Infernal Artist

The finger penetrated into the clouds and quickly disappeared.

after awhile.

Liu Ping slowly got up from the ground, took a deep breath and said, "What is that?"

The voice of the bloody skull sounded in his heart:

"There is no need to explore that thing. It is an extremely ominous existence. Even if you just think about it, your spirit may be polluted."

Liu Ping raised his hand and looked at it.

He only saw long, dark red bony fingers without any flesh, hair, or skin.

"Thank you just now, but what exactly is your Excellency?"

Liu Ping asked.

"I am a Nightmare Embrace, a unique armor of the human race." The bloody skeleton said.

"Are you a battle armor?" Liu Ping said.

"Of course, doesn't it look like it?"

The bloody skeleton said, peeling off Liu Ping's body and turning into a red skeleton again, swinging his pelvis back and forth, displaying his figure in front of Liu Ping.

"So, your defense must be very powerful." Liu Ping said.

"Haha, I'm honored. In fact, my ability is not in defense, but in other more magical places."

"I would like to ask, what kind of ability is it?"

"Now, watch carefully, I will only perform once, and you are not allowed to spread it out."

"Don't worry, I'm very strict with my words."

"That's good."

The bloody skeleton took out a cigarette, lit it, and took a deep breath.

call--

It looks like it's blowing smoke.

Smoke emerged from the skeleton of its chest and turned into a huge smoke ring.

"Super Secret: Breathing Smoke from the Chest - Human beings cannot master it because you have flesh and blood."

"But this is the only ability you have? Don't you have any other practical abilities?" Liu Ping said.

"Of course."

After the bloody skeleton finished speaking, his figure suddenly collapsed.

I saw it turned into large and small spines, ribs, pelvises, skulls, leg bones, and toe bones, and fell to the ground one after another, scattering all over the place.

"How about I can be divided into many parts?"

The bloody skull said showily.

"...It's amazing." Liu Ping said.

He can come up with such stupid smoke-spitting and bone-dispersing methods, and he helped me just now, so he shouldn't be a bad person——

Praise it for not losing any meat, and make it happy.

"Haha, right?" The bloody skeleton was very happy after hearing this. It instantly assembled into a complete skeleton, patted Liu Ping on the shoulder and said:

"Everyone used to call me 'Hong Ye', but there are fewer and fewer humans here, and the times when I can be useful are becoming less and less - ever since we came to this wasteland where birds can't poop and chickens can't lay eggs. After leaving the countryside, I have long been prepared to remain anonymous, so you can just call me Ahong."

"Why are you here?" Liu Ping asked.

"Waiting for you." Blood Skeleton Ahong said.

"Me?" Liu Pingqi asked.

"Back then you promised to take me to see the world beyond the nightmare layer, and I was happy to go." Blood Skull took out a black scale and said, "It's a pity that you discovered a certain secret, and that secret made you fall into a situation that you can't escape. In the desperate situation, you finally had to reincarnate, saying that you wanted to find a way to safely explore the secrets, and then come back to find out."

Liu Ping took the scale and looked at it, and saw that there was indeed a passage written on it, which was exactly the same as what A Hong, the blood skeleton, said.

The scales trembled slightly on his hand, rising and falling with his breathing, as if they were part of his body.

That's right.

These are the scales of that armor.

It seems that I have really been here before.

As for ways to safely detect secrets——

In this life, I do have a prison-suppressing knife and can hear all secrets.

But how many lives have passed?

Could it be that the skeleton has been waiting here?

"How long have you been waiting here?" Liu Ping asked.

"Probably two epochs, it's okay anyway, I'll just wait." A Hong said.

"So honest?" Liu Ping said.

"Yes, I am a skeleton who talks about credibility. I have never sought death." A Hong said.

"Seeking death?"

"It's so boring after all - by the way, have you found a way to safely explore the secrets?"

"Found it." Liu Ping nodded.

Blood Skeleton Ahong said happily: "I will take you to the place where you died in your previous life. The secret of that place is very valuable. I have been curious about it for a long time."

Liu Ping was slightly startled.

——Go to the place where you died in your previous life?

It sounds a little weird, but I really want to see what happens.

"Then let's go." Liu Ping said.

"Follow me, if you make a wrong step, you will be doomed." Blood Skeleton Ahong warned.

