CH 48

Chapter 48: Witchcraft Sacrifice (XVII)

In an instant, a chill ran through his heart.

Qi Leren took a step back in shock and instinctively wanted to escape, but he instantly realized that he was in this strange courtyard. If he fled in a hurry, he would easily fall into the hunter’s trap.

Right now, there was nothing to attack him. It’s just constantly threatening him, trying to unnerve his mind.

Although he understood that this was just a psychological attack, it seemed that there was something strange hiding everywhere in the courtyard, so it was beyond human instinct to calmly regard all anomalies as nothing. This kind of fear caused by a threat to one’s life is engraved in people’s genes, prompting people to avoid danger, but now he had to confront this instinct …

It’s just, it’s just …

The sound came again, as if something was rubbing against the earth’s surface and wandering among the grass. Qi Leren suddenly turned around and illuminated the lamp in the direction of the sound. In the dark filled with fog, only the flowers and trees in the courtyard surrounded the statues suffering from torture.

No one was there.

However, the feeling of being stared at by the malicious line of sight haunted him like gangrene in his bones. No matter which direction Qi Leren turned, there was always such a line of sight watching from behind him.

But it was just watching.

Qi Leren took a deep breath and went to the statue with his face, even reaching out and touching it. The metal was cold from the fingertips to the soles of the feet, but there was no abnormality. But he thought the statue was a breakthrough, so he crossed the wooden railing and walked into the lawn where the statue was placed. When he came behind the statue, his eyes suddenly became clear.

Originally covered by trees and shrubs on the lawn, there is a path covered with moonlight and shadows.

Finally. Qi Leren couldn’t say if it was fear or relief, but the weight in his heart finally fell to the ground. Instead, he didn’t panic like just now. After reviving his spirit, he went to the moonlit path.

The breeze was blowing, the trees were swaying, and his feet made a slight noise when stepping on the grass, just like the rustle that sometimes didn’t exist at that time. On several occasions, Qi Leren felt that he had seen something hidden behind the bush that made it shake gently, but when he shone the light there, the place was very normal, as if the shaking just now was just his imagination.

But he knew it wasn’t.

Going deeper and deeper in the courtyard, the surrounding light was getting darker and darker. When you looked up, the moonlight was no longer seen above your head, the sky instead covered by dark clouds. It was dark and dead all around, but fortunately the lamp in his hand was still working diligently, lighting up the world around him.

At the end of the path, the front was a rock wall, which suddenly blocked the way forward. Qi Leren stopped in astonishment, looked around, and there were many trees everywhere, but there was nothing unusual. He suspected that the rock was strange, but he couldn’t see anything strange at the moment.

This rock wall covered with vines should be the outermost part of the courtyard in this basin. Looking up, this straight rock wall was tens of meters high, and it was impossible to climb it. There was nothing obviously abnormal around, let alone the “rusty iron” and “flame” in the prompt.

The shuffling sound came again. The Qi Leren immediately turned around, and the lights in his hands shone in the direction of the sound. There seemed to be something swimming in the slightly shaking grass ahead. Was it a snake?

Qi Leren’s hand holding the dagger was tight, and he hesitated to go forward and check it out carefully. Suddenly, a weak cry for help came from behind him: “Help me…”

? !

Qi Leren looked in the direction of the voice, but it was in the rock wall!

This cognition made people feel cold, but Qi Leren took a step back and looked at the rock wall with fear that something would suddenly jump out of it.

“It’s so painful, so hot, I’m going to die… Save me… Why don’t you save me?”

The whispering voice became sharp and despairing in the cold air that was steeped with malice.

In all directions, the sound of the rustling became clearer and closer, and this strange sound came from the wall. Qi Leren didn’t even know where to hide, but at this moment, the lantern in his hand suddenly let out a crisp click, and the light flickered.

At such a time… Damn it! Qi Leren simply took a gamble, and the dagger in his hand swung to the place where the cry for help came, trying to plunge into the rock wall. The touch of the blade touching the mass of rock was real, not like illusion, but at the same time, the lantern in his hand was completely broken, and a restless darkness came.

It’s coming!

The sound of rustling was close to the ear, from below his feet, from above his head, from behind, from all directions, everywhere. The crawling sound was pervasive, eroding people’s will and letting fear spread to the greatest extent in the dark.

