"This is the blood from the dead body!" Qu Mo said after a long time.
"That should be it. No wonder Master Mao said this is the gate of hell. It is the only way out of the mountain. No matter human or ghost, everyone has to take this road. People will be hooked back to the Soul-Illuminating Well along with the river of blood, and ghosts will be beheaded once they come in!" I muttered to myself.
"Look what that is?" Qu Mo turned the headlamp to the other side of the blood river. A figure was struggling, as if entangled by something and sunk deep into the black mud.
Could it be Shen Bing? I also turned my headlight over, but the distance was too far, and I could only see a blurry figure, and couldn't make out her face at all. "Let's go down." I said as I climbed out of the crack in the rock, climbed up the convex rock on the stone wall, and moved over the blood river.
Qu Mo slid down the crack in the rock and asked me curiously, "Wouldn't it be faster to walk on the ground?"
"No, the ground is a mixture of coal mud and corpses. It's contaminated with human breath and will cause the corpse to resurrect. The only way is to walk through the bloody river. Come back quickly!" I waved to her hurriedly.
Qu Mo was startled and quickly climbed up to me. We moved diagonally, and the closer we got to the blood river, the lower we were to the ground, so we wouldn't get hurt even if we fell. I shone my headlights downward, and sure enough, my guess was right. Although the ground was covered with a thin layer of coal mud, the shape of the human body was exposed, and some of them even had bulges between their thighs, which were obviously males!
However, just like the situation in the crevice, there was no head, and when it came to the neck, there was nothing in front, and there was no protruding part.
Qu Mo asked me why the corpse here would come back to life if it was contaminated by human qi? Anyway, it would take a few more minutes to climb up the blood river, so I explained to her that it was because the corpse was nourished by blood qi, and it should be a shamanic spell to keep the corpse from decaying, so that the corpse qi would flow into the blood river, and the blood river water would not evaporate and dry up. This is a way to complement each other and achieve the best of both worlds. I really don’t know what the brain of the person who came up with this idea is, it’s too damn smart.
Due to the long-term nourishment of blood and qi, the corpse qi in the body is quite strong. When it encounters human qi, it will definitely produce a conditioned reflex. It is still good for it to pretend to be a corpse, but it may even turn into a white zombie.
Qu Mo stuck out his tongue: "So amazing!"
As we were talking, we were already on the blood river, less than a meter above the river surface. The bloody smell made my stomach churn. I really didn't know what it would be like if I jumped in. The most we could see was blood, and the smell must have been very light. But here the whole river was filled with blood, and the smell was so strong that I'm afraid no one would have the chance to experience it.
“Ah…” The figure over there made a strange sound towards us.
Now I can see the scene clearly over there. It's the crazy woman. She is covered in blood and is being held tightly by a decapitated corpse under the coal mud. No matter how hard she struggles, she can't get free!
I was startled, and I ignored her for the time being, and looked around for Shen Bing. But I looked everywhere within the range of the lights on both sides of the river, but I didn't see her, nor did I see any footprints. Because when I jumped down, I fell into the bloody river first, and a string of bright red footprints was left from the crazy woman to the river.
Where is Shen Bing? Why can’t I see her? Has she really been lured back to the Soul-Reflecting Well
I looked down along the stone wall anxiously. The blood river reached the bottom of the stone wall. There was a hole and the blood flowed forward. Damn, Shen Bing might have really gone back!