36. Skeleton resurrection
It is said to be a cemetery, but in fact it is nothing more than a large flat wasteland, densely packed with stone monuments.
Some of the steles had broken into two, some had collapsed on the ground, and the names engraved on them were blurred.
"Are these people who died in another world?" Li Xiang asked with some curiosity.
But everyone looked at each other, no one knew that the young people who followed Ling Ye were all young people, and when the "blood moon came", they were hidden by their families in the pile of corpses, so they escaped the catastrophe.
Then they were taken in by the old mage and lived in the camp, and no one knew what to do with the corpses.
As for the old mage, he left here and never returned to the camp.
As they continued to walk inside, they found that many of the coffins in the ground had been exposed due to soil erosion.
Some of the coffin lids also fell to the side, and the bodies inside had long since decomposed into bones.
"These corpses are still buried," Ling Ye sighed.
"No way, after all, the camp is so big, if it is used to bury the corpses, there will be no place to grow crops," Zhang Ming replied, and everyone expressed their understanding.
The more I walked in, the more gloomy I felt, because it was late at night, and everyone was wearing coats made of animal skins, but it was extremely cold here, and the girls behind me shivered.
"Captain Ling, it's better to ...... Let's stop and make a fire! Li Xiang stepped forward and proposed.
Ling Ye nodded and said:
"Since you want to make a fire, it's better to build a few flame platforms around, I see that the vegetation here is more lush, and there are a lot of branches, one to provide some warmth, and the other to avoid monster attacks, anyway, there is a strange stone formation here, and people from LM Company can't enter."
After a while, 7-8 flame platforms were erected on the wasteland, and the surrounding area was very bright, and at midnight I could see a towering tree in the middle, very thick, as if it had lived for hundreds of years, and its body was surrounded by more than a dozen dark green vines.
Ling Ye wanted to come forward to take a closer look, but he heard someone shouting:
"There are symbols on this stone!"
Immediately after that, people shouted one after another, picked up the stone, and brought it to Ling Ye, who groped over and over again, anyway, except for the red engraving on the face, it was no different from ordinary stones.
And the carved shapes, some like a bird, some like a tree, just found seven or eight different pieces.
Stones need to be brought back for research, and plants also need to collect seeds, so Ling Ye divided the crowd into two waves, one wave looked for symbolic stones, put the same ones into a bag, and the other followed Zhang Ming to collect seeds of plants that had not been seen nearby.
For a while, everyone dispersed and went their separate ways, and Ling Ye curiously brushed aside the branches and leaves hanging to the ground, and found that the trunk was actually hollow, and there was a strange red thing inside.
Ling Ye stretched out his hand and touched it, only to see that the thing also moved, and it turned out to be alive.
It seems that the tree is keeping this thing, its thick roots providing it with nourishment, and the vines and layers of foliage protecting it from detection.
"Did you hear anything?"
I don't know who shouted, and the people around him hurriedly stopped their movements and listened carefully:
"It seems to be a voice, and it feels like it...... It's gasping for air."
"Who is panting so loudly, I hear the wind!"
"Wind? You haven't seen the trees and they haven't moved, where does the wind come from? ”
"No, no, I think it's the sound of digging"
"Is it a stinging mouse? No, this thing should sleep at night."
Everyone, you and I said a word, no one could convince anyone, so I had to ask everyone to stop what they were doing and gather in front of the big tree.
Just when everyone was puzzled, a man suddenly screamed and fell to the ground, still muttering "There are ghosts and ghosts"
Ling Ye hurriedly went up to check, only to see a skeleton lying on the ground.
"What, you walked by yourself and tripped over this skeleton," Qian Bo quipped, "Your voice is more terrifying than a ghost."
made everyone laugh, only to see the man get up, rub his arm, and reply dissatisfiedly:
"Am I not afraid...... Wait a minute...... This skeleton moves! ”
"What are you kidding? Didn't you just fall on your head......" Qian Bohaha laughed, but he couldn't laugh in the next moment.