"Understood." Liu Ping said.

"Do you really understand?" A Hong sneered.

"Please tell me if there is anything wrong," Liu Ping said.

"I see that your soul has been reincarnated countless times, and only the last trace of your soul is not contaminated. If you die this time, you will never have another chance." Blood Skeleton Ahong said.

Liu Ping was silent for a moment.

This passage...is somewhat familiar...

When I unblocked my memory, a voice said almost the same thing in my ear.

It was a female voice.

She said she was buried in the deepest part of eternal night, or the highest point of purgatory.

She let herself find her!

Liu Ping sighed secretly, thinking that this time when he returned from history, he must first find the owner of that voice.

"Thank you for your warning, I will follow you carefully." Liu Ping hugged his fists towards the blood skeleton A Hong and said seriously.

"Very good, I see you are finally serious." Blood Skeleton said with satisfaction.

"Yes, I will be extremely careful!" Liu Ping said.

"Then let's set off."

Blood Skeleton Ahong took a few steps forward.

Liu Ping followed it cautiously.

The blood skeleton took another step and stood in front of the "giant tree" made of human bodies.

It wiped the non-existent cold sweat on its forehead and said with relief:

"Here we are."

"...We're here now?" Liu Ping said, wiping the cold sweat on his forehead.

The blood skeleton glared at him and said, "You think it's easy? I took seven steps in total, and I tapped the ground with my toe bones for each step. A total of 3,673 times, and finally it matched the secret room here. Come on, I guess we can enter the hidden place soon——"

Boom, boom!

A roaring sound came from the "giant tree".

Among the many corpses, a corpse moved a few times and broke away from the pile of corpses.

It looked human, but it had fangs, empty eyes, and was covered in gray barbs.

The corpse looked at the bloody skeleton, then looked at Liu Ping.

"Why is it you again?" the corpse stared at Liu Ping.

"Last time he couldn't bear the secret and reincarnated." said the bloody skeleton Ah Hong.

"He only has the last trace of his uncontaminated soul left. Are you sure you want to come in and give it a try?" the corpse asked.

The bloody skeleton looked at Liu Ping.

Liu Ping looked at the black scales in his hand, which conveyed some unwillingness.

This is……

My former self.

The secret was once right in front of me, but I couldn't really obtain it, so I could only reincarnate and leave unwillingly.

Countless years have passed.

An unknown amount of time has passed.

Is everything like a nightmare, always disappointing?

Liu Ping sighed and said, "Let me try."

The corpse listened and nodded: "It seems that you have created a long knife that can support you to hear the secret."

Liu Ping glanced at the prison knife at his waist, shook his head and said, "I didn't make it."

"Of course you created it. Who else but yourself would be obsessed with parallel worlds and secrets?" the corpse said.

After it finished speaking, it raised its head and glanced at the sky, and then said: "Danger is coming, put on your Nightmare Embrace and come in immediately."

The body stepped aside.

Behind it, a path leading to the inside of the "giant tree" appeared.

The road was entirely paved with human bodies. When the corpses moved out of the way, the humans all turned their heads and stared at Liu Ping's face.

For a moment, all the humans on the "giant tree" turned their heads and stared at Liu Ping non-stop.

This scene is quite creepy.

"Are we coming?" Blood Skeleton Ahong whispered.

"Let's go!" Liu Ping said.

The blood skeleton rushed up from behind him and hugged him——

Liu Ping suddenly turned into a bloody skeleton.

"come on in!"

the corpse urged.

Liu Ping sensed some kind of danger looming on his back, and immediately rushed into the "giant tree".

As soon as he entered, the corpse quickly stepped forward and blocked the road.

The human bodies around him squirmed, and they were tightly assembled on the "giant tree".

The entire "giant tree" began to rotate slowly.

——The entrance has been moved and no one can find it anymore.

As soon as all this was completed, the fog in the sky began to boil.

A huge finger passed through the fog, fell silently, and searched around again.

It gets nothing.

But soon——

A more mammoth face emerged from the clouds, leaning down and sticking to the ground.

There was nothing on this face, a blank.

It just lay on the ground quietly, feeling everything around it.

But there was no movement around.

The monster never left.

It stayed in place quietly and continued to listen.

- It has been waiting.