mtl008 Chapter 285: Crushing bones and ashes
Chapter 285: Crushing bones and ashes
The starkly contrasting statements from the two men left Li Ling, whose intelligence was already limited to martial prowess, somewhat impoverished.
Just as she was about to ask for clarification, the village chief, Fan Wensong, returned and immediately picked up the child in front of Li Ling, then covered the boy's mouth:
“My grandson is used to lying. I’m really sorry if he offends you in any way. The hotel is just behind. You can walk along the gravel road. I’ll take him first.”
An eerie atmosphere spread after Fan Wensong appeared. What upset Li Ling was that she had originally intended to walk along the pebble path to take a look, but a child suddenly appeared.
In her mind, children shouldn't lie, but the old man not only didn't let the child finish speaking, but also covered her mouth and took her away.
Li Ling's heart gradually swayed towards the child, and she walked in the opposite direction the old man pointed.
As Li Ling's figure gradually disappeared into the distance, Fan Wensong, who had given directions, came out with his grandson Fan Ming in his hand.
"Grandpa, these women are so silly. They all went to Grandpa Leopard's side as soon as I said that. There are so many tourists this year. It seems that our village's publicity efforts have been effective."
“Yes, in that case, the men are offered to the pig god, and the women, well, we’ll just have to do it ourselves…” Fan Wensong’s eyes were filled with a lewd smile, his yellow gap teeth were showing at the corners of his mouth, and all the wrinkles on his face were piled up, with only skin visible and very little flesh.
Fan Wensong's eyes were greasy. He grabbed his grandson's hand and headed towards the hotel he had pointed out.
However, before he could take two steps, his body was cleaved in two by a sword.
It split in two. Fan Wensong's grandson, Fan Ming, was so frightened that he screamed, but before he could even scream, he too was split in two.
Influenced by the words of Fan Wensong and Fan Ming, netizens have already imagined an extremely mind-bending plot.
What superstitious sacrificial customs? Who's lying between the grandfather and grandson? Or are they both bad guys? As netizens imagined their scenarios, they immediately put themselves in the shoes of various cultivators. Unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, the two people who provided key information were killed, and they were even cut in half from head to toe. The suspenseful atmosphere in the live broadcast room turned into horror.
When they saw what the "murderer" looked like, the entire live stream chat was filled with comments expressing their complex emotions.
[Comment: How could the village chief and his grandson just die like that at the beginning? You have no idea how terrified I was when I first saw this village, and then I got even more scared the next second. Who would have thought they would kill people like that? Their heads were practically rolling off the screen!]
I saw it; it was Jiang He who killed him.
Something seems off. The things the village chief and his grandson said at the beginning seemed like crucial clues, but this just involves killing all the NPCs in the dungeon? I remember this is a hidden dungeon; you can't just kill NPCs randomly. If you kill them, how do you clear the dungeon?
Jiang He was truly swift, accurate, and ruthless; she acted decisively without any hesitation. The moment Li Ling left, she woke up and immediately killed the grandfather and grandson.
I don't know why, but there was a hint of horror mixed with trepidation, and a touch of eeriness within that trepidation. Watching Jiang He's sword strike was so satisfying; the speed at which she swung her sword was simply incredible.
I'm starting to doubt my eyes. These two died pretty quickly. Are you sure they're dead?
"He's dead, isn't he? He's dismembered like this. If he could still live like this, then this wouldn't be a normal dungeon at all."
...This really isn't a normal instance. The two people Jiang He killed actually came back to life. It's disgusting. What is that liquid on their bodies? It's literally sticking their wounds together.
Yue, I feel like my eyes have been polluted, it disgusts me.
This slime is green and looks a bit like monster blood.
Okay, okay, he's really come back to life. This isn't just abnormal, it's practically a fake human!
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Hearing the noise, Li Ling turned around and came back.
When she arrived, she saw the same scene as the viewers in the live broadcast room: Fan Wensong and Fan Ming's bodies stuck together.
Fan Wensong, his eyes murky and twisted by Jiang He, wore a sinister smile.
"I told you, the Pig God would protect us. You despicable Taoist priests aren't travelers at all. If you kill us, you'll face the Pig God's revenge..."
He was muttering incantations, his body, split in two and still bleeding, miraculously moved and then came back together under a mass of green liquid.
Before Jiang He could even make a move, Li Ling took out a hammer and smashed it down on Fan Wensong's corpse, hammering it again and again until Fan Wensong's face was unrecognizable.
Jiang He's side was in a similar situation; the two of them gave Fan Wensong and Fan Ming no chance to be resurrected.
After successfully finishing off the enemy, Fan Wensong and Fan Ming's bodies turned into liquid, leaving only two skeletons on the ground.
Li Ling turned around and vomited all over the floor, speaking as she vomited:
"So these two were already dead. They were just puppets who came to harm people. The pig god they were talking about is no human being at all."
Li Ling was only temporarily intimidated by the village and the people in front of her. In fact, when she got closer to Fan Wensong and his grandson, she could smell the stench of corpses.
"They're puppets. Could it be that everyone in this village is a puppet too? Have we stumbled into a hidden instance?"
As Jiang He answered Li Ling's question, she smashed the skeleton into powder before she felt at ease.
This is nothing more than being reduced to ashes.
"It's a hidden dungeon, themed around Pig God Village. This dungeon has many puzzles and rules. By the time we've cleared it step by step, the second phase of resource distribution will be mostly over. The way to exit the dungeon is either to fulfill the conditions given by the dungeon or to find the BOSS."
Jiang He glanced at the distant firelight. Because of their commotion, they must have attracted the attention of other villagers. Jiang He knew that Bai Zhizhou and Long Aotian would make the same choice as her.
The boss is hard to find. To locate the boss hidden in Pig God Village, all they can do is...
"Slaughter the village."
The flames burning on the torches drew closer, and the cacophony of dialect reached the location where Li Ling and Jiang He were.
Li Ling looked at Jiang He in surprise:
"A massacre of a village? Are we going to go all out this time?"
"This method is the fastest. When the villagers arrive, kill as many as you can."
Li Ling looked at the flames and swallowed hard.
"Row."
Jiang He and Li Ling did not stand still. After turning the corpse into powder and pieces of bone, they jumped up a tree. When the villagers arrived, they only saw powder and some broken bones on the ground.
Even though the bones were completely unidentifiable as to their original owner, they could still recognize them at a glance and loudly proclaimed:
“Our village suffered terribly. These outsiders are all bad. If you ask me, we should find them and offer them to the pig god.”
"Yes, we should offer it to the pig god so they'll regret it."
"Sacrifice to the Pig God! Sacrifice to the Pig God!"
"Sacrifice to the Pig God!"
……
The villagers roared in a frenzy, and when Li Ling heard them shouting about the pig god, goosebumps rose all over his body.