Chapter 118 The Wandering Travel Group (Forty-nine)
The wind gradually died down, and Nanhuan was returned to Guiwang Ridge.
She lowered her head in confusion, looking at her hands, not quite understanding why she was adding lamp oil in the room just now, but suddenly appeared here the next second.
However, the curled up hand did not seem to feel any pain at all.
Nan Huan could confirm that everything before her eyes was not real, but she could not confirm whether it was because she had lost too much blood and had hallucinations, or because the white shadow that looked like a princess had done something to her.
Before she could figure out what was going on, two familiar figures appeared before her.
It was the ghost-faced man and the princess. They were sitting at the foot of the mountain talking and ignored the appearance of Nan Huan.
This familiar scene——
It was when the princess entered Ghost King Ridge for the second time, which was one of the scenes played out by Nan Huan before.
At that time, she suddenly felt something was wrong with her body and realized that it was the imperial teacher who had tampered with her body. Then, before she could see clearly what the princess had done to the ghost-faced man, she entered the following plot.
The princess, who was chatting with the ghost-faced man not far away, also realized that something was wrong, and quickly stood up from his side and wanted to step back.
"Stay away from me."
As soon as she finished speaking, the princess seemed to be trapped in place by some force, unable to move.
A lot of gray smoke came out from her body. They rushed over and before the ghost-faced man could react, they drew a few regular lines in the air, like some kind of talisman, and then turned into gray chains, tying up the ghost-faced man.
Even though the incident was really sudden, the Ghost-Faced Man should not be caught and restrained so easily in the territory of Ghost King Ridge.
Nan Huan and the Ghost-faced Man had the same idea, but the next second, when the Ghost-faced Man struggled to resist, he found that the gray chain seemed to be under some kind of restriction, and the Ghost-faced Man could not break free at all.
She looked up at the princess in disbelief, obviously unwilling to doubt her, but the facts were already before her.
But the person opposite was obviously in a bad state. After the gray smoke came out of the princess' body, her eyes became dull.
"Are you okay? Can you hear me?"
The Ghost-Faced Man's movements were restricted and he couldn't move at all. When he realized that the princess was likely being controlled by someone, his first reaction was worry.
From the beginning, she could sense a strange and elusive aura around Ghost King Ridge, but she always thought it was the people escorting the princess and didn't think too much about it.
In addition, she was really surprised by the appearance of the princess, and no one noticed anything strange about her.
And judging from the fact that the other party had just noticed something was wrong and asked her to stay away from her, the princess was obviously unaware of it.
Unfortunately, the princess' mind had been controlled at this moment.
She heard what the ghost-faced man said, but did not react at all. She just raised her eyes and looked at him coldly, then turned and walked up the mountain.
"You can't go to the top of the mountain, you'll die."
The ghost-faced woman tried hard to break free from the restraints, but her clothes were torn and had left bruises. She still couldn't get rid of them, so she had to shout at the top of her lungs to try to stop the princess from going up the mountain.
Nan Huan didn't know why those illusory shadows of the princesses wanted her to see all this, but she knew that this was what really happened in the past and it was an ending that could not be changed.
Although she guessed that the princess herself was among the murderers, and she could also guess that the other party probably had some reason, she was not clear about the truth of the matter.
However, seeing the two people in front of him, one was shouting at the top of his lungs to ask the princess not to go down a path of no return, while the other was being controlled and forced to go up the mountain without looking back, he felt quite uncomfortable.
After all, before the princess realized that the imperial teacher might have planted something in her body and was controlling her, she really thought about coming to see the Ghost-Faced Man again and staying here forever.
After restraining the ghost-faced man, the way up the mountain was quickly figured out.
Nan Huan followed the princess and it didn't take long for them to reach the top of the mountain.
It was no different from the mountain top I saw last time. There was no ancestral temple on the top of the mountain, only a huge statue.
Nan Huan originally thought that because his perspective was that of a princess, he could not see the statue's shape and appearance clearly last time.
But she found that as a bystander, she still couldn't see the shape and appearance of the statue clearly.
Is it true that everyone who reaches the top of the mountain only sees a huge statue whose appearance and shape are unclear?
Nan Huan was just wondering when the princess approached the statue.
The other party quickly walked in front of the statue according to the instructions given after being controlled.
Because of the difference in size, the princess could only stand in the shadow of the statue.
