Chapter 4: Loss
It didn't take long for Lin Hui's feet to be covered with a thick layer of broken bones, up to his ankles, and it became more difficult to move.
Lin Hui's clothes outside his waist and abdomen had long been stained red by blood, and the rough linen clothes were constantly scraping back and forth outside the wound, like countless insects and ants gnawing at the flesh around the wound. The wounds continued to increase, and the massive blood loss and great pain made Lin Hui's face more and more pale. The punctured wound under the ribs has been paralyzed, which is a symptom of the corpse's poisoning.
Later, Lin Hui no longer felt the pain, and the surroundings suddenly became very quiet, only the dull sound of a long knife splitting hard bones. Lin Hui knew that he wouldn't be able to support it for long, and his strength would soon run out.
After cutting down the last skeleton beside him, Lin Hui only felt weak, and his right arm was even more sore. Blood was slowly spilling out of the wound under the right rib, clotting, and then tearing again in the writhing of the body. Fortunately, the skeletons on the periphery didn't seem to have the intention of continuing to attack, but just surrounded Lin Hui in the middle layer by layer, as if they had some special intentions.
Although the monsters no longer attacked, Lin Hui had no way to free his hand to bandage the wound that was still bleeding, let alone put down the long knife in his hand. He tried to hold the wound and stop the bleeding, but in his left hand he held a pine branch that was used as a torch, so he could only gently press the wound with his left forearm.
Lin Hui's eyes quickly looked around for a gap where he could escape, but all he saw were countless ghost fires floating up and down, and his mood became heavier and heavier like his hands.
They wanted to catch them alive, and Lin Hui had such an idea in his mind. The thought only made him feel even more chilled, whether dead or alive, he didn't want to fall into the hands of these monsters. So his breathing became longer, ready to let go and make a last-ditch effort.
A dazzling light suddenly caught Lin Hui's gaze, and the many skeletons surrounding Lin Hui also raised their heads, as if there was a pair of eyes in those empty eye sockets that were invisible to mortals, allowing them to see clearly the changes that appeared on the cave.
After the dazzling white light faded, a dim ball of light floated in the air in the upper half of the huge stalactite pillar in the center of the cavern. As soon as the ball of light appeared, the skeletons below became very chaotic and restless, and even some of the skeletons that were originally surrounding Lin Hui left their previous positions and moved towards the bottom of the ball of light, bullying and pushing each other one after another, like a wave desperately trying to rush to the shore.
The skeletons in the cave are like a group of vicious dogs waiting to be fed by their owners, and the ball of light in mid-air is like a bell that is ready to be fed. Their pale heads swayed from side to side with their bodies, and their jaws kept opening and closing as if they were uttering a silent cry.
Although Lin Hui didn't know what was going on, he clearly knew that the moment when the monsters were briefly attracted away was his last chance to escape. He turned around, and was about to rush out with his feet when a woman's scream came from behind him, and Lin Hui couldn't help but look back.
A woman seemed to be grabbed by a large invisible hand on the back of her neck, her body hanging in the air, and she could only wave her hands and grasp helplessly in the void, kicking her feet indiscriminately. The woman's pale face was already filled with tears of terror, and in the helpless moans and screams, the body was slowly pushed out of the ball of light. When she saw the layers of skeletons packed with eerie bones below, her frightened face contorted with screaming too hard.
The skeletons below the woman boiled instantly, and they all stretched out their hands that were only left with Sen Sen's white bones into the air, trying to grab the food that was struggling in the air. Some of the skeletons fell in the thrust, and their fellow citizens immediately stepped on them, raising themselves to get closer to the food. Two even crawled directly onto the other standing, their finger bones sticking out almost to the woman's feet.
The desperate woman could only kick her legs even harder to kick the few terrible hand bones underneath. Suddenly, she saw Lin Hui who was surrounded by a circle of skeletons. As if the drowning person saw a life-saving straw, she tried her last strength to stretch out her hands to the longest and grabbed Lin Hui in the air. However, the two were separated by more than 20 feet, how could they be caught, and in the end they could only cry again and again: "Help me!"
At this time, Lin Hui had already seen the woman's appearance clearly, although he didn't know her, but the woman was wearing a green dress and a white dress, and he vaguely remembered that it was the style that the servants of the Ji family often wore.
"She's Ji Yao's maid!" was the person she was looking for, but Lin Hui not only couldn't save her, but he couldn't even save himself.
