The little girl just repeated the words asking for help, "I'm so scared... Please, can you help me?"
"Okay, okay." I leaned over cautiously, "Can you tell me what happened?"
But the little girl suddenly stopped talking, turned around and ran back.
"Wait! What's the matter with you?" I yelled, and ran after me.
The little girl didn't run fast. She even looked back at me after two steps, as if she was waiting for me to catch up.
I had no choice but to follow, shouting, trying to communicate with her.
"Are you okay? What the hell happened? Why are you asking for help?"
But the little girl didn't answer me, but ran faster. A strange laughter echoed in the quiet corridor.
"Hehehe, hehehe..."
My scalp was numb for a while, and my steps stopped involuntarily. But curiosity is scratching deep in my heart, and I want to follow up to see it no matter what.
This little girl is the only living creature I met here, maybe she knows about Wen Jiubai, or maybe she really needs help
Thinking about this, I still took a step to catch up, "Hey! Where are you? Wait for me!"
However, just when I was chasing around a corner and I was about to catch up with the little girl, a hand suddenly stretched out from the darkness and grabbed my wrist.
I was taken aback, and just about to yell, my mouth was also covered. Struggling desperately, I kicked the assailant in the stomach in desperation. He let out a groan and let me go.
I started to run, and after two steps, I realized that something was wrong.
I just kicked him in the stomach? The one who attacked me just now was a human
I turned around, and sure enough, I found a boy with a weird mask on his face, leaning on the wall, clutching his abdomen, looking very painful.
"Uh, that, that..." I mustered up the courage to talk to him.
"Then your size!" the boy said very unceremoniously, it seemed that he was really hurt by me kicking him.
This boy looks about my height, and his figure is also similar to mine. No matter how you look at it, he is a normal human being.
"This is the junction of Yin and Yang, and there are cracks created by nothingness everywhere." The young man said pantingly, "If you catch up, she will lead you to the crack. Once you fall from there, you will die forever." Disappeared. And when I say 'disappeared', I mean more than just dying. The rift will erase you from the world, and you will never be born in this world."
I stared dumbfounded at this strange young man, and stammered and asked, "But...why did she do this? Also, who are you? Why are you here?"
"Because she is the most dangerous thing that resides here, and obtains the evil spirit by sending the soul into the crack. And me, who I am is not important." The boy straightened the mask on his face and stood up, "Important Yes, who are you?"
"Who am I?" I repeated, and immediately remembered my purpose, "It doesn't matter who I am! The important thing is, do you know a person named Wen Jiubai? Or, or is it a soul? Have you seen it? He? I came here to find him!"
"I have no idea!"
For some reason, the boy in front of me suddenly became agitated. He took a deep breath and seemed to be trying to calm down his emotions, "Sorry, I don't know. Because I'm also looking for my most important person here, I really don't know. "
"Uh, okay." I observed this strange boy carefully, and I had a feeling in my heart that maybe I should stay away from him, "Then I won't bother you, thank you for saving my life..."
As I said that, I stepped back cautiously, observing the boy's reaction. The boy didn't catch up, but just looked at me and spoke suddenly.
"Be careful. This is not the world you are familiar with. Anything can happen. Don't get lost, or you may never go back." The boy said, "Also, follow the scent."
"Scent? What scent?" I turned around strangely, only to find that the boy who was behind me a second ago had disappeared, leaving only the sound of water splashes echoing in the empty corridor.
What a strange man.
Just when I was thinking like this, a familiar smell suddenly drilled into my nose. A faint, unexplainable fragrance.
Is this the scent he was talking about? I froze, feeling very strange.
This fragrance not only appeared here, but I also smelled it in the previous horrible dream and in the old house. It's just that the first two times were just a moment of catching wind and shadow, and it was not even clear whether reality or illusion. But this time, I took a deep breath and was quite sure that I did smell an inexplicable fragrance.
Why does the same scent appear in different places? I suppressed the doubts in my heart, raised the torch, and walked towards the direction with the clearest fragrance.
Although all the corridors looked exactly the same, I followed my sense of smell unswervingly. It didn't take long before a new room appeared in front of my eyes.
This room is very dark and the location is very hidden, no wonder I haven't found it after walking for so long. The fragrance seems to be concentrated in this area, becoming more and more intense, and it even makes people feel a little dizzy.