She raised her eyes and stared at the huge statue, not knowing whether she wanted to see the statue clearly or communicate something with it silently.
A moment later, more gray mist rose from behind the princess, soaring up along the statue and circling around it.
It seems like it is looking for something, but it also seems like it is just moving randomly.
Perhaps the gray fog finally found its target, so it came out in full force, and the princess, who had been controlled and had a dull expression, regained some of her sanity.
She clenched her fists, and it seemed that she was trying to get rid of some control in her body, but she was always just a little short of it. For a long time, the princess just stood there with her eyes closed, looking painful.
There was a loud cracking sound.
The statue in front of her had a crack in it, and the gray mist continued to come in. The princess took advantage of this opportunity, threw herself on the ground, and vomited a mouthful of blood.
The controlled power seemed to relax a little. The princess took off the hairpin on her head and held it tightly in her hand.
The pain slowly restored her consciousness. She originally wanted to go back down the mountain immediately and save the Ghost-faced Man first.
But the statue in front of him began to shake violently like a collapsed building block, and huge rocks rolled down.
At first the princess tried to dodge, but she didn’t expect that the boulders didn’t fall down and hit her or the ground.
Instead, it stopped in mid-air and pieced together a huge ancestral hall bit by bit. The huge statue turned into a smaller statue whose face was still unclear, and it was located in the center of the ancestral hall.
The gray mist swirled down, trying to gather into the princess' body again. However, the princess raised her scratched hand to block it, and unexpectedly discovered that the gray mist seemed afraid of her blood.
Nan Huan's eyes moved, and he saw that the princess stabbed herself a few more times with the hairpin and smeared the blood on her body.
The gray mist seemed to have not expected the princess to do this. It circled around her for a while, and when it saw that it really couldn't get close to her, it surrounded the small statue, looking a little anxious.
Although the princess didn't quite understand what was going on, she remembered what the ghost-faced man had said: that anyone who went near the ancestral hall would die.
It seemed that the national teacher's target should be here. She had no choice but to endure the pain and smear her blood on the small statue, trying her best to drive away the gray fog, hoping to save something.
The statue's violent shaking slowed down a little because of the princess's blood.
After a moment, an ancient and distant voice came from inside the statue.
"After so many years, it was still opened by someone..."
Neither Nanhuan nor the princess could tell whether the voice was male or female. They just felt it was very ethereal, and carried a certain indescribable sense of decadence.
The princess looked up at the statue, trying to see where the sound came from and who was harvesting.
But unfortunately, she still couldn't see clearly what the statue in front of her looked like.
"Who are you? What was opened? Was it the Imperial Master who played a trick on me?"
Since she was able to meet him, the princess didn't hesitate to ask him several questions in one breath.
As soon as she finished speaking, she felt a pair of eyes falling on her, as if looking at her, but the ancestral hall was empty except for the statue, and she couldn't find where the eyes were coming from.
"It doesn't matter who I am. What matters is that once the Ghost King Shrine is opened, there will be endless troubles. Your blood won't last for too long."
The voice did answer every question, but it seemed to be selective, telling the princess what it wanted the other person to know.
"Once all the statues are cracked, the things suppressed by the statues will run out uncontrollably, and then a catastrophe will befall the world."
The voice was full of helplessness, "After so many years, she still can't let go, so she did all this again. I just didn't expect that she would find you. It seems that everything is destined."
"Don't say things I can't understand." The back mountain shook even more violently. Even inside the ancestral hall, the princess could still feel the sky collapsing and the earth breaking outside. She had no patience and didn't want to listen to the other party saying things without practical content.
"My blood won't last long, that is to say, I can hold on for a while. My body may have been tampered with by the Imperial Master. The Ghost-faced Man is still at the foot of the mountain. Can you save her? Maybe she has a way?"
The princess didn't understand what was being said, nor could she tell the truth from falsehood. She originally thought that the imperial teacher might have his own reasons for asking her to come here.
Now it seems that the national teacher may be harboring a bigger conspiracy.
In this situation, the first person the princess thought of was the Ghost-Faced Man. The other party had never left Ghost King Ridge, so he must know what the statue was like and perhaps there was a way to rescue it.
But as soon as she finished speaking, she got a negative answer.
"It's too late to save him."
The other party's voice did not pause. "The Imperial Master cast a death curse on you. She had been preparing for today's event for such a long time. It was not easy for her to have this moment of communication because you broke free and regained your sanity for a moment."
