Chapter 661: Peach and Body Bag
The fire in the thatched hut burned fiercely and quickly.
After a while, the fire gradually became smaller. The yard wall was still burning, but the thatched house was basically burned down.
While the flames on the courtyard wall were still providing light, the four entered the thatched hut and searched for useful things.
The ground at the site of the thatched house fire looked like it was covered in black weeds.
Wu Xian took a closer look and found that these "weeds" all looked like arms that had been roasted into charcoal. He tried to break one and found that there were no bones in these arms, just pieces of flesh shaped like arms.
On the other side of the thatched hut, Yuan Buyai waved to the three people.
"Come and see, there's something here!"
When the three of them walked over, they saw a large black hole on the ground. The entrance of the hole was almost the size of a manhole cover.
Wu Xian squatted at the entrance of the cave and looked down. He saw that the inside of the cave was filled with densely packed black hands. A fishy and unpleasant smell was rising from the entrance of the cave, just like the sewer of a slaughterhouse covered in grease and filled with a foul smell.
The palms near the edge of the cave were all burnt, the palms at the bottom were still wriggling, and the palms in the middle were greasy, as if the oil had been baked out by the high temperature. These arms should have contributed to the fire burning so vigorously.
But what made everyone uneasy was that they did not find Wang Jiudan's body.
Guo Xiake was sweating slightly: "Could it be that Wang Jiudan escaped through this cave?"
Jiang Huaian shook his head: "No, the scream we heard at first was absolutely real. If the evil spirit had the ability to imitate his voice, it would not have repeated Wang Jiudan's scream."
Wu Xian looked at the wriggling arms at the bottom of the cave, and felt a slight chill in his heart: "That is to say, Wang Jiudan was swallowed by this cave entrance when he was attacked!"
"If he was just eaten by this cave, then it's fine. If he's not dead yet... then it means that this thatched house trap was designed to capture one of us alive from the beginning!"
"Fortunately, the person who was arrested was Wang Jiudan!"
This thatched hut trap may look crude, but it was a temporary design after all, and it took a lot of effort to achieve this point.
Ordinary evil spirits would never be able to do such a thing, which means that they have been targeted by something with high intelligence that can control lower-level evil spirits!
This made the four of them feel more stressed.
They then searched the entire scene and finally found four things that might be useful.
The first two items were the four incense sticks dropped by Red Lantern Head and a large piece of wax soul left behind by the white-rod old man after his death. There was no suspense in this encounter as everyone contributed, so the four of them divided these things equally.
There were two things left, four peach pits and a small cloth bag.
The peach pit was the bait left by the person who set the trap. The outer peach flesh had been burnt, but the peach pit was still intact.
The cloth bag was searched out from the white-fleshed old man. He had previously displayed it in order to attract Wu Xian and others into the thatched hut. At that time, there was a person suspected to be Wang Jiudan struggling desperately in the cloth bag.
Wu Xian picked up the two items separately for identification.
Small peach (peach pit): This is a peach dedicated to the dead. If the living eat the pulp, they will reduce one year of their life span. If the dead eat the pulp, their souls will be repaired and their life span in the underworld will be extended. Regardless of whether they are alive or dead, eating peach pits can gather their souls.
Body bag: A special cloth bag that can hold a corpse. It can hold a corpse weighing no more than 500 kilograms. Even if it is full of corpses, it is only the weight of the bag when you hold it in your hand.
Although the effect of this small peach kernel is not useful to living people, everyone has encountered the phenomenon of soul separation with it, so everyone was given one.
This body bag is equivalent to the "storage ring" in fantasy novels, but unfortunately it can only be used to hold corpses. Wu Xian opened the bag and swung his hand, and a stiff human corpse was released. Although the effect is magical, it is still unknown where to use it.
After the spoils were divided up, the flames on the courtyard wall were about to go out, and it was time for everyone to return to the plank road.
Before leaving, Yuan Buyai picked up a piece of wood.
This wooden board was more than two meters long and had been placed in the yard. It was one of the baits in the thatched house trap. Because it was not placed against the courtyard wall, it was not burned.
But Yuan Buyai just picked up the board and put it down again with a sigh. Guo Xiake asked in surprise: "What's wrong with you?"
Yuan Buai said with a sad face: "I originally planned to take this board back, but when I think about it carefully, I can't carry it with me when rock climbing."
These words made Wu Xian and the other two feel even more depressed.
Although getting rid of Wang Jiudan was a good thing, don't forget that they ventured into the crack to find a way to pass through the plank road, so they did not achieve their goal.
Guo Xiake looked at the body bag in Wu Xian's hand and said, "Hey, this broken bag, it would be great if I could put some wood in it..."
After hearing this, Wu Xian's eyes suddenly lit up.
"I think I have a way to pass through the gap in the plank road!"
……
Wang Jiudan fell into the cave filled with hands, screaming. Among these hands were some tiny sharp mouths that would bite off a piece of his flesh every once in a while.
During the entire process of falling, he had no idea how many times he was bitten. He experienced pain like being tortured to death, and his entire body turned into a bloody cover.
Pfft!
Wang Jiudan fell to the ground. The part of his body that touched the ground felt burning pain. He lay on the ground groaning softly, like an abused animal.
An old and skinny hand stretched out towards Wang Jiudan's body. When the hand touched his back, he began to tremble violently.
An old voice reached Wang Jiudan's ears.
"Don't be afraid, I'm here to ask for your help!"
"I am a very pure person. Some people pursue money, some pursue fame, but I pursue art!"
“People who know me call me ‘designer’.”
“I have spent the first half of my life creating a great work of art. I have exhausted all my energy and effort for this, and now I am about to create a work that will shock the world.”
“But at this moment, a group of people suddenly locked up my work before I finished it.”
"You say, are these people hateful?"
Wang Jiudan quickly echoed loudly, scolding those people as worthless, just hoping to make the person in front of him feel better.
The designer nodded with satisfaction.
"Yesterday, I suddenly realized that you guys are very similar to the people who locked my work."
"So, I specially asked you to come here and sincerely ask you to do me a favor."
"Can you please unlock my work? I don't have much time left!"
Frightened, Wang Jiudan suddenly hugged the designer's legs and said in a trembling voice, "I will help you. I am willing to help you. As long as you don't kill me, I will do anything for you."
The designer tapped Wang Jiudan's head with his finger.
"Okay, you can raise your head now."
After hearing this, Wang Jiudan raised his head cautiously. When he saw the face of the person in front of him clearly, his pupils suddenly shrank and an ecstatic look appeared on his face without a single piece of good flesh.
The person in front of him was wearing a tattered hooded cloak and holding a candle with a faint flame in his hand. He was so old that he no longer looked like a human.
This man is surprisingly a wicked person just like Wang Jiudan!
(End of this chapter)
