Book 8 Chapter 8 The Seal of the Cave
"This village..."
After listening to Tao Chong's story, when Zhang Chen looked towards the village again, there was a blazing fire inside. He must have noticed that Tao Chong had escaped while the Zhang family of four had not returned yet, or that the remaining old ladies who were not dead in the family of four ran back to the village to report the news.
"Chongying, use your butterfly charm ability to bring out two friends of Tao Chong. Xiao Ni, you are here for the time being to protect Tao Chong's safety. Lu Sheng and I went to the village to inquire about the artificial cave in Tao Chong's mouth."
After Zhang Chen finished giving instructions, the firefly directly grew four colorful wings and secreted special substances to wrap them on the body surface, which blended with the surrounding environment and could not be detected.
"It's so beautiful..." Lu Sheng couldn't help but have a different look in his eyes as he looked at the insect firefly who turned into a butterfly charm.
"Follow me." Zhang Chen grabbed Lu Sheng's ability to use space and appeared in the village, at the village chief's home described by Tao Chong.
"Is the space ability to imprint in your body? It's a bit special." Lu Sheng murmured softly.
The two of them were waiting at the village chief's home. The village chief who arranged people to search outside and returned home in a short while. Zhang Chen had long been so dangerous that he would never go out to search in person when the night was so dangerous.
"Oh, hello, village chief!" Lu Sheng sat directly in the hall and greeted the village chief.
"You are!..."
"Come here and sit down." The village chief was interrupted by Zhang Chen's words as soon as he said three words, and his eyes became dim, and he sat between Zhang Chen and Lu Sheng like a walking corpse.
"Why is the village not allowed to leave the village at night?" Zhang Chen asked.
"This is just my prescribed, and the taboo passed down from ancestors is that night falls until the rising sun rises on the second day. Everyone must not step into the deep mountains, otherwise there will be a bloody disaster." The village chief said in detail.
"reason."
"I don't know, I just abide by the rules of my ancestors."
"Why do you want to kidnap outsiders and send them to the cave on the other end of Xiushan?"
After Zhang Chen asked, the old man in front of him flashed a little struggle and continued, "If we don't send the outsiders as sacrifices, the evil things in the cave will come directly to the village to catch people. In order to continue the village, we have no choice."
"Then why did you say that as long as you don't step into the deep mountains, there would be no problem?"
"It has always been like this until the night of New Year's Eve last year..." The village chief explained in detail the situation at that time. "From then, if there is no sacrifice every night, the ghost will randomly select one person in the village and engrave the mark on his forehead. This person will be led by the ghost and will slowly approach the cave. If the person is forcibly controlled, the curse imprinted on the forehead will occur, and he will still be unable to escape death in the end."
"Did that cave be built by people from your village?"
"It was built by our ancestors."
"How much do you know about that cave?"
"I don't know much, but the ancestors told us that we should never step into the cave. And every festival comes, we need to send live cattle and live sheep into the cave. But we just put cattle and sheep outside the cave, and they will be involved. And the real thing inside is not known by the people in our village."
"You can sleep."
Under Zhang Chen's guidance, the village chief lay on the wooden table and fell into deep sleep.
"It seems that I found a big guy tonight. Thank you Lu Sheng. Let's go to the cave together." In fact, when Zhang Chen approached these mountains, he could feel a chaotic, irritable, but suppressed breath. Now, from the oral narrative between Tao Chong and the village chief, what he sensed should be sealed in the depths of the cave.
"Zhang Chen, haven't you noticed the problem just in the old man's narration?" Lu Sheng looked very leisurely.
"Where is the problem?" Zhang Chen controlled the village chief's words to be true. He didn't hear any problems.
"The village chief said on New Year's Eve, and the family of three burned incense for ancestors of Xiushan Village outside the village. On the way, the little boy suddenly ran towards the mountains without hesitation, which led to the breaking of the seal pattern."
Lu Sheng said slowly.
"This place is far away from the hustle and bustle of the city, and the magnificent scenes surrounding the mountains are probably not a famous scenic spot in the country, but in the eyes of the locals, it should be a very good place to visit the leisure and tourism close to nature. There are definitely many people coming here on weekdays, but the problem lies with the little boy."
Zhang Chen probably understood what Lu Sheng meant: "Are you saying that a family or a little boy here on New Year's Eve may have problems?"
"I don't know that family. But this little boy must have a problem. Before, according to Tao Chong's description outside the village, there were two stone tablets standing on both sides of the cave at the entrance of the cave, and a rope with bells tied between them. If you guessed correctly, there are many such settings in the cave, and the purpose is only one, which is to seal the evil things deep in the cave."
"However, the place where the little boy went must be deep in the cave. But there was no seal of the cave, in my opinion..."
