12dz Chapter 258 [Tomb - Infant] Tomb Chamber (1)
Chapter 258 [Tomb - Infant] Tomb Chamber (1)
"really."
Chen Yuetan said without surprise, "It ate its foster mother."
"The person in the fifth clay sculpture may have known the old woman and discovered the anomaly during the burial."
Chen Ji looked at the sinister grin on the ghost doll in front of him, feeling a mix of emotions.
In the first few clay sculptures, the ghost baby looks too much like a human.
As a result, he unconsciously projected normal human emotions onto the ghost baby.
But this scene has now proven that the ghost baby did not become a ghost later in life.
It showed its malicious side from a young age.
Chen Ji couldn't help but look at Wu Su beside him, and saw that Wu Su's eyes were lowered, and he didn't know what Wu Su was thinking.
The cinnabar birthmark between his eyebrows was as red as blood.
His face was almost identical to that of the clay statue.
Chen Ji's mind conjured up images of Wusu's usual self: watching cartoons, eating snacks, clinging to his uncle and acting spoiled, and teasing him...
Thinking about it this way, it's completely different from a ghost doll; it feels much more like a living person.
He glanced at Chen Yuetan again and found that his uncle didn't seem to think so much and was still holding Wusu's hand as usual.
Move it to the next clay sculpture.
It's still just the ghost doll alone.
The old woman died, and no one cared about her; the ghost doll looked much more disheveled.
But he was still wearing a tiger-head hat.
This clay sculpture is very simple; it depicts a ghost doll playing in the mud under an old banyan tree.
"That's why there are so many clay statues in its tomb..."
Chen Ji understood instantly.
Even ghosts have hobbies they're interested in, right?
Look toward Act 8.
The ghost doll has grown up...
Its mouth was still bright red; to be precise, from the sixth act onwards, its mouth was always stained with blood.
This has continued into his teenage years.
A dozen or so ugly clay figures, armed with weapons, seemed to be driving away ghost dolls.
The ghost doll's expression was full of hatred.
At the very edge, there was still the young man with the ink stain. At this moment, Chen Ji confirmed that it was a beauty mark under his eye.
The young man raised his hand, directing the ugly clay figures.
"I wonder how many people the ghost baby ate during this time..."
Chen Ji silently thought to himself, then looked at the next scene.
The ghost doll appears several times in this scene, it's like a series!
1.
The ghost doll has made friends!
A ghost doll and a dark brown clay doll are playing together.
"...Who is this?"
Chen Ji was stunned, feeling that the black mud doll would be eaten in the next scene.
2.
The mud doll and the ghost doll laughed happily.
Behind them were more than a dozen headless corpses, their skin color and facial features exactly the same as those of mud dolls.
"..."
Chen Ji and his uncle looked at each other in bewilderment.
This is clearly saying that the clay doll was eaten by a ghost.
"Born with antisocial personality disorder?" Chen Ji murmured, about to look at the next picture, when Chen Yuetan grabbed him.
"There are words."
Chen Yuetan's tone was strange.
He pointed to the wall below the clay statue, where a line of small characters had been written in marker:
I long to buy osmanthus blossoms and share wine, but it will never be like the carefree days of my youth.
This is Wang Chao's handwriting.
"...Why does this person have to write inscriptions everywhere they go?"
Chen Jiren was completely stunned. Was this line of poetry appropriate here?
Clearly, this scene with the clay statue touched some strange spot in Wang Chao, making him nostalgic and reminded of his childhood friends.
Chen Ji coughed lightly, and silently added another reason to the one his uncle had previously given for "why Wang Chao didn't kill you":
Wang Chao's thought process is different from that of normal people.
3.
as predicted.
The clay doll was eaten by the ghost doll.
......
Then came the last clay sculpture.
The ghost doll is confronting a man with a mole on his face.
It was unclear how much time had passed since the man first appeared. The man, who was once a young man, now had a long beard, graying hair, and several wrinkles on his face.
In this scene, the ghost doll mysteriously transforms from its teenage form back to its five- or six-year-old appearance.
One is aging, the other is shrinking... Time seems to flow in opposite directions for this human and this ghost.
Chen Ji and the other two also reached the end of the corridor.
Stopping in his tracks, Chen Yuetan summarized:
"This should only be the initial experience of the ghost baby's 'life'."
Chen Yuetan believes that this period was the stage in the long life of the ghost baby during which it had the most interaction with humans.
It left a very deep impression on it...
That's why I made a special record of it.
Meanwhile, the last clay sculpture indirectly explains why the ghost infant takes the form of a baby when it is weakening.
Whether it's intentional manipulation or a specific pattern, the age of ghost babies can be reversed.
"Grandma, mud dolls, mud people..."
Chen Ji murmured, looking at his uncle, "Are all those clay figures that fought against the ghost infant dead?"
Chen Yuetan nodded silently.
"Most likely."
"In the last clay sculpture, only the man with the mole remains."
Perhaps they were of the same race, and were ultimately wiped out by the ghost infant.
Chen Ji guessed.
Stopping thinking about it, he turned his head and looked at the stone gate in front of him.
Further ahead lies their destination—
Tomb chamber!
The burial site of the ghost baby!
The door was flung open with a bang.
It was a dark, indistinct mass inside.
Chen Yuetan held up his flashlight and roughly swept it over—
Both he and Chen Ji caught their breath.
The space inside was roughly as they had guessed—extremely vast and spacious.
But in the very center of this tomb chamber...
It is the constellation of the Ghost.
It's neither the faceless painted statues in the Yin Temple, nor the maliciously distorted animal sculptures in the side chambers—
It's just a strange place.
Those twenty-eight stone statues on the Yu River!
Standing majestically in the center of the main hall, the top of the stone statue is almost as high as the ceiling, roughly the height of a four or five-story building.
The three of them, Chen Ji, Chen Ji, and Chen Ji, appeared extremely small beneath these 28 mysterious constellations.
The stone statues are arranged in a circle, all facing inward, with their heads slightly bowed, their gazes fixed on the same spot at their feet.
They were watching something together.
This scene immediately made Chen Ji feel deeply uncomfortable!
Aren't the Source Corpses and the Ghostly Beings hostile to each other?
How did they end up in the very heart of the tomb—the chamber where the ghost infants sleep?
Moreover, just looking at his back, Chen Ji felt a deep sense of oppression, as if he had returned to the Domain River.
The air seemed to freeze.
The atmosphere inside the entire tomb chamber was made incredibly solemn by these 28 colossal statues.
The uncle and nephew both unconsciously slowed their breathing.
Their original purpose was to find the murals, but at this moment all their attention was drawn to the colossus.
Chen Ji walked toward the only empty space among the circle of stone statues.
After a while.
He was slightly taken aback, noticing something different.
The 28 statues on the Yu River are devoid of joy or sorrow, seemingly devoid of emotions and desires.
But the one on his left....
However, his brows were slightly furrowed, and his expression was one of sorrow and pity.
The rest also have their own expressions, gradually changing from left to right:
Worry – Gratitude – Anger.
Scanning them one by one, Chen Ji recognized that only the last of the giant statues, the Ghost Constellation, had a calm expression.
That is...
Water worm.
Chen Ji remembered what He looked like.
He is directly to Chen Ji's right, and is also the last one in the list.