The conclusion that Ellie came to made the group fall into silence, and there was no hope. In other words, Ade would die here.
And this is not Ade’s problem alone.
“Ade can’t stay, and we can’t keep him by our side.” Finley said with a gloomy face, “The scent of him will kill us.”
The team members all thought of the insect swarm just now. It was so huge that no one wanted to experience it again. After all, not every time we encounter a river, we are so lucky.
If they are chased by a swarm of insects in a place without water protection, they will have no choice but to die.
“Let’s be like this, Brother Sun, the swarm of insects has just left. If we can’t protect it, it will come back later. We still...” One of the three people whose name Yuxing didn’t know interrupted, “Dead people are common, aren’t they?”
For people like them, whose job is to dig up people's ancestral graves, their moral values are not strong and they are more ruthless than ordinary people.
This person is right, the swarm of insects may be nearby, and they have no time to be indecisive. Finley is even far away from Ade. He is lucky that the blood that Ade vomited did not touch him.
Ade was already unconscious. After he vomited blood, his eyes rolled and his pupils were dilated.
Yu Xing didn’t pay attention to this. In his opinion, Ade’s fate was already doomed. Even if this group of people were particularly kind and willing to take Ade with them, Ade would not be able to survive. Instead, he would become a real burden.
The smarter choice is to give up.
He did not participate in the discussion. He returned to the river with his bag and lay down on the river bank to watch.
This river is living water, but it doesn’t flow very fast. It looks like it’s still. Yu Xing looked around and found a drowned insect corpse downstream of where he had just taken shelter.
"What are you doing?" Shijiu followed him out of nowhere. She seemed to like staying by Yu Xing's side. Before setting off, she was the only one sitting outside Yu Xing's tent eating, watching over him.
Similar.
Yu Xing smiled, reached out and fished out an insect corpse under Shijiu's somewhat horrified expression, and gently threw it to the ground.
The insect was wet all over, its wings were stuck together, and its eight thin legs were closed like a spider, but its hard body and mouthparts were still scary.
“You smell it.” He motioned Shijiu to come closer. Shijiu squatted down and took a sniff.
"No fragrance?" Her eyes widened slightly, and she quickly understood what Yu Xing wanted to express, "I understand, the fragrance is emitted from the insect's blood. After it bites, the toxin enters the human body first.
Change human blood, and the fragrance on Ade's body comes from the wounds and spit blood."
"That's right, so as long as it doesn't cause wounds, there is no danger in killing insects." Yu Xing likes to talk to smart people, which will save him a lot of time in explaining, "Does the team bring insecticides?"
Shijiu was very happy: "I brought it with me. It's in the supplies, but I remember there were only two bottles of spray. After all..." No one expected that there were such deadly insects in the mountains.
But this was undoubtedly good news, and it immediately calmed down the panic of being helpless in the face of the bugs. She said: "I'm going to tell them and ask them to separate two people to hold the insecticide for backup."
After finishing her poems and wine, she wanted to go back, but Yu Xing stopped her.
“What’s wrong?” Shijiu was surprised.
Yu Xing threw the insect corpse back into the lake and asked calmly: "How long have you been joining this team?"
"Well..." Shijiu glanced at him, "Actually, this is the first time I have acted with them. I used to take my own people to the grave. This time, something happened to my people.
I got connected with Brother Sun’s team through someone’s introduction.”
"I am nominally a member of the team and I obey Brother Sun's instructions, but he has to be polite to me. After all, I don't rely on him. If we break up, I can still go home." She showed a confident smile, as if
He was very proud of Yu Xing's question, "Otherwise, how could Brother Sun doubt me just now? There's no way I could argue with that veteran scumbag Finley."
"I see..." Yu Xing stood up, but he still felt a little weird.
Shijiu's words were correct, but he still remembered that when he first woke up, Shijiu's rebuke to Finley was completely to use Brother Sun to suppress Finley. She seemed to know Brother Sun very well, and even knew the team very well.
preliminary preparation.
The two of them didn't waste much time here. Shijiu saw that he had no other questions, so he ran back and told Yu Xing about his discovery, emphasizing that it was Yu Xing's contribution, and also asked them to stop judging people by their appearance.
As a result, the team's disdain for the painter San became much quieter, and even Finley became less irritated.
Yu Xing remained calm and listened as the team finally discussed how to deal with Ade.
