Chapter 66 First Encounter

  I slowly turned my head to look in the direction of Hou Dàyǒng and Wáng Jué, they had already arrived on the flat ground, jumping back and forth, shaking off the ghost insects from their bodies. Behind them was a patch of crimson red, I couldn't see very clearly what it was from where I was hiding in the wall crack.

  Slowly emerging from the wall crack, I found that the sky here is not as azure as the villa's, but slightly reddish, with a hint of sunset. Behind Hou Dajun and Wang Jue, the patch of blood red color I saw earlier turned out to be a bloody lake, and the smell of blood I smelled from the wall crack was coming from here.

  I've never seen a lake like this before. There's a famous Red Sea on the Arabian Peninsula, but that's just a name - it's actually azure blue like any other sea. But this pool of water in front of me is truly a blood-curdling red color, and it looks a bit eerie.

  I stared blankly, and Hou Dàyǒng said: "This is the Sea of Lost Souls. Every time a lost soul disappears from the world of the living, the essence it absorbed in the world of the living will flow into this sea. It is the source that sustains the existence of this world, and if one day it dries up, this world will also disappear along with it. Therefore, there will always be lost souls appearing in the human world to absorb people's essence, and there will always be lost souls disappearing, allowing the absorbed essence to flow into the Sea of Lost Souls. Lost souls have their own mission, as well as their own fate, and this is where they ultimately return."

  Hou Dàyǒng said in a low and mournful tone, as if there was a hint of sadness in his voice, perhaps lamenting his own fate. All things have their own rules, the beginning and end are always two corresponding endpoints, what we can decide is only how to walk from one endpoint to the other.

  "What should we do now?" Seeing that one of us was indulging in sorrow and the other was deep in thought, Wang Jue couldn't help but ask.

  "There is a room directly below here, where the Blood Relative Compass is placed. We dive to the bottom of the lake and enter from the main door of the room to find the compass." Hou Daxiong instructed.

  "Are we going to dive in from here?" I surprisingly asked in unison with Wang Jue. It seems that neither of us thought it was possible for us to swim in a lake full of human blood, let alone swim; even washing our hands would be unbearable.

  "Hey," I shouted to Hou Dayong, "Have you seen Stephen Chow's 'An Autumn's Tale'? There's a scary scene where blood flows out of the faucet and everyone washes their faces with it. Do you think we're filming a horror movie? Let's dive into the lake, the effect will be great!"

  Hou Dayong was scolded by me and got so angry that he rolled his eyes, while Wang Jue covered her stomach and laughed so hard she doubled over.

  "Don't be taken away by the fish in the lake, or you won't even have a chance to reincarnate." Hou Dayong was somewhat angry, and after throwing out this sentence, he jumped into that pool of blood with a splash.

  I and Wang Jue were on the shore, scratching our ears and cheeks, in a dilemma. To jump or not to jump? Not jumping would mean we wouldn't be able to find any trace of my sister, and even if we wanted to go back, we couldn't find the entrance - the small door from the funeral home had disappeared. Without Hou Da Yong, it would be difficult for us to get out of here. To jump? Below was a deep lake of blood, just standing by the lake made our heads dizzy from the bloody smell, and jumping in would bring unknown consequences. Hou Da Yong must have found our weak spot, intentionally leaving us alone here to wage psychological warfare.

  Just as I was hesitating with Wang Jue, unable to make up my mind, a gentle breeze brushed past my face, mixed with some raindrops. I touched the raindrops on my face and felt they were thicker than ordinary water droplets. I put my hand in front of my eyes and took a look: it's not good, it's blood rain!