An Xingyu was still standing there, the strong smell of blood filling his nose. It was not until Luo Ying pulled him happily that he came back to his senses.
"Are you also a believer in God?" Luo Ying was very excited. She lifted up her sleeves, revealing an identical red mark on her arm.
In the past, An Xingyu would be very happy, but after witnessing Lu Yanli's death, he fell into a low mood and just nodded silently.
He didn't know yet that this was because Lu Yanli had hypnotized him. He just thought that he had deep feelings for him and was reluctant to let him go.
"Hurry up, let's go to the forbidden area." Luo Ying pulled him again.
"Wait, take him with you." An Xingyu stubbornly pushed her away and walked towards Lu Yanli.
The little girl in the red dress was still standing in the village, her eyes fixed on An Xingyu. Her expression became more and more ferocious, and her long hair was flying.
But she couldn't do anything to An Xingyu.
This is also the reason why Lu Yanli and An Xingyu were pulled back into the village as soon as they escaped to the village. She couldn't take any action outside the village.
An Xingyu walked forward step by step, squatted down, reached out to drag Lu Yanli's body forward, turned around, and carried it on his back.
Luo Ying wondered: "What are you doing?"
An Xingyu said: "He has a backup plan. He asked me to take him to the forbidden area."
This was what Lu Yanli had whispered to him just now. An Xingyu concealed the last sentence "find Lin Chu". He was now full of distrust towards Luo Ying, and of course he could not tell her that Lin Chu was still alive.
Lin Chu is not dead, can Lu Yanli be resurrected in the same way
Luo Ying frowned. An Xingyu had already carried the person on his back and walked forward. She couldn't say anything, so she had to walk with him all the way.
"Since you are also a child of God, I will not hide it from you. Did you see a jade pendant on Lu Yanli?" Luo Ying gestured and said, "Two fish, connected head to tail."
She looked at An Xingyu and spoke softly.
An Xingyu was about to answer when he felt a sharp pain in his head. He changed his words unconsciously: "I saw it. Lili took it away."
This answer obviously made Luo Ying dissatisfied. She whispered something and continued, "No, Lu Yanli is a cunning person. We need to search him."
An Xingyu was very uncomfortable with her suggestion. His intelligence told him that this was inevitable. In order to dispel Luo Ying's doubts, he had to lay Lu Yanli's body flat on the ground and prepare to search him.
The moment he turned around, his pupils shrank.
Just now, after Lili took out the other person's heart, she inevitably dug out a small piece of cloth from his chest. The buttons there fell off, revealing a small piece of pale skin.
And there are marks on him... too!
This discovery plunged An Xingyu into a deeper emotional whirlpool.
As a disciple of the same sect, hiding the truth from Luo Ying was against the sect's principles. Lu Yanli was also a disciple of the sect, so An Xingyu felt much more at ease.
Luo Ying stood beside him to supervise. She had a smile on her face all the time, but it made people feel uncomfortable. Seeing that she couldn't find anything, she could only believe An Xingyu's words.
"It seems that Lili really took it away. We have to find a way to get it back." Luo Ying said softly.
As they talked, they slowly walked into the forest.
The sky was already pitch black, and after entering the forest, it was pitch dark. Luo Ying carefully turned on the flashlight to shine.
The forest, which should have been peaceful, became full of dangers. One seemed to be able to smell the smell of blood and rotting protein in the air.
And... there's also the stench of some animals.
A dark shadow darted past the spot illuminated by the flashlight. Something rustled down from a nearby tree trunk, and there were also the sounds of various animals squeaking and calling.
An Xingyu suddenly noticed that the corpse on his back moved.
He stiffened and quickened his pace.
He suddenly realized that the old lady with a cat face had undergone a strange change because a civet cat approached her body.
Could Lu Yanli also have changed
An Xingyu suddenly felt a little panicked. Even though he and Lu Yanli were currently in the same camp, he had to admit that the other party was very difficult to deal with. If he really turned into a zombie, he would probably not be worse than other evil spirits.
