Chapter 103: The Cave of Sorrow (12) Making Wedding Clothes for Others
It is very easy to tamper with the incense and make it burn two short and one long.
Thinking back carefully, Aunt Zhang learned that the Tiandixiang was placed by Wei Wei, and she repeatedly confirmed several times, "Did you place these three incense sticks, really?" Only after other players confirmed that the incense sticks were placed by Wei Wei did she believe it helplessly.
Gao Mengtang: "There is something strange in the temple, let's go back and take a look."
They took action immediately and returned to the Ghost Doctor Temple in Changming Village.
Changming Village has a small population, and even the Ghost Doctor Temple is often empty. When Gao Mengtang and others rushed over, there were no villagers around.
"On the first day I entered the temple, I smelled the scent of duck blood here." Gao Mengtang patted the stone table outside the temple with one hand, "We also ate medicinal food on this table."
It was getting dark, and there were no candles or lights in the temple. The details of the building were hidden in the darkness. Wei Wei searched every corner and looked at the Ghost Doctor Immortal sculpture.
The Ghost Doctor Immortal has a handsome face and an extraordinary demeanor, holding a wine jar in one hand. The sculpture is nearly 10 meters tall, as high as a three-story building. Wei Wei jumped up and landed lightly on the Ghost Doctor Immortal's arm holding the wine jar.
The wine jar and the Ghost Doctor's hand were not formed in one piece. The wine jar could be taken off. Moreover, there was an inconspicuous seam between the right wrist and the arm, which was covered by the cuffs. If you knocked on it, you could tell that this right arm was hollow, but the rest was solid.
Wei Wei jumped down with a wine jar in his hand: "There is a mechanism on the right arm of the Ghost Doctor Immortal statue. When I came to burn incense that day, the statue moved and poured blood wine from the cup. I guess the mechanism was activated."
Gao Mengtang leaned in and sniffed the wine bottle: "This used to contain duck blood."
Looking back now, Gao Mengtang said that after he smelled duck blood, Aunt Zhang would not allow him to enter the temple, saying that the injured people had incomplete souls and would be hit by the power of the ghost doctor if they entered the temple. At that time, the players just thought it was a country girl's fault.
Now it seems that Aunt Zhang didn't allow him to enter the temple because Gao Mengtang had a keen nose. When she went in and smelled it, she found that what was poured out of the wine jar was duck blood. How could she scare people?
Aunt Zhang’s original target was freesia. What did she want to do with freesia?
There were footsteps outside the temple, someone was coming in to worship. Wei Wei quickly put the wine jar back in place, pulled Gao Mengtang, and jumped out of the window.
The Ghost Doctor Temple faced south and was located in front of a large cave. They jumped out of the south-facing window and arrived in front of the cave.
Over this mountain is the Wu Xiang residence. This cave, the blessed land where the healing ceremony is held, and the cave where Gao Mengtang met the beer belly man are all in the same mountain.
Wei Wei tore open a scroll, and a white ball of light floated above his palm. He led the way and walked more than 100 meters inside. Suddenly, the cave became very spacious. What lay before him was actually a stone coffin.
The coffin was dark blue, and the patterns on the side were worn away. It looked quite old. Wei Wei knocked around, pressed a movable decorative stone slab, and pushed it upwards. Surprisingly, a keyhole appeared.
Wei Wei: "There is a mechanism in the coffin, and it can only be opened with a key... Freesia!"
Freesia pushed the coffin lid open with a casual push. Everyone quickly stepped back and took a defensive posture, fearing that something would jump out of the coffin.
Nothing happened.
When Wei Wei got closer, he saw that the coffin lid was cracked into two pieces.
"Don't smash things randomly," Wei Wei taught, "it's easy to cause accidents."
Freesia's face turned red with anxiety: "No. Smash, originally. Push!"
Gao Mengtang: "She said that she didn't smash the coffin lid, she just pushed it and it opened. Did someone smash the coffin open before us?"
The stone coffin lid had a smooth cross section with no signs of wind erosion. It must have been broken not long ago. I held up a light and shone it inside. The coffin had no bottom. When I pushed open the lid, I could see a staircase leading down.
Wei Wei groaned for a moment and said, "It's a secret passage. It was probably built by Wu Xiang and his men. The secret passage should be hidden. If Wu Xiang and his men opened the coffin, they would have used the key. Now the coffin lid is smashed in half... It's very likely that it was Qin Xishuang and his men."
