Chapter 198: More and More Weird Ruins (8000)

As soon as these words came out, the scene fell into an eerie silence. A cold wind suddenly blew around, and the candles on the table swayed, causing the light and shadow to intertwine.

In the intertwined light and shadow, Xu Bai saw the face of the old Taoist priest in front of him, becoming more and more gloomy.

Especially the eyes, the original immortal style no longer existed, and a cold light shone through, making people's backs cold.

In the intertwined light and shadow, the bones that Xu Bai picked up with chopsticks, one by one, looked like human fingers, with the minced meat on them stained with tendons and bones.

Xu Bai did not move. After asking this question, he looked directly at the old Taoist priest in front of him, but his eyes became colder and colder.

What a bullshit pig tail bone, there are countless people who died in his hands, and it can't tell this. This is obviously a human finger, smoked into bacon by the old Taoist priest.

Thinking of the old bacon that the old Taoist priest hung in the backyard before, Xu Bai knew who the bacon belonged to.

The old Taoist priest said nothing, staring coldly at the chopsticks in Xu Bai's hand.

After a long time, he finally spoke slowly.

"Of course this is human. Have people in the industry like the owner never eaten it?"

This sentence was just a simple inquiry, but the tone of the question was unusually flat, and it seemed a bit strange with the hand bones on Xu Bai's chopsticks.

"People in the industry, have you eaten it?"

Xu Bai was sure that the old Taoist priest had not yet turned into a mind god, otherwise he would not have communicated with him.

But why was such a shocking sentence said in a flat tone?

"Do people in the industry have to eat these?" Xu Bai narrowed his eyes.

The old Taoist priest picked up the chopsticks, turned out a bone from the pile of meat dishes, put it in his mouth and kept sucking it.

His cheeks moved in waves, and with that old face, he looked like a flexible old monkey.

"How can you live without eating? Eat quickly, and rest early after eating."

"Since the great changes in the world, people of the same kind are also a resource."

"I see that you are a man in the industry, so I took out these good things for you to eat."

Every sentence was said plainly, but the content of each sentence was amazing.

Xu Bai put down his chopsticks and shook his head: "Not hungry."

A cold wind blew again, and Xu Bai always felt that someone was looking at him. When he looked back, it was just an empty backyard, but he was looking in the direction of the main hall.

"It's the statue."

This feeling of being stared at was the same as what he felt at the statue at the beginning. Xu Bai guessed that it should be related to the statue.

Did the old Taoist priest feel nothing at all?

It was too weird.

Seeing that Xu Bai didn't eat, the old Taoist priest brought the plate of meat in front of him and ate it bite by bite.

While eating, he was still talking vaguely.

"It seems that the benefactor had a hard life in the past. He was reluctant to eat these good things even when they were placed in front of him."

Xu Bai smiled and said, "Since they are good things, the master is willing to share them with him. It seems that he is a generous person."

He suddenly had a guess that this time period seemed to be ranked in the later period of the time when all nations were fighting for hegemony.

When the ruins appeared, they included all the scenes of that time, some of which were in the front and some in the back, and no one could tell for sure.

The most important point that the old Taoist priest said just now was that it seemed that some people now regarded their own kind as resources.

The resources were close to exhaustion, and the same kind were cannibalistic, and the world was a purgatory.

In Xu Bai's mind, such a picture was sketched.

A full plate of meat dishes was poured into the mouth of the old Taoist priest in just three or two bites, and he chewed it randomly, not even letting go of the bones inside.

In the gloomy environment, there was a crisp cracking sound.

The old Taoist wiped his greasy mouth with his hand: "I am a kind-hearted person, but this meal is not free. Master, if you don't eat meat, eat more vegetables. Eat more, so that you can be fat and white."

After the voice fell, the old Taoist in front of him changed his face.

The greasy mouth slowly cracked, from the corners of the mouth to the ears, full of sharp teeth.

Behind the old Taoist, two black shadows suddenly stretched out, the shadows kept entangled, turned into bloody mouths, and showed off in the air.

