The Gravekeeper in the Forbidden Zone Chapter 256: The One-Eyed Old Man
The sky was gray.
The gray mist is constantly puffing not far away, accompanied by some strange rhythm, which seems to be gradually connecting with the dead sky, like the increasingly weak heartbeat, and like the bells at dusk, full of the meaning of death.
No one knows what monsters are hidden in the fog, but just seeing the big hand that blocks the sky and the sun occasionally stirs up the gray fog is enough to prove that this gray fog is a sea of terror that is absolutely unreachable.
The area that the Sea of Terror cannot cover is the vast expanse of black soil, which is where coffins are buried with countless identical wooden houses. These dilapidated wooden houses are exactly the same and are located in the dark soil at random.
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There are no road signs, no reference objects, just countless wooden houses and the vast expanse of land. There seems to be no concept of direction here. Once you get stuck here, you will never be able to get out.
Bai Mo clung to the wooden house, followed the traces left by the scavengers, and glanced behind him with his peripheral vision.
As expected, the cut road behind him was gradually returning to its original state, which caused him to quickly lose his direction.
But that's not important. His target is the Scavenger. As long as he gets the key to restoring strength from it, he can leave here at any time. Where he is is not a problem.
However, the scavenger was much faster than him. When he arrived exhausted, the door of the cabin in front of him had already been opened.
If the efficiency of the scavenger is high enough, the living person who just appeared may have been put into the coffin again.
The long and fast journey consumed too much energy. Bai Mo adjusted his breathing slightly and waited for a while. Seeing that there was no movement in the wooden house, he slowed down and approached the wooden house.
However, when he walked to the door of the wooden house, he found that there was no one in the house.
There was only a dark coffin, lying alone in the center of the wooden house.
"Are you leaving?"
Bai Mo was not surprised by this situation, but was just a little disappointed.
The scavenger's speed was more than a hundred times faster than him. He might have arrived here long ago to deal with the unlucky survivor, and then wandered away aimlessly.
As for the reason why there are still scratches on the door of the wooden house, it is probably because the scavenger has not been away for a long time, and the self-recovery ability of the ground is too weak, so it has not been completely repaired yet.
Bai Mo did not step forward.
He looked around and suddenly realized something strange -
The surroundings were unusually empty. Apart from the endless wooden houses, there was not even a single strange creature. All the creatures seemed to have stayed away from the place.
Even the red-eyed crows that loved to join in the fun were not wandering around.
However, Bai Mo has witnessed it with his own eyes before. Those weird creatures are indeed afraid of the scavenger, but they are not to the point of not daring to approach it at all. Even if the guy rushes over aggressively, it should not make the surroundings become...
It's only right to be so quiet...
According to normal circumstances, there should be a few brave guys staying to watch the fun... But now everyone has run away.
"There's a problem."
Faced with such a strange phenomenon, the first thought in Bai Mo's mind was to evacuate immediately. Without any hesitation, he immediately turned around and left.
However, when he turned his head, he happened to face a dead face as pale as paper.
To describe it as "pale as paper" may be a bit inappropriate - because what he saw in front of him was a paper man.
His face is pale, with blush on his face. His eyes are extremely slender and lack vitality, as if he has been staring at you. The corners of his mouth are slightly raised. At first glance, he looks straight-faced, but at second glance, he looks straight-faced. It's smiling, giving people a particularly permeable feeling.
The paper figure was a little short at first, but soon became as tall as Bai Mo. It seemed to be cut out of simple white paper, just like a sign. Its body was thin and fragile, and it kept twisting and swaying when a gust of wind blew.
As a result, the face was constantly distorted, and the facial features were completely squeezed together, making it look even more weird.
However, facing such a strange paper man, Bai Mo seemed unusually calm.
Of course, it is impossible for such a thing to scare him, and the opponent's body is so weak that it doesn't seem to be lethal. At most, it can only be used to scare people.
However, although there were many corpses in the coffin ground, there were no funeral objects at all, let alone such a weird paper man.
So...where did this thing come from?
Could it be related to the living person who just appeared?
While thinking, Bai Mo actually stretched out his hand and touched the corners of the paper man's mouth without fear, easily smearing the paint on the other person's face, making the corners of the paper man's mouth look like blood was flowing out, and his chin was scarlet. It adds a bit of ferocity.
"The dye hasn't even been dried yet. It turns out to be a paper figurine just made..."
