Chapter 145 The Origin of Fear (Monthly Pass Plus, Please Pass)

Chapter 145 The Origin of Fear (Monthly Tickets Plus, Please Ticket~)

The cave is very long. As we explore deeper, the light gets less and less as we get farther from the cave entrance. If it weren't for the lightning wrapped around Gu You, it's estimated that only Tang San's soul guide bone-penetrating nails could open the way.

After walking for nearly ten minutes, Gu You found a light in front of him. He winked at Zhu Zhuqing behind him, and Zhu Zhuqing understood and activated the second soul skill "Stealth Shadow Surprise Attack" to hide in Gu You's shadow.

Xiao Wu activated the second soul skill, and after a while, he said to everyone who was on guard: "There is no sign of life inside."

Gu You frowned, this is not normal, how could someone who could hide in this place for at least half a year suddenly leave?

Could it be that his goal was accomplished?

"Also," Xiao Wu's expression was ugly, "the smell of blood is very strong."

Hearing this, Gu You immediately rushed to the depths. Everyone followed closely, wanting to know what was going on inside.

"This... this is..." Gu You's pupils shook violently, and his voice trembled slightly.

Hell on earth, only hell on earth can describe the scene in front of him.

In the deepest open area, the ground was densely packed with people. Fear, despair, madness, these expressions appeared on everyone's face. All kinds of wounds were on their bodies. They were not caused by fighting, but more like self-mutilation in madness.

The skin on his face was all torn, revealing muscles and white bones. There were only holes left at the eyes, and there were still a few relatively intact eyeballs in the scattered meat.

Meng Yiran stumbled to the ground and felt that the hand supporting him seemed to touch something sticky. He raised his hand to his eyes and saw a dark red color on his palm.

"Ah!!!!"

Meng Yiran's scream interrupted the silence in the cave. The three people who had never seen such a scene vomited against the rock wall. Xiao Wu went to comfort them. Gu You immediately rushed in to see if there were any survivors. Tang San called out the blue silver grass, and the second soul skill was activated. The aroma of healing ability filled the cave, slightly suppressing the strong smell of blood.

"Damn bastard!" Gu You gritted his teeth after failing to find any survivors, and the words squeezed out from his teeth were full of anger. He now wanted to crush the jaw of the person who did this, and then start from the fingers, and grind the bones of the person into powder bit by bit.

"Brother You, come here quickly, there is someone wrong here!"

Xiao Wu's words made Gu You sober up, and he followed the sound and saw that everyone was surrounding a corpse, and the pale feet were bloody.

Lanta and the other three were also there, their faces were still a little pale, but they also forced themselves to observe the situation at the scene.

"What's wrong?" Gu You asked, the ground was full of corpses, and no one knew what Xiao Wu had found.

Hearing Gu You's voice, everyone dispersed directly to let Gu You in, and Xiao Wu pointed and said: "Look for yourself."

Seeing the person on the ground, Gu You widened his eyes.

Although his face was also bloody, and there were two holes in his eyes. But unlike everyone else, he didn't have a terrified expression on his face, but his mouth was tightly closed and his brows were tightly furrowed.

Quickly comparing the features of this person, Gu You said in disbelief: "This is...Awei?!"

………

"Kill!!!!"

"Idiot, don't rush up, retreat quickly."

Zhao Jie's body was covered with blood, the bristles on his arms were missing here and there, and the ring finger and little finger of his left hand were missing. There were three scratches on his face, and blood was trickling down.

"Brother Jie, save me! I don't want to die!" There was fear on his face, and the words he shouted were also fearful, but his movements were strange as he rushed towards the group of soul beasts.

His figure was covered by the soul beasts that rushed over, and disappeared from everyone's sight, leaving only the blood and flesh splashing out of them.

"Damn it!" Zhao Jie roared, using his teeth to pick up several soul beasts around him and rushed over there. After a few steps, more soul beasts surged up, and Zhao Jie had no choice but to retreat.

Watching his team members die in front of him, Zhao Jie was powerless. He yelled at the spirit master of the Spirit Hall next to him: "Damn it, what's wrong with you? Why did it become like this?!"

"We don't know either!" The spirit master of the Spirit Hall next to him looked like he was about to cry. One white and one yellow spirit ring flashed alternately, and the round shield on his arm accurately knocked away all the approaching spirit beasts.

"The hall master asked us to organize a team to go in. Only the minimum number of people should be left outside. Everyone else went into the spirit beast forest."

"What about them!!!"

"We don't know either! At the beginning, some people came out to get supplies, but fewer and fewer people came out every day. No one came out a month and a half ago!"