Fortunately, the corpse on his back moved twice and then stopped moving again, which made him feel relieved.
What he didn't see was that a hibernating snake fell from a tree and landed on Lu Yanli's back. The snake was awakened by the residual heat of its body, and slowly wrapped around Lu Yanli's neck, then slowly curled up on his shoulder.
The corpse on his back was getting colder and colder.
"Hurry up, hold on a little." Luo Ying immediately quickened her pace, hoping to make An Xingyu throw away the body, but the other party actually persisted and did not fall behind at all. Soon, the two of them arrived outside the forbidden area.
No matter how much An Xingyu exercises on weekdays, he is still a high school student who has not yet reached adulthood. He was very tired after carrying a corpse for a long distance. As soon as he entered the forbidden area, he felt a gaze that seemed to be substantial coming from above.
Who is it
He looked up and could only see circles of white tombstones, but he couldn't tell whose gaze it was.
Bring him to the forbidden area, and then what
It was not until now that An Xingyu finally put the man down. After the little snake woke up, it crawled down following the smell of blood, found the empty wound on Lu Yanli's back, and crawled in.
The little snake was very dark in color, so An Xingyu didn't see it. After he put the man down, he asked in a panic, "What should we do now?"
Luo Ying said: "Wait, wait for our other companions to arrive, and then we will enter this ancient tomb together."
She pointed to the rising hillside in front of her.
"Is this actually an ancient tomb?" An Xingyu sighed in his heart.
"By the way, you haven't told me what this painting is." Luo Ying raised the scroll.
Since Lu Yanli chose to let Luo Ying get the scroll, he had no intention of keeping it secret from her. An Xingyu answered truthfully: "I heard from the village chief that it was a treasure map."
Luo Ying's expression changed. She looked around, found a flat and open place, and with a shake of her hand, she spread out the scroll.
"Treasure map... Where is the treasure?" Luo Ying raised the flashlight and pointed it at the painting.
An Xingyu stepped forward and pointed out the details to her.
Neither of them noticed that in the corner, Lu Yanli's chest was rising and falling slightly, as if his heart was beating slowly.
At this moment, Luo Ying suddenly realized something and immediately looked around vigilantly.
"Did you hear that?" she whispered.
"What did you hear?" An Xingyu was puzzled, and soon he heard it too.
A strange, rustling sound came from not far to the front left.
It was like... something was crawling over there.
Luo Ying's face changed: "It's a snake! Let's go!" Seeing that he was about to turn back, she pulled him hard, "Don't worry about it if the person is dead, let's go!"
"Shouldn't snakes be hibernating?" An Xingyu retorted in a low voice, but continued to run upwards behind her.
When they ran away, a pair of hands reached out from the darkness and dragged Lu Yanli's body away.
An Xingyu asked as he ran: "When will our companions arrive?"
Luo Ying replied: "On the first day of the Lunar New Year, they worship their ancestors."
"By the way, the village chief also said that this year is the sixtieth year, and a reincarnation is about to begin. Do you know what's going on?"
"I don't know much about this either. In fact, before I set out, the master didn't tell me much about the village. He said that the more I knew, the easier it would be to be assimilated and fall into misunderstandings. That's why I waited outside the village."
That's why she needed Lu Yanli to go and find out the news.
An Xingyu frowned.
What is reincarnation? What happened sixty years ago
Do we have to wait until the day of ancestor worship to get the answer
However, all the villagers have died, so who would still want to offer sacrifices to their ancestors
Speaking of this issue, Luo Ying was not very worried: "It doesn't matter. There will be many companions coming tomorrow, enough to complete the ceremony."
At the same time, at the foot of the mountain, a group of people in red robes slowly moved forward.
The mountain wind was so strong that it blew up their cloaks and even the hat of one of them was blown off.
What’s creepy is that when the hat was blown off, a skeleton was revealed!
