The pitch-black corpse lay prostrate in the pale snow, like a devout believer, and snowflakes could not fall on it.
The camp under the blizzard seemed to be maintaining this strange ritual for an unknown length of time.
Lu Li asked the businessman Anthony to leave here and enter the ghost world to observe the camp again: the mottled and faded old camp had no snow and no bodies in kneeling postures.
The situation is not so horrific that it cannot be understood.
The being who set up the ritual seemed to have left the camp, but Lu Li, who had returned to reality, did not touch the black frozen corpses and bypassed them to enter the tent on the edge.
There was not much space in the low tent, and there were not many things. There were only shillings and tobacco in the sleeping bag, socks that stood up, a water bottle that was cracked by the cold, and a coat that was as stiff as a board.
Lu Li explored the remaining three low tents one after another and found a flashlight in the last single tent near the big tent.
This portable luminous item that replaced oil lamps was only invented two years before Lu Li came to the world. It cannot be mass-produced and can only be equipped by exorcists first.
The time and identity of this expedition team's departure can be more specific.
Lu Li cautiously exited the camp, handed the flashlight to the businessman Anthony, and asked the Land of Light to explore the time and place of its manufacture. He then returned to the camp, avoiding the corpses and entering the largest tent.
Old down jackets, shoes, socks, hats, scarves, and down clothes were piled at the entrance of the tent, covered with snow.
These were the clothes worn by the corpses in the open space outside.
Lu Li raised the oil lamp and cast its light on the tent filled with snow dust.
Stepping past the clothes and snow piled at the entrance, Lu Li looked at the only difference between this tent and several other tents: the wooden box and ropes in the corner.
Disappointingly, when the dusty wooden box was opened, there were only frozen cans and processed firewood.
For a lost traveler, these are life-saving things in a snowstorm night, but Lu Li is not a living person, and no traveler would get lost in the unknown place behind the world's back mountain range.
The sleeping bag may contain notes or some information, but after searching even the corners of the shriveled sleeping bag, there was nothing except some daily belongings of the expedition members.
While rummaging through the fireplace, which was unlikely to contain important items, Lu Li found a stone that looked like unburned coal in the ashes.
It just so happened that a group of people at the Exorcist Association headquarters a few days ago made Lu Li recognize this homologous object: the recording stone.
After it is activated, it will record the sounds of all the surroundings, and Huizhi can extract the recorded sounds. Therefore, it is also used as an exorcist to investigate incidents, such as the previous Abyss incident.
The expedition's identity is officially revealed: they are related to The Exorcist.
It also happens that a few days ago, a group from the Exorcist Association headquarters gave the Land of Light a lot of obscure papers. Although these obscure papers have been used, transcribing the original information on the obscure papers and then wiping the contents can make the obscure papers reusable.
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However, repeated coincidences aroused Lu Li's suspicion. Instead of summoning the merchant in his tent, he chose to leave the camp. Instead, he summoned the merchant Anthony at a sheltered rock upstream of the camp and brought him some paper.
After being cleaned with alchemical chemicals, the obscuring paper may affect its ability to isolate pollution, but it will not hinder the copying of the recording stone.
He covered the recording stone with the obscure paper, and the content gradually appeared on the back of the paper. When the text stopped growing, Lu Li uncovered the obscure paper.
The expedition's message appears above in full:
[*Sleeping bag scraping sound* Can you hear it?]
[This is not your home phone, don’t ask if you can hear it]
[If we can't cough cough... *intermittent cough* pass it back... we will make a big mistake]
【It’s already so bad, are we sure we want to make things worse?】
[*sound of table slap* This is not something we should consider bit! We just send the message back! 】
[*Blizzard howling**The sound of clothes rubbing*I heard your quarrel outside...Jason is right, we just need to send the news back, and how to deal with it is the association's business. Is the record stone opened? As usual, you, the clerk,
Let’s talk]
[I want to say this to my wife... *noise* I didn’t ask you to say this, Jason!]
[But I have an ominous feeling... *Voice trembles* We may not be able to go back...]
[Okay *sigh* a word for each person]
[I killed my brother, I deserve this, but my companions should not be buried with me... *sobs* Please forgive me...]
【Save time Jason, save time, who will be next?】
【Wendy, I love you...】
[Who is Zuo De next? Don’t you want it? 】
【*Confused answer*No】
[*Deep breath* This is Alpha Team. We accepted the mission to investigate the erosion of the unknown land, and then temporarily changed it to investigate the ruins of the previous generation on the back side of the world's Back Crest Mountains. What we found here is incredible, Cardin's stuff
Dead, Federline also went crazy and was tied up by us...]
[Listen, no matter who you are, if it is sent to the Demon Exorcist Association, to the Round Table. If you are on the back of the mountain, in the camp... That piece of parchment-like paper was separated by me and this stone.
Throw them together in the stove. Don't even think about peeking, unless you want to be like Card and Federline. *whimpering sound* Do you hear that?]
[*The silence is broken* Zod! Jason! Where are you! *Rapid gasps* We made a mistake... We made a big mistake... We should have looked at that piece of parchment, that was the antidote... that was
Antidote... *repeatedly chants*]
[I don’t know if it’s too late... It’s coming to us, I don’t know if it’s a curse or pollution... Only Federline and I are still alive, Zod and Bit escaped... I don’t know if they are still alive
Alive... *swallowing sound*]
[I saw that thing... If... you saw... *severe cough* Me, go look at the parchment, and you will see the real side of the world...]
The contents of the recording stone recorded on Huizhi are all here.
Lu Li's gaze fell towards the heater. The cyclone swept away the ashes, revealing an unknown piece of yellowed paper lying at the bottom of the heater.
Are they trustworthy?
Or is everything you have experienced so far worth believing?
At least the lighthouse has no warning for the time being.
[You can detect most illusions and look directly at the truth——]
Opening the paper, unexpectedly there was a simple sketch on it: a room with an upward view, bright chandeliers and dim candlelight were lit at the same time. The fog that shrouded the pencil drawing was not that it had not been wiped clean, but came from
The smoke from the cigar in the painting.
Lu Li could not imagine what the simple drawing on the unknown paper had to do with. At this moment, he saw that the raging snowstorm outside the tent had softened——
After realizing something, Lu Li took the oil lamp and came to the tent.
The real world described by the exorcists of the expedition begins on the horizon where their corpses kneel before them.
