Ha ha ha ha
"roll!!!"
"Let me go, let me go—"
Lin Li no longer had the remaining rationality to consider the truth of its words. She hated everything she saw before her, and she couldn't calm down -
Or rather, she didn't want to calm down.
The string in her heart had been tense for too long, and only reckless hysteria could relieve her pain.
Lin Li couldn't even remember how she started eating ghosts again, nor did she remember whether the one she was eating now was the one she had just caught.
Her memory seemed to be fragmented. Every time she was awake, she was either sitting quietly against the ice wall or eating ghosts. She had no idea what happened in between.
The most terrifying thing is that she finds that her memory of the past is also fading.
She could only madly recount her past when she was awake - every time this happened, the ghost that looked like both a human and a mouse would appear beside her, imitating her speech word by word. Lin Li had no mind to pay attention, but was completely immersed in her own foggy past.
But this did not reduce her panic, because she found that she only had a vague and general impression of what happened before she came to the ice cellar.
In the end, she just kept repeating the same sentence: "I am Lin Li, I come from outside the ice cellar, and I want to leave here."
The final change was that Lin Li took out a transparent bead with a yellow and black butterfly inside from his storage bag - this was not a magic weapon, it was just an item sold specifically to children by vendors at the foot of the mountain, which Lin Li had bought casually before.
This bead allows people to see the grass under the sun, the blue sky and white clouds, the flowers and trees, and the fluttering butterflies...
Lin Li looked exhausted, leaning against the cratered ice wall as she sat on the ground. Her clothes were no longer recognizable in their original color; blood stained them with layers of bright red, dark green, and deep black, leaving only mottled shades of gray.
She lowered her head, holding a transparent bead in her thin right hand. She raised it extremely slowly, and with a slight trembling, she brought the bead to her eyes.
She had a thought...
"ah!!!"
Following a sudden scream, Lin Li instantly threw the beads in his hand away——
“Bang!”
A transparent, colorless bead emitting a faint warm sunlight-like light smashed into the darkness, illuminating a small area of space. It was so brief that it lasted only a moment before it completely shattered into countless tiny stars and a few thin yellow and black butterfly fragments, cruelly and ruthlessly being engulfed by the darkness.
On the part of her skin not covered by her clothes, blisters appeared densely packed, growing and bursting at a speed visible to the naked eye. Foul-smelling pus covered every inch of her skin, like some disgusting and sticky mucous membrane... She struggled and squirmed in pain in the dark corner, uttering shrill screams.
Lin Li wailed and rolled on the ground, sometimes pressing her pus-soaked skin against the cold ground, sometimes trembling as she clung to the bumpy ice wall...
"ah!!!"
"ah--"
“Aa ...
She finally couldn't hold back her tears, tears streaming down her face, and her cries, so sharp that they almost stirred the darkness, gradually turned into low, animal-like whimpers.
Itchy and painful blisters grew on her skin, burst, grew again, and burst again...over and over again.
However, what is a million times more painful than the injuries to the body is the despair of the soul.
She can't get out...
She can't leave here...
Lin Li realized this clearly for the first time.
She was not afraid of the blue light, the darkness, or the monsters in the dark...but she began to fear the sunlight.
She knelt in the dark, holding onto the ice wall with both hands, and banged her head hard against the bumpy ice wall again and again.
Ahhhhhhhh——
She regretted it so much, she regretted it so much——
She shouldn't have come to Bai Zhou Mountain.
She shouldn't have come here, she shouldn't have come to... this cursed forbidden place.
The ice wall was covered in blood.
Lin Li wanted to use the pain in her body to relieve the despair and pain in her heart, as if drinking poison to quench thirst. She closed her eyes and banged her head against the ice wall again and again. Hot tears mixed with blood flowed from the corners of her eyes.
Her low sobs echoed melodiously in the empty and boundless darkness...
Suddenly, her chest began to rise and fall violently, her mouth opened wide, the corners of her mouth rising uncontrollably, and a burst of crazy laughter, like sobbing and complaining, came from her throat...
Suppressed laughter, then laughed out loud without caring about anything...
"Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!"
It seems like laughing, but also like crying.
It sounded like crying, but also like a happy laugh at the final moment of relief.
Lin Li didn't understand, Lin Li hated it.
She hated why God threw her into such a desperate situation. The funny thing was that she once thought that her fame at a young age was God's preference.
At this moment, scenes from the past emerged in her mind extremely clearly and cruelly. She felt dazed. Could the former genius be abandoned to such a desperate situation and become a prisoner... Thinking of this, Lin Li wanted to laugh again.
In fact, she was laughing, and she was laughing out loud with clear and precise pronunciation of each word.
She felt relieved at this moment.
The delusion of leaving was ruthlessly stripped of its disguise, revealing the despair that mocked her hideously. The huge rock weighing on her heart finally crumbled, and she felt an unprecedented sense of relief...
"Bang!!!"
Lin Li's forehead hit the uneven ice wall and his back bent weakly.
A smile played at the corner of her mouth, and the dark red blood that flowed from her forehead outlined her face, mixing with the last drop of scalding tears that fell from her eyes...
fall……
The huge, gray-black rat opened its mouth, stuck out its scarlet tongue, and tasted the drop of blood and tears that was as strong as fine wine.
