Chapter 211: Cruelty Remains

The first three of the four props.

Could all be considered heavenly materials and earthly treasures.

Perhaps every world had similar things, and Yan Yu was just lucky to have collected them.

But the last amulet.

Proved that this world really had experts, at least it had had them before.

Wu Xian had the Ghost-Head Blade and didn't really need a weapon, so he gave the peach wood sword to Sun Qian and let Shi Ji have the Filth-One-Character.

Sun Qian gratefully accepted it and started doing martial arts moves from TV with the sword.

Shi Ji was even more like he had found a treasure, hugging the samurai sword; this blade gave him a familiar yet strange feeling, like an upgraded version of the "Boy Urine Yasutsuna," which made him feel as if he had returned to the glorious years of the Ghost Shadow Hostel.

As for the remaining amulet and dried apricot.

Wu Xian took them both for himself.

These things were obtained by relying on Wu Xian's treasure-hunting technique; let alone giving them less, even if he didn't give them anything, they couldn't find fault with Wu Xian.

The amulet only needed to be carried to take effect, equivalent to avoiding one death calamity.

As for the dried apricot, Wu Xian didn't plan to eat it now; although this thing was a prop with special effects, no one knew if eating the dried apricot would lead to being parasitized by the ghost in the belly.

Wu Xian continued to flip through the notebook, but was disappointed to find that most of the content behind was painted black, leaving only sporadic words and phrases.

"It seems the Great Ghost Yan Yu wanted to deal with has secrets he doesn't want people to know..."

Relying on the scattered information in the notebook, Wu Xian could simply infer some things.

The Great Ghost on the island was probably trying to use the bloodline of the Yan family to achieve some ritual; Yan Yu noticed the truth, so he searched everywhere for Dharma artifacts to resist the Great Ghost.

His resistance failed.

But it also made the Great Ghost's plan impossible to complete.

Now Yan Ting returning to Wonder Island was probably planned by that Great Ghost, who wanted to use Yan Ting to complete the ritual that failed ten years ago...

Putting down the notebook.

Wu Xian reached out toward Yan Yu's corpse.

Other places in the room had been searched clean, and now only the corpse hadn't been rummaged through.

"Hiss!"

Wu Xian's hand retracted like an electric shock.

The moment he touched Yan Yu's corpse, he felt a burst of coldness and stinging pain.

"No wonder Yan Yu died on the humid island, but the corpse didn't rot and instead became a dried corpse; his corpse had a large amount of ghost and evil Qi remaining on it, not only did snakes, insects, rats, and ants not dare to eat it, but even bacteria and fungi wouldn't grow..."

Wu Xian prepared himself mentally, endured the stinging pain, and rummaged through the corpse, finally pulling out two incomplete portraits.

He placed these two portraits in specific positions, then closed his eyes, recalling the two portraits the participants had obtained earlier.

A moment later, a blurred image pieced together in Wu Xian's mind.

"It's the Yama King!"

Those portrait fragments all came from the same Yama King portrait!

But the portrait was of a black-robed Yama King, while the Yan family worshipped a red-robed Yama King; what was the difference between the two?

Wu Xian shook his head.

He couldn't figure it out for a moment, so he got up and took Shi Ji and the other two to rush back.

They still had many tasks tonight.

So the time left for them to wander outside was very short.

They had to burn the corpses, discuss tactics, make sure all cameras captured the ghosts that had already been filmed, and split into groups to deal with the ghosts that hadn't been filmed yet...

If they went back too late, there wouldn't be enough time.

"Hope that when we go back, someone can't help but eat something... otherwise I won't be able to help it either."

When Wu Xian and the three returned to the hotel lobby, they found a dispute going on here.

"No, absolutely not!"

Yan Bingbing blocked in front of Miao Shi, her almond eyes glaring at everyone.

Cameraman An Haisheng stood aside at a loss, and Liao Yifang stood aside with her arms crossed and head lowered, not participating in this argument.

Everyone else besides them stood opposite Yan Bingbing.

Old Lady Liu persuaded earnestly: "Child, let the boy behind eat something; he is seriously injured and needs to replenish his strength."

Miao Shi was still lying on the bed, his cheeks flushed, obviously in a fever and coma.

Yan Bingbing shook her head: "No! Once he eats, he will be parasitized by the ghost in the belly; feeding him while he is in a coma is equivalent to killing him, isn't it?"

Lou Yaozong sighed: "But he is already sick like this; if you don't let him eat or take medicine, how much longer can he hold on?"

Yan Bingbing was silent.

Everyone looked at her, increasing the pressure on her.

On the surface.

This discussion was about caring for Miao Shi's life and death.

But in reality, what everyone was discussing.

Was whether to sacrifice the useless living people in the team to make everyone else feel better.

Miao Shi had now become a burden, not only unable to provide any help to others, but even dragging them down, so it would be better to sacrifice him and let him be parasitized by the ghost in the belly...

This way, everyone could eat.

The ghost in the belly hadn't appeared yet, and everyone hadn't had water or rice for a long time; even Wu Xian couldn't hold on, let alone others; if this continued, they would all be wiped out before the ghosts came to kill them.

But Yan Bingbing didn't want to do such a thing.

Han Ke sneered: "He is going to die either way; do you think dying of hunger or illness is better than being killed by a ghost?"

Yan Bingbing's heart shook.

She looked up at everyone and couldn't help but sigh.

In fact, she knew very well what the choice that maximized benefits was, she just couldn't get over the hurdle in her heart.

She hesitated for a long while, looked into everyone's eyes, and still agreed to everyone's request.

"At least... let me feed him."

Wu Xian, who witnessed this dispute, sighed lightly.

He didn't participate in forcing Yan Bingbing, but he was also looking forward to this result in his heart.

Malevolent entities and ghosts were indeed terrifying.

But hunger, thirst, injury, and illness were just as terrifying!

It wasn't just ghosts that could make people die, and it wasn't just the hunting of humans by malevolent entities that was cruel...

After Miao Shi ate, his condition improved visibly.

Previously, fearing the ghost in the belly, Yan Bingbing only dared to apply some external medicine to him; now she could feed him some oral medicine.

"Cough, cough..."

Miao Shi choked and slowly woke up, only to find everyone looking at himself.

He felt a burst of emotion in his heart and was just about to thank everyone for saving him when he suddenly felt a burst of severe pain; this severe pain made his eyes seem to feel a bit better.

"Stomach... my stomach!"

On Miao Shi's belly, a human face bulged out, and the ghost in the belly laughed ferociously and wildly.

"We meet again."

"You guys really have cruel hearts, hahaha..."

The ghost in the belly mocked wantonly, but after the harassment of the first night, everyone had long been immune to the ghost in the belly's trash talk; they didn't care about the ghost in the belly's foul language and directly tied Miao Shi up.

Miao Shi's expression was desperate; he didn't even understand what had happened, and Yan Bingbing could only try her best to comfort him.

And for everyone else, the most important thing now...

Was that they could eat!

They first swarmed to pick up water bottles, gulped down a stomach full of water, and then everyone started to cooperate, heating up the food at the fastest speed.

The food brought by Yan Ting was all portable, and could be eaten after simple heat treatment.

Just when everyone was starving and waiting for the food to be heated, they suddenly heard a shrill scream coming from the pot!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 212 =====