Chapter 705 The precursor of the great evil’s awakening
The stone house on the island in the center of the lake has a history of hundreds of years. It is said that the lake god lives in the stone house. If the nearby villagers have any difficulties, they only need to prepare three animals and throw them into the pool of the stone house, and the lake god will help him realize his wish.
Such stories are spread in the villages around the lake, but in fact no one has actually seen the lake god. The god itself may be just a beautiful expectation.
Holding on to the rotten wooden ladder, Han Fei was extremely careful and paid great attention to every move of his body.
I don't know when the wooden ladder was built. The surface is slippery and covered with light green moss. The part near the water surface is rotten, and fine tooth marks can still be seen on it.
"Keep quiet, don't affect him." Guan Miao made a silent gesture, and he didn't even dare to breathe too hard.
The stone house was extremely quiet, and everyone was sweating for Han Fei. They watched Han Fei's every move, hoping that Han Fei could complete the ritual of worshiping the lake god.
It didn't take long for Han Fei to climb to the second floor of the stone house. The wooden ladder, which had been in disrepair for a long time, seemed to be about to lose its support at this time. The nails embedded in the wall were somewhat loose, and there were creaking sounds from everywhere.
It also started to shake, and it seemed that it might break at any time.
Han Fei lowered his head and glanced down. Something seemed to be floating in the bottomless pool. His heartbeat began to speed up, and the strange feeling of predicting death appeared again.
"There seems to be something in the water calling me."
Some people will have the urge to jump down when they stand at a high place. Han Fei was like this now. There seemed to be a voice in his mind constantly giving him hints, asking him to let go of his hands and jump into the pool below.
Shaking his head, Han Fei dispelled the weird thoughts, and climbed up quickly holding on to the wooden ladder.
As Han Fei got closer and closer to the shrine on the roof, a subtle sound suddenly came from under the quiet water, and a few bubbles emerged from the turbid lake water.
"Bring the flashlight." Yan Le's mother had a very bad premonition. She took the flashlight from the lifeguard's hand, took a few steps back, and slowly shined the flashlight towards the water.
"Do you want to kill him?" Guan Miao saw this and quickly blocked Yan Le: "The light may attract things underwater, and you will disturb the lake god!"
"I just want to see what's under the water. If there's any danger, I'd better get Han Fei down in time." Yan Le's mother defended herself.
"Climb up the wooden ladder and return the statue of the lake god. The ceremony has reached its final stage. If you give up halfway now, the three of you will end up like us and become a half-human, half-fish monster!" Guan Miao said in a low voice.
, but the tone of his words was extremely stern, and he didn't care to hide it anymore. In order to tell Yan Le how serious the consequences of obstructing the ceremony would be, he took off his thick shirt: "Are you like me?"
The old man's skinny body was covered with water lines, and there were scale-like foreign bodies growing out of those water lines. What made people's scalp even more numb was that when the old man was agitated and panting violently, those water lines and foreign bodies would still appear.
Then expand and contract.
"Everyone in the village who participated in the ceremony has not escaped. This is our only chance to remedy the situation."
After Yan Le's mother saw Guan Miao's body, she stopped insisting. The lifeguard player next to her didn't dare to say a word. He dragged Yan Le's mother and turned off the flashlight.
Han Fei on the wooden ladder didn't care what happened at the door of the stone house. He only had eyes for the shrine.
In the memories he retrieved, all shrines were set up on the altar table and the ground. It was the first time he had seen a shrine that was even and stable, hanging in the air like this, with a pool underneath the base.
There must be a demon when something goes wrong. The closer he got to the shrine, the more uneasy he felt inside, as if something very scary was locked inside the shrine.
Using his hands and feet, Han Fei tightly grasped the wet and slippery wooden ladder. When he was about to climb towards the third floor of the stone house, a black insect suddenly crawled out from the back of the badly rotted wooden ladder.
Han Fei doesn't have much fear of resentment and ghosts. He hates weird things the most: "Go and bite it to death."
The ugly cat seemed to understand Han Fei's words. It crawled out of Han Fei's arms and slapped the black insect into the pool.
The insect carcass did not float on the water, but sank into the water in a blink of an eye, as if it had become part of the lake.
The air in the stone house became more humid, and the fishy smell became stronger.
"You're quite useful."
