Chapter 046: Cemetery Bones (2)
The narrow passage and stairs went down continuously. After walking for about ten minutes, a little light appeared ahead.
"We're here." Tao Xing said excitedly, pulling everyone to quicken their pace. After they stepped over the last step, a huge rock appeared in front of them, and a soft white light was emerging from behind the rock.
The two walked around the rocks and saw a rocky cave. The stone walls were slippery and covered with moss. The light came from inside the cave.
"Why is the road below so winding?" Tao Xing muttered, "How about I go and take a look first? You wait."
He let go of the person, took a deep breath, and walked into the cave.
As soon as he turned the corner, he was stunned.
The view in front of me suddenly opened up. The cramped stairs just now were no longer there. A large open space stretched as far as the eye could see. There were lush flowers and plants on the ground, stone tables and chairs, and some neatly arranged piles of stones of different heights.
There is a stream not far away, with more flowers and plants beside the stream, but because there is no sunlight, it feels gray and cold.
Although the sun was not visible, there was light everywhere. It should be the wall lamp. In many of the cracks in the stone piles, the light was not strong, but slightly white, like a veil covering a night-shining pearl. This was exactly the faint light that Tao Xing saw outside.
"I didn't expect there was a whole new world down there." Tao Xing was surprised. He guessed that this was probably an underground parking lot that had been converted. If there were buildings, there must be an exit. He tried to move forward.
When I stepped onto the grass, it felt soft under my feet. It turned out to be real grass.
But I could hear the sound of the brook, see the flickering of the wall lamps, and from time to time rustling sounds could be heard from behind the pile of rocks.
The further he walked in, the slower his pace became, and he vaguely began to feel that something was not right.
Would someone really build a place like this under a grave? What would it be used for?
He felt a little frightened, and just then, he heard a rolling sound coming from the grass, rolling...
He stopped and straightened his back instantly.
Gulugulu...the sound was getting closer and closer, mixed with the laughter of children.
Tao Xing's heartbeat suddenly stopped, he turned stiffly and wanted to go back.
But my legs and feet suddenly became less agile.
With a "click", the rolling sound disappeared, and something fell to the feet instead.
He trembled and lowered his head.
In an instant, his pupils dilated and his face turned pale.
On the green grass, at his feet, there was a skull, lying in a hole in the ground, with its dark eye sockets facing him, as if staring at him.
His blood seemed to have frozen.
The corners of the clothes moved, as if they were being pulled up one by one.
He lowered his head again and looked back.
A small skeleton was tilting its head back, its eye sockets also facing him, and its mouth opening and closing.
It's still talking.
He said, "Who are you?"
Tao Xing's soul flew out of the sky in shock, unable to speak.
There was another "crackling" sound coming from behind, and a voice shouted, "Little devil, give me back my head!"
Tao Xing: “!!”
The little skeleton heard this and didn't bother to ask him. He picked up the skull and ran away, shouting as he ran: "I won't give it back. It's useless for you to have it."
The clicking sound got closer, and the voice of shouting also reached Tao Xing.
In Tao Xing's staring eyes, there was reflected a skull without a skull.
The headless skeleton paused for only a moment, the bones in its abdomen opening and closing, and it was from here that the voice came: "Stop right there and give me back my head!"
He walked around Tao Xing. His head was not on his body, so he probably couldn't see anyone.
Tao Xing looked pale and had difficulty breathing. Then, he let out an "ah" and ran out quickly.
He ran a few steps before bumping into someone head-on. The man was knocked back a few steps and stood firm, holding his chest.
Tao Xing saw that it was the man and grabbed his arm: "Didn't I tell you to wait outside? How did you get in? Run, there is a ghost in there, a white skeleton, a skull, run." He grabbed the man and ran without saying a word.
The man seemed to want to say something but had no chance to speak, so he could only follow him.
080 popped up anxiously: "Host, Bai Gu may be the target of the mission."
