The location I'm talking about is on the other side of the basin. It's not difficult to get around from the top of the mountain, but it's a little difficult to get down.
At that location, except for the moss-covered cliffs, there was no place to stay. If you wanted to go down, you could only climb slowly with a rope.
After I put down the rope, I said to Alina: "I'll go down first. If you see me pulling the rope three times, if you go down again, there may be a building below. If you don't see me after going down, don't move and let it happen." Do you understand Qing’s arrangement?”
Elena was surprised: "How do you know there will be a building below?"
I asked the other person: "Are you British, or am I?"
Before Elena could react, Ye Xun and I let go of the rope and slid down the cliff.
Not far after I slid down, I felt that the light around me began to gradually dim, and it was like I was falling straight from the human world into hell. Every time I dropped one meter, the smell of death became stronger.
Ye Xun whispered: "Wang Huan, do you feel that something is affecting our minds?"
"There seems to be..." I seemed to have some feelings, but I didn't feel very clear. Ever since I learned Xingtian's fighting spirit, few things can affect my mind.
When I was about to speak, a protruding figure suddenly appeared on the stone wall in front of me. When I suddenly reached for the handle of the gun, I realized that the figure was just a raised relief.
Before I could breathe a sigh of relief, my heart suddenly tightened again. This relief sculpture had the same posture as that of the family guard who had just died on the mountain. His hands were flat on his side, his body was straight, his legs were closed, and his head was slightly backward. Looking up, if the mountain wall is regarded as a flat surface, he is equivalent to lying on the mountain. The only difference was that the body was covered with soil, and he was covered with stone skin.
When I subconsciously lowered my head and looked down, I saw row after row of small iron drills protruding from the stone wall.
After I made a gesture to Ye Xun, I pushed my way and shined towards the right side of the mountain wall. A whole row of humanoid reliefs appeared in front of me wherever the beam of light went. The chests of every relief were exposed. Holding a cylindrical iron drill that is nearly one foot long.
vampire!
As soon as these three words flashed through my mind, I immediately turned back and looked at the relief on the cliff. There was a hole in the man's chest that was blocked by wood. There should have been iron bolts nailed to his body at the beginning, but the exposed half was somehow broken into two pieces, leaving only the severed half that went deep into the stone wall.
I tried to push the pig iron in the cavity with my hand, but the iron drill did not move at all. The iron drill had at least penetrated the rock more than a foot, otherwise it would never be so stable.
The first thing I thought of was vampires.
In medieval Europe, in addition to ordinary criminals, there were religious trials, the most famous of which was the three-century anti-witch movement. Countless women were burned alive as witches, and countless innocent people died. The anti-witch movement did not even require any evidence, relying solely on people's subjective assumptions to send witches to the stake.
Unlike witches, people accused of being vampires in Europe were buried alive and had a long wooden stake driven through their graves, or, some say, into the vampire's heart.
The rock wall I faced was like a vampire cemetery standing in the sky. Every one meter or so there would be a human relief, and all of them had iron drills nailed to their chests, at least hundreds of them. The figures are neatly photographed on the cliff, which makes people feel creepy at first glance.
I turned my head and made a gesture to Ye Xun, who nodded to me understandingly, supported the wall with one foot, and distanced himself from the rock wall.
I pressed one hand in front of the stone sculpture and suddenly exerted force within a few inches, blasting it towards the wall. The nearly inch-thick stone skin immediately exploded like a spider web under the force of my fist. of fine lines. After a blink of an eye, stone chips flew away, the stone skin fell off, and a corpse that had turned into withered bones suddenly appeared in front of me.
The corpse was stuck in the stone wall almost perfectly. At first glance, it looked like someone had pressed the bones against the wall and carved out a groove for burying the bones according to the outline of the corpse.
The empty eyes of the withered bones only looked at me for a second. The human bones standing in the stone wall seemed to have lost their support. All the joints collapsed at the same time, and strings of withered bones tumbled down from the hole. Straight into the abyss.
When I wanted to turn my head to look, the sound of human bones being smashed on the rocks was like a resonance in the empty abyss. Sound waves invisible to the naked eye shook wildly across the sky, and rows of corpse reliefs exploded. Countless stone skins fell like snow, and pieces of human bones rolled down the mountain wall. The sound of bones hitting and breaking against rocks was endless.
Looking down from my position, I saw a glistening green fire floating under the abyss. It was the phosphorescence emitted by a large number of human bones held in the air by something. At first glance, it looked like countless will-o'-the-wisps floating lightly in the air. All you can see is the miserable green color of human beings.