There is something wrong with what he said. It seems to be an answer to the princess, but in fact it is not entirely true.
Fortunately, the princess, like Nan Huan, discovered the key point in the other party's words. "It's a death curse on me, which means there is still a way to let her live, right? What's under the statue?
Can it be stopped? "
At this point, the princess no longer wanted to find out what the imperial teacher was trying to do. She concluded that the person who spoke had another solution, but she didn't quite understand why the other party didn't say it directly and made her guess.
"Once the statue breaks, it means the seal has failed. When all the statues break, and the valley breaks, the things over there will come to the human world. Ghost Face is the guardian of the ancestral hall. Once the seal fails, she will die. The death curse that the national master cast on you was already in effect when you opened the seal."
The voice did not answer her directly, but briefly explained the principle of the matter to her, "But it is indeed as you said, there is a way to prevent it."
"The seal here is about to be broken. As long as you are willing to use yourself as the seal to reseal this place, everything may be able to remain as it is temporarily, but you will pay a huge price."
"Before the seal is broken, I can still cast a spell, but if I really do this, your entire body will become the seal's nourishment, and you will endure great pain, like a thousand needles piercing your heart, a thousand fires burning you, and you will be extremely clear-headed during this process. Even if you completely become a seal, the pain will not disappear, and you will bear the burning heat and heart-piercing pain day and night. And the soul without a body will wander in the human world, forever in a daze."
When the man said these words, his tone was very calm, as if he had already anticipated what the princess would choose, and as if all other gorgeous words could not compare to the impact of these words.
"What about the ghost face?"
The princess asked further. Compared to understanding those pains, it was obvious that she cared more about the ghost-faced man.
"She will get a new identity because of you, and will be free from her predetermined fate as a guardian."
The princess was quite satisfied with the answer, but she was concerned about another question, "Can she move freely and leave here?"
The man obviously didn't expect the princess to ask this question and was a little stunned.
"Yes, if she wants to."
"Then throw my soul farther away. She will have to run to many places to find it."
The person who proposed the solution did not expect that the princess would focus on this issue in the end. "Have you thought about it?"
"Let's do it. Didn't you say that time is running out?"
The princess didn't seem to care much about her own life or death. After all, whether she chose to become an seal or not, she would die anyway. Since she couldn't escape, she might as well do something useful.
"By the way, can I meet with her before I leave? It would be best if I wait until you are done here. I am afraid that if she goes crazy later, it will be difficult to deal with her."
A rare smile appeared on the princess' face. They had only known each other for a short time, so why did she have such confidence in the other person?
The man said nothing more, which was considered as his agreement to the princess' request.
Nan Huan finally understood everything that happened at that time. When she was guessing the murderer, she noticed that if the imperial teacher had controlled the princess, the other party would definitely not survive.
After she discovered that she was being controlled, the only one she wanted to save was Ghost Face.
But Nan Huan didn't expect it to be in this form.
After the two finished their conversation, accompanied by a golden light, the statue completely cracked from the inside out. The golden light directly penetrated the gray fog and pierced into the princess's body.
Nan Huan had briefly experienced that painful feeling during the last role-playing, and it was enough to make her suffer unbearably, so she knew what kind of tremendous pain the princess was enduring at the moment.
The whole mountain was still shaking violently, as if something under the mountain felt a moment of looseness and wanted to break free.
The princess' body, accompanied by golden light, turned into rays of light, filling the broken grooves. Her body had become more and more transparent.
The pain made it impossible for her to stand and she could only half-kneel on the ground.
Suddenly she seemed to sense something, looked up with difficulty, and saw a figure standing at the entrance of the ancestral hall.
Just from the familiar figure and semi-similar movements, Nan Huan could tell that the other party was suppressing his anger.
Because the princess had already seen the true face of Ghost Face, she was not wearing a mask at this time, and there were still scars on her body from the intentional infliction of the imperial teacher.
The princess raised her lips towards the other person with difficulty, as if she wanted to smile at him, but because of the pain in her body, her expression looked a little hideous.
"sorry……"
She finished her sentence with difficulty, panted for a long time, and then continued, "If I had known that she... would do something to me, I... would not bring trouble to you..."
She has not forgotten what the mysterious voice said before. If nothing unexpected happens, she will never see the other person again.
Even though I had anticipated this situation before coming here, I never thought it would be like this.
