Chapter 106: Cave of Sorrow (15)
Gao Mengtang lay beside the axe marks, wrapped in a blanket, and fell asleep peacefully. Wei Wei and Xiao Canglan stared at each other in surprise, as if they were the unlucky ones who had encountered a ghost.
After a while, Gao Meng's deep breathing could be heard.
Wei Wei: ...Go to sleep, who can sleep better than you, you living god?
However, Gao Mengtang had only slept for a few minutes when he was awakened by a heart-wrenching scream from next door.
The direction from which the sound came was Wolanbei and Bo Yao's room.
Gao Mengtang reluctantly crawled out of bed: "Shall we go take a look?"
As soon as I opened the door, I heard a burst of "hehehe" and "chuckle". Wolanbei ran out in a panic, and Bo Yao's screams continued to be heard from the room.
An axe hit the head of the bed, the tip of the axe pierced into the bed board above the pillow, and the axe blade was close to Bo Yao's nose. If Bo Yao hadn't unconsciously activated a defensive skill in his sleep, his head would have been split in half.
He was so frightened that his heart and liver were broken, and his screams resounded through the night sky. It alarmed everyone in the hotel, and the front desk and the boss ran up to see what was happening.
When Wo Lanbei ran out, he was only wearing shorts. He huddled in the corridor and yelled angrily, "What are you looking at! Don't look! Wei Wei, what's the meaning of that smile on your face!"
Bo Yao was so scared that he kept crying and crawled out of the room: "It's haunted! It's haunted!"
It seemed that they had also experienced the same haunted incident. The front desk and the boss kept apologizing, but in this remote place, the police didn't care, and there was no follow-up after calling the police.
Of course, the players would not place their hopes on the police in the dungeon, and after a while of making a fuss, they settled down. The boss changed their room and reinforced the door lock.
Bo Yao was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he didn't dare to go into the room to sleep.
"I was almost hacked to death, too. We are in the same boat." Gao Mengtang activated his intimate brother skill and sat down next to Bo Yao. "I heard them singing nursery rhymes..."
"Yes! Nursery rhymes!" Bo Yao shouted, "What are they singing? Pick up the axe and chop dad, chop aunt, chop the blind man... I, I thought I was dreaming!"
Bo Yao's experience was similar to Gao Mengtang's. He first heard footsteps and laughter, and then two people sang a nursery rhyme. After they finished singing, an axe came down.
After thinking for a while, Gao Mengtang sat on the ground, looked up and asked, "Where's Wolanbei? Did you hear the singing?"
Wolanbei stretched his neck, tilted his head, and pretended to be deaf.
"Hey, we are the same kind in the dungeon, and monsters are our common enemies," Gao Mengtang raised his hand and tugged at his sleeve, "Ordinary players are a vulnerable group, so we should help each other."
Same kind? Ordinary players? ? Vulnerable groups? ? ? If you don't understand what these three words mean, you can look them up in the dictionary. Wolanbei's only response was to glare at him viciously.
But Gao Mengtang tugged at his sleeve and swayed him around, with a sincere and bright smile.
Wolanbei was shamefully...persuaded.
"I was a deep sleeper and didn't hear anything," Wolanbei said gruffly, "When I opened my eyes, I saw two shadows, one white and one red, flash out."
Gao Mengtang: "One white and one red?"
Wolanbei: "That thing ran too fast, I might not have seen it clearly... Stop pulling my sleeve! After all, he is one of the leaders of the five major camps, how can this be disgraceful!"
Gao Mengtang: “…Huh?”
He was lectured for no apparent reason and touched his nose in embarrassment.
Wolanbei rubbed the place where Gao Mengtang had dragged him back and forth vigorously, said to Wei Wei: "Take care of your third leader", and went back to the room to sleep.
After the two of them returned to their room, Gao Mengtang and the other two were left in the corridor.
"Where is Qin Xishuang? Why doesn't he come out?" Gao Mengtang felt strange.
With such a big commotion, Qin Xishuang should have come out to take a look. They couldn't figure out what this butterfly was thinking, so they chatted for a while and returned to their new room.
