Just five or six steps away from the town, the two of them immediately noticed the almost sudden drop in temperature around them, and had to quickly put on cold-proof clothes on the spot.
Chen Ziang carried a suitcase with old books in his left hand, tied an emergency flashlight to the center of his forehead with his right hand, then pressed the hilt of the Mandala Sword and walked forward cautiously.
Suzuna Tsukimiya held an emergency flashlight in her left hand, and had already drawn a gun in her right hand, carefully following behind Chen Ziang.
The entrance to the mine tunnel was originally sealed with a wooden door to prevent naughty children from breaking in, but it has now completely rotted and fell to the ground together with the rusty door shaft.
Carefully passing through the door frame, Chen Ziang's light shined on the ground, and sure enough he found an extinguished oil lamp, exactly the same as the one he saw in his dream.
He continued to walk forward, his inspiration already turned on, and he remained alert and alert to his surroundings at all times.
After walking for dozens of steps, the front collapsed. The steel bars used to support the mine tunnel were bent by a large amount of earth and rock, leaving no space for passage.
Chen Ziang stood at the collapse site and inspected it carefully.
Well, it's completely blocked.
"Senior." Tsukimiya Suzuna reminded, "There is a side hole here."
Chen Ziang turned around and looked, and sure enough, he saw a well-hidden slit on the rock wall next to him.
Wasn't this slit not discovered when the Sheriff's Department came to inspect it before? Or was it discovered later?
He squinted his eyes and looked at the slit, and found that there were no traces of cutting with a sharp weapon, as if it was a naturally formed cave.
"Senior, what are you looking at?" Tsukimiya Suzuna asked.
"Nothing, let's go." Chen Ziang shook his head.
In the absence of evidence, it is better not to make blind guesses and mislead your companions.
He walked sideways through the slit, quickly bypassed the collapse, and successfully reached the other side.
This slit is not difficult to pass, but if you are chased back by something strange, you may not be able to get in in time here.
If you encounter that situation, it is safer to summon the Touch of the Abyss here to seal the dangerous retreat first, and then go through the narrow gap.
Chen Ziang studied for a while before taking Suzuna Tsukinomiya and moving forward.
The deeper the two of them went into the mine tunnel, the more downward and tortuous the terrain ahead became, and the sound of water drops gradually came from the originally quiet surroundings.
Is there groundwater nearby?
Chen Ziang suddenly slowed down, and his inspiration started to sound the alarm.
It is a very subtle level of vigilance. There must be some kind of evil abyss ahead, but it is not an imminent huge danger, so we can only remain vigilant.
"Senior." Tsukimiya Suzuna said suddenly, "Did you hear... voices?"
"Voice?" Chen Ziang shook his head, "I didn't hear it."
"There is no problem with the audio monitoring." Rio Hokaze's voice came from the headset, "It is not a physical sound wave, but a message received by your inspiration."
Tsukimiya Suzuna's spiritual vision is higher than that of Chen Ziang, so her inspiration can receive messages that Chen Ziang cannot.
This is not a good thing.
Raising their vigilance to the highest level, the two of them continued walking forward. After descending for about five or six minutes, they finally entered a cave.
This seems to be a larger mine, with a wooden platform built around it for digging higher ores.
In the low-lying area in the center of the mine, there is a deep red pool that looks like the color of blood.
In the center of the pool, there stood a rough-made bone totem.
Three skulls, divided into left, middle, and right, were fixed on an unfolded rib. Under the skull, there were two spread-out bony palms, with the palms facing up, as if to suggest that something should be placed on them.
"Well, this is the totem." Rio Hokaze's voice continued to come from the headset, "Now, take out the books from the box and put them on the bone palm."
Chen Ziang squatted on the ground, opened the box and took out the old books inside.
Under the reflection of the blood pool, the leather on the surface of the book began to glow with a faint oily sheen, as if blood was really oozing out.
"Senior." Tsukimiya Suzuna suddenly said, "Let me release it."
Chen Ziang glanced at her, but did not hand the book to her. Instead, he asked the headset:
"Put it on the palm of your hand, and then? What will happen?"
"Then, the curse on the other party should be lifted." Hokaze Rio replied.
"I never said that the client was cursed." Chen Ziang questioned.
"My judgment is a curse." Hokaze Rio's voice gradually became colder.
"What the real Risu told me before was that there was a 'god's gaze' on it." Chen Ziang sneered, "Why, when you pretended to be her, didn't you do your homework in advance?"
"Huh." Suofeng Lio's voice in the headset turned into a sneer from the hotel proprietress, Mrs. Fuyutsuki, "If you two still want to get out alive, just do as I say."
Many rustling sounds suddenly appeared in places where the surrounding light was not shining.
Chen Ziang quickly adjusted the direction of the emergency flashlight, and then realized that many tall, thin, and rickety figures had appeared in the darkness around him.
Their bodies were wrapped in thick cold-proof clothing, but their upper bodies were obviously hunched down, as if they were about to lie on the ground at any time.
What sticks out from the collar of the cold-weather clothes is a weird, hairy head that is as long and narrow as a dog. The green eyes are half-protruding outwards, and the cracks on the cheeks leave traces of ulcers. Just looking at it makes people feel...
Have the urge to vomit.
Along with the huge sense of crisis, Chen Ziang felt that his spiritual vision was rising sharply, but the shadow cloak in his underwear soon felt cold again, reawakening his little remaining sanity.
At the same time, a familiar message also entered his mind from the shadow cloak.
[The Lord of the Great Deep is watching you, and His wrath is protecting you.]
[For each heretical ghoul you kill, you will receive 3 fire points. 】
[Destroy the skull totem and you will get 100 fire points. 】
Chen Ziang:………………
The words of Nightmare Priest Neeko came to mind as the memories came to mind:
"We, the nightmare clan in the ancient city of Enlank, serve the god who is the Lord of the Deep Sea."
"The Lord of the Great Deep Sea once had a group of ghoul believers, but these shameless and despicable guys chose to convert and loyal to the 'King of Ghouls' in the flesh camp."
At that moment, all the clues were connected:
Neeko once revealed that the Lord of the Deep Sea and the King of Ghouls are mortal enemies.
In the charnel house of Lingyi Town, the corpses of dead townspeople are dedicated to the so-called "God of Mines", whose true form is the King of Ghouls.
The proprietress of the inn, Mrs. Fuyutsuki, is most likely the witch of the Ghoul King, Mie Nishikawa.
The old book he got was a relic of the Ghoul King, and it was a bait deliberately released by Nishikawa Meihui. The purpose was to attract people to come and put the book back on the totem - this was probably some kind of sacrificial ceremony.
Once the ritual is completed, the consequences will be disastrous.
The Lord of the Deep Sea found himself involved in the Ghoul King's sacrificial ceremony through the Shadow Cloak, so he tempted himself to destroy the ceremony in order to give the Ghoul King a small shock to humanity...
Thinking of this, Chen Ziang suddenly felt blessed. Without thinking, he quickly raised his left hand and activated the power of [Touch of the Abyss].
In the pool of blood behind the skull totem, huge tentacles suddenly rose up and wrapped around the totem quickly and firmly.
From the crowd of surrounding ghouls, screams of terror and fury erupted, as if the goddess they worshiped had been ruthlessly desecrated.
While they were panicking, Chen Ziang, holding back the torment of the decibel and extremely high-frequency screams, grabbed Suzuna Tsukimiya's hand and pulled her towards the entrance where they came from.