The same was true for the other people wearing red cloaks. Under the shadow of their hat brims, they could see white skeletons!
This team of red-robed people are all dead! They still remember their mission.
They were going... up the mountain.
Lin Chu shuttled among the tombstones, looking at each grave one by one, and memorized the tombstones along the way.
It had a name, a surname, and the year of birth and death. It was pitch black at night, with no stars or moon, but because the tombstone was pale, she could see it clearly.
As she watched, she broke out in a cold sweat.
"No... How could this happen?... How is this possible?"
Lin Chu couldn't believe his eyes.
Is this an illusion? It must be an illusion!
How could such a thing be possible
No, it's not the same. We can't easily draw conclusions. Aren't there enough strange events? What matters now is to look at more, summarize the patterns, and then extract effective information from them.
Lin Chu took a breath, bent over and ran to another circle.
Her movements were light and graceful, and did not attract any attention. This forbidden area was so large that she had to run a long way before reaching the other half of the circle.
Sure enough... I wasn't mistaken.
Lin Chu took a deep breath.
Lili wanted to kill Lu Yanli, so Lu Yanli asked her to cooperate and copied her exactly using the function of the Pisces Jade Pendant. Although she still had doubts about the effect of the Pisces Jade Pendant, it was not the time to worry. She asked her copy to do something outside the village, but was soon caught back.
The feeling of death was not pleasant, especially after being soaked in the smelly and dirty water, the taste was even more disgusting. When the bait fell, whether it was out of greed or Lili, she pounced on it and tore the bait.
She witnessed the birth of another self. Therefore, it was not unusual that the two half-circles of tombstones surrounding the ancient tomb were basically the same, except that the time of death differed by sixty years.
A cycle of sixty years
Is there really such a thing? Could this reincarnation refer to the lives of the villagers? For example, rebirth in units of 60 years.
But this doesn't seem right... Lin Chu quickly overturned his own guess.
It seems that we still have to wait until the ancestor worship ceremony.
I don’t know how the village will arrange it.
She didn't know about the tragedy that had happened in the village. She looked up at the sky and then at her watch.
It was only three or four in the afternoon, but it was already completely dark. When time slowly passed into night, they would usher in the final darkness!
There was no one in Shangxian Village.
The little girl in the red skirt walked on the empty village road and slowly walked back to Uncle Zhang's house. Her pupils gradually recovered, and the ferocious expression on her face gradually became peaceful.
The cold and sinister aura from the little girl became even more intense, and was several times more terrifying than before!
After she entered Uncle Zhang's house, she turned around, walked into the yard, and looked in the opposite direction of the gate.
The location of this house is very special. It is backed by the back mountain, and from here you can just see the dark shadow of the back mountain in the night.
In the whole village, only Zhang Bo's family is located here. Because Lili had been guarding it at the foot of the back mountain, those creatures in the mountain dared not come in.
Now...
The little girl gave a lovely smile.
If Uncle Zhang was here, he would never mistake her for someone else.
She was not Lili at all, but Zhang Bo's daughter Zhang Huixuan who died young! It was just that she was about the same age as Lili when she died, and she was also wearing a red dress, so the villagers mistook her for her.
This is why she had to attack Zhang Bo's family first. After so many years, there was no guarantee that they would not recognize her. By then, they would have to pray to the guardian deity for protection, and it would be difficult for her to escape.
The little girl stood in the yard, and the houses around her suddenly decayed at an extremely fast speed, as if decades had passed in an instant. Then, the houses collapsed!
At the moment the house collapsed, the air suddenly became cold.
An extremely eerie and cold atmosphere gradually diffused from the ruins, as if some monster was reviving bit by bit.
"Are you sure that the treasure map points to this direction?"
In the forbidden area, Luo Ying and An Xingyu ran up several floors and finally heard no more noise. Luo Ying spread out the scroll again and looked at it carefully under the light of the flashlight.
