Chapter 65 The Sleeping Curse (29) [That last laugh...]
A gust of wind swept away the boy's flower wreath, disappearing behind the ever-changing mountains, leaving him standing there, somewhat stunned.
A coffin fell down, he glanced at it, seemed to come to his senses, and continued walking forward, but after a while, he suddenly turned back.
The cave on the mountain wall was erased, and after a new cave appeared on the ground, an eye quickly drifted away.
Xie Tan's gaze fell there.
He stood beneath a cluster of oddly shaped rocks, as if under an eave, his entire body enveloped in shadows the same color as the rocks, revealing only a pair of deep, dark eyes.
Darker than a shadow.
He remained silent, as if watching that eye leave.
At this moment, the roles of the voyeur and the voyeur are reversed.
【My God, that scared me to death, Ah Tan!】
[The Man in Black is Now Available]
[The previous times, the sudden appearance of that eye didn't scare me, but Ah Tan really scared me. That ghostly smell... Which one of you is the ghost?]
[The eyes drifted along without Ah Tan reacting, but then Ah Tan suddenly turned around and attacked after the eyes left. That's terrifying, bro!]
Xie Tan carefully recalled the situation at the time. He was only looking at the newly appeared cliff cave on the ground and judged that the mountain was indeed changing, and that it was changing along with the coffin. He did not notice the eyes.
Even at sea, with rain and huge waves, he spent most of the journey looking at his phone, absorbing information from comics and browsing forums. How could he possibly pay attention to an eye rolling in the sea?
The main thing is that ever since he arrived at the hotel, especially when he entered that room, he had a vague feeling that something was watching him, which was especially noticeable when he slept on the first night.
The details have been vague ever since, but as some people on the forum have said, the eyes are what the old sheep uses to monitor the main offering.
He guessed that the blue-tiled house was Su Han's residence. Three years ago, the incompetent senior came to the town and also stayed in the hotel, where he was constantly monitored by this eye.
However, the sudden, terrifying sight could indeed frighten Xie Tan, even though he was too indifferent to show it.
But once he gets past that sudden attack, he can calm down, let alone this constant, lurking danger.
People are afraid because of the unknown: what is lurking in the shadows, why is it themselves, what do they want to do, and as these three questions continue to ferment, the most terrifying question becomes: when will it happen?
When will what we fantasize about, or what we can't even imagine, come true?
The endless wait can drive people crazy, making them yearn for things to hurry up before the danger actually arrives.
But Xie Tan wouldn't. He would only notice it and know that such a thing existed. Because he didn't care, he waited more patiently for that moment to arrive than those in the shadows.
Instead, he seemed more like the hunter lurking in the shadows.
In the comic, this scene is rendered with a particularly strong sense of this feeling.
Next, the boy quietly withdrew his gaze and continued forward, the camera on the wrecked boat temporarily diverting his attention from the coffin on the mountaintop.
He reviewed the video, paused at the end, and gently wiped the blood off the camera lens with his fingertip.
Then, he handed the camera to the body collector, stared at the human-skinned monster as it lingered and left, and smiled reassuringly, as if he knew it was reluctant to leave.
But the bloodstains on the wrecked ship were right behind him, the only bright color in the whole scene, which somehow made his smile look a little strange.
After the corpse collector had completely disappeared, he looked at the coffin on the mountaintop again and walked towards it, his compass.
The escaped eye darted through the mountains, eventually falling into the hands of the white-haired man.
The man's face was also tinged with a gloomy tone by the dim mountain night, a gloom that was hard to dispel.
He looked into the eyes in his palm, as if checking surveillance footage, or perhaps the camera following the boy.
However, the content is not extensive, starting from Xie Tan's departure at sea.
Su Han had already checked the previous records, so only the new records that Su Han hadn't seen yet were left.
The kid was playing on his phone the whole time on the boat, there was nothing to see, so Su He skipped straight to the last screen and, unexpectedly, met the gaze of the boy returning from the mountains.
Su He raised an eyebrow.
[Found it? Great!]
The boy's glance softened his expression for a moment, but he crushed the eye, regaining his gloomy look and putting the useless little incident behind him.