In the dark room, Qin Xishuang sat in the darkness, pinching her throat with one hand, making a "hehe" sound.
The pitch may be high or low, the timbre may be hard or soft.
"hey-hey."
“Hehehe.”
Until, his voice was exactly like those two things singing the horrible nursery rhyme.
"Hehe. Hehe." Qin Xishuang spread his hands, fell on his back on the bed, and said in the voice of a teenage girl he imitated, "Gao Mengtang, I like to play dirty. Hehe."
The cute laughter was drowned in the night, and the wings of a night owl rustled past the window.
Until dawn, no more accidents happened.
On the night of the memorial service for Li Xing, Wei Wei checked the Yin-Yang Pisces Pendant and cast several protective spells on it.
The moon was dark and the wind was high, with shadows of trees looming. The group got ready and set off to the Forest of Steles.
The full name of the stele forest is "Diexi Stele Forest". The villagers believe that marrying a ghost doctor is double happiness, so it is named Diexi. All those who marry the ghost doctor have a stele.
Over the past hundreds of years, more and more stone tablets have been built. When the weather is fine, looking up the mountain from the village, you can see a dark stone forest in the distance, looming over the top of the mountain. It is clearly a place to pay homage to glorious figures, but it inexplicably makes people fearful.
Players also don't like the Forest of Steles because it causes spiritual pollution.
This shows that the Forest of Steles is very dangerous.
Pegana turned into a little yellow dog, running and humming: "Is it a fairy or a ghost? Old pervert. Your daughter will marry a turtle when she gets married."
"Take a break," Wei Wei said, "thank you for creating the atmosphere."
"The Ghost Doctor has so many wives, isn't he ashamed?" Pei Jiana muttered all the way.
There was no moon tonight, and it was pitch black. Wei Wei held a ball of lighting fire in his hand, but the light seemed unable to penetrate the darkness, and could only illuminate a small area. The night wind blew over, causing him to sweat coldly.
Suddenly, the grass beside him rustled. Wei Wei flicked his finger and a small fireball flew over.
There was nothing in the grass.
Pegana: "The wind is howling, and the grass and trees are all enemies. If you ask me, you should release my soul, and I can lead you to kill through the dungeon..."
"Shh!" Wei Wei pinched his dog's mouth with one hand, "Qin Xishuang and the others are gone."
When they set out, Qin Xishuang led Bo Yao and Wo Lanbei and walked in front of them. In the few seconds when they were checking the bushes, the three living people in front of them disappeared out of thin air!
The bare hillside, without the backs of three people, was eerily empty. The wind blew on my body, making it even cooler and colder.
The three of them stopped where they were and looked around vigilantly.
“Hehehe.”
"hey-hey."
Gao Mengtang widened his eyes and looked in the direction where the sound came from.
"whee."
The laughter came from the grove in the east. The three of them immediately held their breath and slowly approached.
"I picked up the axe and chopped my father down, one bloody flower after another. My mother asked me what I was doing, and I killed her again!"
It was the strange ballad he had heard last night. Wei Wei clenched his pipe tightly, and a dark green jelly-like object bulged out of the pipe bowl. He Luo struggled to climb out.
The three of them were in a position where there were withered hillsides to the north and south, and two sparse woods to the east and west. The woods were pitch black, like two shadow monsters, trapping them.
"Take up the axe and chop my aunt, stew her into hot broth..."
In the pipe, dark green smoke rose high, ready to go. Wei Wei stared at the direction where the singing came from, and the black mist in his palms wove into several black ribbons, wrapping around his palms.
It’s better to strike first and throw a punch before you figure out what it is.
Suddenly, the tentacle was grasped by a soft and warm hand.
Wei Wei looked surprised: "Mr. Blind, what are you doing?"
Gao Mengtang held the tentacle and made a soft "hush" sound: "The sound came from the woods in the east. We should make a feint to the east and attack the woods in the west."
"Why is that?"
"Listen to me." Gao Mengtang said. At this time, the strange nursery rhyme sang "Pick up the axe and chop the blind man", and the melody became more and more miserable.
