lighthouse
Jiang Jingyuan paused in front of the space crack, and saw a human face inlaid with two dark green lanterns appear in front of him.
Jiang Jingyuan continued walking, holding the aqua-blue spiritual rope with his left hand, and decisively punched the man in the face with his right hand.
“Bang—”
A white light shone around her. She put her right hand on the nose of the human face and stepped into the space crack.
"Huh——" As soon as he stood still, Jiang Jingyuan clearly felt that the cold here was not as strong as in the ice cellar before. In comparison, it actually felt a little warm.
Jiang Jingyuan opened his eyes in the darkness.
In the darkness as far as the eye can see, faint green fluorescent lights light up silently, densely packed, some gathered and some scattered, countless in number.
Weird and evil.
Countless glowing eyes turned to Jiang Jingyuan the moment she walked out of the space crack.
Jiang Jingyuan stood calmly in front of the space crack.
As her fist loosened, the humanoid ghost standing upright beside her tried to retreat in pain, but the girl's right hand suddenly turned and firmly grasped its head.
With a light twist, dark green liquid instantly gushed out from the broken part of its head and neck, splashing all over the face of the ghost behind it.
The ghost that was originally trying to follow into the space crack from behind had most of its face covered with a dark green fluorescent liquid, which looked weird and absurd.
The expression on its face was dull for a moment, and then it suddenly screamed heart-wrenchingly, fell to the ground on its hind legs, and rolled from side to side frantically, scratching its face with its long, sharp claws as if trying to wipe off the liquid on its face.
In just a moment, a piece of its head suddenly melted, its facial features were distorted, and its ten fingernails dug deeply into the flesh on its face. A dark green liquid flowed out of the gap... It struggled, but the speed at which its head melted did not slow down at all, and it quickly turned into a pool of red and black mud, and the mud turned into a pool of black water with a foul smell at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Jiang Jingyuan dropped the head in her hand and picked up the first headless corpse with her left hand before it fell. She took out a long knife with her right hand and pierced several holes in the corpse. The dark green liquid stained the silver-white blade.
The dismembered head and body smashed into the black water, sending up black splashes. The spot where the corpse touched the water actually began to melt...
Countless humanoid ghosts who witnessed this scene became agitated and surrounded the girl in white, but none of them dared to step forward.
The sounds they make are light and thin, and even when they are angry they don't sound sharp or harsh.
Jiang Jingyuan stared closely at the densely packed black shadows crawling in front of her. They didn't dare to move forward, and she didn't dare to look away.
Once she is distracted, this group of evil ghosts will rush over like a tide and drown her!
“Patta, patta… patta…”
The familiar sound of pressing the mechanism sounded intermittently.
The hundreds of lanterns not far away swayed as if blown by the wind, and the dim green fluorescence was like a ghostly fire in the dark night, strange and evil.
A flying claw hook flashing with cold light suddenly appeared in the hand of the white-clothed girl trapped in front of the space crack. She looked at the scene in front of her calmly, and casually threw the flying claw hook upwards with her right hand.
The silver-white flying claws cut through the darkness and continued upwards. With a "knock" sound, they firmly grasped the place where the two ice layers at the back and above met.
She grabbed the rope and pulled it down hard. The girl in white kicked the ice wall behind her with her right foot. Her figure was as light as a ghost in the darkness, and she stepped into the air and went up.
A pale hand was tightly grasping the right angle where the two sides of the square ice cellar met. The girl in white took advantage of this to flip in the air and lightly jumped to the top of the ice cellar.
Jiang Jingyuan retracted the flying claw hook he had looted from Li Xianyou earlier, and looked down at the dense swarms of dark green ghost fires below that were gathering and floating towards the depths of the darkness.
Countless will-o'-the-wisp lights illuminated the nearest patches of pale skin, whether on faces or limbs, dimly illuminating the long, rapidly crawling human-shaped shadows in the darkness.
“Snap!”
A dim blue light suddenly lit up, the darkness was driven away, and a clean and quiet ice cellar appeared before Jiang Jingyuan's eyes.
In the ice cellar shrouded in blue light, the pool of black water on the ground began to boil as if it was on fire, bubbling and evaporating, and the scope of the pool of blood became smaller and smaller.
This is the outer ice cellar... Jiang Jingyuan thought about it, glanced down casually, and suddenly felt a chill down his spine.
His sight passed unobstructed through the thick light blue ice layer and suddenly fell on the dozen or so white bones of various sizes scattered on the ground.
The black sewage spread across most of the ice cave, winding its way towards a space crack.
Intact, flawless white skeletons were arranged in descending order on the sewage. The larger ones looked like humans, while the smaller ones were curled up in a ball with thin limbs. Their skulls were gradually twisted and deformed, and the tail vertebrae dragged behind them were long and thin... It looked like some kind of dark, disgusting, and evil creature made up of a mixture of various animals.
More than a dozen complete cold white skeletons and the black bubbling sewage contrast with each other, and it seems like a visual feast is taking place in the light blue holy ice cellar.
Jiang Jingyuan, who was standing above, couldn't help but feel her stomach churning, but her eyes were still glued to this strange, terrifying dark painting, and she couldn't move her eyes away.
Her nails pierced her skin and dug deep into her flesh. The pain tugged at her sanity. She forced herself to look away, looking at the clean ice wall, and at the gorgeous lantern in the upper corner that was stuck to the wall with some black mucus.