Countless thoughts churned in his mind, and with a pang of pain in his heart, he let out a roar of rage, turned around and slashed the skeleton that was blocking his way in half. Stepping on the broken bones all over the ground, Lin Hui walked in the opposite direction to the woman. The woman's miserable cry for help came into her ears, like countless sharp claws piercing Lin Hui's heart, although her heart was painful, she didn't dare to let her feet pause slightly.
"No, don't leave me!" cried out in despair. As if she didn't feel that her fate was tragic enough, the invisible hand that grabbed the back of her neck also let go at this time, and before her body could hit the ground, she was pulled by the pale hand bones raised high below, pulled into the sea of bones that covered the entire cave, and was instantly submerged. Countless skeletons scrambled to devour her flesh, and terrible screams echoed through the cavern.
These skeletons have an unquenchable craving for flesh, and their screams make them almost insane. The ghost fires in the eye sockets of the skeletons surrounding him were still watching Lin Hui, but their feet involuntarily moved little by little in the direction where the woman fell. The woman's screams had become staccato and the skeletons around her had become more agitated, with several heads even turning in the direction from which the sound came. The thick flesh and blood were all over the cave, and when a skeleton could no longer control the rampage, and walked in the direction where the woman was engulfed, the encirclement of Lin Hui began to crumble, and the skeletons that originally blocked Lin Hui's way left their original positions one after another, clumsily moving towards the center of the cave.
The opportunity was fleeting, Lin Hui no longer hesitated, and rushed towards the gap between the two skeletons. The two skeletons, who were about to go to the center of the cavern to join the feast of flesh and blood, noticed that someone was rushing towards them, and instinctively raised their claw-like hands to grab at the person, and their jaws were open to the maximum, ready to pounce on the person and bite after they were knocked down.
The long knife in Lin Hui's hand slashed to the left, and he cut off the two forearms of the skeleton on the left, rushed diagonally to the left, and hit it properly, avoiding the attack of the skeleton on the right, and knocking the skeleton on the left to the ground at the same time.
Only then did they pass over the two skeletons, and another one stopped in front of them, completely blocking the way. Several monsters next to him, who were originally attracted by the woman's screams, also thought of Lin Hui's movement at this time, and staggered towards Lin Hui.
Seeing that the gaps between the surrounding skeletons were slowly closing, and the last way of life was gradually disappearing in the white bones of the forest, Lin Hui knew that it would be difficult for him to get out. "Are you going to die here?" Lin Hui only felt bitter in his heart.
Looking around with a knife, Lin Hui forcibly drove away all the pain in his heart, his whole body was lucky, his upper and lower muscles swelled sharply, and he let out a thunderous shout, and once again smashed into the encirclement of countless skeletons.
Lin Hui made up his mind in his heart that even if he died here, he would kill himself before he lost his breath. In the slashing and slashing, I actually felt a slight pleasure. Thinking of dying today, Lin Hui no longer panicked, watching the skeleton and white bones that pounced on him being smashed to pieces, and at the same time, a faint smile appeared on his face, but this smile was covered with blood stains and dust, and it looked even more hideous than the skeleton and white bones around him.
The ball of light in the center of the cave had not yet disappeared, and a majestic voice came from it, saying angrily: "A group of waste, half a day has not been able to take down the stink bugs of the Spirit Vein Realm. ”
The skeletons below the ball of light that were still biting the woman's corpse heard this sound, and they all raised their bodies, and in horror moved away from the area below the ball of light, gathering towards the place where Lin Hui was.
The majestic voice entered his ears, and Lin Hui only felt dizzy, obviously with a shocking effect in the voice.
Lin Hui struggled to regain his balance, when suddenly a huge force pressed down on his back like a mountain, crushing him to the ground. Lin Hui's breath was stagnant, and a mouthful of hot blood poured into his mouth, and then it was squirted out, splashing on the broken bones of Bai Sensen around him.
Lin Hui was just about to get up, when another huge force struck, like an invisible big hand dragging his entire body backwards. Lin Hui only felt that the bones all over his body were crushed by this huge force, and he could no longer exert half of his strength to struggle, so he could only let his body be pulled into the dim ball of light, and he lost consciousness.
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I don't know how long it took, Lin Hui woke up. His consciousness was still stuck when he was surrounded by countless skeletons, and after his eyes opened, before he could see the things around him, his right hand subconsciously struck out in front of him. However, as soon as his right fist was raised, he fell weakly, not only because of the severe pain, but also because the muscles and bones of his body were too badly damaged, and most of the muscles in Lin Hui's body were unable to exert their strength at all.
