Chapter 199 Xu Bai: Really? I Don’t Believe It (8000)

The bone knife cut into the fat meat, and blood spilt out.

The bright red blood spread in the water, and before it spread completely, the spirit fish in the water seemed to smell the most delicious delicacy in the world, shaking their tails quickly, rushing over like the wind, and eating up the drop of blood.

There was a bloody scar on the belly of the scorpion. He held his own meat in his hand and cut it with a bone knife, cutting it as thin as a cicada's wing. The cut meat fell into the puddles with the force.

"Wow!"

The water surface began to vibrate violently, and the jumping water droplets kept rising and falling. The spirit fish rushed forward, squeezed and scrambled for it.

The scorpion walked from the farthest to the nearest. The piece of meat in his hand no longer had the scar on his belly. It had scabbed and the blood was no longer flowing.

He moved the meat on his belly and covered the wound with fat meat, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Alas, there is no grave anymore, but I want to feed these spiritual fish with meat. Am I going to become a person like the old Taoist priest, who really kills people and eats meat?"

While lamenting, the croaker turned his head, and the eyes hidden in the fat stared at Xu Bai's direction.

Through the hazy darkness, Xu Bai knew that the other party had discovered him.

The scene in front of him was extremely weird. It was the first time he saw someone raising fish with his own meat. The evil power in it made people feel scared at a glance.

But now that he was discovered, it was no big deal. He just went out to see what this guy was doing.

Xu Bai closed the gap in the window, then came to the door and opened it.

The croaker did not leave, but stayed where he was, staring at Xu Bai who had just walked out.

"Brother, you don't sleep at night, but secretly watch me raising fish. Do you know that this is a very disrespectful thing for us fishermen?"

Fisherman?

Xu Bai's fingers rubbed his chin, which sounded like a trade, but he now found that the fat man in front of him seemed to have no hostility towards him.

Whether it was when he first discovered him or when he was talking to him now, there was no hostility in his words, as if it was just an ordinary chat.

"I heard some noise outside in the middle of the night, so I couldn't help but be curious and watched for a while." Xu Bai put down his hand and smiled, "Please forgive me if it's offensive, but I see the way you feed the fish. According to the current situation, if you continue like this, you won't be able to feed them even if you have all the meat on your body."

The scorpion fell into silence.

There was a trace of sadness on that fat face, as if he thought of painful memories and fell into a tangle.

He raised his hand and pounded his head hard, making a loud bang that echoed in the night.

His hair was pounded by him, and it looked messy and fluttered in the wind.

"I know that, but what can I do?"

"I can't learn to eat people like them. After eating people, will I still be a human being?"

"I can only go to the cemetery to find those dead bones, absorb the energy from the dead bones, and then use my own flesh to feed the fish."

The legs of the croaker softened, and he sat down directly on the ground, his eyes became blank, and he talked to himself there.

"I don't know how long I can hold on. Maybe when I can't feed them anymore, I will become a man-eating monster."

"This world is too difficult, too difficult. Some people are persisting, but it's difficult."

"I can't hold on any longer. I don't know how long it will take before I will be like them, woo woo woo..."

At the end, the croaker curled up his fat body and lay on the ground, crying in pain.

The cry sounded like the cry of a night crow, unpleasant and harsh.

The spirit fish in the puddles emerged from the water, staring at Xu Bai with their bright eyes.

In the moonlight, the strange fish eyes reflected a cold light.

Xu Bai's true energy was running, and strange patterns were all over his body.

Something was wrong.

Just now, when those fish were staring at him, he felt a bone-chilling cold.

Turning his eyes back to the ground, the tuna was still crying, but the cry was getting smaller and smaller.

When the cry was so weak that it could not be heard, the tuna raised his head, and the tears in his eyes were blood-colored.

"Can you help me?" The tuna asked, "I don't want to go on like this. I don't want to become a complete cannibal for resources."

Xu Bai frowned and said nothing.

