svetikya Chapter 82 Corpse Wax
Chapter 82 Corpse Wax
But gradually, he began to feel that something was wrong.
The distance seemed too far. He wanted to turn around and take a look, but remembering the taboos Lin Tian had mentioned, he had no choice but to give up.
"Perhaps I'm just too nervous," Li Zheng silently comforted himself.
"Um?"
Li Zheng suddenly stopped; he felt as if he had bumped into someone.
The person behind him took one of his hands and then began writing in his palm.
"I... am... Chen... Xi... Ming, don't... act alone," Li Zheng muttered to himself.
Li Zheng was speechless, but the other party didn't seem to want to hear his refusal and pushed Li Zheng back.
When they reached the second position, the other person was waving their fingers around his hand again, this time much faster, as if they were in a hurry.
"Move...the...floor...tiles...away." Li Zheng muttered these words to himself, feeling a little strange.
He was about to turn around when the other person pressed his head down and then wrote on his hand:
"Don't turn around, it's taboo. Lin Tian just turned around and then disappeared right before my eyes."
Li Zheng's heart skipped a beat. He didn't believe it. He believed that even if he and Chen Ximing were dead, Lin Tian wouldn't die either.
The thing that had been following him was definitely a ghost. Li Zheng didn't panic. He pulled the ghostly hand behind him and wrote, "It's too dark. Wait a moment."
After writing this sentence, Li Zheng gritted his teeth, took the candle from the candlestick, and without caring that the flame was burning his face, bit the candle directly into his mouth.
When he was in the first position, Li Zheng was the first and only person to touch the candle, and he smelled its peculiar fragrance.
This is amber made from corpse oil that has been cleansed and purified; he had once seen it in an underground market in Siam.
If we compare the evil earth to blood, and this dirty stuff to mosquitoes, then this adipocere is something used to repel mosquitoes.
The moment Li Zheng bit into the adipocere, he heard rustling footsteps rapidly approaching him.
Those things were afraid and left Li Zheng, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
The candle burned rapidly. He looked down at the floor tile, a ruthless glint in his eyes.
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On the other side, Lin Tian and Chen Ximing naturally saw Li Zheng's actions.
"Damn Li Zheng, why did he go to the third position by himself?" Chen Ximing cursed inwardly.
When the two reached the second position, they discovered that the groove had already been filled.
Lin Tian suddenly couldn't understand it. He realized that Li Zheng had some ulterior motives and wasn't going to follow the plan.
The second groove was already full. Logically, there shouldn't be any soil left in his jar. If he were to leave, he should be walking backwards. Why did he end up in the third groove?
Lin Tian was confused, but for now he could only gather his thoughts and take care of her and Chen Ximing.
She replaced the floor tiles and stepped on them twice.
Wen Zhunian, who had been following the two, kept his eyes greedily fixed on the evil soil in the groove. The jar of soil belonging to Wen Zhunian had already been completely eaten.
The ghost seemed to have no intention of following the two any further. It crouched down, sniffed the scent of the evil earth along the cracks in the ground, and then began to dig at the floor tiles with its hands.
Seeing that the ghost couldn't easily lift the floor tiles like they could, Lin Tian breathed a sigh of relief.
There was no need to linger here. The footsteps inside the ancestral hall were much louder than before, and they were rapidly approaching the second candlestick.
After Lin Tian gestured to Chen Ximing, the two continued walking towards the third location, one after the other.
The path to the third candlestick passes the offering table, where there is a blind spot blocked by the memorial tablets.
It was because of this blind spot that Lin Tian almost bumped into Li Zheng.
To her surprise, Li Zheng retreated backwards from the third position. Lin Tian quickly pushed Chen Ximing away, thus preventing an accident.
Her heart tightened, and she realized that Li Zheng was most likely being blinded by a ghost because the evil soil had no longer covered his living aura.
When the two reached the third location, Lin Tian noticed that the footsteps that had been following them had decreased significantly.
"It seems that this soil can attract the dirty things in this ancestral hall, but at the same time it also masks their smell. I'm glad I didn't do what Li Zheng suggested." Lin Tian thought to himself with relief.
She had considered Li Zheng's idea, but she felt that with a traitor in the group, it was safer to do as the old servant suggested.
However, the situation quickly took a turn for the worse.
Footsteps sounded again, but this time, not only were there many of them, but the sound was also more solid.
What alarmed the two even more was that these things seemed to be running and were closing in on them.
Lin Tian suddenly looked at the location of the second candlestick, which had already burned to the bottom at some point.
By this time, Chen Ximing had finished dumping the soil, but there was no time to put the floor tiles back.
Lin Tian suddenly pulled Chen Ximing up and ran towards the fourth candlestick.
Upon arrival, Lin Tian grabbed Chen Ximing's hand and quickly wrote: "Later, put soil in your mouth, fill it up, and walk backwards all the way, ignoring everything else."
Unlike the previous three times, this time Lin Tian poured half of the soil from the jar into the groove. After Chen Ximing finished pouring the soil, he wanted to cover the floor tiles, but Lin Tian stopped him.