vrcanaries Chapter 760: Fusion of Broken Jade
Chapter 760: Fusion of Broken Jade
The cold wind blew dead leaves between the teaching buildings. Chen Yile stood behind the sycamore tree beside the playground and tightened his down jacket.
He could feel the jade piece in his pocket getting slightly warm; it was the rune reminding him of the danger.
"Are you sure it's here?" Lin Xiaoyu asked in a low voice.
She tied her long hair into a ponytail today, which made her look particularly neat.
Chen Yile nodded, his eyes falling on the abandoned teaching building not far away.
Moonlight poured in through the broken glass windows, casting mottled shadows on the ground.
It was the site of a former school, which was abandoned after a fire ten years ago.
"follow me."
Chen Yile took out his cell phone, turned on the flashlight function, and took Lin Xiaoyu around the cordon.
The dilapidated iron gate creaked harshly, and the footsteps of the two people were particularly clear in the silent night.
There was a faint fishy smell in the air.
Chen Yile frowned. The smell reminded him of a record he had read in ancient books: a hundred years ago, this place was a place for blood sacrifice.
Suddenly, a cold wind blew from behind.
Lin Xiaoyu shuddered and asked, "Chen Yile, do you feel cold?"
Chen Yile didn't say anything, but quickened his pace.
His hand had already touched the talisman bag hanging at his waist. The burning sensation of the talisman on his palm became more and more obvious, which meant that the closer they were to the target, the greater the danger.
When turning the corner of the corridor, a dark shadow suddenly fell from the sky!
Chen Yile subconsciously raised his leg and kicked, hitting the man in the lower abdomen.
The man fell to the ground with a groan, but immediately got up and pounced on Lin Xiaoyu.
"careful!"
Chen Yile shouted, pulled out a talisman and was about to throw it out.
"Be careful!" Lin Xiaoyu grabbed him, "They are cult members!"
Looking in the moonlight, the cult members who attacked them all had painful expressions on their faces, and the leader was twitching on the ground, as if something was controlling him.
"Could it be the power of the rune?" Chen Yile guessed.
He finally understood why there was such an attack - these people were possessed by evil spirits!
At this moment, the leading believer suddenly let out a beast-like roar!
His eyes turned red, blood oozed from the corners of his mouth, and he yelled, "Kill them for me!"
The surrounding believers immediately rushed forward, and Chen Yile and Lin Xiaoyu fought back to back, using talismans and magic weapons in turn.
But the strange thing is that these believers don't seem to be afraid of pain at all. Even if they are knocked down, they will immediately get up and continue attacking.
"What should we do? This is not a solution!" Lin Xiaoyu shouted while resisting.
Chen Yile took a deep breath and took out the last talisman from the talisman bag.
Painted on it was a special rune he had found in an ancient book - a power that could temporarily suppress evil spirits.
"Are you ready?" he asked Lin Xiaoyu.
"Ready!"
The two men attacked at the same time, and the talisman turned into a golden light and hit the leading believer directly.
The man's body stiffened, and his originally crazy eyes gradually became clear.
"It hurts so much." He said with difficulty, "Hurry, hurry up and go."
Before he could finish his words, his body began to twitch uncontrollably again.
Chen Yile seized the opportunity to rush into the cellar entrance and found the second piece of broken jade with the help of the rune.
At this moment, the power of the rune began to backfire.
Chen Yile felt a splitting headache and the world in front of him began to distort.
He saw countless cracks spreading in the void, as if something terrible was about to break out.
Chen Yile only felt that the world in front of him began to collapse, and countless cracks spread in the void, intertwined like a spider web.
After a dizzying moment, Chen Yile fell into a coma.
After Chen Yile woke up, the dazzling white light made him unable to open his eyes for a while.
He was lying on a hospital bed with an IV tube in his arm and a thin blanket covering him.
The sunlight from outside the window shone in obliquely, casting a long shadow on the floor.
"Awake?" Teacher Li's voice came from the door of the ward. He was wearing a dark blue coat and holding a thermos cup in his hand.
Chen Yile propped himself up and realized that his whole body was in severe pain.
"What happened?" he asked hoarsely.
Teacher Li walked over to the bed and sat down, handing him a glass of warm water. "Do you remember what happened before you fell into a coma?"
Chen Yile nodded, and that night, he and Lin Xiaoyu sneaked into the old school building to look for the second piece of broken jade.
Just when they were about to succeed, the power of the rune suddenly backfired, countless cracks appeared in front of his eyes, and then he lost consciousness.
Teacher Li sighed, "You were in a coma for three whole days. The doctor said that your body functions were severely damaged due to overdrawing the power of the runes."
Chen Yile looked down at his bandaged body. He could feel the power of the runes in his body rapidly fading, like a candle about to burn out.
"We have to find the third piece of broken jade as soon as possible."
Teacher Li was silent for a moment. "I've found some clues. The third piece of jade fragment is located in an ancient altar deep in the city's sewers."
Chen Yile asked: "When do we leave?"
"tonight."
That night, the city lights were faintly visible in the distance.
Chen Yile and Teacher Li stood in front of an abandoned sewer entrance. The humid air mixed with the smell of decay hit them in the face, making people want to cover their mouths and noses.
"This is the location of the altar mentioned in the clue." Teacher Li pointed to an ancient symbol on the wall and said, "These symbols are exactly the same as those recorded at the blood sacrifice site a hundred years ago."
Chen Yile lit a torch, illuminating the dark tunnel ahead.
The firelight reflected from the damp ground, casting mottled shadows on the walls.
After walking for about twenty minutes, they finally arrived at the altar.
This is a huge underground cave with a huge stone platform floating in the center.
The third piece of broken jade was placed on the stone platform, emitting a strange red light under the moonlight.
Teacher Li suddenly shouted, "Oh no! It looks like this broken jade has been activated by a cult sacrifice!"
Before he could finish his words, a blood-red moon suddenly appeared in the sky. Moonlight poured through the cracks in the top of the cave, casting distorted shadows on the ground.
Chen Yile could feel the power of the rune beating wildly, as if something terrible was about to break out.
"I don't feel good. We have to fuse the three pieces of jade as soon as possible!" Chen Yile shouted.
Teacher Li handed him the other two pieces of broken jade: "Be careful, the power of the rune can be very unstable."
Chen Yile placed the three pieces of broken jade on the stone platform and began to perform the fusion ceremony according to the methods in ancient books.
As the power of the rune gradually infused into the remaining jade, the entire altar began to vibrate violently. The remaining jade floating on the stone platform emitted a dazzling golden light, illuminating the entire cave.