As he expected, these people have changed for resources, becoming more crazy and more desperate.

Everyone here has problems, including the tuna in front of him.

"What do you want me to help you with?" Xu Bai narrowed his eyes and said.

The tuna climbed up from the ground with both hands and feet, with a hint of madness in his eyes.

"I don't want to kill anyone, and I don't want to hurt you. My spirit fish can replace resources. As long as it can continue to reproduce like this, we will not lack resources."

"We?" Xu Bai said: "Do you mean to share the spirit fish with me?"

The croaker nodded vigorously: "Of course, I will give you half of the spirit fish, so that even if there are fewer resources, we will not die because of resources, but you have to give me something."

While speaking, he was slowly approaching Xu Bai. With every step he took, the fat on his body shook, and it looked like a huge mountain of meat rolling.

Xu Bai's eyes gradually became calm, and he asked: "What do you want?"

"Your bones!" The croaker licked his lips, and greed appeared in his eyes: "I tried, I tried many times, look at these things."

He turned around quickly, ran to a house, and supported the house with both hands. Under his support, the house collapsed in an instant.

The croaker kept searching in the ruins, and pieces of human skin were turned out by him and fell to the ground.

He showed Xu Bai while talking carefully.

"Look at these, they are all ordinary people's skins. After their bones are removed, there is no way to repair them with spirit fish."

"I was thinking that if it is a person in the industry, the spirit fish can repair him, so I have a perfect plan."

"You let me remove your bones, I eat your bones, and then feed them to the spirit fish. When they are mature, we each have half, and your bones can grow up, so that the cycle can be completed."

The eyes of the scorpion became more and more crazy, and the greed became more and more full.

Xu Bai looked at the human skins, there were hundreds of them, and his tone became cold: "Is this what you call not eating your own kind?"

I didn't expect that in such a broken house, there would be such a dirty thing hidden.

Compared with the straightforwardness of the old Taoist priest, the fat scorpion in front of him, who was as fat as a ball, looked a little more gloomy.

Hearing what Xu Bai said, the scorpion shook his hand with fear on his face and began to explain to Xu Bai.

"I didn't eat their meat, nor did I kill them. I just used them for experiments.

"But ordinary people's bodies are too fragile. After they died, I just fed them to the spirit fish.

"I even kept their skins and worshiped them with incense every day and night. If they knew that they could die to solve the problem of resources, they must be very proud."

Xu Bai said: "Why don't you just solve it yourself? Didn't you ask me to help you?"

"No, no, no." The croaker said quickly: "I have a new method now. Let's cooperate. As long as we cooperate, we can survive in this resource-depleted world."

He showed a flattering smile, as if asking Xu Bai to cooperate.

In those puddles, more and more spirit fish poked their heads out, and the cold light in the eyes of the spirit fish became more and more strong, as if they would jump out of the puddle in the next second and tear Xu Bai into pieces.

Xu Bai raised his right hand, and the golden and gray colors kept interweaving behind him: "I think you'd better die."

After the words fell, the face of the flattering 鲹 changed, becoming gloomy and weird, and his eyes turned into endless madness.

鲹 walked towards Xu Bai quickly, talking as he walked.

"I gave you a chance, I gave you a chance to be rich together, but you didn't want it, so don't blame me."

"I will tie you up, take your bones every day, and feed you with spirit fish."

"Don't worry, when you taste the benefits, you will thank me, because I let you live in this resource-depleted world, this is a great benefit!"

As 鲹 moved forward, the spirit fish in the puddle finally moved.

One by one, the spirit fish jumped out of the puddle, drawing a beautiful trajectory in the air, but did not fall into the puddle again, but like an ancient photo, frozen in the air.

"My dears, catch him, so you can have food too." The croaker turned his head and said to the spirit fish.

He only said half of the words, because not far in front of him, a terrifying light suddenly burst out.

The blade light was like the scorching sun, burning thousands of miles.

The gold and grayish white colors were looming in the blade light, and the chaotic atmosphere intensified the horror of the blade light.