"If you don't eat, how can you be fat and white? I don't have much food in my storage. It's hard to see meat."

"Eat quickly, I must keep you well, so that the meat is not dry."

"Eat, eat, eat, eat more!"

While the old Taoist muttered in a mysterious way, he put all the vegetables on a plate with his hands and brought it to Xu Bai.

He stood up, and the long giant mouth formed by the black shadows behind him opened again, and a fishy smell came from it.

Xu Bai looked at the disgusting food in front of him, and then looked at the long giant mouth. On the surface of the black shadows, he saw human faces.

These human faces were imprinted with pain and despair. They tried hard to break away from the black shadows, pulling out black silk threads, but they could not break free from them.

Xu Bai raised his eyebrows: "You have eaten all these, right?"

The old Taoist priest lifted his robe, revealing his lame left leg.

"You eat me, I eat you, isn't that normal? Look at this leg, it was eaten by my master, what a pity, I ate him before he ate me clean."

There was no flesh and blood on the left leg, from the knee down, it was all dry bones.

The long sharp mouth formed by the black shadow was approaching, and the bloody smell became more and more obvious.

Xu Bai sighed: "Although you haven't become a mind god, but looking at this situation, there is no way to communicate normally, so you can die."

Up to now, the old Taoist priest can still speak and has not become a mysterious and weird mind god, proving that the old Taoist priest is still in front of him.

But looking at the current situation, if I don't eat it, I'm afraid it will cause trouble.

Can I eat it?

Of course not.

The oil used for cooking is not necessarily lard. If you eat this stuff, you may vomit all your internal organs.

Then you have to kill him.

Gold and gray intertwined behind Xu Bai, covering the whole room, and the chaotic atmosphere gradually spread.

When the old Taoist heard the two words "Nian Shen", he suddenly froze in place.

Then, he muttered to himself, with a struggling look on his face.

"Nian Shen... Nian Shen... Am I dead? So that's it, I've been dead for a long time."

"Day and night, people are used to worship the statue, as if they were killed by the statue!"

"I have worshipped you all my life, but you killed me!"

The madness on the old Taoist's face became more and more obvious, and there was a layer of inexplicable black air that covered his face.

"I'm dead, why are you still alive, Fuzhu, let's die together."

After saying this, the clarity on the old Taoist's face completely disappeared, turning into endless madness.

Very strange madness.

It was not like a weird and irrational situation at all, but completely crazy.

This kind of madness could even cause the surroundings, making Xu Bai's soul slightly shaken.

Xu Bai no longer held back, the man in front of him had completely turned into a mind god, there was no need to hold back.

The next moment, a brilliant knife light bloomed between Xu Bai's fingers, illuminating the entire night sky white.

In the knife light, the old Taoist priest who was about to pounce suddenly froze, like a wooden sculpture.

Cracks appeared on the old Taoist priest's face, and his skin cracked and fell like a clay figurine, but in an instant it turned into a handful of yellow soil and fell to the ground.

The surrounding gloom disappeared, Xu Bai waved his hand, and the sky changed.

A gust of cold wind blew, and the yellow soil that the old Taoist priest turned into fluttered with the cold wind, turning into ashes all over the sky.

The candlelight in the room flickered, but Xu Bai's face was as cold as ice.

He felt the gaze, once again the gaze from the statue, but he did not go to the main hall, but walked through each room.

After searching for a while, he did not find anything worth noting, not even a progress bar.

Standing in the backyard, looking at the bacon hanging on the shelf in the backyard, Xu Bai felt sick, the gaze of the statue came again, as if there was something about him that made people pay attention.

"You want my life so much, I will see what you are."

Xu Bai did not go directly to the main hall, but slowly raised his right hand and gently pressed towards the main hall in front.

The next moment, a bright light burst out from Xu Bai's hand, and the main hall in front turned into ashes, but the statue remained intact.

Originally, Xu Bai was standing in the backyard. According to this position, the statue should have its back to him.

