Chapter 116
A six-seater commercial vehicle was driving on the winding mountain road. It was a cloudy day today, and the winding mountain road looked a bit eerie under the shade of lush trees.
The passengers in the car would chat a few words at the beginning, but as the car drove around the mountain road for longer and longer, the passengers gradually stopped talking.
The car was silent, with only the occasional sound of the navigation system broadcasting. Wu Jin slumped in his seat, his excitement about going out to fight having shifted to the boredom of the long journey. "How long will it take to get there?"
Feng Jihan glanced at the navigation: "Almost there, still half an hour."
"If you ask me, why don't we just fly a helicopter here?" Tong Ming said lightly, "Why bother with all this trouble?"
"Do you think I don't want to?" Feng Jihan said calmly, "To fly a helicopter, you need to apply for a flight route in advance. This happened suddenly, so there's no time."
Even if he went through the channels of the Heresy Monitoring Bureau, he would have no way of explaining to the pilot why there were three strange monsters on the helicopter. When Cen Xun performed a detonation detector on the spot, how would he explain it to the bureau?
Tong Ming and Feng Jihan were fed up with each other and turned to talk to Cen Xun: "Fourth brother, what do you think Fifth Brother is thinking? Why does he have to run to such a remote place?"
Cen Xun rested his arm on the fully opened car window, propping up his chin as he looked out at the scenery. His long hair, tied up in a bun, hung in front of him. He said casually, "You ask me, but who should I ask? Why not ask Xiao Zhou what exactly he saw in the premonition image?"
Tong Ming glanced back at Zhou Mian, whose lips were pale, and said jokingly, "Xiao Zhou is carsick. If you ask him again, he might vomit soon."
Zhou Mian opened his eyes weakly and glared at him.
Feng Jihan, who was in the front, said, "Xiao Zhou, are you carsick? Then I'll find a place to park for a while."
Two minutes later, Feng Jihan found a relatively open space on the side of the road and stopped the car.
Zhou Mian squatted on the side of the road and retched a few times, tears welling up in his eyes. Tong Ming mocked him a few words, then took out a bottle of water from his bag and handed it to him with a serious face.
Su Mingqi was already fed up with Tong Ming's bullying of Zhou Mian on the way, so he pushed Tong Ming away with a sullen face and handed his water to Zhou Mian.
Zhou Mian thanked him in a mute voice.
Tong Ming had made himself look awkward and was too lazy to come closer, as if he really enjoyed being attentive to Zhou Mian.
On the other side, Cen Xun stood by the roadside, gazing at the distant mountains, his eyes thoughtful. Feng Jihan suddenly spoke up beside him: "This place reminds me of the mountain village where we first met."
Cen Xun looked at him: "Do you feel the same way?"
Feng Jihan's hair swayed slightly in the cool mountain breeze. "Maybe it's because we're both in the mountains, so it's easy to feel a sense of déjà vu."
"It shouldn't be a coincidence," Cen Xun narrowed his eyes slightly, his tone firm, "A traveler wouldn't go to an ordinary place for no apparent reason. Our destination is most likely related to the mountain village in the nightmare world."
Feng Jihan nodded in agreement: "Yes, indeed."
While saying this, Feng Jihan moved slightly closer to Cen Xun, boldly opened Cen Xun's collar, and looked inside using his height advantage.
Cen Xun held his wrist expressionlessly: "Are you acting like a hooligan in broad daylight?"
Feng Jihan confirmed what he wanted to confirm, raised his eyebrows and asked, "How did you do that?"
Removing his hand, Cen Xun calmly adjusted his collar and said, "Secretary Wu has a new skill. I'm borrowing it to try out."
Feng Jihan lowered his voice and asked, "Is this safe? Don't get yourself into trouble."
Cen Xun smiled and casually reached out to pinch the back of Feng Jihan's neck: "Aren't you still here?"
His gaze moved down and landed on Feng Jihan's lips. There was a strong sense of aggression in his eyes. He tilted his head slightly and was about to kiss him. Feng Jihan quickly raised his head to avoid him.
