Where was this place?
It was the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts.
It was still the City of Death.
The rain stopped.
Mundo was the first to enter the forest, followed closely by Li Xiaokun. The surroundings were deathly silent, with only the creaking sound of leaves stepping on the ground.
"Heavens!"
Mundo suddenly stopped in his tracks. He let out a soft cry and pointed at a pool of stagnant water not far away. The three of them quickly followed.
The pitch-black water surface was like a deep black hole. The white smoke that devoured the souls of those who were watching kept spreading to their feet, emitting the smell of rotting corpses.
"We have to go around it." Qing Mei covered her nose and reminded him.
Mondo nodded and didn't want to look any longer. He carefully walked around the deep pool and left.
Just as Li Xiaokun was about to leave, Cheryl, who was behind him, frowned as she stared at the deep pool.
Li Xiaokun waved his hand in front of her eyes.""What's wrong, Cheryl?"
Cheryl pouted slightly and blinked thoughtfully."There seems to be something inside?"
Something?
Li Xiaokun squatted down in surprise and stared for a long time without seeing anything. He simply took a branch from a towering tree at the side and tried to probe down.
Just as the branch sank into the deep pool, it seemed to have touched something and made a creaking sound.
"F * ck! There really is something!"
He hurriedly stood up and shouted at the two people in the distance,"Hey! Mundo ~ Clear brows ~ Come quickly! There's a treasure here!"
Baby?
When Mondo heard these two words, he immediately became spirited and ran back.
"Where is the treasure?"
"It's down there, Brother Meng, let's pull it up!”
"Below?" Mundo was a little puzzled. What could come out of this stinky water?
"Hurry!"
The two of them quickly picked up a pile of vines and stood at the four corners of the deep pool, slowly sinking the vines into the water.
"Are you done?"
"Alright!"
"One, two, three, rise!"
The two of them pulled at the same time.
"This is really heavy!" Mondo's face was flushed red.
"That's right! Qingmei, Cheryl, come over and help!”Li Xiaokun gritted his teeth.
The two ladies joined the team with blank expressions. They grabbed the thick rattan and pulled it up with great difficulty.
"Harder! He was using force! Rise!"
Finally, with a heart-wrenching roar, a corner of that thing was revealed.
Square.
The four of them were secretly delighted. Unknowingly, the soles of their feet had already sunk into the black soil.
With all the vines broken, a coffin was dragged out of the water.
This…
Embarrassed, Cheryl and Qingmei sat on the ground and panted heavily.
"Mundo, what do you think? I told you there was a treasure!”Li Xiaokun rolled up his sleeves like a winner. His face was full of excitement, as if there must be some treasure hidden inside.
"This…this is the treasure you were talking about?”
" The baby must be inside!!"
"Look!"
Meng Duo picked up a leaf and wrapped it in his hand. He pressed it against the corner of the coffin and pushed it hard.
Skeleton!
A skeleton was lying inside the stone coffin?
It had long limbs and a torso, and its white bones were almost perfectly preserved. Even dozens of ribs could be clearly seen. The only thing missing was a headless skeleton.
Who chopped off his head?
He lay alone in the darkness, leaving only his bones and his soul that would never dissipate.
Li Xiaokun walked to the other side of the stone coffin and pushed the coffin lid hard. He wanted to see what was inside, but he had used up too much energy just now. He could not push it alone.
Mundo quickly came up to help. The two of them used all their strength and finally moved the lid.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
It crashed into the ground with a dull sound.
The four of them quickly covered their ears. The sound echoed in the forest, like the wails of ghosts and howls of wolves from hell.
"Ah!"
Suddenly, Cheryl pointed at Li Xiaokun's feet and let out an ear-piercing scream!
At the foot of a large banyan tree, a white skull was lying!
" Skull…Skull?!"
Li Xiaokun was also shocked. He raised his leg high and kicked the skull with his heel.
"Kacha!"
His skull cracked open, and his deep eye sockets seemed to shoot out two resentful gazes…
It looked like a lonely head…
This poor guy, who threw his skull here?
Or was he beheaded?
Or was he originally from that coffin?
In the eye sockets of the skeleton, the roots of the banyan tree were sticking out. It was obvious that it had been lying here for a long time, decades or even centuries?
Li Xiaokun boldly reached out to grab the skeleton. He did not expect the tree roots to wrap around it tightly, as if it was a part of the big banyan tree. It took him a lot of effort to pull it out.
As the skull was uprooted by him, the tree roots and soil kept falling, moaning in silence for a hundred years.
Under the dark canopy, the skeleton felt cold to the touch.
The cracked skull was emitting the smell of decay. The teeth that had yet to fall out seemed to be trembling as if they were about to say something.
"Kill…"
A voice called out by his ear, causing Li Xiaokun's entire body to tremble. He shook his head violently, but the skull was still sleeping in front of him.
He listened carefully to the skeleton's story, but he could only hear the creaking sound of its teeth.
Li Xiaokun scratched his head and reached his hand into the gap between its jawbone and chin. He groped between the dead man's teeth, which were covered with tree roots and broken bones. Sure enough, he touched a metal substance.
Another gust of cold wind swept over from the ground. Li Xiaokun's heart kept beating wildly, and half of his arm trembled slightly. He used his index and middle fingers to clamp the thing and pulled it out of the skeleton's mouth.
All the living people widened their eyes. Li Xiaokun grabbed a black metal object. It was actually a small dagger. One end was a sharp blade, and the other end was carved with some kind of god statue.
The dagger, which had been dormant for many years, was still intact. Its shape could be clearly seen, especially the statue of the dagger's handle. It was a ferocious banshee with exquisite workmanship.
After putting away the dagger, Li Xiaokun hugged the skull and stared at it for another minute. The three of them were surprised that he was interested in a rotten skull.
"Sigh…"
Li Xiaokun sighed and suddenly thought of something. He fumbled in his pocket for a long time before taking out a cigarette and sticking it into the skull's mouth.
Light the fire.
Mourning silently.
"I'll return your corpse in one piece. We'll meet again if fate permits."
After saying that, he closed the coffin lid, patted his butt, and led everyone out of the deep pool.
Interestingly,
No one noticed.
The moment the coffin closed,
The skeleton in the dark seemed to have been implanted with a new life. The soul that had been sleeping for a thousand years was awakened by the sound of bones being crushed. Three words slowly came out of the corner of his mouth.
These three delicate Chinese characters were like echoes in the cave, echoing repeatedly in the coffin. The sound and image were like the tide, constantly refracted, unclear and rapid, as if it did not pass through the eardrums and directly transmitted to Li Xiaokun's brain in the distance.
"Motherf * cker!"
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