Lu Sheng pointed out the top priority: "The cause and effect of the whole thing is probably caused by the taboos passed down by the ancestors of the village. The big guys who were actually sealed in the cave are actually the same as before, just sending cattle and sheep every festival."
When Zhang Chen heard Lu Sheng's analysis, he couldn't help but admire him from the bottom of his heart. After all, the cause and effect of this incident can be inferred through the information given by two people just by using the information given by two people. Zhang Chen believed that he could not do it.
"But why did that little boy have to stay in the cave?" Zhang Chen asked.
"A hungry wolf saw a tiger with its body bound and unable to move in front of it. What do you think it would do?"
"Let's go." Zhang Chen grabbed Lu Sheng's shoulder, and the two disappeared directly from the village chief's house and appeared at the entrance of the square cave mentioned in the mouth of the crowd.
Zhang Chen looked at the bells scattered under his feet and couldn't help but pick them up in his hand. However, he found that the metal balls used for sounding inside the copper bell had completely disintegrated into powder at this time.
"It's a bit similar to the barrier rope used to limit monsters at the entrance of our shrine. However, although this seal has a great effect on tying ghosts, it is like an ordinary rope for strangers, and its disadvantages are very prominent."
"Let's go in, first pull the little boy out, and then see what's pressing in the cave."
Zhang Chen completely suppressed his aura into an ordinary person, and his blood-bone body was extremely capable of disguising his body. Lu Sheng on the side looked like an ordinary person, except for a demon knife slung around his waist.
"this!……"
It seems that it is a dark cave outside. However, when Zhang Chen stepped into the cave, a torch was hung on the wall every five meters away from each other, and the light filled the entire cave.
But one thing was beyond Zhang Chen's expectations. He thought that the inside of the cave would look like a unique world, but the fact is that here it was just a square hall of nearly a thousand square meters, with scattered corpses scattered on the ground. However, in the open space in the center of the hall, there was a conical stone tablet that was the same as the sides of the door, but the model was much larger.
"Why didn't the boy come out to receive us?" Zhang Chen was a little surprised. After all, he didn't think the other party could identify his identity.
"I don't know, go to the central government to have a look."
Zhang Chen saw Lu Sheng's calmness. Such a scene of corpses everywhere, Lu Sheng and his eyebrows did not blink, which made Lu Sheng's evaluation in Zhang Chen's heart rise to another level.
After the two got closer, they discovered that the stone tablet standing in the center was not an individual, but was composed of several agglomerations. Each side should have a similar image, and the stones needed to be moved to restore them to the correct appearance.
Zhang Chen had a good three-dimensional imagination ability. He quickly turned conical stones with his hands to form each surface, and each of the four surfaces described a scene. The first image is an image of a group of villagers hunting, the second image is a mysterious cave discovered by the villagers, the third image describes a scene of flesh and blood flying, and the fourth image is a huge monster in a corner, tied with iron chains, with ten arms and three heads.
Immediately afterwards, the ground of the entire square hall began to rotate in a circular shape, as if it was opening some lock.
Finally, a huge passage leading to the underground appeared under Zhang Chen and his group, and an extremely violent energy gushed out from the opening.
"Lu Sheng, there is some danger below. When the fight comes, I may not have time to take care of your safety. Why don't you wait for me on the top?" Zhang Chen felt that the things hidden below were probably not ordinary people, and he was still unwilling to let Lu Sheng fall into danger without knowing Lu Sheng's identity and ability.
"Don't worry, I'm not a burden, but the things sealed below are very interesting. Let's go down..."
Lu Sheng went directly to the passage below, and Zhang Chen naturally followed closely.
"Is this a maze?" Where Zhang Chen and Lu Sheng were located was a passage less than one meter wide on both sides. Although the walls on both sides were made of ordinary soil, there were strange scriptures on the walls that disturbed the surrounding space and prohibited the passage of mental power.
However, when Zhang Chen spread his mental power forward along the passage, he found that the long passage did not look like a maze, because there was no fork in the road, but like a huge circumferential passage, and the breath came from the center.
"It seems not a maze, but a place that consumes energy!"
Zhang Chen and Lu Sheng kept running forward along the circular passage, and the length of the underground passage surprised Zhang Chen even more. After about ten minutes of running at full speed, the passage circle finally shrank to the smallest and saw the exit in front.
"Crack!" Suddenly, a sound of flesh and blood intertwined from the exit in front reached Zhang Chen and Lu Sheng's ears... (Want to know more exciting news about "The Ghost-Eating Boy"? Open WeChat now, click the "+" sign in the upper right, select Add a friend to add an official account, search for "qidianzhongwenwang", follow the official account, and you will never miss every update again!) (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better and faster!
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