Chen Mo walked on the streets of the 'beautiful' village and looked at the strange scene in front of him.

The doors of every house are closed, and the stone people are not simple.

Each stone statue exudes a palpitating aura.

Chen Mo tried his best to bypass these stone statues, he felt that if he touched the stone statues, something terrible would happen.

On the bronze ancient lamp in my mind, the blood-colored text was updated again.

[In some places, it looks lifeless, but in fact it is full of life. There are places where there is vigor and fear, but there is a fear of darkness. Find the damn Golden Essence before nightfall, or 'they' will be your fate. 】

They probably refer to these stone statues.

"Golden Essence Stone, what is it? How do I find it? Chen Mo was puzzled, but helpless.

According to his observations, the appearance of words on the surface of the bronze lamp is automatic.

For the time being, there doesn't seem to be a conversation function.

He asked a question in his head, and the bronze lamp would not answer him.

But this time, there were surprises.

Because the text on the bronze ancient lamp has been updated again.

If you believe in light in your heart, then go find some firewood and light it under the ancient temple. If you don't believe me, then wait patiently for the night to fall until 'they' come and become the insignificant speck of dust in the night. 】

Chen Mo closed his eyes and pondered, constantly scrutinizing the words on the ancient lamp.

There are a few keywords.

Light, firewood, ancient temples!

"I know, they will only come when night falls, because they are afraid of the light!"

"But why, under the ancient temple?"

Chen Mo looked at the sky, the current time was about noon, and it was only about five or six hours before nightfall.

Time should be sufficient.

Fortunately, this is a village, and many houses have chimneys on their roofs.

Having a chimney means having firewood.

Chen Mo unceremoniously ran into a house with a chimney, which, as he expected, was still cooking on an old stove.

He tied dozens of neatly chopped pieces of firewood with a piece of hemp rope and carried them on his back.

The ancient temple is not difficult to find, and halfway up the mountain behind the village, there is a dilapidated temple standing alone.

Although the temple looks close to the naked eye, it is actually at least a few hundred meters away.

And it's all very steep uphill.

Fortunately, there are bluestone steps.

He carried dozens of pounds of firewood on his back and began to climb slowly.

A few hundred meters away, he stopped and walked for an hour.

When he came to the temple, he threw the firewood on the ground with a sigh of relief.

Walking into the ancient temple, I finally knew why I had to come here to light a fire.

Because inside the temple, there is a lot of hay and a few strange-shaped stones.

"Bastard, don't be so misleading."

"The so-called gold essence stone, is it a few flint stones?" Chen Mo mistakenly thought that the flint on the ground was the golden essence stone prompted by the ancient lamp.

When everything was ready, he spent three or four hours in the temple with trepidation.

When it was getting dark, he piled up a few sticks of firewood, picked up two pieces of flint, grabbed a handful of hay, and started to make a fire.

After a full hour, the hay finally lit the firewood.

Chen Mo breathed a sigh of relief.

Exhausted, he sat down on the ground and watched the night finally fall.

The firelight became his only hope of survival.

But he didn't notice that behind him, there was a humanoid sculpture that was once worshipped, but now covered with spider webs, and the left eye was faintly glowing.

He always has his back to the sculpture.

It was completely dark, and the deserted temple was even more eerie.

Chen Mo endured the fear in his heart, and from time to time added firewood to the fire in front of him.

His body instinctively moved closer to the fire.

This fire is his only source of security.

Fear spread in his heart, causing his body to tremble uncontrollably.

Just as his emotions were about to collapse.

Chirping!

An eerie scream came from the village below the mountain, and in the extremely quiet space, the sound of wings fluttering could be faintly heard.

Something's approaching the temple!

And it's with flying!

It's fast!

Chen Mo broke out in a cold sweat, and the temperature of the firelight could no longer evaporate his sweat.

He kept an eye on the bronze lamp in his mind.

At this time, the text on the ancient lamp was finally updated!

[The journey of regret, the blood of fear. With no gold stone to be found, the faint glow of the fire was too much to resist the erosion of 'them'. Becoming a pollutant is your final end. 】

What?

The meaning of the bronze lamp is......

The end of the play?

"Impossible! Difficult...... Am I misinterpreting the meaning of the text? Isn't gold essence stone a flint and steel? ”

Chen Mo's heart was full of fear, and he felt an eerie aura slowly eroding his body.

He tried to get up and search the ancient temple, but found that his limbs were no longer moving.

He regretted it immensely, he had come a few hours earlier.

Why not rummage through carefully!

Why be self-righteous!

If you don't pay attention to details, the final price you pay is likely to be death!

The only part of Chen Mo that can move is his neck.

He desperately turned his head from side to side and looked around, not letting go of anything that could be seen with the naked eye in the temple.

I even began to try to remember what I saw when I came in the afternoon, trying to find the missing details.

Unfortunately, it was too late!

He didn't see anything, and he didn't remember useful memories.

And now that the sky was already dark, relying on the light of the fire in front of him, his vision range was too small!

There is also very little time left for him!

"Is this the end of it?"

"It's so inexplicable, I don't even know why I came to this place!"

Chen Mo's thinking turned wildly, and in the end, only despair remained.

Since the temple had no door, he quickly saw something approaching him.

It was a monster in its human form, with the head of a bat and huge fleshy wings on its back, and it flew fast, and in a few seconds it came to the clearing outside the temple.

A breathtaking aura permeates the entire temple, coming from the bat monster.

Chen Mo's despair was infinitely magnified, causing him to not even be able to turn his head now.

Because even if he moved, he felt scared.

"Are you going to die?"

Many people may have imagined what it is like to die.

Chen Mo is no exception, but when death really comes, his heart is full of decisive courage.

Such courage has also been magnified to the extreme, and it has given him some strength.

He thrashed his feet and stood up abruptly.

Even if you die, you have to die standing up!

At this moment, the text on the surface of the bronze ancient lamp was updated.

[It is difficult for a dying declaration to defeat hierarchical suppression, and there is no change in your ending. But your courage touched Heaven and now gives you a chance to live. Sacrifice twenty years of life to get a chance to light an oil lamp. 】

Maybe when fear takes over his heart, when this passage appears, Chen Mo will choose to sacrifice without hesitation.

But now, his mindset has changed.

"I refuse!"