Chapter 649 Swinging Like a Pendulum
The thing that grabbed Wu Xian looked like a person, but the body was quite unstable.
Its face was covered with cracks, and its facial features were somewhat incomplete. Its chest was like a hornet's nest, with hundreds of thumb-sized holes that opened and closed like nostrils while breathing. Through these holes, one could see its internal organs, which were also incomplete.
Wu Xian temporarily named it "Dongcrack Ghost".
The cave-crack ghost grabbed Wu Xian's body and opened its mouth to make a strange sound like wind blowing through a cave. It roared too hard and the cracks on its entire face began to tear. Wu Xian's body, which was grabbed by the cave-crack ghost, felt an icy cold that made him shiver, but he also felt a sharp pain as if he was burned.
The scene was terrifying.
But beyond that, there is no further threat.
Wu Xian didn't even frown as he quickly took out the Soul-Hooking Lock and stabbed the grappling hook into the eye socket of the Cave-Splitting Ghost!
"Ow..."
The hole-crack ghost screamed and floated out of the range of the smoke. Judging from its movement trajectory in the last moments, it should have fallen down.
While the cave-crack ghost was falling, Wu Xian quickly wrapped the soul-catching chain around his arm and held the grappling hook with his backhand, so that the soul-catching chain became a weapon similar to brass knuckles.
While wrapping his weapon, Wu Xian was also thinking.
This cave-crack ghost should be the invisible evil spirit from before, then why was it invisible before but so clear now?
This may be the credit of the red light emitted by the red lantern. The evil light broke the invisibility of the hole-crack ghost, reducing the threat level of this thing from unsolvable to something that can be easily dealt with.
In addition, the action pattern of the cave-splitting ghost is very simple. If it rushes over instead of grabbing Wu Xian, but pushing him, then the degree of horror Wu Xian would feel would increase by several levels, because if that happened, he would fall off the cliff if he was not careful.
Obviously, Wu Xian and others have violated the rules, but the hole-crack ghosts still did not choose the most lethal attack method. This shows that these hole-crack ghosts are just like the "red light head" and the "porter", and only act according to a fixed pattern.
Next, it is the hole-crack ghost's drop puzzle.
Before stepping onto the stairs, everyone saw that these hole-cracked ghosts fell off the cliff. Given the characteristics of the Valley of the Dead, there was no reason for these hole-cracked ghosts to come back.
This question may soon be answered.
The attacks of the hole-splitting ghost did not stop after just one time. Instead, they became more and more frequent. Soon, another hole-splitting ghost rushed through the smoke from the same direction.
This time Wu Xian was well prepared and punched the hole-crack ghost in the face. The hole-crack ghost, who had just pounced on him, fell down again howling before it could touch Wu Xian's clothes.
Because Wu Xian was prepared this time, he could see it very clearly. The fall of the Cave-Cracked Ghost was not in a straight line, but more like an arc. Although its upper body was in human shape, its lower body was twisted and deformed, and both legs were stretched, becoming less clear towards the end!
So Wu Xian squatted down.
Looking carefully at the wooden stairs, he soon found a wrapped black cloth strip on a wooden board. The hem of the cloth strip was nearly half a meter long.
Logically, the cloth strip should flutter in the wind, but in fact it is very tight and sways regularly like a pendulum.
After thinking for a while, Wu Xian solved the mystery of the cave-crack ghost's disappearance.
The thing wrapped around the wood of the stairs was not a black cloth strip, but legs and feet that were stretched, thinned, softened and wrapped around the wooden boards of the stairs!
Although these creatures are invisible and intangible, they do not have the ability to fly in the Valley of the Dead. Therefore, they stretch their lower bodies and wrap their legs around the stairs. This way, even if they fall accidentally, they can hang in the air like Wu Xian and others before, instead of falling to the bottom of the Valley of the Dead.
Then these hole-cracked ghosts only need to swing faster like a swing to get back to the stairs!
The smoke released by the golden bell was indeed effective, and the hole-cracked ghosts were forced to leave the stairs, but it was not completely effective, as the hole-cracked ghosts could still endure the discomfort and come back to launch an attack!
So, what would happen if Wu Xian cut the "cloth strip" on the wooden board?
He cut the "cloth strips" with a strange smile. The originally tight falling cloth strips suddenly became loose, as if something fell from midair, and the unpleasant roar became weaker and weaker. The remaining "cloth strips" on the stairs spontaneously ignited and began to melt, eventually leaving a small piece of black wax on the wooden board.
Wu Xian put the wax away. This thing should be the reward after the death of the Cave-Cracking Ghost, similar to the evil incense. However, the situation on the stairs was urgent and he had no time to check the specific information.
After figuring out how to deal with the cave-splitting ghost, Wu Xian loudly passed the message to other people. Those who heard the message also loudly passed it on to more people. In this way, the fourteen people distributed on the thirty-meter staircase quickly received the information.
The attack method of the hole-splitting ghost is destined to prevent the new followers from leaving quickly, so the fourteen people who walked up the stairs are all alive for now.
Then Wu Xian crouched down and moved forward, cutting off the legs and feet of the hole-splitting ghosts one by one. The wax accumulated on his body became more and more, so much that it even felt heavy.
Wu Xian suddenly heard some strange noise coming from the stairs in front of him.
The strange sound did not sound like Wang Jiudan's, nor did it sound like the Donglie Ghost, so in order to find out what was going on, he couldn't help but quicken his pace.
Then he saw Wang Jiudan kneeling on the stairs, holding a hole-cracked ghost across his body, with his head buried in the hole area on the ghost's chest, making a sound like chewing.
……
Thirty-meter-long staircase, at the end of the team.
Lan Xuan, Miao Ling and Fu Dahai were moving forward at a relatively fast speed.
Because of the sudden movement of the statue, the distance between the three of them was much closer than that between the others.
The statues put enormous pressure on them, but even so, they couldn't increase their speed under the threat of the cave-splitting ghosts.
After getting over the initial shock, Lan Xuan took the lead and began to eliminate the hole-crack ghosts one by one according to the method passed down by Wu Xian.
But she was a family member and she was brave. Miao Ling, who followed behind Lan Xuan, started to be shy after stepping onto the stairs, and her movements were several beats slower than before.
There are statues of gods chasing them from behind, and if they walk slowly, they will die, especially since these two are newcomers.
If the person following her was Fu Dahai, Lan Xuan wouldn't care about his life or death.
But Miaoling is different.
In her opinion, Miao Ling is just a normal newcomer and should grab the opportunity if given the chance.
Although Lan Xuan is a girl, she has been naughty since she was a child. She is known as the king of the kids in the neighborhood. Relying on her early development of physical fitness, she dominates a group of little boys. She often calls herself the big sister and protects the weakest boy among her playmates.
Miao Ling's feminine temperament and feminine appearance just touched upon Lan Xuan's childhood memories and aroused her desire to protect her.
So she kindly encouraged Miao Ling with two words:
"Come on, don't lose face!"
"Don't be a timid man. Don't let me look down on you."
She didn't notice that Miao Ling's feminine face turned cold as ice after she heard the word "male man".
(End of this chapter)