The croaker was drowned by the blade light before he even reacted.

There was no scream, not even a cry of pain, everything was as plain as water.

In the blade light, the croaker turned into a piece of yellow earth, and finally the yellow earth turned into ashes and disappeared in the sky.

Xu Bai did not stop, he turned his head and looked at the spirit fish that were frozen in mid-air, and slowly said: "It turns out that you are the real mind gods."

In mid-air, the spirit fish's eyes were shining with strange light. As Xu Bai turned around, these fish soared into the sky and continued to blend in the sky.

Each fish collided with each other and turned into a mass of dark red flesh and blood. These flesh and blood did not fall off, but continued to merge.

The fused flesh and blood formed a human body. From Xu Bai's angle, this person was exactly the same as the scad, except that there was no skin, only flesh and blood and fascia.

The eyes of the spirit fish mind were without any emotion, but only a madness that made the hair stand on end, as if it wanted to devour all rationality.

It raised its fleshy, skinless palm, and slapped it hard at Xu Bai.

Behind the Spirit Fish Mind God was a huge mountain of human heads.

The human heads were connected to each other by bones, and the faces of each head were the same madness.

They opened their mouths and roared silently, and with the palm of the Spirit Fish Mind God, they pressed towards Xu Bai.

Flesh palm and human head mountain.

When the two were combined, even Xu Bai, with his current strength, felt a sense of oppression.

He did not take it lightly, and slowly raised his right hand and slashed it towards the sky.

The three ultimate swords and knives - killing people!

With one sword, the destructive power was amazing, and the sky collapsed and the earth split.

The earth was shaking, and the sword light reflected the entire night into day. In the sword light, the flesh palm of the Spirit Fish Mind God was gradually turning into ashes, and the mountain of human heads that followed was pressed down hard.

Even if it was beheading someone, it would only destroy half of the head, and the remaining half, with wailing and weirdness, hit Xu Bai hard.

Xu Bai only felt that his whole body was under great pressure, and at the same time, his bones were in pain.

This mountain of human heads was actually drilling into his flesh and blood, and its purpose was to penetrate into his bones and eat his bones.

The patterns on the skin became brighter and brighter, and the mountain of human heads made a tragic wail. The more it penetrated inside, the more it gradually turned into ashes.

"You want to eat me, but you don't have the teeth."

Xu Bai's face was calm, but the true energy in his body was evaporating at an incredible speed as if it was burned by the scorching sun.

He raised his right hand again and chopped at the mountain of human heads in front of him.

The dazzling blade light appeared again, and the sky fell into a white mist again.

The remaining mountain of human heads was gradually disappearing. After the last head disappeared, everything fell into calm. The darkness was illuminated by the moonlight. Xu Bai put his hands behind his back and looked indifferent.

He did not take it lightly because he had solved a big problem, because in his ears, there was a ding-ling sound.

Turning back, his eyes followed the direction of the sound and saw that there were about ten people walking slowly at the gate.

The leader was wearing a white robe, holding a bell in his hand, shaking it as he approached.

They wore tall hats on their heads, and their faces were painted with red oil paint and patterns.

"Strange things happen one after another, it seems that they don't want me to rest." Xu Bai said secretly.

He did not put away the Tianbian, and the patterns and the killing of people on his body were not used again. The true energy in his body was recovering rapidly.

The current situation is that he is alone, and facing the mysterious mind, he must be vigilant.

The people shaking the bells lined up in a long line, and they walked in front of Xu Bai before stopping.

At this time, Xu Bai realized that the people in front of him were different.

To be precise, except for the person who led the team at the beginning, there were all paper people behind him.

The paper figures had no facial features, were pale, and even had no clothes painted on them. They were just crudely made figures.

This feeling made people feel as if they were made in a hurry.

The only slightly refined thing was that these paper figures had strange oil patterns painted on their faces.