I looked up at Ye Xun, who suddenly pulled out a shotgun from behind and pressed it on my shoulder. I ducked down slightly, and Ye Xun suddenly pulled the trigger, and a ball of fire shot out from behind me. At that moment, my eardrums were buzzing from the sound of gunshots so close at hand.
When I looked at Ye Xun dizzy, the latter suddenly swung the rope and switched positions with me. He hung in the air against my back, stepped on the mountain wall with his feet, and wrapped his arms around the rope twice. circle, freed his hands, raised his weapon and fired repeatedly at my back.
The fierce firepower of the shotgun lit up the abyss. I also used the firelight from behind to look in the direction where Ye Xun was shooting. There was nothing there. Was Ye Xun shooting into the air
I stretched out my hand and pressed it between Ye Xun's shoulders. The latter also fired the last bullet, but he still kept pulling the trigger of his spear. It wasn't until I slapped him hard behind him that he stopped. But the arm holding the gun was still shaking violently, and the cold sweat on his face was dripping like water.
I patted Ye Xun twice: "What did you see?"
"Someone... it's okay..." Ye Xun finally calmed down, but he didn't tell me who he saw.
"You..." I wanted to ask again, but Ye Xun whispered: "Go down first, I will feel solid when I step on the ground."
Hanging in mid-air was really unsettling, so I simply gave up and slid to the ground with him without asking any more questions.
The location under our feet was just as I expected. A two-story church was being built. The human bones that had just fallen from the sky landed on the roof of the church.
European castles were not only used as residences for nobles, but were more often used as fortresses to defend their territories. Back then, it was against common sense for someone to build the Dark Castle in the center of the basin.
The ancient castle deep in the basin is not only undefendable, but also easily puts itself under siege by the enemy. Especially the cliff that goes straight up and down behind the castle almost leaves a gap for the enemy to attack the castle.
Therefore, I judged that there should be some defensive building similar to a bunker under the cliff. What I didn't expect was that there would be a church built on the mountain. Moreover, the church was built extremely solidly. Even after countless years, the tiles were still as good as new. Human bones dropped from the sky had been broken into pieces, but not a single tile on the church roof was damaged.
I lightly stamped my foot and said, "Send a signal to get them down. What did you see just now?"
After Ye Xun sent a signal into the air, he said: "Actually, it's just a figure. If you look at that figure, you may not feel scared. But I don't know why, as soon as I see that person, I feel scared from the inside out. .”
I said in a deep voice: "What are you afraid of him? His face, his body, or his eyes? Or, do you see something in him?"
Everyone's ability to tolerate fear is different. What one person thinks is commonplace may make another person scream in fear after seeing it. Ye Xun is a Taoist disciple and cannot be afraid of ghosts. Even if a ghost pinches his neck, he can still deal with it calmly. The thing that can make him lose his position is definitely not just a human figure.
Ye Xun shook his head and said: "I can't explain clearly. In short, when I saw that figure, I was scared to death. I always felt that if I didn't kill him, he would keep following me..."
While Ye Xun was talking, the sound of the Tulip Pirates climbing down the rock came from above my head. I could only temporarily put aside the fact that Ye Xun saw the figure and looked up at the cliff.
The tulip pirates jumped off the roof of the church one by one, but the person responsible for holding the battle stopped in the air and refused to fall.
"Use a flashlight, shine it on him, hurry up!" I was the first to point the flashlight beam at him, and all the flashlight light was concentrated behind that person in an instant.
The moment half of the mountain cliff was illuminated by the beam of light, I saw a cloud-like mist pouring out of the mountain wall, including the man.
Before I could see where the smoke was coming from, the man was like a magnet pulled by magnetism. He moved forward a few feet out of thin air and embedded himself in the human-shaped groove on the mountain wall.
The next moment, the shattered stone skin reappeared on the stone wall, starting from the position of the man's feet and moving rapidly upwards, covering the man's calves in just a few seconds.
I only hesitated for a second. The man suddenly pushed his hands forward, and then the force of his arms shattered the stone skin under his feet. He stepped out of the wall abruptly, and his feet were hanging in the air.
"Arthur!"
Only then did I see clearly that the person hanging in the air was actually Arthur.
I remember, I asked Ren Tianqing and the others to take charge of the rear end, but why did Arthur run up behind them
Ren Tianqing obviously didn't notice that Arthur was missing. He looked up at the cliff and subconsciously called out Arthur's name.