Secular world: My destiny has no taboos

Chapter 245: 244: You have entered a special area: the starving ghost area
Huangshi Village is located on the border of Qingzhou and is near the official road to Luozhou. To get to Huangshi Village, you only need to go over an overpass.

It didn't take Lin Beixuan and the others much time to arrive at the stone tablet with the boundary of Luozhou.

However, the official road leading to Luozhou has been abandoned for a long time and is in a very dilapidated state. There are weeds growing on both sides and potholes everywhere, making the road not easy to travel on.

Everyone stopped in front of the stone tablet and stared at the path behind it leading to Luozhou.

The area in front of and behind the monument are like two completely different worlds.

On one side, the ground after the rain was moist and full of vitality, and even the weeds looked green and full of vitality.

On the other side, within the territory of Luozhou, it was like stepping from a vibrant paradise into a lifeless hell.

The vegetation is dry and clings to the ground, withered, yellow and brittle, turning to dust with the slightest touch. Cracks appear in the earth, revealing the yellow soil underneath, and with a slight sniff you can smell the dry dust in the air.

Just looking at it makes people feel depressed and desperate.

"No wonder people say Luozhou has become a ghost town. Even the rain that fell not long ago didn't fall on this land!"

Lin Beixuan focused his gaze further away.

In the distance, the outlines of the mountains lay low under the gray sky, blurred and without any color or vitality.

call……

Suddenly, a cold wind blew out from Luozhou, and the chilly feeling instantly spread from the soles of people's feet to the top of their heads.

All of this seemed to foreshadow the danger inside and warn people not to get close.

Lin Beixuan took a deep breath and looked behind him with a calm expression.

"If anyone has regrets, now is the last chance."

"Once we set foot on the land of Luozhou, we will not complain about life or death. If we can walk out of it alive, you will not be afraid of anyone."

Lin Beixuan's words were carried by the wind to the team of two hundred people. After a moment of silence, a skinny man shouted loudly.

"Since we are willing to follow the commander-in-chief, we have already arranged our affairs, and... we are not afraid of anyone now!"

The man's words aroused the echo of everyone. They stood behind Lin Beixuan one by one, as if they were tigers that had escaped from the cage and could not wait to lick their claws.

"very good!"

Lin Beixuan smiled softly, and without any hesitation, he stepped into Luozhou.

The surrounding scenery suddenly became blurry and flickering. The wind carried the wails of countless dead, ruffling their hair and pulling at their clothes.

[You have entered a special area: the starving ghost area. ]

[The map of the dead is now open, and the information about the starving ghost area will be gradually unlocked as you explore. 】

[Note: You have entered the realm of starving ghosts. Any of your actions may attract the attention of starving ghosts.]

[Note: The starving ghost has cursed this land. Your luck will begin to decline as you encounter disasters.]

Lin Beixuan raised his eyes to the gray sky, then looked behind him. The stone tablet seemed to be covered by a layer of gauze. Although he could still see the scenery outside, it seemed much more unreal and farther away.

It's like looking at heaven from hell; it seems very close, yet somehow out of reach.

Lin Beixuan took a deep breath, straightened his body, and raised his hand to wave.

"set off!"

What he hadn't said in Huangshi Village was now shouted out.

No one knows how many of him and the more than 200 people behind him can finally return here alive.

But he will remember everyone's name clearly and try his best to bring everyone back, even the souls who have lost their bodies.

"Set off!!!"

Everyone looked at Lin Beixuan's figure in front of them and shouted these two words.

There were sparks in their eyes.

……

……

Crows were crying on the dead branches, and the white flags were swaying in the wind, standing out against the gray sky.

On this road that stretches for thousands of miles, there are withered bones, lonely graves, and the gentle sobbing sound can be heard far, far away...

It was a wild dog so thin that only skin and bones were left. It lowered its head to dig at the grave, dug out the bones inside and ate them.

Suddenly, the wild dog's ears moved, and it raised its head to reveal a half-bloody face covered with mosquitoes and flies.

One of its eyes hung on the side of its face, and the originally plump eyeball had become dry and smelly, looking weird and scary.

It seemed to sense something and looked around uneasily.

Suddenly, an arm stretched out from the ground beside it and grabbed the wild dog's neck tightly.