Gao Mengtang took a deep breath and said, "Count down, three, two, one!"
The tentacles flew and stabbed, and Wei Wei leaped up and was about to throw the pipe in his hand. At the same time as he launched the attack, an explosion sounded from the woods on the west side.
Bang, bang, bang, three shots were fired, aiming at the back of Wei Wei's head. Wo Lanbei held the sniper rifle and raised the corner of his mouth proudly.
Before his smile faded, he saw a golden object flying towards him. It turned out to be Wei Wei throwing the pipe towards his hiding place!
Wolan Bei was shocked and was about to fire again, but the white mist dispersed, hiding Wei Wei's figure. He could no longer be seen in the sight. Dark green tentacles broke through the mist and flattened the forest in an instant. Wolan Bei and Bo Yao were caught off guard and were hiding in the same place, so they were both flattened by He Luo.
Wo Lanbei stared at Wei Wei: "You, you found me?!"
Wei Wei held the three silver bullets between his fingers, swung his arm, and the bullets flew towards the woods on the east side. Qin Xishuang rushed out and was unable to dodge, and cried out in pain.
Pei Jiana howled "Awooo Awooo" and controlled Qin Xishuang. Wei Wei seized the opportunity and severely injured his opponent with one blow.
After several rounds of fighting, Qin Xishuang could no longer hold on. She covered her chest and vomited blood. "How did you find out?"
Gao Mengtang praised sincerely, "Your level of pseudophony is very high, but it's still a little off. It's one degree lower than what I heard last night. There were two words in the middle that were not caught, and it was a whole tone lower."
"If you don't have absolute pitch, just listen more and practice more," Gao Mengtang pinched his index finger and thumb, leaving a small gap, "Just a little bit off, try harder next time."
Qin Xishuang gritted her teeth and smiled: "The system should make you blind, deaf and dumb!!"
Gao Mengtang: "...You are vicious."
The water ball wrapped around Qin Xishuang and the other two. They instantly melted into the soil and disappeared.
"Don't chase them," Wei Wei said, "There is spiritual pollution in the Forest of Steles. We need to save some energy to deal with the real monsters."
The Yin-Yang Pisces pendant was temporarily saved. Gao Mengtang breathed a sigh of relief, then thought of Qin Xishuang's fake voice.
If it weren't for his extremely sensitive ears, he would have been caught just now.
"Is Qin Xishuang's fake voice a skill, or does he just know how to do it?" Gao Mengtang asked.
Wei Wei shook his head and shook off the dirt on his pipe. "Qin Xishuang is specialized in charm, and also specialized in combat. Skills like false voice and disguise belong to concealment. He doesn't have such skills. They must be abilities outside the Black Tower dungeon."
Gao Mengtang exclaimed, "He's quite amazing. This is not something that can be achieved overnight."
There was still some distance to the Diexi Stele Forest, and the three people and the dog temporarily resolved the crisis and chatted in a relaxed manner.
Wei Wei: "Qin Xishuang is both lucky and unlucky."
Fortunately, he was born into a warm family with loving parents and a harmonious family. Although it was an ordinary family in a small county town, he had a happy childhood and adolescence.
Qin Xishuang is beautiful and likes to attract attention. He likes performance, dancing and opera. He must have learned the false voice by himself when he was young. Although his parents did not have a high income, they did their best to support him to study at the opera academy.
After entering the Chinese Opera Academy, most of my classmates were good at scheming and using connections to contact directors and crews through various means, and started filming in their freshman year.
"It's strange," Wei Wei took a puff of cigarette, "today's Qin Xishuang is good at dancing and speaks better than he sings. When he was in school, he was dull and rigid, and didn't know much about the ways of the world."
Qin Xishuang only knew how to study hard on campus. Fortunately, his grades were good, and his teacher recommended him to a director.
A vulgar scene happened. The director wanted to take advantage of Qin Xishuang. As a result, Qin Xishuang pinned the director to the ground and hammered him, breaking his nose and deafening one of his ears.
Gao Mengtang exclaimed: "Oh, he is so brave!"