"I really wanted to come and see you again, but... I didn't expect it to turn out like this."
Although I don't know if this place can be considered her home, Guimian said that she has never left here. Now that I have turned this place into such a mess, I should definitely apologize.
"But... you can leave this place later. I... remember you said last time that you wanted to leave here..."
The princess's figure was becoming increasingly thinner, and it was obvious that she could not hold on for much longer, so she took a deep breath and wanted to explain everything.
Ghost Face seemed to have realized that something mysterious had happened. She waved her hand and tried to snatch the princess's breath from the golden light, but she failed after several attempts and was knocked to the ground by the golden light.
"I won't let you die, I won't let you die..."
She vomited a mouthful of blood and lay on the ground for a long time without getting up, but she still stubbornly repeated the same words to the princess.
He finally stood up and approached the princess, wanting to hug her in his arms, but the golden light blocked his view and Mysterious couldn't do it.
"You won't die. Even if you leave, I have a way to find you back."
Watching the shadow of the person in front of her become increasingly faint, the ghost-faced man's hands were already bleeding. She didn't know why the princess made such a choice, but she knew that even if the other person left, she would have a way to find him.
She would not let go, even though they had only met twice. But why did she feel like she couldn't breathe as she watched him disappear?
The princess heard what the other party said, but she did not refute or tell her that according to what the mysterious voice said, this was simply impossible.
At least this way, the other person won't disappear from this world with you.
"Remember to go out and see the world more. I will always be with you..."
Before the princess completely disappeared from his sight, she smiled and said the last words to Ghost Face.
[Warning, warning,
The player's health has dropped to 1.1. Please replenish potions or treat wounds as soon as possible, otherwise you will be killed by the game when your health is reduced to zero. 】
The familiar system prompt sound brought Nan Huan back to reality. Everything in front of him began to become blurry, like a puff of smoke, drifting away from his sight.
The piercing pain of being cold all over came back again, and his mind was so confused that Nan Huan couldn't tell whether he was awake or not.
"Anan, speak, Anan?"
Bei Xi's hurried voice coming from the private channel finally made Nan Huan sober up a little.
"I am here……"
As she spoke, she turned her head with difficulty to look at the tree on the wall. As expected, the lamp oil was almost reaching the red line.
“We’re almost at the red line…”
[Warning, warning,
The player's health has dropped to 0.1. Please replenish potions or treat wounds as soon as possible, otherwise you will be killed by the game when your health is reduced to zero. 】
【bite--
Congratulations to the player for completing the third coffin game. 】
The prompt sounds of the two systems sounded at the same time.
Just now, when Nan Huan was in his own consciousness, Bei Xi had been knocking on the transparent wall because she couldn't hear the other party's voice. Now, half of her body was sticking to the wall.
As the system's prompt sounded, not only did the long black thorns in the tree trunk retreat from Nan Huan's body, but the wall of air also disappeared.
After Bei Xi replenished her own potion, she jumped to Nan Huan's side, picked up her falling body, held her in her arms, and replenished her potion.
The remaining players, because Nan Huan's health points were close to zero, had already collapsed on the ground, using their last remaining sanity to heal themselves.
Some simply lay down on the ground, ready to wait for the young lady to recover, and then they would be fine.
Nan Huan's consciousness was already extremely unclear, but the familiar smell on Bei Xi still made her instinctively want to get closer. After being fed several bottles of medicine, she barely regained consciousness.
She looked at Bei Xi in a daze, as if she couldn't remember what had happened before she lost consciousness.
Just at this moment, the ground began to shake.
To be precise, one of the walls of the coffin they were in began to vibrate violently.
Then everyone's attention was drawn to the tree on the wall, and they saw the lamp oil that had almost sucked Nan Huan's blood dry and reached the red line.
It starts from the crown of the tree and flows to the trunk and branches.
Wherever the lamp oil passed, emerald green leaves began to grow on the originally dead branches, and among the layers of leaves, red flowers eventually bloomed.
The tree is growing at an incredible rate, and its branches have already spread over the wall.
Red flowers, like lights in the darkness, spread in all directions from the coffin where they were.
The starless, unlit alleys and mass graves are like waves, rolling up layer upon layer of red from bottom to top.
These red waves are connected to each other by a red line that leads straight to the top.
The top that had been impossible to reach finally appeared. The red lights on the stacked black coffins lit up, and all the red light finally gathered on a light at the upper right corner of the top coffin.
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