Suppressing the uncomfortable feeling, I groped to find a dead torch on the wall. As soon as I touched the torch in my hand to the one on the wall, the room immediately brightened.
Although it still looked very weird under the blue flames, it was much better than the darkness before.
I stuck the torch in my hand against the wall and turned around, almost heart-stopping.
In the looming darkness, there is a gigantic monster standing there, staring at me.
"Don't, don't come here! I have weapons!" I danced wildly with the torch, only to realize that the huge monster hadn't moved at all, and was still standing there coldly.
I approached the past cautiously, since I experienced the incident between the little girl and that strange boy, I never dare to take this weird place lightly.
After I took two steps forward, I finally saw what it was.
The thing that had frightened me half to death in the dark turned out to be a gigantic statue, gleaming with the sheen of rock in the firelight. After confirming that there was no danger, I walked over with a torch.
In front of me is an old stone table. The stone table was very large, at least two meters long, and there was an incense burner on it, but it was empty inside, with neither incense nor ashes. And the behemoth that had scared me half to death before was the statue behind the stone table - a huge statue of a nine-tailed fox.
I couldn't help but took two steps back and raised my head to look at the statue. It's a big statue, just like the one I saw in that portrait earlier. The sculpture is lifelike, expressing the fox's expression, demeanor and fierce bared teeth in place. The nine tails danced frantically behind it, fully telling everyone what a dangerous monster the nine-tailed fox is.
It seems that this place seems to be some kind of sacrificial altar. Such a huge nine-tailed statue, could it be said that this is an altar for worshiping the nine-tailed fox
But rather than wondering why there is an altar here, I am more surprised by the ferocity of this nine-tailed fox statue.
From ancient times to the present, no matter what kind of sacrifice it is, it is for the sake of good weather or good weather. People will portray the image of the gods as either kind or amiable, or wise and powerful. After all, it is to bless yourself, and of course you must do a good job in styling.
But this statue of a nine-tailed fox... not only doesn't look amiable, it doesn't look like a hero. No matter who it is, the feeling of seeing this statue can only be fear and terror, like a ghost.
... Is it really possible for people to worship such a terrifying existence
I raised the torch and approached the statue, only to find that under the statue and above the stone table there seemed to be densely packed calligraphy and paintings, which were uneven to the touch and seemed to have a long history.
The painting is a mural carved on the wall, which is very casual. From right to left, it seems that there is a plot.
The first painting depicts a splendid palace. Many people bowed around the palace and bowed in the direction of the palace, as if expressing people's admiration for the owner of the palace.
Going to the left, the content of the second painting changes. In the previous painting, the splendid palace became fragmented. A huge nine-tailed fox stood on the top of the broken palace, pressing one paw on the wreckage of the palace, as if showing off that he had destroyed this sacred place. Mouth opened as if to growl.
In the third painting, it completely turned into a fight of the nine-tailed fox. In the painting, many villains were running away, and the nine-tailed fox chased after them, constantly attacking people with its claws and sharp teeth. Some in the corner fought back with clumsy weapons like bows and spears, but judging by their size, these attacks were barely scratching the surface.
Then came the last painting. The style of this painting is different from the previous ones. The tense and hostile atmosphere disappeared, replaced by a peaceful and peaceful atmosphere. The center of the picture is still the nine-tailed demon fox, sitting there with its nine tails flaring behind it. And all the people around the picture worshiped the nine-tailed fox, holding various bowls and plates in their hands, kneeling and offering sacrifices to the nine-tailed fox.
After reading the murals, I became thoughtful. These murals seem to tell how the nine-tailed fox became the object of people's sacrifice, neither because it can bless people, nor because it has the ability to make life smooth, but because the nine-tailed fox attacked the human palace—— It is very likely that it was the imperial palace of a certain dynasty. People enshrined it and regarded it as a god in order to prevent the nine-tailed fox from making trouble.
etc. I squinted my eyes and suddenly noticed somewhere in the last painting—right here, right in the middle of the frame, the nine-tailed fox seemed to have something in its mouth. I moved the torch closer, looked carefully, and found that it was not a thing, but a person.
A woman in a white dress was held in the mouth by a nine-tailed fox. What does it mean