1TWITF[C Chapter 66

Chapter 66

Lin Chu, who had run out a few steps, looked back and saw this scene. She rubbed her eyes.

Was it an illusion? Why did it feel like this… wasn’t like a dead person?

Lu Yanli slowly sat up from the coffin, his eyes quickly scanned, and he found Lin Chu running out. She was clearly here to do a task, but he didn’t know why she appeared alone in the deep mountains and old forests.

The two’s eyes met.

Lin Chu was surprised: No corpse spots, no swelling, bright eyes, although his face was pale, but looking at his panting appearance, he looked like a person.

Lu Yanli nodded and continued to look around.

The place they were in was very peculiar. One side was a forest, and looking to the other side was a boundless wrinkled landform, with layers of ridges, high and low. Under the moonlight, the exposed rock surface reflected a pale light.

But the land under their feet was clearly soft.

The giant dog named Awang was not too far away from them, fighting with something in the forest. Judging from the figure, it looked a lot like the old lady.

If it could eat that old lady, would he not need to fish?

The thought flashed in his mind for a moment, and Lu Yanli walked out. He needed to get some information before Awang reacted and Lili came to settle the score with him.

Luo Ying said that the village’s cemetery was a forbidden area, and could not be entered without a villager’s lead. Was this it?

Lu Yanli walked in a little further.

Now there were no villagers around him, but he did not feel any rejection. So, Luo Ying said that she couldn’t get in, was it because of her personal identity, or was there some kind of barrier from the outside world?

Why couldn’t this forbidden area be entered?

The word “also” would naturally be understood if the other party was also a task-taker.

Lu Yanli: “Yes, are you too?”

And no matter which layer it was, a large number of graves were densely distributed. Tombstones built of gray-white rock, layered and arranged into a circle with an arc. But this place was too big, and they could only judge that the graves might be arranged in a circle through slight arcs.

Lu Yanli: “Just walking around.”

As he spoke, he moved forward to another layer.

It wasn’t obvious just now, but now he could clearly feel that the temperature around him had dropped slightly, the coldness invading his skin, and the moonlight seemed to have dimmed a bit.

He turned his head back, and Lin Chu was carefully following the footprints he had left. Seeing him turn his head, she was puzzled: “What’s wrong?”

Lu Yanli asked: “Are you cold?”

Saying that, she quickened her pace and walked towards the inner circle. After jogging for a while, she stopped again. After feeling it again, she frowned: “It has indeed dropped.”

She couldn’t help but develop a strong interest.

This circle after circle was simply like a target for archery. Moreover, what were the circles of graves surrounding? Why was it getting colder the further in they went?

What would be in the innermost circle?

Layer after layer, they didn’t know how far they had walked. Lin Chu had already come to Lu Yanli’s vicinity, and walked forward together a few meters apart. Different from Lu Yanli, she would also take pictures of all the tombstones nearby, and send messages to her companions from time to time.

Of course, what she didn’t know was that after entering this area, none of her messages had been sent.

Most of the people in the car thought she was dead, and the only two who believed she was still alive were Yu Xiangguang and An Xingyu.

They had already entered the village. The villagers were very enthusiastic, but when asked about the other two people who had returned to their hometowns to worship their ancestors that they had heard on the road before, the villagers didn’t know where they had gone.

“What’s going on with the two ancestral worshipers that the villagers mentioned? Could there be two other task-takers? They didn’t join us?” Yu Xiangguang was puzzled.

Lin Xueyuan: “One man and one woman, the man is called Lu Yanli, and the woman is called Luo Ying. Lu Yanli moved into Zhang Bo’s house, but he disappeared after attending the village chief’s mother’s funeral tonight. That Luo Ying…” She frowned, “The other villagers don’t seem to like her.”

The villagers in this village were very enthusiastic. It was strange that one person could make everyone dislike them in just two days.

What did that Luo Ying do?

Lin Xueyuan prided herself on not being that smart. After surviving the first task by luck, she had been studying various psychology tutorials and analyzing people’s facial micro-expressions in an almost self-abusive way.

“And have you noticed that the villagers here look a bit like certain animals?”

As soon as she said this, Xie Ziqing, one of the task-takers, nodded: “I also think so, a bit like, like that what…”

What was it?

“Fox.”

A female voice answered him.

“Yes, yes, it’s a fox.” Xie Ziqing nodded repeatedly.

Just after answering, he suddenly realized that this voice did not belong to any of the five of them. After he replied, the atmosphere in the entire courtyard instantly dropped to freezing point. Everyone turned their heads to look at the door.

Xie Ziqing was shocked. His neck was like it was stuck, and he slowly turned his head to look outside.

“Do you know Lu Yanli?” Every word was cold and terrifying.

The few looked at each other, shook their heads, and dared not speak, for fear of angering this girl who looked like she was not simple.

“What catch fish? I…” Xie Ziqing was about to speak, but Yu Huan grabbed his hand and pinched it hard.

On the ground, the little girl’s shadow clearly grew two pointed ears, and a tail was wagging behind her.

She wasn’t human at all! Did he still want to disobey?

It was not hard to guess that the outcome of being a fish would definitely not be good. The five had no choice but to carefully follow the little girl out.

