"Blessing?"
Zhao Yuan was full of astonishment: "People have become monsters, what a blessing!"
Ah Wu laughed maliciously and sarcastically: "Why do those monsters that do not belong to any life form exist? Don't you all know it? Why are you asking me?"
Zhang Yan said with a straight face: "There are also some who don't eat human flesh or drink human blood. They just eat chemical fertilizers, bask in the sun, grow themselves, mutate and wait to die."
Ah Wu corrected him sternly: "That is the process of blessing."
Several people: “…”
Zhao Yuan and Zhang Yan were about to curse again, but Chen Yang interrupted them, saying, "Stop arguing, let him talk."
A Wu just wiped the dirt off the stone pillar with his sleeve and said nothing.
Chen Yang walked over and took out a few tissues from his backpack and gave them to him: "Wipe it with this."
Ah Wu accepted the tissue he offered to get closer to her, but responded to his kindness with a resentful remark: "Why didn't you die at Miss Lin's hands?"
Chen Yang was speechless.
"Don't you all distrust each other? Just kill when your teammates tell you to."
Ah Wu looked at him, his eyes filled with pure confusion that made people feel disgusted: "Why would anyone trust you?"
Chen Yang turned around to look at the young man at the entrance of the cave, and heard A Wu's soft sigh in his ear.
"Of all you guys, you're the one I want to kill the most."
A strange smile appeared on Awu's face: "Because now there is only you..."
Before he could finish the rest of the sentence, he was knocked unconscious by the flying cane.
The atmosphere suddenly changed.
The young man stood on one leg at the edge of the stone cave, his arm resting on a crutch, his face covered by the shadow of the plants, his expression blurred, the aura around him filled with a growing violence, a black storm spreading outward with him as the center.
Could mutations be so terrifying? Zhang Yan and Zhao Yuan simultaneously kept their distance from him, wanting to say something but not saying anything, fearing they would be swept into the storm and killed for no apparent reason.
Although they didn't hear clearly what Awu said, they were very curious.
Chen Yang was also a little scared. Even though the young man did that for him, the fear he caused from him was no less than that from Zhang Yan and Zhao Yuan.
Last time, there were still two pills left, but this time they were gone, and he had no confidence to comfort her.
Besides, the most important thing right now is the task that is about to be completed.
There was a scar on Awu's hand caused by the friction on the way Zhang Yan brought him here. The color of the blood that seeped out was wrong. Lin Yue did not lie. The other party was really cursed. He had to hurry up and find out the cause and effect before the other party became a plant.
Chen Yang woke A Wu up: "Don't try to sow discord again."
Ah Wu was at a loss for a moment, then laughed, "It's the truth."
"Let's talk business," Chen Yang said calmly without being provoked by him, "I know that everything these people on the island are suffering now is caused by the sins of their previous generation, or the generation before that."
A Wu paused slightly in his action of rubbing the stone pillar.
Chen Yang did not miss any details: "They are outsiders. The disappeared civilization was the original owner of the island. They occupied the island by plundering, right?"
A Wu's slightly drooped eyes trembled.
Chen Yang said: "Tell us everything. I promise you that when I leave here, I will write it down and tell the whole world about their crimes."
Ah Wu finally showed some signs of relenting: "I want to kill you, and you still make me this promise?"
Chen Yang confessed: "Let's put it this way. I did this because I need your cooperation. We each have our own needs."
A Wu started to wipe the stone pillar again.
Zhang Yan didn't know what was wrong with him, so he grabbed his hair and knocked him to the ground.
The skin on Awu's head suddenly cracked and blood flowed out, a muddy red color that was slightly sticky.
He continued to rub the stone pillar, as if it was not him who was bleeding.
Zhang Yan was about to go crazy, so Zhao Yuan rushed over and pulled him aside.
"Do you still want to go back?"
Chen Yang said coldly, looking at Zhang Yan with a warning look. When he retracted his gaze and passed by the young man, he unexpectedly collided with those dark red eyes, and his breathing was blocked for a moment.
I'll figure out what happened later and find a way to have a chat with him.
I don’t know if I will be beaten.
As Chen Yang was thinking this, A Wu started to speak. His voice was soft and seemed cold in the quiet cave.
"Many years ago, this island was not called Xiaoyin Island. It had no name, and the people living on the island were not the ancestors of the people today. They were the Yi people."
A Wu wiped the blood off the stone pillar and said, "The Yi tribe believes in the god of plants. From generation to generation, the tribe has inherited the most sacred blessing, which all the tribe members prayed to the gods with the most pious hearts and souls."
"Only priests can receive the blessing, but not everyone is qualified."
"Only great priests who have made great contributions to the tribe and have sufficient prestige can have it."
No one interrupted, everyone was listening to what Awu was saying.
He paused and hummed a few tunes, then continued slowly: "When the priest is about to die, the tribesmen will open the altar and complete the blessing, so that he can be transformed into the people of the plant god after death, and live forever in the world."
"The blessing process can be long or short. If the priest makes a big mistake before the blessing comes, the blessing will be taken away from him, and he will have no choice but to die a normal death, without any rebirth."
