Yes, there is no need to explain. George is breaking the law and is doing a job called guarding and stealing. In fact, from the moment he arrived at the castle and learned that there were many precious collections inside, George had a wrong idea. , or he wanted to take the opportunity to get something of great value to himself. Of course, in terms of value, there is no place with the highest value than the 3rd floor, and the 3rd floor is indeed the place with the most collections in the entire castle. Unfortunately, bad luck, damn it Richard actually put him on the second floor, with someone always following him. But then again, even if the value of the second floor is lower than that of the third floor, the second floor is still the living area of the castle officers and low-level nobles. Compared with Although there is nothing on the first floor of the castle, the second floor is still considered rich!
Sure enough, as soon as he opened the door in front of him, an antique room came into view. Admittedly, the room was not luxurious, but a pure gold pipe placed on the table as a decoration instantly caught George's attention. Seeing this, he maintained With a greedy smile, George walked into the room, grabbed the pipe and stuffed it into his pocket. What George wanted was exactly this small and valuable item. After stuffing the pipe into his pocket, he looked around to confirm that there were no small valuable items in the room. George exited the room and continued his search, rushing to the next room again.
Then George got lucky.
As if God planned to make him rich, when he gently opened the door of the next door and quietly walked into the second unknown room, through observation, he found a crutch, a wooden crutch leaning next to the bed. Of course, a mere wooden crutch is not enough to make George pay attention. Even if the crutch is made of pure gold, it will not make George happy. After all, the crutch is too bulky to hide, and it is impossible to take it away anyway, so it really makes George happy. What makes George happy is not the crutch itself, but the pure ruby inlaid on the top of the crutch!
Staring at the red gem, George's eyes were filled with greed.
(Haha, get rich!)
This was the first thought that came to George's mind when he saw the gem. The moment he saw the gem clearly, his face was full of joy, and his whole person was filled with joy. Since this was where the nobles lived in those days, he instantly This confirms that the gem is real. What does this mean? It's very simple. It means that as long as he can take this precious gem out of the castle, he will no longer have to work and will have enough food and clothing for the rest of his life!
Thinking of the happy life after the success, George moved. In order to prevent making any noise, he first quietly closed the door behind him, then walked to the bed and picked up the crutch. Finally, he took out the knife and started working, trying to pry the gem away from the crutch as quickly as possible. , during this period, I concentrated on it and was immersed in it, but...
It was precisely because he was too serious and too focused that he overlooked one thing and did not see what just happened, or a strange scene that was quietly playing out behind it:
Just when George was facing the bed and lowering his head to work, for some reason, behind him, the originally empty living room floor began to turn red, gradually turning red, and then revealing a red circle similar to a star formation!
Shrouded in crimson, the circular magic circle is gradually gathering at a speed visible to the naked eye, becoming more and more clear, and finally revealing the whole picture, and the whole picture is indeed a starry magic circle with a large number of strange symbols imprinted inside. No one knows the reason for the magic circle. Appeared suddenly, and no one knew the origin of the magic circle. The only thing they knew was...
It's not over, far from it.
As the blood-colored magic circle appeared out of thin air, soon, something protruded in the middle of the magic circle, and a human head protruded in an extremely slow way. A head just popped up from the bottom up from the absolutely solid ground! ! !
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Greed and desire are a symbiosis that is interdependent and inseparable.
Greed is like a poison that can corrode people's hearts, change their minds, and ultimately push people into the abyss with the fuel of desire.
Using a reasonable excuse, George got the opportunity to act alone. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he began to search and plunder, looking for all valuable items that could be easily taken away. Then, he discovered the treasure when he stepped into a room. A delicate gem set on the top of the cane.
only……
Holding the knife in his hand, just as George was concentrating on prying the gem, something strange happened behind him.
A red magic circle emerged from the absolutely solid ground, and a human head emerged from the array, a dark and hideous head...
At this moment, the head is rising slowly, lifting off the ground little by little in a silent manner, breaking away from the formation little by little, gradually revealing the neck, chest, limbs connected to the bottom...
Finally, a blackened male mummy appeared in the room!
Yes, that is a mummy, exactly like a corpse that died of dehydration many years ago. The shriveled and thin body, the skin covered with cracks, and the clothes that were once luxurious but are now in tatters, all have the same characteristics. It proves that he is a dead person, just a haggard historical remains.
but……
He is not a mummy, or even a corpse, because he is not still, and does not solidify silently like a real corpse. Instead, he lowers his head to observe himself after leaving the magic circle, staring at his withered body. What is even more terrifying is that he, He did not stand on the ground, did not touch the ground, but floated at low altitude with his feet off the ground, completely ignoring gravity and violating the laws of physics!
