"Actually, the fact that you survived the Coffin Village already shows your strength. It's not a problem to pretend to be weak. Who in this industry has two quirks? They are both ways to release stress."
Uncle Zhang is smiling and looks quite gentle and kind. Only by listening carefully to his words can you find out how attentive and thoughtful this man is.
His voice was not deliberately suppressed, but the attention of many team members was deliberately not focused on them. Uncle Zhang wanted to test the newcomers, which was not what they should listen to.
Yu Xing laughed along with him, neither refuting nor agreeing.
"I just met the water ghost. Although the water ghost doesn't pester others but only you, it is true that you are unlucky, but it is obvious that your strength is enough to ignore the water ghost. That kid Carlos said that you have a very strong brain.
I thought you were weaker in skills, but I didn't expect you to develop to be quite versatile." Uncle Zhang concluded Yu Xing's decision in just a few words, as if he would not listen to sophistry.
Yu Xing laughed: "Now that's it, what else do you want to know from me?"
Uncle Zhang looked at him with interest: "Can you cook?"
Yu Xing: “……?”
This is an unexpected question.
You don’t think it’s too hard to cook alone and you want to drag someone into trouble, do you?
He suddenly became cautious, determined to lie down and never sit down, and answered against his will: "No. At home, servants cook the food."
"Hey...what a sin." Uncle Zhang patted his thigh in distress, "Today's young people are worse than the others. A man must be good at cooking to get the girl he likes!"
"So you really want to find someone to help you cook together?" Yu Xing squinted over and saw Uncle Zhang nodding, he smiled, "Uncle Zhang, with all due respect, you didn't lose to Li when you knew how to cook.
Master, so don’t lie to young people, they are already suffering a lot.”
Mr. Li has sharp ears. He was just planning the foothold of the Beidou Formation when he suddenly heard his name and looked here.
Uncle Zhang cleared his throat and waved his hand towards Mr. Li: "It's none of your business!"
Mr. Li stared at him suspiciously for a while, but finally said nothing. Uncle Zhang glared at Yu Xing, and whispered half-truthfully: "You don't want to open a pot, but to be honest, what happened to him back then
It hurts him more than it does me. I won’t be sad if you mention it, but he will be in a bad mood."
“Okay~Okay~” Yu Xing obediently shut his mouth and leaned against the wall. His eyes kept exploring the surrounding environment, recording where he could hide people and where the road was difficult to escape.
"Hey, we haven't finished talking about the topic yet. I digressed and you guys really didn't want to get back to the topic." Uncle Zhang saw that Yu Xing didn't want to continue chatting at all, so he could only pull him back in person, "I wanted to
Ask, you were found and brought in by Sun Dacheng. Their team was barely able to go down to the small tomb, but they came to the Demon Dao Tomb Palace to seek death. Then you——"
Sun Dacheng?
Yu Xing reacted for a moment. So is Brother Sun’s name Sun Dacheng?
He understood that Uncle Zhang was afraid that he was not strong enough to survive without protection, because Brother Sun's team members ranged from powerful to ordinary, and they did not have such strict strength restrictions as this team.
“Tell me, can you run away like a gatekeeper?” Uncle Zhang planned to use gatekeepers as a unit of measurement for strength.
The people in this team who got into the water, except for Yunika, were confident that they could survive in the hands of the gatekeepers, and the injuries would not be too serious. After looking at the coffin later, they didn't need to worry about these people at all. Only San
Its strength is still uncertain.
"What about the gatekeeper ghost..." Yu Xing had never met this kind of ghost before and had no idea about this kind of ghost. But based on the tone of people when they mentioned the gatekeeper ghost before, he took a guess from everyone's reaction and got an idea.
If he had to use what he had seen to measure it, the Gatekeeper should be equivalent to 0.8 Alice in the form of a ghost. They are both entities. They are definitely much worse than Alice in terms of speed and physical fitness, but the Gatekeeper
The ghost can perform some illusions and curses, such as making people sick, which makes up for some shortcomings in abilities.
At that time, when he faced Alice, he failed to find a way to kill her. He used the method of destroying the rose to make Alice lose her vitality.
But at that time, his physical fitness had not recovered and he was very weak. When he met Alice, he could only run away, and there were rules to protect him. Now, he might still be able to fight hard.
So, the gatekeeper shouldn't be too much of a threat to him. If he finds out that he will be injured in a fight, he won't be able to run away.