After receiving Han Fei's praise, the ugly cat was a little excited, but soon returned to its aloof demeanor. However, its behavior of actively helping Han Fei explore the way exposed its innermost feelings.
"This wooden ladder can't withstand the tossing, please slow down and jump."
As you go higher, more and more scratches begin to appear on the wall, most of which were dug out with fingernails.
Before Han Fei could understand the meaning of those carvings, more frightening sounds came to his ears.
Crunchy...
Strange sounds came from the back of the wooden ladder and from the middle of the wooden ladder at the same time, as if fine needles were constantly pricking the wooden ladder.
The ugly cat that was crawling forward also stopped. It barked in front of the cat and its hair exploded all over its body.
"That's not good."
A black insect emerged from the gap in the wooden ladder, and then more and more black insects crawled out. They occupied the wooden ladder and the upper part of the stone house, and even built a nest under the shrine.
There is no light in the stone house, so you can't see clearly, and all the black bugs are hidden in the darkness.
If someone else had come here, they would have been eaten to a disgraceful state and then fallen into the pool.
Pulling the red rope, although Han Fei didn't really want to admit it, he was indeed a little flustered.
It's not the fear of death, but the instinctive disgust of the body.
"The appearance of these bugs is very different and strange, bringing together all the ugliness in the world. They are not the same species, but they build nests under the shrine together. This is enough to prove that they should be derived from the same thing." Han Fei also said
Not daring to move, he carefully observed the ugly cat and the poisonous insects, and soon discovered something very interesting.
All black bugs will make strange sounds when facing ugly cats. What they are afraid of is not the ugly cats, but the nine black lines on the ugly cats.
There seemed to be existences like them living in those nine black lines, but unlike these defective products, that guy's aura crushed them innately.
After a moment of hesitation, the ugly cat continued to crawl forward, and those ugly black insects actually took the initiative to avoid it.
The ugly cat doesn't know how to be merciful, and when it sees the opponent giving in, it immediately launches an attack.
Nine ghost lines crawled on the stitched skin. All the bugs touched by the ugly cats fell off, and their bodies quickly shriveled up. All the most evil and dark breath in the body was absorbed by the nine ghost lines.
A black "rain of corpses" fell from the sky. For others, it was the most difficult road to walk, but Han Fei walked it very easily.
He followed the ugly cat, but glanced at Guan Miao at the door.
With these black bugs around, almost no one can successfully open the shrine and return the statue to its place. It can be said that everyone who goes to deliver the statue will die here every year. However, the custom passed down in the village is to find an orphan who grew up eating hundreds of meals.
Come and give the idol.
Han Fei only listened to Guan Miao's words about asking the orphan to deliver the statue, but he didn't listen to Guan Miao's words about whether the orphan would be able to go back alive in the end.
In a village that values kinship, even if an orphan without a father, mother or relatives disappears, not many people will care about him.
"No wonder we have to invite gods every year. Maybe this shrine is just a cover. The three animals are sacrifices, and the orphans who gave the statues to the gods are also sacrifices themselves! They are just making living sacrifices!"
Han Fei took another look at the carvings on the wall and immediately understood that those carvings and scratches were left by the orphans before they died. They were the traces of their last struggle.
Some orphans were very kind. When they were bitten by hundreds of insects, they also wanted to warn those who came after them, so they reluctantly carved some writings on the wall.
But unfortunately, all the writings were too far from the ground. When latecomers climbed to this position, it was too late when they realized something was wrong.
Looking at the shocking marks on the wall, Han Fei did not immediately go to trouble Guan Miao. He continued to climb up.
Arriving on the third floor of the stone house, Han Fei saw the familiar human chrysalis under the shrine. Those black cocoons had human faces engraved on them. They were all made from the souls of living people.
"The appearance of these black bugs is simply the most ugliest and disgusting thing in the world, but they themselves are the appearance of changes in the human heart."
Han Fei was only two meters away from the shrine, and the hollow wooden ladder at the top might break at any time. He took every step with extreme caution.
Compared with Han Fei, the cat seemed extra bold. After absorbing the evil energy from the black insects, it set its sights on the insect nest under the shrine.
Without waiting for Han Fei to stop it, the ugly cat made an extremely risky move. It jumped up from the wooden ladder and jumped onto the insect nest.
