The end of the world: mountain and sea disasters

In the afternoon, the sun is shining brightly.

Yu Ke sat on the fence beside the pasture, enjoying the breeze of the wilderness.

Although it was winter, the cold resistance gained from hunting Vindigo made his body temperature no different from that of autumn.

The Tang brothers went to a nearby slaughterhouse.

He said that as the host, he would prepare some fresh beef and mutton skewers and entertain him with a barbecue in the evening.

Fresh meat skewers that are freshly killed and cut must taste different from those taken out of the freezer. Yu Ke wanted to follow him, but he was stopped halfway by the two girls who had been rescued earlier.

"Tell me, what do you want from me?"

Yu Ke grabbed a handful of grass and teased the alpaca in front of him.

Glancing at Ye Yingtong and Luo Ling standing next to them, he roughly guessed their intentions.

"Thank you for your help before. I will treat you to a feast when I return to Danhang City. If your robot is damaged, I am willing to bear all the losses and pay a thank you fee."

Ye Yingtong took the initiative to step forward, bowed to Yu Ke to express her gratitude, and explained her purpose of coming. Her attitude was sincere.

"Save the big meal. In your current situation, I don't dare to eat with you."

Yu Ke didn't bother to cover up, turned around and looked at Ye Yingtong, who looked haggard.

"Besides, I'm just a tourist. You can talk to Tang Jingyun about the compensation later."

Regardless of being mentioned, Yu Ke was happy to pretend not to know. He turned around and pinched the alpaca's mouth, which was already a little annoyed because it couldn't eat any green grass. He suppressed the saliva attack that was ready to go out.

Ye Yingtong glanced at Luo Ling, pursed her lips, thinking of the suffering she had suffered recently, and then said,

"You can see the red-faced sprite, right? It was you who fought it off on the off-road vehicle just now and saved us."

"You misunderstood. I can't see what red-faced monster you are talking about. It's just that you are born with a keen sense. You and the brother who passed out are the same. How can I say that you are full of bad luck?"

Spiritual awakening can indeed make Yu Ke aware of supernatural phenomena, but this does not mean that he has Yin and Yang eyes.

If I had to say it, the "inspiration" was relatively high, and he could feel the abnormal life status of Ye Yingtong and the young man named He.

If the life state of a normal person is compared to a torch, and the physical and mental condition determines the brightness of the torch, then Ye Yingtong's torch is close to a candle in the wind. Both the body and the spirit are about to reach the limit, revealing a gloomy Qi.

The problem is that she doesn't seem to be seriously ill, so there is only one possibility left: something dirty is devouring her life.

"I know what you are thinking. You just want me to help solve your troubles. The problem is that I really don't know how. I am a ranger hunter, not a ghost hunter. There is a huge difference in my professional field. "

Yu Ke never liked beating around the bush, so he guessed Ye Yingtong's thoughts and spoke directly without waiting for her to speak.

"But it is true that you frightened away the red-faced monster. There must be something in you that can suppress the evil ghost. You have also seen my current situation. I came to the farm just to escape from it. I didn't expect it. As long as you are willing to help, you can Make a request, whether it’s money or something else, as long as I can come up with it, it’s fine!”

Now that the matter has come to this, Ye Yingtong is ready to fight and bows to Yu Ke again.

"Something that suppresses evil spirits?"

Yu Ke pushed away the alpaca that wanted to headbutt him, and his eyes passed over his right arm.

If there is anything in him that can suppress evil spirits, it can only be a gift from the forest spirit.

Although it has not been activated yet, it contains majestic natural vitality, but Yu Ke doesn't know how to use it.

When it comes to gifts from forest spirits, Yu Ke is really interested. He is currently thinking about how to activate this mark.

Maybe the confrontation with the filthy ghosts can stimulate it?

Or should we say that this red-faced monster is a special existence?

"I can give it a try, but you have to tell me your situation without reservation, especially the information about the red-faced sprite."

Yu Ke turned around and stared at Ye Yingtong again, his words were a little more cold and solemn.

"Something needs to be said upfront. If you deliberately conceal clues and cause an accident, I won't care whether you live or die!"

"I understand. If an accident happens, you don't have to worry about me. You can kill me if necessary."

Faced with Yu Ke's warning, Ye Yingtong's reaction was quite calm, as if she was mentally prepared for the worst situation.

This actually surprised the former.

It can only be said that she is a woman who dares to join the archeology of ruins. Anyone else would be scared to death at this time.

"A Tong, what are you talking about? You won't die."

Luo Ling, who had been standing nearby without saying much, hugged Ye Yingtong and said with red eyes.

"Let's talk about the guy chasing you first."

Ignoring the scene of deep sisterly love in front of him, Yu Ke turned around and jumped off the fence.

"This is the scene when we first discovered it, and you'll understand after watching it."

Ye Yingtong took out her mobile phone, opened a video in it, and handed it to Yu Ke's hand.

The content of the video was an exploration of ruins, part of which was captured from Ye Yingtong's perspective. When Yu Ke saw the scene in the video, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and his attention was quickly drawn to it.

In the dark passage, with searchlights sweeping around and flying ash, two team members wearing archaeological attire worked together to open the door.

