Card Room - 275. Chapter 389-390

【Chapter 389, Red Clothes】

Lu Jiuchuan’s words shocked everyone.

The sarcophagus was shaking more and more intensely, and the entire secret room began to shake like an earthquake. The blood oozing from the cracks even flowed to the ground. Looking at the dazzling pool of blood, Xiao Lou quickly took a step back: “Be careful, everyone! ”

He has read novels about tomb robbers before. When the protagonists enter a thousand-year-old tomb, they often encounter the legendary “Zongzi”.

The so-called “Zongzi” are actually zombies. The dead buried in the tomb will mutate into zombies and then attack the intruder, which is generally very difficult to deal with. But… never heard that zongzi can still bleed?

Zombies have been buried underground for hundreds of thousands of years. The corpses have long rotted and dried in the air. Where can there be such fresh blood in the body?

Will it be an illusion?

Xiao Lou’s eyes quickly looked around.

In the icy stone room, there are only four corners of the bright lights and the sarcophagus in the middle, and no drugs that can cause hallucinations have been found. Moreover, after falling into hallucinations on the spiral staircase before, everyone became very cautious. Every time before entering a new secret room, everyone would pay attention to the frequency of breathing to avoid inhaling poison gas or scent.

The scene of the sarcophagus shaking is not like an illusion, but how can the blood leaking from the gap be explained?

Xiao Lou was puzzled. At this moment, the lid of the sarcophagus suddenly began to shake wildly, as if something was about to crawl out. Yu Hanjiang immediately protected Xiao Lou behind his back, tightly holding the handle of the saber with his left hand, and staring sharply at the sarcophagus.

Gui Yuanzhang’s voice came from Xiao Lou’s ear: “There is something in the sarcophagus, should I stay or withdraw?”

Obviously, the same thing happened in Ye Qi’s secret room.

Ye Qi said: “If a big dumpling pops up, we should be able to play it? After all, we have cards in hand.”

Shao Qingge said with doubts: “Zongzi? Is it the kind you eat during the Dragon Boat Festival?”

Everyone: “…”

Mr. Shao, can you be more serious?

Chu Huaying explained without expression: “The thousand-year-old zombies in the ancient tomb are commonly known as rice dumplings.”

Shao Qingge, who has never read Tomb Raider novels, reacted: “Oh…that is, what does the dead person in the coffin mean to cheat the corpse?” After he said that, he took a step back quickly, hiding very decisively.

In the square film secret room, the Insect King Card can’t be used. He can’t use stocks to deal with zombies. Then he will rely on his teammates.

Xiao Lou suddenly said: “Everyone is on guard, not necessarily zongzi.”

What is in the coffin is still unknown. If it is really a thousand-year-old zongzi who cheated the corpse, it would be equivalent to a high-level zombie. They have cards and are not afraid of the zombie group and the zerg group. Are you afraid?

What Xiao Lou worries most is…maybe it is not Zongzi in this coffin.

The blood is telling him that things are not that simple.

After the people communicated briefly on the voice channel, suddenly, the lid of the sarcophagus was pushed up vigorously, and the contents of the coffin finally broke free, making a sharp, piercing cry.

The door of the stone room was closed behind him, and everyone was trapped in the secret room.

In the enclosed space, the shrill cry began to reverberate repeatedly. The weird sound was like a mental attack. It shook everyone’s minds. Then, the lid of the sarcophagus flew toward the six people. ——

The saber in Yu Hanjiang’s hand slashed sharply, directly splitting the stone in half!

In the other secret room, Gui Yuanzhang slammed the brush in his hand, and the sarcophagus was stopped abruptly by him and hit the wall with a “boom” following the trajectory of the brush!

Everyone looked at the back of the sarcophagus in fear.

The moment the lid was destroyed, everyone finally saw what was crawling out of the sarcophagus——

It was a woman in a red wedding gown.

The gorgeous wedding gown on her looks brand new, with golden silk embroidered on it.

The woman’s face was as pale as paper, and she still wore beautiful hairpins on her head, but the hairpins were half hanging on her hair at this time, and the messy black hair was scattered down to reach her waist. Her slender hands had been stained red with blood, her nails seemed to be broken when she buckled the sarcophagus just now, and her eyes were red with blood.

