Chapter Twenty I Was Possessed

  "Stones, he killed you! How can you still help him?" I shouted loudly at the stone that had turned into a white-haired zombie. At this moment, the feeling in my heart was indescribable, as if it had been stirred by a knife, piercingly painful. The resurrected stone had actually joined forces with Zhu Baozi to kill me.

  That's right, I suddenly thought of it, it must be like this, Zhu Baozi is now possessed by a demon and belongs to the same kind as the stone, they will definitely join forces. Zhu Baozi, I'm going to kill you! I stared at Zhu Baozi, feeling that my eyes could spit out fire.

  "Ah!" I let out a low growl, and my voice became unusually hoarse. I couldn't bear to look at the stone's appearance anymore, so I swung my bone and charged towards Zhu Baozi. But just as I took two steps, both legs suddenly felt a sharp pain, as if something was drilling into them. The pain made me fall to the ground with a thud. When I looked back, the stone was pinning down my legs. I let out a bitter laugh in my heart, thinking that the stone had bitten me. At this moment, I suddenly felt a weight on my back, pressing me so hard that I couldn't breathe for a long time. Zhu Baozi was sitting on my back, holding me down tightly.

  I struggled with all my might, but Zhu Baozi was too strong and I couldn't move. Suddenly, I felt a sharp pain in several places on my body at the same time, and I let out a few low cries. I thought to myself that it must be the stone biting me again! At this moment, I suddenly felt Zhu Baozi on top of me start moving wildly, holding a bone in his hand, smashing it left and right like a madman. When Zhu Baozi was smashing the bone next to my head, a strong fishy smell suddenly sprayed onto my face, and my expression changed. I suddenly remembered the small snake under the bone, but did Zhu Baozi have any reason to save me? Or did he want to torture me again? My heart couldn't help but wonder. At this moment, Zhu Baozi suddenly stood up and pulled me up with him. I stretched out my hand and pushed him away fiercely, bent down to pick up the bone, wanting to smash it on his head. But just as I was about to grab the bone, I saw that the jade pendant I had picked up in the thief's cave had fallen out of my pocket. So while picking up the bone, I stretched out my hand and grabbed the jade pendant. As soon as I touched the pendant, my fingertips felt a chill, and suddenly there was a buzzing sound in my head, like an extremely sharp voice echoing through my brain, giving me a feeling of collapse. Immediately after that, I felt my strength being drained away, a dizzy spell, almost making me fall over. When I opened my eyes again, I suddenly saw two red eyes moving further and further away, until they disappeared into the darkness. My heart couldn't help but wonder: why did the demon suddenly leave?

  At this moment, I suddenly felt someone pulling my clothes, turned around and saw that it was Shi Tou. I hugged him tightly and asked excitedly, "Shi Tou, you're not dead? You didn't become a zombie?"

  The stone suddenly broke free from my embrace, revealing a hint of a smile as it said "You're awake, that's good. Now isn't the time for explanations, hurry up and go," before suddenly lifting me up and throwing me onto the passageway. It was only then that I realized the place we had fallen into was a massive pit used to store corpses, now teeming with small snakes, their green bodies densely packed together.

  Zhu Baozi picked up his own bones and threw them at the wall, scaring the snakes away. Don't look at him as fat, but he's actually quite agile. Taking advantage of the snakes' departure, he stepped on the wall with one foot, borrowed force, and then pounced forward fiercely, reaching the entrance of the passage. I quickly pulled him up, and he smiled, patting my shoulder, saying "I say, Lin brother, you almost killed me just now, look at this bite wound." After finishing speaking, he swung his arm in front of me, with two rows of clear blood marks. Now I also understand what happened, and I scratched my head, laughing awkwardly.

  The stone also learned from Zhu Bajie to throw a bone at the wall, and then stepped on the wall to borrow strength. I hurriedly stretched out my hand to pull him, and as soon as the stone landed, he shouted "There is a snake behind me!" After shouting, he turned around and waved the oil lamp at the entrance of the corridor, driving the snake back. I saw that he had three small snakes on his hands, two on his waist and one on his calf. Myself and Zhu Bajie rushed forward to pinch the snakes, but I didn't expect it to be so small yet have such great strength. At this time, the small snake on his calf had already drilled into half of his body, and with his slippery body, I was having trouble holding onto him. Zhu Bajie had already pulled out the small snake from Stone's waist and thrown it to the ground, trampling it flat. Seeing me pulling at this small snake, Zhu Bajie's face changed color, and he said anxiously "It's no good, this snake has drilled in too deep, I'm afraid we can't get it out!"

