the thinking of these crazy people, the people of the tarot card are crazy enough, and the anti-human behavior continues, but there are still traces to follow, listening to the description, this group of evil people who have long been dispersed and disappeared are even more evil and terrifying.
"Some say it's for eternal life, others say it's for a new world. I've come into contact with several cultists imprisoned in the Eternal Palace, and they are simply insane, and they are utterly incomprehensible to all sorts of new world words. The higher-ups can tolerate tarot cards, partly because their subordinate groups are integrated into the Seven Continents, and many of the big Arcana card holders of tarot cards are also mixed in with our higher-ups. They are crazy and terrifying, but they will not cross the bottom line of the White King, but the evil people are different, they only have the evil leader and their new world in their eyes!"
"More than 10 years ago, during a clean-up campaign, it is said that the evil leader was killed, and countless people died on that rainy night, after which the evil cultists were arrested and killed, and some of them went into hiding, and have disappeared until now, and have never been seen again. This page has also been turned over, and it is strictly forbidden by the White King to spread. ”
Ying knew that it was not good to say this, but if he didn't tell Li Xiang, he wouldn't understand the horror of the cultist.
Their reappearance is, in a sense, more terrible than a new calamity here.
The [Night Rain] action in her mouth Li Xiang also learned something from Bai Micha's mouth, the Bai family initiated, countless people responded, and in the end, I don't know how many people died one night, it is said that it has something to do with tarot cards, didn't you expect that the ultimate target was the evil leader of the evil gangsters?
The evil leader, the fool, Li Xiang always felt that there was a connection between the two.
And he suspected that that action also had something to do with his own life experience, and the White King kept his mouth shut about his life experience with Ye Hitomi, and the only thing that could make him stop was the [Night Rain] more than ten years ago.
"Speaking of which, the red coffin at the front of this can stand out from the crowd because the living people buried in it are higher than these magicians. The shadow's body trembled slightly, and his plump body actually leaned on Li Xiang in fear.
It's a pity that he is not in the mood to enjoy this fragrant benefit at all.
What else can be above the magician?
Gamer!
Someone actually stuffed the player into a coffin and buried him alive!
What a crazy act and thinking this is?
"These blood vines were stained with the blood of countless people, and they were constantly poured into the black coffin before it was completely stained red. The resentment of the players who die in it will not be dissipated, and over time, it will change. Of course, this is not the point of the Death Sacrifice of the Living. The most critical point of this shoe teaching ceremony is still inside, and everything outside is just the nutrients of the inner ritual. ”
Ei said the final point.
The player's blood is just the nutrients inside?
Needless to say, it's clear what is hidden there.
Violet, who was floating on the player's coffin, seemed to become a little impatient, she floated around, very anxious, hoping that Li wanted to enter quickly, but she was afraid of the shadow beside him, and did not dare to rush forward.
"She seems to be urging you. Shadow was keenly aware of this, "The ghost is not credible, we retreat, and only Mr. Jeffrey can be sure to eliminate it here." ”
"No...... I could hear her. She was calling to me. Li wanted to close his eyes, and Violet's very faint cry for help came from his ears, and if he hadn't listened carefully, he wouldn't have heard it at all.
"Save ......"
"Save ......"
"Help me...... I'm so scared......"
The voice was mixed with crying, erratic, but extraordinarily penetrating.
It was as if some huge pressure was eating away at her, and emotions such as despair, pain, and so on came up, and she was about to be overwhelmed.
"Don't go, if they're not human, they're creatures of another world, and they can't trust anything they say. Ying grabbed Li Xiang's arm, a glint flashed in his eyes, and said resolutely, "The calamity camp has no humanity. ”
"I can tell what they taste. Li Xiang shook his head firmly, he didn't know what Ying had experienced and would be so distrustful of everything in the Calamity camp, but he was different, he could smell it.
If it was a creature of xenomorphs and calamities, that sweet aura would be detected by the pale golden aura no matter how much it was concealed.
Violet is just a remnant.
And most likely, it's not dead yet!
He took a step, and Ying stretched out his hand to stun him, but when he raised his hand, he was suddenly entangled in a white filament, which became blood-red in an instant, spreading to her body, making her unable to speak, and could only watch Li Xiang walk over.
"Mmmm......mmmm
"Don't move. The loli voice came from behind the quilt.
Another thin white thread crept around the base of her thigh, sealing the assassination tattoo.
She could feel a few breaths suddenly coming from behind her.
"Don't move. Another loli followed, very similar to the previous one.
Shadow knew that the strength of these two loli was not strong, and what really threatened him was the cold palm that quietly climbed up his back.
"Ah, evil man...... I've got such an interesting thing happening, don't stop me. ”