Even though Little Grape was able to defeat the pilgrim in Tongshu and kill him instantly,
Yi Chen did not rush to climb the mountain, but returned to reunite with the team.
"Reagan, what do you think?"
A slightly fat finger scraped across the cheek, giving the analysis result:
"The corpse is still a corpse. The eyes are just the worm eyes swallowed into the body, which have undergone a mutation and combination under the influence of the gray domain. They are pieced together through the corpse and have an impact on the creatures passing by.
It is essentially an abnormal disease mainly affecting animals and insects, which means they have lost their human attributes.
As long as we take precautions in advance, the threat is not high.
It also shows that animal eyes and insect eyes are of little use to the pilgrims themselves... Perhaps all they need is human eyes.
The pilgrims whose eyes were gouged out kept smiling when they died, perhaps because they had achieved a certain purpose, allowing someone to carry their eyeballs to continue the pilgrimage. "
"Yeah, that's what I thought... Let's go."
Just as Yi Chen was about to continue climbing the mountain, Reagan reached out to stop him.
"Let me go first. These incomplete eye groups are perfect for warm-up... I haven't been out of town to fight the sick for almost a year."
"OK."
Yi Chen and Jin walked behind. Jin did not force it. She had no interest in this inferior "corpse eye group".
Pah pah pah~
Explosions could be heard from time to time along the dangerous mountain roads.
Whenever Reagan passed a corpse and saw any unusual movement, all the eyes inside would explode before the rag was removed.
The road was smooth and there were no forks in the road on this dangerous pilgrimage route, so it was quite smooth.
In this way, we followed the pilgrim's body all the way to the mountainside, corresponding to the "thinnest" cup stem of the Holy Grail Mountain, and the extension of the body ended here.
Yi Chen had been counting in his mind along the way, a total of 1,008 bodies, no more, no less. He could fully imagine how large the group of pilgrims who came to the Holy Grail Mountain was.
There is a mountain platform on the mountainside where you can rest, and the road forks for the first time here.
One road is an extension of the previous mountain road in the rugged area, and continues to ascend along the dangerous mountain wall. The mountain road is broken in some places and needs to be connected by rock climbing.
One extends to the other side of the Holy Grail Mountain, corresponding to a relatively gentle forest mountain road.
After discussion within the team, everyone decided to continue taking the dangerous mountain road.
After a short rest on the mountain platform,
Yi Chen habitually supported himself with one hand, trying to stand up, but his palm just happened to be resting on a flat pebble.
The pebbles, which should be hard and cold, have a soft and even warm touch.
Kaka Kaka
The pebble seemed to sense that it had been discovered, and it actually grew four insect legs from underneath, trying to escape.
Yi Chen naturally couldn't let it go, he turned around and stepped on it... Snap! The cobblestone was completely crushed.
There were broken stones, various pieces of meat, and even an eyeball mixed in.
Although it was crushed, it could still be distinguished as an eyeball similar to that of a human, with a large number of brain nerves connected to the surface. This eyeball seemed to also serve the function of the main brain.
“The bodies of the pilgrims before contained only animal or insect eyeballs, but the sick stone that appeared here actually contained an eyeball that resembled a human eyeball and also served as a brain.
Why does it feel a bit strange? Could it be that starting from the mountainside, matter begins to be officially affected by the combined influence of polyphthalmia and gray domain
Everyone, be careful. You may encounter more morbid objects related to the 'eye' on the next mountain road, and they will definitely be more threatening."
When Yi Chen finished speaking, he did not receive any response.
He looked up suddenly. Jin and Reagan, who were supposed to be by his side, were nowhere to be seen. Only Yi Chen's footprints were found on the grass in the mountains... Neither of them had been here from the beginning to the end.
A chill rose up and his face looked solemn.
Yi Chen quickly stepped onto the dangerous mountain path and looked down.
There were still only the bodies of pilgrims on the mountain path. Fifty meters down, the path was blocked by thick fog and there was no sign of teammates at all.
"Little grape!"
At Yi Chen's call, Little Grape still crawled out of the collar normally.
"What's going on? Why are you alone here?" Little Grape was also confused about the situation.
"We must have been under the influence of some kind of hallucinogenic child magic a long time ago... I didn't realize it until I crushed a stone creature just now, but the scene in front of me is not entirely real."