"Let's go down and take a look?" Gao Mengtang suggested.
When he approached the coffin, a chill hit his face, and instantly the hairs on his body stood up. Wei Wei rubbed his solar plexus: "The speed at which the spirit value decreases is accelerating. It's not safe in here."
Then we must go in and take a look. Gao Mengtang held onto the side of the coffin and tried to climb in, but was stopped by Wei Wei: "You are not able to move easily, the next person will go in and investigate. You and Xiao Canglan wait outside for a while."
Gao Mengtang couldn't see anything clearly. If something happened, he would not be able to protect himself, and Wei Wei would still be worried about him. Gao Mengtang didn't insist and pushed Pei Jiana to Wei Wei's side.
"Take the dog with you, he can protect you."
Pegana: “Not a dog!”
Gao Mengtang: "Listen, you can change your form, right? You turned into a dog, but your original form is too eye-catching."
"No change!" Dozens of Pei Jiana's eyeballs bulged out from the colorful fluff, staring at Gao Mengtang angrily.
Gao Mengtang: "Be obedient. If you turn into a dog, I can consider returning your soul to you."
His eyes immediately retracted, and Pegana was skeptical: "Really?"
Gao Mengtang remained calm and said: "Yeah." Of course it's fake.
Even though he knew it was just empty talk, Pei Jiana had to believe it. What if Gao Mengtang let him go when he was in a good mood?
The ball of fur trembled and its entire body glowed. After a few seconds, a yellow-haired puppy with scraggly hair stood in front of it.
"Woof, if you dare to lie to me, the wise king will punish you!" said Pegana.
Gao Mengtang: "Oh. Protect Wei Wei."
Wei Wei held up a ball of flaming fire and walked quietly down the stairs with the little dog.
The stairs were steep and slippery, with a surface only as wide as a palm, so you had to be extra careful with every step. At the bottom was a corridor with water up to your chest.
Wei Wei waded into the deep water, while Pegana doggy-paddled ahead to clear the way.
After walking for two minutes and turning a corner, he suddenly smelled a strange smell. It was bitter and sour, and a bit pungent. Wei Wei rubbed his temples, and he felt even more dizzy.
When they held up the fireball and shone it, they found a strange-looking plant growing in the cracks of the stone walls of the corridor. The sour and bitter taste came from this plant.
The plant has straight stems, with only four leaves and a flower on the top. The stems, leaves, and flowers are all as pale as paper. From a distance, it looks like a paper man with a round head and stretched limbs.
"Paper man grass..." Wei Wei murmured softly. He plucked a plant and burned it.
The edge touched by the fire instantly turned into ash, and the bitter taste became stronger, making people dizzy. As sleepiness came over Wei Wei, his limbs were sore and weak that he could hardly stand.
"Octopus farmer, what's wrong with you?" Pegana swam back and saw that Wei Wei was about to faint. He immediately released a colorful fluorescent thread and drilled into his temple.
An inexplicable fear came over him, and every inch of his skin was twitching. Wei Wei woke up instantly, his adrenaline surged due to fear, and his sleepiness completely disappeared.
He calmed down and thought that after putting on the wedding dress, he had been feeling sleepy and sleepwalking. These symptoms might be related to the paper man.
Suddenly, there was a conversation not far away.
“Finally found it.”
"Chief Qin is indeed very clever. Gao Mengtang won't be the best performer this time. Maybe he will die here!"
It’s Qin Xishuang and the others!
Pegana: "Should we find a place to hide? There is no place to hide here, or should we run quickly?"
Wei Wei looked around, immediately extinguished the fire and dived into the water.
There was no light in the tunnel and the water surface was pitch black. No one could find you if you hid in the water without a careful search.
Wei Wei opened his gills on both sides of his cheeks and breathed in the water.
"You still have gills?" Pegana also hid in the water.
Wei Wei lowered his voice and said, "You call me 'octopus farmer'. Are you surprised that I have gills?"
Qin Xishuang approached where they were hiding, with his arms raised and something in his hands.
"In two days, when you pay tribute to Li Xing'er, place the black jade pendant in front of her tombstone, and a new branch plot will be triggered." Qin Xishuang held up a ball of fire in her left hand, illuminating the pair of jade pendants in her right palm. "You guys should be careful recently. Gao Mengtang and the others don't know, so don't let them trick you."
Wei Wei: ...Now I know.
Wolanbei: "What is the function of this white Pisces pendant?"
