This aura is deadly

No more nonsense.

Chen Ke retraced his steps and returned to the nave of the church. This exploration took him almost an hour, and he was getting closer and closer to the end of the cooling of the portal.

A bonfire next to the statue of the goddess in the church attracted his attention. It was an unexplained fire ignited by the fire sword. It was used for emergency heating of Parker. It was impossible to burn without continuous spiritual energy infusion. so long.

But when Chen Ke saw the bench next to Parker, he understood.

Who knows what trick Parker used to tear down a bench and use it as firewood. The Fire-Bringing Broadsword itself has an affix that allows it to burn continuously when there are combustible materials.

It's just that the fire is a little bit more intense. Even standing in Chen Ke's position, he can feel a slight temperature.

Parker was still adding firewood to the campfire, and he deftly picked off a horizontal piece of wood from a chair and threw it into the fire. When he saw Chen Ke, he immediately ran over.

"Is it so cold here?" Chen Ke was a little confused.

"Yeah, it's freezing to death. Do you have any extra clothes?" Parker rubbed his shoulders.

"No." Chen Ke spread his hands. His own clothes were torn. How could he give Parker more?

"That's really unlucky. I thought you would carry something useful if you carried a bag." Parker was a little disappointed.

"What happened here?" Chen Ke looked at Parker with a strange expression.

"There seems to be something going on at the Statue of Goddess. Just a few minutes ago, you went to check it out." Parker looked nervous, as if he had seen something extraordinary.

"Goddess statue?" Chen Ke asked.

Parker nodded.

Chen Ke looked at the statue of the goddess. It was intact, but there was a slight deviation from his impression. He couldn't tell what had changed.

"What's wrong with this thing? I don't see any difference." Chen Ke shook his head.

"Not the statue of the goddess itself, but underneath it," Parker said.

Um?

Chen Ke became confused. He took a few steps forward to take a closer look at the goddess statue. Only then did he realize that the goddess statue had actually moved back a few meters, revealing a staircase going down.

This is a secret passage! Hidden so deep, there must be something inside.

Chen Ke recalled that when he took away the head, the silver tray of the small altar slowly rose. Maybe this was some kind of linkage mechanism.

He didn't dare to go down rashly and looked back at Brother Cangxin. The other party was still squatting there thoughtfully, as if he was already accustomed to the moving goddess statue and didn't take it seriously.

Chen Ke stepped forward to chat, hoping to get some useful information.

"Hey, have you seen that? What's down there?" Chen Ke asked.

"This is just the beginning, friend. You should have got the head too, right?" Brother Cangxin raised his head and asked.

Chen Ke tilted his head. Sure enough, this guy knows a lot!

"Do you know who that is?" Chen Ke also responded with a rhetorical question.

"Do you know the consequences of returning the head?" Brother Fengxin responded easily.

"Is this the recurrence of the cycle?" A drop of sweat flowed from Chen Ke's forehead.

"..."

Brother Fengxin looked at Chen Ke, with incomprehensible emotions in his blue eyes. He probably stared at Chen Ke's face for a few seconds.

"It seems that you are working hard, but this approach makes no sense." He finally said.

Pointless? Chen Ke was a little confused.

"What did you do before?" Chen Ke asked.

"We are all wrong. There is no point in returning the head. A dead person is a dead person after all. How can a person who has his head cut off be resurrected... Hehehehehe..." Brother Cangxin laughed to himself and ignored it. Chen Ke fell into lonely thinking again.

Chen Ke sighed. He didn't know what was wrong with this guy. He always talked like he was guessing riddles, but he was sure that Brother Fengxin knew a lot of things.

Chen Ke could no longer get any other information from Brother Fengxin, so he decided to go down and take a look himself.

"I'll go down and take a look. Don't move around here." Chen Ke came to Parker's side and said. "Also, don't burn any more chairs. I'm not sure if messing with things here will trigger anything weird." He added.

"Okay, okay, let's take a look at what's going on down here first. I'm really afraid of something coming out of it." Parker said while squatting at the entrance of the passage and looking inside curiously.

He didn't tell Parker about the head, mainly because it was unnecessary, and running around with a head in his hand was too perverted, and Chen Ke didn't want to explain it to Parker.

Chen Ke slowly went down the stairs and entered a long corridor. He wanted to take out the black ring candlestick for lighting, but found that the corridor was illuminated by a white light that flickered on and off.

The light came from a cloud of mist at the end of the passage, like a door.

Although the fog door looked too weird, no information box popped up in Chen Ke's field of vision. He quickly approached and observed the weird fog.

The gray-white fog was billowing, and Chen Ke reached out to touch it. Unlike the air wall, the fog door had no touch, just like air. Relying on the countdown to his own life, he boldly took a deep breath...

No taste at all.

Without thinking, Chen Ke walked straight into the fog, as if the sun was seen through the clouds. After passing through the thick fog, he found himself in a vast cliff inside the mountain.

He walked straight forward along the several-meter-wide mountain path and came to a circular platform surrounded by an invisible abyss.

Chen Ke looked to the left. The light source in this space came from the crack in the mountain in the distance, and the cold wind also poured in along the gap in the mountain.

There were two white stone pillars in the center of the round platform. Thick black iron chains were wrapped around the stone pillars, and a headless corpse was tied between the stone pillars.

This is a female corpse, just like the head, there is no sign of decay even though it has been dead for a long time. She is wearing a broken white strapless dress, and her fair and smooth skin is like a plaster statue.

The wound on the female corpse's neck was very neat, with a line of dried blood extending from the neck to the middle of the straight collarbone. A strange symbol was stamped with a hot iron on the left half of the female corpse's chest groove, which should be of some religious nature. mark.

The two arms of the corpse were wrapped with thick iron chains. The iron chains were cut into the flesh and became part of the arms. He was kneeling on the spot with bare feet.

Chen Ke took out the head from his bag, straightened the hair wrapped around the candlestick, and hesitated whether to put his head back on his neck.

Brother Cangxin's words still lingered in his ears, but Chen Ke had a feeling that only by putting his head back could the world move forward again.

He held the head in his hands, hesitated for a long time, and finally slowly placed it back on the corpse's neck.

Nothing happened.

Brother Fengxin had tried to do this before, so he said it was of no use. However, Chen Ke still felt that he had missed any details?

"-3 hours"

A message suddenly flashed in the corner of his eyes. Chen Ke's eyes widened. What's going on?

He looked at the female body again and saw that the circle of red cuts between the head and neck was slowly disappearing.