Cen Xun was not happy: "What?"
Feng Jihan glanced at him silently: "You are not your true self."
"You can treat me as your true self."
His smile terrified Feng Jihan.
The face is still the same face, but there is a kind of uncanny valley effect that makes it look inhuman.
Feng Jihan's throat rolled for a moment, and he slowly took away Cen Xun's hand that was pinching the back of his neck: "I'll go see Xiao Zhou."
Cen Xun is usually quite cruel, and now this is simply an even more cruel version. Feng Jihan is really a little overwhelmed and plans to calm down alone.
"Brother, look at you, you even scared the birds away." Tong Ming admired Feng Jihan's hurried departure, walked over with his arms folded, and said gloatingly: "I said I love you, but you can't accept this."
Cen Xun said calmly, "This is normal. If I saw an unknown creature with the appearance of my lover, I wouldn't be able to accept it either."
Tong Ming rubbed the curb with his fingers and felt a layer of dust: "But brother, we're just catching Lao Wu. Is it necessary to go to this extent?"
"Old Five is certainly not worth it, but [Time] is." Cen Xun lowered his eyelashes, hiding the coldness in his amber pupils. "After all, he is the second-ranked monster. It's always better to be more cautious."
"That being said," Tong Ming looked at him and said, "Have you ever thought about what you would do if nothing happened?"
"Then just treat me as your real self," Cen Xun patted Tong Ming on the shoulder as he passed by him. "Except for not being able to tell left from right, there's no difference."
Tong Ming sighed softly, "Crazy, just be crazy, who can be crazier than you?"
After resting for more than ten minutes, everyone set off again.
At ten o'clock in the morning, they arrived at their destination, a deserted mountain village.
After getting off the car, Tong Ming and Wu Jin were both stunned when they saw the appearance of the village entrance. The reason was that it was almost exactly the same as the small mountain village in the nightmare world.
Except for this small mountain village where there was no one and the buildings were even more dilapidated, all other places gave them a strong sense of déjà vu.
Tong Ming subconsciously looked at Cen Xun: "Fourth brother, where is this..."
Cen Xun looked at the broken stone tablet at the entrance of the village, on which were vaguely written the words "Sishen Village".
"I haven't been back for almost ten years." Cen Xun reached out and touched the stone tablet, and said to his two younger brothers whose expressions changed slightly, "Let's go in and take a look."
Everyone else went into the village, but Tong Ming stood at the entrance, unable to move.
This place cast a huge shadow on Tong Ming ten years ago, and Tong Ming really didn't want to go in. Besides, as an omniscient person, Tong Ming could see much more than Cen Xun and the others.
The ignorant are fearless, while the knowledgeable are deeply afraid. Even just seeing a few small fragments of what happened on this land would bring Tong Ming a huge sense of mental oppression.
Seeing Cen Xun looking over, Tong Ming took a deep breath and said, "Brother, can I stay here and wait for you?"
Cen Xun stopped and asked: "Don't you want to know why Lao Wu came here?"
Tong Ming gritted his teeth: "I do want to, but..."
At this moment, Zhou Mian suddenly spoke in a slightly sarcastic tone: "If you're new, practice more."
Shit! Tong Ming was immediately enraged and strode forward: "Who are you calling a loser? Let's go!"
Seeing him catch up, Zhou Mian turned to look at Cen Xun: "The scene I saw was that the [Walker] was walking forward in a cave, as if looking for something, but I don't know the location of the cave."
Cen Xun said thoughtfully, "It should be a cave for sacrifices."
Ten years ago, nine of them, who had regressed to their larval stage, were gathered in a small mountain village. Originally, only one monster could succeed Chaos as the god and leave the village alive, but the succession ceremony was forcibly interrupted by Feng Jihan. In the end, the nine monsters left the village together and went their separate ways.
At that time, Cen Xun had a general understanding of the background of "Sishen Village". In the past, "Sishen Village" was not called this name, but "Guining Village".
