Chapter 396 Honorable Name (Congratulations to the Returning Alliance Leader!)
'No exception?'
'Did my 'psychic' go wrong?'
'Is there some fallacy in the vision I saw?'
Fang Xian was shaken for a moment, but quickly firmed up: "You can't doubt yourself. In the investigator's report, this is the beginning of many collapses..."
He stared at Love: "I think... there is still a problem here."
"Very good." Love showed a smile, took out a shovel from his backpack, randomly found a wooden stick and put it on it. It was a sharp tool for digging soil.
"Lov, are you prepared?" Fang Xian's eyes lit up.
"Believe in your intuition. Many times, anomalies are often hidden in the most ordinary things, creating the illusion of normality. Many investigators collapse and go crazy because of this..." Love said: "So... I will support you.
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"Thanks!"
Fang Xian took the shovel and shoveled hard into the soil.
The fertile black soil was very soft, and a large piece of it was easily dug out.
'It seems that there is indeed nothing unusual.'
Fang Xian quickly dug a large pit one meter deep and wiped his sweat.
"I come!"
Love took the shovel and continued digging.
When the pit was about two meters deep, he shoveled down and suddenly exclaimed.
Fang Xian stretched out his head to take a look, and saw a group of black insects on top of the shovel that Love dug out, which was constantly squirming, making him slightly dizzy.
"Anomaly found!"
Love got excited instead, took another pill into his mouth, dug hard, and dug out another white skull with worms crawling in the empty eye sockets.
"Um?"
Fang Xian pressed his head, feeling that the mental shock suddenly became stronger.
If it were an ordinary person, even a strong man, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to continue.
However, they were both investigators and had taken drugs, so they were not afraid. The two of them took over their efforts and cleared out a large pit about three meters deep.
At the bottom of the pit, there were nine rotting bones.
'It seems like a ritual?'
Fang Xian went down with the shovel and hit a hard object, so he took it out.
It was an iron box, its surface covered with traces of dirt and rust. It seemed that it was not sealed tightly, or that it had been too eroded by time.
Anyway, its lid opened during the tumble, causing some documents to fall out.
They were some yellowed pages, bound with needle and thread on the spine, but most of them had fallen apart.
Fang Xian could vaguely see the pictures of insects on the page, as well as the black cover, with several large characters written in an unknown language.
"It should be the "Secret Gu Manual"?"
He guessed that what he saw before him, the black characters on it, seemed to turn into black worms crawling.
Fang Xian's ears seemed to automatically resound with the 'Hymn of Worms'.
'When one worm dies, a thousand worms rise again!'
Amidst the murmurs that sounded like roaring and shouting, some inexplicable knowledge suddenly appeared in his mind.
That's the meaning and pronunciation of the different fonts in this book.
He actually unknowingly learned a language from the Land of the Rising Sun in the East through 'channelling'!
"No, that's not right..."
Fang Xian pressed his eyebrows and temples, glanced at the attribute column, and was stunned again.
He discovered that his inspiration data had suddenly increased a little just now, reaching 200!
The inspiration of 200 and above has exceeded the scope of senior investigators and is close to the abyss level!
When you are in the abyss, everything you see is terrifying!
'It turns out... being constantly stimulated by abnormal items will increase the inspiration value, and the higher the inspiration, the more likely it is that you can channel horrible things. This is a vicious cycle, and ordinary people will go crazy sooner or later!'
A clear realization emerged in Fang Xian's heart.
He knelt down and picked up the scattered pages and iron boxes.
Boom!
The moment he touched the iron box, his mind suddenly shook, and various scenes came to him one after another.
Still in this cave, but in history, decades or even hundreds of years ago.
A group of pagans with skin colors and pupils that were completely different from the locals gathered here and began to offer sacrifices to an unknown being.
"Our plan failed and we will surely meet our own end!"
"We are not afraid of death... because when one worm dies, a thousand worms rise again!"
"Everything we have belongs to you!"
"The descendant of ancient strangeness, the evil fungus... Black Tai Sui!"
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This time, because Fang Xian had understood the language of the Land of the Rising Sun, he heard the honorary name very clearly.
"Black Tai Sui? What a name with the style of the Land of the Rising Sun... Tai Sui, also known as 'Rou Zhi', is a strange life composed of bacteria, slime mold, and fungi... It is made up of thousands of lives? It is indeed...
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Fang Xian continued to read, and he saw that the pagans dug deep pits, buried the "Secret Gu Manual", and each of them chose to end their own lives and sleep here.
"The plan of this group of heretics outside failed, so they chose to lie dormant?"
"Their death is not an escape, it is just the annihilation of all evidence. It is also a ritual... through the sacrifice of life, to transform this area? Will more 'worms', that is, believers, appear?"
"All the residents in this town are 'infected'?"
"No, we are also infected. After entering this area, the degree is just different. This is a very long process, and there is almost no abnormality on the outside... Water drops penetrate stone? There is a similar proverb in the Land of the Rising Sun in the East.
Ah... No wonder I felt very uncomfortable as soon as I entered the town. Unfortunately, I was still tricked..."
Fang Xian secretly shook his head.
At this time, Love had already taken the iron box from his hand naturally: "It seems that these heretics are all dead? Have secrets buried deep?"
No matter what the pagans did, it was not surprising, and normal people could not understand the thinking of a madman. Love was not very surprised by this ritual.
In his long career as an investigator, he has seen many more bloody and evil rituals than this one.
"So... the recovery mission is completed, and all the heretics are confirmed to be dead. Our investigation this time is considered to be successfully completed?" Love showed a gentle smile: "I will go back and write a report. Our mission this time is quite easy..."
"Lov, I think there is still something abnormal. The residents of the town may need to get checked..." Fang Xian frowned and made a suggestion.
"I think Bullock and the others are normal. Their sanity is online, and they don't engage in pagan sacrifices or other behaviors..." Love asked puzzledly: "What else is abnormal?"
"I think this ritual of sacrificing life may have received a response!" Fang Xian said seriously: "Those pagans really summoned something..."
"I don't think so. The town has always been peaceful, and there are no traces of alien life in this cave..." Love shook his head, disagreeing with Fang Xian's conclusion.