"I don't care about that!" Who would have the courage to stop in this situation? What's more, there is another person here. Should I let him take the risk with me?
He sped up on the road, but suddenly stopped and his expression changed again.
The hole I just came in from is gone!
It had become a solid stone wall covered with dark green moss and without any cracks.
The steps we came from and the black hole covered by moonlight that we fell down were all blocked outside and could not be seen at all.
He was sure that he had not run to the wrong place, but the entrance to the cave had really disappeared.
He groped on the slippery stone. There was no mechanism. It seemed that his memory was just confused. There seemed to be no trace of a cave here.
"Gulu..." The sound of a head rolling on the ground came again. Tao Xing felt a chill on her back. She turned around and hugged the man, hugging him and hiding at the corner. "Don't talk, don't look at anything."
The breath was itchy on his face. The man raised his eyes slightly in his arms, looked at him, listened to his words, and didn't say a word or move.
After waiting for a while, the sound disappeared. Tao Xing calmed down and whispered to the person in his arms: "I won't hide it from you. I saw some horrible things. This road was blocked by them in some way. Now... I think we can only walk along the grass and try to find another way out. Will you come with me or wait for me here?"
The man said, "I'll go with you."
"Okay, but if you see anything, don't be afraid." Tao Xing held his hand tightly and stepped back to the grass step by step. He didn't see the two skeletons, so he felt relieved and walked forward along the pile of stones, crouching down.
The stream was roaring. The two men walked past several piles of rocks. Tao Xing stepped down and suddenly heard a "click" sound, followed by a voice coming from under his feet.
When he looked down, he saw a skull. It was probably the one that the little skeleton had kicked as a ball just now. Now it was stepped on by Tao Xing and broken into two halves. The half with the mouth was screaming, "I've been stepped on, I'm done, I'm done..."
Tao Xing was shocked and looked around. She didn't know where she got the courage from, but she leaned over and covered the mouth: "Don't scream, don't scream."
Then call other bones here.
The half-skull whimpered under his hands.
Tao Xing had no choice. It looked like it would still scream if he stepped on it a few more times and really broke it. So he made a prompt decision and picked up the other half to put it back on. He put it together with force and heard a creaking sound. He patted it and said, "I'll put it back on you. Stop screaming."
The skull didn't scream. It rolled twice on the spot, bounced a few times, and then rolled away.
Tao Xing breathed a sigh of relief and turned around to see the man behind him staring at him in surprise.
"Well..." He hesitated twice, "Don't be afraid, let's... go?"
The man nodded, glanced at the receding skull, and continued forward with him.
Walking past the stone piles one by one, Tao Xing also saw that some of the stone piles and tables and chairs had plates and bottles on them, and there were also traces of fruit and vegetable juice flowing.
Do those white bones need to eat and drink water?
Look at those soft white wall lamps, they are not lamps at all, they are burning bones. They can provide illumination, but they do not have the warmth that flames should have.
This must be the legendary will-o'-the-wisp.
He suppressed his anxious heart and walked forward.
Amid the gurgling water, there were gradually some laughter.
The people walking in the dark suddenly became panicked.
That laughter wasn't coming from just one or two people, it seemed like it was coming from a group of people.
This means... there are more than the two bones we just saw.
How many bones are there here?
Tao Xing thought about it for a moment, and then he became even more frightened. He thought of a question: where did these bones come from?
If... it was transformed from a ghost in the cemetery, then with so many densely packed graves in this cemetery, how many bones would there be here?
He couldn't help but panic, and pulled people to quicken their pace. After taking a few steps, he was shocked to see a group of white skeletons walking along the stream, there were dozens of them.
He was horrified and quickly hugged the man, leaning over and hiding behind the pile of rocks. He gently covered the man's mouth and saw the group of skeletons put some baskets in the water, rinsed them, and then took out... apples, pears, grapes, red wine, and goblets...
Tao Xing: “???”
Then I saw them placing things on the stone table one by one, talking and laughing, sitting or standing.