Legend has it that "Guining Village" was once plagued by demons and ghosts, until a god suddenly descended from the back mountain. The demons and ghosts were driven out of "Guining Village" by the god, and the villagers were able to find true peace.
In order to let this god protect the village for a long time, the villagers began to hold sacrifices in the back mountain, and the name of the village was changed from "Guining Village" to "Sishen Village".
But later, the gods in the back mountain suddenly stopped protecting the village. The ignorant villagers became anxious and tried to change from offering sacrifices to offering living people, and finally they gained the gods' protection again.
This ritual of human sacrifice was thus preserved. It was in this context that Cen Xun and nine others were captured and taken to the village for human sacrifice.
The location of the human sacrifice was in a cave in the back mountain, but Cen Xun couldn't quite remember the location of the cave. He turned to Tong Ming and Wu Jin and asked, "Do you remember where the cave is?"
Tong Ming and Wu Jin both shook their heads.
The two of them, one ranked sixth and the other ranked last, were not the strongest in combat. They didn't even have time to run when the succession ceremony was being held in the cave, so who would pay attention to where the cave was?
Cen Xun asked Feng Jihan again: "Do you remember?"
Feng Jihan also shook his head: "I was only thinking about you at that time and didn't pay attention to anything else."
This is troublesome.
Cen Xun pondered for a few seconds, then turned his gaze to Wu Jin, smiled, and snapped his fingers: "Then it's time to play hide-and-seek."
Wu Jin: “?”
A question mark slowly emerged in his head, and a bad premonition emerged.
A minute later, Wu Jin was blindfolded and turned five times on the spot.
Cen Xun: "Go ahead, Aotian, now go in the direction you think is safest."
Wu Jin asked doubtfully, "Fourth Brother, are you sure this will work?"
"Let's try it."
Wu Jin had no choice but to grope his way forward, muttering, "I won't be responsible if you take the wrong path."
The desolate village was extremely depressed, and the collapsed houses were pitch black, as if something was watching them in secret.
As he walked, he actually came to a small path leading to the back mountain. Most of the trees on the roadside were dead, showing twisted postures with fangs and claws, making the surroundings seem even more gloomy.
Tong Ming's face became even uglier.
The aura of this place pervasively interfered with the omniscient vision. As the distance to the cave got closer, Tong Ming's endurance almost reached its limit.
At this moment, Zhou Mian suddenly took off his backpack, unzipped it, and said to Tong Ming, "Come in."
Tong Ming looked at the open backpack and didn't react for a moment.
Zhou Mian said calmly, "Ten meters further, and you'll faint."
""Everyone else looked over. Tong Ming looked a little embarrassed and snorted, "I don't care. Just don't be afraid of the weight."
Zhou Mian still kept opening his backpack.
Tong Ming glanced at the dark backpack, and finally turned into a bunch of eyes and flowed into it.
Zhou Mian zipped up his bag and put his bulging backpack back on.
An eye jumped out, landed in Zhou Mian's palm, and blinked.
Zhou Mian's expression remained unchanged as he casually stuffed the eye into his pocket.
The sky seemed to be getting even darker.
The forest was very quiet, without any sound, so quiet that it was frightening. Fortunately, the people entering the village were not ordinary people, so there was no need to be afraid when walking on the road.
"I feel like we didn't take this road during the previous sacrifice." Feng Jihan pondered, "It seems like a downhill road that goes straight down."
Wu Jin in front immediately said unhappily, "Hey, are you questioning my bad luck?"
Feng Jihan: "Not really."
Wu Jin walked forward while confidently saying, "I'm not bragging! When it comes to bad luck, no one can be more unlucky than me! Just that cave, I, Ao, can..."
Before Wu Jin could say anything, something strange happened. Wu Jin suddenly missed a step and fell into a cave on the ground.
Cen Xun jumped down right after Wu Jin without hesitation.
"Ahhhh" Wu Jin's shouting could be heard continuously from the cave. After a long while, the echo in the cave stopped.