"Woo, woo..."

The wild dog struggled hard, and the only eye left showed madness. It opened its mouth wide and bit the arm around its neck.

The sharp teeth penetrated into the flesh, but no blood splashed out.

This arm was like a piece of dry and hard firewood, and no matter how the wild dogs bit it, it remained unmoved.

Immediately afterwards, a head popped out from the side of the wild dog. He also opened his mouth wide and bit the wild dog's neck hard.

Along with the sound of blood flowing into its throat, the wild dog's breath became weaker and weaker, and finally it fell down powerlessly.

He laid his head beside the wild dog, sucked all its blood, then pulled off the dog's eye hanging on the side of its face and threw it into his mouth.

“Ga, ga ga…”

The crow on the dead branch stared at the figure enjoying the food below, waiting quietly.

Finally, the figure below was full, his stomach bulged like a bucket, and only white bones with scarlet flesh threads were left on the ground.

"Ho ho..."

The figure walked alone in one direction. There were few hairs on his dry head, his cheeks were sunken, and his skin was pale, like old skin wrapped around a skeleton.

This is a zombie, but he is different from other zombies.

He slowly walked to a lonely grave, knelt down, and took out a small notebook and a small pen from his arms.

He spat out the wild dog's blood from his mouth, wet the small brush, and wrote on the book.

My wife Siqi, when you see this line of text, I may no longer be in this world.

It's hard for me to explain what happened to me.

But I know that if I don't write all this down, I will forget you one day.

I asked you to stay at home and hide with the children, and I would go out to find food. However, in the chaos, I fell off a cliff, and when I woke up, there were zombies all around me.

I don't know why they didn't attack me, and I didn't dare go to the river. I was a little... I couldn't remember the way home.

I'm afraid I will forget you, so I write down what happens between us every day.

The pen stops here.

A gust of wind mixed with a fishy smell blew over, blowing up the notebook in the zombie's hand. On it were pages of words written in blood. The words on each page were exactly the same.

The zombie stood there for a long time, and a low roar like a beast could be vaguely heard from his mouth. He instinctively put the paper and pen in his arms and wandered aimlessly on the barren land.

At this moment, he was a real zombie, craving for the breath of living people and blood.

The sun sets in the west and the remaining clouds roll in.

A dozen official secular sons were walking on the barren land. One of them, a man wearing a bamboo hat, looked up at the sky and immediately spoke to the people around him.

"The sun is about to set, find a place to hide!"

The others didn't say anything and quickly adjusted their status according to the man's instructions. A thin young man went into the ground and soon dug out a pit that could accommodate more than a dozen people.

The man in the bamboo hat watched the sandstorm gradually rise, and the chasm between light and darkness on the horizon was clearly distinguished. It seemed as if something terrible was about to awaken in the dust raised by the wind and sand.

He couldn't help but frown and shouted: "Quick!"

He was not idle at this time. He followed the others to take off the belongings on their bodies and throw them into the pit, and lit white candles around them.

At the edge of the pit, the man in the bamboo hat stepped on the seven stars and hurriedly performed a sacrificial ceremony, chanting spells.

"Respect the gods of heaven and earth!"

"The heaven and earth are natural, the foul air is dispersed, the mysterious void in the cave, the bright Taiyuan, the mighty gods in all directions, make me natural..."

Segments of obscure bytes merged into the air, as if some existence was looking over here.

When the sandstorm came, the man in the bamboo hat immediately inserted three long incense sticks into the incense burner standing on the edge.

In an instant, an invisible force rose up around the pit, like a lid covering all the people who entered the pit.

The thin young man in charge of digging the pit grabbed a corner of the edge of the ground. His muscles were tense, veins spread to his face, and his eyes turned red due to excessive force.

"Get up!!!"

As he roared, a corner of the pit was dragged up by him, as if a thick quilt was pulled up and covered the pit.

At the last moment when the pit was about to be covered by the ground, sandstorm came, and the surrounding candle flames suddenly shook wildly. The white candles were burning rapidly at a strange speed, and drops of wax were dripping onto the ground.

However, the smoke rising from the three long incense sticks in the incense burner standing at the edge of the pit was extremely normal, not affected by the wind and sand at all.

One force is confronting another force.

"Boom..."

