The transmission tower stood there, it was less than 10 metres away from them, they could even smell the dried grass around it.
"I'll go take a look, you guys follow me in the car." Gu Jun decided.
Even though Kathlyn and the rest were hesitant, they still returned to the car and slowly followed behind the nightmare man.
Gu Jun took a few steps on the barren sand and he felt like he was floating. Was it an illusion, it felt like the cars beside him were floating as well … He walked to the front of the transmission tower and walked around it. He found nothing.
He did not reach out to touch the tower, that was not a smart thing to do.
When he lifted his head to look at the top of the tower, it reached into the sky like it was connecting the sky and the earth … Gu Jun was reminded of something and he asked aloud, "Peacock, you said the source of power found in the third chapter of the Seven Cryptical Book of Hsan is' a kind of power that can connect the sky and earth ', can you explain that more clearly?"
"Heaven and earth as one, the fusion of all things." Peacock said with a frown, "It's like … we can really feel the void."
"Sir, you suspect this is related to the power of the tome?" Malachite asked. "I don't feel it." The rest shook their heads.
Gu Jun did not say anything but he thought, 'The land's travellers did not fully come into contact with that power at the end of the third chapter, their feeling is not complete.'
However, this was only an uneasy suspicion. After all, this matter was inseparable from the traces of this scripture.
After looking around for a while longer and finding nothing, Gu Jun dropped a pillow on the ground to mark it. He walked back to the driver's seat and said, "Let's go back to take a look."
The two cars turned around and drove back. It was already noon, and the scorching sun in the sky was getting more and more vicious. The entire land seemed to be scorched.
Thinking back to their journey, they had turned from the muddy road to the asphalt road. Not long after that, the GPS broke, and the phone lost signal. That was when they had entered this abnormal space, and the transmission tower was just a landmark in the area.
Because it was a straight road, the two cars were almost side by side. Not long after, Catherine's nervous and bewildered voice suddenly sounded, "Oh no …"
Although he had expected this, Gu Jun's heart still felt like it had fallen into an ice cellar. The transmission tower had appeared again, right in front of him. Compared to before, it should be behind him.
"How could this be?" Gold Pillar's original body, Seth Wong, stuttered. "You didn't make a mistake, right?"
"Look, that bolster …" Water Jade's original body, Annie He, turned pale. "The brown one … it's the same bolster."
For ordinary office workers like them, whose last memory was of going to work, what was happening now made their hair stand on end.
But even Peacock and the other land wanderers shuddered in fear.
The two cars slowly approached the pillow. It was indeed the same pillow, but it wasn't in the same spot as before. It looked like it had been blown away by the strong wind. The strangest thing was that it had become old and dirty, as if it had been there for a long time …
"I don't understand," Tom muttered. "Are we stuck here?"
"Look over there!" Catherine gasped. The end of the road was filled with cars. They were piled up in a messy heap. They had not been there when they first arrived.
They were all small cars. Some of them looked old, like they had been parked there for a long time. Some of them were brand new, like they had been parked there for a long time. Some of them were new, like they had only been parked in the past two days.
They stopped several metres away to look. There were 16 cars in total. Some doors were open while others were closed but they were all shrouded in silence. There was no sign of anyone.
The group got out of the car again. Gu Jun was worried about their surveillance ability so he personally inspected the cars.
He did not touch them and did not break the window to open the door. He merely used his eyes and he could see that the owners were in a hurry when they left.
"Oh my god …" Catherine was looking at an old white GM sedan. There was a picture frame on the dashboard, and in the frame was a family photo. Through the dust, it could be vaguely seen that it was a Caucasian family with a couple and two children.
Gu Jun asked her what was wrong. She stammered, "I think I've seen them before. When I was still living in Warton, when I was about ten years old, there was a day when the town was suddenly filled with missing person notices from the police. It was this family who disappeared in a car nearby. "
"Warton is really a small town. This was big news at the time." The more she looked at the picture, the more afraid she became. "There were all kinds of rumors, serial killers, demons … We kids were all scared. I can only remember it clearly."
"Kate, you mean …" Tom was stunned. "So they were trapped here? What happened in the end? "
"There was no end, idiot. They have been missing all this time." Catherine scolded her boyfriend helplessly.
Gu Jun narrowed his eyes and looked around at the cars around him, thinking about what this meant …
They were all trapped cars? Some had been there for decades, some just recently? That was why there were old cars and new cars … But in the end, where did the people in the cars go?
Everyone was also thinking about this question. Their eyes looked left and right. On both sides of the road were rugged sandy soil, scattered with some weeds and short trees. If the road was blocked from the front or the back, they would have to take a different route. Even an off-road vehicle would have a hard time traversing this kind of terrain.
"Come, let's take a look this way." Gu Jun walked in a direction. It was the southwest side of Warton. The stone was carried by Peacock's group.
They walked several hundred meters on the sand under the scorching sun. When they saw what was in front of them, the faces of Catherine, Tom, and the rest suddenly turned pale. Annie He covered her mouth in discomfort. If it wasn't for Aquamarine's persona holding her down, she would have vomited all over the place.
"Ah … Damn it …"
"This is real … Oh …"
There were some corpses kneeling on the ground before them. There were adults and children. Their heads were missing, they had been decapitated from the neck down. The headless bodies were not stacked together, they were spaced apart but they were all facing the direction of the transmission tower. They seemed to form a large circle with the transmission tower as the center.
But to form this circle, the number of corpses needed to be more than a hundred …
As they walked closer, they saw that the 10 or so bodies were all dried corpses. Their tattered clothes exposed the dried skin sticking to the bones. They were not rotten but they gave off a horrible stench. Some of the corpses had relatively new clothes, they appeared to have died at different times.
Gu Jun's head was throbbing with pain. The agitation in his heart boiled again. The death illusions that he had seen when he returned from the two-world passage flashed through his mind.
Where did the heads of the corpses go? Were they propped up with bamboo poles? Were they in some place?
"This is probably some kind of ritual." Peacock said chillingly. "I don't recognize it but it looks like a sacrificial ritual." Malachite's group nodded in agreement with a dark expression.
'If this is a sacrificial ritual. ' Gu Jun looked around. These people who had accidentally entered this space were the sacrifices, did that include them?
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