The ruins in the video are not as ancient as imagined, because Yu Ke saw some modern, no, it should be said to be modern items in the passage where the exploration team traveled.

For example, the iron kerosene lamps on the wall, the cloth coats scattered on the ground, the shovels and even some old rifles piled together.

"This relic was found in the mountains in the west of Danhang City. At first, we thought it was an abandoned arsenal a hundred years ago, but as the exploration deepened, we found that there was an extremely strange sacrificial site inside this arsenal!"

Ye Yingtong described the situation at the site of the relic as the video progressed.

Passing through the warehouse where the munitions were piled, the exploration team found a covered underground passage, and walked nearly 300 meters in the narrow passage, and finally arrived at the underground cave where the sacrificial site was located.

The scene captured by the video made Yu Ke frown involuntarily.

In a circular room of about 100 square meters, Ye Yingtong walked along the wall. The camera captured a large number of strange murals on the wall. The other people in the exploration team exclaimed continuously, and it was obviously the first time they entered such a scene.

"The wall is painted with a picture of a hundred ghosts parading at night. The content is the Ghost Festival, when the Earth God pardons sins and the gates of hell are wide open. The evil ghosts of the underworld come to the world of the living to seek a substitute for the dead, intending to possess the body and return to the living. Generally speaking, the Ghost Festival should be a festival to worship ancestors, but these murals have completely tampered with the original beautiful meaning of the festival." As a folklorist, Ye Yingtong has obviously studied the content of the murals. Yu Ke nodded without comment, and his eyes turned to the layout of the room as the camera switched. Although he has little research on folklore and archaeology, Yu Ke still feels that this circular room is full of uncomfortable layouts. Even if it is a sacrificial site, it is definitely not a proper sacrificial site. First of all, there is a blood-red pillar with scriptures engraved on all four sides and hanging prayer flags. Its bottom is not a fixed stone pier, nor a simple floor, but a circle of fist-sized bronze figures holding offerings. Secondly, there were corpses sitting cross-legged in a specific trajectory in the room. They were wearing black robes and sat down according to the marks on the ground. When the exploration team members checked, these corpses were all skeletons, and even the dry skin and flesh disappeared.

Finally, at the end of the video, the picture finally cut to the figure sitting on the armchair in the center of the room.

When he saw his appearance clearly, even Yu Ke widened his eyes.

Unlike the believers or "sacrifices" around him, this guy, as the only person sitting in the room, was wearing a dragon robe outlined with gold threads and embellished with jewels!

This dragon robe is not authentic, but the identity of the guy who dared to wear such clothes in that era is definitely not simple, and just when the exploration team members surrounded him, the face of this person finally appeared in front of everyone.

The head supported by the left hand wore an extremely evil red ghost mask on his face. Even after many years, people who looked directly at the mask could feel the terrifying aura it conveyed.

The video ended here.

"Where did this mask come from?"

Handing the phone back to Ye Yingtong, Yu Ke captured the most critical item.

"The latter part of the video is confidential. I have no right to show it to outsiders. I can only tell you orally."

Relic exploration videos involving sacrificial rituals or supernatural phenomena need permission from senior management to be released to the public. Ye Yingtong's level can only reach this level. After a pause, he said,

"As far as I know, the mask was taken away from the ruins by the Disaster Prevention Bureau as soon as it was taken out of the ruins. Later, I asked the professor in the exploration team, and it was taken away by the Disaster Prevention Bureau as a strange collection object. After checking the relevant information, I learned that this ghost mask was mentioned many times in folk legends a hundred years ago. Red Ghost Mask."

"It is said that this ghost mask is inhabited by an evil ghost named Red-faced Liang, which can give the holder the ability to dominate the life and death of others. However, it was a chaotic time and no one knew where it went. I didn't expect it to be hidden in the basement of an armory."

"Wait, according to you, hasn't the Red Ghost Mask been taken in by the Disaster Prevention Bureau? Why can the Red-faced Liang living in it follow you to the farm to harm you? And when you found it, there should have been several exploration team members present, but only you were targeted by it?"

Interrupting Ye Yingtong's explanation, Yu Ke was confused and couldn't help asking.

"This is also what I want to figure out. There were nine people in the exploration team that entered the ruins at that time, but after returning to Danhang City, only I kept having nightmares and hallucinations. And that red-faced ghost, it somehow got rid of the mask and just chased me madly in my dreams." At this point, Ye Yingtong's face finally showed pain and collapse, and her words became hysterical. "I thought it was a stress reaction caused by neurasthenia caused by being frightened in the ruins. I found a psychologist and went to the hospital. I also found some experts from the Disaster Prevention Bureau and the public through the professor's connections and asked them to help check. The results were the same, because the red-faced ghost never really appeared in Danhang City. It just kept creating hallucinations. That's why I chose to leave Danhang City, hoping to stay away from the red ghost face, or simply give myself a quick death." Ye Yingtong was obviously forced to do it by various horrific hallucinations in Danhang City, and happened to receive an invitation from Luo Ling, so she chose to take the train to the farm and even considered committing suicide. However, what she didn't expect was that staying away from Danhang City not only failed to get rid of the Red-faced Ghost, but instead made it gain even stronger power, so that it became even more powerful and could even control the driver who was carrying her and wanted to kill her directly in a car accident.