The professor survived in the end. Back then, the brothers and their party were ambitious and planned to dig out treasures from the tomb. Unexpectedly, he was the only one left alive in the end.
Yes, he survived in the end, but in the form of a walking corpse.
In the past twenty years, he has not been able to sleep peacefully at night. The life that survived by relying on his companions, the flesh and blood of his good brothers who were born and died, has been carrying heavy shackles from the very beginning.
Over the years, he couldn't eat a single piece of meat. He once forced himself to bite it off, but as long as he swallowed it, the instinct of his body was stronger than his will.
As soon as the taste of meat melted in his mouth, he couldn't help but recall that night twenty years ago.
Gurry was already by his side.
He cut his flesh... so hungry.
When people are in despair, it seems that they can only be driven by instinct.
"I... can never forget."
The distraught Professor Qin Fang seemed to have aged ten years again.
He looked at his trembling hands, "I just used them, scooped up Gurry's blood, and started to drink. I'm too hungry, I can't help it, I told myself like this... I looked into Gurry's eyes, I know he is not dead... He looked at me, looked at me, just kept looking at me like that, he couldn't speak, but I knew, he must be asking me, must be scolding me, must be cursing me, must be Hating me...but I kept on drinking and biting...I gave up everything I had, I turned into a beast, a beast, a beast that even I despise myself!"
"I'm just a beast! A beast without humanity! A beast that even eats the flesh and blood of his own brother!!"
The agitated Professor Qin Fang started to cough up blood. Under the abnormally fluctuating mood, Professor Qin Fang also uttered this mournful self-blame, and fell to the ground.
Listening to the professor's lung-piercing voice narrating the secret that had been buried in his heart for twenty years, the few listeners felt differently.
Zhang Qingrui didn't know what He Luoqiu was thinking, and she didn't know what You Ye was thinking either. The woman had a natural expression at this time, and she didn't waver at the professor's confession.
"Also a poor man."
In the silence, Cai Wenji's soft sigh was heard.
At this time, You Ye walked to the professor's side to check, raised his head and said, "It should be because he was too excited, so he passed out, do you need to wake him up?"
Luo Qiu shook his head, "No need, let him wake up naturally. He has hidden these words for twenty years, so if he speaks out at this time, he will naturally exhaust everything."
"What Mr. Qin needs is not our tolerance." Cai Wenji on the other side said quietly.
Luo Qiu frowned at this time and said: "I'm more curious, how did you know what happened to the professor back then? Didn't it mean that you were trapped in the sarcophagus?"
Cai Wenji said: "Although I can't leave the sarcophagus, the tomb where I'm buried is part of the formation of the underground palace. With the help of the formation that absorbs the vitality of the four directions, I can also sense a small part of the nearby land."
"Really..." Luo Qiu nodded, stood up and said, "From here, you should remember how to get back to your tomb, right? After I find it, I will send you to your husband's tomb."
Cai Wenji might have been waiting for this opportunity all along, and at this moment she bowed deeply and said, "Thank you, Young Master, for your kindness."
Not long after, under Cai Wenji's guidance, Luo Qiu easily touched her former tomb.
As the professor said before, because of the explosion twenty years ago, this tomb was implicated and was suppressed by the underground palace above. But no matter how it collapses, the position of the vertically falling thing probably won't change much.
Luo Qiu asked now: "Probably in that direction?"
Cai Wenji stretched out her hand... pointing at the bone of her hand, "In this direction, it was above the four tombs back then."
Luo Qiu nodded, walked to the wall, stretched out his hand to touch it, and activated his mind-like ability. The line of sight is jumping in the thick soil filled with each tomb.
Suddenly, Luo Qiu frowned, withdrew his hand, and turned back: "I'm afraid it wasn't this floor that fell, but the third floor below. Where it collapsed, the second floor was also washed away." past."
"Then...then there is no way to find Gao Rui's body?" Zhang Qingrui couldn't help feeling disappointed.
"That's not necessarily the case."
You Ye said softly, walked to the center of the tomb, knelt down slowly, and stretched out his hand to hold down the stone slab of the tomb, "Master, please pay attention."
After all, You Ye's arm pressed slightly against the floor in between.
As if nothing happened, it was just a light click.
But in the blink of an eye, a slight cracking sound was suddenly heard... At this moment, with the maid as the center, the floor of the entire stone room was cracked at a terrifying speed!