"Damn it!" Zhao Wei hit the spirit beast in front of him and flew away. After the spirit beast screamed and fell to the ground, several white spirit rings appeared. "Didn't you send people in to look for it?"

"Yes, but they are also missing." The spirit master of the Spirit Hall shouted, took off the shield on his arm, and threw it at the spirit beast behind Zhao Jie who was preparing to attack. After knocking the soul beast away, it bounced back to his hand accurately.

"Good job, Rogers boy." Zhao Jie didn't even look back, and used the fang pick frantically to sweep the soul beast. "Where is your hall master? Such a big thing, why didn't you see him?"

Rogers used his shield to block the attack of the coyote dog, and threw the shadow lizard lying on him away. "I sent someone to look for him, but he's not in the office."

"He's been here for a year, and I haven't seen him." Zhao Jie spat a mouthful of blood foam to the side, and the fangs on both sides were already stained with the blood of soul beasts, "He didn't run away."

Rogers didn't answer, he just concentrated on fighting the soul beast. Zhao Jie didn't expect a younger brother to dare to complain about his leader to outsiders, so he just mentioned it casually and was ready to fight.

"Um?"

Suddenly, the soul beasts stopped attacking and slowly retreated facing the crowd. There were corpses all over the ground, including those of humans and spirit beasts, and countless spirit rings floating in the air.

"Did we... win?" Zhao Jie stared blankly at the retreating soul beast, his eyes full of disbelief.

The same was true for Rogers. He didn't expect that he could survive in this situation. He was about to laugh when suddenly he heard the sound of applause.

Snap, snap, snap

"You guys are very good." A man applauded and walked out of the shadows with a human skin book under his arm. He was tall and had slender limbs, but it could be seen from his exposed wrists that he should be very thin. His face was covered by a black robe, and his hands were covered in blood.

"I didn't expect you to be right here, Zhao Jie from the Taixuan Regiment." The man raised his hood, "This is the so-called "unfortunate". Things never develop according to plan. We can only constantly correct and improve it. "

The man raised his head. His face was covered with hideous scars, as if he had been scalded with boiling water, and his eye sockets were empty. Just looking at this face made Zhao Jie feel uncomfortable all over.

"Palace...Palace Master?" Rogers' voice was very shaken. He heard that the man's voice was exactly the same as that of his palace master, but his appearance was completely different.

"Ah, it must be Rogers." The man heard the voice and turned the two black holes towards Rogers. "You are still alive. I thought you would be among the first to die."

"Palace Master?" Zhao Jie couldn't believe that Wuhun Palace would send such a person to be the palace master.

"Zhao Jie, haven't you always wanted to meet me? I am the master of the Wuhun Hall here, Klein." The man wiped his face with his hand, and his face turned into a gentle man. Wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses, he had a warm smile on his face.

"What?!" Everyone was shocked. Not only Zhao Jie and Rogers, but everyone else nearby didn't expect that just with a touch of their hands, their faces would completely change.

"Hahahahahaha" Klein covered his face and laughed wildly, and his gentle face turned into mist and disappeared.

"Are you really sure that everything you see now is real?"

The man smiled sinisterly and said, "Your breathing is very rapid."

………

"I am Zhao Wei, everyone calls me Ah Wei, and I am the deputy leader of the Taixun Regiment."

"I might be dying."

"It was just an ordinary day. I led my team members into the dark place to collect a rare medicinal material. But I didn't expect that this was the beginning of the nightmare."

"Hell, I'm in hell right now."

"I saw people tearing their faces apart and hitting the rock wall while crying and laughing."

"I saw someone gouge out their own eyeballs and put them in their mouths while screaming."

"I saw someone attacking people around them indiscriminately while screaming, but they were quickly killed by a man in black robes."

"That book, that blood-red book, that book with this face on it. It's pulling out the human soul and stuffing it into stone."

"The village disappeared in the flames, and everyone in the Taihun Regiment perished in the flames."

"The soul beast attacked the village, and both Jie Ge and A Tong died in the battle to cover the retreat of the villagers."

"Hallucinations, all hallucinations, I'm still in this cave."

"They couldn't escape. He didn't stop those people from escaping, but they always came back in a daze and had their souls sucked out."

"I couldn't see anymore. When I woke up, my eyes were completely black and my face was burning with pain."

"I must be ugly now and still crying. Brother Jie will definitely be laughed at when he finds out."

"Although I am far inferior to Brother Jie in combat, according to the new classification, I should be classified as a reconnaissance type soul master."

"Unlike the wild boar that Brother Jie uses to fight, my martial spirit has strengthened my sense of smell. Even if I can't see it now, I can smell the disgusting smell here and the breeze outside."

