The 52nd variation of the Ghost Mask Lantern

  Others didn't have the same experience as Hai Chen, it was as if those suddenly disappearing female ghosts were targeting him. Upon realizing this, Hai Chen subconsciously touched his medical bag to confirm that the strange thing was still there. He then said to Liao Dongfeng: "Dongzi, why don't you take care of this bag instead?"

  Liao Dongfeng knew what Hai Chen meant, he knew that he was not referring to the medical package, but to the things inside, so he smiled and replied: "You'd better carry it yourself! I'm afraid that once you leave it behind, your life will be gone. Of course, my intention is not to say that thing can save your life."

  "What do you mean by this?"

  Liao Dongfeng suddenly became serious, staring into Hai Chen's eyes and answering word by word: "You reap what you sow."

  The atmosphere suddenly became tense, and the four people didn't speak again. At this time, a rumbling sound came from the ground, and when they looked in the direction of the sound, they saw that the egg-like object had completely left the small hole on the ground and was rolling towards the dark depths. Seeing this, Liao Dongfeng immediately said to Peng Jianjun: "Jianjun, stop it."

  Peng Jianjun heard the noise and immediately ran towards the egg-like object. He was afraid that it might be poisonous, so he didn't dare to touch it with his hands. Instead, he took off his gun and tried to use the butt of the rifle to block its path. However, his movements were not precise enough, and the rifle butt lightly touched the object. To his surprise, this thing that could previously knock Feng Leitian down was now so fragile that a light touch caused it to crack open on the surface. Peng Jianjun also felt strange, so he bent down to take a closer look. Suddenly, he saw something snake-like moving inside the broken hole. Peng Jianjun was startled and fell onto his buttocks, dropping his rifle to one side.

  Liao Dongfeng and others heard the noise and quickly turned their heads to look, only to see Peng Jianjun shrugging his shoulders in a gesture of helplessness, then saying: "Can't blame me, I just lightly touched it, just lightly, how could it break?"

  Everyone was shocked and wondering what was going on, when suddenly the living thing in the eggshell darted out, brushing against Peng Jianjun's ear as it passed by. The sticky liquid on its body also stuck to his skin, and he let out a loud shriek, clutching at his ear and starting to curse.

  Hai Chen saw the situation and knew that Peng Jianjun had been ambushed, so he rushed forward to handle it. However, when his hand reached into the medical bag to feel for the medicine, he suddenly felt something was off. At this time, he slowly lifted up the medical bag, shook it, and then turned around to tell Liao Dongfeng: "That thing is gone. It was just here a little while ago."

  "What's wrong? Hurry up and look for it?"

  Liao Dongfeng finished speaking, and the four of them immediately began searching. However, as soon as the flashlight beam flickered for a moment, the movements of the four people stopped again, because they all saw another egg-shaped object slowly emerging from the small hole at the same time.

  As soon as they saw this situation, everyone involuntarily looked at Liao Dongfeng. He slowly squatted down, observed the eggshell, and then looked at the small hole in the distance. It wasn't until then that he suddenly realized: "This is a countdown to slaughter. The thing inside the eggshell is the fierce beast in the carving. I didn't think there were so many of them."

  Just then, there was a commotion in another small hole not far from the egg body. Another egg body slowly appeared at the corner. Seeing this, Liao Dongfeng shouted: "Hurry up and find that thing, we don't have much time left. Once we find it, we'll hurry to find a way out."

  "The surrounding walls are like a beehive, I don't see any way out!"

  Peng Jianjun finished speaking, and Liao Dongfeng immediately shouted impatiently: "Stop your nonsense, hurry up and find it for me, I'll take care of the rest."

  After finishing speaking, the four people started searching everywhere again. Peng Jianjun was the first one who found the copper lump.

  "Here, here." As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly remembered that Liang Tao was in a terrible state and hurriedly shifted his gaze away from the ghost mask lantern, all the while silently praying for Buddha's protection.

  Actually, being in this space and encountering so many strange things, especially after meeting the Corpse Immortal, everyone's heart had long lost their previous pride and fearlessness. The Buddha and Bodhisattva have become the only spiritual support, they all think that the companions around them are not as reliable as these. However, it is said that the Buddha and Bodhisattva exist only in the heart and cannot live by your side. If you rely solely on this support without caring about the people around you, perhaps no one present can do it. Coming to such a ghostly place, although courage is yours, but it is given to you by others. If you were alone here, even Liao Dongfeng would not have the courage to persist.

  Found the ghost mask lantern, Hai Chen did not pick it up immediately this time. On the one hand, he wanted to get rid of this burden, and on the other hand, he also found that the thing was more useful in Liao Dongfeng's hands.