Feng Jihan shouted at the entrance of the cave: "Are you okay?"
The echo in the cave again: "Are you okay?"
"It's okay"
"Bar"
Soon, Cen Xun's voice came from below: "It's okay, we found the cave, don't come down yet."
Feng Jihan lay at the entrance of the cave, listening to Cen Xun's echo. He found it quite interesting and replied, "I see."
In the cave below, Cen Xun brushed the ashes off Wu Jin and asked him, "Are you okay?"
Wu Jin pulled the cloth off his eyes and looked around. "It's okay, Fourth Brother, you grabbed me just in time. Is this the terrifying cave?"
Cen Xun said "hmm": "If you don't want to go in, just wait for me here."
"How could I not dare? I'm not Sixth Brother." Wu Jin excitedly pulled Cen Xun forward: "Let me see what secrets are inside that are worth Fifth Brother sneaking here!"
At the end of the cave is a shrine. The shrine here is not like the shrine in the mountain village in the nightmare world. It is empty inside and there are no strange statues. The altar, which has not been used for a long time, is covered with dust and the god tablets are overturned.
Ten years ago, when Cen Xun and others walked to the altar, the succession ceremony began, and Cen Xun and others lost consciousness, but this time, Cen Xun walked to the altar and did not notice anything unusual.
There was still some space behind the shrine. Cen Xun walked around to the back of the shrine, lifted the damp and half-rotten curtain, and his eyebrows suddenly raised slightly.
Because he discovered digging tools that belonged to humans.
The workmanship is exquisite, and it is obviously a product of a modern assembly line. It doesn't seem like something that could appear in this small mountain village.
Looking inside the curtain, the pitch-black cave stared at him like an abyss.
Quite interesting.
Cen Xun used [Paper Makes It Real] to make a strong flashlight and shone it into the depths of the cave. The cave was only one person wide and was winding and tortuous, so he couldn't reach the end of the cave by shining it this way.
Cen Xun didn't hesitate and went in directly: "Let's go in and take a look."
Now that I'm here, it would be a shame if I don't get things straight.
After walking inside for about ten minutes, Cen Xun arrived at the end of the cave.
However, there was nothing at the end of the cave.
The flashlight illuminated the rock wall. Cen Xun reached out and touched a hole as big as a washbasin on the rock wall. He felt that the hole was a little strange.
It looks like humans have dug something out of here.
Cen Xun was really curious, so he used the [Eye of Omniscience] that he had just "learned" from Tong Ming.
Almost at the moment when the [Eye of All-Seeing] was opened, Cen Xun felt a sharp pain in his eyes, as if they were about to explode.
There seemed to be unknown whispers in his ears. Every time they sounded, his thoughts became more confused. Cen Xun endured the strong discomfort and forced himself to open his eyes.
The dim cave was illuminated by the human's searchlight, making it as bright as day. A fully armed human passed through Cen Xun's body and walked towards the rock wall.
The hole in the rock wall has disappeared, replaced by a bright white ball of light?
The fully-armed human produced a handheld drill, and a muffled voice echoed from within his protective suit: "Attention, all teams! Prepare to begin transporting the [Divine Fetus]."
Sticky blood flowed from his eye sockets, but Cen Xun was completely unaware and continued to approach the so-called "divine fetus".
The noise of the drilling rig resounded throughout the cave, and gravel fell. Soon, the rocks around the light ball were hollowed out, and humans slowly stretched out their hands towards the light ball embedded in the rock wall.
The ball of light seemed to sense the approach of humans, and the glow surrounding it suddenly increased, like a silent rejection.
However, those fluorescent lights did not cause any harm when they came into contact with humans. They just gently brushed the backs of humans' hands wearing protective gloves and gradually disappeared.
As if inspired by something, humans boldly reached out their hands toward the center of the light ball.
The white glow became weaker and weaker until it finally disappeared completely.
Humans gently picked up the things that were once wrapped in radiant light.
An egg with black and white patterns.
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