Pain shot through his ankle the Qi Leren shouted. There was something wrapped up under his feet, turning his body upside down! At that moment, he finished saving, and the primary fighting skills made him sensitive. He folded his body by the strength of his waist and cut the something wrapped around his feet with the knife.

The rope-like thing broke immediately, but when his body fell, more “ropes” wrapped up him. On the waist, hands, and feet, these cold and stinging things pestered him, and he struggled in a hurry, but they became tighter and tighter, almost suffocating.

I can only load the save file. Qi Leren tried to lift the hand holding the dagger, but these things were wrapped too tightly, and they couldn’t escape at all… The sound of the rock wall opening came from beside his ear. Qi Leren opened his eyes wide and looked at the direction of the sound in the dark, and suddenly there was light in front of him.

The open rock wall revealed an iron coffin embedded in the rock wall, and the heavy iron lid opened to both sides like a window, revealing the hot liquid of molten iron. In a rush, it poured out from the iron coffin, spreading like magma on the grass, illuminating the darkness around them, but adding a hot terror to it!

Qi Leren’s eyes widened. At this time, he finally saw that the things wrapped around his neck were not ropes, but countless green vines! Vines clinging to his body, as if to wring his neck and suffocate him.

A human figure emerged from the flowing molten iron, emitting orange-red heat. It was faintly visible as a young girl. She groaned, sang and cursed: “I didn’t hurt her… She lied to you… I hate you… You killed me… It was so hot and painful… Why did you lock me up here and fill it with molten iron… It was so painful. I’ll kill you all, I’ll kill you all!”

The witch who melted the molten iron murmured, her blistered red hands clenched into fists, and the vines strangled Qi Leren’s limbs and hanged him slowly. In a daze, Qi Leren felt that the time of 30 seconds was coming to an end, it was almost too late! He must load the file!

Qi Leren bit down on the poisoned-filled false tooth hard, and the toxicity suddenly occurred. He only felt black for a moment before he fell headlong into the place where he had just been grabbed by vines. He had thought a lot in this short moment of falling. What to do? Was this monster really something he could compete with? He could deal with giants and beasts, but could he really deal with monsters whose bodies had even been destroyed?

He had to try. If he failed… Qi Leren dared not think about it any more, struggling to get up from the ground, rushing to the human form made of molten iron, and resolutely detonated a miniature bomb.

There was a loud bang, and a violent explosion occurred in a radius of three meters. Qi Leren returned to the save point again, his head spinning. The earth was already scorched, and the witch created from molten iron was torn apart by the impact. There were hot molten iron traces everywhere, like orange spots in the darkness. The vines have been destroyed by the explosion, and they could no longer be seen.

Did it succeed? Qi Leren dragged his body to stand up, and the molten iron around him suddenly moved, converging together at an amazing speed!

Qi Leren took a step back in horror. His body has been drained by continuous loading and he couldn’t even escape, but it was a dead end to stay any longer!

Think again, think again, there must be some way…

The fear of the dire straits he was in made Qi Leren fall into despair, and time seemed to be infinitely long at this moment.

Was it really hopeless? No, go over it again from the beginning. According to the hint of the system, the witch in front of me should be the victim of the last sacrificed witch. She was locked in an iron coffin, and her body was completely vaporized by pouring molten iron into the coffin, so there was no form.

No, wait a minute. If it’s molten iron, why wouldn’t the iron coffin melt? Could it be that…

The molten iron gathered together at a rapid speed, and a half-human figure appeared. Qi Leren, with no way back, decided to gamble on it. He flew into the rock wall, plunged into the iron coffin, and pulled closed the iron lid that had been opened by the witch.

It was dark. Soon, he found the iron coffin wrapped in molten iron didn’t have the scalding heat he’d imagined. On the contrary, it was heavy and cold, sending out the peculiar smell of corroded metal.

As time went by, the beat of the drum roll gradually subsided, and the building tension made him anxious, but Qi Leren did not dare to open the iron coffin rashly. He was still waiting.

Waiting for the hot metal to lose its horrible high temperature, solidify into a dead thing, and destroy the tortured soul trapped in the blazing heat in this time period.