Regarding Yi Chen's inference, Little Grape quickly denied it, "Impossible! Even if you are affected, I will not be affected... I am a cemetery creature that relies mainly on eyes. If you want to make me fall, unless..."
When he said this, Little Grape himself paused for a moment.
"Unless what?"
“Unless you surpass me at the eye level, patients with the same eye-focused disease are infinitely close to open source, or have even reached the open source level.
We are doomed now, this is the real terrifying thing about mentally ill people... As long as they surpass us in level, we won’t even know how they died.
If we don’t know how we got infected, the same thing may happen later.
Perhaps while walking on a mountain path, you might fall directly from a mountain hundreds of meters high, and only realize that you are about to die when you are smashed to pieces.
Even when you thought you had found your teammates and joined them, they would bite off your head and eat your body when you turned around. "
Yi Chen took a deep breath and was not affected by Xiao Pu Tao's negative remarks.
"Hey! Little Grape~ If you want to survive, you have to use your best ability. From now on, turn on your visual enhancement to the maximum, and don't relax for a moment."
"It's easy for you to say that. If you concentrate so hard for a long time, your eyes will become bloodshot and damaged."
"Didn't you just obtain the essence of the Lenghu Cemetery? Washing your eyes with Lenghu water from time to time should help you hold out for a while, right? Tell me if you can't hold out any longer."
Little Grape gritted his teeth and said, "Okay~"
"Wait..." Yi Chen suddenly stopped Xiao Pu Tao and asked a question, "Which cemetery did we first meet in?"
Little Grape did not answer verbally, but stretched out all six fingers and showed the largest number.
"Do you suspect that this grape is fake?"
"Just eliminate all possible risks. Come on... open your vision!"
Although Little Grape was a little unhappy, considering the current dangerous situation, she still made a standard entry into the water and dived into Yi Chen's body.
The soft black sphere quickly followed the blood vessels in the body to the inside of the skull. The black hair adhered to the brain and slowly merged into it.
"Let me make it clear first, this is the first time I am 'combining' with you like this. Your vision may change greatly, and the burden on your brain nerves will also increase several times.
If you can't hold on, just release it yourself. If you force yourself to hold on, be careful of a brain explosion.
Once your brain is shattered, your body will be of little use even if you take it back to the cemetery. 』
"bring it on."
When the little grape's body is completely integrated into the brain,
Buzz! A moist and shiny eyeball slowly opened in the center of the brain.
At this moment, Yi Chen was also stunned.
Black threads actually emerged from the surface of his two eyeballs, sewing a circle of hair-like holes on the surface of the eyeballs like threading a needle.
Hiss~ There was even a wisp of corpse gas overflowing from the eyeballs, and black bloodshot covered the whites of the eyes.
In an instant,
A world with richer colors, more subtlety and complexity appears before our eyes.
One by one, the stone eyeworms hiding in the dark were captured accurately, and a mountain wall with abnormal light reflection was also discovered.
Yi Chen moved to the mountain wall which was only half a meter wide and reached out to touch it.
Didn't touch the real thing.
The wall suddenly disappeared after a burst of colorful light, revealing a hidden passage leading to the interior of the mountain.
Yi Chen did not enter it for the time being, but returned to the previous pilgrimage route, re-examining the dangerous mountain road in front of him with his current visual state... The scene captured by his vision shocked him greatly.
The pilgrimage route, which originally had only one, has now become a complicated, maze-like mountain trail with many forks at intervals.
Moreover, there were not so many bodies of pilgrims. Most of them were concentrated at the fork in the road. They pointed in different directions, creating a misleading effect.
The mountains are also covered with pebble-like creatures, which act like natural monitors or carriers of illusions. They cooperate with each other to influence passers-by and change the visual picture of the mountains.
That is to say,
From the moment they first encountered the bodies of the pilgrims, everyone began to be affected and had long since been completely separated in the intricate mountain roads.
Even if Yi Chen and Xiao Putao's vision were combined, as long as they were distracted for a moment, the mountain road in front of them would turn back into a "false image" with only one road.
“It’s basically impossible to find the location of Jin and Reagan with so many forks in the road... and Little Grape can’t hold on for that long.
Reagan and King are no less capable than I am, trust them.”
Yi Chen took a deep breath and walked towards the hidden wall he had just discovered.
(End of this chapter)