Crossing the wilderness to survive, starting with a broken kitchen knife

nH�I�When the four entered the ancestral hall for the first time, the black tiger did not show up.

It was not until Ge Dalong triggered the underground mechanism that the black tiger suddenly appeared and blocked everyone. Zhang Shi realized that there might be secrets hidden underground in the ancestral hall. While the two sides were fighting in the courtyard, he had already swaggered into the underground secret passage.

The secret passage was not deep. After going down more than a dozen steps, a faint light appeared in front of Zhang Shi.

In front of him was a spacious stone chamber with glowing gems inlaid on the walls, which was exactly the same as the underground palace under Huo Youming's tomb.

In the stone chamber, there were countless tablets placed densely, and a porcelain pot was placed under each tablet. The material of the porcelain pot was unknown, and it flickered with a green light in the dim stone chamber.

Zhang Shi checked the stone chamber and found no danger, so he opened a porcelain pot to check.

When the porcelain lid was opened, a black mist gushed out of the pot, which was very similar to the lost fog around the village.

Zhang Shi knew the danger of these porcelain pots and black mist. After taking a look inside the porcelain pots, he carefully put the porcelain pots back to their original position to prevent more mist from escaping.

Zhang Shi saw a face that was distorted to the point of being deformed. He realized that these porcelain pots might imprison creatures such as souls, and the mist might have the same origin as the lost mist outside.

Zhang Shi didn't dare to touch the porcelain pot easily because he was not on him, so he set his eyes on the tablet.

Most of the tablets were named Huo, but there was only one exception placed in the middle, which caught Zhang Shi's attention.

"The seat of Lord An"

Zhang Shi looked at the tablet suspiciously. Although he knew little about the etiquette and taboos in this regard, he could understand from the literal meaning that Lord An's status was extraordinary.

"Why would the Huo family ancestral hall enshrine a person of a different surname."

The tablets in this stone room were made of the same material and size, but the placement was a bit particular.

The tablet of Lord An was in the middle, and the tablets of other children of the Huo family surrounded it. From a distance, the eight directions were surrounded by neatly arranged tablets, which looked like a formation.

Zhang Shi hesitated for a moment, stepped forward and carefully opened a crack in Lord An's porcelain pot. To his surprise, the porcelain pot was empty, with no souls or mist.

Zhang Shi had experienced many strange things, and he was not afraid of these things. Seeing that it was empty, he took Lord An's tablet and porcelain pot in and looked at them carefully, but in the end he didn't find any clues.

Put the items back intact. Although he could see that the person who set up the formation had a big plan, Zhang Shi did not destroy it for the time being. The four people outside were still fighting with the black tiger, and he didn't want to alert the snake so early.

Zhang Shi searched for a long time, but he didn't see the secret passage or the place where the key was needed, so he turned around and left.

As soon as he came up, he just caught up with the holy silver crossbow arrow shooting at the black tiger.

This time, in Zhang Shi's eyes, the black tiger's performance was different. Its body still turned into a pool of black sewage as if it had melted. Wisps of mist floated in the sky, but they did not dissipate. Instead, they flew towards the west as if being pulled by something.

Zhang Shi's eyes lit up, and he ignored the people in the courtyard and strode in the direction of the mist.

As soon as Zhang Shi arrived at the foot of the low mountain in the west of the village, he saw dense figures all over the mountain.

These figures wandered unconsciously on the low mountain and did not react to Zhang Shi's arrival.

Zhang Shi had expected it and walked directly through the cemetery. When he stood at the highest point of the low mountain, Zhang Shi saw a phantom with a body as black as ink holding a porcelain pot of the same style, collecting the black mist, and occasionally emitting bursts of "chuckles" from his mouth.

Zhang Shi walked in slowly, stood in front of the phantom, staring at it with sharp eyes, and clenched and loosened the old Duan in his hand.

After a while, the black fog was completely absorbed by the porcelain pot, and the shadow walked quickly towards a tombstone.

Zhang Shi took a look and found that the owner of the tombstone was called "Huo Linjian".

The shadow knocked on the stone tablet rhythmically for a few times, and a secret compartment appeared in front of the tombstone. He carefully put the porcelain pot into it, knocked on the stone tablet a few more times, and the secret compartment closed. The shadow did not forget to sprinkle some dust on it to cover it.

Zhang Shi noticed that there was another tablet in the secret compartment, which also belonged to Huo Linjian.

After doing this, the shadow began to laugh again, and his body became a little more solid. Then he grabbed an evil spirit and swallowed it into his stomach. The shadow turned into a pool of sewage and seeped into the ground and disappeared.

Zhang Shi looked at the coffin belonging to Huo Linjian, which was also empty.

"The soul wanders in the dark forest. Master An, Linjian, is it a homophonic pun again?"

Zhang Shi thought of the couplet on the wooden door at the entrance of the village, and wondered what the couplet was hinting at.

After waiting for a while, the four-man group appeared in Zhang Shi's sight.

The development of the matter was just as Zhang Shi remembered. Several people went deep into the cemetery and attracted the attention of the evil spirits.

Among them, an evil spirit followed closely behind Zhang Shi, the four-man group, and opened its mouth wide to swallow it.

At the critical moment, Zhang Shi held Lao Duan and slapped the evil spirit with the blade.

Lao Duan hit the evil spirit on the head with a strong wind, knocking it out.

Zhang Shi, the four-man group, also noticed something was wrong, turned around and split the evil spirit with a knife, and ran away with everyone.

Zhang Shi watched the four people, waiting for the opportunity, and wanted to conduct an experiment.

Soon after, the four people began to attack the evil spirits. Wu Qing took out a red pepper and threw it towards the place where the evil spirits gathered.

Zhang Shi took the opportunity to dodge in front of an evil spirit and slashed it with a knife before the explosion.

"Wow!"

Old Duan touched the evil spirit and cut it in half like cutting tofu.

"It seems that I can influence the things that appear in my memory through my behavior."

Zhang Shi calmed down and did not take action after the experiment. Instead, he honestly became a bystander and waited for the four-person team to enter the crypt under Huo Youming's tomb.

Things went as expected. The four-person team cleared the evil spirits in the cemetery, and Zhang Shi once again divided the experience points equally.

Afterwards, the four-person team found the coffin under Huo Youming's tomb, pushed open the stone cover, and entered the crypt.

Zhang Shi did not follow in immediately, but stood at the entrance of the sarcophagus and waited.

Sure enough, not long after, two mud monsters appeared in front of the sarcophagus, and bursts of black mist emanated from their bodies. The black mist corroded the protective shield left by Ge Dalong in just a moment and spread towards the crypt.

Zhang Shi stopped watching and quickly killed the mud monsters one by one. Seeing that the fog had not dissipated, Zhang Shi went into the cave and covered the stone coffin.

Zhang Shi's current state was like having night vision. Even in the dim environment, he could still see the road ahead clearly.

Not long after, Zhang Shi caught up with the four people and followed them all the way down, and followed the four people back to the mysterious altar again.

This time, Zhang Shi focused all his attention on Zhao Feng, trying to figure out how he suddenly disappeared.