The sound of gentle breezes, gargling leaves and chirping cicadas in the middle of summer form a rhythmic concert throughout the woods. The bright midday sunlight casts through the gaps in the leaves, forming light and shadows of various sizes on the brown-black fertile land.

A young man in a blue cloth robe, holding a jet-black wooden box in his hand, walked slowly in the forest path, his ears were filled with natural music melodies, and his eyes glanced at the occasional vegetarian creature scurrying in the grass, and the pleasure on his face was clearly visible.

In front of it should be the Red Rock mass grave, the surrounding air can already smell a faint stench of corpses, Ivan's eyes narrowed slightly, according to the characteristics of that thing, the place where that thing exists is most likely to be in the most yin and rotten place of the mass grave.

Ivan gently opened the jet-black wooden box in his hand, and a pungent and bloody fragrance came to his face, only to see that in the small wooden box, there was a very strange flower.

It is tightly surrounded by four thick blue-black petals like lips, and the corners of the petals are all arc-shaped, and in the very center, there is a red and white thing like a brain, a flat-shaped object with white flowers, which is covered with red blood.

The red-brained ghost flower, which likes yin tide, feeds on blood or decaying corpses, and grows in a dark and damp area, and is worshiped as a sacred flower by the ghoul clan.

Ghouls are brutal by nature and have a penchant for carrion, especially human corpses that have been in coffins for less than 100 days. Ghouls are naturally confused, brutal and difficult to self-control, and even kill each other when hungry, which is also an important reason why the ghoul clan has always been sparsely populated.

But there is a certain number in the dark, the red-brained ghost flower is the savior of the ghoul family, the red-brain ghost flower has a very strong concentrating effect, which can restore a trace of clarity to the ghoul's naturally confused mind, and restrain its brutal urge to kill.

It is precisely because of the excellent concentrating effect of the red-brained ghost flower that it has become a treasure that many mages are eager for, although it cannot increase the spiritual power of the mage, but it can make the mage in a very stable and sober state when meditating.

The concentrating effect of the red-brained ghost flower is especially aimed at the promotion of high-level mage apprentices to first-order full-scale mages, and when building a spell model, there is a very strong auxiliary effect, which greatly increases the success rate of constructing and building a spell model, which is why Ivan is so eager for the red-brained ghost flower.

Ivan looked at the position above his head, it was almost noon at this time, and the time for Qingli to start should be midnight, that is, he had at least nearly ten hours to spend on the way to find the red-brained ghost flower.

Although ten hours is a lot, who knows if there will be any accidents in the Hongyan mass grave, so it is better to go early and return early, otherwise if something happens to Qingli's side, the old man of Ursas will definitely not let him go.

Thinking like this, Ivan suddenly quickened his pace, and the path in front of him was unusually straight, without the slightest bend. Not only are there fewer and fewer weeds on the ground, but even the originally dense woods are gradually thinning.

At the same time, for some reason, the midsummer sun suddenly hid in the thick clouds, and the clouds in the sky became more and more dark, and the whole sky completely turned into a pitch black, and the sun that was quickly lit by the thick dark clouds seemed to dye everything the same color as the dark clouds.

Ivan sniffled, and the stench from the decomposing corpse became clearer and clearer, this rich fishy smell was like a stinky salted fish rolling its eyes, full of fishy smell.

Time passed minute by minute, and soon Ivan came to the edge of the large valley of the Red Rock Mass Grave, and looking down from the high slope of the valley, he saw that the sunken valley was full of dirt bags and white tombstones.

The earthen bags and tombstones were only a small part, but more were the white skeletons on the surface, and even more so the flesh and blood on the body had not been weathered and dried, some rotting flesh was still stuck to the bones of the corpse, and there were a few crows on the corpse, flashing red eyes, pecking at the rotten flesh on the corpse.

Ivan frowned slightly, he really didn't expect that the scale of this Hongyan mass grave was so large, and there were at least tens of thousands of corpses in it, and if he wanted to find a few red-brain ghost flowers in such a big place, just ten hours was not enough.

Just when Ivan was about to go back first, and after the matter of Qingli was settled, when he had time to explore, a strange sound suddenly came from the sunken valley.