Yu Xing didn't want to cause chaos at that time. He said directly: "If the gatekeeper breaks out, you don't need to worry about me. I can run away by myself."
“Are you sure you can run?” Zhang Shuyou confirmed.
Yu Xing: “Otherwise, can we kill him?”
Uncle Zhang: “It still can’t be killed, so I’ll just give it to you.”
After getting a satisfactory answer, Uncle Zhang walked away.
Yu Xing sighed, and then his ankle was touched by something.
His pupils shrank slightly, and with a sweep of the long knife in his hand, the thing quietly broke into pieces.
There were pieces of paper flying, and a small paper head with some kind of grievance rolled to the side. Fortunately, Yu paused and looked at Carlos not far away.
Carlos was also looking at him. After a few minutes, he seemed to have calmed down.
The little paper man died before he was born. Carlos stood up and came over with his lips pursed.
Yu Xing raised his face, and the luminous pearl on top was so bright that Carlos's face was hidden in the darkness.
“Are you so cruel to my paper figurines?” Carlos still had a smile in his voice. If there were no pieces of paper on the ground, this picture would be more harmonious.
Yu Xing yawned and relaxed: "Who told you to touch me again without saying a word? Isn't this an instinctive reaction?"
“Tsk, okay, my fault.” Carlos sat down where Uncle Zhang was sitting just now and was silent for two seconds, “What do you say about the mission?”
Due to the background of this trip to the tomb and the same mission, everyone would instinctively think of fighting, framing, etc., but this will undoubtedly expand the uncertain factors.
But rational people can either secretly make arrangements to make themselves invincible, or eliminate hidden dangers.
Smart people will not leave trouble for themselves, and Carlos is not stupid either.
"Take the Ghost Seal, you too, right?" He glanced at Yu Xing, saw Yu Xing's unsurprised expression, and leaned back again, pulling himself to the same level as Yu Xing, "What do you think, we will
Is it a competitor?"
Being able to come and ask means that Carlos does not want to conflict with Yu Xing.
Yu Xing smiled with unknown meaning: "It depends on you. No matter what the mission requirements are, whether we are competitors or companions all depends on your attitude."
Carlos seemed a little confused. This answer was something he didn't expect.
What is his attitude?
But Yu Xing obviously didn’t want to say more, so Carlos remained silent, silently thinking about the key to this.
Shijiu's voice came from the earphones. Shijiu was watching Mr. Li and Lin making calculations. In other words, she seemed to be causing trouble.
Until Mr. Li couldn't bear it anymore: "Nineteen, shut up."
Shijiu: "...hum."
Without the interference of poetry and wine, Mr. Li and Lin soon came to a conclusion.
These two people were originally sitting in the corner. As soon as they stood up, other people's eyes glanced at them.
"We're out, you can start." Lin's expression was indifferent, looking a little weak and haggard. He glanced around, his eyes stopped in the direction of Yu Xing and Carlos for a while, and then moved away, "Master Li will talk to you.
"
Mr. Li clapped his hands: "Everyone stand up and get ready to go."
Everyone regained their composure and their eyes shone.
“It’s time to move forward!”
The man with glasses walked up to Mr. Li and said, "I'll fight in the front line."
Mr. Li waved his hand: "No, this is not what you are good at. I will do it and you will follow."
Everyone gathered over. Mr. Li squinted his eyes and held the paper he had just calculated on in his hand, placing it in front of him to compare with the actual situation.
Then, under the expectant eyes of everyone, he put his foot on the ground, took a big step forward, and stood firmly on the ground.
Yu Xing's eyes flashed and he saw that the ground under Mr. Li's feet was no different from anywhere else, but it was safe and no mechanism was triggered.
“Remember my position and follow me one by one later.” After Mr. Li finished speaking, he jumped to a more tricky position.
The man with glasses was very sincere and immediately followed and stood at the first point.
There are seven points in total, the last point is located at the coffin, that is to say, there are six points distributed around the coffin.
These people are not bad at jumping. Even Yunika is very skilled. Yu Xing looked at them for a long time and felt that ordinary people in this world are generally better than people in real life.
After all, even an inexperienced young man like Zhou Qinghai can hit a living corpse with a futon, which can really have a certain attack effect.
He secretly remembered this in his heart, and then he came to the last place. When he stepped on the first point, Master Li was already standing beside the coffin safely.