After taking a few breaths, Lin Hui realized that he was lying in a stone chamber, and the stone wall was inlaid with five thumb-sized fluorites, emitting a faint blue light, so that Lin Hui could barely see the entire stone chamber. There were only three things in the stone room, the square stone table, the directional stone bench one size smaller than the stone table, and then the square stone bed under Lin Hui. There was nothing else, not even a pillow, no bedding, not to mention decorations and the like. Everything in the room was made of stone, and the surface was fairly flat, but it was just flat, neither polished nor marked with other lines. Under the illumination of fluorite, everything was blue-gray, like a gloomy ghost, which made Lin Hui's heart cold.
There was no place in Lin Hui's body that did not have pain, and after lying down for a while, his breathing gradually calmed down, and he was used to the pain, so he tried to sit up. But after a little attempt, the body couldn't exert its strength, and the wound was triggered, and the pain that had just subsided hit again, so that the whole body kept convulsing.
After a long time, after most of the pain subsided, Lin Hui lay motionless on the bed. The only part of the whole body that can be controlled is the eyes, and the bones of the eyes are turning around, but there is not a living thing in the field of vision, all of them are blue-gray and cold stones.
Lin Hui's heart was sullen, and he just wanted to shout, but the severe pain finally turned into a faint moan.
Lin Hui remembered that before he fell unconscious, he was forcibly pulled into a ball of light. Thinking of the strange ball of light and the endless skeletons in the cave, Lin Hui only felt like falling into an ice cave, and his ears seemed to be able to hear the terrible screams of the woman when she was being eaten by countless dead objects. Thinking that he was probably in the ball of light now, maybe that day he would be like that woman, being devoured alive in the pile of embarrassing skeletons, and I couldn't help but feel palpitations. Lying on the stone bed like this, you can't move your fingers if you want to, and you may be eaten alive, and you feel that life is worse than death.
After spending half a day in this panic, he walked into the stone room alone. Finally saw a living person, but Lin Hui was not happy in his heart, and looked up and down at the comer. It was a man, dressed in a white robe with many torn corners, with a pale face and no wrinkles, most likely in his twenties. This life's thick eyebrows and big eyes, but the lips are extremely thin, and the chin is long and pointed, under the cyan fluorescent reflection, it seems to be the white impermanence of the underworld.
Lin Hui has been hunting in the mountains since he was a child, and often faces fierce beasts, although he is apprehensive, he is not flustered, and asks: "Who are you?
The man looked at Lin Hui with only indifference in his eyes. He didn't speak, he reached out and pinched Lin Hui's bones from top to bottom, and it hurt so much that Lin Hui was sweating profusely, but he gritted his teeth and held back, not making a sound. The man saw it in his eyes, and his hand became more and more forceful, until Lin Hui almost fainted.
The man snorted coldly, stopped teasing Lin Hui, and didn't know where to take out a pill, brought it to him, and said, "Swallow." ”
Lin Hui looked at the pitch-black pill and hesitated a little in his heart, guessing whether it was poison or not. Thinking that his life is better than death now, if this pill is really poison, he can die a happy death. Thinking of this, he swallowed the pill in one gulp.
Lin Hui swallowed the pill, the man retreated to the stone bench and sat down, looking at him with a little pleasure in his eyes, the corners of his mouth curled up, forming a playful smile, coupled with the man's gray face, it made him panic.
When the pill was entered, it immediately dissolved, and I felt a bitterness. Then Lin Hui sometimes felt itchy all over his body, like countless ants crawling and gnawing everywhere on his body, and sometimes it was so painful that it was like someone had driven ten thousand steel nails into his body that went straight to the bone marrow. At this time, Lin Hui knew what real life was worse than death.
There was a happy smile on the man's hideous face, but there was no laugh, only a hoarse exhale like a moan.
Lin Hui was both shocked and angry, and wanted to scold a few words, but there were only convulsions between his chest and lungs, and he couldn't make any coherent sound. In the end, he had to roar hoarsely with all his might, in exchange for the man's hoarse laughter like a painful dry cough.
After a few roars, Lin Hui's consciousness was already blurred. It was as if he had been thrown from the air back into the eerie stalactite cave, and the endless skeletons of white bones drowned themselves like a monstrous wave, and their flesh and blood were torn and devoured alive. The pain continued to pound the soul, tearing it into pieces. However, in the next moment, the fragments were spliced together into a complete piece by external forces, and the body was once again thrown to countless monsters to gnaw. Lin Hui is like a broken ball, sometimes swallowed by the tide of pain, sometimes floating from it, but never reaching the other side of the end.