Chapter 164: Horror in the Cemetery
Frankly speaking, going to a cemetery at night is not a very good experience.
Not even after hearing a ghost story.
"Can't we come back during the day?"
Hiding behind Duanmu Huai, Gu Leya looked around uneasily and whispered. Next to her, Old Bente was also covered in cold sweat and kept nodding.
"You're kidding, we're not here for fun, we're here to investigate. What if something scares us away during the day?"
What? !
Hearing Duanmuhuai's answer, Gu Leiya became even more silent and did not dare to speak anymore.
"But having said that... your cemetery is really big..."
Standing at the door of the cemetery, Duanmu Huai looked inside curiously. Under the moonlight, the entire cemetery was dead silent, with a layer of light mist echoing in it. Other than that, there was no sound at all. , it feels as if you have entered a dead place.
Not only that, as Duanmu Huai said, the cemetery is very large, almost as big as a small town.
"There's nothing we can do about it. In the war with the elves...a lot of people died..."
When it comes to this topic, Old Bente is also a little sad.
"At that time, most of the young people in the town went to serve as soldiers and join the war, but in the end only a few came back... Sigh..."
"That's what war is like."
Duanmuhuai glanced at the cemetery in front of him and looked away.
"Then, let's take us to the graves of the four dead first."
"Yes."
Under the leadership of Old Bent, the three of them came to the grave located deep in the cemetery. The grave here had already been dug up, and you could even see piles of soil, shovels and other tools around it. It looked like he had been put down halfway through his work. Duanmuhuai looked around carefully before asking.
"No one will take care of it?"
"I'm afraid no one will dare to enter the cemetery during this period, so we can only leave it like this."
"Hmm..."
Hearing Old Bente's answer, Duanmuhuai nodded, and then he turned on the searchlight, illuminating the dim tomb in front of him. In the tomb, there was only an ordinary-looking wooden coffin placed inside. Duanmu Huai stretched out his hand and picked up the lid of the coffin, and then saw the empty interior of the coffin, and... ...a big hole.
"So what you're saying is that those corpses escaped from this hole?"
Duanmuhuai pointed to the cave at the head of the coffin, looked at Old Bente and asked, it was a cave that looked slightly larger than a human head, as if dug by some wild beast. It was pitch black inside, even if Even if I shine a searchlight into it, I can't see anything.
"Yes..."
"Oh, this is interesting."
Duanmu Huai raised his head and smiled.
"Okay, let's go see the other three tombs."
Soon, everyone looked through the three nearby tombs, and the results were the same as the first tomb. Something dug a hole from the ground, then dug to the top of the coffin, then dug through the coffin, and removed the body. Take away, at least for now, it seems that these corpses just disappeared into the cave and then disappeared.
"Hmm..."
After checking the four tombs, Duanmu Huai thought for a moment, then looked to the side.
"Have you ever dug up these tombs and looked at them?"
"Of course not."
Old Bente shook his head vigorously, then he seemed to think of something and looked at Duanmuhuai uneasily.
"Do you mean that the bones inside are also..."
"It's too boring to work so hard to dig a hole just to steal four corpses. If it were me, it would be stealing anyway. Wouldn't it be better to steal more?"
As he spoke, Duanmuhuai walked to the tomb next to him, and then stretched out his hand. Soon, with the action of the gravity glove, the soil covering the tomb in front of him immediately rolled to both sides. Seeing this scene, Old Bente's eyes widened in surprise, but he still knew not to speak and hurriedly covered his mouth. Gu Liya next to her was hiding behind Duanmu Huai, only daring to quietly stare at the tomb in front of her. Although she is a dragon and a mage, she has never done anything like digging graves in the cemetery in the middle of the night!
At this moment, Gu Leiya couldn't help but recall what An said to herself before leaving.
"You won't be bored when you're with Mr. Knight, it's super exciting and fun! Just give it a try and you'll know!"
Hmm... Digging graves in a cemetery in the middle of the night is super exciting, but it's not fun at all!
Although Gu Leya was screaming in her heart, Duanmu Huai didn't care about her fragile little heart. He stretched out his hand, grabbed the coffin board again, and lifted it up, but... there was nothing inside. "How could it be!?"
Seeing this, Old Bente finally couldn't help shouting. As someone who has lived here all his life, Old Bente naturally knows the situation of this town very well. The owner of this tomb died of illness two years ago, and his body is missing? Moreover, a hole was also dug on the top of his coffin! !
Difficult, could it be said.........
Thinking of this, Old Bente looked around at the tombs and couldn't help but swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
The entire cemetery? Have they all been hollowed out?
