Chapter 117

The black cat wanted to use its talent to save people's lives, and Yu Tu respected its choice. Before he came, he thought this matter was a sure thing.

But now...

Yu Tu looked at the strange puppet that looked a bit like a boy in the tattered quilt, and then looked at the black lines crawling all over the puppet's head, and he had a deeper understanding of his own luck.

He sighed inwardly, took a step forward, grabbed the mad black cat by the scruff of its neck, and lifted it into his arms:

"Don't move, let me take a look."

Green vines emerged from his fingertips and wrapped around the puppet's face. The black lines spread out as if stimulated, revealing the skin underneath that did not resemble a living person.

The green vines wrapped around the entire puppet like a green cocoon. After a while, the green vines withdrew in unison.

Good news: the puppet below was indeed a living person, but that was at least six years ago, so it is not the one that Black Cat wants to save.

Bad news: He seems to have come into contact with the owner of these black lines, the source was an underground black auction in the auction house.

Yu Tu: “…”

What is this?

The black cat in my arms, which had managed to calm down, began to gurgle restlessly again, as if it wanted to turn into cat fluid and flow down to see what would happen.

Yu Tu had to use a little more strength to control it: "If you don't behave, I will spank you."

The threat was immediate, and the black cat remained quiet for three seconds.

During the three seconds of its silence, energy turned into flames, and flames suddenly began to ignite on the body of the strange puppet. The flames did not affect other things, but only burned the puppet into gray-black ashes, faintly emitting a strange green light.

The wind blew up the small pile of ashes, and like a snake swaying in the wind, it passed through the open door and rushed into the night.

Yu Tu didn't need to say much, the black cat was now completely obedient. It nestled in Yu Tu's arms, staring at the direction where the "snake" disappeared with its eyes shining in the night.

They chased after him.

The gray-black embers are not very conspicuous in the night, but the faint green light among the embers prevents people from losing sight of the target.

The location of Renxin Hospital was relatively remote before, but after it became famous, a living circle centered on it was formed around it. Now, they have crossed the living circle and are chasing after the more remote suburbs.

First the asphalt road disappeared, then the concrete road, and at the end of the gravel-filled road, the man-made paths also disappeared.

They have already tracked them down to a very remote place that is not even on the navigation.

The "snake" was circling in a small open space, shaking its head and tail, but there was nothing on the ground.

“Meow!”

After the angry meow, Yu Tu felt his arms lighten, and the cat fell to the ground, looking up at the air and speaking cat talk that might not be well translated.

If ordinary people can't see...

Yu Tu transferred the energy to his left eye, and after feeling the familiar heat, he continued to transmit energy into it steadily. The monocle that seemed like a decoration was constantly shaking, and the burning sensation was transmitted to Yu Tu's consciousness through the skin that was in contact with the lens.

The space in front of the lens was fluctuating, with a texture like water waves, and Yu Tu stretched out his hand.

From the left eye, his hand stretched into a strange space, and from the right eye, his hand did not change at all.

Yu Tu murmured, "A concealed barrier?"

The chain under the lens swayed regularly, gradually becoming consistent with the fluctuations in space. Yu Tu reached out to the black cat squatting on the ground and cursing at the air: "Come."

The cat's meowing stopped abruptly, and the cat jumped up lightly, using his palm for support, and squatted on his shoulder with all four paws together.

Yu Tu walked into the midst of this turmoil.

Almost the next second after he disappeared, two people suddenly opened their eyes a hundred meters away and quickly climbed down from the tree. The two people, who were wrapped tightly in combat uniforms, looked at each other, and one of them said in a low voice:

"The barrier is open, let's go!"

Before the wave-like anomaly disappeared, the two of them sneaked in. The gray-black embers swirling in the open space finally completed its mission. It swayed down from the air and merged into the soil.

After entering the barrier, Yu Tu smelled an extremely stench. This stench didn't seem to be just an odor attack, it also made it difficult for people to open their eyes.

The black cat squatting on the shoulder had curled up into a ball and was vomiting continuously. For a cat with a keen sense of smell, it suffered even more.

“Kacha——”

Yu Tu felt like he stepped on something.

After enhancing his vision, the darkness in front of his eyes gradually dissipated, and what appeared in front of Yu Tu was a cave. Judging from the degree of weathering, it should be quite many years old.

He was at the outermost layer of the cave, and what he had just stepped on were bone fragments scattered on the ground. A quick glance allowed him to see bones such as the ulna and femur, and under his feet, wherever he could see, there were bone fragments.

Most of the bones were no longer white. Many were cracked, with dirt and small insects crawling in the gaps. A small number of bones were black with green, and looked as if they had been tainted by something poisonous.

The black cat on his shoulder was still vomiting, and the whole cat was like a paralyzed noodle that would slide down the shoulder every few seconds. Yu Tu held it by the scruff of the neck and held it in his arms, then used energy to create a "glass jar" for it with its head turned upside down.