He saw the little skeleton that had just kicked the "ball" half lying on the ground, putting a grape into his mouth. The bones from the neck to the chest, abdomen and coccyx turned purple, and the color disappeared in an instant, and the grape was gone.
He couldn't help but widen his eyes.
Look at another skeleton with a hunched back. The skeleton holds a goblet in its hand, shakes it slightly, and then elegantly drinks the red wine in the glass. Similarly, the bones turn red from top to bottom, and the color disappears after a moment, and the wine in the glass also disappears.
This is a really unique way of eating.
This painting is actually quite beautiful, with green grass by the stream, a group of good friends, and clinking glasses...
It’s just too weird because the location is under a dark tomb and the protagonists are a group of skeletons.
Who knows how long they will stop drinking. If they don't leave, the two of them can't move. If they stand up, they will be seen.
He said to the person in his arms, "We have to wait a while."
The man felt his trembling and whispered, "Don't be afraid."
"I'm not scared." Tao Xing said, "I just don't know where to get out." He lowered his eyebrows and looked at the man, "I smashed your ladder and made it so that you can't get out. I'm really sorry."
The man smiled slightly: "It has nothing to do with you. I couldn't get out anyway."
"What?"
"You're a very good person." The man said, also leaning outside.
Tao Xing hugged him back and said, "Be careful, don't get caught."
The man buried his face in his chest and looked up at him again.
The white bones at the gathering had not left yet, and Tao Xing was worried. Then she heard a familiar voice running around the fruit basket: "I'm fine, I'm fine."
It’s the skull from before!
The hunchbacked white-boned man who was drinking red wine saw it and said drunkenly, "Isn't this Xiaobei's head? How did it fall off?"
After saying this, he seemed to suddenly react and sat up in shock: "Xiao Bei's head fell off?"
The group of skeletons were stunned, while the skull was still rolling on the ground: "I'm fine, I'm fine."
"What's so good about that? You can't grow back, so what's the use?" The one who spoke was a tall skeleton. "Stop shouting, it's annoying." He raised his foot bone and kicked the head away.
"I'm fine... gurgle gurgle..." The skull was kicked and rolled across the grass, then flew towards Tao Xing again, hitting the pile of stones with a "bang".
The pile of stones fell to the ground with a loud noise, and the two people who were hiding appeared intact in front of the bones.
The dark eye holes of the skeletons all looked over.
Tao Xing: “…”
I shouldn't have fixed it just now!
He had no choice but to stand up and say, "We have no intention of intruding. We will leave immediately and will not disturb you."
But the bones seemed not to have heard anything. They remained silent and all looked at him.
"That..." Tao Xing wanted to say something else, but there was a sudden commotion over there. The skeletons seemed to have just reacted, and they spoke one after another, "Living people, living people, how could there be living people?"
They stepped forward one step at a time: "Living people should not come here."
"I know, we'll leave right away." Tao Xing said as he thought, it would be great if you could tell me the way out.
The bones were still approaching him: "There can't be any living people here, there can't be any living people..."
They seemed not to understand what he was saying. Tao Xing pulled the man next to him back, clenched his fists secretly, and thought about the possibility of breaking up these skeletons.
When the skeletons got closer, they all turned their heads. Even though they had no eyes, Tao Xing could feel that their gazes had changed direction.
This direction is exactly the person behind him.
He raised his hand to protect the man: "Come to me if you have any problems."
The bones stopped in front of his arm, but their eyes were still fixed on the man.
Then, they said in unison: "Mr. He."
Tao Xing: “…Hmm?”
"know?"
"Of course I know him. He is the master of our tomb." Little Skeleton replied.
"Ling...Lord?"
"He is the master of all the ghosts in our cemetery. He is the most powerful ghost."
Tao Xing: "...Ah, ghost, the most powerful ghost?"
He turned back in a daze and looked at the handsome man.
The man was also looking at him and smiled gently: "Sorry, I didn't have time to tell you."
Tao Xing: “!!”
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