But when the entire main hall turned into ashes, the statue turned strangely and turned to face him.

The shabby body and blurred facial features, although sitting cross-legged, give people a sense of desolation and ruin.

After the entire hall turned to ashes, Xu Bai could feel that the statue's gaze on him became more and more obvious. The cold feeling was transmitted from his fingers and gradually spread all over his body.

"I understand, you are also a mind god." Xu Bai said slowly.

There is no weirdness in the ruins, only mind gods.

In this terrifying and evil state, there is no other possibility except mind gods.

A broken Taoist temple, but there are two mind gods. Although the Taoist temple is small, it has everything.

As Xu Bai said this, the statue in front of him suddenly cracked.

The crack started from the top of the statue's head and went all the way to the bottom.

The crack was small at first, but when the crack appeared, the statue began to shake violently.

The crack gradually became larger, and from the middle, a complete statue was split into two halves.

The statue broke into two halves and fell to the ground, turning into rubble. Where the statue was originally, there was a naked girl sitting cross-legged.

Xu Bai took a look, his eyes clear.

The reason was simple. Although the girl was naked, she did not arouse any desire in people.

The girl's skin was very fair, but besides being fair, there were horrible wounds.

These wounds were densely packed all over her body, and they were all sewn up with thread.

After the already horrible wounds were sewn up with thread, they looked like disgusting earthworms, which made people feel numb at a glance.

The girl kept her eyes closed. On her forehead, there were also wounds interlaced, and the stitches were dark blue from the corners of her eyes to her chin.

At this time, Xu Bai felt a chill all over his body. Compared with the coldness just now, the temperature was even lower to an outrageous level. He raised his left hand and saw a layer of frost on his hand.

"It's really an evil thing."

Xu Bai's heart moved.

The next second, his body was covered with golden and grayish-white patterns, which made him look like a special kind of demonic beauty.

Immortal Demon Soul Buddha Body!

The frost on his hand faded, and Xu Bai's true energy was disappearing rapidly.

He rushed to the girl in front of him like an anxious guest.

"Come on, hurry up."

The girl finally opened her eyes. There were no eyeballs in her eyes, but a void.

When the girl opened her two empty eye sockets, the coldness around her became more and more obvious. The ground was covered with thick ice, and the sky was actually snowing heavily.

Xu Bai did not stop, raised his palm, and gently drew the trajectory.

Behind him, gold and gray were constantly intertwined, and the chaos brought the sword and the three absolutes to kill people, and they came in an instant!

The frost rose, resisting the dazzling sword light with amazing destructive power. For a moment, it actually stopped the sword light for a moment.

But it only stopped for a moment.

Under the terrifying sword light, the girl was gradually swallowed by the sword light and turned into a pile of ashes.

Xu Bai put away the sky change, and the pattern on his body gradually disappeared.

"Huh..."

He let out a long breath. If he didn't have the sword and the three absolutes and the immortal demon soul Buddha body, he could win this battle today, but it was not easy. Fortunately, with these two skills, he won easily.

The naked girl had no expression even at the moment of death.

This is a mind god, not a human at all.

The surrounding statues disappeared, and the sense of gaze also disappeared.

Xu Bai thought to himself: "What happened here?"

Everything became weird after entering the Taoist temple. There was an old Taoist priest who ate people, and a girl's mind god hidden in the statue.

Xu Bai frowned and gradually connected all the threads, but without any extra clues, he could only make a guess.

——The people here, even if they have not become mind gods, are probably not the same people they used to be.

Just like the old Taoist priest said before, there are many places in the world that must have eaten each other because of resource problems.

In other words, the environment he is in now should be a scene like purgatory on earth.

"This is just one of the mountains. Maybe after I finish exploring this mountain, if the time for the ruins has not come yet, I can go to other places to have a look."

Thinking of this, Xu Bai made up his mind and searched in this Taoist temple again. After confirming that he did not find it, he walked out of this area and continued to walk up.

Today he wanted to see what strange things there were in this mountain, as well as those mind gods, and whether he could find the progress bar.

