Chapter 501 Coffin
“Get out of the way!”
Xiao Jin suddenly threw out the shadow spear from his waist, and the weapon instantly pierced through the skull eye socket beside Yunye's leg and nailed him to the ground.
Yunye had just jumped away from here, and when he looked up, he found that all the dry bones around him were shaking.
As arms and legs flew everywhere, several arms broke out from the ground, trying to catch Xiao Jin and the other man.
Xiao Jin spread his blue wings and floated in the air. Yun Ye on the other side also used a flying prop. The two looked down at the scene of hundreds of ghosts appearing in front of them.
"Xiao Jin, look there." At this time, Yun Ye pointed in the direction where the shadow thorn was.
"Ok?"
Xiao Jin looked over carefully and soon understood what Yun Ye meant.
The place where the shadow pierced was not the sand and yellow soil as Xiao Jin had imagined, but a tattered and mottled stone tablet.
Then, drops of blood suddenly oozed out of the inscription, and the withered hands around it shrank back into the soil as if they were scalded.
Yunye took the opportunity to fish out a skull, and when the skull appeared in mid-air, it was still talking: "...Substitute... "
"substitute?"
Xiao Jin and Yun Ye murmured these two words again and again, with a thoughtful look in their eyes.
What stand-in? Who is the stand-in?
Is it the owner of the skeleton here, or these players?
Xiao Jin slowly descended. She walked to the stone tablet and pulled out the shadow thorn. This time, the surrounding skull bones did not move.
She squatted down to check the stone tablet, but unfortunately, there was nothing about the copy on it.
"Let's go and take a look at the front." Xiao Jin stood up and said.
When she just took off, she spotted from afar a tall locust tree growing in the center of the mass grave.
And there seemed to be something else under the locust tree.
"Yeah." Yunye had no objection.
Soon the two of them arrived under the locust tree in the center of the mass grave. Only then did Xiao Jin realize that what he saw in the sky were actually seven new coffins.
Xiao Jin used a knife to pry open the nearest body, and a foul smell hit him in the face.
The coffin was covered with a thick layer of mycelium, on which lay a paper man wearing a red bellyband, with a peach wood nail inserted in his heart.
"This is..." Yun Ye lifted the collar of the paper man, revealing the densely packed talismans underneath. The most eye-catching thing was the miniature mountain temple painted on the abdomen, with the word "替" written in blood on the temple door.
Xiao Jin suddenly remembered something and took out the yellow paper she had obtained from the ancestral hall. When she pressed the paper against the coffin board, the spells reorganized automatically and a paragraph of words covered by blood appeared:
"Seven soul-guiding lamps are needed on the night of sacrifice. If the lamps go out, a substitute will be created."
"This is..." Yunye was very surprised.
Xiao Jin waved his hand and said, "I found it under the coffin in the mourning hall when I left yesterday. No one noticed it at the time, and I didn't know what use it would have, so I just left it there."
"Then you are very foresighted." Yun Ye praised Xiao Jin: "Among so many people, you are the only one who discovered it."
Then the two of them looked at the coffin.
Yunye: "This soul-guiding lamp is really not a good thing."
"Yeah." Xiao Jin replied calmly: "I'm afraid that after the sacrifice begins, the players need to protect the soul-guiding lamps in their hands from going out.
Once all seven lamps are extinguished, the substitute's magic circle will be completely successful."
“But there aren’t enough lights.”
Yes, Yunye is right.
Xiao Jin and his five companions did not collect materials in an orderly manner, nor did they go to the village chief to make lanterns. There were a total of 8 players in the dungeon, but only Wang Zixuan and the other two had lanterns.
The quantity obviously did not meet the requirement.
Xiao Jin was silent: "I haven't figured this out yet, but I have a feeling that the ghost lantern will be in our hands sooner or later..."
Then the two of them took a picture of the words that the talisman transformed into, intending to show them to Shao Siyuan and others when they got back.
There was nothing to see here, so Xiao Jin and Yun Ye decided to go back home.
The two walked in the direction they came from. Although they could not see the familiar village, Xiao Jin already had a way out.
About five minutes later, Xiao Jin stood in front of the stone tablet again.
Yes, this is the way out she found.
This time Xiao Jin did not hold back. He used all his strength and raised his sword to chop down.
‘Bang! ! ’
Following a loud bang, Xiao Jin and Yun Ye's eyes blurred. When they regained their sight, they had left the mass grave and returned to the real mountains and forests.
"Let's first..."
"Ahhhhh!!"
Xiao Jin was just about to talk to Yun Ye about returning to the guesthouse, but was interrupted by a scream.
Hearing this familiar voice, Xiao Jin's pupils suddenly shrank - it was Sui Ying.
Without time to think, after exchanging a glance with Yunye, they both ran towards the scream.
When Xiao Jin arrived, he saw Feng Hao using a long sword to split the head of a rotten corpse. Under the rotten corpse was a torn diary, and when Sui Feng snatched it out, the cover was still moving.
And around them, there were at least dozens of rotting corpses of all sizes.
"We were attacked!" Sui Ying covered her bleeding calf and was so moved that she almost cried when she saw Xiao Jin and the others.
Shortly after Xiao Jin and Yun Ye left, the three of them felt bored staying in the guesthouse, so they decided to go out for a walk.
As soon as they arrived here, the sharp-eyed Feng Hao discovered that there was something wrong with the pile of soil on the ground. After the three of them discussed it, they started digging.
As Sui Feng dug, he found a small backpack, and the diary was in the backpack.
At first, the three of them were very excited when they saw what they had obtained. It was hidden so tightly, there must be some hidden clue.
Unexpectedly, just as they were about to open it to take a look, they were surrounded by a group of rotten corpses that suddenly appeared. During the fight, Sui Ying was careless and was attacked and injured.
Seeing that the team's big shot had arrived, Sui Ying was not so flustered.
She bared her teeth and complained: "If a pair of hands hadn't suddenly stretched out from the bushes, I wouldn't have been hurt so easily!"
With the help of Yunye and Xiao Jin, everyone quickly cleaned up the rotten corpse.
Sui Feng helped Sui Ying to the side to apply medicine, while Xiao Jin held the diary and looked through it with Shao Siyuan.
Opening the notebook, Xiao Jin read ten lines at a glance.
This is more of a personal note than a diary. It's not very long, maybe only one or two pages in total.
But the content on these one or two pages alone is already very important.
The first page showed a magic circle, but Xiao Jin didn’t know much about it, so he couldn’t quite understand it.
As he thought about it, Xiao Jin subconsciously thought of Song Chao. If this guy was still around, maybe he would recognize him.
On the second page, there are detailed records of the steps on how to make a "stand-in lantern" using a living person.
That’s right, it’s the ‘Soul-Guiding Lamp’ in Wang Zixuan and the others’ hands.
There is also a yellowed photo on this page: it shows seven villagers standing in front of the mountain temple, each holding a human skin lantern in their hands.
Xiao Jin looked at the mountain temple for a long time without saying anything. It turned out that the real place of worship was here!
She originally thought that the so-called "sacrifice to the gods" was in the ancestral hall where the funeral was held, but she never imagined that there was such a hidden location!