The professor survived in the end. The brothers and the others were ambitious and planned to dig out the treasures from the tomb. Unexpectedly, he was the only one left alive in the end.
Yes, he survived in the end, but he was like a walking corpse.
In the past twenty years, he had not been able to sleep peacefully even one night. The life that he relied on to survive by relying on his companions, his good brothers who had been through life and death, had been burdened with heavy shackles from the beginning.
Over the years, he has been unable to eat any piece of meat. He once forced himself to bite it, but as long as he entered the mouth, his body's instinct was stronger than his will.
As soon as the taste of meat melted in his mouth, he couldn't help but think back to that night twenty years ago.
Gurry has been by his side for a long time.
He cut open his flesh... he was so hungry.
When people are desperate, it seems that they can only be driven by instinct.
"I... can never forget it."
The lost Professor Qin Fang seemed to have aged ten years again.
He looked at his trembling hands, "I just used them to pick up the blood on Gurui's body and started to drink it. I was too hungry, I had no choice, I told myself this... I looked into Gurui's eyes
, I know he is not dead... He looked at me, looked at me, just kept looking at me. He couldn't speak, but I knew that he must be asking me, must be scolding me, must be cursing me,
He must be hating me...but I continued to drink and bite...I gave up everything I had and became a beast, a beast that even I despised, a beast!"
"I'm just a beast! A beast without humanity! A beast that even eats the flesh and blood of his own brothers!!"
In his excitement, Professor Qin Fang began to cough up blood. Under his abnormally fluctuating emotions, Professor Qin Fang fell to the ground while blaming himself for making this mournful cry.
Listening to the professor's heart-breaking voice telling the secret that had been buried in his heart for twenty years, the few people in the audience had different moods.
Zhang Qingrui didn't know what He Luoqiu was thinking, and she didn't know what You Ye was thinking. The woman's expression was natural at this time, and she had no fluctuation in the professor's confession.
"He is also a pitiful man."
In the silence, Cai Wenji's gentle sigh was heard.
At this time, You Ye walked to the professor's side to check, raised his head and said, "I think he was too excited, so he passed out. Do I need to wake him up?"
Luo Qiu shook his head, "No need, let him wake up naturally. He has hidden these words for twenty years, and speaking out now will naturally use up everything he has."
"What Mr. Qin needs is not our tolerance." Cai Wenji on the other side said quietly.
Luo Qiu frowned and said, "What I'm more curious about is, how did you know what happened to the professor back then? Didn't you say you were trapped in the sarcophagus?"
Cai Wenji said: "Although I cannot leave the sarcophagus, the tomb where I am buried is part of the formation of the underground palace. With the help of the formation's veins that absorb the energy from all directions, I can also sense a small part of the nearby places."
"Really..." Luo Qiu nodded, stood up and said, "From here, you should remember how to get back to your tomb, right? After finding it, I will send you to your husband's tomb."
Cai Wenji may have been waiting for this opportunity. At this time, she bowed deeply and said, "Thank you, Master, for your great kindness."
Soon after, under Cai Wenji's guidance, Luo Qiu easily touched her former tomb.
As the professor said before, due to the explosion twenty years ago, this tomb was implicated and was pressed down by the underground palace above. But no matter how it collapsed, the position of the vertically falling things probably could not change much.
Luo Qiu asked at this moment: "In which direction is it probably?"
Cai Wenji stretched out her hand... and pointed at the bones of her hand, "In this direction, it was above the four tombs."
Luo Qiu nodded, walked to the wall, stretched out his hand to touch it, and activated his mind-like ability. His eyes were dancing in the thick soil filling each tomb.
Suddenly, Luo Qiu frowned, retracted his hand, and turned back: "I'm afraid it wasn't this layer that fell, but the third layer below. The place that collapsed also destroyed the second layer.
past."
"Then...isn't there no way to find Gao Rui's body?" Zhang Qinrui couldn't help but feel disappointed.
"That's not necessarily true."
Youye said softly, walked to the center of the tomb, squatted down slowly, stretched out his hand to press the stone slab of the tomb, "Master, please pay attention."
After saying that, Youye pressed his arm directly towards the floor with a little force.
It was as if nothing happened, it was just a light press.
But in the blink of an eye, a slight cracking sound was suddenly heard... At this moment, with the maid as the center, the entire floor of the stone room cracked at a terrifying speed!