Before Zhang Qingrui could react, he felt that his body suddenly lost gravity, and fell down together with the cracked stone!
But at this moment, she felt something dragging her body.
Rumble! ! !
The stone chamber began to fall, and not long after, everyone fell into a blue world! There is no complex labyrinth in the first and second floors of the underground palace, there are only a large number of pillars supporting the entire third floor of the underground palace!
Here, you can see corpses all over the ground! They fell to the ground in various postures! There are many bones, like a sea of bones!
Countless white bones, some of which have been broken!
Deep in the heavy pillars, there is a cyan light source, and it is this inverted light source that illuminates the entire three-story underground palace.
At this time, Luo Qiu looked up, estimated the location, and then began to search... This place is unusually cold, like a ghost land.
Zhang Qingrui had already started to tremble, and didn't dare to move at all. At this time, perhaps because of the loud noise made when the stone fell, Professor Qin Fang coughed a few times, and then slowly woke up.
Professor Qin Fang looked around blankly, but his eyes suddenly froze.
He coughed a few times, and his weak body began to crawl on the ground. He swept away the white bones right in front of him, and crawled out a clean path abruptly.
Finally, his crawling stopped... He stopped in front of a corpse.
I don't know if it's because of the extreme cold here, but the corpses that were supposed to die have become stiff instead...they haven't decomposed much.
The corpse should have happened to hit a pillar when it fell from above. At this time, it was in a sitting posture with its head bowed.
However, Luo Qiu and the others who followed were able to clearly see the corpse's arms, neck, and even where the clothes were torn, and the bones could already be vaguely seen, the traces of being bitten...
Qin Fang didn't speak, he just trembled his hands, as if he had exhausted all his strength, timidly, he slowly straightened the corpse.
"Guo Rui... Old Qin, I finally found you... I'm here to see you."
Qin Fang touched the face of his ex-brother with trembling hands, and slowly held it up, dazedly, "I know you are waiting for me too. For the past twenty years, I have always known that every night, I can hear .That **** eats your flesh and drinks your blood. You don't say anything, but I can hear you cursing me with hatred in your heart again and again. I know it all... "
Qin Fang began to straighten Gao Rui's clothes, and his voice was already hoarse: "I heard the voice that day, and found that Niuzi and the others were not dead, they were just around here. I dare not bring you out too. I wiped the stain on my lips. Blood, I rolled on the ground and let the mud cover the marks on my body. At that time, fear and self-blame had long since wiped out my conscience. I didn’t know how to face Niu Zi and the others, let alone how to face your wife .”
Qin Fang suddenly gave a sad laugh, "When I left, I didn't dare to look at you. Seeing you is like seeing myself, the self that I threw myself on you."
He sighed a long time: "Over the years, I have been asking myself, why did we dig the ground and dig the grave? We use all kinds of excuses to comfort ourselves, but in fact it is just self-deception. In fact, it is just For money, what is the purpose of money? Naturally, it is for life. We are greedy for everything, and in the end it is the current end. I am the only one who survived, but I asked myself, am I still alive?"
Professor Qin Fang began to straighten Gao Rui's messy hair: "Don't worry, I have raised your child, Chu Yu, and she is fine, so you don't have to worry. I wrote my will a few years ago. Everything will be handed over to her... I will also bury your wife, in the garden behind your home house. I set up a clothes tomb for you next to her. I think that one day I will take you for real Come out and be buried beside your wife."
Qin Fang suddenly fell silent, and after a while, "But I know now that I dare not take you back. How could I just take you back like this? What face do I have... body back?"
All of a sudden, Qin Fang pulled out a bright dagger from his boots, and said softly: "So, at least you have to make up for what you're missing, so that you can take it back... , I'll give it back to you, okay?"
With the dagger in his hand, he cut down hard towards his other arm, cut open his flesh, cut to the bone, and then pulled hard.
Qin Fang screamed, and abruptly pulled out a piece of bright red flesh from his arm.
"This is the first bite."
But he didn't stop, but raised the dagger in his hand again, and cut towards his arm again!
One knife, another knife.
It's the third knife.
…
Seeing the scene of Professor Qin Fang's self-mutilation, Zhang Qingrui subconsciously wanted to go up, but Luo Qiu immediately pulled his arm.
"This... is too cruel, the professor doesn't need to..."
Luo Qiu shook his head and said: "Professor, he started to retrieve his lost things, do you want to stop him?"
