Chapter 49: The Dark Corpse
The ruins of the temple of Karahil (goddess of light) are located in the northern part of the Susan Hills, about half a day from the Susan Hills, this temple was built in a dense forest, where you can vaguely see that there was a road that used to lead directly to the temple from the entrance to the dense forest, but now this road has also been buried by trees and weeds. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Carmen Alicia and the others arrived, and they walked into the dense forest, where the trees grew so tall that the leaves almost covered the sky, so it was very dark, and here they could only hope for the experience of Miria and Terry in the field, who analyzed the footprints of animals, and also observed the footprints of humans or humanoids, which either belonged to Laziz's team or belonged to the Korrell cultists.
"Huh?" Terry seemed to have noticed something, and he quickly crouched down to check, and Miria, attracted by his actions, rushed over as well, and she saw marks on the ground.
"It's ...... Traces left by the snake people. Miria whispered.
The traces left by the snake people have always been very small, and they will use their tails to wipe off the traces they leave during their actions, which cannot be found at all if they do not look closely, but Terry has found these traces, and Miria is secretly amazed by Terry's observation.
"If there are no snake people among Corell's followers, then this trace is most likely left by the snake man from Laziz's team. Terry looked around the snake man tracks, looking for more to discover.
"Did you find anything else?" everyone noticed Terry's discovery, and Spencer Jessica was the first to run, wanting to know what else Terry had found.
"If this trace was left by the snake man from Laziz's team, then she is most likely left alone, as there are no other traces around. Terry smiled at Jessica and told everyone his conclusion.
Tali also stepped forward, crouched down and looked at the trace, silent, if this snake man was alone, then it was very likely that the Laziz team was attacked shortly after entering the dense forest, but Tali didn't know if it was an attack from the Korrell believers.
"Can you follow this trail?" asked Alicia softly to Terry, one of the few clues they had.
"I'll try it, it's hard, after all, the traces left by the snake people are too subtle. Terry didn't have confidence in this, but he had to try it, and Terry began to crawl on all fours, like an animal, maybe this was to better discover something, but his position, which no ordinary person could do, everyone secretly screamed.
"This kid is more of a spirit than you. Miria suddenly said to Jotun, Jotun had to smile bitterly, what does this have to do with spirits, spirits are not animals, but Miria can make such jokes, which makes Jotun even more surprised.
Everyone followed Terry, stopping and stopping all the way, and Terry needed to stop from time to time, observing the clues, and he would choose the path only after he repeated deliberation and at the suggestion of Miria.
Eventually, Alicia and the others came to a small cavern, and Terry looked around again before he stood up and pointed to the cave.
"The traces are gone here, and the snake man should be right here. That's what Terry came to say.
"Let's go inside. Alicia said softly, she wanted to be the first to go into the cave, but was stopped by Miria and the others, Alicia was quite helpless about this, how afraid everyone was that something would happen to her.
Miria winked at Joseph, who smiled slightly, and the two drew their weapons and walked into the cave first, followed by Terry, Jessica, Tully, Alicia, and finally Veronica and Jotun.
The cave was very dark, although Miria was born with night vision, but for the sake of others, she still lit the torch, everyone concentrated in the cave, for fear that there would be some evil creatures attacking, but there was no danger to happen, the cave was very small, there was a large area at the end, everyone followed the torch, vaguely saw something lying on the ground not far away, so they cautiously walked over.
Lying on the ground was a female snake man, Alicia and the others guessed that this was the snake man from the Laziz team, Miria squatted down to check her body, and found that it was already cold, and there was a bandage tied to her arm, and the bandage was stained with black stains, which should be caused by the wound.
The snake man was still holding a notepad in his arms, and Milia picked it up, and by the light of the fire, she saw the word "Jana" written on the notepad, and everyone guessed that this should be the name of the dead snake man.
Milia opened the notepad, and sure enough, this snake man was a member of the Laziz team, because the notepad was full of records of some of the daily expenses of the Laziz team, as well as work remuneration and other related records, Milia quickly turned a few more pages, there was not much new content, until she turned to the blank page, Milia lost her patience, she handed the notepad to Joseph, and squatted down to check Jana's body again.
"Hey, here's some interesting stuff. ā
Joseph looked at the notepad handed by Miria, and he patiently flipped through it until the last page, where Jana had left a passage that read as follows:
"We should have listened to Penny back then! We shouldn't have taken this damn commission! It's getting late now, it's all to blame on the noisy stinky dog Wanting Vanda! And Laziz! I got tickled by those guys, it was horrible, I saw Stephen taken away, I just want to go home now, I don't want to be an adventurer anymore, I'm separated, I feel itchy now, the wound has a burning pain, will I die?"
"Meow! What a poor fellow, in the last moments of his life, with his night vision, recorded the last encounter in this dark place. Jordan sighed.
At this time, Alicia and the others were puzzled by one thing, that is, what monster attacked the Laziz team, and it seems that it is not as simple as the only believers in Korrell.
Everyone decided to leave the cave immediately and continue to advance towards the ruins of the temple of Karahil in the depths of the jungle, Veronica looked at Jana's corpse left there, and felt a little unbearable, but Tully told him that they didn't have time to deal with Jana's corpse, and that there were countless adventurers who died in this world every day, and since as adventurers, it was necessary to have such an awareness.