The black cat, the survivor of the cat disaster, began to isolate himself.

Yu Tu walked slowly inside holding the cat. There were many dead bones on the ground, and occasionally fragments of clothes could be seen. They also looked very old and did not seem to be modern.

The cave seemed to tilt downward, and the further one went forward, the denser and more complete the dead bones became. After walking inside for more than ten minutes, Yu Tu could no longer see any bone fragments. He could only see a relatively complete skeleton. The skeleton was placed in a posture of bowing its head to the ground, as if it was about to be killed.

Going further in, there are more skeletons in the same posture and less space for people to walk. Looking around, there are endless dense white bones kneeling in circles, which is weird and unclear.

The black cat's claws have already popped out from its pink and tender paw pads.

The wind came from nowhere in the cave, and it blew through the skeletons, as if there were ghosts sobbing. The old bones were in the underground cave, day after day, year after year.

Yu Tu stopped in the middle of the skeletons. He squatted down and rubbed some dirt with his fingertips. The dark red dirt had a fishy smell. "Massive burial mound."

It is still an ancient underground mass grave that has been maintained by someone.

The black cat raised its head and meowed softly.

Yu Tu shook his head: "The exit should be above our head."

But not necessarily now.

Yu Tu walked forward, bypassing the bones lying on the ground. The black cat did not return to his arms, but cleared a path ahead. They could hear rustling sounds as they passed by. It was insects crawling and gnawing among the bones.

"Meow~" the black cat suddenly called.

It turned around and raised its paw towards Yu Tu.

Yu Tu saw that its paw pads were covered with moist, sticky dark red soil—the fishy-smelling soil before was actually dry.

"You don't have to lead the way." Yu Tu wiped its paws and said, "Come back."

The black cat squatted back on his shoulder, its ears erect, its long tail sweeping behind it.

After a while, its head suddenly turned back, and the pupils in its emerald green eyes became a line: "Meow~"

…

"Why is there a cat's meowing sound in this underground cave?" Behind a pile of bones, two people crawled forward, their bodies covered with mud, "Boss, I feel something is wrong."

"This underground mass grave has never been so powerful!" Another person wiped the sweat from his forehead and replied in a low voice, "We are not as capable as the person who went in first."

They have been guarding here for several days, and now they have come in unannounced, taking advantage of the delay after the barrier was opened. They don't know whether the man just now was an enemy or a friend, so they can only be careful.

"I wonder how big this array of bones is..." The person crawling at the back sighed, "I think the fishy smell is getting stronger..."

As early as after deputy team leader Lan Huiyu lost contact, they urgently retrieved nearby data through the Alienated Place. However, the Alienated Place, which claimed to have complete data, actually defined this place as a "wasteland."

Bailing and Xiaoshuo spent two days and three nights in the vast database before they found a vague description—this place might have been a cemetery, a corpse pit, or even a mass grave thousands of years ago.

Tu Jiaojiao, who was climbing in the front, frowned. There were six people in their team. Deputy team leader Lan Huiyu and team member Que Yan had lost contact. Bailing and Xiao Shuo were looking for the required relevant records in the data building as they requested. He and Lu Chizhou stayed nearby to see if they could receive news from Lan Huiyu and the others again.

They knew there was a problem here, but they couldn't find a way to get in. Abnormal incidents had occurred frequently in various places in the past half month, and no team was able to help even if they asked for help. It was no exaggeration to say that there was no one idle in the Abnormal Bureau.

Tu Jiaojiao felt a little regretful. The situation in the underground cave was unclear. He should at least leave Lu Chizhou outside, so that even if something happened to him, the whole army would not be wiped out.

The two of them continued to crawl on the ground, the soil gradually turned from dry to wet, and Tu Jiaojiao felt a bone-chilling chill under his arms.

He grabbed a handful of dirt through his gloves and put it to his nose. The smell of blood in his face made him roll his eyes.

...So strong.

Tu Jiaojiao's heart sank.

Such a strong smell of blood is definitely not the remnant of many years, but is newly formed.

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The soil under his feet became increasingly wetter. When Yu Tu reached the last section, the ground looked like mud left over after rain, except that the mud was dark red with a faint black tint.

At the end of the mud was a stone ground with patterns carved on it that Yu Tu did not recognize. The end of each pattern was submerged in the soil beneath his feet.

Yu Tu whispered: "Blood drain."

The time he spent reading the book over the past few months was not in vain. Even though the patterns had become somewhat blurred due to the erosion of age, he still found the corresponding source—the blood-guiding grooves of this pattern would only appear on ancient sacrificial formations.

But whether it was to offer prey as sacrifices to the gods to pray for good weather, or to frighten foreign enemies with the blood of captives, or to use sacrificial formations as a medium to balance the two prices... no one knew unless they reached the core.

Following the guidance of the blood trough, Yu Tu led the black cat through a long corridor. At the end of the corridor was a small open space. In the center of the open space, a corpse was nailed.

A bloody corpse.