She held a small mirror in her other hand and traced the direction indicated by An Xingyu.
An Xingyu hesitated for a moment and nodded.
"That shouldn't be the case..." Luo Ying frowned, "If it was just to hide a secret, there's no need to paint it upside down. Wouldn't everything come out if we just looked in the mirror?"
Didn't the village chief look for a mirror in the room for decades? She didn't believe that this treasure map would allow people to discover the secret so easily.
"What do you think is wrong?"
Luo Ying shook her head: "It's hard to say, I still feel like something is not right."
She put the mirror away, leaving the flashlight on, "Look, if it's not turned over, where is the fox's tail pointing?"
The mountains at the bottom of the picture seem to have a secret. If you look at it straight, it looks like a forbidden area. But if you don’t look at it as a mirror…
An Xingyu recalled carefully, forming a bird's-eye view map of Shangxian Village in his mind as if he were doing a math geometry problem.
In the direction it was pointed, there was a small courtyard located in the dark green forest. At first glance, it looked like a small black hole with a mountain behind it.
"From this point of view, the place it points to should be--" An Xingyu's eyes widened slightly, "It's Zhang Bo's house!" Only Zhang Bo's house is located on the back of the mountain.
"Uncle Zhang?"
"It's where the village guardian fairy Lili lives. Lili is Uncle Zhang's granddaughter." An Xingyu calculated over and over in his mind, and his delicate eyebrows gradually wrinkled.
So that's how it is... No wonder, the mirror image of this portrait is also a cover. Only after the mirror image is flipped, can it be recognized that this is a map, and the direction pointed by the fox's tail is the center of the forbidden area. After recognizing it as a map, you need to look at the image before the mirror image, and the directions are slightly different.
He subconsciously wanted to share the news with Lu Yanli, but when he came to his senses, he realized that Lu Yanli was already dead.
But he always felt that this somewhat scary man couldn't possibly die so easily.
Luo Ying ignored his melancholy and smiled: "After daybreak, our people should arrive. By then, we will split into two groups."
What they didn't realize was that a young woman was squatting not far from the two of them, hearing their conversation clearly.
Lin Chu came back after a circle and found the two people. She knew An Xingyu but didn't know who the woman next to him was, so she chose to lurk nearby and heard a lot of useful information.
Fortunately, it was so dark, which was actually conducive to committing the crime.
But what about Lu Yanli
Lin Chu muttered to himself and continued to squat and wait.
Who are their people
I can’t tell that An Xingyu actually has another identity.
After Luo Ying finished giving the instructions, she explained a few more things. The two of them calmed down and waited quietly for the arrival of the next day.
In the corner of the slope that none of the three noticed, a dark figure slowly dug up one of the graves.
The tombstone of that grave also had the birth and death years and the name of the deceased engraved on it. Judging from the name and age, it was a boy of five or six years old named Zhang.
The soil piled higher and higher, revealing a small upside-down coffin. The black shadow seemed to hesitate for a moment, but still bent down and took out the coffin.
The moment the coffin shook, the little girl in a red dress far away in the village turned her head abruptly. Her face was distorted with horrible resentment, and her pupils seemed to penetrate the space as she stared at the man in the forbidden area.
Then, the dark figure took down the tombstone again. He brought tools and scraped off the name on it bit by bit, and then carved a new name - Zhang Huixuan.
The dark clouds gradually dispersed, and the moon revealed light from the sky, shining on the dark shadow.
Who else could it be if not Lu Yanli
He pulled the coffin out of its upside-down state, dug the hole wider and deeper, laid the coffin flat again, and filled it with soil bit by bit.
He didn't know whether his actions were useful or not, but if he did more, they would always come in handy at the critical moment.
After filling the soil, Lu Yanli pulled a corpse from his side.
The corpse looked exactly like him, with a hole in its chest. It was dead, but something was still moving around its heart.
Lu Yanli didn't see it.
