Returning from the abyss

Chapter 261 Another Town

A round of black moon arc cut down, and with the whistling sound of breaking through the air, a piece of slightly muddy soil was lifted.

Lu Ning's extended weapon quickly retracted into the cuff, and there was no one behind her, as if the feeling just now was just an illusion caused by being too nervous.

But that's certainly not an illusion.

The surroundings were still silent, and there was only dampness and rancidity in the air. She realized that she might have found the wrong place, but maybe it was the "right" place.

While guarding the surroundings, Lu Ning reached out and pulled up the clothes on her shoulders slightly. With the vision of the demon, she could clearly see a blue handprint on her shoulders slowly disappearing under her body.

She sank directly into the shadows and appeared on the other side of the cemetery, and now she discovered why this place had never been noticed.

There is a wall in the town, that is, in the east direction.

The north of Baihu Town is a group of mountain ranges that traverse the terrain. The terrain begins to flatten near the town. This wall is actually built against the mountains. If you look at it from the side of the town, it seems that the blocks are designed to prevent wild animals from drilling. The gap in the mountain that came over and was blocked can only be found from this side, and all the blocked positions are connected to form a high wall.

The entire west side of the town was sealed off by this wall, and when it continued to the south side, it began to become a farm with mixed agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry, gradually transitioning to a farm.That is to say, people coming from the north will be blocked by the mountains and cannot see here, and the south will be blinded by a large area of ​​farm areas. It is easy to subconsciously think that the area going deeper is similar.

A blind spot that does a good job visually and psychologically.

thump.

When Lu Ning was thinking, there was a knocking sound not far away.She was startled, and looked around, the direction of the voice was just a wooden house that was not surprising here.

thump.

The second sound, like someone flexing their knuckles and slowly tapping the wood surface, was enough for Lu Ning to hear clearly.

She stabilized her mood and began to walk towards the wooden house.

Could there be other forces hiding in this scene besides the devil?Is this the power of the witch?Or some other third-party force?Why does this cemetery isolated from the town exist like this?

When the seventh knock sounded, Lu Ning was already standing in front of the wooden door. She raised her right hand and aimed at the door. She was ready to turn into a demon prototype in case of any problems.

"call……"

"Is it ~囡囡~ that is ~ over there?"

There was no eighth knock in the room, but a question was asked directly, and Lu Ning almost transformed directly.

She glanced at the line of writing above the door frame.

[Child, child, I can't find it alive. 】

How dare she answer this?

Perhaps because there was no echo after waiting for a while, the voice in the room increased a little.

"I'm~asking~you~"

Lu Ning still didn't answer.

"Don't answer? You~give me back~"

The five fingers of the hand suddenly stabbed out, turned into five sharp blades and directly nailed into the wooden door. Lu Ning's golden eyes blinked, and with one of five fingers, the wooden door was directly cut into several pieces!

"Give me back my child!!!!"

A misty black shadow that didn't have any substance at all rushed out of the wooden house, and a gap that could barely be called a mouth bit down on Lu Ning's head, but was shattered at the moment of contact.

"Same as I thought..."

Lu Ning returned her hand to its original shape, and stepped directly into the broken door. A smell of rancid death came from the house. There was a black "nest" piled up in the corner of the house, where some decayed bones could be seen. Similar objects were mixed inside the filament-like nest, and on the top of this indescribable mass, a strangely shaped flower grew.

It has four sword-shaped long and narrow leaves, and the stem in the middle is twisted with a circle of thin veins like blood vessels in a spiral shape. At the top is a flower bud, and the outer petals full of wrinkles are stacked to tightly wrap the inside. , only a small hollow tube the size of a toothpick sticks out from the center above, and the overall shape looks like a heart.

"Witch Heart?"

Lu Ning moved a little closer. When she approached the flower, for some reason, a very strong perception appeared in her mind.

[This flower is dead...it has no value, and to revive it, it must be replanted and brought to life. 】

Such thoughts kept rising in his mind in a very tempting way. Lu Ning could even see what he could get after he cultivated "living" flowers, and he could also see the flowers that he could get when he successfully planted them as a demon. The huge advantage that can be obtained, it seems that as long as this flower is planted, victory is at your fingertips.

"Uh!"

She took a step back, shaking her head vigorously.

