Chapter 90 Ghost Face

It was a sunny afternoon.

Yu Ke sat on the fence beside the pasture, enjoying the breeze from the wilderness.

Although it was winter, the cold resistance he gained from hunting Wen Diego made him feel the same temperature as in autumn.

The Tang brothers went to a nearby slaughterhouse.

They said they were going to prepare some fresh beef and mutton skewers as hosts and barbecue him in the evening.

The taste of freshly killed and cut skewers must be different from that taken out of the freezer. Yu Ke wanted to follow them, but he was stopped by the two girls he had rescued earlier.

"Tell me, what do you want from me?"

Yu Ke grabbed a handful of grass and teased the alpaca that came to him.

He glanced at Ye Yingtong and Luo Ling standing next to him, and roughly guessed what they were here for.

"Thank you for your help before. When we return to Danhang City, I will definitely treat you to a big meal. 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. Her attitude was sincere.

"Forget the big meal. I dare not eat with you in your current situation."

Yu Ke was too lazy to cover up. He turned around and looked at Ye Yingtong, who was haggard.

"Besides, I am just a traveler. You can talk to Tang Jingyun about compensation later."

If others didn't mention it, Yu Ke was happy to pretend that he didn't know. He turned around and pinched the mouth of the alpaca, which was already a little angry because it couldn't eat the grass, to hold back the saliva attack that was ready to be launched.

Ye Yingtong glanced at Luo Ling, pursed her lips, thought of the recent suffering, and then said,

"You can see the red-faced ghost, right? Just now on the off-road vehicle, it was you who fought it off and saved us."

"You misunderstood. I can't see what red-faced ghost you are talking about. It's just that you are born with keen perception. You are the same as the brother who fainted. 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 you have to say, it is that his "inspiration" is relatively high. He can feel the abnormality of the life state of Ye Yingtong and the young man surnamed He.

If the life state of a normal person is compared to a torch, the physical and mental conditions determine the brightness of the torch, then Ye Yingtong's torch is close to a candle in the wind. Both her body and mind are about to reach the limit, revealing a gloomy aura.

The problem is that she herself does not seem to be seriously ill, so there is only one possibility, that something dirty is devouring her vitality.

"I know what you're thinking. You just want me to help you solve your problems. The problem is that I really can't do it. I'm a forest ranger, not a ghost catcher. There's a huge gap between our professional fields."

Yu Ke never liked beating around the bush. After guessing Ye Yingtong's thoughts, he said directly without waiting for her to speak.

"But it's true that you scared away the red-faced ghost. You must have something that can suppress the evil spirit. You've seen my current situation. I came to the farm just to escape from it. I didn't expect that 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 give it, it's fine!"

At this point, Ye Yingtong was also desperate and bowed to Yu Ke again.

"Something to suppress the evil spirit?"

Yu Ke pushed away the alpaca that wanted to butt him with his head, and his eyes swept across his right arm.

If there is anything on him that can suppress the evil ghosts, it can only be the gift of the forest spirit.

Although it has not been activated yet, it contains a great natural vitality, but Yu Ke does not know how to use it.

When it comes to the gift of forest spirits, Yu Ke is indeed interested. He has been thinking about how to activate this mark recently.

Perhaps the confrontation with the evil ghosts can stimulate it?

Or is this red-faced ghost a special existence?

"I can try, but you have to tell me your situation without reservation, especially the information about the red-faced ghost."

Yu Ke turned around and stared at Ye Yingtong again, with a bit more coldness in his words,

"Some things should be said in advance. If you deliberately conceal clues and cause an accident, I will not care whether you live or die!"

"I understand. If an accident occurs, you don't have to worry about me. If necessary, you can kill me."

Faced with Yu Ke's warning, Ye Yingtong's reaction was also quite calm, and it seemed that she was mentally prepared for the worst situation.

This surprised the former.

I can only say that she is worthy of being a woman who dares to join the archaeological excavation of the ruins. If it were anyone else, they would probably be scared to death.

"Atong, what are you talking about? You won't die."

Luo Ling, who had been standing next to her and had not said much, hugged Ye Yingtong and said with red eyes.

"Let's talk about the guy chasing you first."

Ignoring the scene of sisterly affection in front of her, Yu Ke turned around and jumped off the fence.

"This is the scene when we first discovered it. You will understand after watching it."

Ye Yingtong took out her mobile phone, opened a video in it, and handed it to Yu Ke.

The video content is a part of the exploration of the ruins, shot from Ye Yingtong's perspective. Yu Ke couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he saw the scene in the video, and his attention was quickly attracted.

