Dong Bao was silent for a moment, then suddenly laughed wildly like a ghost: "Hahaha... No wonder aunt said that none of you Han men are good. It turns out it's true..."
"Bitch, shut up!" Xie Jingwen raised his hand and slapped Dong Bao in the face. "Who do you think you are? How dare you scold me? Tie her up and put her in the coffin."
Dong Bao said sternly: "Xie Jingwen, even if I become a ghost... umm..."
Two warlocks from the Mirror Division flew over and removed the ropes hanging the coffin, laid the coffin flat on the ground, forced Dongbao in, and nailed the coffin tightly with the coffin nails they brought with them.
Sun Xiaomei raised her voice and said, "Cave God, we have already offered the sacrifice you requested within the stipulated time. Can we go on?"
"Yes!" The voice of the so-called cave god suddenly sounded near me. At that moment, I almost felt that the cave god was right next to me, and subconsciously reached in the direction where the voice came from. As expected, my outstretched hand grabbed nothing.
The voice of the cave god once again spread clearly to the surroundings: "Remember my words, when you encounter a crisis, you can still trade with me. What I want is definitely in your hands. It depends on whether you are willing to give it to me. Okay, go!"
Sun Xiaomei looked up at the sky for a while before leading her men to the third road.
Not long after they left, I saw wisps of black gas coming out of the coffin containing Dongbao. After a while, a column of gas like a smoke screen suddenly shot up into the sky from the hole in the coffin and rushed straight towards the top of the cave.
Although the column of smoke did not rush directly into the cave where I was hiding, I could smell a strong smell of blood. In a blink of an eye, the cold fishy smell seeped into my clothes like blood splashed on me, and I couldn't get rid of it even if I wanted to.
"Oh no! Little Sugar, stay still!" I grabbed Luosha and jumped down from the cave, stabbed the blade into the gap of the coffin lid, and quickly slid along the edge of the coffin lid. After Luosha's blade, which was strong enough to cut gold and jade, cut the coffin nails, which were as thick as fingers, one by one, I pushed the coffin lid to the ground with one palm.
Before I could lower my head to see the situation in the coffin, Dongbao, who was tied up with ropes, suddenly sat up from the coffin.
I was immediately startled by the other party. Blood had seeped out of Dongbao's seven orifices, and the dazzling red was dripping from her eyes. Thick black air like smoke surged out of her body, gathering from bottom to top into a column of smoke that rushed into the sky.
I reached out and grabbed the cloth that was blocking Dongbao's mouth: "Stop it now!"
Although I don't understand what secret method Dongbao used, judging from her current state, she should have sacrificed herself to the gods and ghosts. Once Dongbao's sacrifice is successful, she can use the gods and ghosts to launch a curse, and even turn herself into a curse ghost to hunt down Xie Jingwen.
From the bottom of my heart, although I have some sympathy for Dong Bao, I am not willing to stop the sacrifice for her and offend the gods. But now the sacrifice has begun, if I don't stop it, the gods will soon descend on the secret realm, and all living things within a few hundred meters will become their sacrifices, whether they are willing or not.
If I had left with Sun Xiaomei and the others, I would have been out of the range of the sacrifice. But now Dongbao's resentment has not only become a wolf smoke, but also stuck to me. I have been branded as a sacrifice, and it is too late even if I want to leave. In order to save my life, I must stop Dongbao.
Dongbao turned his bloodshot eyes and looked at me and asked, "Who are you?"
"Wu Zhao, Xie Jingwen's enemy!" I said quickly, "Stop the sacrifice, I will help you kill Xie Jingwen!"
Dong Bao laughed bitterly and said, "Since you are his enemy, that's perfect. Come with me and become a cursed ghost. Together we can tear that beast to pieces!"
"You're crazy!" I yelled, "You can obviously not die..."
"Haha..." Dong Bao laughed miserably. "Is there any chance that I can survive? From the moment I led people into the secret realm, I committed a capital crime. Even if I follow that beast and flee far away to become a Han Chinese as he promised, I cannot escape the curse of the witch. Even if I flee to the ends of the earth, I will still be torn into pieces in the end."
"I knew clearly that my fate would be tragic, but I still followed him into the secret realm for the sake of that promise. But what did I get in return? Haha... My only wish is to see him die miserably!"
"You..." I was furious with Dongbao. A crazy woman is simply unreasonable.
I couldn't help but put my hand on the hilt of the knife - I had never been exposed to spells, and I didn't know whether killing the opponent with a knife would interrupt the sacrifice or cause unimaginable consequences. However, if necessary, I could only give it a try.
Dong Bao looked at me coldly and said, "Han men really can't be trusted. Just now you kept saying you wanted to help me get revenge, but now you want to kill me, right?"