The safe area next to the coffin was large, and several people arrived one after another without anyone making a mistake.
Yu Xing arrived last, and everyone looked at him and breathed a sigh of relief.
"The Beidou Formation is here. According to the normal process, we can go here now and go directly to the depths of the tomb." Mr. Li pointed to the straight path leading to the middle door of the three doors, spread his fingers, "Close to the wall
If you walk, you can enter the left and right sides."
"What if we want to open the coffin?" Yunika was assigned to Ash's protection. She stood on Ash's left side, looking at the coffin with her head raised. She looked like she couldn't help but want to touch it.
Already.
An occupational disease in archeology: when you see cultural relics, you want to brush them with a small brush.
“No, look at the end of the coffin.” Mr. Li raised his chin, “Go and see what’s different about the end of the coffin.”
Eunika moved carefully and bent down.
The end of the coffin is narrow, and the overall area is not large. It is carved with very strange patterns, which are divided into pieces and arranged one after another, a bit like a narrative.
“It’s of great research value!” Yunika was very excited.
"The coffin where the gatekeeper ghost is placed must be engraved with part of the tomb owner's life and characteristics, so as to complete an implicit contract and let the gatekeeper ghost watch the tomb door for the tomb owner." Uncle Zhang was also very interested in this, and he carefully
After reading it again, I muttered, "The painting is really special... What is this, a tree?"
Tree?
A certain nerve in Yu Xing's mind was touched. He quietly squeezed through the men with glasses who were surrounding him and took the full pattern into his eyes.
The pattern was basically covered with dust, and Mr. Li had already brushed the dust away. Even so, it still looked a little blurry.
But the general things can already be seen.
The first pattern shows a man planting trees, and a woman sitting on the ground looking at the man planting trees.
The second pattern shows a man kneeling in front of a woman, and the woman cuts off the man's hands.
In the third pattern, there is no one, just a big tree with lush leaves and heads hanging on it. There are also arms carved under the tree, as if stretching out from hell, reaching up helplessly and full of desire.
With.
The fourth pattern shows a man without arms standing beside the coffin, and the woman cuts off his head with a knife.
Woman...Tree...Human head...
In Yu Xing's mind, images of coffins embedded in the cliff flashed by. When he tried to catch them, his mind felt like a layer of cloth had been covered, and he could no longer find the memory.
“I must have seen or heard about this woman and the tree.” He was convinced, and then his attention turned to the big tree with strange patterns.
The patterns are rough. In fact, many of the pictures above require guesswork, but the dark emotions and unparalleled fear coming from the tree cannot even be cut off by the rough lines.
"This woman is a demon." Uncle Zhang said solemnly, "I've heard that more than a thousand years ago, the demon came into being, causing trouble for one party, disrupting people's moral order, and provoking wars. At that time, the princes and kings were everywhere
She was wanted, and one of them beheaded her in public, and her head was hung on the city wall for forty-nine days."
“No, what happens next?” Ash seemed to be listening to a fairy tale.
"Then? The head disappeared, people were panicked, the monarch was furious, and vigorously searched for the person who stole the head. For some reason, the methods were cruel, which aroused strong dissatisfaction among the people. Soon, neighboring countries attacked, the monarch increased taxes, and the people complained and spurned the monarch.
, this country didn’t even last three months before it was destroyed.”
Mr. Li took up the conversation and smiled: "The most interesting thing is yet to come. In order to show off the bravery and prowess of his country, and to appease the grieving people, the monarch who captured this country beheaded the failed monarch and died.
There were seven, seven and forty-nine days on the city wall. On the last day, no one touched the head, and the head fell off by itself and was crushed to pieces by a passing carriage."
"The monarch cut off the head of the demon, and he was beheaded. He was hanged by the demon for forty-nine days, and he was also hung for forty-nine days." Yunica exclaimed, "Everything is the head of the demon.
It started after he disappeared. You just said that for some reason, the original monarch became cruel?"
"That's right, in history, that monarch was originally a wise monarch. He single-handedly conquered the country and established a country and became a lord. But once Yaodao's head was lost, he seemed to be a different person." Uncle Zhang pointed to the end of the coffin.
Pattern, "I'm afraid the reason has to do with this tree."
Mr. Li was silent for a while and said a little uncertainly: "Old Zhang, look at this tree, does it look like the legendary... ghost-sinking tree?"