Chen Yang suddenly realized that the meanings of the three paintings all matched. The plant background in the paintings represented the god of plants.
Their mission is to deprive the people on the island of their blessings and return everything to its original state.
Now the four stone pillars are all there, we can just go in and place them.
Not only Chen Yang thought of this, but others also thought of it, and the atmosphere suddenly became relaxed.
Zhang Yan changed into a comfortable position holding the phone, and Zhao Yuan simply sat down, his legs shaking constantly.
Chen Yang took two steps closer to the silent young man and asked A Wu: "How did the blessing change from being available only to great priests to being available to everyone..."
"Oh."
A Wu turned his back and leaned against the stone pillar, half of his face was covered in blood.
"That year, a refugee ship arrived on the island. Most of the people on board were old, weak, women and children. The Yi people took them in with sympathy. They didn't expect that they were all robbers."
"We purposely sent the elderly, weak, women and children who looked harmless to the island first, and found out everything on the island."
"The Wanyi tribe was blessing the priest, and the group of young and old outsiders came to meet more young and strong outsiders. They came prepared, set fire and slaughtered, and the altar was filled with blood..."
A Wu shuddered when he said this, sadness and hatred surged in his eyes. He lowered his head and wiped his face, blood smeared all over it, like a ghost.
"The ceremony was interrupted, and something went wrong with the blessing. Many of those outsiders who were blessed thought they had contracted a strange disease, and a small number of people wanted to burn them to death, but they were eaten instead."
"After many years, their descendants experienced all this again, killing each other, eating their flesh and blood, and leaving no remains. This is the punishment from the plant god. Who made them look at it that way?"
Chen Yang and the others were silent.
"It's ridiculous that a blessing that grants eternal life is regarded as a strange disease and a curse, and the process of blessing is said to be a mutation."
Ah Wu shook his head and murmured softly: "What's the difference between plants and humans? They are both living things, just presented in different forms in this world."
Everyone: “…”
There is so much to complain about, but it seems to make some sense.
Different ways of understanding, good becomes bad, bad becomes good, the meaning is sublimated
Zhang Yan suddenly asked a question: "Those blessed creatures ate humans and survived, so why did they become monsters this time?"
“Why…” A Wu fainted just as he was about to laugh.
Chen Yang's tense breathing returned to normal.
Why else could it be? Because those they ate were not human. There was only one human on the island, who was both far away and right in front of them.
"You guys stay here and watch him. When the time comes, we will go to the altar."
Chen Yang picked up the crutch beside A Wu, walked towards the boy, took a deep breath and said, "Let's sit outside for a while?"
Chao Jian stared at him for a moment, reached out to take the crutch, and sneered at the two glances coming from the cave.
It was an undisguised gloom and disgust.
Zhang Yan and Zhao Yuan were both shocked.
Zhao Yuan, in particular, watched as their mental states deteriorated one by one, and he found that this one was the worst.
After everyone left, Zhao Yuan said with lingering fear: "Hey, why do I feel that this is the real him? Was his previous calm and composed attitude all just an act?"
"I still prefer to be ignored by him. My scalp goes numb when his eyes sweep over me."
Zhang Yan said nothing, and no one knew what he was thinking.
Zhao Yuan rubbed his hands together and said, "Do you think he is going to turn into a carnivorous plant?"
This joke still received no response.
Zhao Yuan noticed that Zhang Yan was absent-minded and asked curiously, "We are about to go back, why do I feel that you are not very happy?"
Zhang Yan said calmly: "Until the last moment, there may be variables."
"What other variables could there be? I think you're just overthinking."
Zhao Yuan shrugged. He was not in a hurry even if he wanted to eat fertilizer. Anyway, he could leave in more than an hour.
He just didn't believe that he would turn into a plant within this period of time.
Looking at the stone pillars and A-Wu on the ground, Zhao Yuan sighed with mixed feelings: "It's incredible. If we change our thinking, the curse mutation has become a good thing..."
The mountains and forests outside are lush and green.
Chen Yang sat silently as the countdown to the return journey began. The overlapping points of space in the cave were moving, and only the young man beside him knew the rules.
The other party's emotional management is breaking down bit by bit.
"Tell me about your life at the Ninth Rehabilitation Hospital."
The cold voice came out of nowhere, and Chen Yang turned around in astonishment: "There's nothing to say about this."
Chao Jian's eyes darkened instantly.
This outward display of emotion caught Chen Yang off guard. He supported his head with both hands, wiping the cold sweat from his forehead with his fingertips, and started talking from the first day he woke up.
As soon as Chen Yang started talking, Zhao Yuan ran out of the cave: "Chen Yang!"
Before the person involved did anything, the young man glared at him coldly, as if he had disliked him for a long time. Zhao Yuan moved back innocently and fearfully.
"I just want to ask, if someone is dead, is the white card still there?"
Chen Yang was stunned: "I didn't notice."
"oh oh."
Zhao Yuan didn't think of this when he met Zhou Xiaoxiao and Huang Qing. He only thought of this when he relaxed and looked at the ID number.
The bodies of the two were buried nearby, so he decided to go and take a look, and at the same time look around so that he could discover any traces of monsters as soon as possible.