The countryside generally rested early, but today the villagers were coming and going, and everyone’s faces were a little uneasy. They could vaguely smell the smell of blood, obviously something must have happened after the funeral.

Moreover, the villagers all called her Lili.

The moonlight was sparkling, and in front of them was clearly a lake, but it exuded endless stench. After they finally managed to get on the bridge deck and take a look, several inexperienced task-takers almost vomited.

The river surface was undulating. At first glance, it looked like layers of white waves. On closer inspection, it turned out to be corpses, swollen and rotten, with tangled limbs, rising and falling.

The few who had finally recovered from the vomiting impulse looked at each other, only to find that An Xingyu had already stepped forward and sat down next to the railing. He opened the bait bucket, paused almost imperceptibly, and still hooked the bait on the fishing rod, and threw it into the river with force.

Now, they finally knew what kind of “fish” the little girl was asking them to fish for.

Lin Xueyuan endured her disgust and followed suit, sitting next to An Xingyu. She also reached out to open the bait bucket, but was almost so frightened that she knocked over the bucket.

“This…” She dared not say more, her eyes showing panic.

A “fish” was hooked!

It was a male corpse, its clothes had already rotted, naked and hanging on the fishhook, pale white. When An Xingyu was pulling upwards with force, his eyes inadvertently glanced, and his gaze suddenly froze.

On the corpse’s chest, there was a faint red mark.

And that mark…he also had one on his calf!

An Xingyu thought a lot in an instant.

Why would other believers appear here? It must be God’s will. What they were doing was obviously quite dangerous, and he must not expose himself!

That’s right, were there any other believers in the village? He needed to find a way to join them.

Thinking of this, he exerted force on his hand again. Several people desperately dragged the fish to the shore, finally making it completely out of the water, and was pulled up little by little.

A fishy wind swept over, and a giant dog with a blue face and fangs, with almost all the skin and flesh on its body falling off, leaving only white bones, came running wildly. Its breath was fishy, cold, and after stopping on Lili, its paws uneasily pawed the ground.

“Eat quickly! I know you’re hungry.” Lili, standing on the railing, could just touch the dog’s head. She patted it, and Awang made a whimper from his throat, wagged its tail, lowered its head and feasted.

Lili smiled at Awang, but didn’t have such a good temper with the others. Her face straightened, and she held out a finger and shook it: “Continue fishing! One fish per person!”

Awang ate and wagged its tail straight, obviously looking very happy. After eating, it wagged its tail, Lili touched its head, and pointed to the distance: “Go back.”

The few who understood that they had escaped a disaster breathed a sigh of relief and gathered together to walk back. After walking a distance, An Xingyu quietly looked back, and Lili’s figure was already gone.

On the other side, Lu Yanli was still walking in that strange forbidden area.

This time entering the forbidden area was purely accidental, and he had already offended Lili, so it would definitely be difficult to enter next time. After weighing it again and again, the curiosity to know what the omniscient God was seeking still prevailed, so he continued to walk inside.

They had asked similar questions just now. At that time, Lin Chu could still hold on, but now her hands and feet were almost completely frozen, and she was moving forward step by step with her willpower.

It wasn’t just a simple drop in temperature. This coldness seemed to come from some unknown latitude, and it would also freeze people’s souls.

Lu Yanli was also cold, but he had already experienced being an ice cube in the coffin, and now he could adapt a little. Hearing this, he blinked his dry eyes: “It’s okay.”

As soon as he spoke, he realized that his throat was also frozen tight.

Lu Yanli gritted his teeth and continued to walk forward.

He could already see the last circle of tombstones not far ahead.

What was in the center of the tombstones?

At this moment, neither he nor Lin Chu thought about anything else. The desire to understand the truth made them move forward firmly step by step.

They didn’t even realize that a little bit of red had appeared on the horizon.

The morning sun was rising.

Lu Yanli moved bit by bit to the innermost circle of tombstones.

He looked down.

There, was a pitch-black hole.

It was just a hole, about half a meter wide, and not very regular in circle.

All the cold, dark aura they had felt just now came from the hole. Now, they were standing at the entrance of the hole, and the coldness made the two of them directly freeze in place.

And that kind of darkness seemed to be able to swallow all the light.

What…was in the hole?

Lin Chu followed suit, rolling down beside him.

It took a long time for the two to recover.

It was just a glance.

Lu Yanli slowly calmed his breathing. He recalled the terrain when he came, and then combined it with the scene just now, and constructed a map in his mind.

This forbidden area was very, very large, completely surrounded by forests, and Shangxian Village was located on the outer edge of the forest.

The river that Lili took him to fish in, although he only saw a section of it, but if it extended at both ends, it could also be found that the river surrounded the forbidden area for a week.

They were guarding this forbidden area!

What exactly was the forbidden area?

Lin Chu was also thinking about this question. She gasped for breath, glanced at the direction of the hole, and looked back at the way she came, her eyes showing hesitation.

“Hey, buddy.” Lin Chu’s voice was dry when she said this sentence, and she was shocked by her own boldness.

“What do you say, how about we go down and take a look?”