Veronica wanted to refute this, but he was speechless, he could only sigh softly, and then followed everyone towards the entrance of the cave, but at this time, Veronica suddenly had some strange feelings, he felt that something in this cave was gasping, very light and light gasp.
"Wait, everyone, wait!" Veronica suddenly exclaimed, which startled Jessica in front of him, Jessica turned around and looked at Veronica with a dissatisfied face, Veronica rarely ignored Jessica, but listened carefully to the sounds around her.
"......Whew" There was another wheezing sound, heavier than the sound just now, this voice was not only Veronica, everyone present heard it, everyone's faces instantly became solemn, this cave is not big, everyone has also searched carefully, there is no living thing around.
"Whew!" another voice came, more forcefully than before.
"There's a ghost!" Jessica suddenly screamed, everyone was startled by her, Jessica is afraid of terrifying legends, afraid of ghosts, everyone already knows this, Milia glared at Jessica angrily, she wanted to say something sarcastic, but she didn't say it, because she noticed something at this time......
Jana's corpse, Jana's corpse seemed to move slightly, Miria's eyes widened, with an incredible look, Alicia and the others noticed Miria's abnormality, they followed Miria's eyes, but the cave was dark, and everyone couldn't see anything.
But Jotun, as a cat spirit, Jotun, like Milia, has night vision, and he also saw it, Jotun nervously threw the torch in his hand, which happened to land on Jana's body, and everyone was staring at Jana's corpse at this time.
"Whew!" Jana's corpse moved again, as if gasping for breath.
"It can't be! I've stuck to her corpse! she's dead!" Miria cried out through gritted teeth.
"Holy!" Jessica shouted in fright.
Everyone stared at Jana's corpse, and for a while, the dark cave was silent, adding a bit of weirdness. Jessica unconsciously hugged Terry's arm beside her, and Terry looked at Jana's corpse nervously like everyone else.
It's not a way to hold each other like this, Jotun glanced at Miria, Miria nodded calmly, these two people are born with night vision, if something really goes wrong, it's easy to deal with it, so the two of them cautiously moved closer to Jana's body, and both of them raised their weapons, in fact, not only him, but the rest of the people also raised their weapons to deal with emergencies.
One step, two steps, three steps, Jordan and Miria got closer and closer to Jana's corpse, and when they were a few steps away from Jana's corpse, both of them stopped, Miria carefully touched Jana's corpse with a scimitar, nothing happened, at this time, Tali also came to the two of them, Tali used his broadsword known as the heart of the wanderer, and gently picked up the head of Jana's corpse, and the three of them found that Jana's eyes had disappeared and turned into pure white.
Tully's expression suddenly panicked, he carefully recalled the books he had read, he remembered this symptom, it seemed to be......
"Necrophilia!" Tully shouted, startling Miria and Jordan beside him, but Tully's words made everyone in the room nervous, they had all heard of necrogenia, although they had not seen it with their own eyes.
It has been recorded that if a humanoid is bitten by a necromorph who suffers from the necrophilia curse, it will become infected with necrophilia, and the person infected with necrophilia will first die of the disease, and then become a mad corpse to continue spreading the virus.
"Burn her body!" Alicia shouted not far away, and Jotun immediately flipped through his waist pocket to pull out the oil that could ignite the flames.
"Whew!" Before Jotun could pull out the oil, Jana stood up, her face quickly decaying in an instant, her face becoming hideous, and her sharp teeth exposed.
"Be careful not to be bitten by her!" Tully shouted, and he and Jotun and Miria, who were closest to Jana, jumped backwards, while Terry and Joseph surrounded them, and Veronica and Jessica guarded Alicia behind.
Crazy corpse Jana looked around at everyone, she suddenly rushed to Alicia in the distance, the snake man's movement speed itself is fast, plus Jana has become a mad corpse, the speed is even faster, I feel that everyone has not had time to react, the crazy corpse Jana has already rushed to Alicia's side, she opened her mouth to bite down.
"Brush!"
"Smack!"
Jessica's bayonet grace and Veronica's mace hit Jana the Corpse respectively, and Jana Zombie didn't seem to notice the pain at all, she didn't care about Jessica and Veronica, she still bit at Alicia.
Alicia didn't panic, she took a step back, but raised her cane with both hands, and stabbed it at the mouth of the mad corpse Jana, when the cane touched Jana's mouth, Jana's mouth suddenly burst into flames, and she was also repelled by the flames, and fell to the ground.
It turned out that the staff that Alicia had been holding turned out to be a staff with elemental magic.
When Jana fell to the ground, Tully's broadsword, Jotun's short sword, Milia's scimitar, Joseph's bayonet, and Terry's katana attacked Jana at the same time.
At this time, Alicia stepped forward again, she raised her elemental staff, and swung it at the mad corpse Jana, when she hit the mad corpse Jana, the body of the mad corpse Jana burned, the magic flame was very fast, and after a while, the mad corpse Jana turned into ashes.
"Oh my God, our queen, I can't offend her. Joseph smiled and muttered quietly.
Alicia and the others looked at the ashes that Jana had turned into, they were all silent, it seems that the real danger is still to come, this time, it is really not so easy to solve......