He also started digging a hole near the grave. He brought the tools from the village earlier. The soil was soft, so he dug quickly. Not long after, Lu Yanli buried his body.
Then, his gaze turned to the distance.
How can I get the jade pendant back from An Xingyu without telling Luo Ying
After doing all this, will Zhang Huixuan really let me go
Time passed little by little, and Lu Yanli simply sat beside one of the graves, closed his eyes and dozed off, waiting for midnight to arrive.
The end of the year is approaching and ghosts are causing trouble.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, we worship our ancestors and gods.
Sixty years of reincarnation... The monster in the back mountain...
Lu Yanli always felt that he had overlooked something, or rather, he was confused by the weirdness and did not pay attention to some abnormalities that he should have discovered.
, what have you overlooked
Midnight is almost here.
All creatures fell silent.
Lu Yanli suddenly felt an extremely strong palpitation, the kind of fear that humans could hardly suppress made him tremble all over. He knew that he was afraid, afraid of the extreme fear that was about to come, but he didn't know what he was afraid of.
Is it a ghost? Or something else
Soon, Lu Yanli noticed that the ground under his feet made some faint sound.
This is not an illusion! The mountain is indeed shaking slightly. It is just too big. Humans standing in front of it are too small to be worth mentioning. They can only watch the huge mountain awaken from its slumber and slowly turn as if some mechanism has been turned on. Even a little bit of rotation is a movement that is hard for humans to ignore.
Lin Chu had already climbed to the top and was staring into the distance, stunned.
Not only the mountain under their feet, but also a dark mountain in the distance was moving.
What's going on
The four of them were all shocked and couldn't believe it.
The little girl standing in Uncle Zhang's house squatted down with her chin in her hands, guarding the edge of the ruins.
Her eyes narrowed and she stared at the mountain in front of her. The mountain was turning around, and a lot of stones, dust and dead branches were falling from it. Later, bigger stones rolled down and rushed around. Some of the stones passed through the little girl's body and rolled towards the village.
Sixty years is a cycle, the earth dragon turns over, the mountains turn, and the things hidden on the other side of the mountain are about to come out.
The four of them were hiding in the forbidden area. Lin Chu made up his mind and ran to the tunnel at the top of the mountain, deciding to jump down if he heard any movement.
At the same time, Lu Yanli was also moving forward.
He also found the tunnel.
It seems that the mountain is slowly turning, and it is unknown what will happen after it turns, so it is better to avoid it first.
On the other side, Luo Ying and An Xingyu were also running very fast.
"What's on the other side of the mountain?"
"I don't know. It's not something we can have direct contact with."
The ground beneath their feet was still shaking, and the mountains on all sides were trembling. They knew that this was not an earthquake, but... something was coming out from the back mountain!
At this moment, they all had a strong intuition that when that thing came out, they would die immediately!
Shangxian Village, Zhang Bo’s home.
The girl finally smiled a real smile, which was cold and strange, totally inconsistent with her cute and tender face. She looked up at the mountain that was turning slowly in front of her, and her smile grew bigger and bigger, her bright red lips gradually rose to her ears, almost filling her entire face.
As the aura of terror became more and more intense, finally, something appeared from the other end.
That was... one after another, figures dressed in shrouds with unclear faces appeared in the mountains. They stood quietly on the mountain road. Looking closely, they were all bloody and rotting corpses.
One figure after another stood neatly in the dark mountain road, almost blending into the pure black background. At a glance, it was almost impossible to see the end of the team, and it was difficult to tell how many people there were.
Then, those figures all raised their heads and slowly walked down the mountain.
Judging from their previous speed, once the mountain turns completely around, they will be completely out of the mountain and into the real world!
At the foot of the mountain, the little girl's red dress became brighter and brighter, almost dripping with blood. Even the deep night could not cover the red color. Her pure black eyes watched everything that happened in front of her, her face was full of resentment, but there was a smile on the corner of her lips.