As the person leading the way in front shook the bell, the group of paper figures walked in unison, and they conveyed a chill that made people's hair stand on end.

Paper figures?

Xu Bai immediately thought of the business of making paper figures. After all, willow catkins have an inseparable relationship with this business, so Xu Bai also knows something about this business.

"Alas..."

A faint sigh came from the mouth of the person who led the way at the beginning. He put away the bell, slowly walked to Xu Bai, and suddenly bent down.

"Thank you, brother, for completely freeing him."

The white clothes and tall hat, coupled with the bells in his hands and the patterns on his face, although this person was bending over to Xu Bai, there was always an inexplicable sense of horror.

Xu Bai smiled and said, "Are you familiar with the croaker?"

"Yes." The man in white clothes and tall hat sighed, "To be precise, I am familiar with everyone on this mountain."

"After they died, I was responsible for collecting their bodies. It's a pity that I didn't collect them this time."

"Collecting bodies?" Xu Bai said indifferently, "Are you actively collecting their bodies, or are they passively collected by you?"

"Of course they are passive." The man in white clothes and tall hat smiled and said, "I am a paper man and a corpse collector. If you die on this mountain, you must remember to call the three words "corpse collector" before you die. After all, people are also a good resource after death."

Xu Bai thought there would be a fight next, but after the man in white clothes and tall hat said this, he turned and left.

No battle happened, not even a conflict.

The man in white clothes and a tall hat led the way, shaking a bell. The paper figures followed with stiff steps, gradually going farther and farther away...

Xu Bai's sight fell on the last paper figure. He saw that there seemed to be a corpse shaking slightly in the translucent white paper.

He also learned a lot of new things, so how could he not guess the thoughts of the man in white clothes and tall hat.

"Corpses are also a kind of resource. After a person dies, they are placed in paper figures and used as resources. The resources in this world are exhausted, but they are all struggling. There are more ways than cannibalism." Xu Bai thought to himself.

The first old Taoist priest he met took the path of cannibalism, the second one he met was a fish farmer, and the third corpse collector was specifically against corpses.

When a world gradually reaches its end, people, as the most intelligent creatures in this world, must survive in the cracks, and countless ways of survival are born, although they are cruel and disgusting.

Xu Bai did not stop this person because he felt a huge pressure on this person. This person's strength is definitely not low. On the contrary, it is stronger than the person he just killed.

It's not that he is unsure, he just doesn't want to waste time on fighting, his goal is the progress bar.

"Let's look for something first to see if there are any good things here."

Thinking of this, Xu Bai stopped thinking about it and turned around to look in each room. After about an incense stick of time, Xu Bai walked out of a dilapidated house with a book in his hand.

There were words printed on the book, and he couldn't understand the words at all. After all, it was the handwriting of the Ten Thousand Nations during the hegemony period, and it was normal for him not to understand it.

But it didn't matter at all, because there was a progress bar on it, which was enough.

The progress bar proved that it was possible to grind, and those who could grind the progress bar were all good things.

"Finally, I have gained something." Xu Bai put the book in his arms, took another look at the night around him, and looked up at the moon in the sky.

The moon was still hanging in the original position, without any change. As he thought, all time was frozen.

But they could move freely in this frozen time. This weird feeling made him a little puzzled.

"Let's finish exploring this mountain first."

He has only reached the halfway point of the mountain, and there is still half of the way to explore. What he wants now is to finish exploring this mountain first, and then go to another place.

Thinking of this, Xu Bai did not stop any more, and walked towards a location.

Following this mountain road, going straight up all the way, there is no danger along the way.

After walking for about half an hour, Xu Bai stopped and looked at the mountain road ahead, frowning tightly.

The mountain road not far ahead looks no different from ordinary mountain roads, but if you look to both sides, you will find that there are two rows of candles on both sides of this mountain road.

The candles have been lit, bringing the only warmth in the dark environment, but this warmth is shrouded by darkness.

The darkness is a little gloomy in the warmth.

