Chapter 231 I Grant You Eternal Life
The guards' guns never left their vests.
Not until the figures of the three disappeared into the thick shadows of the temple and the door of the temple slowly closed without anyone touching it did the two men's hearts, which had been tense all night, finally relax.
As the first rays of sunlight shone obliquely on the magnificent dome of the temple, the two sighed, "This is really not a job for humans."
"Well, it's fine as long as we catch up. Let's go down the mountain and let the sacrificial team come."
Before they finished speaking, a teasing voice suddenly came from behind them: "You are pointing a gun at my sister, do you still want to get down the mountain?"
"puff--"
"puff--"
The two men lowered their heads in shock as a thick black sharp blade pierced through their chests. Dark red blood flowed along the blade to the tip, falling drop by drop onto the bluestone steps.
"Don't do that next time." The man's voice was intimate, as if he was blaming them for something insignificant.
A black crack appeared out of nowhere on the empty stone steps, and a tall, silver-haired young man took a step out of it, and gently placed his hands on the backs of the two people who were leaning back.
Silently, the two fell into the black crack and completely disappeared from this world.
Two brown vines crawled out from both sides of the mountain path, tore Lao Geng, who was beaten like a sieve, into two halves, and dragged them into the dense forest separately.
Strong winds whistled past, carrying the weathered snow. Small grasses broke through the cracks in the bluestone steps, brushing against the remaining bloodstains and flesh fragments on the steps, bringing the last traces back to the ground.
Jing looked at the closed door of the temple in front of him and said with interest: "My sister is too brave and likes to join in the fun. What should I do?"
--------
Ai Wanxin pinched Pan Yongfu and Guo Zi's arms and dragged them into the temple.
Pan Yongfu and Guo Zi are both healthy adult men, but they were pinched on the arms by an "old woman" and could not break free.
However, they did not dare to shout loudly, especially when the stone door that was more than ten meters high slowly closed behind the three of them. Their knees went weak and they knelt directly on the ground.
The hall was deep and wide, and even though the sun had risen outside, there was not even a trace of light inside.
“Hehehe~~~~” A sultry and crisp laughter came from the darkness, “Today’s offerings are a bit too much~?”
It was the voice of a young woman, with an upturned ending that sounded lazy and sweet.
Pan Yongfu and Guo Zi were so frightened that their faces turned pale. They knelt on the ground and kowtowed, shouting, "Goddess, spare us, Goddess, spare us. The sacrifice is her, it is her!"
Their voices, like the howling of ghosts and wolves, echoed in the deep hall.
"Hmm~~" a gentle female voice came from behind the two of them, "Are you teaching me how to do things?"
"No, no, I dare not - I dare not!" Pan Yongfu and Guo Zi's hair stood on end. They felt a chill passing by their ears. They were so scared that they crawled forward using their hands and feet.
"It's not her, it's you guys~?"
The voice suddenly appeared in front of the two of them.
In the darkness, a face with skin and flesh turned inside out and melted features flashed before their eyes, scaring them so much that they couldn't help but scream.
"No, it's not us, ah——ghost——"
"Am I not your goddess? Why does everyone say I'm a ghost when they see me?" The voice seemed to fade away, revealing pitiful grievance and frustration.
"Ah - help, help!" The two men turned a deaf ear and just crawled around in the darkness, but they couldn't find where the door was.
Ai Wanxin secretly put on night vision goggles and saw everything about the two people crawling around.
"Oh~~, it's not fun~~"
"I have been exiled for so many years, why are humans still so weak and boring?"
"Only worthy of being my food."
In the night vision goggles, a cloud of black smoke rose from the ground and completely enveloped Guozi.
"Ah——" screams of fear and despair resounded throughout the hall.
But soon, the sound stopped, the black smoke dissipated, and only a shriveled and wrinkled corpse was left on the ground.
"Hmm~~" Black Smoke sighed with satisfaction, "You guys are late today, I'm not happy~"
"So I deprive you of the right to become a sacrifice and enjoy endless life."
Although Pan Yongfu couldn't see what happened, Guo Zi's dying screams were enough to scare him to death.
"No, don't kill me, no, I still have family, I don't want to die, I don't want to die!"
"You won't die~" A female voice whispered softly in his ear, "You are luckier than him. I have calmed down. I will grant you eternal life, okay?"
"No...don't..." Pan Yongfu couldn't hear what she was saying at all and just refused instinctively.
"You can't refuse~" Just as the words fell, a white light flashed in Pan Yongfu's eyes, a white film covered his eyes, sharp teeth pierced his lips, and his skin and flesh collapsed quickly.
A roar that was familiar to Ai Wanxin came out of his mouth, he staggered to his feet, and walked clumsily towards the palace door.
Ai Wanxin frowned slightly, and when Pan Yongfu passed by her, she acted as fast as lightning and broke his neck.
He has obviously turned into a zombie. If he is allowed to go out like this, the entire old city might fall.
"Hmm~~?" A breeze ruffled Ai Wanxin's cloak, "There's another one~~"
In the night vision goggles, black smoke floated around Ai Wanxin. A fleshy hand reached out from the black smoke and gently stroked Ai Wanxin's face, which was covered with a cloth.
"Can I see your face, please~?"
"Turn on the light." Ai Wanxin didn't hide from her hand, but ordered.
"What's a lamp?" The woman's hand pushed aside the hood on Ai Wanxin's head and murmured softly.
"If you want to see my face, there must be light. The lamp is the light." She explained with rare patience.
"But I haven't seen the light for many years. My beautiful skin has been corroded by the air of the evil spirit land. If there is light, you will see that I am ugly~"
The woman took off the night vision goggles and glasses on Ai Wanxin's face, and when she tried to hook the cloth covering her face, Ai Wanxin grabbed her wrist.
"If you don't show it to me, I won't show it to you." She said with a smile.
There was surprise in the woman's voice: "You can touch me?"
I was so surprised that I even forgot to add the upturned ending tone.
"Turn on the light." Ai Wanxin repeated.
The woman's hand, which she was holding, snapped her fingers awkwardly, and a row of bright green flames suddenly ignited on the walls on both sides of the hall.
Ai Wanxin turned her head, and the black smoke beside her slowly condensed into a human shape, and a woman was pulled out of the black smoke by her.
It was a pale-skinned young woman with ankle-length hair that covered most of her body. The remaining exposed skin was covered with red runes, even on her face.
In the places not covered by the runes, her skin and flesh were festering at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then healing quickly, as if all the blood and flesh in her body were boiling.
"Who are you?" the woman asked confusedly, tilting her head.