Soul echo

Chapter 276 Painted Skin
The place where Zhong Ye and the others met the undead was only half a day away from the nearest city. They set off in the morning and arrived in the evening.

Lily Lieber frowned at this distance. Logically speaking, if it was so close, it would be impossible for undead to appear, and even if there were, they would be wiped out.

With the strength of those undead before, any church can easily eliminate them with a small team.

But the fact is that a group of different types of undead appeared together in the woods not far from the city. It took half a day to ride in a carriage, but even on foot, it was only a day's journey at most.

Anyway, this kind of thing is too strange!

The carriage came to the door of the Adventurer's House. Under the guidance of the staff, Zhong Ye drove the carriage to the stables and asked Lilian and Lily to move the luggage out first, and then handle the carriage by himself.

After handling the carriage and letting the two draft horses into the stable, Zhong Ye left the Adventurer's House alone through the back door.

Touching the purse on his body, the identification tags of the two draft horses in his pocket, and the long knife on his back, he laughed.

"Did you work so hard to pretend to be me just to escape?"

Just a few steps out of the Adventurer's House, a cold voice came from behind, 'Zhong Ye' hurriedly looked back.

Zhong Ye came out from the alley next to him, looked coldly at the pretender who looked exactly like him, and tilted his head, "I thought you were planning to do something, but in the end, you just wanted to escape?"

The pretender was sweating profusely, quickly untied the long knife and held it in his hand.

Zhong Ye walked over slowly as if he didn't see it.

Under the gaze of icy eyes, the pretender took a step back, pressed hard on the hilt, and tried to pull the long knife out of its sheath.

However, no matter how much effort he used, the veins on the back of his hand protruded, and he still couldn't pull 'Jin Shiyue' out of the scabbard.

Zhong Ye had already approached, and in a panic, the pretender suddenly punched Zhong Ye in the face, but immediately, he felt a pain in his wrist, and his entire arm was completely paralyzed.

—and it's spreading upwards!

The other hand grasped the scabbard and snatched the long knife from the pretender.

"Aren't you a living person?"

Whether it is the feeling of hitting, or the sound and speed of the heartbeat and blood flow in the pretender's body, there are abnormalities.

This reminded Zhong Ye of the group of undead he encountered last night, so he had this question.

The pretender didn't answer Zhong Ye's question, he flicked his numb arm, turned his head and ran away.

No, if it's not a living person, why is its body still 'alive'?

Thinking about it, Zhong Ye flicked the long knife, and the scabbard flew out, hitting the back of the fleeing pretender. The pretender then fell to the ground, and slid a certain distance under the impetus of inertia.

Seeing the embarrassment of that face that was exactly the same as his own, Zhong Ye didn't feel the slightest discomfort, because he knew very well that such a situation would never happen to him.

Zhong Ye walked over, picked up the scabbard, grabbed the pretender's shoulder, and turned it over.

But at this moment, puffs of black smoke suddenly gushed out from the pretender's seven orifices.

The moment Zhong Ye noticed the appearance of black air, he let go of the pretender, and instantly retreated a few meters away.

The black smoke from the pretender's seven orifices hovered in the air for a while, and then flew into the distance. Only then did Zhong Ye realize that it was not a magic spell.

The black smoke flew very fast, and when Zhong Ye realized it, he had already crossed several streets, and even if he set off now, he would not be able to catch up.

Then, putting his gaze on that body, Zhong Ye was surprised to find that the body had collapsed, and the sound of heartbeat and blood flow had also disappeared.

"...painted skin?"

Inexplicably, he thought of this legend.

On the earth, this is a legend, but in the eastern soil of the Dan world, there is such a kind of monster, which has no body and is born as a spirit body. If it wants to grow and survive, it needs to parasitize in a living body and wait until it 'mature' , they occupy that body.

At this time, they also have the ability to escape from their bodies and live independently. However, their ability is only to occupy a better body.

Zhong Ye approached the shriveled 'skin', took a closer look, and then found that the face was not his, and his figure had shrunk a lot, and the straight knife hanging at his waist was simply a piece of wood. stick.

"Cheating?" Zhong Ye raised his eyebrows.

This matter is getting more and more confusing. Why do monsters from the East land appear in the west land?And when he was investigating the 'altar', he changed into his appearance and mixed into his team.

However, the answers to all these are unknown after the 'Painted Skin' escapes.

Taking a deep breath, Zhong Ye picked up the limp skin, turned around and returned to the Adventurer's House.

When he came to the lobby of the Adventurer's House with the skin bag, he frightened many people.

Although for 'Painted Skin', it is just a skin, but it is indeed a person's body.

However, under the erosion of 'Painted Skin', the original soul of the original owner of this body was swallowed up and turned into food for the growth of 'Painted Skin', and even the body was obtained by 'Painted Skin'.

Zhong Ye had never encountered a 'Painted Skin' during the closed beta, but through the game forum, he could also learn some information about Dongtu.

After he made the "Illustrated Book of Monsters", many people also helped to add information about other monsters that were not recorded in the "Illustrated Book", including 'Painted Skin'.

"...Is this a monster from the East?"

After listening to Zhong Ye's description, the receptionist stood up from the chair, looked over the counter, and looked at the skin bag placed on the ground.

After taking a look, she sat back again, feeling terrified.

That's really scary, are all the monsters in Dongtu like this?

"Do not……"

Zhong Ye frowned, and explained the characteristics of the 'Painted Skin' to the receptionist, and then he saw the woman's face become more frightened.

"Light of Asylum, this is too evil!"

The receptionist muttered something, not daring to look at the skin on the ground.

"And then? What happened? Did you beat it?"

Zhong Ye shook his head, "It escaped, I don't know where it went, so..."

"bell?"

Lily thumped down the stairs, looked at the corpse lying in Zhong Ye's footsteps, and swallowed, "Did you kill this just now? What did he do?"

Zhong Ye pursed his lips slightly, so he had to explain it again. Hearing that it was disguised as Zhong Ye, and that it was the one that brought them to this city, Lily's expression became extremely frightened.

"...But I have been following behind. When it is ready to attack, I will be able to react, so you don't have to worry."

Even though Zhong Ye comforted her so much, Lily still felt creepy.

Glancing at the skin on the ground, resisting the thought of retreating, Lili looked up at Zhong Ye and asked, "By the way, you just said that it escaped?"

"Yes, escaped." Zhong Ye nodded, "I suspect that it has something to do with the undead that appeared in that place before, and it escaped just as it was about to be tortured."

"Undead?" The receptionist froze for a moment.

Zhong Ye caught her panic, "What do you know?"

The receptionist pursed his lips, "Some undead have recently appeared around the city, and they were created by humans..."

But now it seems that it is not 'human beings' who create these undead, but monsters from the east?
"Then have you reported this news?" Lily asked anxiously.

When she was in Paris, she didn't hear any rumors. Although as a princess, these news might not reach her ears, but before leaving Paris, she deliberately asked if there were any novel things around her, but she didn't know. Didn't get any information about it.

strangeness!too weird!

Since leaving Paris, everything seems to have become strange!

The receptionist didn't know why Lily was so anxious, so he replied with some doubts: "We have reported these matters to the lord..."

—So, is it the 'lord'?

Is there a problem with the lord of this territory?

Hearing this, Zhong Ye frowned.

(End of this chapter)