"Hey..." Brother Sun glanced at his team members, pulled out a dagger, and decisively cut Ade's trachea, "Let him die quickly, so as not to be eaten alive by insects later. Take him.
Get his supplies and let's go."
No one objected, they were all mentally prepared.
The number of people has been reduced within less than four hours after entering the mountains. Everyone is not in a high mood and they don't even talk much.
Brother Sun looked at the map and pointed in a direction: "This place is a bit deviated from our destination, but fortunately it's not too far away. Let's go around."
In the following time, everyone worked up their spirits and paid attention to whether there were any big gray worms around. Not to mention, they did see a few lone ones on the road they must pass.
They ignored them. Once they noticed the bugs flying over, Aaron, who had the best eyesight, was responsible for spraying the bugs with insecticide.
Just like that, the next hour or so was uneventful, and no more dangerous creatures were encountered.
At the sixth hour, Yu Xing received one-third of the background introduction issued to him by the system on time.
【You are now a member of the Strange Events Investigation Studio. During this period, you have used the various abilities hidden under your identity as a painter to complete many tasks for the studio, and you have been appreciated by your boss.】
[About the last black ancestral hall and coffin village, after the news leaked out, it aroused the interest of tomb robbers. Experienced tomb robbers have dug into the stories behind the ancestral hall and wanted to understand the secrets of immortality and hallucination. Among them, there is a force
I found black ancestral halls scattered around the world and found that they are all related, and it seems that a huge tomb is involved.】
[This tomb corresponds to ancient legends. It is said that thousands of years ago, there was a demon who studied the art of immortality and made many half-lived and half-dead living corpses. He spent his whole life doing this crazy experiment. In the end,
The experimental results were buried in the long river of history together with his body.】
[Yao Dao may have developed a method to rejuvenate the body after death, not immortality, but resurrection. If there is really a way to resurrect the dead in this world, it must be in Yao Dao’s tomb.
Hidden in the palace. As soon as the news came out, countless people fell into madness.】
【The team that initially searched for black ancestral halls around the world had the most comprehensive information. Among them were Feng Shui masters. From the arrangement of the ancestral halls, they deduced the approximate location of the tomb, which is in the Chongyin Mountain in the north of the country.】
[This time, when your boss heard about the "Temple Tomb Palace", he guessed that some forces would find you as a guide. The boss asked you to figure it out yourself. If you can dig out the secret of the tomb palace
, you will receive help from the studio to resolve the fight within the family as soon as possible.】
[Every interested force has recently set out for Chongyin Mountain. Although the entrance is different, the destination is the same. You randomly selected a relatively experienced team to stay, intending to use them to reach the tomb palace, and then study the tomb palace carefully.
secret.】
Yu Xing was digesting the plot while walking. He was a little surprised that the black ancestral hall located on the mountain in Coffin Village actually had such a big secret. It was also a chain of ancestral halls. What he encountered was just one of many ancestral halls.
At this moment, some unexplainable things in his mind had answers.
It turns out that the coffin village was created only by the black coffin. The coffin village was formed purely due to the influence of the black coffin and the ancestral hall. Zhou Yongsheng probably felt the power contained in the coffin, so he made a sacrifice of living people.
The drama of resurrecting oneself.
It's a pity that Zhou Yongsheng failed. He rotted there and returned to where he should be.
Yu Xing developed a keen interest in temples and tombs. An ancestral hall has so much power, but what about the real tomb?
That demon buried in the tomb, is he really dead? What is the principle of this resurrection ability, and is it related to his own resurrection ability?
When he thought of this, he became excited.
If possible, he really wants to go deep into the tomb, lift the coffin board of the demon, and if it can still speak, discuss with it the generation of resurrection ability - and by the way, ask it what the price of this ability is.
Yu Xing has always felt that his infinite resurrection and recovery are not just the result of the curse and long-term weakness. There must be other prices waiting for him. He has been in a very dangerous situation until the secret is revealed.
On the day it is revealed, he may know... what kind of end he will end up with.
“Hey, it’s going to rain?”
Suddenly, Luke's shouting reached his ears, and he temporarily regained consciousness and looked at the sky.
A small raindrop fell right on the tip of his nose, bringing a sense of coolness and clarity.
The weather in the mountains is like a corpse underground, it can change at any time.
Not long after Luke spoke, the rain evolved from drizzle to downpour. Brother Sun hurriedly greeted everyone: "Don't leave yet, find a camp to shelter from the rain!"