After inspecting all the coffins, he unceremoniously berated his own family, his wild brows furrowed with impatience.
[What a bizarre video! It turns out the little hill was already teeming with life on the very first night, rising from flat ground like a mountain!]
Wow, Ah Tan was watching Wolf Daddy, no wonder he suddenly came back.
[Haha, this sudden return definitely wasn't something he just noticed; Ah Tan did it on purpose. Sometimes he just likes to do something like this out of the blue.]
[This Ah Tan is so mean!]
I love it even more now.
[I think Wolf Dad loves it even more now, haha, it's a cat that perfectly suits Wolf Dad's taste.]
[The few times Wolf Dad has visited the town, he hasn't seemed very happy, except for finding Ah Tan somewhat interesting.]
Who angered him again?
[Clearly it's overtime and a stupid boss]
[Still a family-run workshop, hahaha]
[Old Goat, I'm speechless. Look how angry Daddy got!]
[“Bullshit!” “He’s desperate to make a comeback!” “This generation of loyalists is no good!” “Let’s all die together!”... Hahaha, I’m dying of laughter. Even Wolf Dad himself curses when he gets ruthless.]
[That's how Wolf Dad is; sometimes I'm really afraid he'll slap the head of the family.]
Do you think he can't do it?
How do you know he didn't do it?
Amidst the widespread discontent, crucial information was discovered: the wolf father mentioned a prophecy, implying that "the prophecy has been moved," meaning one of the coffins would manifest, but the wolf father's inspection revealed no reaction.
[How could they manifest? These were all offerings from before, right? Did they push open the coffin lid and rise from the dead?]
[The old goat built this place; it looks like he's raising a monster. Could he actually be raising something here?]
[A mystical version of human experimentation? Is this an attempt to create a living dead? The prophecy is definitely deeply intertwined with the family's fate. Just look at Old Man Su's erratic behavior—could it be a classic quest for immortality?]
So, what exactly is this mountain?
Then, the lively chattering sounds from the mountains softened Su He's gloomy expression once again.
This kid not only occupied the place where the corpse was, but also kept talking to the person endlessly, with exceptionally strong energy. Su He listened to his nonsensical nonsense and teenage angst without any psychological burden, and wanted to scare him.
“You’re having teenage angst,” he suddenly said.
Lu Jinzhao was alright, only glancing down at the newcomer, but Xie Tanxin, who was reading a comic book, suddenly felt a pang of anxiety.
Actually, as early as when Lu Jinzhao said that someone was avoiding him, Xie Tan had a vague feeling in his heart... that he was probably talking about himself.
He has indeed been deliberately avoiding people since that movie.
He got stuck on this page, mentally bracing himself, then turned to the next, a little uneasy… How would Lu Jinzhao answer? Deny it, be shocked, or would he unusually seriously tell Su He not to joke around? Or perhaps…
But none of them are true.
Lu Jinzhao's answer stunned Xie Tan, who hadn't expected it.
"It is difficult to describe him in any of the four seasons."
"He is who he is, unlike anything else."
Xie Tan looked down for a while, his fingertips brushing over the two sentences, and when he withdrew them, he also brushed over the hair of the figure in the painting.
[Wolf Daddy, my mouth double!! I was getting impatient listening to Lu Lu's babbling for so long, but as soon as Wolf Daddy opened his mouth, I felt so good! You little rascal, you've fallen in love!!]
[Even the wolf dad is pedantic about the tangent theorem; that's classy.]
[LuLu said that Wolf Daddy hates this place, yet he still insists on staying here?]
[Isn't this Black Goat's own business? Why would they hate it? Is it just internal family factional infighting?]
[If something like that existed, Wolf Dad would definitely be relying on nothing; he probably just thinks his own project is kind of stupid, right?]
[Judging from the explanation, this is an abandoned project. The wolf father only came because the prophecy seemed to point to this place. It's normal that he doesn't like it; with his temper, if he's really unhappy, he'll probably just destroy his own business anyway...]
[The sisters tried to "bless" their lips, and they actually smashed them! But they didn't break them open. What's this? Maybe they should just try it out?]
