Chapter Twenty-Six: Cutting in Line
"My most respected master, this group of dead corpses is definitely under the control of Goreves, and if you are going to destroy the Fountain of Death, then it is best to destroy these enemies now. Sebastian insisted on uttering a complete sentence in the midst of constant bumps in the steward's loyalty.
"There's no rush. In order to avoid startling the snake, Yalei is not going to make a move for the time being.
"Obey ......" The stone beast head closed its mouth helplessly, since it followed its new master on the way to visit the Dead Spring, it faintly felt that something was wrong, but it didn't know how to express it.
Aree followed the green freaks for about a quarter of an hour, their speed slowing down and returning to their walking stance, as the black-haired knight and Sebastian heard the sound of running water and whirlwinds.
The bamboo forest in front of him gradually thinned out, revealing an open field of vision, and a strange chill in the air, he noticed that his rain-soaked clothes had frozen into hard lumps.
At the end of the bamboo forest, there is a wide circular lake, separated by a narrow bamboo embankment, which divides the lake into two parts, and a strong air flow rolls from the center of the lake to all sides.
The half of the lake near the west side has a chill on the face, but there is no freezing, and the surface of the lake is rippling with sparkling water, like fine lines on silk, clear and smooth. On the opposite side of the lake, there are constantly shiny bubbles from the bottom up, and the steaming heat swells up with the bubbles, constantly converging and squeezing with the cold currents on the side, forming a turbine-shaped mist above the embankment.
"Master, this is the Fountain of Death!" Goreves' seemed to be still asleep. Sebastian whispered. At the same time, I breathed a sigh of relief in my heart.
"This is the Fountain of Death?"
Yalei asked uncertainly, and after receiving an affirmative answer, he tightened his brows in confusion. It's a little different from what I've seen in the cracks of the world.
"Master, what are they doing?"
Following the sound of the stone beast's head, he found that the green stranger had formed a long line, walking slowly along the bamboo embankment, and when the leader of the stranger reached the center of the lake, he did not know if he was swept by the strong wind and planted in the hot water.
Plop!
The other man sank directly to the bottom of the lake like a boulder, and after about twenty seconds, he resurfaced. The lifeless face swelled suddenly. In a short time, all the braids tied to the strange man's body were torn, and his skin began to crack. Dark red blood gradually stained the surface of the lake.
Then, his bones shattered, and one by one they pierced out of his body, and his body had swelled to seven or eight times its size. Under the gaze of Aree and the stone beast head. It was suddenly blown into a large mass of minced meat.
"Didn't you say that you will age to death if you come into contact with hot springs?" the black-haired knight lifted the mesh bag again.
"That's true!" Sebastian cried out incriminantly, "I didn't deceive you...... Maybe it has something to do with the fact that they're already dead......"
"It's also possible. Yarei felt that there was some reason, and put the net bag down.
Just before the first weirdo swelled to explode, another green weirdo plunged into the lake, this time falling into a cold spring. The whole body suddenly began to contract, and all the skeletal muscles frantically rushed to the point in front of the chest, condensed into the size of a skull in a few seconds, and suddenly sank to the bottom of the lake. Never came up again.
“......”
Before the black-haired knight could speak, another green monster fell into the hot spring. Dozens of seconds later, his body swelled as if inflated, and finally exploded into pieces of flesh.
Plop! Plop! Plop!
The Fountain of Damned seems to have an infinite attraction, tempting one green freak after another to fall into it, and always a cold and a hot one, and if it is a coincidence, it is simply blind.
If not a coincidence, what is it?
Some kind of sacrificial ritual?
Yare couldn't help but glance at Sebastian again, only to see that this guy had his mouth wide open and showed a stunned expression, and he knew that he didn't know anything without asking.
It seems that I can only go over and see for myself.
The black-haired knight turned into a phantom and quickly swept to the lakeside, glanced at the clear water, hesitated for a few seconds, and wisely jumped onto the bamboo embankment.
Although he was confident in his resistance, he did not intend to challenge the curse of the lake, because even if he only aged a year, he would have lost money, and this account could not have been clearer.
Watching these strange corpses that have been dead for a long time, but still able to move strangely, fall into the lake one by one, or swell and explode, or condense to the bottom of the lake, repeating suicidal sex all the time, I just feel completely unreasonable.
After thinking about it carefully, Arenay suddenly flew up and kicked a dead body beside him into the lake, inserting himself into the group.
With the sound of falling into the lake, the green monster in front of him gradually decreased, and soon there was only one left, but because the previous one who fell into the cold spring had not yet sunk into the lake, he froze in place and did not move.
"Let's go down!"