As the Mummy Man was fully revealed, the ground magic circle disappeared. As for the Mummy Man...
He is still observing himself, always looking at himself. If you observe closely, you will find that the skinny face seems to be filled with doubts, and the brows are full of confusion, just like a person who has just woken up suddenly from a thousand-year sleep. He couldn't tell what was true and what was false. In addition, he was weak. He was extremely weak. Although he didn't need to breathe, his skinny body was slightly stooped and trembling slightly, as if he was about to fall to the ground at any time. It's hard to hold on like a wounded person.
However, none of the above is important. What is important is that time can smooth everything, and time can also bring everything. After a few seconds, as if the long-lost memory was instantly opened, the mummy man's body was full of body for a while, his pupils shrank, and then , his confusion disappeared, replaced by a question, the only question that must be answered no matter what.
With questions in his mind, the mummy man turned his gaze to the front, looking at the busy white man with his back turned to him.
As soon as their eyes locked, a hoarse voice slowly emerged from the man's mouth: "Tell...tell...me...where...E...lai...en...is...?"
Trembling, horrified, indescribable extreme panic.
When the sound suddenly resounded through the room and suddenly hit the eardrums, in front of him, George, who had been immersed in prying the gems, suddenly shook his body as if he had been exposed to a strong electric current. His expression was instantly panicked, and his natural reaction was to kill him on the spot with a guilty conscience. He was so frightened that he wet his butt. Subconsciously, George thought that his theft had been discovered. Unfortunately, he was only half right. He was indeed discovered, but the person who discovered him was not his expected colleague Daniel, but...
Following the sound, he suddenly turned around, and what he saw was a mummy. It was a terrifying mummy floating behind him at an unknown moment! ! !
At this moment, the mummy was suspended in the air with its feet off the ground, staring at him, with the distance between the two sides less than five meters.
Witnessing this scene, George was stunned, but this so-called stunned moment actually only lasted less than a second. Then, his expression changed, his face turned pale instantly, his eyes widened in vain, and his mouth suddenly opened wide. Almost torn.
The sudden fear enveloped George like lightning, scaring him almost to death on the spot. It stands to reason that people tend to scream in fear, but George could not scream. The reason why he could not speak out was that the fear was too strong. It was so intense that it exceeded the limit of psychological endurance. No matter how wide the mouth was, all that could actually come out of the throat was a series of meaningless whimpers and moans:
"Ah...ah...ah..."
Accompanied by sobs in the throat, the body trembled violently, trembling crazily like an electric current passing through the body. During the trembling, a large amount of urine flowed to the ground along the trousers like a stream that broke free of the valve. The knife and crutches originally held in his hands were also there. Trembling violently, he lost his hands and fell to the ground one after another, but these are not important anymore. What is important is that George has been frightened and stunned, unable to answer any questions.
Seeing that there was no response from the other party for a long time, the mummy man on the opposite side continued to speak and asked the other party again in a hoarse voice: "Tell...tell...me...where...I...lai...en...is...?"
There was no answer, still no response, just the whimpering and moaning of the man opposite.
Seeing this, it seemed as if he had lost his patience. Finally, the mummy stopped asking questions again and again. Instead, he floated on the spot and muttered to himself. He said something in a hoarse voice, which was obviously a little faster than before: "No." , answer, answer,?"
"Then you can die!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the mummy man moved, raised his right hand and pointed it at George, and then his fingers contracted slowly under George's somewhat blank gaze. As for George...
"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!!!"
Finally, George screamed out, suddenly bursting out into a series of heartbreaking screams, but this time the screams were not caused by fear, but by pain, unimaginable and inhuman pain!
Yes, just now, or in other words, the moment when the mummy man pointed the palm of his right arm at himself, George noticed something abnormal, and suddenly found that he could not move, as if his body was surrounded and bound by a large ball of rope, unable to move at all. ! It was only at this moment that George finally broke free from fear and came to his senses. He wanted to run away, but unfortunately it was too late to run away now. He was restrained, and was enveloped by an invisible force. Then, George fell into hell...
As soon as his body was bound, the next second, the force that had just restrained him from wrapping his body suddenly shrank! As the five fingers of the mummy man contracted, they contracted together, and the effect on George was a squeezing, 360-degree squeezing! ! !
Cluck, cluck.
At this moment, feeling the huge force of squeezing, George suddenly howled miserably, but his howl stopped abruptly after only a few seconds. The reason was that his larynx was broken by excessive squeezing. Not only the larynx was broken, but also his throat. The bones supporting the body were dislocated and creaked under the extreme pressure. The sound penetrated the eardrums. The pain was unimaginable. What was even more terrifying and even tragic...