Zhang Qingrui lowered her head, turned her body around, and couldn't bear to look again. Hearing Professor Qin Fang's continuous screams, her scalp was numb, and she couldn't stand it again, "Can't we...do something?"
Luo Qiu blinked, he suddenly felt that there was something hidden on Gao Rui's body... It was like a flame, jumping up all of a sudden.
The soul in this corpse hasn't completely dissipated... Is it just sleeping all the time? Perhaps it was caused by the special environment of the third floor in the underground palace.
Luo Qiu subconsciously looked towards Professor Qin Fang.
When he cut the tenth knife, his arm had already been separated from flesh and blood, and it became extremely terrifying.
Finally, after the eleventh cut, Qin Fang planned to start cutting towards his thigh.
Luo Qiu moved. He walked quickly in front of Qin Fang, and reached out to grab his arm holding the knife.
"Don't stop me!"
"Professor, you are ashamed of the first cut, and the second cut is also... always." Luo Qiu's expression remained unchanged, "After this arm, do you think it's not enough, or do you think it's okay to continue self-mutilation like this?" Let you get the thrill of redemption? I thought you would stop by yourself."
"What did you say?"
Luo Qiu sighed and said, "Professor... you know, are you laughing?"
"I… "
Qin Fang's body stiffened all of a sudden, he just let go of the fingers holding the dagger, and the dagger fell to the ground with a clang.
"I... I just..."
Luo Qiu looked at Professor Qin Fang's left arm, and silently tore off the clothes on his body, made strips of cloth, and wrapped him tightly from his arm to his shoulder, "Actually, I have no position to stop you... just, I I'm curious, Professor, you said that back then, your brother just watched silently, right?"
Qin Fang was startled.
Luo Qiu stood up, and suddenly reached out and tapped Gao Rui's forehead gently, "He's still there, maybe he can tell you the answer."
In front of his eyes, the cold and dry corpse suddenly began to emit some white mist.
The white mist slowly turned, like white paint scattered in the water, and then gradually formed... a man who looked almost the same as the face of the corpse.
"Gao... Gurry!"
Liberated from that corpse, he is the person who should have died twenty years ago.
"Gu Rui! It's really you!" Qin Fang's eyes widened, and he looked excitedly at the soul that appeared in front of him, "You...you're still there!"
Gao Rui's soul just shook his head lightly, and said with the tone that Qin Fang only had in his memory, "Old Qin, do you know that, as old as you are now, I can eat your flesh Not moving?"
Qin Fang knelt down on the ground again at this time, his shoulders twitched, his expression was sad, his tears flowed, and his voice was hoarse, "I'm sorry!! I'm sorry for you!"
"Chuyu, my child, has he grown beautifully now? Thank you for taking care of me all these years!"
"sorry Sorry sorry!"
"My mother-in-law also made you worry. After dealing with her funeral, I, as a husband, can't do anything."
"sorry Sorry!"
"Old Qin, you just said that for the past 20 years, we have been asking why we did these things that harm our morals..."
"sorry Sorry sorry."
"I'm actually thinking too... I can't come up with an answer after much deliberation. Maybe it's just for money and greed as you said. But, have you forgotten that no matter how greedy you are, every time you successfully conquer a When we were in the ancient tomb, did we feel the excitement, the joy, the incomparable satisfaction, and the joy shared by our brothers?"
"sorry… "
"I couldn't walk at all at that time, and my leg was broken long ago. Didn't you lead me to the end?"
"Sorry... sorry..."
"I can't walk, I really can't. But my wife, what about my children? I have to get out alive...but I can't. I know you're hungry..."
"sorry Sorry… "
"Do you know why I didn't say a word when I watched you eat me?"
"sorry… "
"Because... If you can survive, I know that you won't treat my wife and my children badly. Old Qin, I'm so lucky for you these years. "
"sorry Sorry… "
Gao Rui's soul stretched out his hand, and gently placed it on Qin Fang's back, "Hey man, I said you cry like a woman, and an old and ugly woman."
Qin Fang buried his head deeply on the shoulder of Gao Rui's corpse, and kept saying sorry. Back then, his mouth was full of blood and flesh. What he couldn't say, what he couldn't say, was sorry in his heart.
What the professor is missing is not the flesh and blood of the knife, but just the sorry.
"I forgave you from the very beginning... Lao Qin." (.)