Chapter Sixty-Eight - Come to Me?
"I hope that when I die, my body will not come back to life as a second me.
I've seen a lot of people I know, but they're all dead, so why are they still in front of me again?!
Their movements are stiff, as if they ...... It's like a corpse walking!
No, calm down, Orb, you have to calm down......
If anyone is lucky enough to see this suicide note, remember not to chase them if your partner is dead and you see them again.
My love, Celia, died of a cough.
I watched her go to the hospital, be buried, and finally be buried in the earth.
But yesterday, I actually saw her alive again, no, but her body moved again, her expression was stiff, her movements were clumsy, calm down and think about it, how could I guess that it was not a normal person, but I was still carried away by grief at that time and chased her out......
I chased her all the way out of town, I ran so far, and I hugged my lover like that, and she ...... She was cold.
She grabbed my arm, I don't know how hard she was so strong, she knocked my head on the ground, I passed out, and when I woke up, I was in a strange cave.
No matter how much I called for help, no one could see me, let alone see the cave, so I had to rush into the depths of the cave and hide, pick up the pen and letter paper that had been thrown here and write this suicide note.
I heard the cries of other people in the cave, and I knew that I was not alone in being caught here, but I had no power to save them, only to hear their voices getting weaker and weaker, as if they had been tortured and died.
If anyone can see this suicide note, promise me not to chase your dead relatives, let alone come to save me. I would also like you to help me get this letter back to my home if you can.
Father, Mother, Celia, I love you.
Celia, I know that you are no longer the same person you were, I don't hate you, I love you......
I heard footsteps, and they were coming.
If I find out, I'll fight them, ha, at least a little more happily.
Please, my home is in Jizhou East ......"
The man's handwriting was messy, and it could be seen that he was not in a calm mood at the time, and he wrote all the words he could think of in a scattered manner.
But at the end of the suicide note, as dramatally desperate, his pen ran out of ink.
Ou Bu desperately squeezed the ink out of the barrel, but could only write the illegible three words "Ji Zhoudong", and the end of the suicide note was full of colorless scratches on the tip of the pen, but the content could no longer be recognized.
Those scratches were like unfamiliar symbols in Zhou Xinyi's eyes, and what could not be written in ink was not translated by the light curtain.
Zhou Xinyi's heart was cold when he saw it.
Not only because he was unable to fulfill the last wish of the victim who had the same experience as him, but also because of the experience of "the corpse came back to life" mentioned in his heart.
If this cave is full of dead people's corpses, then how did Jiang Yi get into it?
Jiang Yi is dead?
Zhou Xinyi couldn't believe this judgment.
He gently twisted the blood stains on the suicide note with his fingertips, folded the suicide note and carefully put it in his coat pocket.
He didn't believe that Jiang Yi was dead, and the man named Ou Bu might not know the whole story, so there must be something else hidden in all this.
It can be seen from the suicide note that after those "corpses" caught the living, they always habitually threw people outside the cave, watched them despair, struggle, and finally played people to death.
In that case, he can't sit still and let his emotions be consumed by despair.
He was going to find Jiang Yi and leave here with her.
The sound of the musket may attract more "corpses", Zhou Xinyi pinned Wen Yan to his waist, took out the judge's hammer and pen, which were more suitable for covert combat, lifted the curtain under the table, and prepared to climb out.
But as soon as the curtain was lifted, Zhou Xinyi saw a white smiling face hidden in the dark!
Holy!
Zhou Xinyi was startled, and immediately took the judge's hammer and smashed it at the smiling face, and the owner of that face flexibly stepped back, and then grabbed it with his slender arm!
Zhou Xinyi noticed that there were actually two joints on that arm!
He took out a pen with his backhand and stabbed it fiercely, and the sticky blood flowed out, but the "corpse" didn't seem to feel the pain, and his movements did not slow down in the slightest, and grabbed Zhou Xinyi's ankle.
Then, those two hands worked together to try to tear Zhou Xinyi's legs off his torso!
Zhou Xinyi had never seen such a fierce battle, and he was a little shocked for a while, but the "corpse" obviously didn't know the essentials of fighting, so he actually stretched out his arms and opened the doorway, easily exposing his fragile neck in front of Zhou Xinyi.
Zhou Xinyi was unrelenting, and saw the opportunity to stab him, and the "corpse" finally howled in pain, and Judge Zhou Xinyi followed closely with a hammer, and hit the "corpse" in the face with a hammer, finally making him faint.
Looking at the "corpse" that had fallen again, Zhou Xinyi thought with palpitations, when he read the suicide note just now, did it keep squatting outside the table and looking at him?
Damn, he was so scared for a moment that his murderous aura dissipated.
Zhou Xinyi used the blade of the knife to mend the neck and limb joints of the dead "corpse" a few times, and only after confirming that it could no longer stand up to trouble himself did he begin to observe its physical characteristics.