Qin Xishuang said: "The white jade pendant can awaken the Ghost Doctor Immortal."
Wei Wei shrank into the corner, followed Qin Xishuang and continued to eavesdrop.
Bo Yao: "Chief Qin? When did we kill Xiao Canglan? She has the 726 ID card on her. If I don't get the ID card back, my father will definitely blame me."
"Don't worry," Qin Xishuang said slowly, still admiring the pair of yin-yang fish pendants, "Let alone Freesia, as long as the Ghost Doctor Immortal can be awakened, even Wei Wei and Gao Mengtang will not be able to escape death."
"Is the evil spirit causing chaos in the copy the Ghost Doctor?" Bo Yao asked.
"Idiot brain," Qin Xishuang sneered, "What is the identity of the Ghost Doctor Fairy? How could he be an evil spirit? This main quest is strange. I don't know what the "evil spirit" the system is talking about. It's probably some lonely ghost."
Wo Lanbei: "Chief Qin, you are well-informed. Do you know where Gao Mengtang came from? How could he...how could he tame the source of fear, Pegana?"
Hearing this, Pegana pricked up his dog ears and became even more curious about the matter.
After a moment of silence, Qin Xishuang shook her head: "I have checked him, and all the information shows that Gao Mengtang is a beautiful child born in a well-off family. He was born, went to school, took exams, and worked like an ordinary person... I suspected that he was [Fu Ling], but Fu Ling has silver hair and gray eyes, and Gao Mengtang has black hair and black eyes.
"I don't know Gao Mengtang's origins, but his parents are special. They both joined Tanhualing."
A trace of Pegana's magic power still remains in Wei Wei's brain, through which he can communicate with his mind.
"Fuling?! Isn't that a moon creature? I'm most afraid of moon creatures! We shadow creatures have been suppressed by moon creatures for thousands of years!" Pegana shook his fur, "Also, what is Epiphyllum Ridge? Is it related to moon creatures?"
Wei Wei: “You don’t know?”
"Woof. I should know?"
"I don't know either. Please don't speak. I feel scared when I hear your voice ringing in my mind." Wei Weie's skin was cold all over and his body was shaking.
However, Pegana came from the inner world and knew nothing about Epiphyllum Ridge. From this, we can infer that Epiphyllum Ridge is likely an organization established by humans in the outer world.
"Let's think about the Ghost Doctor Fairy," Qin Xishuang said, "Before I entered the dungeon, I learned that there was a real fairy in this dungeon. He can be awakened through the white jade pendant, but I don't know how to do it."
After eavesdropping for a while, he learned that Qin Xishuang had obtained two key pieces of information before entering the copy.
1. There is a "real god" in the copy, who is awakened by a white jade pendant.
2. Give the black jade pendant to Miss Xingzi first to trigger a new branch quest.
Qin Xishuang found the key props and was in a good mood. She hummed a song, first singing "You are like a rock, and I am like a reed", "I bitterly regret having to weave gold thread year after year to make wedding dresses for others".
After singing two lines, he wrote his own lyrics and continued to sing: "The deep and dark city, the wet and wandering land. I feel guilty about this, Ma Jinnu."
Wei Wei was shocked. Isn't this the mantra that Zuo Hufa recited during the disease-curing ceremony? Qin Xishuang can also recite it? What does this sentence mean?
He eavesdropped for a long time. Qin Xishuang was absorbed in singing the song, and Wolanbei and Bo Yao did not ask any more questions. Seeing that Qin Xishuang was about to reach the stairs, there was no time.
"Pegana, go and grab the Pisces pendant." Wei Wei said sternly.
Qin Xishuang's whole body was shocked and he turned around quickly. A dog jumped out of the water and bit his wrist. He screamed, and the tragic memories of the past flooded into his mind. The extreme fear made it difficult for him to breathe.
Beside them, Bo Yao and Wo Lanbei were also trembling with fear. They fell into the water and struggled for a long time without being able to get up.
Pei Jiana picked up the jade pendant and quickly jumped up the stairs, followed closely by Wei Wei.
"Awoo!" The little dog jumped out of the coffin, threw himself into Gao Mengtang's arms, and handed him the saliva-stained jade pendant.
System: "Successful snatching. The ownership of the key item of the dungeon [Yin Yang Pisces Pendant] has changed."
"[207 Butterfly Fairy] lost the jade pendant, congratulations to player [000 Blind] for obtaining the [Yin Yang Pisces Pendant]"
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