vrcanaries Chapter 768 Blood Locust Tree
Chapter 768 Blood Locust Tree
These arms were tied with red ropes, and each rope was stained with dark red blood.
"Save me!" Zhou Wenyuan's voice was filled with desperate cries, but before he could finish his words, he was grabbed by countless small hands.
The babies were like sharks that smelled blood, biting him in the dark.
Chen Yile saw that Zhou Wenyuan's body was torn into pieces, and black blood was flowing out of every wound.
At this moment, Chen Yile suddenly remembered what Master Zhang said before he died: "If you meet someone who can play dice, be careful."
He rushed to the gambling table and grabbed the dice that was still oozing blood.
The babies seemed to be particularly afraid of the dice and retreated one after another.
Chen Yile rushed out, dice in hand. Heavy rain poured down outside the casino, washing his face.
He ran to a century-old locust tree on the outskirts of the city. The tree was said to have been growing for more than three hundred years.
He smashed the dice into the tree trunk with all his strength.
Fresh red blood immediately oozed out of the tree roots, and tumor-like fruits began to grow on the tree crown.
The surface of those fruits was covered with vein-like lines, and they glowed with a strange luster under the moonlight.
Chen Yile knew that his mission was accomplished, but he also understood that this was only a temporary seal.
Just as he was about to leave, he heard rustling footsteps from behind him.
When I looked back, it turned out to be Mr. Xu from the entertainment city walking over with a few people.
They were holding tools and were obviously looking for trouble.
"Cut down this tree for me!" Boss Xu's voice was filled with excitement.
A blood-stained longevity lock could be vaguely seen in his suit pocket, glowing ominously in the moonlight.
Just then, it suddenly started to rain heavily.
The river water rose sharply, and dozens of clay jars tied with red ropes floated from upstream.
The urns were all engraved with the same symbols, which looked particularly eerie in the rain.
The rain grew heavier, and the river roared toward the bank. Chen Yile stood beneath the locust tree, raindrops dripping down his hair. He could feel the tree trembling slightly. The tumor-like fruits were growing larger, and the veins on their surface were clearly visible.
“There’s something wrong with this tree.”
Boss Xu's voice came from behind, with a hint of excitement and greed.
He took a few steps closer, the rain soaking his suit, but his eyes were shining.
Chen Yile didn't say anything. He could feel the strange aura emanating from the locust tree.
The fruits seemed to be breathing and wriggling.
"Do you know why this tree can live so long?" Boss Xu suddenly asked, his fingers unconsciously stroking the inside pocket of his suit, where the blood-stained longevity lock was placed.
"I don't know." Chen Yile took a step back cautiously.
"Because it is nourished by human sacrifices." Boss Xu's voice carried a strange smile. "Thirty years ago, something happened here."
At this moment, the pottery jars floating from upstream began to hit the embankment.
Those pottery jars were tied with red ropes and floated up and down in the water.
Chen Yile noticed that the symbols on the pottery jar were exactly the same as the patterns on the locust tree fruits.
"Look!" one of the men exclaimed, pointing at the river.
Everyone saw that dark red liquid seeped out from the cracks in the pottery jar, forming a strange whirlpool in the water.
Boss Xu's face suddenly turned pale. With trembling hands, he took out the blood-stained longevity lock from the inner pocket of his suit. There were still dark red bloodstains on the chain.
"This is..." Boss Xu's voice began to tremble, "This is Zhou Wenyuan's blood!"
Before he could finish his words, the river water suddenly surged, and the pottery jars seemed to come alive, moving slowly towards the shore.
Chen Yile saw something wriggling in the cracks of the pottery jar, like countless babies' hands.
"Run!"
Chen Yile shouted and ran back with Boss Xu.
But it was too late. The pottery jar suddenly broke, and countless baby hands came out from it, digging up the soil on the shore.
The red ropes on their hands fluttered in the wind, like countless blood-red flags.
The locust tree suddenly shook violently, and the fruits began to crack, revealing the red fleshy buds inside.
The granulation tissue is covered with blood vessels, and it glows strangely in the moonlight.
"This tree, it's growing!" one of the men shouted in horror.
Chen Yile looked up and saw new buds beginning to grow on the branches of the locust tree, but these buds were not as green as those of ordinary trees.
They were a sickly blood red, like countless eyes staring down.
Suddenly, a muffled sound came from the roots of the locust tree.
Chen Yile saw that the soil under the tree roots began to turn, as if something was stirring underground.
"Hurry up! There must be something wrong under this tree!" Chen Yile shouted, but Boss Xu seemed to be nailed to the spot.
"I can't let this happen again." Boss Xu muttered to himself, his hand tightly gripping the longevity lock, his eyes becoming extremely painful.
At this moment, the soil at the roots of the locust tree suddenly exploded.
A huge pottery jar emerged from the ground, with its mouth facing the sky and emitting a rotten smell.
The pottery jar was engraved with the same symbols as the pottery jar upstream, and it looked particularly strange in the moonlight.
"This is the container Zhou Wenyuan used to imprison the infant spirit."
Boss Xu's voice was filled with despair: "In his pursuit of immortality, he buried the bodies of countless babies here."
Before he finished speaking, dark red liquid suddenly seeped out from the cracks in the pottery jar.
The liquid dripped onto the ground, emitting a strange glow in the moonlight.
Chen Yile saw something swimming in the liquid, like countless baby fingers.
Suddenly, the pottery jar burst, and a black mist gushed out of it, condensing into the shape of a human in the air.
It was the image of a pregnant woman, her belly bulging high and her skin covered with cracks, as if it would burst at any time.
"Free at last." The pregnant woman's voice was hoarse and low. "All the children must go home."
Chen Yile saw countless babies' hands emerging from the black fog and waving in the air.
At this moment, the locust tree suddenly made a loud noise, and all the blood-red fruits burst open, revealing the red flesh buds inside.
In the end, the locust tree was completely destroyed, but the souls of the babies did not completely dissipate.
They cling to pottery jars and rivers, waiting for their next prey to arrive.
Boss Xu disappeared without a trace because he was too deeply involved, and Chen Yile became the only survivor of the disaster.
The source of this tragedy is that Zhou Wenyuan, in pursuit of immortality, used the life of an infant as a sacrifice in an attempt to gain eternal vitality.
However, his plan failed and instead triggered an even more terrible disaster.
As for the century-old locust tree, it became a witness to this disaster. Its existence seemed to have long exceeded the scope of ordinary trees and was more like a soul-devouring monster.
Chen Yile left the city, but he could never forget the terrible thing that happened on that rainy night. Whenever he heard the baby crying, he would involuntarily think of the eerie old locust tree and those souls who could never find peace.