Before Zhang Qingrui could react, he felt that his body suddenly lost gravity and fell together with the cracked stone!
But at this moment, she felt something dragging her body.
Rumble!!!
The stone chamber began to fall, and not long after, everyone fell into a cyan-like world! There was no complex maze like the first- and second-floor underground palaces, there were just a large number of pillars supporting the entire third-floor underground palace!
Here, you can see corpses all over the ground! They fell to the ground in various postures! There are lots of white bones, like a sea of bones!
Countless bones, some have been broken!
Deep inside the heavy pillars, there is a cyan light source. It is this inverted light source that illuminates the entire three-story underground palace.
Luo Qiu looked above at this time, estimated the location, and began to search... This place was unusually cold, like a ghost land.
Zhang Qinrui had already begun to tremble, and did not dare to move at all. At this time, perhaps because of the loud noise caused by the falling stones, Professor Qin Fang coughed a few times and slowly woke up.
Professor Qin Fang looked around blankly, but his eyes suddenly solidified.
He coughed a few times, and his weak body began to crawl on the ground. He swept away the bones in front of him and crawled out a clean path.
Finally, he stopped crawling...and stopped in front of a corpse.
I don't know if it's because of the extremely cold weather here, but the body that was supposed to be dead has become stiff... and not much decayed.
The corpse must have happened to hit a pillar when it fell from above. At this time, it was in a sitting posture with its head lowered.
However, Luo Qiu and others who followed could clearly see that the corpse's arms, neck, and even the torn clothes could already vaguely see the bones, and the traces of being chewed...
Qin Fang didn't speak. He just trembled his hands and timidly, as if he had exhausted all his strength, slowly straightened the body.
"Gaorui...Old Qin, I finally found you...I'm here to see you."
Qin Fang touched his former brother's face with his trembling hands, held it up slowly, and said in a daze, "I know you are waiting for me too. In the past twenty years, I have always known that every night, I can hear
.That **** eats your flesh and drinks your blood. You don’t say anything, but I can hear you. You must be resentfully cursing me in your heart again and again. I know it all..."
Qin Fang began to arrange the clothes on Gao Rui's body, and his voice was already hoarse: "I heard the sound that day and found that Niu Zi and the others were not dead, and they were nearby. I didn't dare to bring you out. I wiped the stain on my lips
Blood, I rolled on the ground, letting the mud cover up the traces on my body. At that time, fear and self-blame had long wiped out my conscience. I didn’t know how to face Niuzi and the others, let alone how to face your wife.
."
Qin Fang suddenly laughed sadly, "When I left, I didn't dare to look at you. Seeing you is like seeing myself, seeing the self that I left on you."
He let out a long sigh: "Over the years, I have been asking myself, why did we dig the ground and dig the graves in the first place? We use all kinds of excuses to comfort ourselves, but in fact we are just deceiving ourselves. In fact, it is just
For the sake of wealth, why do you want wealth? Of course it is for life. We are greedy for anything, and in the end we are where we are now. I am the only one left alive, but I ask myself, am I still alive?"
Professor Qin Fang began to tidy up Gao Rui's messy hair: "Don't worry, I have raised your child Chuyu. She is very good. You don't have to worry. I wrote my will years ago. After I die, my
Everything will be handed over to her... I have also buried your wife in the garden behind your hometown house. I built a tomb for you next to her. I thought that one day I would truly bury you.
Take it out and bury it next to your wife."
Qin Fang suddenly fell silent. After a moment, he said, "But I know now that I don't dare to take you back. How could I just take you back like this? What else do I have to do...to take you in pieces like this?"
Take the broken body back?"
Suddenly, Qin Fang pulled out a bright dagger from his boots and whispered: "So, I must at least make up for what you are missing before you can take it back... Gaorui, I will eat you."
Yes, I gave it back to you, okay?"
He used the dagger in his hand to cut hard on his other arm, cutting through his skin and flesh, cutting to the bone, and then pulled hard.
Qin Fang screamed and pulled out a piece of bright red meat from his arm.
"This is the first bite."
But he did not stop, but raised the dagger in his hand and cut his arm again!
One knife, another knife.
The third stab.
…
Seeing Professor Qin Fang's self-mutilation, Zhang Qinrui subconsciously wanted to step forward, but was immediately pulled by Luo Qiu's arm.
"This... is too cruel, Professor, there is no need..."
Luo Qiu shook his head and said, "Professor, he has started to find his lost things. Do you want to stop him too?"