[It scared me half to death; I thought it was going to smash through the mountain!]
[This is what a fun-loving player does: when there are no fights to be had, they just attack their own base for fun, hahaha]
[The wolf father also glanced at the coffin at the very top. That must be the key to maintaining the small mountain. Wasn't the small mountain that Rui Rui saw in her dream different?]
Xie Tan's brows twitched when he saw this. He now knew that the coffin was not the key to the formation at all.
Unlike other coffins, this one was empty; it hadn't been refined into eyes.
The coffin moving back and forth is actually the eyes floating around within the area of the hill.
But this is even stranger: why leave an empty coffin that has no use in the mountains?
The remains are not in the coffin. Were they taken away, or did the person who owned the coffin not die as a sacrifice?
In the comics, Su He's glance is not the only one that mentions the coffin; Chang Ming'ai and the cult leader are also present at sea.
After the cult leader explained his purpose, he mentioned the coffin to amuse the younger followers. Xie Tan noticed one of his word choices: "You can think of that as a 'blank space'."
This word made him pause for a moment.
He used Chekhov's gun to change the previous owner's materials to his own, and the cat also said that they belonged entirely to him, which means that those materials could also be considered "blank".
If this isn't a case of coincidence... then the previous homeowner must have been an unlucky time traveler too.
So he asked cat number 7.
The cat had already opened the straw and licked its face full of coconut juice.
It shook its face and slowly began to lick its paws: "No, you're the only time traveler, that's for sure, meow."
Xie Tan did ask the system cat if it knew anyone living there, but the cat only said that it was a system that provided comics, forums, and Chekhov's Gun. The information he could get here was the information it could provide, and nothing else.
It even encouraged him to explore further, such as using its ability to pass through walls within a certain range around him and let it lead the way. The cat appreciated this and was happy to help him.
That might just be a coincidence in word choice, but the previous homeowner... must have been a formidable person as well.
Xie Tan suspected that the former homeowner was an important figure, belonging to the Black Goat's line, and that he had taken advantage of the situation by using the "key" card.
The cult leader's every appearance is enough to make your heart stop.
Xiao Ai: You Understand Me
[I can't believe Xiao Ai will ever see the "I am guilty" statue in the art museum. It's unlikely her first encounter with it will be at an art museum, where some Virgin Mary statue will suddenly open its mouth... Ugh, what a horror movie!]
[This is hilarious! The cult leader's mouth... well, it really is just a mouth.]
How does the cult leader know so much? Do the followers even need to investigate? He knows everything.
[They also know that the hanging coffins on the mountain peak are not the key point of the formation.]
[The intense malevolence refers to the person in the coffin, right? Has he become a vengeful ghost?]
[The solar energy from the hill and the goat's mark will be used to suppress it.]
[An inside-outside collaboration? Who's the inside agent? Neither Lu Lu nor Uncle Hong seems like it.]
[Oh my god, it's Ah Tan, the corpse collector! The other half is with Ah Tan!]
[In the flashback, at the coffin shop, the cult leader used the blue-haired girl's mouth to climb into the human skin monster, just to wait for Ah Tan to board the boat up the mountain. That explains why the corpse collectors were so enthusiastic.]
So, Ah Tan was unaware? He became part of the cult leader's scheme to get to Xiaoshan?
No, it's the camera!
Xie Tan was stunned. He looked back and saw another half-human skin monster, also corrupted by the incantation, fighting with Xue Hong for the camera. A non-existent video was playing automatically.
In the video, Pan Ling's mouth drooled down to the center of the human skin. As soon as she opened her mouth, the songs from the town, Chang Ming's beloved boat, and the small mountain opened up the way, and the wind rushed in.
[So that's how it is! After the video finished playing, Ah-Tan was still looking at something, even gently rubbing it with his finger. He must have discovered this deleted video, right?]
[Wow, so Ah Tan giving the camera to the body collector, and that last laugh... it was all part of setting things up. He guessed the cult leader's plan right away.]
So, Ah Tan will also try to steal the mirror shards from the foot of the mountain, won't he?
[What a chaotic battle! Place your bets and see who gets the last shard of the mirror!]
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