Chapter 26: It happened before

But I can’t get excited now. Any thoughts that are too subjective will lead to the failure of this ‘communication’. I can only calm my mind and look at everything from the perspective of a truly calm observer.

The strange flickering light, the chanting of a completely unfamiliar language, the hideous bronze masks, the completely naked men and women with evil-looking totems painted on their bodies, and in the middle of the crowd, an old man with gray hair less than 1.55 meters tall, dancing an aggressive and primitive dance to the rhythm of the chanting…

Looking at all this, if it weren’t for the clear reminder in my heart that this is a scene that really happened in this cave, I would think I had returned to a primitive tribe, or else I was on the set of some mysterious horror movie.

Finally, the long prayer was over, and all the kneeling men and women stood up. At this time, I was surprised to discover why I had always felt that these people were not right, just like the few angry ghosts I had just seen!

They were very short, very short. The old man dancing was the tallest among them. Most of the men and women were no more than 1.5 meters tall. They had large heads with hideous masks, thin necks, and a feeling of stunted growth. Their limbs were thin, and their stomachs were slightly protruding.

Who are these people? My mind was in a whirl. At that moment, the dancing old man stood in the middle and said something. The language was extremely unfamiliar. I have traveled all over the country and speak many languages, but I have some understanding of the languages on the land of China. Even if I encounter some that I can’t speak, I can’t understand them very well, but I generally know which dialect or language family they belong to.

But I have no idea about the old man’s language because the way he pronounces the words is really unfamiliar to me.

My brows furrowed, and I watched everything quietly. After the old man finished speaking excitedly, he pointed to the gap in the ceiling of the cave. Then I saw a man who had been tied up all over his body being forced into the gap, and then a rope was slowly lowered to him.

Then, the second, the third…

A total of seven people were lowered down, and finally, a few people wearing bronze masks pulled the rope down from the gap and pushed the seven people who were all tied up to the edge of the pool!

These seven people and the people in the cave should belong to the same place. They all have the iconic large heads and thin necks, looking like the body of a dwarf, but slightly taller than a dwarf. These seven people did not wear masks, so I could see their faces clearly. There was not much difference between their faces and Asian people’s faces. The only difference, which was also an extremely impressive difference, was that they all had gray eyes, which looked extremely cold and ruthless.

Why were these seven people chosen? I had a feeling that something cruel was about to happen, and my throat was a little dry, so I could only think of some irrelevant questions to distract myself.

But an unintentional thought made me really notice a detail, that is, the seven people were much taller than the others in the cave. The men were about 1.6 meters tall, and the women were about 1.5 meters tall, which was already considered normal human height. Could it be that they were pushed into such a miserable fate because of their height?

In the blink of an eye, the seven people had been pushed to the edge of the pool and then forcibly pushed down. They were fixed in a strange position with their limbs completely spread out, and then ropes were tied to their limbs.

Then the old man said something else, and the crowd began to cheer, and then they scrambled to pull the ropes.

I wanted to close my eyes. There has been the torture of being torn apart by five horses since ancient times, but this method of pulling the ropes by human power is much crueler than the torture of being torn apart by five horses. After all, the speed of being torn apart by five horses is very fast, and the tortured person does not have to suffer too much pain. Death means the end. At this scene, the person is still alive, but his limbs are being pulled so violently that he has been screaming from the beginning of the execution. Accompanied by the excited cheers of those pulling the ropes and the flickering flames, the scene is like hell!

But I couldn’t close my eyes, otherwise the communication would be interrupted. I could only watch the execution of the torture, watching the limbs of the seven prisoners being brutally and irregularly torn off, but unable to die to relieve the pain, the blood flowing everywhere, the screams of agony continued…

Then, the severed limbs and the ropes were thrown into the water. The mysterious old man came forward, knelt down again in the water, said something in an excited and crazy tone, and bowed again.

Behind him, his clan members also knelt down and bowed several times, and then these people began to run out of the cave like they were afraid of something, running for their lives along the ropes hanging from the crevices.

The fire was still burning, and the seven victims were left there, still tied to the ropes, screaming in pain. Later, they could only moan because they had lost so much blood, and they were extremely weak…

Even so, I saw some people struggling to get away from the pool, but how could they possibly do that? And there was no one here to save them. They were facing the despair of waiting for death and the unknown fear.

I am not a fool. From the behavior of these cold-blooded “gray-eyed people” (let’s call them gray-eyed people), there must be something in the water that they worship and fear, so I can judge that these seven people must still face unknown fears.

Thinking this way, I looked at the pool. The pool was quiet. The surface of the water, which had just been stained red with blood, had already faded and returned to its original dark color, and there was nothing to see.

I don’t know what I was thinking. Since there was nothing to be found in the pool, I looked at the stone pillar that protruded along the mountain wall. I looked up the whole way, but I really found something unusual, and this discovery really made my mind unstable. This communication was interrupted.

But I had no way to care anymore. I saw a purple color at the top of the stone pillar, emitting a faint mysterious glow, but before I could see clearly, the communication was interrupted.

But it didn’t matter. I took the flashlight from Xiao Chengqian, who was still in that mysterious communication, and shone it toward the top of the pillar. I found that the top of the pillar, hidden in the darkness, was still there, covered in black, and still had a very faint purple glow. Because of the darkness in the cave, they grew further inside the pillar, and I didn’t even notice their existence when I first entered the cave.

It turned out that these gray-eyed people were not worshipping the water pool at all, but rather the purple plant growing on the top of the pillar. There was some seepage at the top of the cave, and occasionally a drop would fall on the purple plant. Is this how it survives?

My face became ugly, and at this moment I had only one thought in my mind: How the hell am I going to get up there?

But then, Xiao Chengqian let out a cry of fear and suddenly woke up from the communication of consciousness. He looked at me in a daze and gasped for air.

I didn’t rush to tell Xiao Chengqian about the purple plant I had found, but instead asked him, “What’s wrong with you?”

“Chengyi, it’s horrible! There’s something terrible in this pool! Let’s get out of here! Hurry up and get out of here!” Xiao Chengqian’s emotions were a bit unstable, and the vengeful ghost over there, at the same time Xiao Chengqian woke up, once again revealed a sad look on his face, and the same fear!

I suddenly realized that it was natural for a vengeful ghost to hate its ‘creditor’ without restraint. These gray-eyed people who were killed cruelly were afraid and could only blame others, so they did not become vengeful ghosts!

What makes them so afraid is naturally the existence under the water. From Xiao Chengqian’s behavior, the existence under the water must be a formidable guy!

But I can’t leave. The purple plant is also one of the consequences of the Kunlun disaster. The master once said that this fruit has a reason in him. As a disciple of the Old Li school, how can I turn a blind eye?

I put my hand on Xiao Chengqian’s shoulder to calm him down, and only then did I realize that I was still holding the pen in my hand. I had a bolder idea in my mind, but first I had to calm Xiao Chengqian down.

“Xiao Chengqian, don’t get so excited. At least tell me what you saw,” I asked.

Xiao Chengqian was only slightly calmer at this point, and asked me with some confusion, “You didn’t see it?”

“Because I found something else, I was so excited that I interrupted the connection,” I calmly explained to Xiao Chengqian.

Xiao Chengqian took a deep breath and said to me, “Remember the huge monster we met before we came in? There is a stranger monster in this pool!”

I froze for a moment. There was a monster in the pool? How could such a huge monster exist in such a small pool?