"More than that," Wei Wei curled his lips in a mocking manner, "Afterwards, Qin Xishuang collected evidence and made the incident public on the Internet. The result was what he wanted, and the director was convicted of indecency."
"The entire film and television industry knows that there is a Qin Xishuang in Zhongzhou Opera College who beat up the director."
Gao Mengtang was silent. Sometimes, influence is more important than right or wrong. Qin Xishuang did nothing wrong, but in this case, who would dare to choose him as an actor?
After graduation, Qin Xishuang was in a difficult situation. However, his parents still supported him, so Qin Xishuang did not become depressed. He played minor roles, performed in extras, and performed in low-end commercial performances. He never gave up.
Gao Mengtang: "Then why is he so unfortunate?"
"The Black Tower descended, and Qin Xishuang's parents died in the internal test copy. He lost his only solid support." Wei Wei finished speaking, narrowed his eyes and smiled, "Mr. Blind, let me tell you another piece of gossip..."
Qin Xishuang had his first girlfriend during college. They were deeply in love and inseparable. Qin Xishuang was so angry about being molested because he felt that the director had tarnished the pure love between him and his girlfriend.
After the indecent incident, the girlfriend broke up with Qin Xishuang immediately. In Wei Wei's words, this was a disaster for Qin Xishuang. Because in Qin Xishuang's fantasy, he would find a person who is like him, just like his loving parents, and stay together for life from first love to marriage.
He was broken up, and his wish to be together forever was completely shattered. In his heart, the eternity and sacredness of love no longer existed. Even if he found the right person again, he could not be the only one for the other person.
Gao Mengtang found it hard to understand and even harder to comment after hearing this. He could only utter, "Ah?"
Pegana laughed so hard that he kicked his legs: "Your human chastity arch has been updated to version 2.0, spiritual chastity!"
While chatting, we arrived at the Forest of Steles.
The stone tablets here are generally about 3 meters high, made of thick materials and grayish green in color. They stand densely together, giving a sense of oppression.
They soon found Li Xing's tombstone.
The stone material of the stele is ordinary, and after years of weathering, it looks old.
There are some narrative texts carved on the stone tablet, with some flattering words, telling the legendary experience of Li Xing who was chosen by the Ghost Doctor: a villager who had bullied her fell into the water, and Li Xing rescued him without bearing any grudges. She has a noble character, is as ambitious as autumn frost, and is as pure as ice and jade.
After listening to Wei Wei reading the inscription, Gao Mengtang's eyes were covered with a layer of gray mist and he blinked slowly.
"What did you find?" Wei Wei asked.
Gao Mengtang: "On the night when Xing'er saved the drowning man, someone saw her walking into the Ghost Doctor Temple and crying with joy. Because she knew that the Ghost Doctor was attracted by her good character and fell in love with her."
Wei Wei read the inscription again: "Where is the abnormality?"
"It's nothing, just like what Xingzi's mother described..." Gao Mengtang pulled a strand of curly hair from her temples, "But, according to the villagers, the witch minister is responsible for communicating with the Ghost Doctor Fairy. Miss Xing'er is just an ordinary villager, how could she know the Ghost Doctor Fairy's thoughts?"
Wei Wei thought for a moment and said, "Do you think the record is wrong?"
Gao Mengtang shook his head again: "It's not that there is a mistake, but it's unreliable."
It is true that Miss Xing'er saved a drowning man and entered the Ghost Doctor Temple crying in the middle of the night. However, the villagers interpreted that Xing'er "cried with joy" and entered the temple because she felt the Ghost Doctor's call, which may be different from the real reason.
There was no point in thinking too much. They were about to place the black jade pendant in front of the stone tablet when they suddenly heard crying sounds.
"Is it Qin who is causing trouble again?" Wei Wei asked in a low voice.
After listening for a long time, Gao Mengtang shook his head: "Not like that."
Qin Xishuang and the other two had been severely injured by them. What good could they gain by pretending to be ghosts once again?
Woo, woo. Woo, woo. The sound of crying was sometimes far away, sometimes near, sometimes high, sometimes low, and hard to detect. Listening carefully, the crying sound actually came from every stone tablet.
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