No, it’s not that exaggerated! !
Duanmu Huai said before that this cemetery is almost as big as a small town. He is not exaggerating. After all, the more people die, the more people die. Although there is no need for a room as big as a living person, each tomb is not small. There were probably thousands of dead people buried, and couldn't all of these dead people have been taken away? No, some people have been dead for hundreds of years, and I’m afraid they don’t even have any bones left...
But Duanmu Huai didn't care what Old Bente was thinking. He dug up the nearby graves one by one, and the results showed that the dead people inside, no matter how many years they had been dead, were basically gone!
"Interesting, what does this guy want with so many dead people's bones?"
Duanmu Huai looked speechless when he looked at the date on the tombstone in front of him and then at the empty tomb in front of him. You don’t want to let go of the bones that have been dead for ten years. Do you want to take them back to grind your dog’s teeth, or do you plan to make a big bone soup?
Although Duanmu Huai had already guessed that this mission was not easy because of the system prompts, he did not expect that it would be so weird.
"Then, let's take a look at this last tomb."
At this moment, Duanmuhuai has dug all the way to the edge of this row, which is also the part closest to the edge of the cemetery. More than ten graves in this row have been dug by Duanmuhuai, and all the coffins are empty. One person, I'm afraid the next one will be... huh?
However, just as Duanmuhuai was about to open the blind box as usual, he suddenly felt something was wrong.
Could it be that these ten companies can also be shipped?
Thinking of this, Duanmu Huai grabbed the coffin lid and lifted it up.
"Yeah————!!"
Seeing what was in the coffin, Gu Leiya screamed in fright, and the old Bente next to her sat down on the ground.
No wonder the two of them were so frightened, because this blind coffin box was different from the others. Not only was it not empty, it even contained a person!
It was a man who looked to be about forty or fifty years old. He was wearing a yellow robe, with round eyes and a ferocious face. He looked like he had died in extreme pain.
"Yes, it's Mr. Pastor!!"
Looking at the man in front of him, Old Bente also screamed immediately.
"Priest? Is that the priest you said who managed the cemetery and then disappeared?"
"Yes, yes, why is he here..."
Looking at the corpse of the pastor in front of him, Old Bente also murmured to himself. The pastor disappeared before, and many people suspected that it was him, but they didn't expect that he was actually dead? And he was buried in a tomb?
However, the unexpected things have just begun.
At this moment, the priest's body suddenly moved. Seeing this scene, Gu Leya was so frightened that she grabbed Duanmu Huai's hand.
"Ride, Mr. Knight, he's moving!"
"I saw it, can you not be so nervous?"
Duanmu Huai glanced at Gu Leiya speechlessly. It's normal for monsters to exist in this world. You are still a mage. Can you cheer up? Although there seems to be no Necromancer in Manalia, this thing is not unfamiliar to you, right?
But soon, Duanmu Huai discovered that the corpse in front of him seemed a little different. He actually slowly and actively opened his mouth!
Um? Could it be that this corpse can talk?
Just as Duanmuhuai was watching intently, he saw the priest's mouth growing bigger and bigger, and then - a furry, plump mouse came out of it. It raised its head and stared at the people in front of it. There was a squeaking sound!
At the same time, the entire body of the pastor began to gradually rise and fall, and then, like gushes of spring water, rats emerged from the gaps in his mouth and body, almost filling the entire body in the blink of an eye. grave! !
"Squeak! Squeak! Squeak!!!"
Hundreds of rats are swarming densely in the pits of the tomb, which makes people's scalp numb. Not only that, but at this time, everyone discovered that large groups of rats were pouring out of the tombs that had been dug around them. Even the tombs not far away that had not had time to be opened, at this moment The mud was also surging, and it seemed like there was something lingering in it.
Soon, the tomb surged high, and a big hole emerged from it. Then countless rats spewed out of it in groups, spreading out like a black flood.
Seeing this scene, Gu Leya's tense nerves were finally completely disconnected.
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!!!!"
Accompanied by screams that broke through the sky, a torrent of hot flames suddenly erupted and rushed into the tomb in front of them. In the blink of an eye, the bright red flames transformed the rats surging in the tomb into the corpse of the priest. ash. Not only that, after that, the flames spurted from Gu Leiya's right hand that turned into a dragon claw rushed directly into the tunnel below, and then the entire cemetery was shaken, and then, the ground in the cemetery exploded instantly. Come, it turned into a huge pit and swallowed the three of them completely in an instant!
(End of chapter)