"There's nothing wrong?
"Is there something wrong with my 'psychic'?
"Is there something wrong with the illusions I saw?"
Fang Xian was shaken for a moment, but he soon made up his mind. "I can't doubt myself. According to the report, this is the beginning of many mental breakdowns …"
He stared at Lov. "I think … there's still something wrong here."
"Very good." Lov put on a smile and took out a shovel from his backpack. He found a random stick and put it on. It was a good tool for digging.
"Lov, you're prepared?" Fang Xian's eyes glittered.
"Trust your instincts. Many times, abnormalities are hidden in the most ordinary things, creating the illusion of normalcy. Many investigators have gone crazy because of that …" Lov said, "So … I'll support you."
"Thank you!"
Fang Xian took the shovel and shoveled the soil with all her might.
The fertile black soil was very soft, and a large piece was dug out easily.
"There doesn't seem to be anything wrong."
Fang Xian quickly dug a one-meter-deep hole and wiped the sweat off his forehead.
"I'll do it!"
Lov took the shovel and continued digging.
When the hole was about two meters deep, he suddenly exclaimed when he pushed the shovel down.
Fang Xian craned his neck to take a look. On the shovel that Luo Fu had dug out, there was a black worm that was wriggling. Fang Xian felt a little dizzy.
"Something's wrong!"
Lov, on the other hand, was excited. He popped another pill into his mouth and dug out another white skull. There were worms crawling in the eye sockets.
"Huh?"
Fang Xian pressed his head and felt that the mental shock had become stronger.
If it were an ordinary person, even a strong man, they probably wouldn't have been able to continue.
But they were both investigators, and they had taken drugs, so they weren't afraid. The two of them took turns to clear a hole that was about three meters deep.
At the bottom of the hole were nine rotten corpses.
"This seems to be some kind of ritual?"
Fang Xian's shovel touched a hard object and brought it out.
It was an iron box covered in mud and rust. It seemed to have not been sealed tightly, or it had been too corroded by time.
In any case, its lid had been flipped open, and some of the documents had spilled out.
They were yellowed pages, bound together by a needle and thread, but most of them had fallen away.
Fang Xian could vaguely see the pictures of insects on the page and the black cover with a few big words written in an unknown language.
"It should be the Secret Gu Scripture?"
As he guessed, the pitch-black words on the object in front of him seemed to have transformed into black worms crawling about.
Fang Xian's ears seemed to be echoing the worm's hymn automatically.
"When a worm dies, a thousand worms come back to life!"
Amidst the ravings that sounded like roars and shouts, some inexplicable knowledge suddenly appeared in his mind.
That was the meaning and pronunciation of the different characters in the book.
Unknowingly, he had learned a language from the land of sunrise in the east through spirit channeling!
"No, this isn't right …"
Fang Xian massaged his temples and glanced at his attribute window. He was stunned again.
He realized that his Spiritual Perception data had suddenly increased by one point and reached 200!
Spiritual perception above 200 had exceeded the scope of a senior investigator and was close to the level of the abyss!
In the abyss, everything he saw was terrifying!
"It turns out that constantly being stimulated by abnormal items will increase the spiritual perception value, and the higher the spiritual perception value, the more likely it is to communicate with terrifying things. This is a vicious cycle. Ordinary people will go crazy sooner or later!"
A realization appeared in Fang Xian's heart.
He squatted down and picked up the scattered pages and the iron box.
Boom!
The moment he touched the iron box, his mind shook, and all kinds of scenes came one after another.
It was still in this cave, but in history, decades or even hundreds of years ago.
A group of pagans with different skin colors and pupils from the locals gathered here and began to worship an unknown existence.
"Our plan has failed, and we will face our own end!"
"We are not afraid of death … because when a worm dies, a thousand worms come back to life!"
"Everything we have belongs to you!"
"The son of the ancient, the evil fungus … Black Taisui!"
…
This time, because Fang Xian had already understood the language of the Land of Sunrise, he heard the honorific name very clearly.
"Black Taisui? What a name with the style of the Land of Sunrise … Taisui, also known as' Flesh Mushroom ', a strange life formed by bacteria, slime molds, and fungi … formed by thousands of lives? As expected … "
Fang Xian continued to read. He saw that the pagans dug a deep pit and buried the 'True Book of Secret Gu'. One by one, they chose to end their lives and sleep here.
"The plan of these pagans outside failed, so they chose to lie low?"
"Their death is not an escape, but to destroy all evidence. At the same time, it is also a ritual … Through the sacrifice of life, they transform this area? So that more 'worms', or believers, appear? "
"All the residents of this town are 'infected'?"
"No, we are also infected. After stepping into this area, the only difference is the degree of infection. This is a very long process, and there is almost no abnormality on the surface … Dripping water can penetrate a stone? There is a similar proverb in the Land of Sunrise in the East … No wonder I felt so uncomfortable when I entered the town. Unfortunately, I was still infected … "
Fang Xian secretly shook his head.
At this time, Lov had already taken the iron box from him naturally. "It seems that these pagans are all dead? Buried a deep secret? "
No matter what the pagans did, it was not surprising. Normal people could not understand the thoughts of lunatics, so Lov was not too surprised by this ritual.
In his long career as an investigator, he had seen many more bloody and evil rituals than this.
"So … the retrieval mission is completed, and all the pagans are confirmed dead. Our investigation is complete?" Lov smiled gently. "I'll go back and write a report. Our mission this time was quite easy …"
"Lov, I still think something is wrong. Maybe we should check the residents of the town …" Fang Xian frowned and suggested.
"I think Brock and the rest are normal. They are rational, and there are no rituals or other behaviors of the pagans …" Lov was puzzled. "What else is wrong?"
"I think that this life-sacrificing ritual might have gotten a response!" Fang Xian said seriously, "That group of heathens really summoned something …"
"I don't think so. The town has been peaceful, and there are no traces of unusual creatures in this cave …" Lov shook his head, disagreeing with Fang Xian's conclusion.
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