Pop, pop, pop, swish, swish!
As the squeezing force continued to increase, George began to spurt blood, and blood began to spurt out from his already wide-open mouth. In addition to the mouth, blood spurted out from all the orifices of the human body, such as the eye sockets, nasal cavity, ears, lower body, etc., without exception. The collective spurts out blood under the increasing squeeze, like a persimmon tightly grasped by the palm of the hand, shrinking and the juice splashes. For a moment, a massive amount of blood spurts out from George's seven holes, and the development finally stops. Even the skin tore open and burst out bright red, and countless blood spurted out in all directions like a fountain! However, things are not over yet, the real pain is yet to come!
Because the squeezing force was too great, George changed through the blood flowing all over the sky. His original human shape was distorted and deformed by the squeezing. He was squeezed and collapsed at a speed visible to the naked eye. Under excessive squeezing, a large number of internal organs were destroyed. One after another, they collapsed out of the body along the breach in the body surface, and their heart, spleen, liver, and lungs all slipped out. The eyeballs also opened and protruded, protruding from the eye sockets extremely quickly. In the end, they simply escaped from the eye sockets and hung on the face like two balls that broke free of restraint! George himself was gradually twisted and deformed during the squeeze, and collapsed and withered under the squeeze where all the bones in his body were broken. In fact, George was already dead at this time. He had already lost his temper at the moment when his bones shattered. He died, but despite this, the squeezing continued and was maintained, and the body continued to collapse under the control of the mummy man's still-unclosed palm, until...
Until the five fingers are closed and completely gathered together!
As the five fingers of the mummy man gathered together, the squeezing stopped, and the extreme force that originally restrained George also disappeared without a trace. The restraint and squeezing all disappeared. Instead, he lowered his arms and returned to silence. As for staying on the opposite side...
It's red, it's blood mist, it's a large piece of broken limbs scattered on the ground! ! !
George died, dying slowly in extremely painful squeezing and torture. Even after death, he didn't even leave a complete body behind, just a bloody and disgusting mess of debris!
Filled with debris, the originally exquisite room was filled with blood. No matter the walls, floor or bed furniture, everything was red, and there were minced meat everywhere. And next to the bed where George was originally, there was only a soft and collapsed figure. The body is like a deflated gas balloon, shriveled into a ball with only the skin remaining.
Witnessing the scene in front of him, the mummy man showed no expression. He just confirmed that the target was completely dead and floated towards the corpse at low altitude. Then, he opened his mouth, and then...
"Ooooh, oooohhhhh!"
Sounds reappeared in the room that had just been quiet due to the death of the target, and the screams resounded again, mixed with a series of men's screams. In an instant, the remains of a man who was exactly the same as George but completely transparent were pulled out, and immediately turned into black threads and poured into his mouth. , easily swallowed and absorbed by the mummy man.
With Transparent George being absorbed, next...
Swish, swish, swish.
Black bugs appeared, and countless beetle-like black bugs broke through the man's body and rushed towards the surrounding flesh. Then they bit the flesh and devoured the bones like starving hawks, competing to devour the remains of the corpse in a non-picky way.
Soon, the minced meat disappeared, the remains disappeared, and all the flesh and bones scattered in the room were eaten up by the black insects. As the corpses disappeared completely, the sea of insects retreated back to the original path and burrowed back into the dry corpses again.
The matter is over, the devouring is over, George has also disappeared. He who was still in the room stealing property earlier has disappeared without a trace. Only the blood stains in the remaining room barely prove that he once existed, and the mummy man still maintains his presence. He looks skinny, no, that's not right. Although the man is dark and skinny from beginning to end, if you look closely, you will find that the man has still changed, not so obviously.
After absorbing the transparent George and the corpses of the deceased, the mummy man's pupils gradually turned red, and it was seen that the eyes that were originally light red now deepened in color and turned into dark red. In addition to the darker color of the eyes, there was an unclear light color. Red mist also appeared out of thin air on the man's body. Somehow, wrapped in the mist, the posture of the mummy man who looked very weak at first changed. His tremors basically disappeared, and his body was no longer rickety. It was like a weak patient who had taken in a certain amount of nutrients. So much better.
Unfortunately……
No matter how the situation gets better, the Mummy Man doesn't care about it at all. He only cares about that problem, the puzzling mystery that has troubled him for thousands of years.
"I... Lai... En... where... are you..."