The woman cast her bitter eyes at the crowd, and Xiao Lou’s heart was chilled by her stare.

Before he could react, the woman’s bloody hand suddenly grabbed Xiao Lou!

Yu Hanjiang made a decisive action and swung a saber to cut off her arm. However, the woman’s movements were extremely agile and her body was also very flexible. As soon as her arms were closed, her feet in red embroidered shoes stepped on the stone wall of the secret room and suddenly jumped. Avoiding Yu Hanjiang’s blade, the claws snapped at Lu Jiuchuan who was standing next to him.

Yu Hanjiang slashed into the air, seeing that the red-clothed woman’s hand was about to choke Lu Jiuchuan’s throat, the cold ice sword in Lu Jiuchuan’s hand immediately pulled out and swept it horizontally forward-but to his surprise, the freezing effect of the cold ice sword seemed to be No effect on women?

Lu Jiuchuan retreated quickly, to one side, and avoided her attack in a thrilling manner.

The woman failed to attack Lu Jiuchuan, and turned back to beat Lao Mo. Mo Xuemin was anxious and directly erected a row of marble walls in front of her to stop her, but what shocked Lao Mo was that the woman’s claws were actually on the marble wall. Take out a hole directly!

Upon seeing this, Liu Qiao hurriedly summoned the witch.

The witch in her hand is a card that can kill with one hit. If a bottle of poison is given to a designated target in the dark environment, it can immediately kill the opponent. However, Liu Qiao’s witch spilled the poison, and the woman in red had no response?

Xiao Lou took out the compasses, quickly drew a few circles, and manipulated the metal ring to trap her from all directions!

Seeing that the two rings have been put on her body, the woman in red seems to have the ability to “flash”, and instantly moved from one corner of the room to the other, ignoring the circle of Xiaolou, and moving towards Xiaolou again Pounced…

The six looked at each other.

At the same time, the moment the woman in red appeared in the secret room on the other side, Gui Yuanzhang quickly pointed the brush at her with his hand.

This pen from Guilao can control objects weighing up to 100kg to move in the air. The trajectory of the object will follow the trajectory of the Guiyuan chapter’s brush. He originally wanted to throw this woman’s stroke on the wall. Found that women are not under his control at all!

Ye Qi took out his flute and played the music.

The flute can make a single target fall asleep, and is a very strong lock control skill. I thought that as soon as the flute sounded, this woman would fall into a drowsy state. Who expected that Ye Qi played the flute as if playing the piano to a cow, but this woman didn’t respond at all?

When Chu Huaying saw it, the slender shadow swept over like the wind. This was the first time Ye Qi and others saw Chu Huaying take action. Her speed was as fast as lightning, and everyone didn’t even see how she flew out. , In a blink of an eye, she had already come behind the woman in red.

A cold light flashed in Chu Huaying’s hand, and the blood-red spider dagger accurately hit the middle of the red-clothed woman’s back.

However, Chu Huaying’s dagger didn’t have any “blocking feeling”, as if it had stabbed a cloud of air.

No matter what the opponent is, if the dagger is inserted into the flesh, it will definitely be blocked, but why…

Chu Huaying was slightly startled, the next moment the woman in red turned her head back, her eyes were full of blood and tears, two bright red tears kept sliding down her pale cheeks, and after that, she stretched out her pale hand. He pinched Chu Huaying’s neck.

Gui Yuanzhang whispered: “Huaying!”

Ye Qi also cried out in shock: “Sister Ying, be careful!”

The teammates just wanted to help, but soon Chu Huaying disappeared in front of everyone, as if being sucked into another space.

Ye Qi’s face turned pale, and he hurriedly took out other instruments to control the field, Long Sen and Qu Wanyue also took action, using the chameleon card to integrate with the environment, and wanted to take the opportunity to attack the woman in red.

Shao Qingge stepped back to the door and quickly reported the situation to Xiao Lou: “Xiao Lou, Chu Huaying is gone!”

At this time, Xiao Lou and the others also encountered an unprecedented crisis.

The cards of the six people seem to be all invalid, and they can obviously release their skills, but they can’t control the woman in red.

