The end of the world: mountain and sea disasters.

Chapter 90 Ghost Face
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 in his hand 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 abnormalities in the 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 swallowing 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 what Ye Yingtong was thinking 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 up front. 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 and said little, 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, there are iron kerosene lamps on the wall, cloth coats scattered on the ground, shovels and even some ancient rifles piled together.

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

Ye Yingtong described the situation at the ruins site as the video progressed.

After passing through the warehouse where the arms were stacked, the exploration team found a covered underground passage. They then walked nearly three hundred meters in the narrow passage and finally arrived at the underground cavity where the sacrificial site was located.

The scene captured in 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. Others in the exploration team kept screaming. It was obviously the first time they had entered such a scene. .

"What is drawn on the wall is a picture of a hundred ghosts walking at night. The content is that on the Ghost Festival of the Ghost Festival, the local officials pardon sins, and the gate of ghosts opens wide. The evil ghosts from the underworld come to the world of the dead to find a substitute for their death, with the intention of possessing and returning to the world. Generally speaking, , the Ghost Festival of the Ghost Festival should be a festival for worshiping ancestors, but these murals have completely tampered with the original beautiful meaning of the festival."

As a folklorist, Ye Yingtong has obviously studied the contents of the murals.

Yu Ke nodded noncommittally, looking at the interior layout of the room as the camera changed.

Although he had no research on folk customs or archaeology, Yu Ke still felt that this circular-structured room was filled with uncomfortable arrangements. Even if it was a sacrificial site, it was definitely not a serious sacrificial site.

First of all, there is a blood-colored pillar with scriptures engraved on all sides and prayer flags hung on it. Its bottom is not a fixed stone pier or a simple floor, but a circle of fist-sized bronze figures in the shape of an offering.

Secondly, there were corpses sitting cross-legged in a specific trajectory in the room. They were dressed in black robes and sat down according to the marks on the ground. When the exploration team members looked at it, these corpses were all reduced to skeletons, with not even the slightest bit of dry skin and flesh disappearing.

Finally, at the end of the video, the screen finally cut to the figure sitting on the Taishi chair in the center of the room.

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

Unlike those who should be surrounded by believers or "sacrifice", this guy, as the only person sitting in the room, is actually wearing a dragon robe outlined with gold threads and embellished with jewelry!
This dragon robe was not authentic, but in that era, the identity of a guy who dared to wear such clothes was not simple. And when the exploration team members gathered around, the face of this person finally appeared in front of everyone.

The face of the head supported by the left hand wears an extremely evil red ghost face. Even after many years, anyone who looks directly at the mask can sense the terrifying aura it conveys.

The video ends abruptly.

"Where did this mask come from?"

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

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

Such videos of exploring ruins involving sacrificial rituals or supernatural phenomena require permission from the top management to be released to the public. Ye Yingtong's level can only reach this point. After a pause, he said,

"As far as I know, the mask was protected and recovered 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 found that it had been taken away by the Disaster Prevention Bureau as a strange containment object, and I After consulting relevant information, I learned that this ghost face is the red ghost face that was mentioned many times in folklore a hundred years ago."

"It was rumored that this ghost mask contained an evil spirit called the Red-faced Phantom, which could give the holder the ability to control the life and death of others. However, at that time, the war was in chaos, and no one knew where it had gone. I didn't expect it to be hidden in an arsenal. underground."

"Wait a minute, according to you, hasn't the Red Ghost Face been taken into custody by the Disaster Prevention Bureau? How come the Red Ghost Face that lives in it can follow you to the farm to harm you? Moreover, there should be multiple exploration team members when you found it. Are you the only one here who is targeted by it?"

After interrupting Ye Yingtong's explanation, Yu Ke was confused and couldn't help but ask.

"This is also something I want to find out. There were nine people in the exploration team that entered the ruins at that time. But after returning to Danhang City, I was the only one who kept having nightmares and hallucinations, and the red-faced monster, which somehow escaped. The mask is just chasing me crazily in my dream."

Speaking of this, Ye Yingtong's face finally showed pain and collapse, and her words became hysterical.
"I originally thought it was a stress reaction caused by neurasthenia caused by being frightened in the ruins, so I found a psychiatrist and went to the hospital. I also found the Disaster Prevention Bureau and some private experts through the professor's connections and asked them to help check it out. It’s all the same, because the red-faced ghost has 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-faced ghost or simply give myself a break. .”

Ye Yingtong was obviously driven to death by various terrifying 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 monster, but also made it gain stronger power, so much so that it even became more powerful and could actually control the driver who was driving her and wanted to kill her in a car accident.

(End of this chapter)