A man with a thin body and stiff facial features, and more importantly, his arms are divided into three sections, which are connected to two joints in addition to the shoulders.
Is this really a human corpse?
Zhou Xinyi couldn't help but recall the ciphertext he had read in the last light curtain, which mentioned information about the "Shadow Demon Girl".
Isn't the stiffness, the ability to disguise themselves as humans, and their strong hostility to humans fit the characteristics of these monsters?
Zhou Xinyi would not be foolish enough to think that there can only be women in the shadow-type demon girl.
He looked at the injured leg, which was supposed to be dislocated.
Fortunately, he is quite experienced with this kind of injury, and he can endure the pain and press himself back.
It seems that it is necessary to pay attention to the way these "corpses" fight.
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Above the cave, Changbai was still spinning in a hurry.
It clearly smelled Zhou Xinyi's smell and heard his shout, but as a fierce beast at night, how could it not find Zhou Xinyi's location no matter what?
Ji Lin felt its eagerness and pressed Changbai's head, "Calm down, I seem to have some clues." ”
In her "Ten Strange Legends of Ji Zhou", such a legend was once included: In the wasteland outside the city, there are some invisible crypts, and the cannibal groups are hidden in the crypts.
The ancestors of the cannibal race were once sinners who were exiled by Jizhou City.
They could not find food in the wasteland, so they hid in unseen crypts, snatched lone travelers, cut off their heads, and sucked their flesh.
The victims who fell into the cave were not visible to outsiders, so very few of those who were killed survived, except for one lucky man, whose climbing hook on his backpack accidentally hooked the edge of the cave, allowing him to climb out of the cave after falling into the cave and crawling along the rope on the hook.
This legend was also circulated in Jizhou City, and she collected and compiled it into a book.
Although there are still many doubts about this legend, now, Ji Lin has to believe that the legendary cave does exist.
"Why did Zhou Xinyi fall in, and we couldn't get down?" Ji Lin looked at the ground under her feet and asked.
"It's because ...... Was he dragged in by someone from the tribe? ”
"The way to enter the cave is known only to the people in the tribe, so if I want to enter the cave, I must also be caught by the people in the tribe......"
Use yourself as bait?
No, that would be too reckless, I'm afraid that not only will I not be able to save Mr. Zhou Xinyi, but it will also add trouble to him.
And the people of the tribe will catch a lone traveler, but not necessarily a dangerous nightmare.
Since the legend says that the victim was able to escape with a rope, it means that the invisible cave is only inaccessible to those outside, not those inside.
The effect of such an empty nightmare is too great, and Changbai must not be left behind.
Listening to the description of the team members, when those people captured Zhou Xinyi, they dragged him down in an instant?
Ji Lin made a decision in his heart and rode on Changbai's back again, "Are you sure that Zhou Xinyi's voice came from below?" ”
Changbai nodded.
"Okay, Changbai, don't be afraid, let's swoop down from here!"
Take a gamble!
Changbai, who had the backbone of the main heart, immediately raised his wings, ignored the ground, and swooped bravely in the direction that Ji Lin pointed!
They did pass through the stone layer, and when Ji Lin saw the scene in front of them again, they were already in a deep crypt.
It worked!
At this time, Zhou Xinyi had already gone deep into the crypt, leaving the place full of human furniture and coming to a more spacious cave.
Along the way, he successfully summoned the black line, carefully dodged a large number of enemies, selectively knocked out the lone "corpse", and went all the way to the depths of the "corpse's" lair.
He hadn't found his way out yet, but the deeper he went, the more difficult it became to evade the enemy.
Zhou Xinyi listened carefully to the movement in front of him, there were at least two "corpses" stumbling towards this side, he immediately turned right and turned into the next tunnel, and before he could settle down, he heard the sound of "corpses" in front of him again.
The number of "corpses" here is too dense, and Zhou Xinyi realizes that if he continues like this, he may not be able to hide for long, and he will definitely face a bitter battle.
Zhou Xinyi was ready to fight to the death and pressed Wen Yan in his hand.
Then, there was the sound of the "corpse" walking barefoot in front of him and on the right, which he could only hear, and most of the battles triggered by Zhou Xinyi here were because the "corpse" stepped on the bloodless road, quietly and silently went around behind him, and suddenly launched a sneak attack.
Fortunately, they are not good at using weapons, otherwise Zhou Xinyi would have died here more than ten times.
While he was on guard against the danger that could be predicted in advance, he was wary of the enemies that suddenly appeared beside him, and suddenly, he felt a creature approaching behind him, and before he could turn around, Wen Yan was grabbed by something, and a huge force came from behind his shoulder, pulling him into a narrow cave!
Yes, again!
Zhou Xinyi urgently turned the muzzle of his gun, preparing to deal with the enemy behind him as quickly as possible, but heard a familiar voice.
"Why are you here......
Jiang Yi's eyes were deep, revealing a surprised smile, "Come to me?" ”