"What is the way to survive?" Xu Bai became interested.

The first one is to eat people, the second one is to raise fish, and the third one is to collect corpses. Now he really wants to know what the fourth one is.

With such an interest, Xu Bai unfolded his soul.

The soul began to spread and walked up along the mountain road.

Under the induction of the soul, Xu Bai saw that the mountain road was full of candles.

Not only that, the candles burned very slowly, and the candle body seemed to be made of unknown materials, which was very resistant to burning.

The soul went straight along the mountain road, and finally, the candles in front gradually became fewer, and at the end of the candles, there was actually a lonely grave.

It was indeed a lonely grave, there was nothing outside the lonely grave, and there were no other graves around.

"Interesting, if there is no house, give me a lonely grave, I would like to see what is there."

Xu Bai raised his foot and slowly stepped into the mountain road with candles on both sides. As he took his first step, the candles around him swayed, and several candles were almost blown out by the wind.

Fortunately, the candle flames were very tenacious and slowly returned to normal. Xu Bai walked up step by step. Nothing happened along the way, and he came to the lonely grave smoothly.

There was only one solitary grave, and the surroundings were empty, with only wild mountains and ridges. In front of the solitary grave, there stood a stele. There were no words on the stele, only dried black bloodstains.

"A stele without words, a solitary grave in the wilderness, who is buried here?"

Xu Bai did not feel the danger coming, he even felt that this place gave him a sense of security.

This inexplicable sense of security seemed very strange, just like you are in a dangerous world, and a weird thing can bring you a sense of security, which will make this weirdness even more serious.

"How about digging it open and taking a look?" Xu Bai had a bold idea and wanted to try it.

There were no words on this stele, and there was no progress bar, otherwise Xu Bai would even dare to carry this stele away.

After this idea came up, Xu Bai couldn't control himself more and more.

Anyway, it was in the ruins, he didn't care about it, just do it.

Raised his hand and flicked his fingers slightly.

The next moment, a flash of knife light flashed, and this solitary grave was directly blown into ashes all over the sky.

When the solitary grave in front of him was blown open, there was a high-quality coffin under the solitary grave.

Even though it was covered with mud, you could see from the cracks in the mud that the black coffin was made of very high-quality material.

Until the solitary grave in front of him was blown open, there was still no abnormality, and he didn't even feel a trace of coldness. This feeling was like a safe house.

"Excuse me."

No matter what, he was also doing the business of digging graves, so Xu Bai said goodbye before he started.

With a casual push in the air, the lid of the coffin in front of him flew up directly and fell heavily to the ground.

At this time, Xu Bai finally saw the situation in the coffin.

In the coffin, there was a dry skeleton wearing a Taoist robe. The material of the Taoist robe must be excellent, because there was no sign of decay, but the body was only left with dry bones, proving that it had been buried here for a long time.

The two arms of the dry skeleton were tightly intertwined, overlapping at the lower abdomen, and a letter could be seen from the gap between the hand bones.

Xu Bai touched his chin, and finally reached out his hand and picked up the letter.

He was very alert during this process, thinking that something strange would happen, but everything was normal and nothing happened.

The material of the letter was obviously very good. Even after such a long time, there was no damage at all, and it just turned yellow at most.

Xu Bai apologized again, and then opened the letter.

"I am really stupid. I don't know the words of this period." After Xu Bai opened the letter, he remembered that the words of this period were already very ancient.

He was about to put the letter back, but unexpectedly, when he saw the incomprehensible words on the letter, his soul suddenly shook.

These words seemed to have spirituality, echoing directly in his soul, allowing him to understand.

To be precise, he still couldn't understand, but the words seemed to be transmitted directly in the soul, and could convey the original meaning.

"What a brilliant method. When this person was alive, he must have been a master of the soul."

Xu Bai sighed in his heart, closed his eyes, and felt the information in his mind.

Lines of text emerged, gradually becoming clearer, and turned into text he could understand...

