"Now, it's time for us to figure out how to get out of this hellish place......

At this point, Joseph felt a sense of solemnity in his heart, in fact, he had no expectations for what could be discussed on this topic.

He had tried to return the same way when he had escaped with them in the Peach Grove, but the range of the Peach Grove had expanded more than ten times since they came, and even the terrain had completely changed, and it was impossible to find the exit according to his previous memories.

For this phenomenon, he couldn't help but think of a possibility - the secret realm. From the moment they entered the peach forest, they stepped into a semi-enclosed secret realm.

"This kind of semi-enclosed secret realm can be a small piece of alien space parasitic in the normal world, or it can be a small alien realm that exists independently, connected to the real world through one or several specific passages with one-way restrictions, and of course these restrictions are traceable...... But the core purpose is nothing more than to prevent unqualified outsiders from entering by mistake, or sealing and imprisoning them, to prevent things that do not meet the conditions for passage from coming out. But since we came in without being hindered, it means that we must not meet certain conditions, so we can't get out......"

Wan Qi said suspiciously when he heard this: "Then is there a secret realm that does not restrict the entry and exit conditions?" ”

"If there are no conditions for entering and exiting, can it still be called a secret realm?" Joseph glanced at him and replied.

Yang Xin was still more concerned about when she would be able to get out of this ghost place, and decisively brought the topic back on track: "Then won't we be locked up here forever!?" ”

Joseph: "As long as we can find the conditions to get out, it's not difficult to get around the restrictions......

Shi Yu looked a little desperate when he heard this, and coughed violently for a while before he regained his breath: "If you can't find it, will you stay here for the rest of your life......

Joseph glanced at Shi Yu, who was shivering, and wisely didn't say, "Maybe it won't last that long." This frustrating sentence came out.

After all, it wasn't he who repelled those misty monsters, but the other party let him go for some reason......

"Do you think it's because we ate the food here?" Zhao Chensi's face was also a little unpleasant.

However, there was silence in the ruined temple, and no one answered his words.

Seeing that no one was talking, he asked a little strangely: "Haven't you heard of these legends about the underworld, Huangquan Birasaka, and so on?" ”

Joseph is an extraordinary person who faces all kinds of transcendent events, and naturally has heard of myths and legends, but when he was in the church college, he failed the two theoretical courses of myths and legends and psychological control, so he suffered a lot in the conceptual confrontation of the transcendental level.

And Yang Xin and Shi Yu are basically just lovers of supernatural events, and they are very interested in the supernatural events that circulate in urban legends, but in fact, they don't really have much research on things like myths and legends.

So several people looked at Zhao Chensi with inexplicable eyes.

In Greek mythology, Hades snatched the goddess of seeds to the underworld and fed her a pomegranate, and the goddess could only stay in the underworld for a long time because she ate the food of the underworld. In Japanese mythology, the earth mother goddess Izanami is also the goddess, who fell into the Yellow Spring after her death, but because she ate the food there, she could no longer walk out of the Yellow Spring and set foot in the present world, and the witch god Circe is also ......"

Seeing that everyone was looking at him with that kind of blank and puzzled eyes, Zhao Chensi understood that if he didn't explain it clearly to them, it would be difficult for the next communication to continue, so he could only tell a few myths and legends concisely.

"To put it simply, these myths and legends all have in common the fact that you can't eat indiscriminately, and eating indiscriminately will lead to bad consequences...... I can only stay in the underworld or the Yellow Spring, or I forget everything and stay on an island overseas, or I can be turned into a pig by a witch......"

Shi Yu's little eyes, which were originally full of despair and sorrow, suddenly lit up, remembering the animation he had watched in his childhood, and helped his glasses: "Isn't it the routine in Spirited Away to become a pig!" ”

Zhao Chensi: "......"

Yang Xin: "......"

Wan Qi: "? "This is the normal reaction of him who has not seen Miyazaki's anime or read the Odyssey.

Joseph narrowed his eyes thoughtfully: "Is there a legend that if you eat local food, you will be left behind......

His theoretical knowledge is a little weak, but his rich practical experience and insight are enough to make up for the gap in this area, and he can naturally get a lot of inspiration and inspiration from Zhao Chensi's words.

"Eating is just a symbol in myths and legends, and in the transcendent realm, it can be understood as eating something and being branded as belonging to this place...... Maybe after we entered this secret realm, we were contaminated with some qualities that couldn't let us out, so we are now trapped in the secret realm and can't return......"

"That...... I've wanted to ask since the beginning......" Shi Yu weakly raised his hand to interrupt Joseph's thoughts, and the little girl pointed to the statue with only one leg left in the broken temple, "This should be the legendary temple that worships immortals, right?" Do you think that the immortal will leave any clues to escape......