"Pain, despair, regret, yet also peace and satisfaction." The old woman, illuminated by the blue light, licked her cracked lips with a scarlet tongue, her face filled with fervor and excitement. She said, "It's truly complex, so delicious... I've never tasted blood so delicious. Even after I ate her corpse, I never tasted anything like it again."
Having said this, she laughed twice, like a mouse.
"Lin Li never knew until her death why she insisted on eating ghosts even though she was mentally ill."
"Because she doesn't eat ghosts, she will age quickly and then die."
"She wanted to leave. How could she die? Even though she was unconscious, she was still muttering these things, eating ghosts while mumbling, and then looking forward to leaving..."
The old woman raised her hand and touched her face, grinning evilly. "It's a pity that she still became like this after death. Even in death, she can't leave."
"Hope is such a scary thing. If she hadn't held onto the hope of leaving, maybe she could have lived an easier life here."
The old woman's yellow eyes turned, staring straight at Jiang Jingyuan, and she spoke very slowly, emphasizing each word:
"the same as you."
Jiang Jingyuan looked at her expressionlessly.
"You're luckier than Lin Li. You don't have those teammates she has. You arrived here earlier than her, and you're not crazy yet..." The old woman's smile made the flesh on her face twitch. "But in the end, it's all the same."
She changed the subject and said, "But if you want to live a little longer and feel lonely, you can talk to me. With me, those children won't bother you."
"I'm much friendlier than those kids," she laughed. "I was the one who picked up the lantern in your hand and put it back after Lin Li. Otherwise, you would have been torn to pieces by those kids the moment you entered the ice cellar."
"I roughly know why Lin Li died." Jiang Jingyuan suddenly said.
The old woman looked at her with burning eyes, and then she stopped pretending and imitated her words word by word. "I think I know why Lin Li died."
Jiang Jingyuan said calmly, "The darkness is unbearable."
A frenzy appeared on the old woman's face as she said foolishly, "The darkness is unbearable."
"besides……"
"besides……"
Jiang Jingyuan looked at the crazed old woman in front of him, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, and he said with a hint of sarcasm, "And there's a rat that keeps imitating human speech. It's really disgusting."
The old woman still had a fanatical smile on her face, but her eyes were cold.
After a long time, she opened her mouth wide and laughed out loud in a clear and melodious voice.
"Okay... okay, since you don't appreciate it, then just stay in the dark. There will be a time when you'll beg me."
After she finished speaking, the old woman hunched her back and transformed into a huge gray-black rat. She narrowed her scarlet eyes and glared at Jiang Jingyuan viciously, then turned her head and jumped into a rat hole on the ice wall behind her, disappearing without a trace.
After a long time, Jiang Jingyuan, who was standing in the same place, had an idea. The mechanism under the blue flame in the beautiful lantern in his hand moved, and the flame was extinguished instantly.
call--
The dreary darkness completely enveloped the ice cellar.
Almost at the same time as darkness fell, Jiang Jingyuan heard dense and undisguised "rustling" sounds.
Jiang Jingyuan seemed to have been waiting for this opportunity. She walked slowly to the corner. When the movement got closer, she took out a yellow and black breath-suppressing talisman and stuck it on herself, then took out a pill and swallowed it.
Densely packed and stacked layer upon layer, the dense black shadows like a flood submerged the ground where Jiang Jingyuan had just been.
Each of the humanoid ghosts, who looked exactly the same, paused, raised their heads and sniffed the air. Suddenly, they became anxious, not understanding why their prey suddenly disappeared.
Jiang Jingyuan in the corner flicked her long sleeves silently, and the porcelain bottle in her hand sprinkled invisible powder, which fell on the countless ghosts in front of her.
Killing is always easier than controlling it. She didn't have Lin Li's ability to catch a ghost, but she felt that even if she could catch a ghost, it wouldn't lead the way away as she wished, so she thought of this bottle of tracking powder.
Since she can come here, there must be a way to leave!
She wanted to see where these ghosts would go.
Dark shadows gathered in the ice cellar, and most of them had begun to get impatient. They cautiously approached the ice wall where the mouse hole was made. From their figures, one could tell that they were eager to try, but seemed to be considering something and did not dare to move forward.
Jiang Jingyuan knew that he couldn't rush at this moment, so he hid in the corner and didn't move, even breathing very lightly.
Without the threat of the "rats", these ghosts finally bravely climbed up the ice wall.
A very strange scene appeared. With their body shapes, they were completely unable to fit into those narrow rat holes. Jiang Jingyuan did not see them turn into rats, but they just slipped into the rat holes on the ice wall one after another like invisible black shadows without any hindrance.
Soon, silence returned to the ice cellar.
Jiang Jingyuan came to the bumpy ice wall and her eyes unconsciously looked towards a rat hole on the upper right side, which she thought she could squeeze into. Her heart sank.
Is she still going to go into the cave to find out what's going on?
She actually rejected it.
Although she could use the powder to track the signs of ghosts, she was still unfamiliar with the conditions in the cave and had no idea where these rat holes would eventually lead to.
Once she is discovered by ghosts, she will definitely be attacked from both sides!
but……
She didn't know how many chances she would have to send the "rat" away like this. Next time she wanted to enter the cave, there might not be a ghost leading the way.
Jiang Jingyuan thought a lot, but it only took a few blinks of an eye. In the end, she gritted her teeth.
Enter!
As long as she always activates the jade bracelet's barrier, it's actually not that dangerous.
Moreover, rather than the danger, she didn't want to be trapped for ages in this darkness that swallowed up even time!
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