"Hmm. Ivan listened carefully and confirmed it again and again, and finally made sure that he had heard correctly.

Ivan looked around, and finally found a path in a rather secluded place, which he could see leading to the mass grave.

Curious about the strange voice, Ivan didn't stay any longer, and added a dusting charm and a breath-holding charm to himself, he didn't forget that most of the corpses in the mass graves were dead due to infectious diseases.

The dust removal spell and the breath-holding spell are all spells that only high-level mages can do, and the spell is a simplified version of the spell, not only is it much less powerful, but even the spiritual power consumed is very much, and the spiritual power of ordinary high-level mage apprentices can only be cast three or four at most, and the mental power will be exhausted and fall into a coma.

Only Ivan, a freak who has practiced the Dagoda-style meditation method and whose spiritual power is no worse than that of a first-order formal mage at the level of a high-level mage apprentice, can cast two spells in an instant without changing his complexion.

The dust removal spell is a one-time spell to remove stains and ash stains on the body, while the breath-holding spell is a continuous spell that lasts for about ten minutes, which can completely isolate people from the outside air, making a state where their own breath is very hidden, and only circulating and breathing in their own lung lobes.

Ivan, who had finished casting the dust removal spell and the breath-holding spell on his body, looked for the strange sound, and walked quickly into the path that led to the red rock mass grave.

Stepping on the soft soil, the corpses in sight are clearer and more shocking, and the foul smell around them will definitely be stronger, but fortunately, Ivan has a breath-holding spell on his body, isolating the breath from the outside world. Otherwise, even if he lives in the garbage area of the garbage city, he will definitely be very uncomfortable in the face of the stench of tens of thousands of corpses.

As Ivan fully entered the mass grave, the strange sound grew louder and louder, and Ivan felt that he was getting closer and closer to the source of the strange sound.

At the corner of a mountain bag, Ivan had a hunch that the place where the voice came from was there, and the movement of his footsteps unconsciously became lighter, so Ivan walked to the back of the small mountain bag, and also saw the true face of the source of the strange sound.

I saw a boxy, white jade coffin was placed there, covered with a thick layer of cyan moss, and a very huge layer of rock pressed two-thirds of the position of the sarcophagus, from a distance, it looked like this white coffin was hunching on the huge rock.

The most strange thing is that one after another jet-black chains are locked on the outside of the white coffin, wrapping the entire coffin, as if trying to lock the contents inside.

Ivan, who slowly approached the white jade coffin, although he didn't feel any fear in his heart, he couldn't help but feel nervous when he saw such a strange scene in a mass grave with many dead bodies.

Compared with other mass graves, there is nothing surprising about Hongyan mass graves, in which the corpses of homeless people or those who died of epidemic are buried, and these corpses are disposed of directly with bed grass and then thrown into the mass grave.

If it was a kind-hearted person, he might dig a pit for the body and bury it, so that the deceased could be buried in the ground, as for the small number of white tombstones in the Hongyan mass grave.

It is the tomb built by the deceased in Linjia Village a long time ago in the Hongyan mass grave, I heard that before Hongyan Mountain was not a Hongyan mass grave a few decades ago, this Hongyan Mountain has always been a feng shui treasure in the mouth of the old people of Linjia Village, and warned the children and grandchildren to build their own graves in Hongyan Mountain.

Although the people of Linjia Village have never built their graves in Hongyan Mountain since Hongyan Mountain became a mass grave, the graves of those ancestors have not been moved by the villagers and have been placed in the Hongyan mass graves.

And in such a mass grave, there is a coffin carved by white jade, how can it not cause Ivan to think deeply and puzzle, after all, white jade is a luxury that even nobles rarely have, to say that the ancestors of a small place like Linjia Village can afford to use white jade coffins, Ivan can't believe it.

And the huge rock pressed above this white jade coffin is also very strange, there is no trace of artificial movement on it, the volume is enough to be the size of a house, it is more like it fell from the sky and smashed directly on the white jade coffin.

A piercing, sharp sound came from the coffin, and the sound reached Ivan's ears directly, close to the white jade coffin, and the strange sound became very clear.