Seeing that her sharp claws were about to hit Xiao Lou, Lu Jiuchuan shouted, and the ice sword in his hand slammed into the woman’s neck!

The woman turned her head and avoided, screaming and continuing to attack Xiao Lou.

Yu Hanjiang slammed his left hand, took Xiao Lou into his arms, followed Qing Gong to fly, and stepped on the broken stone brick with one foot, dodge the woman’s attack without any danger, and slashed at her with a backhand. Head!

The woman did not escape this time, her blood-red eyes were staring at Xiao Lou, blood and tears were constantly flowing in her eyes, and her turbulent hair flew around with her movements, like Shura from hell.

Lu Jiuchuan couldn’t help cursing, “Fuck, this is an upgraded version of rice dumplings? Can you fly?”

Tang Ci said, “Mr. Shao said that Huaying is missing, what’s the matter?”

Xiao Lou’s heart was slightly tightened by the woman’s stare, but he quickly calmed down and quickly thought about countermeasures.

In the tomb robbery novels he has read, zongzi are generally produced by corpses, and most of the corpses have a characteristic after mutated-their actions are relatively slow. Zombies and zombies will follow this physiological law. After all, the internal water and blood of the corpse are lost, and the muscles have also become shriveled. If the ability to move is still more flexible than humans, it would be unscientific.

However, the woman in front of her is extremely agile, not to mention, will she avoid everyone’s attacks, and even leap on the wall?

Such a flexible and flying thing is naturally not rice dumplings.

Facing the eyes with blood and tears, Xiao Lou trembled: “She… is probably a resentful spirit or a ghost.”

As if to prove his idea, Yu Hanjiang’s saber slashed her head. Not only did it not crack her brain, it seemed to have struck a mass of nothingness. The sharp knife passed directly through her body, but she did. Unscathed.

What would be like air?

It can only be a resentful spirit without an entity, or a ghost.

At almost the same time, Ye Qi’s nervous voice sounded again on the voice channel: “Professor Xiao, my musical instrument and the brush brushes belonging to the senior are completely useless to her, and all the control skills are invalid! Sister Ying’s dagger can’t stab her? This should be. It’s not a zongzi! Sister Ying doesn’t know where she is going, and she can’t communicate by voice!”

Xiao Lou hurriedly said: “How did Huaying disappear?”

Ye Qi said, “I was pinched by this woman, and then disappeared.”

Xiao Lou thought for a while, broke free of Yu Hanjiang’s arm, took a deep breath, and took the initiative to walk in front of the woman.

The woman suddenly flew over and pinched Xiao Lou’s neck!

Seeing this picture, Yu Hanjiang’s heart trembled. He reflexively wanted to protect Xiao Lou, but Xiao Lou quietly stopped him: “It’s okay, don’t resist.” His voice was calm: “This woman is not an entity, we can’t touch it. Touching her or hurting her, she naturally can’t really hurt us.”

Everyone: “………………”

Yu Hanjiang’s movements abruptly stopped.

In the next moment, Xiao Lou disappeared in front of everyone.

Yu Hanjiang’s heart was shaken, he was afraid that Xiao Lou would have an accident, but if Xiao Lou died, wouldn’t he even lose sight of the body? So, did Xiao Lou and Chu Huaying enter another space?

Thinking of this, he took a step forward without hesitation, and took the initiative to contact the woman in red, but was strangled by the woman.

Then Yu Hanjiang also disappeared.

Lu Jiuchuan helped his forehead helplessly: “Then let’s go together and see what the hell is going on with this thing.”

Everyone touched the porcelain collectively, the red-clothed woman’s eyes were more and more bloody and tears, sharp claws kept pinching everyone’s neck…

Until the last person disappeared, everyone was shocked to find out–

The six of them returned to the original stone room.

The sarcophagus in front of him was motionless, not shaking. There was no dazzling blood on it, only dark black blood stains that had dried up thousands of years ago. The horror scene just now seemed to be just a momentary illusion.

Xiao Lou was standing in front of the sarcophagus, looking thoughtfully at the charm on the sarcophagus.

Yu Hanjiang walked over nervously: “Is it all right?”

“It’s okay.” Xiao Lou held down the voice headset and said to his teammates: “This woman should be an intangible resentful spirit, which can be understood as an illusion condensed by a strong resentment. Just now, we were caught in this way. The resentment was brought into the illusion.”