"where are you……"
As described at the beginning, as the prey died and completely disappeared, the mummy man began to talk to himself, and once again whispered a certain person's name in an extremely hoarse voice. During the soliloquy, the man turned around and moved towards the door, while the room The door opened on its own as if it was touched and pulled by an invisible hand. As the door opened, the mummy man floated out of the room and into the outside world. He then walked around the corner and passed through the corridor in a very purposeful way, and floated straight to the North Hall. , drifting towards another nearest 'query target'.
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Time returns to 15 minutes ago, on the third floor of the castle, in a room on the edge.
The elegant room is filled with collections, including a large amount of gold, rare animal skins, and precious jewelry that can dazzle anyone. Combined with various exquisite decorations, it looks like the entire third floor or even the entire castle. The most luxurious room, but...
Even though the room was full of luxurious jewelry, He Fei turned a blind eye and completely ignored any precious collection. He Fei did the same, and the others did the same. The crowd didn't move, they just stood in silence in front of a wall at the end of the room, without saying a word. In doubt, everyone was attracted to their attention, and there were two things that attracted their attention. One was a colorful oil painting hanging on the wall, and the other was a red circle, a huge circle with unknown meaning!
Yes, if most of the other walls in the room are hung with decorations such as weapons and animal heads, then the wall in front of you is the most empty one. There are no decorations hanging here, only a colorful oil painting, although the entire wall only has oil paintings. , but behind the oil painting is a huge circle that looks like a Western formation no matter how you look at it. The circle is all red, as if it were painted with blood. The actual area covers most of the wall, and inside the circle are drawn various incomprehensible figures. Weird symbols, the types of symbols seem to be complicated, but in fact they are neatly combined and intertwined with each other, without any trace of chaos. So, under the intertwining of many symbols with unknown meanings, a group of things that appear to be magic circles appear, and they are clearly drawn on the wall. In the center, not only that, if the Dharma array is painted in the center of the wall, then the oil painting is also hung in the center of the Dharma array.
At this moment, staring at the magic circle on the wall, He Fei's eyes were wide open, his whole face was full of doubts, and Zhao Ping, who was standing side by side, was both immersed in inexplicable astonishment. The two of them were like this, and so was Cheng Ying, including Everyone including Kong Ling, Chen Shuihong, Tang Meng, Qiao Mengting and Xie Xiaona were all like this. Even Chen Xiaoyao, who usually talks the most nonsense, was stunned by the scene in front of him. He didn't know what to say for a while. After all, no one expected that it looked luxurious. There is such a strange scene hidden in the room?
But then again, even though the scene was weird and the picture was weird, as a unique person who felt uncomfortable even if he didn't speak, Chen Xiaoyao didn't remain silent for too long after all. As soon as he regained consciousness, he looked at He Fei and asked: "Hey, Lao He, what's on the wall? What is this painting? Why can't I understand it at all?"
As a unique Maoshan Taoist priest in China, Chen Xiaoyao is indeed considered to have extraordinary abilities, and his research on supernatural issues has reached the level of erudition and proficiency. It is true to say that, but his erudition and proficiency are limited to Eastern China, involving at most When visiting neighboring countries with similar civilizations, they simply turned a blind eye to Western culture and were basically blank. It is conceivable that when faced with this weird figure with obvious Western characteristics in front of him, Chen Xiaoyao became a complete novice and actually understood it. The level was not even as good as the others who were competing again, so naturally, as a novice with little knowledge of the West, Chen Xiaoyao was dumbfounded when he saw the pattern, and instinctively asked He Fei next to him. As for He Fei...
Seeing Chen Xiaoyao's curious inquiry, He Fei immediately answered him, but his tone was a little uncertain: "Well, this thing feels a bit like a magic circle? It seems like this thing has appeared in many Western fantasy movies."
"Magic circle? What is the magic circle?" Seeing He Fei's casual response, Chen Xiaoyao became more confused and asked again with his eyes wide open. He perfectly explained what it means to ask if you don't understand. Unfortunately, He Fei didn't ask again this time. He couldn't answer, because even he himself didn't understand the meaning of the magic circle. Since he didn't understand, how could he dare to talk nonsense? Seeing that He Fei was hesitating and silent, Chen Xiaoyao decisively changed his target and looked to the side, looking at another polite and gentle man.
Perhaps he was aware of Chen Xiaoyao's gaze, or perhaps he had already seen something through observation. The moment Chen Xiaoyao looked at Zhao Ping, the man narrowed his eyes slightly, and at the same time turned his head and said something to everyone present. , a solemn observation summary:
"It's already certain that this is the Starlight Magic Formation, a supernatural magic technique unique to ancient Europe!"