"Also, I haven't noticed the strange smell in the air in the past."

"The hallucinations are still happening, and every time I wake up, my head hurts more and more."

"It's not an illusion, it's not the eyes, it's the nose, it's the nose!"

"I'm running away, I have to run away, I have to run away."

"The rotten smell of dark places is the smell of freedom."

"I'm back again, the hand on my head is tightening and it feels like my soul is being torn apart."

"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts."

"Can't open your mouth, can't open your mouth, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

"I'm sorry, Brother Jie. I'll leave the training team to you."

"No matter who it is, please understand my meaning and discover my last gift."

………………

"Is he Ah Wei?"

"That's right." Gu You remembered that Zhao Jie told him Zhao Wei's characteristics. Although he was completely unrecognizable, the clothes on his body clearly showed that he was the Zhao Wei whom Zhao Jie asked them to find clues for.

"Why does he have this expression?" Gu You couldn't understand. It was clear that the faces of all the deceased here were filled with fear, pain, and despair. Why was only Zhao Wei's expression like he was enduring pain.

After a while, Gu You suddenly remembered something and took out the two identical tokens from his arms.

"This token is Zhao Wei's token!" Gu You suddenly realized something, turned over the token, looked at the word "mouth" carved with stone on the back, and then saw Zhao Wei's tightly closed mouth. .

"...Sorry, I'm offended." Gu You reached out and opened Zhao Wei's mouth with force.

Zhao Wei used all his strength to close his mouth tightly before he died. The stiff muscles after his death made Gu You only choose to open his mouth bit by bit.

When he opened his mouth, what he saw were cracks due to excessive force, some even broken teeth, and a piece of water cloth pressed against the roof of his mouth with his tongue.

Gu You carefully pulled out the cloth, and there was a piece of paper wrapped inside, with words written on it.

"Soul King, blind man, poisonous gas, fear, hallucination, human skin book can extract souls, flower rock monster, almost finished, protect the town, protect the town!!!"

"This is?!" Tang San saw the words on it and the three huge exclamation marks. He glanced at Zhao Wei with admiration, then took out the herbs from the soul guide and began to configure them according to the clues left by Zhao Wei. antidote.

From the behavior of Xiao Wu and others just now, Tang San judged that it might be related to hallucination, but because he didn't know the principle of hallucination, he didn't dare to randomly prepare the antidote.

Now that he knows that the most important principle is fear, Tang San knows how to break the influence of this poisonous gas, and he needs to choose medicine to calm his mind.

"That time..." Gu You recalled the hallucination he had when the hook-clawed cat attacked him.

"So that's it. The strong wind brought by the hook-claw cat at that time blew away the scent of the mistress next to me, so I had the previous hallucinations. Being so irritable in the dark place should also have something to do with this."

Gu You and Tang San had been to the even more terrifying Malicious Swamp, which felt even more uncomfortable than the dark land. The two people who had gone through the test of the Malicious Swamp couldn't stand the slightly better environment here just because they were affected by the environment in the forest. Diffuse toxic gas influence.

Zhao Wei, who tried his best to leave information, Gu You stretched out his fingers, gently pressed his frown on his frown, and rubbed it slowly.

"Thank you for your hard work, brother. Leave the rest to us."

………

"Oh, Soul King."

Klein looked at the black figure that suddenly appeared in front of him, as well as the five soul rings floating around him, two yellow, two purple and one black, with a hint of disdain at the corner of his mouth.

"Fallen one, your time of death has come."

The person who came was none other than Zhu Zhuqing's guard, who had been silently watching the soul beast attack. He knew very well that normally there would be no soul beast riot in this place.

If there is to be a soul beast riot, at least a qualified soul beast must appear as the leader. There are not even thousand-year soul beasts here, so it may be the work of the fallen.

He must be patient, retain his strength, and wait for the mastermind to appear.

"Jiejie, Jiejie, try this."

Klein opened the human skin book and took out a stone with blood-red patterns from his arms. Five optimally configured soul rings appeared from behind him, and his eyes exuded a sinister light.

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ps: It seems that no one has discovered the clues I laid earlier. I’m sad.

Two updates sent. I am personally quite satisfied with this plot. Although it has nothing to do with the protagonist, at least I think the characters are okay when I read it. I don’t know if anyone has played Chapter 2.6.5 of FGO. I want to shape these characters into the nameless cavalry, who are weak and ordinary, but can use their full strength to shine only once, and leave hope to the future. Because these two chapters are the product of an attack of literary youth, I decided not to read the comments. If I read them, I would be a dog.