Just as I was about to speak, Little White Sugar suddenly dropped down from the top of the cave: "So what if we want to kill you? Shouldn't we kill you?"
"You have reasons to hate the heavens and the earth, but you don't have the right to make others sacrifice with you!" Xiao Baitang walked towards Dongbao, "Because you met Li Jingwen, you keep saying that Han men can't be trusted. Then can I also say that Miao women are unreasonable because I met you?"
Dong Bao asked sternly, "What's wrong with my Miao girl?"
Before Dong Bao could finish, Xiao Baitang spoke up: "I'm not here to discuss any principles with you, nor do I want to argue with you. I just want to tell you that we were let in by the Great Winter Witch himself."
"If we die here, Xie Jingwen and his gang will leave the secret realm with the divine Gu, and the entire divine village will be buried with them. If you want to watch everyone in the divine village commit suicide because of your willfulness after you die, you can continue to offer sacrifices. Of course, we will also try our best to stop it, but whether we can stop it depends on God's will."
"You lied to me!" Dong Bao said sternly, "Aren't they here to look for secret medicine?"
I said in a cold voice, "What secret medicine requires entering the secret realm of Shenzhai? You should have heard of Xuanjing Division, right? Xie Jingwen and the others are from Xuanjing Division. If they really want some secret medicine, they can trade with you. With the financial resources of Xuanjing Division, there is nothing they can't exchange for, unless that thing is the divine Gu that your Shenzhai would rather die than give up."
"I..." Dong Bao exclaimed, "No, no... I will turn into a cursed ghost. As long as I turn into a cursed ghost, I can kill them all in the secret realm and never let them get out alive!"
I said in a deep voice: "They are the Xuan Jing Division! Unless the ghosts and gods you invited are willing to take action personally, you can't take down everyone by yourself. And..."
I emphasized in a deep voice: "There is a cave god in the secret realm. The people from the Xuanjing Division can offer sacrifices to the cave god at any time. Do you think the ghosts and gods you invited can compete with the cave god in the secret realm?"
"I..." Dongbao was finally frightened by me, "I don't know!"
"You know, but you refuse to admit it." I said sternly, "Winter Witch is omnipotent. She must know that you have entered the secret realm. If she thought you could stop the Mirror Bureau, she would not risk letting us in. She must know how many tricks you have, right? She..."
Before I could finish my words, Dong Bao shouted at the top of his lungs, "Stop talking! I want to stop, but I can't. Even if you kill me, I still can't stop."
I snapped, "Is there any way to delay the sacrifice?"
Dong Bao said in a tearful voice: "Yes, it is to sacrifice others first, and then sacrifice yourself."
I looked up at the smoke that was gathering in the air, took out the Flying Tiger Claw from my backpack and hooked it onto the hole on the top of the cave, and used a knife to cut the rope on Dongbao: "Follow me!"
Dong Bao asked in confusion, "What are you going to do?"
"Go chase Jie Jingwen!" I quickly climbed up to the ceiling of the cave, reached out to pull Xiao Baitang and Dongbao up one by one, and then lay down in the gap in the middle of the ceiling and quickly crawled in the direction where Sun Xiaomei and the others left.
Before I had crawled far, I heard Dong Bao say, "This is the worm tunnel created by the magic Gu. It created the worm tunnel for the corpse in the coffin. We will encounter the magic Gu if we go further. If you don't believe me, look down from here!"
When I looked in the direction of Dongbao's finger, I saw another hole that was big enough for someone to go in and out. Below the hole was a hanging coffin with a hole in the lid as well. However, this hole was the size of a bowl.
I have never raised a Gu, but I caught a lot of insects when I was a kid. So I know that some insects only live in specific environments, just like when I was a kid I always dug for ground turtles under the wall, but I couldn't find that kind of small insect in other places.
The creature that carved out a layer of space in the cave might be a bug that burrows in rocks, and it couldn't survive if it touched the ground. Otherwise, no one would deliberately hang a coffin in the air and feed the living person in the coffin to the poisonous insect.
Dong Bao said anxiously: "If we continue like this, we will attract the divine Gu..."
"We have to move forward!" When I turned to look at Dongbao, the black smoke on her body had disappeared completely. In the distance, the place where we had just come up was covered by rolling black fog.
The rolling clouds in the interlayer seemed to have transformed the cave into the Yin and Yang worlds. Although the cave where the three of us were hiding was still full of dangers, it still had the vitality of the human world; the place covered by the black fog was the real netherworld, dark and deep, without any vitality, and the only thing that people could feel was the death energy that was constantly expanding outward.
"Go!" I shouted softly and crawled forward using my hands and feet. At the same time, I felt a rolling wave of air rushing towards me from behind.
A few of us were still desperately trying to escape in the human world, but the ever-expanding underworld was chasing us closely, swallowing up our last bit of living space.
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