Bai Mo noticed something was wrong with this paper man at first glance. At this time, he looked at the fresh dye on his fingers and confirmed his previous suspicion - this paper man was made on the spur of the moment, so it's no wonder it was just a tool. Its table.
At this moment, he suddenly heard something moving behind him. He turned around and saw that there was nothing behind him. Only the dark coffin in the room was more conspicuous.
Bai Mo did not doubt his hearing. He raised his eyebrows slightly and thought: "Is there something in the coffin..."
However, since the traces left by the scavengers extend right here, it means that the coffin in the wooden house - or the body in the coffin should indeed be the target of the scavengers.
Normally speaking, with the ability of a scavenger, the living people who appear in the coffin should be able to be eliminated in a few or two strokes. There should be no movement in the coffin.
Thinking of the inexplicable disappearance of scavengers and strange creatures, as well as the increasingly dead silence around him, Bai Mo had a subtle feeling in his heart.
He sighed inwardly.
I was just looking for a scavenger. Who knew I would encounter so many things? First I encountered a naked corpse, and now I encountered an unknown situation...
I don't know if this is good luck or bad luck.
So...what is in the coffin?
Bai Mo had no intention of delving further. He had no right to be curious at the moment, so he immediately pushed the paper man away and prepared to leave.
However, after taking only two steps, he suddenly felt a biting chill on his wrist. When he turned around, he saw that the paper man had already grasped his wrist tightly.
The smile on his face was weird, and the dye smeared on the corners of his mouth looked like spilled blood, adding a bit of terror to it.
The paper man is light and has almost no weight, so it will not affect Bai Mo's movements at all, but it sticks to his body like a dog-skin plaster and cannot be shaken off, which is very annoying.
If it were in the past, Bai Mo might have said "I don't know whether to live or die" and then show the other person some colors, but now, he can't even deal with a small paper man.
He kept calm. This paper man was just a little weird and posed no threat to him. The primary goal at the moment was to leave here as soon as possible.
However, at this moment, the paper figure grabbing his wrist suddenly spontaneously ignited out of thin air, forming a beating ball of cold white flames.
Strangely, although the white flames covered Bai Mo's arms, they did not cause him any burning pain.
But the paper man was different. It seemed to be alive. The expression on its face suddenly began to distort, and it howled in pain. After struggling for a long time, it was burned to ashes by the flames.
Facing these repeated changes, Bai Mo couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then he felt something in his heart and turned his head to look in one direction.
Along with the sound of heavy footsteps, a hunchbacked figure appeared in the distance.
That's an old man.
He has only one eye, is very thin, has sparse hair, and his waist is bent sharply, as if he is carrying an invisible weight. He is covered with a thick green military coat, and he is leaning on a white crutch in his right hand. I was shivering as I walked, as if I was enduring some kind of unspeakable cold.
The crutches are connected one by one, as if they are carved from some kind of ridge bone. They are polished and shiny, and the workmanship is extremely fine. It is covered with dense holes, making it very uncomfortable to look at.
With the appearance of the old man, the already quiet coffin burial place seemed to become more and more dead, as if something bad had happened.
Bai Mo quickly noticed that the old man was holding a cane in one hand and holding his head with an angry look in his other hand.
This head belonged to a bald middle-aged man. He didn't have many hairs on his head, but it was hard for the old man to find a few hairs and hold it in his hand.
This guy had obviously just died. His blood was dripping continuously, and his eyes were bloodshot, filled with anger, unwillingness, and deep resentment.
The old man casually threw his head at Bai Mo's feet, causing the dead head to face upwards, with its vicious eyes just staring at Bai Mo.
After that, the old man said in a neither salty nor indifferent tone: "Stupid guy, you think you can use just a few paper figures to deceive the sweeper and sneak into the coffin burial ground?"
"Extremely stupid, not knowing whether to live or die."
The old man let out an unpleasant sneer, seemingly mocking the human head on the ground, but the words "I don't know whether to live or die" were obviously directed at Bai Mo.
Without saying a word, Bai Mo raised his foot and kicked his head to the side.
The old man ignored him. White flames appeared out of thin air and burned the head. Then he walked tremblingly into the wooden house with a cane and opened the coffin lid.
Inside the coffin was a highly decomposed corpse. It sat up holding on to the edge of the coffin and looked around, seemingly confused. After a long while, it slowly crawled out of the coffin.
That was the scavenger Bai Mo was chasing before.
"You idiot, you were tricked into a coffin and you actually let a living person in without telling you."
The old man's eyes turned cold, and he kicked the corpse hard on the buttocks, kicking it ten meters away. The wall of the wooden house was shattered into pieces.