[I am the princess of Shiguo. I have studied Sanshengguan since I was a child. If you can see this letter, it proves that we are destined to be together. ]

"Princess of Shiguo?" Xu Bai scratched his head.

He had never heard of the name of this country. Now he thought it should be a country during the period of hegemony among all nations. By now, it is estimated that it has long been submerged in the wheels of history.

A princess of a generation was buried in this place, and there was only one lonely grave. It was a bit sad.

When an era came to an end, no matter what identity, there was only such a lonely grave left.

With such a mood, he couldn't help but feel a little emotional, and he continued to read.

[The world has changed drastically, resources have been exhausted, and all nations are fighting for hegemony. I didn't expect that in my short life, I would have experienced such a magnificent thing. ]

[There are many geniuses, many who amaze the world, but no one can compete with the world, from a prosperous age to the end of the world. ]

[I have witnessed countless killings and countless hells on earth, and suddenly felt deeply powerless. ]

[I am dying, but I don't want to do anything to hurt others. If people hurt their own kind just to live, they are no different from beasts. ]

[I will bury myself here, cut off all life, and at the same time set up an indelible candle array. ]

[Before he went crazy, the national teacher once told me that if someone can break through the candle array, it is my destined person. I don't know what the destined person is, but I am dead. ]

[Perhaps, the destined person can only get a corpse. ]

Candle array?

Destined person?

Xu Bai couldn't help but think of the two rows of candles he met on the mountain road.

Is that a formation?

He felt that there was no obstacle along the way. Could it be that the time was too long, so the effect disappeared?

He didn't believe in the so-called destined person. She had been dead for so long. Even if the princess was destined, she was just a skeleton.

"Alas, she is a princess of a country after all, what a pity." Xu Bai sighed again.

The content of the letter has not yet been finished, it is still continuing.

[I became a disciple of Sansheng Temple and learned the Sansheng Dao formation. I was fortunate to use this formation and saw the future. ]

[In the future, a young man will come to my grave. The young man wears armor on the outside and a Taoist robe on the inside. ]

[He is the destination of everything and the beginning of everything. At that time, I felt that maybe he could solve the problem of resource depletion. ]

[But later I found out that he is not, at least he is not from our time. ]

[I am about to die, but I really hope that he can come, at least to prove to the world that I am right. ]

...

At this point, the content of the letter is gone.

Although there are not many words on it, Xu Bai has already sketched a picture in his mind.

The world has changed drastically, resources are exhausted, and everything has fallen into purgatory on earth.

Princess Shiguo committed suicide here, buried herself, and set up a candle array, leaving this letter.

These are not the most important. The important thing is that the book mentions the man wearing armor outside and Taoist robes inside.

Xu Bai lowered his head and looked at his outfit, his mouth twitching slightly.

"Could it be that I am this destined person?"

It is obvious that it is him.

After all, he is the only one who has this outfit, and it mentions the future, and even mentions that he is not a figure in the period of hegemony among all nations.

There is no one else except him.

After thinking for a moment, Xu Bai put the letter back into the coffin.

Then, Xu Bai said six words in a very calm tone.

"Really? I don't believe it."

After these six words were spoken, the candles lit around suddenly flickered and became extremely dim, but soon returned to normal.

Xu Bai continued to speak...

"What a predestined person. When you invaded my soul and told me the contents of this letter, I found out that you were alive."

"If I didn't have the skills for the soul, I might have been fooled by you."

"Let me think carefully. When did it start? It should have started when I stepped on this mountain road with candles on both sides."

"From that time on, you began to affect my soul. If I believed it, would I be dragged into the coffin by you next?"

As he spoke one sentence after another, the light of the candle flickered faster and faster.

When the last sentence was finished, the candles around him suddenly went out.

Xu Bai turned his head and looked at the mountain road behind him. The mountain road that originally had two rows of candles was now dark.

A gust of cold wind suddenly blew behind him, and Xu Bai felt a layer of goose bumps on the back of his neck.