Su Deng was taken aback, somewhat surprised.
First, I was surprised that this crazy, charlatan-like system would actually pay attention to me and even answer my questions.
Secondly, I was surprised by its answer.
She asked again, "What formation?"
404: Players are advised to try to survive on their own.
Su Deng's fist hardened. "Then what did you just say to me?"
404: I don't know.
Su Deng was speechless. "You're sick."
404 is no longer in use.
This 404 system must be a product of a bug by Shenting Technology.
Su Deng used to do all sorts of part-time jobs, even learning hacking and achieving some success in it. Having seen so much, and considering her own sense of suicidal tendencies that she believed in harming others, she actually had some belief in metaphysics and superstition.
However, when it comes to talisman formations, he only recognizes the Bagua formation and knows nothing else.
We had no choice but to head out.
In this underground crypt, which resembled a mortuary filled with coffins, there was only one passage leading out, and at the entrance of that passage lay a person.
The clothes were fresh; they weren't rotten at all, not even a speck of dust.
When Su Deng saw the other person's face lying on the ground, her brow twitched. She carefully squatted down and put her finger in front of the other person's nose.
He is breathing; he is still alive.
Su Deng licked her lips and kicked him, "Qin Xian."
He kicked the person several times, but the person on the ground didn't move.
Su Deng narrowed her eyes slightly, "Do you want your 800 points back?"
"Points...points...where are the points..." Qin Xian's body trembled, his eyes not even open before he scrambled to his feet, muttering, "My points! And..."
When he opened his eyes and saw Su Deng in front of him, he was dazed for a moment before belatedly realizing what was happening.
"Su Deng!" Qin Xian exploded instantly. "I told you you were crazy! Why did you have to run out to save some NPC? And that ghostly Taoist priest, I don't know what he did, got us into this godforsaken place..."
His mouth was so loud that it made the atmosphere here less intimidating.
Su Deng remained expressionless. "It's just a few coffins."
"How many? Look at those coffins, is this how many?" Qin Xian pointed at the hundreds of coffins, jumping up and down. "Look at all these corpses, this place is practically a hellhole!"
Su Deng shone the lamp in his hand onto his face, looking at his handsome and sunny features, "You're an experienced veteran player, you're not afraid of this kind of thing, are you?"
"You let go..." Qin Xian swallowed the curse that was on the tip of his tongue, rubbed his aching face, and sneered, "How could I possibly be afraid!"
Su Deng raised an eyebrow slightly, "Aren't you afraid?"
"Clang...clang..." Qin Xian felt guilty under her gaze, and gritted his teeth, "If you woke up to find corpses all over your head, wouldn't you be afraid?"
Su Deng paused slightly, "What? There are corpses all over your head?"
Qin Xian pointed upwards, "Didn't you see?"
Su Deng looked up following his hand, and upon seeing that, she gasped again, a chill running from the soles of her feet to her scalp.
Then he turned his back and leaned against the wall, dry heaving.
She thought the corpses in the coffin were horrifying enough, but she never expected that the top was also full of corpses!
The bodies hung suspended in the air, not rotten, but like dried meat, exuding decay.
Seeing her like this, Qin Xian felt he had gotten his revenge. He snorted, "I'm not like some people who are so scared they'd throw up."
Su Deng vomited bile for a while, then felt a little better. She pulled the cloth over her face to cover her nose and mouth, and weakly leaned against the wall. "Don't you feel nauseous?"
"...A little." Qin Xian wanted to say no, but the churning in his stomach didn't give him the chance, forcing him to run to the side and vomit a second time.
Su Deng frowned and moved away from him, looking at the cave again from top to bottom. She found that the corpses hanging above all corresponded to the empty coffins on the ground, and could be identified by their size. There were adults and children among them.
She redrawn the two maps of traces.
"What's this?" Qin Xian asked, leaning closer after vomiting.
Su Deng carefully marked the locations of the empty coffins and the coffins with people inside, and superimposed them on the map of Youcun Village to form a very strange picture.
She asked Qin Xian, "Do you know him?"
Qin Xian said irritably, "Your scribbles look like gibberish, how are we supposed to know what you're drawing?"
Su Deng resisted the urge to kick him, turned around, and walked into the passage to leave.
"Wait for me!" Qin Xian immediately caught up with him. "Didn't you just say you were going to return my 800 points?"
Su Deng: "You're hallucinating."
The passage wasn't long; it led to another underground cave.
This crypt also contains coffins, but only seven.
Qin Xian bought a torch. "What on earth did that ghostly Taoist priest do? He dragged us into this coffin pit, damn it..."
He kept cursing on the way, and his nagging helped to dissipate the eerie atmosphere.
Even though Su Deng was annoyed by the noise, she tolerated it, walked to the coffin, opened the lid and looked inside.
Unsurprisingly, there was a corpse inside, a child's corpse, not decomposed, but shriveled as if it had been drained of blood and then dried out.
Qin Xian pinched his nose. "How old is this kid? Was it the mountain spirit or that ghost Taoist? That's too cruel and perverted."
Su Deng pursed her lips and continued walking forward.
“Hehehe…”
He hadn't taken more than a few steps when he suddenly heard a child's silvery laughter, so clear it was as if it were right next to his ear. Qin Xian jumped, a broken bow appearing in his hand, and with his other hand he tugged at Su Deng's hem, "Su Deng, did you hear that...?"
Su Deng pulled the hem of her clothes out of his hand, her face expressionless. "I'm not deaf."
Qin Xian looked around warily, "I hope there aren't any ghosts."
“A place like this,” Su Deng raised an eyebrow, “would be strange if there weren’t ghosts.”
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