The sound in the coffin was ugly and sharp, as if someone was in the coffin, constantly scratching the coffin board with his fingernails, and the people who listened to it were extremely irritable and depressed.

"There's something in the coffin. ”

Ivan's eyes narrowed slightly, but he didn't know if that thing was a living thing or a monster, and without hesitation, the wooden box containing the red-brained ghost flower in Ivan's hand was put into the space of the Book of All-Knowing, and then a sterling silver dagger appeared in his hand.

This dagger was scavenged by Ivan from the Deathmatch Secret Realm, made of the purest silver, and was the best aid to depict the magic array, although it was a bit overkill for prying the coffin board.

Take the initiative and try to eliminate all unexpected factors, let me see what is in this, Ivan is holding a sterling silver dagger, ready to use the tip of the dagger to insert it into the gap between the coffin surface and the body of the white jade coffin.

Although Ivan didn't have the confidence to pry the huge rock that was pressed on top of the white jade coffin directly, it was always okay to just pry open a small crack and see what was going on inside.

But at this moment, the strange sound in the coffin, which resembled a coffin, sounded again, and this time the sound changed a little, and the sound of grasping became a sound similar to an impact.

"Knock knock, knock knock. The sound of impact came from inside the coffin, and the sound of impact became louder and louder, as if some terrifying monster had awakened from its slumber and slammed into the shackles that bound it in the white jade coffin.

Judging from Ivan's sight, he saw that the entire white jade coffin was trembling slightly, and even the thick chains that wrapped around the coffin made a rattling sound.

"Bang" was another violent impact, but the coffin board was slightly oblique, and a trace of space was seen emerging from the crack of the coffin, and Ivan, who was standing in front of the coffin, felt a disgusting stench coming to his face.

The stench was more than a hundred times more stinking than feces, as if the rotten smell of thousands of corpses that had been precipitated was released in that instant, and you could see a few green weeds beside the blooming white jade coffin, which became wilting after coming into contact with the stench.

Although Ivan didn't smell the strong smell because he had a breath-holding spell, he was worried that something was wrong after seeing the weeds that were suddenly wilting, so he quickly retreated and left the coffin more than ten meters away before stopping.

"Bang"

There was a deafening sound, first the huge rock that pressed on the top of the white jade coffin, as if it had encountered some terrifying force, it trembled directly, and then under Ivan's shocked sight, it rolled down directly from the white jade coffin, and directly smashed a large hole in it on the surface of the side.

After the huge raw stone rolled, between the lightning and flint, the chains that bound the white jade coffin were directly stretched to the ground, and then the coffin board on the white jade coffin flew up, and finally landed on the surface of the ground that was not returned from Ivan.

The white jade coffin with only the body of the coffin, I saw that inside, a withered, pale claw stretched out, as if it had been dried for hundreds of years and there was no moisture at all, and the nails on the palm were about four or five centimeters long, as if they had not been cut for several months.

Then Ivan's eyes shrank suddenly, and he saw a withered humanoid corpse standing up from the coffin, and several red-brained ghost flowers that Ivan longed for took root on the upper body of the humanoid corpse.

But Ivan didn't dare to stay at all, a monster that had broken down the big rocks of the house, he dared to stay here when he was tired of it, and in an instant, he saw Ivan running towards the periphery of the mass grave quickly, but before escaping, Ivan picked up the white jade coffin board on the ground.

It was very surprising that after lifting the white jade coffin board, Ivan's speed was still amazingly fast, and before the humanoid corpse could make any movement, Ivan's figure disappeared.

Just as the humanoid corpse wanted to do something, a pure cyan light and shadow kicked at the humanoid corpse, and directly suppressed the humanoid corpse with one kick.

After the cyan light slowly dissipated, a familiar face appeared, it was actually Ursas from Yiren Medical Center, and he looked at Fang Bai who had left Yiji, and said in an unhappy tone: "Damn stinky boy, he is so greedy that he doesn't even let go of the coffin board." ”

At the same time, Lin Erjia in Linjia Village, Qingli was preparing to cook dinner, but she didn't know that a plan for her was coming, and it was this plan that completely changed her life.

Whether she turns into a butterfly or continues to become an adult can only depend on her own creation. (To be continued.) )