Human bone cart
At this moment, the talisman connecting the scepter and the base was no longer in a continuous state. A red light flashed on it, and then dimmed. The scepter itself seemed to have dimmed a lot as well.
Everyone thought that the restriction had been lifted, but when Gao Wenwen tried again, he found the same situation.
"How about trying someone else?"
Perhaps the great wizard's scepter, like the leg bones I saw before, can also choose people.
Ding Can stood beside the coffin, watching the three men trying to figure out how to take out the scepter. She originally just wanted to find a position that would make her less uncomfortable.
Other images emerged in my mind. I was in a huge container and my body seemed to be burning.
With her were other leg bones of varying lengths. Unlike the leg bones that had just been removed by the bone cutter with a knife, these were now completely clean and only shone with a pure white color.
There was no blood or flesh on it. She looked at it carefully and realized that it was a leg bone placed in the giant cauldron and was being performed by wizards in an exorcism ritual.
The huge cauldron was so full of bones that it was almost overflowing, so it was just enough for people outside to see clearly.
The wizards were wearing long robes, with obvious tattoos on their faces and their mouths painted black. A quick glance showed that their faces were strange and gloomy, more terrifying than ghosts.
The bones hummed in the wizard's spell, but Ding Can heard a desperate wail from it, which made her want to scream out.
Until he noticed that one of the wizards took a step forward. He was decorated differently from the others. Not only was his robe more gorgeous, but the feathers on his head were also taller.
Ding Can looked into his eyes, inexplicably certain that the other person's eyes were fixed on him.
She wanted to speak, but then realized that her consciousness was only in her leg bones and she couldn't really do anything.
"Where did you come from? The exorcism ritual is almost complete, and the spirits attached to these leg bones have long since vanished."
The great wizard approached slowly, and every time the scepter touched the ground, it made a sound like ringing a bell. She could now see clearly that the scepter in the other party's hand was the one sealed in the tomb.
The fierce light projected from the man's eyes struck his soul directly. Although there was sound entering his ears, his mouth did not move.
He discovered himself, and this idea immediately came to Ding Can's mind. It was through the leg bones that he saw his current self after thousands of years, and it was not for any other reason.
"I don't want to either..." Ding Can originally just said it in his heart, but he didn't expect that he could make a sound now.
While he was stunned, the great wizard reached into the cauldron and lifted himself up, examining him in his hands. "I've never seen you dressed like this before. Are you in a tomb now?"
It turned out that he could actually see the scene he was in at the moment, but how could he tell others that this was actually where he would be after his death?
Ding Can tried to turn his body a little, figuring that from this angle he should be able to see the scepter in the tomb. "Is this the same one you have in your hand?"
The great wizard narrowed his eyes and asked, "Why do you have it there?"
This means affirmation. With a master around, it is not difficult to control the scepter.
"It's just that a few leg bones have just parasitized my body. It's very painful if you get close to them. Is there any way?" Ding Can raised his hand and grabbed his right arm, hoping to make the leg bones calm down.
"Of course it's simple." The great wizard walked down from the altar and sat down cross-legged in an open space at the bottom of the steps. When he let go of the scepter, the scepter was still able to stand firmly on the ground.
He grabbed the leg bone containing Ding Can's consciousness and made it float in the air. He folded his hands and made complicated hand seals, then asked doubtfully, "Hmm?"
"There seems to be some other kind of witchcraft within your soul, and upon investigation, it seems to be of the same origin as ours. Did anything happen before?"
A trace of confusion flashed across Ding Can's face. From the time he entered Nanhu Village and later entered the tomb, he had only come into contact with skeletons. He had not come into contact with other supernatural things yet.
But now that her brain was almost turned into a mess, a strange feeling emerged in her heart.
Not long ago, Leg Bone also said almost similar words, claiming that she was the special person. If we infer from this, she should be standing on the opposite side of the wizards.
But now, even the words spoken by the wizard seemed to be trying to put her in the same camp as him. "How did you find out? Is there any obvious difference between me and the others?"
"The way Nanhu wizards pass down their skills is quite unique. One doesn't need to be naturally gifted to practice. The older generation plants trees, and the next generation enjoys the shade."
Ordinary wizards would anticipate the end of their lives and would choose a suitable person around them as their successor. Before they die, they would pass on their witchcraft.
The chosen successor will become the new generation of wizards, enter the power class, and continue to carry forward the faith.
Those who practiced witchcraft at a higher level could choose two or three successors at the same time. Therefore, although the Nanhu Kingdom respected witches in the past, the overall number of wizards did not increase much over the years.
After that, it naturally ended up being completely destroyed.