  After the tragic death of Liang Tao, no one dared to look at that thing again. Only Liao Dongfeng slowly squatted down and stretched out his right hand to pick it up. With this close contact with the ghost mask lantern, almost everyone who had done this action before was dead. Hai Chen also witnessed it with his own eyes, but he didn't tell Liao Dongfeng that on that day after the incident at the rally, what trick did he use to dare to hold the ghost mask lantern directly in his hand? And, how could the ghost mask lantern and he have been together for so long without any problems? Using Liao Dongfeng's question, anyone who dares to move the ghost mask lantern is absolutely not an ordinary person. But what kind of extraordinary person is Hai Chen? This question has always been in his mind, never ignored.

  As for the current story, Liao Dongfeng picked up the ghost mask lantern and raised it in front of others for the second time. He stared at it for a minute, and within that short minute, the corpse poison that had originally disappeared suddenly reappeared on his right arm in the form of black lines. This time, however, the black lines did not spread throughout his body but instead concentrated on the arteries of his right arm. Before long, they coalesced into a black ghost face, which was left there like a tattoo.

  The other three people did not see this scene, because in the depths of their hearts they had a deep respect for the ghost face lanterns. They did not see that after being surrounded by the corpse's black gas, the ghost face lanterns turned into transparent steam and dissipated into the air in just an instant.

  "This thing is actually capable of expelling corpse poison? No, it should be that the corpse poison has been purified."

  Liao Dongfeng thought for a moment, and Peng Jianjun finally couldn't help but say: "Old man, Liao, can we not look at that thing anymore? You said earlier that as long as you find that thing, you'll have a way to take everyone away from here, is that true or false?"

  "I have a hypothesis, I don't know if it's useful or not, but for now there's no better way, so let's just try it." He turned his head to look at Feng Le Tian and asked: "Captain, can the Phantom Table determine when the next mechanism will be activated?"

  Feng Le Tian glanced at the ghost meter again, then looked at the time on his hand and said: "If nothing unexpected happens, the next mechanism should start in 2 minutes, but I don't dare to confirm if it's here, because since entering this place, the ghost meter has been spinning."

  "Always spinning? Then why didn't it spin when it met the Corpse Immortal?"

  Peng Jianjun finished asking, and Liao Dongfeng casually said: "The ghostly aura captured by the empty shell is the breath of the dead soul, but the big zongzi is not a dead soul."

  "So you're saying there are many lost souls here?"

  "Alright, there are too many of them to count. Next, I hope you all listen to my arrangement, otherwise none of us can get out."

  At this time, Feng Le Tian and others exchanged glances, nodded, and agreed with Liao Dongfeng's statement. However, things often go like this: the more you need unity, the more trouble arises.

  But anyone who has been infected with the corpse toxin will undergo various changes within a certain period of time, experiencing hallucinations or drastic personality changes. No one can guarantee that the people around them are still human. Among the four people present, only Peng Jianjun knew very little about this, so for now, he absolutely trusted Liao Dongfeng. As for Feng Le Tian and Hai Chen, their relationship with Peng Jianjun was not particularly deep, so Peng Jianjun would only believe Liao Dongfeng at this time.

  As for Feng Le Tian, she knew more about corpse poison and its harm, so she was half-believing and half-doubting towards Liao Dongfeng's words. She thought that as long as Liao Dongfeng didn't show any abnormalities in the following time, it would be fine to temporarily believe him. Once he showed any abnormality, she would take action without mercy. This seemingly weak woman on the surface had a high level of vigilance in her heart, which was unmatched by anyone. This mindset, which was neither an advantage nor a disadvantage, slowly transformed into a belief, and she believed that this belief could keep her alive until the end.

  Liao Dongfeng made a suggestion, and Hai Chen didn't respond. As the saying goes, "no response is consent", so Liao Dongfeng also understood him and didn't ask further. In fact, at this time, Hai Chen had a great doubt in his heart, which was only after encountering that ghost woman earlier. He believed that the appearance of the ghost woman was not accidental, and those large white maggots were not redundant objects either. These things might reappear at some point in the future, and perhaps next time they would be even more terrifying.

  Liao Dongfeng also stared at him for half a day while Hai Chen was thinking, and finally asked: "Hai Chen, is everything okay?"

  Hai Chen nodded, and Liao Dongfeng also smiled slightly. At this time, the others present did not know that Liao Dongfeng had just seen through Hai Chen's thoughts without missing a single point. This strange ability originally belonged to the Corpse Immortal, in other words, Liao Dongfeng felt that he was becoming more and more like that Corpse Immortal himself.