Several skeletons next to him actually stood up.
It's the ones who were lying down in the coffin.
Immediately afterward, bone arms stretched out of the soil, and they kept digging into the soil, trying to break free.
The nearby skeletons had begun to slowly walk towards them.
The mutilated ones crawled on the ground and crawled towards them.
"What's going on?"
Everyone was stunned, and Ling Ye hurriedly told them to retreat.
Because they went out to explore the terrain and environment, they only brought two combat groups, although each of them was equipped with bone knives, but in fact their combat power was very low.
Looking at the skeletons crawling out, everyone retreated back and forth to the path they had come.
When they followed the signs to the fork in the road, they found that the intersection had disappeared and was replaced by a high wall.
"It must be an illusion!" Qian Bo didn't believe in evil and rushed up to beat the wall, and the wall made a muffled sound of "dong dong", which was obviously a solid wall.
"Impossible! How could anyone move a big wall more than ten meters wide and put it here! ”
"Where's the road? Why is it gone? ”
"Could it be that we are going wrong? It's not that way at all."
"Impossible! Only this one of the dozen or so forks can be passed, you see the "X" here, as well as a few small green flowers planted by Zhang Ming, double marked, how could it be wrong! Li Xiang retorted.
Looking at the bones that were getting closer and closer, they made a difficulty, there was a wall behind them, although the skeleton was slow, but in the end, it was a monster that crawled out of the coffin, who knew what would happen, even the people in the battle group hesitated and did not dare to step forward.
Ling Ye knew that fear was the root of all failure.
He raised the bone knife he was wearing, and to the astonishment of everyone, he stepped forward and cut off the arm of the bone with a single sword.
I only heard a "creak", my arm fell to the ground, my bones didn't feel it, and I continued to pull Ling Ye with my other hand.
Midnight went down with a few more knives, slashing the skeleton to pieces and shattering it to the ground.
"Ahh I didn't expect Captain Ling to be a hidden martial arts master! It's so powerful!" Qian Bo praised.
"These skeletons are so brittle that they shatter when touched," Ling Ye explained.
As soon as everyone heard this, they quickly took out all the bone knives and slashed at the skeletons in front of them, chopping the skeletons into pieces and shattering to the ground, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"Fortunately, this skeleton is useless, otherwise according to our strength, at least it will be over," Qian Bo sighed.
A few people were left to cut down the skeletons that might reappear, and a few people analyzed the situation in the middle of the night:
"I think it's because we took the stones here and moved the formation, so we can't leave here."
"So what do you say?"
"I thought, why don't you put the stone back where it was?" Li Xiang said.
"I've taken a dozen dollars, who knows where it is? Besides, didn't the old mage from before also take the stones? So how did he leave? Qian Bo asked.
"But ......"
"Don't do it, listen to Captain Ling, do what he says"
Several people looked at Ling Ye in unison, he was stared at a little hairy, in fact, he didn't know what to do, who knew that there would be such a thing as a wall in this ghost place, but as the captain, he couldn't show cowardice at the moment of crisis.
He had an idea, and quickly flipped through his notes, page by page, only to see that the last few pages read:
"There are many strange stones, if you take them, you will get lost in them, and you need to wait for the sun to rise and lift the fog in front of you before you can resolve them."
"If not, the road will be blocked by the bone soldiers, and there will be no end"
"At this time, if you sincerely kneel in front of the tree fetus and beg, you can also break through the fog."
"That's not good, we're here just to get the stones, we've been working hard for half a month, and we can't go back in vain," Qian Bo said dissatisfiedly.
Everyone agreed with Qian Bo's point of view, as long as they held out until tomorrow morning, they could leave with the stones, the skeletons were slow and brittle, and it was no big problem to hold on for a few hours in turns.
But Ling Ye was a little uneasy in his heart, he was afraid that the red thing he saw before was a tree fetus, since this thing was alive, and he didn't let them leave, it must have other plans.