At this moment, the voice of resentment sounded again behind her.

"Do~don't~listen~a ~death~story~"

Lu Ning's index finger suddenly stretched, and peeled off the heart-like flower bud from the stem. The wrinkled petals shattered and broke, and five or six shriveled seeds that were the same as the ones obtained before fell down and were melted. Grabbed from mid-air by the hand of the giant claw.

"Planting."

Her hands returned to their original shape.Looking at the inactive seeds, Lu Ning sneered: "This kind of thing can't be planted at all, right? What is a witch's heart?"

"It's ~ Witch's Heart."

The dark mist enveloped Lu Ning from behind, whispering softly in her ear.

"Then what are you?"

There was piercing laughter in the fog, and the sound made Lu Ning's ears extremely uncomfortable. She waved her hand to disperse the fog, and she was basically sure that the devil would not be affected too much by this place.

But what about humans?
Lima definitely didn't know the name Witch's Heart from this weird cemetery. He clearly mentioned in his email that he discovered this plant and learned that its name was Witch's Heart.If it is learned in such a strange situation, it is absolutely impossible to continue to investigate the properties of the medicine with a research mentality.

In other words, there are other channels to obtain the Witch's Heart. There is someone in the town who knows the real name of this thing. That person...may have been to the cemetery.

What was the purpose of that person tempting Lima to study this plant?Perhaps this is a deliberate arrangement?Is there a hidden witch force in town?In any case, there should be quite a few people who know the existence of this cemetery, and if they are to be excluded from this area, then there will be too many people.

Lu Ning couldn't learn the method of planting the witch's heart from here, so this method must still be kept in the hands of someone or someone in the town.

"Who has been here before." She tried to ask the black mist.

"A boy~"

"what happened?"

"He ~ listened to our story ~ mastered the knowledge ~ knew the facts ~"

The black mist circled for a while and fell back into the pile of "nests".

"Dead~ died~ he died~became one of us~just like you~just like everyone~"

"He went to plant a witch's heart?"

The stern laughter sounded again, this time there was no answer, Lu Ning felt a strong sense of repulsion in the room, although it was not enough to drive her out, it was enough to express her meaning.

So, she exited the house.

The moment she walked out the door, the surroundings returned to silence, and the door in front of her was sealed again by the broken board, but there were still some newer scratches on it, which was exactly the same as the line she had cut to open the door before.

Lu Ning let out a breath, started Shadow Leap, and returned to Baihu Town.

This night's experience was too weird, until she returned to the caravan, her thoughts were still a little confused.The appearance of the cemetery made her have to keep an extra eye out of the plan. If there was a design in which the two towns were actually reflections of each other in the scene, any plan would be ruined.

In order to confirm her thoughts, Lu Ning took out all the letters Lima sent to her and read them again. There were no dried herbs in these envelopes, and the letter paper was also ordinary, but the ink was not necessarily the case.

Lu Ning scraped off a little powder with her nails, and imitated Ning Yeyi's method and put it on the tip of her tongue.

As if an electric current penetrated the whole body, her mind suddenly became clear. As expected, Lima mixed the extract of the witch's heart into the ink, and the demon's feeling for this substance was quite obvious.

But why would he do this?
There is nothing wrong with the choice of words or sentences in the letter. Even if Lima is to lure Lu Ning into the water, the analysis report alone is actually enough.If the witch's heart is the incentive for Lu Ning to become a demon, then it would be too easy to become a demon just by smelling the smell.

In addition, in the secret mission of Lu Ning's human identity, there is almost a hint of "killing Lima".If this is a mission based on Lu Ning's identity recognition, it's fine. If it's a God's Perspective mission for tourists at the distribution center, it means that Lima's disappearance is not dead, but is still alive somewhere and continues to be a witch. A study of the heart?
Lu Ning put down the letter in her hand, turned her head by accident, and saw someone passing by the window of her RV.

She opened the car window and called out to the man.

"Mr. Tachikawa?"

"Doctor Lu." Seeing that he had been noticed, Li Chuanliang walked back to the window and bowed slightly to Lu Ning, "Come here next time and ask for the care of those two girls."

"Sugiyama and Inawara? You knew each other?" Lu Ning asked.