So he had to finish visiting this mountain first, and then look for other places.

Because it was late, there was only sporadic moonlight, and the mountain road was hidden in the darkness, looming.

The surrounding woods were blown by the wind, making bursts of rustling sounds. In this silent and deserted mountain, it was as if someone walked by and touched the leaves.

If an ordinary person walked here, in a lightless environment, he would definitely be frightened and seriously ill.

Xu Bai's steps were relaxed, but his soul was always covering the surroundings, and he could react immediately if there was any change.

As he was walking, Xu Bai suddenly stopped. He sensed something unusual ahead.

With the help of his spirit, he saw a man lying on the ground in the dense forest ahead.

The man was dressed in rags and was fat, like a round ball.

His eyes were tightly closed, and a comfortable smile was hanging on his greasy face.

"Asleep?"

In this environment, a man in rags fell asleep, and he was so fat.

A man like this was abnormal at first glance. How could a man in rags be so fat like a ball?

"Another person who has not become a mind god."

Without any hesitation, Xu Bai raised his foot and walked in that direction. After walking for about half an incense stick, he arrived at the position he had sensed just now.

In the woods, there was only that piece of open space. The fat man lying on the ground was still asleep. He did not wake up until Xu Bai approached.

Xu Bai walked around the man and finally spoke.

"Wake up, the sun is out."

The fat man heard the sound but still didn't wake up. He turned his body from lying on his back to lying on his side.

The ball-shaped body shook because of this movement and looked like a meat mountain.

Xu Bai frowned and kicked the fat man, leaving a footprint.

When the foot kicked the fat man, Xu Bai felt a huge recoil force coming and took a step back slightly.

"It's really not simple."

Xu Bai touched his chin and thought to himself.

The fat man's defense was a bit high to make him take a step back.

Because of his kick, the fat man finally woke up, opened his confused eyes, rubbed his hands, and when he saw Xu Bai, he sat up with a puzzled face.

Very flexible, even if he was as fat as a ball, the movement was still extremely fast. With this spherical body, it gave people the feeling of a flexible fat man.

"Hey? How come there is a person in the deep of this mountain?" The fat man didn't even lower his head, but rubbed his stomach subconsciously. The shoe print on it that Xu Bai had kicked just now was rubbed off by him.

Xu Bai said: "I came to the deep mountains alone and got lost. I don't know what this brother's name is?"

"My name is 鲹." 鲹 said, as if he suddenly remembered something, his squinting eyes suddenly widened, and he said in disbelief: "No, you walked up from below, how could you walk up, there is an old Taoist priest who eats people."

Old Taoist priest who eats people?

Xu Bai already knew that this man was familiar with the things in the mountains.

Being able to mention the old Taoist priest who eats people proved that he knew that Taoist temple.

However, he didn't say anything else, but made up a reason.

"The temple master asked me to stay overnight, but I thought it was still early, so I left without staying overnight." Xu Bai sighed and acted unlucky: "Who would have thought that it would get dark so quickly and I got lost. Brother Yu, can you help me? I really can't walk anymore." Yu stretched out his palm as big as a palm leaf fan, rubbed his fat face, and muttered: "It's strange. The old Taoist priest eats human flesh every day, how could he miss such a delicacy?" However, the muttering did not last long. After just one or two sentences, Yu quickly returned to normal. "What kind of business are you in?" "I am a martial artist." Xu Bai knew that the other party knew that he was a man of the same trade, so he didn't find it strange. After all, the old Taoist priest knew it before, so he just reported a random name. "Oh." The croaker stood up quickly: "It's getting late, I don't dare to walk around at night, why don't you go to where I live, don't worry, I don't eat people, you just stay at my place for one night, the mountain road will be much easier to walk during the day."

Xu Bai was just worrying about how to open the situation, after hearing this, he nodded and agreed.

The croaker didn't say anything else, shook his fat palm, and walked like a rolling ball, leading the way in front.

Xu Bai followed behind, moved his nose, and sniffed the air a few times.

