【10 minutes ago】

William and Catherine walked through the cave and stepped into the mysterious cave where the statue of the main god was sealed.

In an instant, I felt completely cut off from the outside world,

An uneasy, eerie, eerie feeling wafted from the depths of the cavern, and even laughter, singing, and crying could be faintly heard, small but real.

The cave has been artificially repaired, and the ground and walls have been leveled.

It is very strange that the entrance of the cave and the woods outside are covered with yellow charms, but there is no yellow paper used to suppress evil creatures in the cave, nor is there any hemp rope on it.

In addition, the cave passage is not straight but has a slight downward slope, and due to its proximity to the sea, the passage is also heavily waterlogged, and the humidity exceeds 100%.

The two of them only stood for a moment, their whole body completely soaked,

Even the water droplets on the body will continue to penetrate the skin, even William's flesh is difficult to resist, once any water penetrates the body, it will produce a slight "feeling of weakness", which will accumulate over time.

Because of this,

The investigators who came to the village didn't really go deep into this strange cave.

Or that they knew about the existence of the Mother Buddha of the Flower Sea, and that such a deity was not easy to offend, and the investigation they did was limited to 'the stability of the village'.

As long as it is certain that there will be no obvious deaths of tourists in the village, they will report it up and the village will be reopened.

William, who had walked for a while, sat cross-legged directly, focusing on the abyss in his abdomen, and with the rotation of the abyss, streams of water flowed out along the edges.

He was also relieved, feeling that the scales that had accumulated in his body had been taken out.

Catherine is even simpler, her octopus legs are exposed, attached to her thighs, and if any moisture invades her body, the octopus legs will be expelled as soon as possible.

It looks like running water while walking.

"It's interesting, I can feel that there's a big thing in there! Not only these villagers, but even the urban investigators were very jealous, and not only approached easily.

William, you drain the water a little faster, I can't wait! ”

At Catherine's urging, the two soon came across the first fork in the tunnel between the cave passages, where there were three different paths to choose from.

But there was a man, or a corpse, standing at the fork in the road.

His eyes had been replaced by flowers, and with a strange smile, he raised his hand to the right side of the passage, as if to point the way to the 'visitor'.

"Catherine, is this the direction?"

"That's right, this dead man is in the right direction, and the remaining idol sense in my body is also pointing this way, it seems that the other party seems to want to meet us."

"Be careful."

William took the initiative to walk in front, stepping into the right aisle first, making sure that there was nothing wrong before letting Catherine follow.

Not long after the two of them walked along, they suddenly felt a chill behind them, and turned their heads at the same time.

I saw that the 'flower man' standing at the fork in the road actually changed his posture,

No longer pointing the way, but beckoning,

The mouth that should have been stiff a long time ago was still squirming, as if to say 'welcome'.

In the next second, his mouth was completely open, and the flowers crowded inside poured out wildly.

Such a strange phenomenon made Catherine uncomfortable, and took the initiative to step closer to William, and the octopus whiskers wrapped around William's arm were also wrapped more tightly.

William wanted to play tricks and make fun of Catherine's fear, but in the end he didn't say it, and kept it that way.

Soon there was another fork in the road,

This made William feel that the so-called cave was more like an underground labyrinth built by man, deliberately trapping the Mother of the Flower Sea Buddha in the innermost.

Similarly, there is a flower figure standing at this fork in the road, but it does not raise its hand to point the way.

When the two of them stepped forward to check the situation,

Swish! The flower man jerked his head and pressed his flowering face to Catherine's ear, making a sound through the growth and friction of the flowers in his mouth.

"Left~Side~"

Catherine was so frightened by the sudden jump-scare that she almost screamed, and the octopus leg between her thighs was completely straightened.

"Katherine, are you alright?"

"Ahem~ What's so good or bad, these things are not threatening."

"I mean, is this fear acceptable? Catherine: Your [Fear] shouldn't be of this type, right? ”

"Of course not, I'm good at nightmare phobia, not this weird thing...... I've just been walking around this liminal space for too long, and I'm just a little mentally uncomfortable. ”

"It could also be Catherine, because you absorbed the replica idol, and the deeper you go, the more you are invisibly affected."

With that, William quickly grabbed Catherine's palm, intending to relieve her mental discomfort through this simplest and most direct contact.

Catherine instinctively wanted to break free, but William clung tightly,

After failing to break free once, it goes with the flow,

This hand-holding turned out to be really effective, and the shift in attention calmed Catherine a lot, and in order to alleviate the embarrassment, she even began to take the initiative to find a topic.

"It's a really good pattern of fear, and when I get back to the circus, I might be able to learn from it to improve the fear effect."

"Hmm."

Next, every time you pass through a fork in the road, you will get a hint from the flower man, and after walking through seven forks, a large amount of ocean water begins to appear in the passage in front of you.

The crying, singing, and laughter became clearer,

"From the moment we stepped into the cave, the slope of the passage has always been downward, and we should be at a lower position than the sea level, and the sea of flowers may even be connected to below.

There is a high probability that the main idol is at the end of this passage. ”

"William, let's go quickly~ Let me see what the 'gods' related to the sea in this world look like, and how they compare to me?"

Along the way, William also learned not to meditate, but to drain the water from his abdomen as he walked.

When the two stepped on knee-high water, they walked out of the passage, and suddenly opened up.

There is a cave in the deepest part of the cave, which is completely different from the scene imagined by William.

An underground temple is in front of you,

Four columns overgrown with flowers serve as the support of the temple,

The ground is paved with half-meter-high seawater, and more than 100 futons float on the water, invisibly maintaining equal spacing.

Scattered on top of these futons were kneeling drowning people, their eyes blooming, and even if they were dead, they were in a pious posture.

And the direction of the drowning person is exactly where the statue of the main deity is located.

In front of them, an incense burner floated on the water, with several burning incense sticks inserted on it.

Behind it corresponds to a statue of the main deity with a height of more than 30 meters - "Mother Buddha of the Sea of Flowers"

The bloated and soaked fat body sits cross-legged on top of the lotus, and the fat is stacked on top of each other, as if it is full of oil and water. The skin on the surface is wrinkled, and I don't know if it's because of recent malnutrition or because I've been in the sea for too long.

The gesture of the Buddha Mother is similar to the statue of the god in the villager's home.

The left hand is knotted with a lotus mudra,

The white jade bottle was held in his right hand, but the jade bottle was full of flesh and blood, and it was also covered with circle-shaped teeth, like a special living artifact.

Keep looking upwards,

When you formally observe the Buddha Mother's head, which is difficult to describe in detail, the voices you heard before come from it.

The replica of the deity in the homes of the residents is simply carved with dense flowers on the face of the Mother Buddha to represent her physiognomy.

And in this underground temple, the face of the real god is indeed covered with flowers, but each flower corresponds to a corpse.

Or rather,

Mother Buddha's face is covered with dense 'holes', the size of which is just enough to fit into a person, a corpse, or an offering is the most appropriate description.

The human body is completely stuffed inside, leaving only the head outside.

With the passage of time, the head exposed on the face of the Buddha Mother will fully bloom, and together they will present such a dignified appearance of 'Buddha's face blooming'.

When the flowers on the face wither, it means that the sacrifice has been sucked dry, and the corpses that kneel on the futon are substitutes.

In the past,

When Huahai Village is operating normally as a tourist attraction,

This underground temple hall can be described as full of people at all times, and not only are people kneeling on every futon, but there are also a large number of 'queuers' floating in the sea.

They all 'can't wait' to embed in Mother Buddha's face.

Catherine was also stunned by such a scene, how could such a huge idol absorb it?

(End of chapter)