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【Chapter 390, The Wraith】

Hearing Xiao Lou’s words, everyone’s expressions became serious involuntarily.

In the secret room on the other side, the people stopped resisting according to Xiao Lou’s instructions, and then returned to the stone room collectively like them, saw Chu Huaying standing in front of the sarcophagus, and heard Xiao Lou’s analysis.

Ye Qi quickly understood: “So, everything just now was just an illusion? Therefore, our various card skills are invalid for her. If you stab her with a dagger, you can’t hurt her?”

Xiao Lou nodded his head: “This secret room has not changed. The sarcophagus is still in place. There is no fresh blood leaking from it, and nothing has crawled out of it. It’s just that we were affected by hallucinations as soon as we entered the secret room. I don’t know that I’m in an illusion. Once I can’t discover this in time, fighting desperately against the resentful spirit will only consume physical strength and be in vain.”

Shao Qingge rubbed his temples and said, “Xiao Lou, what you mean is that when we enter the secret room, everything we see is already an illusion. We must be’strangled’ by this resentful spirit to return to reality. Under normal circumstances, when we see the resentful spirit, we will avoid and resist. The more fierce we resist, the more ferocious the resentful spirit will be?”

“Yes, only by not resisting and being’killed’ by her grievances can you escape the illusion of resentment she created.” Xiao Lou paused, and then said, “These two women were buried alive in the ancient tomb. The resentment they dying, the resentful spirit they condensed, may give us some important clues.”

Ye Qi’s voice came in his ears: “Clues? What clues did the fantasy world just provide us with?”

Xiao Lou asked: “Do you see the woman wearing a red wedding gown, embroidered shoes on her feet, and some jewelry on her head?”

Ye Qi nodded: “Yes, a bride with messy hair, blood and tears in her eyes, her face as white as a ghost…Say she is indeed a ghost, right? Is there any difference between a ghost and a ghost?”

Xiao Lou couldn’t tell the difference between resentful spirit and ghost for a while, and it didn’t seem to be a problem to understand her as a ghost?

Ye Qi’s answer told him that the resentful spirits in the secret rooms on both sides are the same brides.

Xiao Lou thoughtfully looked at the coffin in front of him, and said: “Since the two women are wearing wedding gowns, it is very likely that they were buried alive in the sarcophagus on the wedding night.”

When everyone heard this, they all gasped.

The wedding night should be the happiest moment in many people’s lives.

In ancient times, women were brought up by their parents with painstaking efforts and married as wives at a young age. When they got married, they must have fantasized about how their husband would be. Shy, nervous…

As a result, they wore wedding dresses and married, and were not sent to the bridal chamber, but were put in a sarcophagus?

The shock, fear and anger of the two women can be imagined.

It’s no wonder that the grievances after they were buried alive lasted for a long time, and even the people who entered the stone room were brought into the illusion.

When Qu Wanyue heard this, she whispered: “Buying the bride alive is too cruel… Is this what Professor Xiao said, a priestly ritual?”

“Yeah. I previously speculated that this ancient tomb is a living tomb. It seems that I guessed right. The owner of the ancient tomb was probably for a living sacrifice ceremony, so he put the bride in a coffin and buried it alive. He looked at the sarcophagus in front of him and said, “At present, we have only found two sarcophagi. Maybe there will be more sarcophagi in the ancient tomb.”

After all, it is a living sacrifice. Xingshi moved the crowd to build such a large tomb. It seems impossible to sacrifice only two?

Xiao Lou leaned over and carefully observed the charms on the sarcophagus, always feeling a little familiar.

Suddenly, he thought of the picture of the woman in red squeezing his neck.

On the woman’s head, in addition to the hairpin, there is also a crooked comb, which seems to be engraved with the same symbol?

Xiao Lou turned and walked out of the stone room and stopped in front of the mural.

The mural is a grand wedding scene. He found that many utensils and dowry boxes at the wedding banquet also have similar symbols. However, it is difficult to notice these subtle clues in the huge mural.

Xiao Loudao: “Sarcophagus, combs, and dowry items all appear with this symbol, which is likely to be a sign of the woman’s family.”