In the dim passage, the searchlights sweeping around and the floating ashes, two team members dressed in archaeological clothes jointly pushed open the door.

The ruins in the video are not as old as imagined, because Yu Ke saw some modern. No, it should be said that modern items in the passage where the exploration team was moving.

For example, the iron kerosene lamps on the wall, the cloth coats scattered on the ground, the shovels and even some old rifles piled together.

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

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

Passing through the warehouse where the munitions were stored, the exploration team found a covered underground passage, and walked in the narrow passage for nearly 300 meters, finally arriving at the underground cave where the sacrificial site was located.

The scene captured by 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. The other people in the exploration team exclaimed continuously, and it was obviously the first time to enter such a scene.

"The wall is painted with a picture of a hundred ghosts at night. The content is the Zhongyuan Ghost Festival. The earth official pardons sins, the ghost gate is open, and the evil ghosts of the underworld come to the world to seek a substitute for the dead, intending to possess and return to the world. Generally speaking, the Zhongyuan Ghost Festival should be a festival to worship ancestors, but these murals have completely tampered with the original beautiful meaning of the festival."

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

Yu Ke nodded without comment, and his eyes looked at the layout inside the room as the camera switched.

Although he had little knowledge of folklore and archaeology, Yu Ke still felt that this circular room was filled with uncomfortable arrangements. Even if it was a sacrificial site, it was definitely not a proper sacrificial site.

First of all, there were blood-red pillars with scriptures engraved on all four sides and prayer flags hanging on them. The bottom of the pillars was not a fixed stone pier, nor was it a simple floor. Instead, it was a circle of fist-sized bronze figures holding offerings.

Secondly, there were corpses sitting cross-legged in a specific trajectory in the room. They were wearing black robes and sat down according to the marks on the ground. When the exploration team members checked, all the corpses had become skeletons, and even the slightest dry flesh had disappeared.

Finally, at the end of the video, the picture finally cut to the figure sitting on the armchair in the center of the room.

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

Unlike the believers or "sacrifices" around him, this guy, as the only person sitting in the room, was wearing a dragon robe outlined with gold threads and embellished with jewels!

This dragon robe is not genuine, but the identity of the guy who dared to wear such clothes in that era is definitely not simple. When the exploration team members surrounded him, the man's face finally appeared in front of everyone.

The head supported by his left hand was wearing an extremely evil red ghost mask. Even after many years, people who looked directly at the mask could feel the terrifying aura it conveyed.

The video ended here.

"Where did this mask come from?"

Yu Ke handed the phone back to Ye Yingtong and captured the most critical item.

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

Relic exploration videos involving sacrificial rituals or supernatural phenomena need permission from the top to be released to the public. Ye Yingtong's level can only reach this level. After a pause, he said,

"As far as I know, the mask was taken away 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 it was taken away by the Disaster Prevention Bureau as a strange collection object. After checking the relevant information, I learned that this ghost mask is the red mask that was mentioned many times in folk legends a hundred years ago. Ghost face. "

"It is said that this ghost mask is inhabited by an evil ghost named Red-faced Liang, which can give the holder the power to dominate the life and death of others. However, it was a chaotic time and no one knew where it went. I didn't expect it to be hidden in the basement of an arsenal."

"Wait, according to you, hasn't the Red Ghost Mask been taken in by the Disaster Prevention Bureau? Why can the Red-faced Liang living in it follow you to the farm to harm you? And when you found it, there should be multiple exploration team members present, but only you were targeted by it?"

Yu Ke interrupted Ye Yingtong's explanation, confused, and couldn't help asking.

"This is also what I want to figure out. There were nine people in the exploration team that entered the ruins at that time, but after returning to Danhang City, only I kept having nightmares and hallucinations, and the Red-faced Liang, it somehow got rid of the mask and just chased me madly in my dreams. "

Speaking of this, Ye Yingtong's face finally showed pain and collapse, and his words became hysterical,

"I originally thought that I was frightened in the ruins and had a stress reaction caused by neurasthenia. I went to see a psychologist and went to the hospital. I also found some experts from the Disaster Prevention Bureau and the public through the professor's connections and asked them to help check. The results were all the same, because the Red-faced Ghost had 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 Ghost Face, or simply give myself a quick death."

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 leaving Danhang City not only failed to get rid of the Red-faced Ghost, but made it gain stronger power, so that it became even more powerful, and was able to control the driver who was carrying her, trying to kill her directly with a car accident.