Chapter 32 Oil Lamp, Letter
Obviously, the only way to survive is an empty room that is not filled with corpses.
Li Sheng rushed into it with Xiao Chen on his back and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Brother Sheng, what do you think that is?"
Xiao Chen glanced around and found what seemed to be a girl's body in the corner of the house.
Judging from the degree of decay, it seems that he died more than ten days ago.
He died more than half a month later than the villagers in the town.
And the corpse itself is relatively complete, without any painful struggle or mutilated appearance like other corpses.
“This child seems to have starved to death.”
Xiao Chen said thoughtfully.
"Starving to death...that's terrible."
Li Sheng suddenly realized that this house could even be isolated from evil things.
But if they want to survive for ten days, they must at least have food and drink.
There is not even a drop of water in this house. If you want to survive, you must prepare enough food.
Li Sheng put Xiao Chen down and told him to stay in the house and never go out.
Then, while the monster was still scratching at the door, he ran directly to the first floor.
He went directly to the cellar and collected various vegetables and dry food.
They can probably get through it by eating some raw vegetables and dry food for ten days.
Finally, I filled the pot with water, then returned to the first floor and stepped onto the stairs to the second floor.
At this moment, Li Sheng suddenly heard the sound of scratching on the door not far away and suddenly disappeared.
I was horrified.
“No!”
Li Sheng stopped being cautious and let go of his hands and feet and ran wildly.
The muddy and slippery corridor did not affect Li Sheng's actions at all.
But the harsh gasps and roars behind him were getting closer and closer, and the monster's speed was actually much faster than Li Sheng.
By the time Li Sheng saw the room where Na Shenglu was, the monster behind him was only one step away from Li Sheng.
“Oops, it’s too late!”
Li Sheng could even smell the stench from the monster behind him, and the cold touch of his nails made Li Sheng shiver.
Just when Li Sheng was about to fight to the death, he had to hold the opponent back until he died.
But Xiao Chen suddenly opened the door and stood at the door holding the candle in his hand high.
The light was everywhere, and the monster's movements suddenly slowed down a lot, and Li Sheng was gradually left behind.
Li Shengda was overjoyed and jumped back into the room, while Xiao Chen also quickly closed the door with quick eyes and hands, confirming that the monster could not break in.
Li Sheng gasped and put down the food he was carrying, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"What's going on? Why does that monster seem to be afraid of the candlelight in your hand?"
Xiao Chen pointed to the child's body:
"When you went down to search for food, I found that there was an oil lamp and a page of letters under the child."
"I was illiterate and couldn't understand the content of the letter, so I had to light it first. He turned on the oil lamp."
"But when he was illuminated by the oil lamp, all the discomfort on his body disappeared, and then he wondered if the oil lamp was some great treasure."
Li Sheng clicked upon hearing this. He nodded and closed the door tightly.
Then he and Xiao Chen sat on the floor and looked at the contents of the letter.
According to the letter, this inn was originally opened by a family of three.
One day a strange-looking man stumbled into the store, opened a room on the second floor and then stayed behind closed doors.
From time to time, screams and roars can be heard coming from inside, and there are even sounds of fighting and yelling.
The innkeeper opened the door to take a look out of concern. Unexpectedly, the strange man turned out to be half deformed, looking like a monster and a monster, like countless monsters in nightmares put together into a terrifying appearance.
But the weirdo was sometimes sober and sometimes crazy.
When his consciousness became clear, he left an oil lamp behind, saying that it needed blood as lamp oil.
And said that as long as they are under the light, they will be protected from distortion and strangeness.
But the next moment, this weirdo fell into madness again, rushed out of the town with a grin and disappeared without a trace.
But the shopkeeper was stained by the dirty blood spattered from half of the weird man's body. He suddenly had a high fever and fainted.
Immediately, the whole body began to quickly become covered with various sarcomas and granulations.
Not only did he not get better under the care of the landlady, but he completely turned into a monster after waking up and began to prey on all living creatures.
An invisible change immediately spread from the inn.
First it was an inn, then the whole town.
Anyone who tries to leave the town will lose the protection of the oil lamp and be caught up and killed by the monster.
The closer you are to the oil lamp, the safer it is in theory.
But the monster transformed by the shopkeeper seemed to also intentionally pile up the corpses on the second floor, using the resentment and evil spirit of the corpses to gradually eliminate the external influence of the oil lamp.
That’s why the rooms on the first floor gradually become unable to defend against monsters.
"It turns out that the monster chasing us is the innkeeper."
Li Sheng couldn't help but sigh when he saw this.
I don’t know where that half of the deformed monster came from.
Just some dirty blood created a strange person, turning the entire town into a bloody hell.
Although the shopkeeper turned into a monster, he seemed to still retain a trace of consciousness from his life.
So after her daughter escaped into the house, she tried her best to restrain herself from entering the house, and then began to hunt the residents of the entire town.
The proprietress was also infected with the mutation and lost most of her self-awareness.
He turned into a ghost-like creature and recruited foreign guests to die in the inn.
This letter was written by the proprietress when she was dying, hoping that she would understand what happened when rescue came.
Li Sheng and Li Sheng also guessed that although the child was trapped in the room, he still remembered his mother's instructions when she was dying, and he would be safe as long as he hid in the room.
But the oil lamp is powered by blood. How can a little girl maintain it?
After only a few days of burning, the girl refused to eat or drink, and eventually died of excessive blood loss.
Seeing that it was still dark outside, Li Sheng took out the sacrificial objects he had prepared earlier from his arms.
Burning incense and bowing, he meditated sincerely for a moment, and then told Xu Ke all about what happened just now.
Xu Ke also speculated that the oil lamp seemed to have to match the formation drawn on the ground in the room to be effective.
Once a house is taken out, it will lose most of its utility and gradually turn into a pile of junk.
“Without my help, the way to survive in this strange environment would be to persist under the light of an oil lamp for a few days.”
"When the evil spirits around you have been eliminated to a certain stage, you can rush out with an oil lamp and escape with your life."
But now that he has his help, Li Sheng and others no longer have to just focus on escaping...
“What should Fatty do?”
Xiao Chen suddenly thought that even though they took the risk and rushed upstairs.
But Fatty was still trapped in the room on the first floor and didn't even know that they had reached the second floor.
The most important thing is that there is no one else to divert the target of the monster.
The monster was almost blocking the doorway.
They can't get out, and no one else can get in.
Forcibly rushing out with an oil lamp in hand will only waste the power of the oil lamp...
(End of this chapter)