The reason why he doubted Ding Can's identity was because he found traces of witchcraft on her, perhaps she had inherited the skills from some wizard.
But the breath was too weak, and after all, due to the distance in time and space, the great wizard had no way of finding out more information.
Ding Can suppressed the doubts in his heart. Considering the current situation of everyone, what he thought and felt was not that important.
"Go get the scepter first, and leave the rest to me."
The great wizard flicked his fingertips lightly, and the scene in Ding Can's eyes changed rapidly. He immediately returned from the altar to the tomb, and saw the concerned eyes of the people in front of him.
She didn't react and blinked in confusion. Gao Wenwen raised his hand and waved it in front of her face. After confirming that his eyes were following her, he breathed a sigh of relief: "You scared us to death just now. You didn't respond when I called you. You were like frozen."
"Let's not talk about this for now. I've found a way to control the scepter." Ding Can patted the coffin twice lightly, took a big step forward, and the piercing pain in his arm came again.
I almost forgot about this thing inside. It seems that even though I have established a connection with the wizard, I still cannot avoid disaster without the scepter.
Every time he took a step forward, an invisible pressure came from the front, and his leg bones wanted to break away from his body.
Originally, there was only a small red patch on the skin, but now that patch of flesh had turned blue and purple, with dark lines appearing, as if it was about to tear through the flesh and jump out in the next second.
Ding Can covered his mouth tightly with his hands, but it didn't stop the pain. His face turned paler and beads of sweat began to drip from his forehead.
The others watched but were unable to do anything to help at this moment, as shrill screams came from within the body.
For the leg bone, even if it is the dominant one, it will take time to separate from this body once the parasitic process begins, so we can only try our best to stop her from moving forward.
She could only see the people around her opening their mouths to speak, but could only hear a buzzing sound in her ears, and could not make out what the other person was saying.
In order to avoid worrying others, I could only force a smile, but I also knew that it might look uglier than crying.
It was only a distance of more than one meter, but Ding Can walked so unsteadily that it took him several minutes to get there.
However, this period of time was enough for the great wizard on the other end of the connection with her to know what had happened.
Thinking that it was himself lying in the coffin he saw, he did not feel much sadness. Everyone is destined to die, and he has never regarded life and death as very important.
But if these human bones that were once suppressed and driven by him wanted to turn the tables and become the masters here, he would never agree to it.
Ding Can stretched out his fingertips, but when there were only a dozen centimeters left, he could not move forward any further. The skin on his hand had already cracked into small pieces, and the bones at his elbow had gone against the human body structure, bent backwards at an angle that was almost the same as a fracture.
During the stalemate, the great wizard helped her. The scepter in the tomb floated up without anyone touching it and fell into Ding Can's palm.
The moment the scepter touched his body, the leg bones in his body disappeared into thin air, and something new slowly flowed and operated in his body. It should be the witchcraft mentioned earlier.
She seemed to be born with the ability to control this scepter. The interconnected paths in the tomb spread out before her eyes like a perspective, and she could clearly see the skeletons patrolling several edge tombs.
"It worked. I found them. I'm going back now."
"Wait," Yu Fu called her, "your hand..."
Ding Can lowered his head and glanced at his limp arm. "I don't feel anything, and it doesn't affect my walking. Let's just leave it like this for now. It will be fine when we get back anyway."
"A forensic pathologist is also a doctor, Brother Yang, can you treat it?" Gao Wenwen touched the wound on her hand and saw that the other party really didn't react.
Yang Qi shook his head: "It's not as simple as a dislocation. I can only try to fix it first. I need to find the right tools."
"No need to go through so much trouble, let's end this quickly." Ding Can felt that his body and mind were much more relaxed because of the disappearance of the human bones. Now he was very motivated and rushed out with the scepter in hand.
The tomb doors you encounter later will open in advance, and there will be no more obstacles or dangers.
The great wizard chatted with her, saying that he must have supervised the construction of this underground cemetery during his lifetime, and all the decorations and arrangements were just as he had imagined.
Originally, it was quite respectable that the funeral could be held on such a scale, but unexpectedly, before they could feel proud of it, other strange things had already appeared to cause trouble.
Even if there were no living people in front of him, and no other people who might die in the future, he would have to make these bones obedient just for his own peace after death.
After going around in circles, we finally arrived at the earliest underground palace. The number of bones was so large that it was difficult to place them all in the narrow tomb on the next level. Now we are back in the spacious underground palace.
When I first saw a few people coming back, I thought they had stumbled in by accident and were like lambs to the mouth again, until I saw the scepter in Ding Can's hand.
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