The suspended shrine is fixed to the top of the stone roof by several chains. The door of the shrine seems to have never been opened and has grown together with the shrine.
Moving his body little by little, Han Fei carefully maintained his balance. He had paid great attention to it, but the wooden ladder on the third floor of the stone house still made a splintering sound.
From the beginning, the people who built the wooden ladder had no intention of allowing people to approach the shrine. This last section of the road was a dead end.
The moment he realized there was something wrong with the wooden ladder, Han Fei jumped decisively towards the shrine. He grabbed the chain with one hand and relied on his own arm strength to pull his body onto the chain.
Holding the iron rope tightly, Han Fei looked back and saw that the wooden ladder he came from had completely collapsed, and large pieces of wood fell into the pool.
The turbid lake water splashed everywhere, and the silence was completely broken.
The three people standing at the door had different expressions. The lifeguard was full of worry and fear. Yan Le's mother was thoughtful, with confusion and joy in her eyes. Guan Miao had a complicated expression, but her clenched hands slowly loosened.
Taking a deep breath, Han Fei lay on the chain. He wanted to see what was in the shrine.
Raising his hand and reaching towards the shrine, Han Fei forcefully opened the shrine's door.
Withered cocoons fell from the air, and a pungent stench gushed out from the shrine. Inside the pitch-black shrine was a human head that was so rotten that no features could be seen at all.
The head was facing away from the opening of the divine door, facing a mirror inside the shrine. The back of the head was full of cracks, forming a huge butterfly exuding the aura of death.
When Han Fei opened the shrine, Han Fei's face was reflected in the mirror. The rotten human head changed instantly. Its appearance in the mirror was quickly restored, and its facial features and appearance were slowly becoming the same as Han Fei's!
"Lake God!"
Guan Miao, who was at the door, suddenly shouted towards the shrine. He was chanting the local dialect, but he only chanted a few words before Yan Le's mother pushed him to the ground: "Han Fei! Be careful under the water!"
Yan Le's mother moved quickly, but it was still too late.
There is a force gathering in the pool below the stone house, the water waves tremble, and a huge black shadow continues to enlarge under the water!
Han Fei was sitting in front of the shrine, and his attention was completely attracted by the head in the shrine: "Mirror, shrine, head, this is the fourth resurrection ceremony of the dream? But who is the object of its resurrection?"
The ugly cat that had destroyed the insect nest could no longer suppress the power within its body. The nine ghost patterns were completely out of control. Its patched body was torn open and continued to swell among the blood lines and broken bones.
The ghost pattern on the ugly cat's body seemed to sense something. Its sharp claws grabbed the bottom of the shrine, easily tore it open, and then severely penetrated the butterfly pattern on the head.
The rotten head and the mirror were broken together, and in the back of the head was a cocoon of blood that was constantly beating like a heart.
The blood cocoon was not big, but the names of countless souls were engraved on it, and the aura it exuded far exceeded any cocoon Han Fei had ever seen before.
Just when the ugly cat was about to break the blood cocoon and absorb it, the water below the stone house exploded, and an extremely huge figure jumped out of the water!
Looking at the huge and terrifying body, everyone present was deeply shocked.
"Is there really a water monster in this mind?"
It is a monster similar to fish and snakes. Each of its scales is covered with a wailing human face. Countless water ghosts are intertwined behind it. Its crazy aura is like a great lake bursting its banks.
"For the fourth ceremony that Meng prepared for himself, what he wanted to resurrect was not the human being, but the monster that had been living in the lake for who knows how long?"
Cocoons have always had two completely opposite directions of mutation. One is to gather the beauty of the world like a butterfly, steal the beauty in human nature, and become the most perfect person in appearance; the other is to gather together like a great evil.
All ugliness, misfortune and death have become the most terrifying monsters in the world.
This fourth ceremony should be the escape route that Meng left for himself. If the ceremony of becoming a human being cannot be successful, then he can only settle for the second best.
Han Fei also thought of the huge canyon-like cocoon under the dead building at this moment. The dream finally seemed to become a combination of monster and human. He could not be considered a success, nor was he a complete failure.
Pulling out the butcher knife of the dead, Han Fei stepped on the chain with both feet. As a master, he was willing to sacrifice his life to buy time for his pet.
"It has eaten so many people, so it should be considered a butcher guilty of killing, right?"
This chapter has been completed!