I gasped in fright, worried about his condition, but couldn't get close because of the ghostly aura.
"Han Jiuchen, what are you doing?" I asked anxiously.
"To enter, I need ghost energy to protect me. You keep this distance and follow me." Han Jiuchen said in a deep voice, and then took the lead to cross the barrier.
As he passed through, I could clearly see the ghostly aura surrounding him being swallowed up by the barrier.
It is not difficult to imagine how injured Han Jiuchen would be if he entered directly.
I held my heart light and carefully followed him inside.
Entering the stone room, Han Jiuchen put away his ghostly aura and looked pale, as if he had lost too much blood.
I put my heart lamp on the ground, got close to him, stretched out my hand to touch his face, and felt like he had come out of an ice cellar.
"Are you really okay?" I felt sorry for him, and regardless of the cold touch, I moved closer to his arms.
I knew that he was a ghost and could not use my body to warm him, but I foolishly wanted to pass on my body temperature to him.
Han Jiuchen pushed me away, "I'm cold, don't get too close."
I glared at him dissatisfied and cursed in my heart: Fool, idiot, don’t you know I just want to warm you!
Obviously Han Jiuchen failed to understand my intention. His attention was no longer on me, but he began to observe the stone chamber.
I looked left and right for a while, then looked up at the hanging things.
As soon as I raised my head, I was so frightened that I screamed and stepped back. I didn't even bother to protect my heart lamp, and fell to the ground——
"ah--"
All I could see was densely packed corpses hanging by their necks!
It is not accurate to say that they are corpses, because they have rotted and dried, and have now turned into mummies.
Han Jiuchen picked up a heart lamp, picked up a small stone from the ground, flicked it up, cut the rope hanging the mummy, and the mummy fell down.
I originally thought that if it fell from such a high place, the mummy, which had been dried for who knows how long, would be smashed to pieces. As a result, not only did the mummy not fall to pieces, it actually made a hole in the ground when it landed.
Is this body made of reinforced concrete?!
Han Jiuchen squatted down and carefully inspected the mummy.
Although I was scared, I didn't dare to get too far away from Han Jiuchen, so I had to courageously move closer.
Because the corpse had been hung by its neck for a long time, the head of the corpse naturally drooped.
Although he has no eyeballs, you can still see that his eyes were wide open when he was drying or before he died.
We also discovered that there was a nail stuck in the lid of the mummy!
The exposed part is about an inch long and covered with rust. I don’t know what it looks like inside the mummy.
I thought to myself that it was probably rusty.
However, five seconds later I was slapped in the face.
Because the nails Han Jiuchen pulled out were not only not rusty, but even shiny as new!
The most terrifying thing is that there is blood on it!
I gasped as if I had seen a miracle. This is so unscientific!
From the outside, it is absolutely impossible for this mummy to have blood in its body!
This...what on earth is going on?
I was about to ask Han Jiuchen if he could see anything, but Han Jiuchen put down the mummy, stood up and brushed against several other ropes, and several more mummies fell down.
Han Jiuchen checked their Tianling Caps one by one and found that the situation was the same as this mummy. The nails buried in the body looked like they were extracted from a living person!
Han Jiuchen's face is particularly ugly. I have never seen him show such an expression since I met him. He looks like panic, but if you look closely, you will find that he is also in pain.
He kept walking back and forth between the mummies, muttering something inaudible.
After going back and forth several times, he suddenly ran to the wall of the stone room, holding the heart lantern like crazy, beating the mud wall vigorously, and muttering something.
Seeing his appearance, I felt an unprecedented fear in my heart. What on earth could make Han Jiuchen almost lose control of himself?
I quickly ran to him and asked, "What on earth are you doing? Did you discover something?"
Han Jiuchen ignored me and knocked on all three walls of the stone room.
Originally, I thought he was looking for some kind of mechanism, such as one hidden in the wall that could be turned away or raised by tapping it, but now it seems that this is not the case.
Han Jiuchen picked up the dirt on the wall and pinched it with his fingertips.
I clearly saw bursts of white smoke rising when his fingertips came into contact with the soil - the soil was the same as the one outside the door, containing tortoiseshell blood!
Han Jiuchen vomited a breath of ghost energy. I saw that his soul was almost knocked out of his body, but he seemed to not feel it. He put the dirt into his mouth, chewed it a few times, spit it out, and spit out more ghost energy at the same time.
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He forced himself to hold on, ran to the door, twisted a few grains of dirt that he had dug up earlier, and put them in his mouth to chew as he had just done.
This time, his soul was knocked out directly. I shouted to be careful and was about to rush forward to catch his body, but saw his soul quickly return to the body.