That's right! If the law of immortality is true, then the immortals who passed down the method of immortality should always have some clues!

Shi Yu's words unconsciously woke up a few people, and everyone hurriedly searched in the ruined temple.

This ruined temple is not very big, and after a few of them searched together, they quickly turned the ruined temple upside down.

There are only three things to find:

The wooden box found behind the statue of the immortal was rotten and rotten on the outside of the rectangle, the tablet found under the offering table that was already tattered and the handwriting could not be read, and the thread-bound book that Shi Yu had unearthed when he was inspecting the broken futon that looked so old that even the binding thread was almost worn out.

These three things lay on the offering table, waiting for them to discover the secrets hidden within.

"Let's see what's in the box first...... Joseph picked up the rotten wooden box, gently blew away the dust that had accumulated on it, and then held his breath and gently pushed the lid open.

Zhao Chensi wanted to lean over to take a look, but was attracted by a violent cough in his ears.

Shi Yu coughed again, perhaps because she was irritated by the dust, this time she coughed more than ever, and she coughed a little out of breath. Zhao Chensi couldn't help but cast a worried look, and stretched out his hand to pat her back to help her smooth out, but his hand froze in mid-air halfway through.

This time, with Shi Yu's cough, Zhao Chensi saw something unexpected.

With every sound, every cough, something like dust and mist could be seen peeking through her fingers......

…………

Changsheng Village, in the village of Xincun.

The small mountain village, which was once quiet and peaceful, is now shrouded in ghosts.

Gathering and scattering shadows of smoke and dust struck from west to east, they let out a roar full of pain and anger, twisting their smoked bodies to conjure up various strange and terrifying images of evil spirits, covering the white moon overhead and the bright summer galaxy. The sky, the ground, and the village were filled with twisted ghosts.

It's like a picture of demons dancing wildly and a hundred ghosts walking at night.

Where these twisted ghosts pass through the village, the houses decay, collapse, and finally disappear. The crops also withered and died, decomposed to the point that there was nothing left of ashes, and even the land was reduced and disappeared layer by layer as they passed, revealing uncultivable rock formations several meters below the land, and these ghosts carried dust particles that were already visible to the naked eye, and caused a storm in the village!

Wu Ming was standing in the very center of this storm, the slightly shiny shield and life-sustaining module protecting him and Elizabeth and Zhao Xida behind him, coldly looking at the smoke and fog shadows that were blocked out of the shield, grinning and looking impotent and furious.

"It's fresh...... Blood! ”

"Flesh and blood of outsiders! Ah......h

"A wall in the way!"

"Let me eat you! Let me eat you!! ”

"Body...... Warm body ......"

In his transcendent perspective, the haze of the entire Changsheng Village was now tumbling like boiling water, and a huge and incomparable activated fog mass swallowed them and the entire village into its belly like a desolate beast, and the smoke and fog shadows wandering around him were also composed of countless fine dust particles, which seemed to be hitting the shield again and again with their bodies, but in fact, the attack effect produced by those dust particles constantly oscillating and eroding the shield at a very close range.

As for Old Man Xie, he didn't hold out for even a second in front of this activated mist, as soon as the latter appeared, he let out a miserable scream and became a part of the other party, and there was the slightest resistance in the whole process, as if he was born unable to resist this assimilation, and most of the remaining villagers who remained in the village were unable to escape this fate.

Not only the villagers, but also the buildings, land, and crops in the village are camouflaged by countless dust particles, and everything in this secret realm is simulated by these living dust particles.

After seeing this scene, Wu Ming suddenly understood that there was probably no longer even a truly normal creature in the Immortal Village.

Even if a person is dead, the flesh will turn back to dust because of decay and return to heaven and earth. But their spirits are still alive, divided into small portions, evenly distributed on every particle of dust, and every moment they are suffering the terrible pain of their bodies being cut into dust by a thousand knives, continuing their immortality in an unimaginable life form that is more terrible than death.

These ubiquitous dust particles are the bodies of these 'people', they are eager to touch and erode the flesh and blood of normal people, and they are eager to return to wholeness, even if ordinary people just stand here and breathe a few mouthfuls of air in the village, these dust particles can invade people's bodies through the respiratory tract, through the skin and pores, and even through the conjunctiva, and then start to erode and touch people's lungs little by little from the inside, transforming the flesh and blood there into their kind......

Although he maintained his indifference on the surface, Wu Ming had already begun to mobilize the power of the support group in the spiritual link: "Is there anyone who can give me a move?" What are we going to do with this thing next? ”