Old Mo leaned over to take a closer look, and said, “This symbol, it looks a bit like… a grimace totem?”

Yu Hanjiang also walked over and stood beside Xiaolou, looking at the symbols appearing in the murals, and whispered: “I heard that many villages and tribes in ancient times would have gods they believed in. This totem is indeed like a female mother. The symbol of the family.”

Xiao Lou pressed the voice headset and asked the teammate on the opposite side: “Look carefully at the charms on the sarcophagus, and then go to the mural outside to see if you can find the same pattern?”

Soon, Ye Qi’s excited voice came in his ear: “Found it! The boxes of the dowry at the wedding banquet were all carved with the exact same patterns as those on the sarcophagus, a bit like…a wolf’s totem?”

Xiao Lou said: “What we found here is more like a grimace.”

Hearing this, Gui Yuanzhang whispered: “The women buried alive in the two stone chambers are obviously from different tribes. Is it possible that the tomb owner wants to marry women from different tribes and put them in a coffin on the day of the wedding to achieve one A priestly ritual?”

The more people listened, the more chilled their backs became.

Everyone felt strange and gloomy from the moment they entered this living tomb.

It turns out that too many living people have been buried? Are all the brides buried on the day of marriage?

Chu Huaying calmly said: “So, when we want to leave the ancient tomb, we want to find all the brides buried alive, and then draw a plan based on the location of the tomb where they were buried, and guess the exit of the ancient tomb?”

Xiao Lou suddenly remembered the priest ceremony in Liuxi Village.

At that time, the seven jewels were placed in different corners of the village in the shape of a “human body”, the girl who was brutally murdered by the priest. How many brides were buried alive in this ancient tomb? Where are they buried? What is the meaning of the priest?

Xiao Lou took a deep breath and said, “We have to look for other brides slowly. Let’s open the sarcophagus first.”

Everyone: “…”

Open the sarcophagus and take a look? Why is Xiao Lou’s tone so calm when he said this? It’s like everyone’s sluggish rice.

Yu Hanjiang understood Xiao Lou’s thoughts: “Do you want to open a coffin for an autopsy?”

Ye Qi remembered the woman with blood and tears just now, and a layer of goose bumps fell on her back: “Professor Xiao, are you sure you want to open the coffin? Maybe a zongzi really popped up this time?”

Xiao Lou said: “Guardians are also principled. The same trick is rarely used twice in a row. I have scared us with the resentful spirit just now, and there should be no zongzi that is better to deal with than the resentful spirit.”

After he said, he walked to the sarcophagus.

Just now the lid of the sarcophagus flew up, and the bride in red crawled out of it. All that was an illusion.

At this time, the sarcophagus was still placed quietly on the spot, and Xiao Lou motioned to Yu Hanjiang to open the lid of the coffin. Yu Hanjiang’s method was simple and rude, and he used a saber to split it horizontally, splitting the lid completely.

Sure enough, there was a skeleton lying in the coffin… in a red wedding gown.

The age is too long, the corpse has long been decayed, leaving only the dense white bones, wearing a bright red wedding gown, this picture makes people feel uncomfortable.

After being put into the sarcophagus, she struggled frantically, and the inside of the sarcophagus was filled with black and red bloodstains. Her two-handed sarcophagus was buckled, and all the bones of her hand were broken.

It was her wooden comb, lying quietly in the coffin.

Xiao Loudao: “From the perspective of bone development, this girl should be less than 18 years old.”

Everyone: “…”

Lu Jiuchuan couldn’t help cursing: “This group of beasts actually put such a young girl in a coffin for a live burial?!”

Xiao Lou picked up the wooden comb with the grimace totem engraved on it: “Take it first, maybe the next mechanism will use it.”

Because Xiao Lou and the others opened the coffin for an autopsy, Gui Yuanzhang also opened the sarcophagus.

Inside, there were also dense bones wearing wedding gowns, and they found a bracelet in the coffin.

Ye Qi remembered: “When the female ghost pinched Sister Huaying’s neck just now, she was wearing this bracelet on her hand.”

He picked up the bracelet carefully.

Xiao Lou said: “Everyone continues to walk deep into the maze. There must be more than two people buried alive in this ancient tomb.”