"We have supported each other so far. They are pure in nature. Although they have experienced scenes and hardships, they will still be bound by the general sense of morality and miss the opportunity." Ryo Lichuan said with a little worry, "so I am not comfortable with the judgment of life and death. Tomorrow's trip Well, if Dr. Lu has a free hand, I hope to take care of the two of them."

"In terms of combat power, I can't compare to those two girls. But I will not abandon them if I can. You can rest assured about that."

"Thank you."

"Excuse me, does Mr. Lichuan already have a candidate for a devil in his mind?"

"I'm dull. Although I have doubts, I'm not sure." Li Chuanliang shook his head, "If Dr. Lu has doubts and draws out the devil's body, I will take the lead and kill the demons."

Lu Ning had a thought in her mind, and then said, "Mr. Lichuan, when I left the restaurant today, I saw Ms. Fujii hurried back and went upstairs. I wonder if she has been to the restaurant since then?"

"Since Dr. Lu left and I left the restaurant around 08:30 in the evening, I have not seen her come."

"Thank you, good night then."

Lu Ning nodded and closed the window. After a little calculation in her mind, she left at about 06:30, so during this period of about two hours, Fujii seemed to have discovered something.So where is the burning paper?People in the town...

The customs of this town do not include burning sacrifices for the dead. It can even be said that there is such a cemetery in the whole town that looks weird to Lu Ning.She roughly sketched the topography of the cemetery area on the paper according to her memory, and then took the map of Baihu Town for comparison.

White Lake Town is obviously larger, but this is because many new buildings were built later. If you compare the roads divided by the small houses in the cemetery according to the direction, it is easy to see that the cemetery is basically White Lake. A miniature view of an area of ​​town.

All the places that Lu Ning had been to before, including Taylor's house, blacksmith, carpenter, tinned wine jug, and grocery store, were all within this overlapping range, and the special house that said "he saw it, she came back" corresponded to Bai's house. The house in Laketown happens to be...

Hermann House.

It's a pity that today's demonization time is almost used up, and Lu Ning doesn't want to go there so unprepared. The attitude of the Herman family is completely unknown. There are such deeds as witch hunting leaders in the ancestors. Obviously, it is not a place to investigate casually. .

Lu Ning lay down, thinking about the correction and adjustment of her plan, and gradually fell asleep.

In the hotel at this time, Shen Lishu was sitting at the desk in his room, and Fujii Xueyin was sitting opposite, and on the table between them was a half-burnt paper doll.

The shape of the doll is very simple, but only one face is depicted vividly. It is not difficult to see that the face is Sally, and the remaining torso can also be vaguely seen that she was painted with simple strokes when she died. clothes.

Shen Lishu held a black regular dodecahedron in his hand. With the slow movements of his hand muscles, the dodecahedron slowly rotated, and there was a rattling sound inside, which was the only sound in this quiet room. the sound of.

"The Witch's Clothes."

Fujii Yukine broke the silence.

"So that's how it is... You have already noticed this, so you brought this to me."

"The secret direction has been half-expressed, and I can't let the situation develop like this. Now that I've been honest, I've confirmed that you are a human being. Can't you still accept joining forces with me?" Fujii frowned slightly.

"Hehehe, but the old man doesn't confirm you." Shen Lishu reached out to pick up the paper figurine, "This thing... you really got it from the coffin?"

Fujii Yukine nodded.

"But have you found the witch's clothes? If only this doesn't convince me."

"I didn't find it, but I have a guess." Fujii Xueyin said helplessly, "It's a kind of magic."

"Spell?"

Shen Lishu's hand trembled slightly, the dodecahedron rolled down from his hand, turned twice on the table, and a delicate oval bamboo piece fell out of a small hole.

"That's not a good thing... magic is involved in a scene like this."

"We all understand this kind of thing."

There was another short silence, and finally, Shen Lishu nodded.

"Okay, for the time being... Let's cooperate."

Fujii Xueyin breathed a sigh of relief, got up, said goodbye and left the room.

Ye Chuqing, who was outside the house, followed her back into the room.

"Professor Shen?"

Shen Lishu didn't look at her, but lowered his head to stare at the bamboo piece, the six patterns of three yang, two yin, and one yang on the bamboo piece were clearly distinguishable.

"Twenty-five, the sky thunder is innocent, worrying, worrying..."

(End of this chapter)