He found that there was a disgusting fishy smell on the croaker, just like the smell of a boat full of fish caught at sea, and these fish have been dead for a long time.

But he didn't show it, and followed silently.

With this fat croaker leading the way, they came to a dilapidated house soon.

The croaker raised his fat palm and pushed the door in front of him open.

A gust of wind blew, bringing a disgusting fishy smell.

Xu Bai looked around and found that the yard behind the door had been dug into many large pits, with water in the pits and some lively fish in the water.

"I went out to find grass to feed the fish tonight, but I didn't expect to fall asleep on the road. Fortunately, I fell asleep, otherwise you would have a hard time walking today."

As he spoke, he led the way.

"But you are really lucky. The old Taoist priest didn't even let his daughter go. He imprisoned her in the statue and maintained the incense that lured ordinary people. He actually let you leave safely."

"Oh?" Xu Bai became interested: "Hidden in the statue?"

Of course, he still remembered the girl's mind hidden in the statue.

So now that this topic was mentioned, he subconsciously asked it.

Xu Bai stopped and turned around, with regret on his fat face: "His daughter is a poor person, sealed in a statue, and has an unusual attraction to ordinary people."

"After the old Taoist priest led the person over, he fed the person and made her fat and white. Before slaughtering her, he threw her into the statue and did something with her daughter, and then killed her to make bacon."

Do something, what exactly is it? That is definitely indescribable.

"Why do you have to do something?" Xu Bai said.

Xu Bai showed a trace of regret on his face: "Don't you think there is no price to pay for putting a dead person into a statue? If you don't do this, the old Taoist priest will not live long."

"Alas, it's a pity. When her daughter was alive, she was really pretty. I went to propose marriage at that time, but after the proposal, her daughter died."

There was no other emotion in his words except regret, and it was only regret for not being able to propose marriage.

He did not continue to speak, and took Xu Bai to a room. After pushing the door open, he added: "You will stay here for one night today, and I will take you away tomorrow morning. By the way, don't run away secretly, there are many strange things in this mountain."

After saying this, he did not seem to want to have too much communication with Xu Bai, and turned around and left directly.

Seeing this, Xu Bai did not say much, and after closing the door, he lit the oil lamp on the table.

Compared with that Taoist temple, the layout here is much worse.

A bed, a table, a chair, that's all.

Xu Bai calculated the information in his mind, and the most important thing was the information of the fat man at present.

But after calculating for a while, there was no clue.

After thinking a little, Xu Bai raised his index finger and gently drew it in the air.

A golden compass emerged, circling in the air.

Feng Shui calculation!

This time, he wanted to test the good and bad luck.

With the surge of the true energy, the needle on the compass began to spin wildly. In an instant, Xu Bai felt an uneasy feeling hovering in his heart.

Bad luck!

Very bad luck!

Not only that, the wildly spinning needle showed that Feng Shui arithmetic could not calculate it.

"I know there is no free lunch here." Xu Bai waved his hand, dispersed the golden compass, and took out the Summoning God Heart Method from his arms and continued to work on the progress bar.

He was not panicked at all. Since he had fallen into the trap, he would adapt to the situation. The so-called "when the enemy comes, the general will stop him and when the water comes, the earth will cover it." This is the case.

The night was getting deeper and deeper, and Xu Bai was more and more fascinated by the progress bar.

The golden progress bar was growing slowly.

Xu Bai didn't know how much time had passed, but when he had worked on the progress bar in front of him to one-tenth of the progress, he suddenly raised his head and put the Summoning God Heart Method into his arms.

Something was wrong, not right at all!

Although he had a weak sense of time after coming to this place, he could use the progress bar as a reference.

After working for so long, why hasn't it been daytime yet?

Through the window, you can see the mottled light and shadow, which are the traces left by the moonlight. It is still late at night.

Xu Bai frowned, came to the window, opened the window a crack, and saw the backyard through the window.

Outside the window, in the big pit in the backyard, the water surface was shimmering, and under the moonlight, the shadows of fish were swaying in it.

