Stealing Pens: Travelers from the End of the World

Chapter 260 Soul Gathering Formation

"What's wrong?" The person in front was knocked back by him and turned back to ask with concern.

"He...they are gathering here!"

The man pointed to the scene behind him.

The way they came here was completely blocked by these things, and now they could only move forward and not retreat.

"I……"

"Pretend you didn't see it and keep moving forward." Qin Yuchen's voice came from the front.

"Shh!" The two people who were talking shut up and ignored what they saw after hearing Qin Yuchen's words.

The sound of armor behind him became more and more obvious.

"Run." The moment he stepped onto the stairs, Zhang Qiling spoke immediately and ran up the stairs in two steps at a time.

Everyone started running.

The last person went up two steps at a time. There was a "bang" sound behind him. He looked back and found that the place where he was standing had been smashed into a hole by the spear.

He was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat. If he had been a step later, he would have been cut in half by the spear.

There were messy footsteps mixed with rapid breathing. Qin Yuchen used his knife to block the oncoming spear, kicked down the iron figurine that was coming towards him, and used it to block the iron figurine that was following behind.

He turned over and stepped on the back of another iron figurine as a stepping stone, then leaped directly up and landed on the platform outside the palace.

Zhang Qiling pulled Qin Yuchen and looked at Boss Qian who had escaped and was climbing up with his hands and feet. After thinking for a moment, he grabbed the back of the man's collar and pulled him up.

Those iron figurines were all standing on the stairs, pushing and shoving each other. When they all left the stairs and came to the platform, they stopped and stared at them.

This group of people are indeed capable and flexible.

However, three or two people were scratched and injured.

The two of them surrounded one and treated the wound as quickly as possible.

Qin Yuchen took a deep breath and looked back at the palace behind him.

The palace gate was opened slightly from the outside to the inside, leaving a small gap.

He walked forward and gently pushed the door open.

"Boom-"

The sound of a heavy object falling startled everyone and made them look over.

Qin Yuchen stepped into the door through the gap and found the fallen body that had been dead for a long time in the corner behind the door on the right.

He closed the door a little, walked over and turned the body over.

He looked like a foreigner, wearing dirty camouflage uniform and a nameplate around his neck.

Qin Yuchen looked at the corpse's nose and eyes, then turned over the corpse's cuffs and found a handprint that had turned blue-black.

"He was pulled into the water and drowned." He said to the people behind him.

"There's also this handprint on the ankle."

Qin Yuchen stretched out his hand and compared it with the handprint. It was more than twice as big as his hand.

"Why is there nothing here except the coffin in the front?"

Boss Qian and his group also rested outside, and as soon as they entered the hall, they began searching inside without stopping.

But in this hall, apart from the coffin, there is not even a mural.

"How about... just open the coffin and take a look?" Wang Kan suggested.

"Maybe they're all in there?"

"This..." Boss Qian hesitated a little and looked furtively at the two people who were still looking at the corpse.

"I'm afraid this coffin is not that easy to open." Peng Zi came to Boss Qian happily, holding a gold brick in his hand.

"Where did you get this?" Boss Qian's eyes were fixed on the person. He first asked where it came from, and then asked,

"And what do you mean by that?"

"I found this thing in the corpse's backpack. I took it only after Master Qin agreed." Peng Zi pursed his lips and gestured towards Qin Yuchen, "As for the coffin..."

"Do you see the water surrounding the coffin?"

Boss Qian nodded.

To be more precise, it was a pool shaped like a jade ring, with a radius of more than five meters. The water was deep red, and you could smell a faint fragrance when you got closer.

And the coffin was right in the center of the pool.

There were many talisman papers pasted on the coffin. The cinnabar on some of the talismans had faded, and some of the talismans had probably been torn by someone, so they were not complete.

“If my guess is correct, this should be a soul-nourishing formation that nourishes the soul.

In ancient times, there were emperors who, in order to ensure their immortality even after death, recruited tens of thousands of people as blood sacrifices and carved a spirit-gathering and soul-nourishing formation under their coffins to nourish their souls.

The talismans affixed to the coffin should have the effect of warding off evil and nourishing the spirit."

“But you see, now those talisman papers have been destroyed, and the soul-nurturing system has been destroyed. The wronged souls in this pool cannot be appeased, and they will definitely find ways to capture people as replacements.

So if we open the coffin directly, we might get hurt."

"Then...what should we do?" Boss Qian asked after shaking off the goose bumps on his body after listening to Pengzi's ghost story.

"There's a way." Xiao Zhao took out cinnabar, black dog blood, and other things, "Change the formation for him!"

Boss Qian: “……?”

Wang Kan was also confused.

Xiao Zhao felt that the method he proposed was very feasible. He raised his eyebrows confidently and waited for Boss Qian to nod.

However, he did not wait for Boss Qian's nod, but instead waited for Qin Yuchen's sabotage.

"Those talisman papers are only used to gather Qi. This place has long been devoid of Qi. It's just a pile of waste paper."

Qin Yuchen looked at Xiao Zhao and smiled, "But if you want to change the formation, the souls that were originally well-rested will have to resurrect."

Xiao Zhao: "..."

"Huh? Did I guess wrong?" Peng Zi wondered.

"You're not wrong." Qin Yuchen shook his head, "It's just that those talisman papers are not as useful as you think."

"This body was pulled in by the things in the pool and drowned. However, they didn't find a replacement. Instead, they assumed that anyone close to the coffin was a sacrifice.

and……"

"And what?" Peng Zi watched Qin Yuchen and Zhang Qiling approaching the edge of the pool and subconsciously followed them.

"The real tomb is not here." Zhang Qiling said.

"Hmm?" Peng Zi stood beside Zhang Qiling and looked in the direction he was looking.

Only then did he discover that the disc under the coffin seemed to be movable.

Just as he was about to squat down to get a closer look, the backpack on his back was pulled backward by the huge force. Before Pengzi could react, he heard Chengzi shouting, and then several people surrounded him.

"what happened?"

"Damn, that bloody hand appeared so suddenly! I only saw a shadow."

"If that little brother Chen hadn't pulled you back, you would have been dragged down by that bloody hand!"

The chattering noises made Peng Zi frown and look at the two people still standing by the pool:

"Then why are they okay?"

"The two of them..."

The corner of Wang Kan's mouth twitched. "One used a knife and the other used a foot. Their speed was faster than that hand. As soon as the hand reached out to them, one chopped off the blood mist with a knife and the other stepped on it to disperse it.

Look, that thing is preparing for a second round of sneak attack?"