Rody lay frozen in the bone cage and moved his body with difficulty, only to find that his muscles and bones were useless.
The pain that came from his bones made him frown tightly, but he couldn't make any sound at all.
"How long have I been in this cage?"
Rody thought hard for a long time before he came up with a vague answer.
He has been imprisoned in this cage for a full year, and it is a miracle that he can survive until now.
Apart from anything else, only monks can persist for such a long time without water or food.
If it were an ordinary person, he would probably have died dozens of times ago.
Everything he encountered today was completely unexpected, and Roddy didn't expect it at all.
During his journey in the void, he accidentally broke into this world and was captured by a foreign monk.
After being tortured and interrogated for a period of time until he was left with only half his life left, Rody was made a slave to exhume the corpse of the ancient god.
He tried to resist, but was no match for the foreign monks, and was even almost killed by them.
It was precisely because he resisted too fiercely and was really not weak that he was sent to the most dangerous area.
These dangerous areas are located inside the corpse of the ancient god. The deeper they go, the more dangerous they are, hiding great terror.
Even the strong ones among the alien monks did not dare to get involved easily, for fear that they would never come back.
There are also some areas that have been discovered and controlled by alien monks and can currently be mined appropriately, but the danger still exists.
Foreign monks must be careful, not to mention prisoners without any protective shields. Their chances of encountering danger will increase a hundred times.
Once you enter these areas, there is basically no life or death, and it is a hell that is feared by all prisoners.
It turns out that there are special soul crystals in the head area of the ancient god's corpse, which can greatly nourish the monk's spiritual power.
It's just that the process of collecting is very dangerous. If you are not careful, you will be attacked by the soul crystal, and it is impossible to prevent it.
It turns out that after a long period of evolution, these environments have possessed simple thinking and strange abilities.
They blend into the surrounding environment, just like dormant poisonous snakes, hidden in petrified flesh and blood.
Once someone tries to excavate and touches the location of these soul crystals, they will be attacked wildly.
The attack method of soul crystal is to enter the body of the target and parasitize in the sea of spirit of the attacked person, constantly absorbing and absorbing spiritual power as food.
After the prisoner is parasitized, he will slowly turn into a walking zombie, and eventually turn into a corpse.
After the host object dies, the soul spirits will slowly gather together and transform from the original invisible state into tangible crystals.
During this period, you cannot die accidentally, otherwise the soul crystals will spread and disintegrate, and there will be no way to recollect them.
Soul crystals are extremely valuable and rare in quantity, so they are highly valued by a group of monks.
As long as a prisoner is attacked, he will be imprisoned directly and imprisoned in a special cage.
The alien monks will let the prisoners die slowly, wait until the soul crystals in the body slowly condense, and then take them away at the right time.
Inside the cage of bones suspended in mid-air, all the unlucky ghosts who were attacked by soul crystals were imprisoned and slowly waited to die.
Roddy was unlucky. He exploded a soul crystal while mining and almost died on the spot.
After the alien monk found out, he threw Roddy into the bone cage without any hesitation.
In the cage next to him, there were once imprisoned several prisoners. When Roddy was imprisoned, they were already dying.
Due to being imprisoned for a longer period of time, these prisoners have run out of energy and energy, and their bodies exude the smell of death.
After seeing Rody, their dry eyes showed no emotion at all.
Roddy knew in his heart that these prisoners were completely desperate and were completely empty shells.
The soul crystal not only drained their energy, but also made their bodies weak. When the last bit of will collapsed, death would follow.
In the days that followed, Roddy witnessed the deaths of these prisoners with his own eyes, and his emotions changed from excitement to numbness.
Across the solid cage of bones, I watched the other prisoners slowly decay, turning into rotten flesh and white bones, and the stench spread everywhere.
I originally thought about escaping, but the energy being devoured every moment and the physical strength that could not be replenished made the idea of escape a luxury.
It is for this reason that the alien monks left things alone and never worried about prisoners escaping.
In addition to the effect of the soul crystal, it is also because these prisoners have special shackles on them.
Once a monk's body is locked by such shackles, he will become like an ordinary person, with only one body of strength left.
The same was true for Rody. He originally thought about escaping, but found that his despair was getting deeper and deeper, and he finally gave up his idea at the time.
Every moment, I am surrounded by despair.
This is actually the result that the foreign monks want. The more desperate the state, the easier it is for the spiritual sea to collapse and the easier it is to be absorbed by the soul crystal.
Roddy didn't want to end up like other prisoners and turn into a skeleton, but in such an environment, he really felt powerless.
Days passed like this, and all the prisoners around him died, and their corpses were constantly rotting, and soul crystals were slowly condensing.
Not sure if it was an illusion, but Rody could often see the souls of prisoners lingering around these soul crystals.
Their faces were full of despair and unwillingness, and they were wailing every moment.
When Roddy was usually in a daze, he would always look at those soul crystals subconsciously. He knew that sooner or later, he would become like that.
As for the commotion below, it has nothing to do with him.
Because of the influence of the soul crystal, he had even forgotten to think and was in a sluggish state all day long.
If nothing else happens, this state of a walking zombie will continue until death comes.
Today, as usual, he stared blankly ahead, where there was the skeleton of a prisoner.
There is dried skin and flesh on the surface of the skeleton. Due to the influence of the soul crystal, the speed of the corpse is much faster than the outside world.
In just one year, it will turn into white bones, and the withered flesh and blood will turn into dust.
Rody clearly remembered that the owner of the skeleton once smiled at him.
The smile was terrifying, because he looked like a skinny skeleton at that time.
This smile was frozen on his face, and until it rotted away, the other party would always use this smile on him.
The slow-minded Rody thought for a long time before he figured out one thing. In fact, when the prisoner laughed, he had already breathed his last.
The smile that seemed weird at first seems to be a kind of relief now, and he is obviously glad that he no longer has to endure the torture.
It's true if you think about it carefully, being imprisoned in such an environment is indeed worse than death.
It is better to die early and gain relief than to linger on.
But today, when I looked at the familiar scene again, I felt something was wrong, something seemed different.
Roddy's thinking had been slowed to a very serious level, and it took him a long time to realize that something was wrong.
It turned out that in this almost frozen scene, there was an item similar to a pocket, placed within easy reach.