However, this highly decomposed corpse seemed fragile, but its body was surprisingly strong. It quickly got up from the ground like a normal person, without any emotion, and wandered away staggeringly.
Bai Mo immediately understood what happened.
It turns out that this living person who suddenly appeared - that is, this bald middle-aged man was not an unlucky guy who accidentally fell into the coffin, but came prepared.
He first used a paper man to copy his own breath and pretend to be himself, thereby hiding his traces, and then somehow tricked the scavenger into the coffin, while he took the opportunity to avoid the sweeper and successfully entered the coffin burial ground.
And judging from the fact that the paper man became as tall as white ink just now, it should not have the ability to kill, but some special effect that can imitate the breath.
In short, this is a prop that can change the breath and draw hatred.
This was a good thing, but it was destroyed like this. It was a waste of time.
Bai Mo secretly thought it was a pity.
In fact, this bald man's plan was quite good, taking full advantage of the simple-minded characteristics of the scavenger. However, it was a pity that besides the stupid scavengers, there was also such a ruthless old man in the coffin burial ground.
At this moment, the old man has cast his cold eyes on Bai Mo——
"Traitor, how dare you come here?"
His tone was cold, like ice that would never melt for thousands of years.
The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became tense.
Bai Mo looked calm and said: "Can't I come?"
The old man looked at him and sneered: "I don't want to kill you, but you are not welcome at the coffin site. I'll give you one minute to get as far away as possible."
"It's been a long time since I last saw you, but you sound a lot louder... just because you want to kill me?" Bai Mo looked indifferent.
"Stop bluffing, do you think I can't see that you have lost your strength?"
The old man's expression was ferocious, and he didn't know what he was thinking of. He suddenly became extremely angry, and veins popped out on the skinny palms of his hands that were holding the crutches. "As long as you want, I can let you stay here forever!"
Bai Mo's expression remained unchanged, but he understood clearly in his heart.
He somewhat understood——
No wonder the guy playing with the fishing line didn't continue to control the manpower to guard himself outside the house. It turned out that he didn't give up voluntarily, but was probably expelled by the guy in front of him.
Thinking about it, it is not a trivial matter for the wooden house to shatter in the coffin burial ground. It is not surprising that this guy would wake up immediately to investigate.
If you think about it this way, I guess this guy has appeared since you left the wooden house where the red corpse was, and has been observing you secretly.
No wonder the road ahead will be so easy.
Bai Mo looked at the old man: "The coffin burial site is now riddled with holes. It has been invaded repeatedly by unrelated people. Some people even fumbled with the rules and specially created related taboo sequences... Your guarding work has really failed."
He seemed to ignore the old man's threat and said aloud.
The tone was calm, but full of ridicule.
"So what?"
The old man laughed ferociously, and one of his eyes emitted a cold light, "I have fulfilled the wishes of all those who dare to enter the coffin to die - but it's you, the traitor, uukanshu.com www.uukanshu.com How come it's the other way around? Are you still concerned about the burial ground?"
Bai Mo shook his head and said, "I'm talking to you about the taboo sequence."
The old man frowned and suddenly swung the white bone staff in his hand, instantly creating a huge crack under Bai Mo's feet.
A slight wound appeared on Bai Mo's cheek, and a strand of broken hair fell down into the bottomless abyss.
This blow was extremely powerful, and the crack in the ground healed very slowly, as if a terrifying monster was slowly closing its mouth.
The old man stared at Bai Mo's face, his expression as ferocious as a ghost: "I don't know, are you really not afraid that I will kill you?"
Without even looking at the crack at his feet, Bai Mo shook his head and said, "When will you get rid of your bad temper?"
"What about you? How long will it take for you to get rid of your habit of being a coward?" The old man paused and yelled unwillingly, "It's okay if you get sick. Why do you have to bring so many people with you to die!"
Bai Mo was silent for a moment. Perhaps something the old man said touched him, so he gave a rare answer.
"You know, I have no choice."
The air suddenly became quiet, and the two of them did not speak for a long time.
Although there is only one step between them, the distance between the two people seems to be extremely far away.
"Are they... all dead?"
After a long while, the old man finally calmed down and asked a little lonely.
"Um."
A gust of cold wind blew quietly, seeming to blow away Bai Mo's cruel answer.
But the cold wind only makes some things even colder and biting.
The one-eyed old man's knuckles creaked as he tightened his grip on the bone staff, but he didn't know where to swing it.