Through the gap, Mouth clearly saw that there was a spherical figure in the backyard, constantly moving.

At the intersection of each puddle, there are crisscrossing paths.

The croaker was walking on these paths without holding anything in his hand.

Seeing this scene, Xu Bai was puzzled: "Not sleeping in the middle of the night and walking around in the yard is really evil."

He really felt evil, especially now.

Under the moonlight, there was a trace of inexplicable emotion in the eyes of the croaker, and cold sweat oozed from his forehead.

Xu Bai looked at the moon in the sky. When he entered the house before, the moon was still in that position, and it was still in that position now, as if it had not changed.

In other words, he entered this mountain, and until the night came, the time here seemed to be still.

There is no day, it is always night.

"The ruins should be the reappearance of a certain period of time, so it seems that it will be fixed at that time." Xu Bai pondered.

It is really strange here, from the old Taoist priest who eats people at the beginning, to the fat man in front of him who is like a ball, there is a kind of weirdness that is hard to understand.

Especially now, the night still exists, and the day has not come, and in the fog, a new layer of shackles has been added.

Croaker walked several steps, and finally came to a puddle at the farthest point, and slowly squatted down.

With his body size, squatting is very difficult, and the fat all over his body is shaking.

Especially the belly with the most fat, the wrinkles hung down, covering the whole legs, like a ball without legs.

His legs were covered by the wrinkles of fat. If he hadn't suddenly become two inches shorter, I wouldn't know whether he was standing or squatting.

Looking at the puddle in front of him, especially the live fish in it, he suddenly reached out and grabbed one of them.

Then, like a savage, he put the fish into his mouth.

The mouth was very big. After the fish was stuffed in, the fish jumped inside, and the cheeks swelled.

As if nothing had happened, the teeth opened and closed, making a creepy creaking sound, which was particularly obvious in the dark night, making people's hair stand on end.

Blood slowly flowed from the corner of his mouth, dripped down his chin into the water, and spread on the surface of the water.

He didn't even spit out the fish's internal organs and fish bones. As his throat rolled, a big bag bulged, and he swallowed it in one gulp.

"Eat raw?" Xu Bai narrowed his eyes.

Another weird guy, everyone here seems to be crazy.

In the yard, after eating a live fish, the croaker rubbed his belly and showed a satisfied look.

His words kept echoing in the yard.

"Alas, if you eat one fish a day, you can't keep up with the speed of production. When you have no food, you have to find someone to fight."

"Speaking of which, there are fewer and fewer graves in this mountain. I can't eat enough. How can I afford to raise this spiritual fish when the time comes?"

"Forget it, forget it, don't think about these, feed enough for today!"

Although the voice was very low, it was clearly heard by Xu Bai.

Xu Bai fell into deep thought.

Spirit fish?

It seems that the fish here are not ordinary goods. This fat man actually cherishes them so much that he only eats one fish a day.

And if he heard it correctly just now, the fat man said that he was not full and that there were fewer and fewer graves in this mountain.

Could it be that this fat man went out every day just to find a graveyard and then find food there?

What he ate was self-evident.

Spirit fish might be good for the fat man, but he had to eat things in the graveyard.

Most importantly, he said that if he couldn't find food, he couldn't feed these spirit fish.

What to feed them with?

Xu Bai didn't think much about it and continued to watch, because the croaker just said that he would feed them today, and he was very curious about what this feed was.

After the croaker finished these words, he stood up with some difficulty, and the fat on his body trembled again.

The folds formed by the accumulation of fat were layered one after another.

After the croaker stood up, he reached out his hand and dug into his collar, and took out a dagger from it with difficulty.

Looking closely, this was not a dagger made of any metal, but a curved rib. The edge of the rib was polished very sharp, reflecting bursts of paleness under the moonlight.

"Huh... I'm so scared of the pain, but the spirit fish wants to eat." The fish sighed, then he grabbed one side of his fat and lifted the rib in his hand.

Swish...

The sound of cutting was heard, and blood splattered.