Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 160 Corpse-Smelling Flower (Thanks to the leader of Tianhai Xiangyun)

Ran Qing's expression suddenly changed.

Changeling...

This difficult and strange monster is what he fears most at the moment.

I encountered a witch twice and suffered a little loss each time.

And in this underground cave, I actually ran into a money changer?

Ran Qing immediately pulled Long Zongshu to his side and whispered, "There's a witch in the cave ahead!"

The original plan of the three people was to ask Long Zongshu's third brother to lead them through the Rhinoceros Cave and to the edge of the sinkhole, and then let Long Zongshu's third brother go home first.

But now I see the witch in the cave...

Ran Qing asked in a low voice: "Does your third brother have the ability you have?"

Long Zongshu's expression was also a little bad: "No, among the Long brothers of my generation, I am the only one who has learned the skills."

Mo Li also came out at this time and heard the conversation between the two.

She frowned and said, "Then we should send your third brother back first? Once he comes out of the cave, we can come in ourselves."

"I've left marks along the way, so you can find the way without your third brother leading the way."

Mo Li made a suggestion.

At this time, Long Zongshu's third brother also noticed the three people talking and walked over curiously.

"Do you have any questions?" asked the dark-skinned young man.

Ran Qing and Long Zongshu looked at each other.

The tall and thin Long Zongshu said, "Third brother, just take us here. We can walk the rest of the way on our own."

Long Zongshu's third brother was a little surprised: "What happened?"

Long Zongshu hesitated and said, "There is a witch in this cave..."

People who grew up in the Qiangke area are not unfamiliar with monsters like the Bianpo.

Although most people have only heard of it in the horror stories told by their elders.

But Long Zongshu's third brother, as a descendant of the former military settlement, although just an ordinary person, must have some understanding of the Bianpo.

He was stunned for a moment, then looked incredulous: "Changeling? Nonsense, I've been to this Rhino Cave several times."

“I came in alone once.”

"If there really was a witch in here, she would have eaten me up long ago."

After Long Zongshu’s third brother finished speaking, Long Zongshu looked at Ran Qing.

But Ran Qing felt something. He turned around suddenly and looked at the dark cave behind the four people.

At the end of the low cave, in the direction they came from, there were several pairs of blood-red eyes squatting at the cave entrance, spying on them.

When they saw Ran Qing, those pairs of blood-red eyes suddenly disappeared into the darkness.

Ran Qing's face looked a little ugly.

"There's more than one changeling!"

Judging from the number of red eyes, there were at least three changelings behind the low cavern behind them.

Is this rhinoceros cave a witch's den?
Where do so many witches come from?

Long Zongshu and his third brother also saw the three pairs of blood-red eyes.

Under the pale light of the flashlight, the dark-skinned young man looked a little afraid.

"Zong...Zongshu," he subconsciously looked at Long Zongshu and asked, "Can the things that Second Grandfather taught you be used to deal with the Bianpo?"

Long Zongshu rubbed his hands awkwardly: "I have never met a witch..."

Among the four, only Ran Qing had actually encountered a witch.

Mo Li also looked at Ran Qing.

Ran Qing said, "Let's send Third Brother back to the village first. We've already found the way, so we can come back later."

It was almost dark, but after they entered the tiankeng, they had intended to wait until dark.

This time, Long Zongshu's third brother didn't refuse. He quickly said, "Let's get out of here. Regardless of whether that thing is a witch or not, it's creepy to look at."

"I'll go to the village and call more people. We'll come back tomorrow."

"With so many people, we won't be afraid even if there's a witch."

In the darkness, Ran Qing looked at the gloomy cave in front of him.

He suddenly raised his hand and signaled everyone to be quiet.

The four of them shut up at the same time and stopped making any sound.

From the depths of the cave leading to the tiankeng, there came a faint rustling sound.

In the darkness, it seemed as if many things were jumping and moving on the stone walls of the cave.

Although their sounds are faint, the huge cave is a natural sound amplifier.

The rustling and shaking sounds spread, and it turned out that there was more than one witch in the cave where the four people were.

Mo Li murmured, "This is the end... I'm stuck."

The four people's flashlights swept through the darkness, but where the flashlights passed, there was only pale limestone, and no monsters could be seen.

But those rustling and shaking sounds echoed in the darkness, and there were definitely quite a few of them.

Whether behind the low cave where they came from, or in the second half of the cave where they are now, there is more than one monster.

Most likely they are all changelings...

Ran Qing also realized the dilemma that Mo Li mentioned.

He, Long Zongshu, Xiao Mianhua, Mo Li and Long Zongshu's third brother, two living people.

Four people and a dog can also scare away the monsters in the dark and prevent them from approaching rashly.

Just like hunting wild animals in the wild, you should try your best to hunt without getting hurt.

Because once injured in the wild, inflammation and infection of the wound are secondary. After being injured, wild animals cannot hunt and often end up starving to death.

When wild animals encounter prey that can resist, unless they are extremely hungry, they will wait and see, waiting for the best time to hunt.

And now the monsters in the cave seem to be in a similar situation.

They were aware of the danger posed by the four adults and did not dare to approach rashly. They just wandered around waiting for an opportunity.

But once Ran Qing and the others got into the cave behind them, which was only wide enough for one person, they had to crouch and struggle to pass through.

By then, the monsters only need to block both sides...

Long Zongshu's third brother suddenly said, "Let's keep going forward and look for the corpse-stinking flower in the cemetery outside the Rhino Cave."

"The last time I saw the photos taken by those expedition teams, there was a place covered with corpse flowers."

The third brother looked at Long Zongshu and said, "I remember Second Grandpa said that the stench of the corpse flower can make many monsters afraid to approach. In the past, when the elders encountered evil spirits in the mountains, they would look for corpse flowers to exorcise them."

"Now let's go find the corpse flowers. If each of us brings back one, the witch won't dare to block our way."

After hearing what his third brother said, Long Zongshu was very surprised: "There are corpse-stinking flowers in this sinkhole? Don't those things only grow in pits where people die?"

Ran Qing also remembered the strange plants mentioned in "Records of Strange Things".

A strange plant that grows in rainy and humid mountain forests, on land where a large number of people or animals have died.

Although it is a plant, it is carnivorous. It blooms almost all year round and feeds on insects and birds in the mountains and forests.

Living people will see hallucinations if they get close to it, and evil monsters are also instinctively afraid of the smell of the corpse flower and dare not get close.

Picking a corpse flower can scare away monsters before the stamens wither.

"We can only move forward..."

Now that things have come to this, they can only move forward.

The corpse-stinking flower that Long Zongshu’s third brother mentioned is indeed a solution.

But it takes many corpses to grow one corpse flower.

But Long Zongshu's third brother said that in the photos taken by the expedition team that year, there was a place in the tiankeng where many corpse-stinking flowers grew...

Could this underground cenote really be the sacrificial ground of the ancient Luo Kingdom, where many people were sacrificed in blood?

(End of this chapter)