The thin young man pulled the quilt to cover them, and darkness instantly enveloped the team of more than a dozen people. All they could hear was each other's heavy breathing.

"Bah!"

Another candle was lit and placed in the center, with everyone's face buried in shadow.

The man in the bamboo hat was chewing a dry grass stem and leaning against the earthen wall in a relaxed manner.

"Live another day!"

"Liu Er, have you seen that thing?" A man looked at the thin young man and asked tremblingly.

Liu Er moved his face, hoping to force a smile, but unfortunately his stiff muscles pulled him back. In the end, he had no choice but to give up and said helplessly.

"Shouldn't you know the result? Of course you saw it."

When saying this, there was a hint of fear in Liu Er's eyes.

"Sorry, I just can't get that thing out of my mind!" The person who spoke couldn't help but say as he sat down on the ground, looked up at the yellow-brown soil above his head.

His sight seemed to penetrate the soil and look at the scene after the junction of heaven and earth at dusk.

The light faded, darkness encroached, and in the midst of the endless dust and sand, everything seemed blurry and distant.

At this time, a figure hundreds of feet tall was walking in the raised dust.

This huge figure was extremely strange. Its upper body looked like houses piled up in the flesh, and its flesh and blood served as the glue that held these crooked houses together.

Its lower body is still somewhat human-like, with normal feet, but the legs are covered with layers of fat and thick flesh, and tentacles extend from the skin, like leg hair.

But if you look closely, these things that look like leg hair are actually human hands and feet.

It walked in the wind and sand, greedily sucking in the turbid air flowing between heaven and earth with its big mouth, and a terrifying thundering sound came from its stomach.

Wherever he passed, countless ant-like monsters fell from his body.

These monsters have extremely long arms and legs, and have human form, but they are completely hairless and look like dried bones.

They jumped and ran on all fours. They had no eyes and the upper half of their faces were covered with only a layer of flesh. They only used two black nostrils to determine direction.

The people in the pit felt the continuous vibrations, and they knew that the starving ghost was getting closer.

“I hope I can escape safely this time!”

More than a dozen people prayed in their hearts that the closer they were to the center of Luozhou, the more likely they would encounter starving ghosts.

The person above their heads is the first starving ghost in Luozhou, and also the real starving ghost!
It is not the skinny and bony appearance that people traditionally imagine, but has mutated into an unimaginable appearance.

Grand, powerful, evil... these words are not enough to describe this starving ghost.

It is like a Shura in the boundless hell, controlling the pathways through this ghost realm.

In order to block the other party's perception, everyone had to use all their skills. The man in the bamboo hat even asked his secular god to come out and help them conceal their breath.

Because at night, the noses of these starving ghosts' minions will be as sensitive as dogs, and they can quickly identify the presence of living people.

These minions were once human beings, but because they ate humans, they were turned into minions.

The vibration was getting closer and closer, and everyone's heart was in their throat. Not knowing what it meant, the grass stem that the man in the bamboo hat was biting broke with a "snap".

In an instant, the man in the bamboo hat spat out a mouthful of blood and his breath quickly weakened.

He stared with his eyes wide open, and with his last breath he yelled to the people around him: "Run!"

At the edge of the pit, the incense in the incense burner broke into two pieces in the middle, which showed that the secular god invited by the man in the bamboo hat could not escape the perception of the hungry ghost and was discovered and repelled.

"Rumble..."

The ground was torn apart, revealing a dozen people hiding in a pit below.

Countless followers poured into the pit.

……

The Bone Forest is located slightly outside of Luozhou.

Two figures staggered out, their bodies covered with fleshy mushrooms.

Zhou Zhe gritted his teeth and used the jade fan as a knife to cut off the mushrooms on his body.

The sturdy man next to him was even more ruthless. He directly pulled out the mushroom along with the skin and flesh, leaving behind blood holes that oozed blood.

After doing all this, the two of them turned back to look at the forest of bones at the same time. The team that originally had more than a dozen people now only had two of them.

Those who failed to escape have been turned into human bodies and hung on the bone tree to attract prey.

They are all worldly children and will not die so easily, but the place where the worldly children are resurrected is not fixed but random.

After this time, their team was completely broken up.

It is difficult for a group of people to survive in the ghost realm, let alone an individual.

(End of this chapter)