Han Jiuchen stumbled and finally managed to stand firm, then rushed back to the wall, handed me the heart lamp, drew out the Heavenly Punishment, and slashed at the mud wall.
Until the mud wall was smashed by him, the soil splashed and fell off, revealing the gray-white wall covered by the soil.
If you look carefully, you will see that there are runes carved all over the gray and white walls inside!
Tianxun came into contact with the wall engraved with runes, and a golden light shot out from the wall, knocking Han Jiuchen back several meters.
Han Jiuchen went crazy. After smashing one side, he then smashed the remaining two walls.
Finally, he looked at the runes on the three walls and then at the door. The expression on his face was one of sadness I had never seen before.
I was immediately frightened and overwhelmed. I quickly put my heart lamp on the ground, stepped forward to hug him, and kept saying: "It's okay, it's okay..."
In fact, I don't know what he is thinking at the moment, nor do I know the reasons for his previous actions. I just feel sorry for him like this.
How could the Han Jiuchen I know and like show such an expression!
Han Jiuchen's body was initially shaky due to strenuous exercise, but now, after being held in my arms, he actually started to tremble.
I felt him raising his slightly trembling hand, covering his Tianling Cap, and whispering something in his mouth. I listened carefully, and he was cursing: "Beast...beast..."
I was so frightened by his move that my heart trembled.
I don’t know what my motives were. Maybe I was seeking confirmation, or maybe I was just following the same example. I took his hand away and touched his Heavenly Spirit Cap myself.
Just when I was about to touch him, he suddenly grabbed my hand and growled: "Don't touch me!"
"Ah?" His sudden voice made me tremble, "What's wrong with you?"
Han Jiuchen put his arm around my waist, hugged me into his arms, buried his head against my shoulder, and seemed to be adjusting and brewing.
After a while, he stood up straight and told me that the nails we just pulled out from the heads of the mummies were soul-condensing nails, which could nail the human soul into the body. Even if the person dies, the soul cannot leave the body.
The runes on the wall are long-lost ghost-suppressing scriptures.
The Ghost Suppressing Sutra can trap ghosts in an area, and can create hellish winds that erode the consciousness of ghosts.
The souls of these mummies are not complete, that is to say, they were driven into the soul-condensing nails after part of their souls were extracted by humans.
This is an extremely cruel technique.
The soul that was extracted could not leave because of the Ghost Suppression Sutra, and watched helplessly as it was hanged, and the body rotted, dried, and turned into a mummy.
The soul that has been nailed by the soul-condensing nail cannot be recorded by the ghost, and therefore cannot be reincarnated.
Therefore, those souls that have been stripped away will be full of resentment in this environment surrounded by ghost-suppressing scriptures.
I was horrified when I heard this. This technique is so insane!
"Then why...are you touching your head?" I asked. What I was most concerned about was actually this point.
I was very worried whether Han Jiuchen would also have his soul extracted, which was why his reaction just now was so intense.
"Me..." Han Jiuchen smiled bitterly, "I was once... soul-detained by Tang Xuanyi."
"What?!" I was shocked!
"I once told you that Tang Xuan also threatened the Han family with my body when my soul was out of the body," Han Jiuchen said, "In order to save me, my eldest brother was turned into a vicious corpse. In order to get my eldest brother's soul back, I and I
Tang Xuan also made a deal."
I had a guess, "You, you use your own..."
"That's right," Han Jiuchen said, "but Tang Xuan was also shameless. He cheated when he wanted to capture my soul, and forcibly drove the soul-condensing nail into my Tianling Cap. If the reinforcements from the Chu and Su families hadn't arrived in time, I would have been dead now.
The same fate as these mummies!"
"It is precisely because my soul is incomplete and leads to memory loss, so many things feel familiar to me, but I can't remember them."
For so many years, he has been unable to remember his past. Is he still alive with only half a soul...
So he came to the Wang family not just for Tang Xuanyi, he also wanted to find memories, right?
Han Jiuchen looked at me, stretched out his hand and wiped my face, "Don't cry, I'm fine now."
Crying? I also raised my hand and touched my face, which was covered with tears.
Only then did I realize that I was crying!
I sniffed, took off my glasses, and wiped the tears from my face.
Just now Han Jiuchen said that souls that have been nailed by soul-condensing nails cannot be recorded by ghosts. What about him?
"Are you...are you not in the ghost records?" I asked while putting my glasses back on.
I regretted it after asking, if he really...
Didn’t my question just hit his sore spot? I really wanted to slap myself to death!
"Me..." Han Jiuchen smiled bitterly, "Maybe this will always be the case."
When I think about what he has gone through, I feel extremely sad.