Zhang Qingrui lowered his head and turned his body. He couldn't bear to look any more. Listening to Professor Qin Fang's constant screams, his scalp was numb and he couldn't bear it again. "Can't we... do something?"
Luo Qiu blinked, and he suddenly felt that there was something hidden on Gao Rui's body...like a flame, which suddenly started to beat.
The soul in this corpse has not completely dissipated... is it just sleeping? Perhaps it is due to the special environment on the third floor of the underground palace.
Luo Qiu subconsciously looked at Professor Qin Fang.
When he cut off the tenth knife, one of his arms had already been separated from the flesh and bones, and became extremely terrifying.
After the eleventh cut, Qin Fang planned to start cutting towards his thigh.
Luo Qiu moved. He walked quickly to Qin Fang and reached out to grab his knife-holding arm.
"Don't stop me!"
"Professor, you were ashamed of the first cut, and the second cut... all the time." Luo Qiu's expression remained unchanged, "After this arm, do you feel that it is not enough, or do you feel that if you continue to hurt yourself like this?
Can it give you the pleasure of redemption? I thought you would stop on your own."
"What did you say?"
Luo Qiu sighed and said, "Professor... do you know that you are laughing?"
"I……"
Qin Fang's body suddenly stiffened, and his fingers that were just holding the dagger loosened for an instant, and the dagger fell to the ground with a clang.
"I...I just..."
Luo Qiu looked at Professor Qin Fang's separated left arm, silently tore off his clothes, made them into strips of cloth, and wrapped them tightly from his arm to his shoulders, "I actually have no position to stop you... It's just,
I'm more curious. Professor, you said that back then, your brother just watched silently, right?"
Qin Fang was startled.
Luo Qiu stood up and suddenly reached out and gently tapped the forehead of Gao Rui's corpse, "He is still here, maybe he can tell you the answer."
In front of me, the cold and dry corpse suddenly began to gush out some white mist.
The white mist rotated slowly, like white paint spreading in the water, and then gradually formed... a man who looked almost the same as the corpse.
"Gao...Gorui!"
Freed from that corpse, it turned out to be the person who should have died twenty years ago.
"Gorui! It's really you!" Qin Fang's eyes widened and he looked at the soul who appeared in front of him with excitement, "You... you're still there!"
However, Gao Rui's soul just shook his head gently, using the tone that Qin Fang only had in his memory, "Old Qin, do you know that when you are so old now, I can chew your flesh?"
Not moving?"
Qin Fang knelt on the ground again at this time, his shoulders twitched, his expression was sad, tears were streaming down his face, and his voice was hoarse, "I'm sorry!! I'm sorry for you!"
"Chu Yu, my child has grown very beautiful now, right? Thank you for taking care of me over the years!"
"sorry Sorry sorry!"
"My mother-in-law also made you worry about her affairs. As a husband, I am powerless."
"sorry Sorry!"
"Old Qin, you just said that in the past twenty years, you have been asking why we do these things that harm our morality..."
"sorry Sorry sorry."
"I'm actually thinking about it too... After much deliberation, I can't think of an answer. Maybe it's just like you said, just for money and greed. But, have you forgotten that no matter how greedy you are, every time you successfully conquer
When we visited an ancient tomb, did we feel the excitement, the joy, the unparalleled satisfaction, and the happiness shared by brothers beside us?"
"sorry……"
"I couldn't walk at all at that time, and my legs had been broken long ago. Didn't you also carry me to the end?"
"I'm sorry...I'm sorry..."
"I can't walk, I really can't walk. But what about my wife and my children? I have to get out alive...but I can't survive. I know you are hungry..."
"sorry Sorry……"
"Do you know why I didn't say a word when I watched you eating me?"
"sorry……"
"Because...if you can survive, I know that you will not treat my mother-in-law and my children badly. Lao Qin, I have been lucky to you these years."
"sorry Sorry……"
Gao Rui's soul stretched out his hand and gently placed it on Qin Fang's back, "Hey man, I said you cry like a woman, and she is an old and ugly woman."
Qin Fang buried his head deeply on the shoulder of Gao Rui's corpse and kept saying sorry. He was talking about the regrets in his heart that were filled with blood and flesh in his mouth.
What was missing from the professor was not the flesh and blood, but just the words of apology.
"I have forgiven you since the beginning...Old Qin." (To be continued.)