  The stone said the little snake was afraid of fire and didn't dare to rush up for the time being. It sat on the ground, took out a dagger, looked at me and said "pull outward with force". After finishing speaking, it cut its own calf with the dagger, used the dagger to pick the little snake outward. I felt a chill all over my body, and the stone also arched its body in pain. But the little snake was finally picked out. I quickly got up from the ground and trampled on it fiercely.

  "My goodness, I've been beaten by a little one, and an old one has come back." Zhu Baozi said with a trembling voice.

  I and Shi Tou raised our heads, a bunch of small green snakes the size of palms, surrounded the entrance of the passage, exactly the kind we saw on the mountain. They didn't seem to be afraid of the burning oil lamp at all, eager to rush over. Shi Tou frowned, tore off a piece of his pants, and tightly tied up his calf. He said to me and Zhu Baozi, "Run quickly!" After that, he knocked over the oil lamp, the oil inside splashed out, and suddenly caught fire. Shi Tou endured the pain and followed behind me and Zhu Baozi as we ran wildly.

  We ourselves didn't know how far we had run, or how many turns we had made. Finally, relying on the faint light of a small flashlight, we found a small hole that wasn't too big and hid inside. For a moment, there was only the sound of three people panting heavily.

  "Lingzi, what's wrong with you just now?" Shi Tou suddenly asked.

  I leaned my entire body weight against the stone wall, wryly smiling and saying "Just now I saw Zhu Baozi kill you, and then you turned into a white-haired zombie, so I..." I didn't continue speaking, instead dryly laughing twice.

  "How could this be?"

  "Need you ask? Lin must have been possessed, we almost died at his hands."

  I shook my head and said, "No, it's not possession, but rather making you hallucinate. In other words, it affects your thinking, just like how some places are clearly curved roads, but a dead machine would think they're straight roads. This is what electromagnetic waves do to interfere with your thinking. The demon also controls me in this way. Earlier, after we fell down, our thoughts became tense, and since we were both focused on the skeleton and the small snake, we neglected to guard against each other, and our thinking shifted direction. This gave her an opportunity." As I said this, I waved my arm with the small hole in it and continued, "When I was attacked by the small snake, I felt like it was the stone that scratched me. In short, no matter what you did at the time, I thought you were all going to attack me."

  "The stone nodded and said, 'I knew it? Possession is a bit too mysterious after all, so that's how it was.'"

  "I said, 'Maybe the possession I mentioned earlier was just interference with my thoughts!' After that, I used a cloth to wipe away the places where the snake had crawled on me. Fortunately, they weren't deep and were only superficial wounds."

  "Is she still with you now?" Shi Tou asked worriedly.

  I shook my head and said "He's gone," then took out the jade pendant to show Shi Tou, saying "As soon as I touched the jade pendant, she disappeared."

  Zhu Baozi reached out to take the jade pendant, I flipped my hand and took it back, Zhu Baozi dryly laughed and said "Let me see it, Mr. Lin!"

  I smiled slightly and said, "Sorry, it's been passed down from my ancestors, can't be easily shown to others." Zhu Baozi scratched his head and chuckled, looking simple-minded, but who could imagine that he was a ruthless character.

  Listen to me, it's a family heirloom. The stone looked at me faintly and didn't say anything. I took a look at the small flashlight and said, "Let's keep going! It'll run out of power soon."

  "Huh, what's this?" Zhu Baozi suddenly pointed to the wall and said. I took a closer look with my flashlight, it was several traditional Chinese characters: Front Palace, Rear Kill, West Nurture, East Sever, Yin Pulse, Three Stars Nurture Corpse.

  "What does it mean?" asked Zhu Baozi.

  "No wonder, no wonder there are so many zombies. It turns out that this ancient tomb was built on a extremely yin position, and then used special methods to cultivate the yin energy of people born on yin days, and then killed tens of thousands of people and buried them under the ancient tomb. The yin energy in the ancient tomb is extremely heavy, and with the layout, it actually nurtures zombies inside the tomb itself. The tomb owner was too ruthless."

  "This isn't necessarily a way of protecting oneself!" Shi Tou said.

  "Alas," I sighed and said "Unfortunately, our danger has increased. Let's go! Prepare to enter the tomb owner's stone chamber."

  "Do you know the way?" Zhu Baozi asked doubtfully.

  I pushed hard on the earth covering the hole and said, "It's right behind here, this is the thieves' den."