Chapter 76 Resurrection

Let’s not waste any more time.

Chen Ke returned to the church’s central hall along the original route. This exploration took him almost an hour, and the portal was getting closer and closer to the end of cooling.

A bonfire next to the statue of the goddess in the church attracted his attention. It was a fire that was ignited by the fire-starting broadsword for Parker’s emergency heating. Without continuous spiritual energy infusion, it would not have burned for so long.

But when Chen Ke saw the long bench next to Parker, he understood.

God knows what method Parker used to dismantle a long bench as firewood. The fire-starting broadsword itself has an affix that can burn continuously when there is combustible material.

It’s just that this fire is a little bit fierce. Even standing in Chen Ke’s position, he can feel a little temperature.

Parker was still adding firewood to the bonfire, and he skillfully took a piece of horizontal wood from the chair and threw it into the fire. When he saw Chen Ke, he ran over immediately.

“Is it so cold here?” Chen Ke was a little puzzled.

“Yes, I’m freezing to death. Do you have extra clothes?” Parker rubbed his shoulders.

"No." Chen Ke spread his hands. His clothes were all torn. How could he have extra clothes for Parker?

"That's really unlucky. I thought you would carry some useful things in your bag." Parker was a little disappointed.

"What happened here?" Chen Ke saw that Parker's expression was a little strange.

"Something seems to have happened over there, just a few minutes ago. Go and have a look." Parker looked nervous, as if he had seen something extraordinary.

"Goddess statue?" Chen Ke asked.

Parker nodded.

Chen Ke looked at the statue of the goddess. It was intact, but there was a slight deviation from his impression. He couldn't tell what had changed.

"What's wrong with this thing? I don't see any difference." Chen Ke shook his head.

"It's not the statue itself, but underneath it." Parker said.

Hmm?

Chen Ke was puzzled. He walked a few steps forward and wanted to observe the statue of the goddess up close. Only then did he find that the statue of the goddess had moved back a few meters, revealing a staircase leading down.

This is a secret passage! It's so deep, there must be something inside.

Chen Ke recalled that when he took the head away, the silver tray on the small altar slowly rose. Maybe this was some kind of linkage mechanism.

He didn't dare to go down rashly, and looked back at Brother Huixin. The other party was still squatting there thoughtfully, as if he was already accustomed to the moving goddess statue and didn't take it seriously.

Chen Ke went forward to talk, wanting to get some useful information.

"Hey, have you seen that? What's underneath?" Chen Ke asked.

"This is just the beginning, friend. You should have got the head too, right?" Brother Huixin raised his head and asked back.

Chen Ke tilted his head. Sure enough, this guy knew a lot of things!

"Do you know who that is?" Chen Ke also used a rhetorical question as an answer.

"Do you know the consequences of returning the head?" Brother Huixin responded easily.

"Is this the reappearance of the cycle?" A drop of sweat flowed from Chen Ke's forehead.

"..."

Brother Huixin looked at Chen Ke, with an incomprehensible emotion in his blue eyes. He probably stared at Chen Ke's face for a few seconds.

"It seems that you are working hard, but this approach is meaningless." He finally spoke.

Meaningless? Chen Ke was puzzled.

"What did you do before?" Chen Ke asked.

"We were all wrong. There is no point in returning the head. The dead are dead after all. How can a person whose head has been chopped off be resurrected because of this... Hohohoho..." Brother Huixin laughed to himself. He ignored Chen Ke and fell into lonely thinking again.

Chen Ke sighed. He didn't know what was wrong with this buddy. He always spoke like a riddle, but he was sure that Brother Huixin knew a lot.

Chen Ke couldn't get any more information from Brother Huixin, so he decided to go down and take a look himself.

"I'll go down and take a look. Don't move around here." Chen Ke came to Parker's side and said. "Also, don't burn the chairs anymore. I'm not sure if moving things here will trigger something strange." He added.

"Okay, okay, take a look at what's going on down there first. I'm really afraid that something will come out of it." Parker squatted at the entrance of the passage while talking, looking inside curiously.

He didn't tell Parker about the head, mainly because it was unnecessary, and it was too abnormal to run around with a head in his arms, so Chen Ke didn't want to explain it to Parker.

Chen Ke walked down the stairs slowly and entered a long corridor. He wanted to take out the black ring candlestick for lighting, but found that the corridor was illuminated by a flickering white light.

The light came from a cloud of fog at the end of the corridor, like a door.

Although the fog door looked too strange, no information box popped up in Chen Ke's vision. He walked closer and observed the strange fog.

The gray-white fog was surging, and Chen Ke reached out to touch it. Unlike the air wall, the fog door had no touch, just like air. Relying on his life countdown, he took a bold breath...

There was no smell.

Without thinking, Chen Ke walked straight into the fog, like the sun after the clouds were cleared. After passing through the thick fog, he found himself in a vast cliff inside the mountain.

He walked straight forward along the several-meter-wide mountain path and came to a circular terrace surrounded by an abyss with no bottom in sight.

Chen Ke looked to the left. The light in this space came from a crack in the mountain in the distance, and the cold wind also poured in through the cracks in the mountain.

There are two white stone pillars in the center of the round platform, with thick black iron chains wrapped around them. A headless corpse is tied in the middle of the stone pillars.

This is a female corpse. Like the head, there is no sign of decay even after a long time of death. She is wearing a torn white off-shoulder dress, and her fair and smooth skin is like a plaster statue.

The wound on the neck of the female corpse is very neat. A line of dried blood extends from the neck to the middle of the collarbone. A strange symbol is printed on the groove of the left chest of the female corpse by the hot iron. It should be some kind of religious mark.

The two arms of the corpse are wrapped with thick iron chains. The iron chains have become part of the arms after being squeezed into the flesh. Barefoot, kneeling in the same place.

Chen Ke took out the head from the bag, sorted out the hair wrapped around the candlestick, and hesitated whether to put the head back on the neck.

Brother Huixin's words are still lingering in his ears, but Chen Ke has a feeling that only by putting the head back can the world move forward again.

He held the head in both hands, hesitated for a long time, and finally put it back on the neck of the corpse.

Nothing happened.

Brother Huixin had tried to do this before, so he said it was useless, but Chen Ke still wondered if he had missed any details?

"-3 hours"

The corner of his eye suddenly flashed with information, and Chen Ke's eyes widened. What happened?

He looked at the female corpse again, and saw that the red cut scar between the head and the neck was slowly disappearing.