The impatience of the black-haired knight and the others stretched out his hand and pushed it into the cold spring, and the corpse fell into the lake in response, but this time it did not shrink, but regained its youth at a speed visible to the naked eye, from middle-aged, youth, teenager, toddler...... Finally, the bloody placenta sank to the bottom of the lake.
What's going on?
He quickly turned around and pushed a strange man behind him into the hot spring, and as it gradually expanded, he pushed a green strange man behind him into the cold spring. This time, the changes in the corpses finally returned to "normal", first one swelled to burst, and the second condensed into a ball and fell to the bottom of the lake.
"Master, what's going on?" Sebastian's open mouth never closed.
"How do I know?"
Yalei knocked on his skull with a headache, he really shouldn't have brought this stone head over, he didn't know what to ask, he really didn't help at all.
Now I'm on my own.
He forced himself to calm down, and looked at the green monster slowly advancing behind him, and a clue gradually sprouted in his mind, since the curse in the lake was fine, then there must be something wrong with these green corpses.
It's not clear how this happens, but there must be some pattern in it
Thinking of this, the black-haired knight directly grabbed the two green monsters and threw them into the hot spring at the same time, causing the two corpses to begin to expand at the same time, and finally exploded into a piece of flesh and blood. At the same time, the corpse thrown into the cold spring becomes young at the same time, and finally becomes the placenta before birth.
Two more corpses were then grabbed and thrown at the cold and hot springs, respectively, with the result that the corpses that entered the cold springs first gradually grew younger, while the bodies in the hot springs continued to swell to the point of exploding.
There is nothing wrong with the Fountain of Damned itself, so if you say that, the explosion and condensation of these corpses is entirely due to itself?
Yalei then ignited his fighting energy, and set off a high-temperature air flow to blast towards the green monster on the opposite side, and as he guessed, the monster's body began to expand rapidly, and suddenly exploded.
At the same time, a miserable white fire burst out of his body, floating in the air like a firefly, which lasted for a few seconds before fading away.
Looking at this scene, the black-haired knight suddenly realized, and just wanted to say something, but the stone beast head in the net bag around his waist shouted:
"I see! These corpses shrink when they are cold, explode when they are hot, they are entirely of their own nature, and the light of their destruction can contain the curse of the spring. In other words, they're tools made to contain the Fountain of the Damned!"
"Then why does the corpse thrown into the hot spring at the same time always swell, while the corpse thrown into the cold spring at the same time is swallowed by the curse?" he asked with a deliberate difficulty.
"Well...... Sebasti grinned and said proudly:
"Your humble but incomparably witty servant will answer everything, for the expanding corpse has been exuding some kind of mana fluctuation, and the condensed corpse will only fluctuate when it is shrunk to the limit. ”
"It's a bit level, not bad. Seeing that its intelligence level was not low, Yalei rarely boasted.
"When the corpse is immersed in the hot spring, it will always play the role of curbing the curse, and when the cold spring sinks to the bottom of the lake, the effect of curbing the curse will occur, and the two alternate in turn, and its purpose is ......"
The stone beast head was praised for the first time, and he was suddenly excited to the extent that his eyebrows flew and danced, and he continued to talk eloquently, and when he said this, his face suddenly changed greatly:
"Oh no, they alternate in turn, so that they can contain one of the cursed forces at all times, and now this cycle has been disrupted by you!"
"What happens if it's disrupted?" said Yare's face was full of indifference.
"Maybe Goreves' consciousness will awaken......"
Sebastian showed a frightened expression, and said a little timidly: "Most respectful master, my memory tells me that it is very terrible, much more terrible than the stupid Albert. ”
"Hahaha, but I'm not afraid of the so-called Fountain of Damnation, it would be great if it could be revived, after so many years of tax arrears, it should have to pay a little. ”
The black-haired knight couldn't help but laugh, and at the same time patted the other party's head and comforted:
"Nothing to worry about. ”
It's not that Yalei is arrogant, among the so-called four curses, the curse of the deserted house is weak into slag, and the curse of the dryad can't catch his own sword, and so on, what can the curse of the dead spring do?
"But......" The stone beast opened its mouth for the first time, as if trying to admonish him.
At this moment, a cold wind blew on the lake, causing the bamboo forest to crackle.
The black-haired knight suddenly heard a mourning cry similar to that of a crow, as if it carried the damp and cold smell of the grave, and instantly spread from the surface of the lake.
"What the hell?"
He showed a wary look, clenched his fists, and instantly condensed his spirit into a point.
However, Yare and Sebastian didn't notice that on the lake behind them, nothing but a pair of huge, icy eyes suddenly appeared. (To be continued......)