Zhao Yuan came back quickly, his steps hurried.
He said that Zhou Xiaoxiao and Huang Qing's bodies were badly mutilated and he didn't know what had eaten them.
Chen Yang frowned: "I haven't seen any carnivores in the mountains."
"Me, me neither." Zhao Yuan swallowed hard, "It was really bloody. Even I, who loves watching heavy-mouthed movies, can't stand it."
"And Zhou Xiaoxiao and Huang Qing's blood is not right. I don't know if it was like that after they died, or before they died..."
Chen Yang interrupted, "If it was eaten by an animal, why is there still some left?"
"I don't know." Zhao Yuan wiped his sweat. "By the way, even though I couldn't stand it, I still held back my nausea and searched with a branch. Neither of them had a white card on them."
Seeing that Chen Yang showed no sign of talking to him again, Zhao Yuan went back to the cave to find Zhang Yan.
Chen Yang thought thoughtfully: "The ID number is used here. If you die, the account will be cancelled directly."
The sound of "crunching" came in response to him.
The young man lowered his brows and clenched his teeth as he picked off pieces of the milk slices in his hand. He quickly finished them and threw them away, then took out another piece to continue eating.
He seemed to be trying to suppress himself with the sound, but it had little effect and his hands were shaking a little.
According to Chen Yang's observation, the boy always held the milk slices in his mouth, and he had never seen him bite them like this.
It sounds to my ears like the sound of a piece of ice rubbing against my skull.
Chen Yang opened his backpack and gave him the remaining two boards, thinking that he would buy more when he returned.
I don't know what the wholesale price is.
"Why don't you say anything?"
Chao Zhenxian stared at him intently and said unhappily, "We only talked about the next day."
Chen Yang: "… Then I will continue."
I didn't take any medicine, and I didn't hide my emotions. They were no longer as deep and unfathomable, but had surfaced a little. The danger in my body was also visible, and I had a bit more bloodiness, which was in line with my age.
At ten-thirty, Zhang Yan came out and shouted, "Five more minutes!"
Chen Yang's life in the rehabilitation center stopped on the sixteenth day. He was dizzy and frothing at the mouth, and his voice was hoarse. "There is no time. Let's go in."
Chao Jian sat still, with a cold look between his brows.
Chen Yang found that he could easily see through the boy's mind. He felt fresh and helpless. He licked his dry and flaky lips and said, "I know you hate noise and don't want to care about other people's lives, but we still have to go back, don't you think?"
"Besides, there's not even any wifi here, aren't you bored?"
Chao Jian: “…”
He held on to his crutches to prop himself up and said indifferently, "Don't forget the meal."
"Okay, I'll treat you to a meal when I get back." Chen Yang agreed readily. He didn't ask for anything else, he just wanted to leave here quickly and smoothly.
When they reached the cave entrance, Chao Jian suddenly stopped and tilted his head in one direction: "The disgusting thing is here."
Chen Yang's temple jumped. He forgot to ask Zhang Yan and Zhao Yuan whether the road they came from was covered.
"Don't worry about it." Chao Jian walked into the stone cave. The sound of the crutch hitting the ground was dull and steady, neither slow nor fast.
Chen Yang hurried to follow.
Suddenly, more than a dozen monsters appeared in front of the cave.
The scene was horrifying with dirty axe blades and expressionless faces.
Zhang Yan and Zhao Yuan kept retreating into the cave.
"It's so small inside. If they throw torches in, we won't be able to escape and will just be burned to death."
"They won't burn us. Roasted ones don't have the blood they like."
"What if we are suffocated to death?"
"… "
Zhang Yan asked Chen Yang with an unpleasant expression: "Is the time up?"
"Two minutes," Chen Yang said, "There is no telling how many overlapping spaces there are in the cave. The overlapping points are moving, and they only stay in one place for four seconds. You must choose the right time and don't go into the wrong place."
"Also, you two need to pretend that you can still fight to scare them, otherwise they will just charge in."
Zhang Yan had no choice but to take a few more steps towards the cave entrance and stare at the monsters fiercely.
Zhao Yuan panted heavily, his foot bumped into A Wu who was lying in a pool of blood, and he fell on top of him, then hurriedly got up: "Should we take this guy with us?"
"I've already asked everything I need to ask, why do I still care about him?" Zhang Yan cursed, "Fuck."
"ah--"
Zhao Yuan immediately screamed, "They are getting closer to us! They are coming! They are coming!"
Chao Jian, who was looking for the overlapping point, had a ferocious look on his face and shouted, "Get the hell out!"
It's quiet.
"Zhang Yan, take A Wu with you, just in case."
Chen Yang grabbed the boy's crutch with one hand and hugged the stone pillar with the other. While he was talking, he caught sight of something out of the corner of his eye and couldn't help but gasp.
Granny Qi’s wrinkled face has appeared at the entrance of the cave!
When Chen Yang looked again, the person was already at the altar.
Next are Zhang Yan, Zhao Yuan, and A Wu.
Before anyone could recover from their near-death experience, their faces changed drastically the next moment.
Oh shit!
Grandma Qi also came in!