The lantern was a mixture of lotus root pink and tender green, which should have reminded people of beautiful mountains and rivers, but it had to hang alone in this sacred and dark corner of the ice cellar. Jiang Jingyuan just looked at it, and a sense of loneliness and fear unconsciously welled up in his heart, as if he was locked in a square, gloomy coffin for a long time, never to see the light of day.
No, calm down, calm down...
Jiang Jingyuan took a deep breath and threw a delicate silver hook towards the upper corner with his right hand. The hook slid through the air with a thin silk thread, hooked a corner of the lantern and brought it back smoothly.
With a "click", the pole of the gorgeous lantern landed lightly on the palm of the girl in white's upward left hand.
Jiang Jingyuan held the lantern, her eyes moved. She didn't know if it was her illusion, but she felt that the stench lingering in her nose became stronger and stronger, so strong that she didn't dare to breathe in after exhaling.
Her gaze turned to the lantern in her hand. A cluster of blue flames like a ghost was swaying faintly in the wick of the lantern. At this time, the blue flame was very weak, as if it would be completely extinguished in the next moment.
Jiang Jingyuan was very sure that this small flame would not last until she left here.
what to do?
What supports the fire of this lantern?
Jiang Jingyuan held his breath and fell into deep thought. The faint blue light dimly illuminated everything around him, softening the boundaries between light and dark on Jiang Jingyuan's body.
“…Yes!”
"It's the blue light of this lantern that causes those ghosts to undergo such terrifying changes! This is the most special thing about this lantern."
Jiang Jingyuan raised her dazed eyes again, and her heart beat rapidly twice - yes, she seemed to have found an idea.
She was so excited that she forgot to hold her breath, and the stench of decay and filth instantly hit her in the face. Jiang Jingyuan's face changed, and she stopped breathing abruptly. A hint of blood appeared on her originally pale face.
Jiang Jingyuan tried hard not to vomit.
After a moment's pause, she couldn't help but think, "Why does this smell feel so close..."
Um?
Jiang Jingyuan was stunned.
She thought about it, mustered up her courage, and sniffed the lantern in her left hand.
Hiccup...
Jiang Jingyuan's expression turned grim. "Has this lantern been here for too long? Has it become marinated?!"
The smell was rotten, pus-oozing, filthy, and evil, like a mixture of slop, blood, and pus, which reminded people of the plague on a rainy day.
Jiang Jingyuan resisted the urge to fling the lantern away, feeling her hands were now dirty. But at the same time, a new idea struck her. She drew her long knife with her right hand. Rancid black water, mixed with a faint green fluorescent liquid, dripped down the silver-white blade onto the ice beneath her feet. Jiang Jingyuan dripped the faint green liquid from the blade into the lantern's wick, beneath the flame.
"Patta, patta..." As the dark green liquid fell into the fire, the blue flames instantly rose higher and grew visibly bigger.
Jiang Jingyuan put down the knife, leaving only foul-smelling black blood on the blade. "It works."
It works, but not permanently.
The dark green liquid transformed into black water too quickly, making it impossible to kill a single ghost. Furthermore… Jiang Jingyuan watched as the blue flame in the lantern waned again, its flame consuming rapidly.
The lotus root powder and tender green lanterns swayed slightly in the air, and the blue flames, like the legendary ghosts, swayed left and right and shrank again.
The girl in white leaped lightly to the ground, as silent and impassive as a ghost. She glanced around, but didn't spot any familiar yet unfamiliar figure. Undeterred, she cautiously followed the aquamarine cord tied to her left wrist and entered a spatial rift. According to her hunch, only the innermost ice cellar was restricted by the blue light, while the outer ice caves were free to traverse.
Jiang Jingyuan, who stepped into the space crack, couldn't help but think: "It's really weird."
The design of the ice cellar is like feeding, and the food is thrown in for the ghosts to play with before being eaten...
Jiang Jingyuan stepped out of the space crack with a lantern in hand. Before he could see anything, he heard a series of light and thin whistling sounds in his ears.
A breath colder than the previous two ice cellars hit me in the face.
Jiang Jingyuan didn't think any more, took three or two steps forward, raised his knife and stabbed it into a thin and long black shadow. He pulled out the knife, took advantage of the black shadow's sluggish movement, and swung the knife to chop at the bottom of the black shadow's round head.
Thinking about how she was still hesitant about Li Xianyou a few days ago, but now she can calmly and numbly raise her sword and strike, Jiang Jingyuan felt a little emotional.
"Freshly slaughtered ones are fresh..."
Jiang Jingyuan added some dark green liquid to the flame in the lantern, but not too much, just enough to keep the blue light hazy and not too bright - if it was too bright, all the ghosts would run away, and what if she ran out of oil halfway?
Holding a lantern in his left hand and a knife in his right hand, the silk thread and silver hook extending from his right sleeve hooked the headless corpse and dragged it behind him, with a dark green fluorescent liquid winding along the way. Jiang Jingyuan followed the water-blue spiritual rope on his left wrist and walked slowly, with an expressionless face like a god of death.
There was no shadow moving around, and Jiang Jingyuan wondered as he walked:
"This lantern must have been hanging on the wall for a long time. It doesn't look like anyone refills it with oil very often... So how did it manage to stay lit for so long, only now running out of oil?"
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