The surrounding terrain was uneven, so they hurried forward to find a suitable land.
Yu Xing ran after him, and he was soaked in the rain in just a few minutes. He was completely soaked, and his hair was in the way, blocking his sight, and he was pushed back.
The team members looked around, and finally Aaron found a good place and pointed to the slope: "There is a cave there! Shall we go in and take shelter from the rain?"
Finley said: "I don't know if there is enough space inside, and I don't know if there are any dangerous things in the cave. Let's just keep looking. Scar and I will go in and take a look."
Yu Xing also wanted to go, but Ai Li grabbed his arm and dragged him to the foot of a leafy tree.
Ellie happily took credit: "San, this tree has many leaves, and there is almost no rain under it. Am I good? You stay here while I call Shijiu and Luke over."
There were about four people standing under the tree. Her suggestion was very reasonable, so Yu Xing did not object. Ai Li ran out very quickly, and she was so powerful that she didn't look like a doctor.
He patted the water on the surface of his backpack and painting tube, and fell into deep thought - according to the development of the plot, it is time for some other dangers to appear. Will it be related to the rain?
In the end, Ally failed to call Shijiu and Luke, because Finley quickly leaned out of the hole on the slope and shouted in his broken gong voice: "Come in, everyone, the hole can barely fit us in."
all!"
Aaron added: "I've seen it! There's no danger!"
Yu Xing wiped his face and silently took a look at the terrain around the cave. The cave was on a slope, and the terrain was high and would not be flooded. The entrance to the cave was very hidden and difficult to be discovered.
The problem was that he always felt that the pile of grass at the entrance of the cave seemed to be a sign of man-made bedding.
The traces are very inconspicuous, and may have been destroyed and covered up later. Ordinary adventurers and tomb robbers may not be able to see it, and he only noticed it with his stronger observation and certain intuition than normal people.
There may or may not be danger in the cave, but someone should have taken refuge here.
Through the background provided by the system, he already knew that there was more than Brother Sun in the mountains. Although they were indeed the only ones setting out from the local camp, there was no guarantee that there would be no other nearby teams entering the mountains through other ways.
Yu Xing walked toward the cave as directed by Brother Sun while thinking: Will I meet Carlos?
Since the system gave a special reminder before entering the deduction, it means that Carlos is likely to participate in the deduction of the Tomb Palace. After all, he is not the only one who survived in the Coffin Village to provide information to other teams. Carlos,
Xiao Xuechen, Wei Fan and the twin brothers whose names he didn't quite remember were all qualified for this position.
Even Zhou Qinghai can do it. To a certain extent, he was conceived by the living village chief Zhou Facai and the dead people who died in the tomb. His existence is more closely related to the tomb.
"Come in quickly." Shijiu was in front of him, turned around and pulled him, smiling, "You have enough brains and are suitable for tomb robbing, but your physical fitness needs to be improved. Why are you so slow when climbing a slope?
"
Yu Xing was just thinking about things and didn't go well.
He remained calm, retaining the reaction that a painter who lacks exercise should have. After thanking him, he finally bent down and got into the cave.
The air in the cave is more humid than outside. The entrance to the cave is very short, but the inside of the cave is quite spacious. It's not too big or too small, just enough to fit eleven people and their supplies in. If it's not too crowded, it will be a bit crowded.
.
The walls of the cave are covered with moss, and ivy-like vines are winding and climbing up the upper half of the cave.
No wonder it only took Finley and Aaron a short time to confirm safety, because the cave has a clear view and has no cracks or forks. Even if they think there is danger, there is no such condition.
“It’s all wet.” Brother Sun looked at everyone’s clothes. The backpacks were waterproof and everything was fine. But if people wear wet clothes, they might get sick. Getting sick here is not fun.
He shook the water and thought for a while: "Come with a few people and come back with me to pick up some usable branches. We will light a fire to dry our clothes and wait until the rain stops before setting off."
Everyone agreed, and after some discussion, Brother Sun, Shijiu, Finley and a young man named Thorn Tou went to pick up branches, while the others rested first.
Except for this cave, the terrain on the hillside was very flat. It rained for a while and water accumulated. Before the rainwater penetrated into the soil and tree roots, the branches on the ground were basically useless. They had no choice